Nepeta lejion sat at her desk in English 2, staring about her new surroundings. The white board held the words, "Welcome back, students!" In bright red marker that now sat near the board in a box full of colorful markers. Around her, students were mingling among themselves as they made their way into class. Two boys shoved at each other to get a seat beside a pretty girl that sat before ignored this and faced the window beside her, happy she came in early to grab a window seat. She looked out the glass window that let in the bright sun, creating a strange air of calmness through out the entire room. Nepeta happily thought of making this seat her permanent seat.
"Excuse Me, Is This Seat Occupied?"said a smooth, sweet voice beside her. Nepeta looked away from the window long enough to turn up to a beautiful girl with a pixie cut, jet black hair, light green-bluish eyes, and a beautiful outfit. A light green ruffled shirt covered her front and glided down into a black skirt, a large, black belt wrapped around the middle.
Nepeta stopped staring long enough to turn to the chair behind her.
"Sure, my names Nepeta, hi!" Nepeta nipped happily as the girl sat behind her.
The girl almost sat gracefully into the desk, placed her bag on the floor, and then took out a notebook and set it down on the table, turning to the window, "my names' Kanaya Maryam, it's nice to be acquainted with you," she said without turning from the window.
Nepeta smiled, turning around to also stare at the window. The blue sky held no clouds, only giving a beautiful sea of blue to the scenery. Class began a few minutes later. The teacher, Mr. Slai, started talking of the items they would be working on during the 1st semester. Nepeta looked up at the teacher. Mr. Slai, from what she heard, was the acclaimed father of his adopted son, Karkat Vantas. Both he and his brother were adopted by the teacher. Nepeta always wanted to meet Karkat. Nepeta looked outside again to find herself staring at a cat. A albino-looking cat. The cats tail swished back and forth behind it, staring back at Nepeta. The cat then smiled and strode off the building with a leap. Nepeta watched the cat as it made its way to the last building and disappeared around the corner. The teacher announced that they would have free time for the rest of the period. Nepeta turned around to speak to her new friend, only to find that she was staring at Nepeta with her wide, overly lined eyes. 'Did Kanaya see the cat too?' Nepeta thought, feeling a slight blush appear on her cheeks.
"What's wrong?" Nepeta finally asked. Kanaya blinked her eyes quickly, and then turned away,"nothing."
AFTER SCHOOL
Nepeta walked out of history with her backpack on her back, staring ahead to her locker just down the hallway. While making her way there, she noticed Kanaya in her floating green dress speaking to a blonde girl with black lipstick by her locker. Nepeta smiled at the both of them as she passed, both replying with smiles and waves. Nepeta had to remind herself to update her shipping wall she had at home for the two of them.
Finally at her locker, she opened it an stuck her text books inside. After that, she made her way to the entrance to walk home.
The walk home wasn't long, but wasn't short. A quaint distance from the school. Nepeta decided to take a walk through an alley way she found over the summer, actually, Nepeta couldn't consider it an alleyway. More like a open passage way to another world. Nepeta skipped through the wide passage, a couple kittens and cats she found either abandoned or homeless following her.
"Oh, hi," said a voice.
Nepeta stopped, "who is that?" Nepeta eyes went sharp, readying for a fight.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you. Up here!" Came the response from above.
Nepeta looked up building fire escape to find the same cat she saw earlier at the top, making its way down to the closed dumpster.
"Hi, my names kyuby," spoke the cat. Nepeta eyes widened and her lip twitched. A talking cat. A furring talking cat. The cat tilted it's head to the side, it's blank expression only showing through it's movements, "I'm here to grant you a wish."
Nepeta stares at the cat. The beast can grant wishes? That's not normal.
"Uuhh...I sorta don't have a wish right now..." Mumbled Nepeta, turning her head to the exit of the lit alley way. A raging sound of a chainsaw filled the silence of the alley way. Nepeta turned to find Kanaya in a strange outfit and a raging chainsaw in her hands.
"Kyuby, Why Are You Here?" She asked, the expression on her face was of full anger. Kyuby licked her paw and rubbed her face with it, "just asking Nepeta if she wanted to make a-" the chainsaw sliced the cat's head off. Nepeta jumped, staring at the severed head of the cat. Fear ran through Nepeta's blood stream. Suddenly, the setting changed around them. The walls around them morphed into a dark black room with complete darkness. Nepeta eyes widened with fear. What happened to the light? Why was it so dark like this?
