Sitting on an airplane after having received some more bad news while she was in France regarding her health, was a thin woman with pale skin, hazel-colored eyes, long wavy brown hair, and some cargo pants and a jersey. Adore, a 30-year-old woman, had recently become aware that she had lung cancer after multiple complications and doctor visits that ended with people not knowing what was truly wrong with her. Unfortunately, by the time she had found out, it was too late.
With the little time she had left, Adore decided to live the rest of her life to the fullest. She had always had a fascination with mice since she was younger, but had never acted on it out of fear of what others thought of her. However, since she didn't have much time left, she decided to do what made her happy regardless of what those around her thought.
She had worked hard all her life but never truly enjoyed what she had gained because of her fear that it would all disappear if she ever stopped working. However, it didn't matter anymore as all that mattered was her and what she wanted. She wanted to travel with the money she had worked hard for and indulge in her true passion of researching and adopting mice.
Adore spent most of her free time researching different rare species of mice, and now that she had the opportunity, she wanted to see them for herself and maybe even adopt some. Her last stop on her journey was France. She had gone there to attain a Eurasian Harvest Mouse, known to be in Europe. She found someone selling one in France, and that's why she ended up there. This mouse was the 44th mouse she had added to her collection after one year of collecting mice.
Adore did manage to attain this mouse after she received the news that she now had to head back home with the last of the mice she had collected since she would be collecting no more. This was because the doctors had gone over her charts and found something they hadn't seen before, and if what they were looking at was what they thought it was, she may indeed have only a few weeks left to live.
This was terrible news for Adore, but there was nothing she could do about it. They wanted to go over what they saw in person to make sure that their claims were true, which is why she was making her way home.
But on her way home, the plane she was on had to make an emergency landing because of immediate maintenance that needed to be done to ensure the safety of the passengers. The maintenance would take a day, so Adore found herself in a random country, in Europe for the night.
She found herself a cheap inn with basic accommodations to make her stay as comfortable as possible. She did just that until late at night when she was sleeping in her room and heard yelling and screaming outside her room. While contemplating calling the front desk to complain, she decided to peek and see what was causing all the commotion first.
Outside her door was a man chasing a little black mouse with a purple tail and eyes. Adore had never seen or heard of a mouse that fit this description, besides a species of mouse with the name Nonagouti. But even some of those mice were not black. Honestly, black or any dark color is rare for mice to have. So, she was very intrigued. Adore quickly and sneakily moved in the direction the man was chasing the mouse, and in the opposite direction of the man, she scooped it up.
"Kill that disgusting thing! Hurry up before it gets into someone's room," said the man who was chasing the mouse with a broom.
"I will, don't worry, I'm going to make my way outside and do it so i can quickly dispose of it."
When Adore said this, the mouse started to tremble in her palms as if it could understand her somehow, but she didn't pay too much attention to this. She was waiting for the two people to make their way back to their rooms so she could do the same. She had already planned on getting two mice on this trip because she usually gets two of the same species, but her trip was cut short so she wasn't able to. Luckily for her, the cage would still be put to good use.
"Ok well do it quickly, and wash your had who knose where that foul creature has been."
Adore nodded her head in agreement as the two people commenced to walk towards their room in relief. When they were far enough and weren't looking, she quickly ran to her room, closed the door, and made her way to her bed with her hand still caged around the little mouse.
"Oh, look at you! You must be terrified. Well, don't worry. No one's going to try to harm you ever again. I'm going to feed you, give you lots of love, and take good care of you, little one," Adore said to the mouse.
Adore said this with a warm and loving face, making the mouse feel a little more relaxed but not too much. This human had said it was going to kill her, so she was still a little reluctant to just believe what this lady was saying. Besides, all humans usually had the same reaction to her, and every encounter usually ended with them trying to kill her.
"Aww omg your so freaking adorable."said Adore to the mouse.
Adore then started gently petting the little mouse with her finger. Oddly, the mouse liked the sensation, and the worries she had before slowly started to fade away. She started to lean into the finger that was petting her, showing that she wanted more of this sensation.
"Oh wow aren't you a little glutton. I can't just keep petting you all night, hey why don't you play with little alice over here, while i get yall some food from my luggage for y'all to eat."
Adore then put the oddly colored mouse in a cage with a very hyper mouse with golden-brown color fur with a white underside. It was on the chubbier side but really cute. The mouse hyperly trotted over to its visitor, and they began sniffing each other before gently wrestling and playing with each other all over the cage. Adore had finally found the food for the mice after wrecking absolute havoc on her luggage and making a big mess that she wasn't too fond of having to clean.
"Here you go little ones."
