Mr. Mootant

by veiledvisitor

"Where are you going this time?" Prettysilver yelled after her friend. "We used to do everything together and now you are starting to sneak away! You are hiding something from me and I want to know what it is."

"It's nothing really. I just need some time to myself," Goldensacred said. They were both yellow Kaus and called themselves twins sometimes. Prettysilver was the most popular Kau in school. She always wore the latest fashions. She was usually the first to have a new toy or item as soon as she found out it existed. Mostly because she was good at begging. Goldensacred thought she was really lucky to have such a popular friend. She didn't consider herself to be popular or even very pretty. They were usually inseparable, so Prettysilver was determined to get to the bottom of her friends mysterious outings.

"Come on. You have to tell me. I am your best friend," Prettysilver whined. "Besides I know you are up to something. You bought a big bag of gold eyeshadows. I saw them in your room when I visited. You never wanted to wear make-up before, even when I offered to help you with it. And the other day I saw you talking to the scarecrow in the Haunted Woods!"

"OK. Well, I will tell you, but you must promise not to laugh," Goldensacred whispered. "I wanted to be gold. I wanted to be gold very badly. But Kaus can't be painted gold, so I sat down one day and thought about it. Where do paintbrushes come from anyway?"

"Well the scarecrow drops them sometimes. Is that why you were trying to talk to him?" Prettysilver asked.

"Yeah. But he never answered me. He just stood there grinning. In fact. I think that smile is painted on," Goldensacred laughed.

"Teehee!" Prettysilver laughed. "You did look pretty silly talking to a scarecrow, some of my other friends saw you. I told them that you were probably just chewing on gum or something, that you weren't talking to him. But what did you ask him anyway?"

"I asked him where paintbrushes come from. Then I asked him what where they are made of."

"Well those are good questions to ask. I have wondered that myself. Just think, if you could make a paintbrush you would be rich. You could make me a silver one," Prettysilver said with a glint in her eye. She was always trying to think of ways to get rich and silver.

"Well, I think I can make a paintbrush. Well, kinda," Goldensacred whispered.

"HAHA. Wait, really?" Prettysilver giggled.

"Well, what I want to do is get a lot of gold eyeshadow, mix it with water and then dunk myself in it. Maybe it will look pretty cool. But maybe it won't. People might laugh and it might not wash out for a while."

"Oh, now I see why you had that gold eyeshadow. Well, how about experimenting on me? Prettysilver asked. "I think it might work, and if it doesn't I am sure it will wash out. Besides I always experiment with make-up so this won't be anything new."

"OK, later. Right now I am going to take a walk. ALONE," Goldensacred said.

Prettysilver was sure that there was something else she wasn't telling her so she followed quietly. She saw her going to Halloween World. Then she turned down a narrow winding road. There in the far most corner of the spooky woods stood a very creepy house. It looked like it was about to fall over and couldn't decide which direction to fall. Everyone knew who lived there. It was Mr. Mootant. He was a mutant Kau.

Goldensacred was going to his house!

"Sacred what are you doing? You aren't going to visit "It" are you? Tell me you aren't! Why don't you come home and play with me. We can do that make-up thing," she yelled just as Mr. Mootant was about to come outside. Prettysilver was horrified. Maybe it heard her, but who cared if it did. She tossed her yellow mane (pretending it was silver) and said "humph."

"First of all. Thanks a lot for following me. You snoop. Can't I have some time alone? Second of all it isn't an "it" it is a 'he" and you know his name," Goldensacred angrily whispered.

"Come on home. Please before someone sees us. " Prettysilver said under her breath as she tried pulling her friend away. "Please let's go home. Why don't you ever want to play with me anymore. I am way more fun than he is. He is so ugly and scary and.

"Lonely," Goldensacred said. His owner abandoned him and now he lives there by himself. I don't know how he is able to keep himself going. I visit him now and then. I think I am the only friend he has.

Suddenly Prettysilver got a strange glint in her eyes. "I bet he is totally loaded. Old misers like him that live all alone always horde money," she thought evilly.

Goldensacred walked up the driveway and said hello to Mr. Mootant. She noticed immediately that her friend was acting strangely. She suddenly was very nice. Too nice. She was smiling a silly big smile and batting her eyes. Well, maybe she was sorry. But she knew her friend better than that.

Later when they went home Prettysilver got out all the gold eyeshadow and traded them for silver ones. Then she dumped them into the bathtub. Then she poured water into the bathtub and climbed in. When she came out she was "silver".

"Not bad, not bad at all! I really look Silver!" Prettysilver shouted and ran toward the door. "I'll pay you back for the eyeshadow and I will tell everyone that this was your idea!"

Goldensacred was surprised. Her friend really did look like she was silver. "Well you've gotten your wish. You are silver at last. I hope that everything works out for you. Being silver might not be as great as you think."

Prettysilver tilted her head in confusion." It won't? Why not? Everyone will love me and think I am so cute. They will give me things. I will have lots of boyfriends. You should understand that. You want to be golden. Isn't that your wish?"

