Play, My Harmonica- 2: Saving the Geewiliker

[Effralyo]

Hehe, I just can`t sit calmly and wait when the inspiration will stike again,- I hurry to write when it`s strong! And decided that it will be easier to work at the two fanfics at once - switching them judging the inspiration level. Besides, I can`t just live a day without PMH since got used to it darn much, so here`s its sequel!
*Drumroll...*
PLAY, MY HARMONICA-2: Saving the Geewiliker

Chapter 1 - Back to the Muppet House!
"Mummy, we`re coming!..", resounded from a farther hill.
Nancy Regard sighed with relief, getting back up from the cauldron of sugar syrup. In the kitchen window she saw Beauregard and Clifford walking towards the house - they were both carrying two basketfuls of apples each, and a second later Nancy saw Effralyo the Geewiliker near them - the four baskets of apples were floating in the air behind him.
"Oh ny!..", the clumsworthess exclaimed as they reached the house. "Oh you my little helpers!.. C`mon, it`s dinner time!.. And where`s Dad?"
"He takes away the rest!", Beau replied under pant, standing his baskets on the ground. "He`ll be later.. P`haps in a half of a hour.."
"Okay, sonnyboy. Now, all go to wash your hands - and to the table!", Mrs. Regard smiled, patting her son on the shoulder.
"Pheew! Sorry, Mrs. Regard, I took as many as I could!", Effralyo apologised. "Mr. Regard said, I can take four, and..."
"Four?.. Such a little one and took so many?..", Nancy laughed. "Ah, you my little helper!.."
She cuddled the little spirit tightly and kissed him in the nose. And Eff, being literally bulged with glad, rushed to wash hands too.
...Does anyone know something better than a good tea-drinking in Raenbu, - no, not just a tea party, but a huge tea party, with donuts, scones, cream and purple apple jam?!.. Nancy Regard knew that Effralyo won`t reach the table with his height - so she sat him on a plie of pillows. Beautingleroth Regard, who at last also came back, was now resting, holding a cup of tea ( darn, and what did Nancy only add in it, from which the fur does literally rise and warmth pierces all body?..) and sometimes handling his beard... Clifford, slightly trembling from excitement, kept stiring his tea. Beauregard himself in a couple of seconds had devoured quite a heap of donuts with jam. And Nancy, who will ahve been brewing more jam later, was looking at her beloved family a bit under pity: tomorrow, Beau, Clifford and Eff had to return back in Muppet House. Yes, sir! Tomorrow the month of Cliford`s vacation comes to end. And since people need also Beau, he has to go too; and the geewiliker has to go just since he can`t leave alone his "Gardylardy" he got used to so much.
"Uuummm!..", Cliff groaned in delight, savoring the jam. "Gooosh!.. Finger-licking good!..."
"Haha, unlike that stew you used to be stuffed in the orphanage!..", Beautingleroth laughed.
"True", the pink muppet nodded. "And almost always it was spaghetti! Yuck... You sit to a table and do already know that it`ll be again spaghetti. And suck it up from the plate - so!"
"How horrible!..", Nancy said with sympathise.
"Aha. Every day`s the same! That`s why I just can`t take even a single calm look at the spaghetti..." - Clifford lightly shook his head to get rid of the bad memories. - "And after it I`m as if in the heaven!.. Thank you Mum!"
"Purple apples are all good in this year, and the striped ones haven`t even mature enough yet", Mr. Regard said. "Just think, hardly got the five trees and still ahrvested none! Isn`t it mean?.."
"And what are they to taste?", Cliff asked with interest ,which made the old clumsworth sigh ahppily and take a dreamy look:
"Darn delicious, my boy, darn delicious...."
"Interesting, do they miss us?", Beauregard asked.
"And why, howcha`think, we do recieve letters in batches every day?..", Clifford shrugged. "Ah, yes, and forgot to say -I didn`t open an one yet, that one from Mil.."
"Ssssh!..."
'What?.."
Cliff cut himself and only winked to the clumsworth:
"...from M-i-l-e-s a-w-a-y f-r-o-m h-e-r-e place."
"And Gonzo promised to teach me being a cannonball", Effralyo recalled.
......Yes, how fast do the time run... The time Clifford had spent here was seeming to him the heaven indeed. He was now even laughing, recalling his old orphanage. And even though he had to leave Raenbu soon, the pink muppet knew that now can anytime hope: his family will definitely help.
The dinner - the "goodbye feast" - had at last ended, and our three friends came all upstairs to Cliff`s room : it had the biggest window - just what`s need to admire the sunsets.
And when the sky became of the same color as it was when they were riding on the magic bike, Beauregard asked the echo dwarf:
"And d`you remember, Effy, that Mum wrote me once that the most dangerous thing for you is being captured and making you a servant to badness?"
Effralyo giggled, slightly rubbing his cheek against the clumsworth`s side:
"Ha! Till the cows come home, Gardylardy!.."
"But what if.."
"Nonsense! Just think, who needs a geewiliker? Well.... except lookalike magic critters?.."
Beauregard agreed, yet cuddling the spirit in anxiety:
"I dunno, Effy, I just asked.. Never mind."
And continued to look at the last - in t h i s year - sunset in his motherland, yet with a little worrying chill in the heart.
(End of Chapter 1)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 2 - Returned
Early next morning, as they decided before, Effralyo again magicked up a rainbow - the way back from Raenbu.
A couple of districts to pass by, and here it is - Muppet House. And Sweetums stands near.
"Sweetie!", Eff yelled. "We`re baaaaaaaaack!.."
'What?.. gosh, it`s true?.. Fralyo?!"- The monster saw all the friends walking to the house, and hurried to take their suitcases and a small basket( Nancy decided to send several apples fromher garden.) - "What`s new in Raenbu, Bo? Cliff, how are you? took a rest from the spaghetti?.. Eff, and you`ve been missed tons and gallons!.."
"C`mon, Sweetie, wait!" -Clifford laughed, entering at last the house. "We`ll tell it, I promise,but..."
"SURPRIIIISE!!!"
The friends all winced from a sudden choir yell, but the sight they saw next moment astonished them. The whole Muppet House was decorated as if to someone`s birthday! "Welcome back home",- the gigantic bright sign said. And an one of Swedish Chef`s masterpieces - a huge four-layered cake - right in the center of the living-room. And - well, certainly! - the colorful Muppet Crowd!
"Why can`t we celebrate your returning?", Rowlf said. "My congrats!"
"Like, I`m darn glad to see ya back, fer sure", Janice greeted in her usual manner. "Look, and Bo still didn`t slim!"
"I`ll even prove it", Effralyo winked. "Will you let me, Gardylardy?"
Beauregard sighed with a shrug - "go ahead",- and the geewiliker, from the other end of the room,..... rushed forward and - SBOWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNN!!!!.... - Certainly, knocked the janitor off, and shown a thumb up to the rest, who all started to giggle.
"See?", Effralyo asked. "My head`s okay! Ahh, our Gardylardy`s an amortisator for all seasons!.."
"...Which can tear one day from anotherr alike headbutt!", Gard moaned under a grimace and got up. - "I`m not an iron clumsworth, Effy, easier!.."
And everyone couldn`t help but burst with laugh. What to do, if Effralyo will be Effralyo?..
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

Wow. I might say that this one is better than the first!

Certainly, the images rush around us, whirlign in our heads like a mighty colored whirwind of laughter. Certainly, the purple and striped apples are perfectly what you would find in Reanbu. And certainly Effy calling, Sweetums, "Sweetie" was awesome! And cute!

And certainly if I don't read more soon I may bust!

Bea:zany:{gardy}regard

[Effralyo]

And certainly if I don`t read more soon I shall burst!*Screams like that lady in part 1*Ah, he bursts!..Oooh!... SLIII-IME!......
Hehe, joke! But look what will be next!....
..To the common amazement, Nancy`s purple apples even enlarged till watermelon size when the Muppets were having a "greeting meal", so there was plenty for everyone. And it was nothing that sergeant Floyd accidentally splashed Tobasco sauce in his coffee and had to cough for two hours as he sipped it,- the main thing was that life in Muppet house since this day will go as usually.... well, not as SO usually,-if recall that the famous director, Stangor Glorio, made Beauregard a stage star... And if recall that Effralyo was drawing like a magnet luck to the house constantly, being its spirit guard.
A hour afterwards, as the another feast had ended, Beau decided to visit his good acquaintance, Quentin Tronx, the artist. It could be curious to look what had he painted new after that Beau-monde.
"I`d better wat a bit if I were you", Fralyo frown, as Gard told it to him. "I`m not a prophet, but something tells me that you must be careful today, Gardylardy..."
'Keep off what?.." ,the janitor chuckled. "I say, Effy, after that show no one will even dare to harm me or anyone of you. Besided, I`ll spent not a century, but just a couple of hours at Quentin`s! Well? Will any scary thing happen in such a short time?.."
"I dunno..", Effralyo said seriously. "I still doubt.."
"Well, then sit at home all day long, you couch potato!", Beau joked."Or arrive to the hotel after me.."
He said goodbye to the little spirit and went out.
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

"Sergeant Floyd accidentally splashed Tobasco sauce in his coffee..."

Hahahahahahaaahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!

I can totally see that happening!

[Effralyo]

No, everything in the city was looking, as ever, friendly, and our genial harmonist couldn`t understand why did Effralyo scare so darn much. Who knows, it can probably be an one of tricks up Eff`s sleeve, and, p`haps, when Beau will come back, Effy will exclaim,"And that was a joke!.. That was a joke! Huhahahahahahahahahahhahaha!..." - or something like that.
He was walking along the city center, thinking of Mildred for some reason. Ndah, he must give a little present to her. Ndah, definitely must.... But what to choose?... A book? -but she has already lots of! A bouquet? Too simply... A box of chocolate cand...um, no, he`ll sweep them himself while getting home... Two tickets to the theatre?.. But - snacking on popcorn when a lady sits near will look pretty odd....Though... And what if ask Quentin to paint her portrait?..
Thinking so, Beauregard stopped by a boutique and scratched head. Those thoughts of yummies made something tell him that there stayed a bit of room for a good French fries portion (and it after those five cake slices and who-knows-how-many-crackers!), and he nearly turned to a nearby McDonalds, but next second heard,
"Jewelry!.. Fine jewelry!.. Who needs jewelry!.."
To the salesman in a small yellow tent was already hurrying lots of people. Hardly Beau managed to think of something else, as was also squashed by the crowd and had already no choice except taking a look too. Besides, a chance to give Milly something expensive can be a good chance to be a real gentleman in her eyes. It was even weird -how didn`t he guess about it before.
(End of Chapter 2)

[Beauregard]

Gardy and Milly! Yey!!!

[Effralyo]

Buuuut yooooou dooon`t knooooow whaaat`s neeeeeeeeext!.....

Chapter 3. A Dangerous Gift

"This way, sir! Just for you, sir!.. This way!.." - the salesman hailed Beau, and when the clumsworth reached the showcase, literally opked to him a big gold spider necklace.- "Just what you need, sir!.. The last one in the whole wide world; looks delicious with any shirt!...You can try it on right now and just won`t want to take off anymore! You`ll not pity if will buy it, sir!.."
"Okay, okay! I do!..", Gard laughed, being actually touched by such an attention. And the strange necklace was bought in a second.
Weird, but the crowd also vanished pretty quickly as he bought it. But the clumsworth hadn`t time to think why that. He continued his way to the hotel.
But if Beau could only see what did that "salesman" do as he was gone!..
The yellow tent disappeared as fast as it appeared, and its owner, quickly changing his look to reel, walked towards the Muppet house.
...Effralyo was on the terace, still waiting for his large fluffy pal. A certain scratch in mind kept bothering him.
"Something`s wrong with Gardy."
The little spirit looked at the farther corner of the alley. nohing even weakly reminding a familiar clumsy figure.
"Cliff", he hailed, "did Gardy ring you now?"
"Nope", Clifford responsed from the tree hut. "I wonder myself what`s up with him."
Effralyo nodded and kept watching.
At last a known white cap glimpsed in there. and the dreads... Certainly, certainly, it`s he!.....
"GARDYLARDY CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!!!!!!!!!!!", he yelled in glad and, as ever. rushed to the stranger.
And in the last moment, when the dwarf was ready to jump in his hands, "Beauregard" suddenly thrown away the cap with fake dreads on it, turning into a human with an evil grin, snatched Eff and hissed,
"That`ssss the tiiime I`ve gooot you, Geewiliiker..."
(TBC:cry: )

[Beauregard]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-ooooo-oooooooo-oooo-ooooooooooooooo-oooooooooooo-oooooooo-ooo-oooooooo-oooooooooooo-oooooooooooooooooo-oooo-oooooooooo-oooooooooo-oo-ooooooooooooooooo-oooooooooo-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-oOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOO-oooooooooooo-ooooooooo-oooooooooooooo-oooooooo-oooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Effralyo]

Beau stopped at the big glass showcase with a mirror. He couldn`t wait to look how will his gift suit Mildred, and...-what do you think?- ... put it on himself...
Everything disappeared in weird mauve fog, and when it dispersed, he found out that the world around became all merry and pink!..
He felt a powerful flood of joy; it was seeming that people, the signs, the shops, the bills, mailboxes...even the telegraph poles - are proclaiming only "HELLO BEAU!" The janitor laughed, and his laughter started to echo everywhere, and was reflecting in everything. As if trillions of smiles appeared around and whirlwinded him.
Suddenly he saw a certain man holding Effralyo.
"Effy!..", Gard exclaimed, walking to them. "Eff!.. Hahaha... Effy!.."

The dwarf was furiously trying to get free from the horrible man as he could, when, luckily, he saw....
"GAAARDYYYYYYYY!!!!"...
Goodness gracious, what a grasp... But... *gasp* why...*gulp* doesn`t...*hoarse* Beau...help?.....
Only stands and laughs like crazy....
(Gosh, hahaha, they`re playing?.. A second else, and I can burst with laugh!.. heeeeheeeeeee..never had seen Effy making such mines!.. Heeeeeeeheeeee...)
"GAAAAAARDYYYYY!... Help!.... GAAAAAARD!!!!!!"
(Oh my, how darn funny!...)
..."GAAAAAAAAARDYYY, GARDYYYYYYYY, GAAAAARDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!."
That last ....EEEEEEEEEEEEE!.... was so heartbreaking that would make cry even the stones. Effralyo felt that can`t struggle any more. The weird stranger managed to tie him hand and feet. And Beauregard, who was under charm of the necklace, thought that it`s all a fancy show, and kept laughing, without spying himself that the real bitter tears flow down his face under his fake laughter. It made him kneel and nearly faint. From a side someone might think that Beau does gloating over, but it was a random, yet mighty power.
And though Fralyo guessed about it, it was already too alte. He managed to recognize himself for a minute and saw a syringe sticking out of his shoulder...
"GAAAARDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!........."
And then all got dark and quiet.
Effralyo moved no longer.
By the time it was done, Beauregard felt how does the fake laughter - and the pink "veil"- slowly goes out, and when it had ended, he found out that almost lies on the pavement, his eyes terribly hurt, and the necklace spider turned long ago in a real spider and ran away, spilling to gold dust.
The echo dwarf had vanished somewhere -along with that crazy stranger.
"That was a vision", Beau tried to comfort himself. "A silly scary vision... I`ll better go back home... Ndah.... Perhaps Effy`s waiting for me.... And nothing happened... and...."
The clumsworth pulled the cap visor to hide his hurt eyes and moved back home.
(End of Chapter 3)

[Beauregard]

Oh my...oh my gosh...oh my gosh my gosh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Effralyo]

(See ya Gardee... Darn that time limit!... :cry: Let me hug ya! Bye!..)

[TogetherAgain]

<eyes pop out of head>

OH DEAR GOODNESS!!!!!!!

Effralyo, I'm completely spell bound by this! MORE! PLEASE MORE! Please, you have my heart doing back-flips!!!!!

[Effralyo]

Chapter 4 - "Who broke you?.."
Hardly Clifford spied his friend returning back and looking innormally awful, he quickly pulled Beau in the hut on the tree and whispered with anger:
"And while you were hanging around somewhere, someone in your cap came here and kidnapped Eff!.."
"I already know", the clumsworth said sadly. "And the most terrible thing is that I even couldn`t save him... though could... Had a chance.."
"What?.."
...And after listening to the story of the terrible event Cliff started to pinch his goatee in awe.
"The necklace..the necklace... Bo, just don`t think that I blame you, I know you were under charm, but.. why does it seem to me that I do know that guy?.."
"I know only one", Beauregard said. "Effy was gone.And do you know what does it mean?"
Cliff shook his mop of hair.
"Exactly! That`s why it does scare so much..."
"Psssst!..Guys?.. Are you here?"
The manhole in the hut floor had opened, and both muppets gazed in shock at...a known yellow head.
"Pooh, Scooter!..", Clifford exclaimed slapping his knees. "You`d better warn before getting`ere!"
"But there wasn`t any conditions about the password", Scooter said. "Say the truth, what`s up?.."
"And are you alone?", Beau asked.
""No, with Robin... He`s waiting now down here!"
"Say him to climb too, and quick", Clifford nodded, helping Scooter to get up ;the froglet got thru the manhole next.
"Say, is it true that our geewiliker was gone?", Robin asked, looking in Gard`s eyes.
"Yes, tell us please!", the yellow muppet suggested.
The clumsworth felt nearly more awful than before.
"Now then, kids", he hardly said, as if got a mouth like sandpaper."Yes.. Effy had been ki...captured today. And I nearly had been killed by a mean jeweller. And now we moan our geewiliker."
"That`s why you keep hiding here?", Scooter asked.
"Right."
"And we`d like to show you something", Robin whispered. "In the gooseberry bushes behind our house."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

..Beau straight away spied something bright and small lying on the ground.

"Effy!..", he cried. "Effy..Why don`t you jump?.. Who broke you?!..."
He kneeled to there and picked up.... Raggedy Effralyo.
"So there..."
He looked at the ex-spirit closer.
Unless the lovable, known to every muppet smile stayed on the dwarf`s face, Beauregard couldn`t feel his heart pinching again. A little time before it was a living fancy creature, who could make miracles, hop on your shoulder, cheer up when you`re sad. It was a real Geewiliker. And now it`s merely a ragdoll... Still squashy, still funny, but static and mute.
"That`s..." - Clifford gasped.
"..Effy...."
"Look what had they done!..."
Cliff pointed at Effralyo`s right shoulder - it was lightly torn. And from under the orange plush was visable....ah, goodness! - cotton!..
The pink muppet groaned, squeezing his fists.
"I`ll...n-never....forgive it. Whoever it was. Fancy that, Bo!.. And you too... You know what have they done?.. Stolen his magic at all... Til the last drop!.. Can you hear?!.."

They decided not to bury him.
Effralyo was now sitting under the tree hut, with stretched out legs, and his eyes were still seeming real. As if the geewiliker simply sat to take a rest under the tree and dream. But the more Beau looked at him the more thought - the real Effy never sits like this. Never. He`s too energethic for it. Gard already got used to feel the dwarf sitting on his shoulders like a parrot, and constantly rattling something.
The sad music started to sound in the clumsworth`s mind. Beauregard amazed, and then recognised that sings.

Am Am
What to do,
Am Dm
If today I suddenly
Dm G
Let you die,
C Am E
While was under charm myself,
Am Am
Took away
Am Dm
Luck and joy from our house,-
E E
What to do,
E Am
Who can say and forgive me now?...
That`s my fault,
That`s my fail for all my life,
Only thing
I`ll never forget myself;
Give a sign,
Say a word, move an inch, we beg,
If you can,
And don`t want stay a raggedy...

Am
Sparklet went now out,
Dm
Tears do flow,
G C
You`re all stiff from top till toe,
Am
Sparklet went now out,
Dm
Hard to know,
E Am
Hard to bear and endure that woe.
Trust me, Fralyo,
I didn`t want
Harm you even a bit,
Beg you, live,
Hope you can understand
And forgive,
While I`m staying in here
And believe.
(End of Chapter 4)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 5 - The House That Lost Its Warmth

"Mommy, it`s me, Beau, and I gotta tell you something really awful. Our Effy isn`t a creature we knew yet. A jeweller turned him into a ragdoll, charming me up before. You even can`t inagime how had I been fooled - and just because wanted to visit Quentin.
Mum, if you can, tell us what to do now... I know, the Muppet House had been existing a long time before I met Effy, but now no one of us can imagine it without him. I don`t know why had he been emptied like that, I just know that we possibly never will be as jolly as we were before Effy`s end. Something changed. Can`t say what, but feel it. Goodbye.
Love and hope to better.
Beau"
It got almost dark. Clifford was still in the tree hut, watching Gard writing something in his room thru the window. He felt a bit cold and light headache.
"Ten thousands worse than orphanage", he sighed."..Coff..cofff, coff, kck! Kff! Coff!.."
No doubt - he caught cold already. Certainly, and what else to expect when you stick here all day long without a sweater... The pink muppet got down and went into the house.
"Can I make you a cup o` chicken soup, Cliff?", Gonzo asked. "You look sick..."
"Ah? Later... kff! Kff! Not now..."
Clifford walked upstairs and shut the door of his room. He forgot to make his bed since the morning, and now, as he was dressed, slumped on it and poked his face into the pillow. No one to talk with, no one to share woe.
Cliff spied short orange hairs on the pillow and recalledd how, way long ago, he used to make up a featherbed for Effralyo. And how the spirit used to awake him - with a tickle spell!.. And now the lonesome pink muppet sprawled across the unmade bed, keeping freezing.
"Bbbbrrrrr....Darn cold..kf!"
He put on the orange sweater, Nancy`s gift, and felt a little better.
Knock, knock...
"Cliff? Can I come in?.."
"Bo, is that you?.. Sure.."
"Had just been writing home", Beauregard explained, entering the room.
Clifford nodded, sitting closer to the fireplace. Beau with his fur wasn`t freezing, but joined him.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

.."Piggy, don`t even think to make a newsflash out of it", Kermit warned. "It`s dangerous! Today - Effralyo. Tomorrow, let`s assume,- Gonzo. Then Fozzie. And etc.etc.etc.etc. Do you understand at all what`s going on?.."
"But I don`t see anything bad in it, Kermie! I.... If you wanna know, I just want to help you in searching for that villain! And draw to this deed everyone!.."
"I doubt that they`ll raise an alarm just for a pathetic geewiliker", Uncle Deadly frown, folding his arms.
"Not "a pathetic", but "our lovable!", Gonzo corrected.
"I mean in their eyes", Deadly said.
"True", Kermit suggested. "But that event could be spied anyway. If we`ll have to make a newsflash, we`ll do, but it will be the last way. Now we must only watch and wait."

..."Have you heard?", Statler turned to Waldorf. - "Effralyo`s gone.."
"Why gone, when he`s sitting in the garden?.."
"His magic was stolen -that`s why. Can`t you see he`s a ragdoll now?"
"Ahh, that`s that.." -Nods with sympathize. - "Sniff.."

..."No, Beaker, no one of formulas will work here. Too hard event. It` s good that the spirits are all immortal, but does it relate to the toys?"
"Meeep! Meep, memeeep, mep!"

...Swedish Chef looked at the oven-wrecklings and sighed (translate from BorkBork):
"And Effy did it always well, clicked his fingers, and - voila.."

..."Got stuck!", Rizzo grumbled, trying to open a jar or peanut butter. - "Eff!.. Eff, where on earth are you?.."
"Stop it, pal, okay", - Pepe responsed gloomily. - "Don`t you know he`s dead?"
"Wha-????"
(fainted)
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Quentin rung Beauregard up himself in the evening.
"You know, bo, I`ve heard a certain scream today in a district fron our hotel... Did something bad happen with Effy?."
And as the clumsworth told him, the artist signed: "Ndaah... You never know how the destiny will turn..."
"I say, Quentin, if you`ll meet Stangor today, tell it to him and add that we needn`t a newsflash awhile. Yes, Kermit asked me for it! Thanks. Bye!"
He hung on and saw that it`s raining outside.
"I`ll better go and take him home before he get wet", Beau said to himself and went out.
"C`mon, Effy..."
The raggedy spirit actually wasn`t so different from his living self. And while Gard was carrying him, it even seemed to him that Effralyo got a bit warm. Though Beauregard knew that it`s only his own warmth....
But, as he always did, he wrapped the poor Fralyo in his plaid shirt, putting him near the pillow, and curled up under the blanket himself.
Welll... If there isn`t yet a way to return you the lost power, I`ll still love you. No matter, whether a toy or not. Nothing will bother me. And I do believe, one day the luck will return to our home too... Wait with dying, Effy, wait with leaving.
Beau`s hand touched the dwarf`s moustache last time and rested on the sheet.
"Night, Effy..."
(End of chapter 5)
(...and where on earth did Gard stuck again when he`s darn need... :) )

[TogetherAgain]

Oh, Effralyo, it's so beautifully written! You made me cry! Oh... Please, tell me more, please...

[Effralyo]

(Wait a bit, I`m just waiting now for an one important detail and will continue when will know it.)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 6 - The Strange Voice

Actually, it was not sleeping, but only sniffing and sighing.
Somewhere between three and four hours of morning Beau thought:
"...But even Gonzo has a family. And Cliffy does already have a home. And what had Fralyo had?.."
He recalled that day of returning to Raenbu. And how Effralyo asked for a timedive on Sesame Street.
E x a c t l y!
The clumsworth`s heart raced as he thought of it.
He doesn`t know is there any Effralyo`s relatives or not, - okay, let it be for now.. But the geewiliker DID definitely have a close friend, and what a friend! The president of Muppetland himself!.. Gosh, how could he forget Zeliboba...
Gard, is that you?
What?
He shifted, thinking firstly that it`s a hail from outside. But the strange voice was, as he found out, sounding right in his mind.
Gard, say, is it really you?.. Please... I`m afraid I talk to the wrong one...
"And who`s this?", Beauregard whispered.
Don`t speak, just think, I`ll hear!.. I just caught your mental wave as you ahiled me. Thank you so much! I was so worrying that never can find you...
"It means..."
Right! Say, is Effralyo in your home now?
"Yes, and why didn`t you help him today, Ze..Mr. President?"
Call me by name, Gard. I wished... Darn much... But something freezed my magic!.. I lost him suddenly! And was completely distracted...
"You smelt badness?"
Right! And now, since you`re the another close friend of Eff`s, I want to say you something that possibly will help...Very private... Can you find me in afternoon? Do you know where`s my home?
"I know that it`s on Sesame Street, but how does it look?"
It`s a gigantic oak. We`re neighbors! And I approximately know where do you live. So mine`s not so far. But... I`m afraid that we`ll have only a little chance to save him...
"Anything! I`m ready to anything!", Beau implored.
Glad to hear it, Gard! Certainly I`d like to rescue Effralyo, but there`s something that bothers me to leave my tree even for a day. A thing I must guard constantly since the time Effy gone. I`ll how it to you later. If something bad will happen with it, Muppetland will suffer seriously...
"And when must I go?", the clumsworth asked. "And ...how do you manage to speak with me like this?"
Not now, wait till the morning, and then come when you want. I`ll be near my home. And how do i..Dom`t you know that actually all of us can do it, and if you`re a Swallower..
"What? And you too?"
Yes, me too! Though I almost don`t use it. A couple of times ages ago...
Well, okay, sleep now tightly, Gard, see you soon.
"Uh-huh..."
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

*sniff*

*smile*

*sniff*

SO beautifully written that it makes me smile and cry, such picutres and words of the charcters. Piggy, Kermit, Uncle D, Riz, they're all so elegently written!!!

Oooh! beau go see Mr Z!!!

[Effralyo]

And if firstly our janitor couldn`t sleep, now sleeping wasn`t making any sense at all.
..Clifford blinked from sudden light flash and heard:
"Cliff!.... D`ya know who had just spoken with me?.."
"Wh-wh....coff!-who?..." - He saw Beau all smiling and exclaimed: "Found a way to save him?!.."
And rolled eyes when Beau whispered him Zeliboba`s name. But the thing amazing him most of all was that they`re NEIGHBORS! And who knew.... Neighbors?!.. So he would ask him all the time?... But...
"I can`t believe myself, Cliff!..", Gard nearly shouted. "He has something to help me... Can you go with me? Perhaps he`ll find something for you too?.."
"If I`ll eat the whole aspirine pack now..", Clifford hoarsed. "You see, I`d like, but if Piggy will spot me, I`ll have to be chained to the bed for AGES!.. You know her! Won`t let go until you guzzle the whole chicken soup she prepared."
"Okay, I can go alone... But don`t worry, I`l tell what did he say!"
"G`luck, Bo... Can you bring me Effy awhile? To look at least... I promise that will guard him well!"
Beauregard nodded and returned to his place.
And why the sun dors rise so slow when it`s need more than ever!..
(End of chapter 6)

[Beauregard]

And why does the sun rise so slowly! Hurry up onk sun!! *Grabs wand from nearby Fairy Godmother* Pling! Volla! Sunshine!!!

