Chapter seven: The Family

Chance, Felina, Jake, and Feral drove up to Felina's family home. Chance, Felina, and Jake were in one car and Feral was in his. Jake didn't know why he was here. Chance just asked him to come. They got out of the cars and looked at the Magnolia Plantation mansion. Chance was very nervous. Felina could see that he was and reached over and put her paw into his.

"Don't worry you'll do fine." Chance looked at Felina with an unsure kind of look. They four began to walk up the stairs to the mansion.

"Chance." Jake said his friend's name.

"Yea."

"Why did you want me to come here?" Jake asked

"Because I need you here and Felina asked me to invite you." Chance said while they stopped at the front door.

"But why?" He asked again. This time Felina answered him.

"Because you are family too Jake." She smiled at him which made him blush.

Feral rang the doorbell. The door opened and there was an older kat standing there. The four walked into the mansion. Chance and Jake looked around the house and then looked at each other. Jake could see that Chance was very nervous at this point. The kat that had opened the door for them walked over to Felina.

"It is nice to see you again Ms." He said to her.

"It's nice to see you too John." Felina said smiling at him.

"Oh Chance, Jake this is John my family's butler. He has been here since I was a baby." Felina informed them.

"Oh well it is nice to meet you John." Chance said shaking the kats hand. John showed them to one of the living rooms and told them that Mrs. and Mr. Feral would be down shortly. Feral looked over at Chance and could see that the poor tom was so nervous. He smiled to himself and walked over and placed a paw on his shoulder. Just then Mrs. and Mr. Feral walked in as well has their children. Now Chance was very nervous. Feral could feel Chance shaking under his paw. Feral felt sorry for him.

"Mom, Dad this is Chance." Felina said smiling at her parents. They looked at Chance with a disapproving look. All Chance could do is smile at them.

"Chance this is my mom Josephine and my dad Marcellus." Felina told him. She turned toward her brothers and sisters.

"These are my brothers Arthur, Benjamin, and Liam. And my sisters Scarlett, Jane, and Lola." Felina introduced Chance to her family. Chance said hello to them all. Felina's brothers narrowed their eyes at Chance and her sister Scarlett rolled her eyes at him. Her other sisters Jane and Lola smiling at Chance with loving smiles.

"Shall we set down?" Josephine said moving her paw toward the setting area. They all walked over to the setting area.

"So what do you do for a living?" Marcellus asked.

"I'm a mechanic at the Megakat City salvage yard." Chance said smiling at them.

"Oh I see." Josephine said with disgust in her voice.

"Who is this?" Arthur asked pointing at Jake.

"Oh this is my best friend Jake Clawson." Chance said. Jake nodded his head at them and smiled.

"Oh and you're here why?" Arthur asked again.

"Jake is here because he is family to Chance and me too." Felina said. Jake smiled a big smile when Felina said this.

"Oh well I'm going to say what everyone here is thinking." Arthur said Chance closed his eyes and waited.

"You can do a lot better than him." Arthur said. Felina stood up and opened her mouth to say something but was cut off by Chance.

"You're right she can do a lot better but she chose me and I'm grateful that she did. (Chance stands up) And I love your sister very much." Arthur looked at Chance with a hateful look. Everyone there but Jane and Lola looked at him with a hateful look.

"Well I don't think that you can protect my daughter." Marcellus said standing up and walking over to Chance.

"I can protect her and I have before." Chance said. Felina looked at her uncle with worried eyes.

"Well my son Benjamin is a navy seal and if you can beat him then you are somewhat worthy to marry my daughter." As Marcellus said this Benjamin stood up, Chance looked at the tom kat.

"Fine let's go." Chance said and moved past Felina's father as well did Benjamin. Felina looked at the both of them and could not believe what was happening.

Benjamin lunged at Chance. Chance moved to the right and kneed Benjamin in the gut. Benjamin fell on the floor on all fours and coughed. Benjamin got up and turned around and lunged at Chance again. Chance moved again and grabbed Benjamin by the left paw and pulled it behind Benjamin's back. Chance took his other paw and held had it on the back of the other toms head. Everyone looked at this and could not believe what they were seeing. Well almost everyone Jake, Felina, and Feral was not shocked at Chance's actions.

"Let go of me!" Benjamin yelled out. Chance let go of Benjamin's arm and pushed him down onto the ground.

"If I were you Benjamin I would stay down." Feral said to his nephew. Chance looked at Marcellus with a smile on his face. Marcellus looked at Chance with a hateful look.

"Well I see that you are somewhat worthy and not a complete waste." Chance smiled an smart ass kind of smile.

