Destination
The trucks came to a halt, the trailer pushing them a little bit farther. Trisha was on the front lawn. Her home looked as if it was being painted black, yet left unfinished. Trisha's nine cats all had burns on their right forepaws, which was odd since no one else had been injured, and knowing Trisha she probably went back into the house multiple times for the cats and she was unscratched. Also, the burns looked exactly the same, like something was coiling around their leg. Taki stepped out of the truck and picked up some cats. D followed her.
"D, I'm going to stay behind for a bit to help out Trisha. Can you please tend to her cats?" Taki said uncannily calm. D took the cats from her slowly so not to improperly handle their burns.
"Of course, Miss Taki" he answered. "Detective, Chris, I believe its okay for you to head home now" he added. Leon was going to say something. But what was there to say? He coaxed Chris to turn around and leave. Then he walked down the street muttering something about walking home and animals. D also went back to his pet shop with some cats in his arms and the rest following him.
When he arrived, Ginger and T-chan lay asleep next to each other on the floor. They awoke and curiously made their way over to the cats. Something told them these cats were different. Trisha's favorite cat, Mama's Girl, a sleek silver cat lifted her head. Ginger and T-chan looked at each other confused. Why didn't the cats look human? They were obviously not regular cats. Were they hiding their true form or were these just eerie house cats? Ginger adjusted her choker as she always did when ready to speak after a long while of not talking or when she was about to observe something important.
"I remember these cats. They used to sit in the window and be annoying so I used to yell at them all the time. Dumb cats..." she said. The black cat, Angel, rose and looked at Ginger momentarily with her large green cat eyes.
"Yes, and I remember you" said a voice. "It was so fun mocking you. Dumb dogs..." continued the voice. T-chan growled and eyed the cat. It must've been her who spoke. She was already suspicious enough as it was, who was to say a cat that odd couldn't do something like talk using telepathy?
"Don't talk to Ginger that way" snapped T-chan. The cat closed its eyes slowly as if it were about to sleep. She reopened them, stared at T-chan and walked off leaving a cold aura in the place she once sat. D returned with things to mend the cat's wounds. He examined the burns but they were like nothing he'd ever seen. All the burns look exactly like...a snake. However, these snake marking looked familiar. He had seen them on Aztecan pyramids. The skin and fur of these cats were different. He didn't know if it was normal for this new breed or if it was infectious.
Moments later, Taki arrived. D remembered she had said she was a vet so he asked her about Trisha's rare breed of cat. Taki seemed to struggle for words. Was there a secret to be learned? Taki was about to begin her explanation when suddenly a voice broke the silence.
"D" said a voice coming from Mama's Girl's direction. "You have all the power we need in this shop. There's something here that we can feel the power in. We remain unsure on what it is but it matters not. There is power here. Power to stop this wrongful doing" she continued
"Who are you?" asked D
"I am Malintzin and I am one of the nine fire cats of Tlaloc, the Aztec's god of fire, wind and war" she said. "These are my sisters. Together we set fire to the house because we knew we would be taken here" she said looking in the direction of the other cats.
Angel stood up. The black cat paused for a moment. "I am the second eldest, Anacaona. Taki, the resting places of our masters has been disturbed" she said shooting an icy glare at everyone.
"Your...masters?" D inquired.
"Yes, Tlaloc sent us to protect the leaders of the Aztecan people. These leaders were: Cautemoc, Itzcoatl, and Moctezuma" Anacaona answered. "Now, you shall come with us Taki and help with our cause" said the cat as her eyes glowed an ominous blue as did the rest of the room.
Soon enough D and Taki felt a hard, rocky floor beneath them. They looked around and realized that they were high off the ground. The sun looked so high one would think they could've touched it. They looked behind them and saw T-chan holding Ginger closely and tightly with their eyes firmly shut. They opened their eyes slowly and at the same time. When they realized they were unharmed they breathed a sigh of relief, however, they did not loosen their grip on one another.
"Taki" called Ginger. Taki looked back. "Is this the...Pyramid of the Sun?" she asked a bit nervously. Taki looked around and scanned the landscape. Smaller pyramids lined the outskirts of this old Aztecan civilization. However, there were no people. She looked to her right and there was a tall pyramid but it was much smaller than the one they were on. That was the Pyramid of the Moon.
