Saving Neopia II: Light and Darkness
In this chapter, Snotty will steal all of the Day of Giving presents...Bloony and Cherry will investigate what's left of Kreludor...and a new villain for the sequel will appear...
Chapter 4: How Snotty Stole Presents
At the slope of Terror Mountain...
Redtooth was running down the mountain as fast as he could...Snotty in particular was encouraging him by throwing him Lupe Treats whenever he got tired.
"C'mon, we're almost there!" exclaimed Snotty.
"I'm working on it! Sheesh, Terror Mountain is a long climb...descending from the mountain isn't a cakewalk either!" bellowed Redtooth.
As it turns out, Snotty had bought a sleigh from the gift shop, and was using Redtooth so that he could get to Happy Valley.
"Can't we just use the ski lift?" questioned the blue Lupe.
"Santa never uses a ski lift! He's way too fat! He'd break it if he tried that!" exclaimed the green Blumaroo.
"OK..." replied Redtooth.
By the time Snotty and Redtooth finally arrived at Happy Valley, Redtooth was heavily exhausted and was panting for breath.
"It looks like we're finally here...now to start looting presents!" exclaimed Snotty.
Unfortunately, it turned out that he had a problem. All the doors were locked!
"Who keeps locking all these doors?" questioned the green Blumaroo.
He also tried getting in through the windows, but it turns out they were locked in too. Apparently the residents didn't want to let in the cold...or any sort of burglar for that matter.
"What to do..." thought Snotty.
Once again, he began thinking of a way he could stop the Day of Giving from coming. Just how was he going to get inside the houses? He couldn't just break down the door or the windows. That would wake the residents up. And of course that would lead him to being arrested.
He then remembered how Santa typically got into houses, and suddenly he got an idea.
"What are you doing?" questioned Redtooth.
"I'm going to try to get into this house through the chimney." stated Snotty.
"Through the chimney?" questioned the blue Lupe.
Like St. Nick himself, the green Blumaroo then climbed the roof and then hopped into the chimney. However, due to the fact that he was skinny instead of fat like Santa he ended up falling straight towards the bottom.
"Ow..." he stated. He certainly would not be trying leaping down the chimney without a care in the world again.
He then noticed the presents, and began slithering around them like he was a Hissi despite the fact that he had legs.
"You're a mean one...Mr. Snotty." sang Snotty. "You really are a heel. You're as cuddly as a cactus. You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Snotty...You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel..."
Snotty then began looting the house present by present, unlocking the doors and then handing them to Redtooth so that he could load them in his sleigh.
He then repeated the process by once again using the chimney, although this time he was careful not to fall to the bottom so quickly.
Due to the fact that he was feeling so evil, he continued to sing.
"You're a monster, Mr. Snotty. your heart's an empty hole. Your brain is full of Spyders. You've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Snotty...I wouldn't touch you with a forty-nine and a half-foot pole!"
This time, Snotty decided to help himself to whatever was in the fridge, including the delicious cookies and whatnot. After all, everyone in Happy Valley kept hogging all the food, so he decided to return the favor.
As he continued to pillage the houses, Snotty started to grow more and more excited.
"You're a vile one, Mr. Snotty. You have Mootix in your smile. You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick Krawk, Mr. Snotty. Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick Krawk!" exclaimed Snotty.
Suffice to say, he was having the time of his life. After all, he was doing what he had always wanted to do for quite some time now.
All the while, Redtooth continued loading the presents. He began to wonder if the sleigh would be big enough to support them all...and if he would collapse from exhaustion trying to get them back to their hideout.
He also heard Snotty singing, and immediately became concerned. If he kept making noise, he risked waking someone up...and of course, if they found out they were being robbed, chances are they would be busted.
Unfortunately, it seemed like he wasn't going to stop anytime soon.
"You're a foul one, Mr. Snotty. You're a nasty wanky skunk. Your heart is full of unwashed socks. Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Snotty...the three words that best describe you are as follows and I quote: Stink! Stank! Stunk!"
It then began to occur to him that maybe he should take a bath later. His buddy Redtooth had a rather sensitive nose after all.
Once again, Snotty continued taking away all the presents and food. Ironically, this meant that he would be celebrating the Day of Giving while everyone else would be wondering what had happened.
Suffice to say it looked as if he would be having his revenge upon everyone who celebrated the Day of Giving without him. Then again, he never liked the Day of Giving to begin with. He was evil, after all.
"You're a rotter, Mr. Snotty, you're the king of sinful sots. Your heart's a dead tomato with moldy purple spots...Mr. Snotty...your soul is an apalling dung heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!"
