Me: MEEP
Me: MEEP!!
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Normal POV
As the two girls exited the swamps, Amy remembered that the stronger Training wand was back in a chest in Roberta's room in Brightvale, so before running off to the Werelupe Woods, she decided to fetch it. Saura asked if she could also take the golden rose back to Princess Donna, and Amy agreed. So carrying the rose, she ran as fast as she could back to Brightvale while Saura waited near a tree at the Crossroads.
Amy's POV
Can I confess something? I am WAY out of shape. I had started running at the Crossroads, and ran out of energy when I crossed the river as I headed into Brightvale. I finally had to stop and walk at a slow pace down the path to catch my breath, chest heaving, and ,oh, how I longed to have Saura's practically endless energy and hyperactivity, if only for just five minutes! But I had to settle for plain old me, and made my way into the kingdom.
It was about a seven minute journey, but it seemed like five hours to me, strolling through the cobblestone pathways and brick buildings to the castle. Eventually, not really knowing how I'd made it, I was inside, and going up the stairs to hand over the rose and grab the wand. I chose to get the wand first, and noticed that my old, rickety wooden wand mysteriously vanished as I took hold of this new one.
Stowing it away in my belt, I crossed the hallway to Princess Donna's room, took out the golden rose, and tapped her on the shoulder. She turned to me with a slightly startled expression, and I held out the rose, no need to say anything. The pink acara's eyes instantly lit up, and she whipped the metal flower out of my own acara paw faster than you can say 'cookie'. She squealed with delight, jumping up and down in joy. I backed away a little. Apparently, the videogame world is more realistic than what the creators make.
"Oh, thank you-"
"Yeah, yeah," I said, not really wanting to hear it, "Need me to deliver anything to him?"
Satisfied, I walked out and headed back to Saura who was still waiting at the Crossroads near the sign that said, 'To Meridell', with Love Letters from Princess Donna in tow.
"Finally!" she cried, "You took forever!" I just rolled my eyes and we both were on our way to the Werelupe Woods.
Normal POV
The two arrived at the entrance to the woods, when Saura began thinking about the details of the videogame. "Hey, Amy." She said, and her friend turned to face her, "Shouldn't we, like, go along with the game? I mean, we should run over to Meridell, like if it was our first time playing the game, and pretend to figure everything out as we go."
Amy blinked. "So," she said, "You're saying that we act as if we never played the game before, and like noobs, go to Meridell to 'defeat' the Darkest Faerie, only to realize that we have to free each and every area under the dark influence, just like in the game?" Saura grinned and nodded vigorously. Amy rolled her eyes. "Nah, it's easier this way." the acara girl said as she turned to venture into the woods.
"Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Amyyyyyyyyyyy!" whined Saura, "That would mess everything uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuppp!" Amy sighed at the lupess.
"It never messed anything up before." She remarked, but Saura was not going to be discouraged. "But Amy, this could be our only chance to see it in 'real life'!" she made quote marks with her lupe fingers when saying 'real life'. "And besides, if we go to Meridell first, you'll be able to see your dear assassin."
Amy stopped walking, and maybe even breathing, for a second. Of course, how could she forget that if they went on the pathway to Meridell, they'd run into the Gelert Assassin! Sighing, and maybe with an annoyed twitch of the eye, she gave in. Anything for her beloved.
So they raced onward to Meridell, occasionally having to dodge a minion or two, especially when they came to the Meridell Plains where all sorts of minions popped out at them.
Eventually, they made it, barely, to the forcefield-like cloud of darkness that blocked their way to Meridell.
"How do we get past this?" Saura dutifully asked, and the two were not at all surprised as they heard the Gelert Assassin's voice behind them.
"You don't."
They turned to see him standing just a little ways off, grinning bemusedly at the pair, and continuing, "This is dark faerie magic-"
He was cut off from his little speech by a ball of blue and brown fur as Amy tackled him to the ground. The Assassin was taken by surprise, yet quickly recovered, throwing the raving fangirl, or fanacara, off his torso, and aiming his dagger at her, while she obliviously stared at him.
Saura drew out Coolio and as fast as she could, blocked him from harming her friend.
"Leave her alone! Can't you see that she's in love with you?!" Saura shouted at him.
