Kitmit stood up and looked at her surroundings. She sensed danger, but saw nobody else in the room but her and Yum Yum. Then, she heard somebody chuckle. It sounded like a woman too, but Kitmit had no idea where it was coming from. Then, footsteps. "My my, two great Feligards in my posession. Enemies too. How cute." Kitmit turned around quickly. On the other side of the room was... well, she couldn't quite make out what it was. Strangely enough, the creature seemed to be pure darkness. Like just a shadow with no owner. Kitmit's fur stood on end and she hissed at the shadow. "Who are you and why did you bring us here?" The shadow began to change shape all of a sudden. At first it would have looked painful, the way the darkness was writhing and twisting. But soon, the shadow shrunk in size considerably and soon took a solid form. She looked just like Rayman!! Dark blue eyes, just like him. But her body was a dark blue and she had lighter blue shoes and a bandana. She also had dark brown hair that was shoulder-length and a little wild. She smiled teasingly and walked towards the cage. She put her hand on the bars and continued to smile. "You ask too many questions, Cat Woman." Kitmit's eyes widened. Rayman called her Cat Woman once, and this girl... finally, Kitmit remembered that strange light that surrounded Rayman, then those comets... they couldn't have just been normal comets.

Kitmit narrowed her eyes at the little Raymanian, as she decided to call her. "What's your name?" The Raymanian sneered. "My name is Ra..." The sneer soon disappeared, and she now appeared a little troubled. She turned her back on Kitmit and started to walk away. Kitmit was slightly annoyed, but also curious. If she was right, then this creature may very well be a part of Rayman's evil side. "Wait," she called out, "you never told me your name!" The Raymanian stopped and turned to look at Kitmit, she seemed to be struggling with some thoughts. "I am... call me... Rainy." Seeming satisfied with her name, Rainy turned back to where she was walking toward, a huge metal door. She opened the door and looked back at Kitmit, a little grin on her face now. "My Masters will be pleased to know of your arrival, Cat Woman. They have been waiting for quite some time." But before Kitmit could ask any more questions, the door closed and Rainy was gone.

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Cassandra sat beside the fire, looking into it with puffy red eyes. She had been crying for some time. Sky had woken up about two hours earlier and the first thing he saw wasn't exactly the best way to say, "Welcome back". When he saw his father bleeding and covered in paw prints, he looked right up and into the face of, you guessed it, a cat. He began to freak out right away, attacking her with what little strength he had. Razoff and Mr. Dark were still in the leaf tent, trying to calm him down. He may have been young and weak, but Sky cared a lot about his father and lashed out with all that he had. The dragon made a soft sound. Not quite a hiss, but almost like a dragon purr. It used it's wing to gently wipe away one of Cassandra's tears. She smiled at the dragon. "I don't know what I should have expected. He's never seen me before, and old photos certainly won't help now." The dragon lowered it's head a bit and snuggled against Cassandra.

"Be thankful for your looks, lady. I'm a flying fuzzball, how do you think I feel?" Cassandra looked onto her shoulder where little Andre had decided to perch. Over the years, even Cassandra had heard of all the trouble that Andre and the others had caused. Strangely enough, nobody was ever killed in their attempts for world domination. Now that she got to see them up close, they didn't seem like such bad guys after all. Mr. Dark was never really into being evil, but more of into having fun. He stole the Great Protoon once to tease a well-known Fairy named Betilla. Well, let's just say his prank went a little too far. Admiral Razorbeard wanted slaves and even then, nobody died. Of course, she hasn't met him. The robots were STILL working on rebuilding his index finger. All that they had done was what looked like a shoe buckle. Andre, well... nobody really knew what his plans were. And nobody could blame him for what he did either! When a Red Lum is scared, they are literally scared out of their minds and become quite unpredictable! According to the story that she heard, a large blue frog had accidentally swallowed Andre and all the Hoodlums were merely trying to save him. Razoff was caught in the middle though. He had lost his son and thus lost his mind because of Razorbeard, and had a good chance of destroying his own son because of Andre. Well, think about it. If eight years after your son was missing, he came home with no neck or limbs... you'd be a little freaked out too.

