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Rei
But then we notice something of a disturbance below as we fly
overhead...
Given everything thus far it figures!
Taken from episode 46953
"Faster, you dogs!" High Heresy Examiner Zalmo barked, striking his
litter bearers with a cat o' nine tails. "Go faster! You lazy, useless
swine!"
The litter bearers screamed in terror and agony and quickened their
pace, only to stop abruptly, almost throwing Zalmo from the litter.
"What are you doing?!" Zalmo shrieked. "I didn't tell you to take a
break! Why, I'll beat you disquisting peasants to death!"
"Heresy Examiner!" groaned the lead litter bearer. "In the cave passage
up ahead... there is something..."
"Eh?" Zalmo said, squinting his eyes.
And then he saw it - a blazing, roaring flame that seemed to be roiling
down the corridor closer and closer to them. As it roared forward it
seemed to morph and shift shape, suddenly turning into a human male.
"What is this?!" Zalmo demanded. "Who is that person! Answer me!"
The apparent human was a full eight feet tall, with huge rippling
muscles and long fire-red hair. He wore only ragged leather pants and was
barefoot, huge iron manacles clamped around his ankles and wrists. His
friendly expression belied an inner rage but most alarmingly, he had a
massive two-handed bastard sword sheathed midway through his chest,
impaling him - but the wound did not bleed.
THAT is what they’d have come upon if they had tarried inside the
caverns as long as those “others” had in that other episode. As it
stands not only are Astra and the others outside earlier than what they
otherwise would eventually have been, all SORTS of things have been
screwed up here to prevent that particular scenario from happening.
. . .later. LATER, and further inside the cavern network (vice out in the
foresty area place thingie)....
First is the fact that with the displacement of this world and a large
chunk of real estate (read it’s entire solar system pretty much
screwed up any magical/spacial lock Rubicon had for successfully
teleporting himself here). In other words, no Rubicon (at least not
yet).
Second, another “trigger” for Rubicon’s coming later is whatever that
female dragon had for “Junior”. And as a hint whatever the dragoness had
planned wasn’t going to be particularly pleasant! Dark designs for power
rarely are pretty.
So, when Rubicon DOES appear . . .
The group (including a somewhat wide eyed Astra, who’s never flown on
anything through the air like THIS carpet), star down upon a blazing,
roaring flame that morphs into a HUGE human male.
“Okay . . .not our problem!” Rei mutters to herself and gesturing for
the others to follow.
The hulking man was down there and they were up here. Add
to that Rei and friends really were NOT looking for trouble, so why
provoke things by landing and saying hi?
None of them (even the sweet and innocent Eve) really wanted to ask why
the fellow had a massive two-handed bastard sword stuck in his chest like
that without killing him. Why he wasn’t even bleeding was curious, but
they didn’t feel like chatting with the monstrous man to find out!
The fact that he was . . .less than sufficiently dressed to be served
at any decent restaurant back on Earth (no shoes, no shirt, no service)
was irrelevant!
"Haaargh!" the mysterious arrival roared. "It is here! I have found it
at last! Destroyer! I have come for . . .huh?!"
“Good luck with that,” a soft voice mutters in the winds above the
giant. Angellic sounding, that voice . . .albeit somewhat befuddled
sounding to Rubicon’s ears.
Something is wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong!!
Rubicon blinks as he hears something behind him the sound of flapping
wings and whipping tassels of carpets can be heard as he watches . . .his
prey getting away.
But . . .since WHEN was his prey . . .?
“The Destroyer . . .is a little blue haired girl child!?!” Rubicon
blinks, stupefied at the very audacity of the fiend!!
His eyes widen even further as something ELSE important registers here
with him. . . .
“HEY!!” he screamed in rage at the retreating forms. “COME BACK HERE
and FACE ME!!”
Never in all his incarnations had the Destoryer not turned and faced
him in battle when they were in close proximity. This was something new .
. .and unwelcome.
“Yeah, like we’re going to be stupid and do that,” Rei snickered as her
group easily outdistanced the raving lunatic behind them. Flying was so
much BETTER for traveling than doing it by foot (through a forest no
less)! "We're not Lawful Stupid I'll have to say!"
Soon losing the lunatic, leading him off in the wrong direction, Astra
is just blinking at the rest of them.
-
 "Aren't
you going to fight it?!" she sputters. Such things aren't DONE in her
world, what this group just did.
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