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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 5, 2011 18:44:31 GMT -5
It was too late. Halbard had already made his escape and had flown back to Attilus. "Master, I-Grrrk!"
Attilus lifted the Eyrie by his throat, slowly strangling him with one hand. "Yes. I know. You've failed me again, Halbard. And this was your last chance." Attilus stabbed Halbard with a poison-tipped dagger. "Take him somewhere far. Even if he survives, he won't know where he is." His minions dragged the unconscious Eyrie away...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2011 18:58:15 GMT -5
"Well, if he comes back, we'll know what he's up to," Caylis said darkly. "Now, Schala, we were going to search for your friend, yes?"
Schala nodded.
"I think we should divide up into teams," said Saeryennan. "All of us are going to look for Kim in a different location. Mima, Schala, Caylis, would you three come with me?"
All of them walked toward Saeryennan.
"And I get Katorcia," Fiyeri said. "And the Hissi too. That way he won't get into trouble for fear of getting yelled at!"
Meanwhile, the Queen of Altador had also slipped out. She was headed back to her sister's library...
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Post by Dju on Jan 5, 2011 18:59:32 GMT -5
Kim sneaked through the mysterious palace, she escaped the arena but there was still a lot to escape from, those guards were strong! But the weirdest thing was, where was she? How did she got there? Who kidnapped her and why? A fan wouldn't cause that much trouble... Kim stopped walking when she heard voices coming from a large room, she holded herself against the wall and spied inside...just to watch a horrible scene, a familiar gray eyrie was stabbed and was being carried away, for a moment Kim felt pity for the neopet, but he didn't seem to be a good guy. Kim focused on escaping again, she began walking once more, searching for an exist. "THIEF!" she heard a guard point "Oh great." she hissed, putting her hood and goggles on. Kim was involved on a new fight, she against two skeith guards. The xweetok hitted the neopets right on the face and punched their chests, at the same time "Hope I didn't make much noise." she bit her lips nervously, looking around for more enemies.
"YAAAAAY! I'll call dad!" Saly said with happiness, the lupe ran towards those emergency phones on the corridor and began punching the buttoms "HELLO? SLED LUPES PATROL CENTER BLAH BLAH?" she screamed "Yah dad! It's me! We need a sled with your team here, don't worry about security...yeah there are many warriors here! It should be a safe trip!" she explained to the other neopet in the line "Who we're gonna rescue? Uh...Kim." she said, there was a loud noise coming from the phone, the mysterious neopet was yelling...and really loud. "Relaaaax, we're working on it!" she hanged up. "So who's coming with us?" Saly asked the group with puppy eyes.
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 6, 2011 21:25:56 GMT -5
Hunter shook his head. "I'm not." It was enough to see one feral Lupe, but the idea that other Neopians used them to pull sleds unnerved him. He had noticed Kalara slip out of the lodge, and had spoken with his teammates to follow her. "I'm going to go find Kalara. Knowing Fang, he probably went after her to try and find some dark scrolls in Xandra's library."
Hunter was right. The Hissi warlock had hidden in Kalara's shadow. He was determined to see what secrets Xandra hid, and how he could use them to become even more powerful.
"Isca, Caylis. Stay. Here. And don't get into any trouble." Zarkos embraced his two adopted daughters and grabbed his anchor. "Father's going with his friends to keep his... Other 'friend' from ruining everything."
"Uhhhh... How're we all gonna git t' Faerieland?" Tyranno scratched his head, seemingly forgetting Faerieland's fate.
"Tyranno... It crashed. Remember?" Vulcangave Tyranno a puzzled look. "How about you make us an earth wave and you, me and Zarkos can-"
"I'm taking my own route." Zarkos slammed his anchor through a frozen river, and dove underneath into the icy water.
"Okay, then. Tyranno and I are taking an Earth wave! See you guys there!" Vulcan rolled up into his shell and Tyranno placed the Bori into a bag on his back, and Tyranno jumped out of the lodge and had charged away on an Earth wave of the rock beneath the ice.
