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The Neopian Times Week 130 > Short Stories > Meridell! The Musical

Meridell! The Musical

by plushieowner

Cast: (In order of appearance)

Jeran:
King Skarl:
Darigan:
Master Vex:

Kayla:

Lisha:
Illusen:

Darkest Faerie Sister 1:

Darkest Faerie Sister 2:

Darkest Faerie Sister 3:

Meridell Museum Curator:

Meridell! The Musical
by plushieowner


In times of old,
Remained a tale left untold.
This storybook which lay on the table,
Contained a rather twisted fable.

Where the most unlikely characters unite.
Or break out in a nasty cat fight.
Making the tale seem not quite right.

So lets venture off to the land of Meridell,
To read about an unusual story in the form of a musical.
This play can be described,
As ‘The History of Meridell - Not Exactly Transcribed’.

Scene 1
Setting: Inside King’s Skarl Castle

(Jeran is at the front of the stage addressing the audience about what he thinks of King Skarl and his rein.)

Jeran:
The people of Meridell should give Skarl the flick,
Vote No.1 for king, certainly not my pick.

When Skarl is kicked off the throne,
And his position as ruler is royally bone.
I shall take over and have a statue made of stone.

(King Skarl who sitting on his Royal Throne and Jeran goes up to him. He’s about to confront and say what he really thinks about him.)

Jeran:
I think your ego has got a tad too big,
I don’t think anymore you are fit to rule.
Look at you, sweating like a pig!
Not normal for the ‘king of cool’.

(King Skarl just ignores him and starts babbling him. Jeran tries to trip King Skarl by stepping on his cloak.)

King Skarl:
This plot is daft,
Makes me wanna laugh.

Second part of the plot will be brought on,
Only by Darigan fandom.
When the plot comes around,
He will supported, down and off the ground.

I predict codestone sales will go through the roof,
Remember last war was living proof.
Hail to those wretched people codestone stocking,
Who made training hard during the last war shocking.

(Jeran just rolls his eyes in annoyance. Typical, King Skarl rarely listens to what people have to say. Why does Jeran bother serving that over-dependent blob? Jeran begins to whisper something to the audience while Skarl has his back turned.)

Jeran:
You better watch out from those who you know are loyal.
Who may rot and spoil,
The repetition of a certain Meridell royal.

(Jeran looks very shifty. He’s up to something and we all thought he was such a nice boy. Why does it seem all the good ones turn up evil in the end?)

Setting: Darigan Citadel

(Darigan is sitting on a table with cross-legged, he begins singing. He seems to be very upset about something. Not usual for such a macho man.)

Darigan: This is a very touchy subject..

From the day I heard Sloth,
Said he had a robot clone.
I knew he’d be somewhat safe,
Cuz’ he’d never be alone.

I know, a ruler shouldn’t talk about his feelings.
My stereotyped personality don’t make me too appealing.

I’d hope Sloth
Would imitate me,
Ditch the Neopets villain family.
Hope dat would stop him being sad,
From failure and being world domination mad.

Wanted Sloth to think
I’m a nice guy.
Put our differences aside?
Talkin’ about this, makes me wanna cry.

Long story short,
Sloth rejected me.
Said C’est la ve.
Life sucks, hates me.
In this world where only evil I see.

Kass, you corrupted me.

Master Vex is sitting on an old apple box, he starts to also cry his heart through song and starts tapping his feet.)

Master Vex:
Everyone needs someone’s paw to hold,
Who comforts you when the nights are getting cold.
Everyone needs a backstabbing friend,
To be there 'til the very end.
Everyone needs someone to depend on, who won’t fail.
Someone who thinks to visit their poor friend stuck in jail.
Maybe who even offers to pay the bail.

Little less aggravation,
Little more personal satisfaction, Dari.

(Hang on? So Darigan are both good guys now? That can’t be right, they must be something in the water supply of the citadel. Or is it ‘convert your evil villain to good’ day? Nah, its not on the world page.)

Setting: Kayla’s Treehouse Hideout in Meridell

(Kayla is stirring over a bubbling and brewing pot. She has a few experiments set up on a table. She’s sitting on the left side of the treehouse, Lisha is on the other side caught up in doing something else.)

Kayla:
Nothing up my starry hat, nothing up my sleeve.
Be careful, looks can deceive.
Hanging out with Kayla and crew,
Made me realise an evil career is what I want to pursue.

(Lisha is playing with a piece of hair and she has her Lisha’s Wand in her hand. The wand is glowing a bright pink iridescent colour.)

