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Meridell + Darigan = Jellyworld?
By fanfickime
MERIDELL: A wishful (maybe not) version of King Arthur's days, this is a simple
land of Ixis, potatos, and... blue cheese?
Darigan Citadel: A dark floating castle, with angry inhabitants and striped
lizard look-alikes. A purple-clothed skeleton king, and the rest of its population
similarly mutated.
The connection between the two? A mystical golden orb.
And then... Jellyworld! A land of yellow jelly, apparently undergoing construction.
Its connection between the other two? That's what this article brings to you!
(Hey, I rhymed!)
Three new worlds, all at once - doesn't that seem a little suspicious to anybody
else? Surely they have some link with each other?
Perhaps when the orb was stolen from Darigan, most of its people turned into
jelly and went to live in Jellyworld! After all, Neopets don't really die, right?
(And that castle's kind of small for a whole country to squeeze into...)
Or maybe... Jellyworld is King Skarl's hidden luncheon! Nah... he probably
just doesn't exercise much... too busy playing Double or Nothing (the good thing
about being king - you lose your own money, you just take it out of the dealer's
salary).
Or maybe... just maybe... THE ORB IS MADE OUT OF JELLY!
Yeah! I mean, think about it. The orb is golden. The jelly is golden. The orb
provides food. Jelly is food.
...nevermind. King Skarl would have eaten it if it were made out of jelly.
Next theory...
I know! The orb is the creator of Jellyworld!
I'm sure you've all seen articles where the orb is declared as "evil." It is
the center of the war between the two worlds. Many also dismissed it as silly
- the war is because Meridell stole Darigan's orb, for Osiris' sake! But then
why is it that any land that the orb has previously occupied suddenly turns
into a barren wasteland? Okay, so maybe the orb provides extra fertilizer or
something, it still shouldn't make the land become a desert.
And that mage that told King Skarl's knights about the orb's whereabouts? He's
probably in it too! I bet he's cast a spell on the orb.
What is this spell? After many minutes of hard thought, here is my brilliant
deduction:
One morning many hundreds of years ago, the mage put a bag of sliced bread
on the table, and decided he wanted jelly with his toast.
"Now Ynagbivg," he told his neopet Wocky (whose name was in the lost language
Magiean), "I suppose you don't have any jelly about, do you?"
The blue Wocky shook its head.
"Alright then! Time to use my great, all-powerful powers!"
Being a mage, he tried to conjure the jelly up, except that he forgot the rule
of physics that you can't create matter. So, he tried to turn potatos into jelly.
However, it backfired, and his pet Wocky turned into jelly instead - cherry
flavoured.
Well, the mage couldn't eat his own beloved neopet, so he tried to turn the
sugar into jelly. He almost got it...except that at the last second, the sugar
turned into gumdrops!
By now, the mage was getting extremely annoyed. So, he gritted his teeth and
closed his eyes, and waved his wand in the direction of the table and chanted
the jelly spell. When he opened his eyes, GASP! there was lemon jelly! Lots
and lots of lemon jelly! The mage was overjoyed. Finally, he could have his
toast!
Until he realized... his toast was gone! And so was the whole bag of bread.
HE HAD TURNED HIS TOAST INTO JELLY!
This was simply too much for the hungry mage. He went berserk, chanting out
spells like mad, lightening bolts shooting out of his wand in all directions.
By the time he was done, his whole house had been converted into jelly.
"Jelly! Jelly jelly jelly EVERYWHERE! I NEVER want to see another spoonful
of jelly for all my immortal life!" the mage raged.
So he harnessed all his jelly-power spells and put them into the teapot. Then
modified the teapot a bit here, and a bit there, just to make it look valuable.
A few squiggles here, a little more there, some gold and voila! a mystical-looking
orb thingy!
"Stay put Ynagbivg," the mage directed his red translucent Wocky. "I need to
go find a buyer for this cursed jelly." And off he went to the other side of
the Neopian world (that side of the world isn't given the credit it deserves).
Ynagbivg, being a Wocky, didn't stay put. He crawled up on the roof of the
lemon jelly house as he did before, only to find PWOOSH! It wasn't quite as
stable as it used to be. Now, in fact, it wasn't even really a roof - just a
mess of crumbled jelly.
"Yay! That was fun!" Ynagbivg blinked. He could talk! Just then, the table
he had landed on fell in too, and Ynagbivg fell with a soft plop onto the jelly
ground.
Ynagbivg's eyes gleamed, and with a bounce he went on a little "climb the jelly"
spree. By the time the mage returned, there was no house. Just a little island
of mushed jelly. Ynagbivg hid in the biggest of the jelly piles.
Strangely, the mage appeared pleased. "I was planning to move anyway, Ynagbivg.
Away from all this jelly!"
Ynagbivg was not happy. He liked the jelly. And what in Neopia would all the
other neopets say? He'd probably be eaten the moment he stepped into Neopia
Central!
"Can't I stay here?" Ynagbivg pleaded. The mage looked thoughtful.
"Very well. And to make sure that you never run out of jelly," the mage didn't
want his pet to starve, "I'll make it so that whenever the orb moves to a new
country, you will gain that country's produce in jelly. Also, this island will
remain invisible, so you won't have to worry about people coming to eat your
jelly, Ynagbivg."
Ynagbivg thought for a moment. "Umm...won't it be a bad thing if the country
loses all its food when the people you gave the teapot to move?"
"Nah. The only people on that side of the world is a band of nomad Desert Gelerts.
By the time they return to a country they left, all the food will have grown
back," the mage explained. Ynagbivg nodded wisely.
And so is the story of the golden teapot- er, orb. The band of Desert Gelerts
were given a never-ending supply of jelly, and Ynagbivg lived happily on the
invisible Jellyworld.
Until 200 years ago... Darigan stole the orb from the Desert Gelerts, who were
thankfully able to get on quite fine without it (they had created a legend that
overuse of the orb would anger the gods due to a time when they created a pyramid
of jelly, and the mage had to send a lightening bolt to destroy it or else the
neighboring kingdom would have been smothered in melted jelly), and so prevented
its overuse. Darigan, however, had no such legend, and grew dependent on the
orb.
Then Meridell stole it 50 years ago (it had to have been in King Skarl's lifetime,
because he said "my people were dying all around me") leading up to the war
today. Why did the mage tell Meridell about the orb? He was getting revenge
on Darigan for stealing it from the Desert Gelerts! Only it didn't quite work
out as planned...
And throughout all this, Jellyworld has slowly grown in size... and Ynagbivg
changed his name to the Jelly Keeper because nobody else knew how to pronounce
it. Magiean is a very difficult language, y'know.
Or maybe not. I know! How about Meridell, Darigan, and the emerging Maraqua?
Huh? H-hey! Come back! Hello?
Author's Note: For all of you that have stayed with me this far *sees 2
out of the thousands of people that started* err... feel free to Neomail me
any criticism, complaints, compliments, or whatnot! Thanks for reading!
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