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"You guys really came! YAY!" Linny cried happily. Tahoshi
savagely shot at the chains which held his owner, narrowly avoiding the idea
of zapping her. She hastily stood up, peering at her pets in turn with a smile.
"….I'm kinda hungry, do you guys think that we
could--,"
"Not now, Linny!" Tahoshi hissed, peaking through
the destroyed wall at the deserted hallway. "No one's here! Let's go!"
The bizarre family pelted down the hall, looking
every which way for a guard or even Sloth himself. They had no idea where they
were going, but they were certain that they were closely getting towards the
upper levels of the space station.
"ALERT! RED ALERT! CAPTIVES LOOSE ON DECK
B9! APPROACH WITH EXTREME CAUTION! DISARM THEM!" Hollered an angered Sloth
over the intercom system.
"WE'RE DOOOOMED!" Linny cried, heaving her breath
painfully in her chest.
"No! Just keep moving!" Kuraiiro huffed. However,
there was a fatal flaw in her plan as the group turned the corner only to see
that the wall was indeed a dead end.
"Keep moving, pathetic, tactical move," hissed
a voice. The group turned about only to see a haggard looking Sloth staring
them down, particularly delirious and angry. His face was black with soot as
was his hairstyle in three different frazzled strands while within his hands
was a weapon that the family has no idea what it was, but was sure that it worked
with dangerous accuracy.
"It was mind numbingly simple… and yet you somehow
fooled the foolproof," Sloth snarled. "Never in my years have I had such a DIFFICULT,
if not INCOMPETANT hostage!"
"Awww, thanks!" Linny smiled earnestly. This
only seemed to enrage the dictator even more, his eyes popping out of their
sockets in rage.
"I have had ENOUGH of you! I will dispose of
ALL of you! If anything, I will be doing the planet a SERVICE! AN--"
CRASH! The door down the hall smashed
open with startling forced as a figure pelted through it. No one in the group
could properly discern who or what it was, but seemed to know who Sloth was,
tackling him with such unnatural strength that it sent him flying into an opposite
wall.
"Hrpm! How many times must I fight you before
you will learn?!" snapped an impatient voice. The group slowly looked up from
the battered Sloth to see a concerned face peering at them.
"Oh my… you're the Space Faerie!" Kuraiiro
an awed gasp at this. The faerie gave a quant smile and bowed at the group before
pointing at Linny.
"Are you Linny, the hostage?" asked the
faerie. The girl gave a rather bewildered nod as the Space Faerie let out a
relieved sigh.
"Thank goodness! I must have searched
this station a thousand times over looking for where you were being held! We
managed to detain the Grundos an hour of so ago; however we had no idea where
you were, so we couldn't rescue you. I hope my apologizes count for something,"
The faerie humbly asked.
"Will you give me a cookie if I say so?"
Linny questioned. The faerie bit her lip and looked down at the three pets who
simply avoided her eyes out of embarrassment.
"Erm... of course. In any case, let us
get you on your way home," the faerie kindly smiled.
***
Never in her life had Linny extended to receive the welcome she had once she
stepped foot outside of the space ship. Battered, and yet still wholly in piece,
the group emerged from the stolen craft which they had arrived, a gaggle of
admirers and news reports surrounding the shuttle.
"Look! There they are!"
"Oh! They're okay!"
"We'd like to do an article for the Neopian
Times!"
The words and cheers continued happily
as a throng surrounded Harri, Tahoshi, Kuraiiro and even Linny. Out of the corner
of her eye, however she noticed a defeated figure being led away in chairs by
the Space Faerie. The girl quietly disengaged herself from the group only to
find Sloth madly grunting and hissing about the capture.
"FOOLS! DO YOUR NOT RECOGNIZE A GENIUS,
A REVOLUTIONARY?! Oh this pitiful planet shall soon be mine an-,"
"EEEE! SLOOOOTTTTTHHHHHH! HIIIIIII!" Linny
hollered. At the scream of words the dictator hunched over and began to emit
a terrified cry.
"NOT HER! NOT HER! PLEASE ANYTHING BUT
HER!" He began to kick and hurriedly back away, as if Linny was a disgusting
creature to be avoided. "PLLLLEEEEAAASEE GET HER AWWWWAAAAY!" Sloth screamed.
Linny was extremely confused by this behavior, but simply gave a jaunty wave
as Sloth was led away screaming.
"Bye bye Mr. Sloth! I hope we meet again!"
"Speaking of meeting…" snapped a curt
voice. A talon like hand closed over Linny's shoulder, wrenching her left side
in pain. She turned her head to angrily snap at the hand's owner, but the face
she saw only caused her to scream in horror, for there behind her, staring down
Linny with her fury and anger was a harassed Queen Fyora.
"My my, so ironic that we would meet again…
carrot blade thief," The queen hissed, dragging Linny away from the group, despite
her pitiful cries for help.
***
"Thank you very much for your understanding queen Fyora" "I am quite glad
we managed to agree to this decision Kuraiiro. You all are very supportive of
this, I assume."
"Yeah, anything to keep it out of the
house."
Linny heard these voices with a bit of
sadness as she stared down at the soapy water within the pathetically made wood
bucket before her. She let out a deep sigh as she plunged the mop she held into
the water and began to draw it over the handsomely created marble floor with
sheer depression.
This, she believed, was the cruelest punishment
of all. Sentenced to clean the rooms of the faerie palace until Fyora deemed
fit! It was horrible! Linny snarled and stared out at the entrance to the Hidden
Tower where her pets were happily talking with Fyora.
"Hrmph, so you think you might be able
to straighter her out?" Tahoshi asked. The Faerie Queen gave quick nod at the
Lupe.
"Of course, Tahoshi. I'm sure that in
here she will be able to pay off her debt and perha--"
CRASH! SHATTER! BANG! A series of noises
which would sadden any Battledome aficionado rang out through the room in which
Linny was cleaning. The group duly stared; horror struck the slightly opened
door as the shattering continued. After a few seconds Linny's head, adorned
with a spotted handkerchief, poked out.
"Erm… that stuff wasn't valuable, right
Fyora?"
The End
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