The Royals and their Minions...

While Dulbbe is following up with the address tag on the key he found in the tunnel to see who this Arnie is, Drat, with his connections, has already figured out who has the Dragon book and is waiting at Arnie's home.  "Oh no!  There is Dulbbe.  Why is he coming here?" Drat thinks to himself.  "Is the Shadows' King  now involved too?  This tablet is moving up to how important it really is," sighs Drat.

Meanwhile, Druzzy, the Troll King, and Hir'aeth, the Gooblin King, are both in their throne rooms wondering why they have not heard back from their minions.  "I must have that tablet," mutters Druzzy to himself and not for the first time grumbles about replacing Drat if he doesn't show up soon.  Hir'aeth, on the other hand, is thinking of ways to embarrass Druzzy by getting the book first.  "I can picture the look on that stupid Druzzy's face when I get that Dragon tablet. Wonder what would happen if I was to then give it away to that little Wish Dragon, Hungry?" chuckles the Gooblin King.  "It will be bad enough for me to get it first, but even worse to give it away... old Troll face will be burning red!"

As the others are out looking for the Borrower with the Dragon tablet, still others are stuck waiting for answers and some of them were not waiting very patently with their tempers  fraying just a little... 

"This is driving me crazy," growls Ffion as she paces the throne room waiting for Dulbbe to return with some news.  "Dad has gone and locked himself up in the library with some stupid crystal ball and I have to stay here waiting for anyone to return with news. I might just  have to start training some minions myself since Dulbbe is one of Dad's."

While Ffion is wearing out the tiles from her pacing, Hunter, the Shadows' King, is in room 101 of the library seeking the crystal ball that Dulbbe had just recently discovered.  Hunter is so concern about losing the Dragon tablet and that a Borrower is now involved, that he is distracted enough not to realize that the green cloth that normally covered the crystal is now laying on a nearby table.  "Where is that tablet?" the King muttered to himself.  Since the crystal was uncovered it responded with "Your question is incomplete.  What knowledge to you seek?"...

Speaking of Dulbbe, he found his way to the address that he discovered on the back of the key tag and was now waiting at the door after knocking several times.  "The Borrower must not have returned yet," he realized.  Soon he decided to hide behind a bunch of bushes to wait for the Borrowers so he could catch Arnie when she returned.  Little did he realize that close-by another minion had also been watching the Borrower's cottage and was now watching Dulbbe too.

"Hmmm.  Now it appears another is in the game.  The problem is do I tell Druzzy?" pondered Drat, the Troll King's minion.  "At first I thought the King only wanted the book to brag about, but lately he has been acting stranger than usual."  As Drat was used to waiting for a King, waiting for a Borrower to return home was not a problem.  Taking a small sandwich out of his knapsack, he ate silently while watching both the cottage and the rock troll hiding in the bushes.  "I must remember next time to pack cheese sandwiches instead of sticky jelly ones," he idly thought before taking another bite.   

While Drat sat and ate, the Troll King was plotting what he would do when the Dragon tablet was finally delivered to him.  "That stupid Gooblin King's eyes will bulge when he sees that I have the tablet.  Finally I will have the power to destroy him!" laughed Druzzy.  "The power it will give me will make me the ruler over all of these realms as I know one thing that Hir'aeth doesn't.  The tablet is supposed to be the secret of Dragon magic and with that, I will be Ruler Supreme," Druzzy said as he smiled.  "I am a busy troll as I have an Empire to create and pillars to topple."