"This is that place that 'blood elf' was talking about?" asked Naruto, looking around the circle of wagons. "Don't see her."
"This is just the gateway," said Kierahl, pointing to a shimmering circle hanging in the air. "You go through that and end up on an island thousands of miles away."
"Oh, that sounds intriguing," said a familiar voice.
"Pervy-sage!" said Naruto, turning towards that and seeing that Jiraiya had not come alone.
"Dekthena," said the draenei Mage, inclining her head towards the group.
"Uhm, yeah," said Naruto.
The woman in all-covering metal armor just continued staring at him.
"Uhm, something on my face?" asked Naruto.
"Her name comes up 'Kushina Uzumaki'," noted Kierahl.
"Oh," said Naruto.
The armored figure slowly reached up, undid a strap, and then lifted the helmet off.
Naruto wasn't quite sure what to make of this. "You- you're..."
"Yes," said the death knight.
"You're the foxgirl kunoichi!" said Naruto, pointing.
KA-THWAM!
"ouch," muttered Naruto from his position in the dirt.
Jiraiya sighed. "There's that inn over there. Let's sit down and make introductions there before we hit the Faire."
"So, you're Naruto's mother and were dead for a decade and a half until some Warlocks summoned you here and you were resurrected at a temple, but then you became a death knight due to unforeseen circumstances?" asked Kierahl.
"How'd you know all that?" asked Jiraiya, surprised.
"I used a 'whisper' conversation with someone I know on-staff at the cathedral," said Kierahl. "I'm Kierahl, draenei Discipline Priest. I'm Naruto's girlfriend."
"Say what?" asked Naruto.
"I'm Selraiha, night elf Windwalker Monk. Also Naruto's girlfriend."
"Excuse me?" asked Naruto.
"Ah, I see," said Kushina.
"You do?" asked Jiraiya.
"No, not really," admitted Kushina. "However it looks like both girls are okay with this and Naruto less so, so I'm guessing it wasn't him two-timing anyone."
"NOT happening," indicated Naruto.
"He seems to be unusually shy in some respects," said Kierahl. "Not what I was expecting at all."
An elf at the next table snorted and half-turned towards them. "Well, then there's the creepy guys who go from 'hi how are you' to 'let's have sex on the mailbox' - which is kind of creepy."
"Some of them don't even get to the 'hi how are you' stage," grumbled a female human in chainmail.
"BWAHAHAHA! Zigur nahl vosh kien!" yelled someone outside the door.
A human in wizard's gear strolled into the inn, stopping at the entry to the common room. "High level Horde party."
The ground briefly shook as thunder crashed and what sounded like dozens of metal blades clashed.
"Looks like we might have to wait a bit on the Faire," noted Jiraiya.
"Looks like the high-levels keeping an eye on Naruto have just run into the Horde group," said Dekthena as she ventured a look outside and then returned.
Another loud explosion, this one accompanied by not only a shaking of the ground but a gust of wind that went through the inn itself.
"Good thing they use Reinforcement wards when constructing buildings nowadays," noted Dekthena.
"More things to learn," muttered Jiraiya, taking out a notebook and scribbling something down.
"Always," said Dekthena.
"Hang on a minute," said Naruto, getting up and walking over to a woman.
"Who's that?" asked Selraiha.
"One of the gals who works the lighting they use around here," noted Jiraiya.
A pair of beady eyes blinked as a head popped up over a crate. "Intruder!"
The intruder just stood there.
"YOU NO TAKE CANDLE!" declared the kobold, charging forward with pickaxe raised.
The intruder lashed out with a foot, blocking the mining tool. "YOU WANT CANDLE! TAKE CANDLE!"
At which point the intruder took the large sack he had over one shoulder and dumped the contents over the kobold.
It seemed to go on for long minutes as the contents came raining down atop the kobold, finally it popped its head out of the heap and got a good look at what it had been buried in. "Candle?"
"Yeah! So keep your bloody candle and..." The Intruder's voice trailed off as suddenly there were kobolds pouring out of little tunnels EVERYWHERE.
"CANDLE!" shouted the horde of kobolds.
"Stwawbewwy scent!" declared one, hoisting its prize high.
"Huh," said the intruder. "That wasn't what I expected."
"CANDLE!" yelled a group of the kobolds, scattering in all directions with their prizes held high.
One kobold took a deep sniff of his candle and then let out the breath in a deep sigh. Coming to a decision, it waddled forward and held an object out to Naruto.
"Eh?" asked Naruto, taking it.
[Acquired 'Mystery Egg']
"What?" asked Naruto but the kobolds had all left.
Another earth-shattering, or at least inn-shaking, ka-boom went off.
Naruto came down the stairs, holding a large egg.
"So did you... what IS that?" asked Dekthena.
"I dumped the candles all over one of the kobolds, and they gave me this," said Naruto, putting the object out on the table where everyone could see it.
"You guys break rules I didn't even know were there," said Selraiha, sounding a bit awed.
"Ninja," summed up Jiraiya.
"So what does a 'Mystery Egg' do?" asked Kushina.
"Probably something for pet battles," guessed Dekthena. "What hatches, I have no idea."
"Where can I put it so it's safe?" asked Naruto.
"Well, if we go to Stormwind, you can put it in your bank," said Dekthena. "I have no idea if putting it in one of those scrolls will damage it or not. Do you normally seal living things in there?"
"No, and that's a good point," brought up Jiraiya.
"How'd you get out to the mine anyway?" asked Selraiha.
"Went through a window, down the side and then ran across that lake to the mine," said Naruto. "No biggie."
"No biggie for you," said Kierahl.
"It's a mystery," said a shaggy looking Hunter with a dog nearby.
"It's an egg," said the nattily dressed human nearby. "We have a REAL mystery to check out at the Faire."
"If those Horde raiders will just freaking go away," protested a girl wearing glasses as she stopped near their table.
A redhaired girl strode past them to look outside. "I don't hear anythi-"
Another explosion.
"That's 'Danger-prone Daphne' for you," said the girl in glasses. "Well crap. Now we've got to wait for her to rez."
"You don't think she's going to try and rez with the fireballs flying out there, do you?" asked the natty-dresser.
Another loud explosion, with a feminine scream audible to accompany it.
"Let's sneak out the back then," suggested Jiraiya.
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