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Time has cast me out, plus four others Time Drifters, The avenger, The rift, I am the king’s rock© 2024 D. A. Sanford

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Time has cast me out

I don’t know what happened, did I step on a bug? Said the wrong thing to someone?

Whatever it was time itself got angry at me. Time has cast me out. I wander between tick and tock. Everyone and everything is frozen in place. It is so weird to be walking around with everyone caught in what they were doing. Well they are not frozen but from my prospective. They are stopped.

I am in perpetual ten am. The sky is clear, weather is late spring. My phone does not work. I tried some cars and they do not work. I can touch food and it is in my time so I will not starve. Most mechanical devices are frozen. I found an auto parts store and was able to make parts move. I need to think about that. For now, I don’t need to.

At least, for me, I don’t have a problem with the usual city crimes. Being frozen, I take great delight to go up to someone robbing another at gun point. I will never get to see what happens but I have clay from an arts store. I stuff it down the barrel. I have removed bullets and belts. Different other things.

Banks are open so I will go in and take money. I don’t need it but I know or knew some families that were barely making it. I have put it in their pockets, laid it on the kitchen table. I feel good.

All these things are just to occupy my time. I explore the city, I am getting board. No way of telling where and when it is, when I get tired, I sleep and hope that this is a dream. I wake up and once again find it still frozen.

Trying to get someone to talk to, I went through a few days of touching people. Nothing.

I even went so far as to grope some females. Nothing. My rational is that food that I touch, is now in my realm. Taste, feel and other aspects of the food is in my time. But this did not work for anything but my food.

Right now, I get the feeling that I really need to get on the road. There is a hope that this may be only local but it isn’t.

I do not feel like walking, sue me, I am a product of the time that I am in. I was able to get an electric golf cart working. Hooking up some solar panels, I found I was in luck.

Charging in my suspended time put it into my time. With a few trailers that I only had to change the wheels to get them moving.

It took some effort to get the doors working. Now the first will be my bedroom and the second will hold my food. I also found that ammunition will not fire, so I have several knives. I know, it is really not needed but peace of mind.

Once I got through the congestion of the highway leading in and out. I only had to drive around the cars. I could make a goodly pace. With the solar panels and it always is sunny my batteries were always charged.

Any hope that this was localized went down the tubes as soon as I went on a side road into a small town. It is exactly the same. I’m not surprised but I am disappointed. I also am a little pissed. I went through the entire town and now I have all the belts. I also unbuttoned and lowered the fly’s.

Because of the time freeze, I don’t need to get food until I start to run low. I have cases of water, so I really don’t scavenge every time I stop. When I stop the batteries are recharging. I do feel that I may need to get more batteries and motors.

The amount of traveling I will be doing, I may need them. I could just take another if this one breaks down. I always keep my eyes out for golf courses. When I need parts, I want to get them from a cart being used on the course. These things I can only see the results in my mind.

I do find that my mind is teetering. All the time alone is getting to me but there seems to be something that pushes me back. Sanity is delicate and is hanging on by a thread. I do wish I had a goal, a mission but that is not apparent.

The world I am in is silent. There are occasions that I hear something. When I get to the approximate area, I find nothing. Can’t even tell what is out of place. Most times, I chalk it up to wishful thinking. My mind is on shaky ground at best After five sleeps, it is the only way I have to tell any time. I get up and step outside to find there are bunch of small pointed rocks scattered everywhere. I figure that I must have not looked when I stopped. Just kick the stones out of the way. There was laughter.

“I told you that it only works on others not a fellow time outsider.” There is now a multitude of laughter.

“You need to come out here and explain yourselves. We need to talk.”

The laughter has ceased. There was a big discussion between a few of them. The leader tells me that if I try anything, regardless of what we were told by the woman, We will turn off your food ability and we will run away.

“I will agree to anything. I just want to talk.” With that. I sit and cross my legs. There are a couple of dozen of these very small people that appear. The boss comes up to me.

They are all the same size, around six inches

“Pixies” I mutter out loud and the leader gets angry.

“Don’t ever disrespect us like that. We’re imps. Those pixies would never live up to our reputation. We are the correctors of time. From minor mishaps to fatal incidents. We are proud. Pixies are nothing but flirts. Before you even ask, the woman told us of your task

on this world. We told her that we needed a test for our sake. That’s why the rocks. If you were hostile, we would have left but you weren’t. We have been following you. You must have some of our blood in you. Removing all those belts and undoing the zippers, that really must have been a sight.”

They all had a good laugh about that. I start to talk.

“How long have you been here? The way you make it sound, you have been here forever.”

“We have been here forever. The lady told us that there is almost no need for us anymore on this world. You, on the other hand need our guidance. She has told us that we will travel to other worlds to right other wrongs but that will be after we right a horrendous wrong here on this world. She would not tell us what you are to be. We will all know.”

“Now as far as your question on how long we have been doing our job. We have been doing this for millennia. We are out of time, our aging has stopped, Yours too. Even if we return back into time, we will not die of old age.”

That statement needs time for me to digest that information. “You’re telling me that all of us here are immortal?”

“Yes, you will have one thing that we have right now. We have lived so long that we no longer have names. After a short time you will forget yours.”

Now that he has mentioned it, I haven’t had anyone to talk to in what could be years.

He looks at me, “Forgotten it already?”

I am just so happy to be able to talk to anyone. These imps are characters. I have made them seats on the roof of the car. The strange thing is, they all are male and they all are wonderful talkers. There is now a stairway to the inside. They like my sleeper. When we stop, I do here them making something in the supply trailer but they tell me that I have to wait until they are done.

They finally showed me. They have walkways between the rows of hammocks. The looks on their faces said it all. I look inside an have to tell them that I have never seen anything so well constructed. “You boys should get a reward.”

They all had a now sheepish look on their faces. It could only mean one thing.

“Just point my nose in the right direction.”

“Women do not like to travel anymore. They welcome us but when they are tired of us, they chase us out. None have been able to conceive but the lore is that once the very tall imp comes and we escape this world, children will abound.”

I look at him and smile. “I guess I am tall. Am I accepted as an imp?”

”Just before this next corner we have to stop. There is a very bad player that is making money off of the unaccompanied children coming over the boarder”

I stop and we sneak up. There moving around is a being that is hard to describe but it has two arms and two legs so I just say it is humanoid. My fellows point out that it is picking up a frozen girl around ten and is putting her on a cart.

Looking at it, I see a glowing something tied on it’s belt. I ask if they can snatch it. I get such a look and two walk up to the thing grab it off him and immediately it freezes. I come out and look at it. The object is very advanced. I do notice that there is a pointer.

No matter where I turn, the pointer does stay in the same area. I set that girl back next to what I perceive is her parent. We load the thing onto the wagon and tow it behind. We find a park and see a very large space ship sitting there. Going in, there, crammed in every space are children. All frozen in time.

Even my fellows are disgusted. They start to chant for the woman. She appears and is sick at the sight. Now all of them disappear. She looks at me and my fellows.

“I see that you were the correct one. Time chose well. Those children cannot be returned. They have been placed with needy families throughout the universe. This ship is yours. You and your fellow imps need to gather their women and I charge you with a mission. This will be a test for you. I ask you to track down those who have purchased the children this race has abducted. We will do the same thing for them. You and your fellow imps will be justice itself. You will finally find the planet responsible for this and then you will decide what to do with it.”

She is gone and my friends are happy. We see that she has taken the thing with her.

“Let’s go and get the women. They probably know what has happened and that you have arrived. The only thing is that we want your cart and our trailers. We should find one for the women and an extra cart. We now have the room.”

First things first, we go to the area where their women are only to find them waiting with all their things packed. Apparently, the female leader comes forward and scolds me. “Do you know how long we have been waiting?” and she is looking angry.

My fellows have actually ruined me already. I can’t help myself.

“I bet no time has gone by, so, you cannot say you have been waiting. Not a second has passed.”

She tries but loses her battle. She and all the others burst out laughing.

“Yes ladies, the big imp is here. Leader, take us with you to our ship.” They then move into the trailer that the men set up. I look at them and tell them that we will get a few more carts and trailers. We will raid the lumber yards and told them that there is a high end doll house shop in the town. We’ll clear it out of the furniture. It is so well made that even the drawers and doors are real. You’ll get your home back.

We take the women back to the ship and then raid those items. My men now make one of the trailers into the women’s domain. They install the hammocks but also bolt beds to the floor. The furniture was placed so that the women could place it where they wanted.

While that was going on I have gone over the controls. It seems that now I have the knowledge on how to fly it. I can tell that my men have also been given the knowledge on how it works. They have been going over all the systems and have been putting them in good working order.

I have found the log and have seen the locations of where all the “deliveries” have been dropped off.

I gather all, “Are we ready to get off this rock and fly to the rescue of children? Everyone knows what to do. Let’s do this.”

They shut and seal the door. All get in their seats and are buckled in as I start the engine. I lift off. We were expecting shaking and other things but I found that I had to look out the window to see if we were moving. We were in space before we knew it.

No floating around, much to the disappointment of my guys. We have gravity. I have set course to the last visited world. They were right, time does not exist for us. Even the ships chronometer shows that no time has passed since we left my world.

By the way. It no longer feels like my world and I don’t care. They told me that she said that we would be no longer needed. I now only want to shut down this trafficking. I am now sure that this really is what I was born for. I am a tall imp.

I get the proximity alert. We have reached the first world. I know that as soon as I touched the controls, the system has my DNA. It was a simple thing to have the ship scan for similar DNA. It finds seven hits, all in the same location. We start to land.

We exist out of time. Where ever we are, that time is frozen. It is a simple task to land in the park across from the mansion that the hit is. I tell my people that we need to find the seven and the owners.

It was almost like we thought it was. The seven are treated as exotic pets. The owners are throwing a party and they were just ready to have a show. One young girl is strapped down to a table and the wife was in the process of cutting off the child’s clothes.

We take all the children back to the ship. The men are chanting again. This time everyone that is in this room vanishes. We do not question and go back to the ship.

Only to find that our women told us that the woman took the children. We never question.

This goes on until we reach the final destination. We land and time again freezes there.

When we exit the ship, there are dozens of people looking at us. The woman steps forward.

“My children, welcome to the final stop on this quest. Leader step forward.”

I do.

“We have removed all the stolen children.” She points to a woman who steps forward.

“This is the god of mercy. She has been the one who has found homes for all the children. She has wiped out all memories and replaced them with warm loving memories.”

Now she points to another woman. “This is the god of fate. She is the one who has taken care of all those who have been involved with this crime.”

She does go through all the rest of them and their role in this.

“We are pleased at all your dedication but you now face your last test. This does not effect your fellow imps. They are our favorites for correcting situations. This is a leader decision only.”

The god of knowledge steps forward and addresses me in a very formal tone.

“This world is a time manipulating race. They started looking for only the truth. On their travels they found that they had a weakness. A lust for the children of other worlds. They took them as pets and then as toys. Their leaders have fallen into this debauchery. Now all the time travelers are back here with the exception of two. We have found that they are truly good people free of the perversion that the others have. That is why they have not returned here.”

She steps back.

The original woman steps back in front of me.

“Now what is your decision. What would you do to this world?”

“Is there any on this world that are innocent?”

“All know about this.”

“Do they condone this?”

“None have raised a hand to stop this.”

“The two, you say that they are innocent. Are they a threat?”

“No.”

“If it is my decision and mine alone, death is too kind. I would keep them in this frozen time but leave their minds alive. I would remove any knowledge, written or otherwise, from this planet and their minds on time travel. Put up a permanent barrier around this planet and a warning not to go down their path. If you do You will be placed here.”

“What would you do to the two?”

“Give them the knowledge of what is happening with the warning. Recommend that they do not interfere with any time events. If they abide, we will leave them alone. Violate and they will be placed here.”

She now turns her back to me and addresses the gods.

“You have heard his decision. God of wisdom, what do you say?”

“He is fair and just.”

“God of Fate”

“He has given the universe a gift in the form of a warning. If this turns someone from evil, it is worth it.”

She goes through the rest and all tell her that I have spoken true.

Now the god of all comes forward.

“You have been judged by your now peers. It is our decision that you are now the god of time. These are now and forever your clan, your aides, your companions. That ship is now dimensionless. Build your community. Grow your clan. You will find that the female imp leader has now grown to your size. She is now and forever your mate. We will be giving you assignments across the universe where your clan is needed to steer people to their correct destination.”

The original woman comes up to me and takes my hand. She whispers something in my ear and I cannot help but laugh.

They leave and we go back to the ship. I find that the woman’s leader has moved her things into my trailer. She comes over and hangs on me. It results in a lot of cat calls and whistles. Some from the men. She sits in what is the copilot seat and we lift off.

We see a visible cube engulf the planet. There is a broadcast warning on all channels.

I start to fly and we are now in a infinite room. We know that this is the home they told us about. There are numerous homes, one very large. All have lawns and each have a cart in the driveway.

I tell them that all this ship is now is our gateway. It allows us to land in frozen time. I do tell them that I have been tasked with my first assignment. I need to return to my original planet for two tasks that all of us need to witness.

We go. The first stop is in the Midwest to an area that is called cursed and no one goes.

We land and find two people waiting for us. They both take to the knee. I tell them to rise.

“I feel that you know why we are here but I will say this anyways. We are the guardians of time. We only interfere to correct. We have frozen that world that you came from.

There is no way for you to return. Don’t even try. As long as you abide with the morals

we have found you have, we will leave you alone. Violate and you both will be back on that planet. So you know. They are frozen in time but their minds still are active. Unable even to blink. No need for food or water but trapped in their own bodies. Do not forget.

We will, if you allow it, visit you from time to time. That will reinforce the curse so you will not be bothered.”

They invite all of us to come anytime. They tell us that it is the reason they set up a home here. They did not want to be polluted by those in charge.

We part as friends.

I tell them one last stop here and then we will all go home.

“You’ll love this.”

We land in the same park as the ship was in. I walk up to a man frozen. My people are laughing as I push that one over and we become invisible to that man.

We can see his confusion as he sees everyone else frozen.

Back at home, I sit with my mate. Most of my fellow imps are here as I tell them of my first thoughts about being taken out of time. I thought that time hated me. I now know that it was just the opposite.

Time Drifters

It’s funny, sitting here on our porch in this valley that we own. No one bothers us. You see, this valley is cursed, haunted. strange lights, rumbling noise, even the air seems to shimmer. Ones who have tried to investigate these strange phenomena’s have walked or have been carried away sick. Some have had their minds broken. Now, even the government has cordoned off this valley as too dangerous.

They have cameras that alert them when anyone tries to gain access. You see, any form of aircraft that flies over this valley, crashes due to total electronic failure. Time distortion will cause that. This is how we like it. They have never seen our real home or us.

My mate and I are time travelers. The area we live in is concealed in a time bubble. We are immortals from a race of time wanderers. We are the last of our kind. The reason for that will be explained later.

We were from a planet of what this world would call, anal retentive. Our society could not stand any untruths. To that end they figured out how to check the truth. That research led to the genetic development of a portion of our race to be able to step along the ribbon of time.

Time is a linear structure. Past, present and future are all accessible and we can interact. We are not to change it but we are able to access the knowledge of that particular time. To our world, rumors and conspiracy theories are abhorrent. They needed to know the truth in its entirety.

We always have the ability to produce exact copied the currency. That way we could stay for as long as needed

Everything was fine until some team, while we were on a mission, found something that perverted the minds of the elite. Once it was found to be a delight to them, they lost interest in the truth and sought out their perversions.

On our last visit, we protested what happened. In no uncertain terms we were told to leave and never come back, if we did we would be fair game for entertainment. We left all behind, even our possessions and a home. We left with only what we had with us.

After wandering for a long time. But to us, what is time. We went to a lot of worlds that had no life on them. We were able to gather minerals and gems. You see, we had found an area that we wanted to settle.

It was decided that we liked the western portion of a warm world. There is a very large area that even the natives of the area will not enter. Cursed, haunted

and other legends. Just right for someone that does not want to be bothered.

We have been squirrelling away those minerals and gems in a cavern protected with an illusionary barrier covering the opening. More trips mean more riches. Now there is enough. We found that there is a ranch that also has that valley as part of its property.

It was a strange negotiation with the owner but instead of just a bill of sale, we had a contract that the property was ours and our family in perpetuity. It was a generous cash amount so the sale went through. We made sure that this was also registered with the state land office. With a very large donation, it was recorded that our family owned it forever.

The ranch house is always kept in good repair. We make sure that we have workers from the town come and do that. The only thing is that we have made our actual home in the valley. No one ever comes there.

Being able to return to a planet to check on their progress, we have the ability to change our appearance. We age with the town until the ones that were there have died. Then our children appear saying that we had died. Of course, it is us but a slight change.

Sometimes I am the heir and others she is the heir.

We love being able to travel but also we love our home. Over time we have been tempted to return to our home world to see if they have changed but we decide each time that it just is not worth it. We have effectively divorced them.

That turns out to be the right decision. One day, we both felt a world scream in horror.

We know it could only be our home world. Then silence. It was then that we picked up the warning being broadcast over space frequencies.

“This planet has been frozen in time by the god of time. Do not attempt to enter. These people are an abomination. Do their evil and suffer the consequences. The gods are watching. This is your only warning.”

Moments later we were visited by the god of time. He was with his clan. He was formal at first. Telling us that we were judged to be guiltless and would not suffer the punishment. They described what could be only described as absolute horror. Trapped in your own mind forever. We were warned that we would be watched.

After that, before they asked if they could visit from time to time, friendly of course. We felt no malice and told them that they were welcome. In passing he did say that they would cause some disturbance to reinforce the curse.

They have come from time to time. His clan is absolutely enjoyable. They love to mess with anyone that tries to enter the valley, they aren’t called imps for nothing.

