Tales from Noor - Heart (story)
Introduction:
Welcome! This is the complete story of my fursona's quest taking place in Noor, all written by myself. Laura the kobold's journey to getting Heart Potion and moving to Pangea summarised in part bullet points and part story, hopefully presenting the pilgrimage in an easy to digest format! The column bellow will briefly introduce the characters, the story will begin directly below. The story is 6000 words.
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The Cast:
Laura - A purple kobold jewel miner, after discovering she suffers from gender dysphoria she sets out a quest that will change her mind forever. Super optimistic and naively confident.
Noah - A cleric dog kobold, an exiled healing student roped into an adventure he would not have ever dared to go. He is tremendously sweet and just as adverse to conflict.
Tabitha - A tabaxi thief, a homeless rogue with absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain from joining the quest. Mischievous and rude, too proud to admit she loves her friends to death.
Eileen - A dancing fox bard, a performing artist eager to see what the world has to offer outside being in debt. Stubborn and creative, she's a bit stern but she means well.
Vyse - Laura's best friend in the world, a timid soul with a heart of gold yearning for attention. Their story continues in Quest 2!
The Story:
[1993]:
Tabitha was born
[1995]:
Eileen was born. A klyvebold in debt to a local mafia met an unfortunate end and was chopped up and tossed into the slums as a warning to the other kobolds living there, Laura and her 11 siblings regenerated from the pieces. Vyse and Noah hatched.
[1998]:
Noah's family all took Enlarge potion so they'd appear "normal height" to fit in with the rest of their wealthy neighbourhood. Tabitha's family begin their world voyage.
[2001]:
Noah started his cleric education. Tabitha washed ashore with no memories and became a street urchin. Eileen started her home-school education. Vyse and Laura became friends.
[2002]:
The kobold tribe smuggled a movie projector into their abode to keep themselves entertained. Laura became extremely interested in film and movies, but most importantly she saw Krystal for the first time on screen. The onscreen entertainment filled Vyse with a desire to seek out the same, seeing as how others clapped and cheered for a story on screen convinced Vyse that storytelling and spectacle is something they wanted to pursue too.
[2005]:
Noah befriended Tabitha after she tried to steal from him, she broke her leg trying to run away but Noah came to her rescue and healed her. She began to regularly visit him every day out of appreciation. First to annoy him, but it quickly blossomed into a good friendship. Vyse and Laura got old enough to work with the rest of their tribe as a gem counter and miner respectively.
[2008]:
Eileen's parents taught her magic. Vyse commissioned a portrait of Krystal to gift Laura for her birthday, something Laura kept extremely close to her from then on.
[2011]:
Noah was tasked by the school to research a local tribe of kobolds in Haven, there were rumours of a rare type of kobold living there. The kobolds immediately grew fond and curious of Noah as he was the biggest Kobold they had ever seen! They invited him in to show him everything they have stolen and mined. Noah came from a wealthy family, and at that time he could only feign his approval of their thievery. Noah's visits were weekly and he grew fond of them all, especially Laura, which he initially befriended specifically to learn more about her specie. According to Laura, she and her siblings were all regrown from various body parts of single kobold who got chopped up. After being shown a very gross demonstration of how limbs can be cut off and easily put back on he decided to name them "Klyvebolds", coming from "att klyva", "to cleave". The school accepted this term. As a reward for outstanding intuition and research, Noah was awarded heart potion to treat his dysphoria.
[2012 Q4]:
Tabitha managed to talk Noah into stealing heart potion from the archive of the school for her own use. Noah was caught a few days later as he was ratted out by other students. Noah voiced his reason as the potion being life-saving to Tabitha, but the council saw her only as a petty thief who do not deserve the help, and as such Noah was banished from the school and stripped of the right to be taught magic by government assigned teachers. His academic research had also been stripped of his authorship. Noah felt empty and without purpose, but he did not feel any ill feelings against Tabitha, she is his best friend and he'd do anything for her. However Tabitha grew distant to Noah out of shame. Noah kept visiting the kobolds and pretended to take notes for the school to keep the charade up. Laura managed to take Noah's mind off of things for the most part. After a while Noah realized that Laura might be suffering from dysphoria too, and once told about it Laura's mind gears immediately started turning.
[2013 Q1]:
Upon having her world blown wide open with the possibilities that her gender doesn't line up with the one in her it all started making sense, and of course this would mean she immediately leapt to Vyse to talk their head off about it... Laura would begin thinking of a name for herself, though she didn't give it all too much time as she had the name "Laura" swirling in her head for a while ever since she overheard a fox using it at the market. Growing her hair out would be her next priority too.
Vyse was not entirely in the same boat as Laura, but deciding she did not have to act the gender she was born with certainly opened Vyse's mind to perhaps experiment a little with more masculine or androgynous presentations...
[2014 Q1]:
Eileen left home in hopes of joining something greater, with the blessing of her village. Noah finally confessed to Laura that he was thrown out of the school, he was no longer allowed to be taught how to use magic and his family was very disappointed in him. Laura did her best to console him and wiped away his tears, reminding him his friends are always here for him no matter what. Laura asked if he wanted to change the subject and talk about something that makes him happy, Noah nodded and talked about some interesting potions he read about earlier that day. "Potions are fantastical, there really feels like there's a potion for every problem out there. To think you can really drink your problems away haha, be it... short height, back pain, transitioning..." Noah monologued, immediately interrupted by Laura who jumped up from her chair and asked to hear more about the last part. Noah became flustered and felt he said too much, he began to explain how Heart Potion works but also made sure to mention he never talked about it because it is unfathomably rare to get your hands on and he didn't want Laura to pine for eternity for something she couldn't have. It was said to be so rare and valuable that the easiest way to get it was to rob it from a dragon.
The gears in Laura's head spun and she immediately sprung up to declare she would hunt them down herself if she had to. Noah urged her to think about this for a bit, they out scale her 100:1! Laura simply grabbed Noah's arm and formally invited him on her quest. Noah wasn't sure... he took her with her into the next room and talked to her about how awfully ferocious dragons were. Noah's perception of dragons in this part of the story is that of them being the embodiment of greed and malice, dragons to kobolds are like demons to men, it could be extremely dangerous.
Vyse overheard this conversation and was spectating from behind a pillar. Unlike Laura, Vyse couldn't entirely relate to how she was feeling and thought of this to be a rash decision, Laura wouldn't leave Vyse behind for no reason, would she? Vyse mustered up the courage to interject with their opinion but quickly hid behind the pillar again as they noticed two yellow glowing eyes emerged from the shadows.
Tabitha revealed herself, she had been listening to their conversations this entire time, boasting about having defeated several dragons in her lifetime singlehandedly (This is a lie) and saying she would like to join in, claiming the promises of riches was more than enough of a motivator for herself. The truth about Tabitha's motives were that she sympathizes with Laura being trans herself, and she would like to make things good again with Noah. The three of them decided that yes... they WILL go out on this quest. Noah began crying again and gave Tabitha a big hug, glad to see she was back. Meanwhile, Eileen got a job as a barmaid nearby as she quickly went broke on her travels.
