little fantasy girl: Hi everyone! Sorry this took so long. I was writing with most of my family not knowing. Hehehe
Camdyn: Only I know. Here's the story!
An Old Story to help the future
A huge argument was in the Faerie Castle. Faerie fought against faerie and human fought against human.
"We need to leave Faerieland to stop the King of Shadows!" one human shouted.
One faerie shouted, "We cannot leave! What happens if we lose? It's as good as letting the whole world die now!"
A faerie suggested, "Some of us should go and see what the King of Shadows is doing now. Maybe we'll know what to do after."
A human said, "Who would want to out there where they can get kill? You?"
They fought and ague against each other. Flora banged her scepter on the ground and everyone kept quiet.
She said out loud, "We need to stop fighting each other! If we fight each other, the King of Shadows can win us faster. We must work together and make a plan."
A weak voice came from behind the table, "Or do you need to hear a story that can help?"
Everyone turned to see an old man, holding onto a walking stick. His clothes were all rags, his wore glasses that were so misty no one could see his eyes and he had thin, silver hair.
Flora said, "I am truly sorry but we have no time to listen to stories now. Have you not known the situation we are in?"
The old man replied in a wise voice, "I know perfectly what is going on. I may be old but I have seen and heard much. All you just need to know is just one story. A story of the past."
A young boy shouted back, "We have no time for your stupid stories! We need to handle the problem now!"
Flora banged her scepter on the ground once more, this time harder.
She shouted, "Silence! Have you no respect? In the situation we are in, I believe it is best to listen instead of fighting."
The man muttered swears under his breath. The old man started to say the story.
It became a long time ago, before you great, great grandparents. The faeries were not around to help out in the world. Instead, they stayed in Faerieland and tried to perfect its beauty. With the faeries not around, the humans and neopets became evil and caused chaos in Neopia.
However, their evil had a side effect, it still unknown why. Their shadows became evil as well. Their shadows grew stronger and soon, they found a way to get of the owner's shadow.
The shadows escape their prison and since they had no body, they had no shape that is their form. They shadows learned fast from both humans and pets. However, they learn more than the humans and neopets. They learned how to overshadow people, change their shape and change the colour of their body so that people will not know what their really are. The shadows had a weakness though. It was light. The shadows die at dawn and come back to life at sunset.
One day, when the humans were fighting, one man fought all the men. The won every battle he had and grew stronger with every fight. His shadow had his strength in it.
When his shadow could finally escape from him, it had all his strength, his power, his knowledge and more. His amount of power caused him to be bigger than the rest of the shadow, that shadow was stronger, better and smarter then the other shadows.
He made the other shadow come together and work for him. With the other shadows working for him, he had more power coming to him, the power to summon more shadows. Since he controlled the shadows, the people called him, the King of Shadows.
He called upon the shadows to block the light with their dark bodies, plunging it in darkness. Now that the light had disappeared, the shadows started to take over the world. They caused fear, terror and lost of hope.
The faeries in Faerieland came to know of the situation but they knew nothing they can do to help. However, unlike before, dark faeries were helping the other faeries in order to defeat the King of Shadows.
The dark faeries hid in the shadows and spied on the shadows. They were like the shadows except that the dark faeries had their own will to live on their own. They found out that the King of Shadows had a plan to control something else, something more then just Neopia. The dark faeries told their news to the faeries but they could not do anything. The dark faeries, however, did not tell the faeries something else that was important. The dark faeries didn't tell them that their weakness was light. The dark faeries too hate the light.
One day, the shadows went into Faerieland when the Faerie Queen wasn't around. The faeries there panic. The shadows slowly came, one by one, into Faerieland. They surrounded the faeries who panic real badly. The dark faeries flew up in the sky, trying to avoid battle. The earth faeries use their vines, and magic pebbles to push back the shadows. Fire ball and lava spit abilities were used by the fire faeries. Water faeries used their water jet to kill the shadows and bubble shield when the shadows came close while the air faeries use spark and their invisibility power to hide themselves. The light faeries, however, used their psychic blast and their sun ray. The shadows scream high-pitch notes that shattered everyone's ears. Soon, everyone knew the shadows weakness.
