Cat returns : Strangest magic

Hello! Here is chapter three, now all of any following chapters will be a while doing since I got a job a some time ago and so it will take up a good bit of my time and I wont be able to re write my lost stuff ( explained in previous chapter.) but I can get you all new and shiny ideas and so forth for this lovely story!

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Chapter three

It was nothing but blinding pain that a young man felt as he was held captive with his friends after trying to overthrow the Noble known as Dorian crest. He had no idea what was going to be done, he only hoped that they were all still alive. A door to the cell he had been kept in for the past few days creaked open hitting him with harsh light for a brief moment before the opener blocked it and walked in keeping the youth in darkness making it impossible to see what he looked like. "So, there are some people who Do not find my upcoming nuptials a happy idea," He leaned in close to the captive youth and whispered into his ear. "It is a shame that your try was for nothing, now I will have to punish you in a way that will remind everyone that I am not going to be stopped." He straightened up and looked up at the ceiling " what to do indeed…perhaps a curse?"

The Youth gritted his teeth and boldly replied " you can curse me all you want, but I will do what ever it takes to keep innocent people from being pulled into your dark web of lies!"

"We shall see about that young man. We shall see." Dorian pulled a small black orb from within his robes " I have been saving this curse for such a bold and 'brave' spirit, yours will do nicely." the noble came closer to the youth once more and placed the orb over his heart and began to chant a string of arcane words.

In response the orb began to give off a dull grey glow which allowed any passer by to see the young man's features. He was tall, had gold colored hair which was slowly turning to a sickly shade of grey, his eyes were a light blue, but became the color of onyx as the curse spread on through the rest of his body. "What are…you doing to me?" he asked in a weak voice to his tormentor. "oh yes, I forgot entirely to tell you what kind of curse this is boy, it is a curse I found years ago called Demons blade, it takes what 'light' there was and darkens it, giving you great power, but at a painful price, you see, it will turn you more and more into a monster every time you use its magic, granted it will do that to you any way it will just be slow, and what makes this curse so fun is there is no way anyone from the many magical realms connected to Kivan, can break it. Good luck finding the cure."

With that Dorian left the youth alone to finish changing and gave orders to his men to let him free once done so the crowd would see that rebellion would not be tolerated.

As the young rebel was dragged out before the people present and were told of his 'treason' and the punishment for it and the grave punishments to any caught helping him.

The young man stayed on the ground as the people left the square, all wishing to avoid him. Once everyone had gone he got up and stumbled over to a barrel of water to see just what had been done.

He still looked like himself in face, only his eyes and hair had changed the most. " Well since you are cursed now, time to think up a new name till I get rid of it or die trying…" he murmured a little angry that he seemed to have lost the ability to speak any louder then that. He took out a small dagger and glanced at it, reading on the hilt an inscription: 'To my son, Heir to the Gelding family name, Aurek' "I think…Jett will work for now." he set the dagger back where it belonged and walked away from the bucket with a plan. If he could not stop the noble Dorian crest by overthrowing him. He would by protecting this lady Miharu. The first step sadly was to figure out what powers he had now and how to use them.

Miharu woke the morning following the strange revelations that her mother and father had given her that night. As she walked to school Miharu began to notice that Muta was following her at a distance and felt a small smile flit to her lips. 'Leave it to mom to worry like gran.' the young woman kept walking and pretended to not know Muta was following her as she reached and entered her school.

Things went normal for the first half of school, but things started to go south when she reached Mr. Nakamura's class.

First they were given a pop quiz on things they had not learned yet, then he kept firing questions about subjects he did not even teach to her and no one else.

She answered everything to the best of her ability but faltered when a strange sight outside the window caught her eye, The Crow from last night was passing by the window with two small beings riding him, looking like they were fleeing something.

"Miss King, what is it that is more interesting then answering my question?" Mr. Nakamura snapped out with a smug smile.

"I am sorry Mr. Nakamura but, something has come up…" She stood up from her seat and grabbed her school bag. " Something I remembered that I must go and take care of immediately." And took off much to his protest out of the room and then the school.

Muta was laying on a low wall in the sun when he saw Miharu dash out. This was not her normal behavior and he knew that, so he hoped down and took off after her. " Chicky! What's got you going?" He shouted after her.