[2014 Q2]:
The adventure was set and after a few months of preparations they were finally ready. The kobold tribe had put together a giant celebration for Laura and Noah and their third friend they have never seen before, but she stole stuff for them so she is dearly beloved now. Laura had a heartfelt and bittersweet day with Vyse, Vyse was her only friend and it broke her heart to say goodbye possibly forever. Vyse was not very happy with what was happening, the two of them argued in private through tears. Vyse just could not wrap their head around how Laura was feeling and tried to convince her she could still be happy without having to risk her life for something that might not even exist. "You need to let me live, Vyse" Laura cried out before storming out. Vyse had to sit down and reflect on what they were doing, they looked in the mirror and didn't like what they were seeing, Vyse would mostly just think of themselves first and foremost, maybe it's time they thought of what's best for their friend...
The day was long but it was eventually time to go. Believing they weren't on speaking terms Laura decided to go, but in came Vyse rushing towards her to apologize. The two of them hugged for a long long time right there by the exit, as a last gesture Vyse gifted her their golden hairband, so they'd always be close. And made sure she did not forget her Krystal painting, knowing how much it meant to her.
[2014 Q3]:
It did not take entirely too long before the three of them realized they were fighting an uphill battle with what they got. A short range thief, a cleric afraid of conflict and a momentarily homesick kobold with a short reach. It was clear they were perhaps in need of a fourth member. Tabitha had literally never had a bad idea before and decided the quickest way to hire someone would be to go into that bar over there and yell "Who wants to do quests with us".
So with a quick match of rock paper scissors, Laura was decided upon to venture inside and hire the toughest brute she could find. She inquired left and right with everyone shrugging her off because she's a tiny kobold. She took a little break and sat by the counter with her head in her hands, with a soothing voice asking her if she was alright. Laura looked up and was met with Eileen looking down at her, she was momentarily star struck as she noticed she was a fox, with forehead jewellery, sharp eyes, golden hairband, a green necklace... simply put without subtext: She saw Krystal in her.
Laura fuddled over her words, but she managed to finally say she was looking for people to go on a quest with her and her friends. Eileen immediately slammed her hands on the counter and begged Laura to take her with to get her out of this shithole. Laura agreed! Eileen was not what Tabitha or Noah expected for Laura to bring out, but something about the goofy big grin on Laura's face told them that maybe this was the right choice.
While venturing dungeons for pointers, maps, gold and miscellaneous our new favourite bard would quickly undergo a dramatic change to her figure as they were ambushed by sentient slime in what they thought was an abandoned cave. They had gotten to the treasure room when the big jello came out of nowhere and stole some treasure for itself... it then tried to force itself entirely into Eileen's stomach in an attempt to take her out for the count permanently! Thankfully Noah came to her rescue as he rapidly healed her while she was incapacitated, Eileen passed out and woke up 3 days later. Apparently she had been keeping the others up at night with snoring which she wish she hadn't been told.
"I snore??" She scratched her head in confusion... with her tail? Her tail had become longer and sleeker, stretchier and more expressive all of a sudden! Noah theorized that maybe the treasure the jelly had inside itself might have altered her body after digesting it, lending some magical properties to her biology! Eileen was surprisingly casual about this, but she might have just been MORE concerned over how giant her belly had become. Noah said it would probably shrink over the course of a few months, but much to Eileen's surprise she started to miss it as it shrunk away on the travels. Noah could relate to her as the only big member of the team, being big and plush and warm felt very endearing and comforting he'd say. Eileen decided she'd give it a shot being bigger for a while, just to see if she'd like it. Tabitha was forced to steal way more gold then she did previously just to keep the food budget up.
[2014 Q4]:
The gang was briefed of a village suffering from tremors and earthquakes caused by a dragon from a fox at an inn. They travelled far across the country side but were suddenly ambushed by a pack of ratfolk in their sleep! In an attempt to scare the crew they cut Laura's arms off with a sword, Noah and Tabitha reacted pretty mildly but Eileen was screaming her head off. While the pack leader was monologing, Laura simply plopped one of arms back onto her stump and picked up her other arm, slapping the ratfolk in their faces with it. Not entirely sure what is happening, Eileen stood up hastily and started performing dancing buffs to Laura, causing her to slap the ratfolk so hard with her severed arm that they were sent flying, doing a cool little sword sheathing motion but instead of going into a scabbard it went back onto her arm stump. With both of her arms healed up and the gang set free, they brushed themselves off and set off to find this mystery dragon causing trouble decently high up in the mountains.
While Laura was laughing maniacally slapping rats around, the kobold tribe back home had come to a conclusion that they were to move from the city of Haven and to a place to the east called Kobold Rock. Vyse came with them no questions asks, but they knew this meant Laura wouldn't know where they are. They are just going to hope for the best that Laura is okay and will one day find her way back to them.
The pride gang known as Tabitha, Noah, Eileen and Laura arrived at the town of Sovnhodet and asked around about the dragon causing trouble around here, it was described as malignant, ferocious, rough, woeful, dark. The squad was given directions to the mountain top and given a map for guidance. The trek was awful, it was raining and the steps sucked. When they did finally arrive at the very top of the mountain they were met with a sight they had not in a million years expected... A dragon! A dragon... yes, but it was a dog dragon. It's hoard was full of round objects such as crystal balls, bouncy balls, medicine balls, basket balls etc. They were very friendly and stomped around with excitement and was very fun to pet, but the gang was also frustrated about having to travel so far for nothing... They spent a few hours playing fetch with the dragon before setting off again and telling the towns folk they had a very very nice dog. Eileen was puzzled, she didn't know such creatures existed! Noah lightened up and claimed "That guy up there is like me!" and went on to explain that all dragons were originally kobolds. When a kobold hoards too much of something they love they are very likely to trigger a instinctual transformation, probably out of necessity to guard their hoard. And since Kobolds come in so many shapes and types, there's lots of dragon variety too. Though... he was not sure if EVERY kobold could turn into a dragon... He looked over at Laura and tried theorizing what a klyvedragon would look like... Nevertheless, Noah's view on dragons was starting to change somewhat after having actually met one. Maybe they are not all that bad?
[2015 Q1]:
January hit and with a sense of familial bond growing between the gang they decided to celebrate, they gathered at a bar and cheered with a big mug of mead each... quickly followed by Laura and Noah asking for a soda and hot chocolate after having tasted alcohol for the first time. They were in high spirits and they all had things to be happy for; Noah had never felt so loved before, Eileen was so excited to be travelling further than she could have ever imagined, Laura... well her goal wasn't met but she had her hair ruffled by a blue fox earlier who thought she was cute so she was pretty happy about that. And Tabitha... got snuck up on and guards put handcuffs on her! Tabitha is a very well known thief and she had never been caught once, she was a priority target and she guessed she might have let her guard down for once. Tabitha was stripped of her belongings and sent to a tower at the outskirts of town, Laura Eileen and Noah of course would immediately think of a way to free her. The first suggestion from both Noah and Laura was for Eileen to seduce the guards with her charms, but to that she replied with a bonk to the head of them both. Eileen did not have any better ideas herself... so they decided to head over to the jailhouse and see what Tabitha's idea for a great escape would be.
