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03-27-2008, 08:51 PM
Chapter 20 just added! Scroll down to the bottom of this post.
Once upon a time, in a land called VMK, there were eight NPCs: Esmeralda, who was a fortune teller who lived on Main Street. There were also three ghosts who shared a house: Phineas, Ezra, and Gus. There also was a snow monster, the Yeti. He lived safely in his own cozy/cold cave. And then there was Ned, who was hanging from a ceiling in his shop. And then, there was Captain Sparrow, who lived in his own treehouse.
Now, these NPCs all were very good friends who tried to visit as often as they could. So one wintery evening, the Yeti called over to his friend, Esmie.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Esmie," The Yeti said in his deep, husky voice.
"Is this the Yeti?"
"Yes,"
"Oh, hello, Yet,"
"Hi. Do you want to come over for popcicles?"
"I'm busy. VMK citizens keep clicking on me and I'm losing money by the second. I give away 20 credits! Soon I'll be broke."
"Me too." The Yeti sighed.
"Well I have to go. I'm busy telling fortunes."
"Okay. Have a good one."
"Goodbye."
As Esmeralda hung up, she was clicked on again. "Guest2925879, would you quit that?" She shouted. The guest walked out without a word. Esmie boiled with anger. She grabbed her phone again and called her friend Gus.
"Hello, Esmie, I've been dyyyyying to talk to you,"
"Not now, Gus. Do you ever get tired of saying that to all of the millions of citizens that come in every day and click on you?!" She asked.
"Well,"
"Admit it, it's true."
"Okay, it's true."
"Us NPCs need to get together and talk this over."
"Definitley." agreed Gus.
"You get all your buddies and I'll call Ned and the Captain."
"Good. When will we meet and where?"
"Your place."
"Okay. See you there."
"Goodbye."
Esmeralda grinned. This was revenge. Later, all of the NPCs were gathered at Gus' apartment. "So what should we do about this?" Phineas asked, fiddling with his fingers.
"I say we outta get payed for this!" Esmeralda angrily said.
"I second that," Captain Sparrow agreed.
Esmeralda looked about the room. "Anyone else?" She asked. All of the other NPCs agreed. This was revenge!
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CHAPTER THREE
The next day, Ezra was at home reading his book. He heard a ding, dong and got up to answer the door.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Hi, Ezra," The boy replied, "I never got my 20 credits."
Ezra was about to give the boy his money, but he paused and said, "Not today," and he closed the door.
The boy walked away. Ezra didn't feel right. He sat down and thought about it. It did feel sort of good. That saved him 20 credits. He then pulled off a board from his wall and grabbed the paint. IF YOU WANT CREDITS DON'T COME HERE, the board said. He nailed it to his door, and walked away.
The captain, however, was in his treehouse when his telephone rang.
"Ahoy?"
"Captain," Ned said, answering his ahoy.
"Aye, ahoy, Ned, lad,"
"I just tried to make more money and a player threatened me to lower the price. I highered the Smee for girls, just to see how it would sell."
"Aye,"
"And I just don't have the heart to not give credits. Some citizens ask so nicely."
The captain grunted in agreement.
"What should I do?" asked Ned.
"Ned, m'boy, you need to think this over. Is yir' wallet almost empty?"
"Well..."
"There's yir' answer. I have to go feed Polly. She wants crackers."
"Goodbye, Captain. Thank you."
The captain grunted a goodbye and hung up. Was he doing what he informed Ned? Did HE think about his wallet? Did HE feel good about not giving the citizens their rightful money? WAS it their rightful money? Thoughts flipped and flopped in his mind.
"Guest8472562, I see in your future...NO 20 CREDITS FOR YOU!! BWAHAHA!" Esmeralda cackled as she read the fortune of the guest. Another player came up to her. "20 credits, please."
"No way," Esmeralda said, looking at her nails.
"But..."
"It's my money, kid, go play POTC and earn some money for cryin' out loud."
"But..."
"GO!!!" Esmeralda shouted.
The player ran away in a fright.
Esmeralda cackled so much, her throat hurt. But at the same time, it felt VERY, VERY, VERY good.
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CHAPTER FOUR
Ned woke up at the voice of a citizen. "Hi, Ned," The player smiled. That smile made Ned's day.
"Hello,"
"Just wanted to say thanks for giving away all of those credits,"
Ned jumped at the citizen's saying. "Well...um, you're welcome," He shuddered.
The citizen smiled, and walked away. Ned reconcidered this. If all of the players who came each day were like this, he wouldn't feel good about keeping his money and not giving it away. "CleverSmallBoy," Ned said, calling the citizen back to his store, "come back."
The boy walked back to Ned. "Here's 20 credits." Ned said, smiling. "Thanks," The boy said, surprised. Ned felt good. He called Esmie.
"Esmie." He said in a threatening tone when Esmeralda picked up the phone.
"Ned, darrrrling..."
"Esmie, the deal is OFF."
"Ned, sweetie, why be like this?"
"Don't 'Ned, sweetie' me! A boy just came in and said THANK YOU to me! How can I with hold my credits?"
"Darrrrrling, did I not mention at the meeting about how many credits you'll be saving?" Esmie asked.
Ned remembered. Esmie had a point.
"I remember," Ned admitted.
"Now do you want to join back?"
"I'll get back to you on that."
"Call Ezra, he's making signs to hang on your doors. I bought one from him for 50 credits and it is SO worth it. Try one!"
"I said I'll get back to you on it!"
"If you say no about continuing this strike with the other NPCs, then I will eternally curse you. You have one day. Do you understand?"
"Yes," Ned sighed.
"Good. Now goodbye."
Ned hung up. Esmie's words ran through his head: YOU HAVE ONE DAY.
Now at Yeti's nice cozy cave, he was snuggling down and eating snow cones while reading "Snow Monsters Through The Ages" to himself.
He suddenly got a call from Phineas.
"Hello?" Yeti asked once he picked up.
"Yes, Yeti," Phineas grinned, "I am selling signs for shooing off those pesky citizens. Ezra made them. They're selling for 50 credits."
"Um..." Yeti paused and thought for a moment.
"C'mon, Yet', time is money...."
"Alright, I'll take two," Yeti sighed.
"Okay, drop by the mansion today around five and pick 'em up. Bring 100 credits."
"Okay, Phineas,"
"Nice doin' business with you. See ya."
"Bye,"
Yeti hung up and sat down. Suddenly a feeling of revenge went through him. Was he really like this though? He knew Esmeralda could cast spells from long distances, but not as long as to be from Main Street to Fantasyland. So... was he really feeling this...himself?
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CHAPTER FIVE
Esmeralda sighed as she walked into New Orleans Square. She remembered one NPC she didn't include in the debate. Maybe Gator would want to join in, too. Esmeralda tapped on the door to the Blue Bayou.
"Hello, Esmie!" Gator greeted.
"Hello. I have something to ask you..."
"Sure. Come in and take a seat."
Once Esmeralda was seated, she explained the whole thing to Gator.
"I dunno, Esmie. I love givin' these nice people their credits daily. It's what I do."
"Gator, is your wallet becoming...empty?"
"No, because these people give me the nicest tips of credits after I serve them."
"Drat. Gator, you are no help at all. I'm leaving."
"You want some Mint Julep?"
"No thank you."
"Alright, bye Esmie!" Gator said with a smile.
Gator picked up a dish towel and wetted it in the sink. He squeezed out the extra water and began to clean the tables. His telephone rang. He went to pick it up.
"The Blue Bayou, how can I help you?" Gator smiled.
"Gator, this is Gus,"
"Gus! Long time no... Who are you again?"
"We've never met. I live in the Haunted Mansion area."
"Yes,"
"Well, did Esmie tell you anything about--"
"Keeping credits from citizens?"
"Yes," Gus breathed, "are you going to?"
"I haven't completely made up my mind yet. But I like servin' my customers with credits 'cause they come back alot for my food. It's just payin' them back."
"Oh," Gus sighed.
"So why did you call?"
"I...well, my buddy Ezra is selling these 'go away' and slogans like that signs. They sell for only 50 credits each."
Gator frowned.
"I'll get back to you on that, Gus. But right now I need to close down my shop."
"Fine, fine, that's just fine, I'll see you...maybe."
"Alright. Bye-bye."
Gator sat down. Was keeping credits not fair to citizens? If so, how? Gator sighed and kept on cleaning up.
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CHAPTER SIX
Dragon sat quietly in his dungeon. He looked around. Darkness surrounded him. No one else knew this, but he was quite afraid of the dark--even though the dark should be afraid of him. He took in a deep breath and blew out flames, hoping something would catch on and keep the dungeon lit. Nope. So he tried again. Yes! A piece of wood successfully caught on fire. Wait!--A piece of wood? What was a piece of wood doing there?
Dragon walked over to the piece of wood, burning with the current roars of flames. He blew out the flame, hoping he wouldn't be mistake blow more fire. He grabbed the piece of wood and looked at it. It read: GO AWAY, NO CREDITS TODAY!!!! Dragon quickly ran to his door and roared the loudest he could.
Yeti heard. "Ayyyyeeeee!!!" He roared. "My ears!" Yeti realized that it was Dragon's emergency call to Yeti. They made it several years ago when they were just children at Fantasyland Camp. Yeti had a quick flashback.
"Yeti, today your partner will be Dragon. He is new here, so please make him feel welcome," Mrs. Sunshine said, smiling at the young monster. "Yes, Mrs. Sunshine," He smiled back. Dragon shyly walked up to Yeti. He gently roared. It was quiet, but Yeti knew it was a greeting. "Hiya! I'm Yeti Van Buren! What's your full name?" Yeti asked excitedly. Dragon smiled and started roaring fluently. Yeti looked surprised. "Mrs. Sunshine," Yeti said, tugging on her skirt, "something's wrong with Dragon. He doesn't talk, he roars."
"That's right, Yeti. He comes from Dragon Island. He doesn't talk our language. That's why we need to treat him nicely."
Yeti thought for a moment.
"Can our camp class learn Dragon's language?"
"That's just what I was thinking, Yeti. I have an extra cirriculum in the closet. Let me..."
"Ooh goody! Thanks, Mrs. Sunshine!" Yeti smiled.
After learning Dragon's language, Yeti could fluently talk to Dragon. Soon, their friendship began to grow and strengthen. The day when camp ended, Yeti and Dragon cried together.
"We have to make a secret handshake." Yeti said, but in Dragonese.
"Handshake?" Dragon replied with a very Dragonese accent.
"Y'know, a...well, uh...somethin' we can do when we see each other again."
"How do you know we will see each other again?" Dragon sighed.
"A promise. Here, write with this..." Yeti grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. Together, they made a certificate promise:
I, Dragon Firestone, and Yeti Van Buren, promise that in less then 20 years we WILL see each other again, no matter what. Because this is a solumn promise. When we need each other, Dragon will roar his biggest roar and I will know it is him, and I will roar my biggest and he will know it is me. THIS IS A PROMISE, AND CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED BECAUSE THIS IS ON A FIRE STONE FOUND IN TOWN SQUARE, MAIN STREET, VMK.
And with that, Yeti set off to find his long lost best friend.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
Yeti hurried over to where ever the roaring came from. He stomped to the Castle Gardens. "Hmm?" He asked himself. There was a fork in the road. There was a dungeon, and a castle. He listened for another roar. Nothing. He decided to take the left road. The dungeon. He carefully stooped into the dark tunnel.
"Dragon?" He assured.
A surprised growl came from the huge beast.
Yeti smiled.
Dragon looked puzzled.
Dragon thought, and said in his Dragonese language, "Yeti!"
Yeti smiled. "Dragon, you called for help," He replied in Dragonese.
