Chapter 10
Katelin lay on her back, watching the minutes tick by on her watch. She had to admit, lying around on the hard ground was boring and uncomfortable, but sleep had decided to pass her tonight. Or rather, as of 11 minutes and 47 seconds ago, this morning. She sighed and rolled over, her watch's ticks and Clay's snores ringing in her ears.
Cai nudged at her feet with his nose from the small pillow he slept on "What's wrong?"
"I dunno…" She mumbled, knowing well what was wrong.
"If it's about what happened earlier today,"
"Yesterday," She corrected the rabbit.
He sighed and nodded "Don't worry about it. I'm sure everything will be back to normal tomorrow, er today." Katelin didn't respond. "I'm going to take a walk." Again, there was no response.
He stood up and barely noticed where he was going as he headed outside. He was too busy thinking about the solstice.
"It doesn't make sense…" he mumbled to himself "Why would he bother with her if the solstice will be over in a couple days... unless…"
"Just because the solstice will be over," a familiar voice finished for him "doesn't mean that her control over time will be."
Cai quickly turned around, glaring angrily. His expression softened when he saw that it wasn't Kira. Instead, it was a young girl of about 8 years. She was sitting on her knees and looking at him with wide light blue eyes. Her long white hair had black tips and she was wearing a purple dress. Something about her was vaguely familiar.
Cai was brought back to earth by what she had said processing.
"IT'S PERMANENT!" He shouted, much louder than he had meant.
He heard a rustling from behind him. The girl's blue eyes widened either in fear or anger or both.
"Get out of here!" she told him.
"What! What's going on?" He asked, not moving.
"Just go!" She snapped, her eyes narrowing.
But the girl wasn't looking at him. She stood up, clenching her fists. Cai turned around and saw what she was glaring at. Two of the tigers that worked for Chase Young were approaching, approaching Cai.
He backed up slowly.
"No!" He heard behind him and that was the last thing he remembered after that, everything went black.
The young girl stood, her fists shaking in anger, staring down at the unconscious rabbit. The three wild cats (the third had snuck up behind them and knocked Cai out) circled around her.
"You're cheating." A panther said mockingly.
"I'm not cheating." the young girl growled "If you really wanted, you could too."
"No." The same panther replied "I mean in the Deal."
The young girl froze. For a brief moment she remembered someone towering over. Though she couldn't see the persons face, but she could tell that there was a smirk.
She shook her head slightly "I gave up on the Deal long ago."
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"CAI!" Katelin called.
A few hours ago when she woke up, she had seen that Cai wasn't in his usual place. After that, she'd been looking for him with William.
"I don't think we're going to find him around here." William told her as she pulled back branches of a bush.
"Yeah, well…" She replied fiercely "Rabbits don't just go missing. Well, Cai wouldn't anyways."
"So what do you think?" William asked "Did Chase Young and his band of evil kitty cats come and rabbitnap him?"
The two stared at each other for a moment.
William gasped "Maybe he did!"
Katelin ran inside and came back with a small bag and stopped in front of the crow. "Do you know where Chase Young lives?"
"Yes…"
"Can you take me there?"
"Yes… I MEAN NO!"
Katelin glowered.
"Ok, ok!"
So, knowing full well that she could possibly walking into a trap, Katelin and William set out to get Cai back from Chase. About half way through the day, when the two had stopped for lunch, which came out of the bag Katelin had brought with, William broke the silence.
"You must be insane!" William said incredulously "That place is no sugarcandy mountain!"
Katelin blinked, part of her sandwich half way to her mouth "What… oh right. So what is it?" she grinned "Spicevegetable canyon?"
William laughed "No it's still a mountain."
"So is it a Mid-ocean ridge?" She laughed.
"Nope." William laughed "It's above ground..." he trailed off "We should get going." he told her looking up.
Katelin nodded and put the rest of her lunch in her bag.
"Who knows what that lunatic's done to Cai already..." she mumbled.
A/N: yes yes. I know I said I wouldn't update for a few weeks until the tests were over but... I was soooooooooo bored.So expect the unexpected for the updates and r&r. bye!