The gang snuck out late at night and headed to the tower, there was a grated window high above them and they took their chance and whispered "Hey, psst, Tabitha are you there?". A voice returned the call "Yes, Tabitha is here". The gang asked for a briefing on the situation, was there a way to get her out, does she see a key?. "Tabitha sees Jailer keys on the table but Tabitha's reach too short, could friends of Tabitha help Tabitha out?" Tabitha replied, the gang thought to themselves this must be a very dire situation if Tabitha is so quick to ask for help on this one. Noah cast a spell on Laura to muffle her footsteps and she dashed into the jailhouse, since she's so small it was very easy to just hide under the table. She reached her hand up on the table and first grabbed... Tabitha's suit! In a moment of pure excitement she put the suit on herself, it fit like a glove and made her feel really sneaky. Noah was covering his mouth not to laugh, she looked ridiculous!
Laura hoisted her hand up once more, got the keys and rolled towards the locked jailcell. "Hurry, Tabitha can't stand being in here any longer!" Tabitha called out, with Laura swiftly climbing up to jab the key into the lock. Suddenly she heard thudding footsteps behind her "HEY!! WHAT ARE YO-" the intruder yelped out before going silent, Laura immediately turned around and saw a guard... who then fell over onto the floor with a knife in his back. Above him stood an extremely naked Tabitha leaning against the doorway extremely smugly, the potted plant on the table extremely hiding Tabitha's junk from this mental image. "Tabitha hope Lizard wasn't worried for Tabitha, Tabitha wouldn't want to worry a dear friend" she murmurred. But... if Tabitha is standing there all naked, who is in the cell??
Emerging from the shadows was a large black bowling pin shaped kobold with a long slender neck and piercing yellow eyes, a tune dragon of grand splendour and size. Her name was also Tabitha, and she too spoke in third person. Talk about coincidence! With the dragon freed from her cell and the sneaking suit handed back to her rightful owner, the gang was reunited once again. The dragon humbly invited her saviours to visit her home, a large house filled to the brim with books and potions, she was a bit of a collector! And as thanks for saving her she offered the kobold to pick any potion she'd want from her cabinet of spares. As the dragon turned to unlock her cabinet her swaying tail hit Noah's face, knocking his glasses off. Laura picked out a potion that very closely resembled the description Noah gave about Heart potion, and brought it to him asking if it's the right one. Noah was extremely sure it was! The pink colour is almost definitely it. Our feline rogue picked Noah's glasses up and jokingly put them on and pretended to sound smart for a moment as a goof, picking up a book and... realized how clear the symbols are when she wears glasses... Tabitha needs reading glasses, she's not dyslexic after all! However, this is only a secret between the reader and Tabitha.
Laura drank the potion she picked out with excitement, she felt her body tingling! But instead of what she was expecting to happen she suddenly shot up in height and scale, the 3ft kobold quickly grew to a respectable 6ft! Not exactly what she expected... Turns out that Enlarge potion is actually super similar to heart potion in colour. Noah apologized profusely for not checking it properly, but Laura was kind of ecstatic about this! She could sit at dinner tables, she couldn't be so easily picked up by Tabitha anymore and she...! She needed an upgrade to her outfit, oops. The dragon was also sorry for the misunderstanding and brought up that she actually did use to have heart potion available in her collection but it was stolen by a pack of kobolds worshipping a fierce dragon living up north. She reluctantly marked it on their maps and wished them the best on the rest of their quest.
The gang was invited to stay for tea for just a little bit long, the older dragon barely ever had any visitors! They had a nice time, but at one point the discussion of how she ended up in the cell in the first place took place. The long kobold explained that she was mistaken for Tabitha due to her complexion and the size of her collection. She went on to say that the guards probably thought ill of her just for being a dragon, everyone goes around assuming they are nothing but trouble. Laura and Noah took a concerned look at each other knowing what they're setting out to do, while Tabitha consoled Tabitha as she felt bad she caused someone nice trouble. The party stayed the night and left early in the morning. They were going to miss Tabitha, especially Tabitha "Tabitha will miss Tabitha." Tabitha said to Tabitha. "Tabitha will miss Tabitha too, Tabitha has nice name" Tabitha replied. Tabitha agreed. Tabitha liked Tabitha. Tabitha mistook Tabitha's home for Tabitha's home and immediately switched places with Tabitha. Bye bye Tabitha!
[2015 Q2]:
The band of friends wasted little time travelling, their weary hiking paused as they stood face to face with the mountain this ferocious dragon resided in. Every preparation known to man was made, Eileen and Noah was loaded with sugar and had plenty of snacks on the ready for their spell casting, Tabitha had stolen every knife from a nearby village and Laura was taking a deep breath. Unlike other dragons this one was said to have lost all sense of self, a greedy villainous dragon who steals from the needy and the poor. The friends moved in with utmost caution and hid behind the pillars spread around the cave. It looked more like an arena with mounds of gold spread across with a slumbering dragon laying atop it all. Eileen, Tabitha, Laura and Noah checked up on each other. "Like we practiced.".
Tabitha ran out on the battlefield and caused a distraction the only way she knew how to: She threw almost every single knife she had at the dragon like a machine gun while circling it, the knives all bounced off the thick skin of the beast that started following her. Eileen started dancing to buff Laura's speed, who ran to the other side of the room to get a drop on the dragon. With Laura in position Tabitha leapt behind a pillar and dodged a fireblast from the beast, but not without the tip of her tails frizzing up. Noah scurried on over to her, accidentally bumping into Eileen and messing her dance up. As Eileen was knocked over Laura's speed decreased and she tripped.
The dragon turned around and started chasing her in the direction of Eileen, now the both of them had to leg it it. Noah managed to heal Tabitha up, Tabitha sunk her claws into the pillar to climb atop and started waving and shouting towards Eileen. Our bard saw what the tabaxi was doing and hastily picked their kobold up with her tail and flung her across the room towards Tabitha, shaking the dragon off Eileen's trail in the process as she rolled behind a pile of gold. Tabitha reached her arms out for Laura, caught her and immediately spun around to throw her towards the dragon again. Noah had to dash across the room once more and find Eileen and revitalize her with his magic, she had started performing another dance to buff Laura but was getting exhausted. She was ritualizing the dance of sticky surface, causing Laura's hands to stick to the dragon's horns. This seemed like a good idea but she was being thrown around like a ragdoll from the dragon's rampaging! The kobold rummaged around in her satchel for... a blue bright potion Tabitha had stolen from Tabitha! For shame! The dragon calmed down as they lost track of Laura but was immediately on the move again as they spotted Tabitha running away from them. Tabitha yelled at Laura to get a move on before she's toast! Laura fought the wind as she sticky fingered herself towards the snout of the dragon, and as soon as they opened their mouth Laura held the potion up and dropped it into the maw of the beast! ... I said, dropped it in the maw! Dropped it! It's- It's stuck to her hand, the spell is too strong. Laura shouted for Eileen to stop dancing and held onto the nostril of the dragon with all of her might. Eileen fell exhausted to the ground and Laura's grip loosened, and she dropped the potion into the maw of the beast! The fearsome dragon dropped almost immediately to the floor... and started snoring! The gang had dropped a potion of hibernation into the oversized kobold's mouth and taken them out for the count!
