When Jumper here was only a just out of his pup-hood he was taken with his parents and his birth pack to be used for an experiment. An experiment that changed his whole life, mind you. It was all because of an evil witch scientist, (yes, there are such things as witch scientists) who wanted a cheap way of acquiring a Darigan paint brush. Darigan lupes were just out and the witch figured that the Darigan paint brush would be a lot more popular with it being able to paint lupes and because of that she would be able to make a lot of profit if she could make a batch of counterfeit Darigan paint brushes that worked like the real thing.

So Jumper was one of the test subjects for her evil deeds. I was one as well, I was a test subject for an experiment of creating smart sypders which could never be squashed, before she had the bright idea of counterfeit Darigan paint brushes and so she completely abandoned the spyder idea, and I was the last spyder she tested on, but I was still quite a failure. I had the brains and all but I can get squashed. It just takes me about ten seconds to de-squash myself."

Anyway, back to the story. I don't know what she did but one day I saw her smuggle an unconscious (pathetic-looking) draik inside her hut (which doubled as a secret lab). The draik was never to be seen again, and the next day strange lupes with demented wings were abandoned in the forest surrounding her hut. They naturally formed a pack there as no other lupes lived near that witch. Each day that passed there was a new lupe that would appear and join the pack. All of the lupes in that pack were unsuccessful test subjects (I personally, called them "the Darigan failure pack"). Most of the pack members were from Jumper's birth pack but some were clearly lone lupes and ones of another pack. Of course other horribly demented neopets came out of that hut as well, but that's not part of the story. All of the lupes in that pack had something wrong with them. Most could use their demented wings, only three could but they were either the wrong colour to be Darigan or not quite right in the head. One thing that each of the lupes had in common was two rings on their left ear. It was the witch's sign that she had tested on that lupe.

Jumper was one of the lupes within that pack. He was the youngest and the one with most hope for a bright future. He was extremely envious of the lupes in the pack that could fly and begged them to teach him how, but none of them could teach him or wanted to teach him. So he decided to go north in search of someone who could teach him flight or discover the secret to flight by himself. I, of course followed. I was curious and planned on staying hidden from him the whole way. Which didn't exactly work, by the first night he had already known I was following him. He wasn't pleased at the fact and only allowed me to continue following him if I stayed well hidden from him. I had no choice but to agree.

We travelled (or more like Jumper walked and I followed a few metres behind him swinging from tree to tree) for many months. Jumper would stop every second night to hunt then rest until noon the next day and start the cycle over again. I easily got used to this routine. We started travelling in the late winter and in the late summer stumbled upon the pack. We had travelled far and there had been a drought in the land we had just gone through. I, myself, was fine, but Jumper was not.
Jumper lifts his head up and glares at Kage.
Okay, okay, I wasn't completely fine. I was in a better form than Jumper was. Anyways, Jumper fainted near the territory of the Misty Lands pack. I was a bit behind Jumper, and I arrived to see Balto, the Alpha, and some pack members take Jumper on to their territory. Which was pretty strange, as lupes don't usually help strangers in need. I stuck around the pack, always keeping an eye on Jumper, but the pack definitely seemed friendly so I was glad of that. They revived Jumper and Jumper ended up joining them as he felt he owed Balto his life. Which isn't really true, if the pack hadn't come I'd have revived Jumper myself. But Jumper seems to think differently.

The pack consisted of many lupes and a couple of gelerts, most of whom would not know I exist. Kole, the gamma within the pack, soon introduced herself to Jumper. She was a gelertess from the city with a human and many siblings before she had come to the pack. Little did Jumper and I know that she'd become our foster sister and her human would accept us into their already large family. Near the end of summer Kole lead Jumper (and I followed) to the city, for Jumper was curious of what Kole had described as a large place where neopets of all kinds and many humans and petpets all lived.

Jumper and I had never seen anything like it. It was a huge and very busy place. It was a difficult task to keep Jumper in sight while trying not to be trampled on. I had soon come out of trailing behind Jumper during the journey, so Kole knew of me, and I had no choice but to meet her human along with Jumper when she took us to her neohome. Canine and I did not get off on the right foot. When she first saw me she hit a rolled up Neopian Times at me. Good thing I wasn't a normal spyder, otherwise I wouldn't be here talking to you. She had a fright when she saw me de-flatten myself. But she didn't hit me again after Kole explained that I belonged to Jumper. I had no idea what she was talking about, me belonging to Jumper, until Jumper and I met some of Kole's other siblings. Some of them had a little critter hanging around them they were a neopets' pet, so I was considered as Jumper's pet. Canine and I got along after that incident, and she was especially nice to me, I guess she felt guilty about how she had acted. I don't blame her though. Many humans had squashed me when they first laid eyes on me, and it was quite a bit of entertainment for Jumper. Even Kole couldn't help but smile every time I got squashed along our journey to and from her neohome, or should I say our neohome."

We returned to the pack a few days after we had set off. I returned to hiding within the trees and staying out of sight of any of the other pack members, and Jumper and Kole returned to living with the pack. And that's about it. That wasn't too long, was it?

That was the longest story you've ever told.
Well, a lot of things did happen in our past. I couldn't miss out anything that was important.

I have a gelert/lupe who wants to join the Misty Lands pack. How do they do that?
Drop Canine a neomail about it. She'll give your pet careful directions to the pack, to see Balto.

Can my pet be friends with you and/or Kage?
Again, drop Canine a neomail about it.

I saw another lupe that looks just like you, Jumper. Do you have a twin?
No, are you sure it wasn't just me? Or wasn't just a figment of your imagination? If you are sure, then I guess you should tell Canine about it.

Do you like cookies?
Of course, a spyder likes all sorts of foods. Though a lupe is a different matter...

I have an award/adoptable/picture for Jumper. Do I give them to Canine?
Yep, she'll store everything we get in a safe place, and thanks Jumper and I appreciate it.

Is Jumper taken?
Well, not really, but he likes-
Jumper slams his paw on Kage, and squashes him against the tree.
Next question.

Will Canine draw me a picture for free?
Most likely not, but hey she might just be in a good mood when you talk to her. Go try your luck.

Do you eat Chia?
Sure, why not?

Are you able to fly?
Yep, though not far, nor very well.

Who is teaching you to fly?
A new lupess of the pack, by the name of Nabi is teaching me.
Kage recovers from Jumper's blow, and has returned to his usual form.

Why is your neopian identity Jumper602?
The evil witch scientist didn't have much of an imagination, I was nicknamed Jumper, because I was caught one time jumping out of a topless cage she kept me in, as she thought we flightless ones could not get out of a 3 metre high cage wall. The numbers behind, 602, is because I was the 602nd neopet to have been tested on.
Jumper was known as Blade, before the witch captured him along with his pack. I see no reason why he doesn't use that name anymore, but he insists on being Jumper.

So.. uh, are you a Darigan lupe or a part-Draik lupe?
I'm more a part-Draik lupe, than a Darigan lupe, but it is easier for some to think of me just as a Darigan lupe.

Why is this place so foggy?
That's just the way it is.