Initiate Fate two…
It was All Hallows Eve, or Halloween as others used to call it. Me, I like to call it by its real name. Looking in the mirror I only needed one more item to finish my costume. I unwrapped the towel and smiled at the results. My fur was now red and black to match the keyboard player form my favorite band, Twisted roses. I walked outside with No Name trailing behind, and stopped dead in my tracks. "Hey! Are you guys ready yet?" Every All Hallows Eve Sakura always convinces LightFlower to dress up like her but this year was the worst of them all. Both of them were wearing sparkling faerie dresses that Kilanna bought yesterday to give to some of the homeless converted pets. "What the hell are you guys wearing?"
"Just the latest dress for Halloween!"
"Um…first of all its All Hallows Eve, secondly you're supposed to be scary!"
"I think that ship has already sailed." I was wearing a Goth, plaid mini-skirt, red midriff with the twisted rose insignia and big black army boots. I glared and her and retorted, "Its called being an individual something that you would never know!" Walking towards them, I grabbed LightFlower's hand and dragged her to my room.
"Err, Naomi…isn't Sakura not gonna like—"
"Exactly! If she doesn't like it on All Hallows Eve then it a good costume!"
I pulled LightFlower out of the dress and began my work.
After a few minutes of snipping, dyeing, and altering the costume was complete. "So you like it?" LightFlower was no longer a frilly, preppy drone. Her dress was now gray and I had attached fake wings from the feathers of my pillow.
"Um…what am I exactly?"
"A grey faerie DUH! You're always moping around the house like one so it's perfect for you!"
"Hey you guys if you stay in there any longer I'll—what in Fyora's name did she do to you?!"
"I made her an individual deal with it! Now where is Sasuke? Is Mr. Gloom-and-Doom ever gonna come out of his room?"
"Uh…Sasuke already left…he said that we were taking to long…" LightFlower mused.
"Well that's odd of him he never comes out of his room." Sakura added. I only shrugged and continued my way out the door. Little did I know I should have stayed at home that night.
"Man! Look at all this candy!" I raised my fist in the air dramatically. "Tonight we feast like warriors after a well fought battle!" Sakura raised her fist as well.
"Huzzah!"
"H-hooray?"
"Aw come-on LightFlower you got to be more enthusiastic than that! Like thi--whoa…" The three of us stopped in front of a molded house. The windows were cracked in various ways, the shutters were broken and many of them were gone. The paint was a sickly grayish green color with hints of black showing it had been though a terrible fire. Me being the fearless xweetok that I am rushed up towards the door before Sakura could stop me. "Naomi lets go back…its kind of creepy here and it's getting late."
"Ha! You'd think I let this chance go by without investigating? I've been through this entire island and I've never seen this house so I'm gonna look at it!"
"N-Naomi, Sakura is right can we leave?" LightFlower whimpered. Seeing the discomfort in her eyes I sighed.
"Listen you guys go ahead here—." I threw my bag of candy towards them.
"Take my bag and go home but I'm not letting this chance go by!" I ran off into the house before I could hear any more protests. The inside wasn't as bad as the outside only that it was partly singed in places. I looked around with wide blue eyes in curiosity. There were many paintings of what seemed to be Brightvale leaders who tried to rule Mystery Island. I continued walking up the stairs when I stopped dead in my tracks. Two things were the cause of my sudden fear. One was the voices from down the hall— the various arrays of weaponry and concoctions; all signed with my brother's insignia. I started to step back, forgetting about how old the house was and how the floors creaked. The voices stopped and I was now surrounded by three dark faeries.
"Well, look what we have here? An unsuspecting neopet to land in our home?" the first one cackled. Her hair was in two pigtails and she had a black and blue mini skirt, sleeveless midriff and black army boots.
"I say we turn her into a garrl! A mutant one with big black teeth." the second one replied. She had her hair in a curly ponytail shoulder length and was wearing a long striped black and blue dress.
"Or maybe we can rip her limbs off and throw them to the corners of neopia?" the last one sneered. She had straight black hair and was wearing a big black jacket, underneath was what looked to be a blue bathing suit with two intertwining belts. All three had two sets of wings unlike other dark faeries.
The three of them laughed maliciously as they gathered closer together. All I could do was sit on the ground wishing that I had never went into this forsaken place.
Just when I thought I was a goner, I heard an icy voice form down the hall.
"Malice, Spite, Vanity, what the hell are you doing?" the voice sounded as if it had no concern for what they were doing at all, but the dark faerie sisters were unaware of that. The three broke from their circle and bowed to the speaker. I only sat there wide-eyed as my own brother was commanding one of the most fearsome groups in all neopia.
