The California Queen

ILLYRIAN

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THE CALIFORNIA QUEEN Part 1

Willow, Buffy and Dawn had decided to go to the theatre, they wanted to see what the film ‘The California Queen’ was about. They sat in some seats close to the back and watched expectantly to the black screen. As the theatre lights began to fade the sounds of a train were heard. Looking to the screen Buffy saw flickers of white light flashing from the middle of the screen to the edges.

Then flashes of all the colours sped from the middle of the screen towards the sides, the middle of the screen becoming increasingly white as the front of a train appeared at the middle of the screen. The train sped from out of the middle of the screen and hurtled down a gentle hillside. The engine and four carriages went passed where it was being filmed from the camera is. The camera quickly span about to see a bridge over the railway tracks.

They saw the train as it sped closer to the bridge, suddenly the camera was above the bridge and the view was of the top of the train as it passed under the bridge. The top of the train locomotive becoming transparent. On it a woman is seen to be swimming in a river as the train moves away from the camera. The next scene saw them looking to the back of the train and at the countryside around it.

High in the sky in front of a carriage five people riding on five winged unicorns. Looking to the unicorns as they hover close to the front carriage, the riders suddenly jump down onto the first carriage, once there a winged dragon flew down and the rider appeared inside the front of the first carriage. Four Riders of the Winged Unicorns stood in the front of the first carriage.

Looking at she who rode the dragon, the rider of the dragon called to the Riders, “Look to each seat carefully, you are expected to find two special children.” The Riders slowly walked along the carriage as they looked at each of the seats. In the second carriage one of the Riders saw who she thought the two children might be. She beckoned to the rider of the dragon, “Are these the two who we are searching for?”

The dragon rider walked to where the two were and smiled to the Rider, “That is them, their names are Adrian and Caroline.” The rider of the dragon began to glow as she caused the two children to disappear and saying to the Riders, “For now our work here is down, run to the back of the train, to your unicorns,” said the Goddess Cla-ere. The Riders ran to the back of the train.

At the back of the train the Riders jumped on to their Unicorns and flew up into the sky. The Goddess waited until they were all on their unicorns and were flying up towards the bright moon. Following them were two more dragons that were being ridden by the Goddesses Clarisse and Darla, they flew over fields and dales under the bright glow of the moon.

They flew far over the countryside until eventually they landed near the boundary of a town, the children looked up at the new moon. Adrian and Caroline did as the Goddess Cla-ere whispered to their minds and walked into a café, they sat at a table inside the front window. The children Adrian and Caroline stared at the street lamp outside the café then strode outside to bask in its light.

As they looked up at the moon at the street light they begin to grow to be adults – they offer their thanks to the moon, the Goddesses smile to them as Adrian and Caroline hug each other, then walk back into the café. Sat at the window seat, looking at the moon. They smile and hold the others hand and look to the moon, they have a drink each.
Caroline heard Goddess Cla-ere's voice in her head so she did as the Goddess would have her do, she wandered out of the café as Adrian followed behind her.

They follow to where some figures that now appear to be small gargoyles seem to be worshiping a statue. Buffy, Willow and Dawn stare in disbelief at the screen as they see cloaked winged gargoyles dance around the statue of a giant gargoyle. One of the smaller gargoyles is put on an altar at the giant gargoyles feet. She is the Sacrifice. All the worshipers raised their arms to the giant statue as one of the worshipers prepares the sacrifice.

Many small worshipers rise up to fly in a circle, above the statue. The many smaller gargoyles dance around the statue as if in worship. One of the small gargoyles flies up out of sight. Adrian and Caroline are sat at a park bench looking at other couples who are walking in the park. They look to the horizon as the sun begins to set and smile at the brightly coloured flowers in the flower beds.

Darla and Cla-ere smile at them. Acknowledging their smiles, Caroline and Adrian meekly return their smiles and start to walk towards them. Adrian and Caroline walk towards them. They smile at each other then go to the gardeners of the parks house. In the early hours of the following morning Caroline wakes in one of the beds, she stretches and smiles at the thought of seeing Adrian.

