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Kyohara woke up. She looked around and basically saw nothing.
Besides the odd black Hopso or black Mortog in the distance, or some clouds of
purple gas, or the black roses all over the ground, there was nothing to see.
The ground was as flat as a pancake.
"Where am I? How did I get here?" she asked
to herself. She spun around again. Finally, she bent down and pulled some Black
Roses out of the ground. The ground was covered in sand!
"I'm in the Lost Desert! But how did I get here...
uh oh. I think I've started sleep walking again!" she cried. She saw some weird
shadows on the ground. She looked up and saw a circle of Zumagorn flying around.
The looked very hungry... Kyohara just hoped Kyrii weren't on their menu.
***
The silver ring of time zoomed over the water. Yoigo was holding it, and a
whole ton of other Neopets were holding onto him. Eventually the land of Meridell
came into view. They flew and landed on the ground outside of the castle. They
touched down on some Black Roses and all got up. It had only taken them about
ten minutes since the ring was traveling so unbelievably fast.
"I don't feel too good," said Junior G. He was
stumbling around... in the direction of some more black Mortogs!
"Hey Junior G, stop!" cried Tasuara. She flew
over and wrapped her tail around his arm and started pulling him backwards.
The Mortogs kept jumping closer and closer. There was not much they could do...
then suddenly a spear came and hit the Mortog! A Draik in armour ran over and
signalled for them to follow. He pointed up as a gigantic cloud of purple gas
was floating right over them.
"It will start raining poison water! Hurry!"
he cried. The others ran and followed him into the giant castle of King Skarl.
They ran up to the drawbridge that started coming down. They crossed and got
inside just as some green rain came down.
"That was too close for comfort," said Methalius.
The Draik guard nodded.
"It wasn't too smart to be outside with all
of this stuff happening! All of these plagues just came out of nowhere. Pretty
much everywhere, everyone is inside. We're lucky there isn't too much purple
gas outside, or else you'd be dead!" said the Draik.
"Yeah, but so would the Mortogs and Hopsos I
bet," said Bortyk. The Draik guard seemed to notice Bortyk for the first time.
It was probably because Bortyk was also a Draik so he felt comforted.
"My name is Zeedil. May I ask what you seven
are doing here?" asked the Draik.
"Our friend... we think that he got attacked
by a black Mortog," said Yoigo.
"Your friend wouldn't happen to be a baby Chia,
would he? Because we found a baby Chia on the ground outside yesterday. It had
been attacked," said Zeedil.
"That's him! That's Chakeebo! Do you know where
he is?" asked Millyum.
"Follow me," said Zeedil. Everyone expected
Zeedil to be happy about finding Chakeebo's friends, but he looked sad. They
followed him up a narrow stone stairway.
"This looks bad. I don't think Chakeebo's well,"
whispered Tasuara to Bortyk.
"Let's just hope he's not dead. If he is this
would affect the others. I doubt they'd be able to carry on," replied Bortyk.
Tasuara nodded. They kept climbing the stems until they came out on a landing.
It was an empty room except for two Ixi. One was brown and the other was white.
They had very sad faces when they all came up. They were looking through the
window at something.
"Status report," said Zeedil as he walked over
to the Ixi and looked through the window. He flinched.
"Bad, and getting worse," stated the White Ixi.
"Yes. The venom has spread through nearly his
entire body. It will soon reach the brain. You can see that every so often he
starts to move. The venom is getting to him, soon he ill be uncontrollable,"
said the brown Ixi.
"These are the friends of the victim. Please
come closer," said Zeedil. One of the Ixi looked up as if to object but she
stopped herself. They walked closer and gasped at what they saw in the next
room. Chakeebo was lying down on the bed. Straps were holding him down. Instead
of being yellow, he was a steely blue colour. His eyes were open and not blinking.
The pupil and the iris were colourless.
"The venom the Mortog injected into him is taking
over," said the brown Ixi.
"Is there a cure?" asked Millyum. Tears were
flowing down her face. She knew that if they didn't act fast, she'd lose one
of her closest friends forever.
"There is a cure... but it won't be easy to
obtain. You have to find the Venom Elixir. It will cure any venom. Only three
known bottles of this substance is known and it's in..." Zeedil's sentence broke
off.
"It's in the stomach of the Turmaculus! He swallowed
some bottles of the potion years ago. We know about the stomach acids of the
Turmaculus, and it can't digest glass. The bottles of the elixir are safe. We
have not sent anyone inside because we have not found a reason to," said the
white Ixi.
"If you want to save your Chia friend, one of
you will have to go inside. Probably the smallest," said the brown Ixi. She
looked at Junior G. Everyone else looked at him too. Junior G gulped.
"No way! I'm not going in!" he yelled.
"If you don't go in the Chia will perish!" cried
Tasuara.
"You must go!" exclaimed Millyum through tears.
"We're begging you," said Deracko.
"Please..." whispered Millyum. Junior G looked
at her and felt he might cry too. Chakeebo was at the top of Junior G's enemy
list. Deep down inside he really didn't want Chakeebo to die. He knew he had
to go inside of the Turmaculus.
"We do not even know if he will perish," said
Zeedil.
"He could be fine!" said Millyum hopefully.
"Without the Venom Elixir, he won't be fine.
What Zeedil meant is that as soon as the venom reaches his brain, he will brake
free and rampage about in the castle," said one of the Ixi
"I'll go then. Others might die," said Junior
G. He looked through the window at Chakeebo. "You may be my enemy but I'll save
you Chakeebo... I promise."
***
The Zumagorn swooped down upon Kyohara. She ran as fast as she could in a
straight line. A cloud of purple gas was in front of her. She held her breath
and ran right through. When she came out on the other side she breathed in.
She looked over her shoulder and saw the Zumagorn on the ground. They had flown
through the cloud but they breathed in.
"Ha! I got you! Who said you needed to have
magical rings to kick butt?!? I AM KYRII, HEAR ME ROAR!" she yelled as loud
as she could. She laughed until she heard something... It sounded like thumping
against the ground. Kyohara spun around and saw something bad. Hundreds of black
Hopsos and black Mortogs were bouncing closer. Their teeth were bared. Kyohara
galloped and ran as fast as she could. The petpets were gaining on her. She
ran and ran... but tripped!
"WOAH!" she yelled. She tripped over a root
and landed on the ground. Her vision was blurred and her head was spinning.
She saw something or someone scare the petpets away. The figure looked down
at Kyohara. It said something to her and then she blacked out.
To be continued...
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