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The four pets felt like they were falling and flying
at the same time. Each let out a scream of pain. Soon the light disappeared.
The four pets had landed. They each were lying unconscious on the dirty floor
of a cavern.
Clyde slowly opened his eyes. He looked around
and saw that Spike, Methos5 and most importantly Artemisluv were okay. Clyde
then saw the Emerald Weapon sitting in front of him. It was no longer glowing.
He grabbed it and stood to his feet.
Then Clyde looked around more. They were in
a dark cave. It was cold. The cold sent shivers down Clyde back. He pulled his
trench coat on tighter. The only light in the room was coming from a torch on
the wall. It illuminated the room with red and orange firelight.
"Where in blooming Neopia are we?" asked Spike.
He and the others were now awake. They each also looked around the strange surroundings.
"Well, Spikey you are in a secret cave. The
cave of the Emerald Weapon. We are in the core of Neopia," said a voice. The
four Neopets turned around to see four more pets standing near them. The one
who had spoken was a mutant Korbat like Spike only he had very spiky bangs,
a velvet red collar, and no scar.
"Who are all of you?" asked Methos5 in his accent
that was like Spike’s.
The pet that answered looked like Methos5. He
was a pirate Aisha, only his outfit was black and white instead of red and white.
Also like Methos5 the Aisha had on black pants and a sword around the waist.
The last thing that differed from this Aisha and Methos5 was he had a scar over
his left eye and no eyepatch. The scar was a straight line above, over and under
the eye. "We are your opposites." The Aisha also had the same accent.
"Why are we here?" asked Clyde.
"Because the Emerald Weapon brought you here."
The Aisha that spoke this time looked a lot like Clyde. He was dressed in a
black Fedora hat and black trench coat. He also was spotted, only he was black
with brown spots.
"Why did it bring us here?" asked the very shaking
Artemisluv.
The last new pet was also a desert Aisha who
wore a different outfit. She was dressed in a black leather uniform. It sort
of looked like the one Koya the Korbat Huntress wore. The Aisha also had a sunburst
on her forehead. "Well, we needed to meet. I’m Apolloluv the Goddess of the
Neopian Sun."
"Yes, we better introduce ourselves. I’m Angelus_aka_angel,
you can call me Angel," the Korbat told them.
The pirate Aisha said, "I’m 3Kronos. Call me
Kronos."
"And I’m Frank__Hamer. Please, just Frank,"
the spotted Aisha said.
Clyde was getting very annoyed. "That is all
well and good, but I still don’t understand. How do we get home? What are we
supposed to be doing?"
"Oh you’ll find out!" Apolloluv said as she
jumped onto Artemisluv. Angel jumped on Spike as Kronos attacked Methos5. Then
the six were gone. They seemed to go through the floor. A puff of dust was all
that was left.
"NO! ARTEMISLUV!" screamed Clyde. He ran to
where she was standing and cried one tear.
"You see this is going to be one on one. I have
come for you Clyde!" Frank laughed. Clyde looked at him with cold eyes. He didn’t
even care about anything anymore. He ran to Frank and punched him in the face.
"What is this? I don’t get it," Clyde asked
again. His paw grabbed tightly to Frank’s trench coat collar.
"The Emerald Weapon is not really a weapon.
It created opposites. That is why the Dark Faerie and the Pant Devil could not
use it. The gem only works on Neopets," Frank told Clyde. Frank pulled Clyde’s
paw lose.
"Alright, but why do we have to fight?"
"Because we are fighting for Immortalmina. Whichever
pet wins gets to have her as their owner. The other pet will stay here in the
core of Neopia forever," Frank laughed even harder.
Clyde now understood. This was a fight to see
who was the better Aisha. "Fine lets get to it then." Clyde held up his paws
in a fighting position. He still, however, held the Emerald Weapon in his armpit.
"Put down the gem first." Frank told Clyde.
Clyde shook his head no. "There’s no way. If
this thing brought me here I’m not letting you have it. And besides, I have
already stolen it twice!" Clyde then put the gem under his hat. It was too hard
to fight while holding it.
"Suit yourself." Frank took out a black whip.
He swung it and it wrapped around Clyde’s waist. Clyde could no longer move
his arms as they were wrapped in the whip. "This is way too easy!" Frank shouted.
Clyde struggled to get loose. Frank just laughed.
Clyde’s paw could reach his pocket. Clyde then pulled out a small glass cutting
tool. He used it to get in windows when thieving. He then used it to cut through
the whip.
"What are you doing?" shouted Frank.
Soon, the whip fell to the ground in pieces.
Clyde reached inside his coat and pulled out a super poison dart. He threw it
and hit Frank in the arm. Frank pulled it out and looked at it. "A Super Poison
Dart? Used by thieves and assassins. I guess you’re a thief so you think you
should have one?" Frank then became a little tipsy.
"It worked, didn’t it?" Clyde laughed. He then
pulled out his own brown whip. He swung his in the air and wrapped it around
Frank’s arms and waist just like Frank had done to him. "Now this is way too
easy!"
Frank also did the same as Clyde. He took out
a small tool and cut his way through the whip. Clyde’s whip then laid on the
ground in pieces. "It looks like were are more the same then we thought."
"Yes, we are opposite and yet the same."
"Now what?" asked Frank.
"My next trick." Clyde reached into his coat
and pulled out a potion. It was gray with an eye on the outside. Clyde pulled
off the lid and held it towards Frank. A stream of light hit him in the eyes.
He started to grab at his eyes once the light was gone.
"A Stream of Light? You blinded me!" Clyde then
ran over to Frank and took off Frank’s coat. He pulled out a rope he had in
his coat and tied Frank up. This time he wasn’t getting lose. "Curse you, Clyde
the Aisha Thief!"
"You can curse me all you want, but I won!"
As Clyde said this the Emerald Weapon began to glow again. Clyde then felt the
light hit him again. He left Frank and the cave. Clyde hopped he was going to
help Artemisluv. That’s where he wanted to go most.
Clyde opened his eyes and he was in another
room. The room was darker and colder then the room he was first in. The only
light was the soft green glow that came from the Emerald Weapon, which was now
in his paws. Clyde didn’t like this one bit. He then could hear fighting coming
from somewhere near him. He ran around the room but he couldn’t get out. "I
hope Artemisluv is okay," he told himself.
Clyde tried to get out with all his might. He
even tried to force the gem to work. Nothing seemed to help. Clyde finally gave
up and sat on the dirty floor. He knew he had to wait.
To be continued...
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