Cat(Me):Yay, more of the story! WEEWOO!!!

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Saura froze for a second, realization sinking in. 'In the game…the game's universe…' It took all of her self control to not yell out, "OMG!!!" She glanced at the bed across from the one she had slept in to see the figure in it move around. She stayed where she was, not moving, not making a sound. Finally, the figure sat up and stretched, and Saura realized that if she just stood staring, whoever this was would think that she was acting weird. So, the girl forced a casual look onto her face and did a fake stretch. "Good morning, Sar." Said a voice from the direction of the someone who had just woken up. It was a voice that Saura recognized from the several hundreds of times she had played Neopets: The Darkest Faerie. Lucy. Tor's little sister, or, in her case, Saura's little sister.

Saura smiled and nodded at the smaller yellow lupe. Lucy also was in a nightgown, and the bow that was normally in her hair was missing. A glance at the bedside table, and Saura saw the frilly violet thing. "Yep, it's morning all right. Good sunny morning!" said the older girl nervously. Lucy cocked her head and gave Saura an 'Okay, whatever?' look.

"Well, let's go get breakfast!" said Lucy excitedly. She bounded over to the bedside table and pulled open the drawer on it. (Okay, I don't know if there seriously is a drawer on the thing in the game, but just go along with it…) "Is…breakfast in there?" Saura asked. Lucy giggled and said, "Pff! No, silly! We've gotta get dressed before breakfast like we do EVERY DAY. Remember?" Saura nervously laughed and replied, "Yeah, I was only joking! Heh, yeah, breakfast not here! Yep!" At this, Lucy gave her a 'Yeah, sure…you are crazy.' look and took out the clothes, her own pink and violet dress while she laid a brown sleeveless shirt, green pants and a rope on Saura's bed.

The girls got dressed and then Saura followed Lucy downstairs for breakfast. The shirt was longer than Tor's normally was, being at knee's length. Saura guessed it was because she was a girl that it should be more like a skirt. She had tied the rope around her waist like Tor and hoped that it was 'normal' looking. As for her hair, she brushed it with a brush she found on the bedside table and did nothing else with it. The main room was just like it was in the game. High roof, support beams, fireplace, and table. Saura cautiously sat down with Lucy at the table and waited. Tor's mother, Patricia, or in this case temporarily, Saura's mother placed plates in front of the two, saying, "Your father already ate and is working so he wont be joining us for breakfast. In fact, neither will I. I have to take care of the juppie garden." She walked towards the door, and halfway there, turned and said, "Saura?" Saura looked up, her cheeks full and round with juppie, looking like a chipmunk. "Remember, Peter, Luke, and Claire will be coming over today to play with Lucy, and you will need to help keep them entertained so that they don't get into trouble." Patricia said. Saura glanced at Lucy, but the small lupe didn't notice as she wolfed down the contents on her plate. 'Geez,' thought Saura, 'The girl's younger than me but eats as if she hasn't in forever!' "So," continued Patricia, "You wont have to do any of your chores today." And with that she walked outside.

Saura shrugged and ate the rest of her juppie breakfast. The two cleaned their plates, and then went outside as well and for the rest of the morning, Saura and Lucy played until the three others arrived. The lupes greeted Peter, Luke, and Claire at the gate and walked them in. Peter held up a Darigan mask and said, "Come on, Sar! You promised you would play Darigan and Defenders of Meridell!" Saura stared at the mask and smiled. "So, who's Darigan?" she asked. "It's Lucy's turn." Luke informed. Lucy didn't seem too happy with the idea, but accepted the mask nonetheless when it was handed to her and put it on.

"Okay," said Claire, "Me, Luke, and Peter are just regular pets. Saura, you have to be the knight that saves us since it's your dream to be the first girl knight." Saura nodded slowly, thinking about it. 'So that's what it is for me! Like it was Tor's dream to be a knight, I dream about being the first female knight ever! Makes sense.' She thought. Looking around, she saw an average sized stick and picked it up. Lucy found another one and the game began. Claire, Luke, and Peter ran off towards the cabin. Lucy ran after them, and Saura followed. Right when the aisha, gelert, and scorchio had rounded the side of the cabin, Lucy turned and brandished the stick at Saura, who swatted gently at it. "Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I'll tear yer gizzard out like a crokabek! Meridell will be mine! Bwuahahahaha!" Howled the younger lupe. "Noo!" cried out the trio behind her. Saura once again hit Lucy's stick and replied while forcing her back, "No, Lord Darigan! You will fall to the might of the Defenders of Meridell!", hoping like heck that she'd said it right. "Yay!" the group behind Lucy yelled out again, and they ran over to the pen that held the winnies, climbed onto it, and sat watching as the lupes pretend-fought.

