Chapter Two: Waking up to something strange

Note: I don't own SM or anything affiliated with it other than the Sailor Gaia characters and characters from any other Fan fic I write.

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I woke up the next morning very slowly as it was a Saturday. I rolled over and felt something soft against my cheek. Soft, like fur. I jolted, my eyes bursting open as I sat straight up in bed. I looked beside me to find a gray cat laying next to me. "How did that get in here?" I thought as I touched its fur. As I stroked its fur, it opened its eyes and fixed me with its eyes. I gasped as its eyes were a bright violet, a color I had never seen in nature and on its forehead was a mark that looked like a heart with a cross through it. "What strange markings," I thought to myself as I scratched the cat behind the ears. "Well I don't know exactly what I'm going to do with you kitty, I am not sure if mom will let me keep you. You have such strange markings though, and such eyes. I'm sure I can get mom to accept you, but I bet your hungry. Stay here and I will go get you a saucer of cream." I said as I scratched her behind the ears and stood up.

I went downstairs and retrieved a saucer of cream for the cat and a bowl of oatmeal for me. I placed it on a tray and brought it up to my room to the surprise and confusion of my parents. "Here you go kitty, a nice saucer of cream for you to eat before we go and plead your case," I said as I placed the saucer on the floor. The cat stretched, jumped off my bed, and meandered over to the saucer. It looked at me and started to lick at the saucer. "Well, I need to name you. It won't do to present you with no name to my parents. Well you look like a girl so I'm going to name you," I thought about it, my mind was a blank until a name came into my head "Alena. It is perfect for you, it means light and pretty," At this Alena raised her head and mewed. I giggled, "I take that as you approve. You certainly were hungry Alena, well now is as best of a time as any to introduce you to my parents," I picked up the saucer and Alena as I moved to go downstairs.

As I got downstairs I yelled "Family Meeting! Ahora, pronto, now, immediately etc etc etc," and went into the living room. "What happened? What's wrong?" asked my mom and dad as they entered the room. "What did we do now?" said my twin brother and sister as they entered the room from the backyard. They all stopped as they laid eyes on Alena. "Where did that cat come from?" ask my mother as she sat down. "Well, I'm not quite sure, I think she climbed in the window last night while I was sleeping. All I know is that she is here now and I want to keep her," I said as I sat down. "What a weird marking on her forehead," said my sister Francie as she sat down. "Yah and weird color eyes," said my brother Julian as he moved behind the couch. "Bridget, you don't even know where she came from, she could be someone else's and besides she could have all kinds of diseases," said my dad. "I know dad, but don't you think that's all the more reason to keep her just in case her owner, if any, is looking for her?" I said tightening my grip on Alena. My mom and dad exchanged a look, doing that psychic mind reading trick that parents seem to be naturally good at. "Ok Bridget, you can keep her on two conditions, one, that if she has an owner you give her back, two, we go and take her to the vet to get shots," my mom said with a smile. Alena mewed at this sending the room into laughter. "I think that Alena agrees. Thanks mom, thanks dad," I said as I got up with Alena in my arms. "What's Alena?" asked Francie. "That's what I named her, it means pretty and light. I'm going to call the vet to see if I can get an appointment this afternoon," I said as I walked out of the room and upstairs to my room.

"Well, lets see about that vet appointment and while we are at it we will get you a collar and registration," I said as I picked up the phone next to my window. As I stood up with the phone in my hand I noticed that the lock was in place on my window. "Wait a minute, then how did Alena get in?" I thought as I stood up and dialed the vet's phone number. But as soon as I had thought about it, it had left my mind.