Twice in a lifetime: Book 2

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Alexander met Alice, Clover, and Dragon Lady in the library. The library was an easy meeting spot as hardly anyone entered it and the librarian had quit early on in the year. Alexander Sat down as Alice shape-shifted back into her true form, Molly.

"I find it off putting." Clover said rather bluntly. "Seeing you turn into a human, and not a deer."

"I'm sorry." Molly said. "But it feels too good to be able to be in my own body, especially with you around. And it's really hard to tun into a deer."

"So, what was so urgent that you wanted to talk to us about?" Alexander asked.

"Well first off, I wanted to ask you how Dragon Lady was made, why is she a dragon?"

"I'm actually only half dragon." Dragon Lady responded. "The other half is human; well, I guess some of it is robotic thanks to the machine that gave me full life."

"Well Alexander, when did you first conjure her?"

"Well." Alexander said. "It was a time when I was full of fear and self-doubt. I was very miserable and very, very lonely. I couldn't take it for much longer. Then one night, my hands start shaking and smoke starts coming out of them. Before this only happened to me when someone would try to beat me up, and Axel would come out to stop them. But when I turned around, I saw." He turned to Dragon Lady and looked her in her eyes. "The prettiest girl I've ever seen. That was about four years ago."

"But why does she look the way she does?"

"He doesn't know, okay?" Dragon Lady responded. "And I don't either. Me, Axel, Davey. We would just come out whenever he needed us or asked us to. We just felt him calling, and we came." Molly sighed.

"I was hoping you would disprove my theory, but I guess not. To tell you what I think is happening, I need to start at the beginning. The reason Goodman discovered how to travel between world's was to help a friend. So, I'll tell you about this friend. In my world there was this romance adventure series, and in those books are described a world, this sort of fantasy style world, I believe it is similar to this world's book series called The Ring lord, but with lots more sex appeal. While in one of those books, a dragon drinks a potion that makes her human, well, mostly human. But the author, some pervy nerd, he got himself on some government watch list or something, and they ended up raiding his house and killing him. In the pervs house they found her, Libelle.  That's how I ended up meeting her, the government put us in that prison they said was a school. We were in the same class; I was a child, and she was about your age DL. I'm 22 now, which makes her..." Molly stopped and blinked several times. "Her birthdays almost here. Can I get a sample of your blood, DL?"

"Um, maybe later." Dragon Lady said, confused by the question.

"Anyways." Molly continued. "Libelle, she used to sleep in a small pile of gold instead of a bed like the rest of us. Goodman found the world that she was from and sent her home. Then Goodman started playing god. I regret to say that his first experiment was partly my fault, I joked to him about introducing rock N' roll music to the queen, and the madman actually did it. Then he found more worlds, he even destroyed one, caused an apocalypse by breaking that's worlds laws of time. So, my father decided that we needed to monitor these other worlds to keep him from interfering with them. It's hard, Goodman is too smart to let us get away with spying on him directly. That's why I came here, my father's agency discovered this world and knew Goodman would be enticed by how different it is to all the rest, how better it is. But I couldn't blow my cover, or really take any action until I was certain that Goodman had interfered. As you know, I have failed. But I'm not leaving, at least not yet. Desmond is still out there, which means I'm still on the job. But when that jobs over, it's back to the station. Clover, don't tell Lake, she'd be heartbroken if she knew I'd have to leave any day now. T-there's still hope though. Once Goodman is imprisoned or dies or is in some way incapable of harming the multiverse, I'm going to retire here, live out the rest of my days as Alice. Maybe I'll tell people that I can shape-shift into human forms as well as animal ones, maybe I won't. shapeshifters tend to be distrusted. For now, I'll just keep that among friends. I'm rambling about him again. I'm sorry I got off topic. Libelle, shortly after she was returned to her world, she got pregnant, she never told me who knocked her up, but I can guess. She had a miscarriage. This would have been four years ago." She suddenly blinked as if she had just woken up from a trance. "I'm, sorry." She said. "I know the idea that you're an unborn baby from another world born into this one sounds crazy."

"No, not at all." Alexander said. "I came to the conclusion that I've been summoning ghosts just this morning."

"Uh, um, okay." Molly replied.

"Where do I fit into this?" Clover asked. "Why am I here, I'm not dead!"

"No, but you might be someone else. In Lebelle's world was this druid, looks just like you, when she was young her mom was murdered, and her twin sister was kidnapped. I think, somehow, you're that twin. Can I get I a blood sample?"

"Yes." Clover said.  "Lets go to the nurse's room, I need to lie down anyway."

"Alright, DL, Alexander, thanks for chatting with me." Molly said as she shape-shifted back into Alice and walked out the door with Clover.