Hello. (Real people are used in the making of this story.)

Good summary: Kylen(me), Brittany, and Aerielle take a trip to Hawaii to get away from their problems in life. As they are there, they get taken through the portal and into the neopet world. They find themselves in a world of pirates, weird animals, and a world of faeries, where secrets are found. From The infamous ScarBlade to The great Lord Dargian…from the Sea slug to the Snowager…you find all of it and more in this story of secrets, love, and adventure. Enjoy!

The four swords

By: Kylen Reid

The islands of Hawaii came into view as the airplane neared its destination. The sky was blue, the sun was shining like gold, and the islands were flourishing with green trees and happy faces. The plane zoomed overhead and some people stared, while others ignored it. People visited Hawaii all the time and it was never a new sight to see. People in Hawaii wore bathing suits or Tiki clothes, which made them look a bit silly, but it was a fun environment, so it wasn't strange there.

The plane was rather quiet now, since people had decided to stop talking and look at the sight of Hawaii. This was a definite break for Kylen Reid because she hated hearing whining babies or chitchat when she tried to type on her laptop or read something. She had once been very open to such things, but recent events made her one of the coldest women alive now. The only people she acted her old self to, were her close friends and family.

This was exactly why she was on this trip right now. She was going to Hawaii with her friend and her sister. Kylen was 18 years old. Her friend, Aerielle, was 16 years old. Her sister was 21. Kylen had been on her own for a few months now and had been dating a guy for nearly a year, when she found out that he had been cheating on her with a minor. It was very devastating and that's why she had become so cold towards people lately. She had decided that she was over it, but the pain of knowing that she wasn't enough was torture.

Finally, her sister, Brittany, had called her and told her that she needed to stop moping and go on vacation. She had suggested Hawaii and Kylen had been there with her before, and she remembered that it was very fun. She agreed and Brittany had bought her the flight tickets. Kylen had begged for Aerielle to go because her friend had always gone to Hawaii and it would probably be more fun to have more people. Brittany had said it was ok, so she got Aerielle a plane ticket as well. Unfortunately, they all were living in different places at the time, so they each had to be on a different plane and meet up at the airport. Kylen's plane would be last to get there.

She looked out the window she was next to and had memories come back to her about her trip to Hawaii when she was in the 8th grade. She really did miss those days. She didn't have the same complications she had now. The palm trees were definitely something she missed. She loved anything tropical, probably because of her love for pirates. This was something she had liked ever since she was a kid. Her sister was nice enough to get a hotel that was practically pirate based. Supposedly, the rooms looked like rooms you'd see in pirate ships, but they were still supposed to be very comfortable.

"We have now arrived in Oahu, Hawaii, enjoy your vacation and thank you for flying American Airlines." She heard the captain say on the intercom and she unbuckled her seat belt. Now that they had landed, people started getting loud and excited and she just groaned in annoyance. At the same time, she was excited, too. She grabbed her case that held her laptop and she got off the plane, waving goodbye to the stewardess.

The airport wasn't very big, but it was still amazing since she felt a humongous heat wave hit her. She was wearing a black and white striped shirt with an anchor picture on it and jean shorts. She definitely came prepared for the hot weather. She figured that Aerielle would end up wearing something else and end up being super hot. Her friend was definitely never prepared.

"Do you need any help miss?" A person who worked at the airport was talking to her now and her face turned red in embarrassment when she realized that she was just standing there staring off into space for at least a minute.

"Oh no, just thinking a bit on where I should meet some people." Kylen replied, hurriedly, and then ran off to find her sister and friend. She sometimes did that. She would always just stand there like a statue and think about bad things. She really couldn't help it. Nothing could keep her mind off of the bad things. That's why she knew that this trip would be great for her.

Kylen stopped to buy a People Magazine and then went to look for them again. She was about to sit down when she heard a familiar voice yelling out into the crowd.

"KYLEN!" She turned instantly to see her sister, Brittany, with Aerielle. Kylen smiled and ran to her sister. They gave each other a big hug and then walked towards where to get Kylen's luggage. Aerielle and Brittany already had their own luggage. When they got it, they decided to rent a car. "I say we should get a convertible."

