Divided Family part 1: We must stop Chaos of the Night!
by Wolf The Jedi. (AKA Wolfie-lupus)
One day, Warrior of Lighting was doing paper work in her office...well, actually, she did paper work every day. Light was a beginning agent, and she hadn't been on any big missions before, since there was no one who could be her partner. So Light would only do small missions, such as stopping neighborhood crooks from robbing banks and saving kidnapped victims.
But her mind was on other things that today, like Chaos of the Night and how truly evil she was. She had taken some important things, like the Mona Aisha, Queen Fyora's Magic Wand, all the Neggs in Neopia and such. Boy is she good...I mean bad...I mean she's good at being bad! AND to top it off, we're running out of agents to send out. Man, what will we do about her!? Light thought to herself. To her friends, Warrior of Lighting was called Light. Light was a yellow Lupe, and she has a younger sister, a yellow Wocky named Camen Sandiego. With her owner, Wolf the Jedi, they made an average living as a family. But Light wanted to work, so she got a job at S.A.O.N.
Light worked at a desk, in a square white room. Most of the offices in S.A.O.N. were white in color and didn't have that much in decoration, and they were all the same design. But since Light didn't like looking at blank white walls, she had put up posters that she had found around Neopia Central. There were posters of bands, posters of Faeries and even posters of different foods. In the center of the room was her desk, which had trinkets all over it. Light had little figurines of the different types of neopets, and even some petpets too. There were also trays for paper work, a few drawers to hold things and a special little orb. The orb was magical, it was a gift from the faeries to S.A.O.N. for having helped them. Light had tried to find out how S.A.O.N. had helped them, but she couldn't find any thing specific. The orb was used to send messages back and forth to different pets. Every pet had one, so they could all keep in touch.
Light was doing paper work about the latest bank robbery she had stopped. It was a typical mission for a beginning agent, and lately it seemed like the only thing Light did was stop bank robberies. Maybe they should make a game where normal non-police pets have to stop robbers Light thought as she filled out the report paper describing what pets had tried to rob the national bank, what weapons they had used and how she stopped them. Then Light had to find the book of 'official' ways to stop robberies and find the advisable way to subdue the criminals and write that down as well. In the process of doing this, Light received a call from the magical orb.
"Hello?" Lighting ask as she stares into the orb, to see who it was.
"Warrior of Lighting? I'm requesting your assistance here in the command center for a mission." The Chief replays to Light's questioning gaze.
"A mission? Me!? I get a mission?! I'll get on it right away!" she starts to head out when she heard with her highly developed Lupe ears the Chief say sarcastically, "That's nice, but you need to know what the mission is first..." Light stopped what she was doing and said "Oh ya!". Then she told the chief, "I'll be right there!" as she ran out into the maze of hallways.
Headquarters was like one big maze, with the command center in the middle. There were tunnels that lead away from the command center, which were connected to each other by more tunnels. The tunnels were all smooth and squared off, much like a high school hallway, with bland white paint. There were vents and lights that were on the ceiling, but other than that, the tunnels had no special feature. The only thing that could help someone find their way were signs that were placed on the walls, a mile apart from each other, and signs at the intersections of tunnels. It was all connected just like a giant spider's web. At first it could be a little confusing to new comers, but Light knew the tunnels like the back of her paw. There were tunnels and hallways for just about anything you would need in a crime fighting headquarters. There were tunnels that had jail cells, tunnels that had offices for agents, tunnels for items. If there was anything you might need fighting crime, they had it.
She ran through brightly lit tunnels, seeing all of the offices and work spaces of the missing agents. The doors were closed since no one needed the space, and some of the unused offices were even being used to hold the extra supplies that HQ had too much of since there weren't anyone to use all those items. Now all that was left were the petpets that worked there doing odd jobs, like cleaning the now dusty offices and hallways and going on errands. As Light continued to run through the tunnels on her way to the command center, petpets would call out to her.
"What're you running for Light?" They asked as Light zipped by.
Light turned and jogged backwards while she replied "I'm off to see the Chief for a mission!"
"That's great! Good luck!" The petpets said as Light turned back around and continued to run to the command center.
