February 9th, 2027 – 1530 hours – Maple Ridge, BC
"These mana potions are not very effective" said Gala, as Ryan pulled into the driveway in his 2021 GMC Yukon truck... 4x4 of course. "Are they like... Novice level ones or something?
Ryan sighed as he looked over his shoulder to the back of the cab. "That's cuz those aren't mana potions, they are sports drinks."
"But... it's blue..." she queried.
"Yeah so..." Ryan held up a red Gatorade "Just cuz this one is red doesn't mean it will heal wounds and restore blood loss!"
Gala went silent before adding "Your planet is weird..."
"Yeah well... Azeroth wasn't exactly everything I was expecting when I first got there. Get over it." he said, jumping out of the maroon truck.
Falu got out of the back of the cab and bounced up to him "So this is your home?" she asked, looking at the front door to the two story white sided and brown bricked house.
The bricks only went up about a meter, with lots of space between them... they were more like large stones and then white aluminum siding on the rest of the house. The front door was just a step up, on a porch which stretched off to the left in front of a three sectioned window into what looked like a kind of living room.
"Yeah, please, come in." He replied, unlocking the door with the spare key he'd gotten from his mother the day before.
The place was nice, larger and more open than his Father's house and Mother's town-house.
Right to the left was a fancy clean white carpeted living room with delicate glass cabinets... which looked like it had been rarely used but was crystal shiny clean. Otherwise the white tiled floor lead straight into a more casual living room with two black leather couches and a LCD TV, behind the couch was an island and kitchen with black shiny appliances and a small walk in corner pantry. The tiled floor also lead to the right, if you didn't go straight or up the stairs directly beside the straight "hall" if you could even call it that.
A balcony was right above the entry hall with a smaller TV on one, on the front door side... on the opposite side where the stairs were was a small gym set and sofabed... Ryan had also said upstairs were three more bedrooms and a bath room...
"An awfully large house for just one person." Legi said. "Why so much space?"
"Well... that is a long story... you see I had been married at one point, she died sadly... but she and I had a son, we were going to raise a family you know... we'd planed it all out and we got this place... I guess I never decided what to do with it..." Ryan explained "It's a nice place though isn't it?"
Legi actually seemed to give sympathy to Ryan, looking at him sorrowfully "I'm sorry to hear that..." he muttered.
Ryan sighed "What's done is done... nothing I can do now..." he paused for a while "I try to move on, get on with my life, if I let that hang me up, nothing will be done. Besides... I have a son to look after now."
"Speaking of which where is he?" Gala asked.
"I think Fio has been taking care of him."
"Fio?"
"Oh sorry, Fiona, Fiona Ramirez, my sister. She just likes to be called Fio better." Ryan checked walked towards the casual living room, turning into the kitchen and popping open the fridge to find it quarter stocked, having enough food and drink supplies to last a day or two maybe... also a six pack at the bottom! "Hmm, so I guess I was expected..." Ryan said as he pulled out the six pack and closed the fridge. He slid over on the tile floor to the pantry and looked inside finding it almost empty but with a few boxes of non-perishable goods, cereals, oatmeal, popcorn, canned good, that sort of thing.
"Alright, I'm gonna put on some frog legs and then go out for a bit... you guys can have that."
"Frog legs!?" Exclaimed Falu "Are you insane?"
Ryan laughed "Oh sorry, it's a Blackfoot recipe, you can sub the frog in for chicken, which is what I was going to do. It's a bit spicy though so I hope it suits you."
Ryan put a few boxes of cereal and a bag of popcorn on the counter. "Once you've eaten and I've made sure I don't burn the place down I'm heading out for a while, my sister might pop in so you should keep your disguises up. Also if you get peckish while I'm out, either pour a bowl of cereal, add milk and you are good to go or throw this bag into the microwave" He tapped a small black box sitting above the counters "AFTER taking off the plastic wrap, and set it for about two and a half minutes and make that..."
"Ok."
Ryan chuckled and muttered under his breath "Hope this place is still here when I get back."
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A few hours later...
Falu was laying upside down on the larger of the two black leather couches, her disguise had worn off so her ears were pressed outward and her face was stuck looking at Gala's but who was across from her...
"Falu?" Gala asked
"Hai!" Falu chirped
"Are you ok?"
