Welcome back, everyone. With more free time I return completely to fan fiction writing and with the decision to make this a longer story. How long? Well, it certainly won't be ten chapters I'll say that much. Enjoy and review.
Brigid
Brigid had been dragged to the grounds of the dancers. Here did they learn to dance the most dangerous dance of them all: thag vaulting. Man and woman, boy and girl all that called themselves dancer would have to do it.
So did Brigid's training begin!
Stripped of her veil, her dress and skirt Brigid was left in the simplest pieces of her attire. She was free of anything that could have gotten caught on the horns of a thag be it a real one or a fake one used for practice. She did not want to be a dancer like this but still Brigid would dance the dance.
She was merely a child, only eight years old and this fake thag must have been as big as a real one. The bronze horns with the neck that would move when she leapt and grabbed the horns, thus would she have to let go and land behind the thag.
Fear was in her heart. Brigid knew that this was not a true thag but she knew that when it would be the real thing it would be charging at her.
Eyes were on the Little Beauty. The eyes of the Nomis woman and a man of indeterminate species that wore a thag mask watched Brigid from the sidelines of the training grounds.
"Is this what you have brought to learn the dance, Mother Akakallyz?" asked the masked man. "An Evabon girl who merely stands there before the Thag of Taitale?"
"Come now, Mamez, I thought you would be interested in having an Evabon for a thag dancer!" exclaimed Mother Akakallyz.
"I would if she actually showed herself willing to jump!" stated Mamez. "If she doesn't, I will cast her down into the maze myself."
Brigid ran towards the Thag of Taitale. The mindless thing merely stood there motionless as Brigid jumped and grabbed the horns. Then the neck moved as Brigid's weight brought it downward and like a catapult the head jolted back and the Little Beauty somersaulted in the air landing firmly on her feet behind the Thag of Taitale.
Mother Akakallyz could only smile. "Are you impressed, Mamez?"
"Indeed I am!" exclaimed Mamez, his eyes wide. "Keep her practicing, the Evabon girl dances with the Blest Thag today!"
Then did Mother Akakallyz's eyes widen! She was absolutely shocked. No thag dancer would be ready for a live thag in such a short time! "She'll die if she dances with the Blest Thag today!"
"She had better not." Mamez began to walk away. "With the Evabon being allies of the ThunderCats, who themselves have many allies, slavers and kidnappers are finding themselves less willing to enter their territory. We need some good encouragement for our own slavers and kidnappers to bring more here. If she survives, more Evabon girls will be brought here to learn the dance and I am getting bored of the usual ones we are getting. Cats, lizards, berbils, dogs, they have all gone out of fashion. We need something new and what better than these." Thus did Mamez leave that part of the castle of Gnozzuz.
Brigid had not heard a word. She had merely gone to put her skirt on. When Mother Akakallyz approached, Brigid looked at her with frightened eyes. "Y-You… You did well, my dear… Keep on practicing and you shall do well."
Keep on practicing? A good idea! If she stayed here sooner or later Balor would find her rather than trying to escape on her own and then being on the search for Balor who would be searching for her.
