Well the pounding inside your skull became unbearable and you
blanked out.
When you awakend you first had the chill,but then you realized
it was just a light wind blowing over you where you lay in a grass
and shrub field.
Naturally you grabbed at your head but only felt hair on your
human scalp.Nor were your hands red scaled clawed things.
You were fully dressed in your human clothes and to all intents
and purposes,were your old human self.
However there was a faint "OBEY OBEY OBEY"
still echoing in your mind.It slowly faded away to
silence.
You got up off the ground and looked about.In spots here and
there you could see the tumbled stones where houses might once have
stood.
Once a medievel town had stood here.
However the dark brooding castle still sat on its rock
and you slowly made your way towards it.
Though you didn't see any road signs proclaiming the fact,
you knew that the Witch Queen had once ruled a kingdom
from this castle hundred of years ago.
The castle was now open to tourists so you paid the admission and joined
the rest of the tourists the guide was leading about.
The tour lasted 2 hours and you learned that Baseeba the Witch Queen had
been Mistress of the Castle in the year 666 AD.The tour guide
made sure everyone in her group knew it was the number of the Beast,
not the Devil,but the number of men the Witch Queen claimed she would curse to a weredragonnish existance before her reign ended.
As it was the nearby town of Carmuziel had risen up
before she'd got to number 99.
They'd hauled Baseeba to the stake ,where the Lord Protector
had lit the fire that consumed the Witch Queen.
But not before Baseeba screamed out that she had cursed the
Lord Protector with the were-dragon curse,and when the Moon
was full,he would drink a cup of dragons blood and know
peace no more.
Everyone in the tourist crowd leaned in as the Guide pointed
to the next room,the castle's chapel.
There they ooed and aaahed as they looked at what sat
on the altar.There,rather then the Cross,sat a medievel
bronze cup with a large shining red ruby inset
in the cup.
The Cup of Dragons Blood,the self same one the Lord Protector had
stolen from the Witch Queen before he burnt her at the stake.