"Emma your taking so long I thought you turned into a hedgehog!"

"Husky! What are you doing here?"

"Have you forgotten that I just woke you up a minute ago?"

"What? Oh sorry. I was just having this fabulous dream about me flying like a bird!"

Husky sighed. "We got to go and see Sarah! Remember we asked her to play with us. But now it's almost noon!"

I shot straight up. "C'mon. Lets go!"

After they got to Sarah's house… "Sarah wake up! C'mon you were going to play with us!"

Sarah grumbled "Oh yeah."

"We were thinking you could show us the territory today."

When we were at a house with red bricks Sarah called "Chloe! Jacob! Husky and Emma want to see ya!" A gray- blue cat walked out of the house and a dusty brown cat jumped down onto the fence.

Sarah said to the dusty brown cat "Hey this white she-cat wants to talk to ya! So does this black and white cat!"

I spoke first "Hi, I'm Emma and this is Husky!"

"Hello." Husky! I thought, Scaredy-cat!

The gray-blue she-cat spoke, "Hello, My name is Chloe and this here is ole Jacob."

"Hey! I'm not old! I am only older than you by 2 weeks!"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure, now shut it!"

"Don't you tell me to shut it!"

A growl was now rumbling from both throats. "SHUT IT!" The blue cat leaped with claws out and teeth showing.

As she was going to land, Jacob leapt to the side growling "Try that again, mouse-brain!"

This time the she- cat yowled "Never!" and leaped so when the tom dashed to the side she could score her claws down his flank.

"Ow!" the tom screeched, "You'll pay for that!"

Husky was staring wide-eyed at the pair of cats. Then I saw it, blood down both cats flanks. This was getting too far. I suddenly leaped into the fight yowling "Stop this! Now!" Both cats turned towards me. Uh Oh, I thought. I was ready when they ran towards me. I leapt into the air twisting my body around so I could scrape my claws down both cats ears. They screeched with fury and I glared at them daring them to come towards me. Husky and Sarah ran in the middle of all of us and said "Stop this! This is getting too far! Look at yourselves!" I looked down, blood was splattered all over my beautiful pelt. Suddenly Chloe and Jacob leapt towards me, their eyes glinting evilly. I ducked down and they had missed me and ran into the rose bush.

Sarah says to me and Husky "Run. It's your only chance. I'll take care of this."

I didn't want to leave, I wanted to keep fighting until they surrendered. But I ran towards the fence anyways yowling "This isn't over!"

After we jumped off the fence into another yard, Husky wailed "You could've gotten hurt!"

"I had to stop it!" Sarah then leaped over the fence, her fur bristling, "Go home now! You've caused enough trouble already."

We sprinted back to my house and I was starting to feel a burn on my scratches, my first battle scratches. I met my mom at my house and she was wailing "Where are you?" Then she saw me and said "What happened to you?" She then started licking me furiously.

I said "Stop it mom!"

"No! Tell ,me what happened to you!"

"Husky…" I said uneasily.

"Emma's mom! Sorry, but it's none of your beeswax." Husky said. "At least your safe, that's all that matters." Mom had only one kitten, which was me, in a very cold leaf bare and I barely survived.

"Emma!" My owners were calling me.

"Sorry guys, I gotta go, see ya tomorrow Husky?" It was nearing sunset.

"Sure." I walked towards the door horrified at what they might think of me because my pelt was still a faint red.

"Oh my gosh! What happened to her!" They noticed.

" I don't know ma." This was the kid. "Maybe she got into a fight."

"Probably so Tim, because both of the Jefferson's cats were stained with blood.'' The mom and the kid walked out of the room. I followed them wondering what my punishment might be. The mama had to turn back because she forgot something. I was suddenly grabbed! The mom snuck up on me! She took me and put me in the laundry room, where I sleep.

When I woke up in the morning I heard a gentle rapping on my window. Husky! I ran up onto the windowsill and tried to talk to Husky. "My humans made the connection of my blood stained pelt and Chloe and Jacob! I think they're going to keep me in here all day too! It's already sunhigh!"

"Um, ok. I was thinking that you could slip out the crack in the door and come talk to me."

"Oh." I looked at the door and blushed scarlet with embarrassment. I went through the living room and pushed through the cat door. "Emma! How long have you been able to understand humans?" I was puzzled. "Since I can remember."

"Oh." Husky was walking towards the gate. Where was he going? "Come on." I walked to the gate and I saw Husky talking with my mom. Whispering. They saw me and stopped. My mom put her tail around me and was coasting me along to Sarah's. Now I was baffled.

When we got to Sarah's house she was outside, looking very serious. "Come inside Emma."

"To where?" I asked.

"Inside."

Next thing I knew, we were in a small room. It was small and round, maybe circular. "Emma!" Mom snapped.

"Thank you Emily" Sarah mewled. Then Sarah turned to me, "Come with me Emma." I walked with her into a room filled with humans. "Tell me what this human is saying." she demanded. She pointed towards one of the humans.

It was a tall female, quite like the one in my house. "What do you think happened to the Jefferson's cats?" I said without hesitation. "I don't know. Well actually, the cats fight a lot don't they? So it could've just been them."

Thank god they didn't blame me. Sarah motioned me to come back to the other room. As soon as I was in the room, my mom asked "Well?" "It's true." Sarah gravely replied.

"What's wrong?" I asked horrified.

Sarah nodded at my mom. "You know how you can understand humans? Well, that's very unusual for a cat."

"So?" I said feeling accused.

"That means you're the first cat in a hundred years to be able to do that."

"Really?" I wanted to know more.

"Yes. Now go. Don't show-off."

" I won't."