My "Dori" Story xP

[sakuko]

Voice commentary, confusion or...erm...personal opinion

This story's supposed to be the idea of harnessing creature traits into humans, anyone ever seen a "cat girl"? A human with cat ears, and occasionally a cat tail. Well, aisha's are technically the closest neopet to relate
to the felines, small felines that is, so could they be a cat person too? Testing the idea with my pet...erm, here's what I have so far.

*cough* Be warned, its kind of long... -kind of- long..
*goes to post it in next post* =P

[sakuko]

Here:

Hey...my name is Doriamu, a cloud aisha. Although, it wasn't always that way. I never asked for it. I never asked--it wasn't fair and it wasn't right. Not what they did to me, not what they've done.
Maybe I should thank them, after all, I did meet a very kind person in the aftermath, but only when I wasn't a person any longer. I think I'd like to get this off my chest. Its been there, like an anchor to a boat for my heart.

My life was normal, I had brown, slightly curly hair. I was a little boy, no more than 12 or so, my hair was a bit longer than other boys, but you couldn't tell because it was curled under, nobody noticed. I wore sweaters, t-shirts, and jeans, just like any other kid. I went to a learning jail, called school, and sat through 6 hours a day. I had a few friends, I had a couple hobbies, I lived pretty comfortable if you compare it to the wildlife. Were, yes, I've said that today, but you wonder what it means don't you? Of course you do, its human nature. Its something that never leaves you, trust me...

In this crazy dream called reality, I was just walking along the street, no destination in mind. I was just thinking of things, nonsense things. How rude the lunch lady is to keep food that is stale, and hand it out for two dollars.

How I couldn't wait to get out of grade school, to be able to choose our food. To be able to move, and not sit and listen forever. It was then that I noticed the distinct pain in my head. Two parts, two concentrates of pain that left me emotionless-my thoughts did not exceed after, what happend anyways..I know what happened, but now how. I looked around, making sure noone near me was paying attention to that 'little kid clutching his hair'. I had to get home, fast. I looked ahead of myself, determined. I leaned back, as I'd seen the people on the olympics do, and darted forward.

Back at home I didn't bother to lay in my bed, I fell asleep on the couch. I don't understand why I fell into dreams so quickly, I wasn't tired, I was in pain. It seemed impossible. I think my Mom or Dad came home, saw me, and lifted me up to bed without waking me. You know, like some parents do when you're little. But I was scrawny, so they still do it when I fall asleep on the couch. Anyways...
I had the strangest dream. I was in a remarkably green feild, the green was lush and seemed to glow, but my hearing was more accurate and I didn't feel my right ears. I went to scratch my head like I'd normally do, but a ear...like the kind on a cat...or an aisha, if you will, was there. Velvety, and I tried to pull it off, but it hurt. It was..attatched to my head!

See? This is how it all started. My life wasn't changed completly...oops, yes, you're guessing I woke to find the ears were still there? Yeah. They were. I was nervous when I awoke the next morning with the alarm by my bed gloweing with the red anger in its unforgiving numbers, the time. I jumped out of bed and bolted to my closet, pulling on a black t-shirt, and jamming on a midnight blue hat. They covered my ears but muffled the sound I could hear. My regular ears were still there, but they seemed to be...distant, I felt no pain in them and it felt as if they were withering away like a flower in the middle of December.

To my good fortune (sorta), it was Saterday. Our family trip, heh, because of my parent's obsession with "getting me out" once in awhile. We took one every March, to a different destination. My father was also a hunter, a plus. Well, mother was enthusiastic, father was also very keen on me acting the way I should. One of the most common scoldings I get from him is the "No snooping in the hunting supplies," but, I must give the birds a fighting chance!)

Well, we left. Needless to say, and most of the trip I ended up pinning the hat down and falling asleep. No dreams, not this time. My ears, my regular ears, gave a dying pain before I could no longer feel them. What was happening to me?! I felt a light tap on the shoulder, as I jammed the hat down one last time, more forcefully than before. She told me politely we were at the hotel, and added,

"Doriamu, we've got it all rented out, the room-23-and we should get going." Mother smiled at me, giving me a motherly worried look when I didn't move. I smiled warmly,

"Mom, I'm gonna go to...eh..." I thought for a moment. "A park...er, or a mall..."

"I think this city has both! But you'll need bus fare." She grabbed a handfull of coins and gave them to me. I got out of the car and began walking toward the end of the block in search of a bus stop. My mother knew I could handle myself, I was infact, 12. She still beleived (even after dad told her that it wasnt so) that 12 year olds were close to adulthood, even though its really 17..or 13, I guess. It depends on what you want to beleive. Where I was, the highway, of course. There were little shrubbery bushes along the sidewalk, cares whizzing passed, stores, resturants, a bus stop, and a really bad smell in the air told me I was close to the heart of the city.