Also, a point about formatting that may help you. id you know that you don't have to have at the begining and end of every sentence?

You can just put one at the top, and the closing box at the bottom of the page and it will all be {i]Italicised

[Effralyo]

Chapter 7- Meeting the Lord
The friends had never seen Beauregard so hurrying to somewhere before. Only one muffin with coffee, a brief "hi!" to someone he nearly knocked off down the stairs,- and here he is, our clumsworth, walks already to Sesame Street.

He passed by Big Bird`s nest. So...let`s see.... He said, in a district from it. Okay....
Several yards else, and Beau guessed that got in absolutely unknown place. But it still was Sesame Street. He just haven`t been here before.
The janitor was as if going to jump in the cold spring from a rock. Creeps crawled on his back for some reason. Afterall, he didn`t know how do the local inhabitants look at him...
A girl from a small group of kids playing near the post-office saw him and giggled to his cuteness; and a second later Beauregard heard behind his back the admired whisper, "Look... Look, who`s that, so strange?.. Hehe... And funny... And furry.."
He felt a bit awkward from it, but lightly blushed. Afterall, they meant him.
And what if he got in the wrong place?... No, that couldn`t be possible.. if Zeliboba said him the way himself...
"Gard!..", resounded from backward.
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

Gardy!!! Look around, there he is!

You know what? This story makes me feel so connected to Gardy, in a way I can't explain.

[Effralyo]

The clumsworth turned to there.
"A-aaaack..."
He was expecting to see whatever but the Dratcher - the courtyard spirit nearly ten feet tall - bigger even than Sweetuns on several inches!- in a blue long mantle and sneakers! And judging his LONG (with such mouth...) smile, Beau understood that here he is, their president....
His jaw dropped, and for a second he freezed, being unable to say a word. Only "blink, blink." And Zeliboba said, gesturing at him:
"So there! Let me introduce you my dear neighbor from a nearby district! That`s Be-a-u-r-e-g-a-r-d!..."
Spelling of Gard`s name seemed to him funny, and he laughed along with the dratcher.
"Alright, alright!..", Zel nodded, as they finished it. "Guys, I have to talk with him now. Gard can`t wait. That`s very important."
They both walked to...
"Gigantic oak!..", the clumsworth exclaimed in astonishment. "Gigantic indeed..."
"Or my main office, as it uses to be called", Zeliboba said, opening the door. "Or simply my home."
Beau was literally blown out. No, even in Raehbu such trees don`t grow anywhere. Besides, it was hiding the secret.... But where the secret is, if he sees awhile only a plain room stuff and a wardrobe with neckties?
"C`mon, I`ll show it to you at last", Zel hurried him.
He turned something behind the wardrobe, and it moved, opening the secret door. Beau saw a spiral stairs ledding down.
"Gosh...", he expired.
"I usually don`t tell about it to anyone", Zeliboba said as they went down the stairs. "Except my father, Fanokeits. And Effy. And Missy - my step-sister. Well, and now you. Actually, it MAKES me the Dratcher."
...No, Beau even couldn`t suppose that there can be such a huge underground hall here. As if a hall of a certain museum, but with an only "exponate" - a large pearl-like ball on a small stand in the hall middle.
"Here we are!", Zeliboba declared. "And here it is, the Crystal of Faithfullness. I got it as had found my courtyard. See?..."
Beau stared at the Crystal in surprise.
"Effy used to shift me when I had to go to visit someone of my friends or relatives", the dratcher continued. "And did it always well. But now I chained to my house! Who knows what can happen if that j-evil-ler suddenly will find the enter here..."
(TBC)
I`m glad that it DOES connect you, Gardy!.. Pleasant to hear!

[Beauregard]

WHoo! *dances*

[Effralyo]

"And that`s why"..., Beau whispered to himself scratching head. "Yes...."
"Now, imagine to yourself what can go in if I leave it.."
"Really terrible!", the clumsworth agreed with a sigh: "And why are people go mean at all?.. Did you ever know, Mr. Pres.... Zel?.."
"I knew an one man that wanted to shoot me", the dratcher recalled. "He punished himself for that... Fell in the abyss when was chasing me. But that was ONLY one- time event. Perhaps now someone tries to break our world again... And.. it seems I DO know what to do. Certainly, it`s impossible for me to leave the Crystal now. And certainly, to save the spirit can only the other spirit. And I know where will we get him."
"And where?!.."
Zeliboba looked at Beauregard in a such way that he only gasped:
"...M-me?.."
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

"M-Me"

Y-yes! Y-you!!!

[Effralyo]

"You", Zel nodded. "Our Queen teached me to do it. That was she who gave me the Crystal. But remember,you`re not a real spirit, but a plain muppet, and the magic will end with the first one you swallow."
Beauregard lost his head.
"You now must choose an element I can make you control", Zel continued. "My own is air. So what do you want? Air too? Water? Or earth? Or fire?"
The janitor HMMed in thought. Water... Perhaps it will be useless, the "jeviller" could dwell somewhere in the city... Fire.. no, to make all around flame he wouldn`t like... Air? "Flying clumsworth? And were the flying pink elephants in there?.." - Unsuitable too...
"I`ll take earth", he said. "Yes. I decided. I choose earth."
"Okay", the dratcher agreed. "Now, put your hand on the Crystal."
Beauregard did it, and Zel put his hand over the janitor`s.
"With my power I vest you to possess the magic of earth!...", he said loudly. "And now repeat the spell...
Sunrise and sunset, the starshine and lightbeams,
I was a muppet, and now I`m a spirit,
Help me in everything, heal me and save me,
Guard all my thoughts from misusage my power.
Sunrise and sunset, the Master who made me,
Earth will be one with me now and for ever.

Beauregard shut his eyes feeling certain chill starting from the Crystal. It started to glow, and the light filled him wholly,and next second the clumsworth felt himself somehow unusually. As if he spent thousands of years being turned into stone, and just revived now. He lightly moaned, and when opened his eyes again, they were also glowing.
"Thank you", Beau emited...
(End of Chapter 7)
See ya soon, Gardee! Gotta go... HUG! Bye!:sing:

[Beauregard]

Beauregard shut his eyes feeling certain chill starting from the Crystal. It started to glow, and the light filled him wholly,and next second the clumsworth felt himself somehow unusually. As if he spent thousands of years being turned into stone, and just revived now. He lightly moaned, and when opened his eyes again, they were also glowing.

Wow...

[Effralyo]

:) Ah you, my little woowzer!:)

Chapter 8 - I`m A Spirit...
...and sighed with relief.
"Watch out, use it well", Zeliboba chuckled, hiding laughter under sideburns. "Congrats, Gard, now you`re a Glarclumsworth."
"Really?..", the "newborn" spirit laughed, and them joked for some reason: "It`s good that Clifford haven`t seen your ears..."
"And what`s wrong with them?", the dratcher amazed.
"Nothing, he just doesn`t like spaghetti!", Beau replied and blushed. "Sorry, don`t take an offence, Zel, I just recalled that he leaved home...." - He sighed again sadly. - "He`s ill now... and must stay in bed until his flu end..."
Zeliboba arched eyebrows - "alright, I got it" - and nodded:
"Well, now I think you will be able to help Clifford to get rid of it..."
Beauregard looked at him more carefully. Ndah, isn`t it a real honor to be at president`s and get a special skill as a gift? He`d never seen such a giant...well, if don`t count Swetums, but Sweetums is an ordinare monster afterall, and it`s the lord... And he, Beauregard, is so small versus him.
"Now I really do understand what did Effralyo feel looking at me from down", he said.
"Yes, that`s my only flaw - the ones who talks with me have to look constantly up", Zeliboba smiled. "But I never hesitate to bend if neccessary."
"How good would be if every president could say the same about himself", Gard said.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

I see, you want to try your new skill, Gard", Zel winked. "On what?"
(They left the hall and were both already outside, standing near a flowerbed.)
Beauregard stretched out a hand over an one of the flowers and saw the weak glowing coming from it.
"And what does it mean?"
"It waits what will you want it to do", the dratcher answered.
Beau scratched head, screwed up his eyes and wished mentally:
Blossom better, blossom bigger!..
Then looked back at the flower...
Nothing happened.
"Why that?", he amazed.
"Because you didn`t channel your power to it and forgot about the spell", Zeliboba said. "Try again, and I`ll look."
Now he knew. He channeled as much his will as he could gather, and said - it came to his mind itself:
Dafflorio!
Plun-k! Beauregard even shrunk from the result of his magic: the flower enlarged three times, and was all gleaming, and looking more wonderful than all the roses near their house.
"Wo-ow.."
"Are you glad?", the dratcher chuckled.
Beau nodded weakly.
"And the healing power...it`s also given to me now?..."
"Yes.. Like everyone else of the spirits."
"But will it work if I`ll - touch wood - be injured?.."
"Certainly it will, Gard. Do you still worry for Clifford? Ah yes, I`ve already forgot... Y`know, you`d better now go and help him to get well. Give him my best REGARDs!"
"Will do. Thank you so much, Zel...."
"And you can come and see me anytime. Good luck. I`m sure that perhaps will find a way myself to help you both soon. But for now it was all I could do."
"Okay, I gotta run now... Thank you once again, Zel!.. I`ll never forget you!"
(TBC. Where are you, Gardee?...)

[Effralyo]

..Zeliboba`s words about bending made the clumsworth think of them almost all the time, while walking back home. "Don`t hesitate to bend if neccessary.." Then, about the power. "Use it well." And how else can he use it if no one of the muppets can misuse their gift?
The dratcher wished luck to Beau once again, and them returned back to keep guarding the Crystal.

Beauregard was now walking along Sesame Street with a feeling of - if name it somehow, the most suitable would be "Where-to-place-my-strength!". He looked someplace under his feet: who knew, and what if an unexpected disaster can be caused by a glance?..

..An old lady went out of her house and gasped, looking at her best rose bushes.
"OH DEAR!.. What had they done?!.."
She hurried to look closer. All of the flowers were cut and laid now on the ground.
"Anything but that!.. Lenny.." - She glanced at the nearby house. - "Again Lenny!.. Who else!.. " - Tears filled her eyes. -"And just in a day before the flower fair!.."
Ebven without spotting it himself, Beau, passing by her house, just lightly waved a hand towards the bushes: Ganklodeyore!..
The old lady screamed in surprise.
Her roses were growing again on the bush! And looked much better than before!
She gawked at them for a second at, seeing the clumsworth already in six yards from her house, shouted to him, "Thank you, honey!.."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

..Clifford took six another aspirine tablettes and wrinkled his face. Piggy, to his luck, had forgot a glass of iced tea on the chest, so the pink muppet stretched to it to wash down the bitter stuff. It was a bit foul to drink from a glass with a print of lipstick on it, but it`s better to bear awhile than make Piggy heckle again.
He put back a paper sheet he had just filled all over with the only word "BEAU" of all fonts and sizes. And where on earth is this clumsworth when you need him more than ever?!..
Strange, but iced tea didn`t harm the sore throat, which calmed Cliff for now, and he started to write.
Mom, if you`ve recieved already Bo`s letter, you know what made our home lost its warmth. If not, wait with reading this. I`m now ill, so ahve to stay home and don`t even set nose outside. And Beau, fancy that, is at Zeliboba`s! I wish I know what are they talking about now... There isn`t news anymore, so please wish me to get well soon, I`m fed up with being chained to the bed,- you know how hard it is for a muppet of action like me. It seems we do have a little hope to better. Goodbye. And tell Dad that I love him, too.


Cliff"




As he finished writing, a brown paw glimpsed behind the door.





.."That`s impossible!", Cliff exclaimed, rolling eyes. - "He..gave you... magic skill?.. Himself?!?!?!?!?!?.. For FREE?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!???!?!?..."




"I tell you only what have seen", Beauregard said. "Now I can really s o m e t h i n g.




"And what?.."




"Well..don`t know yet.. And, ah, by the way!.. How are you?.."




Clifford sadly nodded at the empty aspirine bottle, and the clumsworth understood all. But wasn`t sad too: he had recalled a wonderful recipe Mum had used ages ago.




"Y`know, Cliff, you better lie a bit more, while I concoct something for you. Dun`worry, it`s sweet."




The pink muppet tilted down his head - "ok" - and stretched happily in bed.


(TBC)

[Effralyo]

And the recipe was simple, but very helpful. And, by the way, not only for the muppets.
The kitchen was empty, and Beauregard easily padded in there. He was now need some sugar - not powder, but crystals. So, let`s see...
He found a sugar pack on a shelf, and strewed a half of it on the frying pan. Waiting until the sugar turn all as golden brown as his fur, Beau added a pinch of vanilla - ah, licked fingers after that! - and turned the gas off. And then magicked up a cup of mint tea, strewed four teaspoons of the golden sugar in there - orange sparkles glimpsed in the cup. Then Beau strewed it into the bowl of cereal, and the rest swept in a handful and ate himself,- because, luckily, it was both medicine and a good dainties, like honey.

..Clifford`s cough was gone already with third gulp of tea.
"What did you add to there, Bo, that I got well so quickly?", he asked gratefully, which made Beau winkle and smile:
"The golden sugar, Cliff, merely! Don`t forget to thenk Mummy when we`ll go back home. C`mon, eat up your cereal now, and let`s go!"
"Wo whewe?"
"Where I didn`t manage to get first time! To Quentin, of course. I do believe, while Zeliboba can`t leave his Crystal, we need an alike strong helper."
"Wewactwy!"
"WHAAAAAAAAT does mean "Zeliboba can`t"?????.."
Both buddies shivered and glanced at each other in surprise.
"Piggy?.."
And what Piggy!... Just the living replica of Nancy Pinksworth, when she spotted Gard back in his nativeland "illegally"!
"WHEN had you been there?..", she shrieked. "Where from do you know it?!.."
"Well, I..I...."
Beauregard confused, still repeating "..eeeeeeer...." and staring at the floor, but managed to emit, "I...had just visited his home..."
Piggy screamed again, and it shifted to the cross between sobbing and moaning.
"Why...al..ways..that?..", she groaned. "Why not... moi?..Why again a pathetic janitor?.. Why?...."
"Why - what?", amazed already fully dressed Clifford.
"Just...think", Piggy sobbed. "Speaking.. sniff... with a president... What a great show would it be!... Interviews... sob.... news... fame... And you!!!!!!"
Hardly she opened her mouth to bawl at Beau, his tolerance came to the end, and he gestured at her with a roar:
Tremfomble!!!!
Zzzzzzzzip!.. Her lips couldn`t open now. An absolutely real zipper was crossing her angry face. So instead of a curse Piggy got merely a "mmmm!".
"Maybe, since Zeliboba never chooses whatsoever to talk with!", Clifford said to her angrily and then thumbed a nose to her: "Na-nana-nanaa-na.."
"I`ll charm you back in the evening, Piggy!..", Beau promised, and she heard a "bang!" of the door next to it.
(End of Chapter 8)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 9 - Ferralyo


A pair of big sparkling eyes watched them from the bush.




As Bo and his friend left the house, a small shadow quickly slipped towards the terrace.




That was a geewiliker, and not simply A geewiliker, but Effralyo`s father Ferralyo, - almost his lookalike, but with lighter colored moustache and hair, and bigger by size.




Raggedy Eff was in the hammock, where the careful Clifford placed him before, and firstly Ferralyo thought that his son just fell asleep. He leapt to Eff and inspected him.




"Effy, goldy-y", the old geewiliker called. "Wake up, it`s me! Meet your Dad, eh?."




Effralyo didn`t move an inch.




"Sonnyboy?.. Had someone charmed you?..", Ferralyo hailed in anxiety.




No answer.




Ferralyo pulled off the cover and...






..Say, how can be hard for a father to see his son dead?.. Or emptied, like now?..




What words must I find for it, can anyone tell me?.. Even if it relates to the muppet spirits?..




Say, is there a way to keep the fathers` hearts always calm for their children?.. I just can`t show now Ferralyo moaning as he spied that chip on Eff`s shoulder.My words will be too weak for it.




And you think, such fanny critters never grief. That`s right. But not when someone of the humans wants to harm the muppet world anyway.





Ferralyo kept crying, when Skeeter accidentally glanced at the terrace and exclaimed:




"Look, the other one came!.."




The bulk of the Muppet House stuck to the window glass. Yes, indeed an another geewilicky!




"Go and call him here, Fozz", Floyd said.




"Why me?"




"You always deal with it easily! And I can only command well..."




Fozzie nodded and went out. Afterall, ther can`t be any harm from a geewiliker - do himself and the other muppets befriend with Effralyo, don`t they? Such a dwarf is ought to be comforted. Perhaps it`s someone of his far realtives - just saw him in disaster and moans now.




"Hey!..", the bear called. "Where are you, dwarfee?.."




Silence.




"Come out, I won`t harm you, don`t scare!.."




Suddenly Fozzie freezed and listened.

(TBC)

[Effralyo]

(Darn those spaces..)
The sound of hard breathing someplace near the garage. Along with sobs.
Fozzie walked to there a bit closer. And... rubbed his eyes in disbelief!
That was real indeed - an old echo spirit sat near the garage door and looked right at him. The bear could easily read fear, hatred and request in Ferralyo`s eyes.
Fozzie stretched out a hand in an absolutely peaceful way, but the dwarf shrunk in awe:
"NOOO!... You killed my son!.. My son, my goldy!.. Curse on all your heeeeeads!....."
He generated two fireballs and - FTAGN, FTAGN! - one after one thrown them into Fozzie, who dodged only thanks to a wonder.
"Whoa..", he thought, watching Ferralyo leaping over the garden fence and rushing away. Then the bear stood up and brushed his fur, scratching head:
"Wocka wocka...weird...."

Two hours later....

Mildred in her library heard a telephone ring.
"Hello?"
"Mrs. Huxtetter? I speak to you?"
"Yes, Mr...PRESIDENT????"
"Right. I just wanted to say you... There`s a muppet who likes you, and nearly underwent a danger from it. I wanna say... if you can, please, take care of him."
"Wh-"..
"I think, we understood each other".
"I promise and will try, but...but.."
"I. Hope. We. Understood. Each. Other", Zeliboba said slowly and clearly, hanging on.
As he finished speaking, an orange flash made him nearly drop down the phone.
"What the, by my tie!.."
Seeing a geewiliker in his oak, Zel straight away gussed who it is. Certainly, they`re neighbors in Zelirangoo since ages ago!
"Ferralyo?..", he exclaimed, which made the old small spirit literally flop down on the floor and give him a tight hug by the ankles:
"I beg you, Zeliboba the Great, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!.."


"..Nonsense!", the dratcher frown as listened Effralyo`s father. "Nonsense, Ferralyo! Have you forgot that the muppets never kill?.. I know the Muppet House. I had even seen an one of its inhabitants today. That`s not their fault. A human killed Effralyo, not they."
The geewiliker pulled his face and weaken his small fists. He felt a great shame for himself.
"And what to do now?.."
"You now stay and guard the Crystal. Like Effy before. And I`m going to visit them at last myself."
(End of Chapter 9)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 10- Visiting Quentin


After a short talk with the butler Clifford and Beau reached the artist`s number.




Quentin met them with glad - was ahppy to see them both alive and healthy. (Certainly, not so happy enough to forget about Effralyo, but - still...)




The muppet friends stared in delight at the row of eight very unusual, yet captivating paintings. Firstly it was difficult to guess how are they called, and Clifford asked it.




"The Inner Space", Quentin answered.




Beauregard winced, feeling the tenderness flowing inside again. When that time, after he swallowed Quentin on Beau-monde, the artist said that had got " a great charge of inspiration", Beau expected something like his x-rayed self or close to that... but at the glamce at these paintings the clumsworth`s lower jaw hit the floor!




No, it was hard to imagine, it was worth of enduring.




Each of the pictures was reminding the night landscape, but wonderfully changed. Actually, most of all it reminded the night sky, but withfluent silvery-pinkish wavy lines on it, and there lines were building an amazing pattern. It was seeming the artist had found a way to prove how tender and soft can the darkness sometimes be. Somewhere he added sparkles into paint to get the "slimy" effect. Somewhere was visable the heart-shaped moon (or moon-shaped heart? - that depended from the look...), almost hidden behind something amorph and shining. And Beauregard couldn`t help but stared at them all blinking sorrowfully.




"You d-do really think that I look inside really like t h a t ?..", he emited. "Isn`t it too marvellous for a regular clumsworth?..."




Quentin smiled.




"You can trust me, Bo, as a real eye-witness."




Gard quickly nodded, folding his arms.




"Pity that I can`t give you another chance to get there awhile. You see, now I`m a spirit, but temporarily, and my power will lost with a first one I`ll swallow."




(TBC)

[Effralyo]

And a bit afterwards, the artist understood why.
"We must find that guy somehow", Clifford frown. "Even Bo`s being a spirit won`t help, if simply run from house to house. But I have a tiny clue... I remember how did Bo describe him, and it reminded me of a dude who constantly bothered to everyone in the orphanage and in the school. Transfer Tolbar, as far as I know..."
"Try to recall more!", Quentin exclaimed.
"Is there a notebook here, or just a computer?",Cliff asked.
The artist wrinkled up his forehead, trying to remember.
"Stangor does have, but we`ll have to go to the other end of the city", he said. "Or we can go to Auntie`s new work... She said once that the computer class is usually empty at this time..."
Is the school far from here?", Beauregard said decisively.

All the way he had been trying to hold a wish to swallow Quentin again. Mean, isn`t it,- when something`s forbidden to you, you wish to do it more than ever! And it was a reason why the artist was walking past them: didn`t want the clumsworth to lose his power like before.
There was no one in the school corridors, and, since Quentin rung up Miss Maltreat from the hotel before, she greeted the good old friends, leading them to the computer class.
One of the computers had the Web connection allowed, so they sat to it.
"Transfer Tolbar", Clifford dialed onto the keypad. "Transfer..Transfer.. Quite a rare name. Transfer service... Pooh, carried away!.. Transferre..."
They had to skip already a bulk of web pages and were nearly ready to give up, when Quentin screamed:
"That`s it!.."
"Transfer N. Tolbar, the most famous since most way long owner of jewelry company," the article said, "had already bought six chemical corporations to cooperate with. Nowhere else in the world can be seen such a roaring success. Production of "T.N.T. Gold Shine" is always under demand, mostly - because, as the customers often say, "it seems the mysterious vibes of happiness come out of it". ("That`s for what he needed the magic", Beau guessed.) Here are some items we offer to you, which are always avaliable..."
Next to it were several photos of gold trinklets, including also that very spider necklace which made the clumsworth scream.
"What`s up?", Quentin amazed.
"That necklace..He poked it to me, and I lost my head and didn`t recognise WHAT do i buy.."
"Ssssh, read the rest", Clifford cut him.
...."What does Mr. Tolbar add in the gold he uses, you can ask? He says, it`s a top secret item, but not forbidden. Today, every second jewelry booth has his production. ("Yipes!..", Beauregard commented.) And do you want to try now?.."
"Just a nightmare", Clifford said angrily, getting up. "Fancy that, he had got some nerve to give his own advertisment!. And people don`t know what do they buy..."
"..and what will be next to it", Gard nodded gloomily. "I`ve endured it myself. Don`t even want to tell!.."
"True", Quentin agreed. "And the meanest thing is that he hidden his main office address."
"You`d help us with it", Cliff said. "Perhaps you can somehow get to the one of those booths and get some info?"
"And why me?"
"Because if it will be a muppet, they`ll guess straight away about everything!"
And the three friends started to discuss their plan of "espionage".
(End of Chapter 10)

[Beauregard]

What words must I find for it, can anyone tell me?..

This was the best line ever...

But these last chapters were...wauowly!!!!!

Truely amazing!!!!!

[Effralyo]

More right now, Gardik!

Chapter 11- 9,63904+"X"
<flashback in Clifford`s life>
The small pink dreadlocked muppet boy saw off with his sight a white snazzy car and sadly shuffled towards the orphanage building.
Tghey didn`t cvhose him again, - well, actually, like everyon else today, and it comforted Clifford. He stopped on the half of his way to lace his sneaker, and was suddenly hit with someone`s rucksack on the back.
"Hey, what`s a great idea?.."
"Stand and deliver, you suckling", the owner of the rucksack hissed.
Cliff looked up - the voice belonged to a bully human boy without two front teeth. He poked his hand into the jeans pocket, asking the stranger:
"What?.."
"I said - stand and deliver, got it? That`s my half of the playground, and everyone who gets here must pay. Clear?!"
Clifford rapidly rummaged thru all his pockets, but found only... a couple of safety pins and a bubblegum pack.
"Here", he said, handing them to the bully. "I haven`t anything more."
"That`s all?.."
The random boy already let his fist hover above Clifford, and the mupet boy instinctively shrunk in horror, when from nearby boomed a loud voice:
"What`s going on here???.. Transfer!! You again???? Stop molesting Butterscotch straight away!.."
Transfer immediately shrunk overwhelmed:
"Y-yes, Mr. Klonkemout.."
He ran on several yards away from Clifford, then turned to him and bawled:
"Butterscotch!.. Hahahahahaha, go and snack on your surname!.. Butterscotch!.. Hey!.."
That was the first abasement of Trabnsfer`s. And how many else was then!...
<End of flash back>
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Top secret chemical laboratory.
To a small bottle of multicolored strange liquid are attached several thin wires. The list of substances is on the computer screen.
Transfer browsed them all and stopped his look on a line: "9,63904+X".
"Strange, where from did that X come?"
He clicked on it and... got the blank screen with an only flashing word, "Forbidden".
"Parrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbleu!.. (Drrrrrrrrrrrats!...)"
The bogus scientist returned to the list and browsed it all again, yet more carefully... Virkelodeum, cyrconium, copper, bla-bla-bla... and again - "9,63904+X". And again without any clue to it. He clicked on it about seventy times, but getting every time nothing but blank screen.
"Spit over the X", Transfer decided and clicked on "Equal". But after the click popped up a window with warning, Enter the valid formula".
"Pooh!", Transfer sput and turned the computer off. Then paced in his laboratory.
He managed to get the pure magic, which he now had to explore to create its sintethic equivalent, but the mysterious X couldn`t leave his mind.
"It`s obviously that the magic will work in the suiting surroundings...", floated in his brain. "And what if X does mean it?....", Transfer thought and winced.
" The magic will work in the suiting surroundings...", he repeated aloud. "That means I need..."
And the guess pierced him:
"..flesh!.."
As he got at last the clue, the cunning plan appeared in his head.
Transfer took a radio.
"Agent Douglas?"
"Yes, sir?", resounded from the radio.
"I`ve got it. And I do at last know where from will we take the last ingredient. And you`ll be the main partned in this deal!..", he ordered. "Listen..."
(End of Chapter 11)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 12 - A Blue and Blue* President
*(first "blue" for his color and second for his mood)
With Zeliboba`s marvellous sense of smell, letting him know not only scents, but even mood, weather or even music, it was easy to find the Muppet House. The short train of his blue mantle rustled behind the dratcher as he moved closer to the next district. Several kids on his way greeted him, to what Zel replied only by a quick nod. He had no time to chat away, every minute was precious.
"It doesn`t smell like Beauregard beyond this home", the dratched considerated, and understood - here he is..

Strange, but the door wasn`t locked.. Only the empty stairs was infront of Zeliboba`s eyes as he looked inside.
"What the, by my tie!.."
The spirit stepped into the room.
"Anyone at ho..ouch!." - He clonked his head against the low celling, wrinkling his face, and accidentally spied a tiny green frog looking at him from beyond the upper door with surprise.
"Uncle Kermit!..", the froglet shouted. "Uncle Kermit, Zeliboba!!!!..."
The Mupets at the same moment all piled out on the stairs, but all froze as the dratcher`s hand soared.
"Okay, okay", he chuckled, "I know that you`re glad to see me here; so am I, but please, quiet! Or you`ll just tear me to pieces before I`ll say something serious!.."
(TBC very soon, I promise. After the first Gardy`s comment.)