"What? Me? Perfect!" she chimed
"You are stuck aren't you?"
"...maybe... a little... my neck hurts..."
Gala giggled and helped her friend straighten out onto her back. "Thanks."
"What is this?" Gala asked and picked up a small bar with many buttons on it...
"We shouldn't touch that Gala, we don't know what it will do." Falu cringed, trying to take the black bar away from Gala.
"But I'm curious, it's not like it's going to blow up the house!" she quirked and pressed the red button on the top.
"NO! Not the red one!"
*flicker*
A light shot out from the thin black box in the living room, flashing colors until it showed a moving picture of a human man with short greying hair sitting at a desk with papers in front of him.
"THIS JUST IN! We have reports that the sightings are continuing, first originating in Russia these strange hooded figures have been seen worldwide, we have eyewitnesses in Russia accounting the first sighting. John?"
"Yes Dave, I'm here with Sergei Stratovich in Moscow. Sergei what was it you saw exactly."
"Well I didn't see much, just two huge hulking hooded men, but I swore I saw green and red skin between their cuffs... they were oddly shaped as well, hulking and bulked, more so than even some of the most hardcore body builders... I didn't get a much closer look as I was scared and the Military was in the way... preventing any of us from looking into this further..."
"Thank you Sergei, Dave what do you know about this?"
"Well there have been two more sightings, one in France and one in Italy. The France sighting was a purple skinned woman... while the Italian sighting, someone swore they saw hooves on a person... and no not a costume, real hooves like a satyr..."
"Wow that is insane Dave, you know that right?"
"Yes it is John, but that's just it, is this really the start of something? Has the government of these countries found something and is keeping it in the dark? We may not know for some time John. But that's all for now folks, tune in next time for a fascinating report on how food coloring is more than just color... next time on CTV news! Your home! Your news!"
*DE-DA-DEWNEWNEWNEW!*
"What did you do!?" Exclaimed Falu to Gala. "A weird man started talking about hooded people and now they are onto us!"
"ME!? I just pressed a button and he showed up, it's not like I put him there!"
"Yes you did!"
"GIRLS!" Legi yelled as he came up the side hall, as in not the main hall which led to the front door... "What did you break?"
"Gala pressed this button and now a man on the screen knows about Thrall, Garrosh, Tyrande and Velen!"
Legi snatched the remote from Gala "You idiots, this is a Television Remote control!"
"Waaa?" The girls looked at him stupefied
Legi sighed exasperatedly and held up the remote, pressed a button and the screen changed from a news channel to a cartoon, to a rerun of Star Trek, to some old show called M.A.S.H... and so on and so on... "A T.V or Television, they use it to watch shows, entertain themselves and get information about the world, places, things and people... it's their little enjoyment and knowledge box so to speak and this controller here is what changes between what is currently showing."
"How do you know this all?" Gala asked
Legi sat down on the smaller two person couch beside the bigger black one. "Well unlike you two, I was paying attention to the things around me, I learned how to use some of the appliances here and how to use things like the TV... I'm a handy man back home, I work with tools and stuff so I need to know how to use an object when I come across it and I'm a fast learner... if you have used some goblin tools this shouldn't be a problem at all to figure out."
He handed the remote back to the girls who were looking at it like it was the most crazy piece of technology they'd even laid hands on, Goblin shit had nothing on this!
"Weird, yes this world is! But it's pretty cool I guess..." Gala admitted, then quickly changed the subject to something more urgent. "Where is the washroom?"
"There is one down the hall to the left." Legi said "I think..."
Gala nodded and headed down the hall while Legi went off onto the balcony behind the house which looked out into a small forested ravine with a creek at the bottom... the balcony more like a terrace or something went all the way across from the living room/dining room to the Master Bedroom, connecting the two that way, as well as inside.
Falu realised her disguise had fallen, but Legi and Gala's had been fixed so she made a mental note to ask Gala to reapply her disguise when she got out of the washroom... she ended up nodding off a bit and didn't realize the front door had opened...
A few steps to late did she realize and fall off the couch in a panic as someone walked into the house.
"What the hell?" asked a female voice in bafflement
Falu dared to glance up to a very confused looking Human girl with similar brown hair to Ryan and features, but had a streak of green and purple down her hair in the rear left and across her bangs just making a sort of neon crest.
