Chapter 1: The Unexpected

" Dad! I'm back from the grocery store," Cagalli yelled ass she cam in the door, groceries in both hands. She knew no one would answer, her expression saddened as she kicked the close behind her and set the groceries down on the counter. Cagalli is eighteen; she goes to near by college so she wouldn't be far away from her dad Uzumi Nara Attha. Sadly he died in a robbery two months after started at the college. Cagalli has blonde hair and golden colored eyes. She is very pretty but covers herself in tomboyish clothes. Her dad always wanted her to wear a dress. Cagalli smiled a little as she remembered how her dad scolded her because she refused to wear a dress to her sixteenth birthday party. She remembered telling her dad that she would of rather of worn a tuxedo then a dress.

" Well I better unpack the groceries before anything goes bad," Cagalli said. She has been very lonely lately so she started the habit of talking to herself a week after her dad died. Sure she has friends at college but they have been on vacation for about two and a half months now.

Cagalli began unpacking the first out of two bags of groceries. She put the milk in the fridge and the bread in the cupboard. She went back to the counter crumpled up the first bag and threw it away.

She lifted up the second bag and brought it closer to her. As she pulled it closer to her a thick red liquid dripped from the bottom of the bag. Cagalli stared at it for a moment before realizing what it was.

" Oh my god why is my bag bleeding?" Cagalli asked as she dug through the bag looking for the source of the blood. Then she found it, at the bottom of her bag lay a dark bluish kitten and its emerald green eyes sparkled in the light of the kitchen lamp. Above his left leg was a wound that was still bleeding.

" Oh you poor thing," she picked it up out of the bag and examined the wound. " It looks like a bullet hole, what kind of sick monster would shoot such a cut kitten. Now you stay here while I go get the first aid kit," Cagalli left the cat on the table and ran into the bathroom to grab the kit from the medicine cabinet. She ran back to where the cat was and set the kit on the table opened it up and took out a bottle of disinfectant and rubbed it on the wound. The cat winced in pain but didn't do anything and let Cagalli work. After Cagalli was done with the disinfectant she bandaged up the wound. She picked the kitten up.

" There all done now that wasn't that bad now was it?" she looked at the kitten's neck " Hmm, no collar so you're a stray? Great then it's settled you'll live with me from now on. Well then you going to need a name and your defiantly a boy so ill call you…" Cagalli thought for a moment " I know your name will be Alex!" she clapped. The kitten got up jumped onto the floor rubbed against Cagalli's leg and purred.

" Well looks like I need to make another trip back to the store want to come," Cagalli looked at Alex. Alex meowed " great lets get going." Alex jumped onto Cagalli's shoulder and the headed back out the door.

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" Mr. Scorsby I'm back," Cagalli waved as she entered the store.

" Cagalli what are you doing back already," Mr. Scorsby said as he walked out from behind the counter.

" Well I found this furry little friend in my grocery bag as I was unpacking and he had no collar so I decided to keep him," Cagalli exclaimed " but then I realized that I had nothing to give the little guy to eat so I decided to come back."

" Well we don't have any cat food so these cans of tuna will have to do, and if you let me see the cat and tell me his name then I could make a collar for him," Mr. Scorsby said.

" His name is Alex," Cagalli said as she gave the cat to Mr. Scorsby.

"Ok I'll be right back," Mr. Scorsby took Alex into the back room. " Alex you take care of Cagalli I haven't seen her smile as much since her dad died." After he finished he rapped the collar around Alex's neck it was green, the same color as his eyes, and a had a golden medallion on it that read " A Fallen Angel, Alex." He took Alex out to Cagalli and gave him back to her.

"Free of charge," he said as Cagalli was taking out her money.

"Thank you sir," she said as she walked out of the store

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"Wow its really late," Cagalli said as she entered her house. Alex jumped off of her shoulder and onto the ground. Cagalli headed into her bedroom with Alex trailing behind her. Cagalli went over to her bed and fell down on it. Alex jumped up on the bed and curled up next to Cagalli and fell asleep. Cagalli smiled and she to soon fell asleep.

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"Meow," Alex mewed at 6:00 a.m.

Cagalli stirred a little and opened her eyes. She sat up and looked at the clock "its 6:00 a.m. go back to sleep Alex." Cagalli laid back down.

"Meow," Alex hopped on the bed and then hopped on Cagalli.

"Ok I'm up," she rubbed her eyes "what do you want something to eat?" Cagalli got up but as she did she remembered something from last night. She remembered getting up some time around 12:30 a.m. and seeing Alex gone and hearing someone rummaging through the cabinets but she thought it was just a dream so she fell back to sleep.

Cagalli got up and went to the kitchen got a can of tuna out, opened it and set it on the table. Alex began eating it. After both Cagalli and Alex where done eating Cagalli stretched.

"I got an idea lets go out for a walk," and with that Cagalli ran off and got her shoes on. Cagalli came out of her room picked Alex up and ran out the door.

Cagalli picked her usual walking route across the deserted areas of town.

"Give me the cat!" a cold hard voice called from behind Cagalli. Cagalli and Alex both froze.

"Did you not hear me, GIVE ME THE CAT!" the man with the mask said he had a tattoo of a skull with wings.

"No! He's mine!" Cagalli said gathering all the courage she could muster.

"Then I'll have to take him from you by force," the man said as he reached out for Cagalli.

Alex jumped out of Cagalli's arms. In mid jump Alex turned into a tiger landing on the gut and knocking him out.

Cagalli stood still to shocked to move, Alex ran beside her nudged her a bit and motioned back to home. Cagalli snapping back to her senses agreed and ran back to her house.

Cagalli ran inside waited for Alex, who was still a tiger, to come in closed and locked the door behind him.

Cagalli turned to Alex " I don't know if you can understand me or not but if you can I think you owe me an explanation, Cagalli stated

The tiger nodded and something happened. Just as he had turned from a cat to a tiger he changed again only this time into a human. This human had shoulder length dark blue hair and sparkling emerald green eyes and around his neck was the green collar and the gold medallion.