[Beauregard]

Zelly is awesome! I had no idea he was soo taaaaaaaaaaaall and handsome!

DId I mention how much I loved Milly's phone call?

Oooh, and the mysterious X. You just dare lay a finger on one of my muppets wanting tht X you mean monster man!!!!

[Effralyo]

Unluckily he will dare:( .. but wait, in what will it turn for him!;) (TBC after a PM)

[Effralyo]

"And what will it be, Mr. President?", Kermit asked carefully, stepping out of the crowd closer to the dratcher. "Is it sad news?"
"Almost. I have to leave my tree. I see that you just can`t go without me THIS time. And agree to help. I cannot see so many fellow muppets suffering... well, certainly, including me, since I just can`t live without Effralyo. J u s t c a n n o t l i v e."
"But.." - Sam gasped. "-Mr. President?.. It means that you`re not a Dratcher any more?"
"No, Sam. My treasure is under good - I hope, at least - control now. That`s why I`m actually here." - Zeliboba from his height spied Piggy trying to say something and nodded." So we-ell. The result of Gard`s spell?"
"Mm, mm mmmm.."
"Promise that never will rattle about show biz constantly?"
"Mmmm.... mm!"
"Eh, what can I do!" - Zel clicked fingers, and Piggy`s zipper disappeared. She rushed to thank the dratcher straight away, already without anger at Beau.
"As far as I know, he and Cliff are now at their friend`s", Gonzo said. "Perhaps work on the plan to figure the jeweller out."
"M`h`m, I know. If something, I can always speak to him.."
"And how?"
"Well, we`re both Swallowers; can`t we channel our thoughts to each other, then?"
The crowd let go forward to Professor Bunsen, who asked Zeliboba gently:
"Could you look at something, Mr. President? I think, you`ll definitely like it."
"B-but... what? I even don`t know what are you talking about! I never ordered anything before..."
'You - no, but Fanokeits, your father.... Don`t you know that we`re good friends with him? I`d never seen an alike plane engineer... One day he brought to me some diagrams of a marvellous construction, and we decided to build it together especially for you. But he had to be aboard - that day they needed a good pilot, so he skipped building on a half, apologised and said that I can finish it. And now it`s just waiting for you."
Zel blinked a couple of times.
"U-unbelieviable..."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

"No ,Mr. Presidnet, it`s true", Bunsen said with a smile. "Well, guessed yet? Remember..that day when you saw a dream...."
Zel`s jaw dropped:
"IT?..."
"Exactly! Fanokeits was following your description. And as for me, I just had to add a couple of wingnuts here, and there, and everywhere.... - till it became your embodied dream."
"So what`s it, could you tell?", Floyd exclaimed. "And where it is?.. We haven`t seen Bunsen building something here for ages!... Or is that invention too small?.."
"No", Zel answered. "It`s just too huge. And if Professor Bunsen is right, it must be in the airport now."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

A hour later..
Gard, wherever you are now, drop all and go to the airport! As soon as possible!.. And take Cliff and..and...well, that artist you sit at now!
"And why such hurry?", Beau amazed. "What`s up?.. Had found him?"
Not yet, but... You must see it!.. We move to there now. Quick, before we left without you!..
"Okay!.."
"And what?..", Clifford exclaimed in awe. "You talked to him now?.. Yes?.. What did he say?.."
"To the airport!..", Beauregard shifted. "Quick!..."
(aaawwwww, miss, miss, miss a comment.... and charge o`inspiration..:crazy: )

[Effralyo]

..And all ther group, at the same time, taking Raggedy Eff with them - what if they`ll can revive him in their journey? - gathered in the airport, near an enormous hangar.
"This way, Mr. President", Bunsen said, gesturing at the hangar. "Here we are".

Zeliboba widden his eyes and clicked fingers on himself. The mantle, which was making him seem clumsy before, disappeared, and our friends gasped in amazement and delight, finding out how really slim he is. Even Beauregard acked: instead of sweeping robe the dratcher had now a wonderful silver jacket on, like a real pilot...
He turned to the others and said with pride:
"And now, my friends, let me show you something, for which Bunsen isreally worth a great award.. Thank you once again, professor! - Zelicopter!.."
The Muppets gazed at the sight that had opened to them.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

A certain cross between a "concord" and a space ship looked like a gigantic dratcher`s head. Even painted in blue, yellow and black. The sideburns are the wings. The eyes are the wind-glass. And the enter is in the backside.
"Just put your hand on this green square and then come in", Bunsen explained.
"I know, I know", Zeliboba said, being too happy for more words. "I had seen it in my dreams."
He put his yellow hand on the green square near the enter, and as his palm had been scanned, the door opened.
"Wanna look?", Zel smiled to Beau.
He certainly wanted, and followed the spirit inside the Zelicopter.
...Bunsen Homeydew didn`t miss any detail at all. They with Fanokeits did really their best this time! Zeliboba stared at it, recalling that early dream. There was a keyboard instead of a radder, though, as the spirit said, the control could switch to manual or automatic easily. Everything from the dream was here. If Zeliboba could, he`d like to cry from glad, but the dratchers never cry, so eh gave Beau a squeeze. Poor clumsworth got as if in a steel press.
"Gaard!.. Oh my gosh!.. Fancy that.. Gaaard!.."
"I...agr...per..fkh...knk...."
Zel recovered and slapped his forehead:
"Gosh, Gard, sorry! Sorry, by my tie!..'
And let Beauregard go. The janitor coughed feeling how do his ribs hurt. Ndah, and if he wasn`t now a spirit, it might stay nothing but a cap!.. He nearly bursted, frankly!..
Meanwhile, the dratcher spied a large white envelope on the keyboard and took it.
"C`mon, let`s read it to everyone", he called Gard, and they went out.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

The letter said:
"To my son

Zeliboba, dear, sorry that I have so many flights and see you rarely, so that was a reason why I asked professor Bunsen to help me to buikd this Zelicopter - I think it`s the best name? - for you and had been helping him myself as long as I could. We tried to include all you have seen in your deram, so now you can be really proud: the another alike construction doesn`t exist anywhere else. And, thanks again ot Bunsen, it`s charged with a kind of "ever" fuel.
And don`t worry about its safety, I had tried it four times in flight from here twice to Hustend, and twice to Dreamad. Zelicopter had proved it. Hope it`s worth serving to you for life-time.
As for the control, we made it triple. You can play an organ, and make the flight depend from the melody; or can control manually, like an usual plane, or turn the autopilot on. As far as I remember, thta also is a part of your dream. Now, good luck. See you soon. Fly well and don`t forget our lil old "Cessna" I taught you to fly on before.
Your loving father
Captain Fanokeits Kedragger"
(End of Chapter 12)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 13 - The Spy Aboard!

As the dratcher finished reading, he saw a certain quite young man walking to them.
"I`m sorry, can I see Mr. Zelibowwing F. Kedragger?", the man asked.








"That`s me", Zel said turning to him. "Anything inportant?"








"Yes, I`m from your father, sir", the stranger said, and Zeliboba`s eyebrows rose. "He said me to give you an interesting file - I think, just what you and your friends need.. You see, I accidentally overheard them (he nodded at Clifford, Gard and Quentin) talking in the hotel, and then contacted Fanokeits after that, so I figured out the spot where does Transfer hide."








"What`s your name?", Quentin asked.








'Douglas, Douglas Gooth. I think I can help you to get to the laboratory. Here`s the location, and its plan."








He unrolled a map and a plan of the building he held showing them to our friends.








Zeliboba tilted his head down lightly and sniffed onto Douglas:








"You smell strange.... Hmm... Fear, and tremble..."








But, to Gooth`s luck, the dratcher mistook it for light shock by the sight of himself, and felt even pride.








"Okay then", he said. "Now, we must choose the passengers beyond the obvious ones."








And after a short discuss they got:








Captain - Zeliboba (certainly)








First Officer - Beauregard








Relief Pilot- Quentin








Misc. Passengers - Clifford, Floyd, Kermit, Douglas, Gonzo, Bunsen, Beaker and Mildred.








"And why Mildred?", Rizzo asked.








"Because once she`ll bang anyone on the top with her Shakespeare volume, they`ll pass out in a second!", Zeliboba joked, winking to Milly at the same time. "Off we go, guys. It`s time!.."








(TBC soon)

[Beauregard]

W-ow!!!!

It's all so amazing, and your writeing style makes everything seems flying, here's piggy catch her in teh corner of your eye for a moment, and now we rae moving again, past colors, and ther's Beau, and then, floating and sweeping down the airport, the Zelicopter, and inside, and out, and Bunsen flushing with pride, and...wow...it really rushes like the wind, flowing over the reader.

[Beauregard]

"Because once she`ll bang anyone on the top with her Shakespeare volume, they`ll pass out in a second!", Zeliboba joked, winking to Milly at the same time. "Off we go, guys. It`s time!.."

[/left]

Hahahaha!

Love it!!!

[Effralyo]

But do you recognise WHO will escort Gardee in flight? ;)
..uh-oh, already know. Okay, Gardik, now I go home.:( To write the rest. Hug you again >sglualch< and say bye-bye!

[Effralyo]

..As everyone took their seats and the enter had been locked, the dratcher, as his father used to do before, declared:
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Captain Kedragger speaking. I`d like to welcome you aboard Zelicopter Flight 1, non-stop to...." - he cut off glancing at the map - "Ettiego Airport in Hyrrgelinde City. Our flight time today will be.." -He whistled in surprise: - "10 hours and 50 minutes!.. Whoa... We`ll arrive in Hyrrgelinde at about... 7:03 a.m. Now, fasten your seatbelts, please, we`re prepairing for take off."
"Are the notebook PCs allowed aboard?", Douglas asked.
"Ah? Yes, yes, I don`t mind.."

Zeliboba, like an absolutely real proffessional pilot, entered the flight coordinates in the autopilot system, turning it on: now more of all he wanted to talk with Beau and wanted in case of it to keep his hands free.
"Ten....nine....eight.."
The passengers heard how the motor started to work.
"..seven... six... five...four...."
...Zelicopter hovered above the ground...
"...three...two...one..Start!"
..and soared.

Except that flying bike, Beau had never been flying by any aircraft to anywhere before, and this flight was for him something more than just a wonder. Though Zel was trying his new aircraft also first time, he still had some experience he`d got from Fanokeits`lessons, and the clumsworth stuck to the window watching the earth moving farther and farther down. He scared for a second and nearly clutched his heart -it got numb suddenly, but returned to normal quickly.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

"We won`t smash, will we?", he whispered, turning to Zel, and the dratcher laughed.
"Certainly we never will. If it would be made of just plain plastic and iron, we would do, but there`s something that always will prevent us from disaster."
"And what`s it?"
"Father`s love", Zeliboba said, and his face became serious.
"You miss him?..", Beauregard guessed. The answer was a sigh, and he went on, "And I missed my father too - long ago, when he left Rarnbu and disappeared in the Outer World beyond it..."
"Raenbu?", Zel re-asked.
"Well, my antiveland!"
The dratcher nodded, tilted his head more forward, clasping his hands on the lap and turned to Beau:
"Marvellous name.. Y`know, and could you tell me about it?.."

The Muppet passengers were simply enjoying the flight, since they already knew that story, and both human ones were listening it with awe.. (Actually, Douglas didn`t care about it, but still pretended..). While Beauregard had been telling, by a mention about Miss Nancy Pinksworth and all her mean tricks Zeliboba`s eyes flashed in a noble anger, and he instinctively pulled out his claws.
"And you didn`t tell me about her... ", the spirit expired. -"If I could only know!.. I`d!!!!!.." - He slammed the air in an inch from Beau`s face with such vigour that the janitor shrieked. It made Zeliboba wince and hide back his claws.
"Sorry, Gard", he confused. "I was just darn scared for you."
Beauregard chuckled with relief, excusing him, while the dratcher continued: "No one had seen them on Sesame Street, but when I return to Zelirangoo, they always help me - to climb the rocks, the trees; to fish, or sometimes protect myself. Only one time they were my weapon."
"Really?", the clumsworth amazed. "And tell about it, please!"
And Zel told him the entire story of his fight with an insane human hunter, Furio Usone, who wanted to trap him by all means. The very description of Furio made Beau go so angry that he exclaimed:
"Why wasn`t I there!.. I`d SMASH him if I were you!..",- and Zeliboba hardly dodged from a blow of his fist.
"Hey, hey, easy, pal!.."
"Oopsy!.. Sorry... Just overscared for you", Gard confused.
(TBC)
I`ll be back in a mo!
...I`m already here!

[Effralyo]

Four hours passed, and it got already all purple around from the sunset (Zeliboba told that in his native dale he used to call it Allcrimsonsky); and in those four hours both the courtyard spirit and the clumsworth managed to know a lot about each other. It seemed to them funny that Beauregard is all dark and has blue eyes, and Zel is all blue and has black eyes. It seemed so touching to Zeliboba that Beau is so small (comparing with his 10-ft-tall self) and so brave, and the janitor felt sympathise to the furry giant who endured, as far as he learned, also lots of woe in past.
"And I even didn`t knew anything about it", Beauregard thought, inspecting the dratcher again with interest.
They even started to joke about each other - Clifford, e.g., couldn`t help but bursted into laugh as heard Beau`s "..well, you Empire State Zelibuilding!.." and then "With you, I can say that stay in High Society", but got a pun, adressed already to him, from the dratcher: "In Zelirangoo, I used to jump down from the cliff.."

Mildred secretly glanced at the clumsworth, trying to understand, what Zeliboba meant by that "take care." Take care... It means, to give him a charge of strength by only her presence here?... Ah.. no matter.
To solve this weird question, she opened a book she had been holding (but almost not reading) on a random page to find an answer. And the line she saw said:
"...You sleep with your Fortune right above your head..."
The kind lady was pretty surprised by that - she didn`t get this reply on till the end, but deep down had to agree. Now, when everything in crimson light was seeming pink, Beau also was seeming deep purple with his dark fur. And certain tenderness to him built in Mildred`s soul. She smiled in the demi-dark without saying a word, and though Zeliboba was sitting turning away from her, he felt that it smells tenderness in here. He guessed straight away what`s up and smiled too.
And Beau, who had the worse sense of smell, certainly, couldn`t guess about anything. Perhaps it was better for him. Because what can be better than live and even don`t spy how happy you really are.

...At midnight, Transfer got a message:
"Boss, the bird flies itself into a cage. It was easier than I thought. Just think, and their blue head raggy weirdo is in there! Ha, he`d be called Sillyboba... Wait for my next message in a hour. Everything`s under control.
D.G."
(End of Chapter 13)

[Beauregard]

Mildred secretly glanced at the clumsworth, trying to understand, what Zeliboba meant by that "take care." Take care... It means, to give him a charge of strength by only her presence here?... Ah.. no matter.
To solve this weird question, she opened a book she had been holding (but almost not reading) on a random page to find an answer. And the line she saw said:
"...You sleep with your Fortune right above your head..."
[i]The kind lady was pretty surprised by that - she didn`t get this reply on till the end, but deep down had to agree. Now, when everything in crimson light was seeming pink, Beau also was seeming deep purple with his dark fur. And certain tenderness to him built in Mildred`s soul. She smiled in the demi-dark without saying a word...

Milly! Wow! This is a great piece of writing for Milred! It's beautiful! (As is she, ahhahha!)

The Allcrimsonsky is an amazing word to! And Zelli is so kind and cool, I wish he wasn't only in Russian Sesame Street.

Bea:zany:{And now off to school work, darn it...}regard

[Effralyo]

Gardy! Regardy! I`ll add more, but later! Now off to the institute work (darn it too)!
Ef:song:{I`ll be back!}ralyo

[Effralyo]

Chapter 14- Landed and ...Trapped
"Here we are", Douglas said early next morning, as Zelicopter landed in a half of mile from a building reminding a simple harmless hotel near sea-shore. "This way, gentlemen, follow me."
"Ladies too?", Mildred asked.
"Ah, yes,and a lady. I`ve forgot."
The closer they were moving to the "hotel" the more Zeliboba felt that...that...something`s fishy here... Something wrong was in whole Douglas` appearance.
He led the nine muppets and one human artist to the smooth wall and stopped.
"Someplace here must be a secret enter... Ah...yes. Wait, I think.. right here."
Douglas atpped with his finger on the wall several times.
<twwwwww-..wwwwwwn.>
It opened, showing the hidden door.
"Hurry up, before it`s too late", Douglas called them.
Beauregard tried to see something in the dark that covered our friends as they entered. As far as was visable by Gooth`s weak-lighting torch, the group was in a narrow corridor, and the clumsworth kept holding Zeliboba by the hand: deep down he was afraid of this unfriendly place. And so was Quentin - for some reason he recalled again how Beau swallowed him, and around was very similar darkness. But, though inside the clumsworth you constantly clonk against something amorphous, soft and slimy, you never feel any fear, because that darkness just embraces and flows around without any harm, just fonding. And here... Chill, horror and..sticky..suspicion...
But Douglas only leads them forward, and they see thedors with signs, "Lancing..." "Vivisection..." "Acid storage.." "Operation waste storage"(yuck...).. Gosh, what will be in the end of the way?..
"Hurry, hurry", Douglas whispers.
Zeliboba klonked his head against the lamps already five times and grumbled something blurry about certain darnation and hobaduesquash, having to hunch.
Suddenly, Gooth`s torch went out.
"Darn!..", he cursed. "Wait for me, I`ll just try to find another enter!.."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Our friends have spent already bags of time in the dark.
If someone of them could see well here, they`d spy Douglas secretly slipping away to someplace. But all the group was staring only onward, waiting for him already at random.
Certainly, neither the Muppets, nor Quentin could guess who Gooth really was and what is he going to do now. Certainly.
The worse was for them.

..Transfer grinned, looking at the watching screen, when agent Douglas entered.
"Got`em?"
"Yes, sir. Cell 36 A, third floor, left corridor, sir."
"Swell."
The fake jeweller nodded and turned to Douglas:
"Prepare the surgery hall. The clumsworth will be taken to there. The rest must eb placed in the cages awhile. Wait.. You said, there`s a dratcher amond them? Swell... Let`s have some fun with him later, separately. Chain him in the cursed chains in cell A 43... That`s all for now. Now, go and act!"
"Will do, sir", Douglas answered and went out.

A bright light flash made our friends shriek in unison and screw up their eyes.
But the next sight scared them a lot more.
A small room, where they were all trapped behind the see-thru, yet firm plastic wall, and an only thing infront - the large screen with the face of that very "jeweller".
"That`s he!", Clifford screamed. "Transfer Tolbar!.."
Transfer on the screen nodded with a cloying smile.
"Well, well, well, guessed. And you`re still a stupid, Butterscotch.'
"I`m Regaaard!..", Cliff shouted.
"Whatever!"
'I`m a gonzoid", Gonzo corrected.
"I`m not talking to you, I talk to this dunce!"
"Dunce yourself, I`m a clumsworth!..", Beauregard roared.
"Pooh!..", Transfer sput. "Now, listen, you..mmm....all!... Your time`s expiring now. Second after second. Second after second! I`m not going to lay childish games with you. This time I tell you the rules of my own game myself. I`d been dreaming life-time to look inside at least one of you. And now I shan`t miss this chance. You`ll meet the lance. Will be uncovered. Explored. Splitted. You`ll be guinea-pigs in my experiments. Until I get the full formula of the magic. I`ll prove that there isn`t any creature, stronger than human, in the whole wide universe. Hundreds! Thousands! Millions of muppets, if neccessary, will pass away under the lance, until I finish my search. Whether spirits or not, no matter. For the mighty future of mankind. And now you can thank your brainless leader! Who else could trust in a cheap trick, ha, ha!.. So easily!.. Thank him, ans say bye-bye to each other, ha, ha!.."
Zeliboba groaned sorrowfully, being ashame of himself, and kneeled down, whispering, "No.... No... "
But it already was too late.
(End of Chapter 14)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 15 - "Anything but that!..."


The screen went out, nothing else happened yet, and our friends stared at each other in incredible fear and horror.




How was the dratcher now wishing at least a tiny tear to trickle out of his eyes, but they were still dry. Zeliboba was now only gasping and sometimes groaning, which meant that he cries.




"If i only could know!..", he expired. "If I only could!..."




"But no one in here blames you", Mildred said. "An I right?.."




Agreement was in the eyes of the others.




"Remember, Effy was caught in a same way", Clifford said. "He mistook the villain for the one he loved. Merely. But it costed life."




The courtyard spirit hardly nodded.




"Interesting, and what will they do with me, afterall, I`m not a muppet?", Quentin asked.




"Perhaps, it`s because you`re an artist", Floyd supposed. "The artists possess magic, too."




They kept looking at each other in silence, and no one could find the suiting words to say before the death.




Somehow Transfer had forund a way to kill the spirits, even the spirits!.. Somehow he`s going to get rid of them. Just because they`re Muppets.




But are they guilt in it?




What for?




Why?






(TBC:cry: )

[Beauregard]

Nooooooooooooo-oooooooooooooo-ooooooooooo!

Oh my gosh that's amazing, and horrible! Mildred, DO SOMETHING!!!! Beau, you need help! Zeli, please don't cry will be ok! Gonzo, Hahaha! Great line! Clifford, you tell 'im!!!!

[Effralyo]

Zeliboba broke the silence first.
"Okay.. at least, I am the president, and will share the woe with my people."
He hugged his friends as he could, including even the artist, and went on after a gulp:
"..I love you, my peolpe. The ones who knows me and the ones who does not. My close friends and farther neighbors. My relatives. Teh ones who loves me. The ones who misses me. Even going away, I love you."
As he finished, at the same moment Clifford`s cell phone rung.
"Hello?", the pink muppet said, then passed the phone to Kermit: "That`s to you."
"Hello?..", the frog asked. "Piggy?... Piggy, we die."
He didn`t manage to add something else - the phone battery passed out.

Six hours later....
"Specimen 4, Beauregard Clumsworth, sir."
A pair of miserable blue eyes glimpsed from under the white sheet.
"Zel", he thought, "Zel... They`ll kill me now.."
GARD!!!
That was worse than taking back the curse.
On the upper floor, the dratcher tried to tear the chains and get free of his magic. No way...
Zeliboba sweared himself already thousandth time. And these handcuffs... He`d never thought that one day they`ll grasp his orange fluffy wrists. The President..is now a prisoner...
Besides, Gard, the clumsworth he befriended with just yesterday, is dying now, and he even can`t do anything.
It was too terrible to bear. And he howled from his own powerless..
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!!!!!!..............
(TBC:cry: )

[Effralyo]

The only thought confusing Beau now more than ever was, "That time I was at least dressed.."
True, he afterall was fully dressed that night, when they with Clifford went to save Miss Maltreat. He lost almost all his magic. And now Transfer was going to steal all magic, till the end! Besides, now he has nothing on but fur...
It even worse than "THE END" prison. You are at least alive in there, and there afterall is at least a tiny chance to get free,- but being uncovered, taken all to pieces just because an one insane man called the muppets " a lower race"?..
Beauregard huddled under the sheet as heard, "We`ll operate without anaesthesia..."
Just think, without anaesthesia.. and right on his heart. Uncovered! Alive..
If they could only see the tears in his kind eyes... He cried both for himself and for Zeliboba, whose eyes were built in another way... and because imagined his parents who don`t even know what does their son (and his step-brother) undergo now.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

It even couldn`t be compared with that hours of storm, when he, Beau, was on the edge of the cliff and nearly fell down into the sea...

"Meep-sob, meemeep moop mep meeeep.."
"I know, Beaker, I know."
For some reason, they placed the professor and his assistiant in one cell. And now Bunsen, sitting on the floor, looked up at sobbing Beaker, and sighed:
"You`re right. If you lose a friend, life`s useless."
"MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!.."
Bunsen sadly shook his head:
"Don`t call him, he won`t hear you from there, too far..."

Beau was afraid to look at the clock on the wall. Gosh, why aren`t they hurry?... If die, he wants at least quicklier and without much recognising the pain.
Bowgee... Farewell, Bowgee.. Farewell, pal...,- resounded in his mind with echo.
He could swallow all these surgeons and get rid of them, but isn`t it silly to swallow the ones you dislike!.. And the clumsworth wasn`t going to love his enemies...
The lamp flashed right over Gard, and he froze. Someone`s hand in a rubber glove pulled off the upper edge of the sheet.
"Longitudinal cut till the white line", he heard.
"What white line, it`s all brown!", someone answered.
Bright white light reflected in cold lance steel.
(End of Chapter 15)

[Beauregard]

Stop. Stop. Wait. I can't take any more. Give me amoment to sort this all otu in my mind. Hand covering my mouth. I feel ill. Beau, no. Wait. Pause.

[Effralyo]

I cry myself now....
:cry:Pause:cry:

[Beauregard]

"Hello?..", the frog asked. "Piggy?... Piggy, we die."

This is wheare it hits me, and suddenly I cannot breath. becuase...they are going to die...and it hits me inside. So hard.


A pair of miserable blue eyes glimpsed from under the white sheet.

No! I can't take it. No....oh my god...it's horrable!

Zeliboba sweared himself already thousandth time. And these handcuffs... He`d never thought that one day they`ll grasp his orange fluffy wrists. The President..is now a prisoner...

Please, someone, do something!

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!!!!!!..............

That's how I feel...no...Gardy... I'm starting to shake now. And read on.

It even worse than "THE END" prison.

I'm almost cryign now, but unable to breath. This is amazing work. It's something that means so much to me, Gardy, Raenbu...

It even couldn`t be compared with that hours of storm, when he, Beau, was on the edge of the cliff and nearly fell down into the sea...

I remeber that...the rain in his fur...

"You`re right. If you lose a friend, life`s useless."
"MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!.."

Beaker! I forgot how he helped him before, and...it's so hearbreaking...It's breaking...

Beau was afraid to look at the clock on the wall. Gosh, why aren`t they hurry?... If die, he wants at least quicklier and without much recognising the pain.

Both the best writing, and the worst thing I've read...He's too innocent to die...don't..please no..

The lamp flashed right over Gard, and he froze. Someone`s hand in a rubber glove pulled off the upper edge of the sheet.

Oh god NO!!!!

Bright white light reflected in cold lance steel.

Silence...

[Effralyo]

Chapter 16 - The Displeased Spirit Self
"Oh MY!.."
"Are you...sure?.."
"WOOD!... Look, absolutely pure wood!.."
Beau opened his eyes and tried to calm down his heart - it was ready to smash against the ribs. He saw a surgeon assistiant, who gawked at him in shock, and the surgeon himself, holding a thin wooden chip... that was the lance a second ago...
"What the?..", raced in his mind.
"Gimme the larger one", asked the overwhelmed surgeon.
This time Beauregard saw it all clearly.
As the larger lance touched his furry chest, it became all wooden.
And what else could they expect from the spirit of the earth, even though prisoned?..
Transfer`s henchmen chained Zeliboba with the cursed chains, which couldn`t let him use his magic and get free. But the clumsworth was tied now with simple leather bands. It meant...
He lightly strained -and the bands snapped, being ready to burst.
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

Oh thank goodness! Good! Yes! Good! Yes! Gardy go! Escape! Hit them!

[Effralyo]

The clumsworth understood that freedom`s up to HIM now. No, if you`re going to kill us, it`ll cost a lot!..
He strained more. Tran-k!.. Crack!..
"GET`IM!".., the assistiant screamed, as Beau got - or, rather, jumped - up. They snatched him under arms.
They`d better not to do it.
Because happened the same thing that was with the lances.
Instead of two men were two wooden statues.
"It serves you right!", Gard said, feeling rather more anger than glad from freedom. Certainly, if you are free, and your friends are god-knows-where, and if you don`t know what does Transfer do now...
Luckily, his clothes were in the next room. The clumsworth dressed and sighed with relief, finding the harmonica - his lucky mascot - still in the shirt pocket.

Now, the most important thing was to find Bunsen. Because if the professor will get free, there will be a hope to help the rest. He`ll definitely find something helpful. And a way to defeat Transfer.
(TBC.)

