THE FIRST NEOPET (WORKING TITLE)
BY CARMELSPANIAL
CHAPTER 1
Disclaimer-I don't own Neopets. If by some chance the person who DOES own Neopets is reading this don't bother to sue me, I have nothing you would want.
A/N-I've been playing around with this idea for a while now and only now do I have the first chapter up. M.S.T.ers get lost. Flamers go to hell. Constructive criticism welcome. Email me at carmelspanial@yahoo.com if you want or if you want to neomail me my Neopets user name is carmelspanial. And now for our feature presentation…
Centuries ago in Neopia, humans and Neopets lived separate, and very different, lives. Neopets were seen as nothing more then wild animals, and In fact that's what they were called, animals. The word Neopet didn't yet exist. Neopets couldn't speak human language, and they were all afraid of humans because if a Neopet, any Neopet, came too close to human settlements it would probably be shot to death on the spot.
Neopia was also a much smaller place then. All the worlds outside what is now called Neopia Central remained undiscovered, as did many pet species such as the Kougra and the Koi. And Neopia Central itself was very different, just a residential area and a small commercial district. The total human population then was small, less then one thousand.
It was into this environment that a small green Lupe pup was born. He was the runt of his litter, and he would end up the only survivor.
The Lupe pack into which this cub was born lived on the very edge of the woods that then covered most of the place we call Neopia Central. It was a small pack, pushed out of most of its territory by larger packs. While the average Lupe pack numbered somewhere around twenty-five to thirty individual Lupes, this pack numbered only ten. And to make things worse the packs leader was not only old but incredibly ill. The other Lupes in the pack believed him to be near death.
Food was scarce to say the least, and one of the few places the small pack could find anything to eat was the human village. It was a dangerous gamble, going there for food, but it was necessary for the pack's survival. So one day the new mother, who was named Botan, was chosen to go to the human village by the cover of night and get whatever food she could.
That day at sun down Botan settled her cubs in the den to go to sleep. Once they had all fallen asleep she creped as quietly as she could to the den entrance. A tiny voice stopped her dead in her tracks. "Where are you going, mother?"
It was the runt of the litter. His name was Neo, and he was sitting up looking intently at his mother. Botan gave him a stern look; she sure as all hell didn't want one of her cubs to get to close to the humans. "Go back to sleep, Neo. I'll tell you in the morning."
"But I want to go with you…"
"Listen Neo, you can't go with me. It's too dangerous. I promise that tomorrow when you wake up, I'll tell you all about it, all right? No go back to sleep."
"Yes, mother." Neo lay back down on the little pile of grass he used for a bed and fell back to sleep. Nodding, Botan creped out of the den and began making her way towards the village.
Neo's eyes snapped open as soon as he hared his mother leave. Her planned to follow her to wherever she was going, and without her knowing it. He silently left the den without waking any of his brothers and sisters just in time to see his mother walking off in the distance. He followed behind her, close enough to see her but far enough away so she didn't know he was there. He followed her for what seemed to the cub like forever until Botan finally stopped. She had stopped in front of a strange place. It surrounded by what looked to Neo like a bunch of trees that had fallen on top of each other (the village fence) and beyond that were what Neo thought were short fat, hollow trees (the villager's houses). "Why is Mother going here? What is this place?" Neo wondered to himself. It was dark now, but he could barely see his mother crawling under the fence and into the village. Neo crept foreword until he reached the gap in the fence his mother had crawled under. Neo, because of his small size, could simply walk through. The only problem was that he couldn't see his mother anywhere. He called out "Mother?" quietly at first, but when he got no response he called louder and louder until the humans heard him. Of course the humans couldn't hear a child crying out for its mother, all they heard was a Lupe barking, in their village. The village was awake in seconds. Humans armed with their single shot rifles came pouring out of the houses, looking for the intruding Lupe. Neo took refuge under an upturned box used to store firewood and closed his eyes. All he could hear were the humans yelling, six terrible explosions, and a Loupe yelling in pain. He was so scared he didn't come out from under the box until just before daybreak the next morning. An older Lupe would have known that the explosions he heard the night before were gunshots, but Neo was too young to know that yet so he began his frantic search for him mother just as the sun was rising.
It didn't take long to find her. The humans had shot her to death the previous night and had thrown her lifeless body on a garbage pile. Their Neo found her, blood still dripping from her wounds.
Neo couldn't believe what he was seeing. With tears streaming from his eyes he approached his mother's body and licked her face trying to wake her up, even though he knew that she would never wake up again. Unable to deal with his mother's death, Neo lifted his muzzle to the sky and howled. It was a long, mournful howl, not loud enough to wake the entire village but loud enough to wake at least one human. Neo abruptly stopped howling and hid behind the garbage pile as the door the nearest house opened and a human walked out.
TO BE CONTINUED…So what do you think so far? Sorry it was short but hey, it is only the first chapter. The next one will be a bit longer.