Poptropica Islands

Prologue

First off, before I start, let me tell you this: I'm a twelve year old, blond haired, blue eyed boy.

And I just so happen to love playing a game called Poptropica. Of course I've only played a few of the old islands so I'm new to the newer ones; but that's alright.

I also just want to say that my birthday happens to be exactly on Christmas.

Ironically, my name is Noel and this is the story of how I got sucked into the world of Poptropica.

Introducing 'Gentle Lightning'

I hummed in delight as I sat my bag down beside my bedroom door and closed it, walking over to the laptop that was on my bed and I opened it up after plopping down on the soft blanket. I easily typed in my username and password to unlock the computer and grinned wide when I saw the last page I was on: Poptropica.

It was no secret that I absolutely loved the game but the others didn't know that I had only played a few of the old islands; such as Early Poptropica, Shark Tooth Island, and 24 Carrot Island. Though I nearly forgot what to do on those islands; which doesn't really surprise anyone, least of all me.

I'm a very forgetful person.

I let out a small huff when I looked at the choices I had and looked up in thought.

Play a new character or continue my old one? Well that's an easy choice.

I looked back at the screen with a grin and clicked 'New Player' before coming up to a screen that gave me a few more choices.

"New Player, boy, twelve… and here we go…" I murmured as I clicked each option before coming to a screen that allowed me to create my character.

I never quite liked how the game made you click through several different characters before you found a name you liked.

That's what I did.

I clicked several times for a new character until I came across a name I really liked.

Gentle Lightning.

It was different from my other characters that I had before but I guess that was okay.

The name also matched the necklace I wore around my neck.

You see, early today- before school- I had come across an old lady, at least... I think she was an old lady, that was giving out necklaces.

She gave one to me that had a small yellow lightning charm on it and she had told me that it was a gift. But I felt bad for taking something of hers without giving her something in return so I gave her my lunch money: ten dollars to be exact.

I didn't have lunch today because of it but I didn't care because after that I had felt really good about doing what I did.

But back to my character.

I chose to have blond hair, wear a blue shirt, and wear black pants. Of course, that was what I was wearing right now, too; so that was an added plus.

And then I clicked on the balloon.