Here Kitty, Kitty! Chapter 1
Bang!
The loud noise startled awake the young girl as her eyes began to adjust to the darkness.
Letting out a yawn, she suddenly realized that she was not at home in her bed, but in some thing that felt like a metal cage.
Her cat ears twitched back and forth as she listened to the new sounds that greeted her.
"Where am I?"
She asked quietly into the darkness and let a little scream when she got a reply.
"Who the fuck knows?"
A deep male voice drawled as she looked around and couldn't place where the voice was coming from.
"Who are you?"
She asked a little louder this time as the box swayed lightly in an unseen breeze.
"Badtz. My name's Badtz. That's all I remember. I doubt you'll remember anything either. Can you remember your name?"
He questioned making her lips turn downward into a frown.
"My name is….Kitty. I just remembered it. But I can't remember anything else. Why is that?"
She said as her voice grew shriller by the minute.
She started to shake as she wheezed in and out while a panic attack took over her body.
Just as her throat was starting to close up the box stopped with a loud bang sending her crashing to the floor.
"What the?"
She heard Badtz say as the doors above them opened and streaks of bright sunlight bore down onto them.
Kitty found herself blinded for a moment as she listened to the gasps and murmurs of people above them.
"Bloody fucking hell…That girl has cat ears. I think I'm losing my mind."
She heard as she looked up and saw a blonde boy look down at them with a confused expression.
"Guess those fucking slinthead's decided that we needed a bunch of weird greenies."
She heard a dark skinned boy say as he shook his head and gestured to them while addressing the blonde boy that had some kind of strange accent.
It was then that Kitty looked around and let out a little yelp when she saw that the box was filled with other kids around her age and they all seemed to be unconscious.
"Get them out of the box. Place the unconscious ones on the grass and give those two the tour."
The blonde nodded as boys of all ages stared down at them with wonder and excitement in their eyes.
Kitty squinted at the blonde boy as he sent down a rope that dangled over the side and swung it near her so she could be lifted out.
It was then that the boy she had come to know as Badtz stepped into a spot of sunlight.
He was tall and had black spiky hair and was dressed in all black clothes.
He wore a seemingly cold expression making her think twice about asking him if he knew what was going on.
"Ladies first."
The blonde said as he sent Badtz a look that clearly stated that he was going to deal with him later.
Kitty backed away from the rope as fresh tears started to cascade down her pale cheeks.
She looked down at the red converses that adorned her feet and let out a small whimper.
"Hey sweetheart, you're going to be okay. Come on, let's get you out of this damn box, yeah?"
The blonde called down to her and when she met his chocolate colored eyes she saw that he really meant what he said and the reassuring smile that he gave solidified her decision to trust him.
Grabbing onto the rope, she felt herself being hoisted into the air until she was able to climb out of the box and onto the green grass with the nice boy's help.
"There ya go, love. Nice and safe on the ground. My name's Newt. I'm second in command here and I'm here to welcome you to the Glade."
He said as he held out his hand for her to shake.
Kitty's eyes roamed around as she spun in a quick circle taking in the large stone walls that surrounded them.
Feeling more than a little scared, she took Newt's hand and shook it lightly as she gave him a hesitant smile.
"Hello, my name's Kitty. It's lovely to meet you."
She practically squeaked as she realized her voice hadn't been used in quite some time.
Newt nodded and squeezed her hand before giving her another smile and turning back to the box.
"Good that. Well I think we should get your friends out of the box now, yeah? They've got to be bloody uncomfortable sleeping on that metal."
He quipped as signaled for a few larger boys to jump down and start getting the others out of the box.
There were about six of them in total.
Most of them looked her age but a smaller girl appeared to be younger.
There were both boys and girls and one thing she noticed was that just like her, they all had bright candy colored hair in every color of the rainbow.
She reached up and gently touched her cat ears realizing that she was the only one out of the group of new arrivals that had animal characteristics.
Glancing over to Newt she was over the moon happy that he hadn't mentioned them.
After all, they were her ears and it wasn't like she could hide them.
A few minutes later Badtz joined her as they stood waiting for all of the teens to be brought out of the box.
Glancing down at her, his violet eyes scanned her delicate features before he gave her a small smile.
"This is so weird, isn't it? First we get put in a metal box asleep and now we're here standing in some type of courtyard thing. I can't believe we're the only ones awake. What do you make of all of us having rainbow hair? Do you think we're related in some way?"
Kitty's brow furrowed as she tried to think of an explanation, but when she found none she merely shrugged and let out a quiet chuckle.
"I don't know. But if we are, we're definitely a strange family."
Badtz studied her for a moment before turning back to their greenies who were laid out all around them on the grass.
"Even if we're not related, I think we'll be family of our own. After all, we all arrived here together for a reason. Rainbow kids have to stick together ya know."
Kitty giggled and shook her head.
"I guess that's our name now huh? Rainbow kids. Goodness I can't wait until the others wake up. I wonder if they know anything about why we're here."
The violet eyed boy nodded in agreement before they were interrupted by Newt.
"Hey you two! Glad to see you're making friends. Everyone needs a few buddies around here. Come on, let me give you the tour and tonight we'll have a bonfire and introduce you to everybody. Hopefully the others will wake up soon so we can party with them as well."
He said as he practically bounced with endless energy.
"That sounds great. Where shall we start?"
Kitty said with a smile as she looked up at Newt through her long lashes.
Newt gave a laugh and poked one of her ears making it twitch and her let out a small squeak before she narrowed her eyes at him.
"Well, love we're going to start over at the gardens seeing as how I'm sure a pretty little thing like you loves flowers that are almost as pretty as you."
She felt herself blush a rosy shade of red as she ducked her head in embarrassment.
A small smile formed on her lips as she looked up and saw that both Newt and Badtz were looking down at her.
The only difference was Newt was giving her a breathtaking smile and Badtz was scowling like she had greatly wronged him.
Newt rolled his eyes at the new greenies shyness and grabbed her hand leading them over to the gardens.
As Kitty listened to Newt jabber away about everything under the sun, she couldn't help but notice that Badtz would no longer look at her and kept his gaze firmly on the gardens that they were about to enter.
She couldn't help but wonder.
Did Newt's flirty compliment upset him, or was it just her imagination?