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Please read this and Neomail me (alyssia_rhia) your thoughts (plus title ideas!!!)! I want to get this into the NT SOOOOOOOOO bad. If you think it is too weird, NM and tell me too so I get to work on a new story.
Surreal Happenings/my working title
Nobody seems to like hikes. I do though. They have a special meaning for me. You might be wondering why I absolutely love hikes, and what is with this Neomail (I mean, who normally writes Neomails as long as novels?). Well, you shall soon see...
30th day of Starving
I am Monnie, short for Moniquana, a currently Baby (stupid Boochi zapped me) lab-zapping Uni girl. I was sitting in my room, on the first floor of our Brightvalean Neohome when suddenly phoenix_thievery, blue PT, scampered into my "beauty" baby room. "Guess what???!!!" she said excitedly. Before I could guess, she squealed, "WE AWE GOING ON A HIKE IN TEWWOW MOUNTAIN!"
Why are you so excited?" I asked her. "You aren't going to hike."
Yeth I AM!" she shouted shrilly.
No you awen't cuz you won't be able to last without someone to carry you. So, you aren't going on a HIKE, you are going on a CARRY," I informed her. Even though she was blue, she still talked like a baby. Maybe because Aly keeps on talking to her like a baby with the, "Boogaboogaboo" nonsense.
At this point she bawled and cried, "MOMMY!"
What is it?" came a voice from the next room. Soon our owner, Aly, came into my room.
She had long brown hair. Her eyes were a very dark, deep brown. "Monnie, what have you been telling your sister now?"
The truth."
No, she isn't," PT shrieked. "She said I wasn' going on a hike."
Moniquana!" Aly said, shocked.
IT IS TRUE!" I yelled. "PT isn't going on a hike, she is going on a Carry 'cause everyone else will be carrying her around like a sack of rubbish in the rubbish heap in Meridell!"
Aly bursted into laughter, her laughter making me join her in laughter.
What is so funny??? And what is the Wubbish Heap?" demanded PT. But Aly and I were laughing to hard to answer her.
The Rubbish Heap is this really dumb pile of garbage in our next-door neighbor's land," explained my bored blue Cybunny sister. She loved to read and she was always trying to get into the Neopian Times. Now we have a competition to see who can get into the Neopian Times first. Hopefully, this will get in and beat her's! ^_^
You mean nasty Mistew Hopper_frog owns a gawbege heap? He's vewy neat!"
No, no, no," cried Dream. "I didn't mean Hopper_frog, I mean Meridell. Stupid, ol' stinky, good for nothing…" Dream ranted on very poetically about the grumpy, stupid King of Meridell, Skarl. She earned very reproving looks from Aly for explicit language and an admiring stare from PT, who wanted to have a much better vocabulary. I thought that she would do better writing poems about King Skarl instead of the Neopian Times.
4th Day of Celebrating: The day we were SUPPOSED to start hiking
We hadn't been walking very long in the snow- we had just gotten off the boat to Happy Valley as a matter of fact- when we were ambushed by a trio of Dark Faeries. At least I thought they were dark faeries. They were rather strange colors for dark faeries.
The left one had lavender hair, wings, and a black spaghetti-strap dress with (what Dream whispered, twitching her long blue cybunny ears, was one of the newest fashion fads from M*ynci's clothing line) a lavender sash slung about her waist. The right one was dressed the same, except with sky blue everything with a black halter dress. Her hair was also in two pigtails. The middle one inspired more fear than both of them combined.
She wore a strapless-ruby-colored dress with a black sash under a black robe with purple fur on the edges, her hair in a French Braid. Her glowing eyes were the same color as that you see on a moonless summer night. But those only inspired the normal fear- the fear that you feel when you stare at a dark faerie.
