Iazo's Dream

by narlom_zaflatour

The music began to play. I saw Dark_Serpent glide over to me. He wore a grin as he took me out to the dance floor. I was living in a dream! My eyes opened, something was poking me. “I wasn’t living in a dream, it was a dream!” I grumbled as I tried to blink the sleep in my eyes away. The poking didn’t stop. “Stop that!” I yelled as I rolled onto the floor. I looked up into the eyes of something silver. “HUSH!!” I screeched as the silver Zafara giggled and spryly leaped onto my bed.

“Get up sleepy head!” She taunted as she basically bounced off the walls.

“I am, I am, stop yelling,” I grumbled as Hushball darted into the closet. “Weirdo,” I murmured as she bounded out again.

“C’mon, c’mon! Narlom is gonna take us shopping for the dance, but we can’t go until everybody is up!!!” I looked over to see both of my other two sisters still sleeping.

“Then go wake them up first,” I half grumbled half hissed as I climbed back into bed. But Hushball merely dragged me back out again by my tail. Then she leaped onto BlackChocobo, my sister the yellow Eyrie. And the tackled One_with_no_name, the green Zafara, out of bed.

“Oh boy, oh boy, I’m excited!!” BlackChocobo said as she jumped out of her bed and into the bathroom to brush her fur. One_with_no_name said something quietly then made a dash downstairs. She has a lot of nicknames, No Named Zafara, Dash, One, and sometimes Frightful, because of her attitude. Hushball flashed after No Name and I heard a loud BANG as she fell down the stairs. I entered the bathroom just as Chocobo was leaving. She flew downstairs and I looked into the mirror. There was me, Iazo, a golden Shoyru. I yawned and brushed out my fur till it glimmered and sparkled so much I looked like a gold statue. I put silver glitter on my wings and put my favourite necklace on. Narlom (my owner) gave it to me for my last b-day. I wobbled downstairs. Narlom had already made us all some hotcakes and my sisters had already dug into theirs.

“As soon as we finish breakfast we’re outta here, got it guys?” She said as she tried to wrestle Hushball’s vitamin into her mouth. I gulped my breakfast down and after Hushball was force-fed her vitamin Narlom grabbed her backpack and we were out the door. We jumped into the car and off we went to the shopping centre.

After Hushball had asked, “Are we there yet?” At least 999999999999999 times, Narlom replied, “Yup!” And so we were.

She handed us each a small leather bag. “You each have 1,000 NPs each to spend. And DON’T waist it on jokes and tricks! Okay? Meet you all back here in 3 hours!” We grinned and hugged her. She patted us all on the head and let Hushball use her watch because Hushball was to young to ask strangers. Chocobo took Hushball with her and then with a wave to Narlom we scattered off in different directions. I went directly into the Grooming Parlour. The ran along the rows of make-up and dress-ups.

“How am I EVER going to pick the right things for the dance?” I moaned as I passed a full row of at least 700 different types of lipstick. A shiny blue one caught my eye. It was in a pure silver case, I couldn’t resist. I grabbed it off the shelf and put it into my shopping bag as I selected some blush. Finally I had make-up to my heart’s content and I rushed up to the counter. I paid for my items and as I left I could tell my money bag was a lot lighter and a lot less full. I ran around the shopping center till I had 134 NPs left. I met my sisters at Hubert’s Hot Dog Stand as we had planned.

“What will we get Narlom?” Hushball asked as she bounced around, almost knocking over a nearby Lupe.

“Well, how many NPs do we have left over?” I asked as I took out my remaining points.

“I’ve got 134 NPs left, how about u Choco?” BlackChocobo had left 700 NPs just for Narlom! No Name saved 95 and Hushball managed to not spend 200 of them.

“1129! I think….” No Name announced after a while. We decided on getting her some glass roses and a card. We all signed it and No Name carefully placed the items her her bag. We got there just in time to meet Narlom. She was about to open the car door when Hushball tugged at her jeans and No Name showed her the gifts. She grabbed us up and hugged us so tight I was afraid the roses would break. She took us all out for ice cream and while Hushball was just finishing her’s, Narlom announced we better get going if we were going to make it to the dance on time.

“WEEEEE!! That was GREAT!” Hushball yipped as she bounced into the car seat and began to play with here new Yellow Bouncy Ball. Chocobo bought a plushie on sale at her friend’s shop and was hugging it tightly. No Name was listening to her new Black Boom Box as I took out my new mini mirror. I looked at myself and tried to slick down my fur. We pulled into the driveway of our NeoHome and Narlom told us we had about 40 minutes to get ready. I was the first upstairs so I easily got to use the bathroom. I took out my new blue lipstick. The silver case shone brightly. I put it on the side of the counter and began to take off the blue glitter I had put on before. Then, when it was all off, I put some more on, but it was light blue to match my lipstick. I put on some black eyeshadow and some nice pink blush to rose up my golden cheeks. I put on another necklace, much fancier. I just finished brushing myself when I heard Narlom call, “Iazo! C’mon, time to go!”

I raced downstairs and neglected to look at how my sisters had dressed up. We piled into the car and sped off. Narlom dropped us off at the front door and told us the dance was over at 10:00 PM, when she’d come to pick us up. We tried to gracefully and calmly walk in but we were tooooooooo excited! We entered and the entrance was followed by an excited yelp from Hushball. I looked around and spotted my best friend, a green Shoyru named Shuruga.

“Heya, Iazo!” Shuruga said as she flapped over. She had really dressed up, maybe the best looking girl in the place, except for me of course.

“Hi Shu!” We chatted for the longest time until my eye caught the shine of red fur. There was Dark_Serpent. I watched as he danced with almost every female Shoyru in the place. It wasn’t until he came over and asked Shuruga to dance that I blew my mind. My amber eyes turned red with fury as he swept Shu of her feet. They danced for like, ever!! Finally she came back and began blabbing on about how cute DS is. I was to enraged to even talk to her. Then Dark_Serpent walked over to us. I figured he was going to ask Shu out on a date or something, but instead, he turned to me.

“Hey, Iazo, want to dance?” I didn’t want to, he had danced with all the other Shoyrus.

“Don’t do it Ia, don’t do it!” I thought frantically. But I did do it. I jumped up and cried, “Yes!!” He grinned and swept me out onto the floor. I hoped he had noticed I was the only golden Shoyru in the place. We danced for a full 2 hours, I know because I glanced at the clock now and then. He twirled me and I smiled at him. It was so magical, I wished it would last forever then….

“Move back everyone! Give her room to breath!”

“Iazo? Iazo? Can you hear me? Iazo?”

“Is she knocked out?”

“Someone, help!”

My eyes opened into slits. I was lying on the dance floor, NeoPets’ faces crowed to see if I were all right. I opened my eyes all the way.

“SHE’S OKAY!!!” I heard someone shout, it sounded like Laplock, another friend from school.

I sighed with happiness as Dark_Serpent pulled me to my feet. “Hey, you all right? Everything was fine. The music started, we started to dance and you fainted!” I grinned.

“It wasn’t a dream,” I said to myself. “It was real!”

A Very Happy End

Author’s Note: Every one of these NeoPets are real, all owned by me or my friends. Iazo and Dark_Serpent really DO like each other and Hushball is a crazy girl. I want to thank all my buddies that let me use their pet’s names and their pet’s! This was my first story ever and I hope you liked it! ~Narlom