A/N:Okay, this story is going to have some diary entrees from both Shila and Cougerred. The story will tell you when it goes into a diary entree and then back to third person view.

A/N2: After this chapter my writing style is going to change. I'm also debating with myself whether or not I should let certain characters owned by Sega to enter the story ;)

A/N3: Yes, Rossane and Cougerred attend church. If any of you are offended by that in any way, well, it wasn't meant to be offensive. Also, Tianna and Faith are relatives of mine. (This A/N refers to the content of this chapter. If it confuses you, read the chapter below.)

Rinny Z: Yes, Shila is Zim's neopet. Thanks for reviewing :)

littlefox1227: Don't worry, Zim will have plenty of appearances come the next chapters. I'm working on it! Actually, my neopets don't have any special abilities(yet!). That part was entirely fiction. Also, I am only going to say this once more. Zim's disguise is the same as always. Only Gir's disguise is different. Again, thank you for reviewing, reviewers! And if you haven't reviewed, review!

Now, to the fic!

-Shila's Diary-

Dear Diary,

I don't remember much from when I was born, although it hasn't even been a week yet! I DO remember first thing I saw, which was a green boy with no nose or ears. I remember the look he gave me. I remember feeling a lump of uneasiness begin to form in the pit of my stomach.

I remember him telling me my name. Shila, that was it. Pronounced Shi-as in shy-la.

I've learned his name, but only permits me to call him 'master.' This is my loving and caring owner? He doesn't even let me relax around the neohome! Rather, he seems to want me to act more like his evil henchman (or henchwoman, in my case), being able to serve him at all times. He seems to think Neopets are there only to serve, and you don't have to show them any affection back. He's wrong.

I never fully sensed he cared for me, and I still don't today. Of course, he makes sure me and my brother, Alan the green lupe, are well fed and properly cared for, and he never hits us or acts cruelly towards us, but I sense something's missing. He's always rambling on about how he will one day rule Neopia. He doesn't seem to notice when my brother and I are around, unless he wants us to do his bidding, or to yell at us to do the work he told us to finish. When finally do get time to relax, the only thing we can manage is sleep.

I do know him for what he really is, but I am forbidden to tell anyone. I know his mission, but there is nothing I can do to stop him. I can only hope someone else will come who can stop him.

I can't wait to go to Neoschool. At least then I'll be sitting at a desk listening rather than at home working. I wonder if every Neopet leads a life like this? Maybe I'll find out tomorrow on my first day of school.

Oh, I have to go now. 'Master' is yelling at me to do some more of his horrible 'chores.' I'll write more later, possibly.

-Shila

Dear Diary,

Today was my first day of neoschool. It was rather boring, but it sure beat staying home to do 'Master's' dirty chores! I met a few friends, there names were Rossane and Cou- something. I think that's right. I have trouble remembering things.

Alan has met them, too. He says they're trouble, and they might interfere with the 'mission.' I don't know why he sides with Master. It doesn't do him any more good than being against him. Master hates us all the same.

Master has a babysitting job next wednesday. I don't know why he took the job, but I think he might have something evil planned. I pity the two pets he will be watching over.

Alan got something special today. Gir, that robot disguised as a Spardel, gets to play the role of Alan's petpet during our stay on Neopia.

I don't know what will happen to us once Master succeeds in destroying all neopian life, but then again I don't think he will ever get that far. If he does I'll be surprised.

Oh, I better go now. Master wants me to do more chores. Could things get any worse?

-Shila

-Third Person View-

(Okay, now the story switches over to third person view. I ran out of ideas for diary entries :p)

Shila hid her diary under her pillow and walked out of her bedroom, turning off the light as she left.

Meanwhile, Cougerred and Rossane sat in their living room, munching on popcorn and staring at the television intently. Keckhs walked up beside them.

"Girls, I have something to tell you."

The two neopets didn't take their eyes of the TV.

"Girls?" Keckhs waved a hand in front of the two neopets faces, but they didn't respond. Finally, Keckhs just turned off the TV.

"Hey!" Both neopets cried.

"Girls, I'm going away for a few hours next week. I'm leaving you with a babysitter," Keckhs said.

"Really! Who is it? Is the babysitter Tianna? Or aunt Faith?" Rossane asked, jumping up and down eagerly. She hadn't seen her relatives in a while.

"No," Keckhs shook her head.

"Well then who is she?" Cougerred asked, becoming interested as well.

"He," Keckhs corrected, "His name is Zim."

"Zim!?" The two neopets exclaimed together.

"What kind of a name is that?" Cougerred asked.

"A really, really weird one!" Rossane giggled.

-Cougerred's Diary-

(These are one of Cougerred's diary entrees. Here she hasn't written in it for a few days so she'll be writing about the last week.)

