Saving Neopia II: Light and Darkness
In this chapter, our heroes are going to reclaim Roo Island from Advisor Broo...he's really ruined Roo Island for everyone, hasn't he? They really can't let him get away with what he's done...they're the Heroes of Light, after all...and stopping evildoers is what they do best.
Oh, and they're also going to meet some old pals...in fact, we're going to be making a couple of trios...
Chapter 7: Old Friends
Bloony and Cherry stormed into the castle, ready to stop Advisor Broo from hurting any more innocent Blumaroos.
As it turns out, he was now wearing King Roo's crown...which he had redesigned to be silver and have spikes inside of it instead of it being bent. He was also sitting on his throne, although it was now silver and black instead of golden and red like usual. Unsurprisingly, he had changed the interior of the castle about as much as he had changed its exterior.
"So, you decided to come back. Funny, I believe I recall sending you to the ends of Neopia...maybe this time I should hurl you in space! I also see that you brought one of your little friends to help you." exclaimed the evil advisor.
Looking around, they discovered that King Roo was busy mopping the floor. He certainly didn't seem happy to have his kingdom and his crown taken away from him. For an evil villain, Advisor Broo seemed rather concerned about keeping his castle clean.
"Give back King Roo his throne! And quit treating him like a slave! He's a Neopet, not a Petpet! At least pay him Neopoints for his work!" exclaimed Bloony.
"Never! All he's ever been concerned about is playing all kinds of crazy games such as Dice-A-Roo and throwing parties. It's a miracle this island hasn't fallen apart. And yet you still insist on bringing this lunatic back to power..." stated Advisor Broo.
King Roo frowned. Was that really what all the other kings in Neopia thought of him? He all of a sudden felt like he had spent his reign doing absolutely nothing.
Cherry however was willing to stand up for him.
"He's not a bad king! He helped us out in our last adventure! If it weren't for him we probably wouldn't have even be able to leave Roo Island and defeat Lord Cataclysm!" exclaimed Cherry.
"Um, we didn't technically defeat Lord Cataclysm...Fallenova did, remember? She made him explode." pointed out Bloony.
"Well, we still stormed his castle and defeated most of his henchmen...I'm sure that if it weren't for us he would have won." argued Cherry.
"You actually have a good point, Cherry. I shudder to think about what had happened if we hadn't decided to start fighting evil." agreed the yellow Blumaroo.
"So what if he helped you during your last adventure. He should have done more than that! If it weren't for him maybe that dark lord wouldn't have come to power in the first place! I personally find some of the things he did to be rather disgusting...but where was I? Ah yes! If you insist on defying me..." continued Advisor Broo.
Suddenly, the gray Blumaroo stood up from his throne and started shooting magic at our heroes, ranging from fireballs, lightning bolts, to even polymorph spells that turned Neopets into Mortogs.
Immediately, Bloony and Cherry started jumping out of the way. But the spells simply kept on coming. They began to wonder if there was any sort of safe spot. Unfortunately, there wasn't.
"By all means, feel free to dodge my attacks. I can do this all day!" exclaimed the advisor, who kept firing spells after spell.
"Be careful, you guys!" warned King Roo, not wanting Bloony and Cherry to end up getting hurt.
"Keep mopping the floor, my slave." demanded Advisor Broo.
The former king of Roo Island simply sighed and continued trying to make the castle clean.
Suddenly, one of the spells went haywire and ended up striking the goofy Blumaroo instead, causing him to shrink.
"Can't...lift...this...mop..." said King Roo in a voice that was very squeaky.
The treacherous advisor facepalmed and cast another spell to turn him back to normal. Bloony and Cherry took this opportunity to run towards him.
The gray Blumaroo then decided to shoot a homing spell at the duo.
"Let's see you two dodge this." he taunted.
Due to the fact that our heroes were close to Advisor Broo and because the spell was rather accurate, they actually ended up being hit and were sent flying.
"Ow!" they both exclaimed.
"All too easy...I swear, I'm failing to see your reputation as heroes. And to think you saved all of Neopia..." he thought.
