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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