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Rayman: The Island of Loss - Chapter 5
Characters created by Michel Ancel
Story and Musical Lyrics to ‘The Rayman Finale’, ‘Within You’ and ‘An Unusual Pair’ Written by Andrew Kaiko
andrewkaikoart.homestead.com
Here’s the last chapter of my Rayman fan fiction. I do not own the characters and all related subjects with the exception of Wanda Woodoo and any other characters introduced within. Rayman is © 2002 Ubi Soft Entertainment. The character of Rayman and all other characters and subjects are all trademarks of Ubi Soft Entertainment. All rights reserved. Lyrics to Groove Armada’s ‘Madder’ © 2003 Zomba Records, Ltd. All rights reserved.
Chapter 5
“DO IT NOW!”
ALL the islands stopped in their journey and trembled as a sign that the whole belief of IADS had been a fake, and gradually started to disintegrate! Rexman was the one central energy source of the disease, and when he knew that his victims knew the truth, he couldn’t sustain himself any longer! The fight with Rayman began!
Rexman kicked him under the nose with his right left, to which Rayman responded by punching him in the stomach! They grabbed each other by the back, leaning forward, heading locking between them so much that a passerby would never be able to distinguish which body part came from who! Their heads flew forward past each other out of momentum and they both raced back to each other for another go! Rexman flipped him upside-down in the air and plastered him on the ground, but Rayman used his foot to scoop him over himself in the same direction and soon he was on the ground too! They both got up and stared to grunt, pull hairs, punch stomachs, poke eyes, gag throats, bite feet and stop for a cup of tea before they went at it again!
This continued for about ten minutes until Murfy regained consciousness. “Ugh! Now I have to pay for ANOTHER massage at the Fairy Country Club!” He then noticed the two of them fighting. “Is he cured already?! Oh, wait! He WAS fine all along. Oh well. BRAVO RAYMAN!”
Globox was accidentally hit aside the face when he tried to dodge the feud and the 25 Lums went spewing out of his mouth! “Oh, no!” The Lums all cheered in high-pitched voices and all flew upward in various locations around the room, including the ceiling! Globox was waddling around in circles, whimpering, when Murfy barked, “Rayman! The Lums! Get the Lums! You need more energy!”
Rayman, who was feeling extremely weak, saw the first Lum on the floor, and got it! But he knew that Rexman would always be three feet on his tail at the most, so he could NEVER stop!
Then he got an idea! He would disconnect his feet and hands, spread them out, confuse Rexman and keep him off track! He disconnected his feet, which then adopted a life of their own and hopped on over the Rexman, kicking his body! Rexman was stalled for a minute while Rayman’s hands tapped his shoulder and then punched his face when he responded!
Rayman hopped to the wall by the bottom of his tummy. He tried to climb the wall and reach the Lum’s floating on the side of it, but without hands, he could only get the first two! Just then, the Sisters appeared out of the metal wall through the ends of hollow girders! They grabbed the Rayman bunting and took it in through the series of girders, popping him in and out, allowing him to grab the Lums with his mouth. Rexman, followed them through the holes by disconnecting HIMself and shoving parts of himself through the girders one at a time!
Rayman gasped, “Stupid! He can disconnect himself too!” On command, his hands and feet both raced after Rexman! Luckily, Rexman found himself going slower through the holes!
Murfy then got his own idea! “Globox! Globox!”
“Murfy! You’re okay!”
“Yeah, yeah! I got an idea to help Rayman! Put me inside your mouth and—“
“What?! You’d do that, Murfy? I thought you didn’t like it when I ate too much!”
“Let me finish! I’ll be inside your mouth, and while you walk slowly toward Hogan and Tyson over there, I’ll be pretending to be YOUR voice! You can just lip-synch to what I say! I’ll do all the work!”
“Wow! You’d risk your dignity to help my friend?”
“Hey, it’s fine with me. Much of my dignity’s gone anyway!”
Globox carefully squeezed a wincing Murfy inside his right mouth sac, with Murfy still talking. It was a weird sensation, having a voice talking from inside you that’s not your own! “Okay, now your motivation is, you’re reeeeeeeally annoyed by the fact that the IADS man is beating up Rayman, and you stick up for your friend! Ready, in position, and action!”
Globox marched triumphantly with his breath held in and a debonair expression. The two paused and exchanged looks of confusion. Globox appeared to say, “Fiend! How dare you try to kill my friend! Don’t try to get me angry! You wouldn’t like Globox when he’s angry!”
Rayman managed to say, in a choking voice, “Globox! You’re not scared of this?! And why do you sound like Murfy?”
