Me: Sorry about the last chappie being so short! Here's a longer one!

Saura: Read to find out if I die! Omg! …………….wait, I WILL live, right?

Me: On with the show!...or chapter…..whichever you prefer.

Saura: Hey! I'm over here! Will you answer me?!

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Normal POV

Saura twisted in midair as she fell into the canyon with amazing speed. Suddenly, there was a loud 'splash' and the lupe felt water go into her squire's uniform. But as sudden as it happened, she felt like she was in the air again, but not falling. Actually, it was kinda nice, and all Saura felt like doing was closing her eyes and sleeping. She heard the cry of a mountain crokabek and opened her eyes a slit. And of course, since the authoress likes to torture her characters, she saw the crokabek flying toward her….but she was going away from it. She was….falling again. Before her mind could register anything, Saura felt something push against her back with much force, and her head ached. She realized that she had just hit ground, solid ground.

…..and then she remembered the crokabek.

Saura leaped up onto her feet just as the crokabek swooped down to attack her. Drawing out Squire Squiggle, she yelled out, "Begone evil thing!", jumped up, and brought her sword down in an arc. Of course, since it was a mountain crokabek, it didn't burst into neopoints with just one hit. It fell to the ground, then got back onto its tiny feet. Saura dashed at it, but right as she got to it, it hopped out of the way. It was then that she realized that she was now at the bottom of the Cogham Mountains, instead of where she originally had been when she got kicked in the head by that ixi. She narrowed her eyes. That ixi! Oh yes, she would definitely deal with him in a very painful way.

And, being Saura, she did not think about that little crokabek…..who sneaked up behind her and nudged her off the edge of the cliff. Once again, she was falling. Down the canyon. And into the river.

The crokabek watched in slight amusement as the yellow lupe girl fell, and his tiny brain tried to work out why the big neopets like that one fell instead of flying. This time, the crokabek was distracted by its thoughts, and didn't see Saura coming up behind it. She raised Squire Squiggle up, and slashed down. With a cry of surprise, the crokabek exploded into neopoints. Saura grinned, liking her revenge she instilled upon the unsuspecting petpet.

So she continued, past the bridges again, and arrived at the spot where she had first fallen down the canyon. There was the ixi, not knowing she was there since she'd used the sneak technique. (That rhymed! Weeee!) She yelled out, "Begone evil thing!" and charged at him…………What, you thought that she would be quiet and sneak up on him without saying anything because she remembered what happened last time? Hah! People, this is SAURA we are talking about here. Of course she's just gonna have to yell the war cry.

So, as I was saying, Saura ran at him. This time, she didn't give him a chance to do anything or react. The attack was frenzied and panicked in a way. Between her barrage at one point, when she had stopped to catch a breath, the ixi jumped into the air and clobbered her with his hoof again, but Saura was no where near the edge of the cliff. She'd learned at little something at least. Finally, she gave the last blow, and a purple juppie hovered in midair where the ixi had fallen. For a second, Saura celebrated like a mental person, laughing and shouting, "Omigosh, I finally defeated him, omigosh, omigosh, omigosh, omigosh, omigosh!!!" But it soon ended and the yellow lupe girl continued her journey into the mountains.

Saura's POV

I climbed up the next ledges and realized that my legs were beginning to ache. I had no time to rest, though, before I saw the three ixis that I hated. The two ixi spearmen, and the ixi archer. Gosh, I loathed them. I heard a 'twang' noise and felt a shooting pain in my side as my body flashed red. I whipped around to where the sound had come from, towards the ledge. That ixi archer stood there, fitting another arrow into his bow. Then, I heard something 'clopping' to me, and saw one of the ixi spearmen charging at me. I gasped and screeched, "OMG!"

Running in a zigzag way, I tried to escape, knowing that if I just defeated the Chieftain, all those ixis would disappear. So I held Squire Squiggle up in front of me along with my shield and charged through my assailants. I ran into one of the spearmen and sprawled flat out on my back, cursing myself, "Idiot, idiot, idiot…"

Something went 'ffftht' right by my head, and I looked to see an arrow embedded in the ground. I quickly scrambled to my feet, only to see the point of a spear coming towards me. Letting out a very high pitched shriek, I ducked as the spear grazed the top of my head. I winced, the top of my head stinging like heck, but through it all, I began to run again, this time, actually watching where I was going.

I from there, I ran like a maniac, not registering in my mind where I was, only making sure I didn't run off the edge of a cliff. In fact, I was pretty surprised that I didn't. The next thing I knew, I was next to a ladder, some ixis galloping at me from behind. I let out a squeak, then flew at the ladder, grabbing it with such force that I heard an ominous cracking noise. But I had no time to climb up carefully, since the ixis weren't so far away now. I threw my hands up at the rungs of the wooden ladder and started to make my way up.

Again, I heard that nice little cracking noise. I gulped, seeing the fissure in the wood of the ladder two rungs above me….and it was getting bigger. Panic flowed through my body, and I knew that if I wasn't able to make it up the ladder before it broke completely, I would never be able to get up to the Ixi Chieftain and beat him. Omg…not cool.

