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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2010 20:56:48 GMT -5
Saeryennan and Schala noticed the three pets run up to the observatory just as Mima entered the Hall.
"Let's go," she said. "Last time I saved this kingdom the constellations shifted. If they did this time I might be able to determine something..."
The sisters followed Altador's princess up to the tower, where she subsequently took a peek through the telescope. However, something caught her eye before she got a chance to look at the constellations.
"Darigan soldiers!" she gasped. "What are they doing here?!"
There was definite anger in her eyes.
"With my father out solving the Faerie fiasco and my mother who knows where, the duty of protecting this kingdom falls to me," she said solemnly.
"Saery, no! You're not going out there!" said Schala.
"I have to," the princess replied. "I currently hold the position of Queen of Altador, and I have to save my kingdom! See, I stopped a wicked Air Faerie from taking over, and I can do the same with this lot!"
Before anyone could protest, she raced outside to the park.
"Stop!" she said. "Look here! Until my parents return, I stand as Queen, and I want to know what in Fyora's name you are doing in my kingdom!"
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Post by Dju on Nov 13, 2010 21:01:08 GMT -5
"What is she doing?!" Victor asked as he saw the princess run outside "Let me deal with that...take care of constellations while this." Kim said firmly, she ran after the cybunny "HEY! You must stay safe, risking yourself out here won't help at all! Altador needs its Queen!" she said "We need your help upstairs, Victor isin't the best with atronomy and I believe you can understand it! Please, come with us...maybe we can find some sort of spell..."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2010 21:29:38 GMT -5
Saeryennan turned to the Xweetok.
"Yeah," she said after a while. "I guess you're right. I mean if I'm to...rule...then I can't be here..."
She walked back in and up to the Astronomy Tower.
"Now," she said amidst Schala's cries of "Saery!" "What is it you wanted to show me" -
Her eyes caught sight of the map.
"Oh dear...no, this...this isn't good at all..."
Mima, who had also been looking at the map, suggested that they hit the books.
"I don't think there's any book on this," her sister said.
"Quite to the contrary, I believe so!" Mima snapped. "The soldiers out there belong to the Citadel of Darigan, so we need to know what sort of powers Darigan pets possess. If they have innate dark magical abilities, then we need to counter it with the power of light..."
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Nov 13, 2010 22:07:05 GMT -5
(It's going to be much more difficult than that...)
"Alright, they're in. We should follow them.. Hunter?" Miraja walked up to her boyfriend. "Why are you still out here? It's not safe!"
"I just... Have a bad feeling." Hunter gazed into Miraja's eyes. "Stay safe. If they attack the Hall of Heroes, I'm sure there's a secret passage way to get to." Hunter then kissed Miraja, and the two separated. "Vulcan, you stay with Miraja. Understand?" The young Scorchio saluted the Meridellian knight, and ran off after Miraja.
In the meantime, Fang, Zarkos and Tyranno were bust fending off their demonic adversaries. "This is the most fun I've had in years! Hahahahahaah!" Fang twirled his scythe around, creating a dark vortex, which sucked in various Dariganian Neopets to drop them off in a place unknown! "While you're busy doing that," Zarkos stated, "I'm making sure the civlians are safe!" After throwing his hookblade to grab an enemy Darigan Bori, he pulled back on its chain and used the Bori as a living wrecking ball!
Meanwhile, Miraja and Vulcan had joined the others in the observatory. "Alright, Vulcan. I need you to keep an eye on those three kids." She gestured towards Saly, Victor and Kim. "Your Highness, I am First Princess Miraja of Shenkuu. I'd say it's nice to meet you, but under these conditions..."
Unfortunately, even as Vulcan started to escort the three younger Neopians to a secret passage, neither Saeryennan or Miraja heard the sound of evil wings beating against the air until it was too late! A tall, fearsome Darigan Eyrie landed in front of the telescope's lens, and then used incredible strength to rip the telescope out of the observatory, throwing it outside of the Hall of Heroes! He then landed, a demonic grin on his beak "Ah, Princess Saeryennan... What an honor it is to meet you. I'm sure you've heard of me, but in case you haven't... My name is Lord Kass." He walked over to Saeryennan, as his two Eyrie Guards grabbed Mima and Schala, but then intercepted Miraja, grabbing her by her neck as she jumped down to strike him with her fan! "Oh, and isn't THIS a pleasant surprise! The bride-to-be of my hated enemy sir..." Kass hesitated, scowling as if he was reluctant to even mention the name, "Hunter Penn of Meridell... I can see why he fell for you, my dear. You're quite beautiful." He grinned wickedly at her. "Of course, I didn't come here for you, but you could make some most wonderful bait for a plan I just hatched! Who would have thought that I'd stumble upon the perfect opportunity for revenge, just as I was about to conquer the land of Altador?" Kass laughed icily, his red eyes unable to hide his sadistic glee.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2010 22:20:11 GMT -5
Fear appeared in Saeryennan's eyes as she saw the events unfold before her.