What a feat for everyone evolved! They were all extremely gross, sweaty and exhausted. But to the victors, the spoils... the gang spent no time finding what they were looking for, as Tabitha revealed she had nicked the prize while on the run from the dragon. Heart potion was here, just like the tune dragon described! The gang gathered around Laura and held her close as she finally indulged in her reward, she chugged the whole bottle pretty much without any room for breathing... But nothing's happening? Laura took a look at herself and checked for changes, touching her cheeks, touching her horns, running her fingers over the spots on her thighs... Noah chuckled and ruffled her hair and told her it's a lengthy process, it won't change overnight! Well, Laura a bit grumpy about this but was still pretty happy! She felt a sense of relief wash over here as she stared at her smiling friends. Tabitha immediately dove into the gold pile like she's scrooge mcduck, she filled her suit to the absolute limit with gold. Everyone took their fair share of the pile, not afraid to make a ruckus when the dragon has been sedated for a good few months to come. Noah took some real good interest in a chunk of lunarium he found and Laura collected a lot of golden rings, they reminded her of Vyse...
[2015 Q4]:
Half a year passed and the gang lived in luxury having enough gold to last them years without doing any quests or mercenary work. Tabitha kept most of hers hidden, Noah and Eileen decided to return the gold to the village the dragon stole it from and Laura spent almost all of it on food as heart potion increased her hunger one hundred times over. She grew quite fat and plump, nearly outsizing Noah by the end of it! They lived a pretty fulfilling 6 months, Laura was more than happy to see that her spots faded, her complexion lightened up and her scales became very soft, her horns started growing the other way too! Laura was turning into the person she wanted to be...
But, what did Laura really want to be? Laura was doing some self reflection upon what she had been through these years. Dragons are kobolds, that dragon that nearly killed them could have easily been her. Maybe what the dragon really needed was help... It was a bittersweet celebration, had she not travelled and gotten influenced from other dragons she fear she might have killed that poor dragon without thinking twice about it. Instead they had to drug them down, someone who needed help rather than exile, just to get a filling of what they wanted for themselves. It was worth it, but perhaps only this once. If living here means more of this, Laura wasn't sure she wanted part of it.
The gang decided to travel back to Haven to think of what to do next. Eileen was talking about Pangea, a ginormous continent way to the west... or east depending on how you look at things. her talks were filled with a life free of violence, housing for everyone, money guaranteed no matter what you do, a full stomach every night you go to sleep. It sounded pleasant...
Laura found her way back to her tribe's location and was distraught to find out that it was empty. She has no idea what had happened here, whether they moved or... no, she didn't want to think about that. She knew she was alone. She clutched her painting and cried to herself. Noah found her and sat down with her.
Not knowing how else to make sense of things, knowing there's no family to go back to safe from the troubles she's faced, she and Eileen spent the last of their gold for a one way ticket to Pangea. Noah wholeheartedly encouraged the decision, but Tabitha was not too enthused, she was quite upset she'd say goodbye to her friends possibly forever. She... disappeared, she was too heartbroken to even show up to say goodbye, a lot of tears were shed. Laura and Eileen left a letter in Noah's hands to give to Tabitha, there was no way they'd leave without showing their appreciation to her one way or the other. The two waved a bittersweet goodbye towards Noah and they were off... to a new life in Pangea.
Aftermath:
Tabitha disappeared for more than a year, Noah looked for her high and low while travelling the world, seeking out private tutors in healing magic and learning things from trial and error. Towards the end of his search he stumbled upon a weary and exhausted man battered and bruised alongside the road. He brought the man with him back to his humble abode and nursed him back to health. He was blue and white, the man was called Elijah and he was a space pilot who crash landed here. He was very suspicious of Noah but he had no choice and eventually warmed up to him. A few weeks passed and Eli was ready to head home, but promised he'd come back again. It was the start of a loving relationship.
Tabitha was lurking in the shadows for a few couple of months, spying on Noah and feeling too awkward to approach him, she felt shame and sadness having left her friend this way. She saw all of what happened with Eli and Noah, seeing him heal Eli's broken leg is what snapped her out of it. All the good feelings came rushing back and she snuck back into Noah's life after Eli left. The two hugged for a very long time, Noah forgave her immediately. The two spent that night cozied up by the fire, with Noah reading Tabitha all the letters for her.
Vyse became a self-taught wizard while spending their time at kobold rock. With charismatic influence they started to collect magic weapons with the delusion that Laura would one day come back and need a proper way to defend herself. Vyse underwent a dragonic transformation because of their obsession...
Tabitha and Noah kept on adventuring together as best friends, at some point Tabitha had ventured off and returned... quite big and round, extremely big and round in fact. In no way did it hinder her thieving abilities though, it's quite the feat! The two decided their goal in life would be to mass produce heart potion and distribute it where needed. The first thing they went for was stealing the crown of a great king as it had a super precious metal in it that they needed for the potion. They stole it... but the king's son, Evan, an aspiring knight wanting to venture out into the big world, BEGGED the two to kidnap him away. And as such, Evan the brave knight stole their family sword and joined. The trio soon became a quartet as Noah summoned an imp from the underworld, Oatmeal. A curious demon with a strange love for eating bones and smashing stuff. And finally, of course, Vyse came back into Noah's life after Evan and Oatmeal found them on a quest, Vyse got their happy ending knowing Laura was doing just fine and is happier than ever. Vyse became an important part of the family after that.
Eileen and Laura arrived in Pangea after a month of travel, they were assigned to a society learning program, to get accustomed to their new home. Eileen went on to work as a performing belly dancer at a very fancy club, she quickly became a main attraction but it was only part time and she unfortunately had to take a part time job as a retailer. Through her coworker she met a lovely witch called Carrie who would absolutely shower her in love and appreciation every day. Eileen kinda regrets giving all that gold back to those villagers now...
Laura through the learning program was applied to a film course based on her previously shown love for story telling! There she met Molly and Donna, and was exposed to a lot of great films. The three of them stuck together and were hired by the same crew-for-hire company, they were outsourced to a lot of fields, like documentary filming or even working on kaiju films! Laura would be so lucky as to meet Krystal in person through her work, and rest assured they are both extremely good friends now. One day Laura was hired by a band to film their music video, the singer was so impressed with her work she commissioned her to film for her son, Oliver. A semi-famous skater in dire need of a camera for his youtube channel. Laura and Oliver quickly became friends and eventually lovers... and then married 💜 Pretty much moving in with his family, eating his family's enchanted food seriously upped her size... she grew from 6ft to 8'6ft! She liked this a lot, it's so much easier to kiss her hubby this way~
If you read through all of that, thank you very very much! This has been a story racking around in my brain for a long long time that I could only just now recently finish. There is a lot left unexplored and maybe some things left deliberately up to interpretation. Worldbuilding has been a fun comfort to do for the last few years and I hope to continue and get more and more inspired as it goes on, and hopefully I inspire others too. This story and world is directly linked in with my friend's ongoing comic, Tails of Abyssium, which takes place in both Maddie and my world. The first chapter starts in Noor!
Welcome! This is the complete story of my fursona's quest taking place in Noor, all written by myself. Laura the kobold's journey to getting Heart Potion and moving to Pangea summarised in part bullet points and part story, hopefully presenting the pilgrimage in an easy to digest format! The column bellow will briefly introduce the characters, the story will begin directly below. The story is 6000 words.
