*cough* I'm...desperate for more chapters, if you couldn't tell. Sorry.
You can see exactly where Neopia Central is, according to me, at http://sailorc.mybravenet.com/map.gif
The actual city is around the "N" and the first "E." There may be a
few places near the "C."
Harry Potter is property of J.K. Rowling, along with the words "apperate" and "dissaperate."
Arigato: Japanese for "Thank you."
Kami-sama: "Kami" is the Japanese word for "god" in general, like Zues,
the Greek god of thunder would be a kami. "Kami-sama" would refer to God
himself. "-sama" is an honorific which is used for people of great respect,
such as kings or queens. So Queen Fyora could be referred to, politely,
as "Fyora-sama" in Japan.
Anyway, next chapter!
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Chapter six: The Ocean Faerie
When Tin3 and Sarah finished breakfast, they left
the coffee shop, each carrying their own newspaper, and went back up to
Neopia Central. Sarah followed Tin3, hovering to get some use out of her
wings. The Meerca didn't even look behind him before saying, "Don't hover.
Either fly or walk. It's annoying when your right behind me like that."
He looked at Sarah, who had started to walk. "In fact, walk beside me.
Your new here, and I don't want you getting lost."
"What are you, my owner?" she asked him. "Geez,
I'm already using Neopian dialect. I meant to say 'mother.'" She objected,
but walked beside him anyway. After some walking, in which Sarah had to
hover sometimes to give her feet a rest, they came to a small beach. There
were 16 boats, separated in eight groups with two boats each, and a rocket
quite a few yards away from them. Each group of boats was at a dock, apparently
leading to each place in Neopia. Considering a new world was coming, another
dock, colored gray, was in the process of being built. Tin3 took her to
a light pink boat. It wasn't EXACTLY pink, more like white with a bit of
pink mixed in.
The Meerca dragged her into the boat, and hopped
in himself. "The schedule on the dock said that the boat is leaving in
3 minutes," he stated simply. Three minutes later, true to his word, the
boat started moving to a big cloud in the sky, obviously Faerieland. Unfortunately,
Sarah hadn't been prepared for flying, and slid back as the boat left the
water and went toward the sky.
It was an unusual experience, in which Sarah learned
that she would get either seasick or airsick after a long time (fortunately
for her, they reached their destination before she experienced anything
worse than nausea), they finally reached their destination. Sarah immediately
got out of the boat and waited for Tin3. "I never want to do that again,"
she told him. "Either Fyora teaches me how to fly and carry you, or we
learn to dissaperate and apperate, and let me tell you, we are NOT Harry
Potter characters." Tin3 looked confused, but he must've gotten the gist
of it, since he started walking straight to Faerie City, commenting that
they would ask Fyora about flying lessons.
As they passed by the Wheel of Excitement, a Light
Faerie shouted, "Play the Wheel of Excitement! Give it a spin and see what
it lands on, only 100 NP a go!" Sarah looked at Tin3.
"Do we have enough money?" she asked him.
Tin3 looked at the money in his paw, and sighed.
"Yes, we do. We have 129 Neopoints left. Do you really wanna go? You know
we're gonna lose." He looked at her, saw her nod, and sighed. "Fine. We'd
like to spin the wheel please." The Light Faeries, delighted to hear this,
took his 100 Neopoint coin away from him, and brought him over. "No," the
Meerca shook his head. "She," he pointed to Sarah, "wants to spin it. I'll
just watch."
Sarah went up to the wheel, and started spinning
it. When it stopped, one of the Faeries looked at it, and handed Sarah
four bags. "Congratulations! You have won 2000 Neopoints!" Sarah smiled
at Tin3 in an "I-told-you-so" way before leaving.
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Finally, they reached Faerie Castle, which
happened to be guarded by Battle-Faeries-in-training, which could also
be known as Guard Faeries. "Excuse me," Sarah said politely. "We need to
see Queen Fyora."
The Faeries looked at each other, and then said
in unison, "Be gone," before one was hit by a green ray. The other one
took a defensive position as Tin3 and Sarah turned around and gasped.