"Guess that leaves you and me on a nice flight." Miraja winked to Hunter. "We don't have all day, Lightfoot!" She shouted as she unfolded her fan into a glider. For this trip, Miraja decided it would be best if she used it to surf the skies, and she placed her feet in two footholds that appeared, and when she had used wind currents to raise it in the air, Hunter strapped himself in beneath it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2011 21:38:24 GMT -5
Caylis sighed. She would stay if Zarkos wanted her to. She turned to Saeryennan and her friends with a look of understanding. They returned it.
"To Brightvale, then!" the princess cried out brightly.
"I can get you there," her father said. "Come on, let's get in the Faerie coach!"
Outside, Nyvenne was waiting for them in an enchanted carriage. When everyone settled in, she used her powers to give flight to the carriage and directed it towards Brightvale.
"Good luck," Caylis said softly, watching from the window.
"Katorcia!" Fiyeri scolded as she got up from her rough landing in Altador. "You really are a klutz!"
"Well," the Korbat said, brushing bits of branches off herself, "aren't you the one who suggested I try to carry you here while flying?! Not a good idea, Fiyeri."
"Never mind," she said. "Now, let's find this Xweetok!"
Kalara, of course, thought she was completely alone as she knocked on Xandra's door.
Xandra, who had been sitting in a chair reading, leapt up when she heard the knock. Kalara was back!
She walked up and opened the door.
"Alyxandra!" Kalara said, embracing her sister. "I could never let you spend Christmas alone."
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 6, 2011 21:53:07 GMT -5
"Behind you!" Xandra readied a blast of magic to protect her older sister, as what she thought was an enemy rose up from the shadows...
"Relax, relax. We're all Faerie-hating sorcerer's here!" Fang lowered his hand and bowed to Xandra, kissing her on the hand. "It's so nice to be in the company of the one who was behind the Ruin of the Faeries." A card appeared in Fang's hand in a puff of smoke. "My card. Fang, Sorceror of Shadows, Reaper of the Sands, Seeker of the Dark Beyond, Keeper of Eldritch Tomes, and Lord of the Dance. But you can just call me Fang." Fang immediately slithered over to a rather tall chair and sat down. "So, do you hate the Faeries for the same reason I do? They're prissy, sparkly, shallow egomaniacs? Because I LOATHE Faeries. Why, I never even NEEDED their help to become so powerful, and-"
There was a loud, incessant knocking at the door. "HULLO, IS ANYBODY IN THAR?!" Tyranno boomed, as his fist slammed into the door, smashing a hole right through it. "Oops."
"I can fix that..." Vulcan jumped out of the absket on Tyranno's back and got to work patching up the hole. "Man, this library is awesome, I just hope Xandra isn'- OH CRAP IT'S XANDRA!" Vulcan readied his wrench for battle. It wasn't necessary though.
"WHAT. ARE ALL. OF YOU. DOING. IN. MY. HOUSE?!?!" The Speckled Xweetok had a surprisingly loud scream, and even Tyranno had to cover his ears.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2011 22:05:01 GMT -5
"H-how did you find me here?" Kalara asked Fang. "And why? I just wanted to make sure she was safe!"
Something else had occurred to her during Fang's little speech.
"I'll bet you only hate Faeries because Nyvenne asked you too many questions," she said. "Anyway, Xandra, I wanted to tell you that there's a suspicious Grey Eyrie wandering around, and he must have kidnapped a friend of Saeryennan's. She's got some friends and they're looking for her."
"Get. Out." Xandra snarled. "I only want to see my sister."
Kalara gasped. She had never told anyone, not even her husband and daughter! And now some random Grarrl and Bori - not to mention a Hissi who would probably blab - knew her secret!
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 6, 2011 22:15:24 GMT -5
".... Ah know when Ah ain't wanted. C'mon, li'l buddy. Let's go." Tyranno and Vulcan started to walk towards the door when it slammed open! "Oh, howdy, Zarkos!"
"Hrmph." Zarkos then glared at Xandra. "I have something to talk about with you." Zarkos loathed Xandra almost as much as he loathed Scarblade. Anyone who would willingly destroy an entire land was pure evil in his eyes.