The Gelert Assassin glared ferociously at her, and Saura knew she'd messed up what he was supposed to say, but didn't care as he retorted, "I have no use for love anymore! You keep your friend away from me! She's unworthy to be my prey!"
This earned a cry from Amy, and Saura put all her strength into a shove, making the Assassin stumble back.
"Urgh, you two are the most bothersome prey I've ever pursued! No matter, soon you will both be dead and out of my life." He spat, before simply disappearing once more.
Saura turned to Amy to see the acara girl shaking her head. She then looked up at Saura and commanded, "If I ever try that again, stop me." Saura really didn't want to, as she was quite amused by her friend's antics, but agreed nonetheless…with fingers crossed behind her back of course!
Now that they'd visited the barrier, it was off to free the land of the awakened monsters!
After a few moments of planning and thinking, they decided on a certain route to take. First, Werelupe Woods to grab Illusen's charm. Then run to Meri Acres to free the land and get the…..rope-pulley thingy. (Authoress obviously doesn't know or remember what it's called…) Then on to Cogham for the cloak, then to Illusen's for the orb that would let them through the dark forcefield that blocked their way to Meridell. Finally, they'd free Market Town, and then Meridell, then Faerieland!
It was time to put the plan into action.
The journey to the Werelupe Woods was the same, uneventful except for the occasional minion attack, but the duo mostly just ran past the things instead of fighting them for the sake of saving time.
Amy led the way into the caverns that surrounded the pathway into the Woods, Saura following closely behind, climbing the ladder and up the incline.
When they arrived at the top of the incline, at the entrance to the Woods, they first looked around to be safer than sorry.
The air was musty, clammy, none too pleasant, and distant squelching noises were heard, the girls guessing from the sludgies in the swamp waters. The grass underfoot was damp and made no sound as the pair trudged deeper into the mist and trees. Suddenly, there was a quick snarling from the left, and both whirled around to see a werelupe bounding towards them. Since a sword was easier to pull out than a wand, Saura got dibs on defeating the creature. Once that was said and done, they continued on their way.
They skirted around the trees, and were able to see lights shining dimly a ways away from them. Sophie the Swamp Witch's hut. Avoiding/defeating a few poison spyders and using a few bagguses, Amy and Saura eventually made it to the small cabin, approaching cautiously as both knew of Sophie's reputation. Definitely not to be messed with. The door opened with a scrape and a creak, and they entered the hut.
Sophie, whose back was to them as she leaned over a cauldron of who knows what, spun around to face them, slightly scowling.
"Whaddya two girlies want from me?" she growled, "I'm sorta busy here!"
Amy, being the more mature of the two, stepped forward to answer, "We wanted to know how to get into the Werelupe King's lair."
Sophie turned her body all the way to fully face the acaress, smirking at her. "Foolish girls, can't you guess what happened to all the others who said that? Got eaten, they did. Come on, be smart and run along home and leave me alone." She made a shooing gesture with her hands, but Amy stood her ground.
"I'm sorry, ma'am," she said, "But we're not leaving. Tell us what you want, but we like to see ourselves as courageous. We won't be so unlucky."
Sophie laughed a bitter, disbelieving laugh. Or more like scoff. "There is a difference between foolishness and bravery you know. And do you know how many said the same thing? 'I can do it, I'm strong' or 'Don't worry about me, I'm a lucky one'. Heh, ate their words, didn't they?"
Amy was about to retort, when Saura piped up, "We'll leave you alone if you just tell us." This seemed to appeal to the ixi witch, who raised an eyebrow and nodded slowly.
"Alright, I'll tell you what. Do something for me first, and I'll give you the information." Saura grinned braggingly at Amy, and the girls looked expectantly at Sophie when she added all of a sudden, "But why don't you prove yourself? Acara, stay here. Let your lupe friend go get me some wartroot by herself. It ain't that hard, one can do it."
Amy frowned, and Saura leaned over to her and whispered, "Don't worry, we've done it in the videogames before, and we could only play as one pet then, so this won't be much different."
But Amy whispered back, "That's not what I'm worried about, it's you. Are you sure you can handle it on your own?"