"Hello, and do you know what time it is?" A tall, red cheeked boy with flat, listless hair that framed his face stood near me with a very cheesy grin on his face. I blinked in confusion, watching him as he struck a pose of defiance and then let out on a burst of chuckles. He was about my age.

"Lucas, stop it." A shorter girl said, eying him. "Sorry, he's always talking riddles to random people." She smiled, hoping not to affend me. She grabbed Lucas's shirt and pulled backward.
"Wait, I didn't getta finnish my joke," Lucas squealed, adding in a confused, 'Woah, Stop, I'm sorry!'

The girl was brown haired as well, but her hair was much wavier, she wore some kind of necklace, with a carved dolphin on, jeans and a red colored shirt. They both carried backpacks.

"My name is Doriamu," I smiled, hoping to make conversation. I don't know why, maybe its because the bus stop we were waiting for would take a long time and I wanted someone to talk to.

"My name is-"

"Lucas," I nodded.

"Hey!! How did you know?" Lucas whined, wondering. He clicked his tongue sarcasticly.

"Shut up Lucas." The girl took the defensive post on my side."My name is Kelsea, ah...do you know japanese or something? Doriamu..."

"Ah, no. My mother and father don't either, my mom just likes creativity and originallity a bit too much.."

Well, we rode the bus to the mall...and I followed them around. I don't know, Kelsea seemed to be special. For the reason she kept talking of computers and games, she hung out among the graphic novels, talked about anthros, weird things. Lucas finally left her side, for my chance to talk to her.

(continued in next post --)

[sakuko]

"Kelsea?"

"Eh, who are you!..." She looked at me, saw a weird look in my eyes and quicky said,
"Kidding...whats up?"

"Nothin," I said. "Where's Lucas?"

"He went home..." She said. "I'm staying here for a few more hours because I promised to get movie tickets to a new release..."

"Oh!" I said, releived. "Whats an anthro?"
Kelsea looked slightly confused. "Well..., an anthro is an animal in human form. Why?"

"No reason-" I scratched my hat (still jammed tightly onto my head). Kelsea smiled, she joked as she tried to steal my hat. It wouldn't budge.

"Whats wrong with your hat, Dori?"
"N-nothing!" I stuttered. Kelsea frowned.

"Ah come on outside..if your embarressed, I wanna see why..."

Kelsea was amprehensive to my intent, to cover up my ears.
* * * * *

We met outside in a secluded area, I removed my hat carefully. The ears seemed to open up again.

"Woah!" Kelsea nodded, "Yep. That'd get you shunned from society. But I love them, I wanna tail or something someday." She giggled, dreaming slightly.

"Kelse?" I muttered.

"Oh...yeah...anything else? Bend your head down." I did so.

"Oh Dor..." She said in a calm, knowing voice. "I know what this is...follow me."
* * * * *

Looking both ways, making sure she wasn't seen, she picked her path carefully, crouched, and ran as quick as a fox. Then Kelsea straightened up, pulling a small black laptop out of her bag and slinging the bag over her shoulder once more. She signled me to follow her. I jetted along the same path as she did, following the moves as closely as I remembered. My heart was pounding when I touched her shoulder, she smiled at me and whispered,

"Good...we need to get going, c'mon, this way." She turned once again to the back of the ally. She pulled hair behind her human ears, and squinted hard in front of her. A brick wall. She walked closer to it, and gave it a hard blow. The wall shattered like glass. "Doriamu," she sighed quietly as we came to a feild of dead grass. She held her friend's laptop and looked at me.

"Understand this: what you face is no curse. Its the signal your soul is too beautiful and vivid to be contained in one form. Its why you're changing.." She told me, opening the laptop. I starred at her in question. "You're going to neopia. A place I'll be with you most of the time--where people will be kind to you, I hope..."

"Oh," I didn't blink as I imagined the place she had mentioned. Nothing appeared but a blurry picture, it straightened up and I realised I could see the clouds. I heard much, much more than I had remembered. Every detail. I remember hearing bugs crawl in the grass-the air circulating through my ears.

"Doriamu, its ready..." Kelsea said. I didn't realize she was getting anything ready, and as she walked over to me, and held my palm with one hand, the laptop with the other, she glared at a specific spot, and pressed the enter key. What came was a golden arch, in the shape of my symbol (I'll explain later). It swirled a vortex of spectral light, and Kelsea told me it was the gateway of Neopia.

"Everyone has to go this way?" I asked her. She shook her head.

"Just the people in this area I guess."