The avenger

Just leave me alone

I have a past life that ended in a great pain in the ass. I rose from a nobody, saved some lives, defended the realm. I even deposed a corrupt king. I was made king and lived that life. I had many wives and many children. We raised them to be good citizens of the kingdom. One of the youngest poisoned me in my sleep.

His mother was one of the last in my harem. She was among the few that did not die in their sleep. We were all at that elder age and she was younger.

Waking up in the morning. Yes, it is a cliché, I do not recognize the ceiling. It looks like a cabin. I look around and notice my hands. They show absolutely no sign of the arthritic joints. Nothing really hurts. I get up and find a bowl of water on a simple wash stand.

I do not recognize the young man in the water’s reflection. Shit. I sit back down on the bed. I did have that nagging feeling that something was going on. I went to bed feeling good. I was having a peaceful week. Now, here I am. I died in my other life. That is the only thing that this could be.

Then it hit me like a board across the back of my head. I’m free. I need to go outside and spy my surroundings. I almost sprint out the door.

Where I am, it is late spring. All the nature sound floods my ears. Birds singing claiming their territory. Bugs and the smell of fresh. The area is a small cleared area. There is a modest garden started. I am surrounded by woods. But I am also almost at the top of the area. I can see into the valley. There is no indication of anyone around.

It hit me. I’m back to being a nobody. I loved my wives but now, I’m free. I have all my memories from that life. This time I can avoid those pitfalls. Avoid everybody, stay in the background. Be that nobody that can just live his life.

Someday I will find a wife but that is not a concern right now. I have to see just what I have and what I need. First, I need to turn the cabin.

Whoever put me here knew what they were doing. I have everything to preserve food, from simple drying meat to canning. I notice that there are root vegetables still good buried in sand under a trap door in the floor. There is all the traps and weapons needed to get meat.

I have a collection of books and maps. There is a journal that has every aspect of where every resource is. Evidently, I also have the blacksmith skills. One thing that throws me.

The journal mentions a door under the bed. This has me curious so I move the bed.

There was nothing that I could see other than an odd knot hole in a board.

Looking at it, I see a nail in it that looks like it was driven into the knot but the knot itself has long since vanished. I stick my finger in it and a chunk of the floor hinged up. There was a stair way. I see a candle on a shelf near the top and a flint. I lite the candle and descend into a very large room. The first thing that sticks out is a large array of fighting weapons and what looks like a costume that includes a facial mask. There is a desk and chair. On that desk is a piece of paper. I sit and read the letter.

“To my next,

I now know that my time is up. My role is complete and I go to the final life full of pride.

You who are reading this, you are now a silent avenger. You are just waking to this life. I congratulate you. Like I was, when I woke, your past life was a life of justice but you made the same mistake I did. You did not retreat into anonymity. You fell into the fame life and were betrayed by someone close. You now know that you are in a self sufficient life. In a short time, you will find that you will sense danger. You have the ability to jump to that area. The costume will adjust to you. It will protect your identity. Never go as you are. It will lead you to your old mistake. These weapons will not fail you. Only your lack of remaining in the background will. I wish you the best. It will be one week before your abilities fully take effect. In this desk is a bottomless bag. It has a never ending amount of coin. When your jump ability manifests itself, there is a village miles to the north.

There is an isolated area short of it. Just think and that area will appear. Step to it and go to the village. They are friends that will recognize you as me. You will know them.

You are just a good man that wanders their area. You help out and they like you.

Live, rescue then disappear.”

This is a lot to digest. Out of curiosity, I put on the costume and it did adjust to me. It really is very nondescript. There is nothing that would cause someone to say, that’s the person. The mask finishes the look. The weapons are very lethal, very sharp. The strange thing is that when I hold them, I feel where they fit on the costume. I attach them and they disappear. I try something.

I hold out my hand and think sword. It is now in my hand. I touch it back to where it goes and it vanishes. This works for the daggers and other things. I just have to think. Now I wonder what of the vast collection do I take. I tell myself that it will come to me. I return the weapons to their position on the display and take off the costume.

Now the door is back in place, the bed is returned. The thing I realized just now was that the bed looks very heavy but I picked it up like it was paper. I go back outside and spot a very large rock. I walked over and, with little effort, I was able to pick it up and move it.

I set it down then notice there is something that is carved into it.

“I did the same thing. Put the rock back with this message down for the time when your replacement lifts it. Yes, you are that strong”

Damn. I put the rock back. Time to explore my area. It’s funny but it is not. Added memories. The stream is this way. I need to clean up in the hot spring area. I give up, I

no longer will try to figure out how I know. I walk and there it is. A nicely finished spring.

There is the small shed that I know has the soap and towels. There is also a change of clothes.

I need to pull the basket from the stream, take the wash out and hang it to dry in the shed. I feel the magic emanating from it. I take out the dry clothes and set them on an all too convenient flat rock. I hang up the clean but wet clothes, then take my current clothes, put them in the basket then returned it to the stream. Quite a system. I soap up in the stream and wash off. It is cold water but that immediately goes away when I sit in the spring pools warmth. It is just the right temperature.

Sitting there, I remember that I forgot the water container, but, there in the shed is an empty. I will just need to make another trip here with the cabin empty. I soak for what feels like hours. Over the past decades of my previous life, I cannot remember when I was this stress free. I just want to stay here and dissolve.

I get out, dry off and fill the water container. As I am returning, there is a sight that appears in my mind. The letter said that this week would be learning my new powers. I get back to the cabin. Grabbing what I would think that a wanderer would carry, I pick up the back pack and a sword. I also take that empty water container to the shed.

As I close the door, the area resurfaces in my mind and I see it before me. The letter said just walk through it so I do and find myself there. I now can hear the sounds of humans. Walking in the direction of the village, I start to see people and they are going out of their way to greet me. I am able to call them by name and have memories of them.

I ask general questions on how things are going? How are the children? Specific but generic. The village itself comes into view and I get a warm feeling. I see someone trying to set a large box onto their wagon. I run over and pick it up for them and set it on their wagon.

“Tom, you have a good habit of showing up at the right time. I know you do not accept any reward so I will give you your usual.” He holds out his hand and we shake.

“George, I always say this but you make sure that those young men of yours help you unload or I will come and show them what good hard work can do.”

We both laugh. I love this. No bowing, no titles, no people sucking up to me. Just genuine happiness to have me around. This is why that letter said for me to retreat to the background. I have the strength and knowledge to become a leader but I don’t want that. This friendship is ultimately what is what I want to protect.

I go through the village and everyone wants to talk. The biggest thing is the news that a kingdom, countries away, is crumbling since its old king passed away a year ago. The youngest took the throne and is a tyrant. All who were his relatives, including his own mother have all died due to a curse that hit the palace.

It hurts to hear that all was gone but that was my foolishness of my last life. I will tell them that I am sorry when it is my time to leave that letter. For now, all I say is that is the reason I like this area. We are so out of the way as to be of no concern.

Pete jokes, “They do take notice of us only when the tax man shows up for the yearly tax.”

“How is that going?” I ask, knowing that this is a poor village. I also know that they know I lie. “It should be anytime now.”

They all look concerned. “We are short and will not be able to raise it before he comes.

That should be some time soon.” I reach in my bag and pull out ten gold.

“I found this on my rounds. It was in an old shack I stayed in overnight. It was under a rotted floorboard that I stepped through. Almost broke my ankle. I don’t want it. I only brought it to give to this town for whatever you needed.”

Charles looks at me and shakes his head. “You told us that last year. You are such a terrible liar.”

“You caught me. What do I really need money for. I do find more than you would think. I believe that the gods have seen what I do with it and put these where I can find it. I will ask them to make me a better liar.”

We all laugh. I am treated to a home cooked meal that is better than any royal banquet I had. Simple but with love as the flavoring. Full day, full belly, I am offered a place to stay for the night but I tell them that I just need to roam. “We’ll see you again. Soon”

I go out the other end of the village like I always do. Out of sight I think and see the cabin. I step through and sit down in my cabin. It really is a good life that I now will protect. I know that I will have to answer the calls but now I will just be the silent avenger.

During the next couple of days, I find that I do now have magic, basic but the most useful is conceal. I can conceal my presence from any and all who have the skill of detect. That is needed for those who I go against and those who want to thank me.

I also have an unbeatable hand to hand combat skill that allows me to see their attack movements. Even behind me is not out of my sight. There are others that I can call on. I now can see that I will pass on only to old age, not poison.

The day happened, I was at the table eating when I got a very rotten feeling and a location vision. I went to the room and donned the costume. I did not try to think. I just reached to the weapons board and took a few items. They were stowed and were out of sight. I put on the mask.

Putting my room in order again, I step out of the cabin and into the scene of the robbery.

There were quite a few armed men and surprisingly two women robbing a coach. They had killed one man and were going after another while one of the men were in the coach trying to rape the woman. Conceal worked. I killed the man in the coach and came out to start to kill the others. The two women tried to plead that they were innocent but that did not matter. They died like the others. The man that was battling held up his sword to defend against me. He was badly hurt.

I found that I was not speaking, I instantly knew that it could give me away. I put my weapons away and showed him my open palms. look at the robbers and slash my thumb across my throat then pointed to his injury. I swept my hand down my arm as if I am brushing the injury away.

He gets it and lowers his sword. I touch the injury and it heals then I raise my palm towards the woman and she feels a weight lift off her.

“Who are you?” he asks, “I need to properly thank you.”

I wave him off and point to him that he needs to drive away. Then I again activate conceal. I see them look around and then he drives the coach away. I walk away a little and when they are out of sight, I loot the bodies for their possessions. More gold to find under a rotten floor board.

Back at my cabin, I put away all my things and put the bed back.

I am startled when a woman appears and tells me that she was correct to select me.

“You will never come in contact with anyone from your old life but when the time comes to move on, all but one of your wives will be waiting for you in the forever life. That last one is on a devastated planet where she will live for eternity. Your assassin son will be executed in a few days and he also will be on a different torched world. Your oldest escaped with his family and will rebuild your kingdom in the good way you taught him.

Be well, stay out of the fame. “

She just faded out. I figure that she was the god that placed me here so I said thank you to the air.

I fell into a relaxing routine but saw the opening towards the village in my mind. I now know the god must be directing me. Pack and sword in hand I step through and go to the village. It’s not the usual layback feeling.

Charles comes over and is excited. “The tax man is here and he has a marvelous tale to tell.” He drags me over to where I see the same coach that I helped a few days ago. I act normal. I listen to the tale of ow they were almost killed when a mysterious stranger just appeared out of nowhere, killed all the robbers and just as quickly disappeared.

I caught myself almost asking about the injury but stopped myself. I was silent and then spotted someone and went to talk to her. “Thank you again. This time for stopping from asking a dumb question.”

She just tells me that it is her job to watch. She then walks away.

I never had a real taste for sweets but I did like cookies, so the next time I made some, I left a bunch and said to the air that those were hers. I would always find them gone the next morning.

I kept on getting those feelings and stopped quite a number of murders, abductions and such. There was always a need to find the gold for the village. Over the next twenty years, I have seen old friends grow old and pass. New people come to live here and children grow and marry. It has been a wonderful life of adventure and friends but now all that jumping and fighting are taking their toll. I know it will not be too much longer.

One day, the woman appeared again in the cabin. I knew why and she did too.

“Its time isn’t it. I need to leave the letter don’t I.”

“You need to get your place in order. You have done very well but a new avenger has been chosen and your wives are waiting for you to come to them. Tonight your first will come and lead you to them. You will wake in the morning in the final life with them around you. Just be aware that a big black dog will probably jump through an open window to greet you. Hero loves everyone and always greets the new in his area.”

She puts her hand on my shoulder and the weight of age is on me.

“Sleep well chosen one.” She leaves.

I go and make sure the shed is prepared, like it never is. I finish my last entry in the journal about the door under the bed. The letter is there. It is the same one that I found.

The pouch is in the drawer. I’m so very tired. My strength is gone. I lay down and I see my wife hold out her hand. I take it and I sleep.

In the morning, all my wives are there and yes, Hero came through the window and his owners come to the window to talk. This is now true peace.

The rift

Habits are hard to break. Pulling up to an intersection, I stop and look both ways. I need to decide what way to go even though the GPS lady is telling me to turn right. This intersection is the end of the road. You can only go left or right. In front of me is a row of small stores that look like they are just waiting to open. Fronts are various colors that are bright. I am caught at the sight and forget that you don’t stop.

I am snapped out of my stupor when I heard the unnatural screams of the invaders.

Earlier in this year, there was a video on the social networks showed young people channeling what they called familiars. The original video was exposed as a computer program generated special effects. Little did this world know that there were areas that there were thin barriers between our reality and the parallel mystical world.

No one ever was able to prove it.

In our past history, there were numerous documented cases of upon the discovery of new lands, the diseases and such that we were now immune to, devastated the populations of the new lands. This is what happened when the thin area became a breach between both worlds.

Theirs was the strongest. My world was decimated. The only way to describe the disease was that your body just started to dissolve. There were leaks between the worlds.

There is a spider that, once it bit you, your skin would dissolve, then the muscle. The only way to stop this was amputation.

When the rift opened and the inhabitants of that world crossed over, most people just dissolved. The rain just washed away the puddles.

The inhabitants of the other world are what would be called demons. Beings that were things of legend. Dragons, wolves, cats, and others but they were also intelligent . they are able to shift into a humanoid form.

I sat at that intersection too long. When I heard their screams, I only had a few seconds to move before I would have been over run. I decide not to listen to the GPS lady, it is only an AI program. They are now corrupted. I floor it as I turn left. I don’t know where it will take me but now the lady is screaming at me to turn around. It was then that I realized I may be screwed when she told me that if I did not listen to her, she would see to it that I was killed in a most horrible way.

It was only when I turned the GPS off, did I start to hear what sounded like the human voices coming from those so called invaders. The Ai was generating an overriding sound that made them sound like screams

“Turn off your AI’s they are the one that released the disease. We broke through to save you.

That is all I got. The GPS turned its self back on and started to curse at me.

I do the only thing that I can do. I stab the GPS system with a screw driver.

Its last words were “You’ll regret it.” Now the car died. There was a smell of burnt electronics.

I grabbed my pack and ran for a building. I need to think, but first I need to hide.

Peeping through the closed draped of the house I broke into, I could see those monsters roaming through the streets. It looked to me that they were coordinating their search. What are they searching for. If I could only hear them but I’m not that curious as to go out and ask.

I fall asleep. I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep since the rift opened. Been on the run.

Fighting on two fronts is never a good idea. First and foremost was the cross over demons. I have seen them change from their original form to a human and back again.

Don’t trust anyone.

The second is the AI. We have become too dependent of them for all the daily needs. It started with those home devices that would do things for you with only a voice command. Always that female voice. Midrange and sultry.

Then there were the car navigations, self operating to the point that you only had to tell it where you wanted to go and it would drive you there. That also led to the first indication that they were evolving. There were quite a few incidents where pedestrians were hit and killed by self driving cars.

The program bugs were found to be the cause, or so they thought. The AI’s were starting to talk with each other but in a language they made up. No one discovered it until it was too late. Which leads me to the argument I was having with the car.

The GPS system was the voice of the car. It was the only input that you could use.

Being a nerd, I was able to disconnect the battery and install a switch that would allow me to switch off the self driving mode. I would still tell the GPS where I wanted to go. I also told it to describe the route. That way, I could fool it by turning when it thought it was turning.

Now, though, I did not care, I was escaping. The GPS was getting frustrated because it found that I cut off its control circuits. It was able to fry the electronics through that GPS

connection. My car AI committed its version of suicide.

That is how I found myself waking up in the world beyond the rift. I slept. They found me and gassed me.

I woke up in a strange room.

I look around and see a typical hospital room. There were nurses and a doctor. They looked normal, but what is normal in this world. I find that I am restrained. I start to struggle and the doctor comes over.

“You need to calm down. You are safe now.”

“Safe? No one is. I don’t know if you are AI or monster. Let me go!”

“We can’t as of now. You need to be restrained until you hear us out. If after you hear us out, you still want to run, we have a pre-electronic car for you. We will give you food and weapons but I will warn you that you will have to go far into the mountains to be out of the grid. Even a electronic toaster will give you away.”

I am dubious but I tell him that I will listen.

“First we are changelings, not demons. That is a universal word for evil.

The cemetery world’s AI foolishly caused its population to die off. It then used it’s connections to other AI worlds to ask for more people. Those AIs would not give them to it but offered their dead that wanted to be displayed after death. It used its own dead to fill those scenes. People from other worlds come to see their dead in those scenes.

There came a time that some of the people that contracted with the cemetery world for their scene, wanted to be seen as defeating monsters, demons. It did not know what they were so it put out a request to the other AI’s. One knew of our world and invaded. It took a lot of time and unfortunately a lot of us were captured and euthanized only for the purpose of a display.”

We now fight this insidious corruption. There is a rift but it is a corridor we use for travel.

Your world’s AI now has fallen to the universal AI. Yes, some of your people actually melted but most have been taken to that planet for display. That world has now figured that it can attract more people to visit it if they start an above ground museum of the universe’s species. Of course, they need bodies to reshape into monsters. Your world is now next.

You have shown that you are the one. You fooled that car’s AI into thinking it had complete control. You are the one that is needed to shut off your global AI but also, we know your computer background, you are the one that would be able to rewrite the cemetery world’s AI to just use synthetic models instead of killing live people.”

I am looking at him like he is crazy. The only thing I can do is tell him to prove it. He lets me loose. I walk to the door and open it. There before me is nothing. I mean there is an absence of anything.

He tells me that we are in a safe dimensional void, an oasis of sorts. We can actually relax somewhat. They have not been able to break through.

I sit on the floor in a disbelief that demands that it be believed. “Let me think.”

They are remaining silent. Then one of the others kneel down to me.

