While Ryan was sleeping, he had a dream about climbing a ladder on his old house. The Ladder somehow fell backward while he was up top, and as he fell down, he screamed and closed his eyes but never hit the ground. The ladder falls through a black hole in the ground and he starts free falling endlessly. Next in his dream the black void he was falling in suddenly starts to transition into water and he keeps sinking. He can’t breathe and keeps getting dragged further and further down. He can’t breathe and desperately tries to escape but keeps getting dragged further and further down. When the last of his air from his lunges is expanded everything goes dark. All of a sudden, he wakes up in the fiery pits of hell.
His eyes then shoot open and Ryan gasps for Air. He wakes up from this nightmare of his and can see the sun out over his head. He was breathing heavily, and Zephyr was behind him with her face on his back monitoring his heart rate that was really elevated right now.
“You okay baby?” She asks him.
“Kind of. I just Had a nightmare” He tells her as he rolls over onto his side and hops off the bee.
As soon as he hops off the bee General Yani walks over to Ryan with a plate of breakfast just for him and a cup filled with something.
“Ryan, Somone wanted me to give this to you” Yani told him in a sweet and kind voice.
Ryan takes the plate and noticed what was on it. It was eggs, bacon, tomatoes and chopped up steak that was rolled up in Pita bread which resembled a Breakfast taco. On the side of it was a large peach some grits and some cornbread. The cup he had in his hand was fresh homemade lemonade.
Ryan smiles at her since this meal seemed familiar to him. He then walks beside the bee and lays his back on its side. Zephyr hops down and sees the cornbread on his plate and feeling curious, takes a small piece from it and tastes it. She smiles and leans her head on his shoulder.
“So, who made this for you?” Zephyr asked him while being affectionate.
“I don’t know. But I like it” Ryan said while eating his breakfast burrito.
“You want any?” He asked her.
Zephyr smiles at him and takes the spoon on the plate and tries some of the grits. They tasted weird to her and she puts the spoon back on plate.
“Nah I’m good” Zephyr said as she kissed him on the cheek and then walks off to go find Greena, Kannell and Noodle, and the Faterrian pilot.
Ryan quickly eats everything on his plate and walks the plate over to a table and leaves it there. He then slowly starts sipping on this Lemonade. Zephyr then comes walking back with everyone and they all proceed to hook up the Bumble Bee and the Tower up to the dragons and then they all take off. Ryan and Zephyr like last time ride on the back of this Bee while everyone sits up top.
As soon as they take off Kannell and the other pilot fly dead south to Miseryland which was about 300 miles away. This 2-hour trip was going to be fast, but at the same time they all decided to take a direct approach there and that included flying over the Disturbia Anarchy zone.
During the flight Zephyr makes Ryan hold her from behind and then asks him a question.
“So last night I woke up and noticed something that was weird and scary” She tells him.
“What was that honey?” Ryan asked her while hugging her tight and putting his head on her right shoulder while he held her from behind.
“I woke up and you weren’t next to me!” She said in a ridiculously cute childish tone.
Ryan smiles at the way she said that and just squeezes her tighter.
“Not only that, but when I went to go look for you, I saw Bunnell sitting next to you and she was running her hand through your hair, and she also healed you up and gave you a kiss on the cheek” Zephyr said while crossing her arms.
As soon as she said that Ryan’s Eyes shoot open in fear. He wonders what the hell his mom is doing here and also wonder why his mom did that.
“She was also wearing my Hair comb you gave me. Like what the hell is going on?” Zephyr said seeming very confused.
“I don’t know. You may have dropped it when we landed, and she may have picked it up. But with her healing me and giving me a kiss on the cheek I have no idea what that’s about. I remember feeling really really warm last night for some reason. Did she like warm me up with a spell or are you sure it was like a kiss on the cheek?” Ryan said while trying to carefully piece together this lie.
“Umm It looked like a kiss on the cheek to me. But I don’t know what she did to you. I did see something that looked like a Buff too, but I’m so Confused why she would do that to you. I mean your Following Arcadia. Shes known to be a bitch to those who don’t follow her, so this just doesn’t make sense” She told him while trying to figure out a reason behind it.
