here is what ever week guaranteed chapter, i am slowly making progress to catch up to whatever chapter that i need to be at. as always i want to thank rouge and mejinzs for their proofreading support.
wo without futher ado Chapter 45 – Places
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“Wake up young wyrmling. They’re coming, and we need to be out of here before they arrive!” Alexandarax shouted as he burst into the bedroom.
“What?” I asked while fighting of the haze of sleep.
“The women are coming.” He said in a panicked voice, “I know that one of them is your mother, but I can’t let them catch me out of my home territory.”
“What are you talking about?” I asked shaking off the haze of sleep.
“Your real mother will be here soon and I can’t let them catch us just yet.” He replied, I could feel him start to gather mana.
“Who is making that racket?” I heard Ryan groan from the other room. I looked at the clock sitting on the nightstand that displayed in its cool green light four AM.,
“First, neither of them are my mother. Second about how long till they arrive?” I asked while using my tail to gently move Azazel off my ribs.
“Time is funny between dimensions but I would guess any time from right now to… whenever.” he gruffly replied. “And there aren’t any other female dragons besides them, so one of them has got to be your mother.”
I stared at the human shaped dragon, “No. That goddess, whatever her name is, turned me into a dragon after an interesting game of spin the bottle, making neither of them my mother. And do we have enough time to pack a few things?” I sighed as I carefully got off the bed.
“Ha, not even the god of Gullibility would fall for that, lie!” he huffed, “We leave in five minutes.”
“Azazel, wake up.” I said as is started to grab some of the books of my shelf.
“Five more minutes Daddy.” She groaned burying herself under the blankets.
“No Now. We’re going home.” I said as I grabbed a few more bags from my closet.
“What?” She asked as she sat up and rubbed her eyes.
“We are going home and I need your help packing a few things.” I said as I gently placed several books into the bags.
“Oh, Ok,” Azazel yawned as she squirmed out of bed.
“Pack all the blocks back into their container and move it into the kitchen.” I directed as I grabbed the bag filled with various textbooks, and took them to the staging area in the kitchen. I dropped the books I gathered into a heap, and quickly grabbed the last two books I wanted to bring off the bookshelf in the living room. I glanced into kitchen and noticed Azazel carrying the large box of plastic blocks. I chuckled a bit, thinking of Lilith’s poor feet stepping on the plastic landmines.
“You ready to go?” Alexandarax nervously asked as he kept looking around.
“Almost, I’m just grabbing some of my old textbooks that will help make a few things.” I replied as I dropped the last of the textbooks in a heap. I reached for that new crack by my heart and painfully transformed into my humanoid form. I pack the books into the bags and grab some clothes for Azazel to change into.
“Later Ryan, I will visit when I can.” I yelled to the sleeping figure on the couch.
“Later,” I heard him mumble.
“Form an image of your home, and I will take us there.” Alexandarax instructed as he grabbed my shoulder.
I closed my eyes, I felt Azazel cling to my waist as I drew up the image of the cavern that I carved from the cracked stone face. Without warning I felt the floor drop from underneath me for a few seconds before gravity returned. I opened my eyes and found myself once again in that endless white space in-between realities.
“Look at what the cat dragged in,” I heard a familiar voice say, causing me snap my eyes open. I looked up and there sat the goddess sitting on the same thrown as when I came here last.
“I see it didn’t take long before one of the other dragons showed up but I must say I am surprised that it was you, Ally, who showed up first,” The goddess chuckled, “are you trying to hide from your exes?”
“You know that I don’t like that name.” Alexandarax growled at the woman.
“Ok, Paris, why are you trying to travel to one of my divine territories?” the goddess asked with a terrorizing smile that did not fit with her menacing tone.
“I am taking this wyrmling I found on that planet where Thetis marred that mortal, back to his lair, which happens to be in your territory, and teach him to be a proper dragon.” Alexandarax gruffly replied
“Ah, Fafnir I didn’t see you behind the large egotistical lizard. How is my baby dragon doing?” The goddess greeted, “It been forever since I last saw you.”
“I am doing well,” I nervously chuckled while weathering Alexandra’s fierce glare.
“I knew it wouldn’t take long before one of the three found you, but I didn’t expect it to be Paris.” She said as she leaned back onto her emerald throne her golden eyes shining.
“Yes, yes.” Alexandarax said as he waved one of his massive claws, “You can visit later, now can you please allow to take this young wyrmling back home?”
“We both know that is not the reason you are helping this young dragon,” She chuckled, “if I know you right, you hope to lure the other two to the wyrmling and escape somewhere, and knowing those two it just might work.”
“You mean I’m bait?” I asked as I stared at the large wyrm.