Bloony, realizing that he was running out of options, tried to take away Broo's staff using his telekinesis. Unfortunately, he had a rather tight grip, and he was unable to swipe it. Suffice to say the treacherous advisor was not amused.
"So, you like taking things that don't belong with you? I assure that you have a very short future if you keep trying that." he said.
Casting another spell, he then trapped Bloony in an hourglass...and to make matters worse it was filling up with sand.
"Let me out of here!" demanded the Blumaroo, who started banging against the glass. Was he going to drown?
However, this made Cherry really mad, and she decided to start fighting Advisor Broo herself.
"Let him go!" she demanded.
The evil Blumaroo simply laughed.
"Now why should I do that?. Surely you realize that the residents of Roo Island are completely and utterly useless to the rest of Neopia? Your friend over there didn't even save Neopia by himself...all he ever did was give out a bunch of orders and force other Neopets to do the work for him." stated the advisor.
"What did you say?!" yelled Cherry.
"I'm just saying that your friend over here is as brainless as a Spardel! Scratch that, he's even dumber!" taunted the evil Blumaroo.
As this point, something snapped inside of our heroine.
"That does it!" bellowed the Red Chia.
Suddenly, she started creating copy after copy of herself. Before long, Advisor Broo was heavily outnumbered.
Advisor Broo chuckled nervously.
"Is it too late to talk about this?" questioned the Blumaroo.
Shortly afterwards, the duplicated Chias then began to swarm the gray Blumaroo like a school of Jetsam. He tried casting spell after spell, but there were simply too many of them.
Eventually, one of the Chias manage to take his staff, which was promptly shattered.
This caused the hourglass around Bloony to shatter, which was fortunate as it was getting quite full and he was finding it hard to breathe.
"This reminds me of the time I was bullied at the beach..." stated the yellow Blumaroo.
Bloony then noticed that Advisor Broo was lying on the ground...his staff had been broken. Looking around him, he discovered that the castle and the rest of Roo Island were turning back to normal without his magical influence.
He then noticed the Merry-Go-Round. Knowing that Broo had outlawed fun and creativity during his short-lived reign, he decided what to do with him.
"Let's show you what it means to have fun, shall we?" stated Bloony.
Immediately, he picked up Advisor Broo by the scruff of the neck and then sat him down on one of the Unis. His heart sank once he realized what his enemy was going to do.
"No! Please!" exclaimed the advisor.
Bloony then set the Merry-Go-Round to maximum capacity...before long, the evil Blumaroo was sent flying...and to make matters worse for him, he ended up crashing on Count Von Roo's coffin, causing him to wake up. He immediately noticed the gray Blumaroo.
"Perfect...my coffin has been getting dusty...now I can create a vampire follower to clean it for me..." he stated.
Advisor Broo's eyes paled.
Before he could react, Count Von Roo bit him in the neck and before long he lost his free will and became another vampire.
"What is your bidding, my master?" he asked.
Von Roo pointed to the coffin and handed him a rag. Immediately, he started to clean.
Meanwhile in King Roo's Castle...
"Well, Bloony and Cherry, you managed to save my kingdom for a second time. But there's still something that bothers me. Advisor Broo stated that I was worthless and that I was a disgrace to all royalty in Neopia..." stated King Roo.
"Don't let it get it you, King Roo. I personally think that you're a good ruler...if it really bothers you, you can always try to improve as a ruler." answered Bloony.
Suddenly, King Roo got an idea.
"I know! I'll hire another guard! I just need to find someone that is willing to do the job. They say that three is a magic number. I learned that at a school." stated the king.
"It must have been a rather crazy one..." thought Cherry.
"Well, my neighbor Bluigi always dreamed about being one of them..." said the leader of the Heroes of Light. He was in fact one of the reasons that he had decided to set off on his adventure. After all, he was one of the many Neopets that had been brainwashed by Lord Cataclysm.
Suffice to say, Bluigi was rather excited to finally get the recognition he deserved...or at least how Bloony felt that he deserved.
As for Cherry, King Roo decided to let her eat some delicious nachoes. He in fact had quite a few bags of them.
"Om nom nom nom nom!" stated the red Chia.