Lisha:
Young and looking pretty,
Brave and witty.
You don’t know me, I’m sorry!
Not to worry.

I’ll introduce myself, I’m Lisha!
Muhuhaha!
You think I am,
As sweet as my brother Jeran.

This wand of mine is just for show,
Use it? What would I know?
I don’t know why I hang onto these geeky friends,
Useless as owning one out of two book ends.

Setting: Illusen’s Glade

(Illusen is rubbing her hands together, she isn’t acting normal. She has a evil glimmer in her green eye. )

Illusen:
My cream cookie of doom,
Will bring eternal gloom!
Watch my powers of darkness fill the valley,
If I go down, this will be my finale.

Cliché! Cliché! Ya, ya, ya.
I’m the lady of the glade!

(Just as she finishes talking, the famous Darkest Faerie Sisters just happen to be walking past her glade. They are talking amongst themselves.)

Darkest Faerie Sister 1:
Yeah we aren’t evil, just misunderstood.
We still do support the side of good.

Darkest Faerie Sister 2:
Nobody knows what is like to be hated,
To seem negated. Behind purple eyes..

Darkest Faerie Sister 3:
We’ll have to prove it by doing something good for the world,
That will impact on every Neopian boy and girl.

(Everyone on stages steps straight forward to the front of the stage and they line up in a straight line. They go down the line simultaneously speaking, one after each other.)

Jeran:
Got nothing to show for my life, I don’t own anything of real value and I’m just a worthless slave.

Lisha:
Me, myself and I. But what completes the equation? That equals 5, right?

Kayla:
I feel so empty, surely something can fill this void for evil.

Illusen:
Lost in a path of confusion. Path of good or path of evil? Thinking..

Master Vex:
Stuck in a major rut here. What am I supposed to do just sitting here?

Darigan:
My mind is all screwed up, I’m in a spot of trouble working out what I want in life.

Darkest Faerie Sisters:
No real personal satisfaction, whatsoever. Sometimes I think there is no pleasing us.

King Skarl:
What is missing from my life? I need help!

(They all look at each other strangely, they all yell...)

Jeran, Lisha, Kayla and Illusen:
I WANT THE ORRBBB!!!

Darigan/ Master Vex:
I want the orb AGAINNN!!

Darkest Faerie Sisters::
Oops, we want the orb too!! And world peace!

King Skarl:
I want a piece of cake!

Scene 2

Setting: Inside King Skarl’s Castle

(Back at the King’s Skarl Cake, Skarl is sitting at a table. He’s demanding desert on top of the forty courses we has already had. Jeran is wearing an apron.)

King Skarl: I want cake! And I want it now! Don’t care where from or how.

Jeran:
Why don’t you just enslave me right now!
You are driving me crazy right now!

I’m sick of working for you,
I need some sweet, sweet power.
But I have set my sights on what I want to do,
I’m off to steal the orb in a hour.

(Jeran throws his apron down on the table. He’s fed up with being just a slave to King Skarl, doing everything for him like a baby. Stealing the orb might give him the power to take over the kingdom. Or give him a little more self confidence.)

King Skarl:
What’s the orb?

Jeran:
*sighs* I feel like I’m stuck in one of the soap operas. Do you remember what Meridell is?

King Skarl:
Huh?

Jeran:
Never mine, nobody can stop me now.

Setting: Kayla’s Treehouse Hideout in Meridell

Kayla:
Up and down I look,
The pages of my gigantic spell book.
Oh beaut!
I need one orb and one eye of newt!
All I need is these more few items for this spell,
Then hush, hush go to sleep my Meridell.

Lisha:
I’m not just a pretty face!
I could rule this place!
How hard can it be?
All King Skarl does is stay around and look pretty.

I mean I’m not that dumb,
Cuz’ I can count my I.Q points on my fingers and thumb.
I’ll prove it somehow,
Gotta do that right now.

I’m just as competent as Lisha and crew combined,
That orb was designed for me in mind.
Saw this orb pendant necklace replica in a magazine,
Wearing the real thing would be a dream.

Setting: Illusen’s Glade

Illusen:
The darkness over Meridell will soon come,
Goody! Can’t wait! Won’t it be fun?
To watch people squeal and run.
Punchbag Bob’s your uncle, my plan is almost done.

Darkest Faerie Sisters:
A new wardrobe will be bliss,
The news clothes smell I truly miss.
If we sell that orb thing,
Then we will rejoice and sing.
And cover ourselves in jewels and bling bling.