Then, Saura swung her own stick at a different angle and disarmed Lucy, who, in drama act, pretended to faint and die. Trying to remember how it went in the game, Saura put a paw on her hip and the other in the air, reminding her of 'The Little Teapot' song motions. 'I'm a little teapot.' She thought and helped Lucy up off the ground. "Hmph!" the younger girl grunted, "Next time, YOU'RE Darigan."

Luke, Peter, and Claire clambered down from their perches and joined them. "Is it true?" said Peter. "Yeah, is it?" said Luke. "Are you gonna be the first girl knight?" finished Peter. Saura swallowed and hoped she was getting it right again as she leaned on the gate of the Winnie pen and said, "I don't wanna brag, but…" she waited. 'Um…isn't the gate supposed to, like, give out under my weight?' she thought. Pausing for a second, she pushed on the gate and it swung open. She fell to the ground and the winnies bounded over her and out of the pen.

"My winnies!", cried Lucy, "Sar! Mum is gonna kill you!" Saura looked back at the pen, then back at the four younger pets in front of her. They looked around and ran off yelling back excuses.

"Gotta go!"

"Yup, see ya!"

"Homework to do!"

Saura sighed. Well, now to do what she absolutely hated. Getting the winnies back in the pen. It was always hard in the game, and it seemed worse in the game universe! After Lucy said some things, Saura ran around, struggling to herd the winnies back where they belonged. Finally, after the three were in the pen, Saura sighed again. '3…2…1.' She thought when suddenly, "Sa-a-a-a-a-a-aura!" shouted Patricia from the juppie garden. "Oooh! Busted!" Better go see what mum wants!" said Lucy sinisterly with a smirk. Saura coolly walked over to Patricia, who said, "Sar, my juppies need watering. Could you get me a pail of water, please?" As Saura went to do her bidding, she was reminded of the 'Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water' thing. 'Dang,' she thought, 'Today is full of unnecessary nursery rhymes!'

She grabbed the pail, then walked over to the retaining wall a few yards to her right and climbed up over it, and began to fill the pail. Soon, the pump started to groan, and in a few seconds, blew with a gentle explosion. 'Oh, the pump exploded again. Omg…' Saura thought calmly before taking the pail and giving it to Patricia. "Thank you, Sar," she said, "I heard the explosion. It was the pump again, wasn't it? Get your father to fix that thing once and for all or he's sleeping in the barn again!" she growled, shaking a fist. Saura nodded slightly then ran to the retaining wall again and climbed over it, then walked into the barn. She found Tor's father, Hubert, standing around. "Um…dude, er, I mean, dad?" she called. He turned and faced her, replying, "Yes, Sar?" "Uh, the pump, it got broken. Again." Hubert sighed and started to walk out towards the pump. "Oh, Saura," he said, facing her, "I left my pliers on the barn roof, could you get them for me?" And he walked out.

Saura smirked, thinking, 'And why are the gosh-be-darned things on the roof?' But she grabbed the big box to her right and dragged it under the ladder that led up to the loft. She shimmied up, and walked to her right through the opening in the wall. To her right (Why is everything to the right?...) was a gap. She leaped across it with ease, and then went up the ladder that was (omg, another thing to the right! When will it end?!) to her right. At the other corner of the roof were the pliers and she grabbed them before jumping off the thing completely, like she did as Tor in the actual game. Right as she hit the ground, she instinctively did a small somersault, like Tor always did. (And now that I think about it, so does Roberta…) Well, that was fun. So she ran back over to the pump and handed over the pliers before staring off into space in a bored daze as Hubert fixed the thing.