Bloony and Cherry were glad that Roo Island was once again peaceful. Twice now had it been invaded by an evil villain that wanted to make it absolutely horrific.
Still, they couldn't help but think that they were forgetting something.
Suddenly, an old friend of theirs barged in.
"Marvin!" exclaimed Bloony and Cherry.
"Bloony and Cherry, listen! Horrible things have been happening to Neopia lately! Just listen to what's going on in the newspaper!" stated the green Mynci, handing Bloony a copy of the Neopian Times.
As it turns out, a group of campers had mysteriously disappeared. Their campfire had been put out, and all that was found was green and orange slime.
"We actually already knew about that. Still, it's rather disturbing that the monster's eating children now." said Bloony. He hoped they were still alive.
He quickly remembered about the horrible blob monster that was still at large.
"We need to do something!" exclaimed Marvin.
Bloony and Cherry nodded.
"You're leaving already?" questioned King Roo, who was rather upset to see his friends leave after they had just saved Roo Island again.
"Sorry your highness, but when you're a hero, you've got many places to go." stated the yellow Blumaroo.
"Just take care of yourself." said the king.
And so with their buddy Marvin, they decided to continue their search for Deluge. They couldn't let them eat more Neopets, now could they?
The only question was where he would strike next...in fact, it seemed that he was trying to hide from them...perhaps he was trying to gather strength before it went after the other former Cult of Apocalypse members?
Suffice to say Bloony was worried. They had to find the monster and fast.
Meanwhile in Neopia Central...
Snotty and Redtooth at this point were practically running for their lives. Officer Peanuts became more and more desperate in his pursuit. Already he had wrecked much of the town just trying to catch the two.
Getting desperate, Snotty and Redtooth decided to head into an office building, where curiously enough the Neopets Staff did their jobs. Hoping that Officer Peanuts would not tear it down trying to pursue them. Suffice to say, they attracted the attention of several Neopets who wondered why they had barged in without any sort of invitation.
Eventually, they came across a room with several doors.
"What's this room doing here?" questioned Snotty.
Curious, he decided to go through one of the doors...and ended up going through another one.
"Are these doors magic or something?" Redtooth wondered.
Suddenly, they heard the familiar trumpet of an Elephante, and realized that they needed to run once more.
A rather humourous chase ensued as the three of them began trying to use the doors to catch or elude each other. At one point, Snotty and Redtooth found themselves chasing Officer Peanuts.
"Why the heck are we doing that?" questioned Redtooth.
"I don't know! These doors are insane! Speaking of which I wondered who invented these..." stated Snotty.
Suddenly, they noticed that Mr. Insane was also using these doors to avoid his pursuers...who in this case were a bunch of Neopets in white coats.
"It's time for you to go back home, Mr. Insane." stated one of the Neopets.
"Never!" bellowed Mr. Insane.
Also being chased was Judge Hog, who ironically was trying to escape from his loyal fans.
"Give us your autograph, Judge Hog!" demanded the crazy fanatics.
"But I'm busy! I'm needed to stop a bunch of crooks!" answered Judge Hog.
And curiously enough also being chased was Hanso...in this case he was being chased by Brynn, because he had stolen a bag of Neopoints.
"Oh c'mon! I just wanted a little extra cash..." stated Hanso.
"That doesn't mean you can go around stealing with others!" screeched Brynn.
Eventually, for some strange reason, Snotty and Redtooth found themselves on the top of the building.
"How did we get here?" asked Snotty.
"I guess sometimes Mr. Insane's doors do that. Makes us wonder why Neopets HQ even has an elevator." stated Redtooth.
It then occurred to them that they were at a dead end, as the only way out was back the way they came.
"Uh-oh..." said the green Blumaroo, realizing that they were now apparently cornered.
"You think we can jump between this building and the one over there?" questioned the blue Lupe.
Snotty then remembered the last time he had tried that...he had ended up in the hospital with a broken arm and a broken leg. And that was from jumping between much smaller buildings.
"I wouldn't recommend that." said the Blumaroo.
All of a sudden, they heard a sound that made their skin turn pale. Looking behind them, they discovered that Officer Peanuts had bashed down the door and was now on the roof of the building with them.
