Cats Out of the Bag!
By Strix Moonwing
Strix Moonwing: (laughs nervously) Hahaha…uhhhh, I guess that I should have told you guys that this story takes place after Phantom Planet, which is the series final. Uhhhh…sorry? (gets bombarded by glares from confused readers) Okay, okay! Now you know! If any of you guys want to watch Phantom Planet, just go to livevideo. com and look up Phantom Planet. The final is wicked awesome!
Okay, back to my story. Thanks for all the reviews and no, the villain isn't Vlad or any other villain that has a name beginning with the letter V. I'd love to hear more guesses, though I doubt anybody will get it. Enjoy the second chapter!
Chapter 2: Felinophobia?
"Danny!" Sam meowed, gently nudging Danny's side with a paw. The solid-raven colored cat groaned, and opened one sky blue eye.
"Ahhhh…Sam. I had the weirdest dream. I dreamed that everyone in school had lice and then you and I turned into cats." He blinked and added. "And then everything went black and my dad turned into a giant piece of fudge."
"Uhhhh, Danny? That wasn't a dream." Sam sat on her haunches. "We're still cats."
"What?!" Danny stood up and looked at Sam, his eyes turning wide as he saw what she said was true. The two of them were still cats. On the bright side, Sam didn't look half bad as a cat. Her fur was dark gray in color while her neck was lined a collar of black fur and her paws, as well as the tip of her tail, was also an inky black.
"You mean my dad's a giant piece of fudge?" He cried in disbelief.
Sam let out a meow of laughter. "No, I'm pretty sure that was a dream."
Danny smiled and stood up, noting how weird it felt to be walking on four legs. Unlike Sam, he was entirely black from head to tail. The only other color on him was his blue eyes. The two of them were sitting on top of Danny's desk.
"Where is everybody?" asked Danny, turning his head left and right, looking for the rest of his many classmates.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" came a loud scream from below them. Both Danny and Sam had to cover their sensitive ears until the scream of shock and horror subsided.
"That would be them." Sam said, removing her paws from her ears. Danny leaped down from his desk.
"Come on!" He yowled up at Sam, who leaped down after him. As the two of them landed safely on the floor, they were greeted by a brown cat wearing glasses and a red hat.
"Uhhhh, not you guys too!" the bespectacled cat whined.
"Tucker?" Danny gasped, gazing closely at his friend. Yep, there was no mistaking the stupid hat. "What the heck happened?"
"We don't know, Danny." Sam replied, tucking her tail around her paws. "It happened too fast. One minute we were human then the next…well you know."
"I can't even hold my PDA anymore." Tucker cried. He tried to pick up his PDA, but it just slipped out of his paws. "Stupid non-existed opposable thumbs." The techno-geek sighed.
Danny nudged his friend with his head and said in an encouraging voice. "Don't worry, we'll find a way to change back…and until then, just do like cats do." Danny picked up the PDA, with his mouth and stuffed it in Tucker's mouth, who blinked in surprise and tried to mumble something.
"Mere cerms Rash!" Tucker mumbled, still holding the PDA in his mouth, causing everything he said come up in mumbles and hardly understandable grunts.
"What was that?" asked Danny, flicking his pointed ears as he tried to dictate what his best friend was trying to say.
"E red, mere cerms Rash!" Tucker mumbled again but in a more forceful manner. He pointed his brown tail at something behind Danny and Sam.
"YO, FENTON!" came the unmistakable aggressive voice of Dash. From behind some school desks prowled a large, golden, almost lion-like cat with purple eyes. Along side of the cat padded a smaller, Siamese looking cat with green eyes.
The large golden cat, which was unmistakable Dash, stalked up to Danny and growled. "Fenton, what the heck happened? Why are we all cats?"
Before Danny could answer Dash, the Siamese cat pushed Dash aside and started to stutter in a nervous manner. "Forget why we turned into cats! Just change us back! Now! Please! I'll do anything! Just change me into anything but a cat!" The Siamese cat trembled violently and his eyes shifted back and forth nervously.
Danny raised a questionable eyebrow. "Is…is that Kwan?" he asked Dash, who nodded.
