Then Queen Bet ( you a few chapters ago) had a reconsideration
when the all the Royal Famiy started screaming and making a
ruckus when Dragoness Galla meanspiritedly butted her new mothers
leg and demanded to be fed immediately.The dragon's head butt managed
to spill Queen Beth's wine all over her expensive made in China gown,
ruining it.Beth snapped her fingers,freezing time in the Kingdom,thus
sparing Queen Bella her fate and not incidentally,freezing
everyone else in their tracks.
Queen Beth stepped around the frozen guards and headed
for the Royal Intelligence Room to catch up on the Kingdom.
Whilst there she learned King Garron's spies had been intercepting
communique from the local Archeron Embassy and Archeron.
Queen Beth trembled with fear,for Archeron was ruled by her
three sisters,who'd booted her out of the family decades earlier.
And according to the communiques Archeron planned to roll over
the Kingdom before rolling over Queen Beth and the little kingdom
she'd managed to create for herself out of a warring tribe of ogres
and trolls.
And her three sisters could do it to.Why do you
think Queen Beth conquered the Kingdom.Certainly not to
babysit nasty dragon princess's,terrified King Garron and his
people.No,Queen Beth wanted to put a solid wall between her and
Archeron and she now realized that plan was doomed if
she left the Kingdom as it were now.
When she came across the communique with her sisters
signatures and seals on it,she openned the packet with
trembling hands,as this document was the Real McCoy.
So was its dire vision for Queen Beth herself.The
Royal Archeron Death Warrant ,one of many to be sent
abroad,alerted Queen Beth to the danger everywhere.Maybe her own
ogre advisors were plotting to lop off the head of their
Queen for some Archeron gold,especially sly sneaky Smea.
Queen Beth thought and researched,researched and thought,and discovered the Secret Cursed Dragons Hoard down in
the vaults,locked up behind 10 feet of magical lead shielding to
protect the people of the Kingdom from the Dragons Curse.
She learned that centuries earlier the Kingdom had a serious
dragon problem.Folk would stumble across cursed dragon hoards,and
soon there'd be a big nasty flamebreather out and about in the
Kingdom.Back in those days magicians were more powerful,and had
shielded themselves whilst the worthless cursed hoards were levitated
to a underground bunker.After that no more dragon problem.
Queen Beth rummaged around in King Garrons bedchamber and
found the huge key to the bunker under the dungeons.She went down
and confirmed,yes,there was a long sealed leaden door down
there.
Now Queen Beth was surprised that she'd been so easily able to
transform the Royal People,and gasped as it came to her.The Kingdoms
river must have broken into the underground bunker centuries
ago,got contaminated with the Cursed Dragon Hoards and exited back
into the regular course and onto the Kingdom,contaminating
everything.No wonder Princess Galla had practically reaaranged
herself into a dragoness with the merest snap of Queen Beths
fingers,everyone in this Kingdom was a short twitch away from
falling on all fours,sprouting scales and wings,and roaring.
Queen Beth immediately flung away the hunk of cursed
contaminated Royal Ham she'd been eating.Then she snapped her fingers
and all her Ogre and Troll Generals appeared before her.
She told them to flee back to the kingdom and pass the word along to the troops and hangers on to bail out fast.
This Kingdom was straining at the seams to rearrange itself
and its inhabitants into something more along the lines of
caves,mountains and dragons.
She did a quick check with the Magical Dragons Curse
geiger counter and it confirmed her worst fears.The bunker
was empty,the Cursed Hoard had returned to gold dust and returned into the drinking waters of the Kingdom.
Queen Beth cursed herself.No wonder the inhabitants
had been so easy to conquer.Half of them were sluggish from the
impending change and the other half probably already knew what was
about to happen and had led Queen Beth and he forces into a Kingdom
wide dragons lair,the better to eat them in a week or so.
Queen Beth immediately induced vomiting in herself to
get the cursed Kingdom sweets out of her system.To her
horror what came out was a mixture of goo and tiny writhing snakes.
Her most immediate desire was to flee,bleep the ogres and
trolls.But her nerves steadied and she thought things through.In
about a week dragon Garron and dragoness Bella would come looking for her,and there'd be nothing for it but to get eaten.
Queen Bella brooded on the Royal Bed and thought it out.
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King Garron,Bella and the kids were most pleased when nice Queen
Beth arrived with her royal entourage.The Royals had feelings of
deja vu put couldn't place what was bothering them.Had there been a invasion of the Kingdom or hadn't there.You can be sure Queen Beth
wasn't saying.She and her men had cleaned up as much of the
damage they'd caused in the now deleted timeline as they could,and Queen Beth Beth breathed easier to discover the Kingdom was clueless
to its impending fate and her meddling in it.Gifts were passed
to King Garron,politely refused by a nervous Queen Beth
and treaties drawn up.King Garron was somewhat puzzled about
all the references Queen Beth made about Archeron
knights,maidens,caverns and treasures,but he put it off
to Queen Beth having a attack of nerves when he'd
offered to mate her kingdoms cows with the Royal Bull.
Their visiting guest hastily departed,and things in the
Kingdom settled down to normal.