Chapter XXXVI: Yellow Book of Memory ~Kyanosa

Mazzic was walking along quite peacefully, enjoying the lead despite the back part of his brain that keep telling him he couldn't keep his eye on Kyanosa, when the radio in his pocket beeped. Kyanosa said something about a microwave going off, leading to an in-depth conversation with Kaia about the healing properties of boiling water. Mecha was looking for a nice rock against which he could bash either his head or theirs; he had yet to decide. Thus Mazzic took the call. "Hello?"

It was Kaye. "Guys! Guess what I found out!"

"No."

A moment of silence. "Oh." Another moment. "Anyway, we found a bunch of mechanical things, and we're heading back to the cave right now."

"That's not bad." Kyanosa said something about crayons. "Better than we're doing."

"Right, it has been a while. How have you kept busy?"

"So far, we've invented fire, sketched a rough map of the place where the only coherent thing on there is the edge of the paper, and been attacked by a flying guy who looked like he should have been brandishing a tree."

"There's a man in that box!" Sounds of a scuffle ensued, and a lighter voice came over the radio. "Hello!"

Mazzic blinked. "Yes, hello." Kyanosa mentioned the Cookie Monster.

Another scuffle. "Sorry about that; we've managed to attract a bomb-throwing bird with red boots and a hood (It not a hood! My head is black!) who comes roughly up to my knee (It's genetic!) and hasn't stopped yelling since we found him. (This is not yelling!)"

"Have you ever wondered what would happen if we had chosen to divide the groups into one with sensible people and one with the freaks instead of splitting them down the middle?"

"No, but now I have something to dream about." Kyanosa mentioned that he had visited the home of the gods.

"At least we're making progress. Say, hold on for a second." Mazzic turned to Kyanosa. "What was that?"

Kyanosa looked back and got up from the headstand he was apparently doing. "Well, maybe it's not a home, but it used to have all kinds of cool magical artifacts."

"You're sure of this?"

"Not at all."

Mazzic shrugged. "At least we won't be bored." He put the radio back up to his face. "I think we might have a lead."

"Hey, congrats. We're going to go get lost some more. Talk to you later." The radio beeped off.

Mazzic pocketed the box and turned fully to Kyanosa. "Okay, where's this place?"

"Heck if I know. I got all disoriented when we fell."

Mazzic felt that vein on his forehead again. "Then how would we go about finding it?"

"Kaia and I could fly back up and look." He gave Mazzic a thumbs-up.

"...maybe she should just go find it alone. Where is she anyway?" He saw Mecha banging his heads against a few trees, which were rapidly collapsing, but Kaia was nowhere in sight.

"Oh, hang on." Kyanosa summoned his parasol and smacked it into a tree. Kaia promptly fell out of its branches and muttered about elves.

"Great. Could you look for something for us?"

She stood up, rubbing her head. "Sure, why not. What's it look like?"

Kyanosa smiled. "It's a building." Kaia nodded and took to the sky.

Mazzic gritted his teeth and held both hands threateningly towards Kyanosa's neck. "How is she going to find it like that?"

Kaia landed just then. "I found it!"

He gaped. "How the-"

Kaia shrugged. "There was only one building." Kyanosa stuck his tongue out at Mazzic and went to get Mecha's head out of that tree.

Ten minutes later, the quartet had arrived at a large clearing, or possibly even the end of the forest. Nobody really cared anymore, except for Kyanosa, who was beaming and grandly gestured towards a large gray building a little ways off. "Here we are."

"Oh look, a large outhouse." Mecha raised an arm in the air weakly. "We win. Let's leave now."

Mazzic crossed his arms. "This is the home of the gods? It's a shambles." Kaia giggled at the word 'shambles'.

Kyanosa nodded. "But I think we'll still find a few decent things in there. C'mon." He led the group to the large front doors, where the other three stopped short. The inside of the place was utter chaos. From general guesswork, some common sense, and the few pieces of art not smashed into almost as many pieces as Kyanosa had jokes, they slightly recognized it as the interior of a temple of sorts. Of course, none of the inhabitants happened to be around when evil, mega-strong planets were threatening to blow up the visitors. Go fig.

Kyanosa grinned. "Lady and gentlemen, allow me to present the Yoshi Sanctuary."