Where Worlds Collide

[Cain]

The surrounding area was dark while at the same time a swirling vortex of colored light. It was like a tunnel, and he stood in the middle, trapped. Even before he looked he knew this was so. Before him was a form he found both terrified and fascinated him at the same time. It resembled a fox, though monstrous and huge, almost demonic. Its fangs showed even with its mouth closed and two tails flailed in the air behind it.

He didn't need to turn to know what was behind him, though he did. There stood a massive flame burning with a shape not unlike the torso of a man, though no true features were there. It spoke in its crackling roar using no words, only emotions and sensations of power and strength but also hunger and need.

Al looked back to the demonic fox as it began to speak in a voice that reverberated off the walls that weren't walls.
"Don't go that way boy. You know what lies that way. You've been there you've passed through. That way will only burn you. Come to me, you have something of mine. Give it back. You can't use it. You don't even want it. Come here. Its time to give it back!"
Both Fox and Flame lept, pouncing. Al froze, there was nowhere to go.

With a jerk he woke and rolled out of bed at the same time. It took him a moment to realize he was still in his apartment. Looking back at the sheets on his bed Al sighed, some were still smoldering. He quickly used the rest of the non-smoldering sheets to smother the other ones then held up the now burnt sheets shaking his head. Small-blackened holes now speckling its surface. Sometimes he wondered why he still used the sheets. Wiping the sleep from his eyes he headed to his bathroom.
“Gonna have to replace those if my parents ever decide to visit.”
Letting the door close behind him he looked up and froze.

* * * * * Back in his room at Troll Spit * * * * *

Al jolted awake then rubbed his hands over his face. It was the same dream again; he’d been having it more and more of late. Each time he could swear he remembered more of it when he woke, but then it always slipped away. Shaking his head he pulled on his clothing before grabbing his brush and heading down Troll Spit’s stairs. As he went he brushed the ruffled fur on his tail. When he stepped into the bars common room he droped the brush and froze.

There they stood, almost mirror images of each other, the two Al’s stared at their own likenesses, for a moment neither moved. The one at the stairs was the first to say anything.
Al 1): “Joe!”

((To those wondering here, the Alphonce Carter from New Haven stepped through the door that was supposed to lead to his bathroom instead connected to Troll Spit. There he met the Al that first entered Troll Spit through a dimensional vortex. Although its not mentioned the Al from New Haven is in his werefox form.
From here on Al 1 is the Al from Troll Spit, Al 2 is from New Haven.))

*Sitting at a corner table, a dwarf was drinking a pint of something. After all it was nearly breakfast time, and the dwarf was a firm believer in never eating on an empty stomach, or never having breakfast before a pint, or maybe he was just a firm believer in drinking in general.
Next to him was his drinking buddy, a full size griffin who had somehow managed to wedge herself into a seat. It looked quite uncormfortable for the creature, on her end the table actually rose off the ground, causing the entire table to slant almost on a 45'. In one claw, the griffin clasped a tankard that looked ridiculously small.
The dwarf took a double take at the scene in front of him. He turned to the griffin.*
"Do... those... two.... look.... like the same....?"
"Squawk."
"I thought there was a resemblence."

[Cain]

((OOC: Yay! A post to reply to!))

Joe stepped out of his workshop off to th side of the bar glancing around.
"What? Someone need some..oh...aw not another..."

As usual Joe wore what would be considered a modern business suit that looked like he had slept in it a few times along with his glasses with black smoked lenses. On the side of his head was his usual cerimonial looking fox mask.

Al 1: "Hey!"

Joe: "Oh I didn't mean it like that. Good ears though..."

Al 2: "...This...isn't my bathroom..."

Joe: "Aw right, we he have a bathroom right through that door."

Al 2: "I just wanted my comb..."

Joe: "Ah...wait, did you come through the door?"

Al 2: "Uh...yeah? . . . Why is this not my bathroom?"

Joe: "Oh thank-goodness, er, sorry, uh the reason you are here is umm...well that's a decent question. The door has an enchantment that allows it to connect to carious doors throughout the multiverse, though its not supposed to bring the same individual from two different worlds as the same time... it must be on the fritz again."
Joe then went up to the door, putting on his mask and seemed to start looking it over.

