The Neopian Lottery

by erin50

I raced down to the bakery as fast as I could! My feet started to tire but I remembered my starving pet, Skullnut, and I kept going. Skullnut was a beautiful rainbow Blumaroo who I had met when I was young. He used to belong to a Battledome competitor but he was not strong enough so his owner abandoned Skullnut. I was walking through the toy store that day when I heard a faint squeak. I rushed to the front of the store to find that there was a nearly dead Blumaroo lying on the ground. I picked him up and took him to the soup kitchen where he was replenished. The Blumaroo loved me so much and I decided to keep him and name him Skullnut because he loved my temporary skull tattoo that I was wearing on my arm.

When I finally got to the bakery, I found a Purple donut for 12 NP, the last item in the store. I left the bakery and was getting ready to return to Skullnut when something caught my eye in the pet's pets store. A beautiful bee called Buzzer and I got him for Skullnut as he was always complaining about my new job that took half of the day's playing time away from us. I walked out of the store and I accidentally bumped into an old man. "I'm sorry sir," I told the man.

"Thank you. Can you help me to the clothing store? I'm on a quest."

I told him I would and I took him to the clothing store. When we reached the door, the old man thanked me and handed me a piece of paper. A gift of some sort. I thanked the man and ran home remembering Skullnut and his condition. Only when I got home did I realize what the old man had given me, a lottery ticket with the numbers 6, 21, 0, 30, 11 and 19 printed in gold. I doubted that I would win but I guess there was a slight chance. So that night, I sat in front of the television with Buzzer and Skullnut and we watched the numbers being called, Skullnut munching on some popcorn.

"......And the winning numbers for today's lottery are 0, 6, 11, 19, 21 and 30," yelled the news announcer.

Skullnut stared down at my card and then threw his popcorn at Buzzer in joy. Skullnut took off through the hallways, being chased by Buzzer. The sounds of my lamps smashing, the walls being dented and the mini glass sculpture being smashed by the hallway chase couldn't get me out of the world I was in. I must've just won 999,999 NP!

The next day, I went to the medicine store and I bought a bunch of Neck Braces that Skullnut could play with. A couple of customers looked at me in disgust when I left with all of the Neck Braces. I didn't care at the time, I was too rich to care about them. My check had come that morning for 950,000 NP and I was thrilled. Next, I went into the Food shop and although Skullnut was bloated, I bought all of the food. Maybe I would throw a party! I also bought a bunch of garden supplies that I would hide the NP with, when I left the house.

That night, my pets and I went out to a fancy restaurant called Kanfi and my pets told everyone "My owner is rich." We both ordered the most expensive meal and barely touched it, flooded with the joy of being able to order it.

When we got home, I was amazed with what I saw. The house had been robbed! Most of the stuff had been thrown around in the search for my NP. A lot of stuff was broken and some was stolen. When I made it to the yard supplies, I was surprised to find that my overalls were gone but my NP was still there. I suddenly jumped when I heard a cry from the living room. I ran to the living room only to find that Skullnut had cut his foot on some broken glass and was laying on the floor, helplessly. I rushed over to the medicine store for something to use I found that they had banned me, as well as the food store because they had gotten so many complaints about my many purchases.

I turned around only to bump into the old man who had given me the lottery ticket. "Where are you going?" he asked curiously.

"The next city's Pharmacy for some medicine," I replied.

"Don't bother, you've already been banned from that city."

"What? It's my money. Why do they care how much I spend?"

"There are other people who are more needy than you are and they care about those people," the man replied. I stopped and thought about the many people who probably got one food item a week and were happy. I guess that I let the joy get the best of me.

I went home and put all of my recently purchased food into a bag and I went to the Neopian Pound.

"Wow! I never knew that others actually agreed with me in my statement about pets being trash!" Mrs. Worely, the pound keeper said to me when I walked in. "Actually, I would like to see the pets that are for adoption." I walked up to every single pet and handed them a food item and I wished them luck in finding a good owner, someday. Next, I went to the pharmacy and gave out my Neck Braces to those who needed them for their pet. As I was walking home I found that I still had 30,000 NP and I figured I'd use about 20,000 of it to clean the house up from the burglary. While thinking about what to do with the other 10,000 I saw a man walking with his dirty green Shoyru. The man was homeless. I gave him the 10,000 NP.

Then, when I got home, I realized that I had not got anything from the lottery. But then I changed my mind. I had gotten the joy of doing something kind.