"You're stealing this song from that movie!" exclaimed Redtooth.
"Who the heck cares? I love plagarism!" bellowed Snotty.
"That explains why you decided to create an evil version of the Heroes of Light..." muttered the Lupe.
"You nauseate me, Mr. Snotty, with a nauseous super-naus, you're a crooked dirty jockey and you drive a crooked Uni...Mr. Snotty...you're a three decker sauerkraut sandwich with arsenic sauce!" he exclaimed, wondering if there was a Neopet out there that would actually eat that.
Eventually, he decided to steal one of the Christmas trees and shove it up the chimney to complete his horrible scheme...however, someone noticed him doing so.
In this case, it was a Baby Usul. It was then that Snotty realized that singing a song about how horrible he was while everyone was trying to sleep wasn't such a good idea.
"Santa Claus, why are you stealing our tree?" questioned the Baby Usul.
"Why are you up in the middle of the night? Go back to bed!" exclaimed Snotty.
The Baby Usul shrugged and decided to go to sleep.
Our evil green Blumaroo then let out a sigh of relief...at this point, he decided to call it quits. He had stolen virtually everything the citizens of Happy Valley had and it was time to head back to his hideout.
However, he discovered that they had too much to carry.
"What are we going to do?" questioned Redtooth.
"I guess we're going to have to dump some of it off a cliff..." stated Snotty.
And so the green Blumaroo and blue Lupe prepared to drop some of the presents off a cliff and into the depths below...where unsurprisingly it would be lost forever.
As they did so, Snotty realized that the sun was coming up and decided to listen to see if he could hear anyone in Happy Valley crying.
Instead, they decided to sing a certain song named after their favorite day of the week.
"It's Friday, Friday...getting down on Friday..." sang the villagers.
Snotty gasped in horror. Never in his entire life had he heard such horrible music! He looked around him and discovered that Redtooth also could not tolerate the terrible song.
"What are we going to do?" questioned Snotty. "I don't think any of these presents have ear plugs!"
"There's only one thing we can do! We have to give the presents we stole back to where they belong!" bellowed Redtooth.
And so the Villains of Darkness reluctantly decided to take the presents back to the residents of Happy Valley.
"We surrender! You can have your presents back! Stealing the Day of Giving isn't worth it anymore!" exclaimed Snotty.
"Yes! We don't want to ruin any more holidays! Please forgive us!" continued Redtooth.
"He made off with our presents?" questioned one of the villagers.
Suffice to say, Snotty realized that day what the Day of Giving was really about...and that if he tried stealing presents again, he would have to listen to more horrible music.
In fact, his heart grew three times that day...to the point that it was miraculous that it kept beating.
"Maybe you're right, Redtooth...maybe we should quit being evil...I mean, the Day of Giving is just a holiday." stated Snotty.
To further support Redtooth's advice, the green Blumaroo later got an invitation to a Christmas party...apparently they thought his Santa costume was awesome.
Suffice to say, the Villains of Darkness were no longer quite so dark after the day.
Unfortunately, they would end up dealing with more than a team of heroes they simply couldn't leave alone in the near future.
Meanwhile at the Terror Mountain Ski Lodge...
A Skunk Bruce wearing a bowtie and a white suit was eating spaghetti and caviar...he was in fact very satisfied that his criminal organization was going well. Just recently his goons had stolen two million Neopoints, so at the moment he was twice a millionaire. Although his real name was Willis, his henchmen usually referred him as "Master" or "Boss".
Due to the fact that nobody ever wanted to come near the Ski Lodge, the police had no idea where his hideout was, so it looked like he was safe from being arrested.
However, although most of his crimes were successful, there were always a few that didn't turn out so well.
At that very moment, the two criminals that had tried robbing the slushie shop and ended up being foiled by Bloony were marching into his office.
"Yes, what is it? Your names are Hurt and Stabby, I believe?" inquired Willis.
"We're sorry, Boss! We couldn't pull it off!" they exclaimed.
Willis wasn't too happy about their failure, so he decided to call a friend of his...specifically, his butler.
Immediately, he rang a bell...suffice to say the two thieves realized what he had in store for them and their skin paled.
Shortly afterwards, a muscular Orange Kougra wearing a tuxedo came into the room.
"Yes, master?" he questioned.
"Ah, Siberis. I want you to show these two fools why failing me is a bad idea." stated Willis.
Siberis nodded, and he immediately cracked his knuckles.
Shortly afterwards, there were much violence...to make a long story short, Hurt and Stabby were thrown out of the Ski Lodge and would need to pay a visit to the Neohospital.