“I… Ummm…. Don’t know baby. But it could just be a thank you present from her since I’m helping her in a way to defeat Yulee. I mean we stole her shit, and this could help her win this war” Ryan told her in such a way to try an induce a change of subject.
“Wait a minute but these are Mriya’s weapons Not Yulee’s” Zephyr told Ryan while petting the soft fur of the bumble bee they were riding.
“Technically Mriya is still on Yulee’s team. Look I have no idea. Ask her the next time you see her. But honestly I kind of hate Bunnell” Ryan tells her while smiling at her.
“Ya me too. Shes made me this hybrid human cat-dog monster. I hate how she ruined my life” Zephyr said while turning around in his arms and pushing Ryan onto his back. While she was on top of him, she takes his hand and puts it down her pants indicating that shes wanting something right now.
Ryan knowing that shes horny as hell right now is a blessing. He can get her off with his hand and this could just distract Zephyr from this topic.
“But you’re not a Monster. You’re a cute woman with cute cat ears and a sexy body” Ryan said in a flirty tone.
“Make me feel sexy then” She told him while guiding his hand where she wants it to go. Ryan then smiles at her and kiss’s her.
The 2 other girls up top could hear her moaning and start to get jealous. Noodle on the other hand just secretly laughed and decided to lay down and enjoy the view of the flight. 20 minutes after Ryan was done, they all hear a distinct scream coming from Zephyr.
“When we get home It’s my turn” Kannell said in a Perverted tone to Noodle while laughing. Greena just sits there quietly smiling. She keeps to herself and just lays back and relaxes like Noodle.
1 hour later When they enter the Anarchy Zone, Kannell Flies Extra high in hopes no trouble would come of it. Everyone is put on alert but manages to come out the other side without any problem. When they cross into Eyefore she starts to begin her decent along with the other pilot and Ryan radios Queen Lake that they were only 30 minutes away.
When they arrive at the city, they are met with people who cleared a field for them to drop this cargo in. Kannell comes in for a landing and hovers the dragon again and Ryan and Zephyr unhook the bridals and she lands the dragon beside it. When the Faterrian pilot flies in, he is ordered to hover over a Flatbed Trailer and place it on it its side gently. Ryan and Zephyr climb help carefully lean this tower down and then unhooks the chains from the saddle of the Dragon while he goes and lands. Ryan takes the chains that were up top and chains them to the Trailer, while he moves the other chains to the the base of the tower and chains that side down to the trailer. Ryan then hops on the Gatorboar and drives it inside the city, while a few beast-master’s escorts this mysterious large gentle beast inside the city.
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When Ryan gets this equipment to a zone behind the City’s castle, a handful of Arch-mages and Kannell help lift this thing off the Trailer and back upright. While they did that the beast master’s led the giant bumble bee into a super improvised Hangar that they had modified the entrance of from a storage shed starting at 5:30 am last night.
The beast master’s also went back outside the city and escorted the Dragons into this makeshift large hanger and stored them there. These 2 men who escorted the Dragons were more familiar with them then Kannell was. They were hired by King Joe and Queen Lake to study them and the Bumble Bee and report what they could find back to them.
Meanwhile on the Tower Ryan got his chance to see a Real Dwarf in person. He saw a squad of 30 of them actually. They were tasked with deconstructing this thing and figuring out exactly what it was and how it worked. Assisting them were some high-class mages and alchemists.
Queen Lake and King Joe then give Ryan and everyone else 30k gold each for this successful mission. She also tells them all that they have 2 weeks off to themselves and they can do whatever they want.
The first thing that everyone wants to do is grab one of Queen Lakes Teleportation mages and have them send them all home.
They all get teleported home and the first thing they do is march right to the bathroom. Ryan starts to fill up bath and heat it up while the water flows in. While it fills up, Ryan, Greena, Zephyr and Liz could hear Kannell and Noodle having a quickie in their room.
