Chapter 2: Lockdown

There were yellow eyes glittering in the darkness and voices filled Kabuki's head. Just great, a nightmare common in bland films. The nightmare didn't bother Kabuki, he just recited to himself over and over that it was a stupid freaking dream and he'd wake up soon.

Only he didn't wake up and Kabuki fell deeper into the pit of insanity the dream had wanted him to be in. He only lost his cool when he saw Hazel, Tabby, Pietro, and Rasher dragging him down with him.

"Looks are everything..." They chanted, "You're ugly so join us down here…"

Kabuki had been dragged down deeper, but he started to give up… But Kabuki never gives up!

"Stop fighting your true destiny…" His new friends had started spitting insults again, "Join us, you'll like it better here."

Kabuki turned his head. Each of his friends had paired up and were pulling one leg for each pair, thinking that would stop Kabuki from struggling. They were wrong.

"Kabuki…join us…"

"join us, man."

"Yeah, buddy, c'mon."

"Kabuki…Kabuki…"

Their voices rung louder and louder, like a large fly creeping into a nearby ear. All he heard was his name thrown into an endless time loop. He couldn't even hear himself think straight, but he still refused to give up.

"Kabuki…."

The chants sounded more violent, trying their best to get across their point even if they were in earshot.

"KABUKI!"

Kabuki's eyes snapped open at once. He wasn't being sucked into darkness. He wasn't alone with tons of enemies hanging onto him for dear life. He was just in Rasher's stuffy home, awoken from a bad dream.

"Sorry, I had a dream." The shooken cat yawned, arching his back as he sat up.

"Well, you gotta come outside. The town's mayor wants you." Rasher sighed. There was a faint glimpse of sorrow in his voice.

"Sure."


Instead of Rasher, Kabuki was accompanied by Pietro. He found it rather relaxing, not having to worry about Tabby's Bitching or Hazel's huge unibrow.

"So, what's this for?" Kabuki asked as picked dirt out of his fur.

"Well, you're a new resident, so the town requires you to get your proof that you're a villager of Lotus and they need you to know the ground rules for a villager as yourself." Pietro explained. He didn't bother to look in Kabuki's direction; something was up.

"I hope I can get that stupid blue furred flea in trouble then." Kabuki began grumbling to himself with a very worried Pietro to his side.

"You must mean Julian."

"Julian?"

"Yeah, he's respected by everyone because of his good looks and charm. Too be honest, I doubt the mayor will even try to reason with you."

"What?"

"Lotus wants beauty before personality."

Kabuki abandoned the little clump of mud on his elbow at looked up at Pietro with a horrified look on his face.

"What?!"

The clown sheep scratched the back of his head and gave Kabuki an unconvincing smile.

"Haven't you noticed? The better you look, the better you live." Pietro winced. "And because you don't seem happy with our living conditions, they're gonna teach you a lesson…"

"If you're saying they'll beat me up, I'll just have to run away from this town and tell someone, won't I?" Kabuki sneered at his idea, especially hoping Freya and her little rodent friend would get put in a nice orange suit.

"Why do you think the town's all locked up?"

"I thought that's how it normally was though."

"So you mean…."

"The town's on lockdown because of you."


Sorry if this was a bit of a long wait, I'm still just getting over my writer's block. Thank you to those of you who are reading this! Please review and leave some ideas for later chapters, I would appreciate it very much!