Saving Neopia II: Light and Darkness
In this chapter, Bloony is going to deal with King Roo's blatantly evil advisor...or at least try to. Meanwhile, things are going to go wrong with Professor Nyctus's latest creation...and Snotty and Redtooth are going to try to steal the Day of Giving.
Chapter 3: A New Villain
Bloony immediately walked into King Roo's Castle. At first glance, it seemed like nothing was wrong.
"Maybe I was losing my marbles..." thought Bloony.
Sure enough, King Roo was sitting on his throne, smiling as always. It was actually a bit creepy.
"Greetings Bloony...how can I help you? Seeing though you saved all of Neopia I suppose I owe you a favor or two." stated King Roo.
"I'm fine, thanks. I just can't help but shake the feeling that something is going to go wrong." stated Bloony.
Suddenly, lightning struck King Roo's Castle.
"What makes you say that?" questioned the king.
Shortly afterwards, evil laughter was heard. Out of nowhere, King Roo's crown was sent flying off of his head.
"Where's my crown go?" questioned King Roo.
Immediately, Advisor Broo stepped out of the shadows. He was dressed in rather fancy clothes...and he was wearing King Roo's crown!
"Just as I thought..." murmured Bloony.
"Introducing the new ruler of Roo Island, King Broo!" exclaimed Advisor Broo.
"What is the meaning of this?" inquired King Roo.
"Simple. In the past all you've ever been concerned about is playing Dice-A-Roo and throwing parties. But while this kingdom is under my thumb, there's not going to be any more of that! From now on, all the Blumaroos will bow down to me!" he exclaimed.
"No Dice-A-Roo? You're insane!" bellowed King Roo.
"Stop it this instant!" demanded Bloony.
Advisor Broo responded by this by using his staff to lift Bloony up in the air.
"Uh-oh..." he stated.
"Hero Bloony, yes it is he, but not as you know him..." sang Advisor Broo. "Read my lips and come to reality."
"What the heck is he singing about?" questioned King Roo.
"I don't know. Like you said, he's gone off the deep end. He really needs a strait jacket. Like my buddy Snotty..." stated Bloony.
"Yes, meet a blast from your past, whose lies were too good to last, say hello to your precious hero Bloony!" exclaimed Advisor Broo, hurling Bloony into the ground.
"Um, hi?" greeted King Roo.
"I'm not in the mood for talking right now, sorry. I'm kind of in the middle of something" stated the yellow Blumaroo, who was rubbing his head.
"So hero Bloony turns out to be a con, need I go on? Take it from me." continued the evil advisor, teleporting Bloony into one of the towers of the castle.
"Where'd he go?" questioned King Roo.
"I can still hear you, you know! And I'm a genuine hero! Why do you keep saying that I'm a fake?" questioned Bloony.
"His personality flaws give me adequate cause to send him packing on a one-way trip until his prospects take a terminal dip!" bellowed Advisor Broo.
Suddenly, the tower Bloony was in began to shake.
"Is there an earthquake or something?" he asked.
"His assets frozen, the venue chosen is the ends of Neopia, whoopee! So long, ex-hero Bloony!" squealed Advisor Broo.
Suddenly, the tower shot like a rocket away from the rest of the castle...curiously enough, it was heading towards Terror Mountain.
"I worked hard on that tower, you know!" exclaimed King Roo.
Shortly afterward, Advisor Broo laughed like the evil maniac he was. He had already gone mad with power.
Meanwhile on Kreludor...
Along with all the Grundos, Cherry was witnessing the latest creation of the former mad scientist Professor Nyctus. As it turns out, he was working on a blob monster.
"Greetings my Grundo friends! Today I am going to create my latest invention! It can shapeshift into virtually anything you want! Hopefully you can have fun with it...or you can use it to help it with your chores...whatever suits you best." stated the doctor.
"Of course, there's only one of it and many of you...but don't worry about that! I also designed it so that it can divide...it can also regenerate itself so you can create as many copies of it as you wish." continued Professor Nyctus.
"Sounds fascinating!" exclaimed the Grundo.