It wasn't only her vampire teeth or her manner- which was cool, collect, sneering, powerful, indifferent, etc- that just added to the overall effect. Her scariest feature was in fact her eyes. I've only described her eyes generally, but the full, awesome effect was that of her pupils. They were completely moon-colored. It scared even me, a seasoned Battledomer. I was used to all the noises and fear attempts that came with the experience- taunts, shrill whistling, and results of faerie abilities. I, myself, use these diversionary tactics, but this was different- this was sheer power, strength, and might.
Moniquana, I wanna go home," whispered PT. She didn't scare easily, even though she was a baby. The only way I could tell she was really scared was because she called me by my first name. She rarely called me Moniquana, even though it was my full name because I like Monnie better. Besides, its easier for her to say.
The middle faerie stepped forward. "We, Ladawn," pointed at the lavender one, "Daytona," pointed at the sky-blue faerie, "and I, Faenight, challenge you to defeat us in a battle." She didn't point at any of us, but we assumed she was talking to us pets. Aly steeped away alone. Despite being a baby, PT was second in battle only to me.
After we were in our formation (It took us a while since Aura and Dream hadn't been in a battle since we fought Mayor Thumburt or whatever his name was in the Tale of Woe plot), Daytona flew at us full force, wielding an ax with a strange light on the edges that clearly said, "you are in BIG trouble!" if you come in contact with it. That strange light oddly enough matched her outfit. Reflexively, we all ducked. Surprisingly, she jumped over us- and towards Aly.
Aly was startled. She looked all over for something to use as a weapon. Just a split second before Daytona raised her ax, Aly touched her hair, grabbing the tiara she always wore. Flinging it at Daytona's head, the tiara rebounded and returned to Aly's hand, just like a boomerang. Daytona collapsed, her hit points all spent.
We whipped around to where Ladawn and Faenight had just been standing. Surprisingly, Daytona was standing confidently right where she had been right before the battle, with complete hit points to boot!
Ooh, I have the most awful head ache. There's a whole kit and caboodle drumming around in my head. Meepits are 'Meep'ing inside my head. Lennies are-" moaned Aly all of a sudden.
Stop with all of the similes and metaphors. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us," muttered Aura. "And why are you three smirking?
Indeed they were (smirking, anyway). "WIPE THOSE SMIRKS OFF OF YOUR FACES OR WE'LL DO IT FOR YOU!" yelled Dream, waving around a winded-up towel like a whip with fierce energy.
Faenight turned to a silent Daytona and Ladawn with a cruel sneer. "Let us go where we are needed, sisters." The other two pseudo-dark faeries nodded. They were almost puppets of Faenight. She started chanting mysterious words (at least I think they were words). Suddenly in a theatrical cloud of smoke and a big KABOOM!, the three faerie sisters were gone, leaving us distressed, encumbered with our suddenly unconscious owner.
11th day of celebrating…
Today, Aly finally woke up from the coma she had been in since the challenge ended with the challengers fleeing. We decided to start the hike the next day…
12th Day of Celebrating: First day of our planned hike
Discussing the implications of Aly's coma, we (the pets) decided unanimously (all of us agreed) to take a break every time Aly looked over worked. Aly argued, saying she was as fit as a fiddle. Unfortunately, she forgot about our history with instruments. This only made us more anxious and determined to stop when we felt necessary. At our first rest stop, to pass the time, we asked Aly some questions. Our question at the rest stop was about the tiaras and crowns we always wear.
Well, for you, Dream and PT, it serves a double purpose. My goal is to paint you both royal. I think the crown and tiara is a good plan till we raise the Neopoints and Lutaris become royal. The second reason is a bit more emotional.
When I was only 3 or so (about 12 years ago) my grandfather was going away for awhile. He said, 'Aly, you are my little princess. You, your pets, and children are all royalty. Maybe not so in stature or for real, but your soul and all that you love is pure. You are royal in spirit. That is much more important than being real royalty.'"
I think I would have liked to meet your grandfather," I sighed. "He sounds like a really nice person."
I will make sure to introduce you one day," Aly laughed, with a twinkle in her eyes.
I am going to meet him fiwst!" declared PT positively.
