Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. Silver by SupMario Chapter 8 Arianna, Jackie, Aunt Sophie, Dad and I were all in Grevlok's tower, in his lab. We were sitting around talking, waiting for Grevlok to join us. Arianna was telling us about the culture and society in her world, Dad seemed especially interested in it, when Grevlok came in and introduced himself to the adults. "Ah, good we're all assembled here." He bowed gracefully to Aunt Sophie and smiled. "You, dear lady, are Paul's mother I presume?" She nodded her head. "Well let me first bring all of you up to date then. Paul's lady friend Raven ran off in tears when she had unintentionally injured him. He wasn't gravely injured and he was healed quickly, but poor Raven must think she killed him or some such. So she ran off and Paul, being the gallant hero, went off to find her. I helped him make a device with which he could track her, and he went on his way." "Arianna and I knew he had a great talent for magic since his alternate self was a wizard just like us. In fact I taught Silver myself, so I knew Paul had the ability. So the two of us trained Paul in the ways of magic and he did indeed take it up quickly. We weren't going to let him go out on such a journey with no means to defend himself." Grevlok sat back in his chair and looked over at Arianna. Arianna spoke up next. "Normally we could have just located Raven by magical means, but for whatever reason, that wasn't working with her, so we had to let Paul track her down personally. Now, we were tracking Paul's journey the whole way, making sure he didn't need our help. The problem was that at one point, when Paul had seemingly neared his destination, we lost him. We couldn't locate him the same way we couldn't locate Raven." She looked back at Grevlok. Neither of them liked giving long speeches so they were dividing it up. Grevlok pulled a small wand out of his robe and held it up for us to see. "This is a homing wand. I've already set it to find Paul, and we need only for a blood relative to use it." He handed it over to Dad who in turn gave it to Aunt Sophie. She looked at it warily. "How do I use this thing?" Arianna came over to her and instructed her on its use. It had a small blue gem embedded at one end and it functioned similarly to the one Paul had used, except this one was a lot more sophisticated. Small symbols glowed along the length of the wand which indicated how far Paul was in and in what direction. The only small problem was teaching us to read the symbols which were all Dwarvish runes. It was going to be embarrassingly for Aunt Sophie to track Paul down with the wand, or so they hoped. I was starting to get claustrophobic in this place and wanted to get going. "So when do we begin?" Arianna looked at me and grinned. "Right now. Grevlok and I are going with you. We should have gone with Paul in the first place." We left the tower and stood in the glade while Grevlok went about preparing himself for something. When he saw us all watching him, he grinned and hurried his efforts. "I'm going to try something that will speed up our journey considerably if it works. I'm going to attempt to teleport us to our destination. Most likely we'll have to stop several times to get our bearings but I believe, no I hope that this will work!" We all gathered together in a tight circle and held hands. Aunt Sophie got the right direction with the wand and Grevlok made a few elaborate gestures and we were suddenly in the middle of a forest. Aunt Sophie got a fix on Paul's direction with the wand again, and Grevlok again magicked us to a new spot. This time we were standing in front of a cave. We checked the wand again and this time we stopped in a forest clearing. There was a stone staircase leading down and several stone statues standing around. They all had horribly frightened expressions on their face and looked eerie. Arianna's Pseudodragon Sudi, which was a small dragon about the size of a cat, flew off of its usual perch on her shoulder and landed on one of the statue's shoulders sniffing curiously. Arianna walked over to him. "What is it Sudi?" Arianna and her pet stared at each other oddly for a moment or two. "It's a person turned to stone? Oh my, that is serious! Grevlok come over here." We all walked over to where Arianna stood and Grevlok pulled out another little wand out of his robes and touched it the statue's nose as Sudi flew over and landed on Arianna's left shoulder. The statue quickly vanished and its place was a very frightened young woman. "Where am I? Where's the witch?" Grevlok quickly explained the situation to her and she quickly left, eager to get home. Grevlok and Arianna went about turning the statues in the clearing back into flesh and blood, and as they finished, Arianna sighed loudly. "Well there's no doubting it now. There must be a medusa down there. Did you notice how those poor victims of hers referred to her as a witch? That doesn't sound good." Grevlok went over to the staircase and peered down into the darkness. "This calls for some preparation." The strange witch led me up some stairs and into a cozy little room with a fireplace and a small couch. She led me over to the couch and bade me sit down. She removed her robe and underneath was a neck to toe red leather jumpsuit that hugged her figure quite nicely. Still, I wanted to know what she'd done to Raven. "What have you done with Raven?" She smiled sweetly and looked over at