#120:They Pass

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Marc, Captain, Shelby and the Dragon Lady were laughing too.

“They pass.” the Dragon Lady gasped..

Everyone nodded.....they too were having problems breathing from laughing so hard.

“I’ll go meet them “ Shelby said.

“Us too.” the Orc brothers said “ we want to try out that new thingie that Cody showed us. If we fall in you can pull us out.”

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Mary elbowed Reggie again.

“Look.” she said.

Harder.

“Look... I mean really look....please?” she repeated.

“Whut?” he said rubbing his ribs. They were beginning to smart.

Mary didn’t say anything more...she just nodded toward something downriver.

“Excuse me a minute please” he said to the Kraken and The Dragon as he removed a pair of marine binoculars from their holster near the ship’s binacle. Raising them to his eyes he zoomed in on what had caught Mary’s attention.

“What is it?” she asked.

“Here...you look. Words fail me.” he replied.

“Just when you think the day can’t get any stranger” she muttered as she too, zoomed in on the rapidly approaching rooster tails in the distance.

Genie’s were approaching, riding small tornados. One was dark, with a head band and wore feathers, an Indian. Another was pale and wore a stetson hat, a cowboy. The last one had a long white beard, wore sunglasses and a doo-rag.

A biker.

Their hair, the hat, the feathers, the beard...were unaffected by the wind of their passage. They had to be traveling at least 30 knts so there should have been some wind.

Wasn’t.

It was as if they moved in a bubble.

In no time at all the three unlikely characters had pulled up even with the catfish.

“Beat it Pussy” the Biker shouted to the Kraken. The big Octopus slid off the side of the CatFish making room for the three genies. They climbed onto the fish’s back and spaced themselves evenly lengthwise.

“Betcha didn’t see this coming did you?” the Indian said “say...you got any more of those Cigars?”

“You big mooch!” the little dragon said “ you have your own cigars. Don’t beg. How many times I got to tell you?”

“Yes mother.” the Indian said...not the least bit repentant.

“Hey buddy...you want one of ours?” the Cowboy said. He tossed a cigar into the air. The dragon instantly leaped and caught it..then handed it to Reggie .

“Don’t mind them.” the dragon stage whispered “they mean well. I expect to have them house trained any week now.”

Reggie nodded and went thru the cigar lighting ritual. When he was almost done the dragon lit it with a puff of flame. Reggie raised an eyebrow at her...she just shrugged.

“OK boys! “ the dragon spoke up.” That was funny. Ha....Ha. Now quit scaring our guests. Quit the clowning.”

“Yes Ma’am” the three responded in unison..

“We apologize.” the biker dude said “may we come aboard so that we don’t have to shout?”

Reggie looked at Mary....she slowly nodded her head.

“Ok...yeah.” Reggie said. “Yeah...ya’ll can come on up.”

Reggie had unconsciously slipped into his native Texas drawl. The three men looked at him and smiled. They were all three native Texans too. Emphasis on the ‘native’ part for the Orc brothers.

“Ok...here we come.” Shelby, the biker dude...floated up into the air, crossed over the space between the CAT fish and the power CAT and hovered in the air just off it’s starboard hull.

“Permission to come aboard SIR!” he saluted the rebel flag flying at the stern, then turned and saluted Reggie.

Reggie was shocked...he hadn’t been expecting this. Mary grinned and saluted. “Permission granted.”

Shelby moved to the cockpit. Marc and Captain did the same thing. Shortly everyone was on board and cozy.

“I imagine you wonder why I called you here” the Dragon Lady, in the persona of the little pink dragon spoke from her perch on the windshield. “it’s like this....”

Reggie and Mary didn’t notice as the CatFish and the Kraken sank beneath the waters and slipped away..

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The Next Episode will be
#121:Tour
The Previous Episode was
#119: Dragon Force Central…
the First episode was
#1 : Prologue
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