"Of course, that's always what you want to drive." Kylen replied with a chuckle. Brittany always wanted cool cars. She always wanted fast ones, too. She ended up getting a red convertible corvette and they started to walk out of the airport.

"Don't worry, Kylen. As soon as this trip is over, you won't even be able to remember who that boyfriend of yours was." Brittany stated and Aerielle nodded in agreement.

"We'll have so much fun on this trip. We can look for cute boys along the way." Aerielle said.

"Oh shut up." Kylen was already a little happy now that she was with these two. They walked to their car and hopped in, letting the sun hit them for a moment. They finally got into the car and Brittany drove off.

"So what do you think we should do while we are here? I hadn't really planned anything other than sun bathing." Brittany exclaimed while watching the road.

"I want to go Jet Skiing!" Aerielle yelled happily from the back seat.

"I hope they have horse-back riding here. I want to ride along the beach." Kylen added on.

"I'm sure they have that. Hawaii has everything." Brittany had a large smile plastered on her face. She always seemed to be a happy person, but you'd better watch out, cause she is scary when she's angry. She was definitely the daredevil in the group. She always tried to do dangerous things. Most likely, she would try doing a flip in a jet ski over a wave.

Aerielle was the careful one, always wanting to be safe and not get herself into trouble. That never ruined her sense of adventure and fun, though. She didn't let stuff like that slow her down. She was a good friend of Kylens, every since Kylen was about 14.

Kylen was right in between the two. She always wants to do many fun things and nothing would stop her. Her depressed mood couldn't even stop her. Kylen was naturally an optimist and looked at the brighter side of life, but she was always scared and didn't trust people very well.

"How the hell are we going to find this hotel? This map is insane!" Brittany stated, annoyed. She was turning the map up and down, trying to find the road that they were supposed to be on. Kylen was never good with directions, so she just ignored her sister and looked at the surroundings. She could see the ocean from where they were and just looked at it with slightly squinted eyes. It was a good thing they got here at this time because they heard that Hawaii got a lot of rain. "FINALLY! Found it!"

The three watched as they went into the parking lot of the hotel. The hotel was actually painted to look like a pirate ship. It was really awesome. The doorway into the building looked like it was supposed to be on the side of the ship and a ramp led to it.

"They weren't kidding when they said it was pirate based." Brittany said with her mouth hanging open. She had seen pictures of it before, but it still looked amazing in real life. She parked the car and got out, staring at the large building for a little longer.

Kylen got her things and the other two followed behind her, getting theirs. Brittany was first to go into the building and they looked around the inside for a moment. Random boxes, filled with fake jewels, were scattered along the walls of the lobby. Fish tanks were set up with all kinds of tropical sea creatures. The walls were painted like they were boards. Brittany got their rooms and started walking through halls and up stairs to find them.

When they entered their rooms, they were excited to be in such a cool place and they hopped up onto the hammocks that were hanging from the ceiling. Surprisingly, they were extremely comfortable. The pillows and blankets on them were super soft.

"Well, it's time to have fun." Brittany said.

Kylen had gotten what she wanted, and the three girls were now riding down the beach on some horses. Kylen was a lot more used to riding horses, so she went a lot faster than the other two. Her horse was white with a black mane and tail and its name was 'Twilight'. Brittany's horse was gray with white speckles and it was called 'Fog.' Aerielle was riding a chestnut colored horse named 'Rogue.' They had been riding for at least an hour now and were deciding that it was too hot to keep going. They were even in their bathing suit tops and shorts.

Kylen stopped Twilight and looked out along the ocean. It was so incredible. What was funny was that she actually had a major fear of the ocean. She still didn't let that stop her from swimming or jet skiing. She mostly was afraid of sharks and all. Anything BIG scared her.

Aerielle and Brittany stopped along side her and looked out, too. Brittany enjoyed swimming a lot and only feared the jellyfish, since they seemed to always love stinging her. She always hated it for that. Hawaii didn't have many jellyfish, though, and she felt good about that.

"Well, this has been fun, but we better head back." Brittany stated as she saw the sun starting to set. They had shopped most of the day, deciding to jet ski tomorrow. Now the night was approaching and they were all tired. Kylen and Aerielle both nodded, but all three of them noticed something stick out of the water and then go back under. They saw something brown move through the water. Aerielle was so shocked that she nearly fell off her horse.