"Oh... h-hello..." Falu cringed...
"Long ears... green eyes... awfully thin..." she muttered "Are you cosplaying or something?" she asked
"Um... maybe..." Falu replied, unsure of what Cosplay was...
"Wow... and I thought I had weird fetishes... my brother seems to be into some kinky shit lately huh?"
"W-what?" Falu asked, her face lighting up red... she had no idea what the word kinky meant but by the tone of her voice it had been relatively suggestive.
Then Legi came out from the balcony... noticed the human... and his sister... "Uh... this isn't what it looks like..." he started.
"No, it's cosplay..." Falu said, using the word that the woman had used, presumably Fiona, Ryan's sister.
"Huh?" Legi started, but then got the look his foster-sister was giving him "Oh right cosplay."
"I know... I see that, and you might be?" Fio asked
"I'm her foster-brother... Le-... uh Leo... yeah... and this is Felicia... we also have our friend here, Gala..." Legi said, substituting his and Falu's elvish names for more human sounding ones.
Fio was all cracks and giggles about this, she was smirking her ass off and trying not to laugh. "Well it's a nice cosplay, mind taking it off for a bit though, no point wearing it right now..."
"Huh?"
"Or if you want you can keep it on... I don't know it's not for me to say what you can and can't wear, all things considered I'd be a hypocrite if I said that." Fio said, walking over to the fridge... it was then that Falu noticed she was carrying a few bags and had two other creatures behind her... a small doggy, fluffy and white with a little black nose and a bow on its head... and a small human child, he looked about two... maybe three... short brown hair and hazel eyes, he shared a small resemblance with Fio, but more so reminded Falu of Ryan... if she had to take a wild guess, she's say this was his son, Daniel.
Fio unloaded the bags into cupboards and the fridge before coming and sitting on the couch next to Falu just as Gala came out of the washroom, Legi quickly and stealthily shot her a quick glance which meant to play along for now.
"So where did Ryan go?" Gala asked
"He went out to visit some of his old friends, he came by and asked to grab a few things before coming up here so I did... and here you guys are." She seemed to sense this wasn't enough of an answer for Gala "He went to some bar in Coquitlam with a few friends ok, he will be back before eight however he promised."
Falu noticed Fio was constantly staring at Falu's ears and face...
"Something wrong?" Falu asked
"No, it's just... I can't help but wonder..."
"What?"
"Nothing... it's just that those look so real..." she said, but before she could do anything, Fio tugged on Falu's ear, as if it would come off...
"YOUCHY!" emitted Falu's high pitched squeak... she managed to sneak an eye open to see Fio's once prominent smile and beam turn into utter shock and bewilderment, her eyes faint and hollow with disbelief, almost emotionless... one might say un-amused ... before she bluntly said...
"What. The fuck... are you..." she processed... processed... processed... "Holy shit you are elv-"
Legi clamped a hand over her mouth and shushed her with a loud and sharp "SHHH!" he hissed "We're not supposed to be known here ok, now you need to keep your mouth shut about this otherwise, we three and Ryan will be in great trouble. Got it?"
"Mhmmm." Mumbled Fio, who nodded to the best of her ability given her current position.
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"So... let me get this straight?" began Fio "My brother... was wound up in a place called Azeroth..."
Legi nodded...
"And then... he fought against all kinds of monsters and demons, met these factions called the Horde and Alliance and met you guys... who are part of the horde... and are something called Blood Elves? Am I getting this all right?"
"Pretty much, yes." Confirmed Legi
"And it's ok for you guys to be telling me this?"
Gala and Falu giggled while Legi chuckled a single time replying "Heh, probably not..."
Fio cocked an eyebrow "So then-" she started
"Well kinda late now!" interjected Gala "Just don't complain about it, it'll save you massive head pains right now so you can conserve your energy for when Ryan finds out about this..."
"Oh hell..." Fio groaned "And he sure can ramble..." she glanced at the Elves "Well what now? I mean as shocked as I am about all this, this is like my number one dream come true, I was always a fantasy junkie... and a greasemonkey so says my parents but hey I can't help that I love to work on mechanics."
"Oh yeah what is it you do?" Gala asked
"I own an Auto-shop down in Coquitlam, me and my small but skilled staff work on cars, trucks and basically anything that uses a motor and at least two wheels..." Fio paused... "Well then now that my introductions are out of the way, how about you guys?"
