Author's Note: Good day ladies and gentlemen :) I'm please to tell you that I finally finish my senior year in High School…. And now I'm happy to say that I'm currently unemployed and I have lots of time on my hands ^^;
But you don't want to know about my life you just want to read this fic don't you? Well, at least that makes me feel a little better. But I have some bad news and good news. The bad news is in my Bio so you can read it. The good news is the other part of Werecat was in my other computer in school! But the bad news is that the school version was only the 30 % of the chapter I was done with… the one I had in my brother's was…33% ^^; So I decided to once again like chapter 2 to split this chapter into sections.
I hope you like this…I hope it doesn't suck…really…enjoy!
Werecat! Chapter 3 Part 1
Time didn't take long for Katie to adjust waking on four paws in the ballroom, but it did took longer for her to relearn how to run on four paws but being a quick learner she was running down the wet streets and alleyways. However, she couldn't adjust herself running on four paws, especially when she was making turns. In one of her turns she made it too tight and she started to skid on the concrete ground and slammed into a pile of overfilled trashcans. She got up and quickly ran from the area, into an entranceway. She lean her furry, wet, back against the brick wall looking for anyone on the streets. It was empty." I gotta get out of the open before someone spots me." Katie though. By now they would have had a special coverage on the whole Hotel fiasco on Television. While Katie was taking a rest from running she let out a sneeze; she was surprised a werecat could do that. Across the street she found a bridge and on the side of the bridge was a set of concrete stairs. She walked over and carefully walked down the staircase leading to the city canal.
Katie remembered that her father told her little stories about the canal's history and how they use to be the main city sewers until the city finally made an underground sewer system. She also remembered how her mom also told stories about how gangsters from a long time ago used to pick up cats that didn't pay their money and tie cement blocks around their ankles and push them off into the canal. But all Katie knows about the canal was how much it used to smell. Nowadays it doesn't stink that bad as it did when she was little.
When she set paw on the brick floor she found a couple of empty crates. One of the crates was large enough for her to lie inside and rest. It didn't look cozy or clean but it was dry enough for her besides, she couldn't check into a hotel looking like she is now, and this wasn't the time to be picky. She went inside and relaxed into a ball to keep herself warm and become more comfortable. Katie was happy she was out of the rain but wasn't happy about how things are going for her, " What am I goin' to do?" She pondered. " Am I goin' to stay like this forever and ever? Aw man, I forgot all about Johnny the cameraman! He's probably more freaked out then me. I wonder if he's hiding now. Or was he captured already and…"
She shook her head trying to stop herself to think negative. Right now she couldn't ting negatively and besides that their was a factor that was against the Enforcers. Mega Kat City is a large metropolis and it would take the Enforcers a long time to find one someone, something or even a thing. And since it's raining they can't use their helicopters or jets so they cant look for her in the air. Therefore, she was safe…for the time being. Katie aimlessly looked at the rain softly dropping into the questionable canal water to try to clear her mind. Until she thought of something that horror struck her mind. How could she forget about the other factor?
" The Swat Kats." Katie said in her mind, " They don't know it's me that's a werecat, and even if they do would they still…" Katie consider choosing another word to use instead of using the 'K' word, " …Exterminate me?" Her heart suddenly became heavier when she played that scenario in her head a couple of times. She thought again, " Would he care what happens to me…. Does he even care for…." The werecat shook her head and exasperated, " What the hell am I talkin' 'bout… He's what he is and I'm what I am, well was. He probably doesn't even give a damn about me anyhow…he'd probably wouldn't care if he do me in or even know what my name is…he…he probably doesn't even realize…realize that…forget it…it stupid to think about it." Her eyes started to get heavier second by second and she decided she'd deal with her problems soon as she gets up in the morning. Right now, all she wanted to do was to get a little relaxation, until it was interrupted by the sudden crash of falling trashcans." Shhh!" One man said, " Hey quit it! Your goin' ta make the werecat find out were around here! Now get off ya fat tail 'n' folla me."
