I walked down the halls, still wondering what I should do with my sudden abundance of free time, as the majority of the royal business is taken by Rose, the most I do is advise at the moment.

‘Let’s see… maybe I’ll go check on Bob…’ I reached out mentally and imagined my brother in his new look, then took a step forward and slenderwalked to his side, only to find that he was… trying to woo our new friend Yorshka… again… I feel he is just adjusting TOO well to the idea of being a chaos being with a cartoon physics body. As he is using it to basically spit in the face of physics. Although, from what Jace has explained to me, chaos does that with gusto.

“How are you not surprised that Bob can do most of the things that he can do?” I asked Jace when he was here.

“I’ve seen a whole lot over my years, seeing a chaos being isn’t that surprising anymore.” he explained.

“Right, well I’ll take your word on it, with you have already seen a lot of chaos magic already.” Jace looked at me with a frown.

“You mean chaos.”

“What’s the difference?” I asked. Jace sighed at this.

“Chaos and chaos magic are two very different things, and chaos magic is really a jackass version that others say when they try to understand it.” he said. He spent the next ten minutes giving me a lesson of chaos. Short version; There’s Chaos and there’s Harmony, if tapped into them you can do a whole lot if you understand them as that.

Bob saw me and ran over to me as he smiled “Heya bro! How are you doing?”

I smiled at my brothers happy face. “Good, how goes trying to get a girlfriend?”

“It, uhh, goes. I don’t think our dragon lady friend is a good pick.” he said while rubbing the back of his head.

I laughed “Well, If I can get an amazingly beautiful Deer wife on my first day here, there is definately hope for you.”

Bob nodded “Yeah, I just think that it would be easier if I was not… well… bald. I really miss my beard and scraggly hair…”

I stared at him for a minute. “There’s something else, isn’t there?”

“I also think she’s also impossible to woo, like I tried EVERYTHING! All I get is a small smile and that’s it!” he said. “Also, I wish there was a girl out there who could, well, keep up with my hijinks… I love getting into mischief.”

I smiled and thought “Well, let me talk to Celestia, maybe I could sort something out…”

Bob grabbed me and shook me “I LOVE YOU MAN! YOU ARE THE BEST BRO EVER!”

With that he took off in that laughing twister down the hall to go explore. I shook my head at this.

“He seems like a good man, just that the mask brings out his younger self.” I jumped at the voice behind me. I spun around to see Yorshka standing there.

I nodded, my heart still racing like mad “Yeah, from what I understand, the mask removes all of a person's inhibitions, both taught and self imposed, luckily that ring he wears keeps it manageable for him… I don’t want to know what it would be like to have to fight my sibling for real.” I then looked to where Yorshka was and then to where she was now “Ummm… how did you get there?”

“I have my ways, why do you ask?” she asked. I tried to get a read on her but oddly enough I can’t get anything, and I thought I was hard to read.

I sighed “I’m used to being the only one who can teleport without magic, honestly.” I then looked to the dining hall at the end of the hall “Shall I escort you to the dining hall? I think the cooks are preparing something big.”

“That is so kind but I must decline, my business here is now done and was on my way out when your brother found me.” she said.

I nodded and smiled “Well, I hope our two kingdoms can celebrate many a joyous occasion together.”

I then bid Yorshka adeu and slenderwalked back to my brother, who was playing with an action figure of himself, now that I think about it, that would make a good token...“Hey, Bob? Would you like to learn how to do something cool?”

Bob looked to me and laughed “Well, duh~! If it’s cool, of course I’m in!”

I took out my token and showed it to him “This is a token, when given to another displaced in another dimension, they can summon you either to help, or just to hang out.”

Bob looked to his action figure and smiled “I bet this would make a sweet token!”

I laughed “My thoughts exactly, now, focus on the figure and put a little of your power in it, then say what message you want to tell them.”

Bob nodded “Well, let’s do this!” He looked at his action figure and suddenly it was swept up in an orb of green electricity. “I am Bob, the trickster who aids the tall prince, call my name if you need my help, or if you want to hang out, either one is cool.” I then opened up a portal to the void and Bob threw it in “So… what now?”

“Well, I guess we head to the dining hall, I think there’s a party going on.” I said to him.

“Cool! Oh and check what I found.” Bob said as he took out a top hat and put his whole arm in it. He frowned. “Odd I thought it was… oh! It must be in my other pair of pants.”

He then pulled a pair of blue jeans and pulled out a bottle from the pocket. The bottle didn’t have a label on it.

I smiled and laughed “Of course you get a bottle of booze from hammerspace, because chaos.”

Bob nodded and walked with me to the dining room, we each filled everyone's cup with the liquid within and sat in our respective seats as everyone else came in, there was Prax, Rose, Vic, though at it seems Vic isn’t eating anything. Does he even eat food? Even some of the snooty nobles came to this occasion as I sipped from my cup and everything went black.

My vision slowly returned as I heard the sound of a bird tweeting. I looked up to see said bird on my head looking at me. I watched it fly off as a headache pounded at my head. I slowly sat up groaning from my headache as I looked around.

All I can say is that it was some party last night, the dining room was completely trashed, food all over the place, destroyed furniture littered the floor, and others laid on the ground either sleeping or groaning… or both.

“Uggg… what happened?” I said. I heard something from above me, I looked up to see Bob hanging from a chandelier, upside down, with a dumb smile on him.

I slenderwalked up to him and carried him as I leapt to the floor, setting him safely on the ground as I looked around, seeing various people in rather risque positions with each other as they groaned and slumbered, I also saw that my least favorite noble was… indisposed, with a VERY ugly woman, seriously, bald spots in her coat, boils, really fat, the works, basically the exact opposite of Rose, that reminds me, where is my wife?!

“It… uhh...seems that you're… awake.” I heard Rose say behind me. I turned to see her as beautiful as ever, in simple robes, also she was blushing like mad.

“Are you alright?” I asked. She nodded a bit then that nod turned into shaking her head.

“I-I’m sorry, I haven’t been faithful to you.” she said.

I looked to her skeptically “Rose… you were drunk, we all were, remember? Hammerspace booze? Hell, I can't remember most of last night, after sipping from that glass.”

“I-I see.” she looked around at the place. “I guess you can say that last night was some party.”

“Yeah…” I looked at her for a moment. “Do… do you have any idea what happened?”

“No, all I can say is that I remember taking a sip of that drink and then I was in bed…” she paused and blushed a bit more. “I have to say, she must be really good in bed.”

I stared at her for a second before mentally kicking myself for missing that. She looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

“I know what you’re thinking.” she said.

“...” I looked away and rubbed the back of my head “I don’t know what you are talking about.”

“Right…” she looks at the room. “I think we have to keep that drink under lock and key after last night.”

“I was going to ask who it was that was with you, and just how awkward things got, actually.” As she said that, I nodded “Either that, or we give it to Celestia and tease her about her drunken state for eons to come.”

“You… have a weird mind.” Rose said. She looked away from me. “The… other, is still in our room, I have to say she’s some friend of yours.”

I thought a moment “let’s go, is she still asleep? I’d love to make it extremely awkward, maybe say that she asked for some tentacles.” I then let out my slendrils and waggled them in a silly fashion “Don’t you think that would be funny?”

Rose snickered and nodded “Yes, that would be quite comical, seeing her face at that insinuation.”

I chucked a bit and took her hand, we slenderwalked to the door of our room. It was closed and I heard some movement inside. I looked at Rose and grinned as I opened the door.

“HEY LOVER! HOW’D YOU-” I was cut off by a pillar of earth slamming into me. I was pinned to the wall as I saw feet standing on said pillar.