[Beauregard]

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! Gardy turned them into wood! Serve's you right, suckers! :p &dances*

[Effralyo]

..Gonzo had endured omething similar in the past. But that was the film, and Dr. Von Neuter, being also a muppet, certainly couldn`t harm him. And this is already reality, menacing now both to the poor gonzoid and his beloved step-crazy-family. A tiny glad was that he at last won`t die as a "whatever"- he`ve got a name by his kind: "gonzoid".
Gonzo`s tears, though bitter, weren`t salt. They filled the entire Floyd`s cap already, and Gonzo, sipping a bit himself, passed the cap back to the Sergeant.
"Thnaks", Floyd said, and also drunk a bit, wetting his moustache. "Are you thirsty, Cliff?"
Clifford lifted his head, as the bass player hailed him. No, now he didn`t want almost anything, except knowing where his old friend is, and whether is he dead or - a wonder - alive. But he still took the cap, half full of tears, drawn it closer to his lips... Sighed and handed it to Kermit in the nearby cage.
"Here you are, Kerm", he said.
"And you?", the frog amazed.
Clifford licked his parched lips.
"I`ll go without. I think of Bo..."
"But..."
"Drink it. You`re an amphibia afterall, you need the water more, Kerm. And I don`t want."
Kermit knew that argueing with Cliff is useless, and drunk up all the tears.
What could he do, if the pink muppet got used to share everything with everyone.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

..Warm brown feet carefully step on the cold marble floor. Beauregard padded along the corridor, looking for another rooms with the cages.
Now the weapon wasn`t making any menace to him. But now he turned all in hearing. The walls and doors are all soundproof.. but not for a spirit.

The alarm system wasn`t on, luckily. Transfer thinks that he, Beau, is already gut. Ha! Hope, ol`fruit, hope! Until feel the brown paw on your shpulder.
He tried to talk mentally with the dratcher, but something bothered. Zeliboba`s mind got too tired, he was heartbroken and chained; besides, awful to say, but Douglas hung in the cell with him a dead magpie - the mascot, hateful to every real dratcher since ages ago, - and the poor president was as if under a torture now.
Gard moved several yards onward else and nearly screamed.
A pair of familiar glasses was lying on the floor. But, besides, not Bunsen`s.
He quickly picked up the glasses and inspected them. They would belong only to one muppet..lady. She was now somewhere near him.
But how to identify Mildred between two rows of doors, which are all sound-proof? And what if they`re protected with alarm?
Beau shut his eyes. Now, like a fish in the water, he could hear even a minor noise with entire body. He tried to focus on Mildred`s image and fancy her mental waves.
The corridor was absolutely empty.
But soon the clumsworth winced: somebody was walking upstairs here.
The steps resounded closer.
The doors are all locked. ALL of them.
No place to hide away. No?...
Except...
..Two men in white entered the corridor.
"And the lady`ve got some nerve!", said one. "When set her to brainwash, now, or in a hour?"
"Later", said the other lazily. "Let her sit in her 80 B till boss order. I`m darn tired today..."
They left. Passed by the door rows calmly, and even didn`t look up, where the clumsworth stuck to the celling.
(End of Chapter 16)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 17 - Hope and Struggle


Whump! Bo landed on the floor, but did it as softly as he could, which was now quite difficult with his 200 pounds. It seemed those men had already left, so now he tried to guess where can be the door of cell 80 B.




Our janitor crept to the end of the corridor, counting the doors. Section B... 74, 76, 78... Here it is!




Beau leant on it, just wishing to rest, but... happened again the thing he didn`t expect: sbowwwwwn! - and fell inside right thru the door.




"Y-y-your glasses..", he barely gabbled to the deep purple skirt, and got up, handing her the glasses.




"Ah, thank you so much", Mildred smiled, putting them back on. "Say, how dod you get free?.. They mop everything once a hour..."




"They`ve forgot that I`m a spirit too", the clumsworth replied. "I turned the two surgeons into wooden statues. They wanted to uncover me. And brainwash you."




"Brainwash...Me?...", the librarian scared. "Make me forget all I do remember?.. Forget my work, Muppet house?.. Forget..you?.."




Gard expired weakly:"Aha..", feeling his face flaming.





Mildred`s hand rested on his mop of hair, cooling the flame gently. She stroked him on the head, while Beau gasped, unable to lift his two sapphires and look back at her.




"My honey, my sweetie, poor thing, poor boy", she said with sympathy.




Beauregard didn`t listen the last word clearly - was it "Poor boy" or "Poor Bo", he didn`t get on. The feaver weaken, while Mildred went on:




"I overheard Douglas talking to the security. They locked Mr. President in cell A 43. As far as I understand, it`s close to Transfer`s office. Remember: A 43. I`m sure you`ll be able to rescue him. But hurry now. They can come in any moment..."




"But..but.. it means.." - Beau sorrowfully blinked. - "They`ll really kill you?."




"Not now", she said. "Run, my knight. They`ll kill me only when Transfer will order them. Try to overtake them."




'I`ll do, Lady Mildred."




He kissed her hand like a real knight and left.





Gonzo couldn`t cry awhile, it seemed all his tears had already ended, which meant that the friends will have nothing to drink. And Clifford, soon afterwards as he refused the cap of tears, was already thirsty. But, thinking of it more properly, the pink muppet decided that they can`t purposely make the gonzoid cry, - and so he laid down on the floor, still thinking, whether is Gard alive, or already only his leavings left.




"Are you okay, man?", Floyd asked sadly.




Cliff nodded and fell asleep. Sergeant and Gonzo sat near, watching his breathing. Kermit was watching him too from his ccage, being very worried. Everyobody knew that Clifford can bear anything but lose his beloved step-brother.

(TBC.)

[Beauregard]

..Warm brown feet carefully step on the cold marble floor. - Wow!! Yey! At that point, I knew everythng would be ok!!!

The Beau and Mildred scene was touching and beautifull! And the glasses on the floor...*sniff* I thought some harm had befallen her! But she was safe! Hurry Beau, Hurry and rescue!!!

[Effralyo]

MEANWHILE, IN RAENBU...
A certain clumsworth, too fat even for a clumsworthy usual self, had just finished placing the baskets with fruits on the showcase, when several flower salesmaids besides him started to whisper, mentioning, obviously, Nancy Regard.
"Again heckling away, you chatterboxes?..", he shouted across the market aisle to them. "I`ve had enough headache today, and now you!.."
"But don`t you know, Uncle Beauciderbarrel, that Nancy`s children are in jeopardy, both of them?.", asked an one clumsworth girl.
"Nancy`s children?", Beauciderbarrel reasked without getting it on. "But when-"
"Beauregard had found a step-brother of the outside muppets", the young clumsworthess answered. "But now both he and his brother are in danger. Nancy had a dream about it."
Beauciderbarrel acked in fear and strewed from it a basket of oranges.
Mrs. Regard was walking now to the big market, the center -yet not heart - of Clumsburg, the small capital of Raenbu. An anxiety is an anxiety, but Beautingleroth and she had to have something for supper anyway.
"Good day, Uncle Beauciderbarrel", she greeted the grocer, and the old clumsworth nodded, saying softly, "Good afternoon, honey! You look sad today. C`mon, share your woer, perhaps the old Uncle Beaucy will find something up his sleeve."
Nancy lightly winced, while choosing the fruits, and dropped down a bundle of suftiswicks he had been holding a minute ago.
"I worry about my boys", she said almost whispering. "They rescue their friend beyond the Rainbow. And still haven`t returned.."
The salesman arched his eyebrows and nodded again, putting several best bundles of suftiswicks in her basket himself. The clumsworthess thanked him, wiping her eyes.
"Now, now, honey. I`m sure, Beauregardlet will be okay. And..m-m-eeeeeeeeer..his brother too. Don`t cry." - Uncle Beauciderbarrel stroked her hair. "Don`t cry, um? He`s big already, and he`ll deal with it. As had been dealing with whipping my pears!" - He even chuckled, but quickly cut it off, piting the miserable mother, and just helped her to choose the rest stuff.
...All the way back Nancy couldn`t stop fearing. But the only thing comforted her: if Beauhoth Tingleroth, the ruler of their land and her father-in-law, stays still calm, it means, Beau is strong enough awhile.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

...BACK IN TRANSFER`S LABORATORY....
Bunsen was sad as could be, though he usually never cried - not in the same cause as Zeliboba had,- he was pacing in the small cell and thinking. Then suddenly stopped.
"Beaker?.."
"M-meep?.."
"Do you remember how Mr. Beauregard nearly died that time saving his teacher? And what had he used way long ago to save himself from the curse?"
"Mee meepy meeada?.."
"Exactly", professor nodded more decisively. "Silver water."
He shown his assistiant a silver safety pin in his tie.
"We do have silver. Now, we must think about the water.."
"Memeep!", Beaker squeaked, nodding at the faucet just in two yards from the cage.
"Yes, i see, but how to reach it?", Bunsen frown, rummaging in his pockets. -"Ain`t you going..-"
Both froze, even without starting an argue, because..
I think, you`ve already guessed what.
Thanks to Beaker`s meeping, our janitor found the right cell and already daringly stepped through the door.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

"Let`s see what had they found in that blockhead", Transfer said to himself, sitting to the watch screen and turning on the chanel with surgery. "P`haps nothing but the blue slime, but hugely preciable slime. I`d like to see with my eyes the stuff that dissolves everything inside its owher, leaving him alive.."
He looked at the empty room. Certain wooden chips on the floor, the couch with torn bands, and both his henchmen had lost.
"P-parrrbleu!.."
And seeing the two statues, froze in awkward poses, Transfer understood what had the prisoner done, and why.
"There`s two of them", he whispered. "Two. Not one."
How could he be so stupid.. Tie the spirit with leather bands, which are like thin strings to him! And the most scareful is that no one of the radars spotted the clumsworth.
It was up to him now to go and show them....
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

"Don`t cry, um? He`s big already, and he`ll deal with it. As had been dealing with whipping my pears!" - This is hilarious! And lovely, yet sad at once.

And, Beau, watch out!!!!

[Effralyo]

(okay, Gardik, wait, I`ll be back in a hour; p`haps more, but WILL!)

[Effralyo]

..."It`s second time when I do believe in miracles more than in knowledge", Bunsen said, as Beau handed him at last a glass of water. "But the science actually is a miracle already itself, isn`t it?"
"Maybe", the clumsworth agreed. "Maybe it is."
Who would think that a simple silver pin sometimes can serve the good even more than any weapon. Bunsen, already with his old lovely face expression, thrown it into the glass.
"An one splash on the chains, and Mr. President will be free", he smiled.
"Yes, but we need a spell", Beauregard recalled. "The magic of silver water won`t work without a spell."

The hours, and hours, and hours passed.
Zeliboba kept sitting, leaning back on the wall, with shut eyes, and wasn`t dying only because he was a spirit. The chains bothered him to hug knees. Anyone who could look now at the dratcher would mistook him simply for a huge, huggable, miserable plush doll.
Suddenly his green eyelids winced...
"G-gard", he thought with tense. "Response, Gard... wherever you are..."
And gasped from sudden joy, because in his mind clearly resounded:
"I`m ok, Zel. I`m alive. Wait, we`ll rescue you soon..."

..Clifford thought his dreadlocks already got grey, but they were still red.
He wasn`t a spirit, and felt literally every second passing. It seemed first time he, usually such a bundle of energy, got weak and weary himself. Only the barely noticable heaving of his tan vest spoke that the kind and unselfish muppet is still alive.
And if only Beauregard could "seep" not only thru the doors, but also thru the cellings, right at this moment he would meet with him face to face. Because now the janitor, with sealed small container of silver water, hung upsidown on the celling again, moving to the upper floor, invisable to anyone of transfer`s security. He wasn`t alone. He charmed up both Beaker and Bunsen, so they could follow him in the same way.
Something told Cliff that the known paws touch the celling right under him, and, in disbelief and worrying, he suddenly jerked up his head and stared at the scared friends.

(End of Chapter 17, and just to cheer our other Gard a bit, first time I let the real one...
- FFFFFFAAAWWWWWW!... -
*shrugs under blush*
:)He never will listen till the end...He adores it!...:)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 18- Breaking the Chains, Getting the Chance


"When you tear all your chains, it means snatching a chance,
It means turning all badness to where had it sprung,
That the cursed fetters fall, you won`t hear them clung,
That you can hit the villain, makin`im drop his lance.

When you trust in your power, nothing tries to contend,
Nothing tried even touch, put a finger on you,
What you`d been waiting for, silver water will do,
Breaking curse, getting free of the one who was bent."
That was sounding now in Beauregard`s mind, an dhe amazed himself that can make up a poem... He`d never seen it before, just spoke plainly, and now found out that can put words in lines with a weird but charming rhythm.
He reached the upper floor, gesturing Bunsen and his helper to wait down awhile.
Near an one door stand the two securities. The clumsworth soared back on the celling so quickly that they even didn`t recognised what it was. They just heard a "whump", as if someone dropped a pillow, but didn`t pay any attention - perhaps, someone of the prisoners just fainted.
Beau, being afraid even to breath, crept to them and stood straightly.
One paw on each head, and both hitmen fell down. Two another wooden statues. Now, how silly was setting them aaginst a spirit, eh!..
"C`mon!", Gard called. "This way.."
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

*dances*

Free them Gardy!!!!

[Effralyo]

He will. But not today. :)
:yawn: See ya soon, Gardik...

[Effralyo]

Firstly Zeliboba thought that just sees a mirage, when the known steps resounded behind the door.
"Gone nuts", he said to himself.
No. Becaude after the steps, right upon his ear a loud hail broke the mute:
"Meepy-moa!"
Just think, Beaker almost properly spelled his name!
The dratcher gazed at the three friends. Beau shown him the sailed container.
"ARKH!", Zel gasped. "But how???"
"Twist o`wrist!", Gard exclaimed. "One.... Two.... Free!.."

It was just an amazing sight. The Curesd Fetters hissed and started to melt right on Zeliboba`s arms. Like incandescent iron. Bunsen only blinked in surprise - still couldn`t believe that just a pin can cause it. But the fact remained. Just in a minute the dratcher got rid of the chains. Only the wet cuffs reminded about them.

Zeliboba got up, stretching his arms with a half-roar "Grrrrkh!..." Now breaking the cage door was for him just "a piece of cake."

The three "B"-muppets admired him. It was really hard not to admire the courtyard spirit, who possessed, besides, the power of air, and perhaps it was the cause why his sideburns were now blew with wind.
"A living hurricane", Beau thought. 'But darn kind hurricane."
And though he couldn`t imagine properly how can it be - "Kind Hurricane", -but any other words just could not came to his mind. In a moment Zeliboba unbent the lattice and rushed outside at one leap. And the first thing he did was giving a huge hug to Gard.
"You`re a classy clumsworth", the dratcher said, and "R" turned almost in a growl deep in his throat from glad. "You`rrrre a classy clumsworrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrth!!!......"
Beauregard squeaked something - as far as hug let him. And Zeliboba, again fraightfully confused, let him go.
"We`ll split now", the blue President said seriously. "Gard, find the rest and rescue them. Bunsen, Beaky, you`ll come with me. We need to get Effy`s magic back. I`ll fight Transfer. At least, will try to scare him out of here and defeat."
"Meeeep.. Mee memee meep?"
"Right! But we have to, Beaky. Will you help?"
"Meep! Meee mep!" - Beaker said it so decisively that the friends understood the meaning - "Yes, sir!"
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

.. Meanwhile, Transfer, without recognising of their plot himself, left the office, taking away the container with the concentrated magic.
Now or never.
All his scientific stuff had been destroyed: Transfer didn`t want anything to get in the muppets`hands. He cut to pieces all his diagrams, and deleted without chance of restoring all programs with ways of getting magic. It all was in his brain. He could restore it anytime again, but not now. If you didn`t deal with an one who learned about your plans, and didn`t catch them for the main aim you had, it`s better to defeat the entire home - together with ex-prisoners, or rather, invaders.
Transfer didn`t pity of anything. He never had a sense of "getting-used-to", or something to take care of. If was neccessary, he would even sell his mother. And now he found a hidden emergency exit and was hurrying to activate the detonator, and them leave this place for ever - to find the other one.

And that`s why, as our friends left the cell A 43, they`d found the door of Transfer`s office opened.
"Fantastic", Bunsen whispered, fixing his glasses.
The "jeweller" could cheat anything but Zeliboba`s nose. The dratcher guessed straight away that Tolbar took away the magic, and that now he`s going to escape.
"I`m after him, before it`s too late!", Zel exclaimed, rushing to his track.
"And what must we do?", Gard hailed him.
"Quick... Save the rest!.. I`ll try to disharm that stuff!.."
Zeliboba was right.
The building might soar up in any moment.
(End of Chapter 18)

[Beauregard]

Ooh, oooh, ooooooh!!!

It's glarking amazing! Hurry Zelly, Hurry! Go, Beau, get the others.

And...who is the Other One that Mean Mr T is after? Oooooh, I hope not who I thinks.

[Effralyo]

Chapter 19 - To the Freedom!


In a minute Transfer activated that detonator. It must work in a hour and a half. During this time he must get to his helicopter.
"Now, if they`ll even manage to find each other, it`ll be too late", he thought, lifting to the launch base, and said the same aloud.
"Not NOW!", someone shrieked behind him, and, hardly Transfer looked there, a blue furious lighting knocked him out.
"Zeliboba", you can say and will be wrong.
It was Gonzo.

But wait! How did the gonzoid get free so soon?
Thanks to Beau. The clever clumsworth didn`t forget to take the keys from the cells, while was in Transfer`s office. Now, without wasting much magic, he rescued the four first prisoners.
Clifford revived straight away as Gard hugged him. The pink muppet felt as if he drunk some spring water - it refreshed his entire mind and heart. He met his step-bro again, and what could be better for Cliff...
And while Beau had been searching for Quentin and Mildred,- Gonzo, Floyd, Clifford and Kermit occupied the whole third floor, and each one was watching for the evil genius. And the first one who spotted him was Gonzo.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

("Other one" - the other place to work, Gardee!)

So, we know where are these friends;and now let`s see what does Zeliboba do.
If for a human going upstairs on the staircase takes pretty long, for a dratcher with claws that can crash the stone it`s a two-minute deed. Though Zel didn`t take off his sneakers-hobadues, he managed to scale the wall and get on the launch base first.
There wasn`t time to think much. Now the best way was to throw down the helicopter. And after it find and disharm the detonator. And only then fight the fake scientist.
The dratcher quickly thrown out both hands, generating an air wave. The push was strong enough, and in a couple of seconds a heavy iron bulk fell down, landing, luckily, on an empty spot in five yards from the building, and smashing already into the useless wrecklings heap.

A HOUR

..Transfer, barely dodging from Gonzo`s attack, reached at last the launch base.
Nothing around. He looked down and froze in awe. His helicopter layed broken on the ground. Without a chance to fix it. Someone of the muppets, possibly that very gigantic hairy one, ovetook him.
Transfer gritted his teeth and cursed.
Well... Thry broke it... But he`ll steal theirs, then!
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

(Well... I know, similar with saving the Hearts.. but what can I do!.. :))

[Beauregard]

OooooooooooooooooooooH! DOn't stop!!!!!!

[Effralyo]

57 MINUTES

Blue flash here, blue flash there, and here he is, Zeliboba, already in the basement, near that detonator.
He didn`t know anything about disharming sich things, but still had to do it.
For a minute he stared at the pile of wires, then spied a notebook on the floor. Possibly Douglas`. With the scheme of the mine placing. And a sign below: "Detonator is activated."

36 MINUTES

"After him!", Quentin exclaimed, spying Transfer running towards Zelicopter.
"Wait!..", Beau shouted. "You all... Quick, hide!.."
"And you?", Kermit hailed.
"Don`t worry! I`ll just show him something!.."
Beauregard, acting already as a real Spirit of the Earth, generated a huge green fireball, throwing it infront of Transfer. It turned into a firewall, shielding the entire way.
The "jeweller" shrieked. The ground suddenly bulged under his feet, and he fell down. "Earthquake!", the thought burnt him.

20 MINUTES

The dratcher tried to enter already eighth code, but it still didn`t work.
"Drats!", he grumbled, but at the same moment - BDING! - a sudden idea came to his head:
"And what if freeze the mines?.."
It was the best way. Andwhen the ice will melt, they`ll melt along with it, too. Like the badness that had been here for ages.
"Blizzeriely!..", Zeliboba spelled.

14 MINUTES

No Transfer already wasn`t care of the laboratory. The container with magic was, luckily, firm enough to bear a disaster. Survive, sirvive, survive...
But how to survive, if you have to rescue from a lava fountain?.. Where to run, it you are in the center of the earthquake?!..

2 MINUTES

The mines were frozen. All of them. For ever.
Certain rumbling resounded outside, and Zeliboba listened.
"Gard charms something."
Now here wasn`t any work to do else, so the courtyard spirit decided to go and help Beau.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

The main thing for the clumsworth was remember where he is and what for is he doing this. He was carried away so much that nearly unleashed the magic (which meant harm his friends), but dealed with the control in time.
He didn`t want to kill Transfer, just wished to stop him, then get back the magic and... and what after that? Take him in Raenbu to imprison? Okay, they`ll decide it later. Not now. Now think only of the magic.
And that`s why the lava fountains and ground cracks weren`t harming Tolbar much.
at last happened just what Beauregard wanted.: Transfer rushed not to Zelicopter, not to the Muppets, but right to him.
The clumsworth quickly clapped his hands, and the evil genius found himself tied hand and feet with two thick lianes.
And at the same moment the earthquake stopped.
The sealed magic of geewiliker fell out of Transfer`s pocket - dropped to the ground and laid there.
Everything around flashed with green light. This light formed back into fireball, then returned to Beau and disappeared in his hands.
".....EEEEEeeeeeeeeeeaaagggh...", a piercing sound echoed above our friends and deafen.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

The Muppets - all already free - and Quentin crowded around the tied "scientist".
Transfer ws looking at them firstly with powerless hatred. No magic, no success, and, besides, he doesn`t know how will the Muppets treat with him for that.
Soon the hatred shifted to fear.
He looked in Zeliboba`s eyes, trying to find any sympathy. But the dratcher snorted:
"Whoever was offended, I`m offended!"
Transfer turned his look to Beauregard.
"Garrrrrrrrf!", the clumsworth growled, and the "jeweller" even shivered in horror.
He looked , finally, at Kermit. Perhaps, at least the frog will pity him. Perhaps, he`ll even stop being a villain. Everything just for a glance.
But even Kermit sighed, turning away.
Transfer understood: begging them is useless. Though the muppets are actually kind and harmless, this time they just couldn`t forgive the human who nearly defeated their whole world, and cheated so many people.
They were silent, and this scared him more.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

If someone could talk with him, Transfer would feel better.
Beauregard, with his power of the earth, would smash him in a second, but didn`t do it. Zeliboba, the "living hurricane" in the form of dratcher, would tear him to pieces with such claws, but didn`t do it. And Tolbar was now trying to understand - why.
Suddenly his eyes flashed with old greedy glimpse: Douglas crept secretly to Beau and already lifted his jacknife over him...
BLAM!!!
"I always dreamed to do it", Mildred smiled to the janitor, pointing at the unconscious agent and holding a heavy Shakespear volume.
And, because no one knew that Zeliboba`s joke will come true one day, besides, so unexpectedly, everyone but the prisoner laughed.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Then Beau clapped hands again, and the lianes let go of Transfer.
The ex-scientist stood overwhelmed infront of him, having no an idea why gard did it. But Gard clearly recognised what to do.

Transfer looked at him again and saw that the clumsworth weakly glows with lime green light.

Now Beauregard was really one with the earth. And knew what does it sometimes do, when someone is suffering from their own thoughts and doesn`t know how and where to escape from them.

Earth is kind, it can grow the harvest, it can give away its treasures, but sometimes it can give the sufferer something that he needs more than ever, - quiet. The muppets, being immortal themselves, certainly didn`t know it, but Beau somehow guessed about it anyway.

Perhaps, first and only one time something looking like shame glimpsed in Transfer`s eyes. Beauregard saw this glimpse and stretched out his hands to him.

"Come here", he called. "Come to me, I`ll swallow you."

An one glance at the bulged plaid shirt, and Transfer understood that nothing can stop the power that pulls him in.
(End of Chapter 19; where are you, Gaaardyyy?..)

[Beauregard]

I'm here! Going GLARKYGLARDYFLARD!!!!!!!"!

[Effralyo]

..I darn hesitate to post such a "weird" chapter.. But still can`t skip the part of the story, and there we go -

Chapter 20- Transfer No More
"GARD!!!...", Zeliboba scared. "Golly.. What is he doing?!.."
"Nooo!.. He`ll burst!.." - That was Clifford`s voice. - "Bo!!! Please, stop it!.. Stop!..."

But he cannot stop... He can`t deal with himself. Transfer disappeared. Our friends saw Beau grimacing and slowly bowing on the one knee...

...INSIDE BEAUREGARD...

Transfer thought that will just get into the blue gel - harmless and sparkling.
And it was so indeed. For about ten seconds. Hardly Transfer managed to recognise the surrounding, it all suddenly changed.

Grrrrrllllllllllc.

A bit afterwards he felt all pinch.
"Oh my god!.."
More pinch.
"AAAAAACIIIIIIIIID!!!!!!!!!!.........."
Beau`s thought thundered over him:
"You wanted THIS, yes?.."
Everything turned lime green.
Then dark green.
Transfer felt as if he was breathing with chilly pepper.
"So THIS is what you wanted?.."

The ex-jeweller wished whole-heartly to get back. But he didn`t know the returning spell. Let the muppets beter stare at him. Convict him. Anything but this!...

It already wasn`t the gel of kindness. It was a real acid. He got into the acid. And it meant, he signed his own mortal judgement.

G-G-G-Gr-Grrrrrrrrrlllllllllllllllc.
Everything became crimson.
(TBC..)

[Effralyo]

..OUTSIDE..

Pain pierced the clumsworth from top till toe, and he squirmed. It seemed it will never end.

Gbbbbbbbbbllllllc.

He gulped, then opened his mouth widely, hoping that at least it will help him to weaken the heat inside.

Gglc.

Pain forced, throwing Beauregard in his memories literally to those very days when all he could remember was the light brown fur and something white and sweet seeping through it. For several seconds, he could even feel its taste.
"It hurts, Mum."

Gbrlc....

Mummy could always sooth the pain with a kiss. Every time Gardlet fell down from something, or hurt accidentally, Nancy`s kiss made it disappear. It was enough simply to stroke her son, and he forgot about the pain.
But even if she could be here, it was still impossible to help Beau this time.The acid turned into poison tar. The clumsworth became a real bundle of pain.

Gluc...

"...aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrkh!.."
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

O...h.....my....g....o...sh....!!!!!

But so amazingly written! "It hurts, mum!"

Oh, ouch, ohh...Gardy...

[Effralyo]

The friends all froze, being afraid to move an inch, to think what will happen next with Beauregard. Clifford wanted to shut his eyes, but couldn`t stop staring at step-brother. He almost physically felt the same.

Grrrrrlllllllll!.....

"What on earth is goinig on there?..", Mildred whispered in fear. "Mr. President... Do something, I beg!.."

Zeliboba tried... Trrk, trrk! - Several blue sparkles shooted out of his fingers and fell on the ground.
"I can`t ", he confessed. "This thing`s stronger than me..."

Firstly it were just single glimpses between the seizures, but slowly they went longer. Beauregard found out that the pain leaves him.

No more thoughts of Transfer could he hear. The heat, very slowly, started to shift to the old softness. Beau`s breathing calmed, and though everything inside was teribly hurt, it was still bearable, unlike before.

His being a spirit was now disappearing. Beau would miss it. But it was, nevertheless, even good. It`s much better to be a plain loveable clumsworth, with a shape given him by the calm life, than the spirit who has to struggle for something constantly.
If Gard didn`t die in the day of the storm, if was revived, saving the Rainbow, it all meant that he was need here.
"You`re need here", the clumsworth said mentally. "To them, to Cliff... To Effy..."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

He suddenly felt somehow weird. Like seasick.

And next second the friends all gasped in surprise: Beau jerked up his head, strained, opened his mouth widely again.....

.....and expired the green steam. Green, because Transfer had poisoned himself during life-time with venom and fear, and because the magic power was now going out of him.

Okay, never mind about the magic power. He`s a simple clumsworth, and will live as a simple clumsworth. Afterall, any special magic beyond his own wasn`t actually need more; and let Zeliboba better possess it,- he`s a president, a lord, and in cause of this he can.