"Ok, first off my real name is Legilas..." said Legi. "I used to be a Paladin but after some injuries I had to take up Smithing and Metal working and general craftsmanship as a trade."
"Legilas? Like... Legolas? As in Lord of the Rings?"
"What?" Legi asked, confused.
Fio shook her head "Nevermind... and you" she looked at Gala.
"Galadria, I'm a priest and one of Falu's best friends!" she chirped
"Priest? Like a holy woman?"
"Kinda... hmm... like this!" she waved her hand and made her drink on the coffee table float around and over into her hands. "And this!" she punched Legi in the stomach hard enough to bruise.
"OMPH!" Legi huffed right before Gala cast a minor heal removing any pain that was just inflicted. "Ok first, she hits harder than she looks... and second, what the hell!? Oh... and third... Didn't your mother ever tell you not to hurt a cripple?"
"Cripple my ass, you still move like you used to... just not as often... or for as long..." Gala replied, grinning coyly while Legi just narrowed his eyes, glaring bright green daggers at her, clearly un-amused
Fio chuckled and sat back into the two person couch. "And who is Falu?"
Gala and Legi looked around for the younger elf. "Where did she go?"
"Over here!" Falu poked her head around the corner from the front formal living room. "Just looking at stuff!"
"Ok, have fun!" Legi chuckled "Anyways that is Faluara, but we all call her Falu, she's... an enigma to say the least... never was one for magic, nor is she all that physically strong or agile... but she's great company and you'd be surprised what I've seen her accomplish."
He noticed Fio smirking in the direction of where his sister had been... the turned back to them and grinned "She's so adorable!" she chirped warmly... she then looked between Gala and Legi... "So if you two are... somthing... if Falu my brother's new-"
"No never..." Legi stated bluntly
"You didn't even know what I was going to ask!"
"Right..." Legi added, not buying it.
"Oh c'mon Legi, lighten up, it's only fair that Falu at some point find something like what we have!" Gala chirped
"Yes but not with a Human..." Legi sighed "Besides she's way too naive..."
Gala giggled "Yeah I know right, I swear she's so naive and innocent sometimes that I bet she doesn't even know what-"
A loud gasp from the from room caught the attention of everyone else as they noticed Falu bound out of the formal living room, up the stairs and heard her slam the door to one of the extra rooms.
"What was that all about?" Gala mused
Fio held up a finger and made her way to the front room, peering out the window... she came back, her eyes slits as she gritted her teeth. "Heeerrrr..." she growled.
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Ryan had just gotten home and locked in the parking brake on his truck... It was late and dark, so he was glad to be back as it had been a long night. Most of his friends had given him a warm welcome home... however there was one issue with his welcome back, word had gotten out... thus someone, uninvited, showed up.
Her name was Melissa Sayers, a mahogany haired woman with brown eyes, light complexion and a well endowed rack...
Ryan didn't want to think about it again, he just wanted to sleep... he jumped out of his truck, closed and locked the doors... took one step towards his house before.
"Hey..." said a feminine voice from his left...
"Oh don't tell me you followed me..." Ryan grimmanced.
"Why wouldn't I my love..." said Melissa "It's only natural I would, you and me, we are destined to be together you see, why do you always push me back?"
"Um... you are obsessive, manipulative and frankly, creepy as fuck..." Ryan stated.
"Oh I'm not all that!" Melissa exclaimed "C'mon it's been about three years now Ryan, when are you going to move on!?"
"When I'm good and ready!" Ryan fumed "And that is not now!"
Melissa rolled her eyes and crossed her arms "Then when Ryan? When you have aged and we're half past our thirties?"
"Just maybe! Sometimes I regret getting married and all, at this age. But unlike you, I had authentic feelings for Jessica Dala."
"Please, Ryan, isn't moving on something she'd want you to do? You said it yourself..." Melissa mused, lowering her arms, and pushing her ample bosom into his arm. "Right?" a fair amount of cleavage showing through the top of her shirt...
'I will not look, I will not look, I swear by-' Ryan glanced down... 'Holy shit they're like the mountain ranges of Ironforge...' He tore his gaze away from them... or tried to...
