Part 28: parting is such sweet sorrow

The suns ray echoed the feeling inside the heavy chest of Dino, cold and slow with much disappointment.

He wasn’t entirely sure why he felt such sadness upon him, but perhaps he pondered, he really was seeking a friend. He hadn’t had so much fun since he first arrived here in the future, then upon realising he had only random encounters with strangers that threw things at him, grew sad at the thought of not having a friend to share the finer things in life such as tea. Maybe he believed her to be different from the rest, her to be that friend to share such things. But no, it did not seem to be, she was just as intolerant as every other two legged creature.

Dino felt as if he could eat her, which was saying something because she wasn’t a post person. He sighed once more and allowed the floating hand to deposit his bowl of almost finished tea to the landing where MJ sat.

“Well MJ it was a pleasure to join you on such an adventure and I do hope that your life is full of prosperity and less drugs. I’ll be on my way.” He nodded curtly, his fake moustache limp with regret. With an elegant swivel, Dion turn about and began to walk back down the path that had brought him here in the dead of night, much to his and her surprise.  

Part 27: sad dinosaur is sad

The next morning, well early afternoon both MJ and Dino had slept in, the clouds parted and brought forth the chilly winter sun. They had tea outside and stared at the burnt garage and trees.

“I forgot to call the fire department.” She took a sip of her tea.

“Yes, that may cause a problem when your neighbours return to their dwelling.” He sipped his tea (from a large cereal bowl).

“.... mmm....” She sipped her tea once more.

“Are you alright MJ? You seem... off.” He sipped some more tea. MJ looked up at his large eyes surrounded by his rough green face; her light blue eyes filled her head like a weird saucer of milk. She remained silent and sipped her tea.

“...ok...” Dino pulled a puzzled expression and took an uncomfortable swig of tea.

“You’re a dinosaur.”

“uh... yes it’s been stated a few times.”

“You’re not supposed to be real...” Her voice was soft and high pitched so she sipped her tea, but there wasn’t anything in her cup. It didn’t seem to bother her though.

“I thought you had come to terms with this already?”

She looked up at him again and sipped her empty cup; her eyes were now side plates.

“That was last night and I was higher than a blimp reading the weather forecast for tomorrow.” Empty cup sip again.

“Well that’s true, but... I thought... *sigh*” It was strange to see a dinosaur exhale air so audibly.

Part 26: some might call this a new episode

MJ sat on the edge of her bed, her head filled with the strange events of the night. There was a tap at her window.

“Sorry to disturb you MJ, but I was wondering, could I perhaps get another blanket, three just don’t seem to cut it.”

She got up and walked over to her closet and searched for another blanket.

“I’m sorry you have to sleep outside Dino.” She walked back to the window and handed Dino’s magical purple flying hand the extra blanket. It flicked it out a few times and put on the cold hard ground with the rest.

“It’s perfectly fine MJ, It’s not your fault that the door way and your house is no place for a large creature.” He gave a toothy sharp grin and sat down on the pile of fluffy blankets.

“I hope the snow fall won’t bug you too much.” MJ looked up at the cloudy night sky and the soft ice falling silently to the earth.

“You needn’t worry,” the weird hand produced a gazebo from his hat and began erecting it, “I’ve got that covered.”

“I’ve been meaning to ask, if you’ve had that magical hand in your hat all the time why did you ask me to scratch your neck for you?”

“Well as someone I once saw on you humans entertainment box said, you never reveal your best hand, pun intended.”

She nodded and said good night.

  

Part 25: somethings end whilst others begin

“MJ are you all right? What happened? Where may I enquire is the large magma monster?” Dino stared at her in expectance, she would have stared at her self too if it were possible.

“I... I don’t know, I think I fell asleep and I was dreaming about snow...”

“Perhaps your answer is the most logic we shall get from this experience?”

“Yeah, I guess.” She squinted at the large white mound which stood out in the darkness. “What’s that?”

“As a wild assumption I would say, I large mound of snow. Which is odd, because that’s exactly what we required for the magma man, and I surely would have noticed it on the way up.”

“So.... its not just a bunch of snow?” They stared at it.

“Maybe not.”

“Oh... Can we leave now?”

“Of course. Climb up.” MJ clambered aboard once more and Dino slowly trudged back down to the crazy ladies house.

“Should we call the fire brigade?”

“Probably.”

“I’m not taking drugs again... ever...”

“It’s for the best.”

MJ nodded. Tonight had been extreme and she didn’t wish to experience this or anything like this again. Ever.  

But, unbeknownst to the new duo, the rules of reality had already been changed. So there would be plenty more insane to follow, regardless of any drug consumption.

Under the snow hill where the Magma man stood, frozen, a tiny crack appeared in his now hard and solid form.

Part 24: ninjas are not visible

Dino ran on.

“Have you thought of anything yet?” He waited for an answer. “MJ?” then he realised she wasn’t there anymore. He did a legal u-turn and looked for signs of life and fire and or MJ on fire, but saw none, so he retraced his steps in order to find her.

Each step was taken lightly and with a long gaze at the ground, just in case, you know he didn’t want to squish her. As he walked slowly back he noticed a lump of breathing coat, which happened to be MJ, snoring.

“MJ.... MJ.... MJ!” he nudged her lightly with the tip of his large sharp toes, which forced her to bolt up right and say:

“Kkjsdu... ugh hu? Wha’? Eh? No.” Then promptly collapse back down and continue snoring. He looked about for signs of large magma man. There weren’t any besides a large mound of snow. Dino tried to wake her once more.

“MJ... Wake up!”

She jumped up and karate chopped the air. It was a good slicing movement that received a nod of appreciation from all the ninjas that were not visible.

Part 23: perhaps panic, perhaps he cried

Dino, unfortunately had not been informed of this amazing phenomena, therefore was still running for dear life believing MJ to still be with him. So he shall be ignored for the time being until he realises what is crystal clear to everybody else.

 The snowball flight and speed increased, and magma realised the cold stuff was no longer turning into steam, but water. This upset him. He didn’t like cold stuff and he disliked water very much. A shiver ran up his back, a feeling he had never felt in all his life. He didn’t like that much either. Actually he didn’t like much at all, except for burning things. He was even seen as odd amongst his own people, they even like hot rocks and long walks.

He roared in a mannish way and even his voice sounded odd to his ears, softer, not so hot. He panicked attempting to move closer to burn miss-laugh-at-bits, but he couldn’t move so freely as he wished, which caused more panic. The snow was no longer turning into water; it piled up around him and encased his massive figure. He may have cried a bit.