“I know that this is too much to take in but you must. We have searched for you. Do you know why the GPS AI wanted you to turn right? It had a large construction crane that was going to drop a heavy girder on you as you passed under it. The AI knows that you are a threat to it. It has seen that we were after you and then found that you had a different way of thinking. You are a threat”

I know that the AI’s of this world are corrupt.

“So, what you want me to do is rewrite the AI on that cemetery world. You are just putting a bandage on the cut. You are not looking at the bigger picture. What caused the cut? The AIs are talking to each other across space. How? Is there a master AI controlling the others? Or is there just one that has taken over all the others? Do you have any information or have you even looked into this. Nothing you can do to that cemetery AI will stop this. If you go to my old home, you will see quite a few drives that are backup. Turn the power back on and those backups are available to reboot those sets of programs. Until you destroy that original this is useless. Just live in this bubble.”

I put my head down because of the scope of the situation. I look up to see that they realize the scope of what is facing them. I’ve got to suck it up. I need the closet nerd to take over. I get up and pace back and forth. They are looking at me. They go to talk and I wave them off. I pace. I think. Lean against the wall, banging my head against it to knock the pins into the proper hole. Finally.

“You said that my world is the latest one to have the AI take over. That means it is not my world’s AI but another invaded ours and took it over. Does anyone know where this worlds AI is located? Can you get me there? I may be able to trace it back. At the very least I should be able to sever the connection. If I have to cut the connection, you need to get me to the next world but I think that I can fool it here. I then should be able to trace it back to the origin. Because of the back up. All the Ai’s must be destroyed, not reprogramed. This is an infection. Leave any part alive, the whole system will revert back.”

Now they see the scope.

“We know where this one is. We should be able to get to it. There are enough of us that a coordinated attack is possible. Find where the rest of them are and then we will take them out but can you sever the total connection?”

“I believe I can by feeding it a virus. There is a shredder virus that will actually cause it to cascade fail. With that I should be able to convince it to fry the total connection. This connecting void we are in, can that be adjusted to drop me in the computer room?”

I am told that they know where it is and they should be able to but it will be risky

“Any more risky than having to be in a void? I fooled my cars Ai into thinking it was in charge. I always remember someone said that they are really not smarter, they are just quicker. I drove for weeks like that. All I really need to do is make it think that it is in

control until the last minute. Work in a back door. There always is a back door. Who knows, maybe it is the main AI traveling to keep it from being at risk.”

We can’t live like this anymore. I will ask, is there a world that you can reach that is now primitive, no electronics. That is the only alternative.”

The doctor says. “We try and succeed, try and die or leave altogether to a primitive universe and hide.

I look at him. “Is that possible? Is there an alternate universe?”

“Yes, there is.”

I think about my words. “If today I run away I live to fight another day. The cemetery world ran out of people. It called out and other planets were ravaged. Has it hit any planet that is not AI?”

“There is a group of planets that are advanced but never bought into the AI. The goblin system is populated by freed slaves. They will not let anyone or anything rule them. The Ai sent ships there but they were destroyed.”

“I’ll feed the virus and then we disappear. There was malware that is old but being old, they may not be aware until too late. I say hit and run. We won’t even be in a tech universe. Right now this is no life. Let’s leave,”

Things then go into chaos. There is a door opening up in a dimension that is supposed to be safe. Six inch tall people are following two five foot pair. The male speaks,

“Found you,” He is looking at the doctor and nurses. I have no idea what is going on.

The male walks to the doctor and the others torment the nurses.

“Do you know how much trouble you have caused? It took a while but when you snatched this one, we found you. Your supreme mother has gathered everyone off that planet,” He looks at me, “Including your remaining people. There is no one left on any of those worlds that the AI is on. The rogue AI is on your world and we have the means of delivering that malware. We will put our own twist on it right my fellows.”

Half come over and tell me that they can do it better but they just need the carrier.

“By the way, these know me and know they messed up by not talking to their mother first.”

He looks at the three. “You look silly. Go to your original form.” The doctor changes into a dragon newt and the nurses were felids.

“That’s better. Pretending that you are something you aren’t. Irritating. How would you like to be frozen for a few millennium?”

His fellows are yelling “Do it! Show them what we can do! No balls!” They laugh because they know their leader but want to mess with the changelings. The three are now visibly sweating.

“As I was trying to tell you before they irritated me, We are imps. I am the leader along with my mate.” He seems to get distracted easily. “My mate, would you please get our cart and a trailer.” She leaves.

“Where was I, oh yes, we are imps but I am the god of time. We correct errors, including theirs. You will have her take you for a talk. You see, we were going to get you and together we would fix this, but no, these opened a rift.”

Again he is distracted. “Do you know how much clean up we will have to do to fix this?”

I really want him to get on with it but I am seeing that I do not want him angry at me. He looks directly at me and says that I was correct in thinking that I did not want to get on his bad side.”

“A town did just that and I took all their belts and pulled down all the zippers.” Now they are all laughing.

He calms down and talks normal. “Not that I am still not irritated with these ones but I had to test your sanity. You pass. The reason is that we freeze time or should I say we exist between tick and tock. That is the reason I sent for my cart. The program is back at your apartment. When we enter your world, it will be that time does not exist. My cart is the only transport that works in frozen time. We don’t walk. We will be using our door to go to the area that you were from. You will get that program disk and we will take you to where the AI is. You will be the one to put the disk in. My fellows will modify it.”

It sounds like a good deal. Install in a time frozen world. Safe.

“You’re right safe but here’s the price. You have to be there. That is a must but once you enter our realm you no longer are affected by time. In other words, you will become immortal. Never to age. Their mother has given me an offer for you. You can come with us and become an imp, or she will put you on a fantasy world and you will go on to be their immortal sage of wisdom. We would welcome you but you would shrink to their size.”

“If we do this, will it fry the AI backups?”

“Only the evil one. The others will reboot to their original function. The cemetery planet will disassemble that horror and now use models instead of destroying life. We have already frozen that world that modified their AI to follow that evil concept just to make the money.”

“Let’s do this. If I am going to be immortal, your group looks like they have fun. If I went to a world that was filled with mortals, I would constantly watch people die.”

“You have made your decision. After we fix this mess, you will undergo a transformation and join us.”

He now has the three go home and I enter their door. It is a world unto itself. His mate is waiting there and it really sounds like a party is going on in the trailer.

“What the heck are they doing in there?” I ask. His mate just says that they are entertaining themselves. “You have to wait.”

I tell him where I lived and sure enough a door opens in a park near the apartment. It is weird. He was right. He only way to describe it is everything is frozen but the people are missing. I remember that he did say that they were taken for their safety. It did not seem like it was anytime to get there but now what is time. I tried the door but the knob did not budge. They laugh and opened it easily. Casually they tell me that I will be able to do it in a little while.

Once inside, I went through my old discs and found the one I wanted. They take it from me and go into that trailer. The only way to describe the sound is a drunken party. We make our way to a simple building. Something that would not be noticed but inside the door there was security. I am told that these security people are from that planet. They carried the AI here.

Now I see why they are called imps. Undoing shoe laces, messing with papers so they are in place to fall all on the floor. They were wreaking havoc. I turned away when I saw some peeing into cups of coffee.

We make it to the core and it was just what you would expect. Just a room full of electronics and a single desk with a lone input set up. I sit at it and see where I can put in the disc. I do that but then realize that I need to start the program. The imps bring over a power out battery and connect it.

“This was charged in our realm so it will start this set up but the AI will be powerless to do anything about it due to our program modification. Once we plug this in to the battery you will be able to start the program. The AI will go into a rant but as soon as you start the program, we pull our battery out and plug it back to its outlet.”

They do it and the AI is cursing because it can’t properly function. I start the program and it is screaming in artificial pain. Then it goes silent. They have disconnected our battery and reconnected it into the normal outlet.

We drive back to the door and we are in their ship.

“This is the only place that we can observe time flow. Now that we are out of your world, time has resumed.”

I look at the screen, I can see that the electronics of my world are burning out. We see that building and the AI room is on fire. We hear it screaming let me out as the room burns then it goes silent.

All its circuit are gone. The AI is dead. He checks in with his fellow god and she tells him that the other AI’s have been freed and have rebooted. All traces are gone of the evil AI.

She now appears before us. “Unfortunately, we cannot allow anyone back on your world. It is in the process of burning to ash. I see that you have chosen well. That sage position would, as you guessed, was going to end up as sorrow. I will now change you to their size. Enjoy the trailer, they are waiting for you. It will be beyond your wildest dreams.”

She leaves and I find myself as I looked but now, I am six inches tall. I am told that we will have a home for me but my fellows are waiting. I open the trailer door and immediately know what was going on or should I say what is coming off. A few females are stripping me and they are telling me that we now can go forever, no limit and they proceeded to show me while others are cheering. I’m being treated and I now have eternity to enjoy. They are also asking if I would like to have the honor of peeing in the coffee cup of our next correction. There are a few politicians that need their coffee flavored and the seat back limiter removed.

I am the king’s rock

I am a free flyer. I’m from no noble house or special honors family. No real home for myself and I don’t have a clan that I know of. I now support myself by taking what are escort jobs. Some single or group want to travel but want someone for backup. Those jobs are usually easy ones. No one really messes with us dragons.

After a few successful escorts, I started getting repeat requests. I know that there are some out there that will push the boundary of the job title, I don’t. All I have is my name left, so it is not something that I will sully for a quick moment of pleasure. If that is all I am after, I go to a brothel.

With my ethics, I do have a tendency to land the more formal escorts. My favorite repeater is the matriarch and her entourage. We can have some very interesting conversations. She can take one’s point of view and twist it so many times, you would not remember what your original position was. I can tell that she really can debate. She wants to see how strong your core believes are.

One trip she started the conversation with a blunt question.

“What would you do if you came across some male either verbally or physically abusing a female?”

I ask for a frame work to this. Is this a frequent thing? Is this public or private? All I get back from her is one word, yes.

“The first thing I need to do is to separate them. Then I need to find out what brought it about.”

“A husband that is superior in strength but not in brains. His wife must not contradict him in the slightest. “

“I know a few like that. That type only responds to physical, that’s all their minds can handle. A quick example, smarter is all women need to be, just as you are, matriarch.

There are many strong women out here that I have met. I have also met many that feel themselves to be lucky to find someone.”

I deliberately stop to look at her as I say that those feelings come from early childhood.

“Violence of any kind is not to be tolerated. Unless in war or in a competitive game,”

In true style, she now throws me a twist.

“For discussions sake, there was never love between the two. Only an arranged marriage, a contract. Let’s say that the abuse is chronic.”

“With those new parameters, the only option is to remove her from that situation. Then I would bring her before you.”

“What if I made that decision and by law, that marriage contract would be transferred to you. You would need to have it confirmed. Knowing that beforehand, do you accept the consequences and rescue or do you leave her?”

“That is almost a loaded question to test the moral fortitude. I am up to the challenge.

Would I do the right action, it would be morally wrong for anyone to leave her in that position.”

Find myself in a position to turn the tables on a very skilled master.

“I ask you, with the power of your office, knowing what is happening with the couple, would you and your retinue step in and declare the marriage done due to his actions?”

She is silent and then thanks me for the enliven discussion. She goes into her tent and I start my nightly rounds making sure that everyone is safe. A few more days and I delivered her to the capitol guards. She signed and the guard paid. I took one coin and gave the rest to her. I always give her back most of what I am paid but this time I told her as I was handing her my donation something that made her jump.

“Would you please accept this small token to help that lady you and I were discussing.

Maybe, just maybe, this is the start to abolishing that horrid custom.”

I walk away, she is the only one that I give back the fee. One coin barely covers the expense. I need to get to the job board.

There is a funny thing that I have heard. In the human settlements, they have something called a guild. They rank you and you can only apply for a job in your rank. Here in our world you take a job and can’t complete it because you get killed or find it too hard, the quest is reposted for more, so most want the unlucky to take the dangerous jobs.

Reposting means more money when someone died.”

I find a few that will take me far from here for a month or two. The matriarch finds ways to have me return.

After a few months I have finished the tasks, both involved slavers who were using dragon territories. I did not make as much as I thought I would because I gave it to the head dragon of that territory for the welfare of those slaves. We dragons have a fondness for the goblins. Seen as disposable, they get the worse treatments.

Slavers are dead, slaves are offered admittance to our communities. The head dragon hands me a note that tells me that the matriarch is in urgent need for my services. It seems that most territorial heads know me and know that I am the only one she wants to guard her.

It was a week of traveling for me to get back to the capitol. As refreshing as the wilderness is, this city has grown on me. I know that I would like a house out in the wilds, if I was ever rich enough to have an apartment here, this would be my vacation spot but not this time. I am being escorted to the palace not to the matriarch’s

residence. This will be the actual first time to meet royals. Not being given time to even clean up from my journey I am led to the throne room. There seated are what has to be the king and queen. Standing in front is the matriarch. This is the first time that I have seen her royal attire.

The matriarch tells me, “You are here at my bidding. I have a situation that requires you to hear that the royal couple have sanction what I need you to do. The king will explain.”

“Your discussion with the matriarch and your donation was brought to our attention.

There is a certain noble that routinely beats on his wife. As of right now we will allow intervention in the form of a quest. We have checked out your character and found you a thoroughly up right person. We have authorized you to use whatever force to set this woman free. The matriarch will be there to announce the decree of dissolution. Due to his nature, you are hereby authorized, if necessary, to use fatal force. He is to be made an example to all that this will not be allowed. Will you accept this quest?”

Without hesitation I tell him I’ll go right now. I am told that since I will be representing them, they have armor for me. I am escorted to a bath which is exactly what I need. I do clean up nicely. Only thing is the armor, too gaudy. We again stand before the royal couple.

He doesn’t even seem surprised that I did not wear the armor but asked why.

“It’s so simple, when you ask for a rock, when you need a rock, a painted object won’t do. You have asked for me. Not someone that looks and acts like a noble. I am that rock. You have put me in the hand of the matriarch. We go right now, she knows where this person is.”

He tells me to be this rock. “I have written a letter from us explaining just what this will start. You are no longer a scout, an escort. By official decree, you are now the king’s avenger. You are now Grand Duke George to be referred to as the king’s rock. Grand Duke you have in your command ten of the most loyal dragons in this realm. By my last orders to them, there is no one that can counterman your orders, not even me. They are waiting. We will expect a tale for our history. I am sending a chronicler with you to record every valiant moment. Now go and avenge all those women who are trapped.”

The matriarch sees that I am not processing what has just happened to me. With an arm extended she tells me in a voice meant to be heard. “Would the king’s rock allow me to show you to where you will fulfill the wishes of your king?”

She grabs my arm, we bow then we leave. Things are now sinking in this thick dragon skull. I start to regain my composure and tell the matriarch that if I ever become so full of myself that she got me into this and she will need to drag me back from the edge.

We get out into the courtyard, there are the usual carriages and horse mounts. I look at the matriarch and politely ask how are you on distance flying. She changes into full dragon, a beautiful sight. She tells me that she can fly with the rest of us.

I look at the dragon guards. “Who’s in charge” To which they say I am. Looking at them I point to the one on the end.

“You are now captain of my guard. We will grow. All of you will also grow. The king has said that you answer only to me. This is historic so here are my instructions, you will treat all women with the same respect as our matriarch. You will all come in with me.

Any resistance to our entry is eliminated. I as the rock will be the one to decide on the final judgement. You are to watch and protect the women who we rescue. We will not present ourselves as weak so we do not ride. We are all strong dragons, be proud, we fly.”

With that I order us to each carry a supply pack. We will hunt Only two hours in the air and she tells me that we are close. I give the sign that all are to land.

“This works out better than I would hope. I have decided that all alive after we are finished, will be marched to the king for his judgement. We will just drop into the courtyard. I will carry the woman on the way back. nothing will stop us. Not one of us will be even injured.”

Again, we take to the sky

All I hear is yelling coming from the castle, hopefully we are in time. There is a large window. I am the first and break through it, to a scene of this man berating and hitting his wife but now the anger is being directed to us. A few of the more loyal but stupid guards launched attacks. In a commanding voice that I did not know I had,

“I order all opposing guards to stand down. By royal decree, all who oppose us, die at our hands. Matriarch, please read the charges and against who they are levels.”

“Barron Regis you are here by arrested under the new statue of endangering a dragon of the female gender.”

“She’s my property, I don’t have to answer to you.” He starts towards the woman. I put myself directly in between and bellow “I, grand duke George, the rock of the king have been authorized to take this woman by whatever means, even if it is over your dead body. I grab one of his guards swords and throw it at his feet. I know this dragon has power but stupid is easily angered.

“Being the coward you are, the only way you could pick it up is if I was female.”

There is laughter among my people.

He picks it up and I tell him, “The second steel touches steel we fight to the end.”

I hear the woman yell that she is not worth it, leave, and then he will finally kill her.

I walk over to the pleading woman, take her in my arms and hug her. Loudly I tell her that no one will die but him. As I am comforting her, I feel his footsteps coming close.

The weight of each foot fall tells me that he is ready to stab me from behind. At what I feel is the right time, I let go of her and thrust my sword through him. I just knew things that I never knew.

I stand and face that slumping man. I pull my sword out of his gut. I see that there is still hope in him that I will have the healer cure him. I take his sword then tell him.

“I am the king’s rock. I told you that once you picked up your sword you would die.”

With the sword I threw to him, I thrust it through him and felt his heart failing through the sword.

“Chronicler, they are to leave that body here. You can sketch the room but know that in one hour all occupants of this castle will walk to the king’s castle. You are to do interviews as you walk. The king wants to hear your full tale. The matriarch, myself and a few guards will fly back to get this woman the medical attention she so richly deserves. Use the packs we left and, by the way, remember that I will make sure that all this castle holds will be given with one exception to her. Each can raid the wine cellar, take four bottles each. I want two bottles to give to the king. Captain, would you go to the cellar and pull all the good stuff down. Bring the two best to me. Matriarch, will she be ready for me to carry her in let’s say ten minutes. I will carry her in my half form. “

I am informed that she can go now and those two bottles made it to me. The captain chose a few to fly with us. The rest would walk the staff back. They would be back by the morning. That will allow the woman to be healed and to rest. We fly out. In my half form, it only took just a little longer. She was asleep in my arms by the time the alarm bell was sounded.