Dear Diary,

Sorry I haven't written anything in a while. I've been busy. Last friday was really eventful. Rossane's new obsession with the paranormal is still as strong as always. When we went to the library the place was down right empty. It seemed like a ghost town were even the tumbleweed had packed it's bags and left. The librarian was acting strangely. I think he knows something we don't. Oh well, it's none of my concern anyway.

On our way out of the library, Rossane and I caught site of something in the sky. It looked like a comet almost. We saw it crash into Terror Mountain. Rossane wanted to check it out but our owner warned us not to leave Neopia Central without her permission. Rossane was finally talked me into going, but I didn't feel good about it.

When we reached Terror Mountain, we found a huge crater with a crashed UFO at the bottom of it. I was about to get closer to it when I saw a gloved hand/claw/whatever it was reach out of the wreck. Rossane and I hid behind a rock.

We saw what looked like some kind of deformed Grundo. I knew right of the bat that this creature was not from our galaxy.

We watched as it put on a very bad human disguise. It only consisted of a black wig and violet contacts. The alien disguised his little robot as a green spardel. To tell the truth, it looked like anything but a spardel. Both disguises were ugly and very, very... well, bad.

I really didn't care one way or the other until he mentioned something about alien invasion. Rossane and I couldn't help but gasp. That's when the alien found us.

Next thing I knew Rossane and I were running down the mountain, hoping and praying to make it out alive. But Rossane tripped and broke her leg. If it weren't for me using a flash attack on the alien we would have been goners for sure.

I took Rossane to Healing Springs to get her leg healed. I'm so glad that we didn't have to get Rossane a cast. Mom would have killed us for sure.

We went to a Sticks N' Stones concert saturday night. Although I despise that evil band group, my other relatives seem to love it, so I pretended to enjoy myself for their sake.

We went to church on sunday, as always. It was actually fun this time. The sunday school teacher brought a new game for the class to play. I really enjoyed it.

Nothing really eventful happened after that. It's thursday now. Next wednesday Keckhs is going to visit family and she's leaving us with some weird guy named Zit. Or was it Zip? Zid? Oh well, I'll ask Keckhs later. I have to go now and help prepare dinner.

-Cougerred.

-Third Person View-

Cougerred put her Diary away and hurried into the kitchen.

Shila worked busily scrubbing the back porch. She sighed to herself. The young kougra looked up from her work when she saw a shadow pass over her. Standing there, she saw her owner.

"Shila," Zim said,"I'm leaving the base for a while. It's your turn to guard it. I don't trust Gir after that last incident."

"Yes, master," Shila said obediently. She set back to scrubbing the bird poop off the porch.

Zim walked off. Shila let out another sigh. She only listened to him because she had to. It was a hard life for her. She hoped and prayed her life would one day get better.

The next day Shila, Alan, Rossane, and Cougerred, along with some other neopets, stood at the bus stop. Rossane was going off about aliens, her newest obsession. Cougerred covered her ears in a vain attempt to block out the sounds of Rossane's rambling. Shila sighed to herself as she waited for the bus while Alan eyed the other two neopets carefully.

"and I bet Dr. Sloth is an alien. No, I KNOW he is! Have you ever seen an alien Shila? I have. It was all green! And it had-"

"WOULD YOU SHUT UP!!!" Cougerred shouted, unable to bear her sister's rambling any longer.

Rossane's ears went flat against her skull and she shrank back a little,"S-sorry, Cougerred. I didn't mean to annoy you."

Cougerred stood there, fuming. Her arms were crossed and she looked away from her sister. Just then, the bus pulled up.

The small group began to file into the bus.

Cougerred sighed. It was lunch time and the neoschool was serving the same old nasty 'surprise' dishes. There were rumors that the cafeteria food was really whatever the cook could find at the Merridell Rubbish Dump.

"Hey Cougerred." Shila greeted, taking a seat across from Cougerred with her bag lunch in front of her.

"Hey," Cougerred didn't look up from her tray. She poked the supposed 'food' with her spork. The brown glop made some sickening gargling noises. Cougerred put on a look of disgust.

"Heheh. That's why I bring my own lunch," Shila opened up her lunch bag and pulled out it's contents, which was a sandwich, a green apple, and a diet Neocola.

Rossane sat on the opposite side of the cafeteria. She was also poking at her food. She gave occasional glances to Cougerred, who was having a conversation with Shila. It was friday, of course. It had been one week since Rossane and Cougerred had encountered the alien. They knew he was still on the planet somewhere, but they didn't know if he could be hiding somewhere close, waiting to strike. At least they knew what his disguise looked like, of course there was still the possibility that after that episode on Terror Mountain he could have changed it. Worst of all, Rossane still felt guilty about lying to her owner.

When the two neopets finally got home Keckhs was there to greet them. She looked rather happy.

"Hello kids, how was your day?" Keckhs smiled warmly.

"Great!" Cougerred smiled. Rossane looked down and trudged to her room.

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