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Purple Haze and you can find the full picture hereThe Cast:
Laura - A purple kobold jewel miner, after discovering she suffers from gender dysphoria she sets out a quest that will change her mind forever. Super optimistic and naively confident.
Noah - A cleric dog kobold, an exiled healing student roped into an adventure he would not have ever dared to go. He is tremendously sweet and just as adverse to conflict.
Tabitha - A tabaxi thief, a homeless rogue with absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain from joining the quest. Mischievous and rude, too proud to admit she loves her friends to death.
Eileen - A dancing fox bard, a performing artist eager to see what the world has to offer outside being in debt. Stubborn and creative, she's a bit stern but she means well.
Vyse - Laura's best friend in the world, a timid soul with a heart of gold yearning for attention. Their story continues in Quest 2!
The Story:
[1993]:
Tabitha was born
[1995]:
Eileen was born. A klyvebold in debt to a local mafia met an unfortunate end and was chopped up and tossed into the slums as a warning to the other kobolds living there, Laura and her 11 siblings regenerated from the pieces. Vyse and Noah hatched.
[1998]:
Noah's family all took Enlarge potion so they'd appear "normal height" to fit in with the rest of their wealthy neighbourhood. Tabitha's family begin their world voyage.
[2001]:
Noah started his cleric education. Tabitha washed ashore with no memories and became a street urchin. Eileen started her home-school education. Vyse and Laura became friends.
[2002]:
The kobold tribe smuggled a movie projector into their abode to keep themselves entertained. Laura became extremely interested in film and movies, but most importantly she saw Krystal for the first time on screen. The onscreen entertainment filled Vyse with a desire to seek out the same, seeing as how others clapped and cheered for a story on screen convinced Vyse that storytelling and spectacle is something they wanted to pursue too.
[2005]:
Noah befriended Tabitha after she tried to steal from him, she broke her leg trying to run away but Noah came to her rescue and healed her. She began to regularly visit him every day out of appreciation. First to annoy him, but it quickly blossomed into a good friendship. Vyse and Laura got old enough to work with the rest of their tribe as a gem counter and miner respectively.
[2008]:
Eileen's parents taught her magic. Vyse commissioned a portrait of Krystal to gift Laura for her birthday, something Laura kept extremely close to her from then on.
[2011]:
Noah was tasked by the school to research a local tribe of kobolds in Haven, there were rumours of a rare type of kobold living there. The kobolds immediately grew fond and curious of Noah as he was the biggest Kobold they had ever seen! They invited him in to show him everything they have stolen and mined. Noah came from a wealthy family, and at that time he could only feign his approval of their thievery. Noah's visits were weekly and he grew fond of them all, especially Laura, which he initially befriended specifically to learn more about her specie. According to Laura, she and her siblings were all regrown from various body parts of single kobold who got chopped up. After being shown a very gross demonstration of how limbs can be cut off and easily put back on he decided to name them "Klyvebolds", coming from "att klyva", "to cleave". The school accepted this term. As a reward for outstanding intuition and research, Noah was awarded heart potion to treat his dysphoria.
[2012 Q4]:
Tabitha managed to talk Noah into stealing heart potion from the archive of the school for her own use. Noah was caught a few days later as he was ratted out by other students. Noah voiced his reason as the potion being life-saving to Tabitha, but the council saw her only as a petty thief who do not deserve the help, and as such Noah was banished from the school and stripped of the right to be taught magic by government assigned teachers. His academic research had also been stripped of his authorship. Noah felt empty and without purpose, but he did not feel any ill feelings against Tabitha, she is his best friend and he'd do anything for her. However Tabitha grew distant to Noah out of shame. Noah kept visiting the kobolds and pretended to take notes for the school to keep the charade up. Laura managed to take Noah's mind off of things for the most part. After a while Noah realized that Laura might be suffering from dysphoria too, and once told about it Laura's mind gears immediately started turning.
[2013 Q1]:
Upon having her world blown wide open with the possibilities that her gender doesn't line up with the one in her it all started making sense, and of course this would mean she immediately leapt to Vyse to talk their head off about it... Laura would begin thinking of a name for herself, though she didn't give it all too much time as she had the name "Laura" swirling in her head for a while ever since she overheard a fox using it at the market. Growing her hair out would be her next priority too.
Vyse was not entirely in the same boat as Laura, but deciding she did not have to act the gender she was born with certainly opened Vyse's mind to perhaps experiment a little with more masculine or androgynous presentations...
[2014 Q1]:
Eileen left home in hopes of joining something greater, with the blessing of her village. Noah finally confessed to Laura that he was thrown out of the school, he was no longer allowed to be taught how to use magic and his family was very disappointed in him. Laura did her best to console him and wiped away his tears, reminding him his friends are always here for him no matter what. Laura asked if he wanted to change the subject and talk about something that makes him happy, Noah nodded and talked about some interesting potions he read about earlier that day. "Potions are fantastical, there really feels like there's a potion for every problem out there. To think you can really drink your problems away haha, be it... short height, back pain, transitioning..." Noah monologued, immediately interrupted by Laura who jumped up from her chair and asked to hear more about the last part. Noah became flustered and felt he said too much, he began to explain how Heart Potion works but also made sure to mention he never talked about it because it is unfathomably rare to get your hands on and he didn't want Laura to pine for eternity for something she couldn't have. It was said to be so rare and valuable that the easiest way to get it was to rob it from a dragon.
The gears in Laura's head spun and she immediately sprung up to declare she would hunt them down herself if she had to. Noah urged her to think about this for a bit, they out scale her 100:1! Laura simply grabbed Noah's arm and formally invited him on her quest. Noah wasn't sure... he took her with her into the next room and talked to her about how awfully ferocious dragons were. Noah's perception of dragons in this part of the story is that of them being the embodiment of greed and malice, dragons to kobolds are like demons to men, it could be extremely dangerous.
Vyse overheard this conversation and was spectating from behind a pillar. Unlike Laura, Vyse couldn't entirely relate to how she was feeling and thought of this to be a rash decision, Laura wouldn't leave Vyse behind for no reason, would she? Vyse mustered up the courage to interject with their opinion but quickly hid behind the pillar again as they noticed two yellow glowing eyes emerged from the shadows.
Tabitha revealed herself, she had been listening to their conversations this entire time, boasting about having defeated several dragons in her lifetime singlehandedly (This is a lie) and saying she would like to join in, claiming the promises of riches was more than enough of a motivator for herself. The truth about Tabitha's motives were that she sympathizes with Laura being trans herself, and she would like to make things good again with Noah. The three of them decided that yes... they WILL go out on this quest. Noah began crying again and gave Tabitha a big hug, glad to see she was back. Meanwhile, Eileen got a job as a barmaid nearby as she quickly went broke on her travels.
[2014 Q2]:
The adventure was set and after a few months of preparations they were finally ready. The kobold tribe had put together a giant celebration for Laura and Noah and their third friend they have never seen before, but she stole stuff for them so she is dearly beloved now. Laura had a heartfelt and bittersweet day with Vyse, Vyse was her only friend and it broke her heart to say goodbye possibly forever. Vyse was not very happy with what was happening, the two of them argued in private through tears. Vyse just could not wrap their head around how Laura was feeling and tried to convince her she could still be happy without having to risk her life for something that might not even exist. "You need to let me live, Vyse" Laura cried out before storming out. Vyse had to sit down and reflect on what they were doing, they looked in the mirror and didn't like what they were seeing, Vyse would mostly just think of themselves first and foremost, maybe it's time they thought of what's best for their friend...
