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As promised, it's Sunday and here is a new chapter! Thanks for the reviews!
Techno: I'm glad it's addicting. It keeps people coming back and reviewing ;]
Eternity: I wouldn't use the word 'suck.' It more of descended on her, trying to get her. Mwahahaha
Curlscat: Interesting is one word. You'll have to wait and see what (or who) Atin is exactly!
Books: This story is almost over so things will start wrapping up. Keep reading!
Stargazer: I missed Nita too. I love writing with her =]
Thanks for the reviews everyone!
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I stared into Atins slightly unsettling eyes, waiting. I didn't exactly know what to expect. Words? Pictures? Then, faintly, there was a slight pressure on my mind, followed by a tentative mind speech treading carefully. I started at its presence. The only other person that I had made contact mind to mind with was Nita. This was different though. It had a slightly foreign, metallic feel to it. The voice had a feline quality too it, but I couldn't tell if it was masculine or feminine. Then it spoke, slowly as if it were just trying out these word for the first time.
Parallel Dimension. Trapped. Missing. Lone One. Little time.
I frowned. I had been expecting at least mostly complete sentences. This wasn't making much sense. "What exactly do you mean? Is that world a Parallel Dimension?
Yes.
That explained a little…sort of. "But what does the rest mean? Cant you tell me?"
Trapped. Missing. Lone One. Little time.
"You said that already! Can't you be clearer?"
Trapped. Missing. Lone One. Little time.
I pinched the bridge of my nose. "Ok, so is Nita trapped there? In that dimension?"
Yes.
"And the Lone One is missing?"
No.
"But then who is missing?!"
What.
I stared at Atin. "What? You're making no sense! You said missing! Someone must be missing!"
No Kit. What.
My name sounded funny coming from this strange voice. "Never mind. What does the Lone One have to do with this?"
Lone One. Seeking. Her.
This one I could understand. "But why?! Why could it possibly be after Nita again?!"
Plan. Anger. Revenge. Little time. You help. You help her.
"But how? I've tried everything! Don't you think I would have done it in a heartbeat if I knew how?! What am I supposed to do?
Find. Missing.
"What is missing?!" I roared.
Atin seemed to be concentrating hard.
S-ssss. So-ul. Soul. Her.
"Nita has a soul? Well yeah." I was very confused to put it lightly. This wasn't making sense. Atin placed a large paw over his eyes. I could swear I heard a voice very faintly say something that sounded like 'idiot.'
"Can we go back there? Right now?" Atin removed his paw and shook his head. "But why not? Just do your little glowy thing and get us there."
Atin gave me a very dirty look and leapt off the bed, stalking out of the room. "Hey! Come back hear you oversized cat!"
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Atin ignored all my further attempts to convince him to take me back to that 'alternate dimension' over the next few days. At one point I convinced myself this was all a bizarre joke and I was going crazy. This should have been indicated earlier on by the fact I could see a huge purple cat that no one else could.
At the end of the week, I had taken to retaliating against Atins unwillingness to cooperate by ignoring him as well and going on with my life as if I didn't have a purple cat following me. My mother's attempts to get me out of the house to do normal human things increased until I caved under her begging and allowed her to tow me along to get some groceries. This soon turned into a full fledged shopping trip (against my loud protests, but she pointed out that she had the car keys and I had no where to run.) My father and sister looked like their eyes were about to fall out when I came trooping into the house laden with bags like some kind of bizarre human Christmas tree. The fact that I had gone shopping threw them into a stunned stupor.
Then on Tuesday, it changed. I dragged myself downstairs at around 10 o'clock in the morning – an all time early record for me. I was about to go into the kitchen to get my usual bowl of cornflakes when Atin started to growl. He had taken to sleeping on my bedroom floor or on the couch since I apparently kicked too much at night. That was probably due to the increasingly vivid nightmares I had been having about the bizarre grey city. Plus account for his 'growth spurt' he barely fit on my bed anymore.
So as I was walking past the couch, ignoring the large purple panther lounging on it, I heard his rumbling growl. I froze on instinct, expecting any second for his enormous weight to hit me, bringing me down like a poor deer. The thought ran through my head that maybe this moody purple cat had finally snapped and chosen sometime during the night to abandon his house kitty act and revert to the feral wild beast I know lurked inside his furry hide somewhere.
But when I cautiously turned around, I saw that he wasn't even looking at me. His purple eyes were fixed somewhere off in space, as if he was looking at something I couldn't see – which was entirely possible. Then his fur started to glow, as if stardust was trapped in it. Without thinking, I plunged my hand into his fur. The room around me tilted.
Finally. We were back in the gray world. I was all ready to run off looking for Nita, but Atin had his own ideas. He loped down the deserted street and I had no choice but to follow. His wings were back again, tucked tightly against his shoulder blades. We rounded a corner and I almost ran into Atin, who had stopped in the middle of the street.
Up ahead, I spotted a figure standing alone standing in the middle of the barren street. It was Nita. She was crying, the tears running down her face and I called out to her, but she didn't seem to hear. She just continued to sob, her shoulders trembling.
"Nita!" I called again, and I started to run towards her. Then she disappeared – to appear farther down the street. I tried to get closer again and the same thing happened. Nita didn't even seem to see me, and she just kept crying. To see her like this; so miserable and beaten down broke my heart. I never wanted to see Nita like this. I wanted to be able to protect her from this kind of pain.
This time, when I got within a few yards of her, the sky instantly darkened. I could see her look up at the darkness, her eyes wide with terror. Her whole body started to tremble and she let out a choked cry.
Suddenly a voice rang out, the only sound in this desolate place besides my own voice. Your time is up. You will not escape me this time. Nita cried out again and I reached for her, my fingers inches from her skin, then she was gone. She didn't reappear this time, she was simply gone.
"No! Nita! Where are you?! Niiitttaaa!" Spinning around, I looked frantically but I could only see Atin. He crouched down to the ground, his whole body shuddering for a few seconds, and when he stood back up he looked even bigger than before. Then he ran at me, stopping right beside me and looking over his back towards me.
Without a word I grabbed hold of his fur and scrambled on, just in time for him to leap into the air, his wings unfolding on either side of me. Then we were rising into the sky, above the abandoned buildings.
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Oooh so exciting! I think there's probably one more chapter left. Please review! -Ivy