When the bath was filled up everyone calls them and lets them know it’s ready and they both come running into the bathroom with towels on and ready for the hot refreshing bath. When they get in, they instantly start to fall asleep with how relaxing this luxury was after freezing their ass off last night.
They all tell Liz what they did and what they saw. Liz then tells them about the outcome of Operation Barbwire.
“So, as it turns out, as of 7:00 Am they declared Operation Barbwire as a complete failure. Mriya prepared for this to happen and slaughtered tons of Faterrian invaders” Liz said while she unrolled newspaper in her hand. She then began to read an article out load.
“At 12:00 Faterra Launched a coup de main on behalf of Yulee to charge into Palmlandian and uproot Mriya from power. Troops from the state charged into Palmlandia and begin charging toward the capital city of Manatee. At exactly 3:30 AM Mriya sent a Counter Offensive force to stop them dead in their tracks. When the 2 forces met head on Mriya arrived on the front lines and buffed her frontlines up with the spell [Communism] on all of her forces. This spell caused all her soldiers to share all their Health and split damage evenly between themselves. This made her forces nearly invincible and were able to crush Yulee’s attack force of 100,000 troops in only 3 hours. Mriya was said to have been severely injured during a carpet-bombing run on her by the Faterrian Airforce but was said to have been evacuated out of the area and possibly healed up. The attacking pilots were reported shot down on their way back to the border and captured by patrolling ground units around the border. Currently Palmlandia has put Faterra on “Notice” for this Invasion. Mriya has warned this invasion could led to war with Faterra. All Yuleeian controlled Territories are now having an emergency meeting on this matter in the town of Empire, Faterra where Yulee has relocated her capital of all her kingdoms. This invasion comes just shortly after Mriya annexed Chimera from Ala-Ash, and Bunnell Invading the city of New Jars the other week”
“Oh, wow it ended in failure?” Kannell said sounding surprised.
“Didn’t you and Alex Predict this?” Zephyr asked Ryan.
“Yes, we kinda did. But I hope Alex is Safe” Ryan said while he leaned his head back.
When he said that Zephyr glares at him. Ryan realized shes starting her jealous “Taylor Swift” mood again. Ryan then moves behind Zephyr and makes her sit on his lap and holds her to reassure her.
“Anyone want to go do another Dungeon today?” Ryan said randomly.
Everyone shrugs their shoulders and smiles.
“I guess? I mean we have nothing else to do today” Kannell said while diving her head under the water and floating on her back in Noodles hands.
“Where do you all want to go?” Ryan askes randomly.
“Let’s go to the Exodus Chambers in Sarah, Sivika!” Greena said with a smile.
“You are sure where are a high enough level for that?” Kannell asked seeming doubtful.
“Yes, we are. I know that place like that back of my hand” Greena said while getting out of the water and grabbing a towel.
“You want to come with us Liz?” Zephyr asked.
“Meh I can’t I’m taking my Newly adopted Stepmom and Stepsister to Ala-Ash today. I want to take them gliding off Mount Cheat” She replied to her.
“Hang on, doesn’t Mount Cheat have a dungeon nearby?” Noodle asked.
“Oh, Ya that’s right! The Wonder Tombs!” Greena said with a hyper tone.
“You guys want to kill 2 birds with one stone?” Ryan asked the group
“What do you mean Ryan?” Kannell replied while getting up out of the water and grabbing a towel.
“I mean we can go climb a mountain with them, glide off of it, and hit that Dungeon” Ryan explained.
Everyone then nods and smiles at the idea.
When everyone gets out of the water and gets dressed Liz walks outside and finds Zara and Misty fishing in the pond. She tells them that everyone else was coming with them and this makes Misty smile. Everyone then comes out of the house and gathers around Liz. Liz teleports them all over to Gainer for a quick pitstop to grab supplies. She leads everyone into the castle and as Liz heads down the hallway to grab whatever she wanted to grab Queen Lake walks by them and smiles at them.