Desperately, I scurried up the ladder, and just in time made it to the ledge before it broke away under the weight of the ixi that was climbing up below me. For a second or so, I sat on the ledge, panting, calming myself down. How I hated heights.

I stood up, my legs trembling slightly, from both trying to recover from the shock of almost falling down a ladder, and like I had said, I hated heights. I looked down at the ixis below me, shaking their fists, and yelling up at me. The one that had tried to climb up the ladder behind me was still sprawled out on the ground, but was glaring at me nonetheless. More enemies….greeeaaaaat.

I decided that thinking about this was getting me nowhere close to the Ixi Chieftain, so back to climbing up the cliff face on the ladders I went.

Stopping at the top to survey my surroundings, I realized that it was at the spot where you had to jump onto those two large pillars of rock, then make that really BIG leap to the next one while dodging those two crokabeks. Once I was ready, I backed up a little, and then ran towards the edge of the cliff, and pushed off with all of the strength in my legs. I landed a little less than perfectly, then took off again to the next rock pillar. Again, I could have landed a bit better, but when you have two crokabeks coming after you, and you STILL need to recover from almost falling from a great height, a bit better is a bit impossible.

The crokabeks started to fly around in circles around me, waiting for the right moment to attack. I thought about taking my shield out, but I would need both paws to clutch onto the cliff edge once I had leapt.

I was as far back as I could go, my back against the solitary tree and rock that stood on the pillar. One of the crokabeks screeched, and it was now or never. I dashed to the end of the ledge, and made one last almighty leap. As I soared throughthe air, I stretched out my arms as far as they could reach. Suddenly, I had latched onto something. When I looked up, I saw that it was the cliff's edge. Thank the Lord, I had done it. I hurriedly scrambled up just as the crokabek's beak connected with solid rock wall. Shakily as ever, I stood, turning to the right, jumped again, and ran up the path that led to the area where the switch was that let the water flow in the river.

Soon enough, I spotted the platforms and climbed up onto one, and heaved on the switch. It creaked a little, but gave away, and more water started to go into the wooden box thing.

I turned to watch as those two large wheels started to spin ever so slowly. I was about to turn around and go back to the rock pillars when I remembered one thing I always did in the game. Smiling, I hurried down the ladder, then ran and jumped into the river. That same feeling of water going through my uniform rushed over me, and it stopped. I was falling again onto dry land. This time I was ready and managed to at least land on my stomach instead of flopping on my back. When I lifted my head, I saw that I had been right. I was now right across from the switch on the other side of the river. I didn't have to take the long way! But of course, there was the matter of those ixis that were there as well. My solution was simple: run some more. I ran to the ledge that the cart tracks were at and made my way onto it.

I turned to the left and bolted up the tracks as fast as I could, pulling out Squire Squiggle. I began battering the mound of dirt and rock that held the cart at the top of the hill in place, and finally it was clear. The cart careened down and rammed into the wooden boards at the bottom of the hill. I ran through the gaping hole it had created, running into a clearing and dodging ixis. I climbed up a ladder, ran up the path, and defeated the ixi while avoiding arrows, managing to get past it all. More ledges greeted me, and I struggled to get over them. I'd made it to the top. Now I just had to make that single jump and stay on without falling. That one where you had to jump and hold on to the edge of the cliff because there is no other way to get up besides that hand-over-hand thing. (I will hate that part 'till the day I die.) I jumped…and grabbed onto rock. I slid over to the side and hauled myself up. Finally….it was time.

I walked as confidently as possible into the Ixi Chieftain's cave-like arena. There he was, standing on that ledge, the two henchmen on the arena floor.

"See, there she is boss!" exclaimed one. "That's the one who ran us off!"

"You let one little Meridell fool make you retreat?!" cried the Chieftain.

"Well, she's pretty strong…" said one henchman while the other said, "Yeah, and I heard she had some friends." Then the first finished with, "Pretty big friends."

"SHADDUP!!" shouted the Ixi Chieftain, "Just take her out!"

"Yes sir!" answered the henchmen and they started to come towards me, spears held up.

I bared my teeth and ran at them, barraging them with my power…..or, you know, just smacking them around with a sword, but whatever works is good. I finished them off, receiving two red juppies from them. Suddenly, the Ixi Chieftain had leapt from his perch and said, "I guess I'll be the one to defeat you. I'm going to enjoy this." And he ran at me.

Like in the game, it was an easy battle. Just make sure to keep hitting him, and you win. Of course, he did summon those archers, but it was way too easy to avoid the arrows. And just like that, he made an 'Eugh!' noise, and I had won. I collected his eye patch from the ground and sighed. Sweet, sweet victory.

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Me: I'm SO SORRY that I didn't update very fast! School started and everything was hectic! Don't expect the next few updates to be soon, but I promise I will stick to the story.

Saura: -is covered in dust from being left alone all this time- Please, someone help me… :'(