UNLUCKY CAT - CHAPTER 4
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Wow! This is the last chapter, guys! I warn you now, endings are
NOT my strong point. I tried. ;_; Anyways, enjoy the finale, it's
a bit longer than the other chapters.
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Katsuya woke up in Baofu's grasp, and yawned, emitting his fishy breath into the air. Baofu smelled it, and coughed, waking up.
"Dang..." he saw Katsuya blink and wipe his eyes with his paw, and grinned. "You need some serious breath mints."
The wiretapper held the cat up and went into the living room to get on the computer. He put Katsuya on his knee, and typed some HTML into his website's editor. The cat eyed the screen, reading all the rumors. Expecting to find some dirt on his caretaker, he quickly scanned the rumors, but found mostly silly little ones from school-aged children, and celebrity dirt.
[WHAT? Where's all the mafia stuff? Those Taiwanese? Huh?] He meowed at the screen.
"Lay down." Baofu pet his back so he would lay down, but Katsuya kept his back arched. Eventually Baofu succeeded, and got the cat on its belly. "Relax, there ain't nothing wrong. You're supposed to be a lazy bum like my grandmother's cat."
"AQUA!!!" Maia washed away the Kinmaras, a faint neighing heard down the halls of Tatsuya's school.
"We need some Chewing Soul over here!" Ulala called after finishing off a rather grouchy Kanaloa.
Maya threw it to her, and she immediately put it to use.
Tatsuya attacked the Apeps violently after they denied them Tarot cards.
"This is stupid! There's got to be an easier way to do this."
"SHUT UP AND FIGHT HUMAN!"
"YOU SHUT UP FOULMOUTH!"
"Make me!"
"Oh I will..."
"Oh no....Stupid human's gonna poke me with his sword! I'm so scared!" The Apep mocked.
"And you call that chirp a terrifying scream?!" Tatsuya snickered.
"Why I oughtta..."
"How dare you mock the majestic Apep!" the other Apep got involved.
"Oh, so when you flew into the wall, that was majestic?"
"GRRRRRRAAAAAAAARRRR!!!!!!!!"
"Damn he's pissed..."
"HAMA!!!" Maia surrounded one of the Apeps with a red cylindrical forcefield, and the dragon was fried to a crisp. The flesh deteriorated, and grey bones toppled to the ground.
"You....you killed my best friend!" The Apep growled.
"I did!" Maya smiled. Maia bowed mockingly.
"And now you'll join him! MAGNUS!" Ulala summoned Callisto, who smashed the remaining dragon with a large boulder, crushing the creature flat.
"I am the champion once again!" Ulala punched the air.
"Still, I wish we could've gotten some tarot cards from them." Maya sighed.
Ulala put her hand on her chin, and thought to herself. "Who has all the tarot cards from before? Didn't we have like, hundreds of them?"
Maya commanded Maia for Media, then thought to herself. "Yeah, who was keeping track of them?"
"It wasn't me.....that's for sure!" Tatsuya sheathed his sword and raised his hands up, denying responsibility.
"Wait! He has them!"
"He?"
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Baofu woke up; he'd fallen asleep in front of the computer. He looked down and noticed that Katsuya had disappeared, so he got down on his hands and knees to look for the cat.
"Hey Katsuya! Where did you run off to?"
Katsuya scampered out of the bathroom and ran into Ulala's closet. Baofu spotted the cat, and chased it.
"Hey! Come see daddy, kitty! Let's play!" he laughed demonically.
[Leave me alone!] Katsuya jumped into a basket of towels, peeking out from a little opening. He watched Baofu look around the basket and on the shelves. He neglected to search for the cat in the basket. [He's not my father anyways...how dare he touch on that subject!]
Oops. Katsuya remembered that when he said what was on his mind, he meowed it as well. Baofu turned back to the closet, and dug into the towels. Katsuya felt the gloved hands grabs him, and cried out for help.
"Hey! I found you." Baofu pulled the cat out and kissed its head. Katsuya's eyes watered as he tried to scowl.
[Let me go, dammit! Please! Let me be! Remember what you said! 'You stay out of my way, and I'll stay out of yours'! Right?!]
"Hey, you got gunky eyes..." He laughed.
[Shut up!]
"Dang, are you talkative. I can't understand you, so why try? I'll never understand animals..."
[Let me go....c'mon!]
He had Katsuya cradled in his arm, on his fur-covered back, belly exposed to Baofu's tickling. Katsuya tried to claw the man's hands, but couldn't dig deeper than the leather. He opened his mouth, and bit as hard as he could, only giving himself a toothache. He wailed, and Baofu sat down and held open his mouth. "Good! Nothing stuck! You're a fierce one, ne?" He held his hand out, and Katsuya felt obligated to attack the five-fingered enemy. "Come on Katsuya, take me on!"
[As you...wish!] The kitten struggled, biting at Baofu's fingers. Baofu used his index finger to poke Katsuya on the nose, which was enough to push the kitten back a few centimeters.
"So fierce...heh heh heh..."
Katsuya successfully mouthed the tip of Baofu's thumb, and was drooling on it, trying to puncture the material and go for the skin. He groaned a bit, wrapping his forelimbs around the lower part of the thumb to keep hold. [This isn't fair, why do I keep doing this?]