"I see..." I trailed off, approaching it unbeknowest. She held my shoulders, as to guide me forward and we both walked into the gateway.


(jeeze, continued in next post o.o)

[sakuko]

My nose bristled with a new sensation. A new smell... it smelt fresh and bold. I held the shoulder with my of my new friend and looked around. Their was a dizzing brightness of the sun that loomed overhead, I saw a few people walk past me on their way down a long, cliche dusty path.

"Whats this? Where does it lead?" I looked back at Kelsea, who's eyes were firm, non-moving and utterly serious. The gateway which had been behind us fizzled and disapeered. She turned to me,

"From now on, Doriamu, you're going to have to call me...no...how about Senei." She paused. "I can't use my 'Sakuko' or 'Natsu_yoshieko' identity any longer while with you--you're...a human too, kind of. I'll have to use it only while I'm with you--"

"S-eh-ny?" I shrugged. "I can't pronounce it very well... I'll just call you Ms. Sennie. It sounds cute." I grinned. She looked forward, biting her lower lip.

"C'mon." She commanded. I walked forward, an inch behind her. We came up to a large gate, a small creature stood on a large pedestal, and a crate. The creature was small, slightly chubby. It looked cuddly. It had ears that hung down to its shoulders, a long fox tail, and small button nose. It wore police clothings, and as we approached, the creature smiled at both of us.

"He with you ma'am?" The small creature clucked. Kelsea acknowlaged the yellow colored small ball of fluff with a flick of her wrist. The creature smiled.

"Password?"

"Uhh...." Kelsea beant down, and whispered something. The animal smiled, and took out a peice of paper, looking quite a bit like an application.

"Sign here. Here, and here. There you go! Senei! Welcome to neopets.com! Be sure to adopt a kacheek." My face scrunched. This was the internet? That would explain the laptop deal... oh, and what was a KACHEEK? Maybe the little creature... before I could ponder these thoughts much longer, Kelsea grabbed my wrist and yanked me along.

"Okay." She said silently. "We're in. I have an idea of where we should go.." She paused abruptly, and watched me a horrifyed look on her face. My eyes dulled. A pain inside my chest wrenched me to the ground sharply. Out of Kelsea's hand. She tried to hold me, her face worried, she got on her knees, and hugged me. More like squeezed me. My arms and legs shook violently, her hands seemed to be twitching in strain of keeping me from hurting myself..

"Dori, its okay... Dori..." She put her chin upon my head. My cat ears seemed to flicker with sensitivity. I felt my body num...cracking? A cracking noise. I looked up at the royal blue sky, with small white fragments dotting it, and they were not clouds. I blinked in attempt to banish them from vision. I still felt the heat. That cracking noise, what was it? I felt smaller, the world seemed to be closing in on me. Then, it seemed to disapeer altogether.
* * *
I awoke several hours later. Actually, it had felt as if I was in a trance. I don't think I remember being lifted by Kelsea, now larger than I, unaware of anything. I was innocent then. Esorian didn't know me, Kelsea loved me....I think. I still had opposable thumbs. Oh... right. The cracking was the sound of my bones reforming. Creepy huh? I'm supposed to be something called an aisha. Aishas are cat like creatures with 4 ears instead of two. The second set are actually on large, alien like stalks with small ears on the end, but look more like stretched heart shapes than ears. I can still see, my eyes turned green. My fur is also a green shade. Its ..... new. Its different. But I miss being a human now. I never thought I might...nobody truely does.

Esorian appeared at the doorway to my new room. Oh yeah, Kelsea had boughten a home, and I had been told she was taking care of other things right now. I felt small again, nowhere. I felt as if I had two hearts because my mind wanted this thing, my aisha body another. The aisha body wanted to be spoiled. I wanted my thumbs back. Esorian was also an aisha, but she said it was a temporary form. Just like mine!
She rolled her narrow slits for eyes, and examined me. She's supposed to be some kind of "guide for lost souls." I felt: I'm not lost! I'm just in a different body! But now I'm not so sure I was right about that little detail. I wonder how my parents are...I didn't have much time to ponder this because Kelsea ran into the doorway, arms loaded with brown bags. It smelt like food and plush...
It was then my aisha body took over.
(continued again )

[sakuko]

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"Senei" Perspectives-
Doriamu, the little boy I met at the mall, raced around my feet with glee only, he was a green aisha. He was extremly hyper, unlike the calm and thoughtful person I had known only hours before. I dropped my bags on the floor, containing a few things like leeks, tomatos, and bread, and an acara plushie too.

"Take me to the Fan Clubs!" He squeeled. "Buy me a paintbrush." I eyed Esorian, the mysterious red colored aisha that appeared next to him-floated-next to him that is.

