22. The riddle and the return
A little white-haired man with a red robe stood in front of her.
"Dungeon Master!" Bobby called and grinned at him. "Hello my young pupils!" Uni walked to the man. Dungeon Master stroked over her head. Then he turned to the others and said, "I'm glad to see you unhurt. Especially you, young Barbarian. And you too, Sundance."
"How do you know my name?" Sundance asked surprised. The little man smiled mysteriously but didn't answer her.
"Did you know that if we go through this portal, we would come into this land and meet Tiamat here?" Eric asked sharply. "Of course, I knew it, Cavalier! And that your weapons won't work here, as well. I would see how you'll manage it if you couldn't use your weapons." "So, you let us go here into an open knife with intention, didn't you?" Eric lifted his hands. "Tiamat could have killed us..." "You had friends and with their help you have chased Tiamat away from here, haven't you?"
"Dungeon Master, Sundance told me something about a ritual which Tiamat would do. She needed Sundance for it. Could this ritual have had something to do with Venger?" Bobby asked. "Yes, that's right! It had something to do with Venger. This ritual would require the blood of one of the ponies from Ponyland." Bobby and Firefly looked at Sundance as she gulped audibly.
Eric meant ironically, "Yeah! Well, that's all very well, we have saved this pony from the bloody sacrifice-death of Tiamat's ritual and by the way we have rescued Bobby once again..." Bobby pressed his hands in his hips and let out an outraged "Hey!" but that didn't bother Eric. So Eric continued, "...but is that why we came into this land? Only for that reason? I thought we would finally find a way back home but what we found instead? Another strange new world..."
"You only have to open your eyes, Cavalier, then you could detect the truth. It's more obvious than you would have ever thought. Search at the likes of you and you'll find it!" Eric rolled his eyes and replied, "Dungeon Master, I would be very glad if you could only one time talk in no..." He didn't come further, because Diana interrupted him, "He's gone!" Eric opened his eyes and looked at the spot where Dungeon Master had stood just now. "Ohhh, not again! That's typical of him! By the way, couldn't he just say goodbye at least, instead of disappearing so easy?" Eric grumbled and crossed his arms.
"Uh, what could he have meant with this riddle again?" Diana thought. "Do we have to think about it even now? I'm tired and hungry and would like to return to Dream Castle again!" Fizzy meant impatient. "Fizzy is right! Let's go at first to Dream Castle and rest ourselves." Megan agreed. "Certainly, you are tired as well and want to rest yourselves, too. You can come with us to Dream Castle if you like." she turned to the kids. "Of course, we want to!" Bobby shouted and jumped for joy. The others smiled and nodded.
So they all set off to Dream Castle. Megan, Danny, Molly and the ponies were greeted stormily. And after the ponies from Dream Castle heard what happened, they greeted Sundance especially. And when the ponies had introduced the 'strangers', they were greeted as well and invited friendly.
After they all had told their adventures while eating, they all went to bed and slept.