"THIS MEETING OF S.O.N.S.S.P will now come to order." Bang! The large
skunk Eyrie slammed down his gavel and called together all the members of The
Society of Non-smelly Skunk Pets, or S.O.N.S.S.P. The Eyrie, whose name was
Beeoh, was the president and founder of the underground association. Every single
member was painted skunk, and every single one of them washed and bathed and
cleaned jut as much as any other pet. Maybe more, since they were trying to
prove wrong the age old "skunk pets are smelly" rumour. Beeoh cleared his throat
and addressed the members.
"Now, the first thing on the agenda is to collect
the petition to change the name 'skunk paint brush' to 'black and white paint
brush' --Did you all sign?" A wave of nods spread through the assembly.
"Ah, good." He handed the telephone book sized
'letter' to his secretary, a skunk Usul, who went of to mail the petition to
the Neopets team. The Eyrie frowned, he doubted that even with a thousand signatures,
the idea would never be passed. He turned back to the sea of black and white
pets and signaled to his stagehand.
"And now, my friends, we come to the more *unpleasant*
part of the meeting..." On cue, the skunk Kacheek stagehand unveiled a huge
poster of a skunk Lupe. The Eyrie drew out a long pointer, and began pacing
in front of the poster like a military general.
"This, my loyal brethren, is out worst enemy.
The skunk Lupe known as Stenchpaw Lupaire!"
A gasp ran through the crowd, followed by vigorous
nods. The Eyrie began to roar out information about Stenchpaw.
"He is giving skunk pets a bad name!" The crowd
cheered and raised their fists high in the air. "He never washes! He lives in
a dung house! He gives off such a horrible stench that every one who has ever
seen him assumes that all skunk pets stink!" The crowd roared out in agreement,
and Beeoh heaved a worn brown bag onto the podium.
"This bag contains the secret to stopping stenchpaw!
Now, stand back, for what I am about to bring out is a very... frightening artifact.
You may want to move your seats back a bit."
Beeoh reached bravely into the bag, and drew
out a split paint brush! The crowd gasped in shock, some pets even fainted.
Beeoh regarded them solemnly. "It is the only way! We must venture into the
Lupe forest, and paint Stenchpaw split!" The crowd applauded wildly, some even
stood up. Beeoh bowed, and posted a small sign up sheet on the door of the building.
"Sign your name and species here if you want to come and assist me in this dangerous
mission!" Beeoh howled. There was a stampede of pets running for the sign up
sheet, they all wanted to see justice done to Stenchpaw. Above all the confusion,
Beeoh sat and laughed cruelly, soon he would see the end of his arch enemy,
Stenchpaw Lupaire!
***
Stenchpaw, at the moment, had no idea that a rally of angry skunk pets were
heading his way, set on painting him split. Instead, Stenchpaw was humming happily
and eating fish ice cream with mustard sauce. He glanced passively out the window.
"Ah... what a fine day it is being! Today maybe
I am going to swimming in the mud hole, no?" Stenchpaw was roused out of his
daydreams by the unpleasant noise of ten sets of paws banging on his dung door.
Stenchpaw's face broke into a huge grin.
"Maybe it is my friends coming to seeing me!"
Suddenly, the door broke down, and in sauntered Beeoh the Eyrie, with the split
paint brush clamped between his beak.
"Stenchpaw you have given skunk pets a bad name
for the last time! From now on you can go around making everyone think that
split pets stink!" He lunged forward at Stenchpaw, brandishing the dripping
purple and orange brush. With a shrill scream, Stenchpaw jumped aside, causing
Beeoh to crash into Stenchpaw's dung couch. Stenchpaw still had no idea what
the Eyrie was talking about. "But what was I doing?" Beeoh didn't answer, instead
he attempted to corner Stenchpaw against the far wall of his dung house.
"I have you now, Lupe!"
In a fit of panic, Stenchpaw grabbed some dung
from his wall and hurled it at Beeoh. It got him right in the face.
"Ack! Get this disgusting slime off me!"
When Beeoh finally did mange to brush the dung
of his face, he was surprised to see all of his loyal members staring at him
in absolute shock and horror. A skunk Kougra stepped forward.
"Sir... You... STINK!"
At once, all of the skunk pets began backing
away from Beeoh, as if he had the plague. "What are you doing?" Beeoh screeched.
A skunk Kyrii offered the answer.
"You are smelly, therefore you are not allowed
in the society of non-smelly skunk pets." All of the other skunks began chanting
in a slow monotone. "You are banned! You are banned!" Beeoh roared in frustration
and grabbed some dung from the floor.
"Banned, am I? Well than take this, and this!"
He began throwing dung like mad, every skunk pets got a faceful of it. Stenchpaw
grinned, what a fun party! "Being a dung fight!" He hollered, and began slinging
dung all over the place. In a matter of minutes, every single pet in the vicinity
of the little dung house stunk. Beeoh shook paws with Stenchpaw.
"Stenchpaw, we were wrong about you. We thought
that skunk pets should be as clean as other pets, but you showed us the way!"
"Yeah," chirped the Kougra. "What's the point
of being painted skunk if you can't stink?"
Stenchpaw shrugged. "I am not knowing." All
of the eyes were making him slightly uncomfortable. "You are going now, no?"
All the pets nodded happily, anything that would please their new hero. "Bye
Stenchpaw!" They all chorused, and ran happily off to their secret meeting place.
Only now, they needed to change their name...
***
Beeoh the skunk Eyrie stepped up to the podium and regarded his followers.
"This meeting of the society of skunk pets in awe of Stenchpaw will now come
to order!"
The End
*Special thanks to Al_the_chia,
who let me use his delightful character, Stenchpaw, in this story. | 