“Hey Greg.” I looked up to see Taliyah standing above me. She wore a red tank top and ripped up jeans, a knife was hanging from her side as she looked down at me, she didn’t look happy. “You have ten seconds to tell me what the living hell happened last night or I turn this whole place into your tomb.”

I thought a moment “Well, we got drunk, and you apparently mated with my wife, I should definitely be the one mad here, but I digress.” I then grabbed the pillar and reduced it to rubble, freeing myself. She landed on the ground, glaring at me.

“Of course it had to start with ‘We got drunk’ I was told that there was some party going on.” she said. She spun around and looked at Rose. “And I’m sooo~ sorry about the whole… mating thing.”

I looked to Taliyah “Look, I’m sorry, ok? I don’t know why you are mad at ME when I should logically be the one pissed at YOU, but still, I am sorry I trusted my brothers hammerspace booze.”

I then heard Bob’s telltale yawn as he woke up “WHAT THE HELL?! WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?!”

At this point, in slow motion, I saw Bob get hit with a boulder and sent into a wall.

“And that’s for a weird kiss you asshole!” Taliyah yelled. She looked at me. “I remember he was the one who summoned me, he was the one that gave me the drink, though I think he was drunk as well, and then he kissed me and then… UGGG!” She screamed and sat on the ground, rocking back and forth.

I nodded “Well, at least Twilight wasn’t here, eh? I remember guessing that you had a thing for her.”

I then looked to Bob, who was getting back up and looking to Taliyah “What happened that made her so mad? And… where the heck is Vic and Prax?”

“I believe it would be the fact that you kissed her before her head went dark, and the other two would be in some lab.” a voice said.

I looked around, my curiosity peaked “Hello? Who is this?” I asked aloud, unsure of who owned this voice.

“Thank you Beta for reminding me about something that I wish to forget.” Taliyah said. Something appeared over her shoulder as it looked at her.

“Your welcome.” it said. I stared at it for a moment.

“Is that a ghost from Destiny? Sweet~ what kind of guardian did he make you? Titans are my favorite, cause sunbreaker.” Bob said He then held out his hand to Taliyah “Hey, sorry about kissing you, The mask on it’s own wrecked a lot of my self restraint, and getting drunk kind of finished it off, in my defence, you are quite beautiful.”

Taliyah looked at him, then at his hand. She took it and was pulled up. “It’s fine.”

I smiled as I looked to my wife and kissed her cheek “See? It all worked out in the end, no need to feel bad.” I looked to Taliyah and smiled “So, how are things? That headache still bugging you? I gotta say, I’m almost jealous, what with all the freaking deja vu I’ve been having.”

“The headache? Oh you mean the last time we met in that dream world. That was like… two weeks ago.” she said.

I looked to her and I shrugged “It’s been a week here, time must be different between our worlds for some reason, by the way did anyone come with you, I don’t want anyone left behind.”

“Umm… I don’t know. I can’t remember anything from last night.” Taliyah answered. I was about to say something but I heard someone trying to get our attention, I turned to see one of the guards standing there.

“Greetings, I came to tell you that there’s someone here to see you, someone from the Boreal Valley.” he said.

I nodded and looked to Rose, seeing her being very uncomfortable with her current attire “You get dressed, I’ll handle this, I don’t want you embarrassed.”

Rose smiled bashfully and kissed me where my cheek would be “Thank you, my love. I appreciate it.”

The four of us, Me, Bob, Taliyah, and the guard, headed off towards where we are meeting this person.

“So… I thought you had a thing for Twilight?” Taliyah asked.

I looked to her blankly “Yes, but… Twilight is not going to even reach the friendship is magic stage for 1,000 years, her grandparents haven’t even been born yet. And… I really like Rose, she’s sweet, and smart, and also, she’s immortal like me.”

“Right… just checking.” she said as we continued on. We walked until we arrived at some doors that I saw they belong to the dining room, the one we had our drunken party in.

I looked to the guard uncomfortably “Is there any way to meet this person in say… any room but this one?”

“That’s the thing, the guards she brought with are... how can I put this… big.” he said.

I sighed and nodded resigning myself to being humiliated by my own drunken revelry THAT I CAN’T EVEN GODDAMN REMEMBER!

“Just to let you know we did get the others out of the room, it was easy since they also ran out of the room from there.” the guard pointed out.

I looked to where the guard pointed to see a massive hole in the wall “Damn, did me, or Bob do that?”

Before anyone could say anything the hole began to repair itself. A moment later it looked good as new.

“For the record, that wasn’t me.” Taliyah said.

I nodded “The castle repairs itself, how else do you think it’s stood for so long?”

Bob smiled “I can’t wait until we meet whoever this person is! Imma throw an -Alcohol free- Party!”

Before I could say anything I heard the door open a bit and something spoke out. “Are you the ones we are supposed to be meeting?” the voice asked.

I shrugged “Yeah, I guess... “ I turned to see him and saw that he was a werewolf.

I smiled and held out my hand “It is a pleasure to meet you, mister...?” I left the mister hanging so that he could finish it. He didn’t say anything as he moves out of the way.

“Come, you have someone to meet.” he said.

I nodded and walked in, with Bob and Taliyah close behind “So, who is it that had the horrible misfortune of requesting an audience with a hangover king? Eh? I kid, I kid.” I looked to the werewolf and smiled “You seem to be quite the capable warrior, let me know if you’d like to spar sometime.”

The wolf looked at him and forward as I did the same as I saw… plants cleaning the room, that’s new.

“Our lady would like to speak in a more… clean room.” the werewolf said as he walked forward a bit faster. I looked forward to see a woman sitting in one of the chairs with another werewolf beside her. I realized why the guard said that the guards were big, they were bigger than me!

The woman had tan skin, red hair that’s tied into a ponytail, pointy elf like ears, and glasses over her eyes. She wore a green dress shirt and brown pants. Her fingers were so long that they look double jointed. In one hand she held a cup of something and was waving her other hand around as the plants followed the motions. She looked over at me and I saw that her eyes were green, like bright green.

“Let me guess, some party?” she asked. Her voice sounded playful.

I nodded “Hammerspace booze, nothing like it, one sip and you forget the night… Never drinking it again.”

“Yes yes, that weak drink really puts something for newcomers.” she said as she lifts the drink in hand, before drinking it as if it was a shot glass. She stood up and faced me. “Names Nav, I’m the representative of the Boreal Valley.”

I nodded before Bob laughed “Y’know, your guards are even more stoic than ours, and those guys are practically emotionless!”

I smacked Bob upside the head “Do not insult the guards, it’s their job to be stoic defenders.” I then looked to Nav and smiled “So, what brings you to my and my wife's kingdom? Here to check up on us for Jace?”

Bob then realised something and whispered in my ear “Hey listen!” Prompting me to smack him again “This is serious. Be mature.”

“As for your first question,” she says as she looks at the two of us. “I’m the representative of Boreal Valley, I’m here to do work like trading agreements and what not, there’s supposed to be a embassy here for us.” she gestured to the two werewolves. Just before I could speak the door opened and one of the nobles from before poked his head in.

“Is-is it safe to-” he was cut off by the two wolves glaring at him. He made an ‘Eep!’ noise and slammed the door.

“You would think they haven’t seen a werebeast before, our king would frown at this.” Nav said sadly.

I nodded “Well, in their defence, what I have studied of Lycanthropy in this realm, it turns the affected feral, and imparts them an unrelenting bloodlust. So… yeah, I can see the caution, but if I can get Golems citizen rights, then I damn well can for the werebeasts from your realm, mayhaps I can even find a way to give the mental faculties back to our realms werebeasts.”

“I see, well I think the Werebeasts did started the same, mindless and feral.” the wolves started growling at her. “Oh shut up, you know it’s true. Anyway I’m not going to say more since it’s a long story, there’s a short version but again it’s a story that I don’t think you want to hear.”

