Chapter 1: Everlasting
"Is..is it on?" -click- "Ok, now it's on!"
"Hello fellow Neopians!", Shadow turned the camera she was holding towards her face to record herself, "I just bought a new camera and I thought I'd go run around the house with it and then when I'm done I'll throw the film up on Neovision. So, starting now I'm going to go and follow the first pet of mine that I see once I walk out that door," she said pointing at her bedroom door behind her.
She walked around to the back of the camera and shook it a bit until it came off of the tripod it was sitting on. She put her hand through the strap on the side and held the camera up to her eye level and walked out.
"Okay, so the first pet is...Everlasting!"
Everlasting was walking out of his room holding up a handheld gaming console to his face. He looked up when he heard his name called.
"Um..what are you doing with that camera?" He asked looking warily at the camera that Shadow held up.
"Just a quick video of you. I'm doing one of everyone, just for a daily life thing. So what are you doing?"
"I'm playing my new game, Korbat's lab," he said holding up the game in his hand.
"Wait, isn't that an old game?" Shadow asked looking at the game over the camera.
"Yea, well they re-did it. The graphics are much better now....Ok can you set down the camera? You know how I feel about non-living things watching me," Everlasting said nervously staring at the camera.
"Yea, no. I can't drop the camera. You can blame your luck though, you were the first I saw. So you're first to be recorded. I don't see the whole non-living thing. You play games where zombies and things stare at you," Shadow said.
"Well yea, but then you blow their heads off with a shot gun. So it makes you feel better," he said shivering, the bell on the end of his hat jingling.
Everlasting was now about eighteen years old, he stood about 5 feet, 8 inches tall. He was wearing a grey t-shirt today with simple blue jeans that had a small hole in the left leg. Two bare red feet with black toes showed out from underneath the jeans. He also wore his long black hat that he gained after being painted Halloween, a jingle bell was sewed onto the end of it, thanks to Shadow. It now jingled with every step he took. His maroon colored hair stuck out from underneath the hat, and two cream-colored locks peeked out from the front to hang down on his fore-head just above two emerald-colored eyes.
He looked at her for a few more moments before bringing his red and black wings up and around him to hide his face and began to walk away, his red tail with black rings dragging behind him.
"H-hey wait! Where are you going?" Shadow asked following him closely with the camera.
"I'm going to the kitchen to make some toast with peanut butter. I'm hungry and it's not even close to lunch. Who's cooking today anyway?" He asked slightly bringing his right wing back a bit to look at her.
"I think its Rajiv's turn to cook today," Shadow said as she followed Everlasting into the kitchen.
"Yea, I think I might just eat out then hahaha," Everlasting said chuckling to himself. He sat his game down on the kitchen counter and began shuffling through the cabinets to find the bread, which with his wings up was, the task was harder than it looked.
Shadow filmed him for a few more minutes before saying, "You know you can make that a lot easier if you'd just put your wings back and relax."
"Hah, and let you steal parts of my soul with that devil-camera of yours? No."
"You're just being silly Everlasting. Ever since you talked with that ghost in the Woods, you've been paranoid of cameras of any kind. I'm surprised you get around electronics at all," Shadow sighed.
"Hey! Electronics are practically my life...Just not those electronics," he said still shuffling through the cabinets. "Yes! There it is! Come to daddy little bread loaf," Everlasting said.
"Mmkay Everlasting. You just nom that bread, I need to find someone else to film. Someone who's not SCARED of being filmed. You pansy...," Shadow exclaimed at him.
"Yes'm. Yes I am, and I am very proud of my pansy title, do you know how many pets compete for such a title?" he replied with a sarcastic tone of voice.
"I couldn't imagine," said Shadow in a bored tone.
"Hundreds," Everlasting replied, finally relaxing his wings long enough to put some peanut butter, that was conveniently already on the counter, on his slices of bread. "Seriously Mom, go film someone else already...THERE!" Everlasting pointed to someone behind Shadow.
Shadow turned around with her camera to focus on a very confused Citrus, her grey kacheek, looking up from the fridge after grabbing an orange juice box.
"Aw don't put Citrus on the spot light like that Everlasting, he's new," she said turning back around to..nothing. "Everlasting? Everlasting? Hey!" She yelled as she saw his tail disappear around the corner and then heard his door slam behind him.
"Crap, he escaped. Ah well," Shadow sighed and turned back around to Citrus, who was still looking around confused.
"So Citrus? What have you been doing today?"