Only for one day and she was already used to his accompany!
Waking up in her new bed, Kitty realized she had no plan for her day. What did she do yesterday? Well, in short, Erebus.
With her first thought after she woke up in her new bed being about Erebus, Kitty got agitated at herself and jumped out of bed.
She had to get her life back! Erebus was too far away a dream for her and she cannot risk losing herself in this doomed crush.
She got a few days off on her hand with some month's salary in her hand, why not take advantage of it?
Kitty looked at her frizz hair in the mirror and tried a few pulls on it to make it straight before she gave up with a wail. While she loved the grey blue hair she got from her mom, the little curls that came with from her dad always gave her trouble.
She got into her loose sweater and slims after a quick fresh up. They were brand new, unlike the boots on her feet. She stole them from the hypocritical dean at the orphanage as her revenge. The dean kept them hidden because while she liked them, it was not really "appropriate". And Kitty had been wearing them ever since because they WERE some decent leather, and it would be a shame to see them hidden, or on the dean's feet really.
Getting used to the city. Being a stray cat, you should always know your turf. And that was what Kitty planned for her first day here in the city.
It was not her first day in any city though. She did remember her parents' house in a city just like this one, maybe as huge and fancy. They would drive around all the time to get groceries, to cinemas, or just to go around and appreciate the views. But it felt like last life to Kitty now. Too much had happened since then. She had little memory of that rough time, like pictures taken with her mind, and pictures she would avoid looking at if she could.
How much would "three months' salary" be? Kitty let her mind wonders as she walked on the street, taking random turns. She likes to "get lost" in that way when she was "prisoned" in the orphanage to feel as if she was free in a whole new world when she won't recognize the surroundings.
"Little girl!" Someone yelled at her from behind. Kitty turned around to see an old woman chasing her down from a couple shops pass.
"Yes?" She replied in hesitation. What could the old lady possibly want from her? This was her first day here.
"So, soooo beautiful locks you have." The old lady gave a praise as her gaze fell upon her.
"Ohh, thanks for saying so." Kitty was extremely cautious when it comes to strangers. It's the first lesson to learn living on the streets.
"Here, kiddo. Would you like to take a peek at my collections? I'm sure you could find something that interests you." The old lady made a greeting gesture to the little antique shop she came out of, but Kitty could swear that shop was NOT selling what she was seeing now!
Kitty hesitated for a second and followed the old lady. She knew she didn't miss this small shop to her lack of attention. If she didn't see it before, it was because it wasn't there! But this was precisely why Kitty decided to check it out. There had to be something more about this store, and about why the old lady just chose to called out to her but not anyone else.
It was a small room judging from outside, but the ceiling looked surprisingly high once Kitty got inside. There were several tall shelves casually scattered around in the room, but one hardly notices the messy layout because EVERYTHING on the shelves is an eye catcher!
There were ancient rings, bracelets and all kinds of accessories, some hanging on the side of the shelves, but certain ones neatly in small wooden boxes with velvet under; what were the most there was all kinds of crystal balls, all showing different things in them, some only a mist, others with images twirling around...
There was no way Kitty just missed this store!
Kitty was afraid that her probing question about the store would scare it to disappear in front of her, so she held down her curiosity and simply just began to explore the shelves: "I can see why you hold a high pride for your amazing collection."
"You are a sweetie pie, just like your mom." The old lady smiled, as if Kitty was just a neighbor’s daughter, visiting a grandma next door on a casual afternoon.
"You!... You know my mom?" Kitty took a sudden turn and her eyes popping out at those words.
"Ahh, yes, of course I know her. The sweetest little witch that I have ever met. Go on, Kiddo, see if you feel anything."
Kitty turned slowly with her brain shocked empty, blindly following the old lady's suggestion as if under a spell. What did she say? Did she say "witch"? Her mom? Yes she was an amazing mom, fascinating and always mischievous. Kitty admitted she always knew there was something special about her mom, but never had she imagined that she could be a witch!
Walking by the shelves, but Kitty no longer found any of those weird gadgets interesting when all her mind was on her mom. How could she be a witch?! And if so, how could she die of a car accident?! Shouldn't witches be like, powerful and... Do witches die? Yes, of course, but from what? Do they die for "normal" reasons like drowning, or, like her mom, crash of a car? It suddenly seemed so unreal, both the fact that she was a witch, AND her too "ordinary" death.
And that was when Kitty's eyes were caught by a sparkling blue light coming from a bit above her head.
She looked up and found the light coming out of a dark wooden box on the third storey of the shelf by her side. She didn't even think to ask the old lady before she reached out and took the box down, she HAD to know what was inside because she felt such a pulling from it. It was calling out to her!
It was only a stone.