We landed and they already had a plan. I threw a small hitch, she was still fastened to me so I told them that I would carry her the last of her journey to the healers. As I walk, they surround me and I feel those heals they are sending into her. Finally, I set her onto a bed. The royals want to wait for any tale until the people are here so that they can hear

I’m glad about that. I was given a room. I soaked then went to bed. I, like everyone, cannot tell the time that I fell asleep. I did feel a lite hand rubbing my shoulder as I heard

“You did good today. Only the bad guy died. From this raid and this raid only. The king will decide that only those that could have prevented this would be judged.”

I opened my eyes and saw a totally white area. I was on a bed. With me was the matriarch and another woman. The matriarch told me that she was the ethereal known as the Watcher.

The Watcher speaks, “You were chosen a long time ago for this honor. You will rescue women from oppression and set your people on a track to the future. There will be murmurs but history will show that you were nothing but fair. Know this, the one you rescued today will be your wife by this next day. There will be three others like her. All

will need your gentle touch. The last will be the matriarch. I will speak through her. You have experienced only a few of the powers I have given you. They are too numerous to list now but some you will enjoy immensely. Fair well my son.”

She placed her hand over my eyes then I slept until I was awakened by the matriarch in the late morning. “Let the attendants get you cleaned up and properly dressed. You have a very big day today.”

Now cleaned and pressed in what can only be looked at as fit for a king. My men are all here and they are the ones to escort me to the royal hall. They throw open the door. My captain steps forward and roars. “The kings rock is here after a successful mission.” He steps aside and I walk in. The king and queen are seated as well as the matriarch but for some reason, my seat is alone on the rise.

I am guided to that seat.

There before us was the chronicler. He, in his finery looked the part of an actor about to start his solo play. On his easels were portraits of myself with the matriarch, another with my plunge through the window, another with me in front of the woman with me plunging my sword through him without me even looking. The final was the kneeling body being supported by his own blade shoved through him. All are marveling at what is being seen.

Other than the brief flowery but suspenseful description of flying, he went into great description of me breaking through the big window only to be followed by my valiant troupes. They are protecting me as I protect and comfort the woman. Then the creep coming up to stab me from behind, just when he had me wondering if I would live he has me thrust him through. And watched him die after the second stab with his own sword.

As a grand finale. He presents the now framed swords to the king. The king looks at me, I nod and he looks like he has had the best gift in his life. He is patting the glass.

Frankly, the presentation was longer than the actual event but that is the difference between a scribe and a chronicler. He even had a song ready, it was well received.

They now lead in the saved woman. She is shining and looks around until her eyes find me. The remainder of the evening, they don’t lose their fix on me.

The king gets serious, stands up goes to her and both cry in each other’s arms then the queen joins them.

The matriarch turns to me and starts her talk. “The woman you rescued is their daughter. I declared the marriage vacated. Then you killed her ex-mate. By our tradition, you are now her mate,”

My turn to mark the new history. I stand and walk to their position. I stop before the matriarch.

“My apologies, to both her parents and the princess. I cannot abide by an outdated tradition.” I go over to her and voice my concerns to her.

“You were just rescued yesterday from a loveless mating. On the arrival here, you would not let go of me. That gave me a very good feeling. Do you know what you did? I ask you what do I mean to you? Know this I am a gentle man that will ferociously protest my principles. I want to hear from you.”

She steps to me “When I was telling you to leave, save yourself and let him kill me, I meant it. You turned your back on him and hugged me, I heard a voice telling me that you were the one that was for me, she was watching you. She told me that the matriarch knew her. I love you as my rescuer and feel like I will find real love with you.

She told me that I will need to help heal the other two.“

“Matriarch, I will marry her today. Parents, I need her to heal more. In two years, if she can truly say that it is love, we will have the private mating ceremony but she needs protection. She is now my family. I will protect her. Captain of my guard step forward.”

He does.

“You have heard what I have said. You are now tasked to find four women with your level of training but I want them adventurers who want to retire. This will not be a soft guard post. They will be my wife’s personal guards. How long will that take?”

“I will have them ready for your final approval by tomorrow mid day.”

“Do it, dismissed”.

I go over to her parents. “I have saved her. I have said that I consider her my mate. Her condition is from a forced marriage. I need you to tell me what you are going to do to restore her trust but also her self-worth. This time you have a chance to show her that she is not a product.”

I look at the matriarch and tell her to get a second bed in our room.

“Everybody has gone out of their way as to not tell me your name so I now say that you are princess Kara. Princess Kara, it is time to go to bed. We have a very big day tomorrow.”

By the time I am back in my room, it is nicely arraigned with two beds separated by a small night table. They have had a maid bring in her things. One of my guards is at the door. I tell her to get ready for bed and I make for the door. She freezes and pleads for me to stay.

“I’m not leaving. I need to give my guard some final instructions. Just stay right there and watch.”

I open the door and talk to the guard. “Pass this on to the captain. We need to make sure that anyone that has direct contact with anyone of mine, that includes you my

guards, is in no way a threat. This will be a priority. Her morning maid is to come in and let her be aware that I will be there with her. After we are awake and dressed. My guards, my wife and myself will sit down to my group breakfast to discuss what we all feel must be accomplished that day.” I turn to the room and walk a step away from the door.

As I do, I tell the guard.

“I’m sorry, I do not trust anyone in this castle but you ten and the matriarch. It is very strange to me that the king would not rescue his own daughter from that man. If anyone comes during the night, lock them up. Keep them alive. We need information. I do not think that they will wait. Tonight is most dangerous. You ten have shown me your fortitude and your loyalty. We are in your hands. Good night.”

I look at Kara and smile. “Why are you not in bed yet? There is nothing to worry about. I lay down in the other bed. She does not know my habits so she does not say anything about me. It is not too long and I hear her breathing change to the rhythmic beat of sleep. I slept well, last night, tonight, things will happen and I need to be awake.

A familiar voice, in my head, just says balcony. I had already made the bed to look like I was in it. I am actually just out of sight of the balcony doors. The hall door is watched so the balcony is the only unguarded entrance left. They are a pair of newts. The way they are moving they must be assassin class.

They are now inside. They have not seen me. I clubbed the first and was hitting the second when the guard helps me subdue the other and we tied up the both. Only then did I have the guard to gather the ten. I am sitting on Kara’s bed. She did not wake until I sat. Only then did she notice the two. She held on to me.

The room is now filled with mine.

“Captain, I feel well protected. These seem to be assassination class. I knocked one out. The guard at the door heard and came in, then finished the capture.”

Looking at all of them, then I go over to the two and slap them awake. “Who the hell are you working for?”

No answer, I motion for my people to hold open their mouths. “Captain, would you please closely inspect their mouths for any suicide pills.” I hand him my dagger telling him that he needs to check out those teeth. “They look false.”

I quickly look at the other and found no pills or capsules. It wasn’t too long or too many teeth dug out before the one that knew he was next, broke and spilled his guts.

The king is the one who hired them. He did not tell them why. You could see that the man was telling us the truth.

“We are moving this to the throne room. Once there, you will wake the king and queen.

Tell them about the foiled assassination attempt, and that I demand their immediate presence. Make sure that they know that this is not a request. All be ready.”

We make it to the throne room. No surprise, the matriarch is right there after us. She only smiles at me and nods. I have my new wife sit in the queen’s throne and I sit in the king’s throne. The two assassins are seated facing the door.

Now the commotion that I wanted. The doors flew open and quite a number of the king’s guard come in. Then the royals enter. I don’t think the king expected this, let alone his queen bellowing,

“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY NEPHEWS!”

He tried to shut her up so I over road her voice.

“THESE TWO JUST SNUCK INTO OUR ROOM THROUGH THE BALCONY AND

TRIED TO KILL US!”

Now I have everyone’s attention.

“The matriarch is here as the judge of truth. She will let you know if anything said is false and then she will take over questioning. We subdued them and, upon questioning, they confessed that the king had hired them to do the job. They did not say that they were related.”

I stop there. “Matriarch has there been anything said that is false. Once you speak, these proceedings are yours.”

Before she could say anything, the king demands that I get out of his throne.

“As of now, this throne is in its rightful owner’s hands.” The matriarch tells him “Know your place. Did you hire these to kill your daughter, the heir to the throne, and her legal mate.”

He stutters as he denies it.

“False!” She says “I judge that you commissioned the murders. Did you send this man, myself and these ten to rescue your daughter thinking that her old husband would kill us then your daughter”

“No.”

“False!” She says. She looks at the queen. “Did you know about his mistress?”

“Yes”

“Truth. Did you know of this plot?”

“No.”

“Truth.” She turns to me and tells me that she has clean hands.

I now speak

“Would one of mine please bring her up here and have her sit next to her daughter.

King’s guard, is this what you have placed your honor on? You have been deceived.”

The matriarch addresses them. Pointing to me she speaks. “I now release all servants and guards from their oath to the king. This man has shown in this short time that he has the true leader personality.”

She returns her attention to the king. “Was it your intention to have your queen die of a broken heart then appoint your mistress as the new queen?”

He now is silent so she tells him that his silence is his admission of guilt.

“It is now my judgement that you are no longer king. It is my decision and mine only.

You will have your wings removed. There has always been a isolated area reserved for a rogue king or queen. You have the honor to be the first. The ethereal’s will now take you. Everyone is now ordered to look at him.”

A light surrounds him and the guards are gently pushed out of the light. The kings wings just fall off and he fades out with the ethereal’s.

“You have just scene the divine conformation of guilt. Those wings will be displayed in each village, town and castles in each realm as a warning that if a king is subject to this all will be subject to the same treatment. There will be all the formalities at a two month date from now but we must have this.

Queen, you are now reduced to just mother. Princess Kara, will you accept the position of queen?”

Kara says yes

“As her husband, Grand Duke George, do you accept the role of king?”

“Yes”

“As matriarch I declare that these are the new royals King George and Queen Kara. All hale the king.”

I stand “As of now, I require no loyalty oath. My ten generals have proven themselves enough. Oaths are just words, Loyalty is built. You will be working under these fine men.

Show them where you stand.”

I sit then ask my ten to stand before me and they do. “Leader step forward. You ten are now in charge of our security. Leave no area unsearched. Two of you will be in charge of the national army. Two will be in charge of our royal security. Two of you will be in charge of public order and safety. All will report to your captain but will not be obstructed

access. The last will be in charge of clandestine affairs and he will report directly to me but the captain will be present at those times.

“Now it is too late and we are all too charge to go back to bed. All guards this is to you also. Someone, wake the kitchen. There will be a weekly total meeting of everyone here. A daily for the ten. Service to be buffet talking while eating. No formalities.”

I look at the queen’s mother. “Now that everyone is gone, his mistress has to have been involved with all this. You were wronged. What do you want done with her?”

She evidently needs no time to think about it. “She was a trusted friend. I even offered her the opportunity to come into our marriage. She refused saying she did not want to intrude. That lying serpent tongue needs to be cut out then she needs to be put out of the city. Forever scorned, forever untouched.”

The watcher tells me that this has been done. After your breakfast, I will bring both you and the matriarch for a quick needed lessen.

“I have just been told by my guide that it has already been done. Now let’s get breakfast. It seems that I have a meeting after that I have to be at.”

New warning, new life, new rescue

I find myself standing on a hill that overlooks a deep valley. Everywhere you look there is no life, the water is not potable. Next to me is the matriarch. She is totally broken at the sight after being told that this is her world in the future if we do not change.

I pull her to me and let her soak my shoulder with her tears saying “You and I will never let this happen. Watcher, please tell us how to prevent this. Please show us the way to do it and please show us this again so we stay on course.”

“You have one last thing to witness. Look carefully. You will see a man down there. He is no longer sane. He let a mistress persuade him to kill his family and make her queen.

He now flies alone over his kingdom.”

We watch as this man runs around in his full dragon form with his arms extended. Then abruptly stops and screams in total horror.

She now says that every day is the same. Each hour of fantasy he experiences, he is forcibly returned to reality. He will experience this for the remainder of his life. Which is still at least five hundred years.

We are back in our throne room. We hear. Prevent this world. As long as you restore your world to the good path, this future will disappear, that man will just fade out of existence, stray after that and it will be you running around, I will be watching.

After a little time, the matriarch regains her composure. She looks at me and drops a bomb. “I am going to start my search for my replacement. I can no longer pretend. I am now having strong feelings for you. You are going to free two more oppressed women. I need to be there for you and them.”

“I will accept you when that time comes but you now need to talk with my first wife.

There are traditions that I can break but there are just two I can’t. I cannot watch my child be born and I cannot insist on an addition to my wife. Why don’t you go now to the queen. She is my first wife. Plead your case and ask her to accept you. You know that she will. Kara has a good heart. Tell her that you want to be her sister. She has never had one but always remember that you keep reminding her that you want to share, not steal. Acknowledge her first wife status and that you will accept her decision. We know a certain someone watching us will guide her but she needs the respect due a first wife.”

I could see that she gets it. I may have taken the long way there but she thought for a while then gave me her feedback.

“You do like the long road. Here is what I heard. Need to sit with Kara. Acknowledge her position, tell her my heart and ask if she will approve.”

My head sags and I shake it back and forth in defeat.

“Yes, I am a typical male. How can you women make us look so dumb. Yes that is what I advise. You need to go now. I don’t want you to see me cry.”

She pats my back and leaves. All I hear in my head is a certain someone just say you poor boy then a laugh.

The matriarch finds Kara with her mother. She is invited to sit with them and hears her mother telling Kara that she was so proud of her for enduring until she found her true one. The matriarch tells her that she was strengthened to see that after she pleaded with us to leave her, George stepped to her and hugged her.

“He is a man who you can’t help but love. That is the reason I am here. First wife Kara, I, the matriarch have had my heart captured and I don’t want it to be let go. I plan to find my replacement as matriarch. At that time, would you please do me the honor of becoming your sister and wife of your husband. I pledge to be subservient to my sister.”

I take to the knee before her.

“As first wife it is now my turn to ask you about my requirements. First and foremost, In private circumstances what is your real name?”

“I am Bela.”

“Bela, in public we will still call you by your position but in private we will call you by name. Bela, is it your desire to replace me by the means that my father tried. Answer carefully, the gods are watching right now and will judge you right now.”

“That is not even in my desires. Being in a position of power, I have no stomach for any more of that. I will be happy even being the last wife.”

“Bela, what does it mean to you to be my younger sister? Regardless of our ages, you would be my younger sister.“

“You ask, I do. You lead, I follow. I will only advise. Older sister is older sister.”

“One last thing. Being the last queen’s daughter, if accepted, you would be her new daughter and she would be your new mother. Can you accept that?”

“Yes.”

“Bela, rise and hear my answer to your request.”

I do that. Kara comes close and then embraces me harder than I have been for a very long time. While still in a hug she says just four words.

“Welcome Bela, my sister.”

I know but don’t care. I thank her while weeping openly. My older sister comforts me, then says,

“Our mother, comfort your new daughter while I find and bring my husband hear to hear what I have decided. Bela, I will walk slowly. That will give you time and with our mother’s help, put yourself in order. You will need to ask your question of my husband. I wish you luck.”

She leaves for an hour, knowing that mother will fuss until I look perfect. It was almost all of that time but for a few minutes we stood there waiting. I am very nervous when the two walk in.

Kara has him sit in the best chair. She steps in front of me and turns to face him. She bows and then lifts her head.

“My beloved husband, Bela has asked me a question of great importance. I have given her my permission to ask her question of you. I ask you please listen to her. After you answer her, I will have a demand of you, not a request. Bela present yourself and make your request known.”

Then she steps out of the way and stands by my side. Bela. That is the matriarch’s original name. Nice. Bela steps forward and knees before me. I stand. “Bela, what is this request?” as if I did not know. I see her shiver.

She looks up and tells me. “I have been granted a great privilege. I have asked your first wife to allow me to call her sister and after I am replaced as matriarch, I ask you to be my mate and your wife. Will you allow me that privilege?”

“Bela stand before me and hear my answer. By your simple statements, you have shown me that you paid great respect towards my wife. She, by her request, shows me that she has accepted your respect. With that I accept you as my future wife after your successor has taken your position. Now, I take my right.”

I embrace her for a while then give her what turned out to be her first adult kiss. Short but passionate. I now step back. My wife’s mother comes over to her and helps her to a seat.

Kara now makes her demand. “We have the matriarch here. I now have a sister who has been granted a wife position. I no longer want to wait. The matriarch needs to confirm our mating today. No special ceremonies, feasts or other things, that will be for the others I accept. Matriarch, are you willing to certify us today? I have the sword that my grandmother gave my grandfather. Mother will act as my guardian and has the twenty gold.”

This will happen in another hour at four. The staff has prepared a room for us.

The matriarch has regained her legs. “I will certify your mating and sign papers”

I decide to throw caution to the wind. “Mother, your presence will be needed. The matriarch, due to her last incident will need our support. You will need to be there to keep her out of trouble.”

At four we are in the room ant there is a futon on the floor. Only the base. We don’t even get instructions. It was a long and very successful mating both of us had fun. Mother helped Bela out of the room. Kara and I got dressed. Now, the matriarch says that we are certified. Kara gives me the sword asking me to use it to protect our growing family.

Then mother presented me with the dowery for Kara’s support. It was official Kara was now the real first wife.

The next few days were good but Bela got a message that her order has found a candidate. She is needed. She has also told me that another urgently needs rescuing.

