The Christmas Cat
by Vickietori
A/N: Okee doke, here's the scoop... Unless you have a brain glitch everyother second... this is the last chapter!!!!! Thanx a bunch for all of your support and reviews (surprisingly not a single flame!) and I hope you all really enjoy this last chapter... And yes there is a sequel on the way! So if you like this last chapter or not, there is gonna be a sequel... no mattah wat ^_^ Okeeday, enough rambling... here's the goods:
Disclaimer: (I give CrystalHorse72 credit for this one) Do you honestly believe a 12 year-old diet coke addict would own SC2?!?! *long pause* I didn't think so... (I also get this from CrystalHorse72) I have a shovel, a roll of ducktape, and a big back yard. You do the math.
Chapter 8
the two cried togather. With a loud scream, the both of them ran into the small crowd of thugs in oposite directions.
With the force of one punch, Terri knocked the first man to the ground. She jumped over him and kicked another man in the stomach. As he fell back to the ground, he took another man with him. The man stumbled a second, but lifted his fists to fight Terri again. Terri stared at him over her fists coldly before throwing a punch, but he avoided it. He flew a punch to her stomach, knocking Terri back a step. She breathed in heavily before returning a fast punch followed by a faster kick at the ankles, nocking the man off of his feet again. He cried out as everything darkened as Terri threw a final punch, knocking the man unconscous.
Kia lept in the air, kicking aside two men on either side. She landed, her fists still raised, and faught aside two more men. She stepped to a fifth man, non-hesitantly, but pressed back noticing a moon-lit dagger at his waist. He drew it and raised it before her eyes.
she breathed. The man charged at her. She tried to fend him off, but he was much more skilled then any of the others... Including herself. Kia tried to punch him, but he dodged each she threw at him. The man slipped out of her sight, and caught Kia from the back. He wrapped an arm around her neck and held his knife to her throat.
Kia screamed as loud as she could. Terri immidiatley looked over her shouder and her eyes met Kia's terrified ones.
Oh god... She began to run to Kia, but was yanked feircely by her ankles. She fell forward to the ground, and tried to raise herself before any thug could reach her, but she wasn't fast enough. Three thugs stood around her like vultures surrounding their prey. She looked from one to another, all of them seemed to look the same. The dark night cast shadows on their face making it hard for her to tell apart any of them. She drew in a deep breath, and with all her might, she sprang to her feet. She let out a cry of hatred as she kicked one of the three in the face, binding him to the ground. She threw a punch at another one of the men, but he resisted and threw one at her. Like him, she too resisted, but his punch was merily a distraction. The third man had come from behind her, and now clenched her arms tightly behind her back. She struggled to get from his reach, but failed once a hard object was jammed into her neck. She screamed a scream of pain, and fell helplessly to the ground.
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Bernard shot up forward in bed, covered completely in sweat. He breathed hard, and strangely felt no pain. He looked outside. It was dark and damp from an earlier shower outside. He saw nothing, but could feel Terri and Kia were in trouble.
Despite his wound, he jumped from the bed. He grabbed the hoodie made for the door, but to his surprise, it flew open before he reached it...
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Terri helplessly awoke from a brief moment of unconscouness. Her eyes were blurry for the first second, but focused in quickly. The men were still there, helping the wounded to their feet. Terri felt an incredible amount of pain in her back, but ignored it as she tried to arise to her feet. She looked around for Kia, but saw she was nowhere.
WHAT DID YOU DO WITH HER?!?! All of the thugs turned to her and laughed cruely. WHAT'S SO FUNNY?!? TELL ME WHERE SHE IS!!! Their laughter only increased.
She isn't around here anymore, girl! Before Terri could turn her head to look, she felt the same object fly into her neck again. Everything surrounding her fading black again, but this time, she didn't fall into unconsousness.
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Bernard cried as he halted before the open door. To his surprise, he looked at Kia and she was covered in bruises and cuts. There was some dirt on her shirt and both her shorts and shirt was wet.
Bernard hurry!! Terri's in trouble... There's lots of thugs down the street... They attacked us and I got away and...
Explain later! Bernard pushed past Kia and ran into the street. Kia ran up next to him and pointed west. Immidiatley, Bernard ran down the wet pavement, hoping he could get to Terri in time...
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Terri layed curled in the middle of the street, dirt all over her kaki capris and her shirt was roughly torn. From head to toe she was covered in bruises and cuts, each one of them seemed to get deeper and deeper every time she thought about Bernard.
Bernard... Bernard... she whispered faintly to herself. She opened her eyes slightly and looked at the thugs, one now with a gun pointed to the side of her throat.
Why are you doing this...??
The man chuckled. Oh no reason... Now just sit still while your end comes... The gun clicked as the bullet went into place. She closed her eyes again and waited. Waited for the end... But to her surprise, it never came.
There was a blinding light and screams all around her. She felt the cold nossle of the gun barrel vanish, and she heard footsteps headed the oposite direction of where she lay. She opened an eye, half terrified and half anxious. She couldn't see where the light had come from, and she was too weak to get up and find anything. She just lay there until a familiar voice sounded in her ear.
she heard Kia say faintly with a sound of amazment in her voice (and who could blame her??).
Bernard touched a hand on Terri's face. Slowly, she opened both of her eyes, and rolled over slowly to see Bernard.
What was that light...?? she asked weakly. Your chest... is it still...
Bernard knew Terri shouldn't even try to move... Not in the condition she was in then. He watched her as she nodded and slowly closed her eyes again, and then warm tears spilled down Bernard's face. He wrapped his arms around her body and pulled her close to his. He kneeled there, crying softly as he held onto Terri as though she was leaving them... He opened his eyes again and took notice of the watch. It was at zero. Bernard bit his lip and clung to Terri tighter. He, for a second had no hope or faith in anything.
