Okay, peoples. Here it is. Da most awesomest story eva! Or…maybe not…..
"Yes! YES! I have defeated you fiendish one! Never again shall I bother with your darkness!!!...Until I start a new game. Then you can go on and try to kill me again, and I will defeat you again." Was the way it all began.
Two girls, both eleven years old, sat in a white walled room on the second story of a house. The one who had been talking was a sheer blonde named Saura. Her friend, Amy, a brunette, sat in the bean bag opposite her friend and looked at her with a smile that said 'Omg, I actually know this girl.'
Saura held a PS2 controller in her hands and watched her TV in satisfaction. Once again, for like the millionth time, she had beaten the Darkest Faerie and watched as the cinematics played, even though she knew how they went. Fyora had just congratulated Tor and Roberta and the two now struck (what Saura called ridiculous) proud poses. "You see how they're in the wrong clothes?" she asked Amy, "I mean, they're supposed to be in Altadorian clothes, but they are in the wrong ones!"
Amy looked at her friend hopelessly. Always criticizing the smallest error or bug in ANY game. But heck, who cared? It was fun to watch the blonde get herself riled up over it.
Amy and Saura had both played said Darkest Faerie game. When they visited the other's house, the guest would watch as their friend played it. It never seemed to bother them, as it may some different people. You would think that they would ask to have a turn, but no. They were just as contented with watching if it wasn't their own house.
And that day, they were at Saura's house. Saura giggled as the cinematic went by that showed where the Darkest Faerie was being kept on the fountain as Luke, Peter, and Claire ran around it. "It makes you wonder how they got there." Said Saura suddenly, "I mean, they don't have carriages or portals, which really makes you wonder…" Amy laughed and replied, "Saura, it doesn't matter. They're there to see Tor and Bob be made Defenders or whatever Fyora said they were. Don't get so miffed about it." "But it's so weird!" Saura cried, "Tor and Bob go by portal, while their friends get there by who knows what! So unexplainitory!"
Suddenly, the TV made a strange noise. Static noise. ODD noise. The girls looked at the TV for a few moments. All was quiet. It was one of those moments when you could sneak up behind someone and scare them and watch them go sky high, screaming. And as they watched the TV, it started to…swirl. The swirls began to slowly turn darker shades of purple with each swirl.
Saura stared at it with wide eyes. "Dude," she said, "Dat is totally awesome. A BONUS FEATURE!!!!" Amy shook her head, staring at the screen as well, saying, "Uh, Saura…this cannot be a bonus feature." Right when Saura was about to give a sharp retort, a voice that was familiar to the girls echoed out, "You have defied me more than once! You have humiliated me and made fun of the misfortunate happenings I endure. Now, I will provide a challenge that neither of you will be able to escape! Feel my WRATH!!!!" (I'm so sorry that sounded cheesy. I'm not good at important wording like it's supposed to be.) And all of a sudden, purple beams of energy shot out from the TV screen and wrapped around Saura and Amy. "Saura!" called Amy, extending her arm to her friend. Saura looked at her and frantically tried to grab her hand, but missed. But it wouldn't have mattered anyway as the two were pulled into the television.
Saura's POV
I opened my eyes slightly, scared of what I might see. But what I saw was worse (to me at least). Nothing. Everything was black. I seemed to be in a black void. I opened my eyes all the way and groaned. I was floating in an endless black space, and of course being me, began to freak out. Mixed up, disconnected thoughts ran through my mind as I tried to stay calm, but miserably failed. 'Happy fun time rabbits of Terabithia come to take me to my vegetable garden to say hi to potatoes. Heehee! No, no! Focused! Have to stay focused! Ahem. Wait, what does "focused" mean? Ack, I can't remember!'
Then, my endless tirade upon my own mind stopped as I heard a familiar noise. Music. VERY familiar music. Music I'd heard millions of times before. I knew what to expect as soon as it appeared. A small square of color erupted in front of me, quite welcome since the only other color here was…black.
The beats of the music went like this: Dun dun dun duuuuuuuunn! Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun! Dun dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!! Dun dun dun dun dun dun duuuuuuuuuunn! (I'll explain later.) And the color square in front of me contorted to make significant shapes. Words and silhouettes and things. As soon as it completed, I recognized it instantly. The colors had come together like a painting of a landscape, and I saw the images of trees, rocks, and branches while white words formed at the top of the square. They read:
ACT ONE
Tor's Story
But it changed, and the words no longer were the same. Instead, they now read:
ACT ONE
Sar's Story
I had a hunch of what it meant, and I REALLY hoped I was wrong for once. Sadly, as I would figure out, I was right.
Normal POV
Saura sat up quickly, drenched in sweat. Sighing, she had her head bowed against her chest and her eyes closed. 'It was a dream. Had to be. See, I'm still in bed. Today we are going to pick up Amy so she can stay over tonight. Yes, it was all…a dream.' And she came to a sad conclusion, 'I play Neopets: The Darkest Faerie too much.'
Then she lifted her head up…and was in the biggest shock of her life. This…was not…her room. It looked like a barn in fact, hay and straw sticking out from the cracks in the walls here and there, and the bed was just a plain wooden frame with a straw filled mattress, plus a soft white blanket over her. To her right, a bedside table stood with a candle that was lit sitting on it. To the right of IT was another bed, with another sleeping form bundled up in the blanket. Saura leapt out of the bed, to find that, horrifyingly, she was in a nightgown. Then…she noticed her feet. Or were they paws? Well, they certainly weren't human, but looked oddly like a…..and her hands, or what should have been her hands, were also paws. And when she looked at them, staring at them down her nose, she found that she had a lot more to stare down. She seemed to have a…muzzle. Knowing what was behind her but checking anyway…she saw a tail. A big, furry, bushy, yellow tail with a cream tinted tip.
Saura could only say that the hunch she had was right. Tor was no longer here, but her as the yellow lupe replacement, and to top that, she was being called Sar. And where was Amy? Saura blinked. Her friend must have taken Roberta's place, since Saura had seen her forcibly pulled into the TV just like she was. 'But,' she realized, 'We are not in the TV. We are not even in the game. We are in the game's universe.'
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Hi! Um, these Saura and Amy are owned by me and no one else, mmkay? Plus, that music stuff earlier was from the game, you know, in the beginning where that screen comes up and says Act One Tor's Story? Yeah, the music that's playing then. Read and review please!