Now dying Queen Clarissa wanted to die on her throne chair if she could,rather then out here hundreds of miles away from the GIRL Clubhouse.
They were in No Mans ( and No womb Mans land.
It hadn't taken Ellie long to figure out this Curse she and the dying Queen had just dumped on her
brother Mason was one tough Curse.
She'd thought the Cauldron would have tf'd Mason into a Girl,or even a more
hunmdrum girl,but what they'd ended up with was a cold as ice corpse that needed to see summoned to life by a chant.
Ellie hadn't heard yet about the "Sleep Like Death" mentioned in fairytales yet,but jumped to the next logical explanation,her
Queen had suckered her into helping her turn her brother into a
4 foot tall pint sized 70 pound runt of a
zombie/vampiress/ghoul girl.
The arisen Mason seemed rather lethargic as she just sat at the edge of her bed,and Ellie had statred giggling hysterically at the notion the bed would need to be replaced with a coffin lined with
transyvannian grave dirt.
Ellie flopped down on the floor beside her brother-turned-undead -sister and would have started crying,but a sharp piece of glass
,several sharp pieces of glass infact,lay on the floor in one corner of the room as well as the one that was now sunk in her fleshy GIRL bum.
Ellie looked up .
The security camera that she'd intalled there to keep oan eye on lay
in pieces.The thing had exploded apart sometime recently.
So Ellie went to the VHS security recorder and rewound the security tape.
She looked at the screen image,at her and Queen Clarissa stealing a drop
of sleeping Masons blood,then sneaking off to do the ceremony.
Some time went by,during which the Mason on the tape kept
sleeping.
Then the fateful moment,
Suddenly the outline of sleeping Mason in the image was replaced by a lot of white and black hash,a white noise which expanded over
nine minutes to just about fill the entire screen,then the last second of
broken glass flying away from the cameras view,then a black screen.
The camera blowing apart.
Ellie popped the VHS tape out of the recorder.
Her shoulders were shook by someone.
"We have to leave" said Queen Clarissa "when the Sun is fully risen over the horizon,Mason will slip back into her Seep as Death state"
So Clarissaa ordered Mason to follow them.
They got to the Black Diamond Queen and the two GIRLS leapt in.
The dragon princess didn't.
"Open the door and enter the horseless carriage" groaned the Queen to
Mason.
Then she turned to Ellie and explained
"Your sister has the mind of a 8th cntury 10 year old girl now.
I'm surprised she understands modern English anymore"
Ellie got that.
She also got that her former male sibling wasn't much more then a puppet the dying Queen could do with as she pleased.
So Ellie slightly eased up on the gas as they raced back to the
GIRL Clubhouse.
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So by the time they finally got back to the GIRLS,it was night and the Clubhouse was fully aflame,the windows exploding as the flames gushed out.
Ellie thought <BOYS>
but it turned out two of the GIRLS had engaged in a fight-to-the-death to claim the vant Queens throne.
Both of the most likely next Queen of the GIRLS
had perished from their wounds,and in all the thrashing
the drums of kerosine and generator fuel had been knocked over and started a hot inferno that was now burning down the Clubhouse,and the Ancient GIRL Scrolls that foretold of the Prophecied GIRL
and her Champion who was supposed to save everyone from the
war between the BOYS and GIRLS.
( the ancient scrolls had given up on the adults)
So it was the remaining GIRLS carried Queen Clarissa's stretch to the Secret Queen Cave and Ellie slowly rolled in the Black Diamond Queen after them.,with that pretty lifeless sister Mason of hers still sitting impassively in the back seat.
Ellie first ordered the dragon princess to
"Get up.Open the door.Step out of the horseless goat-cart.Walk behind me and stop when I stop"
then pleaded,then begged,then prayed to the motionless princess girl.
Some of the GIRLS,all six foot six of them,came over to
observe Ellies archaic relic of a skinny short sister and sneered
down at the girl.
They,including the newcomer Chloe,gave each another Hi 5's and headed out of the cave to plot out who'd be the next Queen.
Queen Clarrisa was in her final minutes now,and the death rattles were
already rising in her throat.
All her unloyal GIRL subjects had abandoned her and the cave,lit up only
by the headlights of the car,now only contained
Ellie,the dying Queen and the cursed dragon princess.
Clarissa had been sure she'd got the Ancient Scrolls correct.
So she used up her final reserves of energy to order Mason to get out of the car,walk behind her funeral byre and stand
to her left.
Then she aslked Ellie to kneel before the foot of her deatbed and
"Lady Ellie,,I annoint you Protectress of GIRLkind"
"Then the rattleling dying Queen shouted out
"Mason,sister of Ellie,I herebye release you to your own will,a girls
free will now and a womans free will to the end of your days till
Ragnarok claims you for her own.One final
ORDER however.If you are the daughter of Gunda-Barina,
Defender of the Greedy,Champion of the Selfish,Queen of the Cauldron,
SHOW US NOW."
The lights of the car snapped out.The cave was in total
darkness,
Elllie could hear the "HSsss" as dead Clarissa released her
final breath and her soul.
Slowly the light returned and Ellie could see that
the Queen was no more.
But behind her a awakening ten year old girl Mason was staring at
confusion at the Ermine fur lined cape ,the dragon horned helm she wore on her head,her glittering green chain mail breast plate,her dragon scales covered
long dress ,her fighting spurr knee high long boots
and the short norse dagger with the dragons eye jewel
in its guard, that her plain and drabby norse girls outfit had changed into.
and the two redscaled female firedrakes that posed on either side of her.
Her Avatars.
Cauldroness ,Guardian of the Traditions,was back.