Ah, but let me tell you about it!! (Doctor Who Variant) Part 1

Meanwhile, at approximately the same time back at the New Amazonian camp....

Andrea

"I can see just why now your mistress left you behind," I mutter under my breath as I walk away from the distraught centaurs.

They have been whining and carrying on ever since Astra managed to slip away. Really are annoying, but there just was not anything else to do for it. We DID need to go out and away and those two centaurs are just too big for the carpets!

Now, I was on my way back over to speak with Rebecca about something when something seems to....pour forth OUT from someplace behind me. On later review, I will determine it was a sudden geysering of Chaos Energy NOT from either the font within Karen or Mirage, but rather from some other unknown source. .....

Yes, the very same wave that also effected Erica, if you must know.

Anyway, we'd know such was possible, other Chaos fonts, but still....! Now, this particular wave is NOT as disruptive as some previous waves had been (like on the order of what had transformed entire provinces into new races or genders), but it is VERY far reaching. Point in fact, from my calculations (Hah! More like educated wild guesses), no one corner of this world wasn't touched by it. This wave itself seems to vary a bit in effect from place to place, but still all the same . . . . chaotic.

For us, we all started having the most sincere conversations with various inanimate objects! Speaking with them like they were long time friends. We look back at it now and shake our heads, most of us, in embarrassment in speaking with objects that could not POSSIBLY answer back!

Now, as for myself....it actually did effect me (about time a Champion should be effected), but the object I started speaking with had the capability to speak back. That is, it had the capability in connecting with somebody on the other side who can speak back! Being that a bit of the Chaos Energy rode the magical aether between magic mirrors (my portable one to the one that one dragoness was using then and there to admire her new form), it also effected her so she thought nothing at all in speaking with a total stranger in a most candid manner....

Her name is Chiana and she had been taking a moment to relax a little inside the lair of her new husband. She picked up a likely enough mirror from one pile of treasure (a hoard she and Sigin now both shared) to admire the form her husband had suggested she take upon becoming a dragon.

Still only beginning to learn the ways of magic, she had no way of knowing that this particular mirror (a hand held mirror sized up for dragonkind) was a communication device. Being that this mirror had been most recently been used to talk with one demifox lass in the past, the Chaos Energy rides it's way back to here and so.....

Author's Note: Here is what Chiana looks like: http://www. geocities.com /terraprimedatabase /Dragon03.jpg

Thus, whilst admiring herself (and frankly her husband's good taste in draconian beauty), she blinks a little when her image fades and is replaced by a young seeming girl with rudy complexion and the features of a fox (fox ears and tail).

Feeling only a slight chill before a smile plastered itself on her muzzle (and a warm feeling pervaded her heart), she introduced herself to Andrea and Andrea did the same for herself.

Author's Note: A bios for each can be found at these places:

http://www .geocities.com /rule179/ CharacterBios /BiosTerra8a.html #Andrea
http://www .geocities.com/rule179/ CharacterBios /ChianaBios.htm #Chiana

They chat for a bit, getting to know the other. Andrea lets slip that it appears that one theory that had been circulating amongst the Champions about how it appears that Chiana falling for Sigin seems to have been validated. Making a curious noise, Andrea explained that the other analog "brothers" of Sigin 2 (Chiana's mate/husband) had already fallen for various other females (Regent Malachi the dragoness for Sigin the dragon and Rosepaw Vulpine for Sigin Vulpine the demifox). Had all to do with an earlier theory that the old means of looking into the future had actually been glimpses into similar realities where events had advanced a bit further along in progression. Being that the other Sigins had fallen in love, it now appeared that the theory that the remaining Sigin (Chiana's) had been VERY likely to fall in love, sooner or later himself.

Chiana, a touch surprised, wasn't sure on what to make on that one, so just filed it away for later examination. With only a bit of effort does Andrea prevent herself from asking Chiana if she has a twitch, putting it down as some kind of Nimbari equivalent to a shrug or whatever (Oh, and before you ask, Chiana in the TV show had a habit of odd gestures now and then, to seem to emphasize her "alien"-ess).

