The Dimension Travel Trilogy: A Three Part Science Fiction And Fantasy Novel

by Pidoriano, Joseph

  He screamed and fell off of the ladder. He fell on his rear and bounced off of it. He hastily pulled out the needle. Luckily, there was very little bleeding. The next thing that he did was find the syringe.

  He found the syringe buried by the ripped up guide to the Magic Castle Book. From there, he started to exit the science lab. As he exited the science lab, a book fell on his head from the small library of four book shelves above the entryway. The book fell because it was opened which caused it to become loose.

  When it hit him he was knocked unconscious.. The guard saw what happened. The guard started running up to Dr. Driek. The guard first took the syringe and needle and placed it on the ledge of the stained glass gothic style window. He switched the uniforms so that way when, Tom Jackson sees who is performing the injection of the fluid from Iron Steel, he can trust that it is Dr. Driek. The guard had to read how to inject fluid, and break the spell of the knockout potion that Dr. Driek tossed on Iron Steel, that eventually leaked into his (Iron’s bloodstream.) The guard held the syringe and needle and gingerly walked down the corridor to the dungeon door.

  Tom said, “What has taken you so long?”

  The guard disguised

  as Dr. Driek said, “I had to find the syringe and needle.” Tom said, “Well, just get to work.” The Guard asked, “Who are you to say ‘just get to work’? You are a hostile. You’re lucky I am doing this for you.”

  The guard penetrated Iron’s dragon skin and injected the potion liquid into his skin. After, the injection, Iron started to wake up. An eight inch eye started to swiftly blink. From there, he started to lift up his head, as if he had awakened from a sleep.

  He asked, “Where am I?”

  The guard said, “You were in the

  dungeon, and I was the one who brought you here!” Iron said, “It’s go time!” Iron woke up fully and grabbed the guard with his dragon tail.

  From there, he threw the guard against the wall. The guard’s skull cracked open. A grim scene once again. Blood started oozing out of his head and, since the skull was completely open, guts started to leave his head. This was a very foul scene. Iron Steel was really turning into a beast.

  Chapter Ten: The first morning in the Dungeon, the death of Iron Steel, and the Great Escape for Tom Jackson, the Discovery of Iron Steel, and the Return to planet Earth

  After Iron Steel killed the other guard with the smack of his tail, he told Tom, “Why didn’t you save me from the potion that was thrown on me earlier today?” Tom said, “How could I save you when that guard threw me into the dungeon?” Iron answered, “You could’ve used active resistance! Do you even know what active resistance is?”

  Tom answered sarcastically, “No, what is active resistance?” Iron said, “Active resistance is fighting back, in a violent way!”

  Tom said, “You know what, it is turning night fall and we’d better go to sleep now! Hope you have a good evening.” Iron just started to snore. First of all, Iron’s snoring was very loud that it can be heard from miles away. Along with that, he would constantly move when he slept, which would make an earthquake. Also, he had sleepwalking problems, on top of that. He couldn’t survive here. As the crack of dawn happened, he was just started to wake up. Tom Jackson was still in a coma.

  Iron shouted, “I can’t take this place anymore! When the hell am I going to get out of here?” Tom said, “Never.” Iron said, “What the hell do you mean never? I thought that we was getting out of here now!” Tom replied, “That god forsaken king is a barbaric soul. You know that there will be no chance on Earth that that pinhead is dungeon.” Iron said, “Well, maybe we can find some way to get us out of here!” Tom said, “How?” Iron answered “I don’t know!” A bang on the metallic door was heard. When the sun had risen, the guard said, “Here is your breakfast. Eat up fool!” The breakfast was in a rusted metallic bowl. Iron Steel was not given a breakfast and, Tom Jackson received breakfast. Tom said, “I can’t have this crap!

  You take it!”

  Iron replied, “Well it is my last meal! One less soul in this castle today. Yup that’ll sure be nice!” He said this very sarcastically.

  However, he did take the gruel. The gruel was brown and looked like dog excrement. He started to gulp down the gruel and on his first gulp, he started to feel funny. A shrill of coldness went through him.

  When that happened, his leg started to weaken and, he started to fall to the ground. A loud scream left his voice.

