"So how many vials of the whites powder have you managed to make so far?" Father Mike
asked as long as Serenity was here.
Serenity answered. "About a dozen so far not counting the sample you gave me, I took a
lot of my alchemy set when we packed up and re-located."
"Alchemy?"
"I tried a lot of tricks to try and become a man again after I was cursed... it didn't work
out. But I did learn a good job of alternate chemistry and knew better than to keep things
like that laying around after we left the house."
"Can you turn lead into gold?" Mary asked after all the craziness she had been put
through.
Serenity said simply and to the point, "No, that's BS."
"Oh." Mary nodded.
"How did the translating go?" Father Mike asked.
"Your brother was a very big help."
Paul bowed.
"I'm glade to know."
"White powder?" Mary asked.
Serenity said, "It refers to how Father Mike and his brother destroyed the part of the game
inside them. It can destroy turn of anyone who it's used on. I want to have some ready for
when the victims are all restored, and afterwards it can act as a vaccine."
"Then why haven't you used it before-?!"
"Father Mike only used it and rediscovered it when he and his brother were cursed."
"Then why didn't you use as a 'vaccine' before?!"
Father Mike said, "I was hoping that the game that transformed my brother and I was the
only one.... I was dead wrong..."
"And sadly we -need- the game as the only means to restore those turned into part of
Jensen's pack. So if we do it now, or.... if something happens to you Mary I'm sorry to
say... Sorry Mary." Madam Serenity said apologetically.
Mary sighed, "Can we talk this over with my parents already?" If this game had screwed
over with her life, she wanted to know it sooner than later. "I just want to be me again
quick, it's throwing me off kilter me out having to look up at everyone."
"You got off lucky." Trevor retorted, "You at least still have thumbs."
Mary started.
Serenity said, "Now Trevor be polite."
"Always 'Trevor be polite'..."
"At any rate," Serenity said shifting the subject, "Yes Mary, let's go see your family."
++++++++
"Well, not an island or pirate ship in sight." Amber said as she scanned the horizon, "I
guess we really are in the middle of nowhere."
Garnet commented to her relatively taller companion, "I just hope this island is big enough
to hold our entire pack and our deer game."
"We're going to be playing games with our food?"
"No Amber it's... game as in hunting game."
"I don't think our hunting will really be a game if we're forced to tough it out here."
"Amber, the third definition in the dictionary for game refers to wild animals you hunt for
food."
"Ah, okay, I didn't know that."
"Yes I gathered."
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"And then I don't feel~ so bad~!" Amethyst finnish her womanhood bouncing up and down
as she skipped along.
"Amethyst, should you really be singing when we're supposed to be scouting?" Lazuli
asked almost mesmerized by the whole sight.
"But everything is so pretty! And it makes me feel so happy! How can I not sing?"
"By closing your muzzle."
"... Nah! Now let us go! There is so much more for us to behold!" And Amethyst skipped
along like she was made of air.
Lazuli just stared after here and then began to follow, "I wonder if her brains all went into
her chest... or maybe they're full of air and have lifted her head into the clouds..."
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"Wish we had brought a pad and pencil." Cornelian said as they pushed their way past
another giant leaf in the muzzle.
"No use complaining about it now... just memorize it all as best we can." Topaz
responded.
"Yeah I know... hopefully everyone is having better luck than us."
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"AAAAHHHH!" The two she wolves screamed as the giant crab chased them out o the cave
it's pinchers snapping.
"Ruby... RUBY!"
"Uh? Huh?"
Emerald asked one elbow in the palm of Emerald's hand, the other hand's fingers' claws
touching the tip of Emerald's face. "My word, you were day dreaming again weren't you?"
"Uh, maybe. It's just worried. We are rather in just the kind of place that turns out to have
a slave trader's way station, a cursed temple, some mutant genetic super lobster, or some
crash landed alien space ship."
"You left out hole in the space time continuum."
"That too."
"We've already today been turned into sparkly colored naked wolf women. I'm sure we've
used up our weirdness quota for this life time."
"... I hope so."
"Besides, with Amethyst singing about, the mood is all wrong for alien abduction and flesh
hungry sea zombies anyway."
"So when she stops singing I should start worrying?" Ruby asked.
"Sistah, don't over think things."
+++++++
"Do you think we should bring lumber here? Or should we use the local trees?" Carol
asked looking at the tall forest.
"The deer are going to need something to eat, and we don't know how this weather is
going to effect their life cycle." Her fellow pink wolf Touramline replied. "It might be better
to bring our own supplies through."
"But can Alice and her sisters even do that? I mean, bringing all that stuff through tralala?"
"We won't know until we asked. As it would save us a lot of effort of cutting down and
cutting them all to size first."
"So do you think we look good in pink?"
"Of course we do!"
"Ah, just making sure."
++++++
"So this is the Russian Winter." Samantha commented, "It's not so bad."
"That's because I don't think the reflection feels as cold as the real thing." Martha said.
Everyone looked at Alice.
"What? It does seem to never be unpleasantly warm or cold in our world opposed to the
outside world."
Everyone looked at Alice weird and continued to look around at the dresses.
"All of them have shawls." Abbey observed.
"Well this is Russia." Samantha said.
"Look at all the lines everywhere... it's like a painting." Abbey said sticking her nose into
everything.
The dresses from China were in Martha's arms. A gold and green flower pattern for Alice,
a leaf pattern for Abbey, and a dress with the same color but inverted for Samantha.
Needless to say with dresses this form fitting Martha was going to have to do alterations
for them. 'I just hope my sowing kit exists in the reflection of the estate.'
++++++++++
Randy and Zelda Niemand had their car full of souvenirs and their own things of course.
But they weren't about to unload out the entire thing without Zylphia's help, a third of the
souvenirs were for here of course. They wished they had been able to bring her with them,
but school came first, and Zylphia knew this better than anything. Pretty faces only got you
a station as a trophy wife. Which was had gotten Randy attracted to Zelda in the first
place. She was the only girl Randy had met who tried to -talk- to him instead of just trying
to swoon him with her body.
They wished she had better friends than Jennifer, the rest weren't so bad, but she could do
so much better. Then again, maybe it was Jennifer who secretly needed Zylphia. Jennifer
had been her whole life just a pretty face, their Zylphia had LEARNED instead of swooning
lonely men to do her work for her.
They drove up the Smith's house hold.
"Always," Zelda commented, "Always with more security and more more bling." When she
saw the garish gargoyles and the new thick doors.
Randy found the buzzer and rang it not getting out of the car.