Post by felabba on Jan 23, 2003 0:05:29 GMT -5
The end of the first section, 2,191 words long in all:
Blazing Fang immediately strode forward to greet his old friend, Sabre-X, paw outstretched.
Sabre-X shook the proferred paw without thinking, and smiled back at one of bravest Neopian heroes he had ever known, before a very strange look came over his face.
“OWWW!!” He yelped, retracting the paw and shaking it up and down. Blazing Fang raised an eyebrow, and noted the rest of the bruises that Sabre-X was wearing.
“What in Neopia happened to you? You look…well, crushed.”
“A tonu sat on me,” Sabre-X grumbled.
“A tonu? And I supposed one Tonu did all this damage?”
“It was a very big Tonu.”
“Ah.”
“And not just any Tonu.” As he spoke, Sabre-X lead Blazing Fang through the wreckage. “We’ve been worried about this for quite a while. As the omelette superviser, I knew the dangers most of all. You see, legend is that a giant dinosaur lays the eggs for the omelette in Tyrannia. You’ve heard of it, of course?”
“Yes, you get the full details whenever you come down for a piece of omelette,” Blazing Fang replied dryly.
“It’s a lie. The Tonu that did all this is the one who’d been laying eggs all this time. It spent the whole day turning one out. I think it finally decided it couldn’t spend the rest of its life sitting around laying eggs. Hence stomp, stomp, stomp. Blazing Fang, I know the council members should have done something sooner, but this doesn’t mean that a Tonu who’s about to destroy everything in the near vicinity is completely in the right. That’s why I’m asking you t -”
“Hold on a second there,” Blazing Fang interrupted. “Why assume that -”
“We’ll do it!” cried Zebhead, previously unnoticed until now by Sabre-X. The small, blue zebba puffed out his chest and put his hands on his hips. “Blazing Fang is the greatest hero of Neopia there is! He can do anything!”
Blazing Fang started to make frantic waving gestures at the zebba.
“I can tell you that this job will take a while, but assure you all the same that it can be done…”
How peculiar. Blazing Fang was now making strange slashing motions with his paws.
“…and as the bravest lupe ever, Blazing Fang is the best choice for the part.”
At this point you could almost swear that Blazing Fang was miming a noose...
“Excellent! I’ll fill you in on the details immediately,” Sabre-X said with a grin.
“I never agreed to this,” Blazing Fang mumbled in a rather disagreeable way.
“So, according to Sabre-X, the tonu headed further down into the Tyrannian jungle,” Blazing Fang informed Zebhead. “And before you say anything – one, we find it by following this rather convienent trail of destruction, and two, we are going after the Tonu even though it doesn’t appear to be heading towards any other villages.”
Zebhead pondered this for a few seconds from his position atop Blazing Fang’s head. Finally he relented and asked the question he knew Blazing Fang was waiting for: “Alright then, why are we still going after it?”
“Because what lies at the end of this jungle is a crevisse. And above that is Terror Mountain. Once the Tonu reaches Terror Mountain, it can lay waste to that world as well.”
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Blazing Fang immediately strode forward to greet his old friend, Sabre-X, paw outstretched.
Sabre-X shook the proferred paw without thinking, and smiled back at one of bravest Neopian heroes he had ever known, before a very strange look came over his face.
“OWWW!!” He yelped, retracting the paw and shaking it up and down. Blazing Fang raised an eyebrow, and noted the rest of the bruises that Sabre-X was wearing.
“What in Neopia happened to you? You look…well, crushed.”
“A tonu sat on me,” Sabre-X grumbled.
“A tonu? And I supposed one Tonu did all this damage?”
“It was a very big Tonu.”
“Ah.”
“And not just any Tonu.” As he spoke, Sabre-X lead Blazing Fang through the wreckage. “We’ve been worried about this for quite a while. As the omelette superviser, I knew the dangers most of all. You see, legend is that a giant dinosaur lays the eggs for the omelette in Tyrannia. You’ve heard of it, of course?”
“Yes, you get the full details whenever you come down for a piece of omelette,” Blazing Fang replied dryly.
“It’s a lie. The Tonu that did all this is the one who’d been laying eggs all this time. It spent the whole day turning one out. I think it finally decided it couldn’t spend the rest of its life sitting around laying eggs. Hence stomp, stomp, stomp. Blazing Fang, I know the council members should have done something sooner, but this doesn’t mean that a Tonu who’s about to destroy everything in the near vicinity is completely in the right. That’s why I’m asking you t -”
“Hold on a second there,” Blazing Fang interrupted. “Why assume that -”
“We’ll do it!” cried Zebhead, previously unnoticed until now by Sabre-X. The small, blue zebba puffed out his chest and put his hands on his hips. “Blazing Fang is the greatest hero of Neopia there is! He can do anything!”
Blazing Fang started to make frantic waving gestures at the zebba.
“I can tell you that this job will take a while, but assure you all the same that it can be done…”
How peculiar. Blazing Fang was now making strange slashing motions with his paws.
“…and as the bravest lupe ever, Blazing Fang is the best choice for the part.”
At this point you could almost swear that Blazing Fang was miming a noose...
“Excellent! I’ll fill you in on the details immediately,” Sabre-X said with a grin.
“I never agreed to this,” Blazing Fang mumbled in a rather disagreeable way.
“So, according to Sabre-X, the tonu headed further down into the Tyrannian jungle,” Blazing Fang informed Zebhead. “And before you say anything – one, we find it by following this rather convienent trail of destruction, and two, we are going after the Tonu even though it doesn’t appear to be heading towards any other villages.”
Zebhead pondered this for a few seconds from his position atop Blazing Fang’s head. Finally he relented and asked the question he knew Blazing Fang was waiting for: “Alright then, why are we still going after it?”
“Because what lies at the end of this jungle is a crevisse. And above that is Terror Mountain. Once the Tonu reaches Terror Mountain, it can lay waste to that world as well.”
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