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The Ice Caves
About an hour later, the atmosphere of the icy mountain
was still the same. A light shower of snow sent thousands of small flakes falling
gently from the sky, and every so often a gust of wind would send a cold chill
down a visitor's spine. However, it wasn't usual to find all of the staff of
Terror Mountain, their belongings, and the Snowager placed in a circle in the
Ice Caves -- around a rather insane looking Wocky and a starry Elephante who
had no clue of what he was doing. Jonathan the Wocky nervously watched over
the Snowager, who had been sound asleep for an hours' time.
Justin, finding himself coming down with a rather
annoying cold, stood next to Jonathan while holding his dripping trunk. The
Elephante was tired, and hungry as usual -- but accompanied his friend for the
fear of losing partial custody of the codestone. He wondered why Jonathan was
making the process of taking over Neopia so difficult when all he needed to
do was make one wish to make it all come true..
"Shhh!" Jonathan screeched, placing a
digit in front of his lips to make a "be quiet!" sign, waving his tail with
excitement. The Snowager had finally decided to sit upright, its large, icy
body curling slightly. The crowd of Neopets had been waiting for the ice creature
to awake from its slumber, partially because Jonathan was driving them all crazy
with his impatience.
The Snowager looked towards Jonathan and Justin,
who now looked more ridiculous than ever. Justin was upon his knees, his trunk
dripping with the effects of his cold, his front paws trying to drip it dry.
Jonathan on the other hand had begun to blissfully prance around in circles,
his green fur wetly matted down from the melted snow.
"Ahh!" Jonathan squealed, as everyone turned
to look at him with disgust. The Snow Faerie and the Negg Faerie themselves
were the most displeased, and if they weren't magically placed under Jonathan's
control, the two of them could have used their own spells of magic to restore
everything back to normal. Jonathan didn't care about the impression he was
giving, and instead continued mindlessly, "Snowager, I command you to destroy
all of Terror Mountain as you wish."
"You fool!" the Tuskaninny of the Slushie Shop
wailed, flailing his short, stubby arms in every which direction. "We'll fall
right through the crevasse and into Tyrannia! Are you mad?"
"Yes," Jonathan smiled. "You can fall right
into Tyrannia and I couldn't care less of what happens to you."
"We're doomed," the Tuskaninny responded angrily,
as a few others nodded in agreement. "This guy's an idiot, he doesn't realize
if the ice caves collapse, he's going to fall down with us, too."
"Oh hush," Jonathan replied, holding up his
codestone with a slight feeling of anger rising within him. He could do whatever
it was he wanted now, after procrastinating for so long, he was quite determined
to make changes the most difficult way possible. Justin paid his friend no heed,
still trying to make his trunk stop running.
The crowd fell silent. There was apparently nothing
they could do to stop Jonathan, so they simply waited for the worst to come.
The Snowager, however, was quite content with its job of tearing up Terror Mountain.
Feeling quite blissful after his hour nap, the icy beast unraveled itself, roaring
and firing bits and pieces of icy pieces from his widened mouth.
Perhaps there was a reason why the Snowager had
never before ventured outside of its dark cave. For an example, the creature
was very large, destructing anything that came within its path. Immediately,
as the Snowager continued to rant and rave, furiously crawling in every which
direction, everyone began to scramble in any direction available for sanctuary.
With that followed loud shrieks of fear, items flying within the air, and of
course more destruction caused by the Snowager.
"Yes! Yes! Run my children, run!" Jonathan cried
happily, pounding his balled fists into the air. He continued this celebration
until a snowball crashed into his head, sending him to the ground. Justin finally
took a hint and stopped fiddling with his trunk, dodging to the side of the
Neggery as the Snowager dove across the Tyrannian crevasse, still shooting blasts
of ice. The whole scenery of the Ice Caves quickly evolved into a massacre -
most of the shops and ice roads had been demolished at this point, and everyone
was no longer in the same spot.
Jonathan growled, managing to scramble onto his
knees, still grasping his codestone. Things weren't supposed to work this way!
Everyone was supposed to recognize him as his leader, and the Snowager was going
too far with his task. The Wocky bellowed, "You can stop now, Snowager!!"
