Page 9 of Rescued By My Dragons

I said, nodding at the monitor, “I think we could all use a break from that and besides, no matter what else there is about Earth, I think we can all agree there’s one good thing about it.Earth is where you come from, Jenna and any world that can produce someone like you can’t be all bad.”

There was a moment of silence that felt as if dark clouds were parting.Elliot and Cade and I all looked to each other, and my friends’ smiles told me they were in total agreement with me.Jenna just softly smiled at all of us.In a room that had been filled with sounds of hate a moment ago, there was now a warm glow of love.

“Okay, then,” said Jenna.“If we’re all agreed, let’s go.Next stop:Malibu, California—Earth!”

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After we cleaned up from breakfast, Jenna excused herself into Elliot’s bedroom while the guys and I went to the living room.She had told us that we’d need some extra space for what we were about to do, so we decided to move his living room sofa further away from the big panoramic picture window.As we lifted the big long piece of suede furniture and walked it towards the dining room, I couldn’t help imagining what this sofa might say if it could talk; what a story it might tell of Elliot taking Jenna’s virginity on it.I smiled a bit enviously at the thought of him on top of her, on top of these suede cushions; of Elliot’s dick being the very first one to slide into Jenna’s pussy, popping her cherry and making our visitor from Earth a virgin no more.It was an exaggeration, I knew, but in some way I felt as if we were carrying an artifact of history.

Or was it an exaggeration?I had the whimsical and very unlikely image in my head now.If some contact eventually took place between Tellus and Earth, this sofa might one day be on display in the Pendrake Museum of History.Some tour guide might lead visitors to a place where this couch would sit behind velvet ropes and say, “And it was on this sofa that one of the first visitors from a parallel universe had her first sexual experience with a champion Scaler athlete.On this sofa Jenna Callaway was fucked for the first time by Elliot Ladon.”

As we set Elliot’s sofa back down on the floor at the edge of the living room, I straightened up and softly laughed, shaking my head at my absurd but funny little idea.Cade and Elliot looked curiously at me.“What's so funny?” Cade asked.

Shaking my head and ruffling my hair with my fingers, I only grinned and said, “Nothing, really.Just a ridiculous straythought I had.Don’t pay it any attention.”And I looked at the sofa, then at Elliot, and chuckled a little more.

Before Elliot or Cade could say anything else, Jenna returned from Elliot’s bedroom with her mirror in one hand and the domain ring in the other.“I just left a message with my Uncle Neal,” she said, “telling him not to worry if he can’t reach me for a few days.”She slipped the mirror into her pocket and held up the ring.“Ready to go?”

We all answered, “Ready.”

Looking at the slight rearrangement of the room, she said, “This should do all right.When I activate the ring, we’ll all have to stand a bit away from it while it starts working.When the access point is stable, we’ll be good to go.”

”To Earth,” I said.

Jenna nodded and stepped to the center of the room.“To Earth.”

“So, there’s nothing else we need to do?” I asked.

”Nothing,” she said.“Once I get it started, the ring will do it all.”She knelt down on one knee, holding the ring by its rim against the floor, and said, “Just stay right there and watch.”

Elliot, Cade, and I stayed on the side of the room where we were and did as she said.Jade nimbly used her fingers to turn the metallic hoop about 180 degrees on the floor, then did a twisting motion and set it to spinning.Immediately we heard a humming from the device, a sound that started low and quickly grew in pitch as Jenna stood up and came over to stand with us.By the time she reached us, the hum of the ring turned to a strange, electronic-sounding howl—and the circular device spinning on the floor started to give off a weird, purplish glow.

It was the most amazing thing any of us guys had ever seen.The howling of the device started to vibrate, sounding like some sort of ghost.At the same time, from the edges of the ring, the glow began to expand.The ring itself stayed erectand stationary and continued to spin as if driven by some inner source of power, which was what I guessed must be happening.At the same time, a circle of light spread out from where the ring was spinning.It shimmered, pulsating in time with the vibrations of howling sound and most amazingly of all, in the space inside that luminous circle, we couldn’t see Elliot’s living room any more.It was as if within that space, the room just disappeared, opening out into another space—one that we didn’t recognize.

”There’s Daddy’s lab and workshop,” said Jenna and looking inside the circle, we could make out the shapes of machines covered over with sheets and tarps. There were also tables, pillars, and brick walls.It was incredible to know we were actually looking from Elliot’s living room into some other, completely different place!

The sound from the ring ebbed and softened, while the glow of the circle of light just throbbed with a steady rhythm.The “hole” in space was complete.

”We can go on through now,” said Jenna.“And we’d better hurry; it won’t stay stable forever.In a few minutes the ring will power down and the opening will collapse.Let’s go.”

Each of us had packed a bag for the strange, amazing “trip,” and Jenna had prepared her backpack again.We’d left all our gear in one corner of the living room.Quickly we collected our stuff and approached the amazing gateway from one universe to another.

“Be careful,” said Jenna.“Don’t kick the ring over when you go through, or the opening will collapse on you.I don’t know what will happen if it does.”

The thought of being caught between one universe and another—or, worse, being cut in two by a closing aperture between the universes—wasn’t the least bit appealing.“Right,” I said.“Careful of the ring.”

”Ready?” Jenna said to Elliot.

Elliot took her by the hand and said, “Let’s do this.”

Jenna and Elliot stepped forward first.They paused for just a second at the threshold to Earth.Jenna allowed Elliot just that much time to take a deep breath—and then, with one step, taking care not to upset the ring, they moved forward through the opening, and Cade and I, to our amazement, saw them waving to us and motioning us to follow them into that other world.

Cade looked at me like an excited little boy and said, “Come on!Watch the ring; let’s go!”And he moved to the threshold, paused the way Elliot and Jenna had done, took a deep breath as if he were diving into a lake, and stepped around the spinning ring and into the place where our friends waited for us.

I was the last to go.Having seen that nothing happened to any of my companions, I marched confidently to the opening in the air and stepped around the ring as Cade did.There was a funny, sparkling sort of sensation as I went through—not unpleasant, just unusual; it felt as if I were sparkling inside and surrounded with sparkles outside and then, there I was, with Cade, Elliot, and Jenna—somewhere else.

While the three of us looked around at our new surroundings, Jenna went over, stooped down, and picked up the spinning ring from the floor.As soon as she grasped it and stopped its rotating, the rim of the threshold sparked and flickered, then contracted into nothing, cutting off our view of Elliot’s living room which we’d just left.

Jenna stood up again, holding the ring, and faced us.

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