There was so much green steam that it seemed to take ages to expire it all. Strange, and Gard even didn`t take a breath durning it yet. But the steam had at last ended, and he sighed with relief, finding out that can breath normally.
"He`s no", Beau said. "Transfer no more."
"Oh my gooooosh!...", Zeliboba exclaimed with glad. "Golly, how good that I charmed you up well, when devoted into spirits!.. " - He wrapped his arm around the clumsworth`s shoulder, going on: - "I didn`t think that your body will be scared so much.. Excuse me, ok?.. I really didn`t want you to suffer!.."
"It weren`t you", Beau barely smiled. "I decided it myself."
(End of Chapter 20)
And that "cartwheely" one is coming already SOON, Gardee! - and whoever else who reads too!

[Effralyo]

(No, it isn`t IT yet...)

Chapter 21 - Again "Gardylardy"!

Beau was afraid that never will be able to swallow again. Transfer had melted, leaving all terribly ache, and from it all the way to Zelicopter our janitor shuffled, leaning onto Mildred`s hand.
They weren`t going to fly home yet - just to return the lost life to its little half-feathered owner.

...Soon afterwards, near Zelicopter, on fresh air...

...Raggedy Effralyo laid on Clifford`s lap. The pink muppet smiled to him.
"At last, lil fella! Now we`ll quickly make you ok! C`mon, Bo, open it."
A tiny container was barely noticable in the wide paw. Beauregard opened it carefully and poured a bit of magic on his palm - it was thick as cream, all colorful and clear.
"Now, Effy", he whispered. "Wait."
The clumsworth bent over the geewiliker and stroked him with magic-soaked hand. The magic started to seep in the spirit. A couple of minutes, and his fur and feather hair sparkled. The little scratch on his shoulder slowly healed, leaving after itself a thin scar, almost invisable in the orange fur.
Gard`s blue eyes widened: he felt Effralyo breathing!
The friends all crowded around again, and again all excited. Just think: they managed with it! Now it was even not matter that it all caused a small geewiliker. Yes, a small, but beloved by hundreds of muppets and perhaps humans.
All the magic went out in the container, and they saw Fralyo just sleeping...
As if spent ages like this ...

The geewiliker under dream pulled Clifford`s sweater edge over himself, like blanket, but as he felt that it isn`t a blanket, his hand felt Cliff`s waist and, finding the girdle, stopped...

Effralyo awaken!
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

"Gar... dy....", they heard, firstly very weakly, but, like a spring, it literally in a second flushed into a real flood:
" Gardy?..." - And in another second: "GARDYLARDYBARDYFARDYSMARDYSTARDY!!!!..."

The clumsworth, already guessing what will happen now, because he stood in a yard from Clifford, felt the familiar short freeze and weaken knees.

- S B O W W W N ! ! ! -

..Ohmygoshwhatpainwhatareyoutalkingaboutwhenageewi likerhadjustrevivedandknockedmeagainnowandeverythi nghealedinsideinamomentthankstohimandIevencan`tfee lthegroundundermyselfandonlyliewithEffeeonmychesta ndlaughinstitcheswithhim!!!

"Gardy, Gardlet, Gardik, how long had I been sleeping, Gardy, excuse me for it, okay?.. You ain`t angry at me, are you?.. Say, you ain`t angry, frankly?.. I`m darn glad to see you.." - Effralyo glanced up and cut off, seeing the dratcher: -" Zeliboba?!.. Whara`you doing here?.. Who guards the Crystal now?.."
"That`s a surprise", the dratcher said. "I`ll tell you later."

(TBC!)

[Effralyo]

Straight away, as Effralyo revived, he already managed to kiss everyone in whatever, - Mildred in cheek, Kermit in eyes, Zeliboba in sideburn, Beauregard in cap... Afterall, put yourself on his place! To spend so many time laying still is a real torture for any geewiliker. And Beau thought, yet darn hesitating to say it aloud, how did he miss this Effy`s "Gardylardy", without which the echo dwarf couldn`t spend a second. "Gardylardy this... ", "Gardylardy that...", "Gardylardy, return soon", "Gardylardy, let`s..", and so on; and these constant knockings off... What does Eff find in it? Why does he like it? - Beau didn`t know, but somehow already got used to it and missed too. And now he again got the old "SBOWWWN!", and almost lost his head from joy. The warmth and merrily will come back to Muppet Boarding House since this day. Beau kept squeezing the spirit, still laying on the ground, and screwing up his eyes so tightly that they nearly teared. The plaid shirt messed up from backside. No matter. And Zeliboba wasn`t now envy, since he knew: Effralyo first of all is HIS helper, and it means that a friend of Effralyo`s is always a friend of Zeliboba`s.
"No, you just look at them", Mildred sobbed, wiping her eyes. "Just look!.."
"Why are you crying?", Kermit asked.
"They`re happy... Me too... I always cry when I`m too happy..."

Indeed. Though Beau didn`t know whether will he stay a Swallower or not, he had returned his best friend today. Well, not completely himself. And not only a friend. He and his friends and neighbors saved the whole Muppetland. And this made him glad more.

"What will we do now, fly home or will have some fun with the Hyrrgelindians and after it fly home?", Clifford asked.
"Well", Zeliboba scratched a sideburn. "I think, second. We can`t leave it like THIS!" -He nodded at the half-ruined building of the ex-laboratory. - "How about fix it? And turn into something more harmless?.."
(End of Chapter 21)
(But isn`t END at all!)

[Beauregard]

SBOWWWN!

What can I saw!

SBOWWWN!

What can I say that hasn't been said, in the leaping, flying, exexpressableness of Gardylardy the moment Eff awoke, it was not-expressable how the joy I felt with him then!!!! WHooo!!!! GARDYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *dances*

[Effralyo]

Chapter 22 - Koooo-le-da!..



..IN THE MUPPET BOARDING HOUSE....





Piggy sobbed, hugging the picture of her Kermie. Everything`s lost. He became a victim of the mad scientist. If they only could take her in the journey, she`d karate chop everyone who dares to take on Kermit! Everything was lost. Muppetland had lost its lord. The Muppet House had lost its guard spirit. How to live after it all, recognising that he`ll never be back...




She was already going to lock her suitcase and leave the house, when three or four voices boomed from the living-room:




"PIIIIIIIIIIGGYYYYYYYYYYYY!..... Quick.... you must see this!..."




She winced: it seemed that Kermit`s voice sounds from the TV.




Down the stairs! Like wind!! To the screen!!!...




The voice of the newsman. Not theirs, simply a human.




"We have to stop our issue for an important message. The President of Muppetland, Mr. Kedragger, would like to say something to the inhabitants of the Boarding House and to the Muppets dwelling nearly it. Please, Zeliboba."




Miss Piggy`s eyes widened, and she stared at the screen.




"Thank you so much", the dratcher said, taking the microphone, and smiling to the camera. - "My people, my friends! We are ok. We are alive. And soon will be back. Transfer no more, Beau had defeated him. But the bulding of the ex-laboratory leaved. And now we must fix it and make out of it something more kind and colorful! Afterall, we can`t drop it like this! As we finish it, we`ll definitely be back. Wanna say something, Kermit?.."




He passed the microphone to the frog...




"Oh my!..", Piggy exclaimed, shedding a tear of happiness, while Kermit turned to the camera.




"Piggy", he said," if you can hear us now, we`re really dying... from wish to see you all again!.. ("Thank you God!", she expired with relief.) Don`t worry, we`re safe now! That was indeed Beauregard. He made Transfer melt ("And how?", Robin amazed.) Now we begin the official Greatest and Brightest in the whole Muppet Story... Repainting Madness!.. Wooohaha!...."





Piggy couldn`t recover after such shock. She looked around. Everything became bright orange.




"Whoooooooopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!........"




(TBC)

[Beauregard]

Woooooooooooooooooooooow!!! Keep it coming! It's great to read happiness today...

[Effralyo]

You can ask - how to paint the huge building in a day, all in bright colors, and get rid of the leavings of badness?..

But not at random Effralyo was a geewiliker. The main skill these dwarfs can is, as you know, cheering all around! Magicking up plenty of color sprays was for him just a twist of wrist. He clicked fingers, and our friends found out that hold the brushes.
"It seems we`re ready", he said thoughtfully, inspecting the group. "But...something`s missing."
"What?..", Floyd amazed.
"More geewilikers!.."

Hardly managed they recognise what does Eff mean, he suddenly whistled so loudly that they even held their ears.

Then the jolly tune of the flute seemed to sound.

The orange flashes flashed one after one.

And our friends guessed that Effralyo decided to call all his relatives to help.
In a half of a hour the space around the half-ruined house was covered with geewilikers. Almost Eff`s lookalikes. But still a bit another.

While the Muppets were recovering after such surprise, the echo dwarf jumped down from Beau`s shoulder and turned to his fellow spirits.

Akkoa kkoa stishy frads!- he declared.-
Starse bilt shalomanads!
Willa koy farandorags!
Shikumingo tards-to-stards!..

Minne ganoo se houeste!..
Mungushoru se corneste!..
Bladel chel demol borrah!...
Nelap rasna je boottah!..
Stralse kkola men dyorkE degA sonAffeeeeeee!.....

The Muppets didn`t understood anything - perhaps it was his native language; perhaps, a gigantic spell, but all the geewilikers as one shook their heads in agreement and responsed with
Whohohohoohohohohohoohoooo!..... -
and then Effralyo stroke up a tune...
(The song - in the next post. TBC)

[Beauregard]

"Almost Eff`s lookalikes. But still a bit another. "

This is amazing! The life and energy, Wauuu!!!! Wish they'd drop by my hose sometime...

[Effralyo]

(The color code for the tune is: C, Am, F, G.)


.. Hoy, help us all now, no one knows still, how,




Hoy, paint all this stuff, to add more laugh,




Charm the brushes, spray the paint, will we make it shine again,




Will we cheer it up today, ah, will we cover it wiz`spray,-









Koooooo-le-da, farrowgoleekers,




Koooooo-le-da, fella geewilikers,




Koooooo-le-da, hide it all firmly,




Koooooo-le-da, dark under colors!




Koooooo-le-da, make it merry,




Koooooo-le-da, make it all jolly,




Koooooo-le-da, make it all just shiny,




Koooooo-le-da, ko-le-da!..




(Bagpipe solo)





Hoy, help us all now, walls do smile, windows glow,




Overcome the fear from here, do da somersault like me,




Charm the brushes, spray the paint, will we make it shine again,




Will we sing to make it shine, will we work to make it fine,-





Koooooo-le-da, farrowgoleekers,




Koooooo-le-da, fella geewilikers,




Koooooo-le-da, hide it all firmly,




Koooooo-le-da, dark under colors!




Koooooo-le-da, make it merry,




Koooooo-le-da, make it all jolly,




Koooooo-le-da, make it all just shiny,




Koooooo-le-da, ko-le-da!..




(Bagpipe solo)





No one of the citizens could stand still under such song. Soon the half of Hyrrgelinde - both local muppets and humans - joined our friends. And it was really hard to refrain: take the spray, draw whatever you want, write graffitis, make just blots - if only they look nicely! Beau, Floyd and Eff himself just for fun got their hands into the paint and started to leave handprints on the one of the walls.




"Look, what colors are my hands now?", Beauregard laughed, slapping both palms against the wall. -"Hahaha, now green!.. And now - blue! And red!.." - Slap! Slap! - Soon the other muppets wanted to try it too, and the wall from the floor till the celling was covered with hand- and footprints. Even Mildred printed there her shoe. And Zeliboba - his sneakers-hobadues. And Floyd - his boots. And as for the echo spirit, he fell accidentally into the paint himself, and that`s why all the floor was after it in turquous blots! Certainly, soon Effralyo got rid of the paint, magicking it off himself. Soon afterwards the muppets got messed up so much that couldn`t help but laughed in stitches at each other. Some of the human kids started to mess in the paint too - luckily, Effralyo charmed it up in time, so it became all safe and washable. There was plenty of work for everyone. Someone drafted even the fire hose and started to sprays them from it.




And far away from here, by the TV screen, the inhabitants of Muppet Boarding House had been looking at it and were glad for our friends. No one had ever seen an alike wet-and-colorful-party!..




(End of Chapter 22; be prepared, Gardy, to cartwheel to Chapter 23!....:excited: )

[Beauregard]

*prepareing*

Whoo! Painting! It's so Glarksworthy!!! Wanna gojoin them! No fair! lol Koooooo-le-da!!!

[Effralyo]

(Awhile out of topic, but both this "Koleda" (Rus. vers.) and "Dance with us Gardy" (also Rus. vers.) I`ll be able at last to SUBMIT soon! Be sure to hear Geewiliker-y voice! ;) *Goes to post C 23!!!!! *)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 23 - The Sunset Through Beau

It was no matter how many hours passed. But as they had finished to paint, the seven-floor ex-laboratory had absolutely changed and was reminding rather a certain amusement center, and all the painters were darn messed and tired very much.
"Let`s take a short timeout", Zeliboba offered. "And them I`ll add several details. Myself. Okay?"
It pleased the friends. And the dratcher returned them the cleanness by a short spell.

Soon afterwards, after thanking, Effralyo`s relatives all disappeared themselves - just went home, or rather flashed home. Well, so many geewilikers weren`t actually need now. It was enough of the one, but beloved by everyone of the Muppets.

....Beauregard sat on the fountain "fence" edge to take a rest and admired the result of their work. Nothing was now reminding about Transfer. He was just a zero during his whole life, did nothing useful, and died without buring. No one will moan him. He had gone for ever.

Drops of fountain water fell sometimes on the clumsworth`s pleased face, and he blinked them away. It seemed it was the happiest day of his life. Not at random he had beared so much suffering - now it was time to get a certain great award, but what will it be, he didn`t know. A whiff glimpsed in his soul and disappeared straight away, leaving only waiting for it.
He looked at his friends. Zeliboba talks about something with Floyd - it wasn`t audiable from here about WHAT, but still... Effralyo splashes in the fountain behind him... - whoops, again splashed in his eye!.. Mildred admires a flowerbed near the new "amusement center". Gonzo, Cliff, Kermit and Quentin all eat icecream.
How good.. even want to stay here awhile more...
Beau half-shut his eyes, ogling around, and at this very moment gasped in amazement. He saw such eyes that understood - someone admires right him.
(;) TBC;) )

[Effralyo]

Looking more properly, Gard understood that sees a boy. Approximately of eight. Or ten. But he was staring at the clumsworth in such delight and disbelief that Beau didn`t spy how widely does he smile to the boy himself. The little stranger worn a cap with an orange badge on it, and the badge said, "Matt."
"Matthew, right?..", Beauregard asked first.
The boy nodded. And whispered, still in disbelief:
"You`re real...."
"Certainly real, and what did you think?..", the clumsworth laughed very kindly. "You thought I`m all on strings?.."
"N-no, but..."
Beau nodded, chuckling again:
"C`mon, sit here too." - He gestured at the spot near him.- " Wanna rest?"
"Yes...sir..."
"Call me just Gard."
"Okay.. Gard... They just say, you`re not even a star, and always fail, and..." - Matt confused, thinking that it can offend Beau, and cut off: - "...well, that you ain`t worth to be liked... but I like you. Very much!"
"Really?.."
"Yes! Here, look at my collection."

The care with which Matthee made this album was obvious, and it touched the clumsworth. Photos, several articles, something like self-wrotten articles, even small poems. And almost all about him. Beau nearly teared, holding it and turning the pages. And Matt kept staring at him reading, and thought that perhaps he just sees a dream. But the janitor was real. Huggable and furry. And very kind. Whatever did they say, he`s worth loving.
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

"Matthew, right?..", Beauregard asked first. [/i]

Gardyflardy! I'm right there!!!


The boy nodded. And whispered, still in disbelief:
"You`re real...."

He is...somewhere...real....

Photos, several articles, something like self-wrotten articles, even small poems. And almost all about him.

I wish, one day, that Beau coud see this I have...

Wahhoooooooooooooooooooooooo!

And also to say, that the description in the chapter before, the splash of water, etc, was just Perfect ine very way.

[Effralyo]

They couldn`t stop staring at each other. The boy with great wish and fantasy and the Real, Real, Real Clumsworth who was just fascinated. J u s t f a s c i n a t e d.

This wouldn`t be compared even with that success on the scene.

Beau chuckled, since because could not find any suiting words for the meeting, and bent a bit forward, tweaking a dread in confuse. Drats, want to say something, and the words get suddenly stuck in your throat, without letting go of your glad. Matt saw that he darn hesitates, and simply wrapped his arm around the clumsworth`s shoulder. Yes. Indeed, he was real. And warm. And thought about it burnt him. No one in school will believe..unless they were here too today - but it was difficult to sort out who was who...
"And I always dreamed to meet someone of the humans, who will like me just for who I am", Gard emited still a bit under tense, and from accenting the word humans it sounded a bit awkwardly.
"And he`s your friend too?" - Matt nodded towards Effralyo, who already got dry.
"Yep, he`s my old friend, Effy Geewiliker. Did you see how had he helped us now?"
"Effy", the boy repeated, shaking Effralyo`s hand. "Never had seen anyone..like you."
"Glad to meet ya!", the dwarf winked.
"Me too", - Matt smiled, taking back the album, then turned back to Beau. - "Say, and it was tedious to sweep after them all, wasn`t it?"
"Weeeeell... how to say", the janitor answered, feeling that the talk comes easier. - "I almost don`t sweep now. I can something else."
"Play the harmonica?"
"Not only this, pal! I can... I can...." - The brown paw wagged in an unknown way in the air, then slapped his forehead: Beau had found those words! -"I can give away the glad."
"And they said, you are... " - Matt quickly looked around, then whispered: "But you didn`t eat anybody, yes?"
Beauregard lost his head.
"Eat..anybody?.. Wait, wait... what does that mean?.."
"Well, I heard Kermit calling you a certain Swallower!", Matt explained.
"Merely???", Effralyo laughed, hearing it, aloud. "Gosh, certainly not! It`s way better! Milliards of times better!.."

Now it was up to Matt to lose head. But Beau understood everything and said himself:

"Ah, this.... Yes, I am. But I`m afraid, I can`t do it anymore...after I swallowed an one..eeeer... villain. It still a bit hurts there..."
"He melted?", the boy amazed.
"And nearly killed me. I thought, I`ll just burn out. It was terrible." -Gard grimaced. - "And absolutely gross!"
"And what`s it?", Matt asked. "The Swallowers... Hm... What are they for?"
"Er-weeeeeeeeeellll", the clumsworth confused again. - "You see, if I would show it myself... or... if it wasn`t hurt so much, I`d.... certainly...sure..."
"Poor creature", Matthee nodded, stroking him.

Beauregard suddenly strained.

It seemed for a moment that an organ sounded in him.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

"Do you afraid that I can swallow you?", he asked.
"Swallow?.."
Matt`s hand twitched. He blinked several times, trying to decide - can he try it or not. It was quite risks to agree. Besides, Beau said that doesn`t feel well enough since that hour. Who knows how can it turn for them both?..
"I..I don`t know, I don`t want to hurt you again", he said.

The organ sound resounded again, echoing in Beau`s body.

The clumsworth winced and shut his eyes, waiting till it deafen.
"It seems it doesn`t have anything against", he said.
Matt still was a bit scared.
"And what if I`ll never come back?", he asked, but it was easy to guess by the tone that he`s rather agree than afraid.
"Don`t worry", Effralyo said. "I know the way. The returning spell is "Erkyolline Garglaider". Remembered? Just say it and will teleport back outside."
Matt nodded.
Okay. If it`s really as good as Eff says...
"And how to get there?"
"Stroke me."

The small hand weakly glided on the plaid shirt.
"Not like this!", Eff giggled. "Like THIS!"
He took Matt`s hand in his own and moved it with more tense along.

The organ sound forced.

"It works!", Beau whispered. "Boy... It works!.."

Matt felt his hands slowly seep thru the shirt.

"Something clammy..."

...more... and more...
Gard tilted back his head and sighed with bliss. No, this time it wasn`t hurt.

A second else.

And his fur closed over Matthee, like a lake surface.
(TBC!!!)

[Effralyo]

Quentin had seen nothing but darkness in here.
Because the success didn`t took away all Gard`s grumpy self yet.
Transfer had found here his death.
Because the clumsworth`s body was scared itself and defeated him as a mortally dangerous object.

But the space where had Matt just got was hard to describe with usual words.

It seemed to him for a second that he is somewhere under the sea. Judging the blueish-purple surrounding. But alot better. Under the sea you can`t breath. The huge mass of the water can squash you at all. And under the sea you never feel as light and even cosy as here.

It was looking more like an underwater garden. Matt looked around, floating somewhere in the middle of it all, and saw the weird forms of thick gel, shaping the flowers out of themselves. He heard the strong and loud strikes over his head, darn above, and saw the light coming from there.
"Oh my...", floated in his mind.
Indeed "my", - he thought that Bo will look from within as everyone "usual" else, and was ready to see nothing but those gross slimy slips and all other stuff, but instead of it he fond himself in a certain beautiful world, with the melody of organ, sounding from somewhere, perhaps, from the heart also, or from the living and warm "walls" of the "cavern".
He swam to the one of those "walls" and touched it.
Strokeable... Squishy...
The see-thru amorphous stuff gently entwined around his hand, and then as well let it go.
The waves... Such strong waves, but all harmless... And sparkling small bubbles, like pearls, like dew-drops, floating near...
He looked up. Something large and lighting was there.
"C`mon, swim to it", Beau`s voice resounded. "Swim. I don`t afraid for you anymore. It`s good..."
(TBC)
(yes, it isn`t all, the sweetest stuff`s on its way!)

[Effralyo]

(side note: at last floated around! (8CI>

[Beauregard]

Oh my gosh!!!!

It's...so this is what it is like inside a Mupepts...and...wow...glarkers...waht can I say! Just...wow...and...er...wow!!!

[Effralyo]

As if the sun.

But it`s heart.
Enormously huge.

And its beat made those very waves along the whole "cavern". They were making all glow. And play that organ tune...

Will Beau let him touch it?..

"Yes, yes, you can... You can!... Tell them that I`m real..."

...OUTSIDE...

"So he still CAN?..", Zel exclaimed. "Gosh, and I was so darn afraid!... Golly..."

It was already evening, and Beau sat turning back to the sunset, and that`s why Matthee saw the weird pink glowing infront of himself. It was possible to see the outer world from here.

"Allcrimsonsky", the dratcher said.

All crimson sky...
(TBC!)

[Beauregard]

All crimson sky...it's so...beau-tifull...

[Effralyo]

Matt`s hands rested on the heart.
Enlarged, shrunk, again enlarged, again shrunk.

Beau`s eyes teared in tenderness. Fountain backwards, sunset onwards, and beyond the brown fur the miracle is going on. The miracle Matthee will tell about to his friends and possibly even family. The wonder he`ll never forget, and just because he, Beauregard, was real, and just because he was, as luckily happened, a Swallower.

"The Swallowers", a thought came to his mind, "can love so much that are ready to turn themselves into the world for their friends..."
It wasn`t his own thought, it came from someplace outside.

Matt, still in blue and pink light, was now holding perhaps the most wonderful treasure in the world.
It wasn`t time here, like in Raenbu. It was only constant ever warmth and cosiness. Only what the clumsworth could give, since he had almost nothing else.
The sunlight dissolved into the light of the heart.
It beats fondly in your hands. But watch out, boy, don`t harm it accidentally.
Beau put a paw over his heart, sighing again in bliss.
"Never forget it. I love you. I love everyone who loves me. Always."
"Erkyolline Garglaider", Matt pronounced.

And was reflected outside.
Getting into Gard`s hug.
(End of Chapter 23, but not of the story!)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 24 - "And the Night, Like the Whirlwind of the Beautiful Sparkles..."

The wonder had just happened again right on the Muppets` eyes. Someone of them even envied Beau: they weren`t Swallowers. Zeliboba was, but every time he was asked about it, he started to "blush", confuse and tweak sideburns - "Aaah, I darn hesitate!.." But actually everyone was glad that Gard hat got back his marvellous skill. Once a Swallower, always a Swallower, and no one can bother it. Even if you make mistakes sometimes.
That`s what the clumsworth was now thinking about, hugging his new buddy.
It was clear that Matt soon will have to go back home, and Beau knew it. But they managed to have a long talk, after which Zel walked to them:
"Hm, I take it, you can`t go without a gift. And I know what`d you like..."
He winked, preparing hid fingers to click.
Matt froze.
The pink glowing started to come out of Beau, while Zeliboba spelled:

Raggediboom....
Raggedibeem....
RAGGEDIBO!!!!...

The clumsworth as if splitted into two! One living, and one plush and absolutely realistic. Gard stared at his plush lookalike in surprise. He was as big as the real one!
"Well...", he smiled, turning to Matthee. "Be sure to hug me everyday since this day. And now, can I borrow your album again for short?"
"Sure!"
And Beauregard wrote in the corner of the front album page:
To dear friend from his faihtful buddy for ever.
The thing you dreamed about came true,
One day I met and swallowed you.
Now come and see me some time more,
Your sincerely,
Beau -
and leaved a pawprint under sign.
"Thanks", Matt laughed, taking the album back. - "Mum will definitely faint when I tell her WHERE had I been today!"
"Exactly!"
"Okay, bye!"
They shook hands, and then Gard stood from the fence to see Matt, who was hardly drawing the plush clumsee nearly himself-tall-sized, off.
"You`ll miss him?", Effralyo asked.
"I already miss", Beau replied.
"Don`t worry, I can make you meet again, and.."
"Where on earth are you, c`mon, it`s time to cut the ribbon!", Floyd hailed them.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

...Ndah, as for the name for the "newborn" center, Zeliboba obviously laid it on thick. Just think: firstly they with Kermit after a discussion decided to name it "Nevada", but then the dratcher recalled that thousands of casinos have such name, and offered to add to it the Sesame-dialect greeting. And what do you think they got?- Right over the entrance was a huge lighting bright sign saying - "NevadaGamarjoba.."
"Gamarjoba!.. Huoooohaha!.."- Effralyo bursted in laugh.- "Gamarjoba!.. `Marjoba!.. Cool!.."
"I think, the honor of cutting the red ribbon belongs today to our hero", Zeliboba said, handing the silver scissors he had just magicked up to Beauregard.
"Eeeer..thanks...Mr. Presi...um, Zel", the clumsworth blushed.
Click!

Staright away, at the same moment, an amazing event happened with all our friends and all humans who was currently near.
They suddenly found out that all wear the Fancy Dress Ball costumes, and such luxurious that it was seeming they`re from certain dream.

"It means, everyone`s invited today
On "Gamarjoba"`s opening day!",
Zeliboba rhythmed and turned to them:
"I, as a President of Muppetland, officially declare the Ball opened!..."
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

Wau...wau...not only does "mat" get to be isnide, he get's his plush!!! This is DEFINATLY a cart-wheely chapter! Glarkaroozelibulhagardlyette!!!!

[Effralyo]

Tdanks! See ya on Monday, Gardik! I`m daaarn expected at home!!! :) Bye!

[Effralyo]

"Great, man!", Sarge Floyd exclaimed, which made the dratcher turn to him with a suspicious look:
"Sergeant Floyd, right?.."
"Y-y-y-yes..s-sir", Floyd emited under confuse.
"No, I just want to ask - s e r g e a n t?"
"Y-y-yes..." - Floyd couldn`t guess what does Zeliboba want from him, but he reasked again:
"M`h`m. Sergeant, they say. And I say... FIELD-MARSHAL!"
He clicked fingers, and Floyd saw that wears already a full field-marshal outfit with plenty of orders!
"Oh my... But why, Mr. President?.."
"Your moustache`s too great for a sarge", Zel joked...

..Two hours later...

"Ha, surrender!.. Beware of the sword of the Great Zorroboba!..", resounded right behind Kermit, and, turning there, he saw the dratcher in Zorro`s costume. The only flaw in it was a huge bright tie over the dark camisole. (Kermit himself was dressed as usually - as a newsman.)
"How about wash the cheer down with a soda pop?", the frog offered.
"Nice idea!", Zeliboba-Zorroboba approved, and they both went to the nearby soda stand.

