Post by poy222 on Feb 17, 2003 17:11:46 GMT -5
This is a collaboration story I wrote with Hippiesoul. It didn't get in though.
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The New Editor
By: hippiesoul and poy222
<p>Snowflake entered the Neopets office at the usual time every morning and that day was no exception. She sat down at her desk while sipping a cup of coffee that was already cold. Snowflake turned her computer on and opened her e-mail program.
<p>Her inbox had 103 unopened messages. “Time to get to work,” she sighed and began to skim through the list for the most important ones. But there was not one that seemed important- there was a mixture of the usual complaints, people begging for their frozen accounts back and some e-mails that were sent to the wrong address.
<p>She opened an e-mail from “shut_up1234565”:
<p> “U no, i wish i culd hit u wit a hammer jus like in wak-a-staf-member!!!!!!!!!!!!!111”
<p>She sighed, deleted it, and went to the next one:
<p> “Hello, I was hoping you could publish my article on Moehogs. It’s in the attachment. Thanks.
.”
<p>This e-mail was supposed to go to neopiantimes@neopets.com but she couldn’t resist reading it. She spent a whole half-hour editing it and she enjoyed her time spent. But she knew that wasn’t her job and opened up another e-mail, this time from someone called “burrito_boy34.”
<p><center>***</center>
<p>After a couple of hours answering to an endless pile of e-mails, Felicia’s break came. It was lunch time and she was dying to get out of the office. Unfortunately, the day was rainy.
<p> “Oh no…” she sighed, when she stepped out the office and watched big raindrops falling on the concrete. But then, she remembered- in Neopia, the day was sunny…
<p>And so, Snowflake arrived in Neopia, ready to enjoy the good weather and have a nice meal in one of the many good neopian restaurants. However, everyone in Neopia seemed to have had the same idea and the restaurants were crowded, so she ended up in a park by a beautiful lake, munching on a couple of Cloud Pizza slices and a Rainborific Slushie.
<p>Suddenly, the Pant Devil showed up, interrupting her peaceful lunch, and cackling evilly, took what was left of Snowflake’s slushie.
<p> “Muahahah! The Pant Devil attacks again!”
<p>But there was something quite not right…
<p> “Hey, where are your pants?” Snowflake inquired.
<p> “Don’t ask stupid questions!” retorted the Pant Devil. “Well, to tell you the truth, they were turned into a pile of sludge by Doctor Sloth.” he grumbled.
<p>An idea popped into Snowflake’s head. “I know just the thing for you! Meet me here, same time tomorrow!”
<p><center>***</center>
<p>That night, Snowflake sneaked into the empty Neopets offices and headed towards Adam’s office. She had been there once before when she applied for her job and she remembered seeing boxers in his drawer. Strange, but true.
<p>She opened the door of the office that was always unlocked. Snowflake snuck softly over to a desk drawer, pulled it open and found lots of contents crammed in there- borovan brownies, borovan pavlova, twelve stalks of asparagus and just what she was looking for, his boxers. She snatched them and tried to sneak out as quietly as possible; it’s quite hard to do when plushies and Nerf guns are scattered across the floor.
<p><center>***</center>
<p>The next morning, Snowflake entered Neopia at the same time and hurried to the same place as the day before. The pantless Pant Devil arrived five minutes later and snatched Snowflake’s hotdog that she was munching on.
<p> “Aha! The Pant Devil strikes once again!”
<p>Snowflake shook her head. “It’s me, remember?”
<p> “Oh yeah…”
<p> “Look what I’ve got!” She handed him Adam’s boxers, “They’re for you!”
<p> “Gee! Wow! Thanks!” The Pant Devil was surprised that such a nice act was performed to him. “Here, you, take this!” The Pant Devil handed Snowflake a Shoyru Grappling Hook.
<p>“Oh, it’s okay… I don’t need anything in return…” But the Pant Devil had vanished.
<p>Snowflake gazed at her new item, and wondered what to do with it. Just then, a cry interrupted her thoughts. She looked around and spotted a baby Grarrl, crying on the lap of a young girl. Felicia approached the crying baby and his owner and asked what the problem was.
