Post by Bakura on Aug 10, 2006 15:35:12 GMT -5
“WOW! So that’s your life, hu? Hey! Is that why Joey’s never home? Because he’s always out with you and your friends?”
“Partly; but he also has to go to school.” Yugi explained. When Casie asked him what school was he sighed and quickly told her the basics of what Domino High was. He further went on to tell her that people don’t just go to High Schools; but they go to the appropriate schools placed for them, depending on there age and knowledge.
“Wow…that’s actually really interesting. You know, Joey never talks to me so I don’t know much about this human stuff like you do.”
“That’s ok Casie…I’ll tell Joey to talk to you more when I turn back to a human if he doesn’t first think I'm crazy or something.”
“Heh…I thought you thought you weren’t going to be his friend anymore…or did I here a slip of the tongue just now?”
Yugi shoved her playfully on the shoulder causing her to purr with amusement.
“Maybe you changed my mind.”
Casie smiled, blushing a bit at the comment.
“Maybe…”
Yugi blushed, but waved it off thinking it was just the heat. There was an awkward silence between them for a couple of minutes before Yugi spoke.
“Sooo, Now what?”
“Well…Let’s go and meet some of the city cats that I know! I don’t think showing you around would be very helpful considering you already know the place; but I still think meeting some of my friends would be a good idea. Get to know them.” Pausing slightly, she bit her lip and looked back at the ground. “If you want to I mean...”
“Ok! I’d love to see them! As long as there nice.”
Confused, Casie stared at Yugi with questioning eyes. “Did you say ‘as long as they’re mice?’”
Chapter Three: The Adventure: Part Two
Running into the ally Yugi saw Casie’s tail out of the corner f his eyes run left into another small gully. The ally itself was small and damp. While running, Yugi saw a couple of lonesome and dirt-covered people sitting against the walls watching him with curious eyes but fierce as he drove after the white she-cat.
After many turns and bends; Yugi slid to a stop besides Casie knowing; by instinct, that they had now reached the deepest part within it. The dead end.
‘Man, this ally is like a rat maze.’
There was a picket fence that Casie had jumped earlier onto. She was now looking around the other side of it.
“Hey Casie! What’s over there!”
“Nothing yet, but he’s bound to be out here. He always is.” She said, still peering over the fence and swishing her long tail against the wood.
“AH! There!” She yelled happily jumping up and leaping over to the other side. “Come on Yugi!” She called, sounding like she was already half a mile away from him.
“NO! CASIE COME BACK!” Yugi yelled trying desperately to reach the other side of the fence. He leapt up as high as he could, but all his nails felt were the rack of the hard wood against flesh as he fell towards the ground.
Yugi sighed, and took a step back from the fence observing it closely.
‘Come on! There has to be another way!’
Noticing a nearby trash can he happily ran towards it and jumped upon the lid. Standing still on his hind legs, he was now able to see the other side of the fence. Whimpering in excitement, he dug his nails into the top of the fence’s hold and heaved himself up onto the top.
Casie turned around to face him--along with a few other cats. The others stood stiff at the sight of Yugi and some began slowly creeping into the shadows. Casie bided Yugi to come down from the fence with a flick of her tail. This caused the other cats to begin hissing furiously at her. Yugi bounded down onto the other side and noted that the place they were at had a old and abandoned warehouse with broken windows and slanted walls in the background. He spotted some younger cat in the house looking curiously at him.
‘Probably all kits.’ He thought fully aware now of the bigger cats hissing at him if they hadn’t already run away.
Casie spoke up to the hissing cats with a fierce hiss of her own. “Guys! Stop it! This is the dog I was just telling you about! Don’t act like this.”
Yugi noticed that some of the cats listened to her, sitting back down; while others simply ignored her and steeped closer to Yugi.
“This? You said that he was smaller Casie! We can’t trust him to not attack us and the kits!”
The large grey, flat headed male that had said this now jumped in front of Yugi his eyes gleaming golden as he cuffed a bulky paw around his head. Yugi yelped and dodged the attack, quickly running back towards the fence. However, this time there was nothing he could climb onto to get to the top of the top. His only escape was now past the angry hood of cats; that Casie had pointedly told him were nice.
“Seymour! Don’t do this!” Casie cried, running in front of Yugi and arching her back at the larger male. The male stopped looking a bit surprised for a second as he looked Casie in the eye. However, the shock was quickly replaced with a nasty snarl as he allowed his fur to lie back down and his claws to retract back in.
“What are you doing?” Seymour spat at Casie, his anger flaring up.
