CREEPER STARED AT Al with raised eyebrows. "Since a couple centuries, Al. Don't
you read the newspaper?"
"No, I just recycle it..."
Creeper shook his head with a long, weary sigh.
"I see... anyway, he made you Chias the supreme
rulers of the world, and all the other Neopets slaves. He only trusts the most
diabolical, stupid, and powerful pets, like Skeiths and Grarrls, to do his security
work. And, the worst part of all, he OUTLAWED chocolate!!"
Al gasped. "I certainly would have known if
he outlawed chocolate, but...I just had a chocolate bar for breakfast..."
"OH! THAT'S why your down here!" Creeper nodded,
smiling and showing missing teeth.
Al scratched his head, even more confused than
he was before. How could he meet two pets who never heard of Lupes before in
one day? Before Al could finish his thought, he heard a rough scratching sound,
followed by a hissing noise and two loud yelps. Mark and Milford rolled into
view, knocked unconscious. With another hissing noise, a Cobrall appeared, slithering
through the bars to Al and Creeper's cell. He was a blue Cobrall, with darting
yellow eyes and a crafty grin. Al immediately recognised him.
"FLUFFY?!?!" He gasped.
"What do you mean, Fluffy?" Creeper yelled,
his face lighting up. "This is Thunderspike, head of the Neopian Revolution!!"
"HE'S WHAT OF THE WHAT?!?!?" Al yelled again.
Fluffy...er...Thunderspike swiftly karate slammed
the chains that held Al's legs down, shattering them to pieces. As he went to
free Creeper, Al smiled and danced around the room.
"I KNEW you would save me, Fluffy!"
The Cobrall stared at him curiously.
"I think he got hit in the head..." Creeper
whispered into his ear.
Thunderspike nodded as Al yelled in protest.
"I DID NOT!!...well, maybe I did, but..."
Before Al could continue rambling, Fluffy/Thunderspike
had karate slammed several bars off the dungeon door, just big enough for Creeper
and Al to crawl through. And that they did, swiftly picking up Mark and Milford
and tying them up in the same chains that once restrained them, laughing as
they watched them struggle against their chains.
"You will pay! Won't they, Mark?"
"Oh, undoubtedly, Milford! They will pay with
their lives!!"
Suddenly, the passageway was filled with green
light. Hubrid Nox, followed by an army of Chias, swarmed down towards Al, Thunderspike,
and Creeper, a malicious grin on his face.
"All right, Alexander, I can see you should
be more severely punished than I thought, TRAITOR!" Hubrid screeched. "Thunderspike,
we've been trying to get YOU for years! And you... I don't know who you are,
but your in trouble too. You shall all die, begging for mercy!!!"
Al scowled.
"THAT'S IT!"
Picking up a chain, he whirled it expertly above
his head until it was a silver blur. With a loud battled cry, he hurled it at
Hubrid. It hit him square in the face, bowling him over and knocking him unconscious.
Al stepped forward, leaning over the knocked-out Chia.
"Put a sock in it, you wannabe evil overlord!"
All the Chias gasped in horror. "He...felled
our evil lord in one blow!"
"He must be our new evil lord!"
"We must worship HIM!"
The Chias all fell onto their knees, bowing
before the perplexed Lupologist. Creeper stepped forward, kicking Hubrid over
with a surprised expression.
"Wow, Al, where did you learn to do that?"
"Oh, it's a technique a Lupe called Hollypaw
used on me once...I had amnesia for days afterward..."
"I dearly wish to meet these creatures called
Lupes, Al."
"As do we, master!" The Chias chorused. Al sighed.
"Why is it that NONE of you know about Lupes?"
Suddenly, it hit him. Peachpaw's words echoed
in his head.
"The thing you love most...The thing you love
most..."
"GREAT JUMPING JELLY CHIAS!!" Al yelled. "THERE
AREN'T ANY LUPES!!!! THEY'VE BEEN WIPED OUT OF EXISTENCE!! GONE!! VANISHED!!
DISAPPEARED!!!"
Creeper frowned as he leaned towards Thunderspike.
"I knew he was nutty..."
"YOU!" Al turned to Creeper. "IF LUPES HAD EXISTED,
YOU WOULDN'T BE IN JAIL, YOU'D BE A SUCCESSFUL ROBBER!!"
