( Part I , XIII , XV )
Fire blazed prettily as he stamped toward the Invader, while Earth rumbled mightily as he moved ominously onward. Cloud was almost blown toward the horizon by Air's massive drift, and Water undulated impressively across the punctuation specked terrain of the Wordspace. The four gentle Elemental giants were not presences to be taken lightly.
Mystery didn't dawdle long over the impressive sight, however, as Cloud wheeled around and whisked him quickly across to another approach to the Zone of Meaningless Jargon, where another group of words was ambulating purposefully. One of them waved up familiarly.
"It's Club!", Mystery exclaimed, "But who are those peculiar words with him? They look like refugees from a different age! What angularity!"
Cloud landed, and Mystery went forth to meet the newcomers.
* * *
Infinity's eye was becoming more focussed. It's letters contracted, relaxed, and then contracted again. "How long?", the question rumbled along the undersurface of the world.
"I don't know," Dream replied, "I've been away as well, somewhere far far away, perhaps..." A memory nagged at her, but then slipped away.
Infinity continued to look at her.
"Surprise would know. He always knows things that no-one else does. At least, he always used to."
"I will ask."
Dream had no idea how he would ask someone who wasn't there, but then Surprise stumbled into the balcony area looking highly, well, surprised. "Egads!", he exclaimed, before fainting clean away.
"You would think that someone with such a name would be able to handle a shock or two as well as handing them out.", thought Dream.
When Infinity chuckled, it was as if the whole universe was having a laugh.
To be continued, again, and then again. And again. You get the idea.
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