When the Faerie Queen heard of this, she grew angry at the dark faeries. They should have known the shadows weakness and yet they kept it a secret. Outraged, the Faerie Queen threw them in a dark chamber unable to punish them at that time. However, the dark faeries escape due to the Faerie Queen's foolishness. The dark faeries merge with the darkness in the darkness and escape through the shadows. After that escape, no one saw the dark faeries in the battle.
When the Faerie Queen told the light faeries to go and fight the King of Shadows, only one was willing to go. The light faerie kept saying that she will go alone if no one wanted to go with her but the Faerie Queen refused. She did not want any faerie to go to battle alone. (Who is stupid to?) The light faerie gave up on asking permission and was about to fly out of the window when four faeries came up and said they will fight. However, those faeries were not light faeries. They were other kind faeries. One air faerie, one water faerie, one fire faerie and one earth faerie. The Faerie Queen was about to refuse the other faeries offer but the five faeries flew out of the window of her tower. The five faeries soon left Faerieland. The battle against the King of Shadows and the five faeries took place in the sky. The King of shadows was defeated by the faeries. With the last of his strength, he created a portal that no one knows where it lead to and took away the faeries' magic and cast them into the portal. The faerie Queen saw the battle in the sky and she left Faerieland to help stop the King of Shadows. When she had reached the battle, the fight was already over. She saw the King of Shadows took away the faeries' magic and cast it into a portal. Furious, she cast the King of Shadows into a bottle, sealed by magic. But the damage was done. The five faeries lost their magic, killing them. (For people who do play neopets, I'm not following the gray faerie ok?) The five faeries fell from the sky as the Faerie Queen cast a spell to save them.
A high pitch scream was heard in a distance, followed by another. The whole of Neopia was soon covered in a high pitch screams. The darkness covering their world slowly broke. Every scream released a beam of light from the sun. With the light, the shadows on the ground died. The people rejoiced in the shadows' death but the faeries grieved. The loss of the five faeries was great. The faerie Queen announced to the faeries that they will leave Faerieland and help the people on the ground. With that, the faeries left Faerieland, helping the people in Neopia.
When the faeries were gone, the Faerie Queen whispered to the wind, "The loss of these faeries is great, but they did it to save the people in Neopia. They knew that they could have died and yet they still went to battle. They will be known as the Faerie Warriors. The faeries that was kind and brave."
The old man added, "They say that the spirits of the Faerie Warriors are hidden somewhere not in Neopia at all. They used to say that the Faerie Warriors spirits are in another world." The people and faeries listened in interest.
Flora thought for a while and asked, "How did the King of Shadows create a portal? If we knew how he did it, maybe we can use it for ourselves." The old man stared blindly around. He didn't hear Flora.
The boy shouted, "Old man! We want to ask you something!"
The old man stared at the direction of the boy and said, "What? You didn't ask me anything. How can I answer when you ask nothing?" Flora remind clam while the boy was trying to attack the old man (two adults held him back).
She asked again, "How did the King of Shadows made the portal?"
The old man answer, "How should I know? I only told the story, I never saw it. I was in the faerie castle when it all happened" A huge sigh came from the people.
Flora then said, "This then puts all plans aside. We need to know how the King of Shadows made this portal. I believe that portal is the missing link to how to solve our problem."
A faerie asked, "But how do we get the power to do it? The old man can't help us. If we leave Faerieland to find out how, the dark faeries and shadows can capture us and we cannot do a thing." Flora thought of the dark faeries. An idea pop into her mind but it may not be a good thing.
She said, "I think I got an idea but this is the faeries decision I cannot force them to do this. I can turn some faeries into dark faeries and they can spy for us."
End Of Chapter
little fantasy girl: I wasn't thinking of the gray faerie when I was writing this.
Camdyn: You idiot.
little fantasy girl: Whatever! When I was writing this, when I wrote leave, I didn't mean leave forever. I meant just don't stay there all the time.