The day was long but it was eventually time to go. Believing they weren't on speaking terms Laura decided to go, but in came Vyse rushing towards her to apologize. The two of them hugged for a long long time right there by the exit, as a last gesture Vyse gifted her their golden hairband, so they'd always be close. And made sure she did not forget her Krystal painting, knowing how much it meant to her.
[2014 Q3]:
It did not take entirely too long before the three of them realized they were fighting an uphill battle with what they got. A short range thief, a cleric afraid of conflict and a momentarily homesick kobold with a short reach. It was clear they were perhaps in need of a fourth member. Tabitha had literally never had a bad idea before and decided the quickest way to hire someone would be to go into that bar over there and yell "Who wants to do quests with us".
So with a quick match of rock paper scissors, Laura was decided upon to venture inside and hire the toughest brute she could find. She inquired left and right with everyone shrugging her off because she's a tiny kobold. She took a little break and sat by the counter with her head in her hands, with a soothing voice asking her if she was alright. Laura looked up and was met with Eileen looking down at her, she was momentarily star struck as she noticed she was a fox, with forehead jewellery, sharp eyes, golden hairband, a green necklace... simply put without subtext: She saw Krystal in her.
Laura fuddled over her words, but she managed to finally say she was looking for people to go on a quest with her and her friends. Eileen immediately slammed her hands on the counter and begged Laura to take her with to get her out of this shithole. Laura agreed! Eileen was not what Tabitha or Noah expected for Laura to bring out, but something about the goofy big grin on Laura's face told them that maybe this was the right choice.
While venturing dungeons for pointers, maps, gold and miscellaneous our new favourite bard would quickly undergo a dramatic change to her figure as they were ambushed by sentient slime in what they thought was an abandoned cave. They had gotten to the treasure room when the big jello came out of nowhere and stole some treasure for itself... it then tried to force itself entirely into Eileen's stomach in an attempt to take her out for the count permanently! Thankfully Noah came to her rescue as he rapidly healed her while she was incapacitated, Eileen passed out and woke up 3 days later. Apparently she had been keeping the others up at night with snoring which she wish she hadn't been told.
"I snore??" She scratched her head in confusion... with her tail? Her tail had become longer and sleeker, stretchier and more expressive all of a sudden! Noah theorized that maybe the treasure the jelly had inside itself might have altered her body after digesting it, lending some magical properties to her biology! Eileen was surprisingly casual about this, but she might have just been MORE concerned over how giant her belly had become. Noah said it would probably shrink over the course of a few months, but much to Eileen's surprise she started to miss it as it shrunk away on the travels. Noah could relate to her as the only big member of the team, being big and plush and warm felt very endearing and comforting he'd say. Eileen decided she'd give it a shot being bigger for a while, just to see if she'd like it. Tabitha was forced to steal way more gold then she did previously just to keep the food budget up.
[2014 Q4]:
The gang was briefed of a village suffering from tremors and earthquakes caused by a dragon from a fox at an inn. They travelled far across the country side but were suddenly ambushed by a pack of ratfolk in their sleep! In an attempt to scare the crew they cut Laura's arms off with a sword, Noah and Tabitha reacted pretty mildly but Eileen was screaming her head off. While the pack leader was monologing, Laura simply plopped one of arms back onto her stump and picked up her other arm, slapping the ratfolk in their faces with it. Not entirely sure what is happening, Eileen stood up hastily and started performing dancing buffs to Laura, causing her to slap the ratfolk so hard with her severed arm that they were sent flying, doing a cool little sword sheathing motion but instead of going into a scabbard it went back onto her arm stump. With both of her arms healed up and the gang set free, they brushed themselves off and set off to find this mystery dragon causing trouble decently high up in the mountains.
While Laura was laughing maniacally slapping rats around, the kobold tribe back home had come to a conclusion that they were to move from the city of Haven and to a place to the east called Kobold Rock. Vyse came with them no questions asks, but they knew this meant Laura wouldn't know where they are. They are just going to hope for the best that Laura is okay and will one day find her way back to them.
The pride gang known as Tabitha, Noah, Eileen and Laura arrived at the town of Sovnhodet and asked around about the dragon causing trouble around here, it was described as malignant, ferocious, rough, woeful, dark. The squad was given directions to the mountain top and given a map for guidance. The trek was awful, it was raining and the steps sucked. When they did finally arrive at the very top of the mountain they were met with a sight they had not in a million years expected... A dragon! A dragon... yes, but it was a dog dragon. It's hoard was full of round objects such as crystal balls, bouncy balls, medicine balls, basket balls etc. They were very friendly and stomped around with excitement and was very fun to pet, but the gang was also frustrated about having to travel so far for nothing... They spent a few hours playing fetch with the dragon before setting off again and telling the towns folk they had a very very nice dog. Eileen was puzzled, she didn't know such creatures existed! Noah lightened up and claimed "That guy up there is like me!" and went on to explain that all dragons were originally kobolds. When a kobold hoards too much of something they love they are very likely to trigger a instinctual transformation, probably out of necessity to guard their hoard. And since Kobolds come in so many shapes and types, there's lots of dragon variety too. Though... he was not sure if EVERY kobold could turn into a dragon... He looked over at Laura and tried theorizing what a klyvedragon would look like... Nevertheless, Noah's view on dragons was starting to change somewhat after having actually met one. Maybe they are not all that bad?
[2015 Q1]:
January hit and with a sense of familial bond growing between the gang they decided to celebrate, they gathered at a bar and cheered with a big mug of mead each... quickly followed by Laura and Noah asking for a soda and hot chocolate after having tasted alcohol for the first time. They were in high spirits and they all had things to be happy for; Noah had never felt so loved before, Eileen was so excited to be travelling further than she could have ever imagined, Laura... well her goal wasn't met but she had her hair ruffled by a blue fox earlier who thought she was cute so she was pretty happy about that. And Tabitha... got snuck up on and guards put handcuffs on her! Tabitha is a very well known thief and she had never been caught once, she was a priority target and she guessed she might have let her guard down for once. Tabitha was stripped of her belongings and sent to a tower at the outskirts of town, Laura Eileen and Noah of course would immediately think of a way to free her. The first suggestion from both Noah and Laura was for Eileen to seduce the guards with her charms, but to that she replied with a bonk to the head of them both. Eileen did not have any better ideas herself... so they decided to head over to the jailhouse and see what Tabitha's idea for a great escape would be.
The gang snuck out late at night and headed to the tower, there was a grated window high above them and they took their chance and whispered "Hey, psst, Tabitha are you there?". A voice returned the call "Yes, Tabitha is here". The gang asked for a briefing on the situation, was there a way to get her out, does she see a key?. "Tabitha sees Jailer keys on the table but Tabitha's reach too short, could friends of Tabitha help Tabitha out?" Tabitha replied, the gang thought to themselves this must be a very dire situation if Tabitha is so quick to ask for help on this one. Noah cast a spell on Laura to muffle her footsteps and she dashed into the jailhouse, since she's so small it was very easy to just hide under the table. She reached her hand up on the table and first grabbed... Tabitha's suit! In a moment of pure excitement she put the suit on herself, it fit like a glove and made her feel really sneaky. Noah was covering his mouth not to laugh, she looked ridiculous!
