The Crystal Of Eternal Life

Disclaimer: If I owned any of these characters, would I be writing Fan Fiction? No. Sony owns them. (I think!) Even if you did sue me, I have no money!

Chapter 1: Problem Number One

"Uh oh."

"Abe! I'm over here!"

"Do you think I don't know that?!"

"I was just telling you."

"How the hell am I going to get through this?"

"What about Expresso?"

"See that." Abe pointed to a red-flashing mine. "I don't fancy running into one of them. Thanks, but no thanks."

"Oh." Munch fell silent. Abe quickly glanced at his arm, or what would have been an arm. It had been blown off by a 230 Xpress Mine. The one's he was staring at now. "Munch!" Abe yelled over the desolate area. "Yeah?"

"How's about borrowing your wheelchair?"

"Will you fit?" Munch commented sarcastically.

"Don't." Abe stared at Munch with a look of disgust in his eyes. Abe hated sarcasm. A lot. He wasn't in the mood for any right now.

"Good job I left it over there!" Munch shouted. Abe strolled over to the wheelchair and carefully climbed in. He started pushing himself slowly. He dodged the first mine, just. He stared at Munch, a look of terror on his face. "You can do it!" cried Munch. Encouraged by the strong will in Munch's forceful words, Abe wheeled on. He dodged the second, third, fourth.....BOOM! Abe flew out of the incinerating wheelchair, landing a few feet away from Munch. Abe was dead. "Not again." Munch groaned. Munch hopped over to the green-spotted egg that floated over Abe's burning body. He muttered The Words Of Incantation. Nothing happened. The world stood still for a few minutes. Then, all of a sudden, a lightning bolt shaped crack appeared right down the middle of the egg. Almost a soon as the crack had appeared, it disappeared. Abe stood there, smiling at Munch. "Thanks Buddy, that was embarrassing!"

"You know I couldn't retrieve The Crystal Of Eternal Life without you!"

"Don't be stupid! You would do fine!"

"Um, Abe, your forgetting Sligs, Slogs, Glukkons, Scarabs, Paramite's and all those disgraceful creatures!"

"Yeah, I guess I am."

"Anyway, we gotta get to The Wise One before The Crystal."

"So what are we waiting for?!" Abe shouted happily. They both ran into the reddening horizon, happy at the wonderful adventures that lie for them. But, little do they know, these adventures are not as wonderful as they are portrayed...