Herdy: Mated To The Queen Of The Sea

"Good morning here!"

I overheard a very loud shout from inside, I was in the bathtub already dipped in hot water. Quickly, I brought out the remote I got from Jaspon when I visited there; I pressed a button fast towards the door and it closed.

My mind had travelled to another world of fantasy when I heard that cry. It was very loud and prickly. I almost went deaf but, I later recovered from it when I got up and dressed.

"Who could that be?" I asked myself but no one was answering. Well, nobody had been living with or around me for years now. I grew old everyday but never had beards or a longer hair. I only got slimmer and younger per year.

The thought of changing myself into a shapeshifter rushed into my mind and I began to mull over it, for hours. Actually, that would be a good idea but, what if I wouldn't be able to turn to a normal human again? Just, what if?

I braced up for the funny challenge as I moved closer to the door and screamed like a pregnant woman.

"Grhhhhhh...."

"I'm still here, greeting you, werewolf!"

That word got me angry. Since the day I drank the shapeshifter potion that was seen in the Monkey Cave at Jaspon, I had never loved to be called a werewolf. I hated that seriously.

It was next for him to do what I had decided in my mind for the anonymous person ululating around my abode since morning.

"If you don't leave there now, I'll deal with your life and turn you to a wreck!" I shouted at the stranger.

"Is that the jasponite killer?"

I was amazed, let's say dumbfounded. I didn't know what to say after hearing this and I was numb for some minutes before I later realized that the person knocking and shouting must have been in danger or any other serious situation. That might be true, I thought.

So, I pressed the green button on the remote and the door was opened wide. I didn't see anyone at all. Not even a trace, like a footstep or scent. Because at least, we know others by scent if not anything else.

"Where are you, bloody fool?" I asked.

"I'm not a fool, necessito una aide!"

When I heard him speak Lampiano, I moved further to the doorfront to see the person or should I say, victim? I moved forward to meet the crier.

"It's me, here." He said.

"Which side are you, no poteo veden te allora, sinceramente!" I exclaimed when I was very close to the voice. What I actually meant was, "I can't see you now, honestly!"

Alas! It was a small dragon!

"Ih Drago?" I asked.

"No, don't call me a dragon please. I've come here to save you from the Oceaniana...."

"Oceaniana?"

"Yes, those are the ones that paid your rentage since you've been living here. They paid huge money to the gods for housing you, for a little time and...."

"Me?" I cut in again.

"Well, it's you, the werew...."

"Non, no appendé mi varevulpo, porre favon!" I shouted, in Lampiano. I was telling him that, he shouldn't call me werewolf with a "please."

"Sorry, dear."

"No such word here, please." I added.

The dragon groaned like someone that was being beaten with liquorized strokes. It was then I noticed that, something was wrong with him. What could I do to help?

"What can you do...."

"To help you, dragon? You know, I'm only a shapeshifter with limited powers. For example, I cannot eat raw meat; I cannot fight in the air; I cannot sleep on the eleven moons of Henzu clouds and I cannot...." I didn't finish my words when I saw a scab on his feet. We regarded every animals as either males or females; we saw them as humans. He cut in through my sentence.

"You cannot cause a wind or a rainfall, too?" The dragon questioned angrily.

"I can't."

"I'm surprised if you're going to save me from this wound. I was told in Jaspon that, if the wound is nursed and sustained till four months, I might not recover from it forever and I will lose my dragonic powers. I won't be able to talk, too. Someone has to help now, please. It really hurts." The dragon explained.

"What's your name?"

"I'm called Alliana, the queen of the deepest heavens...."

"Wow, I like that name. I know someone called that name; she was my tight friend in heaven. I even gave her the name but...."

"What happened to her next?"

"She was abducted by the aliens of Henzu. Those aliens were said to be blind, lame, deaf, dumb, lame, numb and powerless. I wonder how they saw her to grab that easily." I explicated.