"Come on now sweetie, it's been a while, I'm sure you could use some... relaxation..." she reached up and forcibly kissed him while Ryan was still stuck, fixated on the local mountain range.
By the time he realized what was going on and shoved Melissa back, he cursed himself for not paying attention. "Go away! I'm sick of you and your futile efforts! Leave me be!" and he stomped off towards the front door. "And do not fucking follow me!"
One step in and he noticed his sister glaring daggers at him and shaking her head, then behind her were Gala and Legi, who were missing their disguises... Ryan paused, considering how to approach the situation...
"It uh... isn't what it looks li-"
"We already told her everything!" bellowed Legi
"DAMNIT MAN!" he then looked back at his sister. "Well then what is your problem?"
"Don't play dumb... I saw you with her out there!" Fio shot.
"Wha- Oh fuck..." he then noticed Falu missing from the back room... "Don't tell me..."
"Falu saw? Yep I do think she did!"
"Ah hell... I'll be right back!"
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Falu lay face down in the middle guest room, her face buried into the pillows of a large and soft queen sized bed with a brown fuzzy quilt over it and white sheets in a peach colored room... a small TV in the corner of the room next to the closet, which was beside the doorway.
'He... he doesn't love me... he lied... he...' she broke down sobbing... 'Maybe I hadn't asked him properly... maybe... maybe I should have...' her mind froze...
"Why am I feeling this way!?" she exlcimed into the pillow which came out more as a muffled "I, ah, I eelig is ay"
She heard the door open and then close again, the bed dipped down a bit and she peeked out from the pillows...
"Falu..." said Ryan "I know what you saw... and... I had no control over it..."
"Don't make excuses." Falu shot. Anger replacing sadness. "You always think you can pull a fast one on me!"
"When did I ever say that? No Falu, I would never exploit you..." Ryan said, his voice unchanging even though accusations were being thrown at him.
"Well.. well then..." since attacking wasn't working on him, she then reverted back to the state of self-pity as she broke down again.
"Falu what did I say about you crying?"
"Well this time I have reason to cry!" she sobbed.
"Why is this affecting you so much?" Ryan asked
Her crying stopped abruptly... "You are an idiot! You stupid blind boy!" she said.
"No... I understand Falu... and I return those feelings... I... I was afraid..."
Falu's anger and sadness vanished... "You? Afraid?" she was shocked, she thought Ryan was fearless!
"Yes Falu, I was afraid of... well... rejection..." Falu turned around and curled half into a ball on her side so she could look at him. Ryan placed a hand on her only available shoulder since she was laying on the other one. "I knew blood elves and humans were, unorthodox... and that it was frowned upon... you... I didn't want to make things harder for you than they already were, thus I knew that should I have asked, you would have rejected me."
Falu's eyes teared up.
"Why do you think I've taken such risks for you, I'd protect you with my life Falu..."
"R-Ryan... I..."
"Falu... would you uh... would you like to go out sometime?"
She raised a prominent wispy eyebrow... "Go... out?" she asked
"Y-yeah..." Ryan stuttered not understanding what she meant...
"Go out where? It's late..."
"Ooohhh..." Ryan mused, she didn't know what he meant by Go out... "W-well you see Falu... what I'm asking is, uh... tomorrow... w-would you like to go on a date?"
"Huh?" the elf quirked... at first making Ryan think she once again didn't understand when she added. "You... you're asking me out on a date?"
"Yes, Falu... I'm asking if you'd like to go on a date with me."
Falu was silent for a while, she could see the worry in Ryan's eye, his so called fear of being rejected... but she couldn't deny him, she really must have liked him a lot! Otherwise she bet she'd have easily rejected... "Yes!" she chirped, half unsure of herself. "I think I will go out with you Ryan..."
Ryan smiled "So tomorrow then?"
Falu nodded. "I think it would make me happy..." she said, a tiny but sharp grin on her face.
"Same here..." Ryan glanced out the window as Falu yawned sleepily... "Anyways I'll head down, and turn the lights off for you if you want to sleep."
Falu looked behind her and out the window... "No... I think I'll come back down for a bit, we will have a nice fun little time with everyone then I'll sleep."
Ryan chuckled "Ok... I'll ask you what you want to do tomorrow..."
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I was planning on holding off the relationship till a bit later, but I doubted it would have made much of a difference, so, there you have it, the belf and human are finally getting together!
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