The Faerie's Gift

by Shepherd Virgo

Azul and his brothers and sisters recall the mysterious vision they had on Christmas Eve. When Azul goes to Kauvara's Shop, she tells Azul that the vision he had was actually real. The 2nd in the 'Rod of Heart Nova' series. PG for mild swearing. FINISHED!

3. Tons

Hiya, guys and gals, time for our third chapter of The Faerie's Gift. And I don't own Neopets, by the way. So don't sue me.

Chapter 3

Tons

"Thanks Jade," Kalora smiled. She turned to the Kyrii. "What is your name?" she asked it. The Kyrii stared at her blankly. Then she started to talk.

"Mon nom est Bleuemangouste. Je suis un Kyrii bleu. Le nom de mon propriétaire est BigPickle_200. Je suis de l'Ile de Mystère. Sloth est venu et m'a enlevé, et m'a apporté ici," she informed everyone. Azul raised an eyebrow.

"What?" Azul asked.

"Est-ce que vous ne pouvez pas me comprendre?" the Kyrii said sadly. Everyone was very confused. Then it hit Verderato.

"She speaks French!" Verderato exclaimed. "That's why we can't understand her!"

"Rash is an excellent interpreter," Plesio said. "Let's find her!"
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"Hey guys!" Dr_Death yelled. "Look at this!" Everyone turned around to him, weary after a few hours of searching. Kauvara gasped.

"It's a safe!" she exclaimed.

"Looks like it's computerized," Kalora said. "We'll have to guess the password." She paused. "Crackle Trap," she guessed.

"Password incorrect," a VirtuPet voice said, and the floor Kalora stood on disappeared. She fell into a huge abyss of darkness. The floor closed up.

"Crap saint!" the Kyrii exclaimed. "Je ne peux pas le croire!"

"Let's try another password," Dr_Death said bravely. He made his guess. "Korbat's Lab."

"Password incorrect," the VirtuPet voice said again in it's indifferent monotone voice. Dr_Death, like Kalora, fell into the floor.

"My turn," Azul stepped forward. "Xantan the Foul." Everyone heard a slight growl from Faelinn.

"Password incorrect," VirtuPet commented. Azul fell into the floor as Kalora and Dr_Death did. Jade winced.

"M*YNCI," Kauvara said flatly.

"Password incorrect." You know what happened next.

"Giant Omelette," Plesio guessed.

"Password incorrect." Plesio fell into the floor like the others.

"Christmas Paint Brush," Verderato presumed.

"Password incorrect," the VirtuPet stated. Verderato fell into the floor, closely following Plesio.

"Fuzzle d'arc-en-ciel," the Kyrii said.

"Password incorrect," the VirtuPet changed it's monotone voice into a sneer. The Kyrii fell into the depths of the floor.

"Chute," Sylvester inquired.

"Password incorrect," the VirtuPet was all but snorting with laughter by the time that Sylvester fell (A/N: More like parachuted.) into the depths of the floor.

"Guess it's just you and me, Jade," Faelinn said. "I'm gonna try." She took a step forward. "Palace of Sweets."

"Password-" VirtuPet snorted. "-incorrect!" The VirtuPet was howling with laughter while Faelinn fell into the floors abyss.

"What the hell?!" Jade yelled at VirtuPet. It immediately stopped laughing, and started to sob loudly.

"Password"-sob-"correct," it wailed. The safe door opened and everyone came out, along with Rash and King Roo. Jadretana was furiously giggling.

"What was the password?" Faelinn asked.

"What the hell!" Jadretana snorted.

"Don't be rude, Jade!" Azul scowled.

"No, that was the password!" Jade howled. There was silence, then everyone had fits of giggles. Jade walked over to Azul. "Never, ever tell me not to swear again," Jade whispered to him. Azul smiled, and then nodded.

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"This Kyrii speaks in French," Plesio explained to Rash, "and we knew you're a great translator, so try to interpret her." Rash nodded.

"Quel est votre nom?" Rash asked the Kyrii.

"Bleuemangouste," it said. Rash turned around.

"Her name is Bleuemangouste," she told everyone. She turned back to Bleuemangouste. "Est-ce qu'il est bon si je vous appelle Bleue?" she asked Bleuemangouste soothingly. She nodded. Rash turned around again. "You can call her 'Bleue' though," she informed everyone else. She turned around again. "D'où vous sont?" she asked Bleue.

"Ile de mystère," Bleue said.

"Quel est le nom de votre propriétaire?" Rash inquired.

"Son nom est BigPickle_200," Bleue responded.

"She is from Mystery Island," Rash said, "and her owner is BigPickle_200." She paused. "Où est-ce que votre propriétaire est?" she asked Bleue.

