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The duo didn't even have enough money to ride a Uni. Unfortunately,
neither of them had any friends to take them to their new home, so the two had
to walk. Luckily, Merridell is really close to Neopia so it was not a tremendous
amount of walking. Finally after what had seemed hours, Ashley, MysticDream, and
Diamond arrived at their new home.
Ashley glanced down at the paper, which she
had written the address of their new home on. "Well, this looks like our new
home, honey." She patted her Gelert's head sweetly. "204390 Chia Close, Neopia
Central." It was a house made out of sticks, straw, and mud, but it still was
a place to live. "Do you have the key, Mystic?" Mystic reached into a pocket
of her luggage and pulled out a blunt bronze key. Ashley placed the key into
the keyhole and pushed open the door. It was a fairly nice home; two bedrooms,
a kitchen, living room, two bathrooms, and even a smallish backyard. "Okay,
Mystic, you can choose your room. I'll go out to the game corner and try to
scrape together some food for tonight. Tomorrow, I'll go see if I can get a
part-time job at the Plushie Factory." And with that, she kissed Mystic and
headed out the door. Mystic turned her head to see her Kadoatie jumping up to
the windowsill.
"I guess I have to start unpacking," Mystic
said with a sigh of sadness. Just as she was about to unpack her bag, the doorbell
rang. Who could that be? thought Mystic. She opened the door to see a
sweet-looking, yellow female Gelert holding a homemade apple pie. "Hello, you've
reached the Losers' Residence, how may I help you?" Mystic said sarcastically.
The Gelert giggled and handed the pie to Mystic; she was obviously younger than
Mystic.
"What a silly last name!" the Gelert said.
"What do you want already?" Mystic snarled.
"I'm saying hello!" the Gelert smiled.
"Well... who are you?"
"My name's SunShine22454, but you can call me
Sunshine. What would be your name?"
"The name's MysticDream. But please, call me
Mystic."
"That's a pretty name!"
"Whatever."
"I couldn't help noticing that you're new here.
I live just across the street!" Sunshine smiled. She raised her head and spotted
Mystic's unpacked bags. "I see you're unpacking, do you want some help?"
Mystic got a shocked expression on her face.
"You want to help me? Well, yeah, sure, okay. I guess you could help." Mystic
stepped aside from the door so that Sunshine get in. Wow, no one has helped
me before with anything! Mystic thought, surprised at the Gelert. Not a
second later, she heard a tremendous gasp from where Sunshine was. Mystic raced
to the yellow Gelert, her heart pounding. "What's going on? Is everything okay?"
Mystic asked, gasping for air.
Sunshine giggled. "Of course everything's okay!
I just saw your cute little Kadoatie!" She rubbed Diamond's tummy. "You know,
I have a petpet, as well! My owner had to scrape together all her Neopoints,
after all, we are only Newbies." Sunshine whistled and in bounced a chirpy little
Anubis. He nuzzled SunShine's leg affectionately. "This is my Anubis, Aladdin."
Mystic knelt on the floor and patted the cute
petpet's furry head. "What about Diamond? Won't she be scared of Aladdin?" Mystic
inquired, realizing that her petpet was a feline and Sunshine's was canine.
"Well... there's only one way to find out!" SunShine smiled, and picked up Aladdin.
She placed him on the floor in front of Diamond. The two looked at each other
and then.... they became friends.
"I got an idea!" Sunshine exclaimed. "Why don't
I introduce my family, and you can introduce yours!"
"That sounds like a good idea!" Mystic picked
up Diamond, as Sunshine tied a piece of old, worn out string to the collar of
Aladdin. Mystic locked the door behind them as they came out of the house, and
went across the street. Sunshine swung open the door of her straw, sticks, and
mud house.
"Aqua, Zambie, Melody, I'm here! I want you
to meet someone!" Sunshine called out. In a blink of an eye, three figures appeared.
Two of them stepped forth; one was a female blue Peophin, and the other was
a female yellow Acara. They both looked very sweet, just like Sunshine "Mystic,
I want you to meet my family! The Peophin is my sister Aqua5862322 or Aqua.
The yellow Acara is my sister Zambie0099 or Zambie."
"Hello," Mystic said, shaking paw with paw and
hoof.
"I do have another sibling; Paris889985 or Paris.
He's my only brother; a male red Eyrie. He's in the hospital right now and suffering
from the NeoBlues. We don't have enough money to buy him a Tasty Pie, and he's
getting weaker and weaker everyday." Zambie, Aqua, and Sunshine all got very
sad and looked at the ground, their ears drooping. Just then Sunshine remembered
something. "Oh yeah I almost forgot about someone else!" She glanced around
the room. "Zam, do you know where Melody is?" Then came a giggling voice and
out stepped a girl with honey-brown hair, and brown eyes. She patted Sunshine,
Zambie, and Aqua on the heads.
"Well, I see you've found yourself a new friend,
eh Sunny?" The girl exclaimed.
"Melody, this is MysticDream or just Mystic for
short. Mystic, this is my owner, Melody."
"Hi Mystic!" Melody said. "Do you have an owner?"
Mystic shook her head up and down. "I'd like to meet her. Is she out?" Mystic's
head shook up and down again. "Well, tell her to come over and visit when she
has the chance!" Melody smiled.
"C'mon Sunshine, let's go to my house," Mystic
said tugging Sunshine's arm.