  After, he screamed, he said, “What the hell is going on ‘round here? I can’t take this anymore! I give up! That king wins.” Tom replied, “No, that big fool won’t win. You’re strong. Strong like warrior, you can survive anything. Even that thing!” Iron said, “What’s that thing? King Haggoth!” A loud trumpet played by the squire came from a distance. The squire sounded the trumpet.

  Meanwhile, there was an event that the Magic Castle and all other kingdoms host and that was public executions which was considered entertainment.

  King Haggoth hosted this one and said, “Come one, Come all.

  Comrades of the kingdoms, From highest to lowest, Strongest and Weakest, Brightest and Darkest, Smartest and Dumbest, Rich and Poor, Right and Wrong, you will feast your eyes on a demise of an evil soul. This soul did harm to this kingdom and many other kingdoms. The people believed he was guilty and the highest of the high court punished him. He was a heartless soul. A soul with no morals or values. A creature who hurt my pet dragon. Who now, take revenge on him. This hostile, worthless soul, bottom of the barrel of the thing must pay for his sins. Here Ye, Here Ye. This nut even challenged the Grand Fromage.” Above the king’s tower in front of the Magic Castle Colosseum, was the squire. When the king said, “..this nut even challenged the Grand Fromage,” the squire pointed down at the king. Haggoth continued, “This thing will now pay.” The pompous and egocentric king called the guards.

  King Haggoth told the guards, “Get the chains in the hallway, and shackle him up. Make sure he don’t escape and, if he resists, or if he doesn’t want to come out of his cell, call the horses in. Then, if his fool friend fights against you, take his fool friend, and put a dunce cap on him.” The guards said synchronously, “Aye, Aye Captain.” King Haggoth said, “Don’t call me captain. I am much higher in ranking, than a capitan.”

  One of the guards said, “Don’t you mean ‘captain?’”

  King

  Haggoth nastily said, “Shut the hell up! Just do as I say or you are going to end up in that particular situation that the hostile is in right now. Just take the hostile out now!” The guards said, “Sir Yes Sir.”

  The guards went to the dungeon with fear and intimidation. When they arrived at the dungeon door, they stormed in like troopers. Iron Steel said, “You aint’ taking me down without a fight!” One of the guards said, “Oh really. Let’s go!” Iron started to fight, he flew across the dungeon to where Tom Jackson slept and tried to rip off the bars of the dungeon window. As a result, he injured himself with a rust cut.

  Surprisingly, an ouch left his mouth. Iron then told the guard, “That’s it. It’s go time. The guard said, “You’re not going to mess with me.

  Haggelhoff, bring out that whip.”

  Haggelhoff came from the guards. He was the biggest guard there. He was a staggering eight feet tall and was the size of a beast.

  He had a beard longer than the Empire State Building and he would often use that beard as a rope. At least the guards used the beard.

  However, no body dared to pull on the beard. Granted, the beard had finite space. However, the beard was about ten to twenty feet long. He would often trip over it. The beard was so thick that a bird’s nest would’ve grown in there. The bird’s nest might’ve been in some cases if he left the beard unkempt, a griffin’s nest. A griffin is like the everyday pigeons and sparrows of the Magic Castle.

  Griffins, are about two feet tall and three feet wide, and have a wingspan that stretches up to almost a mile. Griffin’s were found hidden in the turr
ets of the Magic Castle. Now, Haggelhoff pulled out his big bright, unkempt beard and whipped it across Iron Steel. Iron tried to break loose of the beard. However, that wouldn’t work. Iron started turning from a blue dragon to a purple dragon. He said, “Let it loose a tad.” He (Haggelhoff didn’t listen to Iron’s command).

  But, one of the guard’s said, “Let him go. I’ll get the chains.

  All the guards, restrained Iron Steel, while the one who was not restraining Iron, retrieved the chains. The chains were three inches thick and twelve inches long to sustain a dragon. The guard who had retrieved the chains, wrapped the chains around Iron’s body and after twenty four wraps, he finally restrained the dragon. Unfortunately, the guards got tied up with him. Mutters of Anger left the other guards mouth as the guard who chained him up felt humiliated. King Haggoth screamed from down the corridor, “Thousands of spectators are waiting for the excitement. When are you people going to move along and hurry it up. The clock is ticking and my dragon is getting so hungry that he’s going to eat my horses.”

