Cat and Fox

Chapter 2

Catrina walked the halls of the DWMA following Kid. Xina was at her side looking around with curious eyes. Catrina smiled, she knew this would be a good place for Xina to stay. Xina had already begun to relax a bit. Her thoughts came to a close when she entered her first class. Not bothering to glance at her professor, she found a seat near a blonde girl with two pigtails and dull green eyes. Catrina looked towards the board waiting for instructions. Xina had just sat her seat only to be yanked up again by a panicked Catrina.

Catrina had realized that Doctor Franken Stein was her instructor.

She couldn't believe it. Here the man who had caused her and Xina misery was standing before them teaching a class. Catrina yanked Xina to the door and out into the hallway.

"Catrina wait!" She heard Kid call, but she wasn't about to stop now. However, realizing that she had no idea where she was going she slowed her pace and eventually stopped near another classroom. Xina started to say something but quickly shut her mouth when she saw the panicked look in her sister's eyes. Not 5 minutes had they been sitting there when a flustered Kid walked around the corner mumbling something about 'stupid kids making his life miserable' when he saw Catrina's state and then leaned against the wall across from them and sighed.

"What stunt are you pulling now?" He said not looking at them. Catrina felt Xina stiffen beside her.

"Do you know who that man is?" She asked.

"Hmm?" Kid said surprised. " Of course I do that's Dr Stein, he's one of the most brilliant minds at this school."

"No he's not...he's a monster."

Now a surprised Kid walked over to Catrina.

"How so?"

Catrina's head whipped up from its position. She stood up straighter then pulled her sleeve up revealing stitch marks running up and down her arm. She pulled up her other sleeve,showing more of the same. She then moved her hair away from her neck showing even more sitch marks going down her neck and continuing further down.

"These are all over my body...Xina's as well. To him we were just experiments. He manipulated our weapon powers by crossing us with animals and forcing us to transform." She yelled tears welling in her eyes.

Kid said nothing, but stared at his shoes.

"Of course there are side effects." She contiued wiping her eyes. "Spasms, uncontrollable cramps and aches, and of course the fact that our normal blood is fighting against another type of blood thus causing our bones to shift and grow out of place... The money I stole got Xina and I medicine to delay the process. Not stop it, but delay it."

" However you were a successful experiment." A voice said from the other side of the wall. A man walked out from the shadows, he had stitches running up his face. A giant screw ran through his head, the very tip poking out on the other side. Catrina recognized him. He was the monster that shattered her life like glass.

A shadow spread across Catrina's eyes.

"Come one step closer and I swear I will kill you." She said with ice in her voice.

"I want to tell you that I will not lay a finger on you or your sister by any means."

"Oh because you didn't in the past?" She said sarcastically

"I was affected by the Kishins madness..." He said turning the screw, it made a small clicking sound. "I wasn't even thinking about what I was doing then, my head was full of nothing mostly, with me in that state you're lucky you came out alive." Stein immediately regretted that sentence. Catrina was suddenly rushing towards him her hand now a blade. She jumped up and sliced through Stein's cheek, surprised he hadn't even moved a finger to stop her.

"I deserved that." He said touching the wound.

Catrina's eyes blazed with fury. She raised her blade, preparing to strike again but was stopped by a separate blade. Catrina looked down and gasped. Xina had stopped the blade.

"Didn't you hear him Catrina? He said he didn't mean to do this." Her eyes stared up with compassion

"B-but Xina." Catrina stuttered. "What about all the pain he put us through, the pain he put you through?" She replied choking on emotion slightly

"I know you're mad but doing this won't change a thing." Xina murmered

Catrina's bangs fell over her eyes as she looked down. After a few seconds her blade transformed back into her hand. She shoved her hands into her pockets and walked off. Leaving the other three standing, watching her go.

"Catrina..." Kid started but Xina stopped him.

"Let her be. He put her through too much to describe with words." She responded giving Stein a glare. Steuin sighed and started turing the screw again.
"Lets head back..." Kid said quietly
The three walked back to the classroom, leaving Catrina walking through the shadow of her thoughts.

Hours later Kid walked through the halls looking for Catrina He had been walking in circles for the past 15 minutes. He finally sighed and gave up the search pausing at the door to the library. He walked inside and cursed under his breath. Of course Catrina was in the last place he looked. She was sitting on top of a shelf leaning her head against a wall and dropping books to the floor.

"Catrina..." He said rage building up

She looked over at him surprised to find him fuming

"LOOK at what you did!" He yelled

"...what...did I do?"

"How could you be so stupid? You're flinging books to the ground and making that shelf asymmetrical to the rest of the library!"

"What? That's what you're worried about... Symmetry? So after everything that just happened... You freak about symmetry?"

"OF COURSE I DO! SYMMETRY IS KEY TO EVERYTHING."

Catrina scoffed and shook her head in disbelief. 'What a brat.' She thought jumping off the shelf.

"If you're so obsessed with symmetry then go look in the mirror sometime." She said pointing to his stripes as she passed him.

Kid's eyes watered.

Suddenly a very excited Xina burst through the door, and ran to to Catrina wrapping hermsmall arms around her in a hug. Catrina gave a small chuckle and patted Xina's head.

"I wasn't going to ditch you Xina."

"I know but I was still worried ab-..." She trailed off looking at Kid. "What's wrong with him?"

"Hmm?" She said glancing at Kid, who now was bawling on the floor.

"I'm garbage! Asymmetrical garbage that doesn't deserve to live another day! Why is there only 1 set of stripes?..…." He cried, continuing to spurt out nonsense.

"Oh he's facing an asymmetrical world with asymmetrical things and asymmetrical life." Catrina answered. Xina gave her a confused look. Catrina sighed and shook her head before taking Xina's hand and walked out of the library.