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A Rift Between Worlds: Chapter 2
The plains, running from the T-Rex...
"I think we could really use a mage or the mystical dragonlance right now!" Laurana was gasping for breath as she struggled to keep up with the pace that her husband set and far away from the dinosaur.
"Laurana, I see a cave! Come on!" he grabbed her arm and moved toward a dark hole that looked like it would be too small for the dino. they made it in just as the T-Rex smashed into it and bounced off, hurt. He whimpered and walked off to find easier prey.
Tanis and Laurana plopped down, exhausted. "That was close. I thought I wouldn't see my 104th birthday."
Suddenly they heard a faint chattering. They both tensed and both pulled out their swords.
"Alright," Tanis began, "who's there?"
Two figures stepped out of the shadows. One of them also had drawn a sword. The other, since it was so dark, produced light. But the funny thing was, it was coming from his finger tips.
"Are you a wizard or something?" Laurana asked him.
"Who me?" Goten stepped out of the shadows with Trunks not far behind. "No. But I know someone who is!"
"Is it him?"
"He's not one either. There's a strange man at my house that my father is teaching how to fly. He has a staff that he never lets out of his sight that has a dragons claw at the top holding a crystal."
Tanis and Laurana looked at each other in astonishment. I can't be.... can it?
"Is his name Raistlin?" Tanis asked.
"Yes! How'd you know?"
Tanis and Laurana were both thinking the same thing. If Raistlin was here then he was the one that made the rift, but for some reason there were more than one.
"Can you please take us to him?"
"Sure." He and Trunks walked to the edge of the cave and blasted off. Tanis and Laurana looked on in disbelief.
"How did you two do that?" Tanis asked.
"We flew." Goten said simply.
"No duh you baka!" Trunks said smacking him in the back of his head. "We used our ki to propell us into the air. I guess it's kind of like your friends' magic. Also don't laugh at his pitiful attempt at flying. He really doesn't like that."
Tanis could only smirk at the thought. "Oh we won't."
***
Back at the Son house...
"Okay, now just focus on trying to stay up for more than 10 seconds." Goku let him go and slowly moved away. They were about 50 feet from the ground.
Raistlin had tried, he really had. But luck just wasn't on his side. That or the gods were out to get him. He did stay floating for a while until his concentration was interrupted by the very noisy arrival of two young saiyans.
Why do these things always happen to me? Raistlin thought miserably as he fell. He was caught before he spattered against the ground.
"Oops." the purple haired boy had saved him, "Me 'an Goten are sorry. We didn't mean it." He was lowered the rest of the way.
"No big deal. I could have stopped myself any time." Raistlin said as he recovered from his brush with death.
"Your ego is just as big as my Tousans! I can't believe it!" Trunks grinned hugely.
"We brought some friends of yours." Goten spoke up.
Friends? I don't have any-- no...
Goten stepped to the side and Trunks stepped out of his vision and he saw. At least that annoying Caramon isn't with them. But even as he thought this, he still felt a twinge of sadness.
"Half-Elven, Laurana. So nice to see you." his voice just dripped sarcasm.
Tanis narrowed his eyes in annoyance. "Cut the crap Raistlin. Did you know that your little spell had side effects? That's why we're here. Tas ran into one of you "holes-in-the-air". I wonder how many more there are." That was when he noticed how different he looked. "What happened to you? You're not..." he trailed off uncertanly.
"The way I was previously. Yes I noticed Half-Elven. How observant you are."
"What are you going to do about the rifts Raistlin?" Laurana asked softly.
He shrugged. "What do you want me to do? I didn't know it would do that. Are they causing any harm? Any ill effects to Krynn?"
"None that I noticed."
"Then it's fine. I like being here. I'm not weak and barely clinging to life. In fact, I've never felt better. Not even in my youth."
"Ki will do that to you. Because you have so much, it's making you feel powerful." Goku said.
"Yes. Much like my magic. Though I can feel powerful without calling it forth. What about you Laurana? It is said that elves have a natural born magic in the whole race. Some just have more of it, much like your brother."
"I do feel better than usual, but that's all."
"I do as well, but I never would have noticed if you hadn't brought it up."