<p>“The Snowager took his favorite plushie…” The girl answered, petting the Grarrl’s head softly.
<p>“Mean Snowager!” Felicia uttered, petting the baby Grarrl as well. “Don’t worry, I will get your plushie, young one.”
<p>And so, Felicia traveled to the Ice Caves and met the Snowager. Unfortunately, he wasn’t asleep. There was no other choice but to wait.
<p>She walked around the ice Caves, gazing at the beautiful ice sculptures, and when the Snowager was finally in the Land of Sweet Dreams, Snowflake approached. The young Grarrl’s plushie was on top of a big pile of Neggs that the Snowager was hugging with his long body. It was a mission impossible to go and get the plushie without the icy snake noticing and waking up. Now, Snowflake couldn’t risk being knocked out, so she sat back and thought. Suddenly, she heard the Pant devil’s laugh, not distant from her, and she remembered.
<p>“That’s it!” She took the Shoyru Grappling Hook from her inventory and entered the Snowager’s cave again. This time, it was easy to grab the plushie without the Snowager noticing.
<p>Quickly, Felicia left the Ice Caves and looked up the baby Grarrl. He was in Tyrannia, and so that’s where she headed, carrying his lost plushie.
<p>The plushie was retrieved to its rightful owner and the baby Grarrl cheered, “Thank you, Snowflake!”
<p>She petted the baby Grarrl one last time, and checked her watch. It was still too early to go back to the office, so she decided to hang around Tyrannia a while longer. She had never been to the lair of the Beast and was quite curious about it, so she decided she’d go in and spend some time exploring.
<p>She followed the directions, until she was close to the tunnel’s end. She could feel the heavy breath of something that desperately needed a toothbrush. Suddenly, a roar was heard. Not a loud, scary roar, but a weak tired roar. Felicia turned and faced the beast.
<p>“Oh my, was that your best roar?”
<p>The beast nodded slightly, looking sad.
<p> “Let me see your throat,” she asked.
<p>Slowly the beast opened its beak and Felicia, trying her best not to suffocate with the smell, examined its throat.
<p>“Just as I suspected,” She said, backing away from the beast, who closed its beak and looked at Snowflake curiously. “You’ve got a sore throat! I think I have just the thing.”
<p>Snowflake searched her pockets for a vial with Sporkle Syrup and she found it. She gave it to the beast and it drank up gratefully. When it was done drinking, it purred.
<p>“Oh, and take these too. No offense, but I think you may want to use these.” She handed it a Green Toothbrush, Mint Flavoured Toothpaste, Blue Mouth Wash along with Dental Floss.
<p>The Beast was very content but then his expression changed as if it had just remembered something. At that moment, the Beast scooped up Snowflake and flew out of his cave. Snowflake shrieked and was filled with terror. They were rising higher and higher, gaining more altitude every second until there was a flash and Snowflake found herself being dropped lightly in front of the Neopets offices. The Beast flew away and Adam and Donna came out to greet her.
<p>“We were looking for you,” Donna said sternly.
<p>“But fortunately, our Beast is still working and brang you back… we had originally created it to bring back lost staff members. Well, no time for chatting- you’ve got work to do!” Adam motioned for Snowflake to follow.
<p>As they passed by several booths with staff hard at work, Mr. Shankly ran past them yelling, “I’m FREE! Free at last! Bye bye everyone! Whee!” and with that, he jumped out a window.
<p>“Oh well… looks like we’ll be needing someone to be taking his place… I know!” Donna exclaimed. She took Snowflake by the hand and led her to where Mr. Shankly had recently worked. “You’ll be the new Editor of the Neopian Times!”
<p>Snowflake was astounded and almost fainted. She tried to calm down. “Thank you, Donna.” Anyone could have sensed her excitement. Donna smiled and left, shutting the door behind her.
<p>Snowflake opened up her inbox on that computer, at neopiantimes@neopets.com. She had one message from “All_of_us.” The message said:
<p>“Hello! This is the whole bunch of Neopian Times writers and artists and we’d like to say, welcome, Snowflake! We know you’ll have fun! = )”
<p>Snowflake smiled and then giggled as she heard Adam yell, “Where in the world are my lucky asparagus boxers?!”