I nodded and thought a moment “There are some empty rooms across from Praximus and Vic’s lab that we could have enchanted to be soundproof, would that work as a location for your embassy?”

“As long they it’s big, need some room to… do some stuff to it. Soundproofing is welcomed as well.” Nav said.

I laughed “Trust me, you’ll need it, working across from Prax, and the room across from Prax’s lab is at least twice as big as this one.” I then thought of something “OH! Don’t eat meat in front of the Nobles, it makes them… very nauseous.”

Right as I said this, Rose came in, wearing a beautiful green dress... aaaand promptly saw the Werewolves before she gasped, drew her bow and called for backup “Father Ash! Werewolves have breached the dining room!”

There were a series of thuds as a massive robot deer man came running into the room “Stay back, my descendent! I shall protect thee!”

He then had a liquid come out of his arm and materialize into a spear that he held in his right arm as his left became a large rifle and he aimed it at the wolves.

I stood up to try to stop the fighting but I saw a blur. One of the wolves charged up to Father Ash, slamming a sword down onto him. He blocked it with his spear. I looked back at Nav as the other wolf was protecting her, she was calm, smiling at this.

“Well this is one way to be introducing everyone.” she said happily.

I saw father Ash doing battle with the one werewolf, while Rose fired arrows from her bow at the other and I sighed as I let myself grow till I was bigger than Father Ash in size and let out slendrils to grab and restrain everyone “ENOUGH! I am having a diplomatic talk with Nav here, while you guys just barge in and attack her guards?! I get it, you were protecting me, but I don’t NEED protection, I may be weaker than when I fought Eris, but I grow stronger every day! And I love you, Rose, but you need to think things out first!”

She looked at me some what confused as the Werewolf and Father Ash broke free and continued fighting. I sighed at this but saw that Father Ash was… excited?

“Give it a moment.” Nav said. I looked back at them as they stopped. They stared at one another before grabbing each others arm and nodding. The werewolf went back to the other side of Nav with a bit of a grin on him.

I shook my head “You’d think that the last fight you had would be enough to satisfy you for awhile.”

Father Ash looked to me and laughed “That was a week ago, I was used to sparring every day to hone my skills.” He then looked to the werewolf “I must say, thou art quite skilled in combat, you hath my respect.”

Bob then smiled and looked to me “Maybe we should get in a spar with him sometime?”

I shrugged and nodded “I suppose, but for now, our kingdom needs to be fortified, and that takes time.”

I looked back at Nav as she stared at me. “What do you mean by that? Are you under attack?”

I shook my head “No, but from what I understand from my elder self, I failed to save this kingdom, and all the Deer were killed. I cannot let that happen, I cannot allow a mass genocide to succeed, especially to three different races.”

“I… can agree to that, this place looks a lot like home and I would be heartbroken to see it destroyed.” Nav said sadly.

Rose looked to Nav and frowned “I always thought our home was unique, may you tell me of your home? I would like to know of your home, so that I may make the embassy like home to the ambassadors.”

“No need really, other than the familiarity of the great life tree this place already feels like home.” she looked around at the room. “Our queen would be happy to see this place.”

Rose smiled “If you would like, you could bring them here, we would love to show them around!”

Before anyone could say anything, the ears of the werewolves stood up as they began to growl. The doors flew open and Prax came running in.

“We are under attack! Ferals have burrowed through the wall! I got my gun! Let’s go….” He saw the two werebeasts and drew his rifle “You feral beasts will not harm my people!”

Before anyone could do anything, a voice spoke up. “What do you think you’re doing with the pea shooter,”

Prax looked around to see where the voice came from. Nav stood up and looked surprised and scared. I then saw something drop down from the ceiling behind Prax.
I slenderwalked to Prax and threw him and Rose to Bob, who caught them with a leap “Whatever you are, if you mean my people, or my family harm, I WILL end you!”

“Uhh… You really don’t want to do that.” Nav said. I looked at the form as it stood up… and up… and… up... I was now looking straight up at the large, ashen grey, werewolf. He looked down at me with one crimson eye as the other was clouded over. I had the feeling of being very small.

“End me… you have no means to end me… I face foes that put you, slenderwalker, as nothing more than common goblins.” he said slowly.

“My..my king, what to the honor of you being here.” Nav said.

I looked to Nav and then to the massive werewolf “You mean us no harm? Well, then don’t do such an obviously hostile thing! You had me thinking you meant to hurt Prax, and while he cannot die, I still do not wish him pain.”

“I believe you have… bigger problems to deal with… mutts have breached your city… if not acted upon quickly… this place will turn into… a dead city.” the wolf said.

I nodded and looked to my friends and wife “Anyone want to fight alongside me?”

Bob smiled and grabbed my hand as he shifted to his mask form “You know I got your back!” I then put him on and went into my armored form as the norse markings covered my body.

“As much I want to fight an army of crazy werewolves, I think I should stay behind. You know, just in case they get in here.” Taliyah said.

I nodded and looked to Prax, who held my slendril “I’m not losing any more of my people to canines, be they dog or be they wolf.”

Father Ash gave a thumbs up and nodded as I sent out a slendril to him “I shall accompany young Rose to the battlefield, and protect the civilians.” I nodded and slenderwalked outside to see that the place was overrun with werewolves.

Prax blew a whistle and a troupe of monkey golems came out, armed with small knives at the end of their tails and their hands ending in superheated metal “You see the wolves hurting people? They are bad, hurt the bad wolves!” The monkeys ran for the Werewolves and joined the fray as Prax climbed on Father Ashes back “I’ll watch your back, you watch Rose and keep the civilians safe!”

I drew my sword and slenderwalked all over, slicing and cutting at the werewolves all over the town, wreaking anarchy among their pack.

I saw the big gray werewolf as he plows into them. He was taking ten of them at a time and not slowing down. He looked over at me and charged at me at top speeds, I put my sword up as he threw a large sword at me. I watch it came at me, it moved through me as if it didn’t touch me, and I heard a yelp from behind me. I looked to see a werewolf with the sword in it’s head.

“We need to find the leader.” he said as he came up and pulls the sword out. “With him gone I’ll do the rest.”

I nodded and slenderwalked to the highest point of the kingdom, using bob’s cartoon powers to pull out a pair of binoculars from hammerspace, and searched until I found a massive Werewolf, the size of the king, if not bigger, I slenderwalked to him and slashed at him right as he swiped at a villager, blocking the attack as the villager got away “You shall not hurt my people!”

The Were beast growled at me and swiped his claws at me as Father Ash and Prax came upon me, accompanied by Rose, them firing their spell blasts and arrows at the beast as we did battle, me slicing at it whenever it would turn to the others as I continually grew angrier and angrier at it, seeing the carnage it had caused until I leapt on it and bit it on the throat before slamming my hand on the wound and began to tap into not only it’s mind, but the minds of its pack as I began to make them my proxies “You do not deserve thy freedom, FILTH!”

The beast grabbed me and threw me off. It roared out as blood seeped from it’s wounds. I vibrated with anger as I took a step forward.

‘Calm thyself, you would fall for the beast madness.’ a voice said. ‘You wouldn’t want to slaughter your own, would you?’

I snarled and growled before grabbing my head as I felt the rage inside, this was not me, I was not some ruthless killer! I then looked at the alpha and sighed.

‘Allow my husband to deal with him, the others are not themselves.’ the voice said as I heard a howl. I turned to see the gray wolf tackle the other down. They got up and began to circle around, the beast leaped at the other and it was a fight of beasts.

Biting, clawing, racking and what not, it was as primal as it could get. I felt a hand on my shoulder as Rose looked at me. I looked back as the gray wolf grabbed the beast's arm and ripped it off. The beast howled in pain as the wolf grabbed its head with both hands.

