hey guys!

My name's Cherry (pen-nameXD) and this is the first story i'm putting on FF. I want to know what people think, so if you bother reading it, please review! Personally, I don't think this is my best story (yes, I have more) but my friends are really supportive (and slightly lethal) and said this was a good idea. So, thank or blame them. Anyways, enjoy!

I stared at the building in front of me, awestruck. It looked so big and stylish; I had thought it was something to do with the government. Instead it was the school were we would be competing.

It was time for the annual speech contest for gifted children, and I was elected as one of the few to go root for the two competitors at our school, because I had competed as well. I smiled at grace, who smiled back timidly. She was rooting as well, and, seeing as she was the only other girl from my school, I had decided to stick with her. My own friends had been left behind, because they hadn't wanted to compete. They had supported me though, and I loved them. I had been texting them in the car on our way over here, while chatting to grace.

'Wow, Grace, check it out! It's so big! And the inside is so colourful!' I said that while I ran inside, spinning around to get a good look at everything. My classmates and teachers laughed at me, probably expecting this kind of reaction.

I always acted so much younger than my real age, because that was me. It also had something to do with my secret. Cats were known for being playful.

Yes, that's right, I'm a cat. Well, part cat. I get these cool ears and a tail and stuff and I've got cat powers. But it's a secret. In this society, people like me get captured. Mama had told me scary stories about what humans did to us when they got us. I was always careful, but I couldn't really believe them. My teachers and classmates were always nice to me, especially my friends. And of course Mrs Lovelace, my favourite teacher. I was proud to call her one of my best friends.

As we sat down in the audience and waved our banners, I looked at the massive stage. I thought Lizzie and Marcus should be nervous, having to give a speech in front of that big an audience. Determined to cheer them on, I raised the banner I had spent all night working on. It was actually way too big, but at least I knew they would see it now.

'Ichigo,' Kishu sighed. He was another student chosen to root. I turned to him with my usual smile, and he sighed again. 'Calm down. It's almost starting, and you're ready to jump of the tribunal.'

'It's called cheering, Kishu. Try it!'

He laughed quietly while an announcement sounded through the halls. 'Please take your seats. We will be starting in a few minutes.'

I was happily chatting to my classmates when I heard an irritating buzzing sound. I looked around for a fly or something, but saw nothing. 'Does anybody else hear that,' I asked the others, but they just gave me blank expressions. I shrugged, but the noise was really starting to irritate me. I started rubbing my ear, thinking it was in my head.

The sound was growing louder, and it was hurting me. I clutched my head in my hands, willing it to go away. It got louder and louder until I could only do one thing. I screamed.

I felt the entire audience looking my way, but I couldn't care less. I wanted that noise gone! I hissed, a hiss that no human should be able to make. And then I heard the shouts.

'We got one! Bring the guns, we gotta bring it down!'

'Look at its ears!'

'Careful, they bite!'

In that instant, I knew I had to get out of there. With another hiss, I jumped up onto the banisters I had seen hanging above the tribunes. Of course I made it, and I heard the shocked gasps of my now former classmates. I looked down at them out of curiosity. I shouldn't have.

They were all staring at me with a mix of horror and terror. It stung to see them look at me like that.

Then it hit me. I had to warn my family!

I took out my phone and hit the panic button. I hissed in the cat language that I had been discovered, that I loved them and that they had to get the heck out of Tokyo! Then I closed my phone and threw it at Kishu. 'Take care of that till I get back!' I shouted at him. I grinned and started leaping from banister to banister, hoping to come across a window or escape exit.

Then I heard a gunshot. There was a second of silence, and then a shriek rang through the hall. My shriek. They had hit me in the leg. With a sigh, I fell of the banister, down, down, down to the ground below. I didn't feel the impact. I did feel hands grabbing onto me though. Angered, I shot out my teeth, snapping at all of them.

Then one of them stabbed a knife into my arm. Seeing all the blood, I whined and growled. The blood loss was making my head go fuzzy. I sighed and let my eyes droop, knowing it was pointless. The last thing I saw before they hauled me of, were the horrified faces of my classmates.

'See you later, guys,' I laughed, as the tears streamed out of my eyes. Goodbye for good.