The Sisters of Triumph: Part Two

by Neo61576

The two NeoPets grew to be six months old and were finally ready for battle. A few weeks after Chesiri's first battle (which she had won), the stocks plummeted violently. Suddenly Rina was very tight on cash. They had to sell a lot of their items at an auction and they moved to Neopia Central. Rina was devastated and depressed and the only one who could make her feel better was Chesiri. Chesiri never really missed Faerieland, even though she did miss her Angelpuss because that used to be her only true companion. That was all compensated for with the fact that Rina was home a lot more often and Chesiri became very close-knit with her. They helped each other trying to figure ways to save money, and pay off debts. They also knew that soon they might have to fight hard to keep the Neopian Trust Agency from taking Chesiri away. With that dreaded fact always looming not too far ahead, they worked very hard and were able to support a middle-class life. Now that Chesiri had not as many toys, she fought in the Battledome to keep entertained. However, she didn't always win because Rina could no longer afford the expensive battle magic and defence items.

On the other side of Neopia Central Destinyia the Shadow Aisha was building quite the repertoire becoming famous for winning many battles with her vast knowledge of technique and skill. People donated NP to Clover so she could keep winning by buying instruments of battle. Clover felt she could never repay Destinyia for taking away the sorrow she once knew and replacing it with such a fast-paced, exciting, and love-filled world.

Neither Chesiri nor Destinyia knew the truth of their lineage. But they would soon find out.

One day while the store was going slow, Clover searched through the Battledome for a contestant. She was very surprised to see that the once-fabled Cybunny Chesiri was waiting for a battle. Clover did a quick user-lookup and found out the secret that Rinabeena had been keeping for quite some time. Clover knew that Rinabeena had once been very rich and wondered what had happened. She decided to challenge.

Rina accepted her challenge and the battle commenced. Chesiri used elite moves she had learned when she was rich, but Destinyia used the skill and technique that Clover had always taught her. First Destinyia was ahead and then Chesiri, but it was always close. Finally they both came down to their final snowballs. And ooh, what yellow, gross and dirty snowballs they were.

But alas! When Chesiri held up her paw to fling the snowball towards Destinyia, the frightened Aisha saw a small, yellow, star-shaped birthmark! Destinyia recognized it as her own. Suddenly Chesiri dropped the snowball, her paw was burning! Destinyia was in pain too! Clover and Rinabeena were screaming and yelling, wondering what had happened when suddenly the two pets were floating in the clouds, looking down on a seemingly frozen-in-time piece of land. Clover was on one side with her mouth hanging open, and Rinabeena was on the other, her eyes wide and her eyebrows raised. The two pets looked up and realised they were in the presence of royalty. It was the Battle Faerie herself. Destinyia and Chesiri were awed into silence.

"Why, it seems like barely yesterday I dropped you two off in that cave, of course you probably don't remember," she said in a musical voice.

"I was coming from a Battle with that evil Dark Faerie. I, of course, won, but that's beyond the point. She had been sour about losing, thus causing dreadful thunderstorms that whole day and night. She had speared my leg with a Super Lupurus Tooth, and I needed to get back to the Healing Springs where we had both agreed to leave all our healing supplies. I could have used my magic to heal myself then and there, but the agreement of the battle was to use no healing magic on oneself. I know she found someway to cheat…but I'm getting off track here. Anyway, the Faerie Queen sent me telepathy to get you two kids from a dying Cybunny and a dying Aisha. They were your real mothers, but sadly to say, they passed away into NeoPets heaven. Now your father, he is a wild lad. He is royalty and yet he knows poverty, he can take on the form of any NeoPet, but few, and I mean very few NeoPets are ever visited by him. He only visits the weak and the sick to give them one last wish. Both of your mothers coincidentally wanted to have a baby girl as their last wish, so they could watch you two grow up. And they have been girls; they have been watching you. Why, I just saw Flowerbunn yesterday and she was so proud of you Chesiri! And I saw Feliss not too long ago also. She loves you very much, Destinyia! Oddly enough, your two mothers have become best friends while neither of you knew the other one existed. Now that you know the true story of your birth what do you have to say?"

Destinyia and Chesiri looked at each other, amazed. They hugged, and when they looked up, they were back in the Battledome Clover and Rinabeena seemed to unfreeze and they rubbed their eyes and blinked.

"It's a draw mum," said Chesiri. The spectators cheered and filed out of the Battledome Destinyia looked at her paw. The star was different now. It had a tiny white heart in the middle.

"Girls," a voice in her head seemed to say, but she knew it was not her own. Chesiri looked up too, startled.

"That heart means you are now and forever Sisters of Triumph."

The two pets grinned, and they knew that everything would be all right.

The End