Saving Neopia
Chapter 28: Return to Roo Island
At the Apocalypse Castle….
When Shuriken got back to Lord Cataclysm, he was in for a night of…well it certainly wasn't a night at the Neopian Hotel….
"So, I see you failed just as horribly as the doctor, didn't you? We'll have to do something about that…"
Suddenly, Lord Cataclysm transformed into a Draik and set Shuriken on fire, causing him to run around in circles screaming. He eventually remembered that he was supposed to stop drop and roll, so he did so, but Lord Cataclysm was not finished with him yet.
Lord Cataclysm then transformed into a Bruce, who froze Shuriken in a block of ice. Lord Cataclysm then transformed into a hammer and smashed it with him still inside, which was quite painful for the Meerca ninja.
Still this did not completely satisfy the dark lord, and he transformed into a Poogle and bit Shuriken hard in the tail, causing him to stifle back a tear.
Finally, Lord Cataclysm transformed into a Mutant Grundo. Picking Shuriken up from the tail, he swung him around and around repeatedly, which suffice to say made the Meerca feel queasy….
He finally let go…and threw him straight out of Apocalypse Castle.
Shuriken fell several feet, eventually landing on a boulder. He had stars around his head, and was seriously hurt, in case what Lord Cataclysm did to him did not make obvious.
"Why…." he said, finally passing out on the floor.
Lord Cataclysm then sent Fallenova to retrieve him, which he did albeit with a sigh. As he did so, a pair of wings came out of his cloak as he went to pick the Meerca up. He was sent to Professor Nyctus's Laboratory in order to see if he could do anything to him to make him recover.
Unfortunately Professor Nyctus, despite being known by many as a mad doctor, had not actually gone to medical school, and gave him various potions that turned him into various Petpets…
He did finally manage to perfect a formula and get Shuriken healed, but by then he felt like crying like a baby.
"Why did I have to serve such an evil Neopet?" Shuriken said out loud. But Shuriken was not sure if Lord Cataclysm really was a Neopet. Whenever he saw underneath his cloak, he saw an evil ninja master. But he was prone to shapeshifting into different forms, so whatever he truly was beyond his guess.
"I know how you feel, ninja. He destroyed my laboratory not too long ago simply because I couldn't defeat those Neopets myself." Prof. Nyctus offered his sympathies.
"I don't know what I was thinking when I decided to join the Cult of Apocalypse…" Shuriken thought.
"I wonder what he's up to now?" wondered Steven.
At that very moment, Lord Cataclysm was plotting who to send next to capture the Heroes of Light once and for all to succeed in his evil plans.
"Those pests have been eluding my grasp long enough!" he shouted. "I'm not going to play with them anymore! It's time for me to send out one of my nastiest soldiers…Dark Knight, come forth!"
At that very moment a black figure wearing black armor came into the room. He was wielding a hammer made out of maractite, which had been strangely altered by Lord Cataclysm himself.
"Yes, what is it my master? You called me to defeat one of your enemies? I'll smash them...cut them…" His weapon suddenly changed into a sword as he said so.
"Burn them….freeze them…"
His weapon suddenly changed into a Fire and Ice Sword.
"Chop them…."
His weapon suddenly changed into an axe.
"Anything you wish." The Dark Knight told Lord Cataclysm.
"Yes, I can see that you're more than willing to assist me…however for the moment I need the Neopets I'm having you target alive…so do not get careless with your weapon."
The Dark Knight nodded, and he proceeded to leave the castle in order to hunt the Heroes of Light down.
Lord Cataclysm grinned with satisfaction.
Meanwhile in Roo Island….
"You sure this was such a good idea, Cherry?" asked Bloony.
"Of course I'm sure!" replied Cherry. "This is the last place the Cult of Apocalypse will look for us!"
"Be that as it may, it is very dangerous here at the moment. Do you see how many possessed Blumaroos are here?" Bloony questioned Cherry.
"I'm not sure if I have enough ammo to take them all down." worried Marvin.
"I suppose we'll have to work together if we wish to save Roo Island from this dark evil that's plaguing it along with the rest of Neopia…" thought Ursula.
"I'm scared…." Said Gary.
The team engaged the Blumaroos in combat, and despite being outnumbered (well, not hopelessly outnumbered) they managed to pull through.
They decided whatever's causing all the Blumaroos to turn violent is probably located in King Roo's former castle, which was made apparent by the fact there were several Blumaroos guarding it, along with several members of the Cult of Apocalypse.
Thankfully, our heroes were able to overcome them, but at this point they were tuckered out.
"There's so many of them…" Bloony thought.
Finally, our heroes opened the gates to the castle, and wondered where King Roo was.
"That's weird, there's nobody in here…" wondered Cherry.
Suddenly several Cult of Apocalypse members appeared in the castle.
"Spoke too soon." responded Cherry.
"I bet if we capture these Neopets they'll give us a raise!" a Cult of Apocalypse member squealed with glee.
And so they attempted to beat up the Heroes of Light so that they could capture them.
But of course, they ended up failing, and the Heroes of Light continued to the throne room.
Much to their surprise, they saw King Roo, who was being interrogated by a Cult of Apocalypse captain.
"Tell me what you know about the Heroes of Light!" he demanded.
"Never!" he shouted.
"You're really making the job difficult…but I suppose it's more fun that way!" The captain exclaimed. Pulling out a feather, he started tickling King Roo.
"Stop! That tickles!" he said, laughing as he did so.
Bloony quickly got angry as he did this, and soon enough he tackled the Cult of Apocalypse Captain to the ground.
"I got a better idea! Why don't you tell us what you know about the Cult of Apocalypse!" he demanded.
"Fine fine, although I don't really know that much about the cult myself….Lord Cataclysm doesn't tell us much about the cult himself….not even to relatively high-ranking members such as me….I do know one thing about him though. Apparently he's some shapeshifting being…I've seen him transform into many different things…."
"He can shapeshift?" Cherry thought.
"Yes….it seems he can transform into anything he pleases…." The captain told them.
Satisfied with what they had learned, they decided to lock him up in the castle dungeon, which ironically the Cult of Apocalypse had created themselves to hold the Blumaroos that had not become possessed yet.
After unfastening King Roo from his chains, he thanked them all for saving Roo Island. "Gosh, I knew you were frightened when the Cult of Apocalypse came to attack the island, but I didn't think you two would find friends and do something about it. I guess you're doing a pretty good job so far, since all the Blumaroos on the island aren't possessed anymore…"
Sure enough the Blumaroos were freeing the unpossessed Blumaroos that had been locked up, as well as repairing the damage that had been done to the island during the attack.
"Looks like we've done well team!" Bloony told his teammates.
Bloony asked King Roo if they could use an island as a hiding point, and he replied yes.
Once again the Heroes of Light had saved the day….but at that very moment they were being hunted down once again….this time by arguably their nastiest foe yet.
Would they prevail once again? Or would they meet their highly unfortunate end?
Until next time…