"What was that!" she yelled in fear. Kylen was freaking out a bit, too. She backed her horse away from the water along with the other two.

"I don't know what that was, but we all saw it, didn't we?" Kylen asked and they nodded. She was hoping it wasn't a shark, but sharks weren't brown, so she ruled that idea out. It was a very distinct, board-like, color.

"We better just ignore it and go back to the hotel." Brittany said while trying to push them along with her horse. They finally left the beach and put their horses away. That night, they all thought about what they had seen.

Kylen, Aerielle, and Brittany were sleeping away on their hammocks; the thing they saw in the ocean had been forgotten. The pillows and blankets helped with that. The night was so quiet, since not many roads or people were around the hotel. The window was open, and it was a bit windy outside, so a slight breeze was blowing the thin curtains through the room. The cool air was peaceful.

A small creak was heard as a swift foot entered the room. It was furry and looked like a dogs foot, only it was a strange blue color. Behind it came a man's foot and the man was standing behind the dog. It was too dark to make out their shapes and faces. The dog moved quietly across the floor and put its nose into Aerielle's suitcase, sniffing out any contents. What it got, was a bag of cookies. It grabbed the bag, and walked back to the man.

"You're stealing cookies? How about money or clothes or something?" The man asked the dog and the dog growled.

"Come on. These are women here. There is no way that they would have clothes that would fit anyone on the ship." It seemed that another voice came out of nowhere. It came from the dog?

"Let's just go. I don't feel right in here," The man replied and then around to look at the girls. He stopped at Kylens sleeping form and then turned to leave. "Mike will be angry if we take to long. We should start making Trevor do this kind of work. I'm the boss anyway."

"Stop complaining." The dog seemed to say to him and they both jumped out the open window.

"Where the hell are my cookies?" Aerielle was screaming, very irritated at the current moment. Her cookies were missing and she loved her cookies.

"Maybe you ate them already and forgot." Brittany replied, trying to look through her own bag. She wanted to wear her new bathing suit when they went jet skiing today. Aerielle huffed around the room and gave up looking. She figured she could just buy more when they got to a store after jet skiing. Kylen had been sitting on her hammock all morning. She felt a bit strange for some reason. It wasn't that she felt sick, but she had an uneasy feeling.

"You ok?" Brittany asked her sister.

"Yea, fine. I just feel like something happened." Kylen replied and then shrugged and got up.

"You're weird."

"Well, you're my sister, so that means we both carry the gene." Brittany just rolled her eyes and went to change into her suit. Aerielle was now picking out her outfit. Kylen went to her suitcase to get a suit. She looked over at Aerielle's suitcase and then stopped dead in her tracks at what she saw. It appeared to be a dirty footprint. She walked over and closely inspected it and noticed that it was in the shape of a dog's foot. "Looks like the culprit was a dog. I can't believe you missed this footprint." Aerielle came over and saw the print with her own eyes.

"Oh darn…stupid dog." Aerielle replied. Now that she knew that they were stolen, she was even more enraged at the thought.

"It must have come in through the window somehow."

"But how is that possible?" Brittany suddenly said. She had heard the whole conversation and went to the window. She was now in her bathing suit. "We're four three stories up and that is a tiny ledge. It would need human tools and brains to get up here."

"I guess that's true. But we should leave the window closed anyway, just in case." Kylen stated and then went to change, too.

After they had gotten changed, the three girls headed out in the car to go jet skiing. They all were excited to ride on their own jet skis. When Kylen and Brittany were younger, they always had to ride with someone else and that got a little boring. Now they could do it alone.

The day was going to be just as hot as the day before. The sun was shining high up in the sky, beating them as if they baseballs. The heat was overpowering. They had made sure to put on some suntan lotion before they left and bring plenty of Gatorade. When they got to the place that they needed to be, they noticed that the water was nice and calm and the color was light. Even so, seeing anything under them would still be hard. Kylen was determined to overcome her fear of the ocean someday.

"I'll go pay them and you guys go pick some jet skis." Brittany said and walked away. Aerielle and Kylen nodded and went to the dock to pick out which ones they wanted. Kylen didn't have much trouble. She picked a jet ski that was completely black and it had a gray and white streak going down its side. Aerielle picked a gray one with a purple streak. Brittany came alone after paying and got a deep blue jet ski.