..Beau kept admiring his suit. He knew that the tuxes are always black, but plaid?.. Bow tie on the neck... White dicky... The waist is covered with wide silk girdle... And dreads... and, instead of black shoes, - still bare feet... The clumsworth couldn`t recognise himself, looking at the reflection in the mirror.
Being a stagehand is the one thing, being a guest yourself is another. For some reason the girdle adorned Beauregard most of all.
Who knows how long had he spent near the mirror. But at last sat to the table - certainly, certainly, seeing infront of himself a known pair of glasses.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

The same glasses he gave back. the same glasses, hiding beyond themselves, as was always seeming, the most beautiful eyes in the world.
"Look Beau-tiful", Mildred smiled. "I`ve never seen plaid tuxes."
A wide smile, like an upsetted rainbow, crosses Beauregard`s face.
"Me..too", he barely emited,- blink, blink, blink. - "That`s because today`s our triumph..."
"How good that you`re so modest", Mildred noticed. - "Trust me, I`ve seen thousands of muppets, and no one was even alike."
"Really?.."
"Sure".
He saw thru her glasses how her eyes shone, and lost his head more from confuse, being now ashame of own awkward building, and even pited her that she says it to such an "ugly" (as seemed to him) creature.
"You ain`t ugly at all", Mildred disagreed, guessing his thought by a blush. - "Yuo know.. I was often teased "Mildew", or "Bookworm", and however else.. That was really hard.."
Beau bit his lip from sympathy.
"Pity, I wasn`t there, I`d defend you..."
She nodded, getting a couple of dreads off his forehead.
"This suits you more..."
"You know... Mildred",he stumbled, "your name.."
Request was in her eyes.
"..your name...is just like Mum`s pastry.. Certainly, you won`t get it on... but it gets sweet in the mouth when you spell it. Very sweet, and desirable."
"You sleep with your fortune right above your head", Mildred recalled. "That was the line I had accidentally found, while flying here."
At this minute Zel secretly gestured the orchestra to play valtz.
"Let me invite you, Mrs. Huxtetter", Beau offered, bowing courteously.
"Oh, please, of course", she smiled.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

(Color code - by the character color.)
..Here I am, cannot calm my heart,
Open the hidden words,
Words that during my life
Does already it hold.
Here I am, cannot let you go,
Telling you now those words,
Something I`ve never told,
Something hidden before.

I had been waiting for you,
Only hope
In mind;
I had been longing to see
You again
One day;
I`ve never thought that will so
Easy now
To find
Those words of love that I won`t
Hesitate
To say.

(TBC)

[Effralyo]

And the night, like a whirlwind of the wonderful sparkles,
Under sounds of the valtz swept both Mildred and Beau.
Let the orchestra play, let the dancing pairs shine,
While the fine crimson hand sinks in auburn dark paw.
Zeliboba, while watching, does secretly smile
From the glad for a friend, but himself doesn`t know,
What is going now on in their hearts, in their souls,
What a music does hear the librarian now,-
Hall is glowing tonight, when the badness was gone,
And if Beautingleroth could only see now his son,
Whirling happily`round the gigantic dance floor,-
He could freeze in delight for both Mildred and Beau.
(End of Chapter 24)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 25 - Lovely As Your Nativeland

Either someone of the spirits had magicked up something again, or everyone was simply too excited, but to the end of the Ball it was already early next morning, and no one got tired.
Our friends said goodbye to Hyrrgelinde, and in a hour the Zelicopter soared in the air again, gaining height.
Instead of Beau, the seat of the first Officer took this time Bunsen Honeydew: the clumsworth had been missing Effralyo afterall, and wanted to talk with him.
Certainly, the seatbelt couldn`t hols the geewiliker for more than two minutes. And all the rest of the was Effralyo sat on his, maybe, most favorite place - under Gard`s shirt, poking outside only the head. Well, and since the seatbelt was crossing the shirt, let`s assume that Fralyo was still fastened, and incase of it - safe.
And, recovering from memories about the valtz last night, Beauregard recalled what did he want to ask Eff about.
"I`d like to ask you, Fraly, since way long", he began. The geewiliker, all attention, turned to him with moustache perked up.
"Yes?.."
"Abut all those SBOWWNNNNNs. Why d`you like them? Or you really like how..eeeeeeer...eeeeeeeeeeeeeer...... huge I am?.."
Effralyo`s moustache shivered with confuse.
"Too hard to explain", he said.
"But still?."
"Well...", Effralyo sighed. - "I cant help but adore it! Really adore, that you`re huge, and brown, and all soft, and it`s always impossible to smash the head against you! And...and..." -He cut off to find the suiting words, and in a second went on: - ".. and I love it, because you`re huge and loveable, like your nativeland!"
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Beau blinked: such answer touched him deep down.
"In Zelirangoo I could rest on the warmed rocks", Effralyo said. "But they`re all nothing to compare with you. They ain`t living, nothing goes on in them, and they aren`t soft (>sclurge, sclurge!<). And...and..."
But Gard wasn`t need any more explaining. He understood all. And the dratcher, hearing their talk, seconded it from his seat:
"And y`know, Fralyo`s right! You needn`t slim, Gard. Be shaped as your motherland made you to, we love you as you are now. Afterall, what will be if the clumsworth will lose his clumsiness? You are truly wonderful oversizer!"

Beauregard all innerly melted from these words. For the same thickness he was often mocked or simply laughed in past. Several times he tried to slim, but unsuccessfully. Nothing could suppress the clumsworthical self. and now he suddenly finds out that THIS is what does everyone love in him.
"But they say... I`m dim-witted", he gabbled still in embarrassment.
"Wisdom can be dispersed all inside", Mildred responsed.
"Right", Zel nodded. "I often do think with heart myself."
"See?", Effralyo laughed. "And you didn`t want to believe me!"

Beau felt as if being flayed alive firstly, but then managed with himself. Afterall, his most secret feature had now been discussed, how to refrain from distract!
"If you weren`t so large, I`d just smash that time", Clifford said, recalling the catastrophe with the bike. And it convinced Beauregard completely.
There almost wasn`t anyone really thin in Raenbu amond the male clumsworths. All the female ones were rather slender, but males.. - even though he was trying to recall at least one slim of them - were all XXL.
"You know", he said to Zeliboba, "and you are like your nativeland, too. Though I`d never been in Zelirangoo."
"Don`t worry, Gard", the dratcher promised. "We`ll go to there. This evening. I invite you at the ZELibration!"
"And I invite you to our place after that, then!", Gard nodded.

(End of Chapter 25)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 26 -Playground Their Dreams

Zelicopter landed in the airport of the Muppets` "native" city.
"Which way now?", Kermit asked.
"The Other Side of the Playground!", the dratcher declared.

...UNDER THE GIGANTIC OAK...

Ferralyo slept like a log, hugging the Crystal. Nothing could tear the old geewiliker away from it. He was afraid to wake up, because the anxiety could capture him again.
"Dad", Effralyo`s voice broke the mute. "Dad, wake up! It`s me!.."
Ferralyo`s plume-hair shivered...


"Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaar hahahahahhahahahahaaaaaa, woohahahahhahahaaa!.. Hiahahahahahahhahahhahahaaa!.. Goooldy!.. Sonnyboy!.." - "Daaaaaad!.. Gaaaaaaaaaaaar arkh heheheheheheheeee hahahahahahhahahahhahahaaaa!.." - resounded next second. And what else can you expect from the TWO geewilikers?!

Hardly Zel opened the door of his house, a large multicolored furball flied out of it, splitting into the two echo dwarfs.
"Eff!..",Beau amazed. "It`s your father?.."

"Aha!", the geewiliker emited, fainting in glad in Dad`s hands.
"Yes, I`m Ferralyo", the father spirit said. "And you all are friends of Zeliboba (he quickly bowed to the dratcher) and my son, as far as I understand?.."
"Family..", Clifford whispered to Gard, perhaps recalling his past, and admired the two dwarfs.
And though a hour later Ferralyo flashed back home too, it was no matter if they`ll meet again in the evening!
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

That is all so...wow!!!

I LOVE the mildred/Beau dance, they are so perfect for each other! And the talks about pudgy ol' gardy!

It's...just...AMAZING! What more can I say???

[Effralyo]

..LATER...
"C`mon, where on earth are you all?", Zel hurried them.

An one pressing on the Crystal, and the playground near the gigantic oak had wonderfully changed. Instead of the smooth grey ground, there was already a thick grass carpet, reminding the janitor a bit the hills of Raenbu, with leaves, laying here and there; and the plain not-so-high-swing suddenly grown into Dronkenalf the Giant Swing, the seesaw - into alike Seesaw tower; the sun shone brighter, and our friends felt all younger at least on twenty years.

..They say, it`s impossible to return to childhood. Well, let`s excuse the ones who doesn`t know about the magic of the Crystal, -they certainly never will trust in this event.
No, the Muppets, above which time is always nothing, were looking all as they are, but jollier and nimblier, -but once Quentin stepped on the green grass, he turned into Matt`s agemate.

What else can attract the kids so much but a swing!.. Today Beauregard discovered it, perhaps, first time in his life. As far as he could remember, no one even built the swing in Raenbu. and, forgetting about all badness, letting it sink finally in the past and overcoming it from the memory, he took a seat, swayed as high as he could,- and!!!... Who would ever think that nearly the entire city will be visable from Dronkenalf!..

Here flies Clifford - dreads like flame, long legs glimpse in high and - aaaaaah!.. - down... and - uuuuuuuuooooooooh!.. -up, and even breath stops from the sudden guess - "fall...", - but - not... -and fly back up, and heart flits... and wind in dreads... Beau indeed nearly flopped down his seat when saw that Cliff can make a triple somersault on the swing... and without a flop... And back up, and back down, and blue eyes can`t catch a piece of world in a look, too fast... Woooooossh!.... - Zeliboba jumped down! - TDANNNNNNNNNG!... - Landed on his sneakers - in the huge leaf heap! And then Quentin jumped! - "Go ahead, c`mon, Bo!.." - It`s up to Beau to jump... "Will I deal? Will I deal?!?!?!?!?!.."
Woooooooosh!....
>Sbowwwwn!<
Alive and undamaged! Lays and laughs on the leaves!..
And again - Woooooosh!..
And again - Sbowwwwwwwwwn!...
Until everything get green in his eyes!...
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

(See ya tomorrow.. Promise to post like crazy!...) ;)
~Eff

[Effralyo]

..IN RAENBU...
..Flash!.... Mrs. Regard nearly fell from her chair, and Mr. Regard gasped in surprise. They still couldn`t get used to Effralyo`s manner to appear and vanish always unexpectedly, but this time - especially: they haven`t seen him for such long time afterall!..
The visit of the geewiliker cheered the both clumsworths. It meant, Beau and Cliff are already free, and nothing will threat neither them nor the Crystal of Fainthfulness anymore.
And when Effralyo told them Zeliboba`s words, Nancy exclaimed:
"So they`re alive!.."
And Beautingleroth agreed:
"Yes... If they`ve deserved the friendship of the outside muppet president... Nancy, do you understand WHAT does it mean at all?.."
She knew it but couldn`t reply, wiping the tears of gladf and pride.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

..IN OUTER WORLD....

"Right! Ri-ight, right, right, right!.. ", Beau heard Effralyo`s voice and moved there. -"And now left, left, left, left!.. Nooo, right! Right, right!.. - No, I mean, right onward!.."
It was funny to watch the clumsworth in a blindfold trying to reach the main secret our friends had prepared. Just run around Beauregard and watch out,don`t let him tag you. The playground`s huge, so why don`t let him go for a run?..

Beau even pitied that lost his skill of "piercing hearing". He could easily catch anyone in a second even in the blindfold. But it couldn`t be as jolly as now then! Here Zel chuckles right in a foot from you, you stretch out a hand and grab... blank! Kermit exclaims "Hi-ho!" nearly in your very ear, you quickly turn and catch... blank.
Gard accidentally took the wrong direction, and our friends all froze: he was now moving right to their surprise...
Suddenly his fingers felt something soft, like very long silky fur. But... whose?..
"I`ve caught you", he laughed, taking off the blindfold.
And saw what it was.
And acked overwhelmed.
Because infront of him was a very long beard. And above it were two kind grey eyes. And above the grey eyes the long white dreadlocks reached the shoulders.
"Dad!.." - He gave a squeeze to his father straight away, then turned and saw... Nancy.
"Effralyo said, there`s plenty of something that is worth seeing here", the clumsworthess smiled, putting her hand on Beau`s head.
"SURPRIIISE!.." , the group yelled.
(End of Chapter 26)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 27 - Let`s ZELibrate!


And you thought that they got in the magic dale by Zelicopter again. No, the dratcher knew the quicklier and easier way.
Since there actually wasn`t need now to guard the crystal constantly - no one could threat to it when Transfer was gone - it could now be leaved for awhile.
But not the whole group went to the dale: Gonzo, Bunsen and Beaker decided to return home - couldn`t wait to tell about their adventures in Hyrrgelinde. And as for the rest, they all put their hands over the Crystal, it flashed with white light, and in a couple of seconds they found themselves on the edge of Zelirangoo.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

The wise and beautiful Queen Obeira, the leader of the whole dratcher clan, thanks to her large plume, seemed to be even taller than Zeliboba. She was already several milleniums old, but looked still as young. (And the friends, admiring her now, even astonished - they couldn`t fancy a lady dratcher with SUCH great sideburns that, frankly speaking, barely matched to her female self. But what to do, if thses spirits are always born with such sideburns!)

Almost all of the dratchers had once removed to the cities, since there was plenty of courtyard and playgrounds to guard, and only thirty of them leaved here - just because someone must keep the magic of the Blue Mountains. And Obeira, as a queen, was just mustn`t ever leave it. Who but she could greet the moon, look after the neighbor spirits and guard the Great Lake Hoyde - the common "mother" of all dratchers.

Zeliboba bowed infront of her on the one knee and, introducing the friends, told in a nutshell what had they all endured yesterday and how did he befriend with Beauregard.
"Alright", Obeira said and turned to the janitor:
"Guest from Raenbu, I`m glad to see you."
"T-t-thank you, eeeer... Your Majesty", Beau gabbled.
"If there wasn`t Ferralyo, I`d just go really mad!", the Queen went on. "I knew that Zeliboba wants and longs to help you. And that`s why Ferralyo got in your world so unexpectedly. Who but he could guard the Crystal while Zeliboba`s off!.. I see, you are a very noble clumsworth.. just like Beauhoth... I did believe that you`ll be a king too one day. But your destiny`s all in your hands."
Beau gasped as Obeira mentioned Beauhoth:
"A-a-a-a-and are you acquaintances?.."
She nodded and magicked up a mirror-like "window" in the air between two spaces.
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

It's great!!!

[Beauregard]

By accident I post twice!!!

Well, it's double great then!

[Effralyo]

That`s what did Beau see.

<flashback>

The young Beauhoth Tingleroth and Nancy Ginger rested on the riverbank. It was their first visit outside, and they decided to spend it here, in Zelirangoo.
Ginger was here already second time. She offered to her husband to go here, since long ago she befriended with a dratcherelle who promised to celebrate a certain event with them today.

Certain event... Beauhoth screwed up his eyes thinking of it. There was only fifteen days before.

In the middle of the garden, surrounding the castle, grown the gigantic Tree of Clan. No one of the clumsworths could say how long does it already grow there, but it was the greatest sacrify of Raenbu along with the Sacred Wooden Hearts.
The brown clumsy creatures were all a bit like wood themselves, very solid, "thick as a trunk", generous, kind, warming, thanks to this Tree.
Long ago it helped them to appear here at all and live. It could grow the new clumsworths, like flowers.
And eleven months ago it sprouted a new bud. Just for them. Judging the dark green color with gold stripes on it, Beauhoth understood that it will be a son.
That dratcherelle promised to be a godmother of their son.

Someone told that Raenbu does have an another exit to the Outer world, and this exit was here, in Zelirangoo Dale.

Beauhoth recalled how he used to look at the farther Blue Mountains from the castle window in his childhood, and how his father, Beaularg Hoth, once answered a question about those Mountains: "Our kind neighbors live there, sonnyboy. Our friends and defenders."

But now they didn`t see anyone around. Only certain small creatures fussing somewhere, and the Shadees float in the air.

"Obeira!", Ginger exclaimed, turning to the left and wagging a hand to the dratcherelle walking to them down the hill.
"Ah, Ginger", the dratcherelle laughed. "Sorry, a bit late... How many days left?"
"Fifteen", Beauhoth answered. "Wanna go to our place? I`d like to show you our castle.. Afterall, you`re a wannabe queen?.. Will Tekkiolare let you go?"
"Father?.." - Obeira nodded after a second of confuse. - "And why do you think I`m here? He asked me for it! Someday he`ll visit your home himself, not today... He tries to chain the volcano..."

Infront of Beau went all the fifteen days Obeira spent in the castle, and then he saw Beautingleroth`s birthday.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

(Still flashback)
..And that day came. Beautingleroth and Nancy both stuck to the "window" - it was curious to them...

The clumsworths all crowded around the Tree, while Beauhoth was all in stew and constantly rumpled his dreads, and Ginger stretched out her hands to the flower.

It glowed with pink light and blossomed.

"Aaaaaahhhhhhh", rustled in the crowd.

Obeira lifted her hand and generated a lightball, throwing it up. It soared like a comet, and they understood that it writes a certain word in the sky. She smiled, looking the flower falling down in Ginger`s hands and turning into something small, brown and fluffy.

The clumsworthlet.

"B..E....A...U...TIN....GL..ER...O..TH....", the lightball wrote and explosed like a firework, strewing the sparkles on the happy crowd, on the happy parents, and Ginger suddenly felt somehow weird. It was difficult to say - how. As if a flood started in her, and she didn`t knew how to stop it. She huddled the little Beautingleroth to herself. He poked his face in the light brown ginger fur...

Beauregard recalled the vision that came to him in hours of pain. He was as if enduring it all again now.

"Beautingleroth", Obeira said. "I name you Beautingleroth, son of the King Beauhoth. Beautingleroth Braveheart. And promise that, while we are alive, nothing in the world will ever harm you. Live happily, Prince of Raenbu. Live happily."
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

Waou....waouw! WAUOGUGHWOWOW!

[Effralyo]

Merely???? Just a huge Wow? :) But a very precious WOW!

(Still flashback)
"Yes, it was all like that", Obeira sighed, "but I didn`t know that one day Nancy Pinksworth will defeat their family..."

Beau with teared eyes saw Ginger dying... Beautingleroth was three in that day.
The clumsworthess as if slept near the sewing-table, tilting down her head, and her son stroked her hand, trying to look in her eyes and understand why did Mum fall asleep for so long...
"Wake up, Mum", his thin voice resounded. "Please, wake up?.."
Ginger`s body got colder and colder...
Someone poisoned her. And used almost the same charms to zonk Beauhoth after that.

The poor widower was ready almost on everything, longing to make Beautingleroth live as ever, without much woe, and that`s why Nancy Pinksworth had found an easy way to get and capture the Hearts.

He didn`t know that Obeira or someone else of the dratchers won`t be able to help this time: Miss Nancy got from somewhere the power to fence Raenbu from the outer world at all. She generated a wall of invisibility which hidden Zelirangoo from the clumsworths` eyes.
<End of flashback>
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

(Sidenote: color code is the same, my favorite, - C,Am, Dm, G; Zeliboba`s words in the song are bold.)

"So that`s why"... ,Beau expired overwhelmed. "And this barrier is still there..."
Obeira sadly nodded.
"My father told that only Neighborhood can defeat it."
"But ain`t we neighbors already?", Clifford amazed. "Weird, Your Majesty..."
"It must be the place where the Rainbow touches the Earth...", Beauregard whispered suddenly, recalling something. "The barrier.. Nancy could get there... Before capturing the Hearts..."
"Perhaps", Beautingleroth agreed. "Well, it`s all in past, Beau."
"In past?" - Beauregard looked at Obeira, them at the spot where had just been the window. "Your Majesty, say, do the Dratchers ever move the time?.."
"Zeliboba uses to", she replied. "When the sun sets. To admire Allcrimsonsky more."
"But how?"
"With a song."
"Do you have a song of your own?", Zel asked Gard. "It seems I`ve got an idea.."
"Well... I do.. But ain`t they too nursery?"
"No matter, it just must be your own!.."
Beauregard nodded decisively.
He had no singing voice, but sung in whisper.

Heart
Of wood,
And heart
Of stone,
Make
No change
If left alone...
Zeliboba stepped in suddenly:
Heart
Beats,
Moonlight filled the dale.
This
Night
Comes true the ancient tale.
For
Place
He was ought to take
Lord
Rose
From the waves of lake.
-Rainbow above,
The Rainbow
High,
More than a light
In Raenbu sky,
Energy of color,
Bright and good,
Divided and poured
Into hearts of wood.
I love,
I do,
Can`t keep another thoughts in loving heart,
I love
This world for being all so kind to me,
I love,
As no one maybe loved as much before,-
I shall
Be guard and help to everyone in need.
-The tellers tell,
The hearers hear,
An ode to The End
Draweth near,
When light is gone,
And dark will cover,
Remember hope in Hearts
Given by Another.
Evening bells, when sky is crimson,
Disappearings in the morning;
Splash in fall, and down the river -
Under charms of Zelirangoo.
Evening song of lonely dratcher,
Slowly deafing in blue mountains,
Like the bellring, somewhere echoes,
Song of life in Zelirangoo.
One,
Two,
King of Raenbu,
-Dale of magic waits for you.-
Two,
Three,
Carved from a tree,
-Full of ways of being free.-
Three,
Four,
Guided by law,
-Only one`bout us does know.-
Four,
Five,
Making alive,
-Under the rock`s a sea to dive.-
Five,
Six,
Wooden, like sticks,
-Spirits have fun, Shadees play tricks,-
Seven,
Eight,
It won`t abate,
-Flowers glow on every glade.-
Eight
And nine,
Put in a line,
-Orange chest where heart does shine.-
Nine, ten and ten,
Begins again,
-No one ever passes away.-

Rainbow above, the Rainbow high,-
Hearts beat, moonlight filled the dale,
More than a light in Raenbu sky,-
Lord rose from the waves of lake...
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

As the song had ended, a loud sound of crush resounded in far.

If Beau could imagine that the air can crush, he could decide that it`s happening right now.
Wreckilngs of the enormous invisable barrier fell down and melted. The cursed wall was gone. And the clumsworths even didn`t know about it... though many centuried passed, and they could see each other, but THIS was a bother...

The wall crushed, opening a wonderful sight.

The sky color, closer to there, slowly gradiated to indigo, and the sunlight seemed purple. The grass in far gone blue, trees - pink-leaved with green trunks. And, like a speck on the horizont, - the castle of Beauhoth.

Raenbu... The continue, or, perhaps, a part of Zelirangoo...

"So that was need...", Kermit whispered. "Just to recognise the neighborhood..."
"Nancy no more, and the wall fell just incase of it...", Floyd suggested. "Lucky we.."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

...SEVERAL HOURS LATER, AS ALL OF THE FRIENDS WERE INTRODUCED TO OBEIRA`S FOLK...

.."I dare you to jump down!", Zeliboba winked, nodding on the rock edge.
Beau looked there... and nearly died from fear.
750 feet high. And the roaring fall...
"I`m not gone nuts yet", he trembled.
"Boy!" - Zel arched eyebrows and whistled. -"Look, Hirlenjo`s a girl, and she doesn`t afraid!"
A small dratcherelle, as if in prove of his words, jumped down. Beau heard a splash below, and a second later - a weak "he-e-ey!.."and something else.
"Compared!", he exclaimed. "Hirlenjo was born here. And I`m even not a spirit now!"
"And it`s no matter! If you know a neccessary spell!", Effralyo chuckled.
"Wanna look how do I do it?" - Zel stood, turning his back to the fall and throwing up his arms.. -"Ready...Set..... Hopplaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaa!......"
Infront of the clumsworth as if was slow-tracking a certain film. He saw Zeliboba somersaulting about eight times while falling, and then - a splash below... The dratcher disappeared in the roaring waters.
"He smashed....", Beau gasped and gazed there in awe.
At the same moment the dratcher`s head surfaced...
"Be-eau, where on earth are you, c`mooon, jump heeeeeeere!....", Zel shouted to him. "It`s fair cool!.."
"Which spell is used to be friendly to the water?", Gard asked Effralyo with a miserable look. (Afterall, he was still afraid, but didn`t want everyone to laugh at him!)
"Luskin-Tanjornenjo!", the geewiliker said, and the clumsworth repeated the spell with shut eyes.
So, let`s check on the braveness...
Now or never...
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

:cry: Gardy, I miiiss you!.. :cry:

His heart raced, as seemed, somewhere in the throat.

He gulped, but somehow mentally pushed himself onwards. If Hirlenjo jumped, if even Zeliboba, his friend, doesn`t afraid, it`s up to Beau now.

After another look down, he only in a minute understood that falls down.

Beauregard scared so much that didn`t look around. He saw only water moving closer...closer.... closer... SPLAAAASSSSH!.....

Everything got bright turquois and pearly. Beau guessed that got almost on the bottom of the river. He accidentally took a breath. Heart stopped for a moment, but nothing bad happened. Gard could ...breath underwater!..
"Luskin-tanjornenjo' worked!..

He hurried to surface to share this wonder woth the others.

"Hoooooraaaaaaaaaay!..", boomed from all sides as he surfaced, and twenty thumbs up got nearly under Beau`s nose. The janitor tried to calm his breath and crawled on the riverbank.

"Quick, as far as you can, away from it all!", was his first thought.

"And the landscape is awesome from that rock!..", was his second thought.

"And why don`t repeat it one more time?..", was his third thought.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Soon afterwards, nevertheless, Beauregard`s fear was gone.
Hardly a half of a hour passed, he recognised that it`s absolutely undangerous, and managed to jump down nearly better than the dratcher himself. And, looking at him, the other Muppets, one after one, somehow started to try it too. Only Beautingleroth, who couldn`t have too much fun from his walking stick, Nancy and Mildred stayed on the riverbank as the spectators. Obeira joined them later.
"I`d perhaps never could do it", Mildred confessed. "But looking at them, I as if fly myself."
"Ndah", Mr. Regard sighed with a bit pity, a bit cheer. "If I`d be a bit younger!.. Eegh, pity, you haven`t see me crossing the River Gleyre eight times at once!"
"And you`ve never told me before", Nancy amazed.
"Because you couldn`t trust. Well, now I can tell, it`s all in past afterall...", Regard giggled and winked, and at the same moment heard a "WAA-HOOOO!!!!" and was splashed from top till toe by his son, who had just dived - or, rather, bellyflopped - again.
"Pooh, gosh!..", Beautingleroth exclaimed, wiping his eyes. - "Easier, sonnyboy!.."
"`Kay, Dad!"
"Boys", Mildred shrugged.
"I know, was alike myself", Beautingleroth nodded under laugh.

..Yes, it was indeed funny! Clifford, for example, managed with it easy at all - fell in the water straightly, like a pink arrow.He didn`t scare -perhaps, because had a cliff in his name. Field-Marshal Floyd, unlike him, as a real soldier, rushed onward and... landed on the head, crushing into the river bottom! So Zel had to dive and get him out...
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

"Tag!.. Who wanna play tag?..", Hirlenjo exclaimed.
They choosed a tagger... Clifford!
"But, but... I even swim slowly!", he gabbled.
"No ploblemo!", Zeliboba winked. "Pshpsshpssshhpshhh..."
"Aha!"

..Perhaps it was the most amazing thing, where speed is main, but you never get tired, because you are charmed. Beau recalled the furry fish and laughed at himslef - very similar, tehe... They engaged even Effralyo, though he moaned something about "we geewilikers swim poor.." - it wasn`t matter!

The river waters were clean and clear, but Clifford still couldn`t overtake and tag anyone firstly. He paunced here and there, but unsuccessfully! GLADASS!.. - someone of the dratchers, like a dolphin, throws themselves out of the water, and -..FLADARRRR!... - falls back. Nancy laughed and tried to guve advices, but - ha, how to hear them in all this common madness?! Though Zeliboba, Hirlenjo, Effralyo and several other spirits promised not to charm in the game, it was still difficult to tag them. At last Cliff saw Beau slipping right by him... Now or never!.. The pink muppet rushed into deep and in a minute surfaced, holding...... not Beau the by hand, but a long thick tree root...
"Uh-oh", he expired in confuse.
(End of Chapter)

[Beauregard]

Oh my! *laughing really hard* This is amazing!!! First the beautifull song and the invisable barrier! Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaank yoooou for useing the song from my story!!! Yey!