"Yes, Ginger. This is the Pyramid of the Sun" she finally answered. In a few seconds nine women appeared before them. Each of them had a snake burn on their right arm and they had fangs and claws. They were the cats in their true form. Each of them had dark black hair and an intricate feathered headdress. Three-rowed shell anklets were tied around both their ankles.
"Come Taki" said Malintzin. Taki turned away. The cat closed her eyes and Taki was surrounded with a purple light.
"Hey! What are you doing!?" Ginger said furiously.
"Silence, I've had enough of you!" commanded Anacaona. With that Anacaona rattled the pyramids and sent a wheel of flames hurdling in Ginger direction. T-chan not thinking about his own safety pulled Ginger out of the way and almost got himself killed by the whirlwind of red and orange flames.
Taki began to transform. Her black shirt with blue flames changed into a large piece of cloth with Aztecan designs intricately decorating that covered her breasts. Then, her black pants began to take the form of a white cloth skirt with a red woven design of a snake and jaguar fighting on it. The skit was cut on the sides. The cuts stopped just below her upper thigh. She wore a crowing headdress of green feathers. The headdress ended at the middle of her back with feathers aligning the material all the way down. Her toenails and finger nails began to transform into claws. Complex markings began to cover the back of her hands. The shell anklets that were seen on the cats also began to wrap around her ankles as well.
"Now come, Taki. Or should I say Coyolxauhqui" said Malintzin just as Taki's transformation ended. Ginger had transformed as well. She was now wearing a long white dress with a green design of the ever common symbol of the Aztecs, the dog head.
"Right below us, men are working away to uncover the secrets of our masters. Now, we must fight to end it" said Anacaona to the other cats.
"You're planning to start a war over this? Your masters are dead, Anacaona!" Taki protested. Anacaona glared.
"You don't have a say in this" she shot back.
"I am the goddess of Earth and the Moon, I have more say than the cats of Tlaloc" Taki said ready to take action.
"Taki, what is all this?" D called.
"My mother was the Aztecan goddess Tlazoteotl. She was the goddess of Earth and maternity. My father Yuan was born from the soul of the great dragon that rules the skies so he was the dragon's son and a God of the moon. From the two was born me, Coyolxauhqui, goddess of Earth and moon and I was a goddess of the Aztecs and Ginger is Tlacoxochitl, my right hand" she explained.
Her explanation was cut short by the sound of drums. The cats took part in a dance. Their shell ankles rattled as they moved to the music. The feathers shook and seemed to dance in the air. The area around them began to glow blue. The Earth began to tremble a bit. Anacaona grabbed Taki by the upper arm. Her touch burned and when her hand was removed the burn of the snake had appeared on Taki's arm once again. Malintzin began to make the drum rhythm faster. The dancers moved faster as well. Taki then held out her hands, a small ball of green and blue formed and she began to say something in the language of the Aztecs. The cats grew slower and weaker, they fought to keep going. Their goal was to make the earth shake and to trap the scientist exploring their masters tombs inside and to crush all humans in the area. The cats finally stopped and the ball in Taki's hand expanded. It covered the area and a forceful wind blew. The cats fell to the floor and everything went blank.
When it was over, Taki and Ginger had returned to their normal state. T-chan had grabbed onto her as soon as the earth began to disappear before his eyes. Ginger breathed a sigh of relief. T-chan on the other hand didn't move, he just kept Ginger there as if he didn't know they were safe. Ginger didn't mind, she liked it when T-chan did that, so she just let herself relax in his arms. D was holding on to Taki. She looked over at D and he moved her hair out of her face.
"Are you alright?" he asked softly
"Of course" she said with a slight smile. "Thank you...for being the only person to care about me" she added. D said nothing. He only brought her closer to him and let her rest. He checked her right arm. Her burns were gone...and so were the cats.
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The next day D awoke and went to go get his newspaper. On the front page the headline read: "Excavators make narrow escape. Important discover found in Mexico City." Taki awoke soon after D and joined him in looking at the paper. Taki glanced through the article and saw a picture. Underneath it, it read: "A depiction of goddesses? This stone closed the entrance to the area the excavator were searching. No form of equipment can get through it or move it. However, researchers don't want to move the stone, as it could be important for research of this fascinating ancient culture. Some residents in the area believe it may have been a sign from God of possible danger to come of the excavators had continued in their search in the tombs." Taki looked closely at the picture. It was a painted picture of nine fierce red cats with women spirits rising out of their bodies. The women were the exact women the cats had turned into the night before.
