You ignored the noise coming out of Rafe;s snout
because your previously
scrambled human memories had suddenly
sorted themselves out.
You are ( well were) star ace reporter
Elizabeth Sykes for the Maritime TV station
CDREAKE Channel 33
and Rafagen over here had been your
cameraman Ralph Genner and Uluna giggling and playing
with herself over by the mirror had been
Ury Leonev,the burly Russian security guard driver the
station had hired to drive you and Ralph
down to Grovers Mill,to do a piece
on a new discovery the mayor of Grovers Mill
claimed was related to the
1939 mass panic caused by Orson Welles.
You three had got there to find Grovers Mill was now a
War of the Worlds tourist trap
complete with slimey tentacled cardboard martian displays
alien flying saucers and off all things,a plastic
dragon perched on the roof of Moes Diner.
For some weird reason the residents of Grovers Mill
recently had started having flashbacks about themselves
as aliens and had taken a liking to grey and orange.
So when they'd found the huge grey space meteor with streaks of orange running through it at the new
Martian Mantrap Golfcourse
the mayor,one
Penny Grander,had invited reporters and the locals over
for a unvieling of the strange meteor on its new plinth,where
it would serve as a visible monument to Grovers Mill and the
Panic of 1939.
So there you'd all been,milling about the huge
strange meteor,residents,tourists and reporters
alike
whilst Mayor Penny Grande had given her speech.
She had droned on for hours and folk were thinking about taking their complimentary
meteor sample with them ( this was one huge meteor)
when the mother lode began to glow with a unEarthly inner light.
Then the Mayor and her guests the National Reserves had begun growing,changing,bursting
out of their clothes.
Not in slimy tentacle waving Martians,but
more into creatures akin to cybernetic dragons of some kind.
You'd managed to keep Ralph filming Mayor Penny Grande's transformation
but had told Ury to go back and start up the stations SUV
and expect you and Ralph to come running in a hurry in a few minutes.
So you'd watched both terrified and fascinated as Peny Grande
screeched and yowled as her insides rearranged
and where she had once been now towered a winged flamebreathing beast clad in metallic cogwheels and armour.
Naturally by this point anyone who hadn't transformed was fleeing for their lives.
The creature stumbled about,obviously as taken aback by what she now was and then saw you and Ralph filming her,
"I am the Emoress Peluda Grendela " had come
the draconic words of warning
" Broadcast your messages now,because within
99 minutes you three hairless apes
will be part of the Draken Empire."
So you and Ralph ran back to the station van and Ury
had pulled out of there.
You'd managed to get seven miles out of town and had thought you
were safe when suddenly the vanm,and other fleeing vehicles trying
to cross
one lane Cooters Bridge,had been caught up in the unEarthly transforming light
from that strange meteor seven miles back.
So the three of you tried to broadcast the footage,rather then spread the Draken contagion
into the City.
However the station manager simply laughed at the three of you on the
camera phone
"people turning into alien dragon invaders?"
They weren't buying it.
So the three of you had raced back to the station under the 99 minutes
the Emperoress Peluda had predicted and stagged into the studio
just as the scales,massive growth spurt and pain had
driven the three of you crazy.
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Which meant the City had been infected by the Draken contagion.
Ralph/Rafagen over there didn't seem too aware he'd
ever been a hairless ape,but
Ury seemed to be senfing you girl
signals.
So you followed her to a private chamber in the grey and orange
Draken palace
and she confirmed what you feared
"The embryonic Draken within the three of us hadn't fed in nearly
eighty years." she said as she slid open a window shade
"So there wasn't enough energy left to transform the other people.Just the three of us"
the giggling Drakeoness said as she pointed
towards a altered City
"But we were awfully hungry after our transformation.So we ate"