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A/N-My Neopets account is Majin_Koenma and this is a story about my real Neopets so you can go look them up if you want. Also PLEASE review (I need to know if I should continue with this story) but don't flame. Constructive criticsm is welcome, flames are not. ell thats enough from me. On with the story...
I guess I should start from the beginning. My name is Sonazu and I'm a red Ixi. All this happenes when I was less then a week old, though it feeles like yesterday. I still don't like to think back on it but they say if you forget history it will only end up repeating itself so I have never let myself forget no matter how painfull the memories may be.
As I've already said, this all started when I was less then a week old. It was the 11th day of Awakening, Year Five. The time was nearly eight in the evening. My owner, Majin_Koenma, was out buying gerocries and my three brothers were all off doing their own thing. As for me, I was sitting alone in my room staring out the window. Snow was lightly falling and the moon was full. I sighed, thinking about what was going to happen the next morning. As usual, Majin was going to drag me to the lab ray, hoping I would turn from red to ghost. Majin wanted a ghost pet, but she couldn't afford the paint brush. Thats why she created me, as a lab rat. She planned to zap me daily untill I either turned ghost or was turned into a species that didn't come in ghost. If that happnes I would probably be abandon. Mabye thats why I was so depressed most of the time. Of course, if you thought that you didnt have a permanent home and your'e owner was only using you for their own purposes with no regard for your'e feelings you would be depressed too.
Majin knew that I didn't want to be zapped with the lab ray but she didn't care. She wanted a ghost pet but refused to save for the ghost paint brush. She claimed it would take too long to save up all the Neopoints and the temptation to spend all that money on something else would be too great. So despite my constant protests I was forced to make the daily visits to the lab ray. Few humans realise that being zapped by the lab ray is extreamly painful, but it is. The ray literaly re-arranges a Neopets genitic structure, and of course that kind of thing is going to hurt. It's a hidious invention, and I think it should be destroyed. But as a week old Neopet with an overberaing owner there was nothing I could do about it.
I heard the front door opening and my owner enter the house. My older brother Yakkul_chan went to greet her and help carry the gerocries in. Yakkul was a Fire Lupe and Majin's first ever Neopet. He was also her favorite, though she would never admit it. He was the only pet that Majin trained to fight in the battledome and he was the only pet allowed to read books. I listened to the two of them talk for a minute though I couldn't exactly make out the words, then I turned my attention to the window again. This is how I spent most of my nights, just staring out the window...
"Sonazu! It's past your'e bed time! Turn out the light and get to sleep. you hear me?" Majin was right outside my door, and had noticed the light from my lamp shining through the little crack. "O.K., Ma'am. Good night." I turned out the light and waited for her response.
"Be sure to get to sleep now. We're going to the lab ray an hour early tomorrow so your'e brother won't be late for his Battledome match."
"Yes, Ma'am." Sighing I climbed into bed and pulled the blanket over my head. I could hear my three brothers, who were allowed to stay up as late as they wanted, in the living room watching reruns of Better Then You. They got to watch television and I got to lay in bed in my dark room contemplating how unfair life is. I wasn't a part of the family, I was the lab rat. Just the lab rat. I was disposible. If the ray turned me into a color or species Majin didn't like I would probably be abandon in the pound. Majin wouldn't dream of abandoning Yakkul, or any of my brothers for that matter. I didn't have a family, and a family is what any young Neopet despratly wants. But I would probably never have one as long as Majin_Koenma was my owner. Even if the lab ray did turn me ghost I didn't want my owner to love me just beacuse I was painted a ceartain color, I wanted her to love me for me, the way she did with my three brothers. Mabye it would be best if I were abandon. Mabye then I would be adopted by an owner who would truely love and accept me. Mabye I would finaly have a true family. But then mabye not. Mabye I would end up being adopted by someone like Majin_Koenma. Or mabye I would just sit in the pound for days on end and not be adopted at all. That was a scary thought beacuse any Neopet will tell you that living with an owner like Majin_Koenma is better then spending your'e life in a cramped cage with other abandon and unappreciated pets. At least here I had a real Neohome, a bed to sleep in and three square meals a day. Living here was better then a future of total unceartantity, at least for now. So I closed my eyes and lay in my bed for God knows how long untill I finally fell asleep.
