Destiny

A neopets fanfiction

Summary: A prophecy is unearthed revealing a chosen warrior will face the tide of darkness and battle Neopia's greatest threat.

Disclaimer: I do not own Neopets, it belongs to the creators and whoever else holds the rites to it. Mainly neopets (dot) com.

This is a sequel to ties that bind, not my extremely bad/cliché/rubbish/craptacular/self insert/Gary Stu crossover fic but my original concept for the fic. Good news, you don't have to have read any of it (not that its possible now I lost the chapters for it a long time ago.) Everything will be explained and refrenced throughout the story/ so sit back and enjoy

Rating: M for later chapters

Prologue: It's what with the who now?

Another day at school, another day of boredom how typical. Jack thought as he sat listening to the teacher drone on and on about nothing in particular. He had his book open in front of him pretending to take notes whereas he was actually sitting and doodling away. I wonder if I made it into the Neopian Times? He mused as he started sketching the wings of the Uni he had been drawing. With the current plot the way it is, I think it would be good, there seems to be a big evil on the rise and I did a long one about Weapons for the battledome.

A hand slammed down on his book and Jack was thrown from his thoughts. "And what do you think you are doing?" The teacher snapped as he grabbed Jack's notebook.

"Keeping a mental record of all your comments and references that you say while finding a focal point so as to embed it in my mind." Jack bluffed quickly with an innocent expression on his face.

"And the doodling that cover your pages?" The teacher asked as she flicked through his book.

"They were the Focal point." Jack responded as the teacher tore out the two pages of doodles.

"However you choose to study, I will not have you wasting time in my class." She snapped in annoyance and threw the pages in the bin. "Detention, this lunchtime to do the work you haven't been doing this lesson." She said then went back to teaching the class.

The end of the day rolled around and one very annoyed Jack left the College building, that detention had stopped him from one of his projects that he had been working on and now he was behind schedule… Joe was going to kill him.

He quickly wandered back home, he wanted to get home quickly because that way he could check to see if the Neopian Times had accepted his article but he majorly wanted to see if any new plots had come up. Every day for the past couple of weeks they had been hinting at things, strange disappearances of NPC neopets and more shops now sold Neocola… was it a connection? He didn't know and as long as nothing happened to his pets he didn't care. The previous storylines he had been involved in, albeit not all of them were much interest to him but he took part just for the fact that he wanted to fight the good fight, although with the first Battle for Meridell. when Darigan was leading the Invasion even though Jack knew that Darigan was technically the bad guy (or so they all thought) he sided with him, letting himself enjoy the darker side of life for once.

Now though, there was a hint at a plot revolving around Dr. Sloth. One that could change the way Neopia looked. That would be interesting, a key dramatic plot that he could finally sink his teeth into. Reaching his house he entered and quickly moved towards the PC and flicked the power on. Now he had to wait for it to start up which was, like always, painfully slow. Simply because he needed a computer that wasn't six years out of date. Regardless once things got going it generally got better.

"Nevermind! Back to the Neopets!" Jack said and cut off his musings as he typed in the address. The biggest difference immediately struck Jack as the page loaded.

Covering the section where the new features were shown was a picture of Dr Sloth with the words "I have returned" in red bold lettering underneath.

Jack grinned and clicked the link. The plot wasn't just big… it was huge.

After several disappearances of inhabitants of Neopia, Dr Sloth has finally revealed himself to the…

Transmission Error, system reboot, error, error.

"I am Dr Sloth, finally I have returned and this time I won't be stopped, as some of you unlucky owners out there may have realised, this world is no longer safe for your precious little pets, my plan is in action. Those who are foolish to oppose me will feel my wrath. The prophecy means nothing to me. I will be victorious…

'Prophecy?' Jack questioned as he went to the pet page to look up the conditions, it was most probably feeding time for his pets, he sometimes wondered if they had bottomless pits for stomachs since they constantly seemed to be hungry. "Wait a minute… what the?" Jack asked as he looked at the pets page only to see they were all missing, no stats, no pictures no nothing. A plain white screen.

A small click of a page activating and the screen changed to a picture of Sloth standing in front of a series of cages each with depressed Neopets. The picture was animated as Sloth laughed. Jack glared at the screen as he waited to see if any clues were going to come up but none did so he clicked to go to Neopia Central.

Something has happened!

Jack looked surprised, at the top of the page an event box had opened.

You have discovered a prophecy concerning yourself and Dr Sloth.

Jack grinned at seeing this, it looks like he was going to be the star of the show, that would be good except for two major things. 1) He didn't overly train his pets, since he had become a pacifist and that effected his actions in Neopets he preferred to just game with them and take care of the pets and leave the fighting to others. 2) He didn't have any pets, Sloth had abducted them all. He wondered how many other members had their neopets abducted and were trying to find out where Sloth was keeping them.

Next stop, the guild. They were the best place to find information out about current quests since it was very popular. Clicking to go to the guild headquarters.

Something has happened!

"Another one?" Jack muttered as he read the text aloud. "Dr. Sloth has discovered the prophecy, he is coming to exterminate the threat." Jack laughed. "If this wasn't a computer game I would be worried." Jack laughed as the computer screen flickered then died. "Wait? What? Why did you do that?" Jack said and checked the monitor and then the main PC. Everything looked fine, but why wouldn't it work?

The screen went blue, it flashed different colours and the sounds of sparking. Jack jumped back and stared in shock and a lot of fear as he watched a green hand reach through the monitor and a figure started to pull himself out until he was standing in front of Jack with a glare. "YOU?" He shouted in surprise and Jack looked confused.

"You what?" Jack managed to find the courage to speak.

"You don't remember me?" He laughed as he reached into his black trench coat and pulled out a ray gun.

"You look like Dr. Sloth from Neopets, but since that is a game you cant be him regardless of what I've seen which can only mean one thing… that the PC did blow up and I am either unconscious or dead." Jack quickly explained as he edged towards the door.

"You really can't remember anything?" Sloth questioned and Jack looked confused. "Nothing at all? Well, I suppose that makes things a lot easier." Sloth said and fired the ray gun at Jack, the beam hit before he even considered moving.

Pain tore through his shoulder as the beam took effect. Jack screamed out and grabbed the injury as he felt his knees buckle, unable to fight back. The beam had been hot, it had cauterised as it went through and Jack. 'At least I'm not going to quickly bleed to death.' Jack thought through gritted teeth.

Dr. Sloth looked on in amusement as Jack tried to pull himself back to his feet before putting the gun back in his pocket. "You don't remember anything, now you will die confused and alone. Enjoy what time you have left." Sloth said before pulling another device out his pocket. "There won't be much of it." Sloth said as he pressed a button on it and then dropped it and jumped back through the PC Monitor.

Jack looked at the device, his mind counting down the seconds before he tried to escape, the nearest escape being the open window. He ran and jumped as the device hit zero.

BOOM

It exploded, Jack was catapulted through the large window as the force hit him, the room started the walls buckled severely and groaned in protest at the force before they collapsed, the house was old so it wasn't surprising. The rooms on the next level collapsed down as fire starting to engulf the house.

And Jack, he remembered why he liked sitting near that window when he wrote, there was a tree that gave the perfect shade on the nice days. That tree now proved to be his downfall as he slammed into it and crumpled. Consciousness being snatched from him in the blink of an eye.

TBC