At this, Saura huffed and stormed out, offended at her friend's words and newly eager to prove herself, leaving a sighing Amy behind. Sophie chuckled as the door slammed after the lupess.
"Little hot-head, ain't she? Well, acara, wanna help me make some eyeball stew?"
Amy shrugged. "Why not?"
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Saura's POV
I set out with my chest puffed out, adrenaline running through my body. Oh yeah, I'd prove to her and that witch that I could do it! I was strong! They were wrong! As I marched down the path to the swamp-like muck of water, I realized that it rhymed.
I was strong, they were wrong!
I was strong, they were wrong!
I was strong, they were wrong!
I was strong, they were wrong!
I was strong, they were-WERELUPE!
Right when I was at the edge of the water, I heard that familiar growl-snarl-snort that signified a werelupe, and I drew Coolio out, and it made a 'shing!' noise. Wham! I was too slow. The werelupe slammed into me, knocking me down. I fell and rolled into the water, now utterly disgusted.
I got to my feet, or paws, and scowled at the werelupe. I decided that I didn't have time for this, and turned on my heel, walking out to the middle of the pond of muck. Once I was a little farther out, I turned and looked back at the werelupe to see it attempting to cross the water over to me, but every time it put a large paw into the water, it brought it back out quickly, apparently not fond of the liquid. I smirked. What a wimp.
A squelching sound brought me back to Neopia, and I saw a sludgy rise up out of the swamp. As soon as it saw me, it reached into its large mouth, and revealed a ball of…sludge. My eyes widened and I leapt out of the way, once again slamming my lupe face into the mud and water. I heard a yelp, and saw that the sludge ball had nailed the werelupe, which made it even angrier than before, and in doing so, made it more determined to catch its prey.
It dipped a tentative paw into the muck, got used to it, and began to make its way over to me. Which, of course, scared me witless, and I ran around until I found the sinkhole.
Let me tell you, sinkhole equals ew. Nasty, nasty, gross, icky, nasty! You step through it, almost as if the ground gives way beneath you, and you're suddenly sucked down below the surface of the muck, water and mud sloshing around you, getting in your clothes and ears. It's especially bothersome if you have the ears of a lupe. Ew, I'm gonna be sick.
Once all that is over, you fall and land on a spongy patch of grass. Also unpleasant. Sitting up, I could see the wartroot just a few feet away from me, and I knew where I was. Probably the most convenient place to land in the caverns. Go me!
I picked up the wartroot, which had a rubbery, lumpy texture, and a rotten smell, then deposited it into my backpack. Or it just disappeared from my paw until needed later. Finally, I examined my surroundings. A mess of vines, swamp plants, mud, water, rock, and sludge. Yeah, this was not going to be fun. I really didn't want to fight, so running for it became my plan.
I took a runners stance, dropping to my knees, saying, "Ready…"
"Set…" I raised my hind end into the air.
"Go." I took off.
The mad dash through the water went better than I'd expected. I had run past the sludgies before they realized I was there, and I therefore avoided attack. Life was good.
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Amy's POV
I was adding some green, strange looking liquid to the stew when I saw Saura through the window re-appear on a ledge overlooking the pond, and I knew she had the wartroot. I smiled. Good job, buddy.
Soon after, the door burst open, and there stood a proud looking Saura. Well, smug was more like it, and she was smirking at me. I nodded my approval at her, and she handed the wartroot over to Sophie, who looked suspicious.
"Made it, didja?" she asked, "Bet it was located in an easily-reached place, too…" she didn't seem too happy at being proved wrong, but admitted defeat anyway. After telling us the tale of how she'd made the amulet that let you into the Werelupe lair, and how it had been buried with its last wearer, we were on our way to grab it.
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Me: Okay, peeps. Thought I'd update now since it's been so long. Next time, the duo head over to the crypts, then onto the Werelupe lair.
Amy: Woo.
Saura: YEAH!! GO US!!
Amy: At least she's finally updating.
Me: Hey! I've been writing other stuff, too!
Amy: Yeah, you're the one who'd developed an unhealthy obsession over a fictional guy from Naruto!
Me: Leave Gaara out of this! –ahem- Yes, I'm writing another story based on the Naruto anime/manga series, so if anyone's interested, check it out! REVIEW PLEASE!!