"It certainly is! In fact, I only need one more ingredient to bring it to life! My assistant is off to fetch it from my laboratory as we speak. He should be back in two shakes of a Babaa's tail." explained the professor.
As it turns out, Steven was trying to search for the last ingredient...but he couldn't quite remember what it was.
Suddenly, he saw a vial of a mysterious black substance...he recalled seeing it somewhere before, but he couldn't decide what.
"Maybe it's what Professor Nyctus told me to get? It does look awfully similar..." thought Steven.
He decided to give it to the professor to see if it was what he was looking for...
Unfortunately, in his haste to complete the experiment, the professor decided not to check what Steven had given it to him.
"Ah, you're just in time! Now hand that vial over to me and we can get started!" exclaimed Professor Nyctus.
"Um...about that. I'm not sure-"
The doctor simply ignored Steven and simply took the vial from his hand. He then poured it over the inanimate slime he had created a few hours ago.
"Now let's sit back and watch history be made!" exclaimed the doctor.
Shortly afterwards, the slime came to life. It began to look around curiously...for a moment, it seemed that everything was fine. One of the Grundos even went over to touch the slime. Unsurprisingly, it felt moist and gooey.
This was when things began to go wrong.
Shortly after said Grundo had touched the slime, it ended up being consumed. The other Grundos screamed in horror and began to run away.
Unfortunately, the slime was rather quick. It began hopping from place to place, consuming more and more Grundos. In fact, every time it did so, it slowly began to grow bigger and bigger.
"What are you doing? Stop this! I created you!" exclaimed Professor Nyctus.
Suddenly, the slime turned towards the doctor. Was it really going to stop?
The blob monster slithered over to Professor Nyctus...
...and then ate him too.
If the remaining Grundos weren't panicking before, they certainly were now. There was nothing the monster wouldn't eat! Even its own master was simply another meal!
However, eating Professor Nyctus had a rather strange effect on the creature. Immediately, it became more intelligent...also, it grew a face. It even began to speak.
"Greetings citizens of Neopia. I am known as Deluge...and I am here for one simple purpose...to assimiliate everyone that has ever been part of the Cult of Apocalypse. Once I am finished, I shall then conquer all of Neopia and feast upon it until it is a wasteland. Everyone that tries to stop my plans shall become part of me." the monster explained.
Cherry gasped in horror. This monster was going to devour everything in Neopia! It already ate Professor Nyctus and got a substantial boost in intelligence...who knows what would happen if it ate any more Cult of Apocalypse members.
Curiously enough, the monster reminded her of Lord Cataclysm...is it possible that they were related? She noticed that a strange concoction had been poured into the slime prior to it going insane...if the dark lord himself really was part of it, then it wasn't going to give up until it had destroyed everything. Of course, it also explained why the monster spoke in a similar voice.
At this point, she realized she had to warn Bloony. It was already apparent that the more Neopets the monster absorbed, the more powerful he was going to become. Suffice to say it was going to become unstoppable if they allowed it to feast long enough.
Along with many horrified Grundos, she boarded an escape pod and prepared to escape. Still, she got the feeling that the monster wasn't going to stay on Kreludor for long...after all, there were many more places in Neopia that were filled with Neopets that he could eat. In fact, it was unlikely that it would run out.
As soon as she was off the planet, she sent Bloony another Neomail.
Dear Bloony,
You've got to do something! There's a monster eating everything in sight! I believe it's related to Lord Cataclysm! And it's planning on eating the Cult of Apocalypse members! It already ate its own creator, Professor Nyctus! And it keeps getting more powerful!
Sincerely,
Cherry
Meanwhile on Terror Mountain...
Bloony screamed in frustration. Now he was going to have to make his way back to Roo Island...which not only was across the sea, but was also far, far, far away from him.
"How am I supposed to save Roo Island now?" he asked.
He decided that he might as well stop at the Slushie Stop so that he could get something to drink. Unfortunately, it turned out that they were being robbed.
"Give us all your money!" exclaimed a Kyrii.
