Cat Boys?
December 9th, 2012
by Elise the Writing Desk, Heart no Kuni no Alice by QuinRose
"Alright, is everyone here?" a teacher asked to a group of high school students who were lining up before a bus. "One last time, everyone's here?"
"Yes!"
"Good, now let's go home!" they entered the bus and soon, the vehicle drove away.
"Wait! Waaait! I'm still here!" Alice Liddell fell on her knees as the bus' smoke washed her face. "Oh my freaking God!" she groaned and punched the ground in frustration.
"Wheels on the bus go round and round~ round and round~ round and round~" the students in the bus reluctantly sang the song, led by their teacher.
"What does she think we are? Kindergarten kids?" Meredith Liddell rolled her eyes.
"Oh yeah, who's sitting beside you, Edith?" the brunette's friend asked, frowning.
Edith stared at the empty seat beside her for a while, searching through her memories... "No one sat beside me since the beginning." She shrugged.
"Wheels on the bus go round and round! All through the town~"
Alice was crying and rolling on the ground. "Oh my God, oh God, oh God what do I do!?" she then knelt on the ground, praying to the sky. "Edith please, please realize my absence!"
"The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep~ beep, beep, beep~ beep, beep, beep~!"
"Liddell, whose empty seat is that?"
"No one's. Can we change the song, ma'am? I mean, like, seriously, we're teenagers."
Rain fell with thunders. Alice cursed one last time before she dragged her non-existance-self from the wood's gate with her belongings. After finding a tree's hollow in which she could shelter herself from the rain, she started to think of how to go home.
This is Alice Liddell, she's sixteen. She's somehow blessed with unexist-aura. No one would realize her presence even if she's standing and whispering close to you. This Spring Trip to Shrewsbury wasn't the first time, and she had experienced being left by the bus almost everyday.
"I can't believe this...I only have two pounds!" she grumbled, grudgingly fisted her money. "Two, freaking, pounds, to get from Shrewsbury to Lincoln!"
Thunder banged, and she flinched, her mouth shut. Maybe today she won't be lucky, and the tree would be hit by thunder, and she'll die. Whatever it is, my friends, do NOT hide under a tree in a thunderstorm!
"What's that?" Alice muttered to herself as she saw a small figure moving towards her place. Her eyes widened as she saw that it was a cat. A beautifull Birman with pretty dots as its shoulder's fur, like an expensive, warm, polar coat. Its eyes were purple like the nights in Paris.
The cat fell on the ground. Alice looked up to the thunderous sky, and then, carefully and quickly got out to take the cat.
The cat hissed and mewled angrily.
"Hush! I'm trying to save your life!" Alice scolded as she tried to calm the cat and put it on her bag. The girl cringed as she realized the cat was bleeding. "Oh...my...freaking...God..."
The cat was giving a birth!? At times like this!?
Alice almost fainted when the deliverance was over. It was her first time...seeing...something so...bloody. A birth, at the first place. Moments later, her nausea was distracted by the little mewls of the newborn kitties. Four of them.
...With strange colors.
Alice sighed when the kitties snuggled up to her. "Damn...fine, I'll take care of you guys..."
~.X.~
A week later~
"The Shrewsbury's woods were filled with wonderful scenery...but the most interesting site was...Cheshire!" Edith smiled as she did her presentation on the projector. "Not only it's famous because of Lewis Carroll's writing, the people there even built a gate with the Cheshire Cat's head on it! There are many legends surrounding this village too...such as sphinx, in which they believed that some cats there had powers to turn into humans..."
Alice was doodling on her paper, drawing kitties. Everyone else were very absorbed in Edith's presentation. It was always like this, all year long. Even if Edith tried to hide with chameleon's camouflage, people would still notice her. While Alice, even if she's running around naked, no one would see her.
"Very fine presentation, Edith! Next, Alice Liddell." The teacher lazily flipped the paper as Edith returned from the podium to her seats. The classmates quickly ambushed her with questions.
"How do you know about those legends, Ed?"
