Chap 11

And yet another long wait for you. I'm sorry yet again. I have been really bad to you guys and hopefully I have not fully lost your interest in this story. If I'm correct I did have a chap done but it was deleted or something close to that. I have my computer sometimes. Anyway....I still need help with ideas for my chaps and wouldn't mind your opinion on the whole thing.

Rouk crept up to Ravwrin and cooed at her. "It's all right Wrin. It's OK."

"How can anything be OK?!?! She is hunting me again!" Ravwrin sobbed. "I will not go back there!"

Rouk sighed heavily and looked up at her. Softly she spoke casting her look down. "I know, I know. You won't. You might be able to get help. The Membrane family seem quite intelligent and there is also that Irken Zim."

"I will not ask help of that creature!" Ravwrin snarled.

Rouk growled herself and changed into an almost mirror image of Ravwrin. "He is on the receiving end of life's shit load too. He could help you! We only need one clan of damned Irkens in the galaxy anyway! Maybe we can contact the other Irken species and convince them to help us. And maybe if we destroy Dey Teeral then then the others might just follow the main Irken group and stay out of our hair."

"Right...Like that would bloody help! With our luck they might come after us too!" Ravwrin snapped now. Anger was overtaking sorrow now.

"They could, but we have no way of finding out until we actually do something!" snapped Rouk.

Ravwrin sat still a while and blinked at Rouk. Suddenly she grinned and wiped the tears off her face. "I've just got an idea." she frowned briefly though. "But it does require the help of that beast I almost killed and of Dib's help."

"Good, finally some sense from you." Rouk said.

Ravwrin stood and rolled her eyes. She held out her hand and the sword rose to meet it. She strapped it to her waist deafly and started out the door.

Dib was sitting on the couch with a book of all things. Mysterious Mysteries was on and he wasn't even paying attention. His father walked into the room then and spotted his son. "What are you reading son?"

"Huh? Oh....uh...." Dib said and lifted the book so his dad could read the title of it.

"Son....why are you reading about felines?" he asked hesitatingly.

Dib blinked at this question. "Would it help if I said I believe I know someone who might have a bit of feline in them?"

"Ahh.....that sounds more like you son." the professor turned around and shook his head. Under his breath he muttered, "My poor insane son...."

Dib rolled his eyes at his father's comment and was about to go back to reading his book when the doorbell rang. He looked to the door as his sister opened it.

"Dib, it's that weird girl Ravwrin." she said and he jumped up.

"Ravwrin, why are you here so late?" he asked as he motioned to her to come in.

She looked down and blushed. Rouk popped her head from over her master's should and blinked at him. "Well...." she said scratching Rouk's ears. "I came to sorta talk to you and ask a huge life-or-death favor." she replied.

Dib raised an eyebrow. "Life-or-death? Can a favor be life or death?"

Ravwrin gave him an 'are you kidding?' look. "This one is Dib. Trust me."

"I'm trusting you then. But I still don't know if it's life-or-death." he said letting her into the house.

Ravwrin looked around the room rocking on the balls of her feet and biting her lower lip. Dib took notice of the sharp looking canines but didn't ask as she asked, "Is there somewhere we can talk in private?"

Dib nodded and started up the stairs. He led the way to his room and held the door open for her. Shutting the door Dib turned to Ravwrin who was sitting on his bed. "This room is sound proof so no one can hear what we are saying."

Ravwrin raised an eyebrow. "Paranoid much?" she asked with a smile forming on her lips.

He returned the smile. "Just a little actually." he replied. "So," he said and pulled his computer chair out in front of the bed and sat on it with the back facing Ravwrin, "what do you need to talk about?"

Ravwrin sighed and looked up at him. "Dib, would you be mad if I said I have been lying to you?"

"Only if you from the government and trying to shut me up." he replied with a smile.

Ravwrin laughed. "No, not from the government. I'm a freelance escapee from another version of the Irken race."

Dib gave her a look. "What?"

"I'm not human Dib. Well....not fully. Never was, never have been." Ravwrin said not meeting his gaze. "I was created in a tube from three different creatures. A human for their durability and adaptation, an Earth feline for agility and senses, and Zim's species of Irken for their ability to regenerate or heal. I escaped from their system by the means of Rouk who really isn't a cat ferret thing....." Ravwrin paused there for a breath and looked at Dib.

Dib sat there with his jaw dropped and mouth gaping.

Ravwrin looked away and started to tell her whole story to him. After she was finished she looked at him carefully. His gaze was a bit glazed as if in thought and he was dreadfully quiet. She jumped a little when he cleared his throat and she cast her gaze away from him.

"Ravwrin, that is an amazing story. I don't know if I can believe you though." he said with a shake of his head.

"I was expecting that." she replied softly. "Would you believe me if I showed you what I am?"

Dib gave her a calculating look. "I probably might." he replied softly.

Ravwrin stood up and looked at Dib. "If you don't mind letting me use your chair for a second, it would help me."

Dib stood and offered his chair to her. She placed one foot up on the chair and started to unzip her baggie zip-offs. Slowly it revealed her calf and a what seemed to be the beginning of light tattoos looking like stripes running down her leg. She slid the leg down farther until it reached a bend that turned out to be, in cat anatomy, her ankle. Taking it off fully revealed a cat's paw that was striped with the same pattern as her calf. Quickly she took the other pants leg off. Standing up she pulled her hair tie out as a feline tail unwrapped itself from around her waist. Two cat ears flicked forward and the black, curled Irken antennae fell into her face.

The look on Dib's face was priceless and funny if the mood in the room wasn't so serious. He reached his hand forward and lightly touched one of the antennae. Ravwrin turned her head away and her ears fell back wards a little. "Ravwrin...I-I......Wow." he said very softly finally. "This is amazing. The stripes are totally unique and beautiful and the antennae attached to the ears are odd. Do they actually feel?"

She blinked and looked at him. "Yes." she said blushing. "They pick up vibrations but mostly pressure."

Dib pulled his hand back. "Sorry, did I hurt you?" he asked quickly.

"No! No! You didn't hurt me." she replied.

Dib sighed. "Good. I don't want to hurt you."

Ravwrin smiled. "I know you don't but there are others who do. Now....About that life-or-death favor." she said with a weak smile.

Gomen peeps. I can't think of anything past that. Please read and review and help me with some ideas. I'd greatly appreciate it.