Dragon and Sun, Tiger and Moon
When a body is turned inside-out by the magic of a Dragon Moonbeam (the technique Umpa used) the skeleton is also reversed so that the marrow is on the outside and the Periostium (outer surface of a bone) is on the inside. The bones actually vanish in this conversion but remain inside the body to lend structural integrity, though invisible.
All the internal body organs and glands, veins, nerves, muscles and sinews are on the outside, and present a rather hideous complex of human tissue. Such was the state of Derby's Jeninqua body, which had just been separated by the phallus of Judishante Trontan, by the mighty blade of the guillotine. Remarkably, just as it had appeared from nowhere, the guillotine vanished, along with the copulatory organ of Trontan, once the smaller head was decapitated.
The inside-out body of Jeninqua was now reinstated with the consciousness of our hero, who at the moment was recuperating from another nightmare.
"Where am I?" Derby asked himself, feeling with his outside-in fingers, a body of bloody tissue and reversed bag of organs and muscle.
"Yuk!," he exclaimed, once his touch informed his senses of Jeninqua's body's new physiology.
To his utter amazement, he learned that now that they were exposed to the outside air, his internal organs were undergoing a new freedom.
"Very cool," yelled his heart, which hung on the outside of his chest like a giant medal. "Free at last!"
"Time to unwind and relax a little," exclaimed his intestines, as the muscles which held them loosened their grip and the sausage like complex spilled down to the floor.
"Yippee," breathed the lungs as they swung onto the spiral staircase, away from the other tissue. "Time to partay!"
And so it went for the next ten or fifteen minutes as all the internal organs separated themselves from the rest of the body. General chaos ensued and the vase of Derby was turned into a frat house of ecstatic pillows of human body parts, which were "whooping" and frolicking like a bunch of drunken coeds.
Soon arguments started and Derby was besides himself with uncertainty.
"You've been hogging all the air!," accused the kidneys to the lungs. "Did you ever stop to consider the rest of us?," the pair further probed.
"What about you?," asked the liver to the bean shaped kidneys. "You selfishly processed the blood from the heart. Have you got any idea how hard it has been for me to maintain the level of blood inventory I've needed? You two suck!," he continued as he lounged on the overstuffed pillows in the couch area.
"Please, please," reasoned Derby from the reversed out lips of his Jeninqua mouth. "Everyone, please! Behave yourselves and come back home! You're all sounding like a group of revolutionaries engaged in a civil war!"
"I for one am on strike!," forcefully explained the spleen. "No more processing of blood cells for me until the rest of you give me proper respect!"
"Ah, fuck your processing," demanded the heart, which had just ridden the spiral staircase handrail back to the base of the vase where the spleen laid in solitude, while the other organs remained up in the lounge area. "I am the sun!," the heart continued. "None of you are anything without me. Have you stopped for even a moment to realize, that without my devoted pump, you will all perish and dry up?"
"Yes, but we are the moon," interjected the kidneys, who had once been the lovers of the heart, and now sat sulking on an edge of the couch. "You WERE our sun, our ruler, but you've become a selfish pig!," the pair added.
The heart beat with renewed vigor and raced back up the stairs to challenge his former lover, the kidneys. "Yes, you were the TIGER, the rain, the cool fresh water. But now you're a pathetic lonely spinster, seeking sympathy from a bunch of other losers!," he bellowed. "I am an island, the dragon of the universe. I decide who will live and who will die. And I sentence all of you to perish in your miserable, pitiful disconnected states!"
"Wait a minute!," interjected Derby, who had gone back and forth from the base of the vase to the lounge area, trying his best to reunite the disjointed organs. "You all belong in me. You work for ME! You are not suppose to be (NONE OF YOU) separate from each other or from me. We all depend on each other to survive!"
"I am the supreme metal!," boasted the lungs. "I am the gold mine of precious elements. I am fed by the soil of the Earth and I replenish the Water of the great cycle." She continued, "Without my alchemistry, there would be no balance!"
"It is obvious to me!," screamed the liver in a very angry voice, "that you all do not realize how upset I have become. I am very very angry and I may never regain my composure, as a result of your selfish behavior!"
"This is very troubling," said the spleen, who seemed to be extremely concerned. "I am very worried about this situation!"
The kidney's were crying uncontrollably from their position on the couch. "We're afraid. Extremely afraid!," they cried.
"You're all pathetic!," repeated the heart, who had situated itself at the top of the handrail, as if sitting on the throne of the vase. He crossed his arteries in a symbol of unwavering resolve and continued to heat up and throb in a stubborn act of defiance.
"As for us," said the lungs, "we find this to be very sad. Really awful how we've become enemies in such a short time and for what seems to be no reason at all. The grief is killing us." And she struggled to breathe, as if breathing had become difficult in their new found freedom.
"Enough!," demanded Derby. "Heart, come back to your rightful position in the center of my chest." He continued his oration like he was speaking to a flock of followers. "Without love for each other and respect for the whole, we have all become lost and empty. Our lives mean nothing, except as connected smaller parts of our total self!"
After considerable thinking, the heart finally conceded. "I think you're right master Derby! For we are one body. If we remain unattached to each other, our life force will pass to another state, but we will disintegrate," he continued to reason. "As physical beings we depend on each other!"
With that, the heart flew to the chest of Jeninqua's reversed out body and attached himself firmly in the center.
Next the kidneys stopped their wailing and joined the inverted body above the hips in the back. "Oh heart, my love, my only true center of the universe! I will always be your loyal love, your cooling water, your moon! I love you so!"
Then the lungs took their place around the heart and remarked, "We can rejoice and let go of our grief! I feel refreshed and the air is lovely once again. With each breath, I'll produce unending gold of spirit so that all of you will thrive!"
The spleen and stomach managed to situate themselves under the heart and were also joined with the intestines and the rest of the digestive organs. "Thank goodness," they rejoiced, "we can stop worrying! As one living organism we will survive!"
"Forgive me," said the liver, who had softened his angry tone and now was happy to find his spot among the rest of the organs. "You all seem so beautiful, arranged on this body. I can't imagine any other life than to work closely with you toward a peaceful existence!"
"Now if we could just figure out how to be turned back inside," said Derby to his united internal organs, which all hung on Jeninqua's frame like bulbs on a Christmas tree.
"And so you shall," said a voice from beyond the vase. And a slow steady breeze washed over them.
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