No! I am!" shouted Aura and Dream simultaneously. They stare at each other confuzzledly and suddenly just start laughing. The rest of us can't help but join in.
The next rest stop is a rock in the middle of nowhere. "Why did you pick us? How did you pick our names?" asked Aura.
Well, Aura is one of my nicknames for my one of my friends. She is one of my best friends. Nya is another one of my friends' name. It is pronounced, Knee-ya, PT, not N-yah.
I thought Moniquana was an island in South America. However, it is really Martinique. It isn't really close, but it is pretty cute.
Dream was named after a cute guy in my school. I can't remember his name anymore, though. That is what CKS stands for. Dream seeker is my wish for all of you to always go for your dreams and to never give up.
Just so you all don't forget- we are hiking for twelve days total, or for those who can't count-until the 24th of Celebrating. Now we should hit the snow path again!
We hiked around the whole stupid mountain," moaned my sis, Cks_dream_Seeker, or Dream. Her Cybunny feet were bluer than Maraqua's waters. "Can't we stop in that cave over there?" She pointed at a cave maybe 100 meters away.
Sure," sighed Aly. She was so sick of Dream's whining. I could tell she was. It was blindingly obvious.
I moaned and trudged over to the cave, PT giggling happily. As I had predicted at home, one of us was going to be stuck carrying the Lutari Uni-back. Can you guess who?
Once we had gotten into the cave and had been sitting down for a few minutes-PT was physically bouncing off the walls, having not walked a step- we heard a rumbling. "That can't be good," commented Aly softly.
Yeah, it isn't," said I, pointing to the entrance to the cave. Everyone else looked and gasped, except for PT. She just started to bawl her eyes out. That is PT's Tip If You Ever Get in Trouble: Cry. It helps most things. (Results may vary.)
The front of the cave had been blocked by a wall of snow. Aura, my Christmas Zafara sis started throwing a fit. "THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! I am soooo going to bust that snow!" She ran and attempted a karate kick through the snow. However, she had no training with such things. She just sorta bounced off.
I just said, "Why don't we follow the cave? That might be our only way out.
The other three Neopets didn't want to, but Aly agreed that that was the only way to get out of the cave. And so we began our journey.
Goodness knows how long we have been walking. Everyone jumps at the slightest sound. Except for PT of course.
Since the cave in, she has been a bit happier, although I suspect the main reason for this was because she didn't have to walk. I was STILL carrying her. She had started singing songs from outta Neopia-attempting really. PT had pretty much butchered the poor song.
She sang:
On the wowst day of Celebrating My twue wuv gave to me A P-wer-e in a pwar twee.
On the second day of Celebrating My twue wuv gave to me Two Lenny birds and A P-wer-e in a pwar twee.
And so on. After a while, we finally caught on to what she was singing. We started to laugh and relax. After that, we sang a couple of the songs that were popular- the Chomby Balls, M*ynci, and so on.
We started having a grand old time, nearly forgetting that we were in a rather desperate situation. A long time after PT had started singing, Dream began wondering why any of them hadn't brought food.
Oh!" Aly gasped and stopped walking, stooped over her pack.
Are you okay?" I asked, feeling concerned when she suddenly stood up again, triumphantly holding up a HUMONGOUS bag of food. "Where did you get that?!"
Whenever you go on an adventure," Aly said, "remember to bring food! I bought all of this at Miss_piggy_wiggy's shop.
YAY!" Aura cheered and bore down on the food like a Pteri.
We had a feast- literally. There were Omelettes, hot chocolate, and other warm foods. There was a great cheerful feeling in our group again.
We started running, to try and see who would reach the end first. Even PT started. She actually reached The Trapdoor before any of us. Sorta obvious how she could have done it- she had been resting since the beginning of the trip.
WOW!" she suddenly exclaimed. We wondered if it was the good kind of "Wow!" or the bad one. We rushed ahead and finally stopped, staring in amazement.
