Just me again! Everyone knows the Disclaimer? This is the Disclaimer . And I have to tell him, that I do not own any of the characters that I lent here for making up my story. They belong to T. Pratchett and T. Pierce. Anyway, this is a fanfiction story, I think that tell, that it's not mine. ************* Ok right, the last thing we know about out of chapter 7 is, that Daine collapsed. But why, did she faint of the smell of this dirty stormwings? But remember after the Emperor Mage she should be quite used to their smell. Ok I think I just start this chapter . I won't plead for reviews I do not get, anymore. So just thanks to the one and only reviewer I still have. I love your Prophecy of the Dragon story! And I will make it a D/N at least partly. Will have to see if it last. *********************************************************

Chapter 8: Susan caught the falling Daine, holding her in her arms. She was released of Daines weight, by Numair who took Daine into his arms, hurrying up to the rider quarters, where Alanna was supposed to be.

"Alanna, come. Fast please." Alanna knew that it has to be an urgent thing or an emergency and raced towards Numair and the others. The first one she saw was Numair, carrying an unconscious Daine. "Ok carry her to the mess hall. I'll see what I can do for her. By the way, what happened?"

Onua told Alanna about the fight with the Stormwings and that Daine fainted on their way back to the palace. Alanna cursed, 2 Stormwings as close to the palace. She asked a rider who was tending his horse nearby, to carry a message to Raoul and alert every force in the city. The Stormwings would have something evil in mind, to come as close as they were. It was better to be prepared.

In the mess hall she woke Daine up, it was easier as she had thought. They asked Daine what had happened and Daine answered shivering "It was a message from Ozorne, he is still alive, and he seems to be the king of a pack of Stormwings. And as he sent 20 to attack me, he must have a big pack of more than hundred of them. And they were not supposed to kill me, they were supposed to kidnap me and wanted to take me to Ozorne."

As she mentioned Ozorne, everyone paled a bit, but as she mentioned his thread, Numair grew white and than changed to an angry red. He was afraid of the thing Ozorne would have done to his Daine. He didn't even recognised, that he thought of her as HIS.

Alanna sighed "Bad news, and it will get worse. If Ozorne gets mighty again." Jon was even more alerted "I'll have to warn every force in Corus, to be alerted. They should be prepared1" Alanna calmed him "I have sent a message to Raoul and Gary to prepare the necessary things. I thought you were too drained, to make a fast decision at the moment." Jon grinned "Yeah, it was hard to break their chant, and I've forgotten the Jewel again."

Onua had called a servant to serve them some drinks- not alcoholic ones, but fruit juice and water, to regain a bit of there strength. They were all glad full to this, nearly forgetting the 3 strangers, who had helped them.

Daine was sobbing and Numair hugged her to make her comfortable again. Now Daine sobbed into his shirt. She was afraid. She was being hunted by Ozorne again. She remembered the room in which he has imprisoned her. No light, no air, white walls.

Alanna looked at Daine, knowing that her thoughts would be back in her prison. "Daine, calm down, he will not get his hands on you again. Or wings or whatever. And he will not be able to imprison you again. You destroyed his Palace."

"And now, he will try to get my, and get his revenge on me and worse on Tortall. I haven't made anything better at all. I just ruined a whole palace in a few hours, making Carthakis mad on me and as I was a part of the delegation on Tortall as well. If he had an army of Stormwings, he can kill many people, and it is my fault." Daine sobbed, crying into Numairs shirt. Numair hugged her: "Magelet, do not blame yourself for it, you were chosen by the graveyard hag, so you had to do it. And it isn't as bad. We have peace with Carthak and may even get supplies from Khaddar. And we will have to get used to Stormwings anyway. The boundary is full of wholes, now. So we will have to fight some Immortals."

Then, the world exploded for the gifted and Daine. They were all nearly fainting. "Onua screamed "What's that? "But didn't get an answer.

Some minutes later the Basilisk Tkaa rushed into the room, followed by Kitten. "Sire, Alanna, Daine Numair", he was calling for them "Bad news, the bounder between the realms of god and our realm is down, we will be overrunned by Immortals soon."

Every Tortallian made the sign against evil, Susan could read sheer horror in their faces. She was shivering herself, more monsters, like the ones they had killed? Bigger forces? That's bad news.

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Ok enough for now, await the next chapter, as you see, I have not forgotten or left out the immortal war, but I think the forces will have to be a bit strange to you. Cause I will let other powers be in it. They were not stranded in Tortall for nothing.