The year 2664, December 16th, around 2 in the afternoon in the city of 
Nona, it was a Saturday. Nona was once the city of Toronto and the 
greater Toronto area. The city had a theme of Steampunk with fashion, 
technology and architect. The streets looked Victorian but the buildings
 were very tall. The city had a greyish atmosphere and looked rather 
dark or gloomy. Zeppelins that are also Steampunk reach high in the sky,
 watching everyone. The people didn't care that the zeppelins were 
watching them, no they just went on with their lives. The use of magic 
liked witch craft and wizardry was ban in the city and anywhere else in 
the country of Dwelf which was Canada and the United States of America 
including Hawaii and Alaska. Humans and anthros lived side by side in 
the country but some humans were against anthros like a homophobe would 
be against homosexual people but anthro/human marriage were legal but 
that was a stake about seventy years before, a great war broke out 
against the humans and the anthros. Both sides had such great loses. 
Cities burned, families were destroyed, it was World War 3 (Or how many 
world wars were before that, could be four or five), but after thirty 
years of conflict there was a peace treaty was struck between the two 
sides and humans and anthros have been living side by side ever since. 
 
   Katelyne was at the bottom of a pool in indoor pool area. Kateylne 
was an eighteen-year-old cat anthro girl. She had snowy white fur, she 
had long slightly wavy red hair which was flowing in the water, thin 
with long legs, 5'7", a snowy white furred tail, teal cat like eyes, 
snowy white cat ears, a cute black cat nose, and a short sharp face and 
was in a red two piece swim suit.
     She was sitting holding her
 knees up against her body. Her eyes were open but the pool water didn't
 eratate her eyes. The water was calm and a clear blue from where she 
was. Being underwater was a freedom for Katelyne. When she was 
underwater her worries seem to disappear from her. Though this freedom 
was only for a minute or sometimes less, her freedom to her could feel 
like hours to her. Her lungs started to hurt, she got up and kicked 
herself off of the floor of the pool. She quickly swam up to the surface
 and she took a deep breath when she got up. 
     The surface was
 noisy. People chatting, children laughing or screaming or people just 
swimming or playing some games. Katelyne hated lots of noise, she wasn't
 much as a people person. She would prefer a book over talking with 
someone, the only friends she really had was her two younger twin 
brothers Jack and Peter, her mother and a boy named Daniel who was her 
best friend. She was scanning the pool for her mother, but as she looked
 around. A volleyball smacked Katelyne right in the face. Her vision was
 blurry for a moment or so, her eyes started to water and her nose 
started to bleed. A male lion anthro swam over to Katelyne.
     "Oh, sorry little lady, are you alright?" the lion anthro asked Katelyne sounding worried and concerned.
  
   Katelyne held her bleeding nose with her left hand so the blood 
wouldn't get every where, the blood was draining back into her throat, 
she didn't want to spit it out so she had to swallow the blood.
  
   Katelyne swan past the lion anthro with her right arm and up to the 
shallow end, she wasn't mad or anything, she just didn't want to get 
blood all over the pool. The lion anthro just looked at Katelyne with a 
look of guilt on his face. She swam up to the end of the pool were 
little children and their parents were playing and having a good time. 
  
