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Previously in the story Vin, a yellow Kyrii, was abandoned. At the pound Sloth
intruded and took Vin for experimenting. During the experiments, Vin's sense for
telling the future and in sensing danger had become clearer. He escaped from the
lab, knowing powerful secrets about Sloth's next move. Two Grundo Guards are now
on his trail. Vin is locked in a cupboard and one of the guards is questioning
about the cupboard.
"It's really nice, where'd you get it?"
"Come on Grunt, let's go."
"Oh, coming."
The Grundo chef let a breath of relief and freed
Vin.
"You didn't tell me that evil mutant Grundos
are planning to take you back to their laboratory so they could find information
on Kyriis to help them take over the Neopia."
"What, how did you know?"
"Well… there's this good customer of mine who
tells me all about it, he works for Sloth and trusts me. You could say I'm a
spy."
"Then why didn't you tell the Space Faerie?"
"The Space Faerie had received enough headaches
from sensing this danger. No one dare disturbs her."
"Well you could of helped free some pets or
told Fyora."
"Don't you know that if I rescue some pets it'll
arouse suspicion, they might move the lab somewhere far away and my customer
might not buy from me or tell me anything anymore? And what's the use trying
to tell Fyora? She's a hundred and one percent sure Sloth has left us. She calls
anyone who thinks Sloth's alive mad, I tried.
"Well that's not the problem right now; you
got to get out of here. Take my space cruiser to get away. See that Gormball
stadium? There's a trash can next to it. Move it aside and fall into the hole
under it. You will then land on my cruiser. Say 'start engine' and then you
steer it to where you want to go. It's simple, best of luck, you'll need it
to get away. And another thing, hold your breath and press the pedal continuously."
Trying to remember what the chef had said, Vin
thanked him and started off towards the trash can. Just as he was moving it
aside, the Grundo Guards spotted him and ran towards him. Vin took a big breath
of air and jumped out of sight. "Start engine!" he bellowed.
"Where'd he go?" Grunt asked.
"Over there," Grump, the other guard yelled,
pointing out the window where he saw Vin riding away. "To the spaceship!"
Vin was steering downward, losing air quickly.
The guards soon caught up with him, their ship was a lot bigger than his. Vin
suddenly lost all air and his face was streaked with tears. The ship shot once
and missed. It shot again and hit the cruiser, barely missing Vin's leg, but
Vin felt the burn. The engine had been shot, and he was crashing towards Neopia
at an alarming rate.
***
Where am I? Vin looked up. He was surrounded by water, but it only
came up to his waist. It was very relaxing. Half of the broken cruiser lay a
few yards in front of him, while the other half was right behind him. Vin as
felt strong as before and wasn't hungry anymore.
"So you've awakened." A water Faerie sitting
on a rock was watching him. "I'm Aurora, and you're at the Healing Springs in
Faerieland. You fell from the skies above Faerieland and I healed you at once.
Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I s'pose," said Vin getting up. He really
wanted to just lie down and sleep again, but he had to get away, where to, he
didn't know. "Thanks for saving me, I'll do a fortune for you, you will have
good luck at the Wheel of Excitement today."
The Faerie decided to try her luck after he
left and spin the wheel. She won ten thousand Neopoints. I can't believe
my luck, she thought. Perhaps the Neopet has some talent in telling fortunes,
I should tell Fyora.
That night was, in fact, the Faerie meeting,
where Faeries all over Neopia take a break from their duties and meet in Faerieland
once a year.
"You're looking quite stylish in your outfit,
Bubbles."
"Thank you, and you look great in your garb
as well Aaron."
"Hey Aurora, over here."
"Oh, hi Aaron, hi Bubbles!"
"Hey, what's the rush Aurora?" Bubbles the Earth
Faerie asked.
"Yeah, we only meet once a year, come on, join
us," Aaron the Fire Faerie said.
"Sorry, I'm busy right now. Meet you at the
Faerie court later," Aurora replied.
"What could possibly be more important than
this, we won't get to see each other until next year, geez," Bubbles said in
disgust.
"Oh, I'm sure Aurora has some reason, she is
quite reasonable. Come on, I really want to try those cream cookies Illusen
has," Aaron said.
Meanwhile at the Faerie Queen's Palace…
"Is there something that troubles you Aurora?"
asked Fyora.
"No, nothing's troubling me, it's just that
I found a pet with a talent." Aurora replied.
"Yes, there are many talents that pets have."
"But I'm sure this one is the queerest of all.
A yellow Kyrii, who fell from the skies above Faerieland, could foretell the
future. He told me to spin the Wheel of Excitement and I won ten thousand Neopoints."
"It's not impossible to win ten thousand Neopoints.,"
Fyora replied calmly. "It must have been luck."
"But I'm sure he has such a power," Aurora retorted.
"I did not make such a talent. Neopets could
become a born Battledome fighter or a successful business pet but foretelling
the future? I don't think so."
"But--"
"No buts. In the Neopets game there is nothing
out of the ordinary! Everything is created by something, and I know everything
that was created. Sloth only acts his way because the Neopets team made it that
way! Darigan is only evil because the Neopets team made it this way! Sloth would
not start a war unless the Neopets team created that. I know because they created
me! Now be gone while I decorate the ball room."
"But the NeoPets team doesn't know about our
meeting."
Fyora blushed. "Well besides that."
"Or the fact that a Faerie once tried to keep
a neopet."
"How did you know about that incident? Whatever,
just leave."
Aurora trudged off, slightly offended, towards
the Faerie court. As she walked away, someone who was peering though a crack
in the wall had listened to everything and a smile slowly went up its face.