"So the Aztecs knew about their mission and so...they painted pictures of them on the door of their master's tombs" said Taki with a smile as she folded up the news paper. She wouldn't have to explain to Trisha either, after all Trisha knew the time would come and the cats would have to leave. Taki wasn't the only one who knew their secret after all. She glanced over at D. She was actually thankful for what the cats did to her because without them, she wouldn't have had a chance to get closer with D and she knew Ginger though the same of T-chan.
"I knew you all were special from the moment I was sent by my father, who brought you home, to give you to Trisha. After all, my father hated cats but he knew of Trisha's exceptional cat care in the past and wanted to give you a good home. You had to be special cats if my father thought highly of you. Besides, you're Aztecs and we are special people. Anacaona, Malintzin, thank the others for me" she thought and as she thought, she knew the cats could hear her, wherever they might've been.
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To my reviewers:
ERH: Thank you for the compliment. I read your update yesterday and it was so good! As for the quote: You are correct! YAY! (hugs) The song is called "Rock and Roll" by: Led Zeppelin.
FAN1: I'm glad you liked my description things. I was quite proud of them myself too. Actually, I've had a lot of practice thinking of descriptions for them because that's the description of my car and my dad's car. I got really inspired to write a chapter like that in early summer because I went drag racing with my dad and I thought: "That would be so cool if I put something like this in the story!"
WITCHCHICK 3.0: I hope you liked my Mexico chapter. I got inspired to write it as I climbed the pyramids in Xochicalco. Even though that's not were this particular chapter takes place, the pyramids and ancient city do exist. The city in this story is Teotihuacan. It's the main place with all the pyramids. It's located in Mexico City. Whoa, did I really make Hades freeze over? O.O
MagicalGirl: Yay, thank you for your praise. You're cool too! Your suggestions were great and I will be using your moon festival ideas. Wow, I've never been someone's hero before. As for the guy in the library, he's stupid, let's throw rocks at him. Anyway, I really hope you enjoyed this chapter. There will be a sequel to this story due to the outstanding reader turn out and the praise I get makes me want to write more because I don't want to disappoint anyone. I can tell people like my work so I won't let anyone down. Rock on, Magical Girl! (hugs) Oh, and by the way, I don't mind getting long reviews. You can go ahead and make 'em as long as you want.
Ruleroftheanimeuniverse: Don't worry, cuteness is coming soon. I'm glad you liked the drag racing aspect of the last chapter. I was hoping I didn't go into too much tedious detail but since I'm getting a lot of positive feedback, I guess I didn't. lol. Anyway, I hope you liked my Mexico chapter. I worked really hard on all the ideas and lots of research in Mexico as well as when I got back.
Heaven sent me: I'm so glad you liked it. Man, I'm so glad I didn't go over the top with my drag racing facts. sighs in relief And yes, as you can see in this chapter, there will be some Ginger T-chan action. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I hope you enjoy the next one because it will be my last for this story, but there will be a sequel.
Erik's Rose: Si! VIVA MEXICO! I posted this chapter today since it's Mexico's independence day. Anyway, Q-chan will make a small appearance soon and he will also make appearances in my sequel. I hope you liked it. This is pure-Mexico/MagicalGirl inspired work.
--- Hi everyone! Yes, the next chapter is the last and yes, there will be a sequel. As you may or may not know, this chapter was submitted today in honor of México's Independence Day. VIVA MEXICO! Sorry, I love my culture a lot. Also, I'm writing a book called Of Blood and Wolf. My mom says she'll try to get it published too! Isn't that cool? So if you see it on bookstore shelves one day, please pick up a copy and if you do you'll find out my real name and then we can do this whole fan-letter thing if you want. Anyway, hope you all like the chapter, oh and to answer the quote question I asked in the previous chapter, the hidden quote was: "Been a long time since I rock and rolled." The song it came from was: "Rock and Roll" by: Led Zeppelin. Go ERH! She got it right. (claps)