(8/7/07: Kiwi bring revised chapter for tonight!)

That many reviews already? Wow, thanks everyone!

For those who are asking, Ulrich isn't the only one who's gonna be a cat; he's just the first victim, so to speak. The others will be cats soon enough.

Note: "Nya/nyo/nyan/nyuu/myuu! (Random cat noise! Yargh!)" will be used to 'translate' when Nyoko-tachi (my name for Team Lyoko cat version) are talking to humans for Ulrich, Odd, Jeremie, Aelita and Yumi respectively. Meow doesn't sound cute enough. :P

Chapter 2

One Step For Man, 523 Steps For Cat!

"This isn't happening…" Ulrich repeated this to himself over and over. But no amount of words could fix this.

He jumped down from his bed quite easily and took a look at himself in a handheld mirror that was lying on the floor. Instead of the usual brown-haired teen he was used to seeing every day, a brown cat with green eyes stared back at him.

Ulrich shuddered. "This has XANA all over it." He mewed quietly, before realising that despite all the racket he had made, Odd hadn't woken up.

He padded over to the side of Odd's pet and prodded the sheets. Odd was currently 'unavailable'.

"Crap! He must have went to breakfast early!"

Ulrich glanced at the clock on his desk. It was 6.30 a.m.

"He always goes down to breakfast at this time." he muttered, "I was too late."

A cool breeze drifted in through the open window.

Hey, maybe I can jump out through here! Ulrich, you're a genius!

He jumped up onto the desk and then onto the windowsill. Ulrich glanced down.

And suddenly wished he hadn't.

"THERE IS NO WAY I'M JUMPING DOWN THERE!" he cried as he zipped back onto the floor.

Ulrich sighed as he sat on the ground to think.

Let's see here- I'm a cat, Odd's not here, I'd need to fly to survive getting out the window, I'm still a cat, and now Kiwi's glaring at me.

He froze. Hold on…Kiwi

Odd's dog was indeed staring at him with those big bright eyes.

Ulrich's eyes widened. Don't panic Ulrich! Just don't panic! He'll go away, he'll go away…

Kiwi crept closer to him and gave him a good sniff. If Ulrich still had sweat glands, he would have been sweating up a storm at that point.

Just stay still…

Then Kiwi barked happily and started to lick him.

Oh hell. Out of all the… well, at least I'm not being eaten. Ulrich grunted as the grey dog continued to lick his face.

"Kiwi!" he barked.

"Right... I knew that."

"Ki-wi!"

"Err, yes." Ulrich said slowly, "And I'm Ulrich."

Kiwi cocked his head. "Ool-ric?"

"Yes. Ulrich."

"Ulrich! Kiwi will remember always!" the little dog barked, before he started to prance around the room saying the name over and over.

The cat in question sighed. You've got my name right at least. Guess Kiwi had more than one brain cell after all.

Ulrich brought himself up to ask the perky dog a question as he chased his own tail. "Hey Kiwi, do you think you could open that door over there?" he asked, nodding his head over to the door.

It took a few seconds for Kiwi to understand.

"Kiwi open door for friend?" he woofed, "Then Kiwi open door for friend! No worry!"

Ulrich watched as Kiwi trotted over to the door and jumped up to the handle. He grabbed it in his teeth and the door swung open as he hung on.

"Thanks, Kiwi!" the brown cat said gratefully, as he ran out the door. "I'm sure when I get to my normal self, I owe you a T-bone steak or twenty!"

One of the advantages of the dorms at Kadic Junior High is that they are very easy to navigate.

However, if you're a small cat just barely over 13 months old, the odds change a tad or two.

"I hate being small."

Ulrich groaned as he looked at the tall doors around him. The hallways seemed longer than he remembered.

"Now that I'm a cat, this is going to be a lot harder." He meowed to himself.

Rather than sit there, he thought long and hard as he tried to remember where to go.

"Let's see, I think it was down this way," he pointed left. "Then right at the bottom, and then…right again? No, that's not left… I mean, right. That's not right. Is it? Um, damnit..."

Several minutes of guessing later...

"OK, I know what I'm doing now! Here goes!"

Ulrich trotted down the right of the hallway, turned left, then right, and eventually he came to the stairs.

He grinned to himself proudly. "Well, that was easier than expected!"

But then there were the stairs.

"I don't remember the staircase being so big…" Ulrich mumbled with a dizzy look on his face.

He placed one paw on the first next. Then the other on the next. And before he knew it, he was thundering down the steps like a mountain goat after a double espresso.

"Ican'tstopmovingihatethesestupidcatinstinctswaaah!"

About 50 or so steps later, he finally came to the bottom.

Eurgh, note to self. Ulrich panted as he collapsed. Don't run down the steps like a brainless idiot next time.

He stood up and shook himself before running out through the fire escape into the open.

"I won't be able to find Jeremie and Aelita now, I'll have to go to Yumi's. She should still be there, I hope..."

The main gate came into view.

"There it is!"

And so did the many students of Kadic.