"I think you should let them in. I have business
here as well, so you would be wise to move out of the way, unless you wish
to end up worse than your little friend here," a silky, beautiful voice
said. Looking at the woman herself, she was beautiful, too, in her own
sort of way. But light purple skin...a long, green, silk dress with a long,
dark purple jacket. Jhudora herself. She smiled evilly. "Hello, Sailor."
Sarah saw the evil Faerie laugh as she gasped. She
was about to ask how she knew her name, when Jhudora answered her in advance.
"I know the name of everyone who does one of my quests. Speaking of which,
you haven't come recently. Now why would that be? And please don't give
me that excuse about making your Neohome better." At this, Sarah grew angry.
"DOES EVERYONE EVIL HAVE AN ABILITY TO READ MINDS
OR SOMETHING?! KAMI-SAMA! I AM SO SICK OF THIS! PEOPLE ACT LIKE--QUIET,
TIN3--" the Meerca had been trying to tell her something. "EVERYONE ACTS
LIKE I DON'T HAVE FEELINGS JUST BECAUSE I'M DIFFERENT! WELL, I'VE GOT NEWS
FOR YOU! I. HAVE. FEELINGS. PARTICULARLY, ANGER!"
She would have continued if Jhudora hadn't shot a bolt of green lightning
at her. She looked up, and saw a blurry version of Jhudora powering up
for another attack when something purplish-pink got in the way of her vision.
She got up carefully and rubbed her eyes. Her vision
returned just in time for her to see pink rose petals attacking Jhudora.
What
the...she turned around and saw Fyora aiming at the evil Faerie. "Arigato,
Kami-sama. I thought I was going crazy." The petals stopped and Fyora stared
at Jhudora.
"I would prefer if you would be more polite to guests,"
she said to her. She looked at the to Faeries guarding the castle, the
second one apparently conscious now. "You, too." The Guard Faeries bowed
their heads as Fyora turned again to talk to Jhudora. "What do you want,
Jhudora?"
The Faerie smiled. "I just wanted to know if maybe
you would put another one of my masterpieces in the Hidden Tower. "Jhudoras
Coat" protects against all light attacks. That attack of yours would have
proven it if you hadn't added a bit of Earth magic and physical damage.
I would value it at...say...5,000,000 NP."
The queen looked at Jhudora and reached out to touch
the coat. She then grabbed a bit of her own dress, a piece not protected
by magic, and pointed her finger at it. A small light came out and made
the small section of the dress a bit lighter, as if it had been in the
sun too long. She did the same to Jhudora's coat, but it stayed the same,
even though she used a more powerful attack. Fyora seemed satisfied, until
she pulled at it, making the coat tear. When she finished, the coat mended
itself. "Works perfectly, has almost too much Dark magic for it's own good,
Feels comfortable, and can withstand at least 16,000,000 attacks of Light
magic. Tears easily, though. I'll think about it."
Jhudora didn't let her disappointment show. "Queen,
I'm still working on the tearing, and even if it does tear easily, you
must have noticed that it mends itself after the battle. If I can stop
the tearing, then it may even be worth more than the Monoceraptors Claw.
Millions of people will want this. Yet you say you will 'think about it?'"
"Yes, Jhudora. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some
customers, and I need to speak to these guests," Fyora calmly replied,
acknowledging Sarah and Tin3. She grabbed their paws and went into the
castle, leaving Jhudora to fume by herself.
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"I see," the Faerie Queen commented upon hearing
Sarah's story. "You seem to have a complicated situation. He probably doesn't
want you to go home so soon, so there is nothing I can do at the moment
about that. However," she continued, "I may be able to help you feel more
comfortable in Neopia. Would you like to be an temporary Faerie?"
This confused Sarah. "What do you mean? How would
it be different from a regular Faerie?"
"Well," Fyora began, "you would at least appear
human-like, you don't get special magic like other Faeries, like increasing
pet statistics, healing your pets, or granting them abilities. You do,
however, get enough magic to survive in Neopia for awhile until you can
get used to it or go home. You cannot be captured by Balthazar, most people
and Neopets will not know you are a Faerie unless you tell them, and you
will be able to fly easily, rather than just hovering like you have been.
Regardless of whether you stay in this form or choose to be a Faerie, you
will get 3 Hidden Tower items, worth 8,500,000 NP, for free, provided you
do not misuse them. You must use these three items to put into Jhuidah's
cooking pot, to make an item to contact me with. I believe that is everything.
