Chapter two: Something so wrong.
They had all gathered in the living room of their huge neohome to greet Jason as he came in dragging two, bulging bags full of things.
To Orange's amazement Jason wasn't at all what she had imagined him to look like. She had thought he would be a mean looking adult wearing black clothes like a thief would, but in fact Jason wasn't even close to that. He was a kid, a kid! She estimated that he was about twelve or thirteen, he was pretty short. He wore regular light blue jeans with some holes in the legs, a gray hoody with red lettering on it that read, 'L33t Skillz'. His hair was short and his bangs fell over the front of his eyes, it was a mousey brown color. His eyes were a light icy blue.
She stared at him for a while until she snapped out of it when she realized he was talking to her.
"Hey Orange?" he asked looking at her oddly, "You ok over there?"
"Uh huh! Sorry I was admiring my new owner" she smiled.
He smiled back, "Aww thanks. But I've got some things for you come over here"
She nodded and hopped over to his feet and looked up at the bag that was huge compared to her size, "What's in there?" she said poking it in the side with her beak.
"Some food, toys, n' stuff." Jason said opening the top and digging through it, "Ah! Here it is" he said and pulled out beautiful brand new orange pteri plushie and sat it down next to her, "I have a few more toys in here for you but I thought you might want to see that one first"
Orange looked at the plushie next to her, since she was a new born the plushie was her size. To make sure it wasn't living like her she ruffled her feathers to make herself look like a puff ball and looked at the plushie, which did react to anything, she chirped happily and smoothed out her feathers again then snuggled the plushie.
Jason chuckled at her little show, "Glad you like it. I'll put the other toys in your room then." he said and grabbed the bag then headed upstairs.
Orange looked around at her siblings to see what they had gotten, Roxy had a stack of books next to her with one in front which she seemed to be very deeply into, Mavis had a toy pirate cutlass that he was practicing sword fights with an imaginary foe, and Sara had coloring book with a box of crayons next to her that she was doodling away with.
"Does he usually bring home stuff for us or is it a special occasion thing?" she asked.
Sara looked up, "Most of the time he brings us things but if it's a special occasion he'll bring lots of things or something rare" then went back to her coloring.
"Ok then..I'm going to go explore the house then if anyone needs me" she chirped and grabbed her plushie with her talons and flapped her wings. She looked around, she hadn't moved, "Oh yea...I don't know how to fly" she said and looked to the floor trying to figure out how to move with her plushie.
Mavis had stopped playing with his sword to watch her. He felt sorry for her, Jason was a nice guy but being a kid he forgot some of the main things to teach his pets. He sighed and sat his play sword on a near by table and walked over to her, "Here I'll show you around" he said picking her and the plushie up.
Orange was a little surprised that Mavis was the one to do this but she thanked him anyway. As they walked out she noticed that Roxy looked a bit shocked to.
They had spent almost two hours touring the humongous home. The rooms that had caught Orange's interest though were the library, a huge room where it was obvious that Roxy had been there, the art room where many drawings by Sara were hanging on the walls, and the green house that had many different smells and colors and lots of things to perch on.
"And finally here's your room" Mavis said and opened the door.
Orange gasped, her blue eyes sparkling as she took in the wonderful sight.
Her room was huge compared to her small size, the walls were white with big windows so a lot of sun could come in. There was a small pond in front of one window for a drink or a quick bath every now and then. Perches were placed on the walls, one even had a mirror on it. All kinds of toys hung from the ceiling and a pile of plushies was in the corner. Then her favorite part was her bed a big sapphire colored nest filled with little pillows, she wasn't sure how a nest was such a pretty blue but hey Neopia was an odd place from what she'd seen.
She hopped out of Mavi's hands and over to her nest, then the pond and just circled the room chirping with happiness.
Mavis smirked and placed the pteri plushie inside the nest and walked back out, "Glad you're happy" he said and shut the door, then walked off down the hall leaving the happy chirping pteri behind him.
Orange had finally calmed down and had messed with everything in her room. It was getting really late now though, she hopped over to her nest and snuggled down into the pillows. She yawned and looked around her room at all of her new stuff blinking sleepily.
She closed her eyes going to sleep to the noise of the small waterfall on her pond her last thought before falling asleep was, "How can something so wrong, bring so much joy?"
(Well I thought I would have a lot more free time this summer but for some reason something wants to ruin it. Not a lot of free time, but I would have big increase in the Dearest Brother of Mine story, but I had to do some research on that and I need the personality of one pet, so until the person e-mails me back with it I can't write anything on that story and its driving me nuts. > )