"Yeah! Hand us everything that's in that safe!" bellowed a Skeith.
"Alright, I won't resist!" exclaimed the Slushie Shop owner.
"You really shouldn't rob people, you know." stated Bloony.
The Skeith and Kyrii immediately turned around and noticed that he was standing behind them.
"Stand and deliver!" demanded the Kyrii.
"I got a better idea. Why don't you sit down and talk things over? Surely there's something you'd rather do than something this reprehensible." stated Bloony.
"You're not going to cooperate, huh? Alright then! Let's beat him up!" exclaimed the Skeith.
Unsurprisingly, the two thieves didn't last long against Bloony. After all, he had gone on an entire adventure dealing with a dark lord and his minions...so suffice to say he was a force to be reckoned with, even by himself.
"Uncle..." the two thieves stated.
"That'll teach you a lesson about trying to rob innocent people." stated the yellow Blumaroo. It always felt satisfying to give bad people what they deserved, even when personally he wished that Neopia would remain bright and cheery.
Suddenly, one of the two thieves began to tell Bloony something that caught his interest.
"You don't realize what you're getting into! Our boss is in charge of the biggest criminal enterprise in all of Neopia! The Thieves' Guild are nothing compared to him!" exclaimed the Kyrii.
"Wait, you're not working for the Thieves' Guild? Then who are you working for?" questioned the leader of the Heroes of Light.
"Well, let's just say that our boss is going to have our heads when he finds out we failed to rob a simple slushie shop..." stated the Skeith.
"Sorry to hear that." sympathized Bloony.
Shortly afterwards, the Kyrii and Skeith ran away like cowards. The Blumaroo noticed that they were running off to the abandoned Ski Lodge where the Neopets Staff had met horrible ends...but it didn't look abandoned anymore. Had someone decided that it would be a perfect hideout?
He decided that it was best not to dwell on it...and that he needed to give Cherry a hand. He decided to send her aNeomail as well.
Dear Cherry,
Why can't everyone in Neopia just get along? I swear, every time Neopia seems to be in peace something always comes along and ruins it for everyone. I just had to deal with two clowns that were working for someone they claim to be more of a criminal than Kanrik...of course, Kanrik tends to be a nice guy most of the time...
So, let me get this straight, there's a blob monster that's growing more powerful at a rapid pace? In that case, we might want to get our group back together...but for now, I think we might be better off investigating...maybe we could find survivors or something...or maybe we could find something that will help us defeat that beast...
I'm in Terror Mountain...I guess I'll meet you there...besides, I need your help with a little something...
Shortly afterwards, Bloony let out a sigh. It seemed like just yesterday when he assembled a team to take down Lord Cataclysm after he tried to make everything Neopia in evil. Of course, he didn't actually defeat Cataclysm himself...but he still had to work hard just to get to his hideout and defeat his minions.
He just hoped that his second adventure would be as successful as the first...he was worried that the Faerie of Death would not be as generous as this time.
"What am I getting into?" thought Bloony.
Elsewhere in Terror Mountain...
"So let me get this straight, you want to try to stop the Day of Giving from coming?" questioned Redtooth.
"Of course I do. Do you realize how annoying the Day of Giving is? Every time that happens all the Neopets throw a great big party...and it drives me crazy because I'm never invited." stated Snotty.
"That sure sounds bad." agreed Redtooth.
"They don't even share the food with me. They just gobble it right up and don't even leave a morsel. Do they even realize how hungry I get over the holidays? Right now my stomach is grumbling..." stated the green Blumaroo.
"That also sounds bad." nodded the blue Lupe.
"But the worst part is when they start singing. Every time they do that, they make my ears bleed! I'd get some earplugs or something but they never have them for my size." stated Snotty. "There's got to be a way to stop all this nonsense."
"Is your heart two sizes too small or something?" questioned Redtooth.
"Maybe...I'm not even quite sure why I do evil things anymore." stated Snotty.
Suddenly, he got an idea. A wonderful idea. A wonderful, awful idea.
"I know exactly what to do!" exclaimed the leader of the Villains of Darkness.
