In the beginning, when Neopia was young the world was different. It was mainly composed of small islands, which later fused to become the continents we know of today. The energies of this world were controlled and guided by a race of creatures only known as "Overseers". These overseers created the Uberfaeries to control the different aspects of this world and regular faeries to help them in this task. Each island was imbued with a different combination of these energies, or "magic", and this is what sprung the different species of neopia. Since there were so few creatures then magic was plentiful Neocreatures were more powerful and actually looked quite different. Time went on and the Overseers left Neopia to their appointed guardians, but they took the knowledge of their existence from the minds of their "offspring". Only written myths and half truths of their presence were left, the true potential of the Neocreatures lost perhaps forever. As time went by, Neopia changed and grew like any other world. The different struggles and even abuses from some of its inhabitants slowly consumed the ambient magic of the world, the Neocreatures started to weaken.
At this time an Obsidian Black Scorchio arose, representing the earth. Somewhere else an Opal White Shoyru, representing the air, gained new consciousness and felt somewhat "incomplete". By the same token, a Molten White Kougra was being born in a volcanic cave at the highest peak in the Polar North of Neopia at the same time that in an underwater city in the southernmost part of neopia an Indigo Wocky gave it's first cry. In the years to come the shoyru and scorchio traveled Neopia never content to stay in one place and fated to never meet until the right moment. These creatures learned from every race they met and were actually present when legendary points of interest were erected on Neopia. It's said that it was their idea to build the obelisks to contain and maintain the decreasing magics in Neopia. These two Neocreatures attained enlightenment such as none had before, some even said that they had a knowledge not of them. Meanwhile, the wocky and kougra enjoyed their infancy sometimes an unexplained melancholy overcame them and each looked longingly to the horizon. Continents were beginning to form from the union of the islands, much strife and adjustments had to be made from races meeting each other and the turmoil that the land collisions brought. In one of these cataclysms two families decide to flee to the center of Neopia, a white Kougra and an Indigo almost Black wocky meet for the first time. They become inseparable and feel that a void has been filled in their lives. Magic continued to dwindle and the situation was turning critical. The scorchio and shoyru meet with the tribal leaders to find a solution. These two creatures had become renowned in the world and everybody listened to their wisdom. Even in this grand reunion neither met the other directly, only catching glimpses of each other. A decision was reached: shoyru and scorchio had learned of the overseer myths and knew of a way to save their world. A merger of another dimension and their own. They chose our world. Not for our resources or technology, rather for our imagination and the potential of our spirits. It's this spiritual part of our world that would keep their world healthy and slowly nurse it to health.
Thus, the NeoPETS; no longer Neocreatures, were formed. Our influence mingled into their world and it changed them: some for the better, some for the worse. After this event the shoyru and scorchio were called the wise ones. The wise ones continued to travel and each sponsored one of the young felines in our story. The shoyru taught his opposite: the wocky and the scorchio: the kougra. Unlike their mentors the felines did everything together, balancing each other completely. When the wise ones realized this they made an agreement to deliberately meet, and see if this lesson that they'd learned from their students could be used by them also. They met in a secluded glade, with their students in tow. When the wise ones met each other magic exploded in the air, the relic each carried glowed. Each felt like they were finally complete. They joined paws and also each half of an orb of Overseer origin, the source of their knowledge. In a flash of multicolored light the wise ones fused into a single creature: a Silver Dragon. A complete orb was in one of its paws and it hovered in the air in a serene and regal manner. The orb spoke: "This is the true form a NeoCREATURE. It's metallic form to indicate the preciousness of all life, no longer white or black but gray to symbolize the balance between each." The dragon looked at it's students and told them to travel apart and journey for enlightenment so that they would ascend like they had. They also told of a time when they would be back. And told them that they had to search in their travels so that they would know when that time would be.
The felines traveled and grew and learned and loved and hurt and finally got together and ascended but not in the same balance that their teachers had. That's why the tiger in our guild has black stripes and is not totally gray. That's also why the Dragon and the Tiger can sometimes be seen in conflict, but it teaches us about life and the opposites in it. That's also why they're in front of the ying and yang. Before the tiger left it left this message. They are the clues as to the return of the Silver Dragon. When a gathering of people gather under my color I will watch them. When a gathering of people gather under where I hide I will watch OVER them. If these people are of the right spiritual force, I will let them see me in dreams. If they have balance they MIGHT see me. If they do good with their actions I will visit them. And when these people reach a hundred something wonderful will happen. These clues were gathered by the felines in their travels and there might be errors or inconsistencies in their stories. Is it too much coincidence that a gathering of people (guild, perhaps?) has so much in common with this legend? Some say that none of this legend is true and that in fact a descendant of the Wise Scorchio is in our guild and is in fact responsible for this story. Or maybe he's just trying to set in motion events that will bring back his long lost ancestor... |