me. "Why do you care about that kitty when you have me?" She ran her fingers over her bosom and grinned at me. What did she expect? That I'd forget the little detail that she'd turned Raven to stone and fall madly in love with her? She must be more messed up than I'd thought. I got up from the little couch and walked over to the fireplace, gazing at the fire crackling within, trying to think of something I could do to get out of this situation. The witch got up and stood beside me, gazing at my face, studying my expression. "My name by the way, is Sarah." I gave her a questioning look and she giggled playfully. "No, it isn't a coincidence that your Aunt bore the same name. Not at all." She laughed at my confusion and took my hand. "Come, I want to show you something." We went through several rooms and came up to a closed door. I stood in shock as I realized who I saw in there. It was me, or more precisely it was Silver. He was dressed in a robe similar to Grevlok's but it was silver and blue. He was indeed half-elven. He had pointed ears and his eyes slanted a bit but other than that we were twins practically. He looked up when he heard our footsteps and was just as shocked at my appearance. She laughed as we looked at each other in total amazement. "Silver meet Paul Silver, your alternate self from the other world." She opened the cell door and threw me in. I landed at Silver's feet and she slammed the door shut, magically locking it once more. "I would stay and chat, but I have some more uninvited guests to attend to. Farewell." She walked away and I looked over at Silver. "We have got to get out of here. She turned Raven to stone! Is it possible to reverse the process magically?" "Yes, it's possible. I could do it myself if I had my spellbook." I chuckled as I fumbled around in my robe. "That's easy to take care of, here." I handed him the small spellbook. "This is your spellbook, and besides, it doesn't have the necessary spell in it. You went off looking for a medusa without the stone to flesh spell? What kind of wizard are you?" "A very incompetent one I'm afraid. Grevlok and Arianna taught me the basics of spell casting, but I'm still learning I'm afraid. At least I had the sense to caste the gaze resistance spell before confronting her, or this would be a very one sided conversation." I said, smiling. "Yes I suppose so." He sat back down and looked down at the floor. "She's had me locked up in here for over a year. I always hoped Arianna or Grevlok would come rescue me but no one ever came." I looked over at him frowning. "Everyone thought you were dead, Raven included." He frowned at that and looked down at the floor. "I haven't seen her for a long time." I sat down on the floor of the cell and tried to think of something that would help us get out of the cell. It was then that I remembered that dagger that I'd put in my pack back in Grevlok's tower. I looked in my pack (which the witch had conveniently forgotten about) and took it out and showed it to Silver. "Can you use this to pick the lock?" He looked up briefly and stared at the dagger. "Nope, the door's been locked magically. Not much we can do until she comes back. Grevlok was originally from your world you know. When he came over here, he learned the ways of magic from a master wizard just like I'm, well we're, doing from him. But the gateways to your world have been closed for years. They became too unstable to use and finally disappeared. I wonder how they became re-opened?" I looked over at him and wondered the same thing myself. However it happened, I'm certainly glad it did, otherwise I would have never met Rav... what am I thinking? She's Silver's wife! Now I was as depressed as Silver was, albeit for different reasons. After Grevlok and Arianna cast some protective spells, we went down into the gloom, lit only by Grevlok's staff, and were confronted with dozens, if not hundreds, of more statues that held more victims. I felt bad for all those people, but I was more concerned with finding Paul. We began walking down the sparse corridor and stopped only when Sudi flew off of Arianna's shoulders and flew around to a large statue of a dragon. Sudi seemed upset about something and Arianna quickly went over to him, communicating with him. She spoke up, "Sudi says its a real dragon, someone he knows, but a dragon couldn't be affected by a medusa's gaze! Its inherent magic resistance would protect it from that, surely. What do you think Grevlok?" Aunt Sophie looked at me questioningly and I just shrugged. Dad seemed fascinated by the dragon and went over to it with Grevlok. "Yes, I agree. I don't understand it either. I propose that we continue on our way." We walked up to the corridor and came to the open doorway that Paul had so recently, unknown to us, met the witch in and peered inside. I was the first to see Raven and I pointed her out and ran over to her with the others right behind me. Grevlok immediately turned her back to normal and she collapsed in my and Jackie's arms. "Raven are you okay? How did you get here?" I asked, concerned. Before she could say anything, the door shut behind us and a lady in a red leather jumpsuit stood facing us. The witch, I presumed. Raven quickly closed her eyes and cowered in my arms, obviously frightened. I looked more closely at the lady and saw that her hair was really snakes, gross. "Uninvited guests, how nice." She raised her arms up in the air hurled some spell at us, but it didn't