Pride

Chapter 1

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Prime Minister's Diamond Stolen!

         A mysterious cat aivel stole the prime  minister's diamond at midnight last night. The search is being conducted to find this criminal.

"Honey look at this. It is pure rubbish!" Frank Mowz, my dad, said throwing the newspaper on the table in front of his wife my mother, Alise Mowz. Now you may be wondering what this aivel stuff is; well basically an aivel is part human part animal. My family and I are part mouse except my mother's side which is part rat. Aivels either have animal tail or animal ears, but ears are the most common. My family and I have mouse ears, except my mom and her side of the family who has rat ears. That thief probably had cat ears. My name is White Mowz and to tell the truth my dad says everything in newspapers is rubbish, why he buys them every day I have no idea. Also he is usually not this grouchy but last night we just got the news that we were bought by some rich woman, a seal aivel, to be like butlers and maids or something. Yeah Aivels can be bought whether we like it or not. Humans or rich Aivels can buy Aivels. Basically all Aivels are slaves to the human council. The only way to be free is to do something kill a Sientifiko, be set free by your master, or be really super rich when you're bought. Sientifikos mostly have some supernatural ability like flight and a prolonged life. There are five Sientifiko. Originally they were Aivels during the first war which occurred when humans first came to Aiva. During this war we kidnapped one of the human's lead biochemist and tortured him until he taught them how to make a chemical bomb. On their first test the bomb exploded to early on the way to the test sight and all the soldiers died and but the scientists were "lucky" enough to survive. The may have survived but they went "mad" figuratively speaking as they are mostly sane but they are crazed with the lust for blood and power. Even though it was a project funded by the Aivel government it was top secret so not even the president of Aiva knew who the scientists were. You could probably walk right by them on the street though because they look just like regular Aivels. So bottom line over the course of the night a cat burglar, pun intended, just stole one of the rarest materials on Aiva it's rare because even though there is a large diamond mine it is nearly impossible to get to because of the underwater volcanoes surrounding the island the mine resides on, we were bought, and my dad's standard for my future was just raised... or lowered depending on how you look at this.

"Yes, complete rubbish, Honey.", my mom said without even glancing at the paper. Turning to me she said, "White dearest go grab your backpack it's almost time to leave for school." Dad got up to leave for work. As he was walking out he muttered, "Not that I'll have my job for very much longer."

My room is fairly large painted completely white. To complement the walls I have a white bed.

My parents have very artistic taste.

They think that since my name is White everything I own should be white. Other than a white bed I have a white dresser full of white clothes. On the dresser is a light snow colored lamp. In fact the only thing in my room that isn't white is my window which is clear.

I've had people ask me if someone flooded my room with bleach. My room is seriously white, even when I am in my room everything is white. Despite barely being 15 my hair is snow white, my hair has always been this way. Also, some people have asked if I'm blind because my eyes are all white, kind of like a mouse's. The irony is killing me. My skin is also very pale. So, yep even though I prefer purple to white ,actually any color is better than white, I live in a life of white. My mom does all the shopping, but she's so sweet I can't stand to tell her that I hate white so much that I wouldn't care if the color white just fell off a cliff and died. So here I am grabbing my white backpack out of my white closet going to my mom's white car to go to school again the only difference from yesterday so far is the news we received last night.

On the drive to school my mom asked, "How do you feel about being bought White Dearest?"

"Well I'm not sure it really closes a lot of opportunities but it does open up the possibility of going to be slave, or going to try and kill a monster and dieing, or maybe even being dressed up in a sexy maid outfit. Overall it isn't that bad."

"Um... that's nice Sweetie.", she said avoiding eye contact.

The rest of the car ride was driven in silence. As I was exiting the car she called after me "Bu-bye dearest see you later... oh and keep that optimism up" and under her breath she said "but maybe don't be that optimistic."

Yep that's my mom for you taking sarcasm literally.... in fact if she was any more literal I would die.

Yes, DIE! And no that was not sarcasm.

Anyway let me explain what my school looks like. Let us start with the white brick. Yes white brick OH and we can't forget the white mortar and white doors and lets not forget the splendid white lockers and white chairs and desks. Also their blackboard isn't black it's white with black chalk.

On the light side of things it matches my mom's idea of my favorite color