"We never learned your names! Mine is Son Goku and these are my two sons, Gohan and Goten."
"I'm Trunks, Trunks Briefs."
"I'm Laurana and this is my husband Tanis." she smiled and shook Goku's hand. "Raistlin, can you tell us why we look different?"
"I guess we changed to suit this world."
Laurana suddenly gasped. "Tas! I forgot all about him! We have to go back for him."
"The kender?" Raistlin snorted. "Good luck."
"We don't have a way to get back without walking and that's a long way."
"Of course you do! Here..." Trunks took a capsule out of his pocket and popped it. A capsule car appeared in a puff of smoke. "Use this."
"What is it?" Tanis asked a little warily.
"A car," Goten explained, He continued after seeing their confused faces. "It's a vehicle that transports you over vast distances quickly."
Trunks gave him a look at his choice of words.
"What? I do pay attention in school sometimes ya know!"
"We'll fly with you."
"How about we all go?" Goku said. "ChiChi! We're going somewhere! Be back home in time for dinner!" He moved to pick up Raistlin, but the latter shook his head.
"I'll go under my own power." He began to slowly rise into the air and fly forward. Goku, Trunks, Goten, and Gohan soon followed suit.
ChiChi ran out of the house waving a large spoon. "Goku! You get back here! Gohan and Goten need to study! Son Goku!"
Goku looked back and gave her one of his award winning grins. "We'll be back later! I promise ChiChi! See ya!"
"GOKU!!"
Tanis and Laurana gave ChiChi curious looks.
"My wife," Goku said by way of explanation.
They slowly made their way back to the place that Tanis and Laurana landed.
***
The landing site...
"That sure was interesting," Tas said as he stood up, checking himself for broken bones, bruises, or any of the sort. "I'll have to do it again sometime."
He looked around. "I'm sure not on Krynn anymore. If I keep walking in one direction, I might find some people! I wonder who came after me..."
He had walked for about 10 minutes when he came across a lake. "I'll go for a swim to cool off, I was getting bored anyhow." He took off his clothes, boots, and pouches and jumped into the cool water.
"Tas! Are you here! Hey Tas!"
"Tasslehoff Burrfoot! You meddlesome kender! You are interrupting my time!"
"Raistlin! Hush!"
Raistlin? As in Caramons little brother Raistlin?
He climbed out of the water and proceeded to put on his clothes. This should be interesting.
"Hey! Whoever came after me, I'm here!" Tas strapped on his vast amount of pouches and stuck his hoopak in the holster on his back.
Laurana came through the trees with Tanis, Raistlin, and some other people that Tas didn't reconize.
"How are you doing? Nice seeing you again Raistlin."
"Tas! You had us worried!"
"Me worry you! I'm surprised. You know I can take care of myself just fine."
Tas walked up to Goku and stuck out his small hand. "The name's Tasslehoff Burrfoot. Nice to meet you."
Goku shook it. "I'm Son Goku."
Introductions were made all around as Raistlin pondered the rifts.
"What are you going to do now Raistlin?" Tanis asked him.
"I don't really want to go back and I still don't see the portals causing any harm--"
"It's the fact that they're there in the first place."
"Hey!" Trunks spoke up, "Can we see your world?"
"Yeah! That would be neat!" Goten, his loyal sidekick, agreed.
"I don't know..." Gohan started.
Goten put on his best puppy dog look. "Please niichan? Pretty please?"
Gohan was a little more immune to them, but he wanted to see as well. "Okay we'll go. Tousan?"
But alas, Goku was doing the puppy dog thing as well. He could be so much like a kid when he wanted to be.
"Yosh! Let's go!" Trunks and Goten hightailed it straight for the portal, floating up, and streaking through. Goku, Gohan, and Raistlin each grabbed a non-flying person and went after them.
"I have to warn you though, after all the technology I've seen here, there isn't much on Krynn yet. Also, I don't think you will be able to fly." Raistlin said dropping Tas on the ground and ignoring his cry of protest.
"We'll manage." Gohan nodded and walked into the light on the other side.
It's 4kb shorter than the other one, but they're about equal if you take out my long notes at the beginning of the last.