The second her hands reached the box; the light went out. It was a VERY fancy, in fact, too fancy a reliquary for just an ordinary stone like that. It wasn't even in a regular shape. It looked as if it was just a piece knocked out of a huge rock, but had been in the wind and water for so long that even though atactic, it had lost its edges.
It was only a small, grey stone with no special patterns whatsoever on it.
But somehow Kitty felt a warm flow coming out of the stone that made her just cannot help but to try to touch it...
"Oh my God! What happened!" Kitty gasped because the stone disappeared in front of her eyes the second her fingers touched it!
"Ahh, a peculiar choice, yes." The old lady suddenly spoke, "It's only right that you chose the one gift from her."
What did she mean?
This was a gift from her mom to the old lady? But where did the stone disappeared to?! Did she just destroyed a gift from her mom to a friend?!
"I'm sorry! I don't mean to... I don't know what happened--" Kitty looked around for the stone, but somehow she knew the stone was no longer in the room.
"It's okay, kiddo. You didn't choose it, it chose you." The old lady put a hand on her shoulder to calm her down: "She helped me a lot when she gave it to me, but I was never able to really own it. You are its master now."
"You... you mean the stone?" Kitty hesitated. But it disappeared on her! How is she its master now?
"A stone? Interesting, interesting indeed..." The old lady exclaimed with a fascinated laugh, "It's not a stone. It's not anything. It's pure power, or rather, a portal of pure power, taking different forms in different people's eyes. It has appeared as gem, gold, fire, and even an elf once. Your choice is indeed peculiar."
"Hmm, so it's supposed to be disappeared...?" Kitty didn't particularly feel like she was much more "powerful" than before she met the store.
"Haha, kiddo. It's inside you now. You can summon it as you like."
Kitty never thought her life would take such a huge turn and crashed into the magical world just like this...She was an orphan wondering on the street not long ago, and now she was here, inside the grotesque store, and being told that she had a witch mom. How could she never know this before?! Could she really be a secret witch that she didn’t even know? But there was never any sign or unexplainable things happened to her before."..." After trying all Kitty could imagine as "summon" but to sing some ancient spells that she had no idea how to say, Kitty gave up summoning her "stone", or well, what the old lady called it, "Phosis"."Maybe it escaped instead..." Kitty looked up at her with a defeated face."Hahaha..." The old lady laughed, "No wonder, no wonder... Of course you cannot summon it. You have never used magic before, right?""No... I didn't even know my mom could, before today." Kitty sit on the chair opposed to the old lady, with tea in a kinda dirty cup held in her hands.
"What... what do you mean?" Kitty backed a step at Themis's sudden accusation."You said you are an orphan, right? What happened to your parents?!" Themis ignored the others' accusation and kept on going."They died in a car accident, not that I own you any explanation." Kitty found her cool that she collects from living on the street. Actually, she was more used to attitude like this from other people than that of Erebus to be honest."You are lying! I have looked into you, and your parents JUST died last month! Of course, not by car accident either!" Themis held up a paper of some sort of records."So you mean I have lived on the street for fun for the last three years?" Kitty asked, feeling her blood getting cold. Not only was she accusing her of being a lair, but of her lying about her parents' death? How dare she?!The shred of warm and home-like of this place evaporated into the air."They are killed, IN their home. The police think it might be a robbery went wrong, but..." Themi
"... what now?" Fell in silence for a few minutes, Themis finally said, reluctant to admit that Metis was right, as always."Now," Metis sighed, "you get back to your investigation on her, just like the Lord's order. Menoetius, you will--""I'll go and check out what Kitty's been doing today." Menoetius took over the sentence and went for the door after.Metis was gonna say "help Themis". Both Metis and Themis knew Menoetius was really upset this time. He had never passed ANY chance to spend time with Themis like this.Appearently, going against Erebus's order was upsetting him a lot, not to mention Themis did that out of her affection on Erebus, when she couldn't see that Menoetius had been there for her all this time."... Whatever with him." Themis forced some words out of herself. She was NOT used to Menoetius being cold to her because he NEVER gets mad at her, and he had always been warm to her no matter how she treated him."You see the world with clear eyes. Reason is your thing
"I'm going up there!" Themis stormed towards the door."Themis, wait!" This time it was Menoetius who stopped her."Why are you stopping me!" Themis tossed his hand off her arm, "I know you are happy to see the Lord marking someone else so I will give up, but I won't! I love him! And I won't let some spy he picked up from the street to hurt him!""..." Shocked, Menoetius didn't reply. He just turned to Metis, looking for support.