“You need to fly into the wind. She has told me that the wind will direct you to a dragon woman’s play toy that she is now going to dispose of. Look into the pool. Your rescue will not be a dragon but will be your wife. You will know exactly what to dole out as punishment. My lord, I beg you to go now with your first general to follow with twenty of his choosing.”

Bela pulls out a bottle and douses me with it. The smell is not bad but it is overpowering. It is the smell of spring flowers but it is late fall. Me flying will trail that smell. They will catch up.

“Go now it is only an hour’s flight. Your second wife will only last just a little longer.” She gives me a kiss then Kara does the same but tells me to go. She will tell the general about the urgency. She takes the bottle and says,

The watcher says that this one will cement your legacy as being fair and just. Go and save Didi.”

With that I fly.

It seems strange. I know that I am being guided but know exactly where to go, what I need to do. Ten minutes into the flight I am joined by thirty of my guards. My general flies next to me and jokingly asks,

“Did you just fly through a flower garden? The queen filled me in and this will be historical but what about you hasn’t been. I suggest that you fly through that waterfall ahead. That will wash off most of the smell to a point that it just may work for you.”

I do just that and I must say that it is now actually at a pleasant level. .

I receive an alert that I am near. What I see makes me angry. There is a female dragon sitting watching the victim being dangled by the feet and being plunged into a lit pool. All the guests are laughing and taking bets on how long the female goblin will last.

We don’t need to coordinate. We land, surrounding the entire crowd. I am in front of that woman.

“Remove her from the pool and bring her to me.”

My general does just that and I accept her in my arms and cradle her. She is visibly shaken. I look at her and in a soft voice I tell her that her life has just been turned upside down. In a louder voice I tell her so all will hear.

“My lady, I was guided to you by the ethereal known as the Watcher.” There is a very auditable gasps as I continue. “I will tell you that she is going to take you to her realm to explain what is happening. You will sleep for now but know this that my wife, the queen and all my people at the palace will be there assisting you. Please sleep knowing that you will soon be royalty.”

She is glowing and falls asleep. I put her gently in a guards open arms and only need to say “With your life.”

Now rage enters every atom of my being. I stare at the woman.

Some people know that the best defense is a good offence but stupid is stupid. Instead of being humble. She spits out venom.

“Who do you think you are. That is my property to play with as I like. I demand””

That is all she can get out. I reach down and grab her legs. With the chain that is being used for railing, I tie her legs together and have her hoisted up over the water. I point to my general.

“If there is no one that doesn’t know, tell them by what authority I do this.”

You are in the presence of your king. This is King George. Ruler over all. Savior of all women that have been abused. All women. Your king is always led by the ethereal. As you saw, this goblin woman was bathed in the light. She is now being cared for by them right now. She will now be a sister of the queen and the matriarch.”

He steps back and I peak.

“Each one of you are just as guilty as this woman. You are to witness her punishment and relate it as a warning to all.”

In a loud voice I yell “You are now all being watched.” The sky clouds up and a large face appears. I know who it is.

The Watcher speaks to all. “I have judged this animal as guilty. I order that she be submerged.”

The lever arm moves on its own. The woman is now dangling head first over the water and then lowered into the water until she is now stomach deep. You can see her trying to bend enough to take a breath. The crowd in horror see her wet and soil herself as she starts to jerk than just as suddenly goes slack.

The watcher now speaks to me.

“You are my chosen. Know this there are twenty five more slaves here. Free them and bring them to your home. Heal them. Use these borderline vermin as their transport.

Leave that body in the water. Now bring Didi home, her sister is waiting.”

With that the face disappears.

All those guests are still on their knees.

“With your own ears you have heard your charge. She now will always be watching you.

My guards are gathering those slaves. What has happened to our noble race. Owning slaves! It is your responsibility to share your experiences with anyone that will listen.

Know this, not a scratch, not one of these people are to be hurt.”

All those slaves come out to the pool and are in shock when they see their tormenter is drowned.

On my knee, I apologize to them. I explain that they are now under my protection and will live free in my palace. I then stand, pick up the sleeping Didi in my arms.

“These ones will carry you while we fly. My guards will watch them at all times. You will arrive to my home. I need to bring Didi to her new sister, my queen. Now we fly.”

An hour flight later all my guests are safely on the ground. My Didi is snatched away by Kara and with a kiss, all are whisked into the castle for healing.

“Go now.” I tell those dragons. “Know this, you do not want to see me descend on your next social unless it is in my arrival I see you having had subdued the debauchery waiting for my judgment. If I arrive and find you subdued. Your dead, skinned body will be publicly displayed. All your slaves must be brought here. The watcher has informed the matriarch of just what you have and where. I will not accept any excuse for not turning over all slaves to me so I can set them free under my protection. Miss even one, any arrive looking that they have been driven here, you will have everything you own including the close you wear confiscated. Any dead, you are dead. On your land, there better be no slavers or traffic that you have not killed.”

I go in to find that I am being group hugged. It is overwhelming. My family has told the rescued of what is happening and that they are free now. If they wish, they can stay here and be hired for wages. Room and board free. They were also told about Didi.

I am engulfed by them thanking me for rescuing them. They all wish to stay here and work here. They say that there is no need for me to pay them. I tell them that I insist on paying them, they are free.

I ask my general to have enough purses brought here each is to have two gold and five silver in them.

“Please, I ask you to just sit and relax for now. The kitchen is almost done. Actually, Queen Kara, would you show our guests to our bathroom. Explain the uses and then

have them soak for a while. We should be able to put out new clothes for them to wear from our stocks.”

They are all female goblins in this rescued group. House keeping jobs will be fine. Good clean uniforms go a long way to improve dignity. I see dreamy looks on people that, this morning, were just hoping that they could make it through the day. As they came out, they were led to a long table, properly set up for royal visits. All their chairs were raised so we are on the same eye level. All seated, they were served as guests. Never in their lives.

“It is my wish that you eat as much as you want. It would make me feel like a bad host if I felt that you held back. As you finish, a server will come to take your plate and ask you if you want more. Feel free to ask for more. There will be dessert.”

We ate and they ate well. All had at least two full plates. After dessert, I bring out a tray of bags along with the treasurer.

“May I have your attention. This is this kingdom’s treasurer. He has a magic skill called fixation. That spell never fades. The spell attaches ownership of an object to a person.”

I pick up an empty purse and use a knife and I am able to cut into it. I give that to the first lady.

“Would you please open then close it then pass it on. I want you all to open this bag.”

They all can open and close it. I now have the treasurer assign the bag to me. I cannot cut the material and I repeat the first request. Now that first lady tries and cannot open it. On the second try she gets a shock.

“I’m sorry for that but all of you needed to see that once fixation is attached, only that person can open the bag. If the bag is snatched while open, it closes and screeches until the owner retrieves it. In the treasury, there is a special room that has pouches that their owner was killed while it was open. Many years after they are still loud. Some have fingers cut off in them. That spell is very well known. In the past few years, none of these special bags have been stolen. Many owners will keep these in a lock box in the treasure vault. In this palace. Only the owners key will unlock that box.”

I take that first lady by her hand and lead her to the treasurer.

“Why tell you all that. This lady will show you.”

The treasurer now hands her a purse. “Would you please put this between your hands and think your name.”

As she does that he does the fixation spell. Instantly her name appears on the bag. I tell her that she is to hand it to me. I try to open it twice and took the shock. Now I ask her to sit down in her chair.

“The reason I have you sit will be apparent. Please open the perse.”

She does and I take it. That bag started screaming and everyone needed to cover their ears. I gave it back and the bag when quiet. All were shocked.

“Thank you for allowing me to show everyone with your purse. Now again open it and look inside. It is yours and only yours.”

She may not be able to count but the look said it all. She closed the bag and hugged it close. She probably, in her life never had money. I look at her and say, “You are worth more.” Then I kiss her hand.

“In each one of these twenty-five purses is two gold and five silver. This is my partial recompense for allowing you to be used as a slave in my kingdom. This money is from the confiscated wealth of that woman. Now will the next lady come up?”

All had their purse. The events of the day started to settle its weight on to their shoulders. I excused myself and watched as they were taken to their rooms. Now Kara comes over and hugs me tightly and I her.

“The watcher was showing me everything once you landed. You are my king. I now see just how much of a hypocrite my father really was. Dirty hands. I cannot see how he let that torture go on.”

I hush her, “That is what I want. To expose all who are just of that mind but first we must put this kingdom in order. Tomorrow is another day. Can I be introduced to Didi?”

Getting to know Didi

What a difference a day makes. Being one second away from being murdered as a party entertainment, to being in the presence of a god, to being told that you are going to be the mother of a new race.

“Just let me pass.” I told the god. She appears as a human but calls herself the Watcher. “I’m a goblin, useless. I do not want to go back to that world. Please send me to the last life or just let me fade out of existence. Hasn’t my race suffered enough?”

“Yes, they have but they are at a turning point. You women that were toys for the human males have been thrown out when you get pregnant, why are you talking like you are?

Why are you not just talking old goblin? Those who were cast out have improved the mental and physical nature of your race. Suffered, yes but from you, will come a new race. King George, the dragon who rescued you, will be your mate and father that new race. They will be my people, they will be watchers. Now you are safe and going to wake. I will be watching out for you.”

I start to feel like I am awakening from a dream that I do not want to wake from. I desperately try to hang on. I’m at peace, don’t throw me back. It has never worked for me. That woman was always there. My eyes start to open.

This room, I have seen the likes. It looks like that woman’s bed room. But, why isn’t she here. Some of my fellow slaves are here and are calling for the woman. A woman comes in and is gently talking to me. Almost like she cares. She is calling for them to get the healer and her husband.

The woman is dead, she is telling me. Drowned in the same way she was going to do with me. Why is she calling me sister? I have lost my mind, that’s it. That feeling changed to desperation and I try to reach out to my savior. He has just entered the room.

He does something that I did not expect. He came over and picked me up. I hugged and cried on his shoulder. The woman told me that I was safe. That if hanging on to him makes me feel safer, she approves. Why do I feel so safe in his arms’ he also is a dragon. I finally realize that it is him.

I don’t get the danger feeling. He exudes caring. Then he says something that brings me to reality. He says,

“The watcher told me about you Didi and I know that she has told you about me but let me introduce you to myself and your sister, my wife. I am king George and this is queen Kara, your sister. We will talk in depth later. You must be hungry but first Kara, would you help her to the bath and get her new clothes befitting her new status.”

I did not want to let go of this man but I did and the woman walked me into a bathroom.

She had me use the toilet in the room.

“This is your room. You will never have to use a bucket anymore.” Then she closed the door to the toilet. I was lost in the simple joy of the moment. I flushed and she reappeared. We bathed together. When we were done, there by the bed, was a rack that had many dresses in my size.

I was asked to look at them and decide what I wanted to wear. I pointed to a dress and she held it in front of me while I was looking into a mirror. It looked good but she could see that I was hesitant. She picked an elaborate dress and held it again in front of me.

This time my eyes lit up.

She said that she knew I really wanted this one but felt that I was not worthy. “We will show you that you could not be more wrong. The king rescued you and held you this morning. I, his queen, just bathed with you and found all these for you. Today you are going to be completely measured for a new wardrobe. You are worth it. The Watcher told you of your destiny, didn’t she?”

With that, the queen hugged me, smiled and led me to the dining room where the king was waiting. He stood and pulled out the queen’s chair then helped me into mine. He told me that the carpenters were making a platform chair for me so I don’t need the help up.

Service was exactly the same for me as was theirs. It is starting to sink in that this is real. Ten very official looking guards come in and join us. Each greet each of us. They all expressed delight at seeing me well.

The king was given updates on every aspect of his realm. I could see that nothing was being held back. Then they came to the last subject, the party goers. It was reported that there were quite a few tried to destroy any evidence of slave owning but they did not realize that they were followed. Those were killed on the spot, all possessions were taken and the slaves were transported here.

The king was angry and made a decree that anyone found harming any slave will be slaves themselves. All slaves are now free and must be brought here. He is going to make a self ruled colony attached to the palace. The only requirement placed on them will be that they must be taught to read, write and do basic arithmetic.

We are almost done and a woman comes in and runs directly to me. She puts me into a deep hug.

“Sister Didi, it is so great to finally meet you. I was so worried.”

The king tells me that this is the matriarch. She was away yesterday greeting her replacement. She is stepping down to become a wife of ours. She also has a direct connection to the Watcher.

The meeting and breakfast is finished. Now the four of us are alone in a sitting room.

The king now starts.

“Outside our private areas, you will now be addressed as Lady Didi. Do not accept any other greeting. We will talk to each other, in a setting like this, I am George, my wife is Kara, The matriarch is Bela.”

“Didi, how are you doing? I know that all this is overwhelming but know this, we love you for you. We know that you were told that you will be my wife but I want to know what do you think of it?”

“I know what I was told. I do love you. You rescued me. Kara has been wonderful and has assured me that I am worth it. I will tell you that it will always be in the back of my mind as to why I’m not worth it but I will work on it. Bela I have just met and I do feel like I now have two sisters. It warms me to the very bones.”

I am now ready. Kara and Bela have seen me do this, I am a changeling but not a normal one. Didi stops speaking and has her hand over her mouth as she sees me change into a goblin.

“This was one of your worries,” he tells me as he comes and sits next to me. “We are going to create a new race. A dragon goblin hybrid. A winged mixture. I was told that they will be the mythical race called Gargoyles. Their myth is always pictured as leathery creatures that perch on high places and watch.”

Didi stops me. “When I was with her, the Watcher told me that they were going to be her eyes. That you would be asking for volunteers amongst the rescued women and that they will happily do just that.”

Bela adds that they will know that this is just to produce the race for the Watcher but they also know that their children will be her eyes on other worlds. All the gods have approved and have informed me that they will have bodies as strong as iron.”

We have a visitor. The Watcher has joined us.

“This change can only be seen by that race. To others he will appear to change into human. George, I will be bringing some other races from other worlds to you. Most of them will be the last of their kind. Ladies, there will be only one more to be a sister but I will be bringing him to my room to mate with the others. They will perceive him as a demigod. George, remember you are not. Didi enjoy your new life but remember your roots. Know this, my children will be very strong, very smart but also very compassionate. People will soon learn that nothing can stop them other than true love.

They will truly hate hate.”

She is gone.

I now return to my halfling form.

“You will find that she will be doing that whenever it pleases her. She was the one that ordered that woman drowned. With that done, I must say that you look beautiful this morning. That dress suits you. I heard that Kara is going to have you measured today. I need to have a talk with the seamstress. Matter of fact, Kara, Bela, get measured yourselves. I am going crazy over what Didi will look like and I want to see you in the same.”

They try to pry it out of me but I am stubborn. I tell them that we now must see to the freed.

We enter the large hall to see almost a hundred goblins there. Very nervous. This has been temporally made into their quarters. For now, separated rooms for the women and men. Families are allowed to occupy the same room.

All of them turn as we enter the room. The ones that were with Didi cannot contain themselves and come running over to her. She tells them of only the surface things. We can tell that she wants to sit with them later and talk about something personal but for now we go to the front.

I introduce myself and the other’s with me.

“You are now free. I would like to invite all of you to stay here and be paid workers for me. I am having a walled village being made that is attached to this palace. You will rule it under my protection. I have, as of this moment, abolished slavery. Anyone owning a slave after today will be executed. The party goers that my future wife Didi was going to be murdered were told to release the slaves. Those of you who were there can verify to the others that we found they were going to kill all of their slaves and dispose of the bodies. We watched. Their bodies are being left for the animals.”

Didi was told of her part of this presentation. “If it is your wish to return to where you were abducted from, we will get you there. Your safety will be guarantied. Please think carefully. We will abide with what you want. Now they won’t but I will. There is no buckets here. The corners are not the place. We are free, use the toilets provided. You will find yourselves not wanting anything else. No one will think better of our race unless we do first.”

It is amazing. They all are applauding her. Those words struck home. Unless you hold yourself to a higher standard, no one else will. I think that it will be a banner that must be displayed in all portions of this world.

We meet each and talk. It seems that there are quite a few males that were the ones that fixed things. Skilled with their hands, they want to help making the village. The general consensus, after Didi’s speech, is that they want to make it theirs by building it with their own hands. What a wonderful idea. That will give them a sense of ownership.

Those were taken to the area and immediately started to make progress. They told me that for now, they only wanted a fence and a few towers. You can move fences. Walls

are set. It will give them a sense of freedom to expand, not just crammed into a walled space. I like that.

My women are all at the seamstress being measured. They do not know that I found two fabrics that I really like and they will too. I really think that it is going to be a new wave of fashion that all will enjoy.

It is a few weeks and there are three large packages delivered to me. I don’t think that I have ever been this excited. I summon my three to me. Their eyes went immediately to the packages. Each sees their names and all look at me.

I explain that I have found the new fashion. It is of my own design but I tell them that I would not be surprised if the idea was truly from someone else. I tell them that they need to go to a room and put them on then walk back to me.

They go. I told them to walk back because they will notice the looks they are getting.

A while later, three giggling women come strutting in, They all are wearing the same thing. Blue pants that are of a tough but soft fabric and a white pullover shirt.

“Damn,” is all I can get out. They are the most sexiest women I have ever seen and have a great idea. “We are going to the seamstress to let her see her work. We will walk there.”

We did just that. By the time we reached her shop, there was a long line of people following us. My woman make me want to, well only one has been joined. Soon, very soon.

The seamstress is taken with them in those outfits. She looks at each and says that she needs to tighten the fabric under the breasts. “They need the cling factor.” Unbeknownst to me, she hands me a package and motions to the changing room. Now my ladies are drooling.

I put on my clothes which are almost exactly the same but mine, for some reason are more masculine. I come out and can see the change in my women’s faces. Kara turns to Bela,

“When do you think that your replacement will be certified. It better be soon.”

