Castle of the Northwind

by mistress_angie

Hiiro_Yui_01 gave a slight smile which no one saw. As he trotted along after his owner he remember how much fun it had been today. Mistress_Angie had gone shopping with her two friends Random_Ozzie and Kurohyou. All of their pets had come including Mistress_Angie’s blue Shoyru Star_Jumper, Faerie Kougra Roami_ and her silver Shoyru Aerisiya. It had been a special celebration for the Mistress’s pets.

She had taken some money out of her bank account to go shopping. Usually she was always saving her points, but today she had withdrawn a fair amount of points for shopping and games.

During the day the whole lot of them had played games and shopped for toys. Hiiro even got a new high score for one of the games. He had been playing Meerca Chase and had over 700 points and was going higher until Kurohyou’s pet, Duo_Maxwell_02_ had insisted it was his turn and grabbed the controls from Hiiro.

The Meerca crashed and Hiiro got a game over. When he went to turn in his ticket for his Neopoints and plushie no one was at the counter. Mistress_Angie said it was all right and he had still gotten a high score for their score table. Hiiro would have went after Duo with his Chia Bubble Gun had the Mistress told him not to.

Kurohyou and Random_Ozzie had left at sundown but Misstres_Angie had stayed to do some food shopping. All of the pets had gotten new toys. Hiiro was glad, his old monkey puppet had been stolen by the pant devil. Hiiro smiled yet another unnoticed smile. A loud rustle in the path a head drew Hiiro’s attention to the present time. He tried to regain his emotionless status. From the bushes up ahead a shadowed figure appeared. Startled the Mistress drew a Sword of Domar from the bag of items she had recently bought.

“Who are you?” she called, a hint of fear was in her voice. The figure chuckled and Hiiro growled.

“Why, I am Viand. Soon to be the most powerful ruler of Neopia! Seeing as I am soon to be king I thought I could use a slave. You look fit.” Viand said, stepping from the shadows. He was a rather tall person; he wore a billowing black cloak and robe. A Dark purple orb fastened the cloak around his neck. He held a worn dark brown staff in one hand and had the other cupped around his chin, studying Mistress_Angie. Hiiro stepped out in front of his owner, the other pets covered he sides.

“Ah. I see you will not give her up without a fight, eh? Fine a challenge.” With that he leveled his staff at the Mistress. A beam of dark light shot out an enveloped her. After the light cleared she was gone.

“I will be waiting in the castle of the Northwind. Find and defeat me and she will be returned. Fail and she and you shall be severely punished!” With that Viand disappeared in a burst of black smoke.

“No! Now the Mistress is gone! What will we do?!” Roami_ cried, tears spilling from his eyes. Aerisiya put a reassuring paw on his shoulder.

“We have to go to this “Castle of the Northwind” place. Then we can get her back.” Roami_’s tears ceased at Aeisiya’s words.

“I think I know where that is. Think, the north most spot in Neopian is Faerieland and that’s where the winds come from. If we travel to Faerieland we just might find her.” Hiiro said as he turned towards the others. His cold, Persian blue eyes showed no emotion.

“You know Hiiro? I think that’s just crazy enough to be right!” _ StarJumper _ said.

So all of the pets traveled to Faerieland. It took them about two days to get there. They used the items they had bought to provide them with food along the way. They traveled extremely fast so the would get there quicker. When they did they all stopped to stare in wonder at the beautiful tall buildings.

“Okay, Hiiro. We’re in Faerieland, now where’s our castle?” Roami_ asked going to lean against a building. To his surprise he ran into something on the way.

“Ow! What is this thing?!” Roami_ asked, rapping his paw on the invisible hard stone.

“I think it’s the Hidden Tower.” Aerisiya told them. She searched around for a moment the signaled the others over.

“Look.” There’s a staircase right here. We can go inside.” So the pets did. They followed the narrow winding staircase to the top of the tower where they found the Faerie Queen standing in a room full of extremely rare items that were for sale.

“Oh my! You look so tired! Why don’t you stay here and rest?” She offered the pets.

