CHAPTER FOURTEEN Bri Delenn's Turmoil
With the successful defeat of Kathren, Bri Delenn entrapped her in her own hibernation and caused Kathren to go to sleep. Bri Delenn knew she had an being inside her own flesh, but did not tell Delenn, for there would be too many questions and Bri Delenn did not know the answers.
Bri Delenn, Delenn, Delenn III and Delenn David Mir make it out of the swamp, they find David and Delenn II along the way. As they walk quickly to Almon Sul, the ancient watch tower of the Ice King; Ren The Unclean. They can see it and rush to the ruin hoping to find the cure to the curse from the Cursed Swamp.
As for Bri Delenn, well she is beginning to fell something inside her, it's not the curse, it's something else, something like coming of age, a genetic change. As Bri Delenn's mind races, she comes upon a chilling though, she sees that her body is going to go through a transition into the alien that has overtaken her.
Even though Kathren lost the battle with Bri Delenn, she places her DNA into Bri Delenn's DNA code and now her form changes, and so now Bri Delenn will take on the form of Kathren, with a slight hint of her Minbari and Human characteristics which Bri Delenn got from Delenn at Valenera.
Knowing this, Bri Delenn also knows that she must find Smaug and go to Minas Morgul to stop the Nazgul. Of course, Bri Delenn does make it to Almon Sul, but finds out the cure is not there, it's at Fornost where Kathren resided for awhile when the Numenorean army came to the north.
Bri Delenn knew by instinct not to drink the water, but she could not control herself, an eternal urge pressed her on to drink the water and a few others did so also. But Bri Delenn knew that what she just did was a bad idea, but she had to do it, it was instinct, so she fell down to her knees and sipped the icy water.
It was clear that whatever this entity wanted, it was to transform her into Kathren, probably to take over her body. By the time Bri Delenn mindlessly dismissed the others to take the high trail to Khazad'dum, Bri Delenn went under the mountains in a secret cave to find the gold dragon named Smaug.
Bri Delenn found the entrance of the cave easily and entered the musty, smelly cave of Lord Smaug, the king of all dragons, and now the last of all dragons. Bri Delenn proceeded carefully, she was not terrified of the dragon, she was terrified of bottomless holes in caves that lurk in the depths of caves.
When Kathren entered a cavern of majestic columns of gold and silver, there slept the dragon Smaug. Now Bri Delenn was terrified, this was indeed a real dragon! But the dragon had orders to follow and as it awoke at the scent of food, Smaug uncoils himself and stands up to find the creature how had the nerve to enter his cave.
When Smaug sighted a young, female with a crest bone and dressed a dirty, torn robes. Smaug was about to barbeque Bri Delenn to a fine crisp, but light flickers off the little patch of scales under Bri Delenn's eyes, and Smaug chokes on his flame. As Smaug lowers his head to level with Bri Delenn's, Smaug lights his pilot flame and Bri Delenn's face and neck sparkle with translucent scales, the first part of her transformation. Bri Delenn blows out Smaug's flame, and the dancing sparkles die away. "Will you stop that!" Says Smaug in a deep voice that echoes in the large cavern.
"My apologies, the light hurts my eyes while I'm in a cave, plus your breathe smell!" Bri Delenn stops in mid-sentence, why is she harassing a fire breathing dragon? He's bigger then she is.
"A feisty one hmm?" Smaug walks behind Bri Delenn, Bri Delenn does not turn. Smaug looks at Bri Delenn's back. "Remove your shirt feisty one!" Roars Smaug. Bri Delenn does not argue, she removes her shirt, and with Bri Delenn remaining shirtless, Smaug pours cold water over her back. As the skins swells and a ridge forms on Bri Delenn's back covered in bluish-green scales, Smaug nods his head. "So this is it…you're the one I've awaited for so long."
Bri Delenn turns to face Smaug, "Sorry to be short with you, but I don't actually know you, so how do you know me?"
Smaug laughs. "That's is the wrong question Mirabilia."
Bri Delenn is not sure what Mirabilia means. "Mira-what?"
"Mirabilia, meaning to see, you will soon see what you really are, and I will soon see justice over evil." Smaug hands over the pail of water. "Here, now see."
Bri Delenn accepts the pail, and looks at the water. What the water calms, she sees her former self, she has reformed into Harry Bri. "Is this an illusion?"
Smaug shakes his head. "No, the water in this pail only revels the truth about people, you were hiding under a organic cloak, this is what you truly look like! Is it not?"
Harry nods, "Yes, this is what I once looked like when I was a sick boy in a hospital on Earth." Harry Bri looks at the reflection of a young 12 year old boy with blonde hair, no freckles, blue eyes and perfectly shaped contours to his face.
Harry looks at Smaug, "Now what do I do?"
Smaug has been waiting for this moment for 50 thousand years. "You are known as Mirabilia, Guardian of the Ocean. Kathren, your protector is Lord of the Ocean, as I am the Lord of Dragons."
"Is there anything shorter then Mirabilia?" Says Harry Bri who disproves of his new name, this one is worse then Delenn.
Smaug thinks, "Well I guess Mira is the shortest."
Harry Bri is still not happy about the name, but it will have to do. You don't want to anger a dragon, they have short tempers. "Very well, Mira it's. But I do prefer to keep my original name, Harry."
Smaug does not reply. "Very well Mira. You must know about the risen lord, Asron?"
Mira nods his head. "I've heard of him. According to the memories I have no memory of remembering, which makes no sense to me and probably you, Lord Asron is a being of supernatural powers."
Smaug nods. "Yes, horrible powers to take the best and ruin the rest!"
Mira nods, "But we mustn't go to Lord Asron, we must go to Minas Morgul. I have some unfinished business there. The Nazgul are breaking away, and if we can get them on our side, we might have a fighting chance!"
Smaug leads Mira to the entrance to the cave. "Very well then Mira, to Minas Morgul we go." Mira climbs up on Smaug's back and the next stop is the city of the undead…Twilight Moon.