Please excuse any of my mistakes, I'm not English. And I know this story would be too serious for this series, but can't live without drama. xP And I rated it M because of the scenes that would happen later. Too bad those who can read those kind of stories wouldn't enter this section.
Clichee beginning, but can't help. Years have passed for Burtonburger family, without changing the alienish routine of the house. Well, maybe a bit. Coop is now preparing for college, or better said, for leaving his childhood behind. No more space captains, comic books and cartoons. He's just graduated and this is the last summer he would spend with his family. But not only that; as he was growing up, the girls were more attracted to him, to his blue eyes and sober behaviour, but the feelings weren't really mutual. After he got one of them in bedroom, he wasn't emotionally active with them anymore, like he was as a freshman, and life got boring.
Mildred has just celebrated her Sweet 16, but she isn't as happy as she was as a child. After correcting her eye defect, she got really pretty. A curly brunette, slim and so, all the boys were treating her nice because of her looks. Most of them also dared to hit on her, so it was really hard to find a guy who would look deep inside her soul. She needed her mom but, because she wasn't there, Millie was trying to learn about life from the other girls, who were prissy, superficial and snobbish. Not to mention, sluttish in the evening. But, not only their dad got older, it was also Mr Kat. He seemed to change during these years. He wasn't planning to return on his planet anymore, as he couldn't realise that before, and he got really quiet. Coop wasn't costumed to that, but, as he was happy that he finally got a normal life, he felt more sorry for the cat. He seemed so tired to try and make plans, that only he did was eating, sleeping, meow-ing, sometimes purring, or walking downstreet, aimlessly, with the dog whose owner, Mrs. Munson, has died a year ago. The boy was really worried for a period, thinking that Kat is only acting to deceive him and planning something terrible silently, but nothing really happened.
One day, Milly and her dad got to go to help a distant relative from far away, and Coop had to stay home and take care of everything. He was so dizzy that day, he forgot to buy food for Mister Kat. The teen stayed in his room to study a bit, and after, when he was about to exit, he almost stepped on the cat, who was sleeping near the door. 'Geez, what are you doing here?' Coop asked, with an involuntar shock on his face. 'I was about to splash ya, you know...'. The feline raised up his ears, and looked up, without moving, at his 'owner'. His stomach was growling, and Coop found out immediatly what this was about. 'So, hungry?' he laughed, ironically. While he was searching some human food in the refrigerator, he shouted: 'You know, if I'd be 10 again, I would let you starve', the teen joked. He put some meat in Kat's bowl, but no one came to eat. He went upstairs to see that the cat was sleeping in the same place. 'Food is ready, c'mon.' and nothing happened. The boy lifted the animal in his arms and looked at him, 'Please don't try and kill me..again.. for that, but I think I miss the old times'. The feline opened one eye and watched him, bored. Without any warning, he shaked the cat and he got his claws in his skin. Then he jumped from his arms and went slowly to eat. Coop's last words were running in his small head, and he was almost sorry that he got so tired to be himself again. Meanwhile, the boy thought that spending so much time away from his planet, Kat's brain limited to an animal's behaviour and all his intelligence has gone. But, he tried to ignore that and went to study again. After a few minutes, when the lil' fellow entered the room, Coop told him, seeming uninterested 'Do you want to go home?', only to see Kat jumping near him, almost ignoring the question, and falling asleep on his lap. ''I'll take this as a 'no' '', the teenager thought.
The night came, and after locking all doors and checking everything, Coop went to sleep with Kat in his bed. But, at the midnight, when the Moon raised and an unexpected meteor shower appeared on the sky, the cat woke up and climbed the roof. His almost rusty collar glowed, and he felt a strange energy surrounding him, but he tried to go to bed and sleep. In the morning, Coop was huffing quietly, too lazy to get up, and he moved on the other side of the bed, only to climb up on someone. The teen got up, scared, not knowing if he drank something the day before. Laying beside him, there was a boy, around his age, with light, violet-ish hair, and Kat's collar. When he opened his eyes, he looked at Coop with his sly, black expression, as nothing would have happened. 'K-..kat?' the boy asked, almost struck by a heart attack. 'Ah.. what?' the just-humanized felined tried to say. 'I can talk like a human.. and I AM one' he said, looking in a mirror, nearby. Coop was still amazed, when Mr Kat turned around and shouted 'What do you stare at with that dumb look? Do you realise that I'm just a human, now.
'And what's wrong about that?'
'What do you mean, jerk? How can I return now home with my inferior looks?' he shouted again, almost rawr-ing.
'Um, let me guess, when you were meow-ing back at that time, you were in reality insulting me... THAT much?' Coop asked, almost relaxed.
'Duh!' the ex-cat shouted, but tried to regain his coolness and think of something.
'Have you calmed down, now? Ok, let's try and clear all the things: why did you metamorphose?'
'Geez, I haven't, but I was drowned in a strange aura last night and look what happened!' Kat said, raising his arms and looking under, at his body.
'Ahh.. so it wasn't all just from your love for me.' he replied, sarcastically. Kat looked at him and this time, instead of making a mean comment again, he began laughing histerically.
'Well, don't wanna interrupt your fun, but how would I cope with you now, that you're a human?' Coop asked with a 'smart-ass' attitude.
Kat shutted down and looked at the other boy, with serious and thoughtful eyes.
This was just a prologue, the next chapter would be longer.