She would call to Nyvenne, the Faerie who gave her prophecy, but she was turned to stone. Saeryennan also had fair skill with swords, but there wasn't a single one in sight except for Kass's, and she wasn't going to be able to grab that one.
Utterly defenseless and alone for the first time in her life, the young Cybunny backed away, but she didn't let her fright show.
"Let my friends go!" she said. "They don't have anything you want!"
Hoping against hope, Mima was nevertheless glad that she had been granted powers of the air.
"Spark," she whispered, jamming her finger in the arm of the guard holding her. She didn't know how well it would work, but it was the one thing she had up her sleeve.
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Post by Dju on Nov 14, 2010 8:32:54 GMT -5
"We need to help, I'm sure eyrie vs. eyrie could be useful!" Victor protested as they entered the secret passage "Yeah right, go for it...Lord Kass against Victor, the kid. But maybe if Jeran could train you..." Saly mumbled with hope, imagining her big brother training with her idol "Wow, Kass is a bit good looking, huh?" Kim said after taking a last look at the worst enemy of Neopia "Shut up, Kim..." Victor demanded without believing what his sister just said. After following a long corridor, they went upstairs to a secret room, it had a king size bed on it, a fire place and a shelf full of the most mysterious books in Neopia "Wow...this is King Altador's Room!" Saly said admiring the paiting in the wall "I bet is the safest place in the tower!" Victor informed "We need to help them, all Neopia is in danger, the sooner we act, the sooner it will end!" Kim encouraged and began searching around the room for something useful, her family followed her "Hey, look at THIS sword!" Saly said grabbing a sword from under the bed, it was golden and silver "And it looks like I just found another secret passage..." Victor opened a door on the floor, quickly the room was filled with Lord Kass's voice "Let's throw this sword down there..." Saly whispered, Kim helped her and they throwed it, Victor quickly closed the door "I hope they didn't noticed where it came from...our friends know how to use it!"
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Nov 14, 2010 8:55:30 GMT -5
"Hey!" The guard lifted Mima up to his face, scowling. "You try a trick like that again, and I'll throw you into the Drackonack pit! Understand?"
"Never mind, you fools!" Kass glared at his guards, and tossed Miraja and Saeryennan at their feet. "Leave the children. We only need the princesses."
"But why do we need the Shenkuuvian princess?" One of the guards picked up Miraja and looked questioningly at Kass.
"IDIOT!" Kass placed his venom-laced dagger, Trithduril, at the throat of one of his guards! "She's... Bait, you might say. Weren't you listening, you idiot?" Kass's eye was twitching with rage.
"Let me go!" Miraja attempted to hit the pressure points of her foe, but the thick armor of the guard prevented it.
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Post by Dju on Nov 14, 2010 9:09:52 GMT -5
Victor opened the door a bit, he took a look inside "They are taking Miraja and Saeryennan!" he whispered "We can't let them do that! Vulcan, please...help us...help them!" Kim pleaded Vulcan "Saeryennan! Grab the sword while you can!" Victor whispered to the cybunny, but had to dodge another sword that broke the door "YOU TWERPS!" A citadel soldier roared "COME DOWN HERE AND FIGHT LIKE A MAN, CHICKEN!" Kass's minion's head showed up from the secret passage on the floor, Kim ran to a near by desk and grabbed a vase "That's what you get for being such a rude brute!" she said and left the vase fall on his head "let's get out here!" Saly said, but it was alredy too late, Citadel knights were coming by the main passage way "Look what we got here, kids..."
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Nov 14, 2010 9:29:00 GMT -5
"I can't help them! I'm... I'm not strong enough to take on Kass! The guy almost took over Meridell before! And if he c-can come back from the dead, who knows how powerful he is?!" Vulcan hurried the kids along, slinging his boomerang this way and that to disorient the Citadel knights.
Meanwhile, outside of the Hall of Heroes, Hunter, Zarkos, Tyranno and Fang had reunited. "Where are Miraja and Vulcan?" Zarkos queried.
Hunter started to explain. "They're in the Hall, so they're-"
"Not safe." Zarkos gestured at the Citadel Knights flying out of the observatory, and Hunter was shocked at what he saw.
"Miraja! No!" Hunter tried to climb up the walls of the Hall of Heroes, but the rain made it too slick.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2010 11:06:26 GMT -5
By now, Mima was shaking with fright. She didn't know what to do. She needed to save her friends if she could...