"Well, those are the minidemonios. You actually can't tell how skillful or talented they can be, most times. Plus, they are children of the gods. Don't you know?"

"Minidemons...." I repeated as if I've heard such word before.

"Don't you know why I called you the jasponite killer?" The wounded dragon asked.

"I know..." I answered, such that it would be made clear that I actually knew.

"Oh..."

"Yes, I know. I think Jaspon should know about the savior of Manelda, even if they haven't gotten to know his mate - one who will be a queen" I explained.

"You said you know why, right?" The Dragon asked again.

"Yes, very well" I replied.

"Tell me." He requested.

"I came from Jaspon and I killed the first jasponite that started kidnapping and robbing aliens in Jaspon, Morrasta, Durra, Plinigola and Venzemeno. Those are the five big cities of the world. Aren't they?"

"Yes, they are. Durra was lined out of Plinigola because of the demise of the Chief alien and ghosts of Venzemeno who invaded the place and stole diamonds. Venzemeno was gotten from a lampiano word, "venzama" which means pearl. My third daughter was named after that word. Her name is Venzama"

"Who did you give birth for?" I asked him, after sitting him down and giving him a serious massage on the back.

"The last time I visited Venzemeno was last year, when I met with a male dragon...."

"Are you a female?" I asked surprisingly.

"You didn't know. If I was a male, I would have bursted into your bathroom to kill you." The dragon answered with a smile.

"That's very funny. So, you knew I was bathing?" I wondered.

"We see from afar, and we perceive with our very sharp brains." He claimed.

"Are you a he or a she, just answer my question...." I put to him angrily.

"I see anger, frustration, sexuality and distress in you now.... Okay, I'm an hermaphrodite. I'm neither male or female. I can sleep with either or neither and give birth. The day I bit a bulldog, I gave birth to a dragon-like puppy which ate bones and human flesh only."

"You're wonderful, indeed amazing." I remarked.

"Apprezzo te." By that, he appreciated me by saying thank you.

"That means, you gave birth for a bulldog?" I asked curiously.

"No, I gave birth to an alien and another time, for a demon." He answered.

"So, it shows that you'd have some demonic powers vested in you. Or, would I say superpowers?"

"You got it there." He asserted.

"Are you in any way hungry? I brought some popcorn from home. I also packed some vegetable sticks with me." Those vegetable sticks were mashed with pepper and black tomatoes and then blended and frozen in rectangles before it would be folded in wrap nylons. They tasted very sweet and somehow sour that, it was believed that it contained some spiritual potion that could make the fattest pig fly. It's so strange to imagine a fly complaining of cold in the hottest hell. Those sticks made one feel that way. You were considered rich if you could buy it. Well, that was a true notion because, it was very expensive as classic as it was. Even aliens ate it and sometimes, drop them in blood juice.

He noticed me thinking. I was actually not in the world of chopsticks, broomsticks, lipsticks or candlesticks. I was in the universe of vegetable sticks. In the milieu of enjoyable fantasy as I was already dream-tasting the dulce.

"Will you believe that, you are still in a coma?" The monster asked me so furiously.

"Oh, maybe!" I guessed.

I had a special time with a monster but I wasn't any shocked or fed up, as I was a strong kind of being myself, too.

I looked at myself in a mirror and imagined myself in a hospital bed, very sick and sullen. It was the monster's words that made me think that way. I never was someone who thought evil of himself.

Okay, if actually I had just been in a comatic fantasy, I should have been acting strangely and stupidly.

Well, the monster could be true; what he said gingered me into deep imaginations and some fun.

"Just maybe...." I said to myself and winked.

In some few minutes, I was entering into deeper realms of unconsciousness, I took it so, because I didn't actually feel reality as I did, before he took me that deep.

The dragon shifted very close to me and seemed to perform some kind of perception, he looked through my head and the hairs on it, as if he was seeing an inscription thereon.

So, I was coming back from the fantasy little by little, which I didn't think he knew about.