"You remembered our signal...I wasn't sure you would." Dragon frowned. But then a huge grin came about the room. Suddenly a continuous noise came from a door in the dungeon. Yeti looked puzzled.
"That's the monorail branch nearby," Dragon said quickly, noticing Yeti's puzzled figure.
"Ah," Yeti said, understanding, "Dragon. Why did you send me the signal?"
"Oh, I almost forgot." Dragon replied. Yeti noticed that he and his friend were both speaking fluently in Dragonese. This made Yeti proud that that one day at Camp Fantasyland when he suggested the language learning would have an effect on this future conversation.
"I found this," Dragon said, picking up the half-burnt piece of wood.
Yeti gasped. "Ezra," He said, grabbing the wood. "That cheap, rotton--"
"Enough. Tell me what happened." Dragon stopped his friend.
Yeti explained it all, from Esmeralda's idea, all to what just happened.
"I don't mind giving away credits. I really don't." Dragon said, sighing with smoke bursting out of his lips.
"Me either. But Esmeralda..." Yeti gasped. He forgot Esmeralda's curse if he had not answered her positively in a day. Yeti ran out of the dungeon.
Dragon was puzzled. Why did Esmeralda think this way? Why was there this mysterious sign in HIS dungeon if he hadn't put it there? And why on VMK did Yeti just run out?
Dragon sighed and fell into deep sleep.
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CHAPTER EIGHT
Phineas grabbed his hat and started to hover out of the mansion. "Goodbye, ghools," He hollered. "Mm," The other ghosts mumbled.
As Phineas stepped out, suddenly a hand grabbed his neck and held him up. "Ghaaa!" Phineas howled. The person in the black cloak did not show his or her face. "Giiiiiiive creddddditssssss!" The person growled.
"Ah! Who are you?" Phineas asked, trying to breathe in his ghost form.
"JUST DO AS I SAY!" The voice said, still clutching his throat.
"Put me down, you--what are you?"
"Er...call me the Dark Monster."
"Oh, okay. Put me down, you Dark Monster, you!"
"Okay." The Dark Monster put down Phineas and ducked down to the ghost's height.
"You will do as I say!" Dark Monster growled.
"Yes, Dark Monster! Just leave me alone!"
"As you wish. As long as you do as I wish!" Dark Monster snapped.
"Yes," Phineas nodded. Dark Monster ran out of the Lobby.
Later, at a guest room, three players sat silently thinking. These three players were Guest9753197, who had earlier been told by the captain that she was no longer allowed credits daily, Gracie_Girl_Green, who had been told earlier by Esmeralda that she was no longer allowed credits, and last but not least, shiningstar, who had been told by Ezra (or his sign,) to step away!
"I think this is terrible." Gracie_Girl_Green mentioned, breaking the silence.
"I agree," shiningstar said, not smiling at all, "I've been saving up for a quest kiosk for at least a year. I need those credits daily!"
Guest975319 nodded in agreement and mumbled, "I don't even have deep sea magic..."
Gracie_Girl_Green turned to shiningstar and said, "I really think this is unfair. Who says we can't have our daily 20 credits? Honestly!"
"Yeah," "I know!" The other two put in. Guest975319 sighed, stroking her new Snow White hair do. "We HAVE to put a stop to this, people!" Gracie_Girl_Green said, standing up proudly. Guest975319 stood up and said, "I know! This is SO not fair!"
Shiningstar stayed still. She looked up and tugged lightly on her black hair. "I dunno. Girls, what if everyone in VMK took 20 credits from you every day? How would you feel?"
Guest975319 turned her head.
Gracie_Girl_Green sat back down on her heart chair. "See?" Shiningstar asked, pointing at the two other girls. The two girls nodded. Suddenly another player, Helenfliesforever, stepped in.
"Did you just hear about the NPC strike?!" Helenfliesforever asked, sitting down next to Gracie_Girl_Green.
"Yes," Guest975319 said, "And even though I'm a guest, I plan to do something about it!" She turned to shiningstar and Gracie_Girl_Green and frowned. "But I thought you agreed with us!" Shiningstar growled.
"I never said anything," Guest975319 said. And in less than three seconds, she was booted.
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CHAPTER NINE
Esmeralda cackled after sending out another player--creditless. "Yes, that's right--CRY! Baby..." She laughed. She stepped out of her box and went to the door and hung up ANOTHER sign made by Ezra. "Ah, now I have...5,457,378 signs by Ezra in here. It's a wonderful thing, not having to be wallet empty? Haha..." All of a sudden the telephone rang, knocking down all 5,457,378 signs. "Ahg!" Esmeralda complained.
Esmeralda picked up the phone.
"What is it?! Oh, Yeti...Yes, you have not told me, so I am putting a curse on you in five, four, three, two--"
"Wait, Esmie, you don't understand! I was calling to give you my answer."
"Oh, okay. Is it a yes? My fingers are tingling to cast the curse,"
"I..." Yeti shuddered, "I..."
"Come on, I don't have all day!" Esmeralda threatened.
"I will NOT keep credits from those nice players! Hah! And I traded for invisibility magic so you can't find me to cast the spell!"
"Haha, you think that INVISIBILITY magic can keep from MY spells? Think again." Esmeralda held out her two hands, dropping the telephone and saying, "Many times you've denied, many times you have not seen, that I am a magic woman who can curse a hidious being! YARRRR!" Esmeralda shot magic from her hands and it went through the door.
"SEEK HIM!" She demanded. Suddenly, the magic dropped and turned to dust. "What...? I said SEEK HIM!" The magic suddenly got up, and then dropped. Esmeralda walked over to the dust on the ground. She picked some up and blew it into the wind. Suddenly, the magic came crashing down on her.
"AHGGGG!!!" she screamed. Everything went black for Esmie.
As she awoke, she was in a guest room. The owner was Gracie_Girl_Green. "Who...where...why...who are you? Where am I? Why am I here?" She asked to the doctor.
"We found you, and we thought you were gone," a player named shiningstar said, sitting down in a barrel chair. "But then we found all of these dust bits climbing all over you and we brushed them all off. In the process, Guest975319 fainted. I guess that's fainting powder,"
"That was the curse I was sending to Yeti Van Buren,"
"I see," Gracie_Girl_Green said, "and why would you do that?"
"He...well, you wouldn't..."
"You're good to go!" The doctor said, helping Esmeralda out of her chair.
"Oh, thank you kindly," She smiled.
"You're welcome. Come back whenever!"
"Oh, okay," Esmie paused and thought. These players weren't so bad. She grabbed out 100 credits and handed the doctor and shiningstar 50 each. "Come back any time for 20," Esmeralda smiled.
"Oh, thank you!" The two players called.
Esmeralda just smiled.
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CHAPTER TEN
Esmeralda walked slowly back and felt her wallet. Empty. "Oh no," She gasped, "It was that powder! It changed me! Oh no, this isn't good..."
She ran back to the Emporium and showered it all off. When she got out, she suddenly felt her revenge again. Those VMK players had tricked her! She was sure they had! She suddenly went to her magic crystal ball and did VMK People Search, which she had created in case anything like this happened. The search page looked like this:
NAME OF PLAYER/S: Gracie_Girl_Green, shiningstar
TYPE OF GUEST ROOM: Mad Hatter's Tea Party
SEARCHING . . .
Match found!
Gracie_Girl_Green: member since October 2006, banned once for no respect to staff, currently has 855 credits
Shiningstar: unknown joining time, unknown bans, currently has 1,375 credits
FOR SIMILAR MATCHES, PLEASE TOUCH HERE.
Esmeralda grinned. She had found her matches. She touched on her crystal ball Gracie_Girl_Green. Bleep! The crystal ball bleeped. Suddenly it showed a camera in a guest room.
"Shiningstar," Gracie_Girl_Green asked, "Do you think it was wrong of us to do that?"
"Do what?"
"Y'know..."
Esmeralda gasped. So they HAD done it. Maybe. It was certainly possible. She went into the guest room with her magic.
"Well, well, well..." Esmeralda grinned as she walked in.
The two players gasped. "Esmeralda!"
"Yes. Now why did you trick me? I want my credits back!"
"What?" "What do you mean?"
"You know very well what I mean."
The two players frowned. "No..." Shiningstar said.
"You mean...you didn't..."
"Didn't WHAT?" Gracie_Girl_Green asked.
"You DID do it! Otherwise you wouldn't be asking me that! You shall be banned immediatley!"
"What?" "No fair!" "We didn't do anything but heal you!" "Yeah!"
"Suuuuuuuurrrrre...."
"Esmeralda!" A voice said. Esmeralda turned her head. A big...thing in a black cape came in.
"What IS that, shiningstar?!" Gracie_Girl_Green asked. "I dunno!!" Shiningstar said, scared.
"I AM THE DARK MONSTER! HEAR ME ROAR! ROOOOAAAAAARRRR!!!" Dark Monster said, roaring.
"Ah! Alert the staff! Aren't they watching??" Gracie_Girl_Green asked, frightened. "I'm logging off!!"
"Don't leave me here!!" Shiningstar yelped. Gracie_Girl_Green stayed.
"I am here to take ESMERALDA." Dark Monster said, grabbing Esmeralda by her hair.
"Ouch! My extensions!" Esmeralda cried.
Dark Monster walked out of the room, with Esmeralda dangling by her hair.
The two players were silent.
"PUT ME DOWN!" Esmeralda cried, slamming her fists on Dark Monster.
"Not yet," Dark Monster said.
Esmeralda paused. She recognized that voice.
"...Yeti?" She asked.
Dark Monster did not respond.
Esmeralda said no more. She knew who it was. Just then her VMKPhone started ringing.
"What is it?" Esmeralda asked, answering her VMKPhone.
"It's about the signs," Ezra answered.
"Uhg, I know I owe you, but..."
"But nothing. I made those signs. That costs my mansion. Most of my room is completely gone 'cause of the signs you ordered. C'mon, Es'."
"I'm being kept hostage. But I'll drop by soon."
"What?"
"Nothing. I'll call you back later. Bye." Esmeralda hung up.
"Oh, no you wont." Dark Monster said, grabbing the VMKPhone and crushing it. "MY VMKPHONE!" Esmeralda shrieked. Suddenly the snow from on top of Yeti's cave came falling. "AVALANCHE!!!"
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
Dark Monster ran, holding Esmeralda. "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO YELL HERE! AND WHO CARES ABOUT A VMKPHONE?!"
"I DO!" Esmeralda yelled back, swinging from the pull of Dark Monster. "AND IT COSTED 100,000 CREDITS!"
Dark Monster dove for a safe shelter--Yeti's cave. They were soon settled.
"Tell me what the curse was, Esmeralda!" Dark Monster demanded, holding up Esmeralda by her vest.
"Uhhhg! Let....go!" She struggled.
"TELL ME!"
"Fine! It was to reverse what you think about a certain subject! So when it jumped on me, it changed how I felt! The magic was supposed to go on YOU and change how YOU felt about it! Now put me down!"
"I never said I'd put you down," Dark Monster said.
"You cheapo!" Esmeralda said, wapping his back.
"Youch," He flinched. He then threw her down onto a thick patch of ice.
Esmeralda howled. "You MONSTER!"
Dark Monster suddenly removed his cape. It WAS Yeti. "I knew it was you," Esmeralda bragged.
Yeti grabbed a chunk of ice from the wall. "Magic would never change the way I feel about citizens of VMK." Yeti said, biting into the ice and chewing with enormous crunches.
"Chew with your mouth shut, you monster..." Esmeralda mumbled.
"Talk with your mouth shut for once, you monster..." Yeti murmured.
"So how long are you going to keep me captive?" Esmeralda asked, slamming the ice with her fist.