" Duh, I'm sorry Ralph." The stupid sounding one said, " Uhh, say Ralph, when we get the werecat what are we going to do huh? "
" I dunno Bruno?!" Ralph said coldly, "'Cause he just wants it on his stupid wall? I don't care if he eats it in his soup I just want the money! "
" Duh…I don't know Ralph, is this even legal?" Ralph was quiet for a few seconds, " Yeah, for once your right Ralph. I mean, this isn't another cat were dealing with dis is an Enforcer, right?" Katie was far away from the box and was quietly sneaking away from the three tomcats. She thought, " I think those guys are after me! I better get out of here before they find me…" Katie stopped and suddenly felt that her nose was tingling inside. Of all times this was a bad time for her to sneeze.
Ralph walked over to a dark brown cat with black hunting boots and light gray camouflage clothing. He's stature was build; it looked like he worked out. " Now, now Ralph." The build cat said. Despite hanging out with a couple of losers he sounded well educated, Katie could tell by his voice that he wasn't from Mega Kat City. The educated cat continued, " Scolding the poor fellow's inability of walking coordinately will not speed up this task of ours gentlemen; let's not focus on our personal negative aspects but instead focus on the goal of the mission."
Katie used her paws to cover the holes of her nostrils to stop herself from sneezing. She begged, " Not now! Please don't sneeze, please don't sneeze, please don't sneeze…"
" All right, mister fancy pants hunter." Hotly Ralph said. Bruno tried to hid his laughter while Ralph continued, " But this 'suggestion' of ya's betta speed tings up. I wanna get out of the stupid rain and I wanna get paid for this. Oh, and speakin' of dis mission I wanna know one thing: Is this illegal? 'Cause I just got out of the slammer and I don't wanna be in Alkatraz again!"The hunter sighed while loading his shot gun, " I tell you the truth gentleman. This is sort of illegal. But think about it this way, if we take out this monster then we be doing a public service to the civilians of this city."
Katie's heart sunk to the floor when the hunter said that. She thought, " I'm…I'm not a monster…"
" I vow to you Ralph and Marty," The hunter assured to the two tomcats. He loaded a few rounds of shotgun rounds into his shotgun and closed it with a snap; it sickened and made Katie morbid inside her whole entire body. The hunter continued, " That you will get your money handsomely after we detain and ahem terminate the werecat, or my name isn't Dallas Hunter. Now c'mon, the werecat isn't around here."
" Terminate!" Katie screamed inside her mind, " I gotta get away from these wakkos!" She was about to escape until she sneezed.
" Was that a sneeze?" Ralph said looking behind his shoulder.
" It's the werecat, no cat can sneeze like that!" Hunter shouted ran towards the river and looked down and found Katie looking at him eye to eye. Suddenly she find herself running away fast from Hunter who was shooting at her screaming," What are you two idiots standing there for!" Hunter bellowed, " Go and get that werecat!" Ralph and Marty jump down to the bottom of the canal walkway and ran after the werecat. When they went underneath another bridge Marty was out of breath. He sighed, " Ralph, let's stop, I think the werecat is 'round here." Ralph pulled out a flashlight and cut it on. " Marty ya better get your tranquilizer ready." The large cat pulled out his gun and pointed to the area were the light flashed. All they found was rotten boxes and canal water, but not the werecat.
" Ralph I can't see anything." Marty said.
" Boss I don't see it." Ralph shouted.
" Real smart Marty yellin' like that." Ralph scolded, " C'mon let's get outta here." Ralph cut off the flashlight and the two cats walked up the stairs and told Hunter the bad news. " Your sure you didn't find the werecat?" Hunter said. " Yeah,"
" Are you one hundred percent sure?"
" Yeah, if ya wanna look yourself then go on ahead." Ralph argued. Hunter sighed with stress, " Okay guys, let's go up the canal, the werecat could be hiding around there." Hunter, Marty and Ralph left the area. However, if the two toms had looked up from were they were standing they would have found Katie clinging onto the bottom of the bridge with her sharp claws.
" Phew, They didn't find me. Good thing my claws could hold on to concrete and support my weight while I'm upside down, I guess being a werecat has it's advantages." Suddenly she started to cough violently and she accidentally drawn her claws in.
" Uh oh…"
And she fell down onto the floor.