She finally made it to the command center in the middle of the base. That's where all the crime fighting mostly went on. The room was round, with big doorways to the main tunnels. In the room were many desks, all facing towards the center. In the center of the room was a stage, with another desk on it. This desk was the Chief's and was facing a wall with a big window. This window was different than most windows, it didn't show the outside. It would show anything the Chief wanted it to. It was more like a mirror then anything, a magical mirror. The faeries gave it to S.A.O.N. and made it magical in return for S.A.O.N.'s help. Light had tried to find out how S.A.O.N. had helped the faeries a second time, but she couldn't find out, no one would tell her.
"So what's the mission?" Lighting asks the Chief as she walked up the aisle towards the center stage. The Chief was a Starry Kau, and Light never found out what the chief's name was, nor if she once had an owner.
"Chaos of the Night will strike once more and you need to stop her." The Chief said from behind the desk.
"Me? Stop her?! But you always ask someone else to do it..." Lighting replied shocked.
"Yes, well, you see, she has taken ALL of our agents..." the Chief responds. "But not me..." Lighting said slowly. "Right, but not you, so you must stop her," responds the chief.
"Yes, well, am I the only one left?" Lighting asked curiously.
"Well there is that Nimmo, WereLeo, but his goal is to get a good photo of Chaos of the Night. So he won't be of much help and besides he has no training as an agent, and you do. So you're the one who must do it. That's if you want to, but if not-" the Chief started to say as Light cuts her off with, "OK! You got me! I'll do it!"
The Chief replied to Light's outburst, "Good, now here is the mission: so far there has been letters predicting what she will go for and so far they have been proved right. So we believe that she'll go here," the Chief says as she points to the magical mirror, which now had an image of Tyrannia with it's plateaus and forests. Then she continued on, "to Tyrannia Plateau to take the Giant Omelette so that no one may get their omelette's in the morning. You must try to stop her."
Light replied enthusiastically to the news with, "On my way Chief!"
"Don't forget to get the basic equipment you'll need for this mission!" the Chief called out to Light as she ran back down the rows of desks, towards the doorway for items. "Yeah, I won't forget!" Light shouted over her shoulder as she ran down the passage.
Light ran through tunnel after tunnel, passed door after door of different item rooms. She turned around a corner and stopped at a door labeled 'Weapons'.
"Hey there Light! What you doing around this part of the base?" Asked a GX-4 Oscillabot, called Robot. Robot was the head of the weapons department.
"Oh good! I found you! Listen, I've got a case and I need items for it. What should I take?" asked Light as she and Robot entered the room. Light was amazed to find that all the walls were stocked with different battle items. There were more items than she ever thought to have been made in that one room alone.
"A case, eh? Well good for you. 'Bout time you was given one. I'd say take one of everything. So you'd have at lest SOMETHING that could help. Just remember, you break it, you buy it." Replied Robot with a smile.
"Yeah, sure thing, Robot," Light said jokingly.
Light looked around the room, which was as almost as big as a warehouse, stocked full with items. The rows and rows of items were ordered by the type of item it was, then by alphabetical. Light and Robo walked up and down the different aisle, while Robo filled a pack with the items that were most often taken on bigger missions like the one Light had just received. In the pack were healing items, freezing items, blasting items, and even some magical items, just in case of anything.
"Now that you have items for your case, you need something else too. Come with me." Robot said after Light put the pack onto her back.
Together, they headed for a separate room that was connected to the weapons room by a door in the far back of the room. Once they entered the side room, which had a sign that said "Inventions", Light was again amazed by what she saw. They walked pass rows and rows of items of all types. There were battle items, potions, healing bottles, and spells. Then it got weirder. The farther they went, the stranger the items became. At first it was just regular items, then it became a mixture of different items, almost like someone dumped a bunch of things into Jhuidah the Island Faerie's cooking pot. Then they turned around a corner and came to a desk covered with items. Some were in little pieces and some were being put back together with different pieces added on. It was a desk meant for inventions in progress. There was an old Doglefox sitting in front of the desk, who seemed to be working on something new.
"Dogboy, what are you up to now?" Robot asked as he approached the old Doglefox.