   Katelyne got out of the pool and walked up to four towels. One of 
them was a towel from the 21st century but it was in a great condition. 
It was a X files towel with the X files logo and the two main characters
 Scully and Mulder. Kayetlne would watch the X files every weekend on a 
ancient website on the internet called "Netflix" which in Katelyne's 
time it was free to watch. Katelyne grabbed the X files towel and 
wrapped herself in it and started to dry herself off. She pressed a 
corner of the towel against her nose so the blood wouldn't drip every 
where. Katelyne sighed. Her nose started to clot and the bleeding 
stopped. The corner of the towel was covered in blood, Katelyne sighed 
again. She looked at the pool. She couldn't see her mother nor her two 
brothers over the vast majority of people. She looked at the diving 
board.
     "Maybe I could take a dive on the diving board" 
Kateylne said sounding slightly conent in her Southern Ontario accent or
 what was called in her time, a Nonaian accent.
     She got up 
and placed her towel back down next to the other towels. She walked over
 to the line to go up to the diving board. She waited for only a moment 
or so, then it was her turn to dive off of the diving board. She climbed
 up the ladder to the top of the diving board. She got up to the top in a
 minute. The diving board was about six meters off from the pool. She 
walked to the edge of the diving board. Her heart started to race from 
the height. She walked back to the ladder, but she didn't climb down. 
She faced the end of the diving board. She ran and jumped off of it. She
 held her legs close to her body.
     "GERONIMO!" She shouted at 
the top of her lungs as she was in midair then she took a deep breath. 
Geronimo was one of her favourite thing to say since she watched a TV 
show called Doctor who that was the longest running TV show since the 
mid 20th century and was still running to that day. One of the early 
Doctors would say that, one of her favourite Doctors.
     Some 
people looked at Katelyne. She felt the air rushing against her, she 
closed her eyes as she was in midair. She soon hit the water, there was a
 big splash of water and some people got wet. She was still holding her 
legs close to herself, she was sinking to the bottom of the pool. She 
heard nothing, she felt the water around her. She opened her eyes. The 
water stung her eyes for only a moment, then her eyes adjusted. She got 
to the bottom of the pool and she stood up at the bottom of the pool. 
She started to float up but she was moving her arms upwards so she 
wouldn't surface up. She pushed herself from the bottom at a forty five 
degree angle and she swam towards the shallow area. She held her breath 
as she swam. Some small bubbles started to leak from her nose and mouth.
 She swam all the way to the shallow end. Her lungs started to hurt 
again. She rose up to the surface. 
     She saw her mother over 
by the towels with her two younger brothers. Katelyne quickly walked out
 of the pool and towards her mother and her brothers. Her mother was a 
5'10 cat anthro who about the age of forty but she looked younger like 
in her early thirties, she had white fur and short black hair, she was 
thin and had yellow cat like eyes and she had a dark grey towel around 
her. She was looking around at the pool probably looking for Katelyne. 
Her brothers Peter and Jack were both the age of nine. Peter and Jack 
were identical twins. They were also cat anthros and were 5'2. They had 
white fur, short shaggy brown hair, were thin, light green cat eyes and 
they had a green towel and a blue towel around them. Katelyne walked 
over to them. Her mother looked over at her.
     "Hey there Kit 
Kat" Her mother said to her sounding happy in a Nonaian accent. Kit Kat 
was the pet name that her mother would called her. Kit Kat was a very 
old type of chocolate bar which was very good. Katelyne was okay when 
she was called Kit Kat by her mother, but when anyone else called her 
that, she would get ticked off and annoyed.
     Katelyne smiled. "So are we going home?" she asked her mother. 
  
   Her mother chuckled a bit. "Ya, we're going to go home" her mother 
told her. She looked at her sons. "Jack, Peter, we're going home" she 
said to her sons sounding still happy.
     Katelyne grabbed her X
 files towel and quickly dried herself off. The four of them walked to 
the changing rooms. Their mother turned to the boys. 
     "Now 
boys, can I trust you two to get changed alone in the male change room 
without Kit Kat or mummy looking after you?" she asked her boys. 
  
   Both of the boys rolled their eyes at the same time. "Yes mom, we'll 
be good kids" both the boys said at the exact same time sounding some 
what annoyed, both in a Nonaian accent.
     When the two boys did
 something at the exact same time, this would freak Katelyne out, it was
 like they were telekinetically linked. 
     "Promise?" their mother asked them.
     "Promise" the boys said still at the exact same time. 
     Their mother smiled. "Good" she said sounding happy. 
  
