Well, then, this is a new story of mine and I hope you enjoy! ;) I got the idea from Joe Kerr's Dot Taire, (well, sorta) sooo, then, thank you for that! ;)
I REALLY have a good story-line for this! I hope you like it!!! ;) And, just remember, my contest for Unfair Labor is still going, too, so check that out! ;)
Clueless Faith
Jessica has all the normal troubles of a teenage life—like if her boyfriend is going to take her to the prom, what the latest fashions are, her grades, and all that. But little does she know that she actually has a special StarClan-given talent—she can turn into a cat. When she changes into a cat for the first time, she just casts it off as nothing and changes back. Her faith is all focused on her life right now. Little does she know, soon she will be pledging her faith to a warrior cat Clan, and living in the forest, trying to save these cats from the brink of death! Rated T for safety, blood, and torture (well, maybe).
Chapter 1
Jessica twitched and squirmed in her sleep. She was having one of those mysterious, spiritual dreams again.
Echokit, come with us, a voice whispered. Come with us.
Jessica shrank back against a wall that was helpfully standing behind her. "No! Who are you, anyway?!"
Don't ask questions, Echokit, the voices replied. Just come with us.
"No! Who's Echokit?! My name is Jessica!" Jessica shouted, her voice reverberating off of the still, silent walls, sounding inexplicably loud in the still, cold silence.
Echokit…. you know your destiny lies with us….
Jessica awoke, gasping. "No! No! That's not possible! Not rational! Not…. oh," she stopped, gazing around herself, for she was back in her comfy bed, in her own bedroom, with enough sunlight streaming through the windows to let her know that it was morning.
Jessica glanced at her cats, Miss Messy and Cloudy. They were staring out the window into the summer backyard, which led into a swampy area which Jessica was not allowed to set foot into, although there was a forest far beyond. The tall forest was on an island, Jessica was sure of it. She had always wanted to go there, as there were many logs and things she could balance on out there. She could see it from where she lay in her bed! She desperately wanted to go out and see that forest—she loved wildlife and plants, and there was sure to be plenty of both there.
Miss Messy was the messiest, most ungraceful cat around—she had absolutely no sense of balance. She was only a five-month-old kitten, but Jessica thought that she should at least be a little more graceful than that! She was a beautiful brown tabby with white paws and a black tail, and beautiful blue-green kitten eyes. They were still changing to green from their natural kitten-blue colour. Miss Messy was taking a long time to grow up, it seemed like.
Luckily, there was a cat that was just a bit more mature in the house—and that cat was Cloudy. Cloudy was a beautiful extremely pale gray-and-white cat, with beautiful blue eyes. She was about as graceful and agile as a cat could get, in Jessica's opinion, and, like Miss Messy, she was a big eater. She was already one year and two months old.
Jessica appreciated both of her cats, as they were always there for her when she needed them. She looked at them more closely.
They were staring, mesmerized, out at the forest in the middle of the swamp. They seemed so distant, and Jessica worried. Is there something terribly wrong with them? Did they both have the same dream I had last night??? But, no…. that's just about impossible. They couldn't have had the same dreams as me…. could they???
—Miss Messy's POV—
Leafkit, you belong with us. Come to us.
Miss Messy was staring out at the swamp behind her owner's house. She wanted to go there. She felt a huge longing to go there. "Where do you come from?" she whispered breathlessly.
Leafkit, follow. Follow, the voices urged her.
Miss Messy spun around a few times, frantically searching for the voices. "Who are you? Where are you? What do you want with me?! That's no help at all!!! What—"
And then she woke up.
Phew, so it wasn't anything too serious, after all, Miss Messy thought. She felt fine now, but she trained her gaze towards the swampy-forest place, far away, outside the window, for a while anyway.
—Cloudy's POV—
Cloudheart. Come, come. Come with us to the land of your owner's ultimate dreams, murmured the voices. Come.
Cloudy took a step forward.
Yes, that's it, the voices urged, sounding excited now. Please. Keep coming.
"What?! Who's Cloudheart?! Answer me?! What's the right way! Help!!!" she cried, turning around in a frantic circle.
You will know soon enough, the voices informed her, if you would only listen….
Cloudy woke up, gasping, just like her owner had. It was only a dream…. it was only a dream! That's it! It was only a dream! Cloudy thought ecstatically. I'm not Cloudheart, after all; I'm still just the plain old me, Cloudy!!! She was now excited and happy again.
She glanced over at Miss Messy. Her friend was just staring out at the swamp, looking way back towards where the swampy area was.
Oh, well. I might as well look, too, Cloudy thought, and trained her gaze on that foresty island, far, far away, farther away than she would ever reach in her whole entire lifetime.
Oh, well, she thought, and watched the swamp's water surface ripple, the reeds wave in the wind, and the birds like the ducks and the loons come out to bask in the sunlight. Past that, she knew, was the island of her dreams.
—Jessica's POV—
Jessica blinked, and shook her head. Had she really seen that image just now?
She had seen her two cats, sitting together in the middle of a clearing, staring up at the sky. Cloudy was just the cat that she was, and Miss Messy was still a kitten. But Jessica had seen another cat with them, a calico cat, small and fluffy, like a kitten.
And that, she knew, was her.
She didn't know why.
She only knew that she was the cat in the vision she had seen, and she knew their names:
Cloudheart, Leafkit, and Echokit.