“Why would I make you bait?” Alexandarax nervously chuckled.
“Ha, called it.” The goddess laughed at the nervous dragon.
“So what? He goes back to his lair and I get peace for a few centuries, it works out for both of us.” Alexandarax huffed, “I mean so what if he has two dragons fussing over the little guy.”
“Great,” I sighed while shaking my head.
“It will be fun to say the least,” the goddess smiled, “I will permit you to take him to his lair but while you are in my domain you will maintain your human form, and you can only use minor spells, and plane shift.”
“Are you trying to make my life harder?!” Alexandarax whined.
“Yes, you apparently still haven’t learned your lesson from the reception debacle, and I don’t want the locals to freak out over a divine visit.”
“Fine,” he huffed causing twin clouds of blue to shoot out his nostrils, “I will keep it sealed, just let us go, I can feel them searching for me.”
“Good, and Fafnir, I will be visiting in a few days as there are some things we need to talk about.” The goddess said and before I knew it, the feeling of weightlessness returned and we had returned to the grayish blue walls of my lair.
“Yaeh, we are home!” Azazel shouted as she grabbed the bin of block and ran to her room.
I looked around the cave and stopped as my eyes fell upon my couch. I peered over the top and beheld the crumpled form of my brother.
“Alexandarax, why is my brother here?” I calmly asked the human formed dragon.
“Oops, I guess I accidently took him as well,” the dragon chuckled staring at the sleeping human.
“How do you accidently trans-dimensionally teleport someone?!” I yelled.
“Like I said, I was never precise with magic, I mean I have so much of it that I never needed to do that.” He shrugged as he started to look at the cave.
“Can you take him back then?” I asked keeping my anger in check.
“Nope.” He replied as he started to inspect the walls.
“Why not?”
“You heard the goddess, only plane shifting allowed and I can’t take others on a plain shift.” He nonchalantly replied.
“Well I guess I will ask her when she comes in a few days.” I sighed as I walked to the sleeping form of my brother.
“Wake up bro,” I said as I shook him with my tail.
“I said five more minutes.” He mumbled as he turned over to get his face out of the late afternoon sun.
“Wake up now or I will throw you into my lake.” I said as started to wrap my tail around him.
“What the” he started to sware as he jumped, but quickly quieted as he looked around. “Where am I?” Ryan asked.
“That ‘genius’ over there accidently teleported you, and a few other things he shouldn’t have, back with us.” I said as I pointed to the dragon that was currently raiding my pantry.
“What?” Ryan blankly replied.
“Welcome to my other place, you will be here for a few days until I can convince another god to take you home.” I replied to my confused brother.
“But what about my test?” Ryan asked
“You might be late…”
“Crap, there is no way that any teacher will accept the excuse that I was teleported to another dimension by my dragon brother’s insane teacher.” Ryan said as he looked down.
“Is that really your first concern? You have been taken to another dimension that is the same technological level as medieval Europe, and the first thing your worry about is a stupid math test?” I asked dumbfounded.
“Considering that in the past twenty four hours I found out that: my brother Is now a dragon, gods exist, and my nice is the demon lord for another dimension? No, not much more can phase me.” he flatly replied as he stood up still dressed in nothing but his underwear, “and this is probably just some nightmare anyways and I will wake up soon.”
I stared at my brother and after a few seconds I hit him upside the head with my tail.
“Are you dreaming?” I wryly asked.
“Why did that hurt? I know you don’t feel pain in dreams!” He started to panic, where I hit him again a little harder.
“Stop that.” He groaned.
“That’s more like it.” I chuckled at the expense of my scantily clad brother.
“Ok you overgrown lizard, what now?” Ryan asked as he grabbed the blanket from the couch and wrapped it around himself.
“Well, I am going to see my servant and see about him getting you some clothes, while you watch the your niece play with blocks.” I replied, “If you want you can also move the couch into one of the unoccupied caverns in the back of the lair so you don’t have to deal with most of the insects.”
“Great… I play babysitter to my demonic niece while you go out.” He muttered looking around the entrance to my lair. “I don’t have to worry about crazy monsters invading here and killing us, do I?”
“No I carved my lair into the side of this mountain about forty feet from the ground so nothing should happen, and the ones that might try something know better.”
“Forty feet up?” he stammered.
“You’ll be fine, this place is plenty big, also if anyone named, Lilith or Atheros shows up just get Azazel to explain everything as neither of them can speak English.”
“You’re kidding me?” he said as his jaw dropped.
“Nope,” I stated as I ran out of the cave, “Bye dear, I am going to go get Therin!” I shouted as jumped into the late afternoon sun and flew towards toward the elven city.
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