Nothing was out of the ordinary when 13-year-old Emma Malory turned on her computer and logged into neopets account, i_love_cats23.
She played her favorite game, Meerca Chase beating her friend, Sam's high score of 560. Then, she fed her neopet, a wocky named Cloudeyes. Emma had recently won a cloud paintbrush on Fruit Machine and painted her wocky with it. The color suited the wocky's name.
Bored, Emma quit her fourth game of Meerca Chase and was about to log out when she suddenly felt a tingling feeling that made the little hairs on her arms stand on end. Her whole body relaxed and she suddenly felt someone - or something, controlling her hands. Emma felt frightened, but whatever it was that was controlling her made her relax her mind, so she did.
Emma watched, helpless, as her hands moved robotically in front of her, the quick sharp movements no longer being controlled by her. She wached as her hands clicked on the map of Neopia and on Faerieland, a place that Emma hardly bothered to go to.
What was going on? Who was posessing her?
Emma watched her hands click on the Wheel of Excitement and right then, the tingling feeling left her and she was in control of her body again.
Stunned, Emma could not remember why she decided to spin the wheel of Excitement. The memory of being posessed by something left her mind completely.
Oh well, Emma thought. Now that the wheel's spinning, I'd better get something good out of this.
The wheel slowed down and finally stopped.
A smiling light faerie with long golden hair was holding a large bag of neopoints. Under th picture, the caption said "Congrats! You have won 10,000 neopoints and a free trip to Neopia!"
A free trip to Neopia? What the heck? Surely, this must be a fraud. Sighing, Emma began to log out again when an invisible force pushed her forward.
Her head hit the computer screen. Only, instead of her head hitting solid plastic, she felt a very strong wind begin to build. The wind blew stronger and stronger .
Emma covered her eyes with one hand and clutched her computer chair with the other hand. Her hair was blowing wildly in the wind as the air began to get colder and colder. She shivered.
Suddenly, Emma fet the computer chair disappear underneath her. Instead of falling, though, Emma felt herself travelling at great speed. The wind blew harder and harder. Emma knew she should be at least a little frightened, but the wind in the tunnel made her feel relaxed.
"Ooof!" Emma said as the breath got knocked out of her when she landed on a plastic board and bounced the board, onto the ground.
Only the ground was...soft and cottony. Emma pressed her fingers into the soft, delacate white cotton. It felt cool and slightly damp too. The ground was softer than any cotton Emma had ever felt.
A shadow fell on her and Emma looked up. It was the golden-haired faerie!
"Wait!" Emma stood up suddenly. "You're the light faerie aren't you!" she almost said it in an accusing tone. "You know, from neopets,"
The faerie just smiled. "Yes, Emma you're in Faerieland now. Welcome to the world of neopia,"
"Huh?" Emma frowned. "And am i really in..."
...Neopia?
Emma screamed as her foot suddenly went through the soft, cottony cloud. Then, her leg plunged through tthe cloud. She screamed again.
The faerie rushed over to help Emma pull herself back up. With the faerie's help, Emma pulled herself back up onto the solid part of the cloud. She turned around and looked at where her foot had been a moment ago.
A gaping hole had been torn in the cloud. From the gaping hole, she could look down on all of Neopia. This made her realize that she was still 10,000 feet above ground, in Faerieland and she shuddered at the thought of being so high up.
"This is one rule you must learn when you are in Faerieland," the faerie gently scolded. "You mst never stomp, or else you will tear a hole in the cloud and fall through. Some Neopians have died that way. You might be wondering why the cloud isn't full of holes yet, but that's because the cloud heals itself."
"Oh," Emma said. She made a note in her head to remember not to stomp.
After she accepted the 10,000 neopoints from the golden haired faerie, Emma was itching to explore the rest of Neopia now that it had become her reality.
"how do I get down from faerieland?" Emma asked. "Do i jump or something?"
"Oh, of course, NO!" the faerie said. "On the other side of Faerieland, somewhere behind the Faerie petpet shop, you'll find a ladder. You climb down that ladder and onto a small, unnamed island. On the island, you'll find many, many, rowboats. Take one of the rowboats and row youself to the nearest place, which is Mystery Island. You don't need to give the boat back. Fyora placed a spell on it so that it magically returns to the island five minutes after it's been docked."
"Thank you," Emma said "See ya,"
She hurried to the petpet shop as fast as she could without stepping too hard and falling through.
Emma passed the fountain faerie sitting near a crystal clear pool and Jhudora sitting around, fuming, on her seperate cloud. She did not dare approach the dark faerie.
Emma drank in all the sights and smells that had once only lived in her computer and now became real life. Finally, she located the petpet shop near the edge of the cloud.
There was no ladder in sight.
Disappointed, Emma circled the petpet store three times. Still no ladder.
She was ust about to give up when she saw a small gap at the very edge of the cloud. Curious, Emma went to investigate and discovered the ladder.
It was very well hidden - right at the edge of the cloud. The ladder was a pearly white color that blended in too.
"Who should go first, you or I?" Emma asked her neopet, Cloudeyes the wocky.
Before Cloudeyes could answer, Emma decided to go herself.
It may be terrifying being so high up and looking down on everything below and Mystery Island being the size of an ant.
It may be terrifying when you know you're about to descend down a small rickety ladder and you had 10,000 feet to go before you reached the world below.
But Emma was willing to risk in all. She wanted to explore the rest of neopia now that the computer game had become her reality.
I know, the first chapter must have really sucked. Hopefully, I'll make the next chap better! :-)