My original owner was the lab ray scientist who created me as an assistant. He was a pretty weird guy, into the theatrics an look'n like the classic mad scientist.

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Boredly reading a book, I stand up after seeing a yellow Kougra enter the room. After leading the neopet to the correct position in front of the lab ray, I start flicking the many switches and knobs of the control panel. Finished, I check back on the neopet to see if they had moved and see them trying to pickpocket one of the items sitting on the shelves. Aggravated, I yell at them, "What the heck do you think you're doing?!" I throw myself at the neopet and we both go tumbling to the ground. Too busy fighting; I didn't realize that the fight kept coming closer to the now whirring lab-ray. I hear a sizzle and realize too late that we were right in the range of the zap. A yellow-tinted light shoots out of the machine and hits me and the still fighting neopet head on.

Head aching, I open my eyes and feel somehow different... I look down at my paws and to my interest see that they are not hooves as they used to be but yellow paws. I take a look at the rest of by body to see that my tail of a normal ixi's was replaced by a yellow Kougra's. Assuming that the lab ray switched some of the features between the thief and I, I look around the room wondering if the thief had remained unconscious longer then I, to see if the same thing had happened to him. "Eh, looks like he ran away."

Hearing a voice a rush of excitement runs through me. I stand still and listen closely. I hear the voice again, this time understanding the words. My former excitement turns to dread as I hear him speak. "So mistress has woken up now." The voice laughs manically then continues, "This is a strange situation, wouldn't you agree mistress?"

I gather up my wits and utter a question to which I already have the unpleasant answer to, "Where are you?"

Inside you. The voice starts cackling, louder and louder it resounds in my mind. Slowly I find myself losing control of my body, which I am vaguely aware to be becoming more and more human like. Panicked, I try to scream but I can't speak. Soon all my connection to the world around me vanishes, and I seem to float in what used to be my own mind.

I regain control of my body to find the frightened stares of several Faerieland Chia police, holding their night sticks. Angry, I stand up but one of the policemen shouts, "G-get back down!" and tries hitting me in the head with his stick. I wrap my hands around the stick and shout at him "What's wrong with you?!"

Then feeling something cool rub against my wrist I get distracted from the anger and confusion building up inside of me. Bringing the thing to my eyes I find it to be the Amulet of Thilg. Just as I do this I start to slowly lose control and am dimly aware of the Faerie Queen herself picking me up with her magic and throwing me snarling against the hidden tower.

I awaken to find myself lying in a prison cell back in a quad form and curse at my hopeless situation. Spinning around I slam the wall with my paws, and mutter through gritted teeth, "Damn it Fyora!"

Hearing the rustle of something moving outside my cell, I look up. I find myself looking at a teenaged Krawk, the guard assigned to me. He had a strange look on his face, one hard to describe. He had a look of surprise and something else... He mumbles to himself "Strange, it's like in "Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hide."

I pull myself back together and speak up, trying to sound casual. "Ya, in a way it is."

Wha-?" he looks at me startled, not expecting me to say anything, and doesn't respond.

There's a very long pause preceding this. Breaking it I go off onto a different topic. "Not every guard would believe the words of an 'insane thieving scoundrel'", I say, while eyeing the sign supposedly describing me, messily plastered on my cell door.

Well you don't seem crazy to me." He then continues in mere whisper, "Besides, 'Fyora the Benevolent' is merely a temperamental wretch, so considering that she was the one who locked you up in here I don't give a care about the 'crime' you committed."

Some trustworthy guard you are," I reply with a grin. "So, what's your name?"

Zayden. And yours?"

Gamushara."

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Zayden and I became friends over the course of several weeks, wasting away the hours by talking to each other. One day as we were doing just this, we heard the sound of distant footsteps, headed toward the dungeons.

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We both stop talking. Zayden picks up a book and starts to read, while I get busy scratching symbols into the mortar.

As the footsteps stop in front of my cell I look up, not knowing who would visit me, to I find Fyora staring at me as if I was some kind of two headed fly.

I start to loose control of my body. In a voice not my own, I hear myself say, "Hello Fyora, I hope you enjoyed last time we met." I then hear myself cackle crazily. Fighting some sort of inner struggle against him I push my will against his and manage to yell out, "Just leave me the heck alone!" I crash back into control of my body, his power over me lessening to a faint whisper in the back of my mind.

Fyora turns to one of her guards and while vaguely gesturing towards me says, "It is insane; we shall carry out the execution immediately."

It?" I ask with a cocked eyebrow. As Fyora turns towards me I thrash my arm through the bars of the cell, slashing Fyora straight across the face.

((Thank you Olivia (oe_adoptions) for the awesome picture!))

As Fyora starts screaming her face is ruined, her guards completely forget about us and try to shut her up.

Seeing his chance, Zayden jumps into action and jams the key in the lock and turns it. The guards don't notice our departure until we slam the dungeon door shut. Heading off at a run, we jump out the nearest wind*w. With the momentum of falling over 30 stories, we crash through the clouds of Faerieland and continue to fall, the distant Neopian ocean tens-of-thousands of feet below us. Unfurling my wings the speed of my descent lessens till I'm gently gliding. I look at Zayden who seems to be fumbling with something on his belt. Shouting above the wind I ask, "Need a hand?" and close my wings so I'm falling at his speed.

He mutters "Hope not..." and finally manages to unhook an Eryie morphing potion from his belt. He drinks it down and it takes less then even a minute for him to change into an Eryie. Unfurling his wings a bit too quickly, I hear a loud snap and a shout of pain. Extending my wings to their full length I grab his paw and say "Well, that didn't sound too nice." while staring at his twisted wing.

He grunts back, "It doesn't feel too nice ether."

Both of us fall silent as we look ahead toward Krawk Island, which was now straight ahead of us.

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After a minute of silence you realize she must be done with her story and you take a interested glance at her strange front paws and you then take a look at her back legs, which like a normal ixi's, are hoofed. As you bring your gaze back to her eyes to ask her a question, the question already on your lips turns to another as you see a strange gem embedded in one of her thighs. "How did you get the gem in your leg?"

With a roll of her eyes she mutters "Ya people always want ta know more." She then looks up at you and smirks, "Guess you'll be hear'n my whole story…"

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