Okay, here's yet another conversion of the Engine Story, this time I have removed the credits and some side comments, trying to make it look a bit more like an ordinary (??) story. I have also joined and split paragraphs wherever I found it suitable, and corrected some spelling, punctuation and name mistakes. See if you can spot'em all! ;)
Not knowing what he was doing, Jonathan spun the magic wand on the
oaken table and watched as it created a rainbow. Looking through the
rainbow he caught a brief glimpse of Py wondering what happened to
Continuity.
Knowing he had to do something he gathered his things and set out.
The road was long and the path rocky. But he carried on, his hope the
heaviest thing that he carried. One day he met an old man.
"Have you seen the Continuity?" he asked politely.
"It is quite interesting. Nothing that enters the Continuity
is the same when it leaves." The old man nodded and faded out.
Jonathan shook his head, "I do wish people would stop doing
that." Sighing he continued on his journey.
Jonathan drew out a stale biscuit and a slice of what was possibly
cheese. After a fierce internal battle, he decided to eat it.
Several minutes later he was scouring the area trying to find a
patch of those hallucinogenic mushrooms he had spotted earlier, because
that sure as Hades hadn't been cheese, and the visions brought on by
the mushrooms couldn't possibly have been as bad as the ones he was having
now. (And anyway, the mushrooms gave him a nice buzz.)
Meanwhile, others had also embarked on their quest for Continuity. The whole world was going crazy, and a lot of people were starting to notice. Yet, few people really cared. Most of the sane took up jobs as Psychiatrists and were making a bundle off of this mass confusion and hysteria. The crazy who had stayed at home, despite the ridicule, were more than happy to throw their hard earned cash at anyone who claimed to heal the fractured mind.
Meanwhile, on the road to OZ. Jonathan kept feeling this desire to
sing about lollipops and munchkins. His head was still buzzing from
the cheese that wasn't, and his stomach had begun to do somersaults, half
back twists, and other impossible manuevers.
Clouds partially obscured the setting sun, flaring red and shading
outward to blue and then black in the darkening sky. Jagged rocks stood
silhouetted against the fading light, black and forbidding, and painful;
her already aching knees complained each time she clambered a little
further upward.
In the lamplight, the statue's gentle curves glimmered faintly with
the sheen of silk. Its stone polished by years, perhaps decades of
lapping seawater, there was little resemblence to what it might once have
been, only suggestions of eyes, one, almost miraculously, still bearing a
sparkling chip of green stone, and the four-legged form of some animal, its
ears and other features long since worn away.
Too weak to carry on, bent double in the gloom, she sank to the
ground, hands encircling the foot of the statue for comfort. Almost like
some ill tempered child, the wind tugged at her clothes, chills playing up
her arms as she held the statue. Warmth started to fill her from the
statue as the single green chip glowed with life. Once again she was able
to sit up on her own there in the gloom, looking up to the old art.
Jonathan watched as the moon began to rise majestically over the
peaks, her silvery light lending an air of fantasy to the surrounding
landscape. Leaning back into the statue, she was surprised to feel warm
flesh at her back. Spinning around in surprise she found that where the
statue had been standing, was now a beautiful young woman, and a grinning
fox.
As the young woman placed her hands on either side of Jonathan's
head, a feeling of peace and strength filled her. After a few minutes, the
fox spoke. "Hail and well met, young traveler. The road ahead is long
and filled with many dangers. If you keep your goal always in your mind
and never falter, then you have a very good chance of success. What little
advice that I may impart to you, you may not like."
Jonathan was not listening, he/she was too busy wondering what had
happened to his/her pronouns halfway through the story.
Jonathan woke with a start and looked around. The statue was still a
statue and there were no talking foxes either. He sighed with relief. It
was all just a dream, and he was greatly relieved.
He stood up and started picking up his pack. He froze. What was
that? Fox tracks?! Yes, fox tracks! (dramatic chord) And not only that, but
a pair of wolf tracks as well, chasing the fox tracks in circles before
suddenly coming to a stop at where the statue now stood.
Jonathan blinked and studied the statue carefully. Sure enough, it
had changed...
It was at this crucial moment Pyrtlewing decided to get back into
the story after getting written out in the first line. She screamed out to
anyone who was around or left alive to listen, "What the flying furry
triple-distilled bejeezus is going on around here?!?!?"
Jonathan jumped and turned around. "Geez lady, do you have to
scream like that?"
Pyrtlewing screamed, "NOT REALLY! I JUST HAVE AN ODD
EMOTIONAL PROBLEM!"