  One of the guards who were accidentally chained said from the dungeon, “I am a little caught up in some situation right now!

  Give about five minutes!” King Haggoth shouted, “Well they are getting hungry for the excitement.” The guard said, “Tell them that they just have to wait.” Now, the guard who was supposed to chain the dragon, started to pull the chain off of the dragon. The guards fell off of the dragon.

  When the guards fell off of the dragon, one of them told the one who chained the dragon, “You were supposed to chain the foul beast, but you chain me also. What did you do that for?” The fellow guard said, “Yeah.” And so did all of the other guards begin to say Yeah. He (the guard who chained the dragon said), “I am going to have to re-shackle him. However, you all have to help me.” The guards helped the one who chained Iron up and Iron was shackled.

  He was carried down the corridor to the king. King Haggoth said with a deceitful heart to the guards, “This is the moment I’ve been waiting for.” Then, he said to the people, “Are you happy now?

  Your wishes are granted. Now, this creature will pay for his sins.

  Squire, read him his charges.” One of the members of the squire from the Magic Castle came down the stairs from the castle. In ceremonial dedication, he gave the king his hat. Now, he read the charges to Iron Steel, who was the dragon being executed for the crimes that will be read. Squire read the charges. He cleared his throat and, then started to read the charges. “Hear ye, hear ye, all of the people from lands far and near, north and south, east and west, magic castle and non-magic castle, serfs and lords, kings and princes, queens and princesses, dukes and duchesses, masters and mistresses, and madams and sirs. I shall now read this foul, immortal, below the animalistic beasts’

  penalties. The first penalty is the death of two guards. The second penalty is the penalty of treason against the beloved king. The third penalty is resisting the dungeon for a crime you are guilty of. The fourth penalty is.”

  The squire stopped there. King Haggoth said, “What’s wrong squire?” The squire member said, “There is no fourth penalty your highness.” King Haggoth ordered the guard to bring Tom Jackson up to a booth to see what will happen to his friend because of the fact that his friend betrayed the king. The guard rushed over to the dungeon where Tom was being held as the hostile. The guard opened the door and Tom said, “What are you doing here?”

  The guard said, “King ordered me to take you to him.”

  Tom

  replied, “Why, am I getting pardoned?” The guard said, “No, not really.” Tom said, “Well, I aint’ going!” The guard said, “Yes, you are.” Tom Jackson started to resist the guard. The king shouted into the corridor from the Magic Castle Colosseum, “What’s taking you so long again?” As king Haggoth was saying this, he rolled his eyes. The Guard said, “One of your prisoners is being resistant.” King Haggoth shouted, “I am coming down to see who this prisoner is. However, first, I have to have to tell the squire and the spectators something before I march down there.”

  King Haggoth told the squire and the spectators, “Listen, I think we are going to have an even more entertaining day. I will leave my throne. If anyone sits on my throne, there’ll be hell to pay when I get back. Guards, watch over the beast, and keep the spectators quiet and if any of them decide to up rise or act like barbaric, animalistic creatures, feed them to Bedlam, my pet dragon. Squire, keep the spectators entertained. Be fools like you are normally.”

  King Haggoth jumped off of the throne and marched down the corridor. He marched like a crab with two legs. Every time, he would step the corridor would begin to shake. He said to himself, “Oh, I wonder who I am going to be dealing with now! Will, I be dealing with some sort of a crude or some sort of a fool. I bet myself for twelve billion gold coins that it’ll be that fool.”

  King Haggoth with anger, irritation, and frustration punched the metal door three times. Meanwhile, in the dungeon, the guard was trying to suppress Tom Jackson. All of a sudden, a florid king filled with exasperation entered the dungeon and said, “It’s the fool! The one who I sentenced for Bedlam to execute after his friend was that jester. The complete, incompetent fool! Tom told the king, “I am no fool!”

  The king said, “Yes you are a fool and you will always be known as a fool throughout this castle, throughout this kingdom, and kingdoms beyond. Your friend even thinks that you are a fool.” Some of it was a fallacy of what the king said to Tom Jackson. Tom’s friend doesn’t think that he’s a fool. His friend thinks the king is a fool and is nuts for sentencing him to this place. Now King Haggoth said to the guard, “Get the dunce cap, and paint his face, and march the hostile to the squire, spectators, and all of the souls that came from all over the kingdoms of our world!”