"My Lord! Why, why are you back so soon?!"Themis stared at the man entering the bar, too nervous to even talk smoothly. She had no idea how she could explain the situation to him right now. He was supposed to be back the day after tomorrow!"Change of plan." Erebus sighed and started walking upstairs. God knows what happened in the past two days. He was exhausted and just wanted to have a break and get some rest."Are you looking for Kitty?!" Themis wanted to presen
Kitty was caught off-guard and jumped away from the voice behind her before she turned to look.Of course it was him."How... how did you...?!" Kitty stammered. The group of students were also stunned at her reaction, but then they stepped in front of Kitty against Erebus."Who are you?" The guy who escorted Kitty asked Erebus in a not very friendly way."I'm her friend, and her boss, if that'd make you feel better. She works for me. And you are?" Erebus replied politely, not seemed to be bothered at all by his attitude."Is that true?" The guy asked Kitty, who looked reluctant to agree, but she didn't voice any protest either."I've returned all the money, but he is fine. Thank you so much for helping me. You have done more than I can ask for." Kitty nodded and turned to the students. She didn't want to bother them anymore. Besides, she didn't want to make them choose between helping her and send her to an orphanage either."We found her being harassed outside of the art museum." A gi
Kitty and Erebus both turned to look at the owner of that shout, only to find him even more surprised than they were:It was Menoetius."How could you... My Lord?!" He shouted before out of the surprise of seeing Kitty there, only to find that Erebus was by her side one second later."Menoetius!" Metis's voice came from outside the door, "Menoetius, are you in there?""Yes, come! Quick!" Menoetius yelled back.Kitty sighed and turned to the woman behind the counter, speechless. Metis came through the door the next second, and of course--"Oh my God! You are here?!" Metis stared at Kitty as if her eyes were ganna pop out, "You-- My Lord!""How did you know this place?" Kitty asked Menoetius, and he immediately dodged her eyes and mumbled something about important stuff to do in the car and ran out of there."My Lord--" Metis started, and Erebus just simply put up a hand and cut off her sentence."We'll talk later." He said.Metis lowered her head and stood behind Erebus."Kitty..." Ereb
"We are here." Erebus stopped the car by the side of the pave way, in front of a tall building, well, a tower, to be more accurate."This is the hotel?!" Kitty exclaimed after she get off the car, "You--""He's a great friend of mine! What can I say." Erebus shrugged with a mischievous smile."..." Kitty squinted at Erebus, thinking about it. With the skyscraper looking down at her. It had crystal glass as its walls, glittering in the dark night."Downtown is more crowded than the edge, but also less boring, I'd say. You have everything you need close. Cafe, book store, shopping mall... Anything you need, you can find it on this street, or streets near." Erebus started, pointing at directions as he introducing them to her like a tour guide."This is the tallest building around here. Great view. And it's not too noisy on the 63th floor." At his words Kitty looked down, and there was a string of numbers on the card: 6103."There's four more floors above your room, and then it was the roo
"What do you think you are doing?!" The Queen snapped at the wolf who flung himself at her: "Get off me you stupid dog!" "Kitty!" Didn't know where he found the strength, but Erebus managed to stand up, catching Kitty in midair and fell on the ground again -- At least she fell on him. "Ouch!" Kitty curled in his arms with her eyes closed shut. She was so sure that she would die -- being hit by the spell of the Queen. "What the --?!" The Queen waved her wand and the wolf over her flew backwards with a whine. Kitty was alright. There was no blood hole on her body, and she seemed all fine except a bit shocked from what happened a second ago. "Are you alright?!" Allura's voice came, and Kitty couldn't even respond to that. Erebus coughed under her. "Erebus!" She finally snapped out of the shock and got off his body to prevent more pressure put on his wound. "Are y-you alright?!" He managed to
"Thanks for bringing them to me." The Queen smiled viciously at the three, and before anyone could even do anything, a beam of green light shoot out of the Queen's wand --"Kitty!"Kitty only heard that word coming from Erebus before he dashed himself between Kitty and the green light, and all she managed to do was to drive Phosis into motion by instinct.Two cracks rose.Phosis was hit first and cracked into two parts, flying in the air; and Erebus flew backwards when the second crack rose and Kitty froze right where she was at that.It finally happened.Phosis broke, and Erebus was lying on the ground, bleeding."Erebus!" Kitty threw herself over him, but no healing spell she knew was seeming to do the trick."He was an annoying little wolf, wasn't he?" When Kitty looked up to stare at the Queen, the Queen finally smirked at her --She had been watching as if it was a play."You evil witch!" Angry curse burst ou
