When I finally came to I could smell smoke in the air. I tried to stand but it seemed useless and I ended up getting on my hands and knees. Because the smoke I decided to not open my eyes and risk getting anything in them. From what I could tell I was still in my house so I felt around the floor. My hands felt smaller and closer together and my arms also felt shorter. I opened my eyes totally forgetting the risk of smoke and when I did I wish I hadn't.

I was way to close to the ground and when I looked down I realized why. My arms and hands where not my arms and hands and I was not on my hands and knees like I thought I was. I was standing on my hands and feet. Or what I thought were my hands and feet. I couldn't believe my eyes, it must have been the smoke but my eyes seemed fine and they even seemed to see better than before. I turned my body and looked in the mirror next to the balcony door in the study and my new eyes widened in shock. I wasn't even me anymore! That spell changed me into a cat! I tried going over to the mirror but I fumbled over my new 'feet' or should I now say 'paws'. I tried again with more success and got closer to the mirror. I looked myself over from my head to my tail. I was pure white. My favorite color. I sighed and when I inhaled I remember why I was even getting up in the first place.

The smoke was coming from under the study down and I was posed with another problem, how do I get out? My new eyes looked all over the place looking for a crack in the wall that I knew wasn't even there. I then looked to the balcony doors. The window like doors on the left side of the study were easy to push open and I was always surprised when my father would tell my mother not to fix them. Maybe he knew. Maybe he knew I would turn myself into a cat and knew that if in the case of their death that someone would come to the house! No, no I was getting way ahead of myself. My father was always a calm man, always dreaming of nonsense, not really a fighter, unless necessary of course.

Getting back on track I wobbled over to the doors and head butted them with my new tiny head. I gasped. It had worked! I walked, or trotted out, onto the balcony and walked along it. The balcony was L shaped to get to my parents and my room. I had left my window open and with my new cat abilities I jumped onto my window ledge.

I had to think quickly seeing as my house was on fire and getting worse as the seconds went by. First get wand. It was on top of my desk and so I jumped up with new found ease and looked at my wand. Great how was I supposed to use it. Cats don't have opposable thumbs like us cool humans. My head tilted and I stared at it for a moment. I then decided to try and see if I could work it by just touching it. Sparks jumped out of the tip and I jolted in fright, then quickly got over it when I realized it had worked. I looked for the stuff I would need around my room. The bag I had started packing was full enough with cloths so with my wand I made the bag into a tiny necklace that would fit around my tiny neck. I looked around once more and found nothing I needed but I had a feeling that something I should be remembering, was being ignored. I ignored the feeling when the smell of burning books filled my nose. And thats when I remembered. The fricking book! How could I have been so stupid! If I was going to get out of this mess, the only thing that could help me would be in that book. Picking up my wand with my teeth I jumped out my window and back on the balcony then raced back to the study. I was so focused in getting there that I didn't hear the popping sound, nor see the figure standing over me.

"Woah there kitty,"

One minute I'm running the next I'm in someones arms and staring blankly at said person.

It was a man about mid 30's maybe older with sandy blond hair and kind blue eyes. I had never meet this man in my life and yet he knew where our house was and how to get past the magic barriers my mother had put around the house and the surrounding forest.

He looked at me funny and stated in a questionable tone.

"I never knew Nathan and Sally had a cat.."

Who was this man..?