The Unloved Pet

by elena333

"Clank, creee!" went the door of the cage. defactomax, or Maxi as we'll call him, was sobbing. "Please-please don't!!!" His owner didn't answer. Maxi looked pleadingly at him. "Please! I'll be good! I'll do anything!" His owner glared at him. "Shut up!" he yelled and stormed out of the Adoption Agency, mostly called the pound. Maxi collapsed in a little pile of tears.

He was a blue Flotsam, and a very smart one. His owner abandoned him because he wanted the newest pet: the Chomby. Just because that pet came out he had abandoned Maxi. This was, of course, before Flotsams we rare.

Five days later Maxi was hidden in a corner of his cage. One of his fellow cage members, a yellow Skeith, was nasty, but not compared to the muscley green Grundo. . The Skeith called out, "Hey Flotsam! Come and have a tussle with us, wimp!' He and the Grundo laughed all wheezy. Maxi sighed. He was thinking of the old days when his owner had been nice, and how they went to the beach to collect shells and swim until dusk. But suddenly he was startled out of his reveries.

"Cage five-twenty-zero, the one around the corner on the left." came a voice. It belonged to the sweet red Uni, the only thing that worked at the pound. And she was referring to Maxi's cage. Was he going to be adopted?! Maxi stood up and tried to look his best. The Skeith and the Grundo were sleeping on the other side of the cage. Footsteps were coming! The red Uni and a strange woman appeared from around the corner.

The Uni, who we'll call Shanzi, smiled, "Here he is, defactomax the Flotsam, level one, who was carelessly abandoned. When meeting friends defactomax would..."

"Yes, yes!!!" the woman snapped.

"I just want him before someone else takes him. Hurry, go get the key to the cage!" Shanzi trotted off.

Defactomax gulped, "Why do you want me so much?"

The woman answered, "Duh! Because Flotsams are limited edition pets now!"

She made a face. Shanzi came around the corner with a big bronze key.

Panting for breath, she said, "H-here it is, Mrs..." But defactomax knew what he had to say, even thought it tortured him to say so..."NO!!!" Shanzi and the sharp woman stared at him. He continued, "I don't want to live with this woman. I won't let her adopt me!" he sobbed. Shanzi queried, "But why?" defactomax cried, "Because she wouldn't love me!"

For the next three weeks the Flotsam refused to be adopted. Many people wanted him, said they loved him, but it as obvious that they were only greedy people wanting a rare pet. Poor Shanzi was kind, but she didn't understand this and thought that Maxi was going mad.

Another month passed. Maxi was too depressed to eat the daily bit of grossness that people had the gall to call "food". He became even skinnier. He was dying. Shanzi made up her mind that the next person that came in would be forced to adopt Maxi.

The next day, a young girl came in, looking for someone to love. She had three pets at home who were expecting her to come home with a lovable sibling in her arms. She walked down the rows and rows filled with poor broken-hearted and sometimes even mad pets. But she knew that they were not for her.

Then she rounded a corner. In a cage was something that broke her heart. A skin-and-bones small blue Flotsam laid there, almost too weak to breath.

Her eyes filled with tears. "Little Flotsam...' she cooed. "Little Flotsam..." Maxi was having a dream. An angel was singing to him, telling him to wake up.

"Little Flotsam..." He blinked open his big purple eyes and looked up. A young girl stood there. They looked into each other's eyes. Maxi Suddenly felt strong. He stood up and boldly said, "My name is Maxi. Will you adopt me?"

The girl smiled. "Of course!"

Shanzi heard laughing. That was not something you heard much in the pound, unless a pet had gone mad. Shanzi ran down the rows. She became alarmed...was Maxi...but no! He was standing up on his feeble flippers, talking to a girl. Shanzi laughed too. "Looks like you found a home, Maxi!"

Now Maxi is very happy with new owner. He doesn't talk about his old one, it makes him sad. He is now level two, and yellow...the effects of eating a Kaleideonegg.

The End