I knew it, we should never have trusted those things, most Neopians thought they were cute and a bit scary sometimes, but no one ever thought that the meepits would end the world that we know today.
I'm Alastor Von Meridell, a krawk that survived the fall of our society and this is my story about how meepits brought Neopia to its knees.
It all started on the 14th of the month of eating, while all Neopians were celebrating Illusen day and stuffing themselves with Meridellian cheeses and fruit juices, dancing on loud music till late night and showing their love for the earth faerie.
Or at least I guess everyone was doing that since I did that with some colleagues, and believe me we had fun until that moment.
After dining we decided to play a game of yooyuball, so I formed a team with Ash and Jeremy and after 3 goals Jeremy shot the yooyuball so far that it left our yard and of course when you kick a ball of the field you have to go get it, right?.
I'm still regretting that we let Jeremy of the yard but hell I shouldn't because I could never have known that something horrible would happen…
Suddenly Jeremy yelled "Meepits!" and me and the guys laughed and I turned off the music "Oh C'mon Jer, you aren't afraid of a meepit right? What can such a thing do…" and he screamed again "it bit me!" we laughed again but then we heard other screams, which weren't from Jeremy, what was going on? "Guys get your weapons and check out the streets, Ash you go look after Jeremy" "Yes Sir" Ash answered and he ran to the bushes where Jeremy went through.
I grabbed my energy blaster and walked to the street "Rudy? This isn't funny anymore Rudy stop!" I saw a scared kacheek running over the streets followed by a lupe with blood all over his face, I ran to the kacheek while pointing my blaster on the lupe called Rudy "What's wrong Ma'am…?" I asked, the young Christmas painted kacheek clung to me "Rudy is acting strange and I want him to stop" Rudy, now only being a meter separated from us stood there growling, it had something unnatural "Rudy stop it now or you're under arrest" I said but instead of stopping his lunatic act the lupe jumped at me, but thank the heavens I could threw him off me before he could bite me or the kacheek, I grabbed the kacheek and ran with her under my arm to my yard and closed the gate.
I needed to think and act quickly so I decided that I needed information, why had the lupe blood all over his face and why was he acting so weird and aggressive?.
I bowed down till my face was on the same height as that of the kacheek, the poor thing was shaking of fear, I recognized her as a friend of Rudy, one of the kindest guys in the neighbourhood "Miss?…" I took a paw of her in my hand "calm down I am a police officer so everything will be alright, okay?" she nodded "Okay miss , now can you tell me what happened and why Rudy is acting so strange?" she was still trembling like a leaf "I-I… I…" "Miss calm down, control your breath okay? Easy everything will be alright, trust me" she took a deep breath and started telling "We.. we were celebrating Illusen day.. and suddenly a.. a meepit came in our house and bit R-rudy… Rudy managed to sweep the meepit of and kill it and then I treated his wound…" I listened quietly and after another deep breath she continued her story "and well during diner he felt sick and went to bed, within an hour he started vomiting blood and then he collapsed, three minutes later while I tried to wake him up he gained his consciousness and then he tried to take a bite of me and then I ran away and met you..".
So I took all the information and in less than a minute I came to a weird conclusion "Miss, I think that Rudy has changed into a…" I also took a deep breath "a zombie due that meepit…" Rudy had reached the gate and tried to jump over it "Miss" I shove her into my house "Stay here till I come back" fear was in her eyes but she listened and I closed the door.
"Rudy, stop it you're a danger to your friend and the neighbourhood, please Rudy…" I said or hell, I stuttered because at the moment I made the decision to shoot Rudy, even while he was a great guy, if my conclusion was true he would be a danger to the Neopians here.
"Rudy I don't want to do this, stop this now!" but he didn't stop, he jumped over the gate and attacked me but I was faster and shot him as much as possible until only ashes remained.
Derick and Nathan ran to me with some other Neopians "Alastor, there is something strange" Derick said "yes indeed, people are..." Nathan added and I finished the sentence "turning into zombies".
"Listen I want you to shoot all the zombies and take everyone who is still alive here, no hesitating just shoot that's an order" "y-yes sir" Nathan said and he and Dereck went back to the streets.
Ash came back with a wounded Jeremy "I killed the meepit and got Jeremy and the yooyu back Sir" he said with a grin, I walked towards Jeremy "Jeremy?" "Y-yes Alastor?" "You were bitten right?" Jeremy leant on Ash's shoulder and Ash answered "Yes…" I sighted, we had a problem, Jeremy my colleague Aisha would probably turn into a zombie within God knows how long "treat his wounds and keep an eye on him, don't lose him out of your sight and warn me if he collapses" Jeremy raised an eyebrow "It's just a little scratch, why would I collapse of that?" I laid my hand on his shoulder "Just do as I order you two, I'm still the chief understood?" The Aisha shrugged "Yes sir" "also Ash, make sure to clean his wounds as proper as possible okay?" "Yes sir".
Nathan and Derick came back with about 10 Neopians, I opened the gate and let them in "How many zombies did you shoot?" I asked "2 Sir" Derick answered "Good are there any wounded people?" I asked the crowd and looked around, no one answered.
I sighted "Even the slightest scratch, I want to know are there any people wounded?" an old Chia raised his hand "then we need to take care of that" I answered and smiled politely, even though the poor old Chia would turn into a zombie I didn't feel like bringing panic to the people, since they already were confused and scared "Bring all of them into the house and Nathan, you stay at the gate and Derick you're going upstairs on the roof and check out the streets am I clear?" "Yes Sir!".
I went to the Chia "Sir, may I ask you how you got that scratch and where you got it?" a younger Chia answered my question "Grandpa got attacked by a meepit but I throw a stone at it" I smiled at the kid "Good job young man, your grandfather can be proud of you" and I turned back to the Old Chia "Sir?" ".. the stone also hit me but at least it killed the meepit" he answered, what a relief "Good, go to the kitchen my colleague Ash will take care of you" the younger Chia brought his grandpa to the kitchen.
So in fact, meepits turned people into zombies, I had to warn the world so I picked up my phone and dialled the police but the line didn't work, maybe this wasn't just a bad case in this town, maybe it was… already worldwide… So I called the special line of the agency and someone answered "Neopian Safety Agency" "Hello? Agent Von Meridell here I need help, meepits are turning people into zombies and we need to do something before things are…" "Sir, help is coming soon try to control the situation till then, I'm sorry I have more lines to answer" and he hang up.
We had to control the situation, I heard the shot of a blaster from the roof and suddenly saw a meepit that was trying to attack me turn into ashes "T-thanks Derick" "You're welcome Sir" he said and he saluted.
Keeping the situation under control till help would come, well that wouldn't be that hard right?.
End of chapter 1
