The Never Ending Story

[Haids1987]

...his monocle.  Picking it up and placing it over her eye, Alarah laughed.

"Hey, look, I'm the Monopoly guy!" she yelled, flapping her arms around like a madwoman.  "Go directly to jail!"  Graham and Valanice exchanged looks.  "Alarah," said Valanice....

[I_am_so_nifty]

..."You'd best put that thing down."

"Yes," Graham agreed. "If Cedric had it, it might very well be curs--"

Before he could finish his sentence...

[crayauchtin]

...Alarah began to transform into an owl in a blue vest!

"Oh no!" Rosella exclaimed, "Not Cedric!"
Valanice moved to shield her child. "Yes, it seems so! He wants to create multiples of himself to annoy the entire world!"
"A nefarious scheme indeed!" Graham said, leaping into action...

[I_am_so_nifty]

Weird. Alarah went to pick the monocle up, Rosella picked it up and put it to her eye, and Alarah transformed into Cedric...

[Haids1987]

Eh heh.  I'll fix that...

[Kimmie]

(lmao this is great   )

[I_am_so_nifty]

...he leaped at the now fully tranformed Alarah, trying to knock the monocle off of her in hopes of reversing the process. But she flew just out of his grasp and deeper into the forest. Graham ran off after him, and Rosella and Valanice followed.

Soon, they reached a clearing by a log cabin. To their horror, hundreds of blue-vested owls had now surrounded them....

[Haids1987]

...so they sought shelter inside the cabin.

"HELPUSHELPUSHELPUS!" screamed Rosella, clawing her face in terror.  "There are hundreds of blue-vested, monocle-wearing owls outside demanding that we look out for POIsonous snakes!"  To their surprise, however, a sallow-faced young man looked up at them sadly from his seat on the bed.

"We have nothing to offer you, Sir Knight, for my wife is starving.  I fear she may die soon," says the woodcutter mournfully.  Graham scowled at him and said...

[I_am_so_nifty]

..."Another product of a remake!"

"And shouldn't you still have that magic bowl?" Valanice wondered.

The woodcutter, ignoring Graham, answered Valanice...

[Kimmie]

"An owl came in and stole it from my hands, now we've been forced to eat vegetables and my wife is wasting away!" weeped the Woodcutter

"Hardly!" Snorted Rosella looking at the rather obese lady lying on the bed

Suddenly a though occured to Graham "THE BOWL, OF COURSE!...Take the "B" away from Bowl and what do you get?"

"OWL! Oh my, Cedric has been cloning himself with the magic bowl" gasped Valanice!

Suddenly a noise caught their attention...

[Haids1987]

...and they were startled out of their conversation with the starving woodcutter and his wife.  To their utter horror, the monocled faces of dozens of blue-vested owls appeared at the window, pecking at it madly.  As everyone watched in terror, the woodcutter's wife (whose name was Maud) raised her head from her pillow and said...

[Kimmie]

"FOOOOOOD!"

Miraculously she heaved herself out of the bed and ran at the door, knocking many of the clone-cedrics flying into the air in a cloud of feathers. Like a demon she devoured several of the feathered critters before anyone could stop her and before long, there were only a handful left.

"Well that's cleared up that problem, looks like Cedrics army has been taken care of" chuckled Graham

Meanwhile, feeling somewhat ignored, Alarah...

[I_am_so_nifty]

...who had transformed back into herself when Maud knocked the monocle off her in her owl-feasting frenzy, walked back into the hut.

Trying to clear things up, Alarah asked the King and Queen, "Why were you swimming in the lake?"

"Well," Valanice answered...

[crayauchtin]

..."Alexander's been getting on everyone's nerves now that he's a king. Letting it go to his head and all that. Last time we went swimming he got kidnapped, so we were hoping it would happen again and bring him down a notch."

"To be fair," Graham added, "It was Cassima's idea."

Alarah....

[Haids1987]

...looked at them in horror.  "Who's this Cassima person?" she asked suspiciously, narrowing her eyes.  Rosella stared at her in amusement.

"Seriously?" she asked.  "She's Alexander's wife!"  Alarah's mouth dropped open in astonishment.  "WIFE?!" she screamed.  "He's married?!"  Valanice rolled her eyes.  "Where have you been?" she asked.  "It happened like three games ago!"

Rolling up her sleeve, Alarah showed them the tattoo emblazoned all down her arm, the word "ALEXANDER" prevalent in bright red ink.

"I WAS SUPPOSED TO MARRY HIM!" she screamed.  Graham, who had been silent all this time...

[I_am_so_nifty]

...decided to make a mental note to help the woodcutter later and then bid them farewell. "I promise I will retrieve that bowl, if I can. If you are in need of food, and can make it, you are welcome to come to the castle for dinner."

The woodcutter thanked him for this. As they departed from the cabin, Valanice turned to Alarah. "We'll be heading to the castle. On the way, why don't you explain this whole ordeal with Alexander."

Alarah nodded, "Well," she began...

[Kimmie]

...when I first met him he went by the name of Alejandro and he was so completely out of it, he was talking Gaga-Giberish, he must have hit his head really hard during the shipwreck.

I was working on the Isle of the beast at the time and we got to know each other from his island-snooping habbits. He'd be gone for days at a time and I wouldn't hear from him, now I realise he must have been with this Cassima. He said he loved me, asked me to marry him...I can't believe he was two timing me all along! 

"Perhaps he has amnesia" suggested Valanice

Just then Alexander strolled around the corner...

[Haids1987]

...with Cassima on his arm.  Alarah's face darkened and she took off running towards Alexander.  Fortunately for him, Rosella grabbed the back of Alarah's dress before she could get farther than a couple feet.

"Hold your undead flying horses, you." she said calmly.  "That's my little brother there."  Alexander looked at her in surprise.

"I thought we were twins, Rosie!" he whined.  Rosella answered...

[crayauchtin]

"I was three minutes before you!"

Alexander sneered, "Yeah, well, mother always liked me best anyhow. And with good reason, I'm a king now and you're only dating a fairy!"

Rosella let go of Alarah. "You know what? Why don't you have a go after all."

"You're a two-timing trouble-monkey!" Alarah swore, "That's all you'll ever be!" With that...

[I_am_so_nifty]

...she ran back to her hometown of Muir, fighting the tears in her eyes. She cried herself to sleep that night, but was then awoken by a knock at her door. She got up, groggily walked over to her door, and opened it. Standing in the doorway, she found...