Suddenly, a Lupe and a Xweetok fell down the chimney. "Oof!" Hunter had landed on top of Miraja,, and the two were covered in soot.
"Get up, Hunter! I can't move under you and your armor!" Miraja gave Hunter "the look."
"Sorry..." He picked himself up and assisted Miraja in getting up. "Now... Xandra. We're going to make sure you never harm anyone else again." The heroes (and the Hissi who seemed to be completely uncategorizable) all readied their weapons.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2011 22:21:54 GMT -5
"NO!"
The Queen of Altador instinctively stepped in front of her sister.
"Don't hurt her...she's my sister! When I was a little girl, she was stolen from me and I never saw her again until...until..." Tears welled up in her eyes.
"The point is...is that...I-I won't let you!"
"You have a sister?!"
Saeryennan stepped out of her carriage, Mima, Schala, King Altador and Nyvenne close behind her. Nyvenne had seen Hunter and Miraja fly into the woods, where she knew this would happen. She did, after all, have prophecy.
"Kalara!" Altador said. "Is this true?!"
Tears streamed down the Wocky Queen's face.
"I didn't tell you...I thought I had lost her and then when..."
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Post by Dju on Jan 7, 2011 8:22:25 GMT -5
"Looks like we're going alone..." Saly sighed sadly "Relax, as soon as we find Kim we're going back to stalk them." Victor tried to cheer the little lupe, she returned a little smile, but a noise outside made her even more happy. It was the sled lupes team! Saly ran to the window so she could see them, it was a team formed by 7 lupes addicted to sled races, all of them were part of their family! On the lead, Thunder, a quite strong shadow lupe with some scars on his tail, that was their so called father! Right behind him stood more two lupes, a pink one called Mia, and their green mother, Kayla. There were more of them behind, a camouflage, a desert, yellow and a silver lupe, but lets meet them in the way. Saly and Victor ran outside, grabbing their scarves and hoods "DAAAAD! MOOM!" Saly hugged Thunder and Kayla "It's good to see you, furball!" the camouflage lupe on the 4th position called "Duma!"she hugged him and the other ones, too! "It's good to see you two, but I'd prefer to meet all three..." Kayla sighed with worry, walking back to her place "We're going to get Kim right away. But tell me...where are the so called warriors?" Thunder asked, he was a good father, but took his missions seriously. "Eeerrm...they sort of...they have to go to another mission..." Saly said with embarrassment "Nice going, now where gonna be killed by snow beasts!" Duma, the camouflage lupe, teased. Thunder sighed, he wasn't expecting their team would be unprotected, Victor and Saly hopped on the sled and the lupes began running and sniffing the floor "She went West, dad!" the silver lupe, Francis, shouted to Thunder. "Victor, who are the warriors?" the mysterious desert lupe asked with interest, he was really close to the sled "Ah...a knight called Hunter and his wife, Princess Miraja...Princess Saeryenna...Schala..Mima...a sorceror called Fang..." Victor said, naming the adventurers "FANG?!" the desert neopet snarled "THE Fang? Reaper of the sands and lord of the dance?" he asked with fury, his eyes open wide "Yeah, Anubis. Why you ask?" Victor looked a bit scared at his brother's reaction, Anubis was famous at being extremely zen, Kayla and Thunder were at Sakhmet when he was born, that explains his different habits. "He's very famous around the desert..." Anubis grumbled, it looks like he heard about the hissi before and wasn't a big fan... (( Oh, I consider the sled lupes community characters ^-^ So feel free to rp with them ))
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 7, 2011 20:52:23 GMT -5
"When what?" Hunter placed his hand on Kalara's shoulder. "Xandra... Tell us what happened to you."
Xandra just glared at Hunter. "I'm not telling you. You helped petrify me!"
"Perhaps I can help?" Fang rose out of Hunter's shadow and placed on of his hands on Xandra's head, and the other on Hunter's.
"Fang?! What are you-" Hunter suddenly went silent and closed his eyes, falling down on the floor.
"I swear I'll make you pay for thi-" Xandra spat, before she too collapsed on the floor.