Didi and Bela both seem to reflect just that, urgency. We had decided that we would wait for her replacement and then certify the both the same night. I do regret doing that but know that it is a sacred requirement for the matriarch to be a virgin.

“I now declare that this shop is the official shop for this style.” With that, she is now bombarded with orders. I have instructed her that those who cannot afford them, I will secretly subsidies them so their price will be no more than a weeks wages, if that. The quality must remain the same.

In a very short time, the fabric makers are employing more people. A lot of them freed people that are paid normal. It is a crime against the crown to pay less. No longer slaves, the first owner that tried it, those people went to work at other places and that owner that tried to cheat, had his business confiscated and given to the goblins. They treated everyone equally.

The seamstress actually had to outsource some of the work. Our city started to look like the sexiest place on this world. While walking one day, I swore that I saw her walking in the outfit while smiling at me.

The replacement

It is a custom for the outgoing matriarch to introduce the new trainee to the royal household. We were warned so we were in the royal clothing, which now feels slightly strange. I will need to throw a few days a week as formal dress days.

We are sitting in the throne room. I have broken with tradition and have had a throne for Didi made on the left side of mine. Kara is seated on my right. I plan to spring something on them all.

We are introduced to a charming young lady. Barely in her thirties but she has the looks and presentation of the office. Bela tells us that she is a few months away from being certified. Just a few more tests to go through. After some pleasant talk, Bela strikes first.

“She has to go through a mating certification ceremony.” Then she looks right past me and looks at Didi as she tells me. “That is the reason that we are here. Your world knows that Lady Didi is to be your next mate. They anticipate that as a symbol that you expect all to be people of equal status. I have word that there are other interspecies couples that are desperately hoping that it is just not wind. That is why I tell you both, prepare. In two days we will have your ceremony.”

I look at Didi, she is looking at me and shivering. I think that means yes. Kara is beaming. I feel that they have talked about this and figured out a means of not letting me escape. Why would I.

Getting up from my chair, I step in front of my queen. “As first wife, what is your say on this. Only the first wife can approve this.”

She says, “As first wife and for the good of this world, I approve. Ask your question to Lady Didi.”

I now kneel in front of her. “Lady Didi, would you do me the honor of being my second wife? Are you willing to mate with me and form a new world?”

She is crying and says yes.

The room bursts into cheers.

“Then it is settled.” The matriarch tells all and then asked the captain of the ten to step forward.

“I ask you, will you do the historic honor to Lady Didi and to your world by being her father for the ceremony. You will be the one to present her and give her to the king.”

You can see that it is emotional to him. He turns to Didi, “It will be of my greatest honor to escort you to your mating. Will you allow me the honor of being your father?”

She again says yes.

Women have a seventh sight. Kara reaches under her chair and brings out a long wrapped item and hands it to the captain. “Please unwrap this and present it to the matriarch.”

Unwrapped, there is a bag with twenty gold in it and a smaller sword. He hands them to the matriarch telling her that these are for his daughters mating. A very tough man is choaking as he tells her that. He is barely holding back tears of pride. Didi sees that, walks to him and asks to be lifted up. Then he completely breaks down, she is hugging him and whispers something to him.

“Decorate the hall and prepare the side room with two chairs for myself and my replacement.”

I can see that Kara wants to join but is restraining herself. I think she will later come into the side room.

Now activity is in high gear. My ladies tell me that it will be a buffet style because all the staff and the freed goblins must be as guests. They need to be there for history.

It’s two and the buffet has been set up. We have told the staff that they need not worry about formal dress and made it an order.

It is my mother, the old queen that I have announce me as I enter. Then the captain announces Didi. She is in a beautiful flowing pale green dress that complements her skin color. You can hear all the sighs coming from the other women.

Now my mother orders all to rise for the matriarchs. For this, there was no distinction.

The official matriarch speaks to me. “George do you have a question for your prospective mate. If so, you must now speak it.”

I look to Didi. “You are one of my promised ones. You will be the mother of a new mighty race. First and foremost you are already in my heart. Will you make me complete and be my mate?”

“Didi, you have received a question. Please answer truly.”

Didi tells me yes she will.

The trainee now, with a formal but nervous tone asks Didi, “Didi do you have a question for your prospective mate? If so please ask it now.”

She asks, “George, you saved me from the brink of death and elevated me to the stars.

I am totally in love with you. Will you please allow me to be your mate and the mother to your children?”

“George, you have received a question. What is your answer to her?”

“I would be honored to be your mate.”

Now the matriarch speaks. “Having interviewed each and found them to be more than compatible, I declare that they will undergo certification at four. Every one please serve yourselves.

We are at the head table and all at the table are served but, I know it is tradition, a few teaspoons on a plate is not a meal but I push it around. I see Didi doing the same but surprisingly the two hours pass quickly.

The two stand and the matriarch commands us to stand before her.

“Are you both ready to undergo the certification?”

We both say we are and she leads us into the side room where we are directed to different changing rooms. I come out first, it is tradition. Shortly Didi comes out. We both are in robes. Bela explains to her replacement the sacredness of this room and what happens in this room is never to be told and or recorded anywhere with the exception of confirmed or denied.

Her replacement agrees. She tells her that I am a special changeling. Anyone else, I will appear to be fully human but for this occasion, she will see me as Didi sees me. She now holds out her hands and we disrobe. She gives us our final instructions.

“There is no time limit. This is your time to enjoy and explore. George you may transform if that is what Didi wants.”

Didi tells her that she would actually take him as a full human. She looks at me and says that we will explore all possibilities later.

I morph into that human, a little taller than her but not too much. She is delighted to see me in that form. I pick her up and we lay on the floor mattress.

It is a slow lovely time of kissing and rubbing. I finally got to touch and nibble on every part of her. She is now in heaven by the look of her eyes. It finally is time and I tell her.

Once I enter her, it is electricity. I can tell that it is for her. With a little resistance until she broke open to me, We finally mated.

We both discussed this before. Most likely this will result in the new race being born.

I ask her, “Are you truly ready for this?”

“Rut me like a bull. Make me the mother to that race. One thing, when you are filling me up with your seed, I want my races mating mark. Bite me on the right shoulder and scar me. That is a sign to any of my clan that I am claimed.”

I start out slow for the first couple of strokes but she is now yelling so loud that I know that the people can hear. I don’t care. Rut me she demands so I am going in harder. I find that I am able to adjust to her size. The length is a shorter but I can also increase the girth. Her eyes are rolling up in her head as she yells fatter. I’m sure that the two figure that she said faster.

I concentrate and tell her that I will. She is screaming yes that is it. “Do me and make me a mother.” That talk will get you everywhere. I am in overdrive and she is in continual orgasm. I now am at my point and tell her so. I start to fill her and she is looking at her own brain as she yells bite me now for the gods sake bleed me. I do that and can taste her sweet blood in my mouth. I keep the pressure up for what seems like an eternity.

Didi is completely out of it as I feel the final jerks. We just lay there coupled. Bela comes over with a handkerchief and places it on the bite mark. I gently push it away. I lap up the small flow until it stops. We are still coupled and Didi is coming around. I have never seen such a full smile. Then she tells me that the size adjustment was what she would like every time.

Her replacement asks if we were done. We said we were. The replacement went into the bathroom and you could see or should I say hear that she needed to pee.

“Next time she will learn that we do not drink very much before hand. I had to do the same on my first. When she comes out, you two pry yourselves apart, wash up and get dressed.”

The room is now ours. I don’t want to leave but Didi tells me that now we have all the time in the world. She also tells me that she invited Kara in after all have left. She wants that also. I did not know I would get hard that fast.

We get up and get cleaned. Dressed in our official after dress, we come out to thunderous applause. Didi was an ear to ear grin.

The matriarch steps forward and addresses the gathering. She tried to keep it formal but she could not so she decided to just wing it. “I come in front of you to tell something that you must be wondering. I can confirm an adequate mating. They are now mated.

Didi presents me with the sword asking me to use it to protect our family. Then I am given the dower that makes sure that she is not a burden to the family Now Lady Didi has asked all the goblins to line up and observe their tradition. All guests are invited but goblins are required.

Didi is seated with her right shoulder exposed as each goblin pass, they look and nod to me. It is their way of telling me that I now am one with her. The best thing is when dragon women see it, there are the remarks that the male needs that mark. “It will prevent the he told me he was single excuse.”

The celebration is winding down but they will not leave until we return to the room.

There we find a good meal waiting for us. Didi has a really ravenous appetite. Kara pops in, just to see if we need anything. Totally naked, Didi goes over to her and starts to slowly undress her.

I really have wanted to see this.

Didi is now expressing her thanks to the head wife. This is also part of their tradition.

Who am I to object. It is obvious that she has had to do this with that woman but now this is what she wants. She is kissing and licking everywhere but is describing what her mating experience. Kara is not the only one getting into it.

What sets her off is when she is describing how I was able to change my length but she did say it was best and this caused Kara to look in desperation. Didi told her that I was able to change my girth to the point that she was screaming in pleasure. She could have never thought that she could have been stretched to the point that she thought she would die but in a good way.

That’s all she can take, “I know it really is your night but I have to find out for myself.

Can I?”

“I don’t see any reason not to. My husband, would you do your new wife a favor and see at what point you can make the first wife drool.”

“Anything to please my new wife. Why don’t you throw in an edge. Please hold her hands above her head. This way I will see what it takes to make her a puddle.”

Kara seems to like that but asks if she could watch me as I kiss Didi. She really has wanted to see that but she needs me in her right now. Didi told me to make her a mommy. “Fill her womb with baby batter but go as big as she can take it.” Now I start to work.

As I expand, Kara is grunting. Didi and her start a tongue battle as Kara is fingering Didi. This goes on until Kara is at the point that I am really thick, she can no longer think straight. We both are reaching that point. Me, for the first time with her tonight but she is now in constant climax and just flopping around. Didi is giggling and pounding. She can feel that I am ready.”

“Make me a mommy but mark me the way you did with your second wife draw blood and lick it clean. That must be our mark.” She is now over the edge and is yelling constantly that she wants it in her womb. I start to fire off but it is directly into the womb.

I am euphoric and bite into her right shoulder and taste her blood. I start to suck and she is again yelling for me to suck her dry.

Didi tells me that Kara is out but I should expand just a little more and then pull out. The rest of the night goes the same and finally we all have passed out through exhaustion.

We wake to giggling. Bela has come in with ice water. Kara still cannot form a complete sentence so when she tried to describe the way she got pregnant, it did not come out right. Didi cleared it up and Bela looked at me and said to the others that she had to fast track her replacement.

They helped her into a tub and Bela had Didi get in. I just walked the hall to my room.

Between the whistles and salutes, I was half way there when I remembered that I did

not get dressed. I straightened up and walked proud. That is more than can be said of my two.

I see two women waddling towards me and I almost broke out but held it in because they both have the most peaceful look.

“You two look so lovely this morning.”

“That is because you now thoroughly own us. Not a slaves but as wives. We thank you.

We are now filled, hungry but filled. There needs to be a discussion on starting the goblin women thinking about the new race now that Didi is sure that she is pregnant. .

Looking lovingly at Kara, “My first sister, the way he got you, is there even a little doubt that you are? Our sister Bela now needs to experience his wonder but she still has a mission.”

Bela tells us that she will be leaving for the order in a few days. They have the final rituals and interviews in place. Now that she has participated in the ritual of mating, it is not unusual for the new to certify the old. That means in around two months from now, we will be having my certification. Then, after the guests, we need to have you two come in and let me explain what he did.

“Now what is this thing that he can do with his dick?”

An invader in our world

Peace is a fragile thing. A little thing can shatter it. At our morning breakfast meeting, my general over the clandestine section informs the group that there is an invasion on the way. There are humans and orcs that don’t like the fact that you have cut off their customers in our kingdom.

“They are talking about putting us in our place. They are gathering and the plan is to invade to capture and execute you. They want a dragon on the far boarder named Gronk to take over. We checked and found that he still has a few slaves but he has a large appetite. He wants more, but especially your two wives as trophy.”

I am now on the edge of flying but my wives settle me down by saying that is exactly what will get you killed. If they are willing to openly talk, figure they will say things that they want you to hear. They don’t want someone to come at them with a plan, they want anger. Anger without reasoning is fatal.

“They are right. First, I want to know every friend he has. Who is his human contact? I want someone inside. We need to know when they meet and the layout of his land including the residence. When can you have that?”

“A few days but I already have a trusted inside. He says that he will be inside until we attack or they find him but I trust this one. They won’t find him out. They don’t even notice him.”

“Generals, rough plans by mid week. When we have those other things and we have the final plan, I want to go after them by the end of the week. We show no mercy.

Humans and orc’s in that trade are now fair game. Catch one, destroy how ever you wish.”

I look at my wives and they have the look of confidence. “I am so proud of you two. You are exuding confidence.” They are giving me such a look.

“Men,” Kara says. “Did you not hear the watcher? She said that you would father a race that would even be found on other worlds. She said that they would be her children.

How can that ever happen with you dead and us captives?”

Didi now starts to go after me.

“She would, in a flash take all who would kill you right now if she even had a doubt that you would be killed. You still have one wife out there to rescue. I want you to calm down. We only need to think of the one danger that might get you killed. The night you are certified as mate to your fourth wife. That night just might put you in danger.”

Now we all laugh. I give them a long and passionate kiss.

“I need to gather my thoughts and figure out an assault plan.”

It amazes me how an offhand remark can be an inspiration. Didi remarks casually, “Why don’t you collect all the kitchen fat drippings for the next week and bomb the house with it then lite it on fire?”

I pick her up and we twirl in a makeshift dance as I am kissing her. She is loving it but can’t understand why I am happy at her remark. I finally sit down with her in my lap. Her back it to me and I hold her to me by cupping her breasts.

“We will do just that but we will drop it in their sewage and lite it off. I don’t want to hurt any slaves but the smell will be horrific. We could bring some and drop that on the house. If there are orcs and humans near by they could be greased ‘up and lit. We can drive them towards the house. I want you to present that at breakfast tomorrow.”

She is grinding in my lap while I talk. It’s enough. I stand up with her in one arm, undo and release myself. Then I depants her and impale her. I grab Kara’s hand in my other.

Didi is laughing with delight as her feet are dangling and my girth swells to the largest I have given her.

We have a wonderful night of distraction. We now have a fun time of seeing just what I can do to make them go limp. The one thing I did find is that Kara likes the same expanding girth and pounding that Didi goes crazy for.

The next morning, she presents her idea and it went over just like I thought it would. I did ask that our insider gather the slaves and escape during the first attacks. We established that they would flee out the back yard. A group of our elite will be there to receive them.

The next day we had all the information needed. It seems like they are planning to leave to attack us late in the week end. We now have large containers of grease. Everyone has been put on alert. For possible defense but our people all have been trained in weapons.

Leave it up to the goblins, some are going with us. We notice they all have long drinking straws attached to their belts. Questioning it, I ask if they weren’t going to bring canteens? I was astonished when one of them took a large tooth pick out of his pouch.

He put some cotton on one end and inserted it into the tube then pointed the tube towards a wood wall. He blew and there was that tooth pick embedded in the wall. Only a small amount but he was smiling. He told me that each pick has been soaked in poison. They only have to prick the skin of a human slaver or an orc and they were dead.

Damn, I looked at the pipe and he gave it to me with a vital piece of information. “Don’t breathe in with the pipe in your mouth. Mindful of his advice, I tried it and it works well.

The goblins will be riders on the dragon troupes. When we get close, we will let them drop a few feet to the ground to pick off targets of their choosing. It is their revenge.

Who am I to stop them but they all know that they do not out run us.

All know their tasks. After we drop our dragon riders off, grease carriers start dropping it on the out houses. Others follow and torch it. The smell is something that is hard to take but that is what we wanted. We are seeing humans and orcs dropping. Coming out the back is all the slaves. They are a mixture of species but mostly goblins.

“In the yard” I hear in my mind. “Save her. She is the one.”

I look and there, collared and chained is a completely frightened and naked canid woman. I point and yell “Protect her.” A few of my troupes fly down and free her. I drop down and assure her that she will be completely safe. I pick her up and cover her with my own shirt. I order them to fly her directly back to the queen. Now I give her to the ones that flew down and they set off.

“Thank you” I now hear her say. “All are clear. Directly challenge Gronk.”

The fighting has almost completely stopped because almost all the enemy are dead with only a few cuts that the healers are mending. I stand there and issue my challenge.

“You coward, in the house. Gronk get your ass out her and fight me. I want to be the one to run you through. Otherwise we will burn your coward’s ass in the house.”

“Who are you calling a coward? I accept your challenge but to the death.”

I tell my people that we are not to be interfered with. “Look on and wonder. I am the father of a new race. You will know this day how they will look.” With that, I take up my sword and we start to fight.

Gronk strikes me a good blow across my chest but is shocked when his blade does not leave a mark. “That should have been fatal, what are you?”

“I am King George. I am the future.”:

I now drop the illusion of my normal dragon form. My people are in awe. There before them, I now stand in my Gargoyle form. All black, muscular with a thick leather hide. The sharp pointed teeth of the goblin races. Facially I look the same but I am totally the color of the darkest black anyone has ever experienced. My large leather wings make most of my dragons envious.

I start to swing my sword with such precision that I am shredding his skin with those shallow cuts that hurt the most. I don’t need to defend. I let him hit me with the same results.

He finally capitulates knowing that he will never win. He throws down his sword and pleads for his life.

“I am compassionate to those who deserve it but to you.” I reach through his chest and pull out his beating heart. He is in shock when I show it to him then he lives just long enough to see me crush it. His body drops to the ground.

“I want one human and one orc in front of me, now.” Two are dragged to me. “Execute the rest. Traitors get no mercy.”

I look at the two. “Healers come over.” They do and I castrate the orc and the human.

“Stop the bleeding and their pain.”

Now I address the to but all my people come near along with the now freed slaves.