“Protecting him. I’ll remind you that this is something you could never do!” She hissed back eyes glaring hotly at Seymour; claws still out.
Seymour looked truly hurt to Yugi; or was that just his imagination? Because soon he had his icy glare on Yugi and was hissing wickedly at him.
“Don’t you ever touch my kits, mutt!”
With that he whipped around and stalked stiffly away, hitting other cats out of his way and heading up to the warehouse.
Casie sighed, allowing her fur to lie on her shoulders again. Turning, she coaxed Yugi out of the corner they were in and led him to the center of the clearing.
Many of the scared cats soon came rushing up to Yugi and began to sniff him excitedly.
A small grey tabby was the first to bound up to him. He blinked at Yugi gratefully and spoke in a whisper to him. His tail twitched excitedly.
“That was my dad. He’s the leader of this group; and Casie here-‘He flicked his tail to his left, “Is the second in charge.”
Yugi looked at Casie for a second seeing a new grown blush on her face.
‘Why didn’t she tell me she was deputy before we came?’ He looked at the grey tabby that was now sitting down washing himself. He politely waited for him to stop before continuing.
“Why’s he so mean? I know it’s partly because I’m a dog; but if he could’ve just taken a moment to think of how I could’ve helped…”
The tabby looked up at him with soft brown eyes. “He can be really harsh to newcomers these days because he’s old; he doesn’t need the competition; you know?”
“Ya, I know.”
At this point the other cats had stopped smelling and licking him and were now sitting around him in a semi-circle looking at him expectantly. Some of the females had brought there kits out of the warehouse and were sheltering them between there paws. One brown male in the group asked Yugi a question.
“Why are you here?”
The other cats began nodding in hastily agreement. They all seemed to want to know the same thing.
“Well…Casie brought me here to meet you.”
The brown male spoke up again.
“Are you staying for long? Should we prepare?” He asked, looking at Casie for the answer to the last question.
Casie looked at him with soft eyes.
“I don’t think so Bentley. We need to get going before the sun sets.” Casie said casting a quick glance at the sun. It was at its highest peak in the sky.
A beautiful mother with no kits spoke next.
“What’s your name, hun?”
“I'm Yugi.”
“Well Yugi, would you like a tour? Maybe meet some of the kits and elders?”
Some of the mothers with kittens hissed in disapproval at the fact that Yugi was going to see the newborns. However the mother with no kits ignored them and walked friskily up to Yugi, pushing the grey tabby aside roughly.
“Here, I’ll show you arou-“
“No you won’t! I'm the deputy I get to decide whose going to lead what and when!” Casie interrupted, jumping up and marching up to the mother. The mother stood still; a shocked expression plastered on her face. However, it soon disappeared when she hissed angrily at Casie and stalked away.
“Yugi, I want you to go with Spirit. He’s right over there.” She pointed a white paw at a small back cat not to far away, and beckoned him to come forward.
The black cat sprung up looking like he wasn’t really listening and sprinted up to Yugi.
“Hello!” The cat chirped, looking and acting a bit too young for the job. Casie stood back and talked to Spirit in a hushed tone.
‘Everything seems to be hushed around here…’ Yugi thought.
“I need you to show Yugi around the perimeter of the area. Show him everything; and when you come back you can show him the kits. Ok?”
“Casie?” Yugi called, “Why don’t you just show me around?”
Casie looked up and smiled softly.
“I have something to do Yugi…I haven’t been here for a long time, you know?”
“Oh…right.”
Spirit padded quickly over to him. His eyes shimmering in the sun.
“Come on Yugi! I’ll show you around!”
“I'm coming…” Yugi said, hopping that Casie hadn’t seen the sadness in his eyes as he walked past her.
Soon, both Spirit and Yugi were behind the warehouse and out of sight of Casie’s eyes.
“I'm so sorry Yugi...” She whispered softly before padding into the entrance of the warehouse.
“Do you see that mound of dirt over there?” Spirit asked Yugi who still looked gloomy.
“Yes.” Yugi said, looking up from the grey ground and seeing that the dirt pile looked as if a tractor had put it there and had never came back.
“Well, that’s were we burn our enemies.”
“WHAT!”
Spirit laughed at his expression and padded over to the pile putting a paw on the side of it.
“I'm just kidding...This is were we hold our meetings.”
Yugi’s expression faded and he laughed in spite of his bad mood.
‘Well at least I’ll get to laugh on this tour.’ He thought as he watched Spirit climb the dirt pile to the top.