   Katelyne and her mother walked into the girls changing room and the 
boys walked into the boys changing room. Katelyne was relived that she 
didn't have to go to the boys changing room or the two brother didn't 
have to go to the girls changing rooms. It was indeed a very awkward 
situation only for her. Her mother and herself walked to two lockers. 
803 and 804. Katelyne opened up locked 803 and her mother opened up 
locker 804. Katelyne quickly got out of her swim suit leaving her 
completely naked but she was against a locker so no one would see 
anything too private, just her butt. Her mother grabbed her clothes from
 locker 804 and walked to one of the washrooms to get undressed so no 
one would see anything. Katelyne quickly got dressed. She put on her 
white underpants and bra, then her light brown Victorian pants, her 
white dress shirt, she buttoned up the dress shirt, then she put on her 
red Steampunk corset, then her Steampunk boots, then her long black 
fingerless and finally she put on her well worn black leather jacket 
which was made in the 21st century. She wrapped her swim suit in her 
towel.
     "Mum! I'm just going outside!" Katelyne told her mother in a yelling fashion.
     "Alright Kit Kat!" Her mother yell back at her.
  
   Kateylne walked out of the changing room. She walked to the front 
desk area and sat on a bench which was against the wall. Katelyne took 
out her phone and she turned it on. She swiped the phone to unlock it. A
 blue hologram shot out of the selfie camera, the hologram looked like 
Mulder from the X files. 
     "You have sixteen new messages" the hologram said, the hologram had robotic voice that sounded like Mulder from X files.
     "Check messages" Katelyne said in a quiet tone.
  
   The phone's screen turned to the messages page. The hologram changed 
to a human who was eighteen, had long light hair but the colour couldn't
 be told from the hologram being blue, and had light skin.
     "Sixteen messages from Daniel Forester" the hologram said but it was a male teenagers in a Nonaian accent.
     "Read messages" Katelyne said.
  
   "Message one: Hey Katelyne, how's it going? Message two: Katelyne is 
everything alright? Message three: Wanna come over and watch some Doctor
 who? Message four: Or maybe we can watch some X files if you want, 
either one works for me."    
     Kateylne chuckled, she knew 
that Daniel had a crush on her but he didn't know that she knew. They 
were friends since childhood, around the age of six. Daniel always took a
 fancy to Katelyne ever since they first met. Katelyne found out that 
Daniel had a crush on her when they were about ten, but Katelyne 
pretended that she didn't know. Daniel always had Katelyne's back. The 
reason why Daniel never told Katelyne about his crush on her was because
 his parents and his grand parents were anthro-phobic and they would 
find out that Daniel had a crush on an anthro. Katelyne came over to 
Daniel's house a couple times when his parents were away. Katelyne and 
Daniel danced a couple times together and everyday they would have 
lunches together at school.
     "Stop telling me the messages" Kateylne said.
     The hologram stopped talking but it was still projecting. 
  
   "Can you send this message, Hi Daniel I was just swimming with my 
mother and my two brothers, maybe we can hang out tomorrow and then we 
can watch some Doctor who?" Katelyne said. She paused for a moment or so
 and the phone made a clicking sound and the message was sent. 
     Katelyne turned off her phone, the hologram turned off and she looked towards the two changing rooms. 
  
   Her two brothers rushed out of the male changing rooms. They were in 
black Steampunk pants, black Steampunk boots, brown leather Steampunk 
coats with hoods and brown leather Steampunk gloves. They rushed over to
 their sister.
     "Where's mommy?" they asked Katelyne at the same time. 
     "Mum is just getting changed, she'll be out in just a minute" Katelyne told her brothers.
     Her brothers sighed. "Mom takes forever" the boys said sounding annoyed at the same time.
  
   Not even a moment later their mother came out in a long light brown 
leather Victorian coat, black leather Steampunk pants, black leather 
Steampunk boots and a brown leather Steampunk gloves.
     The two boys ran over to their mother.
     "Mom, are we going?" the boys asked her.
     Their mother looked down at them and chuckled. "Yes we are my sweet hearts" she said.
  
