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Pet Name: Mom_to_all
Owner: green_meadow_under
Breed: Scorchio

The way I got her is very unusual because I did not chose her, as normally it goes - human chooses pet - it was the other way around.

It was on the second day of the Month of Awakening in the 4th year of the Neopian Calendar. I just attended a heart-breaking funeral of my beloved 8 pets (the way I lost them I will tell you some other time) - a lovely ceremony clearing the names of those that have gone through so much in their life. The Neopian Authorities has allowed me to spend a couple of hours in the land before I would have to leave or apply for a new household. I decided that I would have to leave since the pain of the loss was too much. I also decided that I would revisit all the lands where my pets and I spent our time, and that I would finish in the cold blizzards of the Terror Mountain to freeze the pain in my heart.

I was walking through the blizzard without emotion and not thinking of anything when I felt my feet burning. "What? This is not the Terror Mountain! Where am I? Oh, ...no..." I was on the hot sands of the volcanoes of Tyrannia. I realize fast that I was in the hot sands that the faeries had warned us not to go to, because they were the hatching grounds for the wild neopets and that unimagined dangers await us. "Oh, god... or faeries let me get out of here! How did I get here? ...What?" I stumbled over something. I have not realized that while looking up for the Plateau, I should be looking where I was stepping also. I almost knocked over an egg. It was between 2-3 feet tall, of a sort of greenish color. It was rocking back and forth... back and forth... "Ohhhh nooo, it is going to hatch, better hide meadow, and do it soon" where to hide. I just went down behind a dune and kept on watching the egg, hoping that whatever came out would not find me. This is when I realized there were about a dozen of them of different colors all around that green that was rocking. It cracked! Oh...oh� a piece fell out of the shell. I could see the most amazing sparkling green eye looking out of the hole created. The shell was rocking even more now and as small pieces fell out I could see a bit of a face, ... and it was straining to push the shell out. I started to feel as if the strain was beginning to be changing in a panic, there was an urgency that was becoming painful. All of a sudden I found my self by the egg pulling with all my strength at the shell, it gave way and I fell on my rump. In front of me stood a creature almost 3 feet tall, all green with little wet wings. "I believe you�are a�scorchio?" The creature just looked at me, and then turned around and with occurred steps went to an egg and started to open the shell. That's when I realized that the rest of the eggs started to rock faster and that the urgency was coming somehow from them. Dumbfounded I just sat there in the sand looking at the one I helped, right in the middle of the hatching ground. "She is helping them just like a mom to all, she did I say she? Hmmm... I do not know why!" I was amazed, looking at all the tiny little (well all were around 2-3 feet tall) scorchios of all colors popping out of eggs as the green one was helping them hatch.

"MOM_TO_ALL? WHAT IS MOM_TO_ALL?"
"What? Who spoke? Who's asking?"
"ME"
"Me who? Where are you?
"YOU DO NOT SEE? IN FRONT OF YOU, PUT YOUR HAND OUT"
There was only the little green one I helped in front of me (come to think of it she was the only green one).
"Are you talking to me little one? I did not see her move her mouth"
"I DO NOT NEED TO MOVE MY MOUTH. I SPEAK TO YOU HERE" she pointed to her head "WHAT IS MOM_TO_ALL?"
"Well let's see! A mom is someone that cares for others that need her care, like the way you helped your sisters and brothers. Oh�my�speaking of mothers I better disappear, your mother, the one that made those eggs will come soon and I will be in trouble."
"BE IN TROUBLE? WHY? NO MOTHER COMES! MOTHER TAUGHT HOW TO CARE FOR THEM! MOTHER DIED."
"What do you mean?"
"I DO NOT KNOW. MOTHER TAUGHT WHEN ME IN SHELL. MOTHER SPEAK TO ME HERE." again she pointed to her head.
"You are all alone than, how are you going to take care of yourself?".
By this time, I did not even realize, all the eggs were hutched and the green one was pulling at the others trying desperately to keep them off me. They were all very curious what I was and were trying to climb on me and pull at my pants.
"WHERE IS THE PLATEAU?"
"Why? Oh I was trying to find that out too."
"MOOOTHER�SAID THERE IS FOOD THERE. WE HUNGRY."
"I am going to climb that dune there and see if I can find any indication of it. All right."
Once on the top of the dune I talked about I realize that I was not that far from the Plateau and I called the little scorchios to come over. We made our way to the big Omelette. They started to eat while I just stood there looking at them wondering what is going to became of them. I knew my time was coming up soon, I would just disappear of Neopia as if meadow never was. "WHERE YOU GO I GO." "What? Oh, sorry little one but I can not stay in the land I do not have permission." "GET PER�MEE�SHI�UN"� "...UMMM�IT IS NOT SIMPLE. YOU HURT HERE.", she pointed at my heart. "Yes little one I do, I just lost 8 friends." "I WILL BE YOUR FRIEND, NO?"�"Oh what am I going to do with you? I do not even know what to call you." "ME!!! Mom_to_all, YOU SAID SO BEFORE."

And this is how my dear friend Mom_to_all chose me. I got permission for a new household and I am working hard to provide for her. Every book she reads she makes sure that all of her brothers and sisters, gather around to hear it, and learn from it. They are still wild and still at large, and my little one is still caring for them. I do believe Mom_to_all is THE BIGGEST HEART IN NEOPIA.

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