Pheonix: Hello my beloved readers! Pheonix is back with a new story! I wanted to wait until Hunting Hunters was done but I couldn't wait that long!
Cerberus: Pheo, what are you doing on your laptop? You're supposed to be out with your mom!
Pheonix: Oh Cerberus! I got back quite some time ago while you were napping. And I also want to send an apology out to all you readers who thought I was depressed and drawing circles in the carpet. And thank you readers for reviewing on my other stories. I just want to say that I was not depressed. I was asleep on the couch, after watching T.V. with my brother. Cerberus probably made me sit up in a crouched position so he could get Seto and Kisara to go with it. Sorry about that guys.
Kisara: Don't worry. But I think Cerberus has a problem with wanting more reviews.
Seto: You think? If I were you Pheonix, I'd make sure the next time he gets something, he has to grovel for it. /Pheonix gives Cerberus Evil Eye/
Pheonix: That's a good idea Seto.
Cerberus /Cringing and flinching/: Are you sure I'm the Yami?
Pheonix: Of course you are! The Yamis come from the Hikaris! It's what happens all the time!
Kisara /Sigh/: Let's never be like them.
Seto: We won't, trust me. Not unless Pheonix gets that idea for one of her stories.
Kisara: I think it's like that in Egyptian Nights. Which reminds me. Readers, please do us a teeny-weenie favor and read and review on Pheonix's other stories. She loves hearing what you have to say on them. A few are a bit cliché, she knows that, but she wants to go back one day and revise them. Once she runs out of ideas, that is.
Seto: Let's get on with it.
Pheonix: Alright, this is told in different perspectives and we're starting with Seto!
"Are you alright?" I asked as I took hold of her elbow, covered in black clothing. Her entire body was covered in the material. The only things that showed were her long fingernails, a silver band around her neck with a silver cat's head hanging an inch off it, and a pair of blue eyes. She didn't have the pupils of a human though, they were shaped like narrow black slits like a cat's. Her fingernails shimmered in the darkness of the night as she stroked something in her arms that was moving in a black blanket.
"I'm alright. He's just making a fuss," she said as she stood up. I followed her example and took hold of her free hand.
"We'll have to hurry. Once you have a horse, get to the gates of the city and wait for me there." She nodded and looked at the still squirming bundle in her arms. "I promise I won't be too long." Her cat-like eyes looked at me but nodded in obedience. I gave her arm a pull and we raced over the desert sands to a long wooden hut where the smell of horses almost caused me to gag and old and new hay and straw was strewn about. One horse was eating from a pile of the dried grasses and was already saddled and ready to go.
I picked the girl up by her hips and swung her legs over the saddle with the black bundle in her arms finally still and slung in a strap over her chest.
"Be careful," she whispered.
"It's not me I worry about," I replied, reaching my hand towards the bundle. My fingers came into contact with a small head and a few tufts of soft hair. "I promise, I'll be there soon. I just have to make sure, our plans weren't discovered." She nodded and gave the horse a hard kick to the ribs, causing it to rear and let out the loudest whinny I'd had yet to hear before taking off in the opposite direction from which I'd come with the girl.
I watched as she neared the gates and started to slow the horse. So far, so good. But then I noticed that something was shining in the light moonlight and aiming right for the girl and baby.
"Look out!" I shouted as I broke into a run towards them. The girl whipped around and saw the tip of an arrowhead coming right at her. She let out a shriek and turned so the baby was protected by her back. "Run!" I was too far away and the arrow was too fast. Any second now and it would…
"And to think, you tried to keep her alive for so long," said a jeering voice as my vision went black. "All that trouble for nothing. You have no wife and no son now. The scum and half-scum have been killed my son." I turned around where I saw the horse, now dead with a dozen arrows sticking out of its body and the girl and baby on the ground next to it. I couldn't tear my eyes away from those of the girl, who stared at me blankly. No light shone in the slit-shaped pupils anymore. The infant in the sling was still and far too silent as well but I couldn't bring myself to inspect the damage. I pulled the girl, now stiff and freezing cold, into my arms and her hood fell away, revealing the long white hair, now stained crimson.
"Kisara," I whispered.
I sat up in bed with a jolt and my hand plastered against my chest where my heart was hammering against my ribs, threatening to break every last one of them. I looked at my clock that read 2:02 am and illuminated a silver paw over the glowing letters. I looked up a little more and saw the luminous blue eyes of my Egyptian Mau. Her eyes had the same slit-shaped pupils as the girl in my dreams. The collar that was carefully wrapped around her neck was silver and had a silver cat's head for the license and Kissa written in spindly letters.
"Did I wake you girl?' I asked. She pawed onto my bed and rubbed her head against my arm. I lay back down and let her rub her face against my cheek. Her short, black-spotted silver fur was soft and ran through my fingers like silk. Her purrs were like a soft lullaby. "I'm sorry Kissa," I said. "It was just another one of those stupid dreams I've been having a lot lately." I rubbed behind her ear. She hummed in pleasure. "Good night pretty kitty," I whispered as I turned over and closed my eyes. I felt her climb over my hips and curl up against my arm. I lifted my elbow and she cuddled under my chin.
Pheonix: This is AU and aww, isn't that cute?
Kisara: You killed me?! How is that AU and not canon!
Pheonix: It was a dream Kisara, and you had cat-like pupils instead of human ones like you did in the anime and manga. Just wait, the story will explain it soon enough.
Seto: It'd better. Or else you and I might have a bit of an issue.
Pheonix: Anyway, please review!