Sasuke only ignored me and stared at the sisters. "I asked a question and I want an answer. What do you think your doing?" The one with the ponytail was the one to answer.
"W-we were just doing what you told us to. You said that if there was anyone else in here we were to get rid of him or her. We didn't me—."
"I also said if there was anyone that I knew that I was to take care of it not the three of you!" I recognize that voice from anywhere, he was angry and the three were going to feel his wrath. I felt a little lighthearted as he continued to scold them.
"You almost deliberately disobeyed my orders. If she were to die then and I came home without her there is going to be suspicion and my plans will be ruined." That's when my heart sank. He didn't care about me, why if I were a stranger I wouldn't even be here right now! My heart chilled even more when his icy words were directed at me. "As for you… your going to return home and never speak of this ever again." I tried to run away as he strode towards but it felt as if my feet were blocks of ice. "or there will be severe consequences understood?"
"Y-yes…Sasuke…"
"Yes who?"
"Yes Sir!"
"Good. Now leave before I change my mind."
Naomi shook her head from the displeasing thought and jumped up. "There's no way in Brightvale I'm gonna let my brother do something like that again! And LightFlower will definitely not be a part of his conspiracys any longer! Not while I'm alive!" She walked out for the room and stomped into the kitchen where her owner sat eating cookies. "Yo, Kilanna, where's is he?" Kilanna didn't look away from the cookie that she was eating but replied, "I mink he's in teh ofver mroom."
"Thanks, and next time swallow before you speak."
" 'orry." Naomi stepped into the room where her brother was watching reruns of some award show. "Hey you!"
Sasuke kept flipping through the channels, and ignored his little sister. Annoyed, she swiped the remote from him and turned off the TV. "We need to talk." He sighed and walked up to the TV and turned it back on. "Hey, I'm talking to you!"
"So?" Naomi groaned and turned off the TV. "That means you answer back." Sasuke turned on back the TV and click on the buttons to find a suitable channel. Darkclaw scuttled along the carpet and along his arm.
"Say Darkclaw, did mother ever teach us that rule?" Darkclaw hissed and Naomi and crept up closer to his master. "I thought so."
By now Naomi was visibly and internally irritated. She clicked off the TV, and walked up to her brother. "Fine then, don't talk back, and just listen. I don't know what your up to, but I swear to you, Kilanna won't allow it." Sasuke only narrowed his eyes as she continued. "I don't like that you're treating our sister like your slave. She won't be a pawn to you plans anymore!"
"Oh really and what are you—"
"You didn't let me finish. Or do you suddenly remember that rule about talking back? You'd better stop what you're doing or else I'll—" she was cut off by her brother's chuckle. "You'll do what? We both know who's stronger here, and who said I needed that idiot's permission to do anything? And plus I can do whatever I want with my sister. So she can be my pawn if I want her to be." He stood up and looked down at Naomi threateningly. He towered over her a good five inches and with his hoodie over his head, it added to his intimidation.
"So don't even think of getting in my way. Otherwise there will be severe consequences. Understood?" Naomi flinched at the familiar words of the past that echoed in the room. It felt as if her strength and independence were sucked away by his ominous figure. Naomi gulped loudly and stepped back, colliding into the TV. Sasuke smirked, satisfied with his work, and turned to leave. "Oh yeah, by the way. If you really are foolish enough to challenge me and find out what I'm doing, go and find LightFlower." She got up shakily and whispered, "W-what did you do to her?" He stopped in his tracks and turned around. He feigned an obviously fake hurt expression and gasped. "What did I do? Why, I'd never do anything to harm my little sister! I'm not that heartless!" his wounded disposition slowly changed to his sadistic, arrogant look and laughed. Naomi stared at him as he glided out of the room, and let go of the breath she forgot she was holding. Why is it that every time she means to confront her brother she always is pushed back into the wall by his evil?
"Well," Naomi brushed off her pants and sighed shakily, "Might as well find her, geez where is she anyhow?"
