Chapter 1: Curiosity
Vlad's P.O.V.
I had just teleported back to my mansion after another fight with Daniel. He had for the umpteenth time told me to get a cat. I scowled at a nearby bush of my back yard. Before I could contemplate anything further a leith silky white haired cat with blue eyes walked out from behind the bush I had been glaring at.
Myst P.O.V
The man was quite intriguing. I had been wandering this part of town for a while now, never considering being friendly with a human. I was independent and self-reliant. But this man intrigued me. His aura was different from the rest of the humans. And so against my better judgment, I revealed myself to the man.
I stepped out into plain view of the man who had been scowling. I watched as it withered when his eyes laid on me. I sat down and started to groom my paw keeping an eye on what the man was doing. I watched as he knelt down next to me and stroked my head. I flinched at the sudden contact but soon relaxed into the man's hand.
I, Mystique, a wild cat, never imagined I would end up with a human owner. But that is what happened that day. The man, I soon learned was named Vlad, took me into his house after a few minutes of petting and I have not left since.
At present I was lounging in a cat bed he had placed in his lab for me. I raised my head as he cursed to himself as he failed to get what he called his 'ghost portal' to work. I stretched sleep from my limbs and padded over to him and gave him and encouraging purr-ow. He looked down at me and smiled.
"Thanks, Maddie." He gave me a scratch on the head and headed upstairs.
Yeah, he named me Maddie, after the woman he loved. I did not mind too much, but I still preferred the name my mother had given me. Mystique or Myst for short. It was not like I could tell Vlad that my name was not, in fact, Maddie. Oh, the woes of being another species.
After watching Vlad's form disappear from sight, I padded over to the 'ghost portal' which to me looked like a giant mechanical hole in the wall. I hopped up into it looking around the dark confines of mechanics. Why was Vlad so invested in this thing? I put my right paw forward and stepped on a loose wire and with a yowl the next thing I knew, I was realizing the meaning of the phrase 'curiosity killed the cat'.