"Well, I've been asking the villagers!"
Alice dragged her feet to the podium and clicked open her presentation. She stared at her class, which was busy investigating Edith. Alice cleared her throat and tapped the microphone.
"Um...hello." Alice spoke up.
"...And I've also got some pictures of the plains! So beautiful!" Edith giggled.
"Thank you. Bye." Alice clicked close her presentation and returned to her seat glumly.
"Good job. Next, Tom Greens."
But, honestly, Alice enjoyed this...being non-existant thingy.
For example, she could cut lines, even more, get to the kitchen and take all food she wanted! Sometimes she didn't even have to pay things she took from the market. She could use boy's restroom and no one would give a damn.
Being born with non-existant aura was kind of a blessing and a curse. Lately it felt more like a blessing...because Alice had cats! The cats took notice of her! That's why, she's very eager to get home lately.
So, today, she went home happily, dancing even, humming a song and slammed open her door.
"I'm hoome~! Where are my cute kitties~?" she cooed and dangled on her living room's door frame. Alice lived alone, since her father had passed away a year ago.
"Welcome back, my saviour!" a purple-haired woman welcomed her with a deep bow, smiling so beautifully. "I have been waiting for you!"
"I see, hahaha! Good, good!" Alice nodded with a wide, smile.
...
"Who the hell are you!?" Alice shrieked instantly as she realized the 'people' in her room. Her eyes glared through the living room, which was filled with...a woman and four brats!? "Oh my freaking—thief! Thief!" she gasped and went to get the phone.
"Boys, get her."
Moments later, Alice still couldn't graps what the hell was going on, but the four brats had got her to the floor. She was bewildered, her eyes scanning wildly.
"Teehee, Alice, please calm down, my dear saviour~!" the woman giggled beautifully, sitting on the main couch. "It's just us!"
Alice was hyperventilating. "Robbers...police..."
"She's deaf, mother." The navy-haired boy pointed out stoically.
"Mother! EMERGENCY! SHE'S DEAF!" the other one, with auburn-hair, squeaked and cried in a deafening shriek.
Alice deadpanned at them. Okay, calm down Alice...you had to sort things out. First...there were strangers in your house...were they homeless or what? That woman looked too rich to be homeless, though..okay...these brats...
...Not only the brats.
Even the woman...Why the heck...!? They had cat's ears and tails!?
"Demons!" Alice gasped and break free, pushing the brats off her. "Demons in my house! Demons everywhere! Help me!"
The woman suddenly appeared in front of her and took a hold of her shoulders.
"Alice, calm down, cute one...it's me, Vivaldi!"
"H-Huh...?" Alice gaped like a fool. She heavily turned to stare at the brats behind her, staring back at her with different expressions.
The navy-haired boy had no expression. The auburn-haired brat with yellow streak, he looked frazzled. A brunette boy was sitting sweetly on the longue. The last, the purple-haired brat, dangling his feet on the longue dandily like a boss.
"You're...my cats!?" Alice cringed at what she had said. She then smacked her head. "No...there are mad people in my house!"
She glared at the taller woman again, eyes-wide, incredulous. Now that she looked at her again...That expensive fur coat, those purple dazzling eyes...the unusually long fangs...and especially the piercing on her right ear...
"Vivaldi...!?" she gasped.
"Aww, you finally caught up!" the woman squealed and hugged the girl. After letting go, she waved a hand—which was supposed to be her paw—to the brats on the longue. "And of course, these are my sons!"
Alice twitched and stuttered as she pointed at the brunette.
"Ace."
"Hi there~" the brunette boy winked cutely, he was full of smile.
She almost got a heart attack. Alice then glanced fearfully to the auburn-head with yellow streak.
"Pierce...?"
"U-Um...hi..." the smallest boy shyly waved his hand, showing his long claws.
"B-Boris!?" Alice cringed as she turned to the purple-haired emo boy, who grinned back lazily at her.
"Nyo, owner!"