And then such joy and happiness it makes me all glarky from envy of them all..wish I could be there with them diving, splashing, playing with friends...and somehow I am there...with gard!

[Effralyo]

AAAH!!!!!!!!!! Gardee!.. Gardee caaame!... :excited: :excited: Thnak you so much! Just flip the forums and will write Chapter .. eeeeeeeeerrrrmmmm...Next!

[Beauregard]

*chuckle*

Yup, I'm here for the afternoon. been busily scribling in my school verk all morning.

[Effralyo]

Chapter 28 - The Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh Guest

"Hack! Pheeeewwwwwwww!... And you tagged...four times...", Floyd panted, while getting dry along with friends. "We-elll... hoff..."
"So that`s how does it look, your nativeland", Beauregard said, sitting near Zel on the rock. "How lovely..."

Someone could laugh by the sight of the clumsworth in the beach shorts, but here it looked even especially sweet. He stretched out on the grass and gazed into the sky. Something like small purple clouds with eyes were gilding in the high.
"Shadees", Zeliboba explained.
The sounds of the bellring resounded from the side of the small village, Kelgerayda-Foah.
"And that`s Ernesto rings", the dratcher said. "Ern Wellainever, their friar." - He sighed, remembering his first days here, and laid on the grass too, leaning on his elbow.
Beau nodded. His thoughts all turned into stark treacle flowing in his head now. The crimson evening, the other Allcrimsonsky, was as if stroking him by the brown fur, drying it, making shine and slightly rumpling.
"Like my Inspiration Spot", Kermit sighed, missing his swamp.
"Aha, only banjo`s missing", Quentin laughed.
Nancy snuggled near Beau - it was pleasant to her to see her son happier than ever. He was afraid that will soak her dress, but it wasn`t matter for the clumsworthess. She only wrapped her hand around his shoulder:
"How I wish it never end, sonnyboy."

And Zeliboba even envied a bit deep down, admiring them. He had no mother, like the other dratchers did, - only the Great Lake Hoyde was their "spring".

"Come to us, Zel", Nancy called him, spying the light sparkle of envy in the black eyes.

The courtyard spirit did so, and she stroked his sideburns. An accidental sigh came out of Zel`s chest: perhaps, first time in his life he was fonded by a mother. No matter that not his own.
"Okay, get dry, and then we`ll come to see our home", Beautingleroth declared.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

..LATER...

Obeira left with her folk. But she had to, as a queen. She magicked up a farewell firework to see off the friends, and soon they already couldn`t see her, moving farther.

How long the way to the castle is... But if you have a good talk on it, it seems shorter, and the group even barely spied that reached Clumsburg. Beautingleroth saw how does the grass under their feet goes blue. And soon afterwards started the edge of the town.

Zeliboba felt awkwardly, towering over the other clumsworths. Firstly he nearly thought that got on the potato fields, because they were almost all brown and short (for him). But he still liked them - and it was hard not to like.

"Tell me about your clan symbols", Mr. Regard asked him on the way. "Do you have a coat-of-arms?"
"I do", Zeliboba said, magicking up its image: on the orange field was a sword, entwined with a necktie.
"And what does it mean?"
"The mild power", the dratcher said. "I designed it myself - wanted firstly to change the tie to a vine, but then leaved a tie for some reason.."
"Well, afterall, it`s a symbol of yours", the old clumsworth nodded. "Very clever."

And here they are - the castle gate. With the old butler near.
"Good evening, Mr. Fourt", Beauregard greeted him. "We want to see my Granda... um, hehe, the Great Beauhoth Tingleroth!"
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

*huge grin* More references to mine! Thanks yeeee!!!

(hi ho, hi ho, and back to school work i go...see ya later)

[Effralyo]

(Bye Gardik, and back home I go too...to write the rest chapters.) :)

[Effralyo]

..Trrrrrrrrrrangolora, I`m`eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...The old clumsworth butler bowed to them lowly and opened the gate:
"Have a nice time, Beau. And you, the noble guests."

...Following the group along the corridors, Zeliboba admired the old medievial surrounding, recalling his visits to The Count. Some of his own relatives had alike castles too, but they looked still not so like this one.

He inspected the large paintings on the walls. It were all the rulers of Raenbu before Beauhoth. Yes, he used to hear about them..long ago - perhaps, from Queen Obeira, perhaps, from someone else, but did. They said, the clumsworths are very ancient folk, whose clan rises into far far times of the ruling of The Great Bdang, the ancient Muppet leader who ruled their land first.

And, as if by a wonder, Zel accidentally saw on a wall a portrait of Bdang himself.

He looked a bit like Fozzie with a beard, a bit like a viking, and a bit like Beautingleroth, with brown fur, in full battle armor, leaning on a spear.

"You guessed", Beautingleroth said. "It`s him."
"Really?.."
"Right. My father told that his spear lays somewhere in our castle. After the first battle with the human agressors Bdang gave it to the first clumsworth, Hawgluor, an one of his helpers."
"And the other was Djaykoman", Zeliboba whispered. "Djaykoman Dratcher... I know it... Obeira told us long ago..."
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

Ooooh!Cool the story just keeps going and going! And getting better too!!! It's lovely to have you writing in my setting!

[Effralyo]

...The Throne Hall...

Beauhoth saw the invisable barrier smashing, but didn`t see who did it. He just couldn`t trust into such wonder. Zelirangoo opened infront of his eyes again...

"By Rainbow`s name", he whispered, standing by the window. "Oh my..."
The ruler wiped secretly a tear, recalling Obeira and her folk. Who knows when else they`ll see each other again... Perhaps never. Perhaps, Miss Nancy Pinksworth had managed to defeat the dratchers while he didn`t know anything about her. Maybe. And maybe now the dale isn`t magic anymore.

"Why", he expired, "why did they do it?.."

He winced listening.

Someone was coming here.

He heard the familiar voices, several of them he knew - that`s Beau and his parents; then were several also common - he recalled them since the day when the other Muppets got here to save the rainbow`s life, - and the other, low, kind and unknown voice he couldn`t recognise.
But an accidental guess made him go all flaming inside:
"A dratcher!.."
..What if at least the one had still survived?! What if...
Beauhoth listened again. Yes , it couldn`t be any doubt more. A dratcher with them. Certain young one. And male. Or why else he could step so hardly.

...Appearing infront of fellow king in an unofficial tee and fuzzy jeans would be too unpolitely of Zeliboba, and he magicked up again a mantle on. He tried to find the neccessary words to say to Beauhoth when will meet with him face to face. Something praising and serious. But what?..
He froze for a moment when they reached the doors of the Throne Hall.
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

Yey!!! Whoo!!!!

Actually...this makes me think..maybe I too will write a What's sequel one day...

...once I have finished my story of the Muppets without kermit.

[Effralyo]

And you can certainly borrow all my heroes for it, Gardee! I won`t mind!..
(TBC after your PM) ;)

[Effralyo]

All friends entered.
Beauhoth was already on the throne, as if it wasn`t him a minute ago who let himself shed a tear. No, looking at him now, it was hard to imagine.

"I knew it", he said, looking at Zeliboba. "Hello, Survivor."
The dratcher arched his eyebrows in amazement.
"Survivor?.. Sorry, can`t get on, Your Majesty?.."
"But isn`t the magic dale defeated?.. I thought, if Nancy ever got there, she might..."
"She might.." - Zeliboba repeated and suddenly laughed. - "Golly!.. Ah, how would you think about it!.. We are all alive, all, from me to our Queen!.. Who asked me to give you her greetings, by the way."
Now it was up to Beauhoth to cheer. He even shifted on his throne (which, by the way, was just on Zel`s shoulders level, so the spirit hadn`t bow to talk with Tingleroth):
"Wh...what did you say - Obeira`s alive?.. She rules the dale as she wished?.."
'Certainly, Your Majesty! Sure she does." - Zel slapped his forehead and apologised: -"Sorry, I even didn`t say my name. I`m Zeliboba..um, I mean - Zelibowwing Kedragger. The President of the Outside World Muppets."
The old clumsworth nodded, then got up from the throne and walked to him, shaking his hand:
"I`ve never thought that will see it one day, young Zeliboba."
"He`s my friend, Grandad!", Beau said with pride. "If there wasn`t both him and Effralyo, we`d never defeat the other threat to our world!"
"Effralyo?"- Tingleroth turned to the echo dwarf. - "Ah, this little geewiliker!..."
Eff confused, looking at him. Beau certainly had told about Effralyo to his grandfather before, but the spirit hadn`t seen Beauhoth with his eyes yet. And now he could. And for a moment lost his gift of speaking.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Beauhoth tried to show as he could that he absolutely doesn`t want to show off now, but all the "outsiders" were still a bit embarrassed. Certainly, not every day you easily get a chance to talk with the king just like this. Zeliboba, though a president himself, is still young and doesn`t like to show off. And Beau`s grandfather is looking so seriously...

As for Quentin, he was just fascinated in this moment. In his life it was, perhaps, the most marvellous hour. He recalled the day he met Beauregard. But had no idea that this accidental eevnt will turn into THIS! Now here he is, right infront of the throne of the ruler of Raenbu, and Beauhoth looks at him and talks with him,- just stand here and couldn`t believe whether it`s true, or will all disappear as you`ll wake up.
Quentin looked around. Everything in the hall was literally begging for being painted. And he now pitied more than ever that hasn`t neither a pencil, nor an album, nor at least a piece of coal. The bright purple mantle of the king. And Zeliboba`s blue mantle, contrasting with Beauhoth`s but suiting to the surrounding... The overwhelmed crowd of the Muppets near the throne...

And meanwhile Beauregard kept telling, and telling, and telling, introducing everyone he met and befriended in Outer World. He was telling so convincingly that the old clumsworth even gasped. Tingleroth was now all bulging with pride for his grandson, and couldn`t hide it, - it tried to get outside itself, threating to burst him. Just think... And someday the same Beauregard was sent into exile! To prove his worthness to live here, in Raenbu!.. If only Nancy Pinksworth could squeak something against him now!.. He`d show her!.. Or Zeliboba... or... - The thoughts turned into the whirlwind in Beauhoth`s head, and Beautingleroth and Nancy were both silent: he was going to say something tender and, along with it, important, to Beauregard.
"I`d never expect such from you, my boy", he said at last. "Never. I even had no idea that the ruler of the Outsiders - all these noble Outsiders - will be your best friend. I`d never thought that you will be a Swallower. No one knows how many Swallowers else does exist here, in Raenbu, you are the one and perhaps only. And incase of it all, let me hug you, Beau."

The janitor clung to his grandfather, inspiring the scent of the crimson mantle, and shut his eyes. Beauhoth embraced him tightly, stroking his dark dreads, and smiled, hiding the unwanted tears.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

(Color code for the song: C, G, Dm, Am.)

"Yes...", the old clumsworth said, letting at last go of Beau. "Yes, you`ve proved it. Excuse us all, Beau. Excuse us."

"But..." - Beauregard looked at him enbarrassed. -"But you ain`t guilt in anything!.."

"Anyway", Beauhoth said. "And now I`m going to do the thing I wished to do way long ago but couldn`t. Today I`ll give it to you at last.'
'My name?", the clumsworth exclaimed. "You`ve choose a name for me?... And what one?"
"I thought and decided", Tingleroth emited, "that nothing will suit you more than ... Beauregard."
"But I actually AM Beauregard, ain`t I?", Beau amazed.
"Yes, but in the real name "BEAU" won`t mean "son", the king corrected. "So...





It`s time for grandson now to kneel,



It`s time to listen to grandfather,
Who knew - one very day he will
Be from his kingdom and the folk no longer farther.

It`s time, though here there isn`t time,
To rest my hand on head of grandson,
And prove that you are worth new name
In eyes of Raenbu and the Great Creator Henson.

You never will
Forget
The day
I gave you name
And shown
The way-
Thru arch of Rainbow
In the sky to get
In Outer World to see your friends you always may.

In name of Sacred Wooden Hearts,
My lovely child, unlike they all,
Since very day "Twice Beauregard"
Will every clumsworth you in sign of honor call.

And in your gaze I guess my eyes,
I guess myself in deeds and sayings,-
And that`s why BEAU`s repeating twice,-
As if a mirror I look in that never lies.

And even if
I can`t be here and help,
My bless will shield you
From the woe,
Just keep your name,
Like sacrify, in mind,
For others Beauregard, for us you`re always Beau.

I gave you name,
And shown
The way,
My bless will shield
From any
Woe,
Just keep your name,
Like sacrify, in mind,
`Cause on the end of RAINBOW there is always BEAU.

(End of Chapter 28)

[Effralyo]

..but not the end of STORY! (Waiting, waiting, waiting...)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 29 - As If I Spent Ages Here!

As the king had ended the song, Beau looked in his eyes again. They were lighting with happiness.

Then Beauhoth walked to the couple of Regards, putting a paw on Beautingleroth`s shoulder.
"You can be really proud, my dear child", he said. "I`d never seen anything alike even in the days of saving the Rainbow. Fair. Your son is a real wonder himself. Perhaps the other clumsworths are better than he in something, but no one of them could fame our land as he did it. No one, only Beauregard."
"Many lonely Sleeps had I spent looking at the silent sky," Nancy said, "and was still hoping that he`ll survive in there."
"And I`d been dreaming about such friend for ages", Zeliboba confessed. "Fair!"
"But don`t forget since whom had it all began", Kermit said, nodding at Effralyo.
And what could the geewiliker do else except jump on Beau`s hands and give him such a smack that nearly got stuck to his cheek himself!..

(TBC)

[Effralyo]

...LATER, WHEN IT GOT ALREADY DARK...

Beauhoth decided not to shock the guests too much with royal stuff, and offered them a peaceful usual evening tea-drinking. (Luckily, the hall had high celling, and Zel hadn`t to ouch when he entered.)
Curtains were down in the one of the halls, and only the candles lighted up. It reminded Zeliboba The Count`s castle more. The only difference was only that there wasn`t any bats here.
They all rested in the armchairs near the fireplace, keeping admiring almost everything, while Nancy, as a regular kind hostess, was in the kitchen with Clifford - he wanted to help her.
Patches of orange light made Beautingleroth`s beard seem softer than it even was, and looked mystically, reflecting in Floyd`s dark glasses. As if the Field-Marshal had fire eyes.
"It`s so cosy here", Mildred sighed. "I feel as if ahd spent ages in this place. Pity that I can`t stay."
"Why, dear?", Beauhoth said. "After your marvellous dance with Beau?.."
"But I`m expected in Outer World", the librarian said sadly. "Certainly, I can stay for a while... Not for ever."
"No matter," Beauregard whispered, putting a paw over her hand secretly.
Mildred nodded, smiling weakly.
Light wasn`t falling on that corner, and the auburn paw kept restiing on her hand. Beau for some reason didn`t want anyone to see it. To be near her and hold her hand was for him too huge happiness to chat away about it everywhere or show.
"Perhaps, you won`t mind about spending a night here, Zeliboba?", Tingleroth asked. "And tomorrow you can quietly look Beautingleroth`s home and garden."
"And fish with me, aha?", Beau exclaimed.
"Sure!", the dratcher laughed, adding in whisper: "Besides, maybe, the beds in here are of my size!"
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

I wishI could tell of each piece here that made me smile, and laugh, and grin hugely!!!

The naming...wow...And Twice Beauregard..amazing...*sniff*

Beauhoth..being so touched...make me wonder if maybe once a long time ago he hadn't loved the Dratcher queen...

And! It's! All! So! Gardlingly!! Wow!!!

[Effralyo]

And why must he love her if Obeira 1) is much elder than him and 2) was best friends with Nancy Ginger, not with Beauhoth himself? Besides, notice, she met them when they were already married. :P
(TBC soon:), and thanks for an idea for my sig!)

[Effralyo]

They could continue the talk quietly, but suddenly....

Right in the middle of the hall appeared the glowing. Like a portal. Then it spilled on the separated sparkles, which all soon united into some..thing..no, in somebody... very familiar....
"What the... But.. It`s ..."- Beauhoth even choked with a scone. -"Unbelieviable.."
In a minute they understood that infront of them is who else but...

"Obeira???"

The dratcherelle`s body glowed in the demi-dark. She was indeed here. Stood infront of the fireplace. And handed something small and bright, looking like a big jewel, to the king.
"You won`t believe, Tinnee", she said. "But I`ve found it near the wall ruines. Firstly wanted to hail Zeliboba, but it was too late, and... um, I`m here..."
"Very nice", Beauhoth confused, taking the "jewel". "And what`s it? An ornament for the crown?"
"Better", Obeira smiled. "Wanna look what it is to light thru?"
The clumsworth nodded, drawing the "jewel" closer to his face.
It seemed living. Something like flowing energy was caught in it, and constantly changed its shape, sparkling in the candle light.
"Someone`s life", Beauhoth whispered.
"Guessed?", Obeira winked. "And whose?"
"No..." - He widened his eyes in shock. "It cannot be... it just.... But is it?.."
The dratcherelle nodded.
"Miss Nancy might put it into the wall foundament to force it", she said, lightly wagging her tail. "But Father thinks she could just drop it down and forget while escaping from there. Take it, Tinnee, and do what you must do."
(TBC);)

[Beauregard]

(True, but I still think...:p Ok, ok, I give in :p)

Posted at teh same time..and...waht a post!!!

Can it be...is it she??? Or am I wrong!!! Oh, what if I am right!!!

[Effralyo]

Beauhoth, being afraid even to breath, huddled the "jewel" to his heart.
"Okay", he expired. "Okay.

Heart that was dreaming for ages, I call you,
Call you, awake, and return now to Raenbu,
Beg you, became who you were before poison,
Warm you, while holding, and light you,while crying."


At the same moment the "jewel" as if explored in his hands. Our friends straight away screwed up their eyes -the light flash was too bright to bear.


But what a sight was infront of them when they opened eyes again!...

The clumsworthess.. And what a clumsworthess!... Beauhoth moaned looking at Ginger... She was looking just like in the day of Beautingleroth`s birth. The same dress. The same tender smile. Eyes like forget-me-nots. She stretched out her hands to embrace the king.

"The Queen returned!" - Obeira exclaimed. - "Vivat the Queen!"
"G-Grandma!..", Beauregard acked. "Whoa!.."
(TBC)


Bye till tomorrow, Gard, wait for me with the end already of the STORY! And send me one day a photo of your Beau when will get him. As a greeting. :) >Hug< :snore:

[Beauregard]

*colapses*

*gets up*

*colapeses again*

[Effralyo]

..Merrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrely?????????????????? ?...............:) Ha, look what`s next!..

..Everybody, and especially Effralyo, who had endured the similar thing, were staring at the Clumsworth Queen with a silent delight.
"Ah..", she pronounced with slight astonishment. "Can`t believe that I`m home!.."

"You certainly are, honey", Beauhoth smiled.
"And already absolutely safe", Obeira added. - "Be sure, no one will insult you.."
"Yes..", Ginger agreed. - "I remember it."
"But how had it happened, honey?", the Clumsworth King tenderly asked.
And, as Clifford offered Nancy Gnger his chair, she started to tell.

"You perhaps remember the day when she firstly came to our castle? Such an innocently looking pink clumsworthess, dressed as a seamstress... Certainly, I even had no idea who she really was.. Certainly.. And I`m very sorry for it now.

That witch captured my mind... It was painful,- no, it was just terrible, but I was afraid to open it, share with anyone, because she threated that her charms will spread on everyone who will know it besides me.

I was silent all the time after Beautingly was born: she threated to kill him if I`ll say... (Beautingleroth screamed hearing this.) You didn`t know, honey, how hard was living with this and bear... but I had to - for Beautingly, for Raenbu`s sake, for..you."

Our friends rustled something in sympathy, while she went on:

"Nancy wasn`t need me, she just used me as a shield.. And at that very day I absolutely lost my head and was finally ready to all that only will help to defeat her, she stolen my life.."

"..prisoning it into a jewel?..", Beautingleroth exclaimed. "Gosh, Mum.."

Nancy Ginger winced, glancing at him. So this is her son, her Beautingly?.. But why.. and where...?.... He looks so old.... How amny years could pass if he already looks so, and how many years had she spent sleeping?..
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

The Muppets are really immortal.

Even if an one of them stops their life, it absolutely doesn`t mean that they die.

There always is a way to revive them. Always.

But Miss Nancy wasn`t a clumsworth, even wasn`t a Muppet, just a polymorph witch. And that`s why, when the Great Flood of the Time nearly had destroyed Raenbu, she died and couldn`t revive as any muppet.

Who could know what her real appearance was?.. Already no one. Perhaps she forgot it herself...

And the reason why had she got in Raenbu at all was certainly that the clumsworths were too gullible. Miss Nancy even was amazed to it: they could easily trust to any her lie...

But, luckily for them, the day came when she accidentally ahd punished herself...

Beautingleroth was thinking about this all, looking at his mother,found already after so many years.

"Sonnyboy, goldy", she turned to him. "Don`t blame yourself. Mother always will identify her child, however could he look..."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Obeira might cry from glad, but, certainly, she couldn`t.She only sighed, watching already second time for a day the meeting of mother and son. But at the next moment the dratcherelle was just overwhelmed herself, because nearly the whole clumsworth family hung on her. Beauhoth, Beautingleroth, Nancy Ginger, Nancy Regard, Beaureg... no, he was in the chair, watching this all from the side...
"So that means I`ve got a Grandma too today?!", Clifford excalimed. - golly!.. golly, golly, golly!..."
"I`m happy", Beau sobbed from beneath a hanky. -"I`m just so happy!.."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

It was a literal chain of happiness this evening... Just judge yourself, how many events had caused merely a small geewiliker, who wanted one day to help a lonely clumsworth... And how Beauregard was glad that his family had restored at last; Clifford - that had got a real family he had been dreaming about for ages; the Muppets - because they were the eye-witnesses of this; Quentin - that got another charge of inspiration; Zeliboba- that had got another best friend; Obeira - that managed to take at least a short vacation from her royal self...

...and far far away from Raenbu, somewhere, Matt was looking at the first stars, being glad too, unable to let go of his large plush clumsee even for an hour. Though mother didn`t trust that Beau had swallowed him, the boy was still happy, and now was thinking of the real Beauregard, hugging the plush one.

Couldn`t fall asleep Ferralyo, as he met his son. The old geewiliker nearly upsetted the whole wood with his charms.

What to do, if glad, being sent on the circle, always comes around the world and returns to the one who let it go? That`s a law of life. And for the muppets it is even ten times more true.. Pity that the humans haven`t learn it till the end yet.

And somehow that quiet tea-drinking in the castle turned into the feast. Not so big, certainly - the celebration of Ginger`s returning Beauhoth planned on tomorrow. But just what was worth a royal persons. It even wasn`t so matter that it was dark already outside. The Sleep seemed to be long enough both for a good feast and for bedtime.

Only when the first stars lighted up in the sky, Queen Obeira left the castle. She was need her folk. And, besides, was need to share the joy with them.

The good lovely old time returned to Raenbu. No, not that time which nearly unleashed once,- just the days when the sacred Wooden Hearts, the Tree of Clan, everyting that was preciable, was safe, and near the residents of Clumsburg dwelled their sky-blue, kind and loveable spirit neighbors. And not only they. Absolutely all the inhabitants of Zelirangoo Dale.

And perhaps, yet sleeping in their huts, the clumsworths were just recognising it all now.
(End of Chapter 29, but not of the STORY!)

[Effralyo]

Chapter, hehe, 30, hehe- Show`er A Wonder!

..."And now Cliffy will go bye-byes. Goodnight, sonnyboy." - Nancy Regard kissed Clifford in a moustache and went out, taking the candle with her.

Clifford sniffed something from beneath his silk blanket, took off his glasses and put them on the nearby chair.
It was his first night in a real royal castle. A good chance to sprawl on a real featherbed - golly, what do you say, the orphanage apologise for a matress is nothing to compare! No, sir!.. - and think again about the life.
That "Cliffy will go bye-byes" touched him deep down for some reason, and prehaps from it Clifford`s eyes teared. Luckily, it wasn`t noticable in the dark.
He licked his moustache, on which left the crumbs and scent of that cake, and hardly recognised that falls already asleep.
..So deeply that didn`t hear the steps beyond the door.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

...Mildred followed her brown "guide", who led her to the bank of the orange pond behind the castle. Actually, now it was seeming rather deep blue in the dark.
"And the stars are visable here", Beauregard whispered. "Only the moon hides."
"Yes...", the librarian nodded, admiring the sleeping kingdom.
They couldn`t let go of the hands of each other, keeping just looking in each other`s eyes, trying to find in there something else that could open, explain, tell about their souls. Beau felt nearly more awkwardly than on the Fancy Dress Ball last night. Not because he was ashame of himself - it already wasn`t reason for it,- but because every time he glanced at Mildred the words were gone. Perhaps because they weren`t need here.And she could clearly see in the poor blue eyes that he suffers from it, but still cannot deal with it...

Certain light, like from the moon, fell on Mildred, uncurling her short curly hair and making it longer and more straight. She fell that a flower wreath appeared on her head. And her look became milder than ever.
"What`s going on?..", she amazed, looking into the lake surface.
"I....I don`t know..", Beauregard confused. - "Perhaps Raenbu gives you a gift... itself..."
"But..."
And Beau decided to tell all fair.
"Milly", he whispered. "Excuse me."
"Why?.."
"Because it all began from my single wish. We might needn`t save Effralyo, he could be safe, and the other Muppets could be safe and hadn`t to shuffle god knows where... if I didn`t want to buy you something as a present that day. Trust me... I had no idea that the necklace I choosed will be cursed!.."

Mildred didn`t spy herself how smiled. She understood now all. So that`s what Beauregard was keeping so long from her...
She gave him a tight hug under whisper:
"Poor child.... Certainly I excuse... Certainly I do, my dear child."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

He either sobbed, or sighed - she didn`t get on, but continued:
"But look what have you really done, Beau. Just think. Saved the three lands at once. Certainly, not without the friends` help. Swallowed perhaps the most dangerous outlaw in the world. Isn`t it worth of a single glance of a lady you have been dreaming for ages of?"..
Beau didn`t answer.
But only nodded.

You stand with her, and can`t let go
Her hand,
Can`t say a word, while being charmed
So much.
You flush the leavings of your worrying woe,
Flame from only touch.
What can make flame go out, you never
knew,
But only looked at her and burnt
again.
And now she opened her ex-hidden
soul,
Gave a hug to you.

Star falls, you make a wish, and kingdom
sleeps,
Infront of you already princess
stands.
The frail and desirable happiness
Rests in auburn hands.

Show her a miracle - that miracle
For which in centuries the knights might die,
Show her a treasure that you dreamed
to give
And that`s hard to buy.


"My forget-me-nots", Mildred whispered, lightly moving her finger along Beau`s shut eyes.
"My wild rose", he whispered, kissing her hand.
"Poor child..."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

And suddenly happened a wonder that Mildred perhaps will remember ever after.
It started from the fireflies. They flied over the lake quietly before, and as the librarian accidentally glanced there, she saw... her name, written in large fine letters. The fireflies shaped into them, and for several minutes the big sign hung over the water, like a city light signs, but better.
Then the flowers under feet of the two Muppets started to glow. Firstly weakly, but brighter with every second. Beau somehow astonished that.... he controls it all himself. But he wasn`t a spirit anymore! How can he do that, then?...
And meanwhile his heart came out from under the control at all. The glowing spreaded on the stones, on tree branches, on the pond waves...
Mildred even acked, looking how the light shapes into big hearts and letters of her name. Beau stood with stretched out hands, they glowed, and the magic expiring out of them did it. She wanted to exclaim something, but the clumsworth as if couldn`t hear her, frozen in magic. It was stronger than him. "Mildred, Mildred, Mildred", said almost every grass blade. "Mildred, I love you. I adore you. Do what you want with me, but I love you."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Pheeeeeeeeew, can`t believe that there is 2 chapters and a half till the end... Glark!
:waiting:

[Effralyo]

(Continuing...)

...Mildred kept staring at the beautiful sight fascinated.
Now she finally convinced herself that it`s true. Beauregard loves her, even though knows that she`s a banker`s wife. He knows it, but loves not like a human does. He doesn`t want to harm neither her nor her husband. He just tells that loves and doesn`t know where to place it all, and is ready to everything to be worth of a kind word from his Lady. He didn`t know what to give her before, but as they got in Raenbu, he had found it at last. And she, Mildred Huxtetter, couldn`t believe in it, and frozen as if in the middle of a dream, a miraculous vision he had just generated.