"Don't look at me." She scowled. "I certainly didn't do anything out of line..."

"Really?" I said grimly. "He's acting like a 'commercial' neopet, the ones that belong to people with no brains."

"I'm telling you," She looked at me, if she had eyes there would be fire in them, "I didn't do anything." My hands somehow turned into fists, my pointer finger digged into my thumb's skin as I held back a will to kick Esorian through the door. Through clenched teeth,

"I KNOW... You didn't do anything." I breathed. I bent over and picked the helpless aisha boy up. "I'm leaving the house, you'd better not follow me." I ran out of my newly bought neohome, situated near the outskirts of Meridell (before it was destroyed that is). I did as the aisha had told me to. I took him to the fanclub area, dozens of other people were there talking. My aisha scurried out of my grasp, and I followed him, keeping on eye on his bright green fur amoungst dozens of others.When he'd settled and began talking to a group of aishas, I sat on the lawn and watched him. I didn't hear much. He'd squeel once in awhile, and a female aisha, two colors signifying she was indeed a split aisha, shook a can of neocola and opened it. I heard Doriamu say something like,

"All hail the soda goddess." Which seems to be an inside joke nowadays. The soda poured out over everyone, and Dori opened his mouth and drank the neocola--which I to this day wonder what it tastes like, does it taste like the kind on earth? Maybe.

Dori jumped around for awhile, and when he got home he speant all day outside at the mailbox, and worked the fat chia mail man down 3 pounds-he was mailing his friends. New friends. I watched him distantly.

After awhile he boiled down a little. He has 2 or 3 close friends...the little split aisha, the soda goddess became a fast friend.

Her name was Chame_bara, "Sham" as Dori would say. He and Chame played together often--going to the Space Station for the simulated games and on Camping Trips.

Another, a little fire aisha boy named Krawr. Those two were a perfect match, best friends who explored and talked alot, teased each other too. And Krawr's siblings. They're scared of Skrel though, he's a ghost aisha.

The third was a purple freckled aisha named Muzrah, who studied to be a shaman. They joked, and talked about things like "humans have such and such on this world, but snow sandwhiches are much better." Which makes me realize, he didn't know what he was talking about. He forgot he was a human, or else, he would've been depressed... Am I boring you with details?

As the weeks went by, I'm afraid I forgot he'd been flesh and blood to me, nowadays he was just him, an aisha. My 'pet.' So I began to accept him that way. One day, in particular.

"Mommy." He said, struggling to find the words. "I--wish to be cloud. More than anything... please?"

I looked at him, thinking of the 45,000 that was hidden away in the bank. Then, I glanced over to Esorian who floated, crosslegged. Spectacles on her brow, she wrote things in a small notebook often. Today, she bothered me more than ever. Her mere presence, I had not known it was alright to hate, to loathe something for the sheer sight of them.

"Mommy?" I snapped back to the sight of him, and smiled.

"Of course, Dori. Cloud is an excellent choice." I encouraged. Esorian gave me a look,

"What, 'I'm buying him a paintbrush and thats that.'? Child! You haven't got enough. Don't get his hopes up!" She butted in. Doriamu looked at me, aware that the spirit did not tell lies.

"Dori..."

"Really?" He asked me, frowning. "You don't have enough? We're poor!" He sobbed.

"Hush hush..." I said. "Its okay. I've got around 40,000 in the bank, it shouldn't take us too long to save up more." He smiled weakly, and walked off to his room. I turned around and glared at Esorian.

"What good are you doing us anyway?" I asked her. She jumped down from her perch, and turned into a familiar human form. Her human form...she wore a white tank top, and brown jeans. Her hair was red, her eyes blue. She used her newly formed fingers to jab my chest.

"Good am I doing..." She mumbled. She shoved the notebook into my chest. "Acccording to this, I've been diligently recording all of his progress. Do you ever wonder what I do with him when you're not around?"

The thought had never crossed my mind. "No..." I awnsered truthfully. She smirked.

"Exactly. So, what good are you doing him?" She sneered. I bit my lip again, looking at the floor. What good had I done to him? Brought him here...wait, yes. Yes, I'd don't quite a bit but Esorian wouldn't admit this. The red aisha had shown up days after I'd brought him here, to Neopia. His parents...a hotel. I think. They disapeered....I went into my room now, feeling suddenly dizzy I collapsed on my bed. I think I fell asleep...but it wasn't a very good sleep. Plagued with thoughts that seemed real. Yet distant. Dreams...but not exactly.



(thats it! XD...I just noticed, I should've put this up on a website o.o)

[Kiddo]

ooooh... very good Sakuko. I like it, especially the part about going from the real world to Neopia. Keep it up!