By a stroke of luck, Saeryennan managed to intercept her father's sword from the speckled Eyrie. She then came down hard on the weapon of the guard holding Schala, hoping it would clatter to the ground and her friend would be set free.
"Listen," she whispered to Schala. "Take the secret passage to Altador Palace. You and your sister can hide in my room."
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Post by Dju on Nov 14, 2010 11:06:46 GMT -5
"Oh my! It's raining...ON ALTADOR!" Victor said in shock "Stay quiet and open your wings before WE DIE!" Kim demanded, Victor let her and the others climb on his back "Hold tight!" the eyrie warned and jumped, opening his wings and soaring over the depressing city "Look! They're flying back to Darigan Citadel!" Saly pointed at the flying neopets, Lord Kass was carrying Miraja himself "He got the princess! Both of them!" Victor pointed, he got a little closer to the enemies "Hey there Kass!" Kim winked to the purple eyrie "YOU'RE CRAZY! HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO NOTICE US!" Victor shouted to his insane xweetok sister, Victor landed and the trio ran to Hunter, Zarkos, Tyranno and Fang "We need to get those guys, they got the princesses!" Saly told them
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Nov 14, 2010 12:16:24 GMT -5
"The Darigan Citadel shouldn't be here..." Hunter gazed, his mouth agape, at the flying fortress. "Is he trying to use the Citadel itself as a weapon?!"
"Never mind that, we got pirate problems!" Fang pointed at the harbor, where a massive ship with black sails rose up out of the ocean.
Zarkos let out a furious cry as he saw that the ship was covered in Maractite plating. "No! It can't be!" It was the Revenge, and all of that Maractite could only mean one thing; Maraqua had fallen. "No!"
On the Revenge, a Green Lupe Pirate, his good eye glinting with rage. "After Maraqua, Altador will be no challenge! Kass promised us all the treasure we could plunder!" The Revenge sailed into Altador's harbor, an army of pirates emerging from it and its surrounding fleet of ships. Scarblade then looked back at the locket he wore around his neck. "Merra... I can only hope ye forgive me fer what I've done."
(OoC: Scarblade is kind of like Davy Jones, in that he's a much more tragic villain than Kass. However, the acts he's committed are still inexcusable. And yes, Kass has assembled what's essentially a legion of doom.)
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Post by Dju on Nov 14, 2010 12:51:02 GMT -5
(That's nice Not for Neopia, though XD) "This is a disaster!" Kim pointed at the pirate's ship, the Darkest Faerie's statue was there, covered in kelp "Are they going to revive her?!" Saly asked in panic, if The Darkest faerie returned it would be even harder defeating Kass! Scarblade walked over the statue that was resting in the center of the deck "Soon you'll have many subjects...if you help Lord Kass." Scarblade said as if he was making a deal with her, the statue seemed to be smilling "Help us conquer Neopia and you'll be free! You'll control Faerie Land!" the pirate shouted furiously, suddely the statue's eye became purple, they shined with evil and then all the statue was glowing, the light was breaking the stone, it exploded and a delicate faerie stood there, she looked peaceful and kind with her eyes shut, but when she opened them all the peace was gone "HAHAHAH!" she moved her bat wings and laughed, all the pirates admired her wicked beauty "My dear...dear friends...I should say I never had such a nice proposal in all my existence..." she smirked at Scarblade "It's a deal." she informed and all the pirates began shouting "Victory!", the faerie flied up on the sky and admired the grey city, she soon spotted the adventurers, she landed in front of them "Looks like we still have seven rats left!" she laughed and then noticed Hunter "I means six rats..."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2010 13:18:27 GMT -5
Schala was the first to notice the Darkest Faerie aboard the ship as she glanced out the window.
She had it! She was the only one who knew the true story. Of course Queen Sakura would want to rule Faerieland! It was rightfully hers! However, the effect of her younger sister doing that to her would of course leave her off her rocker...if only Schala could contact Siyana, who had told her of a time when she knew a kind, gentle Darkest FAerie called Sakura who also happened to be her best friend. But all the Faeries were stone...which meant the Darkest Faerie couldn't stand there much longer...
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Post by Dju on Nov 14, 2010 13:32:35 GMT -5
"Hunter...you are one worthy warrior..." the Darkest faerie smirked but he expression turned into a painful one, she looked at her wings, they were turning back into stone! "IDIOTS!" she roared to the pirates, Scarblade laughed "Use your necklace, dear friend!" he said, then the faerie noticed a red brilliant amulet "This wasn't here before..." she mumbled and touched the necklace, it glowed with a golden light and her wings changed back into normal "We need to get the amulet! Without it, she'll be changed back into stone!" Saly whsipered to her friends "Now, where were I? Ah yes, six rats and a warrior..."
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