Oak Leaf Ninja: It's a miracle Paulina's still alive after their torment.

ChopSuzi: Don't worry. That's the last time in this story I'm planning for Tucker to appear in drag, for now… And as for how I do it, I'm not really sure. Please tell me if you figure it out.

CSIalchemist: You're surprised Paulina's ditzy? A tortoiseshell is actually the coloring of a cat's coat. .org/wiki/Tortoiseshell_cat P.S. Sorry for forgetting to respond to your previous post. I didn't see it until after I posted Chapter 11.

Mr. Piddles purred with delight as Danny stroked h is orange and black fur. Dan and Sam warily eyed an orange tabby nearby with turquoise eyes.

"That's Jazz," Danny answered without being asked, "Vlad was here while you two were gone. He took the statue after turning Jazz into a cat."

"Meow?" the cat in his lap stirred, looking at the tabby.

"Where were you guys, anyways?" Jazz asked, slightly twitching her tail as she looked at Dan.

"Mreow!" the tom answered angrily, not noticing that Tucker and Danny were staring at her.

"You can talk?" the geek asked, "Why didn't you say anything before?"

"You can understand me?" Jazz asked, just as wide-eyed as her brother, "Wait, why can you understand me, but Dan and Sam?"

The mentioned cats looked at each other just as confused as the rest of the room.

"This is just a guess," Danny finally answered, "But I think Vlad may have taken the statue too soon. Physically, you're a cat. The statue finished that part, but it didn't finish your transformation completely! Vlad stole it before it could!"

"I think you're right!" the tabby exclaimed.

"Mew," Sam groaned, "Mew!"

Dan growled in response as the tortoiseshell meowed sadly, before jumping out of Danny's lap, pacing back and forth.

"What are they saying?" Tucker demanded, "What did they just say?"

"Sam said now they'll never be changed back; Dan wants to kill Vlad; and Mr. Piddles-"

"Meow!" the other cried.

"Sorry. Hori says that stealing the statue is a wicked thing to do to his mistress."

"His mistress?" Tucker asked.

Danny ignored him and turned to Sam.

"What do you mean you won't change back? Do you need the statue?"

"Mew!" she responded, standing on her hind legs as she rested her paws on Danny's pants leg. "Mrew meow mreow! Mew!"

"Translation?" the hybrid asked, looking at Jazz.

"Mr. Piddles-"

"Meow!"

"Sorry," she apologized, "Hori told her that they can only be changed back after they perform a kind deed in front of the statue."

"Mreow," Dan added.

"And you need the statue's sapphire in its eye," the tabby finished, licking her paws.

"Well," Danny responded, digging into his pocket before pulling out a stone, "We've got the sapphire."

Hori took a few steps towards the blue gem and sniffed it before purring.

"Bastet?" Jazz asked, looking at the purring tom, "Who's Bastet?"

"Mew!" the black cat responded, "Mew. Mew meow. Mrew."

"Meow!" Hori joined in, "Mreow meow Yreow!"

"Uh," Tucker responded, glancing at his best friend before turning back to the cats, "What did they say?"

"It seems that Hori's mistress is Bastet, the Egyptian goddess of protection, and she built that golden statue to help protect the world from wicked people by turning them into cats."

This earned a hiss and a growl from Dan as he glared at the other tom. In response, the tortoiseshell hissed back.

"Anyways," the tabby continued, "The cat works by identifying somebody who is trying to harm a good person as wicked and uses its ruby to turn the wicked person into a cat. He can be turned back to his original form by performing a good deed in front of the statue. Now, it's supposed to be kept in one of Bastet's temples in the Ghost Zone, but I guess somebody stole it, most likely Vlad."

"Ha!" Tucker laughed at Sam, "You shouldn't have chased me, eh Sam? Look what happened, you naughty wittle-kitty-witty!"

Tucker enjoyed a few more laughs before the black cat enjoyed her revenge.

"OW!" the geek screamed, trying to shake Sam's claws out of his right leg, "That hurts! No! Bad Kitty! Somebody get the spray bottle!"

Sam kept on digging her claws deeper and deeper into Tucker's flesh as Danny tried to figure out where his friend had left the bottle. Dan, feeling a little left out of the chaos, decided to entertain himself by helping the gothic kitty.

"YEOWCH!" Tucker cried as the white-and-black tom joined in on the fun, "Dammit, Danny! Hurry up! Bad Dan! Bad Sam! Bad Kitties!"

"Mreow!" Dan purred, happily as he played with the living scratching post.

"Hey, Kitties!" his scrawny self cried, holding a slim metal tube, "Look what I've got!"

He pressed the button and waved the small red dot on the wall behind Tucker before all four cats gave chase. With a moan, Tucker limped off to the bathroom to clean up as Danny snickered, watching the cats stampede around the room trying to kill the laser beam.

"So, anyways," he chortled, "Does Hori have any idea how we can get the statue back?"

"Meow!" the tortoiseshell replied, trying to reach the red light on the wall.

"No," Jazz panted, smacking the wall as she desperately tried to climb up it, "But, he thinks that maybe Bastet might be able to help us."

"He knows where she lives?" he asked, waving the Fenton Laser to the opposite side of the room.

"Meow!" Hori answered, batting at the floor, "Meow mreow meow!"

"There's a temple," she replied, as she crouched, "in the Ghost Zone where's she's known to answer anyone who calls her if you give a few gifts."

She ended up pouncing on the floor, accidently jumping on Dan instead of the laser. With a hiss, he turned around and smacked her face several times before returning his attention back to the dancing light.

"Does he know the way?" aiming the laser beam on Dan's tail, making him spin around in circles as he tried to capture it.

"Meow," Hori replied, getting ready to pounce on the confused kitty while he was dizzy, "Meow."

"He says," she translated, crouching down along with Sam, "It's not too far from here. He'll give you directions."

Dan hissed as he continued to chase himself, unaware of the awaiting attacks he was about to experience. When he finally looked up, the first and last warning he got was his former friend's body in the air, heading straight towards him as she prepared to land.

"Mreow!" he cried out as his friend, sister, and the new cat all jumped on him.

He heard his pathetic self laughing completely out of control as everybody smacked and batted at the poor cat's tail, trying to kill the evil laser of doom. Hissing and growling, Dan rolled over and got everybody off of his back before smacking their faces for daring to use him as a trampoline. Still growling, he ran off to his spot underneath the couch, madly swishing his tail to and fro before Danny used the laser to lure him out again. Again, the boy pointed it at the cat's tail, and again, the cat chased after it before looking up and noticing his sister flying towards him, her eyes completely mesmerized at the light that danced on his body.

"Aw, shit," he sighed before being dog piled again.