Ai sa Bastet Ch. 5
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This time instead of a quote, I'm doing song lyrics.
"Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go
Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast
You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies
But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast
Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
Cause you loved her too much and you dived too deep"
-Passenger Let Her Go
Now on to the story!
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3rd Person
Jasmine, Alek, and Chloe watched in awe as Cat took down the Order member with ease.
"I never knew she could do that," Chloe breathed in amazement.
"Lady Leora has trained hard ever since she was five years old," Jasmine told her. "She is more than capable of taking down humans."
As soon as the words left her mouth, they all watched the five Jackals appear. Both Alek and Jasmine paled as the sight of so many Jackals surrounding the 5'5" girl.
"But I am not sure about Jackals."
At the mention of the canine race, Chloe also paled. Not that the other two Mai could see. When V had told her about the Mai race, she had also told her about the Jackals. She knew how much damage a Jackal could do to a Mai and now five of them were surrounding her sister.
"Is she going to be alright?" Chloe worried.
"We don't know," Alek ground out as his own worry began to take root. Just like any other Mai Alek was concerned about the safety of the Ai sa Bastet. The three Mai then watched as Cat interacted with the Jackals.
"What do you want?" she demanded, watching them circle her with a calm demeanor.
"What do we want?" smirked a large Jackal who seemed to be in charge. "Why, we want what The Order does. To put an end to the Mai race. Unless-,"
While the Jackal dragged out the word, the Mai watching could see how boldly and lewdly the Jackal's eyes roamed over their important holy figure. A low hiss escaped all of the Mai at the Jackal's actions. "Unless you consent to by my personal slave. I wouldn't mind breaking a cat."
The quiet hisses that had begun from the Jackal's actions turned into full on snarls at his words. Chloe even tried to leave Alek and Jasmine to teach the Jackal a lesson about treating her little sister that way, but was stopped when Jasmine felt her try to get past.
"You have to stay Chloe," Jasmine warned her. "If we were to try to help her, we would get killed. We have to put our faith in Lady Leora and hope she will be alright."
'I'm flattered," Cat retorted, her golden eyes flashing in anger. "But I'll pass. Does this mean that you've become The Order's lapdogs?"
"We are working for The Order," the Jackal snarled. "But we are not dogs."
"Could have fooled me."
Cat and the Jackals then had a standoff that ended in an all out brawl between her and four of the Jackals. All Jasmine, Alek, and Chloe could do was watch as Cat took them out with some difficulty before she made all of the corpses disappear. Chloe wanted to cheer for her sister for her victory but held it in when she saw that there was still the leader left.
"I have to admit, you are a skilled warrior," the Jackal praised. "That means I chose well. What is your name cat?"
"Why would I tell you that?" Cat scoffed which put the Mais on edge. "I don't even know yours."
Cue the groan of disbelief.
"It's Michael."
"Leora."
"Ora," the Jackal rumbled in approval. "I will so enjoy bending you to my will."
"You keep believing that flea bag."
That was all that was needed to be said for the two to start hurling magic at each other.
"I thought magic was rare," Alek voiced out loud.
"It's supposed to be," Jasmine replied. About fifteen minutes of back and forth deuling, the three Mai sat in suspenseful anticipation for their leader to take out the Jackal. It seemed like she had won from the way the Jackal went sailing out the window but gasps of surprise sounded when the Jackal pulled Cat down after him. They could only watch in shock and horror as their bodies made a sick thump on the ground before their red lifesource began to stain the ground. When the blood first began to run from Cat's body, her hair faded back to its rich brown which left plain Caterina King dead beside the Jackal corpse. As soon as Alek saw the dead Cat, he flew down from the rooftop across from the tower to Cat's side. Jasmine and a now visible Chloe on the other hand stood frozen in shock while Alek had managed to scoop her up into his arms.
"Rina," he choked out in anguish. He had finally found his long awaited zamil in his long time crush Cat and now she lay dead in his arms. Tears gathered in Alek's eyes as he clutched Cat's body to his chest.
"I can't breathe lion," she huffed weakly against his chest. Alek's eyes widened in surprise and he pulled back only to look into a pair of pain hazed chocolate brown eyes.
"Rina," he breathed in relief.
"What are you doing lion? Get us out of here before a crowd grows!"
All of this was whispered but the words were shot like arrows into Alek's heart.
"But," he tried only to get cut off with a sigh from Cat.
"Nevermind."