"Just tinkering, Robot, just tinkering. Who's that with you?" Dogboy said in a rough voice as he noticed Light.
"Dogboy, this is Warrior of Lighting. Light, this is our top inventor and keeper of the Talismans, Dogboy. Light got her first big mission today, so she'll need her symbol." Robot said as he sat next to the old Doglefox.
"She got a mission, eh? Well then Missy, you'll need to come over here." Dogboy said as he turned his attention back to Light and beckoned her to come. Light went toward him hesitantly, still unsure of what was going on.
"This is the run down. Each agent had his or her own symbol, which they wore on a talisman either around their neck or arm or as an earring. All depends on what floats your boat. So come over here and pick up some." Dogboy said as he pulled Light closer.
Dogboy brought Light to shelves of talismans which was situated next to his invention desk. The talismans were hung on a wall by hooks and pins, the better to get an overview of all the talisman. There were rows and rows of them, each with a different symbol on the front. They even had different colored string. There was one that caught Light's eye, it had golden string with a symbol of a Lupe Moon Charm on it.
She picked it up and turned it around in her paw, when a sudden gust of wind blew past. The wind lasted only for a moment, but it gave Light the feeling that the owner of the talisman would have fate on their side.
Dogboy and Robot watched Light as she stared at the talisman in awe. They knew what this meant, that she was destined to have that talisman and that she was meant play an important role in the future.
But then she put it back where it was. It was a sudden movement, as if she didn't want to do it but had to. Dogboy gave a start, he didn't expect her to put it back where she found it.
"What's wrong? Don't you like it?" Dogboy asked in surprise, for none had ever done that before. Once they had picked a talisman they liked, they normally kept it. It was a shock to see someone who had chosen right on the first try to put it back almost immediately.
"Nothing is wrong with it. Its just that, someone must own it. It's too good for it to be unowned." Light said as she backed away from the talisman. Dogboy laughed as he realized what she meant.
"No, no, Light. It's alright. If it's here, then no one owns it. Not anymore at least. I don't know who owned it first, do you Dogboy?" Robot asked with a smile for Light, to reassure her that it was fine for her to take it.
"The last one to own that particular talisman was called The White Lupe. As you can tell by the name, he was a white Lupe. He was one of the best, he could do anything. He saved pets and sometimes faeries too. He was pretty cool." Dogboy said as his eyes glazed over with memories of the old days.
"Well if he was so good and cool, why doesn't he have this talisman now?" Light asked as she stared at the talisman once more. Almost instantly, she knew she had hit a sore spot.
"Why doesn't he have it now, eh? That's a good question, one that I have the answer to. However, the answer is not one you'd like. Not even I like the answer. He was the first to disappear after having gone to stop Chaos of the Night. The only thing found after he disappeared was his talisman. But don't think that just because it was once his means that you can't take it. Its a tradition to pass on the talismans once the agent who had it first either goes missing or if he or she retires." Dogboy said as he picked up the talisman and handed it to Light, to prove that it's now hers.
"Are you sure? I never knew about that tradition." Light said, as she took the talisman from the Doglefox.
"I have never been more sure ever in my life. Go and take it. You also may want to speak to your family about your mission." Dogboy said as he turned back to his 'tinkering'.
Light stood there for a moment, then suddenly she gave Dogboy a hug. Then she turned to Robot and hugged him too. "Thank you, thank you both! And now I'll go to speak with my family about my trip. I will stop Chaos if its the last thing I do," Light said as she turned to go.
Robot and Dogboy looked at each other as Light left to tell her owner about her 'trip' and smiled, for they both knew how she could be. For even though Light knew most of the petpets, all the petpets knew about her. They knew about how she tried her best, and yet never got a mission, or a chance to prove herself. Now that she had a chance to prove herself, she was willing to give it her all. Oh well. I just hope she doesn't get into trouble, Robot thought to himself as he watched her go.
"That girl is destined for greatness. I can tell. She is a lot like The White Lupe when he was young." Dogboy said without turning from his work.
"Yeah. I and every other petpet can tell that much. I just wish the Chief and everyone else would have noticed earlier." Robot replied as he thought about what Light must face on her journey. I hope that it doesn't change her too much, just enough to survive what she must do...