The Meepballs!

1: Meepsyum

    Once Upon A Time, there was a BOOM.  A ship had landed on a planet.

    This planet was useless.  It just spent its days circling dust, being the planet that had no potential whatsoever.

    But then, when there was a BOOM, the uselessness all changed.  The ship that had cut into the planet's surface was pouring out small

creatures, now; creatures that didn't look like ones you'd find on Earth.  They were round, like a ball, and had white little tummies that were also round.  Their eyes were big, very big.  Like back holes center to a yellow rim of iris.  Between these eyes, there was a long white stripe that carried across its face, just like the one you'd find on a skunk.  They had small round ears with soft points, kind of like a cat, and small, almost invisible feet.  The feature that stuck out the most was their big tails on their backs, the size of a whole 'nother them.  These tails had a continuation of that white stripe, also like a

skunk.  And their red cat-like mouths stuck out a bit, too.  They were also very, very, very cute, and had very small, squeaky voices.  These creatures are called Meepballs.

Last to enter the ocean of Meepballs was another Meepball, who had a lot of big gray hair on top of his head, almost like a skinny pom-pom.  He seemed to be in charge.

    Soon after the ship had been emptied, this gray-haired Meepball, whose name was Colossal Meepball, acted more and more like a leader, placing a small blue/red/white/black/yellow flag in

the ground.

     After this, he started to do some strange things to the planet.

Once, he had the idea to carve the planet in the shape of himself, but then thought again, and decided on just a Meepball to make it more fair.  And like always, when this man had an idea, it had to be done.  So after a couple of years, the useless planet had purpose, and also looked like a round creature with mountains for ears and big round lakes for eyes.  The place that they seemed to

ignore, however, was the tails bit.  It had an unsafe amount of blizzards, volcanos, and tsunamis.

    Now that the planet had been carved and was now finished, the Meepballs could settle to their homes.  Just like Earth did, they separated the lands into countries, (completely ignoring continents) and then named them.  It was a hard time of naming, but they eventually settled on names like Meeptopia and Meepa, and then went on to name the planet itself.

This was an even harder naming session.  But in the end, the Meepballs landed on a very good

name, the name Meepsyum.

2: The Eight Siblings

    Meepsyum had lots of happy Meepball families.  They all had a Mama, a Dada, and a whole lot of siblings.  (About three hundred, to be precise).

Meepballs aren't spiders.  They were much smaller than humans, but compared to the spiders on Meepsyum, (which were tiny and purple-striped), they were quite big, so they had to have big houses.

Thanks to the fact that everyone in Meepsyum needed a really big house, these houses were only

two to three hundred thousand dollars.  Or, not dollars, because Meepsyum currency is called Meep Bucks.

    The Meepsons were like every other Meepball family.  They had one Mama, one Dada, lots of kids, and a spacious house.  However, one day their parents had news for them.

    "Me and your Dada and you kids," said their Mama, above the loud sound of drum-rolls, "Are going to Tail!"

    The Meepballs were very excited.  Ofcourse, Tail was very dangerous, but in every one of their

minds, there was the thought What's the worst that can happen?

    Very bad was their answer.  Firstly, it turned out that they could only afford for some of their kids to go, leaving eight of them behind.  They went to a hot spring first ("is that how  they got to the hospital?" asked one of them) and then they went to the Great Shark Beach ("is that how they got in the hospital?" asked another).  But the real truth was, they went to The Amazing Volcano Views, and that's how they got to the hospital.

    The Meepballs did what they were told.  They Stayed in a cave to pass the time of their parents and siblings in hospital.  They were sent to a cave, a dark, endless cave that went on for years at the back (or so it seemed to).  And they were very oftenly attacked by WeezleSeezles (flat, lime-green things with yellow stripes that had big snappy mouths and were very feisty and noisy and had lots of legs that crept on the cave walls and went in packs) -- native to Meepsyum.

    They eventually got tired of this, though.  They had lots of WeezleSeezle bites and barely any food

to eat off of.  Luckily, about a week after, a proper-looking Meepball from the hospital showed up at their cave entrance.

    He told them that he had a rocket-ship, and that he would fly them to a far away place to wait.

The Meepballs thought this wouldn't be a big deal.  They thought that they'd just be going to another country or something.  But the eight Meepball siblings, Meep, Meepy, Meeper, Meepa, Meepo, Meep`e, Meepsy, and Meeple were very wrong.