Immediately, he let out a big laugh.
"Did you think that it was that easy to get away from me, Villains of Darkness? Nobody gets away from Officer Peanuts!" exclaimed the deranged Elephante.
Slowly, he began to walk towards them, making stomping noises as he did so.
"What are we going to do? We've got nowhere to run!" exclaimed Snotty.
The green Blumaroo tried to stretch his arms to punch Officer Peanuts in the face, but unfortunately he just grabbed one and shook him like a rag doll. Immediately, he began to feel like jelly.
"Whoa!" he screamed.
The Elephante continued to walk towards them...he was apparently enjoying every minute of it, as he was doing so very slowly.
"Soon, you shall be behind bars forever, and I shall get paid enough Neopoints to make myself a millionaire!" exclaimed Officer Peanuts.
"You're probably just going to spend it all on donuts considering how fat you are." said Redtooth.
The Elephante looked offended, and he then cracked his knuckles.
"Choose your next words carefully, Villains of Darkness, it may be your last as free Neopets!" exclaimed the pachyderm.
"Rocky's got four words to say to you."
Looking around to see who was talking to him, Officer Peanuts was suddenly met with a club to the face.
"Leave Rocky's friends alone!" demanded the caveman Mynci.
Curious, the demented police chief decided to check the wanted posters Officer Lenny had given him. Sure enough, Rocky had his own mugshot and criminal record.
WANTED: ROCKY
For throwing rocks at other Neopets, eating stop signs, using a Jubjub for a game of volleyball, using a dung catapult to decorate other Neopets' houses, yelling loud enough to break glass, sabotaging another Mynci's machines, burping the entire alphabet and disturbing other Neopets around him, and cheating his way through a game of Go-Go-Go.
REWARD: 250,000 Neopoints
"Rocky thought he was playing a game of Cheat." said Rocky.
Once again, Officer Peanuts immediately became furious. He charged towards the caveman...but curiously enough he did something smart.
After sidestepping the crazy Elephante, he once again whacked him in the club, this time in the leg.
This caused him to lose his balance and fall off the roof.
"Aah!" screamed Officer Peanuts.
"Is he going to be OK? To be honest I don't want this to be added to our record..." stated Snotty.
"I'll sure he'll be fine. That police officer is a freaking juggernaut...of course, that probably means we haven't seen the last of him, unfortunately." answered Redtooth.
"Rocky just glad that he could give you a hand." said Rocky.
"Why is there a kiss mark on your cheek?" asked the green Blumaroo.
The caveman Mynci did not answer, and simply wiped it off.
"No matter. Let's get out of here before any more police officers show up...I'm getting tired of dealing with them to be honest." stated Redtooth.
And so the two of them decided to make a hasty getaway...
...however, it turned out Redtooth was right about Officer Peanuts.
Immediately, the police chief rubbed his head as he slowly got back to his feet. He looked around him and discovered that he had fallen off the top of the Neopets HQ...and more importantly, the Villains of Darkness had gotten away from him.
Officer Lenny then walked up to him.
"So, how'd it go?" he asked.
Officer Peanuts grabbed Officer Lenny by the neck.
"I'll have the Villains of Darkness behind bars...just you wait!" bellowed the police chief.
He then dropped the yellow Lenny on the floor, as he began to gasp for air. Deciding to grab a cup of coffee and a box of donuts to cheer him up, he then went back to the police station.
The Heroes of Light have saved Roo Island and have reunited with Marvin...just like the Villains of Darkness have reunited with Rocky...
But Officer Peanuts has not given up on introducing them to his own personal brand of justice...and of course the Heroes of Light have not yet found Deluge...
And of course...the Heroes of Light are being hunted down by an army of robotic monkeys...and Cyrus and Luna are searching for magical artifacts that they can eventually use to awaken a magical Draik that's kind of like a genie...although it doesn't neccessarily suffer from itty bitty living space as it lives inside a bunch of elemental crystals...
To make a long story short, things are going to heat up some more as our heroes' adventure continues...and our anti-heroes' adventure is going to continue to, I can tell you that.
Adios!