a dragon.
And as they watched the big winged flamebreather came flyingin from the air above
and breathed fire on the ogre-woman.
The pavement sizzled and cracked,but the flames strangely did not incinerate
or seem to harm the ogre.
Instead the ogre seemed to shrink,alter and soon a nearly nude human woman
in a torn dress was stumbling about,wondering where the flames
had come from and why her dress was torn.
When she looked behind her she saw the dragon just landing,and quite
appropriately screamed and ran down the street.
The girls on the other hand just stood there and really weren't
too surprised when the dragon got up on its hind legs and began weaving about its
forelegs and growling and hissing in some kind
of dragonnish spell making.
The beasts form began to shrink and alter,and soon where it had
stood now stumbled a Confederate States officer holding his saber
held high.
The fellow sheathed his saber,and noticing the girl watching him,
walked towards them.
As he got closer mk/Grant shifted about on her legs uncomfortably,because she
recognized both his face <hers till a while ago>
and that saber.
His/her doppelganger was wearing a sword mk had't seen in years,one that had
hung over gram and gramps fireplace till they'd died and it had dissappeared
2 decades earlier.
the confederate officer doppelganger nodded to the other speechless slack jawed
girls ,unbuckled the saber and its scabbard
and handed it towards mk/grant
Who took it and noticed the elaborate carved serpent engraved on
the scabbard.
She could feel the dragonnish energies pulsing in the object,
and knew if she let it,it would turn Grant into a dragon,
much like the one the girls had just seen turning one of Tim's
victims back to human shape.
Penelope,who secretly believed she was a reincarnated dragon,dearly wished to
ask the doppelganger some serious questions about dragons.
Alas the doppelganger just smiled silently as he faded away,leaving
the girls with a mystery.