3: The Trip to Earth

    After a few days of traveling, and a lot of nail-

biting and shivering at the thought of their family not returning, they landed on a different planet.

This planet was new and strange to the Meepballs.  Meep, the oldest of the eight of them, was especially weirded out of it.  It had squiggly country shapes and things called continents and big, big oceans.

When the Meepballs asked what the name of it was, they were taken aback by how odd and none-Meepball-ish the name was; Earth.

When they arrived at the place the proper man was looking for, The United States of America, he got

back in his ship and left the Meepballs to take care of themselves.

    Meep, Meepy, Meeper, Meepa, Meepo, Meep`e, Meepsy and Meeple were sort of scared.  A new planet, Meep thought to herself, and we have to fend for ourselves!

    On the planet of Earth, they saw weird and unusual things.  There were things called roads and freeways and Kentuckys.  When they landed in California, they had a rental stay in a hotel for two weeks.  If their parents weren't home by then, they had to stay longer.  If they came back in a shorter

time, they'd have to cancel some days.

    Meep was very suspicious of California.  She was looking and twisting around her shoulder at every possible angle, paranoid that someone might have been following her and her siblings.

The weirdest thing, out of all the weird things, was the things that lived on Earth.  Not the tigers, not the elephants.  It was the humans.

    Their lack of hair except for on their heads, (which some of them didn't even have).  Their odd separations in their paws that were called fingers.  The fact that they called themselves black and

white but were actually brown and tan!  It was far too much for Meep and her sibling's eyes.

    Meeper, however, was very interested in humans.  He didn't seem to feel foot-size to them and didn't twist and turn irritably.  He instead waddled his plump Meepball body to places called cafes.

    Meep didn't know how she'd survive two whole weeks with no parents and seven siblings in the hordenous planet of Earth.  Could she even manage?

4: Meep and Earth

    It was dawn.  Sun crept through the blinds as

light spilled from the windows.  Meep was surely not expecting it because when she woke up, her big round eyes were blinded by its yellow.

The sun is not that bright in Meepsyum!  Thought Meep, pulling her covers over herself.

That didn't last long.

    Two of her youngest brothers, Meep`e and Meeple, were now jumping cheerfully on her covers now, each jump dragging her off her bed (which was very oddly rectangular).

    Meepa, her sister who was four years younger than her, was still asleep.  Meep climbed up the

stairs that connected their beds and tried to pull off her covers.  However, Meepa had a firm grasp and her covers, and wouldn't let go no matter how hard Meep tried.  Meep then thought of a way to persuade her sister out of bed, and said that they'd have chicken without her.

    "Wait-- you can't even have chicken!"  Meepa realized after they had breakfast. "You tricked me!"

You see, Meepballs had things called papayas.  On this odd planet of Earth, papayas are a type of fruit (which the Meepballs were confused by).  But on Meepsyum, they were what a Meepaball ate.  It was

like a very-strict-no-exceptions-kind-of-diet.  Because you would have to go to the hospital if you ate it and got very badly sick.  Meepa, for example, was a Meet Papayan Meepball.

    Meep was a Healthy Papayan Meepball, meaning that she could only eat fruit and vegetables.  So she went outside and climbed a palm tree, ripping a banana off of it, and leaping down to eat it for breakfast.

    Outside of the hotel, there was a tall human with hair growing on his face.  Meeper, the willing sibling who was very curious, tapped him on the

Tibia bone.

"Heyo?"  He asked the man, now smacking him on his lower leg.  "Heyo?"

    The man turned around.  He had an orange horizontal stripe on his back, a lime green vest, and a construction cap.  

    "What do you want?"  He said, mid-turn.  Then he spotted Meeper, realized that there hadn't been a human behind him, and fainted.

    "What da matter wiff him?"  Meeper asked, beginning to be uninterested, and jumping over his unconscious leg.  "I just being fweindly".

    (You see, real quick, everytime one of the Meepballs talk in this book, they are talking in Meep Talk, where every word is simply just meep meep meep).

    Meep slapped her forehead.  She led Meeper and the rest of her siblings to a Tire Shop, and rested on top of a stack of tires.

"Dis been weird time."  Said Meepo, wiggling his feet, which hung off the tire he was sitting on.  He caught sight of a power-plant.  "Oooo.  Can I touch that?"