“Your madness shall end here!” he said as I heard a loud crack as he snapped the beast's neck. The wolf looked over at us as the other two wolves stood by his side, I saw that the gray one towered over them.

“Get them back to the main building, they are not ready to see the right.” he said. They nodded and began to escort us back the the castle. I looked back to see the other werewolves gathering around the gray wolf.

I sighed as I felt Bob straining to sense what the werewolf called ‘the right’ and thought to him ‘Be calm, my brother, we shall most likely learn later.’

Bob sighed loudly ‘I know, but I hate not knowing what’s going on…’

I walked with my friends and family before I went to the castle and went inside, wondering who it was I had heard back when I was in my enraged state.

I walked back into the dining room to see Taliyah sitting in one of the chairs with a tablet in her hands.

“Ha! Eat that RD! You and Garrosh can... Oh hey there Greg.” she said with a wave.

“Heya, taliyah, how goes it? Playing a game?” I smiled as I remembered my gaming days “Man, I should've cosplayed as Bastion… I’d be so badass.”

Bob leapt off of me, floating and spinning in the air as his mask form went back to being his normal self “Guh… never been worn that long… feels… weird…”

“Okay, if he says he feels weird then something is wrong.” Taliyah said as the tablet srank and she put it in her pocket. “What happened?”

I looked to my brother worriedly and put a hand on his shoulder “We… I guess you’d say we fused? He turned into a mask and I wore him to combine our powers… it was the only way I could slenderwalk as much as I did.”

Bob nodded as he made his way to a chair and collapsed into it “I’m okay… I’m just… really woozy…”

I looked to Rose and Father Ash, Bob looked greener than usual, I could see that he was still wearing his ring, so he wasn’t in withdrawls, but… I don’t know what is wrong with him…”Prax, get your goggles and scan Bob!”

Prax nodded and scanned Bob with his goggles before paling “He… he’s changing. Your power has cross mutated with his, he is changing internally, I don’t know how far it will go, but… I do know he will be FAR more powerful than before.”

“Just don’t go crazy on us, I don’t think any world is ready to see a super powered green man.” Taliyah said.

Bob laughed weakly “Hey, I’ve been there, if it comes down to it, I’ll just get some more of those rings that Prax made…”

Prax shook his head “No, young one, you won’t need another, that ring regulates it at a far lower capacity than its maximum.”

Bob then winced as his body began turning the same shade of green as his head and he became clad in the clothing of a druid as he summoned a staff and the staff crackled with green electricity at the top.

“Whoa, when does he do that?” Taliyah asked.

I then thought a moment “Well, The mask is made from Loki’s power, so maybe my power mixing with his, caused him to become similar in appearance to a worshipper of Loki, or even Loki himself?”

Prax nodded “That actually makes a lot of sense, magic often is effected by will... Concepts even more so when you tap into them to change things…”

“I do have a question, any time during the battle did you hear a voice? One that calms you down?” Nav asked Bob.

Bob nodded, as did I “We both did, when we are fused I can talk to him via my thoughts, We both heard a lady telling us not to kill the Alpha…”

Rose nodded too “I was about ready to kill him as well, but I heard a voice tell me not to do so.”

Father Ash rubbed the back of his head “I may have heard her tell me to keep an eye on Rose as we fought, and to try not to kill that many werewolves as I would have.”

Prax nodded as well “I heard her as well, who does this weird voice belong to?”

Before anyone could say anything else the room started to brighten. I looked up to see the moon up in the sky.

‘Odd, I thought it was day.’ I thought to myself.

The moon shined brightly as some sort of pulse that went through the room. I felt it wash over me, a feeling of primal rage and soothing calmness began to balance themselves out.

When it was done the moon's light dimmed away as the sunlight replaced it. I looked up at it the sun.

“Err… what just happened?” Bob asked.

“That, my dear yet weird friend, was my husband using an ancient right that freed those beings from their madness.” a voice said. We all turned to see that near Taliyah was a woman.

“Holy!” Taliyah jumped away from the lady. The lady smiled at her.

“I’m not that holy, if I was then there would be a ring above my head.” she said. She then looked around at the room. “I have to say I love the look of this place, it reminds me of home so much that it feels like I never left!”

I looked to the woman and nodded “I suppose that they are sane now? I do hope that they will try to make up for their actions when insane, they damaged the wall meant to keep out invaders, Although… I have been thinking to reinforce those walls, I suppose they actually did me a favor, the nobles will be scrambling to do so now.”

“You… are very odd, you know that.” the lady said.

I nodded “I get that a lot, hell, I got that BEFORE I looked like this, now is just a bit more often.”

Father Ash laughed jovially “Fear not, my boy, we are all odd in some way!”

Prax nodded and sighed “I have to agree, especially on the part of us Gremlins, we are… quirky.”

The woman stared at all of us then at Taliyah. “They're not going to ask, you would think they would ask.”

I shrugged “Well, I could ask you who the hell you are, and how the heck you got into here, but that would be rude.”

“How can it be rude if it makes sense, I guess I'm used to my home where most others are paranoid.” the lady said.

I nodded and smiled “I understand you came from Jace’s world, so I understand that all too well.”

Father Ash looked to the lady “Pardon my brashness, my fair lady, but who exactly are you? I can deduce you are the werewolf kings mate, but… that is all I know.”

“Thank you for asking… weird robot deer man,” she gave us a bow. “I’m Velse, or as some may call me the Lady of the forest, queen of the Faywilds… though others call it the Everfree forest, don’t know why.”

I nodded as I held Roses hand “Our kingdom exists in the same forest, although in another universe.”

“I know, I don’t feel the life tree here which is quite sad really but that’s just me.” Velse said as she sat back down.

Bob looked around as he twirled his new staff “I could get used to looking like this! I look swanky!”

“I have to say, you look good with the whole scraggly hair and beard.” Taliyah said.

Bob nodded thoughtfully “I wonder if I can still…” He shifted into a much different looking mask, the studs replaced with spikes, and false hair coming from the top of the mask and swirls of white and black decorating the green, before he reverted back to his new form “Seems I can still be equipped, that’s good.”

Velse smiled as she looked out at the room. She waved her hand and a plant man appeared with a wooden teapot. It poured a glass for her as she smiled.

“Thank you.” she said as the plant man went back into the ground. She looked at all of us. “I don’t know why you’re all still standing, sit, get comfortable.”

I grabbed a seat for Rose and me while father Ash stayed put, when I looked to him to ask what was wrong, he sighed “I am too heavy for a chair, I’d crush it.” Bob thought a moment before waving his staff and making a wooden chair grow from the ground up, perfectly sized for Father Ash “Ah, much better, thank you, sir Bob”

I looked over and more of those plant men appeared with cups and tea pots, they gave us a glass each without a word. One of them looked at me and smiled softly as they continued on,

As Prax was busy with marveling at the plant men, father Ash took a sip of his tea and began sparking as the tea interacted with his robotics, which got Prax’s attention “Damn it, man! I told you no liquids, it’s a fire hazard!”

This made all the plant people tensed up. Velse leaned forward and stared at Prax. “If you don’t mind, don’t say that word around them, they get a little afraid when that word is said.”

Prax nodded “Remind me to never let them near my lab then, for reasons that would be obvious to anyone that knows Gremlins.”

There was then a knocking at the Door as a Nefereldi-kara came in and saluted “Father Ash, sir! Mother Birch madam! We have repaired the hole in the wall with our mana! And may I say it is a pleasure to serve you!”

I smiled and laughed “You can be rid of the formalities, Fred, we are all friends here.”