"... Where am I? Is this... Altador?" Hunter awoke to find himself in an ethereal landscape. It looked like Altador, but something seemed off. "Nobody's even paying any attention to me... Maybe Fang warped me into the past." Hunter walked around the busy street until he bumped into a little Speckled Xweetok, who only appeared to be about eleven years of age. "Erm... I apologize... Xandra?!"
"How... How did you know my name, Mister Knight? Are you psychic?" Xandra smiled. She was an extremely cheerful child, who seemed to be wearing robes that were far too big for her small size. "Were you blessed by the Faeries, too?"
"Erm... Yes." Hunter wasn't sure what to think. This was Xandra; one of Neopia's most dangerous villains... And yet she was only a child at this point in time.
"What is your name, Mister Knight?" Xandra grinned widely, looking up at the tall Lupe. "Are you from Draconia? Because you look like Lord Penndragon!"
"... Lord Penndragon?" Draconia? Wasn't that the land that would become the Citadel? And he was descended from one of its previous Lords?
(Hunter's actually had his mind melded with Xandra's. He isn't in the past, but he's in the memories of her life.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2011 21:16:28 GMT -5
In the memory, another girl walked up to Xandra. This was a Green Wocky with shoulder-length orange frizzy hair. This was Kalara.
"Xandra, who is that?" she asked. She thought he looked rather handsome.
"I don't know, Kaly," Xandra said. "But I like him!"
"Well then," Kalara said, "welcome to the Land of Miarra. Our kingdom is ruled by a kind Fire Faerie. She has a daughter."
Many years later, this daughter called Katriana would seize power from her mother and rule horribly until King Altador and a heroic Dark Faerie called Sakura overthrew her.
"Kaly? Xandra?"
From a door came the head of a Green Xweetok with Kalara's hair.
"Now who is this?" the Xweetok said, walking up to Hunter. "My name is Katryca. It's ever so nice to meet you!"
Kalara looked with concern on her sister, but she appeared to be only unconcious. She wondered what the Hissi was doing.
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Post by Dju on Jan 7, 2011 21:19:56 GMT -5
Though there was a terrible blizzard going on, the lupe team was doing quite well on their journey. They didn't met with any beasts nor frozen lakes to cross over, Duma had Kim's scent on the tip of his nose and he felt they were getting closer and closer. "STOP!" Victor yelled, the lupes stopped running immediatly "I think I saw something over there." he pointed further, there was something gray and feathery collapsed on the ground. After a moment of hesitation, Saly hopped out of the small sled and walked over to the mysterious figure, it looked weak and familiar... (( I was thinking about the mysterious figure being Halbard, but I didn't confirm it because I wanted to know if you guys are okay with it first ^-^ ))
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Post by Fang of the Dead on Jan 8, 2011 17:04:39 GMT -5
(I has an idea...)
"... So... Cold..." The Faerie struggled to get off of her feet. "Why... Why did this happen..." She wore a parka, but it was an odd shade of gray. "... P-p-please, leave. I don't want any of you to f-f-freeze..." It was... Taelia?! And she had been turned into a Gray Faerie?! But how?!
"Queen Kalara?" Hunter bowed, seemingly fogetting that she wasn't queen yet. "And this is Miarra? I've... I have never heard of Miarra. "How far is Miarra from Draconia?"
"Not very far! Lord Penndragon has made friends with kings all over Neopia! Even that oaf, King Skarl I..." Xandra pouted. "I don't like him much at all."
"Erm... Same here." Hunter shrugged. How did Xandra go from such a sweet child to being... Well, a crazed sorceress?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2011 17:09:03 GMT -5
"'Queen'?" Kalara asked.
"Oh don't be silly Kaly," Xandra said. "He's only trying to flatter you."
Suddenly, the sky turned dark and the sounds of thunder could be heard.
"A storm!" Katryca gasped. "Alyxandra, Kalara, get inside the house!"
The 13-year-old Wocky grabbed her sister's hand and began to run toward a grand house. They did come from a rich family, after all, which is how she was able to meet the future king so easily.
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