   They all walked out of the pool to the outside. They quickly walked 
to their Steampunk hover car. The two boys got in the back, Katelyne got
 in passenger side and their mother got in the drivers side and they 
drove off.
***
    It was a few days later of 
December the 21st; classes all over Dwelf had ended for the Christmas 
holidays. Katelyne was walking home from school down the Steampunk grey 
atmospheric streets of downtown Nona with her friend Daniel. The streets
 had a fresh blanket of snow but the snow was yucky grey downtown. 
Daniel was slightly taller than Katelyne, was human, eighteen, had long 
blonde hair, light green eyes, peach skin and was thin. Katelyne was 
wearing her light brown Victorian pants, long black fingerless Steampunk
 gloves, black leather Steampunk boots, a white dress shirt, a red 
Steampunk corset, a well worn black leather jacket and a blue scarf. 
Daniel was wearing a red steampunk pirate coat, a black dress shirt, 
grey Victorian pants, long Steampunk boots and black Victorian gloves. 
 
     Katelyne hated down town. It was dirty and she would see the 
strangest people there. Even once someone tried to sell her crack but 
she just walked away. Katelyne and Daniel were still walking down the 
street. They were chatting about school and what they were going to do 
for the Christmas break. 
     Katelyne was going to stay home 
with her two brothers and her mother and they would watch some Christmas
 classics like the ancient tale of "The Christmas Carol" or "The 
Nightmare before Christmas" like they did every year. They didn't have 
any other family just the four of them. 
     Daniel was going to
 go to the city Phrell which was once the city of London and Brantfort 
to see his Grand Parents and his aunts and uncles who all lived there. 
Daniel and his parents were the only people in their close family who 
lived outside of Phrell. 
     They still chat, after ten minutes
 they finally got to Katelyne's house which was in a suburban area just 
outside of Downtown. Katelyne walk up to her house and gave her blonde 
human friend a hug.
 
     "Have a great holiday" Katelyne said to Daniel in a sweet and whispered tone.
     They stopped hugging; Katelyne walked up to the door of her place 
and opened the door. Daniel just continues walking down the street. They
 lived pretty close together. 
 
     Katelyne walked 
into her home. Her home was an averaged sized home in the suburban area 
of Nona, it was warm and cozy, outside from the bitter cold. Katelyne 
took off her boots and placed them near to door with the other boots and
 shoes. She walked into her living room. A fire in the fireplace was 
burning in an orange and yellow masterpiece. She threw her leather 
jacket on the couch and she took off her corset and threw it with her 
leather jacket. 
 
 She felt something cold shiver down her spine. She started to hear whispers. 
     "MUM!" Katelyne shouted in fear.
     No one was there to answer her. Her brothers were still in school and her mother was still at work.
  
   Katelyne would sometimes hear whispers in her house, when she was 
alone. Either when she got home from schools or when she would sometimes
 wake up in the middle of the night and her mother and her brothers were
 still asleep. Once she woke up in the middle of the night and heard the
 whispers she went over to her mother's room. She noticed a sort of 
golden glowing was coming from her mother's closet where she would keep 
her coats. She looked in the closet and saw the glowing was coming from 
her mother's long red trench coat, but when she reached towards the coat
 the glowing and the whispers stopped. She didn't want to wake her 
mother so she just went back to bed.
     This time Katelyne was 
alone, the whispering has been going on for as long as she could 
remember. Her brothers never heard the whispering and nor did her 
mother. 
     She knew it had something to do with the trench coat
 or something in it. Katelyne quickly walked upstairs and crept over to 
her mother's room. She then crept over to her mother's closet and opened
 it. The long red trench coat was glowing. Katelyne quickly grabbed the 
coat and it stopped glowing and the whispers disappeared. She searched 
in the pockets of the coat. She felt something cold and metal brush up 
against her hand. She grabbed the cold metal thing and look at it. It 
was a golden ring with strange engraving on it. It was very clean and 
shiny. She looked at the trench coat, it was in a great condition as if 
was newly bough, but her mother had it for years, before Katelyne was 
even born. She ran to her room with the ring and the coat in both of her
 hands and she slammed the door close and locked it.
     Katelyne
 sat on her bed just looking at the ring and the coat. They seem to have
 a strange aura coming off of them, it was a bit bewitching. She placed 
down the coat on her bed and she slowly placed the ring on her ring 
finger. It was a perfect fit. The symbols on the ring started to glow. 
Her eyes started to flutter and her vision start to become darker, she 
soon fell down on her bed and passed out.
 
