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Ugh. The first chapter came out a little lopsided. As soon as I find out how to edit chapters, I'll clean it up a bit.
Copyright: Neopets, Snowagers, and Terror Mountain belong to Neopets. Also, Thoth and Holly are my pets, so don't steal them either.
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The wind whipped mercilessly around the two traveling figures. Snow flurries danced to the sound of the wind's howling and clumped together so tightly that it became impossible to remember that it was only morning.
However, there was no force of nature alive that could silence Holly Snow when she was enraged. Despite the blizzard, she was yelling at the top of her lungs at Thoth who was in turn vainly trying to make himself completely deaf by listening to the wind.
"YOU JUST HAD TO!" Holly shouted. "YOU JUST HAD TO! OF ALL THE STUPID THINGS TO DO, YOU JUST HAD TO DO THAT!"
Thoth flattened his ears and ignored her. In the mountains, it was better to spend your energy on hiking then on arguing.
"YOU JUST HAD TO THROW THAT KACHEEK'S LUGGAGE OUT THE WINDOW DID'NT YOU!"
Thoth narrowed his eyes. "She tried to dye my fur," he muttered to himself.
"BUT NO! GETTING US KICKED OUT OF THE HOTEL WASN'T ENOUGH WAS IT? YOU HAD TO GET US KICKED OUT OF TOWN TOO!"
"Those girls thought I was one of Tim Burton's pets and tried to get his username off me."
As if realizing that it was losing the battle for sound supremacy, the wind began to die down, and the sky began to clear up a little. Holly didn't have to shout anymore, but her voice still had an angry pitch. "That was so embarrassing. It was even worse than that theatre mall incident."
Thoth rolled his eyes. "Please, that whole event was a fiasco."
Angrily, Holly turned sharply to the Kyrii. "A fiasco! Thoth, those guards kicked us because you kept screaming suggestions to the actors during that movie!"
"Who was yelling suggestions?" Thoth argued. "I was telling those stupid kids sitting next to us to shut up!"
"Considering we were watching an slasher film it sure sounded like you were making suggestions! Oh, and while I'm at it, don't you dare even try to deny what happened next!"
Thoth shrugged and rolled his eyes. "I didn't destroy everything."
"Thoth! The mall's insurance company wants us to pay them for the damages!" Holly threw her hands in the air to emphasize her point.
Thoth marched past her, his tail swishing back and forth aggressively. "You make everything sound so bad. If I hadn't convinced you to jump out that window, you would've ended up like that Lupe over there."
"Convinced! You practically drag- wait? Lupe?" Holly looked up at the Kyrii in confusion. "What Lupe?"
"That Lupe over there." Thoth pointed to a small mound of snow a few yards away. Holly squinted, rubbed her eyes, squinted again, and craned her neck until she finally noticed the distinctive Lupe features.
Running towards it she yelled to Thoth, "YOU KNEW HE WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME AND YOU DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING?"
Thoth cupped a hand to his mouth. "I WAS KINDA TRYING TO DEFEND MYSELF. THANK YOU FOR ASKING." Fortunately for him, Holly didn't hear that.
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"Lupe alright. Tyranian Lupe to be exact." Thoth circled Holly and the unconscious Lupe while the Ruki tried to shake it awake.
The Tyranian Lupe was just as Thoth described him. It was large with fur so thick that Holly couldn't feel feel any skin underneath. He was covered in snowflakes, and protruding from his shoulder was an icicle almost as long as nearly half a human arm. Despite his wound, the Lupe was sleeping peacefully.
Thoth stopped circling and scanned the area a little more observantly. "This snow's all churned up," he muttered.
"Of course it is," she scorned as she reached for the icicle. "You spent the past five minutes circling us like a vulture."
Thoth shook his head. "No, no. This is a little more spread out. There were a lot more people here." He wandered off a few feet and picked something up out of the snow. "Hey, look at this."
Holly hesitated from grabbing the icicle. It didn't look like it was in deep anyway. "What is it?"
Thoth walked over dragging an enormous crossbow. Holly's eyes widened at the size. It was as thick as a large tree and about four feet long. It had nothing loaded into it now, but Holly imagined that whatever went into it must've been deadly. "What is that?!"
"What didn't fire this, I reckon." He held up a normal sized arrow. "There are other weapons scattered all over this place, but this is the first crossbow of this size that I managed to find. All I tell ya is that whoever used this, it wasn't the Lupe. It is too heavy even for me to lift. Not to mention that the size is very impractical for a normal sized being."
Holly nodded in agreement. "What could've used it?" she said a little fearfully.
Thoth bent down to examine the weapon better. "The handle is too thick to be a Grall," he observed. "And a Skeith would meet the same problems as a Lupe."
"Why a Grall and Skeith?"
"'Cause they are often the most battle hungry."
"And all the other kinds of pets?"
"Same problem with the Skeith and Lupe."
An uneasy silence lapsed between the two, and of course the Lupe didn't speak. Holly began to feel uncomfortable. She felt as if the world had suddenly shifted underneath her feet and there was nothing to anchor herself on.
"I think I'd better get this thing out of the Lupe," she gulped and reached for the icicle.
"You do that," said Thoth calmly. He didn't feel the same uneasiness Holly did. Hers was based on fear of the unknown. His was sheer caution. Fear and caution were two different things to him.
As he twiddled the arrow in his hand, he noted that despite the obvious use of huge crossbows, there were no giant arrows of any kind. Thoth rubbed his chin in thought. If the ammo wasn't arrows than what else could've been?
Thoth had a hypothesis in an instant. He turned back to Holly. "Say, Holly. I think that icicle may be-" He didn't finish. There was no point. Holly was slumped over in a dead faint.
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"Why does this always happen to me?" Thoth muttered aloud. It always seemed to him that every time he would seek a little normalcy, something like this would happen. It was as if someone had picked him out as a favorite character and was constantly writing stories that flung him into more and more dangerous situations.
"As long as there is no character death, than I suppose all I can do is follow the story," he thought. "Might as well. There's nothing else to do."
He crouched down in front of the two bodies and poked them both as a just-in-case. When neither stirred, he plopped himself down in a more comfortable sitting position. He observed Holly, whose hand still gripped the icicle she had tried to pull out. Peering closely, he noticed that Holly's palm was bleeding slightly.
"And that is what Sherlock would call a clue." He bent closer to observe the icicle better. At a closer glance, he noted that both sides of the blade were tinted with miniscule jagged edges. However, the middle of the spear was as smooth as any piece of ice.
"High quality craftsmanship," Thoth admired. "A normal artist would put to shame, but I wonder…" He decided to experiment. Carefully, he reached out and gripped the smooth middle of the icicle. He shut his eyes tight, waiting for sleep to claim him, but nothing happened. No sudden drowsiness. No unexplained tiredness. Not even an impending darkness.
Thoth opened his eyes again and pulled the icicle out of the Lupe's shoulder. Holly's hand was locked in a death grip and continued to hang onto the spear for dear life. As Thoth carefully pried the claws off, he began to hypothesize again. When Holly had tried to pull the icicle out by herself, she had grabbed the area closest to the Lupe's wound to make her job easier. Unfortunately, that area had been jagged and Holly had gotten whatever it was that put the Lupe to sleep.
But although Thoth now had a solution that would explain why Holly had gone to sleep, he was at a loss for how to wake her up. "The jagged areas must have some kind of sleeping potion on them," he thought as he pressed Snow into Holly's scratched up hand and the Lupe's shoulder. "Most potions last only a few hours, but others have been known to last longer…"
Sighing he sat down, feeling like the mysterious writer had placed him into one heck of a pickle.
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