Cassandra nudged Andre with her nose. "Hey, you don't look that bad! Atleast you have arms!" Andre smiled up at her. "Atleast you have legs!" Cassandra abruptly stood up when she heard something in the bushes. The dragon uncoiled from it's resting spot on the ground and took it's position on Cassandra's back, ready for action. Andre flew from Cassandra's shoulder and hovered beside her, putting up his hands in a kind of strange karate-like way. Cassandra listened harder to the sound of footsteps and leaves rustling. It sounded as though whatever it was, it was wounded. Suddenly, something fell out of a bush as though it just fainted. Not even thinking, Cassandra ran over to it and knelt down to inspect. Andre flew closer and his mouth fell open in shock. It looked like Rayman! Atleast, the same species as Rayman... whatever he was. Instead of floppy ear-like hair that hung in her face, she had very long blonde hair that reached where her ankles would be. Her nose was a little smaller than Rayman's and her eyes were a beautiful crystal blue, almost see-through in a kind of way. Her body was a light pink, as were her shoes. She also wore a darker pink bow around her "neck" instead of a bandana.

The dragon reached down with it's wings and tried to pick her up. She gasped in pain as soon as it touched her. She looked up at Cassandra, a thin trickle of blood running from her mouth. She struggled to form words, but she fainted from exhaustion very quickly. Cassandra looked over her body and saw the damage. She was holding her chest and struggling a little to breath and her right foot looked horrible, almost as though it were crushed! Cassandra winced at the sight, but her sense of duty overcame her sense of vomiting at that moment. The dragon picked her up in it's wings and Cassandra stood up. She looked over at Andre. "Do you have medicine, bandages, anything??" "How am I supposed to know?" Cassandra gave Andre a very serious look. Sighing, Andre flew toward the tent as fast as he could to ask one of the others. Mr. Dark and Andre came out of the tent and Mr. Dark looked her over. "Man, that's one nasty trip, I'll tell you that much... I got one of those robots to hold my luggage, I brought LOTS of bandages with me as we were leaving to find Rayman." Andre folded his arms. "Any particular reason why?" For possibly the first time ever, it was Mr. Dark's turn to roll his eyes at Andre.

Mr. Dark ran off to find a robot with the code number ghsidernb-65838564001, but he was nicknamed Bob. Luckily, it only took a few minutes. Apparently, Mr. Dark could tell the robots apart even better than Razorbeard himself. Nobody quite knew why. Deciding against taking the injured creature into Razoff's tent, they set her down beside the fire and started to clean her wounds. It took a bit of time, she woke up once and made a bit of a fuss, but they got it done. Cassandra looked over at Mr. Dark. "Excuse me, but... my son... how is he?" Mr. Dark finished up the last bandages on the creature's foot and looked at Cassandra. "When I left, he was still shaken. When Andre came in asking for bandages, I could tell that he assumed you did something. I never saw a kid with such... hate in his eyes." Cassandra flinched at the word "hate". Mr. Dark tried to change the subject, he knew that talking about her son did no good. "Razoff is doing just fine too. He got a kick to the head, but that's it. We had to clean a lot of muddy prints off of that jacket of his." Cassandra tried to force a grin. "That's good. I didn't know what to think when he ran in like that." Cassandra looked into the fire and she could see Sky's face. The scene began to play in her head again.

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Cassandra heard loud screeches coming from the outside. Razoff looked a tad annoyed and he stepped out of the tent for what seemed like only a second before his own scream was added to the mess. Fast as lightning, he ran back in and closed the flap quickly. Something seemed to scare him, one hand was over his heart and he looked positively terrified. Then, there was a little moan. Cassandra looked into the dragon's wing and down at her little son. He opened his lovely blue eyes and gasped. "Father!" Razoff was too shocked for the moment to even realize that Sky had called for him, let alone notice that he was awake. He was staring at Cassandra, that terrified look on his face. She knew that something bad was going on outside, but before she had time to react...