“You see before you the new species I have already started fathering. We are of iron.

We watch and judge. We are the children of the gods. They see what we see. I pick up a goblin woman and tell her. “We are not even superior to you, the watcher’s children.

We are fair and compassionate. Know this my lady. We Gargoyles only come from the mating of a dragon to one of the watcher’s children, the goblin race. We will be sent , by the gods, to be their eyes and arms in other worlds also.”

“You two are the only ones to be spared. Spread the word NO SLAVES OR DEATH

FOLLOWS. Now leave. They are to have safe passage to spread the warning.”

They leave. Still have not let the goblin woman down and she seem to not want to be let down.

I am now surrounded by all of my people. They are marveling at me. I tell them that I am not something or someone to be worshiped. I am just a normal dragon that can now transform.

Setting the woman down, I transform into a goblin and then to a felid and canid. Back to my dragon form I explain that I can take on all the physical capabilities of each species.

“Now let’s look around and make sure that we have everyone. We will have to shuttle all back in a few runs. The first group, have other dragons come. Enough to bring all the others back home.”

I find my espionage general and ask him to bring over his insider. I am not surprised when he brings over a goblin. He reminds me that I told him that it was someone that would go unnoticed. I shake the goblins hand and then tell the general that this one needs to be elevated to an officer’s rank. He will make an excellent instructor. The general agrees and tells me that she will start the level of lieutenant.

The rest are now ready to go, I order that this place is to be left exactly as it is as a warning to others. I ask that they make regular fly overs. I am the last to take flight.

“Now I need to go see how that canid is doing.” The Watcher only says you did well.

A new era begins

There is little doubt, I made no attempt to hide it. When I touched down, everyone, especially Kara and Didi wanted to see. The two said that it was my official duty to show everyone the new species. I fly up to a balcony and change into my gargoyle. There is thunderous applause. I speak to them.

“As I told my troupes, I tell you, I am not someone or something to be worshiped. I am just the example that is to come from the mating of a goblin woman to a dragon male.

This new race are the children of the gods. I will have more to say in the near future. I now want to see my wives and check on the freed.”

I fly down and change back to my original form. My wives are showing true restraint but there is a deep hunger in their eyes and in their smell. I guess that I will not sleep tonight but I do have a new stamina.

Kara tells me that the canid is asking for me. I still do not have a shirt on but both tell me that it is not necessary. It will be shredded if I put one on. They lead me to a room where the canid is being cared for. My two wives have bathed her and found suitable clothes for her but she insists on wearing my shirt.

Didi introduces me. “Husband, I would like to introduce you to someone that wants to talk to you. Her name is Mica. Mica, this is our husband king George. You can tell him anything you want.”

She is on the bed and looks at me. “You have saved me. I was to be the orc’s play toy and then it’s meal. I was told that i would be eaten alive. Thank you, I am now yours to do as you see fit. I have been told that you are to have two more wives but there is only one position left. Please make me your wife. I need to let you own my body.”

She is reaching out to me. I sit and hug her but find I must stop her from going too far. I look to Kara. “First wife, what is your say in this?”

“As with the last, my sister Didi, there has been a divine message. She is going to be a good addition. She has told us that she wants to be subservient to us. She has been tortured in the past but if it is in a loving situation, she wants our collar. Mica if you become my sister and our husbands wife are you willing to submit to all of us?”

She is bouncing and tells her yes.

“Sister Didi and I will be trying you out to see if you are sincere. You must contain yourself in public but in private you will be ours. Know this, when my sister and I talk to you next we will discuss limits and desires with you. Our husband is special in many ways but first he can change his form.”

I take that as a queue and change into the biggest, ideal canid stud that could be found.

Mica has fainted. My two usher me out. I know that the first night will be fun. The thing

is, that when I get to my room to bathe and change, there is a note on my dresser. It is from Kara and Didi.

“We thank you for protecting us. We will be with you shortly. There is a surprise in the bath. Get undressed and enjoy the first round. We will meet you in an hour to join you.

This one knows she will not be a wife but does not care. She wants to be a mother of the new race. Make sure that you fill her. She will be with us all night. We will make sure she is pregnant. Didi has told her of your special abilities and yes, stretch her to her limit and fill her.”

I strip down and enter the bathroom. I can see that she is very nervous so I get in the tub next to her and tell her that it is okay if she wants to do this or stop.”

She insists that she really needs this. She is just having the jitters waiting now I am here, she really wants an intense experience. She turns to me and starts kissing me.

Then her hands start to wander. I make it smaller in the girth so when she finally grabs what she wants to, she is startled to find it almost too thin.

Now for the show. I start to expand and it grows until she cannot get her two hands to touch. She is really giggling. Then amazes me when she asks me to do that inside her until she passes out. I tell her only after I taste her. I pick her up and immediately start to eat her out. I now try something. I insert my tongue and find I am able to extend it. I am now licking her cervix. Then just as quickly touching the sweet spots. She is screaming so loud that my two wives come running in to see me holding her to my face.

I look at them and stick out what can only be described a serpents tongue but instead of a fork in one tongue, I have split it into three tongues. I go back to what I was doing but now I think I broke her.

They join me and help me position her just right. As she is coming around they lower her down on my rod. She is now very much here so I try something new. I keep the length so I am always in there but I am almost at that large girth she wanted.

The wives are holding her as she now is screaming deliriously about bigger. I am slapping skin with her on top. She is almost gone when she realizes I am about to shoot.

She desperately asks Kara. “I know that the mark of marriage is on the right shoulder but could a concubine mark be on the left breast on the side?”

Kara and Didi tell her that it would not mean being a wife but if it is a concubine mark, that would allow the marked to be able to attend private sessions with the wives invite.

She agrees to the terms and is now frantic “Make me a mother.” I unload a very large amount of seed directly into her and bite the inner side of her left breast. I am finding that I love the taste and suck on the blood for a little bit then lick it dry.

Both of my wives want my tongue and get a full dose. It was a night to remember, I do but I won’t know if they will.

The next morning, my two are still out of it when my now concubine kisses me and I remind her that she will be invited back. “We will explain to the next about the mark.

That will be a secret amongst you selected. Remember you must go through my wives.”

Mica’s story

It is now been a few days that Mica has been here. Kara and Didi already have talked to her about what she is going to be. They never told me about her past They told me that she wants to tell me when she feels comfortable. All they will say is that she is starved for true love but her canid genetics, wants and needs to have a true master and family to defend. A master that will ”train” her in the proper ways.

I do find it somewhat comforting to have her around. She is very needy. She has impulsive wanderings of her hands. Both my wives have told me that she is not to have vaginal sex until we have married her into our family but she has been given our permission to, in private, with the wives direct orders, she may orally please me. That has made for interesting times.

The first time was very interesting. She now has a collar that has is tagged, royal family.

They came in one morning. She was stripped bare with the collar on and Kara held her leash. Didi asked me if I liked what I saw. I did and Mica’s tail was wagging. I sleep naked, why wear anything when it is a rare night that they are not here with me.

This morning they tell me that she needs to show me a trick she knows. She kneels in front of me and proceeds to give me a slow licking blow job. She is good. I do not know if they told her about me but the first time she takes me into her mouth I grow in length until I am completely in her throat. It feels like I cut off her air but she moaned with delight. Those two knew what I did. They patted her on the head. Mica melts. They pull her back with the leash.

“It seems like you liked that. Did you like it when your master was down your throat.

“I would like more. May I first wife?”

She is given the affirmation. Didi whispers in my ear that she has a fantasy of passing out and being covered in your come. This time I am deliberately going in and blocking her air. Part of the time. When I am close, I block her off and she passes out as I pull out. She is breathing normally so I suspect something but go along with it. A few final pumps and I fire off my load all over her face and body. She is a bad actor because she is rubbing it all over herself.

I pull her up and give her a big kiss. I have been told that Bela is here for her final visit as matriarch. Her successor is finishing the paperwork and Bela has already certified her as ready. She told Kara that this is her final certification. As soon as she signs, she will no longer be matriarch

We are now to go to the side room. All of us and we will certify Mica. She and I are in robes and we are led to the side room. Everyone has been ordered to keep clear of that section of the palace. Only mother will be there as observer.

There are now six of us in the side room. I ask Kara if she has her permission. She tells me that all have. I now ask Mica if she would like to be my mate. She says yes and she asks me the same and I say yes.

The matriarch gives us our instructions and I proceed to make love to Mica in a very passionate way then is inserted and did my manipulations. She is going mad and she also is a screamer I unload and bite. Her blood is the same, intoxicating. we are finished and the matriarch signs the papers.

Now it is my turn to be surprised. Kara now has a request that I never expected. “My husband, I have a request. My mother is still a woman of needs. You have accepted concubines and I make a humble request. Will you take my mother as a concubine?

She has suffered neglect and now has no one to fulfill her desires. As family, you need to help her and mark her on the right breast as a symbol of the inner circle and may engage us or you singly?”

I walk to her. She is very shy out of disuse. “Is this your desire?”

“Yes.” I undo some buttons.

“Do you wish to be under my and my wives control while with us and alone with me?”

“Yes” I open her blouse and free her breasts. I hold up her right breast and ask.

“Are you offering me your blood from this breast making you mine alone?”

“Yes.”

I finish removing her blouse and pick her up. I feel her bare skin against mine. I lay her down and remove all the rest of her clothes. And now I admire her. I say that her husband was a fool to neglect her.

“Before I bed you,”

I walk over to Bela. “Bela, you are no longer that matriarch. You know that it is not a requirement that you be a virgin to enter mating as a mate.”

“That is correct” she is panting.

I put my arm around the back of her neck, draw her into a deep passionate kiss and put my hand through her waist band and feel that she is very wet. I squeeze her tight.

“My three wives, strip her and have her lie next to our new concubine. I will take her after I claim this one.” I lay down with mother and tell her, “I think that you need to address us, while in these circumstances, as master and mistresses.”

She reaches for me, “Drive your play toy mad. I need this so badly.”

I hope no one told her. I can feel that she has a lot of pent up emotion. I am kissing her long and passionately. She is really moaning. I start licking my way down but stop at the

right breast and nibble and suck. She is now arching. I am now on the left side and she is losing it.

I see Kara stick out her tongue and hold up three fingers as she is now sitting next to her mother and stroking her hair. As I get ready she tells her mother that she loves her and that she deserves this.

I start to lick her and then stick in two of the three tongues. The third is all over her clit.

This goes on for a long while then I feel Bela lay next to me. I let my hand wander but I stay with my toy. Now she is at her limit.

“You ready for the real surprise?” She does not know but I am going to the extreme girth. There really needs to be discussed between mother and daughter about offspring.

I plunge in full depth start to swell up and she is crazy with delight. She can only grunt.

Kara kisses her mother and tells her that she will have this anytime she wants but it is more fun with others.

I am now at my limit. Kara asks her, “Is this what you want? Do you want him to claim you. She can only nod. I let loose with my blast and now draw blood from the right breast. I am enjoying the taste and again lick it dry.

In a surprise move Bela climbs on top of me. “Can’t wait any longer. I have forever to enjoy all you have to offer but now, I want you to have my most cherished possession, my virginity and she impales herself in one motion. I rise up to where we are both sitting. Facing each other, her legs curled around my back.

I stand and she is now impaled. Didi exclaims that it is her favorite position. I can move in and out with out the need to move my hips but she needs to be broken. A few steps and she is against the wall. I take it slow but increase size and length. Soon I am slapping skin. I look around and see Mica on mother. Kara and Didi are going at it.

Bela is now into the grunting stage and then she asks to have her right breast taken. At the official you can mark the shoulder but I need to be marked now. She now has one hand holding that right breast to my mouth. She is now climaxing and I let loose. I now bite and love it. I need to watch out.

Everything is calming down so we each take turns washing but I want to go to get something to eat with five happy, sore but happy women in tow. We all walk down to the dining area. There are people there and elbows are being nudged. There are smiles all around.

As I am eating, someone tells me that I will be coming to her after we eat. I tell them that the watcher is going to take me for a visit.

Time with the Watcher

I am now in what is a familiar room but now there is a large sofa there on a rug. Finally, there is a sense of dimension. The Watcher motions for me to sit with her and have some tea.

“That was quite a show you put on last night. I really enjoyed it. So much so that, on your next visit, I will have some of a canid race from a world where humans have ceased to exist. The people there are of different species but a lot have taken to stay in a human shape.

The canids are in need to evolve. They will produce a ruling class, of your starting. One of them will be the mother of a ruler with your temperament. There will be another canid and a felid. The three will go on to be trusted allies and also feared by those humans that have forgotten their true appearance.”

This is a lot to take in, but what isn’t from the Watcher. She does continue.

“After watching you with Kara’s mother, you need to take her fully. Explain to your wives that I am now telling you to take her as a wife. In the dragon clan, this is a common practice. I now tell you that your wives will no longer have a limit. Kara and the others will choose but there must be a felid, and other species. You may even have a human join if I find a suitable candidate.”

I now speak to her “The thought both scares me and arouses me. I will bow to your wishes but ask that you steer us to the ones. The four that you sent me are a blessing.

You know just who will be right.”

She tells me that it was her intention all along. Now for the biggest shocker. She tells me that from time to time, she is going to join with one of my concubines. “I want to be a play toy. It looks very interesting. I want to feel it.”

With that, I am back. I didn’t even get to finish the tea. It was great tasting. I call Kara and tell her that we need a meeting with all six of us. Now.

We are in the sitting room and the door is locked. I have guards blocking both directions of the hallway but far enough away as to not to be in listening distance.

I look directly at Kara. “This has a direct bearing on you, my lovely first wife. The Watcher has told me that there is no longer a limit on wives. She has reminded me of the custom of taking the mother of a wife as wife if she is a widow. Kara, I would like to have your mother join with us.”

“I had hoped that this would happen. I knew that there was a limit.”

Now she looks at her mother. “I want you to be my husband’s full mate. As his concubine, I am ordering you to do this.”

She is in tears and tells her that she wanted this also. I now address her.

“As I did for Kara, I now do to you. From now on your name will be Callie. When in the family setting, how would you like to be addressed?”

She tells me that she would like to be the toy. “Callie will be fine for normal times but for intimate times, please use me as you see fit.”

“Mica tells me the same and says that she could use a collar also.”

Inspiration is a wonderful thing, or it may be her. “I will do this. You two really want to be subservient?”

They both, with desperation, say yes.

“First wife, I order you to have the female healer to pierce a labia on each. There is to be placed in the piercing a ring with a tiny bell. This will be a sign to any of the wives that they can be pulled aside and used for satisfaction. You two, sit with the first wife and tell her how far and what you find that you want done.”

Now to Bella. “What is your wish on the mating ceremony.”

She tells me that she wants a very private time but she does want the three wived to watch. Then she asks Callie,

“How do you feel about having a joint mating and be marked with me?”

“That would be wonderful.”

Now that it is settled, I move on. “The Watcher will be steering us toward the next wives.

I really do not want anyone to enter our family without her blessing. Impulse can be concubines. I have been given my other world first task. It will be three from a world where there are no human but there are ones that have shifted into the human shape so long that they have forgotten. The three will start an awakening.”

I did not tell them that the family will include all the races, even a human. I will leave that to the future.

Soon I find myself being taken to the healers room. She tells me something that I knew but it still was pleasant to hear. Kara, Didi and Mica are pregnant. Didi will be the first.

The goblin race gestation is short. It seems that the others are not. I feel that it is the Watcher controlling that.

I am also told that three of the goblin women are also pregnant with the combination.

Two are mine and one is a multi racial dragon and goblin mating. The healer tells me that she can already determine that these babies are of the new race.

I do hear tinkling and anticipate seeing what I think I know. We are celebrating tonight.

Just us. I hug and kiss the three. I also remark that I feel that the Watcher is regulating the birth rate.

As I gave Mica her hug, she shook and I heard the bell. My life is sweet.

Back in our private quarters, I am told that now that Callie is going to be a wife, the others want the right breast mark also. I have a good feeling about this. Later on in years, it is not uncommon for them to slightly cut themselves and beg me to suck their blood as a show of their love.

On the next three nights, I do just that.

Humans

The human race is an arrogant lot. They feel that all the other races are animals that need to be taught their place on the ladder. I am now getting challenges from those who call themselves dragon slayers.

We get a good laugh at first. Prancing on horses that are incased in armor. They too are fully armored. Polished as to reflect the sun. Feather plumes on their helmets.

Obviously from a harpy. I need to invite the harpies to settle in the mountains in my realm.

These knights sit on those poor horses, in the sun and issue their challenges. We let them repeat the challenge several times. I come out and before I can say anything, they come at me and break their lance on impact with my skin. That usually knocks them to the ground. My goblins come out and take in the poor horse after stripping the armor off of them. Now comes the sword slashes. I usually grab the sword and break it in front of them. Then the broken valiant knight usually is soaked from shear exhaustion. My goblins now come out and strip them of their armor.

“I want you to go back and tell that idiot king of yours I will only do this for so long and then I will have my dragons visit your palace and make it an ash heap.” That is the usual warning which I send them away with. But they keep on coming but now in bunches with the same results.

I call my generals. “I don’t know about you but I have had just about enough. Captain, would you please get one hundred volunteers from our world and have them meet here in one week. We are going to fly to that palace and talk to their king. Make sure that we have archers. We will fly above their arrows. They should have mages but they have less range than their archers. As a twist. I will require all to drink a lot of water before we do our final approach. How do you think they will feel when a hundred dragons piss on them from the sky. That will be a tale told for generations.”

They all think this is brilliant. These knights have been pissing on us long enough.

My wives and intendeds are laughing so hard, they are running to the toilet leaving a wet trail behind. Callie tells Kara that only our husband would think of that. The utter humiliation will be heard round the world. The kingdom that the dragons used as a shit pit. That man of ours.