Creeper looked flabbergasted. "That was always
my dream, but..."
"AND YOU!!" Al whirled around to the Chias "CHIAS
WOULDN'T HAVE BECOME THIS POWERFUL IF IT WEREN'T FOR LUPES! LUPES WERE CREATED
TO CONTROL THE POWER OF CHIAS, AND CHIAS CREATED TO CONTROL THE POWER OF LUPES!!"
Suddenly, it hit Al. His mouth fell open as
a wide grin spread across his face.
"That...THAT'S IT!! THAT'S WHY LUPES DISLIKE
CHIAS, AND CHIAS DISLIKE LUPES!! IT'S SO SIMPLE!!"
Everyone was staring at Al like he was absolutely
insane. Before any other pet could react, there was a brilliant flash of beige
light. Peachpaw appeared, fluttering in the air for a moment before landing
gracefully on the ground. Every pet present gazed at her in awe as she raised
her lupe wand.
"Al, I've got to tell you..." she crooned.
"YOU'VE MADE MY LIFE A LIVING HELL!!"
She grabbed him by the scruff of his coat, shaking
him like a rattle as she continued.
"FIRST, YOU MADE ME WIPE THE EXISTENCE OF EVERY
LUPE IN NEOPIA, SECOND, YOU COMPLETELY ALTERED THE COURSE OF TIME AND SPACE,
AND THIRD, LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO MY HAIR!"
She tossed Al aside and pointed to the somewhat
frizzled mop of hair on the top of her head.
"I'M CHANGING IT ALL BACK THE WAY IT WAS!!"
With that, she lifted her wand and pointed it
at the Lupologist.
"I REMOVE YOUR CURSE!!"
As sudden as sudden could suddenly be, everything
wooshed into darkness...
Lupe Forest...
"Hm..." Her wand was glowing as she threw the
door open. "Who is it?"
Standing outside was a small blue Chia. He was
wearing a white lab coat with a single pencil bulging from his front pocket,
although many hidden pockets within his coat held other interesting items. He
also had red sneakers and a pair of round, owlish glasses. Currently, a pen
and a notepad were pulled from those pockets, and a handy miniature tape recorder
was hidden in the other, catching every single sound. He stared up at the rather
tall Lupess, smiling widely.
"Good morning, Mam! I'm Alexander T. Chia, the
resident Lupologist of Furgleton City! Perhaps you have heard of me from the
other Lupes? I heard that a Faerie Lupess lived up this hill, and since I've
never studied faerie Lupesses, I was wondering if..."
Peachpaw held up her free paw, silencing Al
in midsentence. Al took notice of her behaviour, pushing his glasses up onto
his face and scribbling furiously into his notepad.
"So, I was just wondering if I could ask a few
questions and take a few tests..."
Peachpaw scowled. "Listen here, you weird little
egg with a tuft of hair! I am not just a stupid animal to be studied! I am a
living creature!"
Al blinked. "Erm...I wasn't going to dissect
you or anything, I just want a hair sample..."
Peachpaw's eyes began to glow red as she raised
the lupe wand into the air. A gust of wind nearly blew Al over as she bared
her white teeth.
"YOU WANT TO MESS WITH MY HAIR?!?!!?"
"No, wait, I just wanted..."
Peachpaw pointed the wand at Al, her beautiful
face suddenly horrendously ugly.
"YOU SHALL..." Peachpaw stopped herself in mid sentence. With a deep breath,
she counted to ten, closed her eyes and smiled.
"Oh, you just wanted a hair sample? I'm certain
I could spare one off my tail."
With that, Peachpaw plucked a single hair off her beautiful, bushy tail and
placed it in Al's paw. Al nervously smiled.
"Uh...Thank you, mam..."
With that, he turned around, placing the hair
into a plastic bag and scurrying back down the hill.
"Come on, Thunderspike!" He yelled.
Fluffy...er...Thunderspike slithered behind
Al, hissing happily as he followed Al. Peachpaw frowned.
"Thunderspike? Ooops...I guess I missed something..."
She shrugged. "Eh, I'll fix it later..."
With that, Peachpaw retreated back into her
den to finish her book...
The End
Note: Fluffy is still called Fluffy, although Thunderspike isn't a bad name
for a Cobrall | 