"And, there they are…"

Ulrich sighed. How was he going to dodge all of them? And why were there so many students in on a Sunday? He focused on the former.

Wait…duh, Ulrich! You're a cat, remember?

He waited a few seconds before pouncing forward and weaving in between the students' legs.

Now just try not to get-

At the most awkward time, a giant foot stomped down. Right on top of Ulrich's poor tail.

-stepped on!

"YEEP! OWOWOWOW!"

Ulrich yowled in pain as he jumped up and rubbed his tail painfully. "Ow! The hell..."

He turned to see William walking towards the centre of the campus with a big grin on his face.

That... son of a…

Shaking his head and twitching his tail, Ulrich dashed out of the school grounds before he injured anything else.

"This feels weird." He said to himself as he walked along the sidewalk. "I put my front left leg forward at the same time as my back right leg and vice versa when I walk. Strange... didn't know cats did that..."

Out of the blue, a car zoomed past him. Which, if you were a cat, would have made your heart stop.

Fortunately, Ulrich's didn't.

Instead, he was hella scared.

"UWAHHH!"

He looked around rapidly, trembling.

"I've got to get to Yumi's place, before I end up as roadkill!"

Ulrich was- sprinting?- at this point to get away from the loud noises etc. Soon enough, he arrived at Yumi's house in one piece, but there was one more problem to add to the day's list.

"The road's a lot busier than usual today..." Ulrich said with a deathly hollow voice.

Indeed it was. Yumi's house was on the opposite side of the road, and Ulrich arrived just in time for the rush hour. There seemed to be no end to the speeding cars zooming by.

Pull yourself together. Just dash across and hopefully you won't get killed. …oh yeah, reassuring much?

Ulrich gulped and waited for a space. Then he ran for his life.

No cars were coming, until the car from before came along.

Suddenly-

BANG!

It ran over Ulrich and he died. The End.

(Hurr, I'm so not funny. 8P

"OH COME ON!" Ulrich yowled, before giving one last leap, and-

He made it to the other side!

"YES!" he cried, "I'm not dead!"

He did a little cute kitty victory dance and finishing pose, then dashed in through the gate and into Yumi's driveway.

"Now, how am I going to climb this here tree?" he mused.

A pink petal drifted down and landed on his nose.

Then his cat instincts kicked in again and he started to play with it.

"Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee!"

Then he stopped.

"What the hell am I doing?" And with that, he jumped onto the tree trunk and attempted to climb up.

Almost at the first branch…

With another jump, Ulrich landed on the nearest branch.

Yes!

He heard a big crack.

Didn't test it? …STUPID!

So Ulrich fell down.

"Ow."

He jumped onto the tree again and climbed it much faster than before. He tested the branches first before jumping onto them, and eventually he was in front of Yumi's window!

Ulrich leaned forward and pushed it open. "Why does everyone in this fanfic leave their window open? No harm to the plot, I guess."

He leapt inside and landed on the floor.

Yumi woke up as soon as she heard a soft 'thud'.

"Is anyone there?" she said out loud.

She could have sworn she heard a quiet mewling sound, but she ignored it.

"I should get up now anyway…" she said, stretching.

That is, if a cat wasn't sitting next to her.

"Er?"

"Nya nyaanya! (Hi Yumi!)"

Yumi stared at the brown cat.

"A cat? How'd you get in here?" The cat pointed its tail towards the open window.

The girl laughed. "I have no idea how someone as small as you managed to climb that cherry blossom tree!"

Ulrich got annoyed. "N-Nya! Nyaa nya! (H-Hey! I'm not small!)"

Then he remembered why he was there.

"Nyaanya, nya nyaa nya nyanya nya! (Yumi, you've got to do something!) Nyanyaa nya! (It's me, Ulrich!) Nyana nya nya nyaa! (XANA turned me into a cat!)"

"Ahh, I'll keep you here for the time being," said Yumi, rubbing his head. "You're too cute. 'Sides, you can keep me company for this morning anyway."

Ulrich purred, despite the fact that she didn't understand anything that he had said.

Maybe I can be a cat for just a little longer…

Yumi got out of bed and went over to the door. Ulrich followed her. They walked down the hallway and Yumi opened the door to the bathroom.

"Wanna come in?"

Ulrich panicked. Ehh?!

He tried to look happy as slowly padded into the bathroom, which felt like it had an evil aura to it.

W-What should I do...?

The door swung closed with an ominously eerie creek...

CUE EVIL DISCO MUSIC! Maybe I'll stop it here for now... ;3

An evil place to leave it off, no? I'm not going to say what happens on that subject in the next chapter, unless you want me to. Say in your review! It won't be descriptive, however. I may have a really sick mind, but who do you think I am? The pervertedness fairy?

Next time on Freaky Felines! Jeremie is starting to piece together what happened. How are the gang going to react when they find out the cute brown cat is actually Ulrich, especially Yumi? Now it looks like XANA's attacking them all at once. What will happen when all four of our favourite heroes can do nothing except eat, sleep and ruin people's potted plants? Find out in Chapter 3!