Saving Neopia
Chapter 14: Ursula the Usul
Meanwhile at a cloud above Faerieland….
"Say, have you seen Ursula?" an Usul asked.
"I don't know, I haven't seen her today. I guess I'll go look for her." another Usul replied.
And so she did.
Logically, the first place she checked was at Ursula's house. She knocked on the door….but didn't receive an answer. Fortunately the door was unlocked, so she was able to enter the house freely.
"Where is she?" wondered the Usul.
The Usul's question was answered when she found Ursula the Usul…however she was doing something completely unexpected.
Much to the Usul's surprise, her room was filled with gym equipment! And she was currently lifting a dumbbell!
"Um, hello?" Ursula the Usul asked, curious to why the Usul was there.
"Why are you weightlifting?" asked the Usul.
"I don't know, I guess I just like getting exercise, I suppose…" Ursula replied.
"That seems to be putting it mildly…" the Usul responded.
"Well, I suppose I'll talk to you later…" Ursula the Blue Usul said, leaving the house.
For some reason, Ursula had been different from the Usuls that way. She did not care about her appearance (at least not in particular), she enjoyed lifting weights (other Usuls feared doing things like that, lest they break a nail), and altogether enjoyed doing tomboyish things.
It was something that caused her head to spin. (No, not like in that movie, figuratively speaking.)
Today was a bright day, so she decided to take a walk outside….
But unfortunately did not watch where she was going, and fell off the cloud to the land below.
"AAH!" screamed Ursula as she fell several thousand feet.
Obviously, the Faerie of Death would be waiting to catch her at the bottom, so things did not look good for our poor Usul.
Would she survive this mess?
Back to our main protagonists…
Bloony, being the leader of the Heroes of Light, was looking at the map carefully, looking particularly at the crossed out areas.
"What do you think it means?" Cherry the Red Chia asked.
"I think it means that the Cult of Apocalypse do not wish to stop at merely Roo Island, unfortunately. It seems like they're planning something really nasty." Bloony the Yellow Blumaroo said as he looked at the map.
"That doesn't sound good…hey have you seen Marvin?" asked Cherry.
"He said that he was working on a giant pillow for some reason…he said that he wanted to see if he could create something that would be useful for sleeping Neopets…." replied Bloony.
"Alright, if you say so…I'm going to check things out." Cherry the Chia said as she left.
The more Bloony looked at the map, the more he started sweating and feeling frightened. The Cult of Apocalypse were clearly worse than he thought…apparently, they wanted to do to all of Neopia what they had done to Roo Island…
The very thought filled Bloony with dread…..
"It looks like if something isn't done, the Cult of Apocalypse will take over all of Neopia….I hope there's someone that can stop them, even if it's not us…" Bloony talked to himself.
Outside Cherry's house…
"So, why are you building that pillow again?" asked Cherry.
"I don't know, I just got the urge to do it all of a sudden…there, I think I'm almost done!" Marvin the Mynci said. He had finally finished the pillow.
Suddenly they heard what appeared to be someone falling.
"Huh? All of a sudden I think I hear screaming…." wondered Cherry.
The screams got louder and louder….
Until finally they stopped….suddenly something landed hard on the pillow!
"HEY! I worked hard on that!" exclaimed Marvin the Mynci.
Marvin the Mynci and Cherry the Chia investigated the pillow…
And much to their surprise they found a Usul lying on top of it!
"Um, hello?" asked Marvin the Mynci.
Ursula the Usul, grateful at the Mynci for saving her life, immediately gave him a bear hug, which unfortunately squeezed the life out of his lungs. "You saved my life! Thank you mister!" said Ursula the Usul.
"ACK! You're choking me!" said Marvin the Mynci.
"Er…sorry about that." said Ursula the Usul. "So is there anything I can do for you to return?"
"Well, I suppose there are a few things….I need someone to clean my room…it's gotten messy out of late…and I'm looking for the latest issue of Supermynci, and I'm also trying to complete my latest card coll-" Marvin the Mynci was suddenly interrupted when out of nowhere a piano fell on top of him….where the piano came from, nobody knows.
"LOOK OUT!" exclaimed Ursula the Usul.
Ursula the Usul pushed Marvin the Mynci out of the way, taking the full weight of the piano in the process.
"NO! SHE'S DEAD!" exclaimed Cherry the Chia.
It seemed like the Faerie of Death wasn't so willing to part with Ursula's soul…..or was she?
Much to her (and the others) surprise, Ursula the Usul slowly found herself lifting the piano.
"Wow! I must have been doing more weight-lifting than I thought…." Ursula the Usul said out loud.