The sun was already setting on the island, warms red rays straining across the marketplace. LightFlower, weighed down by the items her brother had requested, staggered across the busy streets, ignoring the pitying stares, "Great Fyora above, just what the heck is my older brother doing this time? He's always up to something, and when I get the nerve to ask…" she shuddered then readjusted her packages. Reaching down, she took out the scroll her brother gave to her. "Alright, drool of Dribblet—" she pulled out from her utility belt a sticky container containing a translucent substance. "Check, wings of Blorpulous—" she eyed another bottle stuffed with green and gray wings. "Check, ears of Grobrin, essence of Goople, and Intesteen juice." She wrinkled her nose at the smell of the third item. She continued down the list until almost all 65 knickknacks and items had been 'checked'. "Now then last on the list is—pfft what? The heck?" she looked at the last item. It was nothing but symbols and ancient Geraptiku numbers etched into the script with a pencil, followed by a long arrow pointing to the end of the page. She shrugged and turned it over. The other side, which she failed to realize, was filled halfway through with thorough directions written by hand. LightFlower sighed and began to read:
To my Incompetent sibling,
You probably didn't even bother to check the back first didn't you. If you did you probably would have saved yourself a lot of neopoints. Well, you aren't the brightest kougra in the world so I didn't expect you too. Anyways, the last ingredient is, by far, the most important of them all. If you can't find it, don't bother even buying the other stuff.
LightFlower scoffed and whispered, "w-what? 'Don't bother even buying the other stuff'?! These ingredients cost me over fifty thousand NP!" she shook her head to clear her mind. Those thoughts weren't worth her trouble now, it's not like she could even do anything now. She continued to read:
It's your own fault for not thinking ahead, so don't blame me. But I'm getting off topic, so I'll tell you what to do to obtain the last item.
the last ingredient from the scroll and burn the rest of it. Make sure nothing is left of the original scroll. If I find you didn't retrieve all that was on the script or it wasn't burned properly, well, you know what will happen.
She shuddered involuntarily.
what's left of the scroll and head into a store, any store and show it to the store clerk. He/she will give you a password, and you will reply with your own. He/she will say, "Sophie are you done with the potion?" You will reply, "No Bruno, I only need a hour and 5 minutes more." That is the initiation password. If they reply with, "Ok I can wait that long." Then that means the item is ready and you take it. Don't worry about concealing it, no other neopet will suspect it for another scroll.
"Another scroll? Conceal it? What is going on here?" she whispered to herself.
However, if the clerk says, " I'll come back later with Christina, she wants one too." then the item isn't there. Don't worry; the item should be here within this month.
3. After obtaining the scroll sneak in through the garden. Yours not mine. I'll be in there and you give me the scroll. The ingredients you can just put in my room after the exchange. Remember, you are to get that scroll, and there will be dire consequences if you fail. I have many ways of making you suffer, you and I know that very well.
LightFlower let out a wavering sigh. At the bottom of the note it was his signature seal; two black swords ripping through what looked to be Fyora's wings. She shook her head; her brother made no sense to her whatsoever. Blinking away the confusion she walked to the nearest store. Before entering however, she did as told and burned the scroll. Whatever punishment her brother had in store for her wasn't worth failing to destroy a piece of paper. After scattering the ashes, the yellow kougra walked into the first of many stores she had entered into that day. "Err uh hello?" she squeaked. A huge purple Grarrl lumbered into the small room. His white t-shirt was ripped in places besides the scales on his back. His pants were also ripped and tattered. Yellow slitted orbs gleamed into sky-blue ones. "What is it? Can't you see we're closed?" She shifted uncomfortably underneath the intimidating neopet's gaze and pulled out a piece of paper. "I-I'm looking for this." The Grarrl narrowed his eyes even further as he leaned in to read the words. "What?" He leaned back, looking at her menacingly. "Don't joke around kid. Get out of my store before I call the cops."
"But are you sure you don't have—"
"Have what? That's nothing but a bunch of gibberish! No get out before I throw ya out!" he bellowed. She scuttled out of the stuffy store grabbing the piece of paper.
"Well, that was scary." she murmured to herself. She stopped walking and pondered. Now that she thought about it, her brother never told her which store to go into. She sighed and looked up. The sun was now half way deep into the water. Many people were walking home, and the ugly side of Mystery Island began to show up. A couple of Shoyrus were huddled in a corner, keeping warm off the fire she made not five minutes ago. Walking away, she decided to go home. It wasn't worth staying outside at night during the summer. The land of mystery belong to the tourists at night, and she didn't want to be bothered by their, what her owner would call, "n00bness". Defeated, she slumped her head down and trudged along the darkening street.
End fate two...
Finishing Notes.
Can't believe finished this~! At um..geez, 1:00 AM! Well I'm glad it's done. Now I have to type the next chapter tomorrow! Yeah this is a 'new' series. And when I mean new I mean: "I've had this story in my archive fore about 5 years and never published it." Yup yup.