Chapter 10

"ARGH WHY CANT I DO THIS RIGHT?"

Lulubell smiled in spite of herself, looking over to where Kitty stood training with Cloud Nyne. The last few days had gone by in a blur. The ship they had gone on had been travelling for 2 days already, and Cloud had figured it was time to see what Kitty's innocence could do. So Kitty had gotten her mask, placed it in front of her face and activated it. Lulubell had to say that she was impressed.

The mask had somehow melted on to Kitty's face, giving the girl some tiger like features, like a triangular nose, some stripes on her face, point ears and a tail. The problem Kitty was having was that she had no idea what good this was, as she didn't know what powers she had. Heck the only difference she felt was a small difference in her point of balance, making her lean forward on one hand, bending her legs slightly.

Lulubell sighed looking back on the papers Kitty had given her, trying to memorise the alphabet. She had gotten pretty far already, even learned how to write her name. Lulubell sighed, remembering how Kitty had acted when she had told her that she was a Noah. She had been a bit shocked… but in stead of reacting in fear and hate as Lulubell had thought she'd do, she just hugged her and said she was sorry that Lulubell had been forced out of her family because of the innocence. She sighed once again and stood up.

"Oh for crying out loud Kitty you are driving me mad."

Lenalee, who had been relaxing in a chair next to Lulubell opened her eyes, about to admonish her about saying hurtful things when Lulubell walked over to Kitty.

"My Noah powers centred on transformation, and I have turned into many animals over the years, favouring felines. Now trust me when I say that there are few things that are stronger than a tiger. Try lifting something heavy, see if that helps."

Kitty smiled. "Thanks Lulubell."

"No problem" Lulubell said turning to sit down again, frowning at the shocked looks Lenalee and Cloud Nyne gave her.

"What?"

"I am so proud of you" Cloud said, trying her best not to cry.

"She is acting more and more human for each day it' a miracle" Lenalee said, Lulubell huffing, sitting down to concentrate on her alphabet again.

"Hey Sensei, I think I got it" Kitty said exited, Lulubell looking up, grinning gently as Kitty was holding up the high chair that belonged to the lifeguard at the pool in one hand, the poor lifeguard still sitting in it. Cloud sighed gently, Lenalee trying her best not to laugh.

"That's nice Kitty… now let the poor lifeguard down."

Kitty blinked and looked up. "Wops… sorry miss, my bad."

Kitty smiled as she sat down the chair, the lifeguard walking off muttering that she didn't get paid enough for this.

"OK so I am super strong what else can I do?" Kitty asked smiled as she turned to Cloud Nyne.

"I honestly don't know it is up to you to figure out what your powers are."

Kitty nodded. "I honestly don't care; I am feeling so powerful, like a pack of lionesses…"

She stopped talking as her mask and tail changed. Lulubell actually blinked in curiosity as Kitty now looked like a lioness.

"Wow" Kitty said. "I can turn into a lioness too?"

She took a step to the side and both Lenalee, Cloud and Lulubell jolted backwards in shock.

"What?" Kitty asked and was shocked to hear that her voice was two fold. She looked to her side and yelped, as at the same place she had been standing was an exact copy of herself.

"I get it Lulubell" said smiling. "Lions work in a pack. So when you said lioness you turned into it and now you can make copies of yourself to make a pack of strong lionesses. The tiger works best alone so in tiger mode you are at your strongest. See what else you can do."

Kitty nodded and felt strange as the clone understood that it was not needed and walked into Kitty. Kitty called out all feline names she could, no one giving her anything, until…

"Cheetah?"

Lulubell smiled as Kitty got spots and yellowish fur, complete with black streaks from her eyes down to the corners of her mouth.

"Well" Cloud said smiling. "I think we all know what a cheetah is good at, try running; let's see how fast you can go."

Kitty did with pleasure. 5 minutes later the captain of the ship decided to stop drinking as he swore he saw a girl with a tail running along the water waving to the dolphins at the front of the boat.