Our Tale: Part One

by umbreon_of_the_moon

The Beginning of Me

I was a Wocky from the very beginning. Or at least as far as I can remember. I remember I was painted Yellow when I was born, not my most favorite color, but what choice did I have?

My first memory is being abandoned by my first owner. I remember having a tight collar pressed around my neck. I wasn't even an hour old. I was sent to the Pound and locked up in a cage where this big woman hardly fed me or any of the other pets that were there.

I was sharing a cage with another NeoPet, a Shoyru. It looked a lot older than me, also had a collar on, and was a Shadowed color. I looked at him. He looked very unhappy and quite thin.

"Things never used to be like this." Says the Shoyru. He looks at me. "In the first days of Neopia, there were no bad owners, no abandoned NeoPets, there wasn't even a Pound because there wasn't one needed." He sighs and looks towards his paws.

"What do you mean, mister?" I ask him.

"Call me ShyAshes," he says.

"Okay, ShyAshes. What do you mean?" I repeat.

"People used to get along fine with NeoPets There used to be only one or two mistreated NeoPets, but look around." ShyAshes tells me. I look around. I see rows and rows of cages filled with NeoPets I see they are all unhappy and most of them are crying quietly to themselves.

"They look so helpless," I say.

"Yeah, they have given up on life. I know somewhere that there is an owner who would want me, and you for that matter. You are sweet and young and basically a baby," ShyAshes tells me.

Just then, a door opens and I see two people in the door. There is a big woman, and a young girl.

"Take a pet," says the big woman.

"That's the woman I was talking about," ShyAshes whispers to me.

I go to the front of the cage. The girl walks past my cage, comes back and looks at me. I look back at her.

"He's so cute!" says the girl. The woman opens the cage and looks at me. The girl picks me up. I look at ShyAshes. He walks over to me and I look at him.

The girl picks up ShyAshes and holds us both. I look at him.

"Is this what happens when we get taken?" I ask him.

"Yes! We are going to be adopted!" ShyAshes yells.

"Guess that answers my question," I mumble.

"I'll take these two!" says the girl.

"Follow me," says the woman gruffly. I am tired and realized I have never eaten at all. While being carried by the girl, I fall asleep. ShyAshes looks at me and thinks, "Poor thing. He must be tired out."

The woman gets rid of our adoption collars that were already on us. She hands the young girl two dark red collars and she puts them around ShyAshes' neck and around my neck.

"Come on, let's go home!" says the girl. I nod happily as we walk across the field to her house.

To be continued...