  King Haggoth marched out of the area and returned to his throne. The guard put a dunce cap on Tom Jackson and followed King Haggoth’s every order. Eventually, Tom was marched down the corridor to the crowd of spectators, the squire, King Haggoth, and guards. King Haggoth said, “Well, folks, what do you think of this monstrosity? This thing is an abomination to the kingdom!” The people started to laugh at Tom Jackson as he was being humiliated In front of the whole crowd.

  Then King Haggoth said, “Why do you think that this fool is funny? I thought he was a stupid thing. He was useless.” The people continued laughing. Then King Haggoth had an outburst. The ferocious king ordered the guards to throw him into the dungeon. The guards escorted Tom to the dungeon. Now, Iron Steel was to be executed right now for the crimes pressed by King Haggoth that the squire read to him. King Haggoth said to Iron, “You ferocious, malicious beast. Why did you cause terror in my kingdom? You destroyed three lives due to your rage and almost killed one soul. It is time to toss you to Bedlam.”

  Bedlam looked like a sweet innocent dragon. However, now he started to bring terror to the castle. Bedlam had shape shifting powers where he could shape shift into another creature. Bedlam was very skillful at that. King Haggoth said to both dragons, “Get into your positions.” Both dragons entered their position of fighting. The dragons’ hands were in fists. Their tails all the way back. Their faces filled with anger. And, their claws sharpened.

  Their chests were pushed out which meant, that their fire was ready. The king said, “Squire, read the rules of the duel.” One of the members of the squire read the rules of the game. That particular squire member started to clear his throat and, then read the rules, “Comrades, and Dragons. Here are the regulations for the game. The first rule is that fire is forbidden from usage. The second rule is that the soul has to be completely down and not breathing and then, the winner will be declared as a winner if this happens. The third rule is.”

  Then that particular squire member asked King Haggoth, “What is the third rule?” King Haggoth answered with a sarcastic smile, “The third rule is to let the games begin!” Bedlam said, “Come to papa!”

  Belligerent Bedlam said that whic
h basically meant that he wanted war. Iron boldly said, “Hell to the no!”

  Bedlam swung his tail at Iron Steel. Iron jumped up and flew up to the bell tower of the Magic Castle. Bedlam followed. While Iron was doing that, King Haggoth said, “This is what it’s going to be like eh. Too bad that tradition doesn’t allow me to change the rules of the game.” Bedlam followed Iron Steel to the bell tower in the Magic Castle. Iron told Bedlam, “You’re not going to win this one.”

  Bedlam replied with a snicker, “Oh really. We’ll see about that.” Iron ripped the eight foot goldenrod bell and threw it at Bedlam.

  Bedlam’s dragon wing was damaged. He (Bedlam) fell to the ground and bounced off of all of the towers and turrets of the Magic Castle until he finally landed in the arena. When, shape shifting Bedlam got brutally injured and fell to the ground in the center of the coliseum.

  He shape shifted back to the “innocent” dragon that he is. The spectators in the crowd were very angry at Iron Steel. One of the spectators said, “Let’s throw stones at him.” Everybody was chanting “Kill the beast.” And, everyone was chanting that. Another one of the spectators retrieved stones. They started stoning Iron Steel.

  King Haggoth announced, “That’s enough.”

  As a result, the

  stones hit King Haggoth’s head. Haggoth was escorted out of the scene by nurses. Iron reentered the coliseum and tried to aid the dying Bedlam.

  Bedlam’s last words were, “You win. I forfeit my life.”

  The

  spectators threw stones at Iron Steel. As Iron was being stoned, he told Bedlam, “I’m sorry for what happened.” He told the spectators, “Cut it out!” The Spectators continued. When one of the spectators threw the stone at his (Iron’s) head, he died. The remaining squire members tossed him into the lake, where he drowned. Now that Iron Steel is dead, Tom Jackson started to plan his escape. Back in the dungeon, Tom Jackson was talking to himself as he was writing his escape plan.