I was awakened at six oclock the next morning and rudhed into the kitchen. My three brothers were already awake and at the kitchen table, eating a scrambled negg breakfast. I sat down and Majin shoved a glass ov milk and an apple in front of me. "Here eat." she instructed me. We've got to get going. Your'e brother's match starts in an hour and a half. He'll be disqualified if he's late."
"Yes, Ma'am." I took a bite out of the apple, which wasn't exactly what you would call fresh, and watched as my brothers wolfed their neggs down. Toraku_chan, a starry Gelert was carrying a conversation on with Yakkul. "So Yakkul, after the fight you want to go to the Poogle Raceing track with me? I hear Poogle number five just got over his case of the sneezles and is the favorite to win."
Why not. If I get hurt we can always pay the Healing Springs a quick visit. Besids I haven't been to Faerie Land in ages. You want to come Tennotsukai?" Tennotsukai_chan (we called him Tenno for short) was a Christmas Zafara. "Sure. Hey Majin, can I go with please? I promise not to get lost like the last time!" Tennotsukai was the youngest in the family next to me and more then a bit immature.
"Well, allright, but only if you promise to stay close to your'e brothers and not wander off."
I promise Majin!" I stared down at my apple. It was useless asking if I could go with, I already knew the answer was no. I never got to do much of anything with my brothers and to be completly honest, I didn't really want to. Like I said, they wern't really my family so why should I do famiily things with them? I was my own family so-to-speak. Though I shared a Neohome with four other living being I was more alone then you could possibly imagine.
Majin pushed me to eat my meager breakfast as fast as I could then it was off to the ray for my daily torture. The ugly yellow Scorchio in the dirty lab coat strapped me to a huge table, making the straps were to tight for me to move. I could feel them diging into my skin, and I could feel blood coming from the subsequent woulnds. The giant tirture divice, the lab ray itself, was aimed directly between my eyes, the preferred zapping sopt. No womder many long term lap bets often go blind. A bluins white light began to emerge from the tip of the ray as it charged power, then came the blindingwhite light as the ray was fired. Less then a second later came the horrible pain as the beam from the ray struck me between the eyes. The light slowly began to fade and the pain from the initial blast subsided, then the real pain began. My head started to hurt just a bit, then my entire body began to ache. Then the ache turned gradualy in to a horrible, blaindig pain as the ray blast took effect. The pain was unberrible and I was screaming at the top of my lungs as the cells of my body changed, and all this was compounded by my fear of what the ray was doing to me. Then less then five minutes later it was over. The terrible pain finally began to lessen, and I saw that I was still a red Ixi. The ray had just boosted my defence points by three. After the pain had gone and I had had time to relax the Scorchio unstrapped me and Majin lifter me from the table and placed me on the ground. "Your'e still not a Ghost Ixi" Majin said somewhat angerly as if it was somehow my fault that the ray hadn't had the desired effect that day.
"I know, Ma'am." I said simply. "Can we please go home now?"
"Of course. Your'e brother can't be late for his match." We walked through Neopia Central and arrived in time for Yakkul to make his match. The fiur of them headed off to the Battledome right away whail I stayed behind. This was one of the few times I ever had the house to myself, and I was going to enjoy it. I turned on the living room T.V. and sterached out on the couch. It was six thirth in the morning and other then the News there really wasn't much on so I revirted to my old past time, staring out the window. The living room window faced west and I could barely see the great mountain range that marked the end of the Haunted Woods. Beyond thoes mountains was the so-called "dark hemisphere", the hemesphere of Planet Neopia that no human had yet explored. I had always wondered what was beyond thoes mountains and why humans had not yet explored beyond them. I often daydreamed that I was free from Majin_Koenma and off exploring thoes mountains myself, and once I got over the mountains I would discover a whole new Neopian world, one where I would finalli find a real family. But that was nothing more then wishfull thinking, and as Majin would say I needed to "come back to reality".
I stared out at the still rising sun and watched as the last of the stars slowly faded from view for another day. I watched and dreamed of going off and finding a family where I would be appreciated, where I would be free of Majin_Koenma and my brothers and that God awful lab ray. But dreams are just that, dreams, and I was stuck in cruel, uncaring reality.