Finally, he finished and said, "Sar, once you are done with your chores, meet me in the house." And with that, he walked off to the cabin. Saura shrugged, not knowing why he said that, because the people who made this game obviously knew that she was done with the chores. (Darn you, TNT!!!) So she casually followed him. Inside, he announced, "Sar, I have something important to do. I want you to deliver a package." Saura nodded, before remembering to say, "Over to Farmer Addison's again?" without much emotion. Then she mentally slapped herself in the face. 'Darnit! That wasn't at all convincing! Darn me to heck!' "No," continued Hubert nonetheless, "This one goes…to Meridell." Determined to show that she was at least a little interested, Saura said, "To Meridell?! To the castle!!!??!" then she thought she'd said it a little too enthusiastically. But Hubert STILL didn't seem to notice. 'Maybe I should wave my hand, er, paw in front of his face and he will just continue saying things.' She thought, but decided not to risk it as he said, (Okay, peoples, I can't remember every detail of what he said, so just bear with me…) "Yes, Sar. And you'll need something to protect that package with.", he took out a key, "This is the key that goes to the chest upstairs. In it, you'll find the sword I used when I was young. But with this sword comes great responsibility. Do you know what that means?" (Saura glares up at authoress and says, "He says more than that, you know!" Authoress glares back and says, "Stuff it.") "It's like being a knight!" said Saura, "Defend the weak and help the poor!" (I seriously know that Tor doesn't say that, but like I said, bear with me, people.) "Good, now go Sar! This package won't deliver itself!"

Saura took the key when it was handed to her and dashed up the stairs, rounded a corner and came into the room with the chest. She stuffed the key into the keyhole and opened it up, then reached inside and pulled out the wooden sword from inside it. It was pretty rough on her paws. 'It feels like toast. Hmm…toast' she then held up the sword in the air and said aloud, "I do dub thee, Toast!" "What was that?" called Hubert from the main room. "ER…nothing, dad!" Saura yelled back.

Soon, she was outside, being said 'goodbye' to on the porch. Patricia had just finished saying, "And watch out for bandits as Saura began to walk away. (Saura looks up at authoress again and says, "Pitiful excuse for not having to remember what they said…" Authoress replies, "I said STUFF IT!!!") As soon as Saura stepped outside the gate, she breathed in deeply, thinking, 'Now to start the journey. Ahh, journey air!'

Of course, she remembered the bandits that would appear that she would have to beat off, and kept Toast (the sword, remember. I'll be using that name a lot.) ready. And sure enough, just as she rounded the path's curve, she came upon the three bandits as they cornered a blue techo. Saura remembered the blue techo and it took most of her self restraint not to go flying at the bandits, yelling, "I'll save you, Kelland!" Kelland was her favorite of the twelve heroes of Altador, so she was pretty obsessed with him. Not exactly a fan girl, but anyways…

And before the bandits could say anything, she ran at the leader, Darrik the Blade and swung Toast in a 3-point strike, timing the hits perfectly, and before she could defeat him, he waddled off, saying, "You think this is over? Not by a long shot, not by a long shot…" and all three of them ran away. Saura once again mentally slapped herself. She should have let the bandits say what they normally did in the game! But she put on a straight face and turned to Kelland, who was dressed as a beggar, going by Kell.

"Are you alright?" Saura asked, and suddenly, Kelland put his hands on his shoulders and she remembered what was supposed to happen. "Thank you, I really mean it, thank you! It's about time someone showed those bandits a thing or two." Then he released her and put up two fingers for emphasis. He began to pat his clothing, saying, "You deserve a little something for your troubles." Saura searched her mind for what Tor had said. She got it, and copied Tor. "No need, my good sir. A true knight –" "Always knows when to accept and honest gift." Kelland finished, and he pulled out the trademark amulet. "I may not look like much, but there's more to it than meets the eye. Remember never to take it off, it's a very special piece." Saura took the amulet and hung it around her neck, smiling. "Thank you, sir." She said with a small curtsy. After Kelland had given her a word of advice on motes, she said goodbye and turned. When she looked back, he was gone. 'Well,' she thought, 'Let's continue with the adventure.'

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Cat: Yay, another chappie! R&R people!

Saura: Play the game, Cat and find out what everyone actually says for once!

Cat: Just…be…quiet….