I was just sitting around a corner of the food shop waiting for restock when
I noticed the Ghost Lion and the Pant Devil having a nice little chat. Of course
I had quivered in my shoes and had looked for a quick route out of their way
but I just couldn't help noticing one sentence of their conversation. It was:
"Pant devil? Have you collected any priceless items lately?"
Me? I'm a major Neopian Times fan so I recalled a article on the conspiracy
of the shadow government. Having gotten goose bumps all the way up and down
my arms, I had settled my curious self down and listened onto their conversation.
The Ghost Lion roared and remembered the days when Neopians didn't exist...
when only the NeoPets and the shadow government had.
The most famous monster on the gallery of evil murmured something I hadn't
heard clearly. "You did? A Krawk PetPet? Excellent job! We can get major Neopoints
for that little guy..." the Ghost Lion had congratulated him after.
"Yes, your majesty. Yet, are we anywhere close in reaching our debt yet? I'm
quite tired of acting the part of the bad guy," the Pant Devil looked down at
the tips of his body in realisation of whom he had just confessed to. Shocked,
I had just sat there, barely remembering to breathe. Majesty? Debt? Huh?!
The Ghost Lion as expected got extremely mad. "Were you questioning my actions?
As the ruler of all the NeoPets and of all the many worlds in the past when
this emergency came up, I had had to do something for those poor Meercas who
were in danger of dying out. There they were on Mystery Island, down to a few
rare number of Meercas because they didn't have a way of climbing the olive
trees for food. Their only source was from kind NeoPets who occasionally handed
them a olive or two. We, the all-powerful shadow government would never have
the Neopoints to support them for all of eternity and faeries didn't have the
knowledge to. Kauvara was the only NeoPet who had known how to solve the problem
and she had an hefty fine of 999,999,999,999,999 Neopoints. Her solution was
a rare-beyond-belief potion that would enable Meercas to grow tails. Of course
I had hastily agreed. NEVER WOULD I ALLOW ONE OF MY SPECIES OF SUBJECTS TO BE
EXTINCT!"
The poor Pant Devil stammered a apology and they continued on their way trying
to steal some more hard-earned Neopoints.
I had figured the rest out by myself. Everything was so clear now. Long-unanswered
questions were now solved by this one thing I had just overheard. Maybe Fuzzles
were actually the ancestors of the Meercas... the ancestors with no tails. The
money that's made by the items stolen by the monsters in the gallery of evil
were to pay Kauvara. Maybe that's why the Faerie Queen started to sell hidden
tower items, to help pay off the debt. Why this was all kept a secret and how
the Ghost Lion became the ex-ruler.... Now THOSE are questions just waiting
to be answered... | 
