Zynaryni_Guy

by zyranyx

As I open my eyes to the early morning light that streams through the metal cage that confines me, I grow sad as I remember the beginning of my life, up until now that is....

"Ouch! Oof! Oww! CRACK!" The shell split open. It was the beginning of my life.

"Hi, Zynaryni_Guy!" My new owner said.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"My name is Lionyki_Man!" Said Lionyki_Man. He had strawberry blond hair and shimmering blue eyes.

"What am I? I asked, looking down at my purple paws.

"You are a Poogle," said Lionyki_Man. "We are going to go to the Create-A-Pet Center, right after..." He pulled out a big piece of Chocolate Cake. "...You finish your Chocolate Cake!"

"Oh, sorry, I just finished eating the nutrients from my egg.." I couldn't finish because Lionyki_Man shoved the cake into my mouth. I went from bloated to very bloated, and I was starting to feel sick. Lionyki_Man had obviously just arrived from planet Earth and settled here.

Right afterwards, I hopped on the too big blue scooter Lionyki_Man had bought me beforehand, and we went to the Create-A-Pet Center. Right outside I folded up my scooter and headed in with Lionyki_Man. It was very noisy in the Center because of all the new owners groping for that last Cybunny, or that limited edition Chomby.

"You better be worth something in the Battledome!" An owner was mumbling, looking at his new Kougra egg, and accepting 50 Neopoints from the Kougra egg-keeping woman.

Over all the hullabaloo, Lionyki_Man shouted to the Shoyru egg-keeping woman, "I'D LIKE A SHOYRU PLEASE!" Turning to me, my owner said kindly, "Zynaryni_Guy, would you like to pick out our new Shoyru's colour and gender?"

"Sure!" I said joyfully. I shouted to the Shoyru egg-keeping woman, "WE'D LIKE A GREEN MALE SHOYRU PLEASE!!!"

The woman handed my owner a green egg with MALE SHOYRU written across it in black permanent marker. "WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE HIM TO BE NAMED?!" Asked the woman.

"KENDRAKYNAYO_BOY!!!" My owner shouted.

"THANK YOU! HERE'S 50 NEOPOINTS FOR CREATING A PET!" The woman handed my owner a bag of NP. We left.

For the first few days, Kendrakynayo_Boy and I lived happily in Lionyki_Man's NeoHome. We never spoke our owner's name because he always called on us. A week after my brother and I had been created, I, for the first time, went up to my owner and said, "Lionyki_Man, could I..." I stopped, because the very instant I had first spoken my owner's name, he had spun around to face me, his eyes blazing.

"NEVER CALL ME ANYTHING BUT MASTER!!!" He yelled at me. I was stunned, frozen to the spot. Kendrakynayo_Boy was starting to whimper. 'Master' turned to him and said, "Don't worry, Kendrakynayo_Boy! It wasn't your fault."

The days were growing darker and darker. Master would give us expensive gifts, such as Rainbow Frost Cannons and Rod of Supernovas, but when Master would talk to his friends on the phone about me, saying stuff like, "Zynaryni_Guy is a limited edition pet, can you believe it? He's practically one of a kind, and that's why he's the best!", it hurt. He made it sound as though I had no feelings, like I was something to look at in a museum. Just to look at, then leave behind.

He often took my brother and me to Mystery Island Training School, where we would suffer through hours and hours of difficult training. To make matters worse, Master thought he was doing the right thing for us. During level training so we could go to level 100, I whispered to Kendrakynayo_Boy and said, "Bro, I love Master very much, but why must he make us suffer?"

"Of that I have no clue." Said Kendrakynayo_Boy to me. "But do you notice he's been to Earth a lot more than he used to when he first created us?"

"Yes, I have." I said, practising an exercise to help increase my level. "Why do you think Master trains us for battle, and nothing else?"

"YOU OVER THERE, KEEP WORKING!!!" Shouted Techo Master. "I'M NOT TRAINING YOU FOR MY OWN *cough cough* HEALTH YOU KNOW!!!"

That night, Kendrakynayo_Boy and I came home from Mystery Island to discover that Master wasn't home yet. We waited until nearly midnight before he came home and we got to eat dinner. Master waited until we were nearly finished and then said, "I need to talk to you both." In a deadly quiet voice. Then he broke the news.

"I invested ten thousand Neopoints in the stock market." He said. "Our last ten thousand Neopoints." He added. "Neodaq crashed today, and..." He trailed off, but we heard enough to know what had happened. Kendrakynayo_Boy started to cry, and I held my little Shoyru brother close.

"We are going to have to be homeless, just for a little while, because I can't afford to pay for the new NeoHome taxes. Pack up only your most necessary and valuable things... Don't cry, Kendrakynayo_Boy. We still have one hundred sixty Neopoints left..."

So that night, my brother and I packed up. I was only a month old, pretty much a baby, and I packed my beloved Rainbow Cybunny Plushie, Rainbow Frost Cannon, Specters Battledeck, Rod of Supernova, Rainbow Boom Box, a pillow from my Kau Print Bed, Greater Orb of the Fire Faerie, my collection of Faeries, my Faerie Paint Brush, and a bunch of books which had not vanished yet.

In the nicest possible voice, Master said, "How about each of you take eighty Neopoints each and go to the Create-A-Pet Center?" It was a bizarre question, because it doesn't cost anything to create a pet. However we obeyed. It wasn't until later we understood the reason of Master's bizarre request.

As we wandered towards the Create-A-Pet Center, I asked Kendrakynayo_Boy, "Why is Master making us do this?"

"I don't know," Said Kendrakynayo_Boy. "But we must do this for the sake of Master."

Just then, an owner who was just about to go into the Create-A-Pet Center spotted us. She said, "Oh you poor things! You'd better go back to the Pound, or else you might starve!"

My brother and I just looked at her, bewildered. The owner pointed to the building next door. We turned around and saw... the Adoption Center.

"You are bad, bad pets to run away from the Adoption Center!" The owner said. "I'm taking you back there right now... Oh! You have Neopoints! I guess I don't have to spend my own putting you back in the Pound." She promptly picked us up in the crooks of her arms and started to carry us there.

"Bu-bu..." Kendrakynayo_Boy tried to say, but the owner cut him off.

"No buts! I'm taking you back to Dr. Death!"

The owner gave our hundred sixty Neopoints to Dr. Death when we went inside, and then we were put in the same small cage with all of our stuff.

One day later, Kendrakynayo_Boy was adopted, but I was not. He reached out his hand to me when he was being carried away with his suitcase, almost trying to carry me with him, out of the Pound.

Five years later, here I lay, thinking about Kendrakynayo_Boy, my brother and best friend. I have long since used the Faerie Paint Brush and the Faerie Bottles. All the books have vanished, the pillow has ripped, my favourite plushie torn... And here I lay, trying to remember the better times I had in life...

The End