Now the english like their dragons and one particular workshop had
just sculpted 2956 dragon figurines of a product line called the
Dragon Clan of Brimstone Mountain.There were males,females,eggs,
hatchlings,juveniles,warriors,artists,craftsmen ,wizards,criminals
and everything in between.It was an entire community done up as
dragon figurines.
And all these 2956 figurines needed a particular shade of pigment
whic that ballpoint pen matched perfectly in order to do the scales
the slitted pupil of the eyes,the black sharp talons ,the spiky row
of venomous spines on the backbone and other finishing touches.Judy
felt herself bleeding to death as the artists took her apart and
mixed her ink into the paint pots and applied her essense onto 2956
figurines.She lost conciousness and died three days before she was
supposed to return to human form.Her last death though was to
curse Carrie ,
The Dracyn staff loaded the production run into boxes and the
boxes were loaded into a railcar,along with a shipment going
to a hardware store.The car was added to the back of a train and
steamed out of Seacarts.Now world events were slowly
conspiring to bring Judy's rebirth a very good thing.It
just so happens that the train had to pass through a desolate
deep valley over the river Skye,and at the front of the train were
10 passenger cars carrying the 8:00 commuter passengers
out of Glasgow.There had been rumours of a renewed
Al Quaida offensive for months,and what no one knew
was that the bridge over the riveer was rigged with explosive
set to go off at midnight.Judy had ceased being human at 1:00 am
two weeks previous.It was a dark and stormy night and lightening
was starting to build up.At midnight the bridge and tracks blew
and the train went off the tracks.Some cars plunged into the
river hundreds of feet below,some dangled from the edge of
the bridge,swaying and dangling by their couplings.Others lay on
their sides in the waterfilled ditch,whilst the last car in the train
sat unscathed on the tracks.All around were the screams of injured and
dying humans,and the smell of burnt flesh,blood and diesel was everywhere.
At one oclock,the world went haywire.off in another part of the world a bracelet
glowed red as it brought Judy back to life.But there were 2956 Judy's now,and
they had porcelain scales,horns and teeth.In boxes of that last railcar 2956
pairs of lungs began to breath from forming lungs,2956 hearts began to beat.
2956 tiny bodies rippled with scale,flesh bone and muscle.2956 throats coughed up
spatters of flame as hot as a pootery kiln.2956 pairs of paws flexed talons as sharp
as slivers of glass,2956 bodies clinked as thick armoured plates over their
stomachs were as strong as roofing tile.As the boxes around them turned into a blazing
inferno the simple minds of 2956 dragon warriors,mages,infants,eggs,mages,mothers,
daughters,fathers,sons,artists,craftsmen stirred into life.Judy went from nothingness to
blackness a nd then on a heart throbbing Saturn V booster ride as her conciousness
multiplied 2956 times.And split into 2956 fragments.
Their eyes opened and they squawked and hissed and bellowed and roared as
they becamee sentient and aware of the PURPOSE.
They had bled to death.A hairless scaleless mammal had killed them.The warriors
remembered the war.The clan remembered the war.2956 dragons got to work.They
had to kill the mammals.Their first thoughts were directed by Judys
last dying thoughts.Even though the railcar was blazing hot,they ignored it.They had
been fired in pottery kilns and were not normal flesh and blood.Scales of stone,
talons of glass and wings strengthened with fibers like a mesh in concrete.
While the warriors chanted,they broke out the weapons,carving knives
files,nails and other items from the hardware store shipment.
Eveyone wanted to kill the humans right away,but the generals
said the clan had to get the pregnant mothers,eggs and newborns
to a safe place first.And they needed more supplies and a retreat.So the
craftsmen and mages forced an opening through to the outside while
admiring british rail technology.The dragons cleared out surrounding
compartments of ammunition and other goods which delighted the
warriors and craftsmen.They also found promotional material on
the Dragon Clan of Brimstone Mountain,which pleased the High Priests
greatly,as they were already thinking there had to be a higher purpose to life
then killing two legged mammals.But they found themselves unable to
express these thoughts,so strong a hold on their mind was the will of the Goddess Judy
who they could not see but sensed within them.