Globox had never improvised on the spot before, so he had a rusty time trying to keep up with Murfy as he said, “Fear not, dear friend! For Globox is here to save you!” Globox turned his head toward Rexman and Murfy said, “Fighting is not the best way to ease your hatred for him! The best medicine is verbal chatting and good buddy hugs!” Globox accidentally hiccupped, which wasn’t pleasant for Murfy!
Rexman squinted suspiciously and very quickly, punched Globox’s throat, which made him spew out a completely drenched Murfy onto the floor!
Rayman stared at Murfy. Then he stared at Globox.
“Hey, it was a good idea when I thought of it! And come to think of it, I now have a brand new outlook on life—“, Murfy said silently.
“Will you two just back off?”
“Oh! Sure, right, whatever you say!”
Globox said, “That was pretty cool! We should do that more often!”
“Then I must tell you now, no weekly routines!”
Murfy then thought of the card that #23 gave him! He would contact the bird through a wild birdcall, tell him that they were in great danger, and tell him to bring as many comrades as possible! He flew upward, found a phone among the hoard of frantic passengers, called him, and flew back down, all in a matter of 15 minutes!
Rayman and Rexman continued to fight in full force. By now, with twelve body parts in total, everything got mixed up in a wild orbiting chaos! Rayman tried to reach for the last remaining pack of Lums, when they had reached the ceiling, and Rexman gave one last punch! Rayman, although having gotten all the Lums, was so exhausted that he could only use his helicopter hair move to slowly drift toward the ground, and Rexman did the same. Rayman landed on his back, with Rexman on top of him. Globox, Murfy and the Woodoo Sisters all stood there in suspense.
Meanwhile, the rest of the islands were all disintegrating from the outside in, and by now, it had reached halfway through to the walls of the underground complex! Passengers were in a state of panic!
Rayman, incredibly weak and trembling, managed to talk to Rexman very calmly, “Remember when I first met you, and how you told me to think about my role in life?”
Rexman nodded, also very calmly, waiting for Rayman’s next move.
“I did think about it and I discovered a few things. I’ve always wanted to become a hero, you know. I put such high expectations on myself, and was so self-motivated, that… I guess it was too much for me to handle a few weeks ago.”
Rexman knew they would hold off fighting for the next moment, so he decided to be a fair player and respond, “But you found out my secret that IADS doesn’t exist! Which means, your depression… was something you formed by yourself?”
“Y-yes, but not consciously. And when I was living on this island, lying on my bed, I thought of everything I could’ve been! I could’ve been a construction builder, helping in community service. Or I could’ve met a nice lady and became a father.”
The other five just stood there, silently, as if mediating the issue. Then Murfy cleared his throat and said, “Rayman, you have friends who helped you, and STILL do! They say if you have friends, you don’t need anything else!”
Globox said, “That’s right! We’ll help you overcome your depression! We’ll give you food and shelter out of pure unconditional love!”
Rexman interrupted their praise, “Rayman. You are you sworn ENEMY! You’ve corrupted my entire life cycle! You revealed the truth about the disease to everyone here! So even though I don’t forgive you, I do relate to your situation!”
“It’s best if I just kill you.”
“But I am PART of you, Rayman! I am part of everybody! I am what defines a person’s attentiveness toward matur—“”No no. Not attentiveness. IGNORANCE”, Rayman whisperedRexman looked puzzled.
“You. You controlled these people’s lives to the worst degree! You made them mistake their doubts and their acceptance to the changing bodies as meer diseases! And then you blinded their better judgment by taking them to a planet that happened to be even worse than the depression?! For hundreds and hundreds of years?!?! YOU FIEND!”
By this time, Rayman had risen gradually to his feet, becoming more and more dominant over Rexman. Rexman was surprised he had gained energy so fast!
“The way to resolve inner stress isn’t to IGNORE it!!! It’s to face it in raw presence and DEAL with it, and maybe even DESTROY IT, LIKE I SHOULD DO WITH YOU RIGHT NOW!!!”
Wanda then interrupted, “Rayman, remember! Before you two began fighting, it was already settled that this man thrives on false energy. This means he will be no more in a matter of minutes, because he just realized the truth about this situation as well. So maybe it IS best if you just leave him alone. Just this once. Be ignorant. This moment calls for it. Please!”
Rayman fell silent once again. He was not sick. He had his powers back. His friends had found him. And the personification of his depression was to be no more in a matter of minutes.
Yes. He would just go.
He turned his head, and smiled at his friends. A tear fell from his eye. The depression from him instantly faded and was gone. He was back to normal.
Rayman, Globox, Murfy and the Woodoo Sisters all departed upward as a group toward the main complex. But Rexman was far from finished!
