A PetPet Good-bye

by baron1876

"Ready or not, here I come!" yelled plarse_142 the Christmas Gelert. Plarse leapt from behind his tree. His Mongmong, Shung-Zow, just sat there. He never played with Plarse. Plarse sighed and headed home. Some distance away Shung-Zow followed. The two got home just as it got dark. Baron1876, Plarse's owner, greeted him. "Hi Plarse! Did you have fun?" She could tell by the look on his face that he hadn't.

At dinner, the four household PetPets sat on the floor. There was Ivanna, a Cleo, who belonged to Nip72. Nip was a red Lupe. Fishy, who belonged to Wisdom28 the blue Zafara. Greebly, who belonged to Capone86 the blue Shoyru, and of course, Shung-Zow.

The first three PetPets ate quietly. But trouble-making Mongmong screeched. The four NeoPets went to bed. In the morning, Ivanna reached a tentacle out of her bowl and poked gently at Nip. When he looked at her, she put on her sweetest, most innocent smile. But Nip knew. He smiled. Fishy blew bubbles from his mouth and woke up Wisdom, who laughed. Greebly hopped on Capone's bed and jarred him awake. Capone laughed. "Come here you silly." He petted Greebly, who began to purr. No PetPet came to wake up Plarse_142. Later that day, baron1876 came over to Plarse and looked sad.

"Plarse, you know that Shung-Zow isn't the best Mongmong. He was a wild one that I won from the Wheel of Excitement. He isn't friendly. Would you consider...replacing him?" Plarse said he would. Later that day, as Plarse and Shung-Zow were in a field, Plarse said, "Shung-Zow...baron1876 said it may be good for you to have a different home. But we've been buddies since I got you! Do you want to go?" To his surprise, Shung-Zow flew around happily. It was clear what Plarse_1423 had to do.

The next evening, Baron1876 had Shung-Zow in a cage. She was ready to take him to his new owner, a pet that had bought him from Baron's shop. Plarse whimpered. He put his nose close to the cage. This wasn't the first time that had happened.

Once, he had sold his Psimouse to Smartgamer, a boy who was in Baron1876's guild. The mouse was named Squeaks but now he was named Therdi. Plarse knew he may never see Shung-Zow again. "I'll never forget you boy. Will you remember me?" Shung-Zow just hissed. Plarse sighed. "Good-bye little buddy." Then he added in a whisper, "I...love you."

Shung-Zow was now going away in the back of baron1876's truck. Shung-Zow looked back at Plarse and he did something he rarely did. He began to purr. He WOULD miss Plarse. Plarse_1423 began to run after the truck a little ways. He yelled, "Good-bye!" Then in a little whisper, he added, with tears in his eyes, "Be happy old friend."

Days passed. The Gelert went on PetPetless. He was lonely. Then, one Saturday, Baron1876 came to him with a box that was making a scratching noise. She opened it and...inside was a little Warf. It jumped out and began licking Plarse_1423 with it's warm wet tongue. "What's his name?" Plarse asked. Baron smiled. "What do you think?" Plarse thought for a minute. He finally said, "I'm gonna call him Simo." And that was that.

The End