" Ouch! Dammit to stupid hell!" She coughed again, " Why do I have to have a freakin' cold!" Katie got up on her four paws and started to walk up the stairs.
" Why me? Why me out of millions of people in MKC I have ta be a werecat." Katie thought to herself, " First I change into this thing and now some psycho hunter want ta kill me. What else could happen now?" She thought. A little boy kitten wearing a yellow raincoat and a matching raincoat hat was skipping along side his mother while holding her hand. It looked liked he didn't had any worries in the world unlike his mother, on the other hand, was struggling to hold a paper bag of groceries in one arm, an umbrella in her hand to keep her and her son dry, and holding her kitten's hand. The bottom of the paper bag was wet and it couldn't hold the weight of the items inside the bag so the bottom of the bag gave way spilling all the groceries on the floor.
" Darn it!" The mother said stressfully. She let go of her son's hand and handed him the big umbrella. Knelling on one knee she started to pick up everything that fell on the floor. The little kitten saw a can of peas rolled out into the middle of the road and stopped. The kitten tugged on his mother's coat and asked, " Mommy can I help too?"
" Sure sweetie." The shecat said busily picking up as much stuff in her arm as she can, " I would appreciate it very much."
" Okay." The little kitten placed the umbrella upside down and skipped out in the open road to get to the can of peas. The kitten should have looked both ways before crossing the street for a big truck was heading toward his path. The truck driver who was looking at a map made a quick glance at the road and saw the little boy. Horrified, he honked his horn furiously warning the kid to get off the road, he pulled on the emergency break but the truck was going to fast to stop on the slick road. The mother hearing the horn looked out on the street and found her son in the path of the truck at a fast speed. She screamed with fear, " Oh my god! Somebody save my baby!" She held her breath waiting for the sickening sound of her son getting hit by the truck but all she saw when the truck went by was the little kitten's raincoat hat carried by the wind. And all she heard was the truck tires screeching to a halt. The truck driver opens the passenger side of the truck and jumped out, with a sick look in his face.
" What the? Where did the kid go!?" The truck driver said with perplexity. Everybody on the street was almost as puzzled as the truck driver until they heard a faint voice coming from the alleyway besides the mother, " Mommy?" His mother turned her head around and found him walking out of the alleyway, without his hat, and in his hand was the can of peas. His mom quickly grabbed him into his arms, " Sweetie! Your alright!" His mom started to give hug and kisses all over his face and a large crowd was forming around the two. The boy giggled with a big smile, " It was fun when the werecat picked me up and ran across the street!"
The crowd hushed. His mother looked at him with a shocked expression on her face, " WHAT!"
The little boy nodded his head with a smile, " Yep. And ya know what Mommy… I wanna do it again!"
" Phew, that was close." Katie sighed. Already she was blocks away from the accident that almost taken place. She was happy she got the little boy just in the nick of time she didn't want to think about what would of happen if she was their. But she never realized how fast she could run or the power she had. Until she found out what she can do back their. If she was in her 'normal' state she would of never caught the boy in time, even if she ran as fast as she could, she thought.
" It's like I have some powers," She thought, " Kinda like that comic book character ' Spider Cat' except I was bit by a werecat." The little werecat started to ponder all the possibilities of her new powers until she heard an odd sound. She stopped walking and turned he head around. She called out quietly, " Who's there…." Katie's sentence slowly stopped. She realized no matter how hard she tried no ordinary person could not understand what she was trying to say.
A snickering tomcat hysterical laughing sounded just like a hyena. Since it was so dark in the ally Katie couldn't pin point where the laughter was coming from. The laughing weirdo stopped laughing and copied her,
" Who's—ha—Who's—he he— there!" The foolish sounding cat chuckle again. He kind of had a crazy sounding voice that sort of sounds Latin. He spoke again. " Slither did ya hear what she said?"
" Yo Cheko," Slither laughed in suave way. He was a salt and pepper furred werecat that looked and act cool, " Ya gotta lay off usin' that C-nip sometimes when ya like this man."