“RAYMAN, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?! COME BACK HERE! I’M NOT FINISHED YET!!! RAYMAN!!! RAY— AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGH!” He didn’t have time to say anything else. He was quickly disintegrating himself, and as it turns out, he was made completely of mud and dirt all along. In a few seconds, he was nothing but a pile of dirt. No more would any passenger see dirty people. No more would the case of IADS be a popular disease!
Right then, the engine, along with the room it was in, and the pile of dirt, had broken off from the island and floated into space.
Wanda gave Rayman a passionate look. “Nice job, Rayboy.”
Rayman gave her a suave grin. “Not ‘boy’. ‘Man’.”
-
With the engines gone, the islands all stopped in their tracks. Everyone lost their balance from the jolt and fell down on the floors! They may not have realized the full truth about IADS (at least not yet) but they were certain that the floating islands were not the best way to resolve their problems, even with Planet Z taking up a 16th of the entire sky now! They were so close! So close to doom!
Rayman and the others discovered the halt and the people trying to get them back up. He still had the black eye and a few bruises, but nothing that made him act abnormal. His strength restored, he ordered everybody to evacuate the disappearing island immediately! Like the Titanic, the island’s disintegration was reaching inches below the walls of the dorm halls, and was inching it’s way down to the hollowed center any minute! Rayman could feel the floors start to mesh beneath him!
Just then, all the Stratifours that Murfy had called arrived in the nick of time! The oxygen was wearing out fast! So everyone immediately scrambled into the passenger area backpacks that each bird wore on their backs! When everyone was inside, and most out of breath, the Stratifours switched on the artificial oxygen and they were off.
No one was left on the island. As they watched from the glass windows from the backpacks, the islands crumpled smaller and smaller into nothing but dirt and space junk. The Island of Loss was no more.
Rayman broke the pivotal moment by saying, “So Globox! How did you and Murfy actually find out the truth?!”
Murfy broke in, “Eh, it was really hard at first, but we soon found out that NOTHIN’S too big for US macho men! No sirree! Oh, ya’ should’ve seen it! We were battling carnivorous beasts and native tribes, even a horrible encounter with Hoodlums, and—“
“Murfy,” said Globox. “We never did any of those things!”
“Oh, okay, yeah. But, can’t you at least take advantage of the moment?! Haven’t you ever heard of ego?”
“Rayman, we were terrible at first! But we soon found out the truth through cooperation and compromise!”
“Yeah, I agreed never to feed you while you agreed never to talk to me!”
Rayman smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Murfy. I, uh, get the idea. But Globox, you did learn something, right?”
“Yeah! Murfy, when you were talking in my mouth, it was as if I discovered a new meaning for life! Acting brave felt great!”
“Hey, Rayman, what happened to that cootmellon you won at the race?”
“Oh yeah!” yelled Globox as he pulled out a cootmellon from his mouth. “Have a fruit! It’s extra juicy!”
They all laughed and laughed all the way toward Neotopia!
-
They arrived back at the forest in no time! Although it was night, the place was decorated with lights filled with Lums! Everyone was ecstatic to see Rayman back in great shape, as well as Murfy, and, uh, yeah, Globox, I guess. They had planned a homecoming event for his homecoming. Just about all of Rayman’s current friends, as well as old friends from his childhood days, had reunited! The anthropomorphic musical instruments from Band Land were there to play songs! All of the creatures Rayman met on the island decided to stay in the forest, no matter where they originally came from, for they knew their chances of a new life were best in the forest.
Globox and Murfy informed Dr. Zchiendrich of the discoveries they made, to which he quickly wrote down inside a book, making sure it went to get widely published! Globox and Murfy received plagues for their discovery and Neotopian recognition! “Now you both know how it feels to be famous!” said Rayman.
Murfy shrugged. “Yeah, well, you can bet that I won’t be doing anything famous again for a LONG time! Heh!”
Rayman had another surprise waiting. Ly the fairy was sitting on a toadstool at the back of the crowd!
She flew over to him and hugged him. “The news spread to the other sides of Neotopia, Rayman. Now you really are a hero! You’ve overcome the evil forces inside of you as well as the opposing forces on the outside!”
Rayman smiled. “Thanks, Ly.” He didn’t have to say anything more. She knew. It didn’t matter how old or mature he became. As long as his name was Rayman, he’d fight not just for everyone living on Neotopia, and not only for him either, but for life, the universe, and Everything!
Murfy hovered between the two and cleared his throat. “Eh, uh, um, yeah. So, Rayman. How what are you planning on doing now?”
Rayman thought for a bit, as the crowd grew silent with anticipation of what he had to say.
Finally, Rayman perked up, punched his own fist and said, “By golly, I’m gonna’ belt! ‘Cause I HEAR A SONG COMMIN’ ON!”
