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Journey of the Gnoll Queen p2

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Part 2:


We arrived at Gallows Mountain wherein the more dense woods on it was a portal that Grey activated by a magic ritual.


I curiously watched as the portal opened. “You know, I have never noticed this part of Gallows Mountain and I have been wandering here a lot of times.”


“Mountain? Seems more like a hill to me,” said Krashi.


“I believe it was a mountain in medieval times, but then people started to build on it and also had trees grow on it,” I said.


“That’s what makes a mountain, hills are just grassy or muddy. Can be made of sand as well,” said Hursh.


Krashi and I looked at him with narrow eyes. “Nerd!”


The portal opened up to let us pass through to the world I originally came from.

They did joke about me being too big to enter, which I rolled my eyes at, that was until I actually got stuck in the portal, and my new companions had to pull me in with all they got. It would have been easier if someone pushed me from behind, though I’m not sure it would have helped as the portal was getting tighter, with enough force I managed to pass through as the portal closed behind me. I looked down at my body to see if all of me got in.


“Uhm… can anyone see if my legs are still here?” I asked.


Hursh checked and saw that I thankfully still had them and my tail. “You still got them!”


I sighed in relief and then took a look at my surroundings, it looked like we were in a forest, but different from where we were. This one had colourful leaves on the trees and huge mushrooms, and there were also fairy-like creatures flying around, it was like from a fairy tale.

Krashi and the rest helped me up as we then wandered through the forest.


“This forest is peaceful,” I amusingly said.


The others weren’t impressed. “Enjoy while it lasts, outside is pure hell,” said Hursh.


“Oh right…” I said, remembering one of the reasons I’m here. “The Dark Lord.”


The three nodded as we went past a crooked tree and we couldn’t help but hear strange noises.


I looked around, my ears and nose twitching as it’s reacting to the sounds and smell of the woods. “Are there hostile fey creatures here?” I asked.


“Not to us gnolls normally, but it’s said that a monster from the east has made these woods her home even before the Dark Lord took over the continent,” said Grey.


“A monster? How dangerous could that monster be?” I asked but was stopped by Hursh and Krashi.


Some huge bushes had grown over the path and from those bushes slithered a long dragon who hissed at us. “I have seen you use my forest, using portal magic and returning with a striped gnoll. What are you planning, darlings?” asked the dragon glaring at us all with a hungry look.


I was going to say something but Krashi interrupted me.

“We were looking for ways to defeat the Dark Lord,” said Krashi.


The long dragon laughed. “And you darling returned with a fatty?”


I stepped forward. The others tried to stop me.

“Please, you shouldn’t mess with a dragon!” said Hursh.


I stopped and looked at the dragon which made me curious how long it really is as I haven’t seen its hindlegs. “You’re right, we can probably attack it from a distance,” I said.


The dragon breathed fire on us, making us roll around the ground, but then I noticed that neither I nor my allies were actually burned.

“Hey, that dragon isn’t real. We’re still alive!” I said with a huge smile.


My allies looked at the dragon and pulled their weapons. The dragon retreated inside the bushes only for arrows to hit them in the legs. We looked around and followed with our hearing where our attacker went. “Krashi, do you have any kind of weapon to give me?” I asked Krashi who picked out a dagger which I took to her surprise.


I threw it up on the treetops since I saw some leaves falling. We saw as the dagger was thrown back at us, something I was prepared for and dodged. “Now guys, attack!”


With my command, my allies shot arrows and threw axes into the tree which not only broke off several branches but also leaves which revealed our assailant, an orange fox person with cream coloured tips on her four tails, feet, hands, the front of her neck fluff and lower parts, she wasn’t wearing pants even though she wore what looked like a leather vest. She looked to be having red make-up on the sides of her eyes and the tips of her maw.


“Oh, crap… is that a kitsune?” asked Hursh.


“Not any fox, but Takara Ran, the monster from the east!” exclaimed the kitsune.


“I knew it was a ballsy move on my part, but I figured out from the looks of the dragon and how it came from suspicious-looking bushes that it had to be a trick,” I said.


“And what now darling? I can still shoot you all down and eat you up,” said Ran.


“I want you to join our side against the Dark Lord!” I said without a doubt in my voice.


Ran began to laugh as if she hadn't heard a good joke in a long while.

“What makes you think I would join you, darling?” asked Ran.


“Because the Dark Lord will eventually get to this forest, because from what I have heard, he has already conquered most of the continent, so what’s stopping him from taking over this forest?” I tried to persuade the kitsune who just smiled with a toothy grin.


“I have been able to fend off most of his minions, darling,” said Ran.


Grey spoke up. “Wait, I heard he’s developing some kind of magic that will destroy forests and that he will make a deal with the eastern continent.”


“Say, didn’t you escape from the east?” I asked. “Doesn’t that mean the Dark Lord will get to catch you and sell you to the eastern continent to make them sign his deal?”


Ran’s smile vanished as she looked worried. “Okay, that’s a fair point.”


She jumped down and went to my allies to heal their damages.

She then went up close to me, leaning unto me like some kind of bean bag. “Since I will be working for you, I need to know who you are, darling.”


I looked at Ran and wondered if it was safe to say it, but she needed to trust me as much as I needed to trust her. “I’m Alexis Strype, princess of Haunder.”


“Pleasure meeting you, Alexis darling. I will henceforth follow you until the Dark Lord is defeated and then I will scurry off and do my own thing,” said Ran while playing with my fat.


I didn’t mind that she did that, but my allies certainly were, so I gently moved her hands away from me.


“Let’s get out of this forest and talk about our next plans, shall we?” I asked the whole group.


They all agreed and we went off without any further problems out of the woods. During that time I looked at Ran curiously.

“Why the heck do you say darling a lot? Are you some kind of old lady?” I asked her.


Ran felt insulted by that. “Oh please, I’m only 400 years old, it’s quite young for a kitsune, darling.”


“Sure oldie,” I said with Takara glaring at me only to then laugh it off.


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