Anyway, usual disclaimer. I'm not going to type it out in anymore chapters unless I suddenly added something, so if you wanna see the disclaimer, you just waved the right to sue me over not having a disclaimer, as it clearly states the legal stuff in the other chapters. :P
Anything Sarah is thinking, but not saying, is in italics. Also, I'm in the Eastern time zone, which explains Sarah's later comment about time.
Three more things: Thank you to Chelsea Weasley, Oracle, and an especially big thanks to Malathyne, who happens to be the first person to EVER review the same story of mine twice! *hands Malathyne an Orn Codestone*
Second thing, I got the lab map a few days ago, and I have been using it on Tin3. At the time of writing this, he is currently a green Quiggle, and a female. However, to make things easier, Tin3 will continue to be a white male Meerca throughout the story. You can see how he changes every day on his pet page, and I recently painted my gelert, Mintpup, strawberry, and since I like that better, she will be referred to one throughout the story.
Third, yes, this story will keep up with recent events, such as the Draik coming out, or the next world. Okay? Good.
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Chapter 5: Scammers and Breakfast and Flying, Oh My!
"Okay, so how do we get to Faerieland?" Sarah asked.
"What do you mean 'how do-'" Sugar stopped in the
middle of her sentence. "Oh yeah, you didn't have to actually go there
before."
Tin3 sighed, and replied, as if it was obvious,
"You take one of us with you, like you did before. We'll show you the way.
So which one of us gets to go?"
Sarah was suddenly faced with a dilemma. Before,
they were just images, with no feelings, so she could pick any one of them
she was in the mood for. Now they could easily get mad at her for not choosing
them. "Can I take all four of you?"
"Nope," Mint replied. "Why don't you take Tin3 with
you? He's familiar with traveling around Neopia, and I was busy playing
playing Armada with Ivy."
"Okay," Sarah said. "What about you, Sugar?"
"I was playing with my Usukis," the striped Uni
replied.
Sarah was about to ask something when a piece of
paper appeared out of nowhere. "What the heck is that?!" she asked.
"Neomail," Ivy told her. The shadow Peophin read
a little bit before handing it to Sarah. "They want you to change your
e-mail address."
Sarah read the letter. "Hmmmm......and they'll get
me 5 million NP if I do it." Sarah read a little more. "Okay, there's the
signature. How do I report them?"
Tin3 grabbed Sarah's paw and dragged her outside.
She was about to ask what he was doing, but he started speaking first.
"I'm doing this for your own good." He went to a statue beyond a billboard
with a bunch of papers on it, and pressed a button near the pedestal. The
statue moved, and they went down the stairs the statue had revealed. Nearby,
they saw another billboard, a chia selling the Neopian times, and a stack
of papers next to him. "The stack of papers is the Neopian Times," he looked
at it. "Darn, it's still last week's. Anyway, the news is on those papers
on the board, and that mail slot is where you submit complaints," the Meerca
pointed to a mailbox on the other side of the board. "Write your note,
put it in an envelope, and put in the Neomail with it for proof."
Sarah did what he said and put it in the mail slot.
She turned around to see a teenage boy and his fire Tonu get zapped by
lightning and frozen in place. Naturally, she ran to him to see if they
were okay, and saw a name tag on the boy. "That's the name of the guy who
tried to scam me!"
"And they were frozen for it," Tin3 answered. Seeing
the concerned look on Sarah's face as she looked at the Tonu, he spoke
up. "Don't worry, the pets are only frozen for a week, to give the person
frozen a chance to get their account back. If nothing happens within a
week, the pet is unfrozen, and they get a job, or go back to the wild."
There was a flash behind them, and a crowd started
going to the news board. Sarah looked beside her to ask Tin3 what was going
on, but he was nowhere to be found. "Baka, how am I supposed to find him.
I can't look over the crowd, since I'm too short, and...Wait a minute!"
Sarah looked at her back. Of course, my wings, she thought, and
started moving them. Up...down...up...down...up...down...quicker now...up...down...up...down...Jeez,
this is hard to get the hang of...faster!
She kept trying to make her
wings faster, but she couldn't get more than a couple of inches off the
ground. After a few minutes, though, she was about six inches higher.
The crowd had disappeared by then and a finger tapped of her shoulder.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
the Gelert screamed. She turned around to see her smiling Meerca behind
her. "You almost gave me a heart attack!" Sarah yelled at him.