"Damnit, Now Your In The Maze," said Kanaya's voice. Nepeta was shaking, darkness had enveloped her so easily, like her favorite blanket she used to keep warm on cold nights. She closed her eyes and pinched herself, hoping all this darkness would just go away. But instead, the darkness continued. Nepeta reached out for a wall or something to hang on to. She felt through the darkness long enough to feel something hard stand before her. She felt alittle more to find that she touching a chest. Nepeta leaned in and rested her head against the chest, feeling comfortable and safe when a pair of arms wrapped around her.
"Nepeta! Don't! That's A Minion!" Came Kanaya's voice in the darkness, foot steps sounding in all directions. Nepeta opened her eyes and found herself face-to-face with an open mouth and sharp teeth. Drool fell from around the mouth and on to Nepeta's forehead. Again came the raging chainsaw that sliced the minions head off. Blue blood splattered on Nepeta's face. The body fell to the side, leaving a shaking Nepeta to look up at a glowing cat figure that was smiling with sharp teeth.
The darkness left only to leave behind a land full of grass. A tall figure with puppets hanging from its fingers was smiling down at Nepeta with gruesome fangs hanging. It's hair was everywhere, different colors of what looked like blood, was flowing out its mouth. Nepeta recognized this when she saw her green fluid flowing from its mouth. Nepeta covered her eyes and screamed loudly when more minions came running at her.
SCHINK!
More bodies fell, to the floor. Nepeta opened her eyes to see another girl standing before her, pinkish-black hair falling behind as she slashed the other minions that threw themselves at her gold trident.
"Stand back, I'll take care of them!" She exclaimed, jumping up on one of their heads and charging toward the witch behind them. Nepeta watched in amazement as the new girl slid another trident from her arm and slashed at them as she went, white ribbons flowing from the dead bodies as the fell to ground. Kanaya, dodged an attacking minion and slashed at its back before turning to the girl, "Feferi! Your Late!"
Feferi jumped high into the air, throwing down tridents from her arms, "sorry, Kanaya, I just needed to get something done, what's that girl doing here?" She asked, landing on the large creature's back, stabbing it with multiple tridents.
Kanaya took another chainsaw out and swung both of them at the monster, the chains running as they penetrated and almost drove around the monster's entire body.
"She Just Arrived In The Maze, Falling Headlong Into It's Trap!" She answered, kneeling down. A green glowing circle appeared under her, chainsaws popped out along with a large, pointed one.
"Feferi!" She called, standing and throwing her arms into air. The chains started running when the monster saw that his puppets were all dead, diminishing into a fit of utter rage. Nepeta, in the mist of it all, was pressed against a wall , shaking with utter fear as everything that was happening around her.
"Amazing isn't it?" Said a male voice.
Nepeta jumped and turned to the small cat figure next to her, a blank face turning up to hers. Nepeta noticed that it was like that kyuby thing that had asked her for a contract.
"It's not amazing...it's frightening, like a living nightmare!" Yelped Nepeta.
The blank face laughed, "well, I think of it as a conspiracy, these girls thought of it at first a nightmare that they couldn't awaken from," said the cat, "but thy both had a wish and they wanted something to protect, so they made a contract." The cat tilted it's head.
Nepeta stared at the cat. They have something to protect? Nepeta looked out at the scene where the monster was finally defeated, purple blood flying everywhere.
Kanaya and Feferi began making their way to Nepeta, both holding a black dot in their hands and a bright, colored jewel in the other. The cat jumped into Nepeta's arms tucking its white head into her chest. The maze diminished back into the cold light filled alleyway.
Kanaya transformed back into the dress she wore at school that morning. Feferi morphed into a pink and black skirt and a hot pink t-shirt.
"Are you alright, Nepeta?" Asked Feferi, smiling happily at her. Nepeta nodded. Feferi was the prettiest person Nepeta had met, goggle-like glasses clad over her pink eyes. Feferi nodded and smiled,"well, we should get going soon, we all have homework to do right?" Kanaya nodded in agreement. Nepeta held tightly at the cat that sat in her arms. Something...to keep safe? Or a some strange survival challenge?