" C-nip?" Katie said in her head. " Oh no don't tell me he's using that stuff." And something came up to mind. She thought, " Hold it! How could he copy what I'm sayin' unless he's a—"
Suddenly, a dark shadowy figure jump from off the four story rooftop and landed feet first onto a closed dumpster facing the orange haired werecat. He had dark brown fur all over his body, spiky green neon hair, and a black patch of fur over his left eye. Both eyes were bloodshot and look like they were bulging out, which symbolized the result of using catnip over a long period of time.
" Hey baby," Cheko went through his usual laugh spurts, " I didn't know he wants a red head." His mouth formed an ominous smile with other intentions, " I love red heads."
" Sorry pal," Katie spat out, " I'm not your type and besides, my hair is orange." Katie began to walk away from the cap nip user when Slither jumped in front of her blocking her exit and warned, " Lady this is order's from my boss to get you so let's go quietly, alright."
" I don't have to go with nobody, loser!" She growled, " So get out of my way or I'll—"
" Or what carrot top?" Slither threateningly interrupted.
Katie suddenly began to feel that same feeling she had when she was at the ballroom. When danger was closed to her the pit of her stomach or whatever it was inside of her now started to irritate her like last time. The little voice inside her head started to tell her to fight back, but in the back of her head it tell her to flee. But the fight in her started to grow and grow like an annoying itch. Cheko leaped off of the dumpster and walked over to Slither who was walking towards Katie, who were decreasing her personal space.
This was it, fight, flee, or die. Katie thought. She plant her paws in the ground, retracted her claws and with her lower back arched and raised with hairs standing on end she was ready to fight.
" Ya guys better back off before I slash ya ta cubes!" She hissed. Cheko laughed and ignored her warning. He casually walked over to her with the signature catnip user smile on his face. But his mood changed when Katie raised her paw in the air and scratched him on his nose.
" Ow!" Cheko screamed. Little claw marks were on the front of his nose. If he weren't using catnip the pain wouldn't be that intensive but his mind made him to believe that Katie cut half of his nose off. " Slither did ya see that!" Cheko screamed, " She scratched me! Holy cat's my nose feels like it's about to come off! That little witch scratched me on the nose!" Cheko's mood shifted from being giggly and passive to malevolent.
Katie realized she broken three of the unofficial basic rules in the Enforcers: Never hit a crazy person, never hit a person on catnip, and never hit a crazy person who's on catnip.
" Ya like scratchin' people huh!" Cheko screamed. He started to breath harder through his teeth. He talked toward her and retracted his sharp (and longer) claws screaming, " YA LIKE SCRATCHIN' PEOPLE HUH!" Immediately, Katie jumped backwards making her paws cling against the brick wall for a few seconds that saved her from Cheko's long sharp claws that were shrill enough to make claw marks on brick. Katie jumped off a few feet away facing Cheko and Slither and behind her was her ticket out of danger, the end of the alleyway.
A crazed Cheko turned around growling with anger at her sneering, " I say let's go 'n get her Slither!" The two started to run after her, and Katie started to run towards the exit making her four paws run as fast as she can. Cheko almost made it towards her when he ran up the wall and jumped after her but Katie found energy inside herself to gain a boost of speed that made him miss her. The two toms started to lose their breath and started to slow down but not her, she still kept running.
" I'm home free!" Happily she said. And she ran out of the alleyway and ran down a desolate area of the city and hid behind a dumpster. Slither and Cheko ran past the dumpster without even realizing she was behind it. When the two werecats were far away from her she decided to walk away quietly from her hiding place. Angrily she thought, " First the enforcers are after me, then some hunter wanna-be is after me, I think the Swat Kats is probably after me, and now some crazy werecats are after me! Why does everyone wants a piece of me! " All of a sudden sparkly white dust blew in a thick cloud in front of her. Her eyes started to get heavier by the second and she started to become delirious but what was worse of all was she started to slowly black out. " Good. I got her." Someone said with a French accent. Katie's body began to feel heavy and she couldn't bare the weight no more. She collapsed on the ground and felt herself being dragged to some place. She wanted to stop whoever it was but sleepiness was overpowering her. And right there everything in front of her eyes went black.
So how was it? It was what you expected? Was it exciting? Well, I better continue working on part 2 of Werecat! C'ya soon!
Jerseygirl :)
