It was yet again time for Dragonmaster. For a quick rundown for the un-initiated, Dragonmaster is a contest that folks who do arts in crafts get together and compete in various categories. Its named after the award in the society called Amtgard that recognizes these activities .The Award itself is called the Dragon. Why they named artistry after a great big lizard, no one knows. But it was a Dragonmaster, in a place called the Kingdom of Neverwinter, in the real land known as Tampa Florida. Yeap, It was Dragonmaster and Casca Elroy was, in fact, bored silly. She was supposed to enter, Against her knight, Zodiac but, she just didn’t feel like it. There was just not enough amusement for her there. And she had heard awhile back, that Dame Lilly had decided that “this cooking stuff was over rated,” so intended to enter and win the cooking category. This prompted Casca to a) not judge for sake of her health and b ) not tell her two best friends/ torture victims, Joy and Weasley, that Lilly had planned this. Casca figured that watching joy eat Lilly’s curry would be like watching Ranma eat Akane’s cooking, with similar results. Little did Casca know that her knight, Zodiac, had decided to enter cooking himself, with a special form of spam sushi. Not that he intended to WIN cooking of course. He just wanted to watch the fun as the judges tried to EAT the spam sushi. These two taste sensations would have dreaded unforeseen results.
Casca wandered around looking at the various entries and chuckling at some “This is what a serpent knight calls a straight stitch eh?” she muses at NW’s serpent knights latest simplicity pattern attempt. She looks over at the judging crew and smirks ‘ Hmm looks like they are about to judge food, this should be good’. She sees her two “friends” as well as Joys knight, a man named Evil Ryss, who are all judging together. And they are gathered with disgust plainly on their faces around a plate of “spam and horseradish flavored” sushi. The green look on joy’s face is priceless, as the looks up at the eager faced knight who is expecting to hear comments about his “cooking”. In truth he is actually expecting one of the three to run for the bathroom right after eating and has a 5 dollar bet riding on the outcome of that. Sadly he is disappointed (and 5 dollars poorer) as they are made of sterner stuff. “Uhmm, this is ‘Interesting’” joy says to him. He looks down, dejectedly. Ryss looks at him, and cuts to the chase “Zodi, this is total crap, I hate you. You made this JUST to make me eat it didn’t you.” Zodiac looks up. “Yeap” and wanders off happily, while poorer at least his mission is done.

And some toxins start forming in the stomachs of the various judges…

And now the main course. Dame Lilly’s Curry composition. No one was sure what exactly she used in it, though there was a faint odor of paint cleaner, and lye. The Judges were brave souls, and had just gotten through Zodiacs attempt at playing “Make the judge Barf” without a scratch. The three lined up dipped their forks, placed them as one into their mouths and promptly turned so many colors they could have been a poster for the Rainbow coalition.
“Ugh” was the only sound anyone heard before the three judges hit the floor, passed out in joint coma’s.

The first one to wake was joy. She looked around a room, nicely laid out, but oddly colored. Looking around the room, she could see a lot of odd things, like the books were colored weird. In fact they were like cartoons. So was the rest of the room. She could read the titles, but it did not look like English. Looked well, Japanese. She looked up at pictures and saw what her mind told her was her, but also told her was not. So she went over to the odd colored mirror and looked in. A long blond haired girl, much younger than joy looked back at her. Cute was a good descriptive term. But this mirror showed a very oddly colored girl, again like she was in some weird cartoon. Behind her, on the bed was a white cat who was looking at her.

“Are you ok, Min-chan?” the cat asked politely. Joy almost fainted ‘ Ohh Boy’ was the only thing that came to mind….