"Not anymore" said Goldensacred "But I can't tell you what my wish is now." Inside she was wishing only one thing. She wanted Mr. Mootant to be happy. She felt sorry for him. She even thought she loved him. If only he had an owner and some friends.

Meanwhile Prettysilver was having a ball! She was flirting and showing off her new silver fur. Everyone thought she looked really nice at first, but then they knew it was fake. They all wanted to know the secret of how she was turned silver though, which let Prettysilver know that they were all jealous. She told them if they wanted to know the secret they would have to pay her lots of money. But no one would do it.

"Oh well it doesn't look that great," her friends said.

"Yeah it is getting kind of powdery now that I look at it. It should start flaking off anytime now. It looks like you just covered yourself in eyeshadow or something now that I take a good look," another friend said.

"OK you're right. I guess I need to go home and wash this off. It was pretty silly to try to trick everyone anyway. I just wanted to try it out once," Prettysilver said and she left.

But on her way home she saw people looking at her and someone even asked her some questions. "Hehe I guess I don't look so bad. I can still fool some people." So she visited a few more worlds and walked around. She made a lot of people think she was silver. Eventually she passed Mr. Mootant's house. She walked right up to him and invited him to take a walk with her.

"He doesn't even recognise me. hehe. Maybe he will give me something for being so nice to him."

But he was just looking up at the sky noticing the clouds gathering. "Perfect," he thought.

So they began walking. By now a few people had seen them. Even some of her friends had seen her. She didn't care anymore. "Let them laugh. They won't laugh at me when they find out how much I got out of the old codger."

Just then it began to rain. Not a little, but a whole lot all at once. The rain washed all the make-up off. Everyone saw that Prettysilver was still a yellow Kau. Prettysilver looked up with powdery water running down her face to see Mr. Mootant. He had brownish mud, leaves, and stuff running down him. "Ugh how gross. He looks even worse in the rain!" she thought. But then she took another look. As the rain fell she saw all the mud coming off of him. Under it was pretty cloud fur. Then like magic, there stood the most handsome cloud Kau she had ever seen! His name was CharmingCloud.

"Why were you pretending to be silver?" he asked.

"Well, I just wanted people to like me," Prettysilver said with her head hanging in shame.

"Yeah like you AND give you things."

"Well yeah. Don't all girls want to be popular and have people give them things? Find me one girl who doesn't."

"There is one right over here. You already know her. It is your friend Goldensacred."

Prettysilver looked up to see her friend. She was embarrassed, so she looked back down at the ground not saying a word.

"I guess you are wondering why I am not a mutant anymore. A while back when Dr. Sloth was handing out potions he handed my owner one. My owner didn't trust Dr. Sloth, but was really wondering what the potion did. It was an ugly brown color and smelled bad. But he told me to drink it and I did. Then I turned into a mutant. He couldn't afford to turn me back into a Kau, and suddenly my owner didn't want me anymore. He hardly ever came to check on me or feed me. Then finally he never came back. Then I met Goldensacred. She brought me food and came to visit me everyday. I didn't know it, but she was working hard playing games every day. Just now she has given me a cloud Kau transformation potion. So you see there are girls that don't just think of themselves. Your friend is one of them. And you can learn to be one from now on."

She looked up at the Cloud Kau who a moment ago was a mutant. "OK I will. You'll see."

Goldensacred and CharmingCloud walked away leaving her standing there. The crowd that had gathered to watch began to dissipate. But still she was standing there. Suddenly she ran away. But she was not crying. She came back out of the house with an armful of toys and things, but she could barely see where she was going. She almost fell down!

"Let me help you," a voice said and he took some of the stuff. "Where are we going?"

"To the Money Tree."

"Really?"

When they had donated all the stuff and her arms were not so full she looked up to see it was CharmingCloud who had helped her.

"Hehe. Hello again," she giggled nervously.

Back at home, she took out some pencils and paper and began to draw cards that said, "I'm sorry."

Then she left the house with almost all the money she had. She bought a lot of expensive foods from many shops. Then she sent invitations to everyone she knew and she threw a big party. She even let people come to the party when they weren't invited and just showed up. She could tell some of them were really hungry. She told everyone that she had learned her lesson. She wanted to give back to them what she had taken and she hoped that they would still be friends. First she gave her friends back all the things she had "borrowed". Then she gave back all the things she had begged for. Finally she set the table and they all ate and ate. Each guest was given lots of extra prizes to take home with them too.

Then it was over. Prettysilver looked around and saw the house was a big mess and no one had stayed to help clean." I guess I don't have any real friends. They would have at least offered to help me clean up. I guess some of them just wanted their stuff back."

But as she turned around she saw Charmingcloud and Goldensacred along with almost a whole room of people coming up the stairs from the basement with cleaning supplies. She smiled as she joined her friends. This time she knew what it was like to have real friends.

The End