"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending".
The famous quote struck Theena123's heart and mind hard like a hammer against a nail when she read them in her quotes book. She thought the words out slowly, trying to find the exact meaning. Even before she knew that the words meant just go on, because no one can rewrite the past, they stilled Theena's restless heart. Even when they were just jumbles of letters being processed and put together in her mind. They took her attention off the tortureous image inside her head and placed it on that little, yellowing page.
Theena sat still for a while, staring at her book on the floor, and once in a while a puffle of hers would come up to her and she'd scratch it on the head with a smile. Theena had eight puffles: Raphael the Red Puffle, Yoshi the Green Puffle, Felix the Blue Puffle, Phineas the Orange Puffle, T-Rex the Black Puffle, Snoopy the White Puffle, Kennedy the Purple Puffle, and Leonardo da Vinci the Yellow Puffle. Each one of them inspired Theena to keep on moving, in their own special ways. Thanks to them, Theena did. Even though, once in a while she had to rely on inspiration quotes to boost her morale.
She remembered all the good times she'd had in the past. Nothing recent, since nothing good had ever happened since that terrible day of October 16, 2007. The day their dictator had taken over the island. Even thinking of the cursed date brought back horrifying memories. Sad crying penguins in the streets, angry protests for days and weeks, thousands of penguins gone missing and never seen again. Sometimes a missing penguin would be rediscovered around these times, only to reunite with old friends and disappear again before they could be registered as found. Millions of poor souls were still archived on the never-ending missing penguins list. It never stop growing. Just recently, Theena's good friend, Happi, had her name and a picture of a melancholy purple penguin posted at the bottom of the mile-long parchment just hours ago. Theena shuttered and shivered at the memory of reading the Club Penguins Times and finding Happi's and three-hundred other penguin's names announced in the ongoing list of Gone and Never Seen Again. Such was the way of New Club Penguin.
No, Theena thought, I can't live like this. Her mind drifted off to the happier times before the terrible October Takeover.
Theena123 danced on the blinking and tinking lights of the dance floor, an out-of-style disco ball spinning above her head. Her friend, Happi, grooved alongside her, the pink ruffles of her short skirt twirling along with her. Happi's beautiful, long, golden hair ruffled and ruzzled ontop her head, but she didn't care. Dozens of other penguins were squished onto the small dance floor with them, giving the DJ on the raised platform in the room a view of what looked like a mixed-up rainbow. They were celebrating the successful first six-months of Club Penguin. Not many people lived there at the time, only a couple million. That didn't matter though. Quality over quantity. And Club Penguin had plenty of quality.
More great memories flashed in Theena's mind. The day she bought her first puffle, Raphael, she and Happi checking out the new PSA headquarters (PSA meant Penguin Secret Agency) after having gotten their spy licenses, going to a Penguin Band concert with her now missing Best Friend Forever and meeting Stompin' Bob backstage.
Theena smiled at the memories, but frowned again when her mind wondered back to the present. Even the once-beloved Penguin Band was corrupted now. The new dictator had forced them to change their looks and stop preforming live. The members of Penguin Band: Stompin' Bob, G Billy, Franky, and Petey K, had been leading activists in the Penguin Rights Movement against the new ruler, and had made the dictator angry. "Never make the dictator mad", Theena remembered being told countless times by cautious penguins.
The PSA had been brought down, too. Herbert, the archenemy of all of Club Penguin, had destroyed the agency and its secret entrance with a popcorn explosion. It may sound funny, but it made a major difference when the EPF (Elite Penguin Force) stomped into the rumble of the PSA headquarters and commanded all the out-of-work P.S.A agents to work for it now. The EPF did a terrible job of keeping itself hidden, and now it wasn't so much of a secret agent agency as it was a walk-right-in-and-get-a-cool-job agency. Out of lack for a better place to place its headquarters, the new organization had bull-dozered the Sports Shop without any warning and built its headquarters ontop of the bricks that had once been a beloved Club Penguin store. Some lucky penguins had taken home some of the rubble, framed it, and gave it a plaque on their wall, in memory of the downed shop.
It would take days to get into all of the other terrible things the new ruler had done, and Theena was about to try, but she'd been shocked out of her trance by a loud knock on her door. She turned around and saw her door fall out of its frame and slam onto the floor of her igloo.
"You're coming with us," said a gruffly voiced shadow in the doorway.