Marisella stood in the rain. Her yellow eyes wider than ever before, her chest moving up and down heavily with each breath and her paws clenching and unclenching into fists. She had been watching the entrance to the alley for hours and still her parents hadn't shown up yet. Macavity was whimpering under the dumpster, hungry and scared, missing their parents. He was watching Marisella stand in the alley, three dead alley cats lying at her hind paws. Their bodies were limp, their eyes frozen open in death, blood dripped from Marisella's paws. The three of them had just tried to attack, and possibly rape her and she had killed them in front of her brother. While Marisella was tough she had never killed a cat before, now she had killed three at once with her claws and magic.
Her eyes still wide she continued to look out at the street, "Where are you?" She whispered.
"Marisella?" Four year old Macavity called out timidly.
Her eyes were still wide open and without blinking she looked to the right towards her brother. "What. . .Macavity?" Her voice was strained.
"Where mum and-"
"Shut up!" She growled.
Macavity tensed and puffed up in terror. Somehow Marisella had gone from the entrance to the alley to crouching over Macavity with her paw clamped down over his mouth, thin smoke drifted around her body. Her hackles puffed out making her seem bigger than she was. Her face was emotionless and her eyes the same as before. Her fur shimmered with blue magic as it coursed over her skin.
"Don't say a single word." She whispered.
He nodded.
"We're going to wait one more day for them to come back and if they don't. . .We're leaving. Got it?" She grabbed the tender fur at his shoulders and yanked him forward.
He yelped and in a small burst of light Marisella was flung off of her brother and hit her head awkwardly on the bottom of the dumpster. She laughed as she shook her head and rubbed the back of it with her paw. She looked up at her tiny frightened tom and smiled.
"Da would love to know you've got some magic in ya too." She chuckled and ruffled his head fur and then walked passed him and sat down facing the alley entrance. She continued to smile as she watched for signs of their parents and the rain fell down. It washed away the blood of the three dead cats ahead of her. Her eyes remained wide and she wrapped her forearms around her knees, hugging herself while she waited.
She didn't know where they had gone. Hours earlier they had gone hunting and said they'd be back like usual. But when morning turned to afternoon, and then the three cats showed up, teasing Marisella. Well she had no choice but to defend herself and Macavity. She had no idea where her parents were and when she reached out for them telepathically she neither heard nor felt them. It was if they were dead. . .
Oh my goodness O_O Cliffhanger! How long should I make you suffer and wait to see what happens next? TeeHehehehe