Ok, here's the next one. I call this one "Blue vs Orange" because in this one, while Eddie is journeying through frontier space, he finds that planet Ocarra, and he meets that crazy Orange Lantern, Larfleeze, and with him, you already know it won't go well. Because of that orange energy, it makes you greedier than a rich businessman. Let's move on, shall we?
A few days later, after the run in with Atrocitus, Eddie had finally recovered fully, and he was at full strength once more. He was flying through frontier space, exploring the galaxy.
There were a lot of planets around, but Eddie saw that most of them had absolutely no signs of life. He was starting to get tired of searching for life on other planets out there, but then he came upon another few planets.
One of them was bigger than all the others. And its color was almost completely bright orange.
"Wonder if I'll find anything down there?" Eddie asked himself. "Worth a try to find out."
And he descended down to the planet.
Down on the planet, the sky was yellow, and there was no green at all. There were hundreds of trees, but not a single one was green. All those trees looked like giant mushrooms.
There was also a big, yellow stone tower that could be seen from miles away.
Eddie landed and started to look all around.
"Well, this sucks."
He ascended back into the skies and started to get a better look, and he just flew around, finding nothing but more of those mushroom like trees.
"Maybe there is no intelligent life."
But then Eddie looked down and saw something else.
"That looks interesting."
He descended again and he landed in front of some king of strange temple.
The door was big and rounded, there were four straight lines coming out of four parts of the circle, and on top of it, a down pointing triangular line stuck down.
"Looks like some kind of entrance. And I wonder what this symbol means? Maybe if I have a look I'll find out."
Eddie blasted the door with his ring, making a blue field of energy surround it, and he turned it left to open it.
He walked inside the temple, and he found stairs right at the entrance, but the second he stepped in, a wretched smell roamed all around.
"OH! What is that horrible smell? It's worse than death!"
Eddie then constructed a big can of air freshener and it started to spray a sky blue mist around. Cleaning out the smell.
"Ah! Much better."
He started to walk down the steps and he looked and saw a light coming from a pathway. And he also saw something move in the shadows.
"Who's there?!" Eddie shined a light from his ring, and moved it all around, but there was nothing.
He took flight and went to that path, and he saw something shining a bright orange light from a distance.
"Wonder what's down there?"
He took off flying again and went down a path, and while flying down there. He saw a bunch of decayed alien bodies. Their skeletons laying all over the ground.
Eddie followed to where the light was and then he saw just around a corner, it was glowing very brightly.
Eddie landed on the ground, trying not to land on the bones of the decayed aliens, and he walked towards the room.
He came upon it and inside, there he saw where the light was coming from. On top of a pedestal with stairs, there sat an orange object, with a bright orange glow, emitting light for the whole room. And all over the place, there were big orange piles.
"What is this place?"
He walked towards the pedestal and looked all around. There was no one else in sight. No aliens, dead nor alive.
Eddie then looked to his left and looked up. On the wall there were carvings on there, with a big group of aliens in battle with another huge one.
"Wait a minute. That looks like..." Eddie took a closer look. "...Atrocitus? And he looks to be fighting..." He saw that all the other aliens were wearing similar uniforms, with the same symbol as the one on the door. "...They look like a-"
Eddie gasped and looked back towards the orange object.
He went over to one of the piles and saw they were orange rings, with yet again, the same symbol. He scooped a bunch up in his hands and looked back towards the orange object.
"I think I may have just found the home of the Orange Lantern's. They must like to keep their battery hidden. Wait a minute. The Guardians said that the orange energy was supposed to be powered by avarice."
He walked up the steps on the pedestal and walked to the orange battery.
Then he heard something move.
Eddie flinched and looked all around, but he saw nothing.
He stayed still for a moment, but he walked it off, and looked back to the battery and continued walking.
But then, something landed in front of the battery. It was a brown creature, it had sharp teeth, tusks coming out the side of its face, with razor sharp claws, and it wore a uniform like in the wall carving, and an orange ring on its right hand.
"Stat back!" the creature growled at Eddie.
"So finally some life found out here. What are you supposed to be, exactly?"
"I'm Larfleeze! And I'm the keeper and owner of the orange battery. Keep away from it! It's mine, mine, mine!"
"Easy. I don't know what your issue is, but you must really be greedy enough to love that battery more than anything else. Why are there no other ones here? Why are you the only Orange Lantern?"
"Long ago a war broke out over possession of the orange battery. I was victorious. And now the orange battery belongs to me."
"Some Corps. Ones who turn on each other for power aren't a very good Corps at all."
"You've come to take my shiny, haven't you?" Larfleeze snarled.
"What? No! I didn't come here to steal your battery."
"LIAR! That's what everyone comes here for. They hear the legend of the power of my shiny, and they come to steal it!"
"I didn't know there was a legend. I didn't even know it was here!"
"You're a thief! And now I'm going to show you what I do to thieves here!"
"Larfleeze, I promise you, I'm not here to steal your shiny."
"Lies, lies, lies. All lies! You will perish! You will regret trying to steal my shiny!"
"What part of I'm not here to steal, don't you understand?"
But Larfleeze didn't listen, and he created three big and round, electric orange monster constructs, with really short arms and legs, big mouths, and the orange lantern symbol on their bellies.
"Eat him up, Globulous!" Larfleeze commanded his orange constructs.
The three round monsters went towards Eddie, but he flew up and dodged them.
The monster constructs followed Eddie, and he created a giant chainsaw, and sliced them all up.