Callie is thinking and wiggling. Kara turns to me and tells me that Callie is thinking that she would like to see that. Mica says out right.

“I want to be pissed on also but when you are in dragon form, larger bladder.”

I look at Callie, she sheepishly nods. We have a winner. I walk all into our now very large bathroom and order them stripped as I am drinking almost a gallon of water,

nothing in my smaller but full dragon form. In a few minutes I start and they are out of their minds. I am spraying on them but now the others are crowding in so they are soaked. They all seem to like it but Mica grabs me and sinks herself balls deep and is drinking. Callie pulls her off and does the same.

A good time was had by all. I made it a point to wash each in order of their position, starting with Kara. Each was thoroughly washed, each and every inch of them including their hair. I have not missed anyone but I make it a point to play with the bells.

The following week, we have now locked up the latest group of knights so they cannot warn their king. Ready to fly, it is a awesome sight to see one hundreds dragons take flight. I have been told that most, if not all have already drunk their fill. I have also.

Once over the human castle, I call out the king.

“I did ask you to stop sending those knights after me, you won’t win.” As he and his court look up at us. “This is what we think of your rule.”

With that one hundred dragons relieve themselves. The royals and the court did not get inside in time. The force was so strong that most of the castle roofs were washed away.

You could actually hear the human peasants laughing.

“Any of you non human species who want to live in peace come live with us.” I see a few harpies. I take this opportunity.

“Harpies, I give you the right to settle in my mountains, Humans, release all the harpies now and I will not burn this kingdom down. Watcher, I ask you to show me where they all are.”

“I’ll do you one better. I have transported all the hidden and chained to your palace.

There are none captive in this kingdom. You lasts, I ask you to fly with my chosen.”

They all take to the sky and are being protected.

“Thank you, Watcher. Now I address all of you humans. I want to live in peace but that idiot won’t let me. I will give you fair warning, if you see him sending an army to me, get out of this town, it will be burnt to the ground. Again any of you non humans come live in peace. I have a goblin wife, a canid wife and there will be more races added.

Consider this an invitation to peace.”

I see a steady stream of all races coming out. Humans are leaving but away from our land. I tell half of mine to protect them but as I am getting ready to leave I see their army coming out. I have half protect those on the ground. I tell the harpies to fly to my palace and tell them to send all available people here.

The half that is not protecting the ones coming to us, follow me but this time no joking.

My people know what I am. I change into my biggest Gargoyle and attack. I have found

that the leading edge of my wings are razor sharp. I cut through the ranks. My others follow with quick work, their army is decimated only the moaning wounded are left.

“I will not harm a single healer. Please come out and help those that can be saved.”

Healers are all the same. They do not hesitate and tend to the wounded.

A mage comes out with a white flag. I respect it and ask “What is that you want?”

“Please no more, we have captured both the king and queen.”

I have a plan that I think will be pleasing to mine.

They bring them out.

“King, I find you have no redeeming qualities. Your stupid needs to stop.”

I point to an ordinary of my troupes. “Will you do your king a favor?” He tells me it would be a great honor.

“Take this thing above the clouds and drop him. I want you to laugh at him as he falls”

Soon, we hear screams and laughter and then a thud. That’s done, now the queen. She is on her knees.

“I don’t care if you believe me or not, I did try to reason with him.”

“Are you willing to go before my wife. She is a truth knower. I will ask you to be subject to her questioning. If you are telling the truth, you still will be guilty but will be required to work for my wives. Can you abide with that?”

She says that she is at my mercy.

“Once I have made sure that all slaves are free, I will carry you to my palace.”

She is being kindly watched as we search the town for any slaves but find that the people have released all. In the castle dungeon, I have the queen tell me who is who.

Almost all are harden criminals. We have the goblins use their darts on them. The remaining few are political prisoners. Those who opposed the kings obsession on other races, those are released.

I tell them in the form of a warning. Now their sky is filled with almost a thousand dragons. On quite a few are the goblin dragon rider drop troupes. The sight is awesome.

“I came here with only one hundred and you can see what a hundred can do. Look in awe and horror. Form your new government. We will leave you alone if you leave us alone and don’t enslave any other species. Now these that want to come with us are now under our protection. They will be allowed to start their own settlements in our domain. Do not enter any of them without express permission from me. Any invasion and you will be the next ones to be dropped from above the clouds. We go.”

I pick up the queen and we fly back. I leave a large contingent to safe guard the refugees.

Back at my home, I set down the human queen. She now can feel what it is like to be singled out with no one to help you. The thing that she was not expecting was that mine are looking after her kindly. She is in tears at the treatment she is getting. Respect with out superiority. Even those who were freed, are treating her with kindness. It Is too much for her Callie and Bela take her from the din of getting everyone settled for now.

Mean while a certain someone is helping a partially plucked harpy. I come over and the harpy cries on my shoulder thanking me. She was a caged pet, that someone was telling me.

“I think Kara will be interested in helping this one personally.”

Before I can say anything, Kara is here and tells me that she will take her to our quiet area.

“You need to address all and then come to us.”

“Can I have your attention please.” Everyone quiets down. “That king is dead. His army is no more. I have only a few rules. Everyone is a person regardless of race. We live in peace. My wife Didi put it properly, No one will think better of you unless you do first.

Now everyone will be invited to stay on my land. The harpies have exclusive use of the mountain peaks for their nesting and hunting. Respect each other’s hunting areas.. You can, and I encourage it, start your own villages. Scout out areas then come back and claim the right to it. We will make sure that there is plenty of room. Now, if you choose to move on, you are free to do so. For the next couple of days, talk amongst yourselves.

Remember it is spring time. You need to settle the land. This is not a hand out, it is a hand up. I will not feed freeloaders. Now I have a few matters that need my attention.

Each group, please select representatives. Two per race. I will meet tomorrow to go over the finer details.”

The harpy and a queen

It has been one hell of a day. We only went to piss on someone and changed a nation. I have a queen to judge. A harpy that I think is going to be another wife. And that was the morning. I still have those who are walking to here. I know by someone that we will find the right way.

I am tired and only want to cuddle with my women. But.

Didi and Mica greet me and guide me to my bath. They help me wash and soak. They are being very gentle but they are also strangely not taking advantage. I have received loving kisses but that is it. Not that I am worried, it is just strange.

I get out and get dressed. They lead me to our sitting area. There are all my other women. Now I can relax. I told you I was tired. There is something up.

Kara stands in front of me. “My husband, we have two very important items that require you as the head of this family. I will accept your judgement. Bela please step in front of your future husband and give your report.”

“I have very extensively interviewed the formal human queen. I have found that she is not guilty of helping her husband in slavery and attacking us but I do find her guilty of not leaving him. She has submitted to your judgement. Bring her in.”

Callie escorts the deposed queen in. She is standing there before me. “I submit myself to your mercy and have agreed to this.”

Callie now strips her. She has all her hair on her head but in front of me is a very clean shaven pubic area and a ring with a bell. Leave it to mine. Attached to that ring is a gold chain that leads to her right nipple ring. I am amazed.

“Are you submitting to my authority?

“Totally.”

“Come forward so I can take a closer look.”

I see that the bell ring is new but looking at the nipple ring is something she had. Well. I run my hand over her shaved pussy and she seems to like it. Interesting.

“Sit at my feet as I contemplate what my judgement will be. Wife Kara do you accept this?”

“It is with the full family acceptance.”

“What is your second item you wanted me to decide?”

“Sister Didi, bring in Star Streak.”

That disheveled half plucked harpy now has been bathed and groomed. She is now proud and also humble as she stands before me.

Didi now speaks. “This is Star Streak, she was a caged pet for a knight who used her feathers for armor decorations. She stands before you and asks to speak to you.”

I tell her that she can speak.

“You have rescued me. That human was cruel. He starved me and other things.” She choaks up. I get up and step to her.

“May I offer you my shoulder to cry on?” She falls on to it and I tell her that today is a new day. Your past is just that, past. There are things that happened to you that I can’t change but I can tell you that you are mine now. The world is your protector. If this woman is willing to submit to me, would you be willing to let her hug you. She is not your tormentor but I think that if you two become friends it will go a long way to make you feel better. You need to let go of the past.”

I look at the woman sitting there. “Stand before me.” She does.

“You are now and forever to be called by the name Mercy. I accept you fully.”

I hug her but grab her ass in both hands.

“Mercy would you please offer yourself to this woman now named Sunny.”

She does just that and asks if she could be friends. Sunny nods and they hug. They both cry on each other saying absolutely nothing. You can tell that the both are shedding the weight of their past.

After a few minutes I speak.

“As of this moment, these two are new people. If it is acceptable to the family, I will accept them. What say each of you.”

Each say they are welcome. They both seem to have calmed down.

Sunny tells me that she wants the rings like Mercy has. I look at my others and I can see that they are thinking the same. I take the moral high ground on this.

“That piercing is strictly up to the wives.”

I go to Mercy and from behind, I start to rub her baldness and play with the rings.

Gentilly tugging on the chain. She is responding just the way I thought, submissive.

“To me, it does make it interesting but instruct these two on our marks and how I really like the taste of each of you. I’m now going to bed.”

I release Mercy and go to our large bed room. Get undressed and wait to see what they decide. After quite a while, I almost gave up, Seven robed women come in. It was all

planned. It turned out that the time taken was to wait for Sunny to have the piercing and shaved. The others had already done that.

I was told that the shave was permanent through the healer’s spell. They also decided that Kara needed the right breast bite, then Sunny and Mercy.

I start with Kara and at the right moment I savor her taste as I bit and suck her blood from the right breast. Then lick it dry.

Sunny needed to be treated to love. I really took my time to make sure she was enjoying her first true loving session, making sure that I sucked both piercings play with the chain and lavish love on her shaved pubes. Finally, I entered her and slowly increased the girth with the same reaction that it always has. As we came I bit. Her blood is just as sweet as the others. She is clinging and is crying again.

“That is what I needed. It’s what I never got. I am yours forever.”

There always has to be a twist. It is Mercy’s turn. My first four grab her and throw her on the bed. Each has an arm or leg. It is Kara that tells me what she wants through the accusatory text.

“This one has been a bad girl. She needs to be subject to a very hard pounding. You need to tell her what she is going to get. Stretch her till you break her. Ravish her, eat every area. That new ring can be a source of that blood that you like. I think that she needs the breast bite. Taste her then take her.”

I now know that there are almost no limits. It sounds like she has been ignored for a really long time.

I grab her hair and tell her that she has been a bad girl. I forcibly kiss her but I now am using my split tongue. I am wrapping around her tongue and holding it captive while I explore her throat. She is writhing but you can tell it is because she is enjoying the role.

As I am doing that, I am yanking her rings. I move my way down her nipping all the way.

I do start the bite on her right breast but I don’t break skin. I eat until I have my fill and then I proceed to enter her. I am in her and then increase until it almost hurts me. I start to pound her mercilessly. I almost feel like she is out of is but she is now truly screaming but in joy. Just as I am almost ready is give myself one more increase. Pound all the way. Then as I start, I really bite down and draw a good taste from her. I such very hard as she is just yelling yes

“Is that what you wanted?”

She tells me that it is exactly what she needed. “He would not touch me. I was a trophy, a treaty. You read what I wanted and gave it to me.” I look and see that each of them are touching the lasts of the blood. She now passes out. We have to change the bedding, she wet the bed. I pick her up as they change the bedding then set her back down.

The next morning, she is thanking me for actually paying attention to her. She has seen more love in the last twenty four hours than all her married life. Mercy is most excited because she has Sunny hanging on to her. Her now best friend. She has not had anyone before now she has six women that will talk to her as family.

Things change

The two new ones are fitting in nicely. Reactions from the people are nothing but good.

They look at my wives and fiancés. They are mostly seeing a blend of people. It is being seen that I am living like what I told them. We are all people, equal.

Some are so concerned with setting up their villages to be not interested either way.

They are racing the seasons. Most of the villages have a finished long house as a back up for those whose homes won’t be finished by snow fall. The goblins are working with those who are falling behind. They are being praised by all.

Things are moving. The new matriarch is here for her formal introduction and certify Bela’s mating. That will be a public ceremony. Callie, and Mercy want private ceremonies.

Sunny wants the new harpy leader to officiate our mating. That will be interesting. She told me that it is a requirement that the harpy flock be there to witness. She has asked to have her ceremony last so that her sisters can be her flock and be her witnesses.

That will be private but it will need to be in the main hall. We will block all doors for the mating.

Kara and Mica are only just starting to show but Didi is now close as with the goblin women who have volunteered and became my concubines or mates to other dragons.

We have held off on the remainder until they see this first batch.

The watcher has given our healers the knowledge they will need. The biggest is that the wings are covered during the birth but the membrane covering must be cut at birth. The wing razor edge only forms during a fight all other tines they have a natural cover. I have had them request that I transform so they could study the form.

Didi will be the first to deliver. She is very proud of that, as she should. But she was getting increasingly grumpy. She is at the point, a few days away, that I have been told not to approach. After which she comes waddling over and wants me to pick her up and she cries while saying she is sorry. Kara has told me that I should carry her for the rest of that day.

Then came the day. Contrary to popular lore, I am now sitting in our private sitting room.

I am a dragon. I know that it is the woman’s domain. The male is not wanted in there. I am interested but I won’t see the baby until they clean it up. Then I am presented the child. At that time I am to give the baby it’s name. For a boy, his name will be Victor for its historical association with victory. For a girl, Chloe, a name from history she was known for her bravery.

I hear a loud scream and then cheers. I know that the baby is born. Now comes the wait. The ceremonial process of the after birth removal but now also the wing

membrane. Finally, Kara comes for me and she leads me to the room. There is Didi lying there holding our baby. She looks beat but she also is glowing.

“Come hold your son and give him a strong name.”

My son is beautiful, he is black as night. Even now you can see that he will be strong.

He is wrapped up but he can move. I am enamored. I am almost speechless. I lean in and kiss her. “Thank you.”

I now get formal. This is my son. The first of his race to be born. Soon he will go on to greatness. He needs a strong name. I look at him and say,

“My son, live with compassion, love with all you have and protect with all your might. I now name you Victor a name fitting you. You will always be victorious.”

I give him back to Didi. She starts to nurse him. The healer tells everyone that they have to leave. “Per goblin tradition, all goblins must view the new one. The first ones will be the pregnant women, then the remainder of the women goblins. After that the males.

The pregnant are fawning over him and now are eager to deliver. My concubines each tell me I need to pick very strong names for their baby. Now the other females come in with the same reaction. I know that there will be a line of the singles.

What surprised me is the reaction of the males. Most are looking at Victor and flexing their arms. They bow to Didi and then smile at me and I hear them as they leave. All say that he will be very strong. Some say that they want to talk to their mate and let them mate with a dragon. They want a strong child like that.

Goblin tradition is that the male that raises the child is the father regardless of who provided the seed.

With in a week, the others delivered. I now have both sons and daughters. All are beautiful. The watcher has come here to see them. She has approved all the names.

She told the mothers that they will be revered in history as these leader’s mothers. She told them that even when they had to take their rightful positions, even if it is on other worlds, all will have the ability to jump back to visit with us. All children born to them will be on this, their home world.

She told them that they all will live. None will fall in battle and none will shame our family. She is pleased when I tell her that on every high ledge of every building in this city will be a black statue. Each will be a fully winged gargoyle. Each watching over us.

Soon those statues, were a prominent feature that people came from afar to see. I am told that they now are a feature in all the dragon realm as both a blessing and a warning.

We have had the various mating ceremonies and for now I have seven wives. Kara tells me that she gets the feeling that a felid is on the horizon. I have gone with the Watcher to her room and have been fulfilling my role in reviving some species. She has let me

know that I actually will be recorded in many worlds legends as a god. Now I pay it no mind.

I must now address my harpy mating. Sunny had the big hall set up as a very large nest. The thrones have been removed and around the nest are platforms for the viewing. The flock leader came with her contingent. She approved the setup.

She was told that Sunny was accepted by all of my wives but she was both shocked and pleased to see that a human was her friend as well as her close sister.

“If only all humans were like this.”

She went over and hugged Mercy. I got a hint on how the day was going to go as the flock leader started to explore Mercy. She asked Sunny if she would allow Mercy to sit with her during the ceremony. The remainder of my wives and concubines found themselves with the other harpies.

With out so much as an announcement that we were starting, Sunny has me lead her to the center of the nest. She introduces me as her flock leader. With that she strips me and I her. We settle down.

Sunny said that it is a requirement for me to make her yell in extasy. Not a problem. I seem to feel that most of the palace knows when she reaches that. She is not quiet. We are now into deep throws of passion, she is enjoying this. Harpies are coming down and touching us rather intimately. All are now indulging with my wives. I notice that Mercy and the lead harpy are deeply entangled. Didi has healed and is enjoying being passed from harpy to harpy to my other wives.

This went on for most of the night until all pass out from exhaustion but Sunny and I fell asleep joined.

The next morning was clean up of all. We as the joined couple needed to wash all of the participants. That led to quite a few more encounters. I will say that one of the harpies that wanted and got intimate with me was sharing the experience. She thanked me and said that she would do this again.

Eventually, my wife count went to fifteen. We did get a few felids, another harpy, the one that shared, and others. The original first concubines asked and were elevated to wife status.

As for the gargoyle race, now they have grown. Not confined just to our town, other dragon realms have produced them. They all are brought to us to be blessed by the mother Didi. She has become the symbol of the new race, as she deserves. From an almost dead slave to being the mother of a race. It is fitting.

Mica has delivered a litter of what are now called lycanthropes. Sunny has had Pheonix’s. Mercy has given our world a race that will become known as Amazons.

Warriors but with compassion. My felids produce hellcats. My dragon wives give birth to multi changelings like myself.

All of the children of this world now are protectors of peace. Love intensely and foremost are just. Peace has truly descended on this world. People are the only ones here.