Jonathan frowned. He got some ear plugs out of his pack and put them
in his ears (Where else?). "Okay," he said, turning to face the
irate gryphon again. "You were screaming, uh, saying?"
Suddenly a mysterious raven flew in, and launched sidewinder
missiles at all of them, and ate lucky charms, listening to the clash. He
screamed, "DISCORDIANS FOREVER, or at least for a few more
minutes."
As the ethereal mysterious creature entered looking around softly with stars shining in the background you'd swear it was real but she vanished; only an illusion, you really were on LSD.
Suddenly, Pyrtlewing declared, "if you propose to someone through mail... I think a response by mail is appropriate. I mean, its good that the other person likes the ring, but a yes or no would be even better." She got up and said, "Shut up, whoever you are!" She then beat him to a pulp for being a Greenpeace-ing, communist faggot.
And so our hero, having slain the the gigantic, hideous, fire
spewing mail man with his great diamond blade, freed the impossibly
beautiful vulpine princess, flew off with her in a mystical doggie dish
into the slowly setting sun and produced a planet sized population of young
in their modest little cabin on the third moon of Mars.
However, his life of constant bliss was brought to an abrupt and
screeching halt one sunny day, for while collecting firewood in the endless
desert he glanced up and to his suprise spotted the evil Napa and Vegita
rapidly descending from the heavens. GREAT SCOTT!!!
Suddenly Vegita and Napa were swept away by... a giant chicken who
just happened to by flying by and mistook them for food! They ran about
blasting at the chicken, all to no avail as the chicken continued pecking
at them repeatedly, wanting a snack!
Like a metal praying Mantis, the irrigation frame slowly stalked
around the circle. Sprays of rainbow lit water misted downwards. Here and
there a black missile flew through the artifical rain, scattering
droplets.
The black missile dived upwards, then spread its wings as it
propellered down and perched on a support beam; a crow.
Unlike the robins, who spent their days busily feeding, the crow
quickly finished the food gathering thing and spent the rest of the day
playing around as crows are wont to do.
As the night came down over the crows like a blanket of stars, Gerault
stalked through the fields. Being an orphan and homeless, it was Gerault's
only comfort to burrow under the bushes and roll in the cool grass of the
open space. He would burrow into the bushes like a mole into the ground,
which as everybody knows has poor eyesight.
So a lot of mole eye doctors have cropped up in the past
decade. Brady just happened to be one of those mole eye doctors. He was
examining a young patient's eyes one day when he became suddenly lost in
the blue sea before him, like staring into the night sky at the
constellations...
Brady stared at the images which swam in the mole's blue cornea,
images of a park with creatures tall, short and wide. A dizzying motion
zoomed in on the interior of a wood paneled lounge, the walls hung with odd
portraits. Various beings sat patiently in padded chairs and pallets
waiting for someone to ascend the podium and begin Short Short Story
night...
He gazed at the ground his brown eyes red from the tears that fell,
tears that were shed in fury reflecting the cold, blue, beaming light
that smoldered deep in his eyes like a hateful fire that gave no heat or
comfort.
He clenched his teeth as he spoke to the fates that brought him to
this moment, to gods that didn't exist or would listen, to his own heaving
soul.
"I have been called a thief, a coward, a hero, a friend. I have
been known as a fool, a dreamer, a lover, a loser. I will bear it. Here
I stand on the edge of yesterday and tomorrow, and I plan to hurl myself
over the precipice beyond the void... I am pain, I am grief, I am
mourning..."
With a clenched fist, he drew his eyes - eyes that spoke volumes
even when silent, pools of agony and sadness - up towards the heavens
and screamed. He screamed at the firmament with all his fury, a sum of all
the hatred and rage that seethed in his tortured soul, and shook his fist
at the stars, "I am implacable! I am unstoppable! I will cry out my
warsong and it..."
"Keep it down, I'm trying to sleep!" cried an irate mole,
who in fact was not trying to sleep but to play a tune on a very expensive
wineglass.
Brady studied his reflection in the bowl of the glass, then
gritted his teeth to make a funny face.
Just then, an Irate Mole In A Badger Suit called out, "If you
keep makin' that face, it'll stick thet way!" It then walked off to
go make music with its friend, but heard the breaking of a glass. Instead,
the IMIABS fell over and went to sleep, dreaming happy IMIABS dreams.
Jonathan shook his head, trying to rid himself of the bad LSD trip he was having, but that didn't help. Instead he ran to the nearest cliff, thinking that it was a swimming pool and that he was being chased by angry moles and foxes with large missiles, and jumped off.