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Cat woke up slowly, a pounding headache throbbing in her temples. She sat up, one hand clutching her head as if to lessen the pain. Looking around, Cat decided she was dreaming. She was in a forest clearing with the two creatures beside her. The orange haired one extended a hand to help her up. She took it and it pulled her to her feet easily, showing unusual strength.

"Come, we need to get to the castle." So saying, the creatures began to walk off, pausing when Cat didn't move. The turquoise haired one sighed and went back, grabbing Cat's arm and dragging her along.

"Where's the castle? Why did you, ummm, (trying to think what one would term being pushed into a portal and changing worlds) kidnap me?"

"Hush, the queen will-" The creature's explanation was cut short as a white oval began glowing over Cat's head. Two things fell through, hitting Cat squarely on her head. A third thing fell through but managed to avoid Cat, landing instead next to the creatures. Finally, another creature pushed its head through the portal looking around, and then dropped to the ground completing the pig-pile upon Cat.

"Jaken-sama! Sesshomaru-sama, are you all right?!" Rin cried.

"Would you mind getting off me?!"

"Oh!" Rin scrambled off Cat, dragging Jaken off too when he didn't move. The creature still on top of Cat looked down at her. "Not much of a catch for you twins, is it?"

"Get off me you-... you thing!" "The creature on top Cat eyed her speculatively."I'm not a thing, I'm a drake." It suddenly jumped backwards, off Cat. Cat looked up and saw Sesshomaru's lunges miss as the drake jumped about infuriatingly. The twin drakes grabbed Rin and (the still unconscious) Jaken.

"Move and we'll kill them, demon." Sesshomaru paused, evaluating the distance between the drakes and him. He lowered his hand, still glowing from his poison talons. The drakes took this as acquiescence and turned to Cat who was still sprawled on the dirty path. "Get up, we need to get to the castle." Cat stood, brushing off dirt stuck to her clothes. The rude drake took the lead walking down the dirt path, whistling. The twins stood escort, keeping Cat and Sesshomaru between them while holding Rin and Jaken.

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Cat, Rin, the unconscious Jaken, and Sesshomaru stood overlooking the drake city. The city was built around what looked like a circus tent, as Cat and the others observed. The drake twins lead the group into the city. The citizenry watched as if in awe as the strangers came through the city. Cat was suddenly overcome with homesickness, and it took all she could to hold back her tears. Before she could concentrate on her sadness though, she noticed something. Her house keys were gone! She then noticed that the person responsible was already running through the crowd.

"Hey! Get back here you stupid thief!" She jumped around the guards started to find her way out of the crowd when she felt something tug at her sleeve. It was Rin!

"Cat, do you need help?" she asked.

"Sure, it'd be appreciated" Cat answered, obviously glad of Rin's help.

Their search for the thief led them to an alleyway. He stood at the end glancing about for an exit.

"Okay, let's get him!" Cat charged at the green-haired thief, taking him by surprise. Cat took advantage of this and managed to land a direct hit to the drake boy. She bent down and picked up her house keys, smugly satisfied with herself.

"Wow, Cat, that was wonderful!" Cat blushed, she was quite embarrassed with Rin taking notice of this. Cat's attention was suddenly averted however when another portal opened. Out fell a short boy with blonde hair, and what looked like a suit of armor. A very surprised Cat started poking the armor with a stick.

"Cat, I don't think-" Rin was interrupted when the armor moved.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!!" Cat fell down on her but shocked beyond belief.

"Hey Al...where ARE we?"

The green haired thief ducked around Cat as the blond haired kid tried to sit up. The blond haired kid noticed the thief's dash and instinctively lunged at the movement. Unfortunately, Cat made a lunge for him at the same moment. Their heads met with a loud THUNK. The thief ran along the alleyway, passing a startled Rin and went out the mouth of the alley as a human figure passed by. The figure picked up the thief with one hand and held the kicking boy by the scruff of the neck.

"Lemme down Rainheart!" The green-haired thief shouted. Rainheart shook the thief.

"Don't let him go! He has my house keys!" Cat yelled to Rainheart. The blond haired boy beside Cat was still rubbing his head from their collision as another drake dropped from the still open portal and fell onto the blond boy's head.

"Ed!" The armor cried as the blond boy was squashed. Ed threw off the drake with an evil expression plastered on his face.