Baofu sat back, watching the cat continue to attack, and decided to take a siesta due to boredom. Where were they? All he had to entertain himself with was a cat and a mouse.
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"Katsuya has all of our tarot cards!" Maia said.
"And he has enough for this spell!"
Tatsuya put his hand on his head after sheathing his blood-drenched sword. "Great. So this was useless."
"And this box only had a few cards anyway." Ulala held up the rumored box the Guzfan spoke of.
"So where are Katsuya's clothes?"
"Back at my house!"
"Quit yelling at me!"
"Stop it guys!"
"Sorry..." they said in unison.
"Okay, let's go back to Ulala's place, grab the cards from his wallet, and go to Igor."
The trio went back to the house. Baofu was zonked out on the couch, and his drool covered gloves were no longer on his hands but laying on his lap. Katsuya was out of sight.
"Where's my brother?" Tatsuya looked around the couch.
"Katsuya! We're back!" Maya called.
Ulala wandered into the kitchen, and screamed.
"Ulala?!" Tatsuya and Maya ran in to assist her.
"My kitchen floor!" She pointed to the tile covering, covered in hairballs. Katsuya was in the corner, choking.
"Hairballs?"
"He must of cleaned himself..." Maya guessed, scooping up the cat. She turned him on his back and massaged his neck, loosening the congestion in his throat.
[Ack! Oh...I feel so much better now...] He mewwed.
"Awwww..." Maya hugged him, and set him down, then knelt in front of him. "Where's the tarot cards, kitty-kitty?"
Katsuya turned his head. [Tarot cards? Why does she want those now?]
"Oh well..." She pet him and stood up. "I'll find them."
Katsuya watched Maya wander down the hallway, and decided to follow her.
Maya turned, and saw nothing, but felt the presence of another. "Who's there?" She turned forward. Katsuya peered from the doorway of the closet and crept behind her again. Maya reversed again, but Katsuya ran into Ulala's room's doorway and hid. "Who's following me? Guys?"
Maya turned, but kept her head back to see any followers. She took a few steps, then caught the culprit and immediately scooped him up.
"Awww! Katsuya! You're so adorable! Are you trying to sneak up on me?"
[Duh...] Katsuya felt kinda bummed. He was bored.
Maya set him on the guest bed and picked up Katsuya's pants, going into the pocket and pulling out his wallet.
[HEY! THAT'S MINE! GIMME MY WALLET!] He walked over and swatted her arm, but he didn't have the strength to even cause minimal pain. He watched her pull out money and credit cards, dumping them on the bed. When she found the deck of tarot, she giggled and walked out of the room. Katsuya pawwed his money and driver's license, then scampered back out into the living room where everybody was.
"Here! We have enough to return Helios." She shuffled the deck of cards, which was now combined with the new ones they'd found.
[Where're you going?! You just got here!] Katsuya followed them out the door, but Maya caught their extra party member and grabbed him.
"You stay here with Uncle Baofu, kitty." She grinned.
[Puh. Stupid bum.]
"Bye!" She shut the door, and Katsuya glanced over at Baofu, who was still snoring after all the rucus.
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"Igor!" For the first time in their lives, they RAN into the Velvet Room, cards in hand.
"Wow..." The old man nearly fainted his heart jumped so high.
"Here, let's get Helios!"
"Okay, okay! Relax, my friends." He said in his deep, scratchy voice. Belladonna began to sing, Nameless keyed the piano, and the Demon Artist violently attacked the easel with his paint brush. The cards floated into the air, circling like a carousel and morphing into a gold ring, floating above them. Helios emerged from the air, and his glowing eyed glanced at the party.
"It is good to be back...WHY DID YOU RETURN ME IN THE FIRST PLACE?!" it growled. "Oh well... Now I must undo the spell of the demon..." It disappeared.
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The trio went back to the house to find a most peculiar sight. Baofu was petting Katsuya's hair; only thing was, Katsuya wasn't a cat anymore. The now human twenty-five year old boxer-clad man had his head on Baofu's lap, and was sleeping the day away. He was snoring due to the congestion from his allergies as well as drooling, but the wiretapper didn't care.
"You were sucessful." The dark-haired man smiled.
"Yeah."
Tatsuya went to get Katsuya off of Baofu, but was stopped.
"It's okay Tat, he's fine here." he smiled.
"But-"
"I said it's okay." He brushed back Katsuya's hair, but quickly removed his hand when the body moved.
"Ugh...let go!......Don't hold me!.....don't hold me....uncle.....Baofu.....help me......uhnn!!!....I want some milk......." The cop stirred. Everyone blinked, then Ulala, Baofu, and Tat stared at Maya, who blushed.
"Heh heh! I guess we shouldn't have treated him like a cat so much."
Katsuya's eyes opened, and he sat up screaming, then he slapped his hands over his mouth.
"Good morning kitty!" Baofu joked. "Come sit on my lap." He snickered.
"BASTARD!" He silenced himself again, surprised at his outburst, and blushed. "I can talk again..."
"No kidding! And scream too!" Baofu teased.
He eyed us, hands still over his mouth, he then proceeded to fall backwards on the couch. His face flushed bright red, and he drooled as he sniffled.
"I don't feel so good..." Auburn cat hair danced on his face.
Baofu and Tatsuya eyed each other, nodding.
"I'll get the blankets."
"And I'll get the tea."