The musical instruments knew that was their cue. They exploded into an orchestral Broadway musical song called ‘The Rayman Finale’. And it went a little somethin’ like this:
(open curtain. Cue Rayman in a flashy ‘Chorus Line’ suit, soft-shoeing center-stage and beginning his lines.)
Rayman: “Everyone who lives here knows that it’s a give-in,
That every time I face a foe, we’re win-nin’!
But lately I’ve been under the weather and practic’ly bummed.
A lil’ sprite told me if you relent, you’d loose all your Lums!
Soooooooo, I tried my best to cope with these new iss-ues,
With no one else to hand me even some tis-sues!
I tried to battle and face this brand new enemy!
And through and through I beat the guy who happened to be ME!”
Woodoo Sisters: “WHO? YOU?”
Rayman: (speaking) “That’s right, me!”
(singing) “I was certain Ol’ Man Trouble’d rear his ugly head on me!
But now I know, that even though, I’m armless, legless, three-foot-three,”
Sisters: “Three-foot-three!”
Rayman: “That it doesn’t matter how many parts you are or what your height may beeee,
Just so long as you are free!”
(speaking) “Ladies and Gentlemen! I present the WOODOO SISTERS!”
Sisters: (to a Motown beat) “Woo-doo! Woo-doo! Woo-doo!”
Wanda: “No one else knows how lonely were were back then!
No one else knows how dirty and dark it was, but UUUUS!
Oh, but now we can belt out in bright melody and put all our problems behind uuuus!
‘Cause growing up, although you can’t fight it,
It’s comes to all of us, don’t try to hide it!”
Sisters: “Wo-DOOOOOO!”
Wanda: “Your still a child…within yooooou!”
Sisters: “Within yoooooou!”
Wanda: “Within yooooou!”
Rayman: (speaking) “Murfy! Globox! Take it away!”
Murfy and Globox dancing a Charleston: “Yeah, Daddy-o, it’s true that we’re a unusual pair!
Oh, whatta’ really unusual pair!
We barely share a strand of DNA!”
Murfy: (speaking) “Heh! That’ll be the day!”
(back to singing) “At first I thought you’d be a jerk and drive me up the walls!”
Globox: “Yeah, but see how much I’ve resisted your frequent pranks, tricks and pratfalls!”
Murfy: (speaking) “Eck, that line was bad! Do us all a favor and swear never to get a job writing show tunes, jerk!”
Globox: (speaking) “No one appreciates artistic license!”
Both: “It’s true that we’re an unusual pair!”
Teensies: “Doo-de-doo!”
Both: “Oh, whatta’ really unusual pair!
Like Felix Unger and Oscar, only worse!”
Teensies: “Doo-dedoo-doo-doo-dedoo!”
Globox: “At first I thought your constant jabs would get the best of me!”
Murfy: “Jabs? At least I neva’ have to gobble everything I see!”
Globox: (chewing part of the wooden stage) “I’m working on it.”
Both: “It’s true that we’re an unusual pair!”
Teensies: “Doo-de-doo!”
Both: “Oh, whatta’ really unusual pair!
We thought we’d die and go right straight to Heeeeeeeeell!”
But together we are proof,”
Teensies: “Doo-dedoo!”
Both: “That a pixie an a goof,”
Teensies: “Doo-dedoo!”
Murfy: “Can overcome their hardships WEEEEEEELL!”
Both in harmony: “Can overcome their haaaaaard! Shiiips!
Murfy: “WEEEEEELL!”
Globox: “GOOOOOOOD!”
Murfy: (speaking) “Practice your grammar, too, pal.”
Both: “YEAH!”
Rayman continued his own song: “Oh, yes, I was certain Ol’ Man Winter’d blow his icy snow on me!
But it’s all lies, when you realize, that what you got is melody!”
Chorus in harmony: “And harmony!”
(Everyone halted, as the tempo slowed down to a slow, marching beat you hear near the end of most finales, and everyone entered the stage and sang.)
Everyone: “Sooooooo, you can grow through life with virtue, pride and honestyyyyyyyyyy!”
(longer pause, the drums rolled for a second and, in an instant all the instruments exploded into music again)
Everyone: “JUUUUUST!”
(Globox juggled all six of Rayman’s parts in the air)
Everyone in three-part harmony: “SO LONG AS YOOOOOOUUU!”(The Teensies played Rayman-Toss with Globox’s kids)
Everyone in three-part harmony: “AAAAAAAAAAAAARE!”
(Globox, Murfy, Betilla, Clark, Ly and Wanda Woodoo all went to Rayman and each hugged, literally, a separate piece of him!)
Everyone in four-part harmony: “FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
**********
The musical instruments ended with a bang and everyone clapped and cheered to a stage that, strangely enough, appeared out of nowhere in the beginning of the number. Rayman leaped over the crowd and gave one last PUNCH in the air!
The End
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