Suddenly, Pappo Reye's message dropped into my memory: He once said that dragons of Manelda have no other aim than making people or shifters totally numb, so as to automate them later to fulfil their own tasks, much more like some scientific machines.

"So, there is one thing about us, man...." The dragon started, laying his two scrappy hands on me so heavily.

"What's that thing?" I asked.

"Comprehendemon multé cosé" The dragon replied in Lampiano - meaning that, he understood many things.

"We often put things like this to test, to criticize its authenticity, you know?" I questioned him.

"Sure, do you wish to test me and see that I was saying the truth?" He asked in return.

"Veramente" I answered him in the same language he used before switching to the Latin modern language - Lampiano, meaning 'surely.'

"So dragon, what is the name of the first monster of Manelda?" I asked him my first question.

"Tacudas Emprodius" the dragon replied me.

"Oh, that's awesome!" I remarked, having fully come to my consciousness.

I was still acting like I wasn't conscious yet again, to trick the dragon and maybe run away from him.

"My second question for you is, what are the seven kinds of beings in Manelda.... Wait, are they even seven or, they are more than that?" I asked.

"Okay, we have the dragons like us, werewolves, shifters, monsters, angels, ghosts, demons, high spirits, ghost whites, vampires and so on!" The dragon answered clearly.

"So, it means there are nine of us, in the least?"

"Yes, I can discern something.... Can you tell me how you're feeling right now? It's like you have come to remember some things you have been longing to have back in your mind, is that true?" He asked questions upon questions, bulging out his fiery eyes as if he was going to swallow me suddenly and leave me there, to myself. Well, I wasn't scared as he would have me be.

"You mentioned Minidemonios, didn't you?" I asked him.

It was clearly known in Manelda that, if someone could remember what he had seen or heard in a dream, fantasy or daydreaming.

So, I actually recalled what the dragon said to falsely convince him that I hadn't recovered fully from the fantasy he brought me into.

"Oh, Minidemonios have some powers to make man...." He was going to explain something about my statement, but then I stopped him. I wouldn't want to switch back to such!

"I already knew this, Mio Drago!" I exclaimed.

"Did you say 'my dragon?'"

Wow, I was never really speaking with any dragon!

I was in the sickbed when I replied the hermaphroditic dragon-monster. Even Alliana, my babe was with me. She was already downhearted and sullen. When I opened my eyes, I saw her red face. It told stories of bad and hurting memories of the past, especially of romance.

"Here you are, my Alliana." I said to her, cleaning up the tears in her face.

She raised her head up and answered with an amazing smile. But, she suddenly took my hands off her and seemed to be upset at something, like a reaction she probably didn't like.

"Babe, what's wrong?" I asked her.

"Don't ever call me your babe or any other sweet name again, I'm not yours anymore!" She exclaimed angrily.

I was surprised. Was it really Alliana that was talking? At least, I have seen her raise her head and also, the wound spot on her chubby cheeks was noticed by me. Who turned my babe's heart against me? Who could dare do evil to a shapeshifter like me? What effontery!

"You left me in the lurch, didn't you?" She added, with shocking questions, as you'd expect from an angry girlfriend.

"I never did, babe."

"There you go again, calling me your babe?"

Now, I realized that she had some powers in her, the way she frowned her face. She seemed to be a princess or a goddess or something else, like such. Alliana had been a very caring and loving babe, actually, since I had her to myself.

"Can we go out?" I asked.

"To where? As sick as you are? Don't you know you're not fine? The Doctor said she noticed you were having eerie fantasies since morning. She even mentioned one of the stories she saw in the Sick Test operated on you. Dear, this woman told me you dated a monster in your dreams...."

"When was that?" I questioned angrily.

"Why are you so personal about it, dear?" Alliana threw her own question to me.

"Well, I'm not taking it personal, at all." I answered with an unrealistic smile and realized that, she was almost getting furious at whatever was going in my mind. So, it probably meant that Alliana was going to divorce me, right now. I felt sad for some minutes and I kept quiet that she motioned me to say something. She told me she as bored. It was then I became happy again. Now, I can clear her boredom and give her antedotes of interest. What a switch or should I say, a mood swing!