Do you have any questions?"
The queen had recited all of this in one breath.
"First, yes, I would like to be a Faerie. Second, I have a question," Sarah
replied. "Do you have amazing lung capacity or something? You didn't even
need a break to think of what to say next!"
The Queen smiled, amused at this question, although
the answer wasn't exactly the nicest thing in Neopia. Before answering,
she snapped her fingers, and Sarah was suddenly human again, but different.
She had transparent, purple wings, and she was wearing a Sailor's suit.
On her pocket, there was a small badge, shaped like a shield with a yellow
Lupe on it, and the words "One Year" below it. She had shoulder length,
brown hair, shorter than her hair as a human, and she still had her green-ish
eyes. Her braces were also useless right now, but she kept her old glasses,
but this made her feel much better about her appearance, not to mention
being a tiny bit skinnier. "Thank Kami-sama! I actually look nice! Too
bad I can't stay this way when I go back home," Sarah commented.
Fyora smiled again. "I know, but I figured that
you might want to feel nice about your appearance if you have to stay here.
Also, the answer to your question. I've recited this before. You've only
been here a year?" Sarah nodded. "Well, in the month of Hiding, Year 2,
Sloth started kidnapping Neopets. We quickly learned that once he started
something, he wouldn't stop until the experiment stopped working. You are
the second person who has come to me after being kidnapped by Sloth. After
he kidnapped you, he brought someone else to Neopia, a newer person, to
see if there was any difficulty adapting to life here as a newer person
rather than an older person. Knowing that she didn't exactly know her way
around yet, he brought her directly to the castle, and then went to experiment
on you. The girl told me what had happened, although being newer made it
a bit harder for her to understand everything. That was three days ago."
Well, whatever answer the Faerie had been expecting,
it hadn't been this. She had been flying, getting used to the wings, and
fell to the ground after hearing all this. "There's someone else? He was
nice enough to help her here? And--HEY! How come he let her keep a human
form? He told me that humans weren't allowed in Neopia! That no-good, wimpy,
ugly, slimy, self-serving, cunning baka!" At that moment, a hologram of
Dr. Sloth appeared.
"I'm guessing you forgot the device Vlad attached
to you? The one that lets me hear everything you say? Including those insults?"
It was amazing how much he could scare people when he talked calmly like
that. He was even more frightening as he saw the look on Sarah's face and
smiled. "Don't worry, the great Borovan enabled some type of device that
prevents natural Neopian citizens, also known as the Neopian citizens who
have never been to Earth, from hearing the password to someone's neohome.
But I would really prefer for you to stop insulting me. Most people don't
realize all the hard work that goes into world domination. However, some
of your 'insults' are quite nice. I don't understand why you thought you
insulted me by calling me 'no-good,' 'self-serving,' and 'cunning.' But
I really would advise you to be more careful in the future, as the other
insults have earned you another month in Neopia, per insult."
This had gotten Fyora mad. "How in Donna's name
can you think of keeping this girl here? She's complied to your every whim
so far. How can you expect her not to get a bit angry?"
"My dear girl, you must watch your temper," Sloth
replied. "And it's really quite easy, but I'm suspecting neither of you
are in the mood for sarcasm. Sailor, you've heard me. You may want to watch
yourself. Good bye." The hologram disappeared.
Sarah, now the Ocean Faerie, took a minute to calm
herself down before asking Fyora who the other girl kidnapped by Sloth
was, thinking that maybe they could become friends.
"Oh, yes," the queen replied. "Her name is--"
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MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know who it is and you don't! Nyah nyah nyah-nyah nyah! Long chapter! Woohooo!!!! I may have to change some of this, if the person doesn't like the introduction, but I just wanted to leave this as a cliffhanger! Aren't I nice? ^^ And I have one of those figures I'd kill for in the story! I got tired of having her be a Gelert, so I changed her! Don't like it? Tough! I am the all powerful author! I could make...lesse...*points to a random Neopets user* him! I could make him destroy Neopia by making him say chocolate chip cookie dough! If you don't like my reason, then I'll make my rabid vampire butterflies attack you!