"Gosh, you think?" asked Cherry the Chia.
"So, I guess we're even now?" Marvin the Mynci sadly asked.
Ursula the Usul shrugged.
"I suppose we might as well tell Bloony what happened…." Cherry the Chia said, going back inside the house.
"BLOONY! Come quick! Something crazy happened!" Cherry the Chia exclaimed.
"Is it the Cult of Apocalypse up to one of their crazy schemes?" Bloony the Blumaroo asked curiously.
"No! It's something different!" Cherry the Chia told Bloony.
"OK…." Bloony said. "There's no need to shout about it."
Bloony came out a few minutes later along with Cherry.
"So what's the surprise? It better be something important…I'm trying to see just what the Cult of Apocalypse's next move might be…" Bloony asked the other Heroic Monsters.
"Well…" Cherry the Chia said, pointing at Ursula the Usul, who was standing nearby.
"OK…." Bloony scratched his head. "Is that all?"
"It's crazy dude! I was building my pillow when all of a sudden she fell out of the sky! She landed straight on it!" Marvin the Mynci exclaimed.
"That is an interesting story…" Bloony scratched his chin.
"But that's not all of it! Watch this!" Without warning, Cherry the Chia jumped into Ursula the Usul's arms, who instinctively raised her high up into the air with a surprising lack of effort.
"Wow." Bloony the Blumaroo thought.
"Yep…So what should we do with her?" asked Marvin the Mynci.
Bloony shrugged. "I suppose we could have her join the Heroes of Light…"
"Well, seeing though you guys saved my life…sure."
And so the Heroes of Light went from three members to four…
Unfortunately they weren't the only ones recruiting….
Meanwhile outside the Neopian Bank…
"HAHAHA! Soon the Neopian Bank will be cleaned out, and we shall be Neo-millionaires! HAHAHA!" Snotty the Blumaroo plotted.
"Yes….I will be able to have all the meat all I want!" Redtooth licked his lips.
"And Rocky will get to break lots of things!" Rocky smiled.
The three Villains of Darkness went inside the bank…
And much to their surprise, the guards had already been knocked out and tied up.
"What's going on here?" wondered Snotty. "Did the guards decide to save us the work?"
Redtooth and Rocky shrugged.
"Ah well who cares! Let's get robbing!"
Snotty, Redtooth, and Rocky started opening the safes…(Whether it was smashing them or trying to figure out the lock combination)
And were surprised when they had already been emptied.
"What's going on here? ROCKY WANTS MONEY!" Rocky the Mynci asked.
"I don't know…it's as if someone is already robbing the bank!" Redtooth the Lupe wondered.
And this turned out to be the case, as the three Villains of Darkness discovered an Usul holding up the bank owner with….a bottle of perfume.
"Alright, give me the rest of the money in this bank, or you'll end up like your friends!" the greedy Usul exclaimed.
"Fine! The combination for the lock on the vault is….1337…" the bank owner said, right before the Blue Usul sprayed the perfume in the bank owner's face, causing him to pass out like all the others.
"Wow! She's good!" Snotty the Blumaroo thought.
Suddenly the Usul bandit turned toward the others.
"Uh-oh." said Redtooth.
"Who are you? Are you more of those guards coming to stop me from robbing the bank? Because I've got more than enough perfume and rope to take care of you!" she responded.
"Er, no….we're bank robbers like you….what is your name anyway?" asked Snotty.
"Well in case you're wondering…my name's Jennifer. Now get lost! I was about to finish this bank heist when suddenly you three interrupted me!" said Jennifer.
Suddenly Rocky went up to Jennifer. "You are so pretty! Would you like to hang out with me sometime?" he asked.
"NO! GROSS!" shouted Jennifer in disgust, knocking Rocky into a wall.
Unfortunately, this act of violence triggered an alarm. The Neopian police would be there any second.
"Well, shoot!" said Bloony, covering his ears.
"RUN!" Redtooth the Lupe exclaimed.
And so the four of them had to leave the bank….without robbing the vault.
"ERGH! I was so close! And you three ruined it!" Jennifer the Usul shouted.
"Sorry about that…did you get anything?" Redtooth the Lupe asked.
"Yes, but not nearly as much as I would have hoped! UGH! You guys stink!" Jennifer pouted.
"Do you need any place to hide?" asked Snotty.
"Well, come to think of it…yes I do!" Jennifer the Usul answered.
"Then I've got the perfect place for you…" Snotty told her…
And so both a hero and a villain is introduced in this chapter….meanwhile, what could the Cult of Apocalypse be planning?