Kit, Puss, and Donkey were back outside in the Academy grounds.

"Okay, there's a million students here and only one of them is Arthur Pendragon." said Kit, looking around to see if there was someone sensible who they could ask the whereabouts of Arthur.

She suddenly noticed some boys sitting on a bench playing a dungeon and dragons board game. Kit walked up to them, trying to half-close her eyes so that they wouldn't easily see her yellow irises.

"Uh, hi. I'm looking for someone named Arthur Pendragon." she said.

"Huh? Why would you want to talk to him?" asked one of the boys.

"Oh, nothing much. I just have some business I have to sort out with him."

"Well, he's over there." said the other boy, pointing to a jousting field.

"Thanks."

A/N: Oh, by the way, Kit is not at the Academy to take Arthur to Far Far Away, so that he can be king. So, why Kit does want him?... Let's find out...

Kit and her two friends entered the jousting field and saw a jouster dressed in full chainmail armor and riding on a powerful-looking horse. The jouster picked up his lance which was originally being held by one of the students surrounding him proudly.

The horse reared up and began to charge at what looked like a combat dummy on a wooden horse. It was only when the combat dummy flinched that Kit realised that it was a person wearing padded armor and a bucket helmet.

The jouster finally reached his opponent and knocked him several feet into the air with his lance. The padded guy with the bucket helmet fell just a few feet in front of Kit with a loud thud.

"Ha-ha! There is no sweeter taste on thy tongue than victory!" shouted the winner. The students watching him laughed and cheered.

"So this is Arthur." said Kit, beginning to walk towards him. "Look at him, strong, handsome, face of a leader. I'm not surprised that he's royalty."

Kit was not paying attention to where she was going, so she was very surprised when she felt her foot step on something.

"Ow!"

Kit looked down to where the ow came from. "Oh! Sorry!" She had accidentally stepped on the padded armored boy's arm. He looked very lean and a bit scrawny, and most of his face was covered by his helmet.

"Did you just say you were looking for Arthur?" asked the boy.

Kit stepped over him while Puss said "That information is on a need-to-know basis."

"It's top secret! Hushity-hush!" added Donkey.

"Now, gentlemen, let's away." said the jouster, getting off his horse.

Kit walked up to him. "Greetings, Your Majesty. I need you to-"

The jouster interrupted her. "So, what are you supposed to be? Some kind of human-cat mutant or or something?" he laughed, grinning to his friends. They started laughing too.

Kit cringed at this. She realized that she had forgotten to hide her yellow eyes.

Kit was beginning to not like this guy. "Ha-ha, cat mutant. You made a funny." she said, sarcastically. She suddenly grabbed him by the collar of his armor and started to drag him across the field.

"Unhand me!" he yelled.

"Just stop squirming, Arthur."

"I'm not Arthur."

Kit turned and looked at him. "What?"

"I... am Lancelot," he said proudly. "That dork over there is Arthur."

Kit looked to where he was pointing to. She saw the spot where the boy in the bucket helmet was, but now all that was left was the padded armor and the helmet. Kit quickly looked around, searching with her eyes for the boy. Then she spotted the scrawny boy running towards the archway leading out of the field. Kit still couldn't see his face clearly, because the boy was under the shade.

"Hey! Wait!" she called out, quickly dropping Lancelot from her grip and running after him. Stupid! she thought, referring more to herself than to Lancelot. After all, wouldn't she, of all people, know not to judge a person by their appearance?

Kit stopped, suddenly noticeing a strange figure out of the corner of her eye. It was a young lady about 18 years old with very long black hair that went to her waist. She was wearing a black shirt, a black belt, boots, gloves, a pair of black shorts similar to Kits and also had a gray headband around her head. Unlike Kit's eyes, this figure had orange irises with cat-like slits for pupils. The Stranger was standing in the shadow of an Academy wall, hidden to everyone else but Kit, Donkey, and Puss.

She was now staring directly at Kit, giving her a small smirk. Kit, knowing who this character was, nodded without smiling. Puss and Donkey did the same.

"I know..." Kit whispered, solemnly, "I know."