Laura hoisted her hand up once more, got the keys and rolled towards the locked jailcell. "Hurry, Tabitha can't stand being in here any longer!" Tabitha called out, with Laura swiftly climbing up to jab the key into the lock. Suddenly she heard thudding footsteps behind her "HEY!! WHAT ARE YO-" the intruder yelped out before going silent, Laura immediately turned around and saw a guard... who then fell over onto the floor with a knife in his back. Above him stood an extremely naked Tabitha leaning against the doorway extremely smugly, the potted plant on the table extremely hiding Tabitha's junk from this mental image. "Tabitha hope Lizard wasn't worried for Tabitha, Tabitha wouldn't want to worry a dear friend" she murmurred. But... if Tabitha is standing there all naked, who is in the cell??
Emerging from the shadows was a large black bowling pin shaped kobold with a long slender neck and piercing yellow eyes, a tune dragon of grand splendour and size. Her name was also Tabitha, and she too spoke in third person. Talk about coincidence! With the dragon freed from her cell and the sneaking suit handed back to her rightful owner, the gang was reunited once again. The dragon humbly invited her saviours to visit her home, a large house filled to the brim with books and potions, she was a bit of a collector! And as thanks for saving her she offered the kobold to pick any potion she'd want from her cabinet of spares. As the dragon turned to unlock her cabinet her swaying tail hit Noah's face, knocking his glasses off. Laura picked out a potion that very closely resembled the description Noah gave about Heart potion, and brought it to him asking if it's the right one. Noah was extremely sure it was! The pink colour is almost definitely it. Our feline rogue picked Noah's glasses up and jokingly put them on and pretended to sound smart for a moment as a goof, picking up a book and... realized how clear the symbols are when she wears glasses... Tabitha needs reading glasses, she's not dyslexic after all! However, this is only a secret between the reader and Tabitha.
Laura drank the potion she picked out with excitement, she felt her body tingling! But instead of what she was expecting to happen she suddenly shot up in height and scale, the 3ft kobold quickly grew to a respectable 6ft! Not exactly what she expected... Turns out that Enlarge potion is actually super similar to heart potion in colour. Noah apologized profusely for not checking it properly, but Laura was kind of ecstatic about this! She could sit at dinner tables, she couldn't be so easily picked up by Tabitha anymore and she...! She needed an upgrade to her outfit, oops. The dragon was also sorry for the misunderstanding and brought up that she actually did use to have heart potion available in her collection but it was stolen by a pack of kobolds worshipping a fierce dragon living up north. She reluctantly marked it on their maps and wished them the best on the rest of their quest.
The gang was invited to stay for tea for just a little bit long, the older dragon barely ever had any visitors! They had a nice time, but at one point the discussion of how she ended up in the cell in the first place took place. The long kobold explained that she was mistaken for Tabitha due to her complexion and the size of her collection. She went on to say that the guards probably thought ill of her just for being a dragon, everyone goes around assuming they are nothing but trouble. Laura and Noah took a concerned look at each other knowing what they're setting out to do, while Tabitha consoled Tabitha as she felt bad she caused someone nice trouble. The party stayed the night and left early in the morning. They were going to miss Tabitha, especially Tabitha "Tabitha will miss Tabitha." Tabitha said to Tabitha. "Tabitha will miss Tabitha too, Tabitha has nice name" Tabitha replied. Tabitha agreed. Tabitha liked Tabitha. Tabitha mistook Tabitha's home for Tabitha's home and immediately switched places with Tabitha. Bye bye Tabitha!
[2015 Q2]:
The band of friends wasted little time travelling, their weary hiking paused as they stood face to face with the mountain this ferocious dragon resided in. Every preparation known to man was made, Eileen and Noah was loaded with sugar and had plenty of snacks on the ready for their spell casting, Tabitha had stolen every knife from a nearby village and Laura was taking a deep breath. Unlike other dragons this one was said to have lost all sense of self, a greedy villainous dragon who steals from the needy and the poor. The friends moved in with utmost caution and hid behind the pillars spread around the cave. It looked more like an arena with mounds of gold spread across with a slumbering dragon laying atop it all. Eileen, Tabitha, Laura and Noah checked up on each other. "Like we practiced.".
Tabitha ran out on the battlefield and caused a distraction the only way she knew how to: She threw almost every single knife she had at the dragon like a machine gun while circling it, the knives all bounced off the thick skin of the beast that started following her. Eileen started dancing to buff Laura's speed, who ran to the other side of the room to get a drop on the dragon. With Laura in position Tabitha leapt behind a pillar and dodged a fireblast from the beast, but not without the tip of her tails frizzing up. Noah scurried on over to her, accidentally bumping into Eileen and messing her dance up. As Eileen was knocked over Laura's speed decreased and she tripped.
The dragon turned around and started chasing her in the direction of Eileen, now the both of them had to leg it it. Noah managed to heal Tabitha up, Tabitha sunk her claws into the pillar to climb atop and started waving and shouting towards Eileen. Our bard saw what the tabaxi was doing and hastily picked their kobold up with her tail and flung her across the room towards Tabitha, shaking the dragon off Eileen's trail in the process as she rolled behind a pile of gold. Tabitha reached her arms out for Laura, caught her and immediately spun around to throw her towards the dragon again. Noah had to dash across the room once more and find Eileen and revitalize her with his magic, she had started performing another dance to buff Laura but was getting exhausted. She was ritualizing the dance of sticky surface, causing Laura's hands to stick to the dragon's horns. This seemed like a good idea but she was being thrown around like a ragdoll from the dragon's rampaging! The kobold rummaged around in her satchel for... a blue bright potion Tabitha had stolen from Tabitha! For shame! The dragon calmed down as they lost track of Laura but was immediately on the move again as they spotted Tabitha running away from them. Tabitha yelled at Laura to get a move on before she's toast! Laura fought the wind as she sticky fingered herself towards the snout of the dragon, and as soon as they opened their mouth Laura held the potion up and dropped it into the maw of the beast! ... I said, dropped it in the maw! Dropped it! It's- It's stuck to her hand, the spell is too strong. Laura shouted for Eileen to stop dancing and held onto the nostril of the dragon with all of her might. Eileen fell exhausted to the ground and Laura's grip loosened, and she dropped the potion into the maw of the beast! The fearsome dragon dropped almost immediately to the floor... and started snoring! The gang had dropped a potion of hibernation into the oversized kobold's mouth and taken them out for the count!
What a feat for everyone evolved! They were all extremely gross, sweaty and exhausted. But to the victors, the spoils... the gang spent no time finding what they were looking for, as Tabitha revealed she had nicked the prize while on the run from the dragon. Heart potion was here, just like the tune dragon described! The gang gathered around Laura and held her close as she finally indulged in her reward, she chugged the whole bottle pretty much without any room for breathing... But nothing's happening? Laura took a look at herself and checked for changes, touching her cheeks, touching her horns, running her fingers over the spots on her thighs... Noah chuckled and ruffled her hair and told her it's a lengthy process, it won't change overnight! Well, Laura a bit grumpy about this but was still pretty happy! She felt a sense of relief wash over here as she stared at her smiling friends. Tabitha immediately dove into the gold pile like she's scrooge mcduck, she filled her suit to the absolute limit with gold. Everyone took their fair share of the pile, not afraid to make a ruckus when the dragon has been sedated for a good few months to come. Noah took some real good interest in a chunk of lunarium he found and Laura collected a lot of golden rings, they reminded her of Vyse...