Fred smiled and nodded before seeing the tea “Oh, you are having tea? May I join?”

“I see many chairs, have a seat.” Velse said.

Fred eagerly takes a seat before levitating a tea cup over to him, looking to the plant men kindly “No need to serve me, plant men, I am perfectly fine with serving myself, I prefer it, in fact.”

The one standing near him looked at him oddly for a moment before returning into the ground.

I looked to Velse curiously, about to ask a question before Prax beat me to the punch “So, are these plant men fully self aware, or only partially? I am quite interested in them.”

“I believe they’re self aware, they are denizens of this world after all, they live in this very building after all.” Velse said as she took a sip of her tea and tilted her head. “They are also interested in you as well, they find you odd yet funny.”

Prax looked amused “Well, as long as they don’t expect jokes, we should be fine.”

Fred looked around at the Plant men and smiled “I wonder, can you talk? I do believe I would love to have a conversation with you.”

The one plant person, a female one, looked at him for a moment before making a humming sound. Fred looked somewhat confused at this.

“She said we can talk, we have been for a long time, you just don’t listen or understand us.” Velse translated.

Prax looked deep in thought “If I could get a lock on their magic signature, I could potentially make a translation module, maybe make it into an earpiece?”

“I’m sorry but no… translation module can pick up a Sylvaris language but there’s a way for you to understand them.” Velse said as she made a plant grow in front of her.

We all looked interested as Fred and Prax nodded, Fred speaking his mind “Well, don’t leave us hanging, I would hate to leave the Sylvaris unable to speak to those that inhabit their home, that just sounds absolutely ghastly to do to them.”

Velse smiled and looked up. “All you have to do, is listen and understand, quite simple really.”

“That’s it?” Prax asked. Velse nodded at him. “But, that doesn’t make sense, how is just listening going to make us understand?”

Fred thought a moment “Does that plant you just grew have something to do with it? I am quite eager to learn the language of another people, especially if they are as beautiful as this lady here.” He gestured to the female Sylvari that spoke to him. The Sylvari looked at him and blushed a bit. Velse looked at him with a frown.

“What do you mean by ‘grew’, I didn’t make them for that would be cruel.” she said with anger in her voice.

Fred looked sadly to her, unhappy that he offended as his equine ears flattened against his head “I meant no offense, I just meant the plant that sprouted in front of you as you spoke, as if it was related to what you were saying, I truly am sorry for angering you.”

“I think it’s mostly said when I said my name, I’m the Lady of the Forest so I hold dominion over all nature, even though it’s weaker here but I digress.” she explained as if we should already know that.

Fred nodded “I hope that my ignorance will not damage any future conversations between us, I truly am sorry.” he then looked to the female Sylvari “I wonder how I will learn to understand you, Velse said to listen and understand, but that is a bit cryptic… I take it you can understand me fine?”

“Of course I understand you, I’m listening to you.” Velse said. Fred opened his mouth to speak before closing it.

“I wonder…” he closed his eyes and stayed silent for a moment. The Sylvari beside him made a humming sound as he snapped his head to her. “I understood that!”

“There you go! Now you get it.” Velse said with excitement. She then looked at me. “Again, you just need to listen.”

I calmly sat down and relaxed as I listened for the Sylvari, trying to understand their speech. As I held Rose’s hand I began to hear the hums in the walls.

‘... -ink he'll hear us?’

‘'Don't know, maybe by dumb luck though the other versions didn't listen.’

‘Maybe he's different?’

‘'Maybe he's stupid.’

I laughed “Woah, hearing voices in the wall insulting me, that’s new.”

‘'He hears us!’

‘It's about damn time, it’s not fun insulting people when they can't hear you.’

‘'Don't be rude.’

‘'It's true.’

I decided to ignore the guy that was insulting me and smiled at the Sylvari that Fred was flirting with “So what is your name?”

The Sylvari looked at me oddly. “What do you mean?”

I looked to her oddly for a moment “Well, what do other sylvari refer to you as? It can’t be polite to refer to you as, ‘ hey lady!’ or, Sylvari lady”

“I still don't understand.” she said.

“Greg, I don't think she has a name.” Taliyah said. I looked at her, then at Velse who was looking uncomfortable.

Prax then had a buzzing in his pocket as he pulled out what looked like a phone “What? WHAT DO YOU MEAN EVERYTHING’S ON FIRE?! TELL THEM TO STOP DROP AND ROLL, I’LL GO GET THE WATER BUCKETS AND DIRT!” he then ran out the door, screaming as he made his way to his lab

Some of the Sylvari panicked and went into the walls while others didn't move, they seemed emotionless.

Fred looked to the lady Sylvari and tried to keep her calm “Don’t worry, Prax has this handled, besides, the Gremlin labs are specially insulated so that fire can’t burn through the walls. It’s probably just Grub trying to drink water...you’d think he'd learn that Golems and water don’t mix.”

The Sylvari giggled at this. Taliyah looked at Velse. “Why doesn’t she have a name? Heck why are some of them looking emotionally dead?”

“Because I'm here, without me there's no them, just husks.” she said sadly.

“I don’t understand, the one of the voices said that he was insulting us for a long time.” I said to her.

“ That’s because he was copying someone who was once here, they don’t have a personality so any memories they have of anyone becomes their own.” she explained.

Fred looked horrified by this “Is there any way we can help them? Maybe giving them their own copy of that soul that Asriel fellow made for us will help?”

“That wouldn't work, they have souls in them but… they don't have a source to call to. So their souls are sleeping.” Velse explained.

Fred thought a moment “Do you have a trimming, or a leaf fallen from this tree of life? If I had a sample of it’s power, I could get the giant tree in the castle to act as this source, perhaps? It is already used as a prayer sight, it is the first Tree grown by Father Ash and Mother Birch, apparently it has his power coursing through it, feeding it.”

Father Ash nodded “Yes, my magic does in fact feed the Elder Oak, it is a symbol of our kingdom, and I would be honored to have it help these Sylvari awaken their souls.”

“That's kind of you, but that wouldn't work.” Velse said.

“Then what are we going to do?” Taliyah asked.

“Grow a life tree that's what.” a gruff voice said. I turned to see a man with a large sword on his back. His face looked wolfish as his one eye was dark gray while the other was clouded over. He stood about six feet tall and armor that seems to have seen many battles.

I looked to the man blankly, still really easy without and facial features. “How exactly will we do that? And how big do these trees grow?”

“Depends on where they are placed. Some are as tall as normal ones while others are world trees.” he said. He moved to stand behind Velse. She reached up to hold his hand, smiling.

Fred thought a moment “Well, do we have a seedling, or even just a branch? We have no idea how to do this, so pardon our ignorance.”

The man grunted at him as he looked at us. “If we do this, your land will be changed, for better or worse it's depends on you.”

“Uhh… I don't know about the two of you since you didn't ask but.” Taliyah started, she looked at the man. “Who are you?”

I smiled at Velse “I have a feeling I know who this is, he’s your husband, right? I know that Werewolves are not always in their wolf state.”

“You're right but if it was up to me I would prefer to stay in my wolf state.” he shifted a bit. “This form feels weird.”

I walked over to him and nodded, patting his shoulder “At least you have a face still, and don’t make people nauseous when you open your mouth.”

“That's their problem, I'm a wolf that's how I am.” he said. Velse giggled.

Prax then came back in, his suit charred and him coughing up smoke “Gah, damn that Golem, he’s gotta stop drinking water. What’d I miss?”

“A lot, maybe going to witness something monumental.” Velse said. She gestured towards the man. “This is my husband Voss, the first Werewolf in our world.”

The man in question grunted a bit and scratched behind his ear. His eyes seemed to snap towards to points of the room as if he was scanning the room for something.