Setting: Darigan’s Citadel

(Master Vex points to a set of keys outside his cell, he can’t quite reach. Indeed he is frustrated.)

Master Vex:
I need to break out this dungeon,
With there keys I could be gone.
If I could only reach,
I wouldn’t be here rotting like a peach.

Darigan:
I would do anything to have Slothy turn good,
Just the way he should.
I’ve tried all conventional means,
From therapy, healing potions to lima beans.

But there is one thing, I haven’t yet tried.
Only thing stopping me is the two words ‘Access Denied’.
If I steal it, I might get fried.

(Darigan has an idea, he goes down some stairs to the dungeon where Master Vex is held prisoner. He walks up to the cell where Master Vex is, he’s bored out of mind tapping his fingers on the cell bars. )

Darigan:
Vex! I’ll make you a deal and you can be free from this dungeon,
I know this may sound silly but I want you to help me get the orb again.

Master Vex:
ORB?!? Excuse while I drown in fits of ‘LOL’,
You want the orb, how swell!

Darigan:
I want to use the orb’s magic to turn Sloth into a good guy, you know?

Master Vex: Sloth and good don’t fit in the same sentence. Yeah, why don’t we just turn the Orb into Neopia’s most expensive bowling ball?

Darigan:
That can be arranged. So we have a deal?

Master Vex:
No way, I don’t trust you! You are absurd, you just want it for yourself!

Scene 3
Setting: Meridell Museum ‘Now home of the Orb’

(Audience of Neopets are gathered around to see the unveiling of the ‘Orb’ on display at the Meridell Museum by the Museum Curator. The Darkest Faerie sisters, Jeran, Kayla and Lisha are in the audience.)

Meridell Museum Curator:
Hear ye! Hear ye! Wait and see!
I’m stop wailing, to get on with this unveiling.

Presenting the ‘Orb’,
A deadly trap for the self-absorbed.
Can’t be bought for no sum of money,
Value so pricey, it just aren’t funny.

No bother to offer to buy, it will be knocked back.
Try to steal it? Protected by security nobody can surely crack.

You’ll have to admire from its beauty from afar,
Standing right from where you are.
A very pretty shade of gold,
Here it is, behold!

(Curator pulls cover off the display of the Orb. Darkest Sisters start whisper to each other.)

Darkest Faerie Sister 1:
From today,
How long is the orb going to be on display?

Meridell Museum Curator:
It will be here for eternity,
We brought it from Darigan when he went into bankruptcy.

Anyone else have a question?
About the orb or we’ll close this viewing session.

Darkest Faerie Sister 1:
Did he say its a priceless artifact?!?
It's not completely intact.

Darkest Faerie Sister 2:
Only because of the inventor of Meerca glue,
And sticky putty, too.

Darkest Faerie Sister 3:
Then, how are we going to sell it?
Let alone, get it past the exit.

Um, why don’t gave up and let it pass.
Honestly, taking it would be a pain in the donkey.

(So now the Darkest Faerie Sisters have given up the chance to steal the orb for one reason or another just like Master Vex or Darigan. So I wonder whose hands the orb is going to fall into at the end? Lisha and Kayla appear.)

Lisha:
What are you doing here? Haven’t seen you ages.

Kayla:
Er, nothing. Hehe.

Lisha:
I’m about to steal the orb.

Kayla:
That’s so funny, I was just about to steal it myself. Go figure!

Lisha:
Oh crud! I wasn’t going to tell anyone. (Spotlight goes on Lisha and she sings. She looks at Kayla.)

I’ve been become so dumb,
I can’t feel my brain.
I have still have stuff to do,
Wish I was as smart as you!

Kayla:
That is the smartest thing you have ever said,
Or come out of your itty bitty head.

Lisha:
Er?

Kayla:
Why would you want the orb? As well, no offence you’d probably lose it!

Lisha:
Um, like to make a necklace. Yeah. You?

Kayla:
For a spell ingredient.

Lisha:
See ya later, perhaps.

Kayla:
In your dreams, sweetie pie.
Soon you will succumb to Meridell’s eternal lullaby.

(Lisha doesn’t hear the last thing Kayla says. They go into different directions and Lisha pretends not to hang around the orb display.)

Lisha:
Is that what I think it is?!
Is this, is this..
What should I make out of this orb thing?
Necklace pendant, bracelet charm or ring?
I’ll decide later down the track,
Leave the orb for the time being, I can always come back.