reach us, instead it bounced back straight at her. She was unprepared for this and disappeared in a plume of smoke. Grevlok began laughing hysterically. He had to lean against his staff to keep from falling over. Arianna seemed to share in his mirth but the rest of us were puzzled. Arianna saw our confusion and let us in on the joke. "She tried to send us to hell, but one of the spells Grevlok cast before we came down here was a spell deflection spell that made her spell bounce right back at her. If she'd been an experienced witch she would have thought of that. That's one of the oldest tricks in the book!!" She and Grevlok chuckled a minute more and then grew serious. "Well let's go find Paul. He must be here somewhere." Grevlok said while leading us out of the small room. I noticed the computer sitting there and mentioned it to Arianna who seemed interested in it. We walked up a small flight of stairs and found a small room with a fireplace and a couch and another doorway leading somewhere. Silver and I had been in the cell for about two hours when we finally heard footsteps approaching. It was, well, everyone! Mom? What the heck was she doing here? At least Raven was all right. They came up to the cell door and Arianna had it open in a flash and came in and hugged her brother tightly. "Silver! You're alive!" It was a teary reunion for both of them and I walked out of the cell and approached Raven. "Well I'm glad your okay. Guess who I found?" I smiled broadly and gestured behind me. She was dumbstruck. She slowly walked over to Silver and looked into his eyes as he untangled himself from his sister and turned toward Raven. "Raven..." I couldn't stand there and watch it. It hurt too much. Now that Silver was back, Raven would be going back to him. They were, after all, married. I walked out of the hall and back to the entrance and went outside, sitting down on a rock and cried. I hadn't cried when Aunt Sarah died, hadn't cried when Dad left Mom and me, but I did now. I heard footsteps behind me, and turned around finding Mom there looking concerned. I walked over to her and buried my head in her shoulders, and cried. Things get a little fuzzy after that. Mom told me later that she had Grevlok spell her and me back home and she held me on my bed until I cried myself to sleep. When I woke up, I was alone in my room and I heard voices outside in the hallway. There was a knock at my door and Raven walked in and closed the door behind her. "I know you probably don't want to talk right now, but I think we should. Your mother seemed very concerned for you. Paul why did you just assume I'd blindly go back to Silver?" I sat up in the bed and she sat down in my lap, facing me. "But you're married to him. He has more of a right to you than I do." I couldn't make myself look into her eyes. She took my chin and made me look up at her. "Paul there's something you ought to know. It turns out the only reason the gateway between our worlds was open was because of that witch opening them. When she was killed, they became unstable again. I'm afraid the gateways have collapsed completely. There was little time to think about it, Grevlok had to send your Uncle, Diane, and her friend back over here before it collapsed and I just to come back for you. So it looks like your stuck with me, big guy." She kissed me playfully on the lips and sat back, grinning from ear to ear. "You mean?" She nodded yes and kissed me again. "I love you Paul. Don't you see that? Silver was always so wrapped up in his magic studies that he hardly had time for me, that's why Arianna was so mad that I took him away from her. They were lovers before he met me you know. Their more suited for each other then he ever was for me, you know. Then I found you. You were a dream come true for me." She kissed me savagely and I eagerly returned the kiss, not believing my good luck. I thanked god for bringing her back to me and put all my attentions on the woman in my lap. Soon we were both nude and she was on top of me, slowly fucking me while we continued kissing. She arched her back and orgasmed violently, crying out in abandonment. Unnoticed by us, who wouldn't notice if a missile hit the house at that point, Mom opened the door a crack and smiled when she saw us, then closed the door quietly and went back to the living room to find *her* man. She was horny as hell and needed a good fuck as much as Raven had. She found Jack in their bed reading and quickly stripped off her nightgown, standing nude in front of the bed. Jack looked up from his book and found the beautiful, nude Sophie standing there looking horny. "Wow, what's the occasion?" He put the book down and grinned over at her, unbuttoning his shirt. "Raven screwing my son silly, getting me horny as hell. So I'll just have to screw *you* silly! Think you can handle it?" She smiled mischievously and crawled onto the bed, positioning herself on top of him and eagerly impaled herself on Jack's big cock, sighing contentedly. Diane and her girlfriend Jackie were similarly occupied, making slow love to each other, both eagerly devouring the others' sex. Raven and I made love all night practically and slept until noon the next day. Within a week, both Raven and Mom found out they were pregnant and Mom and Uncle Jack got engaged. I proposed to Raven the very next day and we got engaged as well. I don't know what the future will hold for us, but we can face it as long as we're together. The End?