"Until the enormous emount of snow goes away that's blocking the door."
"Drat."
"Unless we take the Monorail..."
"You have a Monorail branch near here?"
"Of course."
"Why don't I have one?"
"You have one near you."
"Oh. I guess I do."
"Let's go already!"
The two set out behind the frozen waterfall. When they were aboard, players crowded them.
"Hi, Yeti!" CleverSmallBoy shouted.
"It's that lady!" Mermaidblue called.
"My name is Esmeralda!" Esmeralda shouted.
"Chill," Mermaidblue said.
"Let me get a pic," BlondeAceSherbert said, grabbing out her camera.
"Is this a glitch?" MagicBubbleGum asked.
"I dunno," LifeRoxGirl answered.
Suddenly their stop came. "FOLLOW THEM!" BlondeAceSherbert called, running after the two.
"Run, Yeti, run!" Esmeralda shouted.
Yeti grabbed her hand, and ran.
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CHAPTER TWELVE
"I think we've lost them," Esmeralda panted, slowing down and finally stopping. "I don't like those players when they chase us and all... Yeti?" Esmeralda looked around for the huge snow monster. "Yeti, come out. It's not funny. Yeti."
No answer.
"YETI!" she shouted.
She looked down. A note. That was fast, she thought. She picked it up and read,
Esmeralda,
I hope through the time that we've been chased and you've been kidnapped by me has changed your mind about keeping credits. I don't want to be cruel to the players. I truley don't. Please, Esmeralda, please. And I'm sorry I fled--but I had some business to do and I will not be back for... well, I'm not sure how long. It's business including keeping credits... I was asked by another NPC to attend a meeting. Please do not track me down. Esmeralda, please don't.
Yours truley,
YETI
She read the letter over many times. She WAS going after Yeti, no matter what his plead was. She set off. She went to every NPC's living area--no one was there. They all had attended. All but her. Was she hated?
She walked on to the Monorail. No riders, which was good. If any came in she would hide under the DJ table.
Suddenly the doors of the train opened. It was at the Fantasyland Station. She heard familiar voices.
"Yes, I agree..."
"But I thought that maybe it wouldn't go on that long..."
"I'm glad you changed your mind and returned the money, Ezra."
EZRA! It was all of the NPCs! She recognized the voices.
"When will Esmie just change her mind?" Esmeralda heard. She thought it came from Captain.
Dragon roared.
"I agree," Yeti's soft but strong voice replied.
"Esmeralda is a pain in the you-know-where. She's as bad as a crash! Or even worse, a disconnection! Uhg, or even LAG!" Gator said, walking over to an arcade game and slipping in five coins.
"I KNOW!" Phineas replied, sitting down.
Esmeralda felt a lump in her throat. She wanted to jump out and show them that she was there--but she also wanted to stay behind and cry. Using a spell to silence her voice, she cried her heart out.
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Esmeralda, just finishing her sobbing, wiped her cloak against her tear-stained face. She was going to tell them off...
She sighed and crawled out from under the DJ table. "What's that noise? Is someone in here?" Gator asked, looking around cautiously.
"I have no clue..." Yeti replied. But he did have a clue. He figured Esmeralda had followed him; no matter what the letter said.
Esmeralda stood up quickly. "YOU ALL! TRADERS! TERRIBLE FRIENDS! UHG!" She shouted at the top of her lungs. "AS BAD AS A LAG?! How dare you... I thought you all were my friends..." She quieted her voice and sniffed. "I thought you all were my friends..." She repeated.
All of the other NPCs were stunned. Especially Gus, who REALLY despised Esmeralda, but he had the fear of the magic at her fingertips. "Go ahead," Phineas said, breaking the silence, "cast a horrendous spell on us."
Esmeralda looked broken. She frowned. "Is that what I am to you all? A wicked old witch who would torture someone if she could? Wow, and I thought you all liked me as a friend... and Yeti... how could you? How could you all?"
She turned to leave the Monorail when it came to a stop at Main Street.
"Esmie, wait." A voice said. She turned to see Yeti
"What." She mumbled.
"We... we didn't mean anything we said... you're a good person - really, you are..."
"Like I believe you... you were talking behind my back... about ME! You rude... mean... horrible... people that I called friends..." Esmeralda said, her eyes stinging with tears.
All of the NPCs looked guilty. Their cheeks were bright red like tomatos, and they were all quivering with the fear of being "spelled".
"Yes... I see you all do believe I am an old cranky witch who would torture someone if she could... well right now..." Esmeralda paused.
"Esmie... don't..." She could hear Yeti murmur under his breath. "Don't..."
Suddenly she held out her hands - the position for casting a spell - and said, "Alliotrocious, fiddle-dee-dee, zarmoocomotion, aracnidazee!" And then she regretted deeply what she had just done.
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
"NO!!!" Cried Phineas.
"SHE DIDN'T!!" Ezra shouted in disbelief.
"She couldn't have!" Gus said in a small squeaky voice.
Esmeralda agreed to each of their sayings. But it was true. She did do it. Yeti stood there, stooped. "Esmeralda..." He pouted. "You... YOU!!!" He suddenly ran towards her and grabbed her. He was about to hurt her but stopped. He put her down.
"How could you?" Yeti asked.
Gator stood there. "You all know what she did. I'm clueless! What did Esmeralda do?"
"She..." Phineas started.
"She sent a spell to close VMK...forever."
Gator gasped.
The others just stood there, pouting and lowering their heads.
"Thar players don't be deservin' this...they is but a nice crew, some o' them even sayin' 'tanks, or 'tank ya. They was bein' nice about this, and though some were not as kind, some were and they don't be deservin' this. This here magic lassy needs to know somethin'. VMK is a stand-tall-for-all country. These here peoples ain't gonna like this..." Captain said. Esmeralda could tell he was about to cry.
"I can't reverse this..." Esmeralda said, deeply regretting... more.
"You foolish wretch!" Ezra growled.
"Now, I wouldn't call her that..." Phineas said, putting his arm out in front of his ghost friend, "I'd call her a--"
"STOP, PHINEAS." Yeti said, grabbing--well, trying to--his ghost friend. "Perhaps Esmie had another reason for closing. Esmie?"
Esmeralda shook her head no.
The NPCs sighed.
"NEXT STOP NEW ORLEANS SQUARE MONORAIL STATION!" The train stop alerter blooped.
When it did stop there, all of the NPCs but the captain stayed behind. He needed to think.
I know gossip ain't good. No lad likes to be gabbed about behind yer back. But Esmeralda's got some temper. Closin' VMK ain't the solution--she'll just be more gabbed about! Some solution...
Just then, the captain stepped off, into VMK--the closing world.
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
"This all started with what?" Lolgirl, a citizen of VMK, exclaimed as Yeti tried to explain VMK's closing.
"Esmeralda," He replied calmly, but he was raging inside.
"Esmeralda is not like that..." Lolgirl replied stiffly.
"You don't know her like I do," Yeti replied.
"Uh-huh. Suuuuuure. You're the one who doesn't even visit her daily, like me, and, hmm, weren't you the one who gossiped about her behind her back?"
Yeti was struck speechless.
"Told ya," She said, grabbing her 20 credits and leaving with a huff.
A citizen walked up.
"Yes?" Yeti asked, sighing and grabbing his wallet.
"Hi, I'm TreasureIsMe."
Yeti humphed.
"Oh..." TreasureIsMe replied.
Yeti snapped back. "Oh, my, I'm very, VERY sorry! Here's your 20 credi--"
"I don't want that," The boy said quickly.
"What?"
"I wanted to come and ask you... why is VMK closing? Do you know why?"
"Um...er...yes?"
"Can I...know?"
"Oh, well... let me send you a message telling... so nobody else hears. Be my friend."
"Whoah! This is a joke, right? You can't be friends with an--"
TreasureIsMe's inbox glowed.
"Freaky..." He breathed.
Suddenly a girl walked in to Yeti's ice home.
"Hey, Treasure," She said, adjusting her green flip hat.
"Hey, Popcorny," He smiled.
"Popcorny, TreasureIsMe, let me tell you something..." Yeti whispered. He explained it all.
"You're lying..." Popcorny breathed.
"No, he's not." TreasureIsMe firmly said.
"Kids...come with me...we're gonna fix this." Yeti said, grabbing them both and running towards Main Street.
"FAST." He finished.
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Esmeralda stepped through the hub of Frontierland. She closed VMK. Perminantly. No re-opening. Ever. Sure, the players were taking her money and they didn't deserve it, but hey, they deserved to live in VMK. A citizen walked up to the fortune-teller, sitting on a saddle.
"Hey." He said, taking a seat next to her.
"Mmmm." Esmeralda grunted, sweeping her foot back and forth in the dust.
"I heard VMK is closing. Where am I going to live?"
"Eh." Esmeralda sighed.
"My name's Gorams."
"Esmie."
"Hi, Esmie....wait, are you the famous fortune-teller who shut down VMK? Forever?"
"Uh... Er..."
"Great." Gorams mumbled.
"Chin up, crash..."
"What did you call me?" Gorams asked, quickly sitting up.
"Nothing!" Esmeralda replied quickly, just remembering what she called him.
"You care nothing about VMK! Or the citizens!"
"I..."
"'I' nothing! Give up already. You never deserved to live in VMK."
"But--"
"Why else close VMK? Oh--yes--because you care nothing about the citizens!"
"Gorams--"
"You meany..." Gorams said, walking off to go catch some ghosts. He turned back and said, "But...please...fix this?" And then he walked off to go rent a ghost vacuum.
Now to Yeti...
"Where are we going?!!?!?!??" TreasureIsMe shouted over the loud noise of Yeti's feet running.
"Think of it as... Mission: SAVE VMK." Yeti replied, not having to yell because naturally, he was loud.
"Never. Esmie has decided to close, and closing is what she's gonna do." Popcorny replied, hanging on to Yeti's fur.
"Ouch--not such a tight grip, okay?" Yeti asked Popcorny.
"Sorry." Popcorny replied sheepishly.
Suddenly Yeti heard a SQUISH! and he looked down.
"YOUCH!!!" He heard. "Dude, you ever heard of WATCHING OUT?!" The voice shouted.
Yeti lifted his foot to look at it, and he carefully peeled off a citzen. "Name?" Yeti asked.
"LifeRoxGirl. Now put me down!" She shouted.
"Take a chill pill," Popcorny said.
LifeRoxGirl rolled her eyes.
"What's with you?" TreasureIsMe asked.
"Uh, duh, what do you think?" LifeRoxGirl asked.
"Just say." Yeti propped.
"O.K., well, VMK is closing and I'll have nowhere to go... DUH!!!" LifeRoxGirl screamed.
"Want me to step on you again?" Yeti asked.
"This is blackmail!!" She shouted back.
"Yep, and your mailbox is full." Yeti smiled.
"Har-har. Now put me down."
Yeti put LifeRoxGirl down.
"Why can't you stay anywhere?" Yeti asked.
LifeRoxGirl was silent for a minute. "Here's why," She started, "I..."
LifeRoxGirl broke down crying. "I HATE ESMERALDA!!!" She shouted.
"Hate is a strong word..." Yeti comforted. But his plan for comfort failed.
LifeRoxGirl started her car magic. "RIGHT, AND I'M PROUD! SHOVE OFF, SNOW CONE!"
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Esmeralda sighed as she waited for her VMKComputer to turn on. "Ah, yes.. it finally turned on." She typed in the search engine: WAYS TO REVERSE SPELLS
Searching VMKHoo... searching... searching... 4 matches found to search: WAYS TO REVERSE SPELLS:
1. VMKHoo Q&A: Any1 no how 2 reverse spellz? i tried 2 but all i got w...
2. VMKHoo Q&A: I need to know how to reverse spells. I made a big m...
3. How 2 ReVeRsE Magic spelllllllssss! Click here....
4. Reversing spells? IMPOSSIBLE. See why!
Esmeralda clicked on number three.