(Jeran is suspended hanging by a wire over the orb display. )

Jeran:
I’m dangling by a string,
From the ceiling,
Over the security beams,
This isn’t as easy as seems.

(He lifts up the orb and an Space Station alarm is flashing. Jeran drops the orb in fright and it breaks in half again. As he cuts his suspension wire, he quickly mutters a tune of some sort. He breaks museum’s emergency door and run out that way. I’m surprised he can run in heavy armour.)

I’m outta luck!
Someone help me!
Stupid wire, I need to get free!
Show me a way,
To escape with the orb today.
I’m outta luck..

(Kayla is back grinning with glee. She has a museum map in her hand so she can find the exhibit where the orb is on display. When she get there, she finds the orb is laying in pieces of the floor. Looking around to see anyone is around, she picks the pieces up.)

Kayla:
Oh my! The orb’s broken,
You have got to be jokin’.
It’ll need a woman’s touch to fix,
(She waves her hand.) Simsman-sala bin! Fix this orb quick sticks!

(She creeps off just as Illusen scrolls casually into the room of the display.)

Illusen:
The perfect plan,
Take the orb to create darkness over the land.

Everywhere over the rainbow,
No light will show.

(Illusen is shocked, the orb is gone. She pulls a sour face as if she sucked a lemon.)

Someone beat me too it! This is bad!
Grrrr, I’m so mad!
I guess,
I won’t be able to cover this place into darkness.

Next plot, Neopia my return won’t be sweet,
I hope to be as vile and foul as Jhudora’s feet.

Scene 4 (The Final Scene)
Setting: A park in Meridell

(All the characters in the play are sitting on some park benches eating a picnic lunch at a lush, green park in Meridell. Everyone is sharing sandwiches, hotdogs, pizza, ice creams, drinks and lots of food.)

Darigan: Listen up! This story is getting ridiculous! Not just that, I think we’ve all lost the plot.

Illusen:
Blah! Who likes musicals or plays, anyway?
Certainly not the uncultured slobs of Neopia.
Personally a game of Gormball would suit me any day.

Darigan: For one thing, this storyline doesn’t make any sense at all. Why would I turn good all of a sudden? For instance, why would I try to convince Sloth to turn good? Who writes this rubbish?

Darkest Faerie Sisters: Here, here. We aren’t good! Why would be turned ‘Dark’, if we liked sunshine, lollypops and rainbows?

Darigan: This has to be the work of one person....

Everyone: *gasp*

Darigan: Plushieowner...
No, Ms Snowflake!

Everyone: *gasp*

Darigan: No sorry, my mistake it is Plushieowner!

Jeran: Is there even a point to this story?

Kayla: I can explain, as a scientist I do technically have the highest I.Q around here.

Lisha: Plushieowner is making like a social comment or something. I dunno something about readers don’t liking to reading anything original. Basically like the same clichés and characters stereotypes that have been ‘used and abused’ a thousand times before, you know?

Master Vex: What ya talking about, Lisha?

Illusen: Oh yeah, that makes sense Lisha. Not! Boy, you talk a bucketload of asparagus.

Darigan: So, Neopians what have we learnt today? Don’t believe anything you read. Except we all know Lisha is actually the same simple-minded, spoilt brat that she is portrayed in the story.

Lisha: Hey! That's not true!

Darkest Faerie Sister 1: Leave her alone, you meanie!

(Darkest Faerie Sister 1 throws a milkshake container at Darigan.)

Darigan: Oh, and King Skarl is an obese, greedy, cake obsessed king who sits on his behind all day doing nothing. I didn’t mention that.

King Skarl: I did never did get that piece of cake I wanted!

Kayla: Yeah, what am I going to do with this piece of junk? Plushieowner didn’t even work what happens with me and the orb.

Darigan: How about turning the orb into Neopia’s most expensive bowling ball? (Everyone laughs at him.)

Darigan: What’s so funny?! I just joined up with a bowling league. Look at my future bowling ball!

(Snatches orb off Kayla. Darigan starts to wiggle and shake his hips.)

I like big Orbs and I cannot lie! You other villains can’t deny That when you’ve got the power in your face, You’ve got to take a stand and rule the place! So, Lisha! (Yeah!) Jeran! (Yeah!) Has Dari got the power? (Oh yeah!) I’m gonna blast ‘em! (Blast ‘em!) Blast ‘em! (Blast ‘em!) Blast em with my Orb! I like big Orbs!

(Everyone clutches their sides with laughter even more..)

The End

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