“Guys, glad you are here I was just getting ready to send a Teleportation mage to your house to summon you here. Let’s chat for about 10 minutes” Lake told them. Zephyr smiles at Misty and she grabs Zara’s hand and walks her the other way down the hallway. While they all get escorted into a Conference room.
“So, we Dismantled that tower weapon and we found a huge clue to Mriya’s madness” Queen Lake said as she pulled out some drawing from a folder and lays them on the table.
“The weapon is a spell Amplifier. That chute on the bottom contains Staugonuim ore and that dish up top is made out of Wyonuim” Queen Lake explained
“What does that mean?” Kannell asked seeming confused.
“Well I asked the same thing when the Dwarfs and the Arch-mages told me what those components are made of. They pieced together a theory on what it does and how it works. They told me Palmlandian mages can cast multiple spells into the chute on the bottom, and the spell will strike the Staugonuim ore in the canaster at the end of the chute. Since Staugonuim ore is used for teleportation, it beams the spells at an amplified rate to this attuned crystal that’s up top of this dish. The spell then leaves the top crystal at a Supercharged speed and hits the Wyonuim dish. Since Wynnum reflects spells with ease it bounces the spells that were cast onto it off the dish and sends it flying out toward the target the dish is aimed at an extremely amplified rate. This thing can essentially tear down city walls with ease” Queen Lake said with concern.
“Well it’s a good thing you all know how it works. Have you developed a defensive strategy against it yet?” Ryan asked her.
“Actually yes! The alchemists who worked with the dwarfs found out the Dishes amplify the spells so much it damages the metal beyond its self-repairing capabilities. This means that the dish will have to be changed after 3 blasts” Queen Lake explained to her.
“Hmm that means after that 3rd blast the weapon is down for repair. That means the people swapping out the dishes will be easy targets for Archers or Mages” Kannell blurted out.
“EXACTLY! Thanks to you all we already got a heads up on this. We also now know why Mriya wants Wyonuim ore so badly. These things will burn through Dishes like crazy” Queen Lake said with a proud smile.
“That’s good I guess?” Ryan said seeming anxious to get going.
“Oh, Ya also we got our Hunters to examine that Bumble Bee you brought in. Kannell your intuition was right on bringing that thing back with you. That’s an experimental breed of Bumble Bee that Mriya got her army to mutate for warfare. The thing is extreamly agile and fast and has incredible self-defense capabilities. The Stinger of this gentle beast has enough venom to knock a war gryphon out of the sky. We also examined those pictures you took Ryan and those “Lances” are actually mini Spell amplifier tubes that strap on to the side of this beast. The idea is to carry with the pilot a mage who would fire into the chutes and rain down hell from above” Queen Lake explained seeming all excited and happy.
“Well I guess we did good then” Noodle replied to her.
“Oh, here is the best news! You captured a QUEEN bee. This is extreamly good news to us because we can use her to make an Airforce for Tourterra and Eyefore since we don’t have one. Now with this Secret weapon in our hands we won’t be vulnerable from the sky anymore and wont have to Rely on Sivika to defend us from the air in the event of an attack” Queen Lake said while pulling out a Blueprint of the Bees Measurements and Stats.
“What about those stolen dragons we got you?” Kannell asked
“Those are currently being test flown as we speak. We are getting the strength and weaknesses from these things. Like I said Kannell you and your team did very good last night. I can’t thank you enough” Queen Lake told her.
“Your Welcome Ma’am. Well if you don’t mind, we are going to head on over to Mount Cheat and have some fun” Kannell said while smiling at her.
“Oh, if you all are headed out that way do you mind making a pitstop on your way back? Gary has a load of Nectar from Greenbriar that needs to come back here to feed this war bee we are trying to breed. Could you grab it for me please?” She asked them sincerely
“Umm, sure I don’t mind” Ryan tells her while looking at his team. They all roll their eyes at him and she smiles at him. She then writes down the Address of the pickup point and hands Ryan the piece of paper. Everyone then walks out of the room and into the hallway and meets back up with the other girls. A teleportation mage then walks over to them and Teleports them all over to Ala-Ash.