"What's the matter with him?" Sam asked, peering at the football jock with a look of concern. She knew that Kwan could overreact in some situations but right now he seemed to be having a nervous breakdown.
"He has felinophobia." Dash answered.
All three cats raised an eyebrow, surprised that Dash even knew such a long word and confused at what it meant.
"Meaning?" stretched Danny.
"He's afraid of cats." Dash replied.
"Ne's mafraid of mats?" asked Tucker, PDA still in mouth.
Dash shuffled his giant paws in an awkward manner. "Well…not actually. Kwan's had tons of cats before, but..."
Flashback….
"Awww, aren't you a sweet kitty." Kwan cooed, holding a purring black and white cat. "Aren't you Panda?" He took the cat and strolled outside towards the park. "Let's go show Dash how cute you are!"
"Meow." Panda meowed. Suddenly a large hawk-like bird swooped down from the skies and carried the cat off from out of Kwan's arms.
"MEOOWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!"
"Panda? NOOOOOOOO!" Kwan cried in despair.
Flashback 2….
Kwan and his new brown cat, Boomerang, were at the park on a sunny day. Kwan ran back with a foot ball in his hands. "Come on Boomy! Go long!" He threw the football and Boomy ran out to catch it.
"MEOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
Kwan winced. "Did I throw it too hard?"
Flashback 3….
Kwan and his new, new white cat, Princess, went inside this large convention building. "Don't worry, Princess, you're a sure fire win for the cat show!"
"Meow." Meowed the kitty in a refined voice.
As the two enter the building, they found themselves being stared at by hundreds of people with dogs of varies breeds on leashes. A large banner hung over them that read, "WELCOME TO THE NATIONAL AMITY PARK DOG SHOW!"
Kwan's eyes shifted nervously. "Uhhhh…is this where the cat show is being held?"
All the dogs growled and tugged off their leashes at the sight of Kwan's cat.
"MEOOWWWWWWWWWWW!!" yowled Princess, jumping out of Kwan's arms and ran away as a hundred dogs chased after her.
"No Princess! Wait! You're still beautiful to me!" Kwan cried after her.
Flashback 4…
"Kwan dear, may you please put the wet clothes in the dryer?"
"Sure thing mom!" Kwan whistled as he picked up a large pile of wet clothes, which his new, new, new cat, Socks, was sleeping on. He threw the wet clothes in the dryer and turned it on.
"MEEEEEEEOOOOOOWWWWWW!" gurgled Socks to Kwan, who, unaware of the cat in the dryer, just whistled a tune as he walked out of the room.
Flashback 5…
"Kwan! Dash is on the phone for you!"
Kwan, who was brushing his teeth in the bathroom, paused and spit into the sink at his mom's yell. He turned around, unexpectedly, knocking his new, new, new, new cat, Sandy, into the toilet. The lid closed on top of it.
"MEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!"
"Coming mom!" Kwan yelled, running out of the bathroom, oblivious to the drowning cat in the toilet.
End of Flashbacks……
"Okay, okay! We get it!" Danny screamed, making Dash and Kwan stop their long list of flashbacks of how many of Kwan's cats had met their gruesome ends. Tucker and Sam were now hiding from Kwan behind Danny, not wanting to suffer the same fates as Kwan's cats.
"That's the reason why I can't be around cats." Kwan said. "I'm telling you, I'm cat jinxed!"
Tucker spit out his PDA. "And you called me unlucky!"
"I think we're all a bit unlucky at the moment." Purred a smooth voice from outside the classroom door. The door opened a crack and a long-haired dark brown cat with golden fur around the neck and at the tip of her tail walked in. After her came a sleek ginger she-cat.
"Valerie! Jazz!" Danny leaped to his paws as Jazz bounded towards him. The two siblings smiled at each other. "Where were you guys?"
"Taking care of these guys." Jazz replied, tilting her head in the direction of the door. Two more cats came in, though less enthusiastically than Val and Jazz. Both were girls, one was really pretty with peach colored fur and the other was yellow with orange stripes and a flower behind on ear.
"Is the Ghost Boy in here?" asked the peach colored one, obviously Paulina. The other had to be Star.
"There he is!" Star said, pointing a paw at Danny.