With a blink of an eye Cat teleported them onto the rooftop where JAsmine and Chloe were waiting.
"Cat!" Chloe exclaimed with joy and relief while she launched herself at the girl in Alek's arms.
"We don't have time Chloe," Cat stopped her. "I need both you and Jasmine to put a hand on Alek and I'll teleport us somewhere safe."
Both lionesses were hesitant but followed Cat's order in the end so that they all could disappear into seemingly thin air.
"So that's what you really look like, my darling Ora," Michael chuckled before he dissolved into the shadows.
Cat
As soon as we touched foot in the living room of my house, I weakly pushed away from Alek only to topple onto the floor.
"Rina," Alek tried again only to be shot down like he was before.
"I can take care of myself," I insisted sternly. All of the commotion seemed to have called Mom from the kitchen because she came running into the room.
"Cat!"
By the time she reached me, I had managed to kneel on the ground versus the earlier laying crumpled on the ground.
"I thought I told you to be safe?" she cried into my shoulder while she clutched me to her chest.
"I'm not bleeding out on the carpet," I joked, referring to the comment she had made this morning.
"Caterina Leora," she scolded at once.
"Too soon?"
"What do you think?"
"Could you call V and Verny over?" I requested. "We have to have a talk with them."
She reluctantly let me go and backed up so that I could stand. I took in a deep breath that turned into a groan when I tried to force my body to move.
"Do you need help sweetie?" Mom fussed when she saw I was having trouble.
"I'm fine Mom. I can do this."
With much difficulty from my nearly passed out body, I rose shakily to my feet then dragged myself up the stairs. Despite my insistance that I could take care of myself, Chloe and Jasmine followed me up to my room. I was annoyed at first, but after I thought about it, I was grateful. I would not be able to use magic with how low mine was.
"I'll need your help," I told the girls lowly so no one else would hear.
"What can I do Lady Leora?" Jasmine asked at once.
"Please, Cat is fine," I insisted. "What I need you two to do is recite a spell for me that will replenish my own store of magic."
"But I can't use magic," Chloe denied at once, her eyes widening as her head shook frantically.
"Yes, you can. All you have to do is say the words and imagine my body filling with golden light. That is all there is to it."
Jasmine also looked daunted by the task laid in front of her, but she stepped forward bravely.
"I will try La-Cat."
"Good. To do this I need to lay in a bath of special herbs, but I'll need your help taking off my shoes and my weapons."
Both girls were quick to pull off the said effects then helped fill up my bathtub with warm water and the herbs. I was then carefully lowered into the mixture.
"Alright. Repeat after me. Tajdid aleql. Tajdid alqalbi. Tajdid aljism. Tajdid alrruh. Tajdid fi sabirirt. (Replenish the mind. Replenish the heart. Replenish the body. Replenish the soul. Replenish the spirit.)"
"Tajdid aleql," they began slowly to feel the words on their tongues. "Tajdid alqalbi. Tajdid aljism. Tajdid alrruh. Tajdid fi sabirirt."
As the second repetition came, I could tell they were getting even more confident in themselves which resulted in the bath water glowing around me. A sigh of relief left me when I felt my magic returning to me. I knew the both of them could do it. Not long after their eleventh chant, I heard and felt two new voices join in on the chant and a huge wave of magic flooded through me that had me gasping. It had to be V and Verny who had joined in on the spell. It only took ten minutes after that for my magic store to reach full capacity.
"Thank you," I sighed as I sat up from the water.
"What happened Caterina," V demanded at once.
"I'll tell you after I take a shower," I promised. "That way I can tell everyone at once."
"You have fifteen minutes," she relented before she swept out of the room to head down to the living room with Verny at her side.
"Thank you you two. I can take it from here. I'll meet you down in the living room in
fifteen minutes."
Jasmine gave a nod and made to leave while Chloe gave me a brief hug before she followed Jasmine out. With a sigh I pulled my weary body out of the tub and hopped in a shower where the hot water worked on undoing the knots in my back and neck. I didn't have much time to dwell on any of my thoughts as I hurried through washing my body, drying off, and dressing in a pair of black chibi Deadpool booty shorts and a black tank top that has the quote "Daddy needs to express some rage" across the chest. A quick lotioning of my skin and the plaiting of my hair was done before I hurried down the stairs to the living room where everyone, plus the new addition of Amy waited for me.