Alliana walked up to a spot where she placed her guitar. She also knew how to play it, even better than I, myself. Funnily enough too, she did it with her feet, sometimes. This girl was the one who sat on the sky and was songwriting and playing the guitar which she called her "guitare speciale e tonoso (Special and tuneful guitar).

"Hey, sweetheart!" She beckoned.

This time, Alliana started calling me lovers' names like sweetheart and most times, dear. But, it didn't make sense to me as, I wasn't any better or happy.

"Guitare speciale e tonoso..." I murmured in response.

"You're so funny, baby." She remarked.

Suddenly, the Lady Doctor came inside with two nylon wraps. One was containing drugs and the other held two plates of rice and vegetable sticks. The Doctor quickly brought out the drugs and the food. She set the table and served me and my girlfriend. But, she gave my babe the smaller one; she picked out two vegetable sticks and dipped in coconut oil and gave it to her. But why?

"Doctor, I'm full. Never mind and after all, I never told you I was that hungry...."

"Argh babe, you don't talk that way, especially to an adult like her!" I exclaimed. Now, I was facing my girlfriend.

"Sorry. I was...."

"Say no more. Please, go to the toilet to ease yourself. I can perceive you're pressed, aren't you?" I cut in, as she did as said.

"Hey, baby."

"What do you mean? Are you calling me sweet names? Do you want to be mine, babe?" The Doctor asked romantically.

"Alliana is going to cheat on me later and so, I want you." I was afraid of my girlfriend hearing that conversation. So, I kept mute.

"But, I've actually always had a crush on you but, I wouldn't say it out. I'm still scared of Alliana since, she's a monster." She explained.

"A monster?" I asked.

"Yes, she has been bitten by ghosts. Sometimes, she was molested...." The Lady Doctor revealed. She was even surprised, the way she was speaking. Her voice was breaking in between her lips and it sounded as if I didn't even hear her, at all.

"She's a Molestata? Do you mean it?" I asked by interrupting, to be sure of what I was hearing. I cut some vegetable sticks and munched.

"Yes, a ghost white slept with her four years ago and...." She explained.

"You mean she was raped by a ghost white? Did she get pregnant or did she conceive any bastard later? Is she truly a monster, by you, dear?" I threw millions of questions at the Lady Doctor.

"Ask your questions softly, man." The Doctor retorted.

"Sorry, I was feeling somehow about what you said. Thats it, babe...." I pleaded.

"It's okay, do you know my name?" She asked as someone expecting a reply.

"Yes, You're Clara, my crush." I answered.

"Wow, you know my name? How come? But, why are you calling me babe then?" She wondered.

"Well, you're my first crush." I revealed.

Clara covered her mouth with her hands and was feeling romantic, as she encircled her lips like someone hot and expectant of a lovely kiss. We aren't Romeo and Juliet, are we? I wondered as I placed my fist on my jaws, looking at her drama amatoria. I meant that she was making a love play. In some minutes, she was already close to me; I didn't realize this fast. So, my mouth was numb as ever. So in short, I kissed her. I kissed Clara, the Lady Doctor of Venzemeno!

"You're sweet...." The Doctor remarked happily. She was about removing her shirts. Actually, this lady didn't have any underwear on her. I soon stopped her, as I mistakenly touched her chest.

"Hey! It's all right." I shut her up, with a devilish frown.

There was Alliana already seated beside me. She was packing her loads now and signified that she was leaving. Just like that? My one and only? Alliana would leave me, I said, I knew it. The way she acted since I had love fantasies was very strange, to me though - not to her.

The only thing I did was, call her the Queen of the heavens. That was what I saw in that lengthy dream. I was marrying a goddess, maybe or maybe not. It was very funny that she didn't utter a word. She really left.

Alliana deserted my life just like that!