How 2 ReVeRsE magic spelllllllssss!: First you grab the X equal to the form of the magic you have endeavored for eternity and then you grab the H equivelent fraction of the three-fourths. Next grab the second flipperoo and kaabam it into the past. This is SO easy, even a guest could do it.
Esmeralda was scared. This was not easy. What was the X equal to the form...and what in VMK was a flipperoo and how did you kaabam it into the past? Suddenly her door opened.
"Excuse me?" Esmeralda asked, turning around to see a citizen.
"EXCUSE YOU?! You never excused US citizens, Miss CLOSE-DOWN-VMK-CAUSE-SHE-THINKS-SHE'S-THE-BEST-EVER-AND-YOU-ARE-LIKE-SO-CRUSHING-ON-YETI!!!" The citizen screamed.
"I can ban you! With my magic! Yeah! I can!" Esmeralda shouted.
"There's an example! You think you're the best. What about us?!"
Esmeralda pointed her finger and casted a magic spell: "Gator-waitor, splash and crock! Let this always be your mock!"
And Esmeralda casted her out of VMK forever.
(THIS CHAPTER WAS CUT SHORT BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO AND EAT DINNER ;-))
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PLEASE NOTICE THIS IS THE #101 POST FOR THIS THREAD! WHOO-HOO!
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
"I heard Esmeralda went MAD." Vienna explained to the rest of her friends.
"I heard she got hit in the head. Hard." Friendly_friend replied.
"I dunno what I heard," Mumbled Forever_young.
"Forever, if you heard something speak up. If ya didn't, pipe down." Friendly_friend explained.
"O.K., O.K.," Forever_young replied.
"I'm gonna stop this whole thing about VMK closing--all having to do with Esmera--" Vienna paused. She heard a zap. She turned to see Friendly_friend, unconsious on the floor.
"Friendly!" She screamed. She turned to see Esmeralda, pointing her finger.
"YOU RASCAL! YOU TRY AND FOOL ME!" Esmeralds shouted. "YOU'RE NEXT!"
"Never!" Vienna screamed back. She ran to grab the Tiki-tiki room divider. She grabbed it and held it infront of herself. The zap hit the board, and completely wrapped around it, shocking Vienna badly.
"VIENNA!" Forever_young shouted.
"For...ever... help..." She murmured.
"You MEANIE!" Forever_young shouted.
Forever's words hit her like a bullet. "M-m-m-meanie...." Esmeralda mumbled to herself.
"Yes, meanie-bo-beanie!"
"I'm...I'm sorry!..."
"SURE! You practically knocked out my two best friends. WAY TO GO."
"I didn't mean t--"
"Save it for Yavn,"
There Yavn sat, head of the VMK Supreme Court.
"This white wig is getting terribly itchy," He told VMK_Red, who was sitting next to him.
"Deal with it. It's a tradition." VMK_Red replied, chuckling.
VMK_Spider sat on the other side of Yavn, having a stern face and twirling her long black hair.
"Let's begin. It's 7:30." VMK_Red reminded Yavn.
"Oh. Oh, yes. I feel so...in-charge." Yavn grinned.
"Just start," Said VMK_Spider, irritated.
"HERE YE, HERE YE--" Yavn started. VMK_Red jerked him. "I MEAN--ORDER IN THE COURT! Thank you, Red..."
"Who is the lawyer for the kid in the red bling shirt...?" Yavn quietly asked VMK_Spider.
"IsadoraQ," VMK_Red replied.
"Thank you. Miss Q," He started, "Please come up to the stands with your defendant." Yavn grinned in excitement.
"YOUR HIGHNESS," IsadoraQ started. "I mean, Judgeness...or...Yavnness?"
"Call me Yavn," Yavn sighed.
"Gavin?"
"NO, Yavn."
"Sir Lavin,"
"YAVN. Y-A-V-N. YAVN."
"Yaevin," IsadoraQ tried again. (Yay-vin is the way she pronounced it).
"MISS Q.!!!" Yavn yelled. "MY NAME IS YAH-VIN. You know, from 'Yavn speaks'?"
"Oh, yeah. Pfff, the dude who announced VMK's closing. Meanie."
"Do you want to be kicked out?"
"Uh...no?"
"Then let's get started. Now say my name correctly."
"Yavn,"
"THANK YOU!!!" He screamed.
The courtroom was quiet.
"Uhmm...thank you?" He fixed.
"Yeah... what's your question for me; IsadoraQ, THE lawyer...I just love that name for me..."
"What's your side o' the story?"
"Uhmm...shouldn't you ask Forever_young?"
"Uhgg...fine. Mr. Young,"
Forever_young stood up.
"Miss Meralda," He began, "konked out my two best friends: Vienna, and Friendly_friend."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"Oh."
The courtroom was silent.
VMK_Red slapped Yavn on the leg. "Say something!"
"Something!" Yavn announced. Then he realized his mistake. "Uhm... SOMETHING!, must be done about this...now!"
"Aren't you going to ask my side of the story?" Esmeralda asked.
"Hush," Yavn said.
VMK_Spider punched his leg.
"OW!" He yelled. "Don't do that!"
"This is gonna be a long case..." Mumbled VMK_Red.
And it was, and Esmeralda lost. There she was in VMK prison, regretting every move she had done, from the call she made to Yeti explaining how she was going broke, all to the move she had made, knocking out Vienna and Friendly_friend.
Please note that how VMK_Spider was kinda cranky, well, that's not like her, I've met her...I just needed a staff member and chose her. She's really not like that in VMK.
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CHAPTER NINETEEN
Previously on "The Meeting of the NPCs"...
"This is gonna be a long case..." Mumbled VMK_Red.
And it was, and Esmeralda lost. There she was in VMK prison, regretting every move she had done, from the call she made to Yeti explaining how she was going broke, all to the move she had made, knocking out Vienna and Friendly_friend.
__________________________________________________ ________________________
"Esmeralda?" A voice said. Esmeralda shot her head up.
"Who's there," She asked, frightened, "speak now."
"It's me, Y--"
"Y..."
"Ya...."
"Ya?..."
"Yav..."
"Yavn?" Esmeralda gasped. "SHHHH! They'll hear you! Did you sneak in the prison?"
"I disguised myself....my fake name is John. Don't tell anyone. I'm here to get you out."
"But you were the judge..."
"Eh. The jury decides, not me. Anyways, 3/4s of VMK hates you and voted for you to get in jail. It's the new poll."
"Who writes the polls?"
"...."
"YAVN."
"It's John!"
"JOHN."
"Sorry, I needed an opinion..."
"May I ask exactly what the poll said?"
"Uh...er..."
"John!!"
"Fine," Yavn--I mean John said, handing over the latest issue of VMKToday, "read it." He said.
Taking the latest issue of VMKToday, she read the poll.:
DO YOU THINK ESMERALDA (WHO BY THE WAY CAUSED THE CLOSING OF VMK) SHOULD GO IN JAIL? MAY I ADD THAT SHE IS THE CAUSE OF VMK? OH YES, AND REMEMBER, SHE'S THE CAUSE OF VMK CLOSING?
Yes, definitely - 75%
No way! She deserves a second chance - 15%
Esmeralda looked away.
"I..." Yavn started.
"I know you wrote it." Esmeralda snapped. "And don't start up with that whole, 'It's just a joke!' thing, because would 'just a joke' get me into prison?! You WANTED me in jail!"
"Let me admit, Esmeralda, that I, too, don't want VMK to close, and we all are quite ashamed that because of your uncontrollable anger, you closed VMK."
Esmeralda was quiet, but then VMK_Lion came up. "Time's up, Mr...."
"John."
"Yes, Mr. John. Thank you for visiting. Oh, and Miss..."
"Esmeralda," Esmeralda finished.
"A man by the name of...well, a monster in a black cape came by... he bailed you out. Boy, it costed 1,000,000,000 credits to bail this one. And he sent this note along, too..." VMK_Lion handed Esmeralda a note. It read:
TO MISS ESMERALDA, IN CELL NUMBER 12:
I GOT YOU OUT OF JAIL,
WITH AN EXPENSIVE BAIL,
BUT WITH THE HELP OF YOUR FRIENDS,
OUT ROPE OF FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS.
-Y & friends
Esmeralda smiled.
"You wanna get out?" VMK_Lion asked.
"Yes," Esmeralda smiled. "Yes."
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CHAPTER TWENTY
"Yavn, what is this poll about?" Yeti asked, throwing the newsletter into the fire.
"You don't have to get ride of it...I'm quite proud of my column!" Yavn defended.
"Well it's too late for that..." Yeti mumbled.
A knock came to the door.
"Come in, it's open," Yeti said.
The door opened.
"Esmeralda!" Yeti shouted.
"It's me, it's me..." Esmeralda said.
"Wellllll! I better skeedattle..." Yavn started for the door.
"Not so fast, Yavn." Esmeralda said, throwing a line of power out to grab him.
"Oh, rats." Yavn said, crossing his arms and sticking out his bottom lip. "Alright, Esmie. Who got you out of jail?" Yavn asked.
"A friend. Or YOU, Yavn!" Esmeralda shouted.
"What?? I did NOT!" Yavn shouted.
Yeti sipped his tea.
"Yeah? You want proof?" Esmeralda asked.
"Yeah!!!" Yavn replied loudly.
Esmeralda showed him the note.
" '-Y & friends'. See?! 'Y' means Yavn!" Esmeralda said.
"Yeah well I sure didn't do it. Prove that the Y means me!"
"Well there ain't any more Y's in VMK!"
"Sure there are! You_Bet_Ya, YoKid, Yo-hola, Yo-yo--"
"UHGGGG!!!" Esmeralda shouted.
Yeti raised his hand.
"What is it, Yeti..." Esmeralda asked.
"We did it..." Yeti murmured.
"What?" Esmeralda asked. "You said that too quietly."
"We did it..." Yeti replied.
"Yeti, what did you say?" Yavn exclaimed.
"I said we did it!!!" Yeti shouted.
"Y-you? Y-you mean...Yavn didn't....and Y really means Ye....Yavn didn't get me ou....you did it?" Esmeralda asked.
"Yes."
"B-b-but..."
"I believe you owe me an apology," Yavn interrupted.
"Oh, fine. Sorry, Yavn...I falsely accused you..." Esmeralda mumbled.
"Whaaaaaaat?" Yavn grinned.
"I said: Sorry, Yavn...I falsely accused you..." Esmeralda calmly said.
"Good. Now reverse the curse about VMK closing." Yavn said. "VMK citizens hate me now because I announced VMK's closing. And it's your fault." Yavn said.
"Never."
"Do it!"
"Never!"
"DO IT!"
"NEVER!"
"DO IT!!"
"No."
"Well why not???" Yavn asked.
"Because. I want to see my daught...my...my daugh...oh..."
Don't have a clue what she's talking about? Sorry. But if you want to know check out VMKtown, on the stories forum :D [this is not advertising, but it would take ages to explain what Esmie's talking about if you didn't read VMKtown.]
"Yavn, leave her alone... She needs a minute or two." Yeti said. "I'll leave too."
"Okay, okay..." Yavn said, upset and leaving.
Suddenly a hand fell upon Esmeralda's shoulder. She looked behind her. She gasped. "Who are you?!" She shouted.
It was a girl of about 13 or 14, with short black hair, orange pants, and a purple top. Somehow Esmeralda recognized her. But at the same time she didn't.
"It's Chelsea," The girl said.