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The New Editor
By: hippiesoul and poy222
<p>Snowflake entered the Neopets office at the usual time every morning and that day was no exception. She sat down at her desk while sipping a cup of coffee that was already cold. Snowflake turned her computer on and opened her e-mail program.
<p>Her inbox had 103 unopened messages. “Time to get to work,” she sighed and began to skim through the list for the most important ones. But there was not one that seemed important- there was a mixture of the usual complaints, people begging for their frozen accounts back and some e-mails that were sent to the wrong address.
<p>She opened an e-mail from “shut_up1234565”:
<p> “U no, i wish i culd hit u wit a hammer jus like in wak-a-staf-member!!!!!!!!!!!!!111”
<p>She sighed, deleted it, and went to the next one:
<p> “Hello, I was hoping you could publish my article on Moehogs. It’s in the attachment. Thanks.
.”<p>This e-mail was supposed to go to neopiantimes@neopets.com but she couldn’t resist reading it. She spent a whole half-hour editing it and she enjoyed her time spent. But she knew that wasn’t her job and opened up another e-mail, this time from someone called “burrito_boy34.”
<p><center>***</center>
<p>After a couple of hours answering to an endless pile of e-mails, Felicia’s break came. It was lunch time and she was dying to get out of the office. Unfortunately, the day was rainy.
<p> “Oh no…” she sighed, when she stepped out the office and watched big raindrops falling on the concrete. But then, she remembered- in Neopia, the day was sunny…
<p>And so, Snowflake arrived in Neopia, ready to enjoy the good weather and have a nice meal in one of the many good neopian restaurants. However, everyone in Neopia seemed to have had the same idea and the restaurants were crowded, so she ended up in a park by a beautiful lake, munching on a couple of Cloud Pizza slices and a Rainborific Slushie.
<p>Suddenly, the Pant Devil showed up, interrupting her peaceful lunch, and cackling evilly, took what was left of Snowflake’s slushie.
<p> “Muahahah! The Pant Devil attacks again!”
<p>But there was something quite not right…
<p> “Hey, where are your pants?” Snowflake inquired.
<p> “Don’t ask stupid questions!” retorted the Pant Devil. “Well, to tell you the truth, they were turned into a pile of sludge by Doctor Sloth.” he grumbled.
<p>An idea popped into Snowflake’s head. “I know just the thing for you! Meet me here, same time tomorrow!”
<p><center>***</center>
<p>That night, Snowflake sneaked into the empty Neopets offices and headed towards Adam’s office. She had been there once before when she applied for her job and she remembered seeing boxers in his drawer. Strange, but true.
<p>She opened the door of the office that was always unlocked. Snowflake snuck softly over to a desk drawer, pulled it open and found lots of contents crammed in there- borovan brownies, borovan pavlova, twelve stalks of asparagus and just what she was looking for, his boxers. She snatched them and tried to sneak out as quietly as possible; it’s quite hard to do when plushies and Nerf guns are scattered across the floor.
<p><center>***</center>
<p>The next morning, Snowflake entered Neopia at the same time and hurried to the same place as the day before. The pantless Pant Devil arrived five minutes later and snatched Snowflake’s hotdog that she was munching on.
<p> “Aha! The Pant Devil strikes once again!”
<p>Snowflake shook her head. “It’s me, remember?”
<p> “Oh yeah…”
<p> “Look what I’ve got!” She handed him Adam’s boxers, “They’re for you!”
<p> “Gee! Wow! Thanks!” The Pant Devil was surprised that such a nice act was performed to him. “Here, you, take this!” The Pant Devil handed Snowflake a Shoyru Grappling Hook.
<p>“Oh, it’s okay… I don’t need anything in return…” But the Pant Devil had vanished.
<p>Snowflake gazed at her new item, and wondered what to do with it. Just then, a cry interrupted her thoughts. She looked around and spotted a baby Grarrl, crying on the lap of a young girl. Felicia approached the crying baby and his owner and asked what the problem was.
<p>“The Snowager took his favorite plushie…” The girl answered, petting the Grarrl’s head softly.
