With her petpet in tow, Rebekkana stumbled out of her bedroom. It was the first weekend she had been able to sleep late in over a month, but 11:00 A.M was late enough for her. Suddenly, her stomach growled something fierce. She made her way to the kitchen for some brunch from her mother.

"Hi hon! How was your night? There's some melon in the fridge if you are hungry," her mom happily greeted her youngest daughter. After filling a bowl with Scabu, Rebekkana sat down and ate. As her mind wandered in the world of the half-asleep, her eyes also wandered til they rested on a brochure that said "Visit Terror Mountain TODAY!".

"Oh mom! Are we going to Terror Mountain AGAIN? Can we go to Tyrannia this vacation? Please?" asked Rebekkana , "We've gone to Terror Mountain as long as I can remember. I know you love it there, but, well, it was time for a change."

"No hon, I've told you a million times, we are going to Terror Mountain and that's it!" her mother explained from her position at the kitchen sink of her neohome, doing dishes. "But mom," Rebekkana whined, "I don't like going there and neither does Antarala, Ionabel, or Lihimal!" She spoke of her three sisters. "Did someone say my name?" asked her Shoyru sister Lihimal. "Go play with your sisters in the play room, Rebekkana.". The Bori grudgingly agreed and walked off with her sister.

On the way to the play room, Rebekkana told her older sister what had happened. "Why do you think she makes us go there every year?" she asked. "Isn't it obvious?!?" Lihimal replied as she opened the door to the play room.

The room was a shinny metallic color and to most people, it was cold. Rebekkana's family all had to wear a coat when the were down there, but to Rebekkana, it was perfect. She often retreated to this room when she felt weak, a sure sign her ice body was melting. The only other room that was this cold was her bedroom. "Well, I don't think it's so obvious!" yelled Rebekkana out of frustration.

"Calm down, Bekka! It's just that, well, if we went anywhere else, you'd melt!" The conversation piqued the interest of her sisters. While only Antarala, a blue Zafara, came over to them, it was clear that Ionabel the Kougra was trying to act her part as the oldest and just listened in from behind her book. "What'cha guys talking about?" asked Antarala. Rebekkana let Lihimal field that question and took of running, and crying, to the far corner of the room.

Finally, Ionabel stirred from behind her book to sit with Rebekkana. "Oh Bekky, it okay! We love you more than we hate Terror Mountain! Don't cry. I'm sure someday you'll be able to go to someplace not freezing cold."

No matter the tone of her voice, or her message, the blue Kougra's words made her Bori sibling sad. She didn't know there was every not a possibility of her ever going anywhere. How come mom never explained that to me? I would have rather stayed home and let them go have a wonderful vacation than subject them (and me) to the same, boring vacation every year! thought Rebekkana as she walked the thin line between self-
pity and martyrdom. She had to go talk to her mother.

Rebekkana snook up on her unsuspecting mother, was watching the tv, formulating her ideas as she walked. "Mom, I don't want to be ice anymore!" Her voice ringing through the room. Mom twirled around and paused her movie she was watching. "I can't go anywhere, or else I'll melt! That's why we go to Terror Mountain every year, isn't it?"

"Who told you that?" Without even stopping to respond to her mother, Rebekkana continued, "I don't care what color I become as long as I don't stay ice." She said 'ice' with so much malice, it could kill a Lupe from twenty miles away. "Honey, I would gladly change your color if I could, but I don't have a map to the lab ray..." before she could finish, Rebekkana interrupted her, "What about that paintbrush you won from the Wheel of Monotony?" Her mother sighed.. "Honey, I sold that to pay for Battledome equipment and avatar items. What was left I put towards a lab map. We only need 100,000 nps more!" Rebekka scoffed, "Only 100,000 left. It will take you a year or better to earn that!"There has to be a way, she thought.

That night was a rough one. No matter what she did, Rebekkana couldn't sleep. She was attempting to solve her predicament regarding her color. Finally, she drifted to sleep, only to be confronted with a dream.

She was prancing on many clouds hovering above Neopia. It was nice but she knew she couldn't stay for long or she'd melt. Suddenly her foot slid through the cloud, followed by her whole body. At first she panicked, but then she realized, she'd land in Happy Valley among soft snow. Watching the snow, she noticed that there was a tiny black and red dot in the snow. This dot slowly morphed into a Shoyru. She was about to land on this Fire Shoyru! As they finally collided, Rebekkana felt herself melt. This finally stirred her from sleeping with a jolt.

Popping out of her bed, she searched for the source of the all too real pain from her dream. She easily found it; her sister Antarala standing over her with a high power flashlight.

"What are you DOING?!?" whispered Rebekkana angrily. "I need to talk to you. Its about you getting to be a different color."