Again, if you don't understand please either ask me or read VMKtown, you will clearly understand it that way...
Once upon a time, in a land called VMK, there were eight NPCs: Esmeralda, who was a fortune teller who lived on Main Street. There were also three ghosts who shared a house: Phineas, Ezra, and Gus. There also was a snow monster, the Yeti. He lived safely in his own cozy/cold cave. And then there was Ned, who was hanging from a ceiling in his shop. And then, there was Captain Sparrow, who lived in his own treehouse.
Now, these NPCs all were very good friends who tried to visit as often as they could. So one wintery evening, the Yeti called over to his friend, Esmie.
"Hello?"
"Hello, Esmie," The Yeti said in his deep, husky voice.
"Is this the Yeti?"
"Yes,"
"Oh, hello, Yet,"
"Hi. Do you want to come over for popcicles?"
"I'm busy. VMK citizens keep clicking on me and I'm losing money by the second. I give away 20 credits! Soon I'll be broke."
"Me too." The Yeti sighed.
"Well I have to go. I'm busy telling fortunes."
"Okay. Have a good one."
"Goodbye."
As Esmeralda hung up, she was clicked on again. "Guest2925879, would you quit that?" She shouted. The guest walked out without a word. Esmie boiled with anger. She grabbed her phone again and called her friend Gus.
"Hello, Esmie, I've been dyyyyying to talk to you,"
"Not now, Gus. Do you ever get tired of saying that to all of the millions of citizens that come in every day and click on you?!" She asked.
"Well,"
"Admit it, it's true."
"Okay, it's true."
"Us NPCs need to get together and talk this over."
"Definitley." agreed Gus.
"You get all your buddies and I'll call Ned and the Captain."
"Good. When will we meet and where?"
"Your place."
"Okay. See you there."
"Goodbye."
Esmeralda grinned. This was revenge. Later, all of the NPCs were gathered at Gus' apartment. "So what should we do about this?" Phineas asked, fiddling with his fingers.
"I say we outta get payed for this!" Esmeralda angrily said.
"I second that," Captain Sparrow agreed.
Esmeralda looked about the room. "Anyone else?" She asked. All of the other NPCs agreed. This was revenge!
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CHAPTER THREE
The next day, Ezra was at home reading his book. He heard a ding, dong and got up to answer the door.
"Yes?" He asked.
"Hi, Ezra," The boy replied, "I never got my 20 credits."
Ezra was about to give the boy his money, but he paused and said, "Not today," and he closed the door.
The boy walked away. Ezra didn't feel right. He sat down and thought about it. It did feel sort of good. That saved him 20 credits. He then pulled off a board from his wall and grabbed the paint. IF YOU WANT CREDITS DON'T COME HERE, the board said. He nailed it to his door, and walked away.
The captain, however, was in his treehouse when his telephone rang.
"Ahoy?"
"Captain," Ned said, answering his ahoy.
"Aye, ahoy, Ned, lad,"
"I just tried to make more money and a player threatened me to lower the price. I highered the Smee for girls, just to see how it would sell."
"Aye,"
"And I just don't have the heart to not give credits. Some citizens ask so nicely."
The captain grunted in agreement.
"What should I do?" asked Ned.
"Ned, m'boy, you need to think this over. Is yir' wallet almost empty?"
"Well..."
"There's yir' answer. I have to go feed Polly. She wants crackers."
"Goodbye, Captain. Thank you."
The captain grunted a goodbye and hung up. Was he doing what he informed Ned? Did HE think about his wallet? Did HE feel good about not giving the citizens their rightful money? WAS it their rightful money? Thoughts flipped and flopped in his mind.
"Guest8472562, I see in your future...NO 20 CREDITS FOR YOU!! BWAHAHA!" Esmeralda cackled as she read the fortune of the guest. Another player came up to her. "20 credits, please."
"No way," Esmeralda said, looking at her nails.
"But..."
"It's my money, kid, go play POTC and earn some money for cryin' out loud."
"But..."
"GO!!!" Esmeralda shouted.
The player ran away in a fright.
Esmeralda cackled so much, her throat hurt. But at the same time, it felt VERY, VERY, VERY good.
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CHAPTER FOUR
Ned woke up at the voice of a citizen. "Hi, Ned," The player smiled. That smile made Ned's day.
"Hello,"
"Just wanted to say thanks for giving away all of those credits,"
Ned jumped at the citizen's saying. "Well...um, you're welcome," He shuddered.
The citizen smiled, and walked away. Ned reconcidered this. If all of the players who came each day were like this, he wouldn't feel good about keeping his money and not giving it away. "CleverSmallBoy," Ned said, calling the citizen back to his store, "come back."
The boy walked back to Ned. "Here's 20 credits." Ned said, smiling. "Thanks," The boy said, surprised. Ned felt good. He called Esmie.
"Esmie." He said in a threatening tone when Esmeralda picked up the phone.
"Ned, darrrrling..."
"Esmie, the deal is OFF."
"Ned, sweetie, why be like this?"
"Don't 'Ned, sweetie' me! A boy just came in and said THANK YOU to me! How can I with hold my credits?"
"Darrrrrling, did I not mention at the meeting about how many credits you'll be saving?" Esmie asked.
Ned remembered. Esmie had a point.
"I remember," Ned admitted.
"Now do you want to join back?"
"I'll get back to you on that."
"Call Ezra, he's making signs to hang on your doors. I bought one from him for 50 credits and it is SO worth it. Try one!"
"I said I'll get back to you on it!"
"If you say no about continuing this strike with the other NPCs, then I will eternally curse you. You have one day. Do you understand?"
"Yes," Ned sighed.
"Good. Now goodbye."
Ned hung up. Esmie's words ran through his head: YOU HAVE ONE DAY.
Now at Yeti's nice cozy cave, he was snuggling down and eating snow cones while reading "Snow Monsters Through The Ages" to himself.
He suddenly got a call from Phineas.
"Hello?" Yeti asked once he picked up.
"Yes, Yeti," Phineas grinned, "I am selling signs for shooing off those pesky citizens. Ezra made them. They're selling for 50 credits."
"Um..." Yeti paused and thought for a moment.
"C'mon, Yet', time is money...."
"Alright, I'll take two," Yeti sighed.
"Okay, drop by the mansion today around five and pick 'em up. Bring 100 credits."
"Okay, Phineas,"
"Nice doin' business with you. See ya."
"Bye,"
Yeti hung up and sat down. Suddenly a feeling of revenge went through him. Was he really like this though? He knew Esmeralda could cast spells from long distances, but not as long as to be from Main Street to Fantasyland. So... was he really feeling this...himself?
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CHAPTER FIVE
Esmeralda sighed as she walked into New Orleans Square. She remembered one NPC she didn't include in the debate. Maybe Gator would want to join in, too. Esmeralda tapped on the door to the Blue Bayou.
"Hello, Esmie!" Gator greeted.
"Hello. I have something to ask you..."
"Sure. Come in and take a seat."
Once Esmeralda was seated, she explained the whole thing to Gator.
"I dunno, Esmie. I love givin' these nice people their credits daily. It's what I do."
"Gator, is your wallet becoming...empty?"
"No, because these people give me the nicest tips of credits after I serve them."
"Drat. Gator, you are no help at all. I'm leaving."
"You want some Mint Julep?"
"No thank you."
"Alright, bye Esmie!" Gator said with a smile.
Gator picked up a dish towel and wetted it in the sink. He squeezed out the extra water and began to clean the tables. His telephone rang. He went to pick it up.
"The Blue Bayou, how can I help you?" Gator smiled.
"Gator, this is Gus,"
"Gus! Long time no... Who are you again?"
"We've never met. I live in the Haunted Mansion area."
"Yes,"
"Well, did Esmie tell you anything about--"
"Keeping credits from citizens?"
"Yes," Gus breathed, "are you going to?"
"I haven't completely made up my mind yet. But I like servin' my customers with credits 'cause they come back alot for my food. It's just payin' them back."
"Oh," Gus sighed.
"So why did you call?"
"I...well, my buddy Ezra is selling these 'go away' and slogans like that signs. They sell for only 50 credits each."
Gator frowned.
"I'll get back to you on that, Gus. But right now I need to close down my shop."
"Fine, fine, that's just fine, I'll see you...maybe."
"Alright. Bye-bye."
Gator sat down. Was keeping credits not fair to citizens? If so, how? Gator sighed and kept on cleaning up.
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CHAPTER SIX
Dragon sat quietly in his dungeon. He looked around. Darkness surrounded him. No one else knew this, but he was quite afraid of the dark--even though the dark should be afraid of him. He took in a deep breath and blew out flames, hoping something would catch on and keep the dungeon lit. Nope. So he tried again. Yes! A piece of wood successfully caught on fire. Wait!--A piece of wood? What was a piece of wood doing there?
Dragon walked over to the piece of wood, burning with the current roars of flames. He blew out the flame, hoping he wouldn't be mistake blow more fire. He grabbed the piece of wood and looked at it. It read: GO AWAY, NO CREDITS TODAY!!!! Dragon quickly ran to his door and roared the loudest he could.
Yeti heard. "Ayyyyeeeee!!!" He roared. "My ears!" Yeti realized that it was Dragon's emergency call to Yeti. They made it several years ago when they were just children at Fantasyland Camp. Yeti had a quick flashback.
"Yeti, today your partner will be Dragon. He is new here, so please make him feel welcome," Mrs. Sunshine said, smiling at the young monster. "Yes, Mrs. Sunshine," He smiled back. Dragon shyly walked up to Yeti. He gently roared. It was quiet, but Yeti knew it was a greeting. "Hiya! I'm Yeti Van Buren! What's your full name?" Yeti asked excitedly. Dragon smiled and started roaring fluently. Yeti looked surprised. "Mrs. Sunshine," Yeti said, tugging on her skirt, "something's wrong with Dragon. He doesn't talk, he roars."
"That's right, Yeti. He comes from Dragon Island. He doesn't talk our language. That's why we need to treat him nicely."
Yeti thought for a moment.
"Can our camp class learn Dragon's language?"
"That's just what I was thinking, Yeti. I have an extra cirriculum in the closet. Let me..."
"Ooh goody! Thanks, Mrs. Sunshine!" Yeti smiled.
After learning Dragon's language, Yeti could fluently talk to Dragon. Soon, their friendship began to grow and strengthen. The day when camp ended, Yeti and Dragon cried together.
"We have to make a secret handshake." Yeti said, but in Dragonese.
"Handshake?" Dragon replied with a very Dragonese accent.
"Y'know, a...well, uh...somethin' we can do when we see each other again."
"How do you know we will see each other again?" Dragon sighed.
"A promise. Here, write with this..." Yeti grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. Together, they made a certificate promise:
I, Dragon Firestone, and Yeti Van Buren, promise that in less then 20 years we WILL see each other again, no matter what. Because this is a solumn promise. When we need each other, Dragon will roar his biggest roar and I will know it is him, and I will roar my biggest and he will know it is me. THIS IS A PROMISE, AND CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED BECAUSE THIS IS ON A FIRE STONE FOUND IN TOWN SQUARE, MAIN STREET, VMK.
And with that, Yeti set off to find his long lost best friend.
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CHAPTER SEVEN
Yeti hurried over to where ever the roaring came from. He stomped to the Castle Gardens. "Hmm?" He asked himself. There was a fork in the road. There was a dungeon, and a castle. He listened for another roar. Nothing. He decided to take the left road. The dungeon. He carefully stooped into the dark tunnel.
"Dragon?" He assured.
A surprised growl came from the huge beast.
Yeti smiled.
Dragon looked puzzled.
Dragon thought, and said in his Dragonese language, "Yeti!"
