Chapter 2
Satu walked, humming a little song when a tabby cat shot across her path. "MEOW!" The cat screamed, running up her leg and jumping onto her shoulders. A couple boys ran up, including her own little brother, Yukio. "Yukio, you and your friends stop pestering this poor cat right now!" Satu ordered, glaring at her little brother. He pouted. "Oh no, I am not letting you have your own way just because your name means 'Gets what he wants'. I'm not that kind of person, talk to mom and dad."
"Aw, man! Your sis just ruined all the fun. We're out of here." One of the other boys said. The group dissipated.
"Aren't you supposed to be practicing?" Satu inquired.
"You're not the boss of me!" Yukio retorted, turning to head for the Elderly. He seemed to be getting so negative lately…but no matter. He was just a kid.
"Thank you," said a kind, motherly voice. Satu turned, looking for the speaker. "Over here. Yes, me, the cat. I must talk to you." Satu blinked, looking at the cat in awe. It leapt onto a ledge, next to her, and stared back at her with piercing green eyes.
"What do you need?" She asked, as if there was nothing strange about talking to a cat. She'd seen weirder things. Probably was one of those creatures affected by the bombs 10,000 years ago, though most of the traces had dissipated out of the gene pool. She peered at the cat closely, noticing the etching of a crescent moon on the cat's forehead. It was golden, and flipped so that the tips pointed upward.
"I wish to give you this." The cat laid a crystal on the ledge, next to an orange paw with a bit of white. The crystal was a deep purple color. She picked it up and examined it carefully.
"What is it?" She breathed.
"You'll have to find that out for yourself." The cat stated. She started to stalk off.
"Wait, do you have a home?"
"Not at the moment. Why?" The cat asked, almost lazily now.
"Because you could live with me." She said, steadily.
"That is very kind of you." The cat licked its striped orange fur, thinking it over. "Then you may call me Tiamate." (A/N: LilManiac, if this looks familiar, I will explain why in my end A/N) With that, the cat leapt into her arms. She was heavier than expected, but she wasn't exactly a thin cat. Satu began to walk away, holding the cat and scratching its white belly.
A pair of blue eyes watched from the nearby bushes. "So, Tia thinks she can get the better of me, does she?" A voice wondered aloud. "She will be highly mistaken."
"Look, mommy, a kitty!" A small child's voice said, as a Siamese cat jumped out of the bushes, hissing and wagging her tail furiously. A crescent moon, upside-down from Tia's was in, also black, and was prominent on her forehead. She started muttering dark things after the child, but she was still determined to give the girl her present. "That child will rue the day she messed with Tatiana." The cat mumbled under her breath. She hushed, hearing the voices of two girls, talking.
"Look what I got," the one said.
"Cool!" the other exclaimed, fingering the jewel. "What's it for?"
"To help me strengthen and improve my powers." The first responded, a large grin crossing her face.
"And to better increase the Negaverse's strength." She hissed, ducking out of the trees she had jumped into after the rude attack. She stalked back to the temples. The Lord would not be pleased. Outside the temple, she took on the form of a woman. Her hair was brown, her eyes, a piercing blue. Her brown hair cascaded down her back in spirals, framing her tan face. She had an almost regal air to her. Her back was stiff and her eyes darted from side to side as she walked. She wore a light blue kimono with a dark blue pattern of flowers. Around her waist was a dark blue sash. She was very skinny and very tall. She also had a way of looking down upon people. As if she was more important than a lousy bunch of mortals or something. While someone from the past may say that cats having nine lives was a myth, for this cat it was untrue.
A/N: Ok, for those of you who think that my name choice is crazy, I will now explain. The name choice sounds nuts because the two cats are named after my two cats, Tia and Tati. Both are described to you as they look. Ok, not exactly word for word, but I haven't seen these two in six weeks. So bear with me. Ok, this is not my best chapter, because I forgot how I ended the first. Don't worry, the rest will be better!