    Meep looked suspiciously at it.  "Alright."  She

said,

    Meepo then sprang out of his tire-seet and headed for the power plant.

    "MEEPO!"  Shouted Meep, seeing a car coming, "LOOK OUT!"

    Meepo froze.  Still on one hill, he turned to his left and saw a car, which was zooming in his direction.  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

    Meep rolled up her pretend sleeves.  She jumped out of her two-tiered tire-seat and did a stop-drop-roll towards the street, where she grabbed her brother and tumbled out of the way, just in time for

the car to pass.

    "Meepo!"  She said, her heart nearly popping out of her.  "You're small!  That car didn't see you!  You could have been a pancake!"

    Meepo stared at her.  There were different types of Meepballs, and Meep was a pancake Meepball, meaning that she could make herself flat and was very flexible.  Meep couldn't find a way to explain that that hadn't been what she meant.  She instead set her little brother down and walked safely across the street to her other siblings.

5: Avery

    It was the next day.  Meep had started to get tired of her rectangular human bed.  She didn't want to get up, but there was a lot of annoying banging on the wall from the humans next to them, and she couldn't stand another second of it.

    She slammed open the door, scarred the people to pieces, and screamed at them not to do it anymore.

    Meep was very cute.  Meepballs were very cute.  Meepballs didn't speak english.  Meepballs screaming gibberish at you and also being very cute when doing so is very amusing.

    Due to this, the humans laughed so much they could knock down a building.  It didn't make Meep happy.  Yet instead of feeling embarrassed, Meep was confused.  Why was this so funny?

    A thought crossed her mind when she walked back to her condo-- a horrible, dreadful thought-- what if she used her bite?  

    No.  Thought another, more sensible part of her.  Absolutely not.

    A bite was a thing that came in a group of three for Meepballs.  By the Meepsyum law, you could only bite someone three times, and it couldn't be

another Meepball.  Humans weren't Meepballs, but she had to resist.  It wasn't really a big deal, anyways.  She had thought of using her bites multiple times, but never did it.  Most people who think of pay-back or revenge only have it cross their minds to satisfy themselves.  That was now the case for Meep.

Now forgetting the horrible thought, Meep went on to wake up her siblings.  Meeper woke up first, ofcourse.  Everytime he seemed to remember they were on Earth, his large eyes sparked and he got a burst of energy.  He had gotten used to Earth on

day one.  Meep, however, took until that day to get used to it.  She really just wanted to go back home with her parents and house and other siblings.

    Later that day, they were still in the condo.  The proper man had come back to give them some food, and now they were eating lunch.  

    There was a KNOCK KNOCK on the door.

    "Who's there?"  Asked Meepsy, the youngest of the girl Meepballs and thought this was a joke.

Meep opened the door.  A human was standing there.  Meep studied her closely, making sure this wasn't another insurance spam person.

    Thankfully, it wasn't:  she was obviously a girl, by the shape of her body.  Her long, dark, curly brown hair went to about her elbows.  She had naturally dark eyebrows that matched her hair, and a mole on the right cheek of her face.  Her nails were very long to be not false (as Meep had seen some people wearing), and she was wearing a T-shirt and shorts.

"Hello,"  she said, then a pop of shock passed her face.  Then she looked down, her eyes staring at nothing as she did so, and then finally caught sight of Meep, who was as small as a hand.

    Her eyes now brightened.  She seemed to be taken aback by cuteness.  

    "Hello," she repeated, now smiling.  "Um...  What are you?"

    Now she was  second-guessing herself, seeming to think that was a very rude question.

    "I'm a Meepball."  Said Meep, as though it was obvious.  "And you are a human."

    The human stood still.  Remember, Meep was talking in Meep Talk, not english.

    "...Right."  Said the human, swinging her arms awkwardly.  "Well, I'm Avery."

    Meep gave her a puzzled expression.  Avery realized that Meep hadn't told her her name.

Avery squatted down-- patted Meep on the head-- and stood back up.

    "Bye!"  She said happily.

    "That was odd."  Said Meepa.

6: Befriending a Human

    Avery had come back the next day.  It was becoming sort of a "thing" now.  Avery had told everyone she got a chance to talk about the Meepballs.  Each day there was a crowd, and then another to add to the crowd.