Yeti smiled. "Dragon, you called for help," He replied in Dragonese.
"You remembered our signal...I wasn't sure you would." Dragon frowned. But then a huge grin came about the room. Suddenly a continuous noise came from a door in the dungeon. Yeti looked puzzled.
"That's the monorail branch nearby," Dragon said quickly, noticing Yeti's puzzled figure.
"Ah," Yeti said, understanding, "Dragon. Why did you send me the signal?"
"Oh, I almost forgot." Dragon replied. Yeti noticed that he and his friend were both speaking fluently in Dragonese. This made Yeti proud that that one day at Camp Fantasyland when he suggested the language learning would have an effect on this future conversation.
"I found this," Dragon said, picking up the half-burnt piece of wood.
Yeti gasped. "Ezra," He said, grabbing the wood. "That cheap, rotton--"
"Enough. Tell me what happened." Dragon stopped his friend.
Yeti explained it all, from Esmeralda's idea, all to what just happened.
"I don't mind giving away credits. I really don't." Dragon said, sighing with smoke bursting out of his lips.
"Me either. But Esmeralda..." Yeti gasped. He forgot Esmeralda's curse if he had not answered her positively in a day. Yeti ran out of the dungeon.
Dragon was puzzled. Why did Esmeralda think this way? Why was there this mysterious sign in HIS dungeon if he hadn't put it there? And why on VMK did Yeti just run out?
Dragon sighed and fell into deep sleep.
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CHAPTER EIGHT
Phineas grabbed his hat and started to hover out of the mansion. "Goodbye, ghools," He hollered. "Mm," The other ghosts mumbled.
As Phineas stepped out, suddenly a hand grabbed his neck and held him up. "Ghaaa!" Phineas howled. The person in the black cloak did not show his or her face. "Giiiiiiive creddddditssssss!" The person growled.
"Ah! Who are you?" Phineas asked, trying to breathe in his ghost form.
"JUST DO AS I SAY!" The voice said, still clutching his throat.
"Put me down, you--what are you?"
"Er...call me the Dark Monster."
"Oh, okay. Put me down, you Dark Monster, you!"
"Okay." The Dark Monster put down Phineas and ducked down to the ghost's height.
"You will do as I say!" Dark Monster growled.
"Yes, Dark Monster! Just leave me alone!"
"As you wish. As long as you do as I wish!" Dark Monster snapped.
"Yes," Phineas nodded. Dark Monster ran out of the Lobby.
Later, at a guest room, three players sat silently thinking. These three players were Guest9753197, who had earlier been told by the captain that she was no longer allowed credits daily, Gracie_Girl_Green, who had been told earlier by Esmeralda that she was no longer allowed credits, and last but not least, shiningstar, who had been told by Ezra (or his sign,) to step away!
"I think this is terrible." Gracie_Girl_Green mentioned, breaking the silence.
"I agree," shiningstar said, not smiling at all, "I've been saving up for a quest kiosk for at least a year. I need those credits daily!"
Guest975319 nodded in agreement and mumbled, "I don't even have deep sea magic..."
Gracie_Girl_Green turned to shiningstar and said, "I really think this is unfair. Who says we can't have our daily 20 credits? Honestly!"
"Yeah," "I know!" The other two put in. Guest975319 sighed, stroking her new Snow White hair do. "We HAVE to put a stop to this, people!" Gracie_Girl_Green said, standing up proudly. Guest975319 stood up and said, "I know! This is SO not fair!"
Shiningstar stayed still. She looked up and tugged lightly on her black hair. "I dunno. Girls, what if everyone in VMK took 20 credits from you every day? How would you feel?"
Guest975319 turned her head.
Gracie_Girl_Green sat back down on her heart chair. "See?" Shiningstar asked, pointing at the two other girls. The two girls nodded. Suddenly another player, Helenfliesforever, stepped in.
"Did you just hear about the NPC strike?!" Helenfliesforever asked, sitting down next to Gracie_Girl_Green.
"Yes," Guest975319 said, "And even though I'm a guest, I plan to do something about it!" She turned to shiningstar and Gracie_Girl_Green and frowned. "But I thought you agreed with us!" Shiningstar growled.
"I never said anything," Guest975319 said. And in less than three seconds, she was booted.
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CHAPTER NINE
Esmeralda cackled after sending out another player--creditless. "Yes, that's right--CRY! Baby..." She laughed. She stepped out of her box and went to the door and hung up ANOTHER sign made by Ezra. "Ah, now I have...5,457,378 signs by Ezra in here. It's a wonderful thing, not having to be wallet empty? Haha..." All of a sudden the telephone rang, knocking down all 5,457,378 signs. "Ahg!" Esmeralda complained.
Esmeralda picked up the phone.
"What is it?! Oh, Yeti...Yes, you have not told me, so I am putting a curse on you in five, four, three, two--"
"Wait, Esmie, you don't understand! I was calling to give you my answer."
"Oh, okay. Is it a yes? My fingers are tingling to cast the curse,"
"I..." Yeti shuddered, "I..."
"Come on, I don't have all day!" Esmeralda threatened.
"I will NOT keep credits from those nice players! Hah! And I traded for invisibility magic so you can't find me to cast the spell!"
"Haha, you think that INVISIBILITY magic can keep from MY spells? Think again." Esmeralda held out her two hands, dropping the telephone and saying, "Many times you've denied, many times you have not seen, that I am a magic woman who can curse a hidious being! YARRRR!" Esmeralda shot magic from her hands and it went through the door.
"SEEK HIM!" She demanded. Suddenly, the magic dropped and turned to dust. "What...? I said SEEK HIM!" The magic suddenly got up, and then dropped. Esmeralda walked over to the dust on the ground. She picked some up and blew it into the wind. Suddenly, the magic came crashing down on her.
"AHGGGG!!!" she screamed. Everything went black for Esmie.
As she awoke, she was in a guest room. The owner was Gracie_Girl_Green. "Who...where...why...who are you? Where am I? Why am I here?" She asked to the doctor.
"We found you, and we thought you were gone," a player named shiningstar said, sitting down in a barrel chair. "But then we found all of these dust bits climbing all over you and we brushed them all off. In the process, Guest975319 fainted. I guess that's fainting powder,"
"That was the curse I was sending to Yeti Van Buren,"
"I see," Gracie_Girl_Green said, "and why would you do that?"
"He...well, you wouldn't..."
"You're good to go!" The doctor said, helping Esmeralda out of her chair.
"Oh, thank you kindly," She smiled.
"You're welcome. Come back whenever!"
"Oh, okay," Esmie paused and thought. These players weren't so bad. She grabbed out 100 credits and handed the doctor and shiningstar 50 each. "Come back any time for 20," Esmeralda smiled.
"Oh, thank you!" The two players called.
Esmeralda just smiled.
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CHAPTER TEN
Esmeralda walked slowly back and felt her wallet. Empty. "Oh no," She gasped, "It was that powder! It changed me! Oh no, this isn't good..."
She ran back to the Emporium and showered it all off. When she got out, she suddenly felt her revenge again. Those VMK players had tricked her! She was sure they had! She suddenly went to her magic crystal ball and did VMK People Search, which she had created in case anything like this happened. The search page looked like this:
NAME OF PLAYER/S: Gracie_Girl_Green, shiningstar
TYPE OF GUEST ROOM: Mad Hatter's Tea Party
SEARCHING . . .
Match found!
Gracie_Girl_Green: member since October 2006, banned once for no respect to staff, currently has 855 credits
Shiningstar: unknown joining time, unknown bans, currently has 1,375 credits
FOR SIMILAR MATCHES, PLEASE TOUCH HERE.
Esmeralda grinned. She had found her matches. She touched on her crystal ball Gracie_Girl_Green. Bleep! The crystal ball bleeped. Suddenly it showed a camera in a guest room.
"Shiningstar," Gracie_Girl_Green asked, "Do you think it was wrong of us to do that?"
"Do what?"
"Y'know..."
Esmeralda gasped. So they HAD done it. Maybe. It was certainly possible. She went into the guest room with her magic.
"Well, well, well..." Esmeralda grinned as she walked in.
The two players gasped. "Esmeralda!"
"Yes. Now why did you trick me? I want my credits back!"
"What?" "What do you mean?"
"You know very well what I mean."
The two players frowned. "No..." Shiningstar said.
"You mean...you didn't..."
"Didn't WHAT?" Gracie_Girl_Green asked.
"You DID do it! Otherwise you wouldn't be asking me that! You shall be banned immediatley!"
"What?" "No fair!" "We didn't do anything but heal you!" "Yeah!"
"Suuuuuuuurrrrre...."
"Esmeralda!" A voice said. Esmeralda turned her head. A big...thing in a black cape came in.
"What IS that, shiningstar?!" Gracie_Girl_Green asked. "I dunno!!" Shiningstar said, scared.
"I AM THE DARK MONSTER! HEAR ME ROAR! ROOOOAAAAAARRRR!!!" Dark Monster said, roaring.
"Ah! Alert the staff! Aren't they watching??" Gracie_Girl_Green asked, frightened. "I'm logging off!!"
"Don't leave me here!!" Shiningstar yelped. Gracie_Girl_Green stayed.
"I am here to take ESMERALDA." Dark Monster said, grabbing Esmeralda by her hair.
"Ouch! My extensions!" Esmeralda cried.
Dark Monster walked out of the room, with Esmeralda dangling by her hair.
The two players were silent.
"PUT ME DOWN!" Esmeralda cried, slamming her fists on Dark Monster.
"Not yet," Dark Monster said.
Esmeralda paused. She recognized that voice.
"...Yeti?" She asked.
Dark Monster did not respond.
Esmeralda said no more. She knew who it was. Just then her VMKPhone started ringing.
"What is it?" Esmeralda asked, answering her VMKPhone.
"It's about the signs," Ezra answered.
"Uhg, I know I owe you, but..."
"But nothing. I made those signs. That costs my mansion. Most of my room is completely gone 'cause of the signs you ordered. C'mon, Es'."
"I'm being kept hostage. But I'll drop by soon."
"What?"
"Nothing. I'll call you back later. Bye." Esmeralda hung up.
"Oh, no you wont." Dark Monster said, grabbing the VMKPhone and crushing it. "MY VMKPHONE!" Esmeralda shrieked. Suddenly the snow from on top of Yeti's cave came falling. "AVALANCHE!!!"
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
Dark Monster ran, holding Esmeralda. "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO YELL HERE! AND WHO CARES ABOUT A VMKPHONE?!"
"I DO!" Esmeralda yelled back, swinging from the pull of Dark Monster. "AND IT COSTED 100,000 CREDITS!"
Dark Monster dove for a safe shelter--Yeti's cave. They were soon settled.
"Tell me what the curse was, Esmeralda!" Dark Monster demanded, holding up Esmeralda by her vest.
"Uhhhg! Let....go!" She struggled.
"TELL ME!"
"Fine! It was to reverse what you think about a certain subject! So when it jumped on me, it changed how I felt! The magic was supposed to go on YOU and change how YOU felt about it! Now put me down!"
"I never said I'd put you down," Dark Monster said.
"You cheapo!" Esmeralda said, wapping his back.
"Youch," He flinched. He then threw her down onto a thick patch of ice.
Esmeralda howled. "You MONSTER!"
Dark Monster suddenly removed his cape. It WAS Yeti. "I knew it was you," Esmeralda bragged.
Yeti grabbed a chunk of ice from the wall. "Magic would never change the way I feel about citizens of VMK." Yeti said, biting into the ice and chewing with enormous crunches.
"Chew with your mouth shut, you monster..." Esmeralda mumbled.
"Talk with your mouth shut for once, you monster..." Yeti murmured.
"So how long are you going to keep me captive?" Esmeralda asked, slamming the ice with her fist.