"Like...what?" questioned Redtooth.
"Maybe if we steal the presents...maybe no-one in Happy Valley will celebrate! You can't have the Day of Giving without presents! And besides, I bet some of them are really valuable!" squealed the demented Blumaroo.
"Won't they realize that you're stealing your presents and call the authorities? I don't want to get arrested again." questioned his partner.
Snotty sweatdropped.
"You're right...we're going to have to do something about that..." he agreed.
He then went over to the costume shop and came back wearing a Santa costume.
"You're disguising yourself as Santa?" questioned Redtooth.
"Of course I am! And you're going to disguise yourself as a Raindorf!" exclaimed Snotty.
"A Raindorf?" questioned the blue Lupe.
Shortly afterwards, Snotty stuck antlers on Redtooth's head.
"I really don't know about this." he stated.
"Which one of us runs on four legs? You or me?" questioned the green Blumaroo.
Redtooth stopped asking questions.
Shortly afterwards, they waited for nightfall...and that's when their big robbery began...
Unfortunately, the authorities would not stand by and let the Villains of Darkness get away with their crimes...
Meanwhile at the police station at Neopia Central...
A Red Elephante was drinking a delicious cup of coffee...in fact, he was slurping it down. It was as if it was the only thing he drank. He was wearing a badge that indicated that he was chief of the police force.
"That's the stuff..." he stated.
On his desk read the name "Officer Peanuts".
Suddenly, a yellow Lenny wearing a police uniform came into the room.
"Officer Lenny reporting for duty!" he exclaimed.
"Your parents named you after your own species?" questioned Officer Peanuts.
Officer Lenny nodded.
"OK...is there anything you wish to tell me, Lenny?" questioned the Red Elephante.
"We've found two Neopets that we're looking for!" exclaimed Lenny.
"That's a first." stated Officer Peanuts.
Officer Lenny handed out two wanted posters to signify who exactly they had located. As it turns out, it was Snotty and Redtooth, who unsurprisingly both had mugshots so that everyone could see how bad they were.
WANTED: Snotty
For stealing candy from babies, jaywalking down the street, failing to report for jury duty, using a Chia for a dangerous knife-throwing game, impersonating another Blumaroo, robbing banks, breaking out of prison, assisting other criminals, and vandalism.
REWARD: 1,000,000 Neopoints
WANTED: Redtooth
For hunting Chias, using fire hydrants for a toilet, yelling "Fire" in a theater, yelling "Ghostbusters" in a theater full of ghosts, robbing banks, hunting a Blumaroo, failing to report for jury duty, assisting other criminals, biting a Quiggle in the finger, Jubjub punting, and vandalism.
REWARD: 500,000 Neopoints
Upon seeing the criminal records, Officer Peanuts immediately trumpeted in rage.
"Calm down, Officer Peanuts!" demanded Officer Lenny.
"I want you to send every police officer on duty to catch these savages!" exclaimed the police chief.
"Don't you think that's going a bit overboard?" questioned the Lenny.
"Do it! Now! Or you're fired!" bellowed Officer Peanuts.
"Y-yes boss!" screeched the police officer.
After Officer Lenny left, the Red Elephante began to chuckle.
"You may have eluded the authorities for quite some time now...but soon you will be in prison...and this time you will not escape...once I catch you, I shall lock you away on an island that's surrounded by mines and man-eating Jetsams! Let's see you get away from that!" exclaimed the Red Elephante, who at this point went into hysterics.
It looked like karma had caught up to the Villains of Darkness once again...but the corrupt police chief would not be as forgiving as the Heroes of Light.
So many things are happening in this chapter...Advisor Broo has taken over Roo Island...a monster has been created...Snotty is impersonating Santa so that he can steal presents...and the police chief has gone insane...
What shenanigans will the Heroes of Light and Villains of Darkness get into next? You'll find out in the next chapter...of Saving Neopia II: Light and Darkness!
OK, maybe I didn't need ot say the title of the story out loud...you already know what the title of the story is, right? Ah well.