“Come on up! It’s a nice sight.”
Yugi secretly thought that Spirit wasn’t supposed to be up there; but followed him up anyway.
Surprisingly the dirt didn’t crumble under his footing, and it was easy to get to the top. He sat next to spirit and gazed at the distance. Sprit was right. It was a pleasant view. He was able to see almost the entire area that he thought these cats owned. The area was wide and spaced out, leading into more allies every now and then and then coming back out to other large clearings.
There were fences blocking off some of the openings to the clearings, but he soon realized that the cats probably would just jump over them.
‘I hope I don’t have to do any of that.’ Yugi thought looking at spirit who was peering off into the distance.
“Hey!” Spirit exclaimed suddenly. “Lets go to the dinning area! It’s right over there.” Spirit pointed his tail at a small space with two allies leading into it.
“How? It looks far.” Yugi said, looking worried.
“It’s not that far, we just have to run to get there before the sun sets…” Spirit exclaimed getting up and running down the hill and back onto the ground. Yugi looked one last time at the view and sighed heavily before standing up. However, when he looked around e didn’t see Spirit.
‘WHAT! Doesn’t anyone here know how to wait for someone?’ Yugi thought before skidding down the dirt hill himself.
“Over here Yugi!” Spirit called. Yugi realized with dread that he had ran into a near ally and was now perched on top of a fence waiting for him.
“How spirit? How do I get up there?” Yugi asked, noticing there was nothing he could use to help him.
“Jump.”
“I Don’t JUMP!” Yugi yelled at the black cat that looked suspiciously like he was mocking him.
“What type of dog doesn’t jump?” Spirit asked earning himself a cold stare.
“ME!”
“Alright don’t go getting angry at me.” Spirit said huffing a bit and jumping back down.
“We’ll take the long way around.” Spirit said frustrated passing Yugi and leading the way.
‘Hopefully we’ll be back in time.’ Yugi thought, following the frustrated Spirit down a long ally. ‘Why do I always seem to get on cats bad sides?’
“Nice.”
Casie’s expression lit up in understanding and she laughed a bit.
“Oh! Well of course there nice! You’ll love them!” Bounding off down the rest of the sidewalk she quickly turned a corner and ran into the near ally. Yugi raced after her dodging the people in his way and followed her into the ally. ‘Usually I wouldn’t go in here…but whose going to hurt a puppy?’
“Partly; but he also has to go to school.” Yugi explained. When Casie asked him what school was he sighed and quickly told her the basics of what Domino High was. He further went on to tell her that people don’t just go to High Schools; but they go to the appropriate schools placed for them, depending on there age and knowledge.
“Wow…that’s actually really interesting. You know, Joey never talks to me so I don’t know much about this human stuff like you do.”
“That’s ok Casie…I’ll tell Joey to talk to you more when I turn back to a human if he doesn’t first think I'm crazy or something.”
“Heh…I thought you thought you weren’t going to be his friend anymore…or did I here a slip of the tongue just now?”
Yugi shoved her playfully on the shoulder causing her to purr with amusement.
“Maybe you changed my mind.”
Casie smiled, blushing a bit at the comment.
“Maybe…”
Yugi blushed, but waved it off thinking it was just the heat. There was an awkward silence between them for a couple of minutes before Yugi spoke.
“Sooo, Now what?”
“Well…Let’s go and meet some of the city cats that I know! I don’t think showing you around would be very helpful considering you already know the place; but I still think meeting some of my friends would be a good idea. Get to know them.” Pausing slightly, she bit her lip and looked back at the ground. “If you want to I mean...”
“Ok! I’d love to see them! As long as there nice.”
Confused, Casie stared at Yugi with questioning eyes. “Did you say ‘as long as they’re mice?’”
Chapter Three: The Adventure: Part Two
Running into the ally Yugi saw Casie’s tail out of the corner f his eyes run left into another small gully. The ally itself was small and damp. While running, Yugi saw a couple of lonesome and dirt-covered people sitting against the walls watching him with curious eyes but fierce as he drove after the white she-cat.
After many turns and bends; Yugi slid to a stop besides Casie knowing; by instinct, that they had now reached the deepest part within it. The dead end.
‘Man, this ally is like a rat maze.’
There was a picket fence that Casie had jumped earlier onto. She was now looking around the other side of it.
“Hey Casie! What’s over there!”
“Nothing yet, but he’s bound to be out here. He always is.” She said, still peering over the fence and swishing her long tail against the wood.