"Until the enormous emount of snow goes away that's blocking the door."
"Drat."
"Unless we take the Monorail..."
"You have a Monorail branch near here?"
"Of course."
"Why don't I have one?"
"You have one near you."
"Oh. I guess I do."
"Let's go already!"
The two set out behind the frozen waterfall. When they were aboard, players crowded them.
"Hi, Yeti!" CleverSmallBoy shouted.
"It's that lady!" Mermaidblue called.
"My name is Esmeralda!" Esmeralda shouted.
"Chill," Mermaidblue said.
"Let me get a pic," BlondeAceSherbert said, grabbing out her camera.
"Is this a glitch?" MagicBubbleGum asked.
"I dunno," LifeRoxGirl answered.
Suddenly their stop came. "FOLLOW THEM!" BlondeAceSherbert called, running after the two.
"Run, Yeti, run!" Esmeralda shouted.
Yeti grabbed her hand, and ran.
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CHAPTER TWELVE
"I think we've lost them," Esmeralda panted, slowing down and finally stopping. "I don't like those players when they chase us and all... Yeti?" Esmeralda looked around for the huge snow monster. "Yeti, come out. It's not funny. Yeti."
No answer.
"YETI!" she shouted.
She looked down. A note. That was fast, she thought. She picked it up and read,
Esmeralda,
I hope through the time that we've been chased and you've been kidnapped by me has changed your mind about keeping credits. I don't want to be cruel to the players. I truley don't. Please, Esmeralda, please. And I'm sorry I fled--but I had some business to do and I will not be back for... well, I'm not sure how long. It's business including keeping credits... I was asked by another NPC to attend a meeting. Please do not track me down. Esmeralda, please don't.
Yours truley,
YETI
She read the letter over many times. She WAS going after Yeti, no matter what his plead was. She set off. She went to every NPC's living area--no one was there. They all had attended. All but her. Was she hated?
She walked on to the Monorail. No riders, which was good. If any came in she would hide under the DJ table.
Suddenly the doors of the train opened. It was at the Fantasyland Station. She heard familiar voices.
"Yes, I agree..."
"But I thought that maybe it wouldn't go on that long..."
"I'm glad you changed your mind and returned the money, Ezra."
EZRA! It was all of the NPCs! She recognized the voices.
"When will Esmie just change her mind?" Esmeralda heard. She thought it came from Captain.
Dragon roared.
"I agree," Yeti's soft but strong voice replied.
"Esmeralda is a pain in the you-know-where. She's as bad as a crash! Or even worse, a disconnection! Uhg, or even LAG!" Gator said, walking over to an arcade game and slipping in five coins.
"I KNOW!" Phineas replied, sitting down.
Esmeralda felt a lump in her throat. She wanted to jump out and show them that she was there--but she also wanted to stay behind and cry. Using a spell to silence her voice, she cried her heart out.
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Esmeralda, just finishing her sobbing, wiped her cloak against her tear-stained face. She was going to tell them off...
She sighed and crawled out from under the DJ table. "What's that noise? Is someone in here?" Gator asked, looking around cautiously.
"I have no clue..." Yeti replied. But he did have a clue. He figured Esmeralda had followed him; no matter what the letter said.
Esmeralda stood up quickly. "YOU ALL! TRADERS! TERRIBLE FRIENDS! UHG!" She shouted at the top of her lungs. "AS BAD AS A LAG?! How dare you... I thought you all were my friends..." She quieted her voice and sniffed. "I thought you all were my friends..." She repeated.
All of the other NPCs were stunned. Especially Gus, who REALLY despised Esmeralda, but he had the fear of the magic at her fingertips. "Go ahead," Phineas said, breaking the silence, "cast a horrendous spell on us."
Esmeralda looked broken. She frowned. "Is that what I am to you all? A wicked old witch who would torture someone if she could? Wow, and I thought you all liked me as a friend... and Yeti... how could you? How could you all?"
She turned to leave the Monorail when it came to a stop at Main Street.
"Esmie, wait." A voice said. She turned to see Yeti
"What." She mumbled.
"We... we didn't mean anything we said... you're a good person - really, you are..."
"Like I believe you... you were talking behind my back... about ME! You rude... mean... horrible... people that I called friends..." Esmeralda said, her eyes stinging with tears.
All of the NPCs looked guilty. Their cheeks were bright red like tomatos, and they were all quivering with the fear of being "spelled".
"Yes... I see you all do believe I am an old cranky witch who would torture someone if she could... well right now..." Esmeralda paused.
"Esmie... don't..." She could hear Yeti murmur under his breath. "Don't..."
Suddenly she held out her hands - the position for casting a spell - and said, "Alliotrocious, fiddle-dee-dee, zarmoocomotion, aracnidazee!" And then she regretted deeply what she had just done.
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
"NO!!!" Cried Phineas.
"SHE DIDN'T!!" Ezra shouted in disbelief.
"She couldn't have!" Gus said in a small squeaky voice.
Esmeralda agreed to each of their sayings. But it was true. She did do it. Yeti stood there, stooped. "Esmeralda..." He pouted. "You... YOU!!!" He suddenly ran towards her and grabbed her. He was about to hurt her but stopped. He put her down.
"How could you?" Yeti asked.
Gator stood there. "You all know what she did. I'm clueless! What did Esmeralda do?"
"She..." Phineas started.
"She sent a spell to close VMK...forever."
Gator gasped.
The others just stood there, pouting and lowering their heads.
"Thar players don't be deservin' this...they is but a nice crew, some o' them even sayin' 'tanks, or 'tank ya. They was bein' nice about this, and though some were not as kind, some were and they don't be deservin' this. This here magic lassy needs to know somethin'. VMK is a stand-tall-for-all country. These here peoples ain't gonna like this..." Captain said. Esmeralda could tell he was about to cry.
"I can't reverse this..." Esmeralda said, deeply regretting... more.
"You foolish wretch!" Ezra growled.
"Now, I wouldn't call her that..." Phineas said, putting his arm out in front of his ghost friend, "I'd call her a--"
"STOP, PHINEAS." Yeti said, grabbing--well, trying to--his ghost friend. "Perhaps Esmie had another reason for closing. Esmie?"
Esmeralda shook her head no.
The NPCs sighed.
"NEXT STOP NEW ORLEANS SQUARE MONORAIL STATION!" The train stop alerter blooped.
When it did stop there, all of the NPCs but the captain stayed behind. He needed to think.
I know gossip ain't good. No lad likes to be gabbed about behind yer back. But Esmeralda's got some temper. Closin' VMK ain't the solution--she'll just be more gabbed about! Some solution...
Just then, the captain stepped off, into VMK--the closing world.
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
"This all started with what?" Lolgirl, a citizen of VMK, exclaimed as Yeti tried to explain VMK's closing.
"Esmeralda," He replied calmly, but he was raging inside.
"Esmeralda is not like that..." Lolgirl replied stiffly.
"You don't know her like I do," Yeti replied.
"Uh-huh. Suuuuuure. You're the one who doesn't even visit her daily, like me, and, hmm, weren't you the one who gossiped about her behind her back?"
Yeti was struck speechless.
"Told ya," She said, grabbing her 20 credits and leaving with a huff.
A citizen walked up.
"Yes?" Yeti asked, sighing and grabbing his wallet.
"Hi, I'm TreasureIsMe."
Yeti humphed.
"Oh..." TreasureIsMe replied.
Yeti snapped back. "Oh, my, I'm very, VERY sorry! Here's your 20 credi--"
"I don't want that," The boy said quickly.
"What?"
"I wanted to come and ask you... why is VMK closing? Do you know why?"
"Um...er...yes?"
"Can I...know?"
"Oh, well... let me send you a message telling... so nobody else hears. Be my friend."
"Whoah! This is a joke, right? You can't be friends with an--"
TreasureIsMe's inbox glowed.
"Freaky..." He breathed.
Suddenly a girl walked in to Yeti's ice home.
"Hey, Treasure," She said, adjusting her green flip hat.
"Hey, Popcorny," He smiled.
"Popcorny, TreasureIsMe, let me tell you something..." Yeti whispered. He explained it all.
"You're lying..." Popcorny breathed.
"No, he's not." TreasureIsMe firmly said.
"Kids...come with me...we're gonna fix this." Yeti said, grabbing them both and running towards Main Street.
"FAST." He finished.
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Esmeralda stepped through the hub of Frontierland. She closed VMK. Perminantly. No re-opening. Ever. Sure, the players were taking her money and they didn't deserve it, but hey, they deserved to live in VMK. A citizen walked up to the fortune-teller, sitting on a saddle.
"Hey." He said, taking a seat next to her.
"Mmmm." Esmeralda grunted, sweeping her foot back and forth in the dust.
"I heard VMK is closing. Where am I going to live?"
"Eh." Esmeralda sighed.
"My name's Gorams."
"Esmie."
"Hi, Esmie....wait, are you the famous fortune-teller who shut down VMK? Forever?"
"Uh... Er..."
"Great." Gorams mumbled.
"Chin up, crash..."
"What did you call me?" Gorams asked, quickly sitting up.
"Nothing!" Esmeralda replied quickly, just remembering what she called him.
"You care nothing about VMK! Or the citizens!"
"I..."
"'I' nothing! Give up already. You never deserved to live in VMK."
"But--"
"Why else close VMK? Oh--yes--because you care nothing about the citizens!"
"Gorams--"
"You meany..." Gorams said, walking off to go catch some ghosts. He turned back and said, "But...please...fix this?" And then he walked off to go rent a ghost vacuum.
Now to Yeti...
"Where are we going?!!?!?!??" TreasureIsMe shouted over the loud noise of Yeti's feet running.
"Think of it as... Mission: SAVE VMK." Yeti replied, not having to yell because naturally, he was loud.
"Never. Esmie has decided to close, and closing is what she's gonna do." Popcorny replied, hanging on to Yeti's fur.
"Ouch--not such a tight grip, okay?" Yeti asked Popcorny.
"Sorry." Popcorny replied sheepishly.
Suddenly Yeti heard a SQUISH! and he looked down.
"YOUCH!!!" He heard. "Dude, you ever heard of WATCHING OUT?!" The voice shouted.
Yeti lifted his foot to look at it, and he carefully peeled off a citzen. "Name?" Yeti asked.
"LifeRoxGirl. Now put me down!" She shouted.
"Take a chill pill," Popcorny said.
LifeRoxGirl rolled her eyes.
"What's with you?" TreasureIsMe asked.
"Uh, duh, what do you think?" LifeRoxGirl asked.
"Just say." Yeti propped.
"O.K., well, VMK is closing and I'll have nowhere to go... DUH!!!" LifeRoxGirl screamed.
"Want me to step on you again?" Yeti asked.
"This is blackmail!!" She shouted back.
"Yep, and your mailbox is full." Yeti smiled.
"Har-har. Now put me down."
Yeti put LifeRoxGirl down.
"Why can't you stay anywhere?" Yeti asked.
LifeRoxGirl was silent for a minute. "Here's why," She started, "I..."
LifeRoxGirl broke down crying. "I HATE ESMERALDA!!!" She shouted.
"Hate is a strong word..." Yeti comforted. But his plan for comfort failed.
LifeRoxGirl started her car magic. "RIGHT, AND I'M PROUD! SHOVE OFF, SNOW CONE!"
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Esmeralda sighed as she waited for her VMKComputer to turn on. "Ah, yes.. it finally turned on." She typed in the search engine: WAYS TO REVERSE SPELLS
Searching VMKHoo... searching... searching... 4 matches found to search: WAYS TO REVERSE SPELLS:
1. VMKHoo Q&A: Any1 no how 2 reverse spellz? i tried 2 but all i got w...
2. VMKHoo Q&A: I need to know how to reverse spells. I made a big m...
3. How 2 ReVeRsE Magic spelllllllssss! Click here....
4. Reversing spells? IMPOSSIBLE. See why!
Esmeralda clicked on number three.