Caroline gets out of bed, and puts on her dressing gown, she goes into the kitchen to make her breakfast. She crosses the kitchen floor only to see Adrian’s face looking at her from a window then sees he is being reflected from behind her. As Adrian and Caroline look up into the sky they see a lone gargoyle flying along through the clouds, Darla looks to see if there is another one.

Cla-ere points to three more of them then points to some more of the gargoyles as they flew closer to the earth. Darla notices a regiment of Riders on top of a nearby hill she goes there with Adrian and Caroline. On the hill top they join and prepare for the enemy, Adrian points up as many more gargoyles fly down through the clouds to be near them and looking to see where the gargoyles are landing.

Caroline notices three of them walking toward a stone circle. The rest of the small winged gargoyles fly down to there, though mainly are unseen they become as statues around the one they worship. Suddenly the gargoyles are seen all around where Adrian and Caroline have taken to hide in a shed but they have been seen and the gargoyles run to and surround them in the shed.

The gargoyles gleefully hop then jump and glide towards shed. Having trapped the Riders the gargoyles begin to attack the shed and jumped for joy. As the Giant gargoyle appears to wake it jumps onto the shed crushing several of the Riders as the other gargoyles jump for joy and look to the giant gargoyle. All the gargoyles fly up into the air and as one they fly across the land.



To Be Continued
 
THE CALIFORNIA QUEEN Part 2

The screen began to slowly become dark as the lights in the theatre got brighter. Buffy smiled to Willow, “It is a long time since I’ve witnessed an intermission.” “Look on the screen it says the intermission will last for fifteen minutes!” Exclaimed Willow. “I don’t think so, at least I did not hear it,” said Dawn to Willow.

“I fancy a mint flavored ice cream slice,” said Buffy to Willow. “Do you think Dawn might be happy if I but one for her as well?” asked Buffy. Dawn smiled, the thought of her big sister buying her an ice cream helped make her very happy, “Yes please,” Dawn replied. “I am so glad Dawn wants an ice cream as well,” said Willow

she handed Dawn some money, “Saves us having to go to get them,” said Willow. Dawn was upset that she had just been had. “Come on Dawn, look into the aisle just in front of us, there is a theatre employee with a tray of ice creams,” said Willow. So glad was Buffy at eating the ice cream that she failed to moan when Dawn began to make loud sucking noises from the ice cream.

They settled back after eating the ice cream then the lights in the theatre grew darker until one of the smaller winged gargoyles who was at the rear of the massed cloud of gargoyles. She saw the green countryside spread over the dales either side of her she concentrated on a town that lay on the horizon.

Feeling wonderment she saw the vast numbers of gargoyles ahead of her slowly reducing their height as the long line veered towards the town. The giant gargoyle ordered that the masses of the gargoyles continue towards the town. From an opposite direction the dragons being ridden by the goddesses Cla-ere and Dar-la appeared to be leading multiple groups of Winged Unicorns begin to spread across the landscape.

With Adrian and Caroline being stood on the top of a hill looking up into the sky they hear something behind them as the first of the Riders on their Unicorns being led by the Dragons of Cla-ere and Dar-la land on top of the hill. From the shed at the top of the hill several of the Riders looked up and around into the sky, they saw the gargoyles getting closer and closer until they began to fly over their heads.

At that point nearly all of those gargoyles dropped to the ground and surround the shed with the Riders hiding from them in the shed as the giant gargoyles rose up then dropped onto the shed trapping most of the Riders and killing the others. Looking up into the skies Adrian and Caroline watched for more mounted winged unicorns to help them finding a sign that would show help was on its way.

Caroline saw a vision of the Goddess Cla-ere’s face in the clouds. Caroline gripped Adrian’s arm and pointed to the clouds. Seeing Caroline and Adrian wave to them, knowing something was wrong the dragon of Dar-la brought several dozen Riders down from where they were and down to the earth around the crumpled shed.

Not needing Caroline nor Adrian to tell them the bad news the Riders traced where the gargoyles were then the Riders attacked and destroyed them. Though a few of them did escape led by the giant gargoyle. Dar-la led many of the mounted winged unicorns to the nearby town where they hoped to avoid the gargoyles until their numbers could be increased.

