"Sorry…" Lily mumbled as Flippy returned with a cup of tea. "This just a huge change for me…"
Flippy and Flaky watched in awe as her horn glowed dark blue. A similar aura surrounded the tea cup; it floated in the air and hovered in front of the dragon as she drank.
"How are you doing that?" Flaky asked.
"Oh, right" Lily said sheepishly and placed the cup down. "I can do magic, not that I'm going to throw spells left and right, just what I can to get by…I don't want to accidently hurt anyone".
"Do you want to hurt anyone?" Flippy asked.
"No! Of course not" she replied.
"Then you won't" the bear stated. "Well not on purpose anyway…"
"Yeah, I know…" Lily sighed. "So when's this meeting anyway? May as well get it over and done with"
(Scene shift)
The town hall was filled to burst with all manner of furry creatures excitedly discussing the rumour of a dragon joining the town. Lily waited nervously behind the closed curtain of the stage. She heard Sniffles start an introductory speech, but she didn't pay attention.
Do I tell them? She thought and glanced over at Flippy and Flaky, who had joined her backstage for support. I can't lie to them…Will they believe me? What if they don't? What if I screw something up?
"Hey" Flaky said and jolted her out of her train of thought.""It's time to go on".
"Yeah…ok" Lily replied.
"It'll be ok" Flippy added and together the three of them walked out to face the crowd.
Lily took a deep breath and walked up to the podium. She looked back at her new friends, who gave smiles of encouragement, and she prepared to appease the masses.
"My names Lily…I'm a dragon, no I'm not going to kidnap princesses or burn down the town, hopefully" She began and earned a few laughs from the town. "I was brought here by something and well, I hope I can find a place to fit in and help out and um, stuff"
Here goes nothing
"But there's more to it than that" she continued. "I was brought to this place from another dimension… a dimension where this town is a cartoon…"
The crowd began to chatter, some even shouting questions at her. She looked over at Flippy and Flaky to see a mix of understanding and curiosity on their faces.
"I don't know the specifics!" she shouted back at the audience. "But I do know I will do what I can to help people and um…sorry if I accidently kill anyone".
She smiled s that got another laugh out the audience and the commotion went from shouting questions and cries of disbelief to cheering and applauding.
"Geez doesn't take much to get them going" she muttered and waved.
Her newly acquired confidence was shattered when the cameras started going off. She shook her head to clear her vision of the flashing lights, only to freeze when she heard Flippy whimper. She whirled around to find Flaky backing away from him as his eyes glazed over, his teeth sharpened into points.
Oh shit…she thought as Flippy blinked and he was no longer Flippy.
Yellow eyes filled with rage locked onto the crowd as Evil Flippy shouted a war cry and flung himself off the stage to start butchering the masses. With knife in hand the bear turned the meeting into a massacre as the inhabitants become soaked in the blood of their comrades. Panic soon ensued as windows were smashed to allow escape and the halls doors were ripped off their hinges by the stampede of citizens.
As blood began to pool around the area in front of the stage, Evil turned around and covered in blood, made his way towards Lily and chuckled darkly.
"Y-you must be Evil Flippy" Lily began nervously as she searched for a way out. "Is that even your name? I mean if you have one that is…"
Evil stopped for a moment, confused by the statement.
"Why do you care?" he growled and climbed up onto the stage.
"Well it's just that I uh-know stuff!" Lily rambled and began backing away towards a broken window. "You're clearly your own bear, in comparison to Good Flippy anyway and it must be annoying to be called 'Evil' all the time right? That is assuming you have a complex personality associated with a normal person and aren't say, a defence mechanism for a soldier"
The window was in range; Lily took one look at the killer before her, and jumped. She heard the sound of the knife being thrown and just barely missing her as it hit the window frame.
"Nice meeting you!" she shouted over her shoulder and took to the air with Evil's scream of rage ringing her ears.
Not long after she heard the sound of a bicycle bell and she looked back to find the murderous bear chasing after her on a bike. She pressed onward as Evil chuckled darkly, hell bent on catching her. She spotted a cliff in the distance and made a beeline for it. As the two raced on the edge of the cliff got nearer, suddenly the front of the bike got caught on a rock. Its momentum halted, sent Evil flying off and over the edge of the cliff.
Lily heard him yell as he began to plummet and raced down after him. Her horn glowed dark blue and caught the bear in a levitation field. With Evil safe for the moment, she flew up towards the other side of the cliff, with Evil struggling in her telekinetic grip. With her would be killer floating over solid ground, she dropped him and rolled her eyes.
"You're welcome" she said flatly and flew back to town.
Author's note- This chapter has been edited and cleaned up a bit, the next chapter will be out soon, expect an info dump in that one!
Next chapter- the rules are explained and a night at Sniffles place!