Kauvara was hard at work in the back part of her Magic Shop. For weeks, she
had been looking for a cloning potion. You would put your own hair into it and
it would make a clone. So far, Kauvara was having lots of luck creating this
new potion of hers.
"Okay, then." Kauvara said to herself. "The potion is almost complete. I think
we need to let it simmer, then add some Blue Potion and Krakuberries. At this
rate, it will be ready by dusk!"
***
"I dare you," hissed Griffyndor2001 the Fire Eyrie.
"He can't do it," laughed his friend Kahro the desert Elephante.
The rebellious teen pets had a Dare of the Week contest to test bravery. This
week's dare...was to break into Kauvara's Magic Shop!
"B-but...no one can! Kauvara's got powers!" whimpered devils_night.
"You have to...or you are OUTTA this grouped," said Kahro menacingly. "Tonight...and
that is FINAL!"
***
Kauvara grinned happily. It was 7:00 P.M., and her potion had proved successful.
She would soon go to bed, wake up in the morning, and put a load of the potions
for sale in the Magic Shop. Kauvara couldn't believe it. Her dream come true!
"I'd better get to bed...busy day tomorrow," yawned Kauvara sleepily. With
that, she turned off the lights, locked the door, and left for her house.
***
The teens snickered as devils_night, pale in the face, picked up a heavy rock
from a NeoHome's garden.
"Throw it through the back window. That's where all the potions are," said
Griffyndor2001.
Trembling, devils_night pulled back his arm then chucked the brick right through
the Magic Shop's window.
CCCCRRRRAAAAASSSSHHHH!!!
The noise was terrific. The window shattered into a million bazillion shards.
"YEAH!" cheered Kahro, pumping his trunk in victory.
"Hurry up," whispered Griffyndor. "We don't have much time." The three scampered
up onto the window sill, then jumped into the shop.
"Let's look around. We may find something valuable!" said devils_night excitedly.
"You've toughened up," said Kahro approvingly to him.
"Look! cried Griffyndor2001. "It's a new potion!" Devils_night and Kahro rushed
over. The new potion was on the shelf labeled- "CLONING POTION," read Kahro
in disbelief. "Let's steal them! We could make some serious money!" He swung
his trunk in excitement.
"KAHRO, NO!" cried Griffyndor2001 in alarm. Too late.
Kahro's trunk smashed the entire stock of Cloning potions off their blue and
yellow shelf.
CRRRRASH! SMASH! BANG! THUD! The potions tipped over and spilled out
onto the floor in a puddle.
"Idiot!" howled devils_night. He tripped over a wire. Sparks were now flying
everywhere!
In the confusion, another shelf vibrated. Another new potion, an INSTANT DISTEMPER
potion, tipped off and shattered in the puddle of Cloning Potion. The blue distemper
mixed with the red cloning brew turned the puddle violet. Then Kahro, forgetting
the window was their exit, opened the door. It set the burglar alarm off.
"Let's get outta here!" they all yelled in unison. One by one, they scrambled
out the door and took off down the street.
But Griffyndor2001's wing had hit Kauvara's golden hairbrush off the table.
It landed in the puddle. Kauvara's hair slipped in...and the next morning created
an exact replica of Kauvara- with on difference. The distemper potion made the
new Kauvara...evil...
***
Kauvara (the real one) woke up to the cheery sound of Beekadoodles, perched
on pine boughs, chirping sweet melodies. Today is the day, she thought. Today
is the day I will introduce my potion to all of Neopia! She sprang out of bed,
got dressed, and hopped in her Kau-vertible. She drove to the shop, entered,
and froze.
The place looked like a battlefield! Her electricity was gone, the broken
wire still weakly shooting random sparks. Thirty one smashed potion bottles
were scattered all along the wooden floor. But worst of all, the most surprising
thing was...
"Good morning Kauvara," said her clone, in a fake-sweet voice, dripping with
sarcasm.
"Wha? H-how did y-you get th-there?" stuttered Kauvara in shock.
"I'm your clone, fuzzbrain," said the clone, annoyed. "And my purpose now
is to raid the Faerie Queen's Hidden Tower undisguised, giving you a criminal
record, and probably life imprisonment. See you around!" Her clone danced off,
leaving Kauvara standing there, stunned.
***
"Kauvara breaks into Hidden Tower, stealing all money in Faerie Queen's till
and entire stock of the mighty Rod of Dark Nova an Rainbow Swirly Things," read
chocolate_luver_111 from The Neopian Times. She was a Neopian living on Bread
Street. Merolae, her Cloud Pteri, gasped in shock. "Lemme see that," she said,
grabbing the newspaper. "Kauvara was taken down to the Police Station for questioning
in the early afternoon," she read. "Wow."
"Kauvara, how do you explain yourself?" asked the Chia cop sternly.
"It wasn't me, sir."
The cop frowned. "It had to be you. The Faerie Queen witnessed all of this
herself!"
"Well, sir, I had just finished a Cloning Potion," Kauvara began. "And some
practical jokers broke into my shop and spilled it onto the floor along with
a Distemper Potion. One of my hairs must've slipped in."
The cop hesitated. "Well, your story does sound pretty far-fetched," he admitted.
"But you're no liar. I suppose I have to take your word and start a search.
***
All cops were looking around the town. The clone was hiding in the Hills of
Jub, way out in the country. She chuckled. "The real Kauvara was caught," she
said gleefully, looking at a discarded newspaper that had blown across the fields
from Neopia Central. "I wonder if those Chia cops imprison her for life.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!
Someone knocked on her cabin door. Who would come out here to see someone?
I'm like, five miles from town! she thought.
She opened the door and five cops marched in, handcuffing her.
"I demand to hear the charge!" she squealed.
"The charge," said the cop, "is robbery." With that, the clone was given life
imprisonment. The Faerie Queen collected new Rods of Dark Nova. Kauvara, the
real one, was let out of the station.
But, in her lab, some of the evil clone potion had sunk through the floor.
It seeped through the mud...it would be ready to form soon...
Dun dun dun!
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