Walking along a road Dar-la looked towards a school. Dar-la saw an image of a schoolgirl Caroline and the schoolboy Adrian in the playground at the school. Dar-la waved to the image of Caroline, she was very surprised when the image of the schoolgirl Caroline returned the wave. Dar-la smiled and acknowledged the schoolgirl Caroline who was stood by herself in the playground, she waved to the Goddess Dar-la.

Dar-la walked to Caroline the surprise showed on Caroline’s face as the Goddess Dar-la’s dragon flew down to be with her. The schoolgirl stared at the dragon, she looked to Dar-la with tears in her eyes. The schoolgirl grinned to Dar-la, “Do I know you?” Dar-la smiled in return, “No but you will.” The schoolgirl smiled to Dar-la and asked, “So who are you?”

Dar-la held the schoolgirl Caroline’s hand, “I am the Goddess Dar-la.” The schoolgirl Caroline faced her, amazed at what she said, she was about to ask for proof when Dar-la clambered onto the dragon and flew up into the air. Circling above the schoolgirl Dar-la looked down to her. Then one of the thousands of Riders on winged unicorns flew to where the Goddess was and began to follow her.

Caroline and Adrian wandered from the school, without requesting it they had discovered where they had first met the Goddess Dar-la. The Goddess Cla-ere flew up to be beside Dar-la so they could fly ahead of the unicorns when they were Dar-la looked behind them to see the flying unicorns her dragon watched again at how many were behind them knowing more would be needed she led them to another stone circle.

Grasping the glow around each Goddess that stood on a point of the pentagram, the Goddesses Cla-ere and Dar-la with they were joined by Tianara, Claire and Poldar. When the Goddesses had all got in place the glow began to rise from the middle of the circle, like the horn of a trumpet a blast gave significance to hordes of mounted winged unicorns the sky began to fade as they flew up into the sky and spread towards the horizons.

Three Goddesses appeared in the sky though one at a time, they smiled to each other then towards Caroline and Adrian. The Goddesses vanish. Arm in arm Caroline and Adrian walk away together. They run to where Claire and Darla are, they point to the stone circle. The three Riders, Claire and Darla go together into the stone circle.

The three Riders stand outside the stone circle, on one knee. Weapons at the ready Cla-ere and Dar-la point at each one of the stones. All the stones in the Stone circle begin to glow, and a Rider walks out of each stone. The Rider looks to the other stones as more Riders sedately walk out of the ground in the stone circle.

With a growth in the brightness of the circle more Riders begin to run from the stone circle, the first hundred prepare to defend then Unicorns fly up from the ground in the stone circle. More Riders run to join them. Looking over a field Adrian watches as Caroline walks towards a river. Adrian follows her, he is ten paces behind her when he hears her wade into the river.

She begins to swim in the river as Adrian is standing on the rivers bank looking at Caroline. He keeps watching her as Caroline looks up, she sees him standing on the bank. Walking from the river she smiles to Adrian. Caroline walks across a field. Adrian watches as he starts to over the field. Running faster than her he soon catches up with her and they walk side by side.

Caroline stops and smiles to him, she kneels to him and mouths the words. ‘Please, marry me’. She stands up next to him and he smiles. They walk hand in hand up a slope, stopping at the top of the slope and looking down at the massed ranks of the Riders that cover the lands to their horizon as they are marching towards the lines of the gargoyles.

As the Riders slap their leathers uniforms, the sound made waves that rose into the sky. Each of the Goddesses appeared in front of the Riders, they raised their arms to the sound waves and thrust them down to under the gargoyles feet. The continued slapping creates more sound waves that appear as the clouds on and over the horizon begin to rise up.

The sunlight covered the gargoyles then as the explosions happened under the gargoyles feet they thrust them high into the sky where they disappeared in explosions in the higher atmosphere.


Buffy looked to Willow and Dawn, they shrug their shoulders to each other each of them wondering what the meaning of the film was.


The End
 
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