Our Tale: Part Three

by umbreon_of_the_moon

Changing Rooms

As I glow, ShyAshes gets scared. He starts to shake. I stop floating and I walk over to him. "Get away from me!" ShyAshes yells as he runs off into his basket. I look very upset. "What's wrong with him?" I whimper to Mistress.

"He's scared of you. I guess he is afraid of Psychics," says Mistress.

"ShyAshes? I won't hurt you!" I call to him.

"You will. You're psychic," says ShyAshes.

"ShyAshes! Come outside and watch," I beckon to him and Mistress to follow me. We go outside and I point back towards the house. "Watch," I say.

I point to the house and it starts to glow. The rotting wood starts to change into decent pieces of wood. The house starts to get a new coat of paint. The house glows and gets bigger. I look at my Mistress and ShyAshes.

"Any requests?" I ask, giggling.

"A black bedroom for me!" yells ShyAshes.

"So be it...paint it black," I say.

Suddenly, ShyAshes finds himself inside a bedroom, his own bedroom. He flies to the window and yells his thanks to me. He jumps onto his bed and dozes off to sleep happily. "Thank you, Umbreon!" Mistress says. "But we are still poor?"

"I'll sort that out, Mistress. I promise."

"I hope so...." says Mistress.

***

I look around. There is one thing I can't do psychically, make money. I start to think. "Mistress?" I ask nervously.

"Yes, Umbreon?" asks Mistress.

"I think there may possibly be a chance of an opportunity to win a chance of getting some more Neopoints..." I mumble.

"What is it?" asks Mistress.

"Why don't we do the Psychic Analysis at the Casino? If you take the 20 NP you have out of your bank account, we'll be able to play. It's worth a try," I ask her, thinking it might be cheating.

"It's a gamble..." says Mistress.

"Look, he's sorted out our house, didn't he? It's worth a try, Mistress," says ShyAshes, backing me up.

"Are you sure you can win?" Mistress asks.

"I think so," I say.

Mistress picks me up and looks at me. She gives me a kiss. I blush and ShyAshes snickers. I growl at him. Mistress runs off to the bank with me in her arms. ShyAshes flies along behind her shouting, "Wait for me!"

We get to the bank in our scruffy, ragged clothes. We go inside and the Skeith at the 'Withdrawals' bench twitches his nose at us. I growl to myself. "How can I help you?" growls the Skeith at us.

"Can I empty our account?" asks Mistress.

The Skeith looks at us and hands us a 20 NP Neonote, Mistress's life savings. "Are you sure about this?" asks Mistress. I nod. I lead Mistress, ShyAshes, and myself out of the bank and I point the way to the Games Room, the Neopian Casino. ShyAshes flies above Mistress and flies into the Games Room before us.

He looks around as Mistress and I get inside and he points to a big blue door that has a sign on it. The sign says, "Luck Games!" ShyAshes opens it and flies in, followed by us. I look around. I see a table and a neon sign above the table and it says, "Psychic Analysis."

"There!" ShyAshes says to me.

"There. Go there," ShyAshes says excitedly.

I scamper into a small booth. The automatic door locks me in and a computer screen turns on in front of me. On the outside wall of the booth, a replica of the screen appears, showing Mistress and ShyAshes what I am doing inside the booth. Six cards with shapes come up on the screen in front of me. A triangle, a square, an X, a plus, 3 wiggly lines, and a circle. I focus my mind. Trying to find out what the correct shape is. I press my paw against the triangle on the computer screen. The triangle flashes and glows. A message on the screen that Mistress and ShyAshes are watching appears. NP-Tokens bursts out of the slot in the booth wall.

"You do it, Umbreon! You did it!" they cheer. I keep playing the game. NP keeps bursting out of the machine every time I click the right shape. Soon, there is a crowd around the booth. They are watching Mistress and ShyAshes collecting the tokens. The crowd cheers every time I choose the shape correctly. A few hours later, Mistress knocks on the door and says I can come out. The door opens and I look around at all the people. They all start to clap.

"You just won us over 5000 NPs worth of Tokens!" Mistress cheers. "We're rich!"

Mistress raises me into the air and the whole crowd cheers and applauds. I blush at all the attention I am getting. Mistress hugs me and carries me over to the Token Exchange. Mistress hands our tokens over to a Green Jubjub. The Jubjub is dressed in a very smart, dark green casino uniform.

"So you are the psychic prodigy, huh?" the Jubjub asks me.

I nod. He hands over 5,115 NP to Mistress and she hugs me then she kisses me. ShyAshes giggles and then flies after Mistress and I as we leave the Games Room Casino, leaving the applause of everybody.

***

As we walk home, I start to think. "Maybe we should put some of that money in the bank, Mistress?" I ask.

"Good idea, Umbreon!" praises Mistress.

I smile happily. We go back to the bank and the Skeith from before looks down at us. Mistress hands him 4,500 NP of our money and he puts it into our bank account.

***

It was two months ago when you last heard from me. We had won a lot of money on the Psychic Analysis in the Games Room Casino, and we all had started to get our lifestyle put together. We kept going back to the Psychic Analysis many times after that day. We normally got from 2,000 NP to 7,000 NP every time we went there. Since then, ShyAshes and I have got a little brother. He is a Poogle called Espeon_of_the_Sun. He so much wants to be a Faerie Poogle. ShyAshes has become the strongest out of us in the Battledome. Mistress is training us all and equipping us with the best weapons we can afford. Espeon_of_the_Sun has only one ability, but he has never been beaten! He is doing well for a baby!

Espeon_of_the_Sun: I'M NOT A BABY! I'm just the youngest!

ShyAshes: Yes you are!

Espeon_of_the_Sun: NO I'M NOT!

As we continue arguing about this, we should leave you. Thank you for listening to our story.

The End