Al 2: "....."

Al 1: "*sighs* "Don't worry, he's like this all the time, actually I'm surprised it wasn't the bird..lion...thing..that..."

He started leading the other Al to a table.

Al 2: "Gryphon."

Al 1: "Eh?"

Al 2: "That's what it is. I've uh been doing a lot of reading on supposedly fantasy creatures of late."

Al 1: "Ah...this just feels weird, its like talking to a mirror."

Al 2: "Yeah I *looks down at himself* Ah damn it! I did it again!"

Al 1: "Eh?"

Al 2: "I changed in my sleep again."

Al 1: "You can change?!?"

Al 2: "Can't you?"

*Putting down his tankard, the dwarf cupped both hands around his mouth and hollered across the bar.*
"Ach Lad, I dinna know ye had a twin! Come over here, set doon and have a pint while ye tell us all aboot it!"
*He turned to the griffin again, craning his neck.*
"Scoot over would ye?"
*The griffin visibily narrowed her eyes. After a moment's thought, Cladorn instead scooted himself over.*

[Cain]

Al 1 looked like he was about to say something to the other but stopped when Cladorn commented on their being two Als. Shrugging to the other Al he walked over to the dwarf.

Al 1: "We're not twins. We're uh..."

Al 2: "I think technically we're the same person from what he said."
*He nodded to Joe.*

Al 1: "Yet... we're different..."

Al 2 shruged.

"Oh."
*Looking anything but convinced, he turned to the griffin.*
"Have I been drinkin' so long that I forgot I was drinkin' again?"
*She shook her head, and despite not having humanoid shoulders, made a passable attempt at a shrug. Under his breath, the dwarf muttered.*
"I was afraid o' that."
*Turning back to the two Al's*
"Sooooo, are ye here for a visit, or just for a pint or two?"

::An Elf sat in the middle of the bar, At a table that had four chairs. Excluding his own. He had rather point ears both of which flickered and glowed. He had a slight smile on his face. He muddered under his breath so noone would hear his sly remark.::
"Those silly dwarfs. I dont understand them at all.... Do you?"
::Well everyone but one.::

[Cain]

The two Al's pulled up seats by the table though Al 2 seemed to hesitate a moment watching the other.

Cladorn: "Have I been drinkin' so long that I forgot I was drinkin' again?"

Al 2 muttered under his own breath, "...It confuses me too..."

Cladorn: "Sooooo, are ye here for a visit, or just for a pint or two?"

Al 1: "I'm here to visit and pay off a dept to Joe."

Joe took that moment to pass by handing Al 2 what appeared a glass rod.
"I told you, you didn't need to worry about that. Hold this a moment would you?"
He then produced his notebook.
"Can I get you all anything?"

Al1: "My usual breakfast."

Al 2 started to check his pockets.
"Uhh..."

Al 1: "Better make that two."

Joe nodded writing this down. Once he had Cladorn's order as well he ripped off the page crumpled it in his hand and it vanished. He then moved to the Elf's table taking his order and doing the same before going behind the bar to procure drinks.

*Completely befuddled, the dwarf took a moment to scratch his head vigorously. So vigorously in fact that a flea leaped off of his pate and scurried across the table. Both dwarf and griffin watched it go intently. The griffin gave him a Stern Look. Looking slightly abashed, Cladorn spoke up.*

"If ye both are the same person, then how did ye end up here together?"

[Cain]

Al 1 slowly raised his hand before it burst into flamesthat then moved into his hand. He then droped it down over the flea and held it there a moment.

Al 2: "Uhhh..yeah how is that?"

Al 1: "The main door there connects to different worlds. I come from one world where things went a certain way he came from another where things were similar but occured differently. More then likely the main difference is his world has magic, mine didn't."
He lifted his hand again and the fire was gone. There was only a small singe where the flea had been.

Al 2: "You seem to be adapting pritty well. Nice accuracy."

Al 1: "I've had a lot of free time on my hands so I had plenty of time to practice. You should have seen me when I first got here, a merely startaling me would make meburst into flames all over."

Al 2: "I did the same thing almost burnt dowm my apartment once."