"You-!" The drake ignored Ed's ire and spoke to the figure at the mouth of the alley. "Prince Rainheart, why are you holding prince Tyrsis? And you already have your captive, should you not be at the castle by now?" Cat's attention was drawn to previously unnoticed bundle draped over Rainheart's shoulder. It twitched and Cat saw it was a young boy her age with brown hair and a bandana thrown fire-man style over Rainheart's shoulder. Tyrsis stopped his struggled for a moment to grab something hanging on the boy's belt. Rin suddenly shouted "Sesshomaru-sama!" and everyone's attention was focused on the group which had approached the alley from behind Rainheart. Rin ran back to Sesshomaru and the now conscious Jaken. Ed, Cat, the armor, and the drake that had addressed Rainheart and the thief as royalty had walked to the mouth of the alley when the object Tyrsis had stolen shouted.

"Netto! Are you alive?! Speak to me!" Cat ducked around on of the drake abductors and saw a handheld computer with the letters PET on it in Tyrsis' hands.

"Netto-!"

"Where's the mute button on this thing?" Tyrsis pushed the buttons randomly on the handheld until it suddenly stopped speaking. "That's better." Rainheart shook Tyrsis again. "All of you come. We need to see the queen." So saying, he turned and continued the group's earlier route to the castle/tent at the center of the city. The group reached the center of the city as the sun set behind the mountains on the horizon. They entered through the open archway. The entire building seemed to be a huge circus tent to Cat. It even had the cloth walls, but in this case there were rooms and separate compartments in the tent. A castle made of cloth… There was an unrolled carpet on the ground leading to an intricate throne upon a raised dais. Glowing stones served as lights within the tent. The group made its way to the throne with the guards lining the crimson carpet giving them baleful glares. The drake guards halted the group a fair distance from the throne. All the drakes knelt; Rainheart still stood holding his captive and Tyrsis. A figure rose from the throne and Cat hopes dimmed as she noticed its wings. (If the princes looked human, maybe the queen was too…) The Queen strode to the front of the group as the boy on Rainheart's shoulder woke up.

"What-?" The boy felt his belt and froze when he noticed the handheld's absence. He looked around with fear in his eyes and spotted Tyrsis not a foot from him playing with the handheld. Rainheart dropped the boy when he reached for the handheld.

"Rockman!" The boy lunged for the handheld and Rainheart dropped Tyrsis to avoid being in the middle of the scuffle.

"He's mine! I stole him!"

"No! Rockman's MY PET!" The queen reached amidst the fighting boys and took the PET, un-muting it as she withdrew her arm.

"Netto!"

"Rockman!" The boy, Netto stood and ignoring Tyrsis faced the queen.

"Give me back Rockman!" He demanded, holding out his hand.

"Regrettably, I cannot at this time return the device to you." The queen's words were clear and precise as she answered Netto.

"Why?"

"It would be in your best interests to wait until I… upgrade him. After all, it will let you crossfuse when you wish to in my realm."

"You know about crossfusion?! What, how-?"

"Netto-kun , it might be better to wait."

"Okay Rockman." Netto stepped back and knelt with the group. Only Sesshomaru, Rainheart, Tyrsis and Jaken did not kneel to the queen.

"Jaken-sama!"

"She's a queen Jaken, kneel!" Cat and Rin grabbed Jaken's shoulders and forced him to kneel.

"Welcome to my realm travelers." The queen greeted them.

"Cat, come forward." Cat rose and went to the queen.

"This is for you." The queen pressed a small clear sphere into Cat's palm. The queen stepped back and studied Cat's expression, clearly expecting some kind of response.

"That's all?" Cat asked. The queen nodded happily.

"Now for the rest of you, would you do me the honor of staying the night?" The queen stepped by Cat as she addressed the rest of the group. Cat's mind swirled in confusion and anger. The queen was continued to ignore Cat as she directed instructions to the drake guards. The group began to break up as the individuals were escorted to their rooms. They were all still within the main entrance when Cat's anger got the best of her. She whirled around and strode up to the queen, her voice increasing in volume as she went.

"You kidnap me, let this miserable excuse for a prince steal my house keys, drop people on my head from weird white portals, THEN GIVE ME A MARBLE AND SAY THAT'S IT?!?!" The queen's flame colored wings rattled in annoyance.

"Yes Cat. Now go to your room, I'll speak to you in the morning." Cat stared in disbelief at the queen's retreating back. Something snapped and Cat ran to catch that unbelievable drake queen and give her what was coming to her. Rainheart intercepted Cat's path and picked her up by the scruff of the neck, much as he had done with Tyrsis earlier. Cat filled his ears with every dirty word and degrading insult she knew as he carried her to her room. Reaching the room, he opened the canvas flap and dropped her on the earthen floor. Rin, already inside the room, ran to Cat's side as she hit the floor.

"You would do better to show more respect for the queen" He said as he closed and locked the flap. Cat's response was to throw the closest object at hand at the door flap. The clear marble hit the flap with enough force to push it outward for a moment and then it fell to the ground with a bright ringing sound as it began to glow with a golden light.