An hour after their birth 3000 pairs of reptillian eyes gazed down on the
screaming humans from a nearby rocky crag.The railcar was now a empty
burnt out shell and 44 mothers had already laid new eggs.Things were
settling down and Judy slowly became aware that she was pumping his seed
into a receptive female as he roared and flapped his wings and twitched
his tail.He was puzzling over why he was worth $350 at Kmart
and 150 pounds at McTavishs.She was nipping her male self as the warriors
did a hissing chanting war dance around a flickering juice box and it lay
curled,blissfully unaware of the world while it formed in its egg.
Then she felt an intense pain as mother 45 pushed her egg out
of her birth canal and a good chunk of Judys fragmented mind came back together
in that new mother.As she did so the PURPOSE slammed into her mind and
out of about 1000 others.Dragon generals,warriors,mages and priests stumbled in mid thought
as their Goddess left them.They all stared at the young mother and waited
for her will.
Judy slowly came back to her senses and realized there was a warm sticky
egg bumping into her wiggling tail.As she realized she had been about to send
an army of dragon munchkin killers out into the world,Carrie really didn't
seem so important anymore as what she had just gained.
2900 pairs of slitted eyes bliked as the group thought formed on the
aethernet they all shared.A steak knife to the eyes,a primed shotgun
shell in the mouth,a plague of locusts,<MY EGG WILL BE PLEASED
TO SERVE THE WILL OF THE GODDESS JUDY>
<STOP THAT>
Judy thought and was kind of annoyed as various parts of herself were
listening in.Oh well,there has to be a price for being a super being,a deity.
Down below the humans still wailed,and frankly it looked like hell down there.
So she gave herself a new purpose and sent out one additional thought
<Make the so and so's pay for our services.
Afterwards humans told of how little dragons flew in with twine and cloth and
safety pins,and how some would apply leaves and oils while others
applied tourniques,put stones under metal to steady wreckage and
doused flames with bucket brigades which flew in styrofoam cups of water
from the river below.This went all night and soon some of the human
survivors were able to help themselves.
There were also tales of tiny dragons pulling out wallets from trapped victims they'd
just saved and pulling out and flying away with 100 pound notes,money orders
and jewellry.
Finally it all came down to that run of cars near the edge of the
bridge that were ready to plunge into the river below.Humans were too weak or incapable of
rescuing anybody from those cars.The bridge was starting to groan and sway
and Judy knew that soon that bridge would collapse,She decided to put her
new powers to the test.She sent out a new purpose over the aethernet.
We've got to save the mammals in those cars.How?
2956 minds thought over the problem.It was the high Priests
who came up with the solution.We once were like clay.Clay can be pressed together
and reformed and remolded to make something bigger.Perhaps the mages
know a merging spell.Soon all the dragons flew back to the retreat.
500 of the sons and daughters,as well as the increasing supply of eggs
were left as a reserve to protect the clan should something go wrong.
All the rest advanced towards Judy,whose mind sat in that of the new mother.
Then they pushed in together and Judy bellowed in pain as she felt her kidneys pull out
of her body and merge with the kidney of her neighbour,That kidney then absorbed
another kidney and so on and so on.Kidney sought kidney.Heart sought heart.
Brain sought brain and vertebrae sought vertebrae.There was a cracking
crunching squishing spelching sound as Judys new body slowly rose over
the squirming wriggling mass of merging munchkins.Then it was done.
The Goddess Judy towered over her 500 remaining supplicants 30 feet
at her shoulders and 150 feet from the tip of her tail to the end
of her toothy snout.They and her were kind of surprised,there was
a lot more mass here then could have been supplied
by about seven tons on munchkins,but what is the purpose of a Goddess but to
supply her followers with miracles.
She felt very dragonic and reared up on her hind legs,spread her wings wide and
roared as she spat a flame as hot as that of a pottery kiln into the air,
Then she got ready to save the world.Visions of the awe and fear she
would inspire from the mammals made her grunt and gloat and drip big
steaming globs of saliva onto the ground.
However,the miracle was not to be.Just as she leapt into the air
and circled the bridge,the tortured coupling screeched and broke
and the cars with screaming humans plunged,as if in slow motion,into the river
far below.One second there was screaming,the next dead silence.
The shock went through the giant dragoness like a thunderbolt
and Judys body and mind fragmented .
Soon there were about 2456 munchkins winging about in confusion and slowly
drifting away.
The next morning saw Judy back in her mother dragon body,the shock having worn off,
Strays were still winging in,and she was a bit disconcerted to find she now had
3200 dragon munchkins to tend to.She was breeding like a rabbit,and at this
rate she'd have to give serious consideration to world conquest.