That said, they continued talking like long lost friends but soon the conversation turns to Quests....

"Ah, so you think you and the others are having a hard time?" Andrea smiles, nodding as if confident she could dispel such delusions. "Let me tell you about what we've been doing over here!"

"That will take some doing," Chiana says back, waiting.

"Alright," Andrea nods. "Well, it started when Cuthbert first started to brief us on the Quest we were to help him with . . .."

And so Andrea tells her fox tail . . .er . . ..tale which is too long to conveniently retell here and now. That and it is rather besides the point, eh? This is, after all, another adventuring group's tale, and not Chiana's group.

Yes, let's get back to her tale . . ..

"That is bad," Chiana admitted before launching into her story. "But then 'try this on for size', as Crichton would say!"

Chiana

I twitch my long tail (strange how . . ..natural seeming to now have an extra appendage like that I never had been born with to twitch with) before continuing . . ..

Rather like that and . . ..

. . ..

Well, to the retelling!

Now, could bore you with the messy details, but let us just shorten it a bit by just saying that the tale I tell (the first part . . ..the part that I wasn't in) mirrored in an episode Betty and Ragan went and shared with the rest of us . . ...later . . ..

Basically, it sorta followed the "original" TV script retold here:

http://www.bbc. co.uk/cult/doctorwho /episode_guide/ battlefield.shtml

Interesting viewing, actually. The Doctor even enjoyed it, after getting over initial "willies" seeing what could have been his future . . ..

Got to agree with the . . ..bit of hesitation, especially when you remember that I am reflected by this . . ...Gigi Edgley.

Ah, remember, I do now have much . . ..MUCH . . ..better hearing. Interesting what I person can overhear while Betty and Ragan talk together in that . . ..mishmash they sometimes fall into while together alone . . ..while a soul listens around the corner . . ...

Ah, but that . . ...another deal.

Anyway, let us just say that things went much quicker in real life than what went on in the "TV" show. Things happened differently, you see. Quicker. Better. Things like no human casualties on either side. Things like the entire thing getting decided on a duel . . ..of honor between my husband and Morgaine!

. . . . . .

If somebody had tried to decide such a stunt like that in the Uncharted Territories I'd call them . . .wellll . . . . . .well, I'd call them stupid. In this place they'd shoot down where he stood!! But . . ..Sigin comes from another place with different . . ...

Let's just say I know that Sigin is the farthest thing from a fool. He and his friends, coming up with that plan to lead Morgaine on, down a path her culture said she must . . ...

Ah yes, much to learn and see. Much to experience. Much to . . ..

Much to learn to trust . . .. But I do know that I trust him . . ..and am . . ..trying to begin to trust his friends.

Hard. So strange. Especially Ragan and Betty, who know . . ..me . . ..but not from actually . . ..

Frell, you know what I mean!! You've been following this tale long enough, you should!

. . ..

Yes, much to learn . . .and perhaps unlearn from living in the Uncharted Territories.

. . ..

Well, where was I?

When the demon, this Destroyer, broke free from control (appearing to the others of Morgaine's allies as a cowardly attack on Morgaine's part), it was an unexpected . . ..but useful "frosting on the cake" (as I believe Crichton would put it). It not only made for the looming war halt before it could start, but ruined any future chances of Morgaine rallying them behind her against Arthur (who turns out to have actually been alive at the time . . ..but . . ...uh . . ..).

Well, let's just say that instead of telling all about it . . ..we shall leave it at this. He went to some place called Midworld (some world retold guy named Stephen King with a "Gunslinger" and a "Dark Tower"). He became the founder of the Gunslingers (and somebody's ancestor named Roland Deschain, by the way, guy I've yet to meet on Terra Prime) centuries ago, and with all the other "Knights of the Roundtable" going to his side there, the "Battlefield" emptied out real quickly.

Seems unlike in the TV show (where he was actually dead and his return just propaganda), you see . . ..

1. They found that out down in the crypt, as well as several other things as well! They were a wormhole AND Farscape One!

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