"Il a été tué par Sloth," Bleue said, with tears in her eyes. Rash gasped.

"Sloth killed her owner!" Rash shrieked. All of the other Ancients' jaws dropped. She turned back to Bleue, and said as calmly as she could, "Est-ce que vous avez entendu parler de l'Ancien?"

"Oui," Bleue responded.

"Nous sommes Anciens," Rash told her. "Nous ne vous endommagerons pas. Vous êtes dans les mains sûres." She switched to English. "I told her that we were Ancients, and that we wouldn't hurt her." Azul nodded.

CRASH!

"Que le heck était cela?" Bleue wondered. But then she saw. It was Sloth.

"I'm back......." he smirked. Thousands of mutant Grundos appeared behind him, smiling deviously at them.

"Je souhaite que ce bâtard était mort," Bleue mumbled angrily. And Azul thought of her wish.

((((((((Vision))))))))

"NO!" thousands of screaming voices shouted as they fell to the ground.

"MWAHAHAHAH!" Sloth sneered loudly at the dying creatures.

((((((((End Vision))))))))

At first, Azul believed that Sloth was being evil. But then he looked a little closer.

Some of the creatures were mutant pets. Others were Monoceraptors and Monocerauses and sail back creatures he had never seen before (Monocedons, the vision had told him). A few even looked like VirtuPets! Azul couldn't believe it. But how did he know that those creatures were ever on Sloth's side? This was obviously the vision if Sloth wasn't dead.

((((((((Vision))))))))

A huge aura escaped Sloth's dead body. "You have not seen the last of me," it said evilly. "I will be back many years later.........you will see me again...."

Years Later

Jadretana and Kauvara's bodies fell to the ground.

"Goodbye, Ancients!" a character that looked like a second incarnation of Sloth shouted. And he watched his friends get vaporized before his very eyes. All that was left of them was a few drops of blood and a Nova he had never seen (a Heart Nova, the dream said). All that was left was him and Faelinn. "DIE!" Sloth's incarnation shouted. And before his very eyes he saw himself die, without even a silent scream.

((((((((End Vision))))))))

Azul had definitely decided that Sloth should stay alive. He did not want to die like that. He saw that all of the Ancients had the expression of shock that he himself had on his face.

"Non, Bleue. Sloth ne peut pas mourir pourtant. Il nous tuera dans une façon différente s'il fait," Rash whispered to Bleue. Bleue looked at everyone's faces and nodded.

"Drive him off, guys, but do not kill him," Rash commanded. Everyone nodded, remembering the fate they would have if they did kill him. "Azul, you go first." Azul grinned, and turned his flaps of skin into the butterfly wings. He found that he could shoot a huge flame at an enemy if he had his wings. He was a first-class player at Bullseye(TM), so although he had never practiced, he already had very good accuracy. He saw Kauvara become her Nova Tornado, and she had already started to shoot beams of light at the Grundos, who had turned back into normal Grundos. Azul started shooting his flames, and when they hit the Grundos would become normal. It was more like a game than a battle. Rash had also joined in, and was blasting molten lava at the Grundos with her sword, creating the lava with the tip of the sword. Kalora had started to throw battlecards. Then Plesio had become a wheel, made of ice. He was shooting jets of pressurized water at the Grundos. Eventually all of the Grundos were normal, and Sloth had decided to run off into the distance.

"That was fun," Kalora commented.

"Oh yeah," Azul smiled. "That was fun. They should turn that into a game, but the Grundos would help you when you saved them."

"Good idea!" Plesio exclaimed.

"Remercier la bonté vous avez battu ce gars. Je suis fatigue de lui est si des moyens. Maintenant l'Ile de Roo est sûre!" Bleue smiled.

King Roo had been silent the whole time. He now spoke. "I am grateful that you saved Roo Island from Sloth. You may now have this." He stuck his arm into his throat and out came a Heart Nova. "This is called a Heart Nova. I have been making bargains with Rash here so that I could keep it, but now I see that you deserve it. I owe it to you, anyhow. The Heart Novas are the things that help you Ancients have power. You all have one. And I am sure you have all given your Heart Novas to Rash-"

"I haven't," Azul interrupted. "Neither have my brother and sister." He reached his hand into his throat and found that there was a lump in it. He grabbed it and pulled it out, and saw he, too, had a Heart Nova. The Nova was silent, pulsing with love and happiness. He handed the Nova to Rash, as did Verderato and Jade with their Heart Novas.

"I now give you your first non-Ancient Heart Nova," King Roo smiled, and handed his heart to Rash. Rash looked into them, and saw Azul's, Verderato's, Jade's, and King Roo's faces reflecting back at her.

"We are honored, King Roo," Rash said. "We thank you for your heart. We shall see you again."

"We shall," King Roo grinned, and walked away.

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