"No! Globulous!" Larfleeze glared at Eddie. Then he went down to one of the piles of rings and he put on 7 more of them. He charged up his rings and then shot a powerful blast at Eddie, which hit him and sent him flying back.
Eddie fell down onto one of the big piles of rings and then he recovered a second after. "That's it. I tried to be nice, but if you wanna play like that, then I'll play your game."
Eddie flew towards Larfleeze and then grabbed him in a headlock, then tossed him to the wall.
Larfleeze went smack into the wall and then he fell to the ground.
Larfleeze then got back up and he glared angrily at Eddie, who calmly floated above him. He used his 8 rings and created two more of those round monsters, but ones that were 5 times bigger.
"Oh, crap!" Eddie quickly flew away and dodged one that tried to chomp him.
"All right, you creeps," Eddie constructed a grenade. "Eat this!"
He took the top of the grenade and tossed it back to the monsters coming at him, and it went into ones open mouth.
In just seconds, the grenade blew up inside, making the orange monster burst.
He constructed another grenade and he tossed it into the other ones mouth, and then that one suffered the same fate as the last one.
Larfleeze growled angrily and then he flew up to Eddie.
Eddie looked and saw Larfleeze coming at him, and Larfleeze used the claws on his right hand, and he clawed Eddie on his right ribcage, leaving four big scratches on him.
Eddie yelled in pain, then he created an iron boot on his left leg, and with it, he kicked Larfleeze away. "All right. Try this!" Eddie constructed a spear and threw it to Larfleeze, which cut him on his left arm. Larfleeze made a strange snarling sound, meaning he was hurt.
"It hurts, doesn't it?" Eddie asked.
Larfleeze looked back up to Eddie and glared angrily at him.
He then zoomed at him, and started punching him in the face left and right, while they both zoomed through the air.
It kept going on and on, with Larfleeze punching Eddie, until Eddie caught Larfleeze's hand then punched him in his face, knocking him down.
Larfleeze recovered just before he could hit the ground, and then he went back to Eddie, and he shot a powerful blast from his left hand of rings.
Eddie quickly put a shield up, but it didn't last. It shattered, and the blast knocked him to the wall.
Larfleeze came at him but Eddie quickly flew away and avoided him, then he shot a blast of his own at Larfleeze, but Larfleeze shot a blast from his right hand, and it pushed Eddie's back, and blasted him into the wall again.
Larfleeze came at Eddie once more, but this time Eddie constructed an anvil and knocked Larfleeze away with it.
"This just isn't worth my time. I'm outta here!"
Eddie quickly flew off and Larfleeze followed behind, shooting blasts at him, left and right, and Eddie drew his fire, by shooting blasts from his ring.
Eddie finally made it to the entrance and flew out back into space.
"And never come back!" Larfleeze yelled to him, and he shot a blast at the door, closing it back up.
Up in space Eddie flew out of the planet's atmosphere, and he opened up a wormhole.
He flew through it and it disappeared behind him.
On planet Odym, Saint Walker was floating in mid-air, like he were sitting, and he was meditating.
He had both of his eyes closed and he had absolutely nothing on his mind.
Then a wormhole opened in front of him and Saint Walker opened his left eye, and saw Eddie step out of the portal. He opened his other eye and smiled warmly at Eddie. "Welcome back, brother."
"Hey," Eddie replied and he sat in the same position as Saint Walker was.
"What brings you back here after so long, brother?" asked Saint Walker.
"I was exploring the galaxy of frontier space, trying to find anything interesting to me, but I found absolutely nothing interesting at all."
Saint Walker looked and saw where Larfleeze scratched Eddie. "Brother, you are bleeding."
Eddie looked down to see the blood too. "Oh, yeah. I had a run in with this crazy Orange Lantern."
"Orange Lantern?"
"I found the planet of the Orange Lantern's and I had a fight with one of them. Well, the only one there is left. He wouldn't listen to me. He thought I was there to steal from him, and he attacked me."
"Come. We shall have Ganthet fix that for you."
Both the Blue Lanterns flew off and went to the battery where Ganthet was in front of it.
He looked behind and saw Saint Walker and Eddie flying down to him.
"Welcome back, Brother Edward," said Ganthet.
"I told you, my little, blue friend, it's Eddie," Eddie corrected.
"My mistake. What can I help you with."
"For starters, this," Eddie gestured to his wound.
"I shall have that taken care of in no time."
Ganthet flew up to Eddie and his eyes started to glow electric blue. Then he also made the same color of light come from his hands, and it shined on Eddie's wound, making it slowly fade away. "In fearful day, in raging night. With strong hearts full, out souls ignite. When all seems lost in the war of light, look to the stars. For hope burns bright." The light faded and Eddie's wound was completely gone. No scars or blood left, and the tear in his uniform was fixed.
"Thank you," Eddie thanked Ganthet.
Ganthet closed his eyes and bowed his head slightly to Eddie.
"How did you do that?" Eddie asked.
"Powers of the Blue Lantern's brother," Saint Walker replied.
"Yes," Ganthet took over. "It's a special healing power, that can fix even the most dreadful wounds, without pain or suffering."
"Can all Blue Lantern's do it?"
"It takes many years to learn," Ganthet answered.
"Maybe I'll start practicing one of these days, but right now, I've gotta get home." Eddie opened another wormhole and he flew through.
"Do you really believe he can be hope's champion, Ganthet?" asked Saint Walker.
"I believe as much as I do in the true powers of hope."
All right. That'll do it for this one. Next time Eddie will meet back up with Elsa and he'll take her on a little tour, that ends up becoming a problem. Know what I mean? If not, well it'll make sense when it comes. Please read, review, and enjoy