"AHHHHH!!!!!" The dragon screeched in pain and dropped Sky right away. He had viciously bitten into the dragon's wing and left quite a nasty cut that bled a lot. The dragon was caught off guard, but was mostly surprised that such a little thing could do that kind of damage, no problem. "YOU!! YOU DID THIS!!!" Cassandra looked down at Sky. Sky was now holding the electric lamp, looking ready to swing at any moment. Cassandra gasped and took a step back. She forgot for a minute that this little thing was her young son, but his eyes... those eyes could kill the faint of heart on their own, she thought to herself. "No, Sky! It's me!" Sky let out a loud battle cry and started to run at Cassandra, but she easily dodged his attack. "YOU DID THIS!!! YOU DID THIS!!!"

Razoff finally broke out of his trance and ran to grab Sky. He smacked the lamp from his hand and held him in a very tight hug, trying to prevent any further damage to him or his mother. Sky's eyes suddenly began to overflow with tears and he continued to scream, "YOU DID THIS!!!" Cassandra backed toward the tent flap and looked into his eyes again. In them she saw something strange. Great pain, and even... a strange sense of recognition. It was as though Sky no longer knew what he was doing. All that he was thinking of was protecting his father. The truth was that Cassandra needed to be protected from her own son. Something began to swell up inside her, a supressed rage that she never knew she had. The dragon spread it's wings and Cassandra's fur spiked, suddenly they both let out an ear-splitting roar. Razoff shut his eyes and clenched his teeth, trying to withstand the sound. Sky stopped struggling, but now looked at Cassandra in fear. It wasn't long before Razoff had his son in a real hug, the poor little thing was tembling. He gave Cassandra one last terrified look before burying his head in his father's chest and began to sob uncontrollably. Cassandra's fur fell again, and she looked down at them in shame. What could have possibly made her react like that? She couldn't belive that she, of all people, would lash out at another person. Let alone a family member. The dragon make a strange choking sound itself before it put it's wings down. Cassandra didn't know who she was afraid of more, her son or herself.

Cassandra ran out of the tent as fast as she could when she heard the voices of the others, coming to see what was going on. Cassandra ran to a little river not far away and looked up at the sky through her tears. Maybe she really was just a monster now. After eighteen years of wandering for her long lost family, they had proven once and for all that she was nothing but a monster. "Maybe... it IS my fault..." "And beating yourself up about it isn't going to solve anything." Cassandra looked behind her. She saw something strange, a limbless creature like Rayman one was. But she couldn't even make out it's physical appearance. "But... what should I do? I've searched for so long and now my son--" "Needs you. You are his mother. Whether you're a cat or a dog or anything else, you are still his mother. I'll TELL you what you should do. You should go back there and be the best parent that you can be!" Cassandra looked down at the little creature, feeling even more shame. "Be nice to him. He's had bad experiences with cats in the past few days." And just like that, the creature was gone...

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"Hey! Hello?? Wake up, furball!" Cassandra snapped out of her daydream, or nightmare as she would have called it, and looked down at Andre. Andre pointed at the snoozing creature. "Look after her, okay? We're gonna see if Razoff needs anything." "... Razoff... yes, you do that." Andre and Mr. Dark got up and made their way toward the tent. Cassandra sighed and looked down at the little creature. The dragon yawned and slithered down from Cassandra's back, curling into a neat coil and even using one of it's wings as a blanket for the creature. As soon as it touched her, her eyes sprang open and she gasped. She sat up, ignoring what little pain she felt. "What's going on? Where am I?" Cassandra purred to try and calm her down. "Don't worry, you are safe now." She looked up at Cassandra, confused. "Safe...? Who ARE you?" Cassandra bowed slightly to her. "My name is Cassandra. And, you are?" "My name..." She stopped and looked like she was thinking very hard. It took her a minute or two, but she finally said, "Kitmit. My name is Kitmit."