“If I can ask, where is this Great Oak?” he asked.

Fred gestured all around us “We are inside it. The entire castles magic feeds off of it through it’s roots, every room inside the castle is in the interior of the tree.”

Prax nodded “We are actually doing tests to see if the Elder Oak is self aware, and the tests are showing interesting results.”

I nodded “Yeah, I’d say so.”

The two looked at one another with a worry look, an uneasy feeling went through me ast they turned back.

“I can feel it’s energy from here and… I know what it is, something that so many have done but never succeeded.” Velse said.

Prax looked interested “Yes? I would love to learn what you know.”

“The Great Oak is a failed Life Tree.” Voss said bluntly.

“You’re as blunt as always my love.” Velse said with a smile.

Father Ash looked to them curiously “A failed life tree? I had no intention of making one, I just imbued it with my power, that is all. The tree has, as I suspected, grown immensely after my mortal bodies death, as I had it buried next to the spot where I planted it.”

“I have to admit, you’re the closest that got a Life tree to bloom, it’s tricky to do and beings like myself and others know the way, the Elder Oak still works even though it’s a failed one but… it could be so much more.” Velse said before looking at me. “Again, this is your choice, the land will change if we do this.”

I looked to Rose, who was deep in thought. “What do you think, Rose?”

Rose opened her eyes and looked to Velse “The Deer are tied to this tree on a deep level, we feed it’s leaves to our children, we feed it’s roots offerings from the hunt every year, and you say that the Elder Oak is incomplete? That people's souls are trapped in slumber as long as it is? Then we must assist.”

I nodded in agreement “I could not say anything more, she hit it spot on.”

Prax nodded “We have much more room in our lands for more people, if we can, I say to bolster our population in any way.”

Fred looked to the female Sylvari and smiled “What do you want? Would you like to wake up?”

“I guess so, though I’m already awake.” she said.

“Well, you all don’t mind finding a room, I know the place here ever since I came here.” Velse said as she stood up.

Father Ash thought a moment “I wonder if the heart of the tree is doing well… Oh, would that be a good place to do this?”

“No, I know just the place.” she said. She muttered something and the room shifted to a large storage place. I saw old golems that look like they seen better days.

“Oooo, next time warn me when you do that…” Taliyah groaned as she holds her stomach.

“Sorry, anyway right here is the place.” Velse said.

Prax looked sadly to the Golems seemingly regretting that they will never get to feel life. He mumbled under his breath “Daddy’s sorry…”

“I think you should hold that thought, now if any of you are wondering why here, it’s because this spot is literally on top of a layline point.” Velse said with excitement. I felt a tap on my shoulder.

“What my wife means that there’s many laylines criss-cross here, growing the tree here would be good for it.” Voss said.

“Alright, so is there anything you need us for?” I asked. Velse shook her head.

“No, I brought you all here to show all of you where this is going to happen. Me and the Sylvari can do the rest.” she said. The Sylvari blinked at us and nodded. She stepped forward from Fred's side to stand beside her. “Alright, I'm going to move you all outside so you won't get in the way.”

“Great~.” Taliyah groaned. I was about to ask something but the room shifted again. We all now stood outside of the tree, I saw others walking around going about their day to day lives. Taliyah groaned a bit as she kneeled down to the ground.

“What's her problem?” Voss asked.

“Everytime she goes through something that takes her from one place to another that involves magic gives her an upset stomach.” I explained. Prax walked over to her and hands her a pill and some water.

“Thanks.” she said weakly.

“Not a problem kid, so when is this going to-” Prax stopped as a leaf floated down to the ground. Then another, then another, then- I looked up to see leaves falling to the ground.

“The Elder Oak… it’s dying.” Rose said. I saw the look of fear and sadness on her face. I looked forward and was about to run in there but Voss stopped me.

“Hold young one, it’s not wise to head in there.” he said.

“But the Oak, it’s-”

“Dieing? Yes it is, this is supposed to happen. The ritual to make a life tree will drain the Elder Oak.” he explained.

“But… the Elder Oak has been here for thousand of years.” Rose said.

“And how long will it last, life and death are always circling around each other, when there’s life,” he began as the last leaf has fallen, the Elder Oak now look bear, cold, and lifeless. The magic that I felt around it was gone. “There’s death.”

Rose fell onto the ground as tears, Taliyah kneeled down to try to comfort her. Father Ash and Prax are glaring at Voss, ready to kill him. I stood in front of him as my slenders came out of my back.

“I’ll tell you now that you have five seconds-”

“And in death,” he cut me off. I stared at him until I felt the ground shake. I heard others yell and scream that it was the end of the world and all that jazz. I turned to the now dead oak tree as for a second nothing happened, then my vision went white.

In Canterlot

“Uggg… my head.” Luna said as she took a glass of water and took her fifth pill for her headache. She groans at the pain that seems to not dim down with the pills. “What the hell happened? Why did my moon appeared and then disappear all of a sudden?”

“Luna, are you alright?” Celestia asked through the door.

“No~” I groaned out. The door opened and Celestia walked into the room. After the fight with the Chaos being the two princess was taking it easy for some time, that is until the odd appearance of the moon which came and went in the time spend of ten minutes, this thrown most farmers that were working on restoring the lands into confusion. It also gave the two sisters a massive headache as their respective celestial beings were forced to move without their power, Luna was having the worst of it.

“Have you try taken those pills, I heard they would help.” Celestia said.

“Yes I took them, five of them and guess what, their not working!” Luna yelled at her sister. She wince at the pain in her head which was set off by her yelling. “Ow, ow, ow.”

“No need to yell, I’m trying to help.” Celestia said. “You’re getting it off easy, I have to deal with all the nobles asking me what’s going on with your moon.”

“Then go them to shove it, we need some time to recuperate from our battle with Eris and them asking us questions isn’t helping.” Luna said rudely.

Before Celestia could speak a wave of energy passed through the room. The sisters tensed at the power of it.

“What, in the hell was that?” Luna said.

“I don’t know but it came from the Everfree Forest.” Celestia answered.

“Well, guess our time of R&R is up, let’s go check it out.” Luna said as she stood up.

“No.” Celestia said bluntly. Luna stared at her.

“No? Why not!” she yelled, again sending her head into another round of pounding in her head.

“Because you’re still are recovering and the Everfree is home to the most dangerous beasts there, I don’t think anyone can live in there.” Celestia said.

“As much as I want to say that that is a load of bull, my head is making it hard to argue.” Luna sighed at this. “Fine! We don’t go, it’s not like anything will happen while we’re here.”

The sound of a loud explosion could be heard from the room they were in. Celestia glared at Luna.

“You were saying.”

Back to the Tree

I shook my head as my vision cleared. “Ugg… what was that? Is everyone alright?”

“Yeah, me being blind doesn’t really help.” Bob said.

“See, that’s why goggles are handy.” Taliyah said. I turned to see her wearing some goggles.

“You got that right.” Prax said as he too was wearing goggles.

“Right, so what the hell hap- whoa.” I turned to look at once the Elder Oak was, then up, and up, and up, and… you get the idea.

“That’s… a big tree.” Fred said. I only nodded, this tree dwarfed the Elder Oak. The plants around it began to grow at a rapid pace as flowers that I never seen before bloomed. Animals of different species were already making homes up above and in the tree. More noticeable is the magic that I felt from it, before I could feel the tree but it wasn’t that noticeable before, now it’s hard to miss. The tree pulsated with magic, so much so that I stumbled a bit from the force.

“It’s… beautiful.” Rose said. I nodded again.

Bob looked to his hands as they crackled with green electricity, nodding as he tensed and relaxed them “I could get used to this feeling, I feel as if I could do some Discord level chaos now!”