[2015 Q4]:
Half a year passed and the gang lived in luxury having enough gold to last them years without doing any quests or mercenary work. Tabitha kept most of hers hidden, Noah and Eileen decided to return the gold to the village the dragon stole it from and Laura spent almost all of it on food as heart potion increased her hunger one hundred times over. She grew quite fat and plump, nearly outsizing Noah by the end of it! They lived a pretty fulfilling 6 months, Laura was more than happy to see that her spots faded, her complexion lightened up and her scales became very soft, her horns started growing the other way too! Laura was turning into the person she wanted to be...
But, what did Laura really want to be? Laura was doing some self reflection upon what she had been through these years. Dragons are kobolds, that dragon that nearly killed them could have easily been her. Maybe what the dragon really needed was help... It was a bittersweet celebration, had she not travelled and gotten influenced from other dragons she fear she might have killed that poor dragon without thinking twice about it. Instead they had to drug them down, someone who needed help rather than exile, just to get a filling of what they wanted for themselves. It was worth it, but perhaps only this once. If living here means more of this, Laura wasn't sure she wanted part of it.
The gang decided to travel back to Haven to think of what to do next. Eileen was talking about Pangea, a ginormous continent way to the west... or east depending on how you look at things. her talks were filled with a life free of violence, housing for everyone, money guaranteed no matter what you do, a full stomach every night you go to sleep. It sounded pleasant...
Laura found her way back to her tribe's location and was distraught to find out that it was empty. She has no idea what had happened here, whether they moved or... no, she didn't want to think about that. She knew she was alone. She clutched her painting and cried to herself. Noah found her and sat down with her.
Not knowing how else to make sense of things, knowing there's no family to go back to safe from the troubles she's faced, she and Eileen spent the last of their gold for a one way ticket to Pangea. Noah wholeheartedly encouraged the decision, but Tabitha was not too enthused, she was quite upset she'd say goodbye to her friends possibly forever. She... disappeared, she was too heartbroken to even show up to say goodbye, a lot of tears were shed. Laura and Eileen left a letter in Noah's hands to give to Tabitha, there was no way they'd leave without showing their appreciation to her one way or the other. The two waved a bittersweet goodbye towards Noah and they were off... to a new life in Pangea.
Aftermath:
Tabitha disappeared for more than a year, Noah looked for her high and low while travelling the world, seeking out private tutors in healing magic and learning things from trial and error. Towards the end of his search he stumbled upon a weary and exhausted man battered and bruised alongside the road. He brought the man with him back to his humble abode and nursed him back to health. He was blue and white, the man was called Elijah and he was a space pilot who crash landed here. He was very suspicious of Noah but he had no choice and eventually warmed up to him. A few weeks passed and Eli was ready to head home, but promised he'd come back again. It was the start of a loving relationship.
Tabitha was lurking in the shadows for a few couple of months, spying on Noah and feeling too awkward to approach him, she felt shame and sadness having left her friend this way. She saw all of what happened with Eli and Noah, seeing him heal Eli's broken leg is what snapped her out of it. All the good feelings came rushing back and she snuck back into Noah's life after Eli left. The two hugged for a very long time, Noah forgave her immediately. The two spent that night cozied up by the fire, with Noah reading Tabitha all the letters for her.
Vyse became a self-taught wizard while spending their time at kobold rock. With charismatic influence they started to collect magic weapons with the delusion that Laura would one day come back and need a proper way to defend herself. Vyse underwent a dragonic transformation because of their obsession...
Tabitha and Noah kept on adventuring together as best friends, at some point Tabitha had ventured off and returned... quite big and round, extremely big and round in fact. In no way did it hinder her thieving abilities though, it's quite the feat! The two decided their goal in life would be to mass produce heart potion and distribute it where needed. The first thing they went for was stealing the crown of a great king as it had a super precious metal in it that they needed for the potion. They stole it... but the king's son, Evan, an aspiring knight wanting to venture out into the big world, BEGGED the two to kidnap him away. And as such, Evan the brave knight stole their family sword and joined. The trio soon became a quartet as Noah summoned an imp from the underworld, Oatmeal. A curious demon with a strange love for eating bones and smashing stuff. And finally, of course, Vyse came back into Noah's life after Evan and Oatmeal found them on a quest, Vyse got their happy ending knowing Laura was doing just fine and is happier than ever. Vyse became an important part of the family after that.
Eileen and Laura arrived in Pangea after a month of travel, they were assigned to a society learning program, to get accustomed to their new home. Eileen went on to work as a performing belly dancer at a very fancy club, she quickly became a main attraction but it was only part time and she unfortunately had to take a part time job as a retailer. Through her coworker she met a lovely witch called Carrie who would absolutely shower her in love and appreciation every day. Eileen kinda regrets giving all that gold back to those villagers now...
Laura through the learning program was applied to a film course based on her previously shown love for story telling! There she met Molly and Donna, and was exposed to a lot of great films. The three of them stuck together and were hired by the same crew-for-hire company, they were outsourced to a lot of fields, like documentary filming or even working on kaiju films! Laura would be so lucky as to meet Krystal in person through her work, and rest assured they are both extremely good friends now. One day Laura was hired by a band to film their music video, the singer was so impressed with her work she commissioned her to film for her son, Oliver. A semi-famous skater in dire need of a camera for his youtube channel. Laura and Oliver quickly became friends and eventually lovers... and then married 💜 Pretty much moving in with his family, eating his family's enchanted food seriously upped her size... she grew from 6ft to 8'6ft! She liked this a lot, it's so much easier to kiss her hubby this way~
If you read through all of that, thank you very very much! This has been a story racking around in my brain for a long long time that I could only just now recently finish. There is a lot left unexplored and maybe some things left deliberately up to interpretation. Worldbuilding has been a fun comfort to do for the last few years and I hope to continue and get more and more inspired as it goes on, and hopefully I inspire others too. This story and world is directly linked in with my friend's ongoing comic, Tails of Abyssium, which takes place in both Maddie and my world. The first chapter starts in Noor!
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I think it's a great job at laying out what is obviously a very rich backstory with lots of interesting characters. My issue with the story is more with the format. Doing it in snippets Is a good way to get through the broad strokes but it feels like we're missing out on quite a bit. I also found myself wondering about backstory and the sort of world these characters occupy. I'd like to see a more in depth delve into this entire world and all these characters. Obviously that's take a long time and be quite the undertaking but you clearly love these characters enough to do it justice.
Thank you so much! I am very excited to hear this, getting people interested in the characters was the main goal and hearing that my writing is fun! (Beyond the format which was mostly an experiment). The latter part you mention is something I definitely want to explore some time more thoroughly! Exploring my world and characters in a interconnected written format sounds really fun the more I think about it
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