As asked to, the Snowager halted within its tracks.
It was highly apparent that the creature had a great time zooming this way and
that, causing havoc to reek wherever he managed to slide.
Eventually a head popped up -- belonging to the
Snow Faerie, and then another, and another, until everyone finally resurfaced
from underneath the snow. Justin released a spine-chilling sneeze, still unaware
of exactly what was going on. The setting stayed quiet for only a matter of
moments until the past events settled in -- causing Jonathan to release a long,
bone-chilling scream.
"Everything is ruined! All of my dearest items,
gone! Wishing new items to come to my possession takes away the whole concept
of stealing.."
He paused for a moment, heaving long, unsteady
breaths. Justin looked towards his friend with a look of the sheerest fright
upon his wrinkled face. The employees of Terror Mountain simply waited, petrified.
The Wocky grasped his codestone and thrust it high into the air, grasping it
within his paw. "After I make this wish you all will wish I never, ever found
this codestone."
At that precise moment an unfamiliar Kougra came
and snatched the codestone out of Jonathan's paw.
****
At this point of the story the reader has probably, or will probably, become
very, very confused. If you are, then you're not alone, for I, the narrator,
am quite confused myself. So were Saigru, Jyrosen, and Krawker once they reached
Terror Mountain to find a chaotic mess that lie before them: a whole crowd of
Terror Mountain's inhabitants, with random items sprawled amongst the snow,
the Snowager lying on it's belly tiredly, and a Wocky with a codestone held
high in the air, one of his eyes bulging out of his head insanely.
Saigru's quick thinking kept a lot of horrible
things from happening, and also lead to a lot of eerie things to happen as well.
At the moment when he managed to snatch the codestone away from Jonathan, Saigru
kept the Wocky from wishing the whole destruction of Terror Mountain to come
into effect. However, the codestone took Jonathan's words and twisted them to
release an effect against his will. "After I make this wish you all will
wish I never, ever found this codestone." Is what the mystical codestone
misinterpreted. Instead of waiting until after Jonathan bellowed his wish, the
magical effect within the stone immediately reversed the past, making it so
Jonathan and Justin never came across the codestone, undoing the bad effects
that happened while they had the codestone as well.
However, the ten codestones that the three siblings
managed to find were still intact. Krawker, for the most part, wasn't as worried
as his two older brothers when it came to a logical explanation to what had
happened. It wasn't every day that an eccentric mess in Terror Mountain simply
vanished, and everything was back in it's place as if nothing ever happened.
"Woah," Jyrosen gasped, looking towards his
brothers with a sense of fright upon his face. "You -- I -- er, did you just
see that?"
"Yes," Saigru replied quickly. "I'm not sure
what happened. I mean, I know I saw a Wocky standing here with this codestone.
I'm sure by now he would've wished something horrible, judging by the looks
of Terror Mountain a few minutes ago."
The three fell silent, contemplating the day's
events. Krawker found himself fighting off tears. Since the beginning of their
adventure the Krawk knew he would have to get rid of his beloved codestone -
the one he'd found in the first place. In a few minutes it'd be all gone,
forever.
"Well... guess we'd better stop wasting time,"
Saigru abruptly chimed in, taking a codestone out of the bag. He released a
sigh, and slowly declared, "I wish that each and every one of these wish granting
codestones would be permanently destroyed, never to be found again. All of the
bad effects granted by one of these stones should be retracted."
A slight rumble shook the ground after Saigru
finished his last and final wish. Krawker covered his eyes with his spotted
claws and Jyrosen stared at the bag of codestones, now vanishing into thin air
with a puff of smoke. No one spoke anything during the minute it took for the
codestones to erase themselves, and afterwards, the three brothers stood there
for another few minutes, still in silence.
"I guess that's done and over with," Jyrosen
grunted, and Saigru nodded in agreement. Krawker released a sound that was somewhat
between the cross of a sob and a snort.
As their adventure came to a deserved end, Saigru,
Jyrosen and Krawker began to wearily trudge home. The bag that contained the
codestones was not empty, with no sign of the fact that magic had been used.
This time, the codestones would be gone forever.
The End
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