They were in the center of the wonder right now. Perhaps a fairytale-type miracle. But first in Mildred`s life. And in Beauregard`s. And, as a final feature to complete it, the huge graceful seven-colored arch crossed the sky above their heads.
Rainbow in the night!...
Beau whirled her... Like in that very Ball night... Their laughter echoed in the whole wide Raenbu. And if they could look now at the shaded spot near the pond, they could see Zeliboba and Effralyo smirking pleased, elbowing and winking to each other: -"Nicely done!" - "Aha! Tehe...look!.."
(End of Chapter 30) - but still not of the story...

[Beauregard]

*stunned silence*

*waou....*

I'll get from school as fast as I can to give you a poper reveiw of this last chapter!!!

[Effralyo]

:)Hey, hey, it isn`t the last(final) one yet! :) Too early to say bye!..

[Effralyo]

Chapter 31 - The Queen WAS dead, Vivat the Queen!

..Early next morning, on the market...

...Uncle Beauciderbarrel had just finished to place the parsley bunches on his showcase, when the same flower salesmaids started to whisper and giggle behind his back.

"Well, and now what?..", the old clumsworth turned to them. - "Again something about Nancy?.. How`s she, had found her ..eeerrrrmm...children or not?.."

"And you don`t know all yet, Uncle Beaucy?", exclaimed one of the clumsworettes. -"The lost Queen had been found yesterday. Nancy Ginger! Will you go to the fair today?.."

"A fair?.." - Beauciderbarrel dropped down a basket of apples. - "And..you..were..silent all this time?!.."

"Certainly, a fair to celebrate this great event!", the same clumsworette suggested. - "They say, Beauhoth greeted a King of the Outsiders!.. I`ve even seen him yesterday!.. Such a tall and all shaggy... and wears a furry mantle... But very kind!"

"Eerm", the grocer nodded. "That has a point. Well, you chatterboxes, okay, you can count that convinced me."

(TBC)

[Effralyo]

When Clifford woke up, it still seemed to him that he dreams. Couldn`t get used to the splendid room. Unlike his own one in the Mupet House and even in the clumsworths`house in here! But it was true.
Whump! Out of the bed and - wash face. He quickly shuffled to the bathroom door (golly, and even haven`t to wait, standing 20 or 30th in the row, till the toothbrush vacant!...),from where in a few minutes came out, looking just "triddly-how", as Miss Piggy might say.
Down the stairs, and here`s Beau`s bedroom.
"Hey-hola-fringa-rola-haikie-waikie-Bo!..", Cliff hailed, erupting inside. -"Ack!.."
It was empty.
The pink muppet shrugged, scratching head:
"Weird... - Wait... Waffers for breakfast!.. Sure!.."

.."And you nearly overslept", Nancy smiled, pouring a cup of coffee for him. - "Morning, Cliffy, goldy!.."
"Eer-morning, Mum", he quickly nodded. - "Beau, slept well?"
"He - well", Effralyo winked, elbowing Cliff, and giggled, poking nose in his pyjamas.
"Aah!.." - Clifford recalled why had Zeliboba called him for a secret yesterday, and recalled what did the dratcher whispered to him. -"Aha, thanks."
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

The Muppets are really immortal.

Yes. Yes!

This was an amazing sentence, somethign I love in all books, and stories, in when they suddenly come out with a statement like this...such as in one of my stories, I sddenly state, "Each humn is driven by fear." or "The greater love is the love that is willing to die."

And this time I agree wholeheartedly...The Muppets Are Immortal!

And the reason why had she got in Raenbu at all was certainly that the clumsworths were too gullible. Miss Nancy even was amazed to it: they could easily trust to any her lie...

Yes, Gardy's have always been gullible. Too much so. I'm amazed at how this story wrapes up mine so beautifuly!

It was a literal chain of happiness this evening...

Indeed! I havn't stopped smiling, and glarking, and smiling again since I started reading!!!

Obeira - that managed to take at least a short vacation from her royal self...

*giggle*

Matt was looking at the first stars, being glad too, unable to let go of his large plush clumsee even for an hour.

Glardy-dar!!!

What to do, if glad, being sent on the circle, always comes around the world and returns to the one who let it go? That`s a law of life. And for the muppets it is even ten times more true.. Pity that the humans haven`t learn it till the end yet.

Yes...this is so true. If only we could all realise this...:sing:There magic in the air, this evening, magic in the air...:sing:

...Mildred followed her brown "guide", who led her to the bank of the orange pond behind the castle. Actually, now it was seeming rather deep blue in the dark.

Aww!!! So sweet! My Milly!

"I....I don`t know..", Beauregard confused. - "Perhaps Raenbu gives you a gift... itself..."

*catches breath*

And suddenly happened a wonder that Mildred perhaps will remember ever after.
It started from the fireflies. They flied over the lake quietly before, and as the librarian accidentally glanced there, she saw... her name, written in large fine letters. The fireflies shaped into them, and for several minutes the big sign hung over the water, like a city light signs, but better.
Then the flowers under feet of the two Muppets started to glow. Firstly weakly, but brighter with every second. Beau somehow astonished that.... he controls it all himself. But he wasn`t a spirit anymore! How can he do that, then?...
And meanwhile his heart came out from under the control at all. The glowing spreaded on the stones, on tree branches, on the pond waves...
Mildred even acked, looking how the light shapes into big hearts and letters of her name. Beau stood with stretched out hands, they glowed, and the magic expiring out of them did it. She wanted to exclaim something, but the clumsworth as if couldn`t hear her, frozen in magic. It was stronger than him. "Mildred, Mildred, Mildred", said almost every grass blade. "Mildred, I love you. I adore you. Do what you want with me, but I love you."

What can I say...

And if they could look now at the shaded spot near the pond, they could see Zeliboba and Effralyo smirking pleased, elbowing and winking to each other: -"Nicely done!" - "Aha! Tehe...look!.."

Ahhaha!!!! Hahahahaha! *wipes laughing tears*

[Effralyo]

(Ton of bricks falls down from the mind)
Thanks for darn reliefing my mood, Gardik! This post really costs those 9 999 past. Wait, wait, it`s time now for fair!.. :)
*Posts Continue*

[Effralyo]

..MEANWHILE IN THE TOWN...

(Clap! clap! clap!)
(Violins)
Oy ranai-ree di ranai-raa, how we had always been,
Oy ranai-ree di ranai-raa, darn waiting for the Queen!..
Oy dela-dor-dee-di ranai-raa, now feast we everywhere,
Oy ranai-ree di ranai-raa, and welcome to the fair!

Rey, rey, rahoyda, di ranor radoyraa-
Oy ranai-ree di ranai-raa, and welcome to the fair!..

Uncle Beauciderbarrel:
Now come and choose what do you want, my dears, today for free,
Now come and look what do you wish, whatever can it be! Hey!..-
The Clumsburg feasts a lot today, ha, long live our Queen,
Da-rio-nay-ree-di-o-nay-raa, and darn on all the mean!..
(Rey, rey, rahoyda, di ranor radoyraa-
Dario-nay-re-di-o-nay-raa, and darn on all the mean!..)

(Clap! Clap! Clap!.. Clap!..)

(Harmonica)
Gioole, kioove, dioy-de-la, the clumsworths sing today,
Ah kioole, gioove, kioy-de-laa, let de harmonica play!..
Ah kioove, kioove, giorn-todalee, kiole-ole-o-da-wee,
Sing along and walk around, de fair is worth to see!...
(Rey, rey, rahoyda, di ranor radoyraa-
Ha, sing along, and walk around, de fair is worth to see!..
The fair is worth to see!..
The fair is worth to seee!..... Hey!..
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

...Never our friends had seen such a bright clumsworths crowd!... As they left the castle - and Nancy Ginger had to leave for a few else to make a real surprise to her folk,- they straight away got into a real medley of such colors that Beau had got a mouth like that maple syrup he ate a minute ago with the waffers.

This time Zeliboba could see the citizens more properly, unlike yesterday, when they were all blurry by the weak light. And they looked at him rather like at a maypole than at a president!- Well, what else could the dratcher expect being 9 feet tall! But it wasn`t an insult. Zel took with grate all those wreaths the clumsworthlets handed him, and, in order of not to insult them, put on an one wreath himself, and the rest gave to the friends.

But for Beauregard, when they reached the main square, waited an absolutely unexpected surprise - hardly he stepped there, and....

"Aah hahaha!... Ouch, oh!... Aaaagggh, haha, oy, heheheheheeeeee... Oh.. haha-e-ha-noough!..."

And what would you moan on his place, being as thrown up highly as was the janitor?.. Besides, plus all those "Vivat Beau!.... Vivat the hero!... Hip, hip, hoooraaaaaaaay!......" - and the golden coins the crowd throws to him. (When later he counted the coins, it was... just think! - ten thousands!..) But it wasn`t all, the citizens pulled in even Clifford, and soon already two muppets were soaring and falling, and again soaring, and again falling!.. Especially, certainly, Clifford, who was much lighter and thinner than Gard, But it wasn`t matter!
Merrily came in Raenbu, merrily it hadn`t ever known!...
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Recovering after those flights, Beauregard remembered that fake laughter Transfer made him to laugh way before. And for THIS people were supposed to pay?.. For several seconds of the fake happiness, when there`s a better chance to get alot more of the real happiness, besides, for free?..

No, he did still right that swallowed the fake scientist. It served him right! Because what could happen if he left Transfer alive? Even though he could be inprisoned?..
But certainly, much pleasure for our Beau was now swallow not the outlaws, but all this tasty stuff, plenty of which was here on every corner. Cotton candy... Suftiswicks in chocolate.. Corn with cheese... Chips.... Apple juice... Hohohoho, there we goooooooo!...
Today there wasn`t a hut without at least a thin ribbon on the roof in honor of the Queen returning. Raenbu was shining, like a candy itself, and attracting to itself, and pleasing, as any jolly fairyland else.
The clumsworth pitied perhaps already thousandth time that Robin leaved home. It passed already much time since the day he saved Raenbu, and the froglet haven`t seen how bright and merry can it be.
But it wasn`t merry even in the day when he, Beauregard, was born, and didn`t knew any joy during the whole period of Miss Nancy`s ruling. So... wait, wait, what do we already get by that?..
He hailed Effralyo and, unexpectedly for the geewiliker, gave him such hug that the dwarf firstly in the life felt how do ribs hurt!
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

...And just in a hour came the moment the whole Raenbu had been waiting.

The walls of the castle shivered and started to move, opening the two thrones with the King and Queen on them.

Beauhoth was all in stew, feeling the Wooden Hearts beneath his paw.

Will his people excuse him for that gulliblity?.. Will they take him again calmly and peacefully?.. - Who could say... It got all dark in his eyes for a second.

How many days had he spent alone, in the empty castle... No guards, no servant, no nothing. It was merely a heap of hard grey stones. And his very own heart nearly turned into this stone too! No.. Beauhoth was afraid even think about it. For the kind folk, whose hearts are always soft and kind, the ruler with the stone heart is nothing but death. Yes. Death. Even though they were the muppets.

And now the entire castle was just filling again with life.

And he had to get used to it again.

The grey stones got warmer, because this day made them so. No more any evil charms anywhere. No way to get here for any mean persons more, whoever they were, either the humans, or the witches, or whatsoever.
The paintings frames shone gold, as gold as honey, because life was inspired in them again. The Wooden Hearts, all five, all at once, seemed to pulse under Beauhoth`s hand.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

"The Queen was dead!..", he heard a lone voice from the crowd, and confised for a certain moment, unable to say a word.
But then resounded a literal roar of the entire town:

"V I V A T T H E Q U E E N!!!!!!!!!!........."

And then:

"V I V A T T H E K I N G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..........."

The common hullabaloo rolled on the crowd and deafen as Beauhoth lifted a hand.
"My people!.."
He amazed to his own voice sounding. It wasn`t as cold as before too!.. It changed.. But when?.. - Beauhoth felt: something melted in his soul. The ice that had been there all the time Nancy Pinksworth used him for her evil plans.
"My people!..", he declared loudly and clearly. - "I`m glad to see you all!.. I`m glad to have you pleased!.. But the thing making me and all of you most glad today is that my beloved Queen had just returned to rule Raenbu with me for ever and more!...."

("HOOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAAY!..........")

".. I learned just yesterday myself how did she disappeared and why. And couldn`t refrain from the tears. Yes, though I`m a ruler, I`m a clumsworth first of all .And that`s why, from my credulousity, I believed to the witch with thousands of faces, who captured my mind. she nearly defeated our land. She wanted to cause the flood of time to kill us all and start the new kingdom all by herself."

("HOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAH..........")

"...But she didn`t manage to deal with it. No one, daring to harm the Sacred Hearts, or even the more precious sacrify,- daring to destroy the family, the love to the friends, to the relatives, being the neighbors, - no one, who dares to harm it even for a bit, will survive. Their own heart will kill them. I learned it from my own life, my beloved people. Because nearly turned into a tyran myself. Yes, I beg now pardon from my kingdom."

("YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!....... ...")

(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Effralyo, staring at the King, barely got on that Zel lightly tugges him by a wingflap.
"Eff..Psst... Effy!.."

The geewiliker jumped on his shoulder to listen what Zel will order this time.
And the courtyard spirit started to whisper something. The more was he whispering the more Effralyo was smirking, glancing at Beau sometimes, and squeaking, "Yeah, yep, he`ll like it.. yeah!.."
"Get it?", Zeliboba finally asked.
"Yes, sir!", Effralyo shouted out, standing strightly.
"Now, go and act!"

********************
...FOR MILES AND MILES FROM HERE, IN THE REAL WORLD......

Flash!
"A-ha, it seems that`s the right street", Effralyo said to himself, HMMing in thought and looking around. "Which one did he say?.. The one with straw roof?.."
The geewiliker moved to the house.
Luckily, no one could see him here. If Beauregard himself in the first day of their befriending mistook him for a ghost, - what could think the regular people from the district? Afterall, not every day the spirits can walk along the town just like that...

...Matt`s Mum had just ended to bake the cake when resounded a loud "DON-DANNNNNNNNNNG!.."
(Effralyo could excellently imitate any doorbell, since just couldn`t reach the bell button himself with such height.)
And in a minute Matt, sitting awhile with a comic book in his room, heard:
"Matthee, that`s to you!.."
'Who, Mum?..", he exclaimed. For a second hair nearly rose: "Is it..?!"
"A certain dwarf", resounded from the corridor.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

(..where on earth are you, Gardy,- DANN-DONNNNNNG!.....)
Yoo hoo, anyone at home?..

[Effralyo]

"..now, just now, now", Effralyo calmed himself, while waiting near the door. "Umffff.. just now... "
Weird - and why Matt`s mother didn`t scare seeing him? No, even smiled, fancy that, eh!.. And said that "wait, I`ll just call him now".

But when Matt came out, Eff was overwhelmed even more.
"Effy!..", the boy exclaimed, picking the spirit up. -"Where are you from?.. What`s on with Beauregard?.."
"I`m just from him now", the geewiliker said. - "He asked me to say you.. Psshspppshhhhsshshspshhhshhshshhspshhpshpsh...."
"REALLY???"- Matthee couldn`t believe in such miracle. -"He said so?.."
"Exactly, and why do you think I`m here at all?.."
"Wait then, I`ll just go and ask Mum!.."
(End of Chapter 31; wait for the 32th - The Very End...)

[Effralyo]

Chapter 32, final, - Let The Glad On The Circle!

"Mum, can I go to...eeer.... to a friend of mine? He invites me today. On a party!", Matt asked, entering back the house while Effralyo waited outside.

"Oh, what to do with this urchin... Certainly. But don`t sit in there too long!", she sighed. "Hope you`ll call me from there?"
"If I`ll have time! Ok, bye, Mum!.."

.."And now what?", he turned to Effralyo. -"Is here a portal to there?"
"You needn`t it", the geewiliker answered. -"Just take me by the hand!"
"Alright..."

(TBC; sorry for pretty short posts...)

Sidenote: hmm.. Gardy, again this time difference.. I`ll better write the end tomorrow, okay? And leave you hold Eff in hands, along with Plastic Beau!:)
~Eff:sleep: ..zzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........zzzzz.zzzz.....z....

[Effralyo]

The boy squeezed Effralyo`s hand, and the echo dwarf clicked fingers.

When Matt recovered after blinding light flash, he guessed that stands right somewhere in a fairyland.
"Where we are, Effy?.."
"Hehe, and don`t you know?..", the geewiliker squeaked. - "That`s how does Raenbu look. It`s nativeland of Beauregard."
Matt looked around.
Indeed, the fairyland proved its name, because there was a huge rainbow arch over it, reaching, as seemed, the other end of the world.
The boy, with Effralyo on his shoulder, moved forward. Now all the huts of Clumsburg were empty, yet all decorated with flowers and ribbons. They reminded Matt the houses of his own nativeland,- actually, like the whole town...
"But where are all?..", he amazed.
"On the fair!. C`mon, Matthee, before we miss the best part of it!..", the echo spirit hurried him.
Matt nodded. Soon afterwards, with Effralyo`s help, he reached the town square..and nearly fainted, seeing plenty of clumsworths there. It was just impossible to see which one is Beauregard.
They all were looking towards the certain castle and listening to the King and Queen.
"Whoa", the boy expired. "And how will we find Beau amond them all?.."
"No problems", Effralyo winked. -"Later!" -He turned someplace and hailed: - "Zel, come`ere, I`ve found him!.. C`mon!.."
And only now Matt saw that there are not only clumsees on the square. There was also a small bunch of the Muppets from the Muppet Show, and that blue dratcher from the Other Side of Sesame Street.
The dratcher walked to him now, bent down:
"Well done, Effralyo! Hi, Matt!.."
"Hi, eeeeeer..." - The boy didn`t know his name and confused, but the courtyard spirit guessed it and called himself:
"Ah, yeah, I didn`t tell you that time! I`m Zeliboba! Glad to see you!" - He shook Matt`s hand and asked: - "Don`t you mind if I pick you up?"
"No, sir", Matthew replied.
So the dratcher sat him on his shoulders.
Holding onto Zeliboba` s sideburns, the boy felt as if on the tower top. Now the citizens were all below, and he easily spied Beau`s cap amond them. He wanted to call him, but Effralyo gestured -"later".
For some reason Matt, looking at the King, thought that he has something common with Beauregard himself. Something very similar... What if they are relatives indeed?.. Though Beau is merely a plain janitor?..
Hardly Matt thought about it, the crowd slowly dispersed, letting Zeliboba move to the thrones.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

"Your Majesty, King Beauhoth", he said, "and you, Lady Nancy Ginger, please, let me introduce you the biggest friend of your grandson in the whole wide human world - Matthew Regard."
With these words he carefully got Matthee down.
"So that`s true?..", the boy managed to think and looked at Beauhoth. - "Beau`s a..."
The old clumsworth stood from his throne.
"Thank you, Zeliboba, and you too, Fraly. Now, let me look closer at this little honorable guest."
Matt froze in disbelief.
Certainly, not every day in your life you can get into a real magic land, and meet a real king; certainly, not so often can you be in the center of the common attention and, of course, not always do you suddenly find out that your friend is a prince at a quarter.
So judge yourself, what could Matt feel now, seeing the thousands of blue and grey eyes and several pairs of the black ones staring at him with interest and curiosity.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

The clumsworths saw a real human boy, nevertheless, forst time in their life too. Certainly, after so many years of Miss Nancy`s cruel ruling they firstly looked with suspicion at the any creature that came from beyond the Rainbow, but this one looked absolutely friendly, so a bit afterwards they admired him.

"Thank you very much, Your Majesty, for a warm welcome", Matt started. "And to everyione who lives here. Yes, I`m a friend of Beauregard. And I like your land a lot. Thank you for inviting!"

"No", Tingleroth said softly. "Thank you, kid. If there wasn`t you, and Quentin, and Stangor, and plenty of other people thanks to which my Beau now feels good beyond the Rainbow every time he has to get there, we clumsworths could probably never trust to mankind at all. But today, seeing the most convincing prove to Beauregard`s words, I believe you."

He bent a bit and gave Matt a royal hug. The crowd yelled in glad. Hats and flowers soared in the air.

"Now, Matthee, go and join my folk, because today we celebrate the Day of Queen`s Returning!", Beauhoth exclaimed. -"And I have to say else", - he added, turning back to the audithory. - "Since this day I want to concluse an ever peace treaty between both sides of the rainbow! Are you agree, Zeliboba?"

"Sure!", the dratcher responsed.

And then Beauhoth unfolded a scroll with the treaty text and signed it firstly himself. After him Zeliboba wrote his name below too. Then the treaty was signed by each of the "outside" Muppets, Matt and Quentin, and, lastly, the members of the town council.

And after that pretty tedious but neccessary ceremony Matthew at last joined the common glee.
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

..Yes, life can sometimes be just marvellous, but when its level reaches the highest point, you don`t even know how to call it. Your friend of dreams is real, he`s here; besides, he invites you to visit his nativeland, and you get on a sich celebration... Gosh, what can be better, can anyone say?.. Maybe nothing...

***********************************************

...To the end of the holiday Zeliboba declared:

"And now, ladies and gentlemen, could you all stand into a row for my greatest conjure?.."

Both the clumsowrths and "outsiders" did so.

One after one, across the whole town, and the King was in the end of the chain, last but not least.

Zeliboba, standing to the other end, magicked up a cross between a fireball and a lightball, handing it to Kermit with a spell:

"Hokuraq! (Hold and pass!)"

And the frog passed it to the clumsworth standing next to him, and he - to the next one, and then to the next one... The lightball finally reached Beauhoth`s hands...

...and, like a bridge, connecting the two worlds, an another Rainbow shooted out of them.
It ended already somewhere in Outer World, far far from here.

The magic bridge, step on which could only someone kind, opened to their eyes.

"I just couldn`t find anything to prove our treaty", Zeliboba smiled, turning to Beauhoth. "So thought that it will suit."

So ended the greatest holiday in Raenbu`s story.
(But not the story yet! TBC)

[Effralyo]

...Later, near the Orange Lake...

There was only five of them,- Beau himself, Zeliboba, Clifford, Matt and Effralyo. The rest were still in the castle, while our five madcaps decided, as Gard promised yesterday, to fish here.

"Glarkh!.." - The dratcher pounced, stroke the water surface, and in a second caught a large furry fish.

"How is it called?", he asked.
"Krox", Beauregard said, while watching his own angle. -"Lucky you, and I hooked still only three ones, and all are small fry!"

In a half of a hour the dratcher caught ten another kroxen, and told about his fishing way:

"In Zelirangoo I used to fish too, but a bit in another way." - His hand with pulled out claws hovered above the water. - "You firstly freeze, wait, wait, wait for a stripe in the deep, aaaaaaand theeeeen... strike...like.. THIS!.." - He hit the water again, throwing a mid-sized fish on the sand.

Soon, nevertheless, the luck came to the others too, - it seemed the kroxen all piled here today especially to that event.

"Aarkh!.. It`ll be plenty of work for Mum this evening!..", Beau exclaimed, tugging his angle out of the water. - "Ha, look, a big one!.."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

Effralyo, sitting all this time on a willow branch, watched them firstly without any jeal, but soon it started to seem to him that they had already forgot him. They cheer, have fun, and no onw will even call the geewiliker, hail him, sit on the shoulder, scratch his sideburns... Terrible, lonesome...

Effralyo secretly jumoed down and sadly shuffled to somewhere. Perhaps, back to Zelirangoo, to his father. What could he do else, after rising Beau from the janitors, after cheering him so long... It seems, he`s now good for nothing, and his magic came to the end.

At the same second he suddenly heard Beauregard calling him.

"A mirage?", the geewiliker thought.

No, it was a real call....
"Eeeeeeeeffy-yyyyyyy!...."

"Gardy?..", he sobbed. "Y-you really want me to come back, though needn`t me more?..."

"Yes, and why do you think I needn`t you?.."

"But.." - Effralyo gasped. - "B-but you already have lots of friends... and a family... What for besides it all a geewiliker will be?.."

The clumsworth got on it all. Certainly!.. how much was he carried away with fishing that nearly forgot about his friend?..

"Effy", he laughed. "I`m awfully sorry! Come here, my little one!.. I didn`t want to insult you, fair!.."
(TBC)

[Effralyo]

And, to convince the dwarf finally, he stretched out both hands to him:
"C`mon, go ahead, Effy!.."
This worked.

And where was Effralyo`s whole sad mood only gone!.. He rushed onward, as ever, but... A-ha, "SBOWWN" didn`t sound! Beauregard nimbly caught him in hands in an inch from his body, like a goalkeeper, and hugged, almost impressed Eff in himself.

"See, geewilicky, how true it is?..", the clumsworth laughed. rumpling Effralyo`s feather hair. "And you thought, I`ll leave my Effy, eh?.. And you thought, I`ll forget my little guardian for ever, eh?.."

... Now the geewiliker was really sure that Gard won`t do it indeed. He had proved it. And it calmed Effralyo`s heart finally...
(TBC)

[Beauregard]

(..where on earth are you, Gardy,- DANN-DONNNNNNG!.....)
Yoo hoo, anyone at home?..
I'm readintg, I'm reading, and I have this HUGE grin, and then I am running back to schol work, nd will finish grinning, I mean, reading as soon as I can!

[Effralyo]

...Near the camp-fire, Matt enjoyed being in Raenbu as he could, and being with the Muppets, and it already wasn`t seeming to him a vision. It was absolutely real. Stretch out a hand and will touch Beau`s fur. Look in a far and will see the King`s castle. And the two worlds since this day are connected with the Rainbow Bridge. Though, maybe, not all of the humans know about it yet... Who knows, maybe, one day they`ll at last recognise it.

If Beauregard could now have any space, he could swallow Matthee again, but... - sadly, had to wait till all the fair tasty stuff, those impressions had he recieved for all the day will melt. So the clumsworth just gave him a hug, and both sat in silent, looking at the fire.

"And do you have winters here?", the boy asked.
"No, here`s always summer every day", Beau smiled.
"Lucky you", Matt answered under sigh. - "I wish it was always summer in our world too."
"But now you can spend the winter holidays here if you like", Clifforf stepped in. -"Anytime.."
Matt nodded, lowering his head. He had to think a lot now, hugging Beau.


Muppets... Muppets... -sounded as if from a side in his mind. - How good that you do exist, how good that you can make us kinder, and more loving, and warm our hearts and hands with your very jolly selves; and perhaps we have to beg your pardon for we not always could understand you, used to laugh at you and sometimes even mock... It`s all in past, and now we only stand infront of each other and silent,- it`s hard to believe that we met a greatest wonder, but didn`t learn how great it really is, and that`s why all those misunderstandings could happen; excuse us all for that now, Muppets, you, who love the life so much.













And though Beau wasn`t a spirit any more, he felt these words flowing in the air, like his own harmonica tune.


And Zeliboba smelt them too - for him it was always easy.

In the real world people crowded around the other end of the Rainbow Bridge, trying to find out, whether it`s real or not. Not everyone could touch it, but still could.

"I`ve never seen my nativeland so happy before", Beauregard said.
"But why?", amazed the boy. -"Was it sadder?"
"Yes", the clumsworth replied. -"Wanna me to tell you how it all began?"
"Sure!", Matt exclaimed.
"Would be interesting!", Effralyo noticed.
And Gard began:

"..Well, it couldn`t be ever known and solved, if one day I didn`t accidentally sneeze backstage..."

Matthew was listening to him, and didn`t know himself that will one day record it all and make a real big story - the story his friend was telling him now.




~THE END~

[Beauregard]

*pauses to wipe tears*

This story was so amazing and...amazing...

Firstly with the capture of the Geewiliker, I thought I would die myself, and then the arrivel of the Dratcher in his speandour, and the Zeli-copter, and then, they near killed my best friend in the world, and the tears were of sad, and I couldn't breath, and then they escaped, and magic and then suddenly such a Joy Joy Joy story that I couldn't help but near cry of joy on each page! Simply Gardy so happy, and I always feel right near to him! And then me, and Gardy, and the queen, and the Rainbow, and...wow...amaz!!! What can I say!!! This was a truely Gard-worthy story!

And I am still thrilled to pieces with it!!!

[Effralyo]

Hug, hug, hug, Gardik, hug!!!!! Bye for now!.... See you soon!....