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The drums began their pounding once again as the colorful
lights illuminated two large, iron doors on opposite sides of the Arena. The
roar of the audience overwhelmed the drumming as the doors began to open, revealing
a chicken and Peadackle armed with the mechanical creations. The two birds started
toward each other, screeching and bawking, much to the delight of the bloodthirsty
audience. They didn’t attack each other though, since the heaping mound of chicken
feed, placed in the center of the battleground, caught their attention. Bob’s
chicken immediately dropped it’s weapon and ran to the feast, but Flare’s Peadackle
was trapped inside the coffee maker.
The Peadackle, quite envious of her opponent
getting to the chicken feed first, threw herself into a wild rage. She started
thrashing around inside the coffee maker and hitting her head against the glass
in a desperate attempt to break free. The glass held against the punishment
though, making the Peadackle even more angry.
“What in the world is she doing?” shouted Flare,
quite terrified. “She going to hurt herself!”
Much to the Uni’s horror, the water began to
spill from inside the coffee maker, drenching the machine. The Peadackle preceded
to slam her entire body against the side of the watery prison, and the metal
groaned under the birds force, slowly cracking. Finally it gave, and the Peadackle
burst through the coffee maker, and the water that remained poured over the
machine. She, undaunted and excited, raced to the chicken feed, leaving the
short-circuiting machine behind.
The Ultra-Chilling-Fire-Breathing-Coffee-Brewing-Annihilation-Madness
3000 machine jolted violently, and small flames appeared beneath the broken
coffee maker. Bits of electricity spun around the device, and the hushed crowd
sat wide-eyed, realizing what was to come. Samuel ran to the two birds, scooped
them into his cloudy arms, and ran to safety just as the machine exploded. The
entire Arena began to shake from the force of the explosion, sending terrified
fans fleeing to the exits. A giant piece of the Arena’s ceiling was shot into
the air during the explosion, and it landed on top of the Chickentastic Ice
Lolly factory, destroying it. Guen, Flare, and Bob, still safe inside their
protective room, were frozen as they watched the destruction. The Arena’s walls
began to cave, and soon the entire stadium was reduced to rubble.
“Oh, Fyora,” muttered Flare once the chaotic
scene had ended. “I’m going to jail.”
The Chia police arrived a few minutes later,
questioning everyone and surveying the area.
“Well, you’ll be happy to know that no one was
hurt,” one of the officers said to Flare. “And that the Arena has insurance.
But, we will have to settle this little matter of destroying the Arena, scaring
lots of little kids, and ruining Nigel’s life.”
“What?” asked Guen, confused. “How did we ruin
Nigel’s life?”
“Didn’t you know?” responded the officer. “Nigel
had two million shares of stock invested in the Chickentastic Ice Lolly company.”
On cue, Nigel fell to his knees and began to
sob, just as the Kiko Repo service towed his red Corvette.
“I didn’t mean to,” Flare pleaded with the officer.
“I’m really sorry.”
“Well,” replied the officer, “we can’t let something
like this go unpunished. If we did, everyone would start destroying Arenas!”
“That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard!”
Guen shouted at the officer. “It was an accident!”
“That just proves my point!” the officer retorted.
“If we don’t punish her, everyone will start having accidents!”
“You are such an idio-” the Kougra started.
“Guen,” interrupted Flare. “It’s okay, Guen.
Well, officer, what’s my punishment?”
“Flare! Flare!” shouted Samuel, running toward
her. “Guess what? Even though you destroyed the Arena, scared thousands of people
and Neopets, and basically ruined any chance of sponsorship by new companies
for Kickin’ Chickens, you have won 1st place! Here’s your 100,000 Neopoints.
Congratulations!”
“Oh, wow!” Flare exclaimed. “Thank you so much,
Samuel! Look, Guen, we won after all.”
“I have decided on your punishment!” announced
the officer. “You must give me those Neopoints.”
“Yeah, right!” shouted Guen.
“I command you,” the officer stated bluntly.
“You command us?!” laughed Guen. “Oh, we’re so
scared! Flare, the little Chia commands us! Whatever shall we do?”
“Fine,” muttered the officer. “I’ll just send
you both to jail.”
“No!” yelled Flare. “Here, take the Neopoints!”
The Chia officer snatched the Neopoints from
Flare, ran over to the other officers, and gave them all high-fives.
“Well, Flare,” sighed Guen. “Today we destroyed
all my kitchen appliances, crushed the Chickentastic Ice Lolly factory, ruined
Nigel’s life, and blew up the Mystery Island Arena on live television.”
“And what do you think about all that?” asked
Flare.
“I think we should gather all your copies of
“You’re Just Gonna Flip When You Hear This!” and burn them.”
***
Two days after the Chickentastic Ice Lolly factory’s demise, a logbook was
located among the rubble. The pages revealed the company had stored three thousand
chickens, smuggled into Neopia by sources not listed in the book, inside of
the Shop Wizard’s magical robe. When questioned, he confessed everything. Teary-eyed
and all too happy to get the burden off of his chest, the Shop Wizard admitted
the Chickentastic Ice Lolly company forced chicken smugglers everywhere to sell
chickens only to them.
They also gathered all the chickens left in Neopia
and forced the Shop Wizard to keep them until a proper hiding place was constructed.
When questioned why the heck the Chickentastic Ice Lolly company would even
bother to do all this, the Shop Wizard explained that the Alien Aisha corporation
had created their own recipe for Chicken Lollies, which were much more tasty
the regular Chickentastics, and were preparing to market them. The Chickentastic
company, fearful of the Alien Aisha’s past successes, wanted to make sure they
didn’t launch the new product. And so, they hid the chickens.
The construction of the chicken hiding place
was quite costly, so the company decided to sell a few of the chickens to the
staff of Kickin’ Chicken, who would then sell them to Humans and Neopets entering
the fight. Since Kickin’ Chickens had been terribly discredited, and also out
of sheer pity, no charges were pressed.
The Shop Wizard was released without punishment.
For some reason, the Chia Police decided it was okay to keep three thousand
chickens without a chicken permit, hide a potential product from a large company,
and tick off Aishas everywhere, but it was not okay have an accident.
All the chickens were relocated to Kau-Kau Farm
to spend the rest of their days chowing down on chicken feed.
The End
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