"Oh no…" Danny quickly hid behind Sam as the two girls approached. Even though he had made it clear that he and Sam were dating, Paulina still had a crush on him and still called him by her nickname for him, Ghost Boy.
Paulina battered her eyes at him, trying to catch his eye from behind Sam and Jazz. "Ohhhh Danny! You're still absolutely adorable, even as a kitty!" She flashed him a winning smile. "I know you'll be able to change us back." She flinched back as Sam hissed at her.
Star glared at Danny as if it was his fault. "He better! I can't go to school tomorrow looking like this!"
Jazz sighed, rolled her eyes at Star and said, "Star, I've checked in every classroom, everyone is like this."
"You mean everyone's like this?" Danny inquired, shocked. "Even outside the school?"
"We're not sure." Val admitted.
Danny frowned and with a serious face said, "Well, we better find out. We also need to find out what ghost is causing all of this."
"How do you know it's a ghost?" Dash asked.
"Dude, when's it not a ghost?" Tucker asked sarcastically.
Meanwhile…..
"Well, its official." Mr. Lancer stated as he and Mrs. Tetstaff walked down the hallway. "We've checked every student and so far…" he glanced at his notepad and frowned, "Every student has lice."
"Told ya, mister smart guy," Tetstaff gloated triumphantly, "Once an infected kid enters this school, it spreads like wildfire."
Mr. Lancer rolled his eyes at his rival teacher and asked in a curious tone, "You know, I understand why I don't have lice, but what about you?"
Tetstaff glared to no one in particular and growled, "No louse would ever dare touch my scalp." She pounded her fist into the palm of her hand in a threatening gesture.
Mr. Lancer raised an eyebrow. "I can see why…" The two stopped in front of his homeroom door. "Well, time to tell the kids that they can go home now." He pulled the door open.
"Kids…I," suddenly both Lancer and Tetstaff stopped dead in their tracks and blinked in confusion at the scene in front of them.
Mr. Lancer's entire classroom, which had once been filled with students, was now crawling with cats of all shapes and sizes. Tabby cats, black cats, ginger cats….dozens of them were lounging around. When the two teachers entered the room, all the cats had stopped what they were doing and turned to stare at them, with large wide eyes.
"WARRIORS: THE DARKEST HOUR! WHO LET THESE CATS IN HERE!?" Yelled Mr. Lancer, his hands flying towards his bald head in shock.
One of the cats, a sleek black one with blue eyes, stood up and started to walk towards the two teachers, who backed away.
"Good kitty..." Mr. Lancer muttered nervously as he and Tetstaff backed away from the approaching. "Nice kitty…we don't want any bad luck. Oof!" Both Tetstaff and Lancer tripped and fell on their backs.
The two trembled as the black cat crawled on top of Mr. Lancer's chest. The black cat gave them a hard stare, opened its mouth to reveal two rows of sharp fangs, and then…..
"Meeeeeeeeeeeeeoooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww!!!!"
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! IT'S THE GRUDGE! AHHHHHHH!" The teacher screamed and then fainted dead away. The black cat nudged them with his paw.
"Mr. Lancer? Mrs. Tetstaff? Hello!?" Danny nudged them again, but with no success. The two were out cold. He turned to his companions. "What? I was speaking plain English!"
"Wow…do you think they have felinophobia too?" Kwan asked.
Strix Moonwing: Hahahaha, I hope you guys got the Grudge joke. The Grudge is a movie where whenever this freaky ghost boy meows like a cat, the person dies. There's also a freaky ghost girl but she makes a croaking sound.
Yes, Felinophobia is a real phobia. Lol, I had fun doing the Kwan flashbacks. Like Kwan, I have the same problem, except with gerbils and hamsters. I'm not allowed to ever have a pet gerbil or hamster since mine always die in an unusual way, like drowning in the toilet. (shifts eyes) Okay, I repeat, I do not know how my gerbil, Sandy, got in there in the first place!
Fun fact, I named two of Kwan's late cats after my own. One, Boomerang, died a month after I got him from cancer and the other, Panda, is one I currently have. My mom is always afraid that he's going to end up dying in the dryer machine because he always takes a nap in there. Well, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter. Please review!