“AH! There!” She yelled happily jumping up and leaping over to the other side. “Come on Yugi!” She called, sounding like she was already half a mile away from him.
“NO! CASIE COME BACK!” Yugi yelled trying desperately to reach the other side of the fence. He leapt up as high as he could, but all his nails felt were the rack of the hard wood against flesh as he fell towards the ground.
Yugi sighed, and took a step back from the fence observing it closely.
‘Come on! There has to be another way!’
Noticing a nearby trash can he happily ran towards it and jumped upon the lid. Standing still on his hind legs, he was now able to see the other side of the fence. Whimpering in excitement, he dug his nails into the top of the fence’s hold and heaved himself up onto the top.
Casie turned around to face him--along with a few other cats. The others stood stiff at the sight of Yugi and some began slowly creeping into the shadows. Casie bided Yugi to come down from the fence with a flick of her tail. This caused the other cats to begin hissing furiously at her. Yugi bounded down onto the other side and noted that the place they were at had a old and abandoned warehouse with broken windows and slanted walls in the background. He spotted some younger cat in the house looking curiously at him.
‘Probably all kits.’ He thought fully aware now of the bigger cats hissing at him if they hadn’t already run away.
Casie spoke up to the hissing cats with a fierce hiss of her own. “Guys! Stop it! This is the dog I was just telling you about! Don’t act like this.”
Yugi noticed that some of the cats listened to her, sitting back down; while others simply ignored her and steeped closer to Yugi.
“This? You said that he was smaller Casie! We can’t trust him to not attack us and the kits!”
The large grey, flat headed male that had said this now jumped in front of Yugi his eyes gleaming golden as he cuffed a bulky paw around his head. Yugi yelped and dodged the attack, quickly running back towards the fence. However, this time there was nothing he could climb onto to get to the top of the top. His only escape was now past the angry hood of cats; that Casie had pointedly told him were nice.
“Seymour! Don’t do this!” Casie cried, running in front of Yugi and arching her back at the larger male. The male stopped looking a bit surprised for a second as he looked Casie in the eye. However, the shock was quickly replaced with a nasty snarl as he allowed his fur to lie back down and his claws to retract back in.
“What are you doing?” Seymour spat at Casie, his anger flaring up.
“Protecting him. I’ll remind you that this is something you could never do!” She hissed back eyes glaring hotly at Seymour; claws still out.
Seymour looked truly hurt to Yugi; or was that just his imagination? Because soon he had his icy glare on Yugi and was hissing wickedly at him.
“Don’t you ever touch my kits, mutt!”
With that he whipped around and stalked stiffly away, hitting other cats out of his way and heading up to the warehouse.
Casie sighed, allowing her fur to lie on her shoulders again. Turning, she coaxed Yugi out of the corner they were in and led him to the center of the clearing.
Many of the scared cats soon came rushing up to Yugi and began to sniff him excitedly.
A small grey tabby was the first to bound up to him. He blinked at Yugi gratefully and spoke in a whisper to him. His tail twitched excitedly.
“That was my dad. He’s the leader of this group; and Casie here-‘He flicked his tail to his left, “Is the second in charge.”
Yugi looked at Casie for a second seeing a new grown blush on her face.
‘Why didn’t she tell me she was deputy before we came?’ He looked at the grey tabby that was now sitting down washing himself. He politely waited for him to stop before continuing.
“Why’s he so mean? I know it’s partly because I’m a dog; but if he could’ve just taken a moment to think of how I could’ve helped…”
The tabby looked up at him with soft brown eyes. “He can be really harsh to newcomers these days because he’s old; he doesn’t need the competition; you know?”
“Ya, I know.”
At this point the other cats had stopped smelling and licking him and were now sitting around him in a semi-circle looking at him expectantly. Some of the females had brought there kits out of the warehouse and were sheltering them between there paws. One brown male in the group asked Yugi a question.
“Why are you here?”
The other cats began nodding in hastily agreement. They all seemed to want to know the same thing.
“Well…Casie brought me here to meet you.”
The brown male spoke up again.
“Are you staying for long? Should we prepare?” He asked, looking at Casie for the answer to the last question.
Casie looked at him with soft eyes.
“I don’t think so Bentley. We need to get going before the sun sets.” Casie said casting a quick glance at the sun. It was at its highest peak in the sky.
A beautiful mother with no kits spoke next.
“What’s your name, hun?”
“I'm Yugi.”
“Well Yugi, would you like a tour? Maybe meet some of the kits and elders?”
