Chapter 2 Tia's POV

Another three days fun in Lagbit's World and another six elves transformed. I woke up on the air mattress with Vee beside me and started the next part of my routine. “No one take off your headsets until you are told to do so.” I called out. I'm pretty sure everyone knew it was me, but if they didn't actually see me, they could still honestly say that they had no idea where I was. Vee and I removed our headsets and left the tent.

Outside was a combination of my ground forces and my personal honour guard. This was my second visit to Lagbit's World for the night and it was time to leave to our next destination. I was managing to transform a total of twelve a night now. I walked off to a clearing about a hundred metres away from the tent, my honour guard forming up around me. We were all dressed in black with hats that covered our hair and kept everything dark.

In the clearing were four black handgliders with a double sleeping bag harness arrangement. With the ease of familiarity, Vee and I slipped into our harness. We waited as according to our security protocol I was always the second to ascend. After Leaf and Killash were in the air, I asked Inda to take us up and soon we were off to our next location. We travelled at night, slept during the day and slowly built up our Elven numbers and helped those we could. We couldn't do this forever, Vee was nine weeks pregnant now and we didn't want to be travelling like this when it became uncomfortable for her.

Davina was in Fiji with momma, Danielle and Ash. Danielle wanted to be in charge of my honour guard but needed more training on modern weapons and warfare, which Davina was providing, with the help of VDR and programs developed by Andi. Katie and Ash were understandably inseparable and had already tried to get pregnant once, unsuccessfully. I had taken Katie back to Lagbit's World and transformed an orc into a Katie copy, so there would be no love sick elf pining away in Lagbit's World. Katie was delighting in showing Ash all about our modern world.

We had a frank discussion with all seven of the transposed Elves about their existence and how the world viewed Lagbit's World. Andi, Inda and now Dani all were of the philosophy of 'I think therefore I am.' The druids familiars all agreed with that so it made it easier for Leaf, Berry and Branch, but Ash, Danielle, Killash and Mia needed more discussion. All we could really do was explain what we knew and what evidence we had and then let everyone come to their own conclusions.

As far as they were all concerned, Lagbit was a real world and the fact that they could come to Earth proved that. The alternative was that my mind was able to create their personalities and transpose them on seven male individuals and none of them wanted to believe that. Since no one could prove anything, one way or another, they decided to believe that we were saving the Elven Nation by creating a new one on this world.

Leaf, Berry and Branch all had wind familiars which helped us come up with the plan of travelling unseen from place to place. Since the familiars were powerful, staying with me added significantly to my defence. Killash had found most magic didn't work, but mind magic did. She only had a few spells that utilized this type of magic, but they were very useful, so she joined us as well. The last two members of our travelling band were assigned by Davina. Both were supremely skilled with modern weapons, but were also knowledgable about crossing borders and how to leave the least trace of our presence. I suspect they were previously spies of some kind, but felt it impolite to ask.

Mia had tried her healing spells and found they only worked on Elves and a lot slower than they worked in Lagbit's World. On the plus side, again the mental spells worked on everyone, so she could do truth spells, oath taking and memory removal spells. Since both Vee and I also had been taught those spells, she did not think staying with me would be helpful, so she agreed to be our leader in exile in Fiji. Roni and Katie would be her main advisors and help with her adaptation to our modern Earth.

During my time in Lagbit's World, Andi and I had been working with other druids so that Andi could make a VDR program so as to be able to test other elves for druid abilities. Andi believed that she had enough information now, but since we didn't expect there to be that many with the ability, it would take a while to work out whether she had been successful. The aim was to get all new Elves to go through the testing program and potentially train up any that showed promise, so that I can take them back to Lagbit's World with me for the familiar ceremony.

In the meantime, we had seven Lagbit World elves being introduced to the modern world. The first time they saw a car was a classic and airplanes seemed like a different type of magic. They were all adapting well, but occasional elements of technology still surprized them. Usually something that we take for granted, so don't even think to warn them. They were startled by a match of all things. On one of our evenings, Harriet and Lacy, our two elves assigned by Davina, organized the campsite including laying a fire. Casually Lacy lit a match and held it under some tinder. There were startled gasps from Killash and Berry, who had been watching and a whole discussion on explosives and chemicals from that.

Andi was keeping a close watch on our security concerns and there were still a lot of people wanting to get their hands on me. If they couldn't get me, they wanted any Elf, so we had to warn everyone we had transformed. We were only approaching those who put on their application that they wanted to relocate and join the Elf Nation.

To facilitate this our security force would give each newly made Elf a burner phone, so that Andi could talk to them. At the moment we were sending them all to Fiji, providing them with plane tickets if we needed to and then looking after them while they changed. In Fiji Mia was in charge of their lessons which included Elvish and Taigoa. Then between Simone and Katie, we would find how they could slot into our organization.

We contacted certain individuals that we needed for specific tasks and had them travel to somewhere near where I was going to be. Then a security detail would pick them up and take them to a meeting point. Mostly we were after English speakers, since performing the oath with a translator was cumbersome. One of Killash's spells enables her to learn a language from another, but until recently she couldn't teach any of us that language. I took her back to Lagbit's World with me so that she could study other mental spells, including one that allowed her to teach any language she knew to someone else. This was making our travel through Europe much easier and we could now broaden our scope to include non-English speakers.

There was hope on the horizon regarding Britain. After significant unrest and a meeting with the Queen, the Prime Minister had resigned and a new election was called. Both major parties were polling particularly badly, so an enterprising MP formed a new party called Britain First and after listening to what the public wanted, set out an Elf friendly agenda. I believe Andi may have helped with their funding. Regardless, they have just won an overwhelming majority, which may open up a reconciliation and even the possibility of taking over the Isle of Wight.

Mia with Roni and Katie, would take part in the negotiations, with Andi listening in and allowing Vee and I to contribute if needed. Simone was in charge of New Amilyf, but had warned that it was going to take a long time. From a practical point of view, the Isle of Wight would be a much better prospect for at least the next ten years. By then New Amilyf would be self sufficient, secure and beautiful.