He decided to read the newspaper to see if anyone had found out about the failed robbery...sure enough, it said that the heist had been foiled by a yellow Blumaroo.
"A yellow Blumaroo? Wait a minute! I've heard of him! He's the one that saved all of Neopia from that despicable dark lord...and now he's interfering with my business!" he realized.
He thought for a while about what to do. For a moment, he considered leaving the talking Uni head he had bought from a fortuneteller where Bloony slept for the night to scare him out of his mind...but he figured that since he was a hero he wouldn't be frightened easily.
"I don't have a body!" exclaimed the talking Uni head.
"You already told me that a million times..." muttered Willis, who started to wonder why he even kept it in his chambers.
He decided that perhaps he should send some of his thugs after him...perhaps if they were lucky the yellow Blumaroo would give up on heroics altogether. It was only a matter of time before he retired.
"So, he thinks that he can mess with the biggest criminal mastermind in all of Neopia, does he? Well, I'll give him an offer he can't refuse..." he stated, laughing evilly.
Meanwhile on Kreludor...
"So, this is where the blob monster came to life and started eating everyone, am I right?" questioned Bloony.
"Yes, Bloony. It was absolutely horrific! He just wouldn't stop eating!" agreed Cherry.
"So, he has a bigger appetite than the Esophagor?" questioned the yellow Blumaroo.
"Possibly..." stated the red Chia.
Curious, he decided to look around...but he noticed that there seemed to be nothing there but a bunch of slime puddles.
"Well, Cherry, it looks like Kreludor has already been evacuated...or everyone else has already been eaten." Bloony stated.
Cherry began to cry. She was too late!
"It's OK...we'll bring whatever did this to justice...I promise..." assured the leader of Heroes of Light.
Suddenly, one of the slime puddles began to make bubbles.
"Hmm?" questioned Bloony.
Out of nowhere, several slimes came out of the puddle...although they had adorable-looking faces...he got the feeling that they weren't friendly.
"Incoming!" exclaimed Cherry.
Thankfully, the slime monsters were weak, and our hero and heroine were able to dispatch them without a problem. Unfortunately, there were more of these monsters scattered all over Kreludor.
Also, apparently anything that came in contact with the slime that wasn't digested ended up being corrupted...similar to Lord Cataclysm's dark chemical that brainwashed anything it touched...although unlike said chemical it could also bring inanimate objects to life...as Bloony and Cherry discovered when they fought a rock golem.
"Graarghhh!" the golem screamed.
"What is up with this goop?" questioned Bloony.
"I don't know! It keeps getting more and more unusual!" stated Cherry.
"You better not eat it then, Cherry." warned the yellow Blumaroo.
The rock golem started throwing stones at our heroes...but since they had gone through so much in their first adventure they were able to throw them back.
Thankfully, the golem was not as strong as it looked, and it eventually crumbled after Bloony and Cherry hit it a few times.
"Sometimes tells me this isn't the only monster that this horrible goo is going to create..." thought Bloony.
Deciding to continue exploring the planet despite the danger, our hero and heroine discovered that not all of the Grundos had left the planet and that some of them were simply hiding...interestingly enough, this included Steven, who had been terrified by the results of Professor Nyctus's experiment.
"What happened here?" asked the Blumaroo.
"It was horrible! Professor Nyctus and I tried to create an experiment that would assist the Grundos but it went so wrong...worst of all, I think I created it using part of Lord Cataclysm..." stated Steven.
"Lord Cataclysm? Didn't he almost ruin Neopia for everyone?" questioned Cherry.
"Exactly...if that blob monster is anything like him...it's not going to stop until it's consumed everything in Neopia..." stated Steven.
"I see...we'll need to leave Kreludor and stop it then..." stated Bloony.
Steven then allowed Bloony and Cherry to use his escape pod...immediately, they wondered where the monster would head next.
"If I were that monster...I would target an entire city next...wait a minute...I know where to go!" exclaimed Bloony.
And so the two of them headed towards Neopia Central...but one question remained in their minds...
Would they be able to stop the monster in time?
It seems that the Villains of Darkness are giving up on their evil ways...hopefully in the near future they'll start doing good things instead of kicking Puppyblews like they usually do...
Unfortunately for the Heroes of Light, it seems that they've attracted the attention of an evil Bruce that's obsessed with money and power...can they shut him down before he comes up with any more terrible schemes?
And most importantly, can they stop the blob monster from eating any more Neopets? Already it's starting to change Neopia for the worse...its goop is corrupting everything around it and is even bringing the inanimate to life!
As usual, I hope you're looking forward to the next chapter!