A cat demon sits in a cave, an infant cat-demon in her arms. "My little Mosi." There is immense love in her voice. "I'll keep you safe until your father is ready to take you, then you can have a normal life." Mosi's mother plays with the little bit of black hair on the infant's head then moves her finger over the edge of the infant's kitten ears. "You can wear hats, I guess. You don't deserve this life." She takes a silver chain from around her own neck to reveal a shard of the shikon jewel attached to it and places it around Mosi's neck.

A young cat demon comes in, bowing as he enters. "Bastet?"

"What is it, Guri?" Bastet gets up, facing Guri.

Guri sighs. "I thought you might want to know, the dog demon tribe leader is here for the meeting, ok?"

"Thanks, Guri. Could you look over Mosi for me?"

"Sure." He takes the little one from his leader. "Good luck."

"It'll be fine, really. Don't worry about the meeting, I can handle it."

Bastet cautiously walks out of the cave. She sniffs the air. It's bright. Any fighting will be to the dog leader's advantage. No, she won't think like this. This is the chance to make life better for all of us.

"Hey, you here, cat?" The dog demon's voice is demanding, not to mention arrogant. "We gotta talk, you know we do!"

Bastet walks towards the dog demon. "You know, you could look before you start yelling."

"Maybe this was a mistake..." The dog demon growls slightly.

Bastet takes in a deep breath. "No. We've gotta do this." She sighs. "I'm Bastet." She holds out her hand to shake his.

He takes her hand. "Laika. The name's Laika."

"Ok, so... what now?"

The years pass quickly. Mosi grows quickly, growing up with her own tribe and the dog demons. The two tribes work together, reluctantly at first, but they slowly gain each other's trust. Mosi's tenth birthday comes.
"Uncle Guri!" Mosi runs into the cat demon's cave. "Uncle Guri!" Guri walks out from a tunnel in the cave, yawning. He's obviously just gotten up. "Uncle Guri, what are we doing today?"

"What do you mean, what are we doing? It's just a normal day, right?"

"Guri! That's not true!"

A mischevious smile spreads across his face. "You'll just have to wait and see."

Bastet walks out of the same tunnel that Guri came out of. "Mosi, baby, come with me." Guri kisses the little one on the forehead.

Bastet walks out of the cave and Mosi follows. "What're we doing, Mommy?"

"You know I'll always love you, Mosi." A silence follows as they walk through the woods.

Mosi looks confused. She stops. "You said never to go this far. We're gonna end up in human territory." Fear is in her voice.

"Humans aren't bad, my little one, they just don't know. They're afraid of us." She bends down on one knee and embraces her daughter. "My dear little Mosi. I have to leave you."

"WHAT?"

"Don't be afraid, little one." She forces a smile. "Your father is coming to take you to the human world."

Mosi's fear has now spread to her face. "Mommy, I don't wanna leave! What about Uncle Guri? And Laika? And Adara? And Rai? I don't wanna leave." Tears flow from her eyes as she clings to her mother.

Tears drip from Bastet's eyes. "It's gonna be ok, you'll see, little one, your father's gonna take great care of you, you'll have a better life."

"My life is fine! I don't wanna leave you, Mommy! Why can't I stay?"

"I'm just trying to make you happy. You'll see, little one. You'll see."

A man walks from the opposite side of the forest. He looks to Bastet "Bast? Is that you?"

"Yes, Toshiro. It's me."

Toshiro sighs, then looks to Mosi. "I guess that means you must be Mosi."

"You're right." Bastet kisses her daughter tenderly. "Be good, baby. Know that I love you." She takes a baseball cap out of a bag on her shoulder and places it on Mosi's head, covering her cat ears. She gulps back more tears. "Keep your tail tucked in." She leaves.

Mosi watches her mother walk away, shocked beyond reaction. As Bastet disappears, Toshiro places his hand on Mosi's shoulder. "Come on, kiddo, we've gotta get you settled in." Toshiro steers his daughter out of the woods where a limo is waiting for them. They get in.

They reach a giant house and the limo pulls into the driveway. As soon as the chauffeur opens her door to let her out, Mosi jumps out of her seat and runs down the street as fast as she can. She runs up a hill, for some reason it has stairs. There are a bunch of buildings here.

"What is this place?" She knows that her eyes must have changed form, they always look like cat eyes when she's excited or scared.

An old man approaches her, a human. She tries to keep her eyes out of sight. "This is a shrine, child, but what are you doing here?"

"Mommy left me. She doesn't love me anymore..."

"Now I'm sure that's not true, come on, let's go see if we can find her, shall we?" He places his hand on her shoulder. Mosi throws his hand of her, he catches a glimpse of her eyes. Fear fills his own eyes. "You... you're a demon!" He runs into one of the shrines.

Mosi runs into another shrine, slamming the door shut behind her. It's dark, cold, and dusty. There's a well in the middle. The door is thrust open.

"There you are!" He has scrolls in his hands.

Mosi panics and jumps down the well, head first. For a few seconds, strange sights come into her view, then everything goes black.