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Coranerius Part 3

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[Now, before twilight begins, Herb opens up his eyes and sneaks out of the cave. Of course, he is just a child and is not supposed to be out on his own.]

Herb: Lou and Henry were right. I should not have touched that button. I shouldn't even have run away from my own home. I should never have invited myself to the adventure. [After many short scenes of walking alone, Coranerius is viewing Herb walking to the treehouse alone in his mirror.]

Coranerius: [chuckles] That pint-sized member of the strange-looking group, who I may just guess are non-Chickenlandic... going off to that strange-looking treehouse alone. And speaking of something called "buttons" for taking him back to his home. [raises his crystal wand] Tebbalo tibbatus. Kibbalo vill! Form troops of goons, and do my will! [slams the base down onto the floor, and 25 goons, who happen to look like cyan-colored creatures with heads like ducks, gray muzzles like lambs, two pairs of human feet for hands, and three horse hooves for feet, covered in wooden shoes shaped like so, covering the hooves.] Go destroy that tree house so he can never get home. He'll make a great choice of slave instead. [The goons vanish from the lair.] You're gonna get it eventually, brat. [laughs]

[Back in the cave, the group is still sleeping. Lou wakes up. He notices that Herb is gone.]

Lou: Herb? HERB!

Samson: [groans sleepily] Lou, can't you see we're trying to sleep?

[Henry, June, Simpson and Tamiko begin waking up]

Lou: But Herb is missing! It's morning anyway, so you'd better get up! Herb! Where are you?!

June: [devastatedly] You say Herb's missing?

Lou: [screams in terror] HERB'S MISSING!!!

Henry: Oh no! We've got to find him, while we make our plans on the way!

June: Henry, we're missing a member...!

Henry: [interrupts] He's not a member of our club!

June: No, but he was with us when we ended up here!

Lou: That's right! Any adventure that begins with any number of us ends with the exact same number. No less. And if we go back and leave Herb in the book, it will cause a riot, started by Mr. and Mrs. Richards, whom none of us even knows.

Samson: What was the plan again?

[The others groan]

June: Okay. The plan was to reflect the rays with a mirror, and perhaps they may bounce back at the monster.

Simpson: But why aren't we using his name?

Lou: Shh. [whispers] An R-O-R-R-I-M C-I...

Herb: [off-screen, screaming] Guys! Guys! We can't go home!

Henry: Herbert Richards, what's the big idea just walking away alone!

Herb: Sorry, but...

Louis: Sorry, schmorry! That doesn't get you out of trouble! And that's more trouble for interrupting me!

Herb: But there were some extra ugly-looking creatures destroying the machine!

Louis: Knock it off! Nonsense! Coranerius, I understand, but ugly creatures? I don't believe it! I never found anything about ugly-looking goons in the book!

Henry: How dare you interrupt us while we were trying to talk.

Louis: It would have been much easier for us if you hadn't even shown up in the first place.

[Herb sadly raises his lower lip]

Henry: Not the face! No sympathy for brats! Your existence bothers me!

Louis: Me too! I just wish Coranerius had put you in eternal sleep, or worse, death! Just go away and never come back again!

Henry: Yeah! Never!

[Herb cries and runs off.]

Lou: [remorsefully] Great. I'm in trouble.

Henry: [also remorsefully] Me too.

Tamiko: I'll say so. You're both in big trouble.

June: Gosh, boys. That was too harsh! Because of that verbal child abuse, I wish I was never your assistant! [to Henry] It's over! My days as your girlfriend as well are over! Humph! [walks away from them both]

Simpson: Amen to that! We're quitting your club!

Samson: Yeah!

June: For this, you can just stay stuck in the book forever, and from this day on, I'll be the new president!

Simpson: I don't care if Coranerius beats you!

[The others nod at the founders.]

[As they are walking away, the group hangs their heads in remorse.]

Tamiko: At least I have nobody to break up with, like you do, June.

June: Oh, shut your face, Tamiko.

[Meanwhile, back in the background, Lou and Henry remorsefully kneel onto the ground and then lie face down as shadows begin to cover them up. Now, Coranerius is watching through the magic mirror.]

Coranerius: [cackling] Terrific! It's more of a boon for me than I thought. Now their group is lessening! Now, to take away the rest of them and make them work for me. And just to make sure it lasts forever, I'll raise their moods to the maximum just so they won't rest. What's this? Trying to get home? No way now! [to the others] I should have said this. Well done, goons.

[Now, June, Samson, Simpson and Tamiko arrive at the treehouse, only to find it completely damaged.]

Tamiko: [gasps] What's happened?

Simpson: Coranerius must have known this was our way home!

June: Perhaps Herb was telling the truth! Why didn't we listen?

Simpson: I'll say we were right to snap at Lou and Henry.

Samson: Oh, well. This is the worst it can...

[A zap is heard.]

Samson: ... get.

Coranerius: Hello, transgressors. I've got your shrimpy chum in my lair, and he's in such a staying-good mood that he's doing my chores now... and you will too. [runs around the group, drawing a ring around them as he laughs]

Samson: Then again, maybe it isn't! It got worse!

[The group screams while slowly vanishing with Coranerius.]

June: Henry... I wish you were here again...
Part three of the story "Coranerius".

The fictional fictional story takes place in the land of Chicken, whose people are called the Chickenlanders and the adjective referring to Chicken or its people is "Chickenlandic". "Chicken" was the chosen name because of there being a country named "Turkey", but because of there already being such a word as "Chick", I wasn't going to let "Turk" or "Turkish" be a reason. Instead, the demonym is due to that of Iceland.

The idea of there being a story-telling treehouse was from a scrapped idea of a "Rud, Rosalynn and Geoff's Adventures" crossover series, which was a time-traveling one.

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Things have gone from bad to worse, how will they get home now?