Thunder Before The Storm

A/N: This is the prequel to The Rain Begins to Pour. At the beginning of this the ages are Dante-10 and RA-6. This goes all the way up to when RA escapes. This will explain a whole lot if you are still confused, and will also be repeated in the sequel to The Rain Begins to Pour called, The Rain Still Falls. I would like to credit Courtney (Rosalyn Angel) on helping me with the plot.

Chapter 1: The Search

Years before the fight and love there is a story to tell about their pasts. Two characters from different bloodlines of bodies collide that end in heartbreak, love, and sadness a story line that was once lost but now found. This is the tale before new love, and the story before the death of one. This is the tale.

In a lab outside Satan City, was a man looking at a map. He was single, a father to a young boy. This boy had long silver bangs and short hair in the back. This boy was Dante Persphon. Daniel Persphon loved his son dearly, and could not tell his son why he didn't have a mother. The mother had been killed the day after his birth from the medications they had put her on. He couldn't bear to have his son know that, so he never told him and Dante never asked. Daniel just worked in the lab all day while Dante was at school. Dante stayed at the lab on the floor level whenever he got off school while his father either studied and wrote papers in the office on the same level, did experiments in the underground lab, or did observations and studied things with electric up on the top of the lab. Yet he had been spending more in the office.

He had been studying mythical creatures, and found an interesting article in the paper from when he was a little kid. It talked about someone finding a human, but no regular human. It did look like a human but it changed into a cat, an anthro cat at that. The police said the person was a lunatic and sent him to get treated for an illness that he actually did have. He thought that the guy was mad, but anything could be possible. Maybe there was that breed of human. What made them cloak like that? How do they have tails, fur, and long or small cat ears? Why…

"Dad, I'm hungry. Its six, its dinner time." a muffled voice called from the sitting area on the other side of the door. Daniel sighed. He must go on with his studies, but his child needed him and he will not ignore him. Dante was the only thing he had left to grasp. He sat his papers down and scooted out from the desk. He turned his lamp off and walked towards the door and walked out, greeting his son who was finishing a little homework he had got. Dante was very smart for his age, and had been skipped ahead. He had gone from the fifth grade to the seventh grade. He was so proud of his little guy. He smiled and began to make dinner.

He turned the light off of Dante's room and walked to his office. Maybe. Maybe they were real. Maybe cat creatures, felis sapiens to be exact, did exist. He just had to find out. He sat in his chair and looked over the article one last time. He skimmed until he found where the location was. It was spotted in the woods of Satan City. Bingo. That's where he'll find his pets.

The next day Dante came in, his eyes all watery and a bruise on his cheek. His father had gotten a cup of coffee and was going back to his office when he saw his son.

"What the hell happened to you?" he asked, almost dropping his coffee cup. Who had done this to his son?

"The kids at school... They said mythical creatures didn't exist. I told them they did, and this one punched me. It hurt. He's older than me," said Dante between sobs. Daniel shook his head. His son being told mythical creatures weren't real? Well, he'll fix that. He'll have Dante show them there are mythical creatures.

"Come here boy," he said kneeling down. His son came over to him and looked at his father. "I'm going to have you home schooled from now on okay? I'll get everything you need and you can work here with me and do your studies." Dante's eyes went big.

"I can be a scientist like you?" he asked. Daniel nodded. "COOL!" he exclaimed and hugged his father. Daniel just smiled and hugged him back. He'll show them.

Dante just sat at the table studying the book in front of him. His teachers had been mad that he was taken away from them. They put up a protest not wanting the kid to go, but Daniel had told them it was important. He explained that he needed a helper and his son would be the best person. He also explained how the kids were a bad influence on his ten-year-old little boy while they were all either twelve or thirteen. His teachers agreed and decided to let him go. Dante just studied the math book, and finally got the answer and wrote it down. His father had been busy all day and had locked himself up in the office. Dante had thought this was a great idea but on the first day was beginning to regret it. He sat his pencil down and knocked on his father's door. A shout came out telling him to go away and Dante did. He sat on the couch and turned on the TV. At lest he could do his work whenever he wanted.

Daniel threw his address book across the room and threw himself into the unexpected chair. He heard his son call for him but he simply yelled for him to go away. He didn't need to be bothered now. He was being cruel yet, but not everything in this world was all daisies and sunshine. He grabbed his second address book and looked through it. Bingo. Alexander McJackson. The person he was looking for. He grabbed his phone and dialed the number real fast. He put it to his phone and grabbed a pencil.

"Hello, you've reached Satan News, Alexander Jackson speaking." said the husky voice on the other line.

"Alex! Its Daniel!" said Daniel. The two began to talk for a while, getting updated on what had been happening in their lives. Finally Daniel asked a question. "Hey, do you remember that guy from a couple years ago who reported the sighting of a felis sapien?"

"A felis what?" asked Alex.

"A cat human." sighed Daniel. Alex just gave an ooo.

"No, but I can always check in the files. Let me call you back tomorrow." said Alex and hung up. Daniel was going to find the cat humans. He was going to.

A couple weeks went by and Alex hadn't gotten in touch with Daniel since they had talked. Daniel had been pushing his son away, something he didn't want to do. He wished his son had someone to talk with or something. His work came before his son it looked like. Dante seemed to be doing fine with his work, but inside he was hurting. He wanted to spend time with his father. That really didn't happen. He just needed someone. His father didn't want him to spend time with his old friends so he didn't. He had been studying more and more science books. He wanted to be like his father. He also had been studying more about mythical creatures. They were very interesting to him. He looked at his dad's office when he heard the phone ring.