Fred looked to his markings, which went from the normal blue glow to a bright neon blue. “I feel the power of Nefereldi running through me! This is truly an exhilarating feeling!”

Father Ash reached out as his spear materialized, now clad in green, glowing runes that seemed to write themselves, only to float off of his body and crumble to nothing on the air. “I feel… I feel better than I have in eons!”

“Holy shit~ this is something else!!!” Taliyah said. I saw her hopping in place where she stood.

“Are you okay?” I asked her. She looked at me as if she drank a drink of pure sugar.

“Okay! Dude I feel like I could move continents with just my pinkie!” she said. Prax was the same, I never saw him vibrate so much before.

“By the builder! I can see everything by the tiniest detail!” he yelled. I looked around and it seemed that everyone was feeling whatever it was.

Then I started to feel it.

A rush of energy shot through my system like a gunshot and I shifted my body. I never felt so… so alive before. I looked at Voss as he stood there.

“This, my young ruler, is what a Life tree, or a World tree as some call it, can give when made the right way.” he said calmly. “Back home our Life tree is called Yggdrasil, it been around before even Velse and I was born, the knowledge in the tree would put libraries to shame, yet we only scratched the surface of it.”

I nodded as I looked to Rose and smiled “Are you okay?”

Rose nodded “I am indeed, my sweet, but… is it truly possible for us to live within such a magnificent tree?” She then gasped “And what happened to the inside of the castle?! Is everything okay? Oh, I hope the altar is well…”

As if the tree heard her, the bark shifted a bit to make a large double set door. It opened up as if it’s inviting us in.

“That’s… both cool and creepy at the same time.” Taliyah said.

Bob smiled and laughed “Seems we match the home now, eh brother?”

Rose giggled as she walked through the doorway, seeing that while the furniture was there, there were also Sylvari walking through the place, looking as if they had just woken up, yet seeming to know their way around. One of them looked over at us.

“Ah! You have returned, we hope the place is to your liking, after the small shake.” he said.

“Wait, small shake? That was more than a small shake.” Taliyah said. The Sylvari looked at her.

“You sure? Oh well, the others are in the dining room my lady.” he said to Rose.

Rose nodded before smiling contently “I am quite happy your people are fully awoken, if ever you need assistance in acclimating to anything, do not hesitate to ask me.”

“Thank you but there’s no need, we know this place since it’s our home.” he paused for a second to think. “Think of it like this, when the Elder Oak was first planted and grown, we were there. We were just, as you put it, asleep at the time.”

Rose nodded and smiled even wider “I hope our people can learn a great deal from each other, but for now, I must see to our friends in the dining room.”

I nodded and walked with Rose, our friends following suit. I then looked to Rose “What exactly is the altar?”

Rose smiled “It is the most holy site in the entire feywood, or, as the ponies call it, the Everfree Forest, where the first Father Ash and Mother Birch were interred, and every one since. It is literally the religious heart of our kingdom.”

I nodded thoughtfully as I looked to the nearing Dining room door as we walked “What makes it so special to afford it such an honor?”

Rose smiled “Because it is at the spot where all of the roots come from, so that our bodies feed Elder Oak, just like Elder Oak empowers us.”

“It’s still there my lady, sure the trees roots come from it different places and that room has changed somewhat it’s still there.” the plant man said. As he was saying that I looked around to see other Sylvari working around the place. Two of them are trying to find a good place to put a group of flowers, it seems that they are arguing with each other as the plants seemed to look annoyed at them fighting. Can plants get annoyed?

I shrugged as I walked up to them and tapped them on the shoulder “What is it that you two are fighting about? Mayhaps I can mediate.”

“Nothing that you need to be considered my lord, It’s just that someone thinks that the flowers should be place on the other side of the hallway where they’re supposed to be placed right here!” one of the said.

“As if! If they are place here then they would take too much sun, where I had them they get a good amount of sun.” the other said.

“But it’s beside two others, they would over shadow them!” the first one said. I looked back and forth at the two as they argue with one another. I looked back at the pot of flowers… as vines sprang up and they walked over to a different spot. I saw Taliyah holding back her laughs at this.

I laughed as well, except not trying to hold it back, instead letting my laugh be jovial and warm “Well, it seems that you two bickering has only accomplished you losing some flowers, mayhaps if you tried to compromise, you would have not forced them to walk away?”

“What?” one of them said as she looked over at the flowers now settled down some feet away. “Oh.”

“Why didn’t we ask the flowers?!” the other one asked.

“I don’t know!” the first Sylvari said. The two started to bickering again as they literally walked into the wall. The wood seemed to mold around them before settling back to a normal look.

We continued on towards the dinning room to meet our guests. Along the way I saw that there were a lot of new rooms that weren’t there before.

“Great, I thought I had seen every room here, now there’s more!” Bob said.

I laughed as I walked back to Rose and opened the doors for my Wife “After you, my lady.”

Rose smiled and kissed my head “Why thank you sir.”

As we walked in, I saw that the guests in question were Velse and… a dragon lady?

The lady looked human in body and face but on her arms, legs, and sides of her head there were green scales. Two white horns on top of her head as her hair was different shades of green, normal, dark, and light, shades intertwined in her heir. Her body can be described that like Roses body, kinda.

She had big breasts that would again put most woman back home to shame, wide child bearing hips and over all a body of a supermodel. Her eyes were emerald as she looked at the cup in her hands. I looked away to see Bob jaw literally on the ground as the sight of her, I looked over at Rose, expecting her to scold me for looking but I saw her staring as well. I saw her biting her lower lip at the sight. I nudged her a bit as she looked at me and blushed,

“Ah! You’re all here, so how do you all like the place?” Velse asked us.

Bob picked up his jaw and smiled ecstatically “Well, let’s see, I feel like I could go toe to toe with a god, and I am so full of energy I doubt I would even feel the effects of a good espresso!” He pumped his arms “I FEEL GREAT!”

Prax laughed at Bob's antics “While the chaos master here is rather… excitable, I must agree, I feel wonderful!”

Fred smiled “I feel on top of the world!” he then frowned “But… Where is the Sylvari woman you had with you?”

Father Ash nodded “Yes, where is the young lady? I would like to thank her.”

I nodded as I looked back at her, then I saw a green blur past me as something tackled Fred. I looked back as the dragon lady was hugging him.

“There she is.” Velse said with a chuckle.

Fred looked to the dragon lady and smiled “Wow, you look even more beautiful than before, if at all possible!” He then blushed “Er… I mean, you a-are very attractive, and would surely be uninterested in a child of Nefereldi courting you, so I will respect your wishes and desist…” He said as he looked down bashfully and shamefacedly.

The dragon lady looked at him for a moment and went back cuddling him. I honestly thought I saw hearts coming off her.

“Aww, that’s so cute! I was somewhat scared that the transformation would wipe her memory but it seems that she sure remembers you.” Velse said. Voss walked over and sat beside her.

“Reminds you of someone?” he said with a grin.

“Shut it you.” she said as she playfully smacks him.

Bob looked confusedly to Velse “I don’t get it, why is she suddenly part dragon?”

Prax nodded “Indeed, I am quite curious about that as well.”

Father Ash laughed “Who cares why, I am just happy to have the lands of the Faewood so Lush, reminds me of when I was a buck!”

Velse smiled as she took a sip from her drink. I notice that there’s tea cups on the tables that I figured are for us.

“To answer your question, the life tree…” she frowned a bit then looked at us. “Before I continue, do you prefer Life Tree or World tree? They are the same thing but it’s confusing to me.”

I thought a moment as me and Rose nodded “Given the size, I’d say world tree, besides, i always did have a thing for Norse mythology. Could we call it Yggdrasil?”

