Chapter 6- Sage

My mind throbbed… was… was that all a dream? Slowly, my eyes opened to the world, at first my vision was blurred, but adjusted. Before me was a doctor checking the charts at the foot of my bed, he was startled to see my eyes open and awake. "My, sleeping beauty woke up at last!" he called.

"What happened?" I whispered. Looking about, there were monitors everywhere and an IV hooked into my arm.

The doctor made his way to my bedside. "Well, you passed out at your workplace, no one knows why, or how. But you've been out for three months! Some coma you were in young lady!" he said. Looking through the papers once more he nodded. "You've had a stream of visitors, your family was worried sick about you!"

Family? "But… I don't have one…"

"Amnesia is part of the side effect of the coma, I'm sure you'll remember them as time passes on. Oh speaking of which, looks like some have just arrived!" He waved to the door; I saw a complete stranger walk in but the three men that followed… I did recognize!

"How is my wife doing today?" the stranger asked. Wife? Looking to my left hand… I saw it, a wedding ring!

"She just woke up as you can see, she is going to need time to recover as you are all well aware…"

"Thanks doc, can we have some time alone?"

The doctor nodded as he left the room, the stranger closed the door, however a large grin on his face made me uncomfortable. "I know you three… you're WWE wrestlers… Snitsky, Kane… and the Undertaker" I muttered. Slowly I pulled myself up. "But who is he?"

The stranger only smiled. "Vince knows his stuff huh?"

"Indeed, was there any doubt? Luckily the spell only makes the one being changed to lose their memory." smirked the Undertaker. He nudged Snitsky in the arm and turned to the IV. "Wanna remained her?"

I grew worried as Gene Snitsky approached me, he smiled just like the stranger in the room, his hand reached up and touched the IV I was hooked to. The clear chemical changed for but a moment to a black color… what… what did he just do!

"I think we can check her out, three months is a long time to wait… but also… three months is down… six to go," grinned Kane.

My mind became a blur; I stared at the men for the longest time… only to see them change… Kane… and the stranger… Kratos… turned scaly… Wait… I remembered his name! Kratos…

I found my attention drifting down to my hand… it too… was turning to scales. My memory became to return… all the adventures… everything… and how I met these men. Kratos came closer. "Do you remember now?" he whispered.

I pulled him into my arms and cried, when I regained my composure I asked. "How can it be possible? I saw… Taker… you… you…"

"Yeah… I was dead… again… but when you get sent back in time, some things cannot be altered. Snitsky here was right; if you weren't there… those dark creatures wouldn't have attacked. I wouldn't be dead… again"

"But… it still doesn't make any sense. If I wasn't there… how could all the events happened… Snitsky finding his son… Stephanie bringing down the Slayers… Me being a dragon" My mind was at a boil trying to understand these things.

Kane sat at my bedside and explained. "Different event triggered those ones. As you heard Vince said, they can only alter the time line so much… in the three months you have been asleep here… Those events happened… As well, Vince cannot undo life… so you my dear… are still carrying my grandkids!" he said with a grin.

"I am still really confused"

"Yeah, not to worry, so am I!" Taker announced. He kept feeling for the open wound from the sword. "You know I got stabbed, I know I got stabbed… yet I am still here… still freaks the hell out of me! I've died what… twice now? It ain't a pleasant thing to remember let along go through the second time around, it doesn't make it any easier … Damn being a vampire sucks!"

"Let's say we go home," Snitsky announced. "I got the appetite the size of a pig!"

"That explains why there's an oinker in you locker room!" laughed Kratos. He leaned into me and whispered. "Don't watch him eat it for the love of God!"

I had no intention of doing such a thing. "Are… are you in human form now… or in your real form?" I asked.

"Real, Hunter learned the illusion of making us look human! Same with you, you've been lying in bed as a dragon the whole time and no one knows the wiser! Sweet huh?" laughed Snitsky. He called back the doctor and explained that I was going home… words… Words I never thought I would hear and sound so good.

I was going home with my family!

THE END