Later that evening after dinner everyone was in the living room talking. Chance and Jake were talking and Felina was talking to some of her siblings. Feral was talking to Josephine and Marcellus. He was trying to make them see that Chance was a good tom for their daughter. Chance looked at Felina as she walked up to him and smiled.

"Jake can Felina and I talk for a minute." Jake nodded his head and walked over to Jane and Lola.

"What's wrong Chance?" Felina asked him knowing that something was wrong with him.

"Are you sure you want to marry me?" Chance asked.

"Yes I do. Don't worry about what they say. I love you and could never stop loving you." Felina said and leaned over and kissed Chance on the lips.

Later they all went to bed. Felina's mother tried to get Chance to sleep in another room but Felina told her no. Jake could see that she did not like that at all. In the morning Chance got up at his usual time. Chance walked downstairs and into the kitchen. There he saw John and a maid by the name of Rose preparing food for breakfast. They all talked while until Chance went outside by then the sun had came up. Chance was on the patio he was about to set down on a chair when he saw someone on the side of the mansion. He looked and could see that it was Liam. Chance walked over to the young man. He could see that Liam had a bow and arrows.

"What are you doing up so early?" Chance asked him.

"I always get up at this time." Liam said in a hateful kind of way.

"Oh what are you doing practicing for bow season?" Chance asked in a nice way.

"Yes." Chance watched the young man pull back his bow and noticed that he was doing it wrong.

"You are doing that wrong." Liam looked over at Chance.

"How?"

"You need to lower this arm some." Chance said placing a paw on Liam's right arm. Liam let Chance help him.

"Now let go." Liam did and hit the target dead on.

"Wow I've never hit the target in the middle before." Liam looked over toward Chance and smile.

"Here you want to see something cool." Chance asked. Liam nodded his head. Chance took the bow from Liam and grabbed the quiver from off the ground and put it on his back. Liam watched Chance breath in and out. Then quickly grab a arrow and put it in place and let the string go. Chance did that four more times and then stopped. Liam looked at him and then at the target. Liam's mouth dropped when he show the grouping of the arrows on the target. They were all in around the middle it was a kill shot.

"Wow that was awesome!" Chance smiled and looked over toward the young man.

"You know maybe you are what my sister needs in a husband." This made Chance smile even more.

From the widow up above the two archers stood Marcellus. He looked at Chance with wide eyes. Then he narrowed his eyes with a evil smile.

"So you are worthy to marry my daughter." He said to himself.

Chance and Liam walked back into the mansion. When they had reached the stairs Marcellus was standing there with his paws behind his back.

"Father?" Liam asked.

"Liam go and get ready for breakfast." He told his youngest son.

"I have to talk to Chance alone." Chance smiled nervously. Liam walked past his father and to his room.

"Come with me." Marcellus told Chance. Chance walked behind Marcellus. They walked into a room that looked like to be Marcellus's study. Marcellus moved to let Chance into the room. Chance looked around the room. Marcellus walked past Chance to a wall.

"I believe this is want you would want to see." Marcellus pushed a piece of the wall in, and the wall moved over to the right. Chance walked over and looked in. His eyes widen when he saw what was in the room. There on a mannequin was the suit of The Dark Archer.

"You are…" Chance began.

"Yes I am. I believe that you call me The Dark Archer. I have to admit I like it. So you don't have to worry about impressing me. You have already done that a long time ago. Oh and sorry about almost killing you." Marcellus said this while walking into the room and stopping to look at Chance.

"Does anyone…" Marcellus cut Chance off.

"No. Just you." He said.

"And I would like it if you would not tell anyone and that means you friend Jake. Because if you do I will have no chose but to kill him and anyone you tell." Chance know that he was telling the truth.

"Fine, I don't tell and you don't tell about me and Jake being the SWAT kats."

"Very well I will not tell." Marcellus walked over to Chance. Chance took a step back.

"Tell me have you been training any?" He asked his soon to be son-in-law.

"Yes I have been training nonstop." Chance watched his soon to be father-in-law walk around him.

"Good so next time you and I will have a wonderful and enjoyable fight." Chance looked at the tom and smiled.

"Yes we will wont we." Chance and Marcellus smiled an evil smile.

After Chance and Marcellus left the room they went down to the kitchen. There they saw everyone setting at the table. Felina, Jake, and Feral looked at the two with an odd look they know that something had happened between the two of them. They sat down at the table and everyone ate. Later that day the four was getting ready to leave to go back to Megakat City. Felina hugged her brothers and sisters goodbye as well as her mother. When she hugged her father he whispered into her ear.

"You did well; he will be a wonderful husband and father." Felina looked at her father and smiled. Marcellus smiled at his daughter. The four left to go back to the city.