   
  Katelyne soon woke up, but she wasn't in her room. She was in a very 
strange place. The floor was like a black and white chess board and it 
seemed to be moving. The walks were pitch black like a starless night 
sky, but there were burst and swirls of light appearing and disappear. 
The ceiling was a golden eye that kepy opening and closing, it was 
really freaking her out. The room was long or short, she couldn't tell, 
it was like her mind was playing a trick on her. She was the only thing 
in the room, but a short and thin human man in a fine brown tweed suit 
soon appeared. He had a big and friendly smile on his face. His hands 
were together and his head was tilted to the right a bit. 
     "Hello?" Katelyne asked the man sounding scared and confused.
     "You must be Katelyne? Is that right?" the man asked Katelyne sounding very calm and strong, he had a British accent. 
  
   Katelyne froze in fear. She never ever met this person. He seemed 
rather alien to her. She never heard a person who had an accent like 
his. 
     Europe and Asia had become one continent called Kwae 
which hadn't been in contact with Dwelf in over two hundred years. The 
children of Dwelf had no knowledge of Kwae or anything outside Dwelf. 
     "W-w-who are you?" Katelyne asked the Kwae man sounding really scared.
  
   The Kwae man chuckled. "There is no reason to be scared child. I'm 
called the Whisper" the Kwae man told Katelyne really emphasizing "the 
Whisper". He reached into the inside pocket of his tweed coat. Was he 
going to pull out a knife? A gun?
     Katelyne's heart was 
racing, she was going to run, but where would she go. There was no 
windows or doors. It was like a prison. She closed her eyes hoping a 
miracle would happen.
     "Can you please open you eyes?" the Whisper asked Katelyne sounding very calm and friendly.
  
   Katelyne opened her eyes. The Whisper had a brown raggedy leather 
note book in his hand, he was leaning over and he was offering the book 
to Katelyne.
     She crept towards the Whisper and grabbed 
the book. The Whisper let go of the book. Katelyne started to feel 
sleepy, her head started to spin and her vision was darkening. She fell 
over and passed out. The Whisper just stood there and smiled. "Good 
luck" he whispered.
     Katelyne soon woke up in her room. She 
gasped, it was just a dream. She looked at her hand and saw the ring was
 still on her finger, but it wasn't glowing anymore. She grabbed the 
coat and started to examine it, but a brown raggedy leather note book 
fell out of the coat. Katelyne's heart was starting to race, it wasn't a
 dream. She quickly placed the note book under her bed so no one would 
read it or find it. She started to hear the door open and foot steps 
coming into the house.
     "Kit kat, we're home!" her mother yelled in a singsong voice.
  
   Katelyne's mind race. She quickly took off the ring and placed it 
back into the coat, she ran out of her room with the coat in her hands 
and ran to her mothers room. She quickly hung up the coat and raced 
downstairs. She ran up to her mother and gave her a great hug.
  
   Her mother smiled and hugged her daughter. She looked down at her 
daughter, she could see some fear behind her eyes but she knew from what
 her fear  was from.
***
    Twas Christmas eve in 
Katelyne's home, around five forty three in the afternoon. Their mother 
was cooking the Christmas turkey and the two brothers were out back in 
the cold playing "Peter Pan" Jack was Peter Pan and Peter was captain 
Hook. Katelyne was sitting on the couch by the open fire. She had her 
legs close to her body and she was rocking herself back and forth. She 
was thinking of the Whisper and the strange room. She couldn't stop 
thinking about it. Every time she fell asleep she would always go back 
to that room and see the Whisper again. They would chat but Katelyne 
didn't learn anything from him. She didn't know about the book or the 
room or even the story behind the coat. When ever she was going to ask 
the questions in her dream. Her lips would seal shut with her own skin, 
like she wasn't suppose to ask the questions. Every night before going 
to bed she would try to read the book but every page had weird words and
 strange pictures. She was puzzled by this. She didn't want to tell 
Daniel about this or her brothers or even her mother about the book or 
her dreams. She didn't see Daniel, not even over the phone. People in 
the cities could only have contact within the city they are in. You 
would need a pass to travel from city to city and registering for a pass
 would take months and a couple hundred negladites (Negladites are the 
currency in Dwelf, gold coins with the capital symbol on it which was an
 eye in a triangle which use to be called "the Illuminati").
   
