|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- YELLOWHAUS--CUP 2--"COLONIA THE SWORD" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Yellowhaus  ||  -------> (Cup SRyh002, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "I still think--" Buff started. "--look Buff!" Sulfur interrupted. "I admire you as the only moral voice on our team, but truly, it's over. What would you do, separate people from their friends and relatives, and thrust them into an unknown new world? How could they make a decision such as that in a few seconds? Letting them die in peace is far more humane." "I'd still like to save a few people." Buff said looking down. "But Chamomile is right. There's not time." "Heh heh, look!" Canary said, crouching down and cupping his hands together. "What?" Sulfur asked. Canary made an explosion noise and moved his hands apart. "The world blowing up! The world blowing up!" Chamomile rolled her eyes. "Okay everyone! Pay attention! Back to reality! Anything that's outside the Haus has to be brought in--only the Haus itself and everything inside will be transported." "There's not much stuff out there. We brought most of it in when it rained last week." Sulfur said. "My bike's out there." Buff said. "Okay. Lemon, go out with Buff and get his bike. The rest of us will continue preparations inside." Chamomile said. "Okay, c'mon big boy." Lemon said to Buff as they headed for the elevator. Soon, the two were outside in the yard of Yellowhaus. "So where is it?" Lemon asked. "I think it's over by those trees." Buff said, pointing. They walked about a hundred yards to the edge of the woods and found Buff's enormous bicycle on its side on the ground. "Okay, get it and let's go in. I don't like it out here. Too quiet." Lemon said. "You're probably used to the sounds of souls being tortured day in and day out!" Buff said, picking up his bike. Lemon smiled. "And oh, what a sound it is!" The two began to walk back. "So now you'll never be Queen of Hell." "Who gives a damn?" Then, suddenly, a sound of thunder split the sky. "What in--" Buff began, but stopped as he saw a figure fall from the sky to the ground. "Who is that?" Lemon asked. "Dunno. Looks like one of The Libertine Wave." The two walked forward and the red and black clad figure began to stir. "Sure! That's Colonia the Sword! You know, from Libertine Wave. Right." Lemon said. "Oh yeah... but I thought they all died!" "Maybe it's a trick! Maybe it's O'Riley's doing!" Lemon said, pointing her pitchfork forward. Colonia the Sword lifted himself up into a sitting position. "Yellowhaus!" he struggled, out of breath. "It's all over... only one left.. have to help... help stop... O'Riley." "Think it's really him?" Lemon asked. "Yeah. I mean, why would O'Riley bother with this sort of charade when his victory is at hand? It's gotta be him. He can teleport, you know." Buff responded. "I guess." Lemon said, then louder to Colonia, "Colonia! Whattaya doing man? The world's gonna end in about a half-hour! Hey, guy?" Colonia fell back to the ground, barely conscious. "Can ya bring him in Lemon? My hands are full with this bike." "No problem." Lemon said, and she poked her pitchfork under the collar of Colonia's jacket and lifted him up, now limp. "So we did save at least one person." Buff said. "If you wanna call him that." "Oh, he's a person. Maybe not a human being in exact terms, but a person nonetheless. I mean, am I a person? Are you?" "I guess you're right Buff. It's just--isn't this guy a sword?" "Yeah, he was some god's sword. But he had a life power all his own." "Nice." Inside, Chamomile and the others were busy figuring out how to airtight a portion of Yellowhaus in case the atmosphere of the alternate world was unbreathable. Then Buff and Lemon came in with the bike and Colonia the Sword. "Look what we found, Chamomile!" Lemon said, smiling, her little fangs sparkling in the fading sunlight." "What the--it's one of The Libertine Wave!" Sulfur exclaimed. "I thought they had all died," Chamomile commented as she approached, "but it makes sense that Colonia might have escaped with his teleportation power. But how did he know to come here?" "And did O'Riley follow him?" Sulfur wondered. "Aw," Lemon said, dropping Colonia gently onto a table, "me and Buff figure O'Riley is too busy destroying the universe to care about any of us." "That may be," Chamomile said, turning toward an instrument panel, "but I hope everyone's in, cuz I'm sealing Yellowhaus." With that, she pulled a lever and a loud chime noise echoed throughout the structure. "Nothing will ever come into or go out of Yellowhaus in this world ever again." Chamomile said. "What do you mean?" Buff asked. "Another of Yellowhaus' many secrets. Reality seal. It takes Yellowhaus slightly out of phase with the current world, thusly still allowing observations but preventing any passage in or out." Chamomile said. Suddenly Canary began whooping and hollering by a window. "Look!" Sulfur said. "Out the window! It's Universe O'Riley!" -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----