Kurt stood there. The sun shining onto Kurt’s shoulders. His staff lazily turning in between his fingers. He stared at the dawning light through the trees of the forest he stood there. His long blonde hair being toyed with by the wind as birds flew about him. He always did this his spell book rested in the crux of his crossed legs with it flipped open to an incantation entitled “the picture of nature”.
Kurt started moving his hands and muttering an incantation. The light that Kurt loved so much started to bend and twist, a map started to form before him.
It was made of light.
It glowed a soft yellow hue with one mark on the map glowing brighter “Bingo” Kurt muttered to himself “thought you could hide yourself didn’t you ,little Miss Silvana. Well nature is all knowing and you’ve managed to piss her off as well” With a hop and a skip he went back to his small party shouting. “Drizzt, Lerolyne, I found her, let’s go” He watched as the dark elf and the air genasi stood up and gave evil grins as they let Kurt past and started to bring up the rear.
I stood there leaning in the mantelpiece my feet on the ceiling my eyes a dark grey staring at the sofa that held the current owner mistork mansion. A small gentleman by the name of Jacob. He was asleep his cross word draped over his lap. I quickly flew to the study and picked up a fountain pen a flew back to the living room and took the crossword from his hands. He was always hopeless at those I looked down at the paper and went to the library.
Hours later I had done it. The library looked like a bomb had gone off in it with books scattered everywhere. I waved my hand and the bookshelves grew arms they picked up the books and placed them back pristinely I then flew to the living room and placed the paper back on the table with a note that read
“Jacob dear relativity was Albert Einstein not Jaimie lee Curtis he’s an actor not a physicist” U then flew up to the attic and had a game of cards with Jacobs owl. We played snap
The letter was small no bigger than a fortune slip but as soon as Lerolyne touched it is grew to a parchment with the following words:
We are glad to tell you that you have been enrolled in Natasha’s school for strong willed mages thaw following items are required to complete your 10 year course:
Wand Spell book Cloak of displacement
The term starts on the 32nd of October please come to Orkney and the ness of Brodgar ruins is the entrance.
Lerolyne then noticed a small drop of blood near the bottom with a small message “ you know some more offensive spells come quick. The ruins open up by show of magic”.
snap
Purple robes flew to wrap themselves around her slender frame and she felt her self vibrating as her cloak jumped into action.
She was gone reappearing at Dublin’s magical menagerie and snatched a wand of web of the desk and before the attendent could stop her.
Boom
The wind whipped her robes around as she drew out her wand and muttered “ Ocololate “ the stones of the ruins flew out the way to reveal a small entrance.
She jumped through.
Nothing for minutes but falling.
The robes bellowed out creating a parachute landing with a thud into chaos as students littered the floor drenched in blood. Dead.
Rigor Mortis had already set in but she managed to pry the piece of paper out of the victims cold lifeless hand. It was a note the words of which struck Lucille’s mind and shattered her fabric of reality sending her into a bout of madness.
She rolled around in the dirt maniacal laughter sounding from her deep red lips as the note was clutched tightly to her chest.
Her uncle Phinnias looked at her. A pitiful look across his face he tried to calm her down as the insanity wrapped Lucille’s mind
“Gh... Gh... Ghouls did this” those were the only words that escaped Lucille’s mouth
Phinnias gasped, he had heard of the existence of ghouls but the mangled torso of the corpse next to them and the note gave solid proof of their existence.
Phinnias escorted Lucille home where he sat her down with a hot cup of coffee. Together they sat the hearth failing to warm the atmosphere between the two.
“We need to get them” Lucille’s voice perked up. It was the first words she had said in hours. Her hand reaching for Phinnias’s Lee Enfield rifle on the wall
“No” Phinnias slapped her hand away “ If we only go after them with bullets and anger we’ll only go the way of Scott”
The mention of his name struck Lucille’s sanity and she sunk back into the chair and grasped her coffee so hard the mug almost shattered and you could see the white of her fingers contrast with the sure burn marks from the hot porcelain.