<p>“Mean Snowager!” Felicia uttered, petting the baby Grarrl as well. “Don’t worry, I will get your plushie, young one.”
<p>And so, Felicia traveled to the Ice Caves and met the Snowager. Unfortunately, he wasn’t asleep. There was no other choice but to wait.
<p>She walked around the ice Caves, gazing at the beautiful ice sculptures, and when the Snowager was finally in the Land of Sweet Dreams, Snowflake approached. The young Grarrl’s plushie was on top of a big pile of Neggs that the Snowager was hugging with his long body. It was a mission impossible to go and get the plushie without the icy snake noticing and waking up. Now, Snowflake couldn’t risk being knocked out, so she sat back and thought. Suddenly, she heard the Pant devil’s laugh, not distant from her, and she remembered.
<p>“That’s it!” She took the Shoyru Grappling Hook from her inventory and entered the Snowager’s cave again. This time, it was easy to grab the plushie without the Snowager noticing.
<p>Quickly, Felicia left the Ice Caves and looked up the baby Grarrl. He was in Tyrannia, and so that’s where she headed, carrying his lost plushie.
<p>The plushie was retrieved to its rightful owner and the baby Grarrl cheered, “Thank you, Snowflake!”
<p>She petted the baby Grarrl one last time, and checked her watch. It was still too early to go back to the office, so she decided to hang around Tyrannia a while longer. She had never been to the lair of the Beast and was quite curious about it, so she decided she’d go in and spend some time exploring.
<p>She followed the directions, until she was close to the tunnel’s end. She could feel the heavy breath of something that desperately needed a toothbrush. Suddenly, a roar was heard. Not a loud, scary roar, but a weak tired roar. Felicia turned and faced the beast.
<p>“Oh my, was that your best roar?”
<p>The beast nodded slightly, looking sad.
<p> “Let me see your throat,” she asked.
<p>Slowly the beast opened its beak and Felicia, trying her best not to suffocate with the smell, examined its throat.
<p>“Just as I suspected,” She said, backing away from the beast, who closed its beak and looked at Snowflake curiously. “You’ve got a sore throat! I think I have just the thing.”
<p>Snowflake searched her pockets for a vial with Sporkle Syrup and she found it. She gave it to the beast and it drank up gratefully. When it was done drinking, it purred.
<p>“Oh, and take these too. No offense, but I think you may want to use these.” She handed it a Green Toothbrush, Mint Flavoured Toothpaste, Blue Mouth Wash along with Dental Floss.
<p>The Beast was very content but then his expression changed as if it had just remembered something. At that moment, the Beast scooped up Snowflake and flew out of his cave. Snowflake shrieked and was filled with terror. They were rising higher and higher, gaining more altitude every second until there was a flash and Snowflake found herself being dropped lightly in front of the Neopets offices. The Beast flew away and Adam and Donna came out to greet her.
<p>“We were looking for you,” Donna said sternly.
<p>“But fortunately, our Beast is still working and brang you back… we had originally created it to bring back lost staff members. Well, no time for chatting- you’ve got work to do!” Adam motioned for Snowflake to follow.
<p>As they passed by several booths with staff hard at work, Mr. Shankly ran past them yelling, “I’m FREE! Free at last! Bye bye everyone! Whee!” and with that, he jumped out a window.
<p>“Oh well… looks like we’ll be needing someone to be taking his place… I know!” Donna exclaimed. She took Snowflake by the hand and led her to where Mr. Shankly had recently worked. “You’ll be the new Editor of the Neopian Times!”
<p>Snowflake was astounded and almost fainted. She tried to calm down. “Thank you, Donna.” Anyone could have sensed her excitement. Donna smiled and left, shutting the door behind her.
<p>Snowflake opened up her inbox on that computer, at neopiantimes@neopets.com. She had one message from “All_of_us.” The message said:
<p>“Hello! This is the whole bunch of Neopian Times writers and artists and we’d like to say, welcome, Snowflake! We know you’ll have fun! = )”
<p>Snowflake smiled and then giggled as she heard Adam yell, “Where in the world are my lucky asparagus boxers?!”