  Katelyne soon stood up and got off the couch. She stretched and walked
 towards her mother. Her mother was just basting the turkey.
     "Hey Kit Kat, is everything alright?" she asked her daughter sounding concerned, she could tell something was up with her.
  
   Katelyne just smiled and looked up at her mother. "Mom, I'm perfectly
 fine" she told her mother sounding calm and happy, yet she wasn't.
  
   Her mother smiled and hugged her daughter. "Dinner will be in twenty 
minutes, can you tell your brothers?" her mother asked her.
   
  Katelyne nodded and stopped hugging her mother. She walked over to the
 back door to their backyard. She opened the door and stuck her head out
 the door, the cold wind blew into the house. Katelyne saw her brothers 
in their coats playing their game.
     "Dinner in twenty minutes boys!" Katelyne shouted so her brothers would hear her.
  
   The boys stopped playing for a moment and looked at Katelyne. "Okay!"
 they shouted back at the same time, like they normally do.
   
  Katelyne chuckled and stuck her head back into the house and closed 
the door. She shook her head a couple of times from her head being cold,
 it was a sort of thing she would do when she was cold.
     She 
walked back over to the couch to the warm open fire. She laid down on 
the couch and thought of Christmas, she wanted to get her mind off of 
this whole "Whisper" business. She thought of her mothers fantastic 
turkey and their traditional old fashion Christmas movie. This year she 
wanted to watch the "Nightmare Before Christmas" once again. It was her 
favorite film of all time. Her brothers probably wanted to watch "Frosty
 the Snowman" or "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer". Katelyne liked those 
two movies. She always loved it when Frosty said "Happy Birthday" when 
he came to life, or when everyone loved Rudolph when he guided Santa's 
sleigh in the terrible storm.
     After the Christmas movie they 
would listen to some Christmas music like "Walking in a Winter 
Wonderland" by a man called Dean Martin, or "Rockin' around the 
Christmas Tree" by some woman called Brenda Lee. These songs were more 
then half a Millennium, how her mother got these was beyond her. 
  
   Katelyne was happy it was Christmas. Not many people celebrated 
Christmas in Dwelf, but it was a holiday for the schools all over Dwelf.
 She was the only person (besides Daniel) to celebrate Christmas. Some 
people thought her and her mother were crazy, but that never stopped 
them. Sometimes Katelyne and her mother would go to a store, try on hats
 and take silly pictures or they would chase pigeons in the park (Yet 
they would be brass steampunk pigeons since they died out in the 25th 
century by some plague, that only effected pigeons). This was their 
mother/daughter time when her brothers would still be in school or out 
for a sleep over. Her mother was her best friend (besides Daniel). Most 
of the teenagers in Dwelf wouldn't hang out or even talk to their 
parents, but Katelyne wasn't a normal teenager.
     Twenty 
minutes later, Katelyne's mother came out of the kitchen with a twenty 
pound turkey in a brass turkey tray. She walked over to the dinning 
table and placed the turkey in the middle of the table. She placed her 
hands on her hips, looked at the turkey, sighed and made a goofy smile. 
Her face soon relaxed and she quickly looked over at Katelyne.
     "Kit Kat, can you ask your brothers to come in?" her mother asked her in a slightly exhausted tone but mainly happy.
  