***
The next day, Vin woke up from the cloud he had slept on and decided to find
a way out. If he had an owner, he could easily go from Faerieland to Neopia
Central at the click of the mouse, but right now the most he could think of
was getting a parachute and jumping, but where in Faerieland could a pet find
one of those? Suddenly a cold, chilling feeling went up his spine. There was
a shadow cast upon him. Slowly he turned his head towards the figure behind
him.
Standing right behind Vin was a cloaked figure.
It grabbed Vin's arm and dragged him to the edge of Faerieland. It probably
wants to drop me, after all this cold feeling keeps ringing inside me, or is
it that I'm afraid of heights? Vin thought. The cloaked figure snapped its
bony fingers twice (which sounded a lot like snapping twigs), and sooner than
you could say petpets are expensive, a small, foul smelling, purple cloud drifted
at their feet.
"Get on," the creature snarled and Vin obeyed.
The creature climbed on as well and the cloud drifted away to a full version
type of that cloud. They got off and the creature directed it to a palace. Inside
it was several owners.
The figure took off her cloak revealing a Dark
Faerie "Welcome to my cloud," she said. "I am Jhudora the Dark Faerie You poor
fellow must be hungry. Fancy for a lollypop?" She reached in her cloak and pulled
out a poisonous lollypop. Vin refused.
"What's wrong with you? Don't you like lollypops?!"
"Actually I do, I just don't like the poison."
"It won't hurt you. What about an apple?"
"No thanks, I'm allergic."
"What's wrong with you? Then what do you want!"
"Um, Jhudora?"
"What is it, Sammy176543892?"
"Your Ga Ga Grub. I brought it."
Jhudora blushed. "Well, you were two seconds
late."
"But Jhudora-"
"Call me your goddess," Jhudora hissed. She
pulled a lever and the owner fell out of the cloud. Vin stared wide-eyed.
"Oh, don't worry, they just returned to Faerieland.
I wanted to tie them in a chamber and set noxious fume on them, but Fyora wouldn't
allow it. Next!" A few owners ran away.
"What would you want?" Jhudora asked Vin.
"Um... uh." Vin wanted to give them something
easy. "How about a rainbow gun?"
Are you kidding? He's on level forty-seven!
Where's my Wand of Supernova."
"But Jhudora--" the owner pleaded.
"That's your goddess to you," Jhudora corrected.
"But your goddess, anything but that!"
"I'm sure my little friend here would like it."
"Actually, I would rather have--"
"QUIET!!!" Jhudora pulled her lever and the
owner fell. "You are taking too long!" she shouted after him. "Now, you foolish
little Kyrii, I tried being nice, but I think I'll have to do this the hard
way. Do me a fortune or you will pay!!"
"Why didn't you ask in the first place? All
right, I'll do one."
"Hurry up, you are taking too long!"
Vin couldn't think of something right now, but
he knew that if he didn't hurry up, something really bad would happen to him.
He couldn't sense anything about her. "Tell me now!"
"You will have good fortune at the Wheel of
Excitement," Vin cried without thinking and sooner than you could say the Turmaculus
just ate my expensive petpet, she was gone.
An owner just stepped in. "Where's Jhudora?"
she asked.
"She's gone right now, but I'll cover for her."
The owner handed him a red Skeith Plushie.
"Oh, how cute. Is something wrong?"
"Yeah; I should be receiving my Jhudora T-shirt."
"Oh yes, I'll go get it." Vin said and headed
off.
"Well, actually it was the Wand of the Dark
Faerie"
"All right." Vin reached into the cloak Jhudora
had left on the floor. He was starting to sense dishonesty. "Here you go."
"MuHaHaHaHa! I mean thank you." She scampered
off.
I should be going as well, Vin thought.
Suddenly a chilling feel went up Vin's spine. She's coming.
Vin was so worried that he didn't take time
to think. He reached for the lever and pulled it and once again he was falling.
***
He woke up with water all around him. Am I back at the healing springs? "Are
you all right?"
A Neopet and its owner were staring at him.
"Yeah I think so. Where am I?" "You're at the Rainbow Fountain. Are you sure
you're all right. Maybe you should see a Water Faerie"
"I'm all right. I sure was lucky to land in
water." Vin walked out of the lake.
There's something familiar about that Bruce
and it's not my future telling, he thought.
Unfortunately, Vin's color had changed to green.
Vin strolled down the streets, hoping the shops would give out free samples
of food. When Vin passed the bank, he would have been run over by a green Skeith
and his Meerca companions, if he hadn't had sensed danger and looked behind.
"Freeze. Put your paws in the air."
Three Pteri policemen pinned Vin down.
"I didn't do it, it was that Skeith!"
"Yaw right," said a rather plump Pteri who eats
jelly donuts everyday. "We were told a green thief with a long tail had just
stolen money from the bank."
"For crying out loud, and I'm not going to cry,
it was Malkus Vile," Vin cried.
"We'll see what Judge Hog has to say about that!
Now what does Judge Hog say about that Ted?"
"By the name of the paw, I mean law, surrender
now!"
"That's right. We're going to have to take you
in."
"Noooooooooooooooo!!!"
I can't believe it, Vin thought in his
jail cell. "I'm innocent, innocent you hear!" This sucks more than the pound.
I'm not supposed to be here. Won't anyone listen? If only Ashyann could see
me now.
After a few hours of staring at the steel bars,
Vin fell asleep. It was a good dream. He dreamt that brighter things were to
come.
To be continued…
Author's note: Yeah, I know there is no such thing as Neopian jails, owners
only get frozen. And Neopets, well, they don't get in trouble.
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