There were three petpets crowded around the trapdoor and one was sniffing a giggling PT. A Faerie Vacana started heading toward me while a Faerie Kadoatie started checking out Dream. Also, a Faerie Peo was nosing PT and a Faerie Gallion was playfully flying around Aura's head, making the Zafara dizzy.
OMG!" exclaimed Aly, delighted. "These petpets are worth a small fortune each!"
No!" us pets shouted. For some reason, we did not want to sell these petpets.
Oh." Aly looked very disappointed but then shrugged. "Why don't we check out what is above this trapdoor?" she suggested. We agreed, so Aura flew up and pushed it up, being the one of us pets who could fly. She flew up and gave a startled cry.
What is it?" shouted Dream, impatiently. Seeing- hearing, rather- as Aura didn't reply, Dream hopped up the ladder that we had somehow had not seen earlier. She too gave a gasp.
Soon we all got up (The petpets used their wings). I finally understood why they were so surprised.
During all of our walking, we had somehow walked all the way to the Faerie Queen's Hidden Tower. And the Mistress of this tower was standing right in front of us.
Oh. Em. Gee!" whispered PT, imitating Aly's favorite word, making us all laugh before remembering who was in front of us.
Then I noticed her face. I nudged PT and told her to pass a telephone message to everyone else and let them know that the Queen was smiling.
I curtsied to Her Majesty, and to my surprise, she curtsied back. "Why bow to a common Robot Uni like me, Your Majesty?"
Because, my dear Monnie, you are far greater than you know." Then, Fyora tapped me with her wand and everyone else gasped. I looked down and nearly fainted.
I was no longer a Uni. No longer Robot either. Looking into a mirror, I saw I was now a tall fire faerie with green eyes. My dress is all red with a few flickers of orange, yellow, gold, and flames every so often. Looking around, I saw PT as a water faerie with legs instead of a tail. Dream was now a tall and slender air faerie. Then I saw the greatest sight of all.
Instead of the Zafara, I saw a faerie with colors of the rainbow, her hair having flecks of every color. She was dressed as one of the most powerful of the nobles in Queen Fyora's court. But then I noticed something. We were all dressed similarly.
What- what?" gasped Aly.
Then Aly was tapped as well. Starting to float, wings started growing out of her back. She was soon dressed similarly to Fyora, with a lavender, sky blue, and ruby red instead of purple. She landed and started looking faint.
You all," Fyora said, looking at us all, "are the Faerie Energy of Faerieland: the strongest of all Faeries."
What is that?" said the Water Faerie who I think was PT. It's sorta hard to tell because she wasn't talking like a baby anymore.
You hold the Energy and the balance between each Faeriekind. Have any of you ever suddenly felt weak?" We all nodded, thinking of the incidence with the bogus dark faerie sisters. "That is because if someone of your kind- like fire- uses lots of magic, it takes up your energy. If someone was to use too much magic at once, you would lie in a coma until the balance has, well, balanced. The reason you didn't know before is because you have to be a certain age to be known.
But what about Aly?" I asked curious. "She's our owner- like, a human, ya know."
Actually, she is- of Neopia, I mean. The Faerie Energies are always the daughters of the Faerie Queen. And these-" she waved her hand at our petpets, "are your extra power."
What?!" we all said. "Not that that is a bad thing, but I am accustomed to thinking Aly is my Mom." Aura said quickly.
I see you are all really shocked."
Dream muttered sarcastically, "Um, yeah. I wonder why…"
I will see to you five and answer more questions tomorrow," continued the Faerie Queen. "Don't tell anyone what you are. Oh yes. And Aly?
Yes my lady?"
You are going to need some lessons."
On what, my lady?"
Being a queen of course! You are replacing me after a couple of decades!" And with that, our audience with the queen ended as she walked out of the room.
We all stare at each other for a few seconds, unsure of what to say. Then PT coughs and says, "Do you suppose she needs some electric shocks, My Lady Aly?"
Oh, PT, just can it," snapped Aly moodily.
THE END. For now of course. Do you want the story to continue?