Some of the mothers with kittens hissed in disapproval at the fact that Yugi was going to see the newborns. However the mother with no kits ignored them and walked friskily up to Yugi, pushing the grey tabby aside roughly.
“Here, I’ll show you arou-“
“No you won’t! I'm the deputy I get to decide whose going to lead what and when!” Casie interrupted, jumping up and marching up to the mother. The mother stood still; a shocked expression plastered on her face. However, it soon disappeared when she hissed angrily at Casie and stalked away.
“Yugi, I want you to go with Spirit. He’s right over there.” She pointed a white paw at a small back cat not to far away, and beckoned him to come forward.
The black cat sprung up looking like he wasn’t really listening and sprinted up to Yugi.
“Hello!” The cat chirped, looking and acting a bit too young for the job. Casie stood back and talked to Spirit in a hushed tone.
‘Everything seems to be hushed around here…’ Yugi thought.
“I need you to show Yugi around the perimeter of the area. Show him everything; and when you come back you can show him the kits. Ok?”
“Casie?” Yugi called, “Why don’t you just show me around?”
Casie looked up and smiled softly.
“I have something to do Yugi…I haven’t been here for a long time, you know?”
“Oh…right.”
Spirit padded quickly over to him. His eyes shimmering in the sun.
“Come on Yugi! I’ll show you around!”
“I'm coming…” Yugi said, hopping that Casie hadn’t seen the sadness in his eyes as he walked past her.
Soon, both Spirit and Yugi were behind the warehouse and out of sight of Casie’s eyes.
“I'm so sorry Yugi...” She whispered softly before padding into the entrance of the warehouse.
“Do you see that mound of dirt over there?” Spirit asked Yugi who still looked gloomy.
“Yes.” Yugi said, looking up from the grey ground and seeing that the dirt pile looked as if a tractor had put it there and had never came back.
“Well, that’s were we burn our enemies.”
“WHAT!”
Spirit laughed at his expression and padded over to the pile putting a paw on the side of it.
“I'm just kidding...This is were we hold our meetings.”
Yugi’s expression faded and he laughed in spite of his bad mood.
‘Well at least I’ll get to laugh on this tour.’ He thought as he watched Spirit climb the dirt pile to the top.
“Come on up! It’s a nice sight.”
Yugi secretly thought that Spirit wasn’t supposed to be up there; but followed him up anyway.
Surprisingly the dirt didn’t crumble under his footing, and it was easy to get to the top. He sat next to spirit and gazed at the distance. Sprit was right. It was a pleasant view. He was able to see almost the entire area that he thought these cats owned. The area was wide and spaced out, leading into more allies every now and then and then coming back out to other large clearings.
There were fences blocking off some of the openings to the clearings, but he soon realized that the cats probably would just jump over them.
‘I hope I don’t have to do any of that.’ Yugi thought looking at spirit who was peering off into the distance.
“Hey!” Spirit exclaimed suddenly. “Lets go to the dinning area! It’s right over there.” Spirit pointed his tail at a small space with two allies leading into it.
“How? It looks far.” Yugi said, looking worried.
“It’s not that far, we just have to run to get there before the sun sets…” Spirit exclaimed getting up and running down the hill and back onto the ground. Yugi looked one last time at the view and sighed heavily before standing up. However, when he looked around e didn’t see Spirit.
‘WHAT! Doesn’t anyone here know how to wait for someone?’ Yugi thought before skidding down the dirt hill himself.
“Over here Yugi!” Spirit called. Yugi realized with dread that he had ran into a near ally and was now perched on top of a fence waiting for him.
“How spirit? How do I get up there?” Yugi asked, noticing there was nothing he could use to help him.
“Jump.”
“I Don’t JUMP!” Yugi yelled at the black cat that looked suspiciously like he was mocking him.
“What type of dog doesn’t jump?” Spirit asked earning himself a cold stare.
“ME!”
“Alright don’t go getting angry at me.” Spirit said huffing a bit and jumping back down.
“We’ll take the long way around.” Spirit said frustrated passing Yugi and leading the way.
‘Hopefully we’ll be back in time.’ Yugi thought, following the frustrated Spirit down a long ally. ‘Why do I always seem to get on cats bad sides?’
“Nice.”
Casie’s expression lit up in understanding and she laughed a bit.
“Oh! Well of course there nice! You’ll love them!” Bounding off down the rest of the sidewalk she quickly turned a corner and ran into the near ally. Yugi raced after her dodging the people in his way and followed her into the ally. ‘Usually I wouldn’t go in here…but whose going to hurt a puppy?’