"Isn't this a party," I remarked dryly from the doorway. I really did not want to talk about what happened until I get some rest, but it wasn't going to happen. Alek immediately raced to my side and held out his arms as if he was expecting me to fall.
"I'm fine lion," I growled softly. Pain and hurt flared up in his dark brown eyes that brought my own wave of pain in my heart.
"Caterina," V scolded me at once, appalled at my treatment of my zamil.
"So what is this I hear about you falling to your death?" Mom demanded with her dark eyes blazing in anger. Another heavy sigh left me before I filled everyone on what what happened with the Order member and the Jackals. At the mention of the Alpha, V paled.
"You were not trained to go up against any Jackal Alphas," she stated.
"What?!" Mom exploded while I saw the three Mai that had experienced my fight took on a look of pure shock.
"She did that well against something she wasn't trained for?" Jasmine breathed in surprise to herself. "The Ai sa Bastet is truly great."
The tense atmosphere in the room was then shattered by the ringing of my cell phone that rested in my bag on the coffee table. The theme song for Superman played which let me know that Paul was calling.
"Hey Paulie," I greeted as happily as I could in my current state.
"Uh, Cat, there's someone who wants to talk to you," Paul said only to be replaced with different voice.
"Well hello my dear Ora," the Mutt from before breathed over the phone. All of my instincts screamed warnings. How in the hell?! He's supposed to be dead!
"How are you still alive Mutt," I hissed in far disguised with annoyance. Everyone around me tensed at my question and V motioned for me to out the call on speaker.
"You wound me Ora," he sniffed into the phone. "Is that any way to treat your future master?"
There was a low growl from Alek while my temper flared at the comment.
"You will never be my master," I hissed.
"We'll see about that Ora. I want you at the abandoned factory on Rivard in twenty minutes. If you fail to show up, your little friend here won't live to see the next sunrise."
"If you harm an part of him, I swear-,"
"See you in twenty Ora."
I could feel my eyes change to gold as snarls escaped me. How dare that flea bag take Paul hostage! Wait, how did he find out that I had something to do with Paul. Has he been watching me for as long as that dead Order member? Ughh, this is why I tried so hard to keep Caterina King and Leora separate. If I kept the two intertwined, my human friends and family would get hurt because of it.
"What are you going to do Cat?" Chloe asked as I paced around the living room.
"I'm going after him," I decided. "But first I'll have to change."
"I forbid it Caterina," V stated firmly. "You have burnt out your magic reserves twice one day after the other. If you go out there and use more of your magic, you could put yourself in a coma."
"It's a price I'm willing to pay," I said with conviction. "Paul is one of my best friends and I can't leave him to die."
"Cat," Verny tried only to get cut off by me.
"No! I'm going whether you forbid it or not!"
"Then we'll come with you," Jasmine offered me with a hand on my shoulder.
"I can't ask that of you Jassy," I told her. "You aren't trained to go up against a Jackal."
"I'm going to," Chloe added.
"And so am I," Alek agreed. "If you won't listen to common sense, the least I can do is keep you safe."
My heart warmed at the sentiment behind his words, but the way he said it made my hair stand on end.
"Fine."
They all waited for me downstairs while I rushed up to my room so that I could change into my Catwoman suit along with the makeup.
"No," Alek voiced first when he saw my outfit.
"It's something that I can wear to hide my identity lion. I'm not changing."
In the armchair to my right, I could see that Mom was silently freaking out over all of what was happening. Amy on the other hand was frozen in shock.
"We need eyes and ears on the battlefield," V told me.
"Then let's from the com link," I said while I held my left hand up to V's right. "Chloe, Alek, and Jasmine I want you to connect hands with us and repeat after us. Qum bitawsil 'aeyunina limushahadat 'akthar min 'anta. alaittisal adhanina alttahdhir min khatar (Connect our eyes to watch over you. Connect our ears to warn you of danger)."
"Qum bitawsil 'aeyunina limushahadat 'akthar min 'anta. alaittisal adhanina alttahdhir min khatar," they echoed clearly, V's and my golden magic merging with orange magic from Chloe, red magic from Alek, and indigo magic from Jasmine. Our magic then branched off from us so that four rectangles of color appeared in the wall in the living room with each showing what we saw. A golden one showed what I saw and heard, an orange one for Chloe, a red for Alek, and an indigo for Jasmine. Once that was over, I pulled my hands away to study the screens.
"There. Now we're all set," I declared. "And now we can get going to save Paul."
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