*NOTE* This story--and a couple of the following ones after it, will help you better understand something great that's coming to Neopia. That's right, the first, and original RPG! All we have to do is finish the site. Also--contains some violence. Beware*

Neoventure: Part 1

Karma, the red wocky, exhaled loudly, before descending into the plains she knew as home. She, Nall, and Ghatti, her two friends who lived with her, back in the days when "mum" was always there, decided to set off on their own around Neopia. She missed her foster mother, her owner... but she knew that what she did was for the best--and she could not help it. She sighed, lowering herself cautiously into the stocky grasses, not so much as one moved as she silently tore through the grassy forest. A chia lie ahead. Karma squeezed her eyes shut. Nall had taught her well in hunting food. Let's just keep this as clean as possible... she thought to herself, diving at the defensless chia.

****** Karma sat on her ledge, wondering exactly where Nall and Ghatti were now. She had chosen to look for a group of wockys, but never found them --she actually found it quite cheerful living by herself. No fight for the food, nothing. She missed her owner, "mum" deeply. See, her owner rescued her from the pound, where she had been carelessly abandoned by her previous owner. Not again... not again do I want to do that. That's why I went on my own. But I don't think mum would have done that to me.

Karma stared up at the darkening skies, and recoiled in fear. She sniffed the air. Something didn't...smell right. Karma loped towards the Chia nest she knew of, hoping to perhaps find an answer. See, they understood that she was a part of the food chain, and that when she hunts, she is serious. But the nest is a safe place for the Chias -- Karma agreed to that one. "Karma!" A voice called from far off. The red wocky turned her head around to see Nall, her childhood friend. She bounded to him. "Nall!" she said, and rubbed against him. "Long time no see... What brings you here?" Nall smiled. "I was going hunting for my pack. There's no food back where we live. Something wierd is happening."

Karma nodded, and motioned towards the sky. "Same here. This somehow doesn't seem ordinary.." Lightning illuminated the sky, turning the blackness as bright as day. Nall lowered himself to the ground and let out a growl. "This is gonna get ugly." he said, ears sliding back on his head. Lightning struck again, setting a nearby patch of grass on fire. And with the dry plains grass, the fire spread like a fire storm. "Nope--It already is ugly. RUN!"

Karma took off towards her rock ledge, Nall close at her heels. "Hurry hurry hurry!" It seemed as if they were running a race against the fire, straining every muscle in their very bodies. Karma wasn't used to long-distance running, like Nall was, so he was quickly ahead. They reached the ledge, and turned around. The fire had them completly surrounded. "Not good, not good, not good!" Karma recited again and again, curling herself into a tiny ball at one edge of the rock. Nall shook his head at her. "C'mon Karma, let's go!" The wocky looked at him like he was crazy, but he took off through the flames. Karma took a deep breath, and dashed into the flames as well, as finally they came out in front once again... Again they ran, taking all the strength out of their very bodies.

To be continued...

~~UmiRiyuzaki