Alice groaned and wanted to bang her head to the wall. She couldn't believe this is happening...The girl then timidly stared at the boy standing in front of her.
"Julius..."
He just nodded, shaking his navy tresses of hair, then walked away to the corner. Oh crap, he just did. Alice grimaced. Julius the kitty also liked to sit in the corner! This is so real!
Alice bursted out laughing like crazy, even doing a knee-slap.
"Hahaha! What a freaky dream! My cats turned into humans!? What is this? Pinocchio—"
POOF!
All the strangers in the room turned into cats as the smoke was gone. The cats...which Alice were familiar with. Alice started to hyperventilate, stepping back.
"No way...no freaking way..."
"Do you believe us now?" Vivaldi, in her cat form, stood on two legs...talking.
...
Alice fainted like the lame heroine she was.
~.X.~
Alice Liddell wanted to bang her head to the walls. After fainting for an hour, she was awake to see that her hallucination came true. Her cats...were half-humans...
"So, Alice, I have to tell you that I didn't come from a normal cat race."
No shit, sherlock.
"I'm a Cat Elf." Vivaldi beamed beautifully—everything she did was beautiful—as she pointed at herself with her beatiful claws. "Centuries ago, we were capable of vaporizing...until humans found out how to cut our heads off."
Alice gasped. "Vaporizing!? You mean like...the magic trick Cheshire Cat did in the book and movies?"
"Oh! Our majesty, Cheshire Cat—"
"Our Majesty, Cheshire Cat, may he rest in peace." The cat boys chorused solemnly.
Vivaldi chuckled. "Yes, that is true. When theMedieval Queen managed to behead our majesty Cheshire Cat—"
"Our Majesty, Cheshire Cat, may he rest in peace."
"...We lost our ability to vaporize." Vivaldi laughed nervously when Alice glared at her sons. "However, in turn, to reserve our kind, we obtained an ability to turn into humans! Unfortunately, in exchange of safety, the longer we stay in human's form, we'll slowly lose the ability to revert back into our cat form."
"I'm the last Cat Elf in Shrewsbury, and Alice, thank you very much! You've saved us!" Vivaldi clapped her hands, and was followed by her sons.
Alice deadpanned at them. "Fine. Now get back to Shrewsbury...or wherever you're from."
"However, I must ask you one last favor...pleaaase?" Vivaldi begged.
Alice knew she'd lost.
"Let's hear it..." she cursed herself in the back of her mind.
"I'm going to find a mate. Once I'm married to him, we can re-establish our Cat's Clan forever. So, meanwhile, I need you to take care of my children!"
"...Are you kidding me!?" Alice gasped, then stood desperately. "They're...they're half-brats! And they're males! And they're not humans! What will happen if people see them!?"
"If people notice that we're not humans," Ace begun.
"...We'll lose our memories of being Cat Elves and be humans forever." Boris yawned.
"See? Unless they can be cats all the time, I don't mind!" Alice said angrily.
"W-We can't do that." Pierce pointed out.
"Our human side is winning, so staying as cats will only lasts for some periods." Julius explained seriously.
Vivaldi sighed, and then, unexpectedly she knelt in front of Alice.
"Please, Alice...help us. You're my only hope...please take care of my sons...If it's other humans, we'll fail..."
Alice groaned, eyes glancing from the boys and Vivaldi, back and forth. This was too much...this is violation of her privacy—she's a hipster—of all people, why was this happening to her? Of all things, why it had to be this? Why not an amazing adventure in the virtual cyber world? Unlocking secret world of Skyrim, or becoming Slender's best friend...No, she had to take care of cat boys!
If the thought of 'being the cause of Cat Elves' extinction' didn't cross her mind, Alice would flatly refuse.
"Fine, whatever." Alice sighed grudgingly. "I'll take care of these...cat boys...until you've found your mate."
Vivaldi sniffled and raised her arms. "Oh thank you, thank you, thank you Alice! Boys! We have to thank her!"
The five hugged Alice and purred.
...
"Man, I can't even get normal cats as pet..."
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