How 2 ReVeRsE magic spelllllllssss!: First you grab the X equal to the form of the magic you have endeavored for eternity and then you grab the H equivelent fraction of the three-fourths. Next grab the second flipperoo and kaabam it into the past. This is SO easy, even a guest could do it.
Esmeralda was scared. This was not easy. What was the X equal to the form...and what in VMK was a flipperoo and how did you kaabam it into the past? Suddenly her door opened.
"Excuse me?" Esmeralda asked, turning around to see a citizen.
"EXCUSE YOU?! You never excused US citizens, Miss CLOSE-DOWN-VMK-CAUSE-SHE-THINKS-SHE'S-THE-BEST-EVER-AND-YOU-ARE-LIKE-SO-CRUSHING-ON-YETI!!!" The citizen screamed.
"I can ban you! With my magic! Yeah! I can!" Esmeralda shouted.
"There's an example! You think you're the best. What about us?!"
Esmeralda pointed her finger and casted a magic spell: "Gator-waitor, splash and crock! Let this always be your mock!"
And Esmeralda casted her out of VMK forever.
(THIS CHAPTER WAS CUT SHORT BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO AND EAT DINNER ;-))
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
"I heard Esmeralda went MAD." Vienna explained to the rest of her friends.
"I heard she got hit in the head. Hard." Friendly_friend replied.
"I dunno what I heard," Mumbled Forever_young.
"Forever, if you heard something speak up. If ya didn't, pipe down." Friendly_friend explained.
"O.K., O.K.," Forever_young replied.
"I'm gonna stop this whole thing about VMK closing--all having to do with Esmera--" Vienna paused. She heard a zap. She turned to see Friendly_friend, unconsious on the floor.
"Friendly!" She screamed. She turned to see Esmeralda, pointing her finger.
"YOU RASCAL! YOU TRY AND FOOL ME!" Esmeralds shouted. "YOU'RE NEXT!"
"Never!" Vienna screamed back. She ran to grab the Tiki-tiki room divider. She grabbed it and held it infront of herself. The zap hit the board, and completely wrapped around it, shocking Vienna badly.
"VIENNA!" Forever_young shouted.
"For...ever... help..." She murmured.
"You MEANIE!" Forever_young shouted.
Forever's words hit her like a bullet. "M-m-m-meanie...." Esmeralda mumbled to herself.
"Yes, meanie-bo-beanie!"
"I'm...I'm sorry!..."
"SURE! You practically knocked out my two best friends. WAY TO GO."
"I didn't mean t--"
"Save it for Yavn,"
There Yavn sat, head of the VMK Supreme Court.
"This white wig is getting terribly itchy," He told VMK_Red, who was sitting next to him.
"Deal with it. It's a tradition." VMK_Red replied, chuckling.
VMK_Spider sat on the other side of Yavn, having a stern face and twirling her long black hair.
"Let's begin. It's 7:30." VMK_Red reminded Yavn.
"Oh. Oh, yes. I feel so...in-charge." Yavn grinned.
"Just start," Said VMK_Spider, irritated.
"HERE YE, HERE YE--" Yavn started. VMK_Red jerked him. "I MEAN--ORDER IN THE COURT! Thank you, Red..."
"Who is the lawyer for the kid in the red bling shirt...?" Yavn quietly asked VMK_Spider.
"IsadoraQ," VMK_Red replied.
"Thank you. Miss Q," He started, "Please come up to the stands with your defendant." Yavn grinned in excitement.
"YOUR HIGHNESS," IsadoraQ started. "I mean, Judgeness...or...Yavnness?"
"Call me Yavn," Yavn sighed.
"Gavin?"
"NO, Yavn."
"Sir Lavin,"
"YAVN. Y-A-V-N. YAVN."
"Yaevin," IsadoraQ tried again. (Yay-vin is the way she pronounced it).
"MISS Q.!!!" Yavn yelled. "MY NAME IS YAH-VIN. You know, from 'Yavn speaks'?"
"Oh, yeah. Pfff, the dude who announced VMK's closing. Meanie."
"Do you want to be kicked out?"
"Uh...no?"
"Then let's get started. Now say my name correctly."
"Yavn,"
"THANK YOU!!!" He screamed.
The courtroom was quiet.
"Uhmm...thank you?" He fixed.
"Yeah... what's your question for me; IsadoraQ, THE lawyer...I just love that name for me..."
"What's your side o' the story?"
"Uhmm...shouldn't you ask Forever_young?"
"Uhgg...fine. Mr. Young,"
Forever_young stood up.
"Miss Meralda," He began, "konked out my two best friends: Vienna, and Friendly_friend."
"Oh."
"Yeah."
"Oh."
The courtroom was silent.
VMK_Red slapped Yavn on the leg. "Say something!"
"Something!" Yavn announced. Then he realized his mistake. "Uhm... SOMETHING!, must be done about this...now!"
"Aren't you going to ask my side of the story?" Esmeralda asked.
"Hush," Yavn said.
VMK_Spider punched his leg.
"OW!" He yelled. "Don't do that!"
"This is gonna be a long case..." Mumbled VMK_Red.
And it was, and Esmeralda lost. There she was in VMK prison, regretting every move she had done, from the call she made to Yeti explaining how she was going broke, all to the move she had made, knocking out Vienna and Friendly_friend.
Please note that how VMK_Spider was kinda cranky, well, that's not like her, I've met her...I just needed a staff member and chose her. She's really not like that in VMK.
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CHAPTER NINETEEN
Previously on "The Meeting of the NPCs"...
"This is gonna be a long case..." Mumbled VMK_Red.
And it was, and Esmeralda lost. There she was in VMK prison, regretting every move she had done, from the call she made to Yeti explaining how she was going broke, all to the move she had made, knocking out Vienna and Friendly_friend.
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"Esmeralda?" A voice said. Esmeralda shot her head up.
"Who's there," She asked, frightened, "speak now."
"It's me, Y--"
"Y..."
"Ya...."
"Ya?..."
"Yav..."
"Yavn?" Esmeralda gasped. "SHHHH! They'll hear you! Did you sneak in the prison?"
"I disguised myself....my fake name is John. Don't tell anyone. I'm here to get you out."
"But you were the judge..."
"Eh. The jury decides, not me. Anyways, 3/4s of VMK hates you and voted for you to get in jail. It's the new poll."
"Who writes the polls?"
"...."
"YAVN."
"It's John!"
"JOHN."
"Sorry, I needed an opinion..."
"May I ask exactly what the poll said?"
"Uh...er..."
"John!!"
"Fine," Yavn--I mean John said, handing over the latest issue of VMKToday, "read it." He said.
Taking the latest issue of VMKToday, she read the poll.:
DO YOU THINK ESMERALDA (WHO BY THE WAY CAUSED THE CLOSING OF VMK) SHOULD GO IN JAIL? MAY I ADD THAT SHE IS THE CAUSE OF VMK? OH YES, AND REMEMBER, SHE'S THE CAUSE OF VMK CLOSING?
Yes, definitely - 75%
No way! She deserves a second chance - 15%
Esmeralda looked away.
"I..." Yavn started.
"I know you wrote it." Esmeralda snapped. "And don't start up with that whole, 'It's just a joke!' thing, because would 'just a joke' get me into prison?! You WANTED me in jail!"
"Let me admit, Esmeralda, that I, too, don't want VMK to close, and we all are quite ashamed that because of your uncontrollable anger, you closed VMK."
Esmeralda was quiet, but then VMK_Lion came up. "Time's up, Mr...."
"John."
"Yes, Mr. John. Thank you for visiting. Oh, and Miss..."
"Esmeralda," Esmeralda finished.
"A man by the name of...well, a monster in a black cape came by... he bailed you out. Boy, it costed 1,000,000,000 credits to bail this one. And he sent this note along, too..." VMK_Lion handed Esmeralda a note. It read:
TO MISS ESMERALDA, IN CELL NUMBER 12:
I GOT YOU OUT OF JAIL,
WITH AN EXPENSIVE BAIL,
BUT WITH THE HELP OF YOUR FRIENDS,
OUT ROPE OF FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS.
-Y & friends
Esmeralda smiled.
"You wanna get out?" VMK_Lion asked.
"Yes," Esmeralda smiled. "Yes."
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CHAPTER TWENTY
"Yavn, what is this poll about?" Yeti asked, throwing the newsletter into the fire.
"You don't have to get ride of it...I'm quite proud of my column!" Yavn defended.
"Well it's too late for that..." Yeti mumbled.
A knock came to the door.
"Come in, it's open," Yeti said.
The door opened.
"Esmeralda!" Yeti shouted.
"It's me, it's me..." Esmeralda said.
"Wellllll! I better skeedattle..." Yavn started for the door.
"Not so fast, Yavn." Esmeralda said, throwing a line of power out to grab him.
"Oh, rats." Yavn said, crossing his arms and sticking out his bottom lip. "Alright, Esmie. Who got you out of jail?" Yavn asked.
"A friend. Or YOU, Yavn!" Esmeralda shouted.
"What?? I did NOT!" Yavn shouted.
Yeti sipped his tea.
"Yeah? You want proof?" Esmeralda asked.
"Yeah!!!" Yavn replied loudly.
Esmeralda showed him the note.
" '-Y & friends'. See?! 'Y' means Yavn!" Esmeralda said.
"Yeah well I sure didn't do it. Prove that the Y means me!"
"Well there ain't any more Y's in VMK!"
"Sure there are! You_Bet_Ya, YoKid, Yo-hola, Yo-yo--"
"UHGGGG!!!" Esmeralda shouted.
Yeti raised his hand.
"What is it, Yeti..." Esmeralda asked.
"We did it..." Yeti murmured.
"What?" Esmeralda asked. "You said that too quietly."
"We did it..." Yeti replied.
"Yeti, what did you say?" Yavn exclaimed.
"I said we did it!!!" Yeti shouted.
"Y-you? Y-you mean...Yavn didn't....and Y really means Ye....Yavn didn't get me ou....you did it?" Esmeralda asked.
"Yes."
"B-b-but..."
"I believe you owe me an apology," Yavn interrupted.
"Oh, fine. Sorry, Yavn...I falsely accused you..." Esmeralda mumbled.
"Whaaaaaaat?" Yavn grinned.
"I said: Sorry, Yavn...I falsely accused you..." Esmeralda calmly said.
"Good. Now reverse the curse about VMK closing." Yavn said. "VMK citizens hate me now because I announced VMK's closing. And it's your fault." Yavn said.
"Never."
"Do it!"
"Never!"
"DO IT!"
"NEVER!"
"DO IT!!"
"No."
"Well why not???" Yavn asked.
"Because. I want to see my daught...my...my daugh...oh..."
Don't have a clue what she's talking about? Sorry. But if you want to know check out VMKtown, on the stories forum :D [this is not advertising, but it would take ages to explain what Esmie's talking about if you didn't read VMKtown.]
"Yavn, leave her alone... She needs a minute or two." Yeti said. "I'll leave too."
"Okay, okay..." Yavn said, upset and leaving.
Suddenly a hand fell upon Esmeralda's shoulder. She looked behind her. She gasped. "Who are you?!" She shouted.
It was a girl of about 13 or 14, with short black hair, orange pants, and a purple top. Somehow Esmeralda recognized her. But at the same time she didn't.
"It's Chelsea," The girl said.
Again, if you don't understand please either ask me or read VMKtown, you will clearly understand it that way...