“No, that’s our tree.” Velse frowned at me. “It can still be called the Elder Oak since it was grown from it. Think of it like a plant's version of a phoenix.”

I nodded “Then Elder Oak it is, I don’t think the deer would like having to rename their site of worship and the home of their royalty… I would rather not deal with more Tyrant based nicknames.”

“Alright, anyway… since the tree hadn’t been grown properly it needed something else.” she then gestured to the lady who’s hugging Fred, who was now in a daze with hearts in his eyes. “Part of the process was to use her to grow the tree.”

Bob nodded, struggling not to laugh at the blissed out look on Fred’s face “Well, why does she look like a dragon, though? I thought dragons and foliage didn’t mix, unless if it was made of trees or something.”

“That’s… I never really know why, again with the growing she became what I am, a Lady of the Forest but since that title has been taken.” she nodded to Rose. “Her other name is the Guardian.”

“That’s not what he asked for.” Voss said. She waved him off.

“Yes, yes I was getting to that, part of the process is that she absorbs everything the tree absorbs. I guess that under the old tree was a dead dragon.”

Father Ash nodded grimly “That was the first offering ever made to the Elder Oak, the dragon that killed my son. I took everything from him, then let him live in agony as the trees roots grew through him and his friends.”

“Oh… question, how many dragons were there that the roots… grew through?”

Father Ash held up three fingers “Three, The king, his Queen, and his son.” I looked to him uncomfortably “What? He made us watch as he ate our son, and I had to watch my wife slowly kill herself by refusing food due to depression due to it. I think it was fair what I did, it taught the Dragons not to take the deer lightly.”

“Right… I can understand that…” Velse sipped her drink nervously. “How strong were they, like normal dragon strength or stronger?”

Father Ash laughed “They were the leaders of all dragon kind, of course they were the strongest of their race at the time. Though… from what I have seen, the dragons have only grown weaker from that point onward.”

“Okay so…” she looked away for a bit as she started to think. Fred and the lady stood up, Fred still was dazed, the lady looked at Father Ash and offered her hand for a shake. He nodded and and took her hand, which she crushed it. She blinked at this and looked at him nervously.

Father Ash laughed and cast a healing spell, repairing the damage done “It is fine, though, I would refrain from hugging Fred, until you learn to control your strength. Lest you accidentally hurt him. Or… you could just temporarily strengthen him to the point where he would not get hurt by you, if that is possible. Either one.”

She opened her mouth, then closed it and looked confused. She did that a few times before sitting down crossing her arms.

I looked to her worriedly “Is something wrong? I will assist you, if it is within my power.”

“Oh she’s fine, just that she need to re-learn how to speak again.” Velse said.

I nodded and smiled “I am sure Fred would be eager to help you, if I were to convey to him your dilemma.”

Bob laughed “Pretty sure all he wants is to lay a big wet one on her right now!” He nudged Fred, who had come to his senses, who simply slugged him before hiding his face behind his hands, his face flush. The dragon lady looked at the two of them, then at Fred's scorpion tail and started to play with it. With the look on her face, I believe she thinks his tail is some kind of toy.

Fred blushed a deep crimson red and looked to the dragon lady “U-ummm… p-p-please stop… that… Touching a nefereldens tail is a mating ritual…”

“Wait what?... on second thought don’t answer, I don’t want to know.” Taliyah said as she took a few steps away from him. The dragon lady just looked at him with a blank stare.

Fred looked even more embarrassed “Oh, elder spirits, please do not make me explain breeding to you, it is too embarrassing…”

Bob laughed even more “Hey, if you explain it to her, maybe you should give her an example? Eh~?”

The Lady looked at Bob with narrowed eyes. Then raised her finger at him. He stared at her until a plant grew behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. He turned and it blew yellow dust in his face. He tensed up and fell onto the ground. She walked over to him to blow a raspberry at him and went back to Fred, grabbing his arm.

“Haha, gotta love paralyzing powder, oh and don’t worry about teaching her about mating, though she is technically classified as a newborn she knows more than anyone here.” Velse said. The dragon lady pulled Fred's arm to her and she hugged it. “Though she used to be more… tame to those she loves.”

Fred looks at her for a moment. “Does she have a name?” he asked.

“Hmm… I think she did pick one… I believe it’s… Nip.” Velse said.

Bob reverted to his mask form, then turned back to his body, now unaffected by the spores as he stood back up “Ok, I deserved that. Sorry Nip.”

She looked at him and growls at him, as she pulls Fred closer.

Bob laughs “Hey, I mess with those I like, I consider Fred to be a good friend, oh, and if he ever needs someone to go pranking with him, I’ll be there!”

He then smiled as he looked to Nip “I really just meant for it to be some good natured Ribbing, sorry I upset you.”

Nip still growls at him and took Freds head and pulls it closer to her chest, which made his face bright red. She growls at Bob as if she was trying to say ‘Mine!’

Bob rubbed his nose with a finger “Ummm… I’m not into guys like that, so no worries.”

“Yeah… forgot to mention that, to the Sylvari, they are very open to who they pick; they can be male, female, in between or whatever. I’m guessing she’s very territorial due to the dragon part.” Velse said.

“Uhh, what do you mean?” Fred asked.

I smiled “Prepare to have fun tonight, I think she’ll lay claim to you soon.”

“And by the way she’s acting, she’s not letting you go.” Taliyah said. Fred blinked at her as he finally was released from Nip, who wrapped her tail around his waist. He looked at her as she fluttered her eyes at him and licked her lips.

Fred blushed and offered a prayer of thanks to his people's god, Nefereldi, as Nip kissed him.

I then quickly slenderwalked us all out of the room, excluding Nip and Fred. “I think we should leave them to their devices.”

“Yeah, but I have to say that was pretty quick for them. Like they haven’t had one date yet they are already sleeping with each other.” Taliyah said.

“I think there’s a good saying that I heard from someone who deals with love, ‘Don’t -”

Bob cut in “Don’t stick your dick in crazy?”

I slapped him upside the head “NO!”

Bob looked at me for a moment before Voss did the same thing as me, but that had Bob face planted onto the ground.

“He’s always like this?” he asked.

Prax sighed “You have no idea…”

I nodded “The man has little to no self restraint, even when sane.”

“I was going to say, ‘Don’t question love, a moment for others is a life time for them.’” Velse said as Voss stood beside her, their hands intertwined with each others.

“Well this has been fun.” Taliyah said. “But I think it’s time for me to go home.”

I looked at her and nodded. I then looked over at Bob who was getting up and spitting out grass. “Bob, time to show you how to send someone home.”

“We can’t leave just yet.” a voice said. We all looked around until Beta appeared over Taliyah’s shoulder.

“What do you mean by that?” She asked him.

“As you all were dealing with whatever you were doing, I was going off exploring and came upon something… disturbing.” he explained. Taliyah looked at me with concern.

I looked to him and gestured for him to continue. He floated over in front of us and his eye began to glow.

“I think this is not good in your world.” he said as an image of Canterlot appeared. I saw explosions going off and smoke rising from the streets.

I cracked my knuckles and looked to my friends “Father Ash, you and Prax keep the kingdom safe, Bob, you and I are going to Canterlot.”

Bob nodded and smiled “Let’s do this.”

“Who could have done this?” Taliyah said.

“Before, Greg asked if anyone came with you, well someone did, more accurate the being followed you here.” Beta said.

“Who?” Taliyah asked. The image changed to one of a wall with writing on it. “Oh you gotta be kidding me!”

“You know her? With this amount of destruction I thought Eris had returned.” Rose said.

“I hate to say this but… this person is worse than Eris, I believe she’s rule 63 of Discord right?” Taliyah asked me.

“Yeah…” I said. We all looked at the image and I felt some dread as I read the message.

END!

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