SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING IN A LONG TIME. classes got in the way. If there any grammatical errors, i'm sorry. I did not send this to my beta. Im sure my beta is also dealing with school. I tried my best.
Chapter 7
BAD WEEK
Gnarl watched his Lady's new companion, Erebus. He was a strange fellow, just walking around and looking at everything. He had kept out of the way of the minions, but occasionally he would talk to the blue minions. Gnarl turned sharply to his left when he heard someone clear their throat. It was a knight from Mayberry.
"I'm sorry to bother you. I uh..." The knight looked around. "I mean is your lady here?"
"What about your lord?" Erebus asked. "You do relies that he's...locked up down in the dungeons."
"That lord is no concern of us. He only acquired us by payment; we serve those with true ability with a sword." The knight responded.
"Nice to know where your loyalties lye." Andromeda said as she walked down from her room to her throne. "Gnarl, the sheets on the bed need changing. Do not let the minions do it, they ripped the last set." Andromeda dismissed Gnarl.
"Erebus, there are a bunch of rooms upstairs if you wish you go take one up or you could just stay down here and I could just give you a room." Erebus looked between the knight and then the Lady of the palace and made his way to the staircase. Erebus didn't want to know what they were discussing.
"I thought you would dispense after Harith was...moved out."
"You had come back once; we thought you had taken over Mayberry."
"I have, what do you need?" Gnarl at this time waddled down the stairs and stood beside his lady.
"We were wondering if you wanted us to deal with the people in the town, they are not quite taken to you. Some have not, well just a handful."
"I'll get to it. Just round them up." Andromeda stated as if the people were cattle. The knight clicked his heals together and walked out. "Gnarl, what am I going to do?" Andromeda rolled her head to look at Gnarl. Gnarl just blinked not quite sure what to say. "I'll go look at them people I guess."
A few hours later Andromeda made her way through Mayberry. The knights that were posted here and there striated every time Andromeda walked past and then relaxed. The people on the other hand would stop and stare at her; those close to her reach and turn of the head bowed or curtsied in her direction. The captain of the guards meet her at the edge of town square, he saluted but kept quite otherwise when following Andromeda.
"They are all elves," Gnarl says." The captain just nods. "Why?"
"They are servants to whoever could afford them. Most of them work in the palace. They want to know why they still have to work there if no one lives there anymore." Andromeda didn't really care much for these elves, but she had never seen one.
The elves were long eared, think framed and rather pathetic looking huddle in a bunch surrounded by knights. A knight had stepped forward and said some words to the elves that caused one elf to hit the knight's chest plate. Instantly the elf was cut down by the very same knight.
'Gnarl. How difficult will it be to bring everything from that little tower to this palace here in Mayberry?' Gnarl was mumbling something to himself at first.
'Not that hard with extra hands. You don't really plan of moving do you?'
'That palace is big enough; these knights could do the watching instead of wasting minion on that job. Plus the servants here would have something to do. I also remember you mentioning that the tower can float why not just pick it up and shove it somewhere and connect it?'
'Do as you wish.' Gnarl sighed. 'I'll get the tower moving.' With that Gnarl waddles away to get the tower moving. Andromeda at the time stepped forward into the circle of knights and elves. The elves were a yelling and ranting at the knights to let them go.
"SILENCE!" Rang through the air. Everyone stopped moving, even the little cricket in the valley at the edge of town. "Enough out of you. I took over this place and leave it in the care of the knights for a while and what do I get? A rowdy bunch of elves, what do you guys could possibly want?" No one moved, like anyone dared. "Apparently nothing. Go back to work; you have a palace to prepare for my arrival." With that everyone dispersed.
"You are staying here in Mayberry my Lady?" The Captain asked. Andromeda gave the knight a look and then headed towards the palace.
The palace was…pretty, that's the only word that Andromeda could come up with. The marble floors, adorned with red carpets, widows covered in red silk, red drapes here and there. Red and white where not the color scheme she liked, but it worked. The walls where huge, compared to the towers. Suddenly there was a loud boom and then a rumble.
'Tower was successfully moved.' Gnarl stated. 'Oh, the tower smashed in the west wings roof…kind of destroying it. That could be fixed I'm sure.' Silence for a minute before Gnarls raspy voice sounded in the hallway she was standing in.
"White, white and more white. What a bother, the scheme will defiantly need to be changed. For now that is not the main priority. Oh, My Lady, Harith took a tumble when we moved the tower hit his head. Can't seem to remember who he was." Gnarl had this weird gleam in his eyes, like he really wanted to mess with Harith.
"Do what you must Gnarl." Andromeda sighed. She seemed rather tired all of a sudden.
