Alright, this story will be updated whenever I have muse for it. The reason for this is because I have finally worked up a solid plot-line for the sequel of my first story. If you'd like to read the sequel that I'll be uploading later today, then I suggest you read "Shadowy Rose, Dark Path" first or else the new story probably won't make sense. But don't fear, this story will still get updates, just not as often.

I didn't like it when my human disappeared for hours on end during the day. Why stare at other humans when I was here and I was a perfectly good distraction? So after about a week of watching her disappear, I decided to follow her there. She tried to stop me, she really did, but it's not easy to stop a determined ghost cat. I promised to be a very good cat, but she probably couldn't understand me.

Dani was a very nice human, though. Sometimes she changed her appearance, putting on a different pelt in a flash of light and turning her hair white and her eyes green, but that was alright with me. She was more like a ghost when she did that, and I had no problem with it. Though, she seemed to get very tired after she did so, probably because of all the ghosts who tried to fight her and lost. I would try to help, but she usually told me to stay down so I did.

I followed her all the way to the big red brick building where I used to often see human children go to stare at other humans and paper, something called "is cool". "Is cool" didn't seem very cool. In fact, every room I walked into was overly warm. There was no need for any of the humans to worry about overheating though, because I was there and I kept the rooms nice and cool for them. I wasn't sure if humans melted if they overheated, but ghosts did. I wasn't in the mood for melting, even though it could be very fun. Dani even fed me off of her plate during lunch in secret, probably because I was a good ghost cat for keeping everyone from melting.

There were quite a few people who could see me, but thankfully none of the adult people could. I creeped out quite a few of the boys who tried to hurt my human, that was for sure. All I had to do was appear on her shoulder(or at least nearby where they could see me) and they would get frightened. Really, though, humans were very fragile. I didn't know why they were so scared of such a handsome ghost cat like me.

I saw the boy Danny too, and he had two friends with him. I meowed at him as Dani and I passed, but he didn't even spare me a glance. Talk about rude. The black-haired girl with him looked at me, though. She looked afraid, even. But I meowed at her to let her know I was a good cat and then kept following Dani. I didn't want to lose my human, after all. Losing my human would mean I had failed a ghost cat.

She went into this weird room that looked like the bathroom in her warehouse den but it was much bigger, and there were no bathtubs. I was grateful for that; I didn't feel like getting bathed again. Dani had given me a bath just yesterday, and I had gone and rolled in the mud to get my scent back. She went into a tiny room inside the big bathroom, and I sat outside of it(even though I could get in very easily) to keep watch. No one would be sneaking up on my human, after all.

She exited the room quickly, and I followed her. She wet her furless hands and then dried them off after rubbing something suspiciously similar to "shampoo" on her hands. Then she left the big bathroom and I followed her, trailing at her heels. I settled down in her lap when she sat down in another room to stare at another human, and this human was using big English words.

When he handed out paper to stare at, I noticed that there were a bunch of little blanks. I supposed the man expected the kids to scratch on the paper too, but I got the feeling that Dani wouldn't appreciate it if I ran my claws through the paper for her. So I let her scratch at it with her writing thing, though it definitely wasn't a pencil. It looked like a pencil, but all she had to do was click on the end and then the tip would go back inside the contraption. I was pretty cure it was called an "ink pencil", but I didn't really care.

I poked my head up to watch her scratch at the paper, and that was when I felt eyes on me. I lifted my head and saw the man staring at me. I smiled at him, sure that he could see me now, and went back to staring at the paper with my human. He collected the papers after everyone had finished scratching on them, and he gave me another quick glance. Dani didn't seem to notice, wrapped up in a book now. I couldn't read the cover because the typing was all weird, but the book was about a boy named Harry Potter and how he was a "wizard". How strange. I could read the author, though. "J.K. Rowling".

Humans had weird names, that was for sure.

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After the class was over, the teacher pulled Dani aside.

"Yes, Mr. Lancer?" she said nervously. I didn't know why she was nervous; I was here to protect her, after all. If he tried to hurt her, he'd get all four sets of my claws in his face skin.

"You are aware that there is a... ghost cat following you around, correct?" He sounded tense. I wondered why.

"Oh, yeah," Dani answered in relief. I hopped up onto "Mr. Lancer's" desk and sat down, puffing out my chest proudly. He recoiled a little; he was obviously in awe of my handsome calico pelt. The balding man probably wanted it for his head. "This is Illusion. he doesn't like getting left behind at home, so he followed me today... Don't worry, he's completely harmless," she said quickly, noting the look on her teacher's face.

I frowned. I was not harmless; I was a big ghost cat who would protect his human! To prove it, I hopped up onto my paws and puffed up my fur to make me look bigger.

"Are you sure?" the male human asked, sending me a look of fear. I smiled in satisfaction and climbed onto my human's shoulder to purr and clean his cheek.

"Yes," she answered. "He's overprotective."

He let her go after that and we carried on to another place, her big metal thing called a "locker". She put all her books in it, and then she pulled some other ones out and put it into her bag. I didn't know why she didn't like it when I played in the big cloth bag, but I refrained for raking my claws through it. The boy Danny narrowed his eyes when he saw me on my human's shoulder, and he grabbed Dnai's hand very tightly (I gave him a warning nip for this, he could hurt her!) and pulled her out of the "is cool".

Really, I had no idea why he didn't like me. I was the one who had kept her safe all day, after all.