Chapter Two: "Pounding Cats"

It's still day one of Pdep, Layla and Leroy's mission. Well... 'mission', they haven't started yet. While Leroy and Layla found a place to stay in Falador, probably snoring by now, Pdep is still roaming the streets of Taverly, awaiting a nice surprise.

He forgot about the cat that was following him earlier, the cat hasn't forgotten about Pdep though, not in the least.

-'Hmm, I should find a place to sleep... Maybe I could spend the night at Ürstian's place, I should go and ask', thought Pdep to himself.

Pdep turned around, he noticed a cat, sitting in the grass.

-"Yo kitty, why are you still roaming the streets at this hour?" shouted Pdep to the cat.

-"I could be asking you the same question, bud" said the cat, with a sneaky tone.

-"What did you just say, pal?" asked Pdep indignantly.

-"I said... that I could, ask you the same question, comprende?"responded the cat, with an even sneakier tone.

-"NO! No comprende, and don't talk so sneakily!" shouted Pdep, who was starting to get cross with a cat.

-"I 'spose you're looking for trouble? Speaking to me like that, nah-ah-ah, silly boy" said the cat, with the same tone.

-"What is you're problem, cat?!" asked Pdep crossly.

-"Eh eh, I've only got one thing to say, and that would be... 'BOOYA'" shouted the cat suddenly, Pdep startled. And the cat jumped away.

-"What's his problem..." questioned Pdep to himself.

-"You, obviously" said somebody to Pdep's right. It was a guy who opened the window, after all the fuss Pdep created with the cat.

Pdep quickly turned to him, he said: "Shut up!", Pdep walked away, to Ürstian's house.

-"Ya don't have to be a stranger 'round here!" shouted the man.

-"Oh Herald, come back to bed, momma's got a surprise for you!" said a woman seductively, from within the room.

-"I'm coming, sweety!" said the man, and he closed the window.

Pdep arrived at Ürstian's home, and knocked on the door.

-"It's open!" shouted Ürstian from within the house.

Pdep opened the door, and went inside, into the living room.

-"Hey Ürstian, can I crash here for tonight?" asked Pdep nicely.

-"Well sure, you can stay here as long as you're on this mission, go upstairs, 3rd door to your left" responded Ürstian.

-"Thanks!" said Pdep, he ran up the stairs and opened the door. He quickly undressed and jumped into his bed.

-"Well well well, we meet again Mr. Pdep, why are you, in my master's guest-bed?" asked the cat Pdep argued with before.

-"Ürstian wanted me to do something... Wait, he's your boss?!" asked Pdep abruptly.

-"So, you're Ürstian's friend? He told me everything about you... I'm here to help" said the cat, without the sneaky tone, even with a friendly tone!

-"Alright. So... how exactly am I talking to you again?" asked Pdep wonderingly.

-"What do you mean, human?" asked the can.

-"I mean, how can I talk to a cat?" explained Pdep.

-"Oh, well, remember that amulet you found?"

-"Yeah"

-"Well, you sorta... activated it, which.. uhh... is a good thing! Because... well, you can talk to cats now!" said the cat while stuttering, only he knew how bad this was.

-"Well that's just jolly good fun!" responded Pdep happily.

-"Oh my God you're such a wuss, that will be one hell of a training then" said the cat confuzzled. ('Confuzzled' lit. 'confusing' and 'puzzled', the more you know*)

-"Wait, why are you confuzzled? I should be the one confuzzled, this cat-speaking thing came out of no-where, you know"

-"Don't break your back over it, you've got way more important things to worry about, and those things might actually break your back!" explained the cat, trying to calm Pdep down.

-"Cat say what now?" responded Pdep insensibly, "Well, I don't care, I'm going to sleep".

-"You're not going to sleep" said the cat contradictory.

-"Guess what!? I am"

-"You're not, open your eyes!"

-"I'm not opening my eyes!"

-"OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!"

-"I'M NOT OP-..." said Pdep while opening his eyes, surprisingly, Pdep wasn't in Ürstian's room anymore, he appeared in some sort of training base, "-ening my eyes... OK, where the cupcakes am I?"

-"Cupcakes?! CUPCAKES!? This is not the time to talk about damn cupcakes!" said the cat crossly.

-"I'm going to die, aren't I? I don't wanna die! I'm too young! I haven't even done it! I don-..." shouted Pdep melodramatically, until the cat slapped him in the face.

-"Bam! Right in the kisser, now stop being so damn bambe! Shape up!" ordered the cat.

('Bambe' lit. 'melodramatic in everything you do/say/think', the more you know*)

-"Alright Mr. Fur-ball, what do I need to do?" asked Pdep.

-"My name's Jaffa, Ürstian asked me to train you. Now stand up, back straight, chest forward, chin up, and for goodness sakes, look manly!" ordered Jaffa, Pdep followed orders.

-"Alright, what do I need to do?!" asked Pdep.

-"You must know how to defend yourself, Axenghista's guards might be distracted by Ürstian when you're going in for real, but knowing some slick moves is always a good thing. Firstly, if someone..." said the cat, he had explained the theory, on with the practice, he put some cat-sized boxing gloves on, and stood on two legs, -"Right, so I'm going to show you how a normal man would hit you, and teach you how to defend yourself", the cat hit a dummy a few times, like a real boxer-kitty! By dawn they had gone through all, theory and practice. Pdep's no master yet, but he damn sure knows how to defend himself now!

-"Damn straight he knows!" shouted Jaffa.