"Also, you're going to feel tired. We had to use a lot of power to move the tower, which also included some of yours." Andromeda kneed Gnarl in the head for not telling her earlier and stalked off.
The throne room was bigger than the towers but it didn't have the Over Lord effect, that Andromeda was used to and secretly loved. Andromeda slowly walked towards the throne, taking in the majestic feel of the room and the power she suddenly realized she had. She sighed as she sank down on the surprisingly comfortable marble throne.
Stretching her feet out before her she relaxed for the first time since she woke up. Her dreams where plagued of a man she couldn't't seem to remember, but he obviously knew her, for he kept calling her love. He was hard to see, covered in armor head to toe like she was. His battle ax read to strike at his nemesis that was closing in on them. He just kept saying 'Go, leave now or you'll die. Go, love. GO!' and that's where she would wake up.
Andromeda heard a whistling noise; it sounded more like a cat-call than a humming whistle. She looked in front of her instead of the ceiling. There stood Erebus, he was looking around the room with amazement.
""Nice isn't it"" Andromeda asked him. He nodded, still in too much aw to speak. ""It could use a different color scheme, but right now we are focusing on the west wing that got destroyed to Gnarls miscalculation."
""Could use some black, maybe blue. How about just do the minion colors?"" Erebus asked. Andromeda just shrugged. She may have been a lady, but that didn''t mean she knew about decorating…unless you consider blood spatter everywhere as decorating. "You're not really in the mood for talking color schemes are you?" Erebus asked. He seemed to know her pretty well for meeting her the day before. ""What are you planning on doing now?""
""Relaxing. The move took a toll on me.""
""I can tell. There was so much power in that crystal that I went blind for a moment when it flared to life. Though it did dim for a moment then brightened again." So the Crystal took some of her power just to move the building."
""Erebus, why don't you deal with decorations here?"
" With that Andromeda got comfortable, closed her eyes and went to sleep.
A small cough woke up Andromeda from her nap on the throne. Lifting her head, she cursed herself for even thinking of sleeping on the throne. Her neck hurt and her but had fallen asleep. The room was dark now, candles where lit here and there to give the place light. There were elves here and there.
One was lighting candles that went out, another was hanging drapery, while others were milling about. There was an elf at the base of the throne, laying out a long rug. At the moment he was just starting to cover the first step up to the throne.
He rose his hand to his mouth and coughed once again, he was either sick or the dust on the floor was getting to him. He looked up briefly and gasped. Startled he hurled himself back and sputtered a bunch of words that sounded more like baby talk than apologies for disturbing her. At this point the other elves stopped moving and watched.
Andromeda took her time to stand up; she actually enjoyed seeing the fear of this elf, knowing that any moment she could chop of his head or just leave him be. Not really wanting to deal with a mess in her newly acquired throne room she tiredly made her way out of the throne room and made a right turn. She didn''t know where she was going, but right seemed to be the direction she chose.
It took Andromeda about an entire minute to realize that the palace corridors where no longer red and white, they were different shades of blue. Pausing she looked around and then remembered in her sleep fog brain that she gave Erebus the objective of redecorating the palace.
Shrugging she continued on to reach two glass double doors that led to the back of the palace. There she found the tower sitting in the middle of what once was… a flower patch. Gnarl was there as well. Screeching orders left and right about building something…walls and roof was what Andromeda could get out between the panes of glass. Opening the door quickly she stuck her head out to be blasted in the face with a cold breeze, that woke her up.
""Gnarl."" Gnarl stopped his ranting and turned towards her. ""It's late and you're making quite a racket."" Not caring much for his answer she pushed herself past the elves and the minions working to get into the tower and made her way to the tele-porting pool thing.
The forest in which Andromeda traveled to was filled with pockets of water here and there. Then again, she herself was standing in one the pools, wet again. Wadding out onto dry land Andromeda looked around. She was hoping to find a minion hole somewhere in this soggy ass place.
Andromeda cracked her eyes open. There was a distinct smell of burning wood, it reminded her of a burning village. Groaning as she sat up, she was surprised to see her self in a small gross hut.
The floor was made of dirt, the sealing was made of twigs and long grass and the fire pit looked like it wasn't cleaned in weeks. Andromea's hair fell in front of her face, this was the first time since she "woke up" that she had her hair down.
"Oh! Your up. I'm glad to see you awake, I was beginning to think you were in a comatose state. How are u feeling?" Andromeda looked away from her long flowing hair to the lady standing within her personal space. The lady seemed to sense her uneasiness to her being too close backed up and put a fish on the table.
"I am well, though sore. Where am I?"