"So how far do you want to go out?" Brittany asked them and they both weren't completely sure. Aerielle was about safety and Kylen was still nervous about falling in the water. She didn't like it when she was out really far where she couldn't see anything under her. It was a fear that she had held for most of her life.

"I suppose we could go pretty far, but don't get carried away." Kylen replied and Brittany was going to laugh.

"You can't tell me that you're still scared of the water, Kylen."

"So what…you know how terrified I am of sharks."

"I doubt a shark will attack you, now let's go." Brittany hated wasting time and she drove her jet ski off. Aerielle just shook her head and then followed Brittany. Kylen still felt nervous, but she went on ahead, hoping that they wouldn't go too far out. As she went further, she noticed waves picking up a bit more and that made her even more nervous since she figured it could cause her to roll into the water. But she practiced a bit over the waves and started feeling a bit more comfortable with them.

About an hour passed and the waves were getting a little more rough. Kylen still felt comfortable, though, and still rode alongside her friend and sister. The sky was as clear as ever and the breeze was picking up. All three of the girls were starting to feel the uneasy feeling they had felt the day before when they were horseback riding. They weren't sure exactly how to explain the feeling and they were not telling each other what they felt. Brittany was going in circles around the other two, looking into the water at the same time. A feeling of being watched started coming over her. She felt nervous because of this and thought it best to say something, but then she shut her mouth and just decided to forget about it.

Kylen had felt it, too, though. She now wanted to end this activity and move on to something that didn't have to do with water. She would rather do something simpler, than to be thrown into the water by a large whale tail. The only thing was that she didn't want to ruin it for the others.

"I'm going to stop for a bit. I just want to relax a little." Kylen stated and stopped the Jet Ski. She heard the small sound of the engine turn off as she let go of the handlebar and she sighed at the quietness of it. For a moment, she stared into the water and didn't do much of anything. After a bit, she pulled out a sandwich in the waterproof compartment and started eating it. A lot of the time, she kept her eyes on Brittany and Aerielle and just laughed at the silly things they did, like trying to go in figure eights. A couple of times, the two fell in and overturned their machines. That was the main reason that Kylen decided to stop for now. Kylen felt tired suddenly and put her foot into the water. She had to get over her fear somehow. After that, she felt tired and closed her eyes for a moment to take in the ocean sounds.

"Don't wander too far, ok?" Brittany said to Kylen and she nodded in reply, keeping her eyes closed some more. She just opened her ears and listened to the seagulls and the oceans waves as they hit each other. The slight rocking of the Jet Ski wasn't fazing her anymore. It was actually kind of peaceful. She began humming a tune in her mind and she started drifting off to sleep.

Suddenly, Kylen felt a weird jerking on a part of her body. Being partly asleep, she was having difficulty waking up and trying to realize what was going on. For a moment, she swung her head around a bit and then realized that her foot was being tugged on. It still didn't process, though, and she started swatting at the air for some reason. A hard dose of reality hit her when the jerking pulled her of her Jet Skit and into the water. The cool water engulfed her body and she fought to make it back to the surface. The jerking stopped and she found herself at the surface taking a deep breath.

"Aerielle? Brittany?" Kylen asked looking around quickly. She could see them from afar, but it seemed they didn't realize that she was in danger at the moment. "Help!" She tried swimming back to her Jet Ski, but she felt the jerking again, and she was dragged back into the water, fighting to get free. Bending down, she hit the thing that held her over the head and tried to escape, but it was too strong. She was panicking now and couldn't think straight. She didn't know what it was, and quite frankly, she didn't care. After a moment, she fell into the water and found herself not being able to reach the surface anymore. In fact, her Jet Ski was moving farther and father away from her blurred sight. She was even starting to have trouble breathing from panic. She tried looking down to see what had her, but all she saw was a strange green creature and she couldn't tell what it was because she couldn't see well under water.

A large purplish color suddenly spilled out from under them and a colder feeling hit her. It was like she was being dragged into deeper waters. She started screaming, but only bubbles escaped her mouth and she knew that no one could hear it. This was the end now and she knew that all of her fears had been rational and she should have listened to her instincts.