And just then, the strength he had suddenly found left him. His grip on Terri loosened, and he felt himself slowly fall steadily to the ground.
Kia watched Bernard fall to the ground, and felt hot tears crawl down her cheeks. She stood several feet away from the two and watched them. She heard a tinkle of a bell from near her feet and looked down and saw a tabby cat with a red and green collar around it's neck. She sniffed and whiped her tears aside.
Your here to help, aren't you?? she asked the cat. The cat meowed back at her and lept toward Bernard and Terri.
Good work, Tomaso, Kia heard a voice say all around her. She blinked twice as she saw the outline of an angel emerge from above. The glowing angel turned to Kia and smiled, and with that smile, Kia realized the angel was going to help her friends.
Bye Terri... Bye Bernard. Slowly, Kia turned away and left the angel at her work. The angel watched Kia leave and turned to the two hurt beings beneath her floating body, one of them she already had known some time before.
Tomaso meowed at the angel and she smiled again. She fixed her hands to her chest, like how someone would pray in church, and concentrated hard. A glowing araura surounded Bernard and Terri, and the both of them disapeared. The angel then put her hands to her sides and looked down at Tomaso.
Go ahead and meet them there, she told him. Tomaso meowed and shook his head making the bellcollar around his neck jingle. Slowly, his body disapeared with small specks of colors.
The angel on the other hand waited there and looked around at the city below her. She shook her head slowly and then said:
Sorry Bernard... The angel then felt tears come to her hevanly face. Sorry I wasn't there...
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... Terri... Bernard mumbled slowly in his sleep. I'm coming... Hold on... In his sleep her heard a familiar voice say his name, which made him awake immediatley. He shot up straight where he lay, and looked around, slightly panicked, for he had no idea where he was. All he could remember was seeing Terri unconsous in his arms...
When his eyes focused in, he was surprised to find he was in a bed instead of on the streets. All around him was draped white cloth, but he didn't know why he was there... Or where there was.
... Where am I?? he asked himself aloud, asuming no one would hear.
Back at the North Pole, of course! said someone pulling the white cloth aside. It was Judy. And your lucky to be here...
Bernard sprang from the bed and ran to the young elf. Her eyes twinkled brighter than usual as she received a warm hug. It's so good to see you...
Umm... erm, you too... Judy went slightly pink in the cheeks. Bernard then realized he wasn't wearing a shirt.
Oh, erm, sorry Judy...
Hehe, no problem, she laughed nervously as her cheeks grew redder. I brought you some cocoa... She pulled a plate from behind the curtins with a steaming cup of cocoa.
Thanks I've been dying for one of these... Judy handed the cup to Bernard and he drank the entire thing in less than five secconds.
Judy asked innocently.
When it's this good... Bernard looked at Judy who'se eyes were as big as saucers. You know I'm joking... Judy let out a sigh of relief and smiled. Bernard couldn't help to laugh at her innocence.
We almost lost you once, Bernard, don't scare me like that!
Lost me??
Well, yeah. You used up all of your magic, therefor you wouldn't be able to come here anymore...
Then how did I get back here?? Judy shrugged.
No one knows... A few weeks ago, Curtis found you and Terri unconsous in the sleigh. He called for Santa immediatley and they took you two here in the hospital wing... That's when they healed your stomach.
Why was I bleeding like that??
Santa told me that is one of the symptoms of when an elf uses all of he or she's magic... Or they're low on it... Anyways, the pain you felt was from your distance from here. You know how the North Pole is kind of our Power Source'?? Bernard nodded, urging Judy to go on. Well, studies are showing that when an elf is low on magic and they aren't close to their source... they start feeling internal pains and they might even start bleeding... Like you did.
But, shouldn't we know this from before??
Judy shook her head.
No elf has made a journey like yours... Except the Big Guy himself, so basically we had no idea that was going to happen to you. Bernard nodded and sat back on the bed. Judy sat next to him. The both of them sat there in silence until Bernard realized something.
Where's Terri??
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Bernard walked into another hospital room, a bed was sheilded by the same white sheets as his. He stood at the doorway, afraid of how bad Terri's injuries would be... Or if she was still alive. He took in a breath and walked inside.
he said lightly into the curtains.
In here, a small voice said... But it wasn't Terri's.
Bernard pulled back the curtain and expected to find Terri unconsous and bruised from head to toe. But instead, she was sitting up in bed, and with the help of a elf-nurse, she was drinking hapily from a bowl of soup.
Hi Bernard, she said in a hoarse and calm voice. The elf-nurse looked at Bernard, and took away the soup bowl and left the room without a word.
You're allright! Bernard ran to the bed and hugged Terri joyfully in his arms. She, he guessed, was still to week to move much. He let her go slowly and looked at her. She wore a white nightgown and a small smile on her face, hidden slightly by a bandage spread across her cheek.
Thanks to you... she said quietly. Bernard smiled.
When will you get out of here?? he asked a tone of saddness in his voice.
The doctors say I can get out of this bed in a week or so...
No, I mean here. When will you leave the North Pole?? Bernard sadly looked at the floor. She smiled.
Who said I was leaving?? Bernard raised his head and looked at her.
You're... Not leaving?? Terri nodded with a smile. Bernard's face lit with a smile which didn't last long (who smiles when they kiss??).
So she's really staying?? Curtis asked Santa as they stood in the doorway watching the two.
She sure is, Curtis. Scott looked down at Curtis, winked and turned to walk away. Curtis stayed and leaned against the side of the door.
I'm glad. Curtis then looked down at Tomaso, and like Santa, walked away. Now Tomaso stood looking at the two. He looked across the room and out the window and saw the angel. She waved to him shyly and watched the two reunite. Tomaso winked and gave a little meow.
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