Chapter 2

Another World

Uncomfortable, cold, and …the floor? What am I doing in the floor?

Dorian opened his eyes and saw the Major sitting besides him looking at him. He was lying in what looked like a square made out of stone with a carved X protruding out of a circle. There was blue fire on each end of one of the lines that made up the X. Probably some kind of gas that makes blue fire. The rest was just meadow; grass everywhere except for a tree here or there. It was no longer 100 degrees hot, and impossibly humid. Actually, there was rain coming, since the sky was rather cloudy, much like his home country England.

"You OK?"

Memories flowed to Dorian's mind. There was no sign of their persecutors.

"I think so."

Sitting straighter, Dorian mentally checked his body for any injuries. None discovered, he tried to straighten up his clothes and hair, and made sure he still had that beauty of a lizard.

"Are you all right?" He asked. He had mixed feeling about repeating Alaska all over again, it's not like he wanted the Major get hurt just for his entertainment, but then a wounded soldier was an appealing sight.

"Yeah I'm fine."

It looked like the Major decided to rest a bit in this weird squared stone with blue fire. Dorian was still a bit tired from the chase so he decided to follow Klaus' actions and kept on sitting beside him.

"How long have I been out?"

"I don't know, I woke up just seconds before you did."

So, Klaus did not carry him, pity.

"Do you know where we are?"

"I don't have the slightest idea."

Then after five seconds of observing his surroundings, it struck him. That took a while, I must be getting old. "Major, how can the weather and the landscape change so suddenly in Brazil?"

And then it struck him again, and he felt the tiniest traces of panic set in him, "Major…" and he noticed how his voice got desperate with each word "How come we were falling and there is nothing above us?!" Looking around, Dorian got nearer to Klaus. "Where are we?"

That's where the Major took Dorian by the collar "Look, thief, either you shut up and let me think, or I'll shut you up and beat you up so you don't think anymore, understood!?"

There were few things that would distract Dorian from looking to the Major's Emerald eyes from this close, and this one was definitely one of them.

The major saw in Dorian's expression that the fight was over and that something was behind him, so he turned around.

Impossible.

In front of them was a tiny but sturdy human dwarf like creature. It was red, like hellboy (yes, both of them saw the movie), it had a funny hairdo with a ponytail but bald everywhere else except for two big light brown horns in its forehead. It also had bid ears that were pulled back. It was wearing what looked like a skirt, and wrist and shin protectors. What was ever weirder was that fact that it appeared to be armed. Oh yeah, it had what looked like a sword, but then he was still a little far from them.

It saw them, and started to approach them, even his walk was funny, all wobbly like.

"What is that?" said Dorian completely forgetting his worries and curiosity taking over since right now the creature did not look dangerous.

"Don't get near, it looks dangerous." commanded Klaus.

"For you everything looks dangerous." murmured Dorian.

That's where Dorian noticed that the creature's eyes were shiny red and that its sword was filled with blood.

Both Klaus and Dorian got to their feet, Dorian safely behind Klaus, and the later pulled out his magnum, and aimed to the approaching creature.

"Police Official, whatever you are, very slowly put down your weapon, and stay where you are." When Klaus did not have other choice he said he was the police, he even had an ID.

The creature responded with what sounded like a grunt and kept approaching them, now preparing his sword that was half his size to strike them.

"Stand back or I'll shoot!"

Klaus and Dorian started to back down, and the creature did not seem intimidated at all by the weapon Klaus was pointing at him.

Klaus shot to the ground to show the creature what he was talking about.

The creature got startled and jumped with a little squeak because of the sound. It gave three steps back, looked at the ground, looked at Klaus, lifted its sword and gave what must be a war cry that sounded like "Back Off!" and started approaching them again.

Klaus felt Dorian giggling behind him "Did it just told us to fuck off?"

"Idiot"

The creature was now very close and with a growl struck Klaus with the sword it had, missing its target completely, of course. Klaus used his weapon to hit the creature on the neck and therefore render him unconscious.

"So I guess that means we're not in Kansas anymore?" When facing something he did not know, Klaus was a rather composed man; so Dorian tried not to panic again, and kept calm as well.

Klaus very promptly started looking for useful things the creature might have.

Then he looked up "Calm down, we'll find a way out of here."

Then he kept searching. "True, we don't know where we are, how we got here or how to get out of here. But this…thing proves that there is some kind of civilization here, and hopefully we'll find humans as well. We can't be the only ones in here."

"So we might have stepped in some kind of portal, magical tunnel or entrance, and ended up in here."

Klaus just nodded, "If you don't want to go insane, don't think about it too much; you're crazy enough already."

Dorian smiled, Klaus definitely knew how to cheer you up in his own rough way.

Dorian made sure there were not any more of those things near. He did not see any so he inspected the creature. Its skin looked rough, it had protruding shark like teeth, its nails were black and long, more like claws, and it did not use shoes.

Klaus did not find anything on him besides the sword which he gave to Dorian.

"We cannot tell if well find one of these later, better be prepared for anything."

With that they started walking.