Adore opened the door and put some more food in a cute little boul big enough for both of them. They quickly ran to the boul and began eating up there food as adore watched with a flushed face because the sight of them eating was the most adorable thing. There mouths would feel up ever so slightly as their cheeks began to swell up before the began to swallow their food.
"Awwww I can't wait to take lots of pictures of yall when i get home."
Adore then made her way to her bed, and and dramatically through herself on it. She layed their for a sec and thought to herself.
"Wow it may be time for my life to come to a close, I hope all my adorable little babes can find new homes after I'm gone."
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The next day, Adore could be seen rushing around, forcing her stuff back into her luggage. She had forgotten to fix the mess she had made the other night, and she only had under an hour to get all her stuff together, along with her mice, to board the plane.
"Omg what possessed me not to put all of this stuff up the other night, ugh I'm so dumb sometimes."
While she was saying this, she was throwing her stuff into suitcases as quickly as possible. Knowing the process could take her over 20 minutes on a good day, she was very frantic about it. As she was doing this, the mice were looking at her with curious gazes, wondering why she was moving so fast and making so many weird faces while swearing.
"Finally I'm done ok let get out of here, I still have time to be there like 10 minutes early, and maybe get some food." Adore said this out loud even know she was talking to herself.
Aw, and I didn't forget about my cute little babies. She then pulled out a box of mouse food before taking the strange-colored mouse out of Alice's cage and putting her in her own. For the first time, she gave them both some food and let them eat in their own separate cages. She made her way to the airport.
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"Ugh I wish I could have my babes with me, they must be scared back there alone."
Adore was currently on the plane, making her way home. With 12 hours of waiting ahead of her, she spent it mostly worrying about her large family of mice. She had now collected 45 mice, all ranging in different species. Usually, she would collect two of each species, but because of her circumstances, she wasn't able to do that this time around. She was still able to collect two mice, but they were of different species.
She was looking forward to making her way home to see all her mice. As of now, they were being watched and fed by a family member. They were all well-behaved, and she would leave their cages open. They wouldn't dare come out until she allowed them to. She never knew why the mice listened to her so well, but she loved that she didn't have to put in that much effort.
Adore was ready to put as much effort into raising her mice as possible, so she definitely wouldn't mind. But she was not, in any way, sad - she no longer needed to. If anything, she was ecstatic. All she had to do was get the mice, and the rest would work itself out. How convenient!
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The flight was a little longer than Adore thought, but she didn't mind. She was finally home with her mice. She had already had her check-up with the doctor and was told she had a month to live, so she was going to spend her last month happily with her mice to the very end.
"Ok lets have some fun kids."
She allowed her mice out of their cages and allowed them to roam around freely. She only had them go back at bedtime and feeding time so she could be as close to them as possible to distract herself from her cruel reality. She needed this. A week had passed, and she had already started to feel sick, but she pushed on. The mice saw how bad she was doing and took good care of her by giving her lots of affection. The oddly colored mouse was around her the most and grew very attached to Adore. It even led the other mice and would order them around when Adore asked them to go back to their cages.
After two more weeks, Adore wasn't feeling any better, but she didn't feel any worse either, so she paid it no mind and continued to care for her mice, feed them, and give them lots of affection. She also had constant visits with the doctors to ensure she stayed alive until the end of the month. Week 4 came, and she was definitely feeling worse, and would only get out of bed to feed her mice.
She had her mom over to help as well, but she would spend most of her time crying. Adore understood this was hard for her mom and just let her be. On the last day of the month, while Adore was trying to feed her mice, she collapsed and was overwhelmed with weakness that flowed throughout her whole body.
"I guess this is it. said adore?"
While she was on the floor lost in thought ready to take her last breath all her mice made there way to her and enveloped her body and seemed to be comforting her while shaking and trembling as if they were crying.
The oddly colored mouse was on her face releasing tears and trembling leaving Adore in aw. She never seen a mouse cry before. and what her last breath she said.
"You know? you really are a strange little mouse."
And right then, the mouse glowed with a blinding blue luminous light that enveloped Adore and all of the mice around her. The light only grew bigger and bigger as the mouse cried until it finally vanished. Adore was now in the dark before she opened her eyes in a wooden house that looked very cabin-like and devoid of any electronic appliances.
"Where am i. is this heaven, wait heavens a cabin?"
Adore then made her way towards the front door but on her way, she passed by a mirror and saw that her appearance had changed. She was now a short girl no older than 12 with beautiful dark skin, black hair with big black mouse ears, purple eyes, and a purple and black outfit with a purple tail peeking out.
"Oh wow wtf who am eye?"
She then rushed to the door and was met with a fantastical display. Big dragon-like creatures were flying in the sky, beautiful meadows of flowers and grass, hills higher than her house, and animals of unknown origin were walking around casually.
"Where the hell am i?"