"I would have never guessed," he replied sarcastically.
"Sorry I left, but I wanted to get an issue of this week's Neopian Times
before they were gone. I got two of 'em, since it's a long way to Faerieland,
and I'd rather not wait for you to finish first."
"Well, don't do it again," she told him angrily,
as she took the newspaper. She looked through the articles. "Hmmm...I don't
see anything about that rumored 'Shadow Government' this week."
Tin3 stared at her. THIS was his owner? She was
trapped in Neopia...a completely different world...she barely knew anything
about BEING in Neopia, and she had just been scared half to death. Yet
even then, she was thinking about that Shadow Government thing? "You do
know they don't exist, right?"
It was Sarah's turn to stare. "Well, duh. Or does
my digital self read those articles, even though I don't?" Without giving
him a chance to answer, she continued. "Anyway, we need to get to Faerieland.
Which way do we go?"
Tin3 looked to the left. "I think we should get
something to eat and drink right now. How about going to the coffee shop?"
As if agreeing with the Meerca, Sarah's stomach
growled loudly. "I guess. I need lunch, and seeing as how Neopian Standard
Time is behind, you probably need breakfast. No, wait...I forgot...I was
at Sloth's for sometime...I could have missed an entire day of meals...I
guess we should get food now." And with that, they walked into the coffee
shop.
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The coffee shop wasn't very crowded, so they didn't have to wait long
before ordering. They stepped up to the register to a young, yellow Shoyru.
"Hello, sweeties. What would you like?" the Shoyru,
which her name tag specified as Ms. Temprance, asked.
Tin3 replied first. "Golden Juppie Delight, please."
"That's 325 Neopoints." Sarah may be new to the
actual Neopian world, but even being on the computer let her know she could
haggle.
"75 NP."
"262."
"120."
"225."
"150."
"194."
"175."
"Deal," Ms. Temprance agreed. Right before she rang
it up, Sarah remembered something.
"I have a space discount card, too."
Ms. Temprance, true to the sound of her name, looked
upset. "Your supposed to say that first. But I'm assuming you're new, since
I've never seen either of you, so I'll let you off this time. The total
is 172 NP. Anything else?"
Sarah looked at what was left. There wasn't much.
"What would you recommend? I'm a little tired, and I need to get to Faerieland,
so I need something to give me more energy."
The Shoyru looked pleased. "I have just the thing.
Purplum Mocha, and we just restocked those, so they're fresh! We're selling
it for the great deal of only 400 Neopoints!"
Now Sarah definitely knew better than that. "I have
a space discount card, for 2 percent, as you know, and I'm offering 90
NP."
"342."
"145."
"325."
"That's barely any less than you just asked for.
170."
"That's barely any more than you just asked for.
287."
"235."
"With your discount, that comes to 231 Neopoints.
Here it is," and she gave them a purple cup. "Anything else?"
"Nope, that's it," Sarah replied. They could get
cheap food elsewhere."
Ms. Temprance rang it up. "That's 403 Neopoints.
OH!" a siren started to go off at the register. "It seems you are the 1,000
customer of the week. You get 2 rare golden juppies." Sarah handed her
the Neopoints, and took the coffee and juppies.
Knowing his weakness for juppies, Sarah looked over
at her Meerca. Yep, he looked like he was in Heaven. "You wanna help me?
I can't carry all of it!" Tin3 snapped out of it, and tried to grab the
juppies from her. "Oh, no," She replied. "I know better than that. You
carry one juppie, and your coffee. THAT is yours. I don't want you eating
my food." They found an empty table and began to eat one of the best breakfasts
Sarah had ever had. Golden juppies were delicious!
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That's all for now! Oh, and I'm sure you're wondering why I seemed to make the flying scene longer than it might have been, since it's easy to fly if you have wings, right? Well, imagine you were 14, and you had never been able to use you legs. Finally, doctors found a way to make them work. You aren't gonna be able to walk right away! Your legs need to get used to having that much pressure on them, and Sarah's wings needed to get used to carrying that much weight! Sure, if she's high up, she can slow her fall, but her wings haven't gotten used to carrying a Gelert! Also, even though it stated in the previous chapter that she flew, please note that she actually hovered about an inch off the ground. Don't worry, when I'm finished with this story, I'll go back, fix all the mistakes, and re-upload the chapters!