"I think I saw Toto, with two little people riding him, I think he and his riders are in trouble. I am going to help him out." She answered not even stopping her run all the did was speed up when she saw the black bird ducking and weaving as something large, but hard to see followed him.

"Muta, can you see what's chasing him? All I can make out are shadows and changes in light…"

The Fat cat looked and gave a snarl. "it's a magical creature, humans can't seem 'em normally, don't worry about it much tho' its easy to get it to be seen once its hurt!" With that the Cat gave out a great bellow and launched himself and his girth up at the unseen creature and began to claw and bite.

She thought she would be prepared to see more amazing things, but a 9 foot tall lizard man was something she was not remotely prepared for, but this would not stop her, she had to do something, and Muta would not be able to hold onto the creatures tail for long.

On auto she grabbed up a fallen bit of old pipe from some school construction work and ran toward the monster taking a swift fencing swing at one of its legs to get its attention. It worked and the lumbering creature stopped and turned its attention to her.

It snorted as it looked at her and shrank down to deal with her on a more normal level which was odd. As far as she knew about monsters, they did not take a smaller form to deal with humans attacking them. They often got bigger.

"girl, this is not your fight. The bird and the Cat are an interference with my masters plans, and I will not let you or they stop me from my duty." He said with a cold sneer " insist and I will deal with you accordingly."

Miharu had a sinking feeling that this man was more dangerous as a man then as his lizard form. " Sir, I am thankful for your warning, however, the bird, the rider are important family friends and the companion is too, so I must do something to help them. And I would get the bite marks and scratches on your back checked." a strange plan forming in her mind as Muta came up beside her growling.

The man scoffed " Why?" obviously thinking at how such things were nothing to worry about. Miharu grinned and said "Because they are about to be on your face."

With out much warning she scooped up her feline friend and threw him right at the mans face. In a yowl of protest and shouts of "I better get Strawberry short cake for this!"

The man gave an enraged outcry and pulled the cat off of his now lacerated face. " Vile trickster wench!" He lunged for Miharu who stood her ground holding the pipe up in a defensive stance waiting for the man to come.

It never happened for a Gold fox pounded on the back of his head knocking him into the ground with a sharp "A true man Never insults a young woman whom stands up to foes of greater strength!"

The man growled "to many advisories for me alone, I will return with others another time." He then vanished in a plume of purple smoke leaving Miharu holding a pipe, An angry cat, and a talking gold fox. "well that takes care of that." the human girl mused shouldering the pipe.

The Fox walked up to her and took a humanoid form, but was the size of a child's toy. " young maiden, your bravery was quite commendable. Thank you for giving us time to escape and regroup."

"ah No problem, I just didn't want to sit by while a good friend of my mother was in danger." Miharu replied with a polite nod to the fox girl.

"wait. A friend of Toto's? Then you are Miharu, oh my, young one you should not have fought, that man was searching for you." The fox girl said a little worried. "I must get Baron here.." She put her fingers to her lips and let out a shrill whistle, causing many birds in any nearby trees to take off and fly away, but A large black one, Toto, Flew toward them.

"Wow Nanko, you have a good call," He landed on a bench and moved his wings so his Rider, A cream and orange colored Cat in a white/grey suit with a wine colored vest and grey shoes carrying a cane, could hop off.

"Hey Baron. Seems like that Noble Dorian crest has made his play huh?" Muta stated as he walked over to his friend. Baron gave a nod. "yes and Miss Miharu's actions may have helped her or hurt her, they may believe she is someone working with us rather then being the person they are looking for, which is a good thing or a bad thing."

The dark haired teen felt her heart stop a moment, that car figure was Baron? Her mother's Baron? Her godfather she'd only just been told about the night before, all she could think to say was " Wow you are so cool."

Toto hid his beak behind a wing to laugh a bit. " she is quite like her mother huh Baron?"

The Cat figure gave s cat like grin and said " quite, and just as fetching too, but more of that later, we must get her home. This school is not safe now."

"That will be hard, teachers are all over the place here and do a ground's sweep every fifteen minutes and I do not have much skill in ditching class, I'm surprised I have managed this far really." Miharu said with a weak smile. " this is the first time ditching actually.."

"Follow me then." Muta grumbled out. " I know some easy ways out that even a human can use." The Cat then looked up at Toto " hey Bird brain go let Haru-Chicky know that we are coming and what happened. That ways Chicky here does not get chewed out."