"Your in the Hellen swamps. I found you not to far from my hut here. What where You doing out there in the first place? Don't you know that the swamp gets dangerous at night? Unless you are the fighter that has responded to our help wanted posters."
"No I'm not the fighter, what is out there. I remmeber seeing a light before blacking out."
"That's the swamp spirit."
"Swamp spit?"
"Yeah. It comes out at night and kills people who are wondering out there. No servives, we find dead bodies ever morning. Poor souls. But you mannaged to servive...some how. So, what's your name?" The girl talked too much for Andomeda's likeing.
"Lady Andromeda."
"Your a lady! I'm sorry. Had I known I wouldn't have talked as much. We peasants tend to say more than needed." She smiled sheepishly.
'No. Really.' Andromeda said in her head. Sighing Andromeda stood up slowly. She wasn't sure how long she had been out and healing.
"How does one get out of the swamps without getting attacked by the Swamp Spirit?"
"Headding out now will do you no good. Its dusk so you won't get far. If you head out tomorrow morning, bright and early, you'll be able to get out by dusk tomorrow. Then again it depends which way your heading."
"Closest town would be what?" Andromeda asked.
"Mirshare. That's east of here. Head that way." So east it was for Andromeda.
'Hopefully I will Find a minion hole or a portal somewhere. It is a town after all. The former overlord had to have concured it.'
"Your a really deep thinker. I was calling you for the last five minutes. Is something wrong?" Now that Andromeda thought about it, she had not heard Gnarls voice at all. He was probably spasing out that he couldn't reach her.
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BACK AT THE TOWER
"I can't find her!" Gnals voice screeched thought the stilled dust. Erbus came running in yelling how a person can't just disappear like that, especailly someone with a talking device inplanted in her...or something like that. It wast just a bunch of yelling together between Gnarl and Eribus with Harith singing the wheels on the buss.
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BACK WITH ANDROMEDA
Actually Andromeda didn't want to think what was happening there now that she couldn't reach them.
"Are you trying to use magic?" Where the hell did that came from? "Your consintrate really hard. I Heard that people with magical abilities sometimes have to consintrate really heard to make a spell happen. We'll you won't get that done. Magic won't happen here, the spirit makes sure of that."
'Thats probably why I cant connect to the tower.' Sighing Andromeda sat the table for the small meal that would help her heal a bit more.
"After dinner I'll change your bandages." With that it was silent for another thirty minutes for dinner.
Slowly the bandages came off and the young lady gave a startledcgasp. Andromeda looked down thinking her body was bleeding out but there was nothing wrong. No open bleeding, pussy wound, just a white line from her shoulder to he hip in a jaggid line on her left side.
"You where bleeding, and bleeding, and bleeding from the wound yesterday and now...now there's nothing..nothing but a scar. How?"
"I heal fast." The lady looked up from Andromeda's torso. "May I put on my shirt now?" the crazy lady just nodded. "What is your name?"
"Oh! Krista. Heal fast. Lady... you've been out a week." Krista inclined her head.
"Krista then. I will head out in the morning. I...aprecate you help with my wounds but I have... people that are probably freeking out because they can't find me." Andromeda said completely ignoring Krista's words.
So that very morning Andromeda left first light after wrestling her bed partner to get out of the covers.
Mirshare wasn't as glorious as Mayberry, but it did have that 'im doomed' look to it, which for some reason made Andromeda feel right at home. It was a gloomy town, fog clung to the high buildings, but being so close to the swamp it made sence. A few people milled about in the morning as Andromeda walked though the gates of the city. Few number of knights stood here and there, but otherwise ignored her as she walked through.
Sighing as Andromeda made her way thought the gate she was happy to be out of the swamp. She had fallen into several waist deep water pits and actually once tripped and fell into a mud puddle... She didn't look her amazing Over Lady self, but at the moment she couldn't care less.
"Been though the swamps Sir Knight? Looks like you had quite the adventure." One of knights at the gate snickered out.
"You try going though the swamp with an attacking swamp spirit and then have to trudge though god knows what with a wound and have to wind up in this town. You'll look like me too." There was few moments of silence from the knights.
"Do you need a healer? Or a shower Miss?" Another knight asked with a slight laughter to his voice.
"No... I need you to go out there and kill the swamp spirit that attacked me." No one moved. "Thought so. You men have no balls to fight, at least I survived the attack, though I'm not sure if you tin cans can even step into the swamp with out peeing your self." With that Andromeda stormed away into to center of the city.
Suddenly she head yelling in her head. It was Gnarl. "My Lady... Oh thank god you are ok. Where did you go? Are you wounded? Where are the minions? Quick find a portal and get home!"