   Katelyne got up and off the couch. She walked back to the back door 
and opened it up. She looked out the door. She saw her brothers talking 
to a man, he was tall, about 6'1, wore a black hooded cloak, she 
couldn't see his face. The man was just looking down and talking to the 
boys.
     "Hey!" Katelyne shouted to the man.
     The man 
looked at Katelyne, he wore a white mask that was of a face with an 
over-sized smile and red cheeks, a wide black mustache upturned at both 
ends, and a thin black vertical pointed beard. She jumped in fear and 
her heart started to race. The man turned back to the boys, he took a 
stage bow and then he disappeared into thin air, as if he wasn't there 
in the first place.
     Katelyne darted her eyes towards her younger brothers.
     "Dinner's ready!" she shouted at them, still having fear in her voice.
  
   Her brothers dashes into the house, stomped their feet at the door 
and quickly took off their coats. They ran towards the table and sat 
down
     Katelyne giggled, and walked over to the dinner table 
and sat down. Across from her mother and beside Peter and Jack. On the 
table there was her mother's turkey, a large cup of gravy, a bowl of 
salad and garlic bread.
     The four of them started to dig in 
and eat. The boys grabbed some of the garlic bread and a leg per boy. 
Her mother grabbed some salad, some turkey and she poured the gravy on 
the turkey. Katelyne grabbed some salad, some of the turkey, some gravy 
and some of the garlic bread. Normally Katelyne wasn't a big eater, but 
during the holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving, she ate like she 
hasn't eaten in days. Some times she would get a stomach ache, 
indigestion or she would just fall asleep. Once it was all three.
  
   After ten minutes of chomping down on the food and silver ware 
clacking against the plates, there was a knock on the door. Their mother
 stopped eating and swallowed a piece of turkey.
     She widely 
smiled as if she was happily surprised and she gasped. "Kids, who would 
that be?" she asked sounding happy, yet she knew who was at the door.
  
   Peter and Jack's faces lit up with excitement and happiness. They 
stopped eating. They ran to the door and they opened the door. A 6'7 
male grey wolf anthro who looked as if he was in his mid thirties, he 
had a thickish build. He was in a bright red frock coat, bright red 
jeans, black military boots, a black leather belt, a fake, long, white 
beard and a bright red sock hat with a white pom pom on the end of it. 
He had a big brown leather sack filled with something over his shoulder
     "Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas" he said sounding rather jolly, loud and in a Nonanian accent
  
   He walked into the house and dropped the sack on the living room 
floor. He opened up the sack to reveal that there was at least two dozen
 hand crafted, painted, wooden toys. Swords, little trains, a little 
blue police box for Katelyne and little people. The boys hugged the wolf
 anthro and dug into the toys.
     Katelyne smiled with some 
turkey in her mouth. She quickly chewed and swallowed it. Their mother 
smiled, rested her elbows on the table and her chin on her hands. She 
chuckled and looked at how happy her boys were.
     The wolf 
anthro quickly grabbed the little blue police box and walked over to 
Katelyne. He smiled and placed it in front of Katelyne, on the table. He
 smiled and gave Katelyne a hug. Katelyne smiled and hugged the wolf 
anthro.
     Her mother smiled at looked at Katelyne and the wolf anthro and was still smiling. She had happiness in her eyes.
     "Thank you Robin" her mother told the wolf anthro with a glee in her voice.
  
   Robin chuckled and hugged their mother. "It's the best I can do Sky, 
ever since. Well. What happened to Hunter" he said with sorrow in his 
voice.
     Their mother sadly sighed and her eyes became glassy. 
In 2648 when Katelyne was only two. Their father worked at a coal mine, 
which in Dwelf was a high paying job. During the night of Christmas 
their father had to work a shift during the day, but there was an 
explosion which killed everyone in the mine. Around ten in the 
afternoon, Katelyne's mother got the news, she cried for days. She 
didn't sleep and didn't eat for days. 
     This was Katelyne's 
first memory. She remember Robin and a few other of their friends came 
over and tried to comfort her mother or take care of Katelyne. It wasn't
 an easy time for them, but after some time, the scar started to fade, 
her mother was able to work and take care of Katelyne. Every Christmas 
Robin would come over and play Santa for Katelyne then her brothers. 
Robin was like a second father to Katelyne.
     Katelyne smiled 
and looked at the little police box. She grabbed it with both her hands 
and held it close to her chest. She closed her eyes. She took a deep 
breath and sighed. 
     "So, you two have a very merry Christmas and if you need anything just call me" Robin said with a hushed and soft tone.
     Katelyne's mother smiled. "Thanks, and you too" she said with happiness in her voice. 
  