Toto was about to argue the Bird brain comment but a glare from Baron told him there was no time for such a thing, so the Crow took off. Once the bird was away, Muta began to lead them to an abandoned part of the school that had become over grown with plants.

The trek was silent and slow moving, allowing Miharu time to think the prior events over, firstly her parents warn her the night before about the danger, secondly her mothers friends, plus a mystery fox girl, come to protect her at school and a freaky lizard man attacks them, thirdly she fought it with help from Muta, and lastly the monster man spoke like he was from a fairy tale. All that lead to a possible magic fight, and she knew that there was no way these small figures, A crow and a cat could protect her for long.

"Baron, My mom told me about how you met her and what happened, then about the Noblemen and how he bothered her for a little until she married my dad. Why would he come after me then? I haven't done anything spectacular to get any nobility to look at me. Sure I help people out that need it but that's just doing the right thing."

Baron glanced up at her from over his shoulder. " his infatuation/obsession with you is because you are a person who does the right thing and causes extraordinary and spectacular things to happen with just a thought, as did your mother, in a magical realm that is a powerful thing, unlike here where people just see it as a common everyday thing." he looked forward " this noble from what I can gather form the things I have been told and found in investigation, has gotten everything he has through intimidation, money and magical means. He wanted your mother simply because he saw her as a way to get more power."

Miharu was not at all surprised " figures that people who have power in any realm are all going to want what they feel will give them more and care nothing for the people they hurt. Baron I know you, Muta , Toto and your Fox lady friend all want me safe some where, but I just don't think that will work, if this man has waited all this time to get to me, he wont hold back."

Nanko flicked her ears back in embarrassment when she realized she had forgotten to introduce herself and looked at the girl "Ah I am most sorry, I am Nanko, I did not mean to forget to introduce my self, protecting was on my mind."

"It's ok." She replied to Nanko with a smile while they came out of the abandoned building and out near a street Miharu walked by every day to school. "wow Muta, I am going to remember this path so I can get to school faster from now on."

Muta gave a pleased rumble and continued on leading them home, of course when they reached public the young woman picked up the two figures and carried them to avoid any odd looks or strange questions.

Within the school grounds however,

The man-lizard arrived to a janitorial shed and knocked upon the door where two other men, one built akin to an ox, the other a small, rat like, fellow, answered. " you return from your task well harmed my friend." the bull man said with a chortle. " beaten by a Cat doll and a crow statue?"

The lizard man gave a hissing snarl " they did not beat me, they fled, it was a Girl who fought me away with her cat and a Fox spirit. I underestimated his allies."

The bull's eyes narrowed. "then Baron has reached out to one of our lady's friends for aid. No matter she is human and cannot hope to stop all three of us."

The ratty fellow gave a frown "but we do not have long, the master wants her sooner rather then later. We must sniff out the lady's home by way of her mother, no doubt we will find her there."

The larger men looked at him and gave a nod " as you order general. Lead on."

It took him some time, but 'Jett' Finally obtained some cloths to suit his new identity. He now wore a dark grey tunic, black pants, a black cloak like coat, and armored leather boots, his grayed hair tied back in a loose pony tail. "now that I have the look to go with the name…I'd better figure out just what it is I am capable of."

He closed his eyes and held out his hands to see if perhaps it would be a blast of some sort. Nothing happened. He looked at his hands for a moment like 'Really? No blasting powers? Lame.' then climbed a tree to see if flight was an option. That failed too with him hitting the ground face first. He gave a muffled "nope. No flying either." and got back up dusting the dirt and leaves off of himself. He highly doubted that some of the other outrageous ideas he had to try and find out just he could do would work.

He punched a tree in frustration and when he did so a strange blade like thing appeared out of the back of his hand up to the elbow slashing through the tree with ease.

"….well this is interesting." the blade was like it grew out of the bone, had fused with the cloth to keep it from tearing, and was the color of burnt bone and blood. It slowly receded into his arm and left its as it was before.

So his ability was a bone blade, perhaps both arms could do it, but for now he would wait to see, for after the blade vanished, his head became wracked with a splitting headache. He swayed and fell against the remains of the tree unable to keep standing from the blinding pain.

Just as he began to lose consciousness Jett watched as one of his hands became clawed and rather animalistic in appearance. He made one mental note before slipping under 'Get really good gloves'

There you go everyone chapter three! Yay

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