When they arrived at Mystic's house, Ashley
was home. "I see you're home, sweetie. Who's your new friend?" Ashley asked,
noticing Sunshine
"This is Sunshine, Ash. She lives across the
street. Sunshine, this is my owner, Ashley, you can call her Ash if you want."
Mystic casually told the chirpy yellow Gelert. Mystic turned her head to face
her owner again. "Oh, and just for the records, Sunshine and I are just neighbors."
"My owner Melody wants to meet you, Ash!" Sunshine
said smiling.
"Okay, I'll go there now," Ashley said as she
headed for the door. Just then she stopped, turned around, and looked at Mystic.
"Oh Mystic, I forgot to tell you there's some omelette in the fridge if you
get hungry. Also the Tombola Man gave me some prunes. And when I was in 'Jelly
World', I grabbed some Strawberry Jelly; I know you like strawberries!" She
left the house and headed across the street.
The two Gelerts sat in the living room irresolute
for a couple of minutes before they finally spoke. "So, do you want to be friends,
Mystic?" Sunshine inquired, holding out her paw. Mystic was about to grab it,
when the wind of pride took her over.
"No, I do not! Listen, the only reason I'm in
this dump is because my owner was robbed! I used to have millions of
Neopoints, butlers, a fancy castle, a heart shaped bed, everything!"
Sunshine stepped back, shocked. "I'm so sorry,
Mystic! I never realized you had such a pampered life! If you don't want to
be friends, that's okay. But if you ever do, just come visit across the street!"
Sunshine was not hurt at all. In fact, she remained her old, happy self.
Ashley came home that night and found Mystic
sitting at the table slowly gnawing as if in disgust at a piece of cheese omelette.
"How do you like Sunshine, Mystic? I think she's awfully nice, and same with
her owner."
Mystic raised her head and looked at Ashley.
"She's such a goody-goody," she said sarcastically while staring hard at her
Omelette. Ashley sat down next to her pet, and put her arm over her shoulder.
"Mystic, she's nice and is not spoiled like
you." Mystic put down the Omelette and looked at the floor.
"She asked me if I wanted to be friends! I can't
believe her! Why would I want to be friends with a peasant?"
"Mystic, Sunshine is not a peasant. And you
can't even say that about her considering we are now broke. Think it over Mystic;
you need to go to bed now." Mystic sighed and headed off to her bed of straw.
She pulled a patched blanket over her, still thinking about her neighbor.
She woke up to the sound of birds chirping.
She yawned and looked out the window. There was Sunshine with a pack on her
back. Mystic glanced over at the clock; it was 6 am! What was Sunshine doing
at 6 am? Mystic thought. She stepped outside and put her hands on her hips.
"And what exactly are you doing?" Sunshine stopped walking and turned to face
the cloud Gelert.
"Oh hi Mystic! I didn't know you woke up this
early, too! I'm on my way to help out the Soup Faerie feed pets! And if she
has extra soup, she always gives it to me! She's so nice!"
Mystic rolled her eyes. "Yeah and…?"
Sunshine walked up to Mystic and handed her
a worn out backpack, much like her own. "I want you to come with me."
Mystic snorted. "Yeah right, like I'm going
to go to some place and get my paws dirty just to feed-"
She was then interrupted by Ashley, who had
overheard the conversation. "-and she'd love to Sunshine!"
Mystic swung her head to look at her owner.
"Are you crazy?! What has happened to you, Ash? You're not the person I used
to know!"
Ashley gave a stern look at her cloud Gelert.
"Listen, we'll talk about this later! If you don't go, you can say goodbye to
Diamond!" Without a moments' hesitation, Mystic quickly agreed and ran to her
room and pulled out a couple of Neopoints. She waved goodbye to Ashley as she
and Sunshine strolled down the street.
Finally, the Gelerts had arrived at the Soup
Kitchen. There was a long line going out from the building and all the way down
the hill. Mystic could hardly believe that some people (and pets) woke up this
early just to get fed for free!! Sunshine and Mystic ambled up to the top of
the hill and into the kitchen. There stood the Soup Faerie feeding a young blue
Zafara some soup. The Soup Faerie quickly saw the two incoming Gelerts and waved
her hand to greet them. Sunshine waved back while Mystic just stood there sulking.
Sunshine waltzed up to a coat rack where some aprons hung. She grabbed two and
flung one over to Mystic. Mystic dragged over to the pot and began to feed the
incoming pets.
After what had seemed hours, the Soup Faerie
dismissed the two and handed them each a big bowl full of steaming hot chicken
soup. Sunshine waved to her Faerie friend as she and Mystic marched out of the
building.
"Now what?" Mystic asked Sunshine "Are we going
to do anymore boring things?"
Sunshine shook her head at Mystic. "No silly!
This is the best part! This is the one day of the week I get to go shopping!"
Mystic suddenly perked up at the sound of 'shopping'.
"Did you say shopping? Now you're speaking my
language! Where are we going to go? The Really Posh Palace? Eu De Gelert?"
"Nope, none of those! We're going to… Bargain
Mill Outlet!!" Mystic nearly fainted at the sound of those three 'horrible'
words. "BARGAIN MILL OUTLET?!?! That's one of those el-cheapo stores! I'd never
be caught DEAD there!! I'd rather eat my head than go into there! And think,
what if somebody SEES me?!"
"It isn't bad! Let's go!" Sunshine tugged Mystic
into the 'cheap' store.
To be continued...
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