Sometimes
A Neopet Story
by Huskydreamsflight
"Nina!" I yelled. I hadn't seen her all day. She went off for a bit on our trip to the Virtupets Space Station yesterday, disappeared for three hours, and came back in a dark black hoodie and held her head down the whole time.
"Don't open the door, Lari! Don't!" Nina yelled back. Something seemed...off about her voice. Usually she was 'Little Miss Sunshine-Lollipops-Rainbows-Puppyblews-Cuteness-Everything Nice', but she sounded terrified today.
"Why?" I said.
"You don't want to see this. Please, Lariuon, don't."
I finally opened the door. She was sitting, curled up in the corner of her room, quivering. I pulled down her hoodie and she turned around. I flinched back. She was definitely still a Kougra, but now she was a polluted-looking shade of green and a very dark blue. Her eyes were completely red, and her ears had grown long and spiky. Around her red eyes were two blue masks.
"You're mutant! How did you get this way?"
"Well, you see, after I left, I walked down an alley as a shortcut to the next deck. Someone grabbed me from the side, and pulled me through a door. He poured some liquid down my throat, and the next thing I knew, I was on the floor, in this hoodie. When I looked in the mirror.." She pulled her hood back up, and resumed quivering.
"Hus has a red paintbrush. We can fix this mess!" I said.
"I would like to...but..." Her voice became tainted with sinister intentions. "Doctor Sloth is my owner now. He doesn't want anything but eternal loyalty from me."
Suddenly, she screamed, "Get out of me!" Then she lunged at me.
"No, don't!"