Once upon a time there in a small, dark, dank cave lived a group of evil Korbats.
The leader of the group "Cheriko" summoned all of his fellow Korbats around
one day.
"Greetings fellow friends and family, I have called you all here today
because I have decided that it is time to venture of into the world together
and find a new home. Our cave is just too small with all the new arrivals coming
to us that we need our own space. I say enough with all the Kyriis and Kaus
and other creatures. We must find our own world for Korbats only and no other
NeoPet shall be allowed to step into this wondrous world."
All of the other Korbats nodded their heads.
So the next day, the Korbats were to take one thing from the land to take to
their new world and then in a gust of wind and wings they were off. It was a
wonderful site, red, blue, green, yellow Korbats flying through the air, and
in the lead their leader Cheriko in his golden colours all over him (when he
was a baby he was painted that way).
NeoPets from all over the world stared up into the sky, wondering what was
going on up there until suddenly a Uni soared up into the air and followed.
When they had arrived on this deserted land, they wandered around searching
for NeoPets but luckily for them, there were no other NeoPets on the land.
"Excuse me!" shouted a voice into Cheriko's ear. Cheriko got such a fright
at this that he fell off the rock that he was sitting on. "Sorry!" shouted the
voice again.
Cheriko looked up lazily into the eyes of the Uni. "What are you doing on our
land?" Cheriko yelled back, steaming with anger that someone had discovered
their world.
"I'm sorry, I was following you to see what you were all doing."
Cheiko and the other Korbats gathered around the Uni, looking shocked that
there was another species of some sort on their land. Cheriko had had enough
of chatting. He stood up and murmured a sort of curse beneath his breath. Suddenly
the Uni was thrown back and before she could say "Aaaaaaaaaah!" some
weeds had replaced her horn. She flew away sobbing and crying.
The Korbats got down on their knees and bowed to their brave and clever leader.
Later on that night, they slept soundly in their new world. But however the
next day something spoiled their dreams, an Eyrie had appeared. Cheriko, outraged
at this swooped down onto the same rock that he had sat on the day before and
faced the Eyrie The other group of Korbats also landed and circled the Eyrie.
"What do you come here for?" shouted Cheriko bravely.
The Eyrie replied, "You cursed my best friend the Uni and now I will repay
you for that!"
The Korbats around the soft grass were all shocked again and they let out great
"Ooooooh's!" and "Aaaahs!".
Cheriko muttered something else under his breath and a bright light shot out
from his outstretched wings and hit the Eyrie on his beak. Slowly, the golden
yellow beak turned to mould. The Eyrie flew away petrified of being cursed again
and didn't return.
At this the Korbats knew that they wanted to be like Cheriko and have powers,
so Cheriko handed them all, one-by-one the object he had recovered from their
old cave. It was a large green crystal and once all of the Korbats had touched
it they would have magical powers. But the Korbats didn't listen when Cheriko
said one person at a time should only touch it. They were too interested in
the crystal to listen.
They crowded around it and "BOOM!" the Korbats were gone in a flash
of lightening and a loud screech told Cheriko they were heading his way, he
muttered something again but too late! The Korbats were surrounding on Cheriko
and one fierce bite told him that he was being washed out of his powers.
He managed to escape but just. Were he flew, nobody knows but the group of
Korbats who had touched the crystal were now smaller and darker and, well, much
cuter.
They are know known as the Barbats because the crystal had an inscription
on the bottom of it:
The crystal of Barba-Leader of the Korbats Curse Club
The End | 