"Yes?!" exclaimed Daniel, picking up the phone as fast as he could.

"I found the location." said Alex. Daniel cheered in his mind. Finally.

"Where is it?" he demanded. Alex told him to hold his horses and told him the location. "You are God Alex."

"I know, I know. See-ya!" Click. Daniel put down the phone and smiled. He would soon have his pets.

In a forest a mile from Satan City, a little house would be found. Inside there was two small bedrooms, a small kitchen, and a small living room. A female figure walked from the bedroom. Yet she wasn't a whole human. She had a body of a female human but she had pale blonde fur and long cat ears. She wore a flowery dress type thing with thick straps and fell to her knees. She had pure green eyes. She walked outside and sat by a flowerbed, her cattail falling softly to the ground. A built male made his way over to the female cat woman. Himself was a cat human. He had deep colored fur and deep blue eyes. He had somewhat shorter ears than the female but they were thicker. He made his way over to her.

"I finished gathering the wood Maji," he said, putting his hand on her shoulder.

"That's good Reig. It should last," she said. She looked up at Reig and smiled. They heard a rumble and looked up.

Two hover vehicles made their way through the forest. They both were white; one was longer than the other. A man with a white lab coat was standing up through the sunroof of the smaller hover car. He noticed the two and smiled. My pets. Another person joined him with a gun in his hand. Reig pulled Maji up and began to run. Thump. Thump. Birds flew through the tress. Due to the noise a pair of innocent green eyes looked up.

Daniel put Reig into the vehicle and smiled.

"Put those two into the lab. Take the basement way so Dante doesn't find out." said Daniel, brushing his hands together as the hover vehicle left. As he made his way to the other vehicle he heard the sound of rustling leaves and turned around quickly. A small girl walked through the trees; clothes of raggedy material covered her body. She had brown fur like Reig, and long ears and pure green eyes like Maji. Her deep hair was in two braided pigtails and her brown tail with a white puff of fur at the end swayed. She walked over to him, a shy look on her face. Yet her eyes held curiosity.

"Ika?" she asked. Daniel looked at her.

"Ika?" he asked.

"It means Hello, where is Mama? Papa?" she asked, her small little voice saying she was young. She tilted her head. Daniel wanted to tell the little one her parents left her for good, but couldn't bare to do that. She was adorable for a little felis sapien. Then it struck him. Dante.

He knelt down to the little girl's level and held out his hand.

"Your parents went away for a little while. They want me to take care of you," he said softly and gently. She looked at his hand. She grabbed it and began to sniff it. Daniel laughed until he felt the sharp teeth of the little one bite into his hand. He yelped and jerked his hand away. "Ow!" he howled. The girl laughed.

"Papa would like you." she cooed. "You can sing!" She smiled brightly. Daniel laughed flatly and rubbed his hand.

"Well, your Papa wanted me to look after you for a while. Would you like that..."he stopped.

"My Papa and Mama call me Rosalyn Angel, or their Little Angel. You can call me Rose! Not Rosalyn." she said. He smiled.

"What a pretty name. How old are you dear little one?" he questioned. Rose thought a little.

"Six rotation of the seasons." she said, a smile on her face. Daniel just looked at her. She must mean six years. He just smiled.

"Alright Rose. Lets go. Oh.. Um.. I have a question..." he began. How would he take her into public? Everyone would storm him and try to look at his new pet. No way. Rose nodded. "Can you cloak or something?" he stumbled out.

"Um… I think you mean this?" she asked. Daniel just stared as her fur began to change into pale skin. Her tail began to disappear as she transformed. She looked exactly the same but she didn't have a tail or fur. Daniel just nodded.

"Yes, that. Do you have any clothes?"

"Um… no not really." Daniel just thought a bit.

"Alright. Come on sweetie, we're going shopping." he said. Rose ran over to him. He grabbed her hand and put her in the vehicle. He got in and started it. Rose's eyes darted around scared. As it began to move, Rose pounced on Daniel.

"IT'S MOVING!" she cried. Her nails dug into his shoulders and he yelped.

"Rose… it's… o… okay. It listens to me," he said. Rose let out a small 'ahh…' and crawled off him and went back to her seat. Daniel drove off towards the mall.

Rose held onto Daniel's hand as he took her through the mall. She had never seen so many humans before in her life. So many people of different shapes and colors. It just amazed her. Daniel was really the only human she had met. He took her into a store and began to look through little clothes that should fit her. She stared. So many clothes..

"How about this?" he asked. It was a pair of pants and a maroon colored long-sleeved shirt. She took it and the two went into the dressing rooms. Daniel helped Rose into the clothes, which she had a little trouble with. The shirt fit fine but the pants, the smallest size for a six year old, was a little bit to long. He tilted his head.

"I guess this will have to do. Do you like it?" he asked. She nodded, but her face kind of turned. "What is it?"

"My tail… what about my tail? It needs room!" she said, a pout on her face showing. Daniel laughed.

"We can cut a hole for your tail once we buy your clothes. Now come on, we have to try some more on." he said. Rose just nodded and smiled.

Daniel had bough Rose a few more pairs of clothes. The pants were to big so he got her a rope and tied it around her waist. Rose had seen a bell she wanted and Daniel tried to put it on a chain but she didn't want to wear it then. So he got it on a thick blue collar that she decided she wanted and wore it as they walked out. Once they reached the hover car, he cut a hole in the back of her pants. She de-transformed and her tail poked out of the hole. She swished it some and jumped in. Daniel got in also. He was happy. His son would have a playmate today.