“We have no time for rest. But we do have a question. Do you know of a castle of the Northwind?” Hiiro asked. The Faerie Queen’s eyes lit up.

“Yes. I do. I was a secret castle where faeries once resided without fear of being captured. It was just recently taken over by a dark lord, rearranged to his evil liking, and renamed to Deathblow Castle. Who told you of this?”

“Our owner was taken by a guy named Viand to be his slave. He told us we would find her at that castle.” _ StarJumper _ said.

“I see. I can guide you to the path that leads to the castle but you must travel it yourselves.” The Faerie Queen reached into a nearby bag and pulled out four bottles of healing potion.

“I am sorry to say this is all I can give you without loosing too much.” She handed each pet a bottle. “I’ll show you to the path now.

The Faerie Queen led them to a hidden staircase that was on the roof of the Hidden Tower. Bidding them farewell she disappeared back into the tower. The pets started climbing, it didn’t take long for them to reach the grand double doors of a huge pitch-black castle.

Inside the castle was a long hall. At the end of the hall was a set of large double doors. Guarding the doors were two Lupes. Using the combined power of Hiiro’s and Aerisiya’s Smoke Screen they were able to sneak by.

As the pets passed through the doors they found themselves in a huge room. Viand sat on a high throne, painted black. He smiled as they entered.

“Well if it isn’t the pets I challenged. I’ve been waiting. Your Mistress is here. Come and get her.” With this he drew a small bottle from his cloak. It was the kind of bottle captured faeries were kept in, but this one held Mistress_Angie. Her hands were tied in front of her and her clothes were in tatters. She was kneeling at the bottom of the bottle, crying. She had been shrunken down to the size of a Faerie

Viand laughed cruelly at the dumbfounded expressions on the four pets faces. He gave the bottle a few shakes, jostling Mistress_Angie up and down. She landed on her stomach with a pained expression. That was it. Hiiro had had it. Leading the others he charged at Viand. All of the pets fought using tooth and nail. They all received painful blows but it showed that four pets against one gave them an advantage.

After some time Hiiro figured out a plan. He waited for the right moment, and just after Viand missed a shot at Aerisiya he fired his Chia Bubble Gun, knocking the bottle that held his owner out of his hands. The bottle flew through the air then shattered on the stone floor.

A puddle of green light spilled from the broken shards and formed itself into Mistress_Angie. She was her full size again. The ties around her wrists were snapped.

“NO! If I cannot win then I will make sure you will not have her back!” Viand cried, shooting a dark blast of energy at the Mistress. She fell to the floor, looking quite faint.

Enraged, Hiiro grabbed Viand's staff and poke it into his chest. A deep black liquid that looked an awful lot like ink oozed from the wound. Again, Viand disappeared into a cloud of black smoke. This time though it was a very foul smelling smoke. Hiiro and the others gathered around Mistress_Angie. She looked faint but wasn’t quite yet. Using the healing potions from the Faerie Queen they healed themselves then they carried the Mistress back down to the tower. When they got there the Faerie Queen helped them get her to the hospital.

The nurse at the hospital said it might take some time for them to help the pets’ owner so Hiiro and the others deiced to wait. As the others fell asleep waiting Hiiro stayed up. Waiting for the doctor to tell him Mistress_ Angie was all right. He felt himself dozing off when a hand shook his shoulder. The nurse was in front of him with the other pets. She told him that the Mistress was all right and that she was awake now.

Hiiro followed the nurse down a hall to a room. Inside the room Mistress_Angie was lying on a bed, bandages and wires that hocked up to odd machines were all over her. She smiled as the nurse brought them in. Hiiro resisted the urge to jump up onto the bed like the others just had. He had to be perfect, emotionless. A small smile appeared on Hiiro’s face anyway. So what if they saw just this once.

The End

Author’s Note: The names I used in this story are real. I do have two Neofriends called Kurohyou and Random_Ozzie. I do actually have all the pets I said I did, and Duo_Maxwell_02_ is a real pet of Kurohyou’s.