Phinnias sighed and opened the note bracing for the worst. It read:
Dear Lucille
My house is under siege from those horrible undead. I probably won’t last long
I love you Scott
In the corner was a stain of blood. Scott’s blood the sadness gripped his mind. Mere 10 hours from now both Scott and Lucille would have been bride and groom but now that dream was destined to die
He knew why she felt so empty as the mug shattered in Lucille’s grip. He didn’t attempt to stop her as she changed out into the night rifle in hand determined to either avenge her late fiancé or join him.
“So, mrs pond” AJ said with a touch of acid in his voice “you landed us in the one dimension where humans are an anomaly and then you go and break the one device that can get us home” His mind was racing fast but the stress had been making his heart beat his brain since breakfast.
That morning he had woken up with a sort of cylindrical metal tube with what looked like saucers on each end with a straight up arise shaped button and a dial. Next to the device the was a note that read. “ Nerzugal’s Magnificent Dimension Hopper”. Upon reading the he smirked. His roommate Hera Pond had barged in with a similar device.
They had sat down together trying to figure out how the things worked when AJ nudged the dial accidentally and hit the dial. A jolt of green and pink energy leaped out grabbing them by the torso. Dragging them into the unknown.
They were spat out and immediately felt soaked as there bodies were hurled into the sea by the things. There was a display screen that read the following:
Dimension 9954RX Difference from native plane Land never existed Plane of origin 2591AQ
Seconds before the duo hit the water AJ turned the dial and slammed his thumb on the arrow. The energy grabbed them and they were gone. They landed on the bed and relaxed.
Hera grabbed the device and smashed it. “That’s enough of that but AJ looked in horror at the display
Dimension 3177DD Difference with native plane The meteor that killed the dinosaurs never hit Plane of origin 9954RX
“So, mrs pond” AJ said with a touch of acid in his voice “you landed us in the one dimension where humans are an anomaly and then you go and break the one device that can get us home”
“I’m sorry AJ I’m sure we can think of something.” Heras pleas of forgive fell of deaf ears as AJ’s mind and heart were in a race to see weather got got a heart attack or a stroke, neither win as he snapped his fingers.
“The layer effect dictates that we follow our souls through out our dimensional layers. In the water one the device will have just sunk to the bottom but in this one it seems to only be changing the plane not the location on said plane. Hopefully the Dino me and you will find there way back and we can use that to get to a dimension that we are willing to give it up freely. The chances are 100% after all”
As if on command. Two humanoid dinosaurs came out of nothing and looked at both leonine and human in turn before saying “ lemme guess your broke and you wanna get back to yours” the duo nodded the dinosaur consoled a chart on the wall and said to the device. “ 0001AA” he then pointed the device at AJ and Hera sending them flying back home.
“Can you hear the drums Fernando? “ Ira stood in the doorway her husband Fernando stood there gun and arms, pack sling over his shoulder the war had started Fernando had been drafted he kissed Ira for one last time. He was going to France to fight in the Great War he wasn’t going to return. Meanwhile Ira was helpless to stop it Fernando was going to die. He was in a special regiment specialising in suicide missions. That thought broke Ira. Fernando tried to comfort. The drums sounded again. “Ira, if I die do you want to know what my last thought will be about”
“What”
“You” He then hugged her before starting a walk he would never walk again.
“Bump” it echoed through the hall. Gathering bravado as it went. It fell on Scott’s ear like a plague. He shook. It wasn’t the first time the house had gone bump in the night. He looked around. Nothing. He searched down the hall. Nothing. “Bump” there it was again the sound bouncing off the walls like a ball. Scott was scared now. His eyes darting left and right. A bad omen was at work and he was the hound the bump wanted to own. To control. But he wasn’t afraid. At least not yet. He grabbed a fire poker from the fireplace and held a stance. “Bump,Bump” they were speeding up. “Bump,Bump” they were getting louder, he could feel the hot breath on his neck he turned around.
Nothing.
The Bump had left.
The wolf’s eyes narrowed, he had smelt something, he looked around and saw it, a small rabbit silently grazing the grass, the wolf pounced but the rabbit saw and leaped away, the chase had started, trees rushed by the rabbits panic-stricken mind darting randomly left then right then right again, the wolf tracked the rabbit looking for any pattern any one that would end this, he found it, he jumped right blocking the rabbits escape the rabbit practically ran into his mouth, the wolf grinned, his hunt had left him high on adrenaline, he started to search for another.
