Disclaimer: I do not own anything Neopets related except the characters personalities.
Author's Note: Sorry if my writing isn't so fast nowadays. Science fair is coming up and I'm stuck under piles of work. Thanks for the reviews Yoshi and Kirby Fan and CardCaptor Li Luva!
Chapter 7
Tattered Ribbons
"Bye Sis." I said as my sister left the house that night. As soon as she had melted into the shadows I stepped outside.
"Moro! Rin! We need to talk!" I called into the dark. I had to tell them about Skip. He was a major problem. I smiled as I watched Rin drop from a tree and neatly land on her feet. Then Moro surprised me by leaping down after her daughter.
"Talk of what, child?" Moro said as the pair approached.
"A Shoyru saw me in the dark. I want to keep him from having all of Neopia looking for a ghost Usul that doesn't attack you." I remarked shrugging. Rin's tails lashed as she thought but it was Moro that responded first.
"And what are you going to do about it Kate? Seems you have several choices, but which do you want to do?" Moro looked at me quizzically.
"Today I had him show me around so I could monitor him." I said. Moro nodded.
"That is one choice."
"We can't just hand you the answer to this packaged and ready to go," Rin interjected. "However you deal with the Shoyru is up to you as far as we're concerned. You may pick the easiest or hardest solution. What matters is that you took it into heart." Easy for Rin to say. She hadn't spent the day with the guy! He was… well there wasn't a single describing word for him. As for solutions, well, I sure had picked a hard one.
Long after the Lupe and her daughter had left I dwelled on Skip. He was kind, caring, understanding and to top it all off an idiotic pain. Nonetheless, I decided even complete morons deserved to live, the way he was about was even kind of cute. (Sort of.) I'd keep with the "tourist needing a guide" gig. Sighing, I got off the couch I had stuffed my things under. Gloves and shirt. I understood why Skip had bought those but not why he'd bought the bows. I glanced in the mirror and cursed myself for forgetting that ghost's don't cast reflections. Using the solidity spell I realized that the orange bows that were tied around my ears were in tatters. Burnt in the flames. That must've been why. I smiled. Maybe Skip wasn't so bad after all. Suddenly, I couldn't wait till morning came around.