'Find a portal. Where?' Andromeda looked around, nothing. She walked around slowly looking, well feeling, for any sign of a portal or minion hole. After a few hours later Andromeda found a portal...only she had to walk though thorny bushes to get to it.
'Really? Can this day get any more...annoying?' Sighing she trudged though it in her partially damaged armor and felt the pull of magic before she wound up facing the cielling in the tower with Gnarl looking at her. Andromeda was actually happy to see Gnarls ugly green face and at the moment she didn't mind letting Gnarl know that.
"I'm actually really glad to see your green twisted face Gnarl." With that she passed out right there on the floor thankful for the towers healing ability.
"Harith... Stop that. You'll wake her up and I will be the one to get hit for it." Gnarls voice was the first voice Andromeda woke up to the next morning of her home coming.
"You two are so strange." Who was that...it didn't sound like Harith or Erubus. It was way to smooth to be Gnarls voice. Openng her eyes Andromeda found her self lying in a red and black theemed room, the curtains where closed and the only light was provided by a small fire in the fire pit.
The voices come from behind a door. Slowly Andromeda slid off her bed and stood up. A small pardon was heard before the doors that the voices where coming from opened slightly and then closed quietly. Looking over her right shoulder, Andromeda spotted the elf picking up some discarded, shredded cloths. Realasation dawned to Andromeda that one, she was naked and two, that was what was left of her former cloths.
"Elf." Was all Andromeda said to hav the elf servant jump slightly and look up towards her. "I need close." The elf nodded deposited her torn bundle on a chair and made her way to a door left of the bed chamber doors. Opening them up the elf stopped.
"What would you like to where?" Andromeda didn't realize that she had a choice, so she slowly walked over to the closet...walk in closet. There where a whole bunch of stuff, from pant outfits to formal puffy dresses.
"You have a visiting lord in Mayberry... My Lady. Perhaps a dress...not those really puffy ones. I'm sure you want those burned." The elf said as she was shifting out outfits for Andromeda to look. The was this nice black dress that had slits on either side of her legs showing enough thigh without looking like a whore.
"Nice. He's young so this would come in handy My Lady." The elf was strange, but she gave away information as if Andromeda had already known all the facts even though she was out cold. "Lord Ulesh said he had seen you walking around his City by the swamp. As if you'll trudge in those waters just for pleasure." The elf laughed at her own joke, not really caring that her lady didn't share the same funny bone.
Lord Ulesh was not what Andromeda, well young looking, but he had the voice of an eighty old man. Not only that he smell like stale garlic, that had a dieing rat attached to it. He was hunched over slightly and had missing teeth. Andromeda met him in the hallway on the way to the throne room. He had been looking at something on her wall but turned when he herd her walking towards him. He had this gross, lecherous gleam in eyes. Andromeda sneered at him and the actually young man next to him and walked off.
"Andromeda." The voice had come either of the two men in the hallway. Who els would call her that without knowing she was lady. Andromeda turned ready stay something about being rude. "Where is the lord of this town?" Was the old man stupid or did he just not know? Andromeda wasn't sure but she hopped the first.
"Your looking at her." There was silence in the hallway before Harith came running in.
"Lady Anromeda! Gnarls being meeeeeen." He said with a childish voice.
"Stupid boy, leave her alone. She's dealingwith these people." Gnarl ran in after him and bopped him on the head. Which had Harith sitting on the floor weeping like a child.
"Perhaps we can talk in another room Lady Andromeda." The lord said looking at the scene before him. And with that Andromeda and her two guest made there way to the throne room.
Sitting down on her ever so comfortable throne, Andromeda crossed her right leg over her left, giving the men a nice view of her well toned right thigh. The younger man, if you looked closely, gulped and shifted slightly and then cleared his throat.
"Lady Andromeda, this is Lord Ulesh." The young man gestured towards the old dieing man. "I am his son Prince Lagom."
"Pleasure. Why have you come into my domain?"
"We heard you had a really powerful fighter here. We were wondering if we paid you to borrow him to fight off the swamp-"
"Swamp Spirit. I had a feeling you had come for that. What or who was this spirit?" The two royals looked at one another in a silence of words between one another.
"She was my wife. She had died many years ago in that swamp. So she haunts it to this day, killing anyone who trespasses." Andromeda was surprised to hear this. Was that why the spirit let her live? Was it because she was a woman? Or a woman a power? "I'm sure you fighter can figure something out. I just want to put her to rest."
"What was her name?"
"Kathleen."
"All right. We'll discus payment after the deed is done." With that Andromeda stood up, slowly walked down her throne steps and started walking out the room."You are welcomed to sleep for the night or you may head home. The knight will be sent to you."
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