ManicRoo's Story

by Sakuraspotlight, ManicRoo, Fota, and Ohisama

ManicRoo the yellow Blumaroo stared out the window at the sunny day. "It really is pretty. I can't wait to go outside!" He sighed as he bounded down the stairs.

"Can we go now? Please?" He looked at his 3 other brothers and sisters. ManicRoo's Owner looked up from her edition of the Neopian times. She looked sadly over at her Blumaroo She frowned.

"Yes, but today it will be just you and me." ManicRoo's Owner grabbed a bag of NP and started for the door. "I'll bring a nice surprise home for the rest of you guys." The Owner shouted over her back. ManicRoo was so happy that it was just going to be the two of them. After all he was the newest addition to her family. He was so happy he didn't see where they were going...

--ADOPTION CENTER--
Adopt/Abandon

That's all poor lil ManicRoo could see and think. Of course he put two and two together- Four pets...that strange look...the bag of Neopoints... By the time he snapped out of it all he could hear was "Take it, and here are the 20 NP"

"I'm an IT now." ManicRoo started to cry as she was dragged down a long hallway and stuffed into a cage, all by himself. He looked out the window and saw his old owner walk out with 50 NP and a Meerca. He sat down hard a sobbed for an hour. Over the next couple of days people went in and out. But Manic didn't notice. He was absorbed in depression. He didn't even eat the half decent meal set in front of him. Then one day he looked up and noticed a shadow passing over him. A girl and two other NeoPets wandered by, paused a moment, and kept looking. He sat down again.

"No one wants a ten day old Blumaroo"

The girl down the hall paused at a few other cages. "I'll take Evadiva22," she announced as she walked back to a cage. But Eva was gone. "Dang," she whispered. She started to wander again. "Isn't this familiar Fota?" she questioned her Eyrie. "I remember adopting you when you were just a little Shoyru!" she stopped in front of ManicRoo's cage again. "Hey guys come here a second! Hurry you don't want to miss making a decision do you?"

The two NeoPets raced over to their owner. "What do ya think of this little guy?" Manic looked around and then up at the towering Eyrie and Scorchio. "He looks OK to me!" the Eyrie exclaimed. The Scorchio just nodded its head. The girl jumped up and down!

"Hullo! would you like to come home with us..." she paused to read the tag on his cage "ManicRoo? Did I say that right?" Manic just stared at the girl in amazement. He nodded. Immediately afterward the girl was shouting at Dr_Death. "Oh mister, docter-y Death! I'll take ManicRoo here! How much?" She smiled at Manic.

"88 NP" A voice spoke from behind her. She jumped. "Geez!" she exclaimed. "You scared me! Here you go!" She opened the latch on the cage and swept poor manic up in her arms. "Bye Bye!" She turned around and waved to the Peophin and Dr_Death and then she pushed the door open.

Manic was scared. This new person seemed way to happy for him. They all walked down to the rainbow pool and sat down on a bench. Her NeoPets ran down to the water to play. Splashing each other with multicolored water. She called them back for a moment and sat them all down on the bench. She stood up and paced like an army general. "Listen up troops!" she announced in a loud mock army tone.

"We have a new addition to our-" The Eyrie and Scorchio giggled. Manic sat stiff as a bored. "...troop today! ManicRoo!"

She smiled at him and began again in her normal voice. "Welcome to our family Manic! Now what would you like us to call you? Manic? ManicRoo? Roo? Manski? Rooski?"

Manic swallowed his fear and squeaked, "Manic or ManicRoo is fine ma'am."

The girl broke out laughing. "Don't call me ma'am please Manic. I was just pretending. Ooops! I haven't introduced myself have I?" Manic nodded. "Well, my name is Sakuraspotlight-" she mocked a curtsey even though she was wearing pants. "But please call me Sakura, or sock even! And these two hideous beasties are Ohisama." The Scorchio waved at Manic. "And Fota." The Eyrie took Manic's paw and shook it. It surprised him that the Eyrie could be so gentle. "Any questions Manic?" she asked Manic.

Manic shook his head and started to cry. "Oh, let's go home Manic. Don't worry you'll never have to go back there again. I promise. Fota, here's 400 NP will you please go and get some dinner?"

On the way home Manic told Sakura everything. Including the part about how he had been traded in for a Meecra. Manic stared at the house they arrived at. It was a small apartment in the back of Sakura's shop.

"I'm sorry its so small in here," she said heading for the kitchenette in a corner of the apartment. "As soon as we're able to we'll buy a house! How does that sound?"

Manic sniffed his reply. Sakuraspotlight smiled.

"Ohi, will you show Manic where his room will be?"

Ohisama led Manic down a very narrow hallway. The Scorchio point out various rooms to Manic. “Bathroom, my Room, Fota’s room, Sakura’s room… your room! Let me know if you need anything! She shouted over her shoulder.”

Manic held his breath, expecting a dark little room with dusty cobwebs and crud. To his surprise he found a beautiful room with light blue walls and nice plain bed a small desk with a laptop and a journal on it and an exquisite view from the window. The only thing out of place in his room was a note on the floor. Manic picked it up and read it out loud. “Welcome Home.”

The End