I do not own neopets
I just own my pets
And sailorc27
Neomail me if you want,
But I still don't own neopets.
Like my disclaimer? No? Too bad! ^^ I also own Screelah and Usuki_lover6.
Wow! Two reviews already, and both of them good! Thanks go to Draqua,
Lunamew, my mom
(for thinking of the name Vladimere), and dreameux for telling me how
much a Faerie Paint Brush costs.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter 2: A Faerie Gelert
"So this is a human. It's smaller than I thought,"
Sloth announced. "But no matter. I still need it How are you,
Sailorc27?"
Sarah mumbled something, before asking, "Where am
I?"
Sloth smiled evilly. He had heard her, but he wanted
to see how brave "it" was. "What was that, Sailorc27?"
Sarah gulped. She didn't think anyone would notice
her mumbling. She whispered, "I...I...I s-said I'm n-not a-an
'it.'"
Braver than he thought. Not very brave, but not
as scared as most native Neopians. "Thank you, Sailorc27. Do
you mind if I call you 'Sailor'? Thank you," he said without giving
her a chance to answer. "I have chosen
one human to see how they adapt to Neopia. I suppose you thought we
were fictional? Well you must have
noticed that we aren't. You are in my lab, but you must have figured
that out. But humans aren't normally
allowed in Neopia."
Sloth waited for her to ask the question. He was
about to yell at her for making him impatient (which didn't take
very long) when she finally asked, "So how am I supposed to 'adapt'
to life if I can't go there?"
About time, he thought. "We can turn you into a
neopet. Perhaps a Krawk? or Blumaroo? Or maybe a Chia?"
he suggested some of the ones that could turn into a mutant.
Sarah was still scared, but he seemed a LITTLE nice,
letting her turn into any neopet she wanted. "How about
a Gelert? A Faerie one? Please?"
Blast! He hadn't made a Gelert Transmogrification
potion yet! "Fine. Vlad, get me a Faerie Gelert Morphing
Potion."
Vlad paused. He didn't want to make the doctor mad,
but he had to say something. Hopefully, nothing
would happen since the human was watching. Why couldn't she say it?
She knew the answer as well as he did!
"Vlad..." Sloth said in a warning tone.
"Um...sir...the only gelert morphing potion is a
green one. And that costs 80,000 NP. And Faerie Paint
Brushes cost about 165,000 NP."
Sloth sighed. "Then go to the bank and get the money!
You know how to get there! And before you
ask another idiotic question, go to the trading post to get the brush,
instead of the shops! Do you
understand?"
Instead of answering, the mad scorchio left to put
on a disguise and get the items. After Vlad left, Sloth
called another servant, a mutant Kacheek, and told it to put "Sailor"
in the prison. Before she left, he said
under his breath, "I guess she shouldn't be a mutant anyway. Her pets
probably wouldn't trust her if she
looked like that."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Sarah had been in the cage for a few hours now. She
was uncomfortable, hot, hungry, and cramped.
She realized that the cage was made to hold a neopet, which was smaller
and ate less. But it probably
would have been just as uncomfortable as a neopet, so she wasn't suffering
much more than the Usul
next to her. It looked like it had been captured recently, since it
wasn't a mutant yet. And it looked more
scared than the older ones, most likely because it didn't know what
would happen.
"Hi," Sarah whispered to it. The red Usul looked
around before realizing that the voice belonged to the
human beside her.
"Me?" it asked. It sounded like a female. Sarah
nodded. "Well, hi. I'm Usuki_lover6, but my friends
call me Usuki. What are you doing here? You don't look like a
neopet."
Sarah sighed. "I come from a place called 'Earth.'
There, neopets is a game on something called a 'computer.'
And, well, you know how sometimes you find a mystical codestone on
the floor? A random event?" Usuki
nodded. "Well, I got a random event that said that I had been chosen
for an experiment. I didn't believe it, but
then I appeared in the lab. After that Sloth talked to me, he put me
in here. How did you get here?"
"Mommy put me and my sister in the neolodge. She
was going on vacation. She didn't have enough NP to
give us toys or tv. She only had enough to put us in there for 4 weeks
to feed us. She told us we could walk
home and get our toys if we got bored, so I did. I was almost there
when something hit me! I turned around,
and something hit my shoulder! I felt dizzy, and before I fell asleep,
I saw something green and black. I woke up
in here!" Usuki started sobbing. "I just wanted my fuzzle! Now I'll
never see Mommy or Screelah again!"
Sarah was about to comfort her when the door opened.
It was Sloth and Vlad, and they had a potion and
a paint brush. Sarah tried not to laugh as the brush flew away from
Sloth, making him run around to catch it.
She couldn't help letting a giggle out when she saw Vlad trying not
to laugh as well. Definite mistake. She
supposed she would have been dead if she hadn't been needed. But if
looks could kill...she shuddered
as Sloth glared at her.
Vlad opened the cage and set the potion down. "Drink,"
Sloth ordered. She was about to protest,
wondering if maybe the potion wasn't strong enough for a human, but
his glare kept her quiet. It
tasted like green grapes, but sweeter. She noticed Usuki was staring
at her, scared. Suddenly, the
potion was gone, and he hands felt like they were being forced into
a fist. Her knees gave a jolt as
they bent backwards, like a dogs. Her nose was getting longer, as well
as her mouth and ears. There
was something growing on her behind, which she realized was a tail.
Finally, all the pain went away.
She looked at the broken mirror that had been provided in the cages,
probably for the pets to see what they
looked like after the lab ray. She was a green Gelert. Just like Mintpup
used to be.
Sloth looked at her. I should make a mutant Gelert
sometime, he thought. He handed her a bucket that
she hadn't noticed before, and gave her that paint brush, before closing
the cage so it wouldn't fly away.
Sarah was about to ask what the bucket was for when he angrily told
her, "It's water from the rainbow pool."
Sarah dipped the paint brush in the water, a hard task with her new
Gelert paws. She decided to ask something
before Sloth could cut her off.
"How do I paint myself? I only had to press a few
buttons at home. I've never had to actually do it."
She noticed Usuki suppress a giggle. Unfortunately, Sloth noticed too.
"I'm sure this poor Usul knows all about painting,
with an owner so poor that her pets have to live in
Cockroach Towers, and a one-room Neohome. Why don't you help her?"
He pushed a button, opening
Usuki's cage, and put her in Sarah's cage.
"For your information, Mommy is only poor because
she bought my sister a paint brush for her birthday,
so yes, I do know how to paint someone. And I do have friends that
have been painted. Khyztuh even found
a Faerie one and let me paint her!" Usuki stuck up for herself. For
one moment, Sarah was impressed. The only
person she thought could speak to him like that was the Faerie Queen.
In most stories she read, even the Chia
police were afraid of him. But Usuki suddenly cringed as she realized
that she could be killed by the person that
she just yelled at. But he turned around, ignoring her, as if giving
them some privacy.
Usuki dipped the brush into the bucket again and
started painting Sarah. It tickled on her back, and it tickled
even after Usuki started painting another spot. Finally, she was done,
and Sarah looked at herself in the mirror.
The tickling had been her wings! She had always wanted to fly, and
now she could. She smiled to herself.
She still couldn't believe that Sloth had actually done something nice
for her.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Wow! That was a long chapter! I don't think I've ever written one that
long before! I hope you like Usuki_lover6!
She might appear later in the story. Hopefully, nothing TOO bad will
have happened to her. ^^ Keep reviewing!
And you can still neomail me at sailorc27.