   He gave Katelyne a kisses on the top of her head and he walked off. 
She sighed and laid back in her chair. Her mother chuckled and got up. 
     "So what shall we watch this year?" she asked her daughter sounding calm and happy.
  
   Katelyne had a bit of a sleepy look on her face but it was happy. She
 slowly got out of her chair and stumbles over to the couch and fell on 
it face first. She closed her eyes and started to drift off to sleep.
  
   Her mother chuckled and put her right hand against the side of her 
face. She sat down next to Katelyne and rubbed her back. She kissed her 
head and whispered "Good night".
     Many hours later, around 
three in the morning, Katelyne woke up. Everything was dark, she could 
only see figures of things around her living room. She felt something 
against herself and something on her right ring finger. She stood up and
 she saw she was in her mothers long red trench coat. She held up her 
right hand and saw the mystical, golden ring on her right ring finger. 
She jumped in fear, why were they on her and who put them on her? She 
looked around and gasped. Her mind started to race, she started to smell
 something burning. She stopped and sniffed the air. Something was 
burning. 
     Her heart started to race. She quickly walked 
around the room. She found the stairs and ran up them. She held the 
railing so she wouldn't fall. The smell of smoke and fire started to 
become even more strong each time she walked up the stairs. 
     She soon quickly walked to her mothers room. She opened the door. Her mother was fast asleep. She walked over to her.
     "Mom" she said in a quiet yet scared tone.
     Her mother woke up and sat up. 
     "Kit Kat, what's up?" she asked her daughter sounding sleepy.
     Katelyne took a deep breath. "I smell something burning" she told her mother still sounding scared yet it was a louder tone.
     Her mother opened her eyes more and quickly got out of bed.     "Get your brothers!" she told her in a loud and worried tone.
     Katelyne ran down to her brothers room and tried to open the door, but it was locked. She ran back to her mothers room.
     "The doors locked!" she told her mother sounding very scared.
  
   Her mother ran out of her room and towards the boys room. She grabbed
 the handle but it was burning hot. She quickly let go of the handle. 
The door started to catch on fire. The flames were roaring in it's 
orange and yellow masterpiece. 
     "Katelyne run!" she bellowed 
at her daughter. She would never call her Katelyne unless it was 
something urgent or dangerous. 
     Katelyne ran out of her 
mothers room and down the stairs. The front door was also up in flames. 
Katelyne gasped, the flames reflected in her eyes.
     Her mother tried to kick down the door but it was no use. 
  
   "Jack, Peter!" she yelled towards the door. She was still trying to 
kick down the door. The boys didn't respond. The ceiling started to 
catch fire. She looked up at the ceiling and ran down the stairs. Soon 
the whole upstairs went up in flames. 
     Katelyne froze in fear
 of the deadly flames engulfing her house and her brothers. Her mother 
ran towards Katelyne and grabbed her hand.
     She pulled her 
daughter to the back door, but that was also up in the deadly hot 
flames. They were trapped. Tears started to fall from her mothers face. 
She face her daughter. 
     "Vale" she whispered sounding so sad 
and so scared. She hugged her daughter and cried. Katelyne hugged her 
mother, she didn't know what was going on. Her vision was blank and she 
couldn't feel her body.
     Her vision came back after a moment 
or so. She wasn't in her home. She was just outside her house, the 
flames roared and were bright and high. Her home and her family were 
destroyed. Tears fell from her eyes. She kneeled down and cried in her 
hands. 
     She soon felt the touch of a leather gloves on her 
shoulder, this startled her. She quickly turned her head back and saw 
the tall, masked man. She gasped but the masked man put a white funny 
smelling clothing on her face, she started to feel sleepy. She soon 
blacked out, not knowing what her future had in store for her.        
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