"You, are in trouble."By the time that voice rose behind Kitty, there was already no time for her to get away from it while avoiding the light spear coming at her afront.She knew someone was coming from behind, but she was hoping that she could make it.Guess not.Dissolving the light spear, Kitty wheeled on the voice, all prepared to be attacked in all sorts of way but --She saw Erebus curved lips in front of her."!" Kitty rose her hand and lightening rose in her palms before it rushed towards him."It's me!" Erebus dodged in the last second, rising both his hands to show that he wasn't hostile."Impossible!" Kitty stared at him with suspicious eyes, "It's such a stupid lie --""Phosis IS powerful," Allura came near them, "But the ring is AS powerful. They are in balance, remember?"Kitty stared at Allura in disbelief."You expect me to think that you just got the ring that easily?!" Kitty took a step
Silence.Then she took a step back with a wry smile."When did you know?" "Allura" -- Theia -- asked."About the time when I saw you standing here." Erebus didn't even move a bit, looking at Theia with a light smirk.Theia hmphed: "You didn't know I was the mole for all those years."She stressed on the word "mole" as if insulting herself could somewhat reduce her guilt before she bit on her lips hard as she stared at Erebus."That's true." Erebus nodded slightly, "You don't make much move. But I guess it's the one time you move that matters.""And yet here you are, right where we want you to be." Theia sneered at him."I don't know about that, but I do have something to ask you." Erebus glanced at the dark forest behind her, "Do you really have no love for Tartarus?""Isn't it a little too innocent of you to ask such a stupid question?" Theia frowned but she turned to look away from Erebus.He signed."I'd
"You are here."It took a long time for Erebus and Kitty to finally find Allura on the party.It seemed as if ALL the werewolves in the country came to this huge event, and even a lot of strange faces that no one seemed to knew."What's the plan?" Staying by the side of the window, Kitty asked Allura as Erebus took a sip of his drink, as if they were just three normal guests, talking in a relaxed way."Like how we discussed." Allura said in a way of trying to not to move her lips, "She is going to give me the ring on the ceremony. But...""But?" Erebus asked."Nothing..." Allura mumbled with a frown, as if there was something bothering her."Does it have anything to do with the fact that the Queen doesn't have the ring on her hand right now?" Erebus said before he took another sip. His eyes were not even on the Queen."What?!" Kitty wheeled at the direction of the Queen to check, "How could she allow that to happen?! And how di
"Where are you taking me?!" Kitty finally stopped, panting as she dragging Erebus to a stop."You need to exercise a bit, baby." Erebus laughed as he stopped, noticing that she was really not catching her breath."You are a werewolf!" Kitty yelled even though in doing so it was even harder for her to smooth her breath."Haha!..." Erebus burst into laughter as he turned to look around --It wasn't as easy for him to tell the direction in a forest as in his wolf form. He had to pay attention if he didn't want to get lost."Why in such a rush anyway?" Kitty bent over to catch her breath, "You are acting really weird --""Come on!" Erebus took her hand and got on the way again laughing."I can't!" Kitty sat down on the floor with her hand in his, "You might as well just kill me now! Instead of such a horrible death! I would rather die than going any further --"Before she could finish her complaint, Erebus shifted right there in fr
"Why are you still going to the Alphas?" Kitty asked, sitting on the edge of the bed, watching Erebus dressing up in front of the mirror."We both don't want to control them with Phosis," Erebus said as he stretched his shirt, "But we still need them. It would be great if they would be willing to help us at their own judgement.""Can we trust that though? We'd be in even more of a danger if they betray us in the battle." Kitty said in a low voice, hesitating."I'm aware." Erebus nodded, "But like I said, there is nothing absolute in the world, not even loyalty from the most loyal. We have to take this leap of faith. Besides, they don't have too much motive to help the Queen either."Kitty pursed her lips without a reply."Besides," Erebus turned to her and knelt before her feet, "I didn't stop you from casting the spell on them WAS because I wanted to make sure that they won't be on her side if they were to make that choice.""You mean, if t
"Kitty?" Erebus held her by the wrist and shook her, looking for a response --Kitty froze right where she was with a horrified look on her face, seemingly too shocked by his words so she basically shut herself down..."Baby." Erebus pulled her in and kissed her on the forehead, "You are okay, please don't scare me like this.""I'm not scaring you." Kitty mumbled like a robot, replying with only instinct."Babyy..." Erebus sighed lightly and picked her up into his arms, carrying her to the bed, "Let's sit for a bit, okay?""I don't want to sit." Kitty stook by the side of the bed in a stiff motion, "You...you...""Yes, I already know." Erebus stroke her on the arm, trying to sooth her, "And it's okay, I understand --""It's not okay!" Kitty shook her head violently, and Erebus let out a light laugh:"Yet you did it anyway?""..." Kitty bit her lips, staring at Erebus with tearful eyes."The Queen has got basically
Waking up, Kitty flinched at the finding of herself being naked.She turned around in panic, and realizing that she was already back to their bedroom in the hotel with his arms around her.He was still in a sound sleep --Well, his eyes were still closed.Kitty had no idea whether he was awake or not --In fact, she had no idea about whatever his thought might be these days.She couldn't keep her secret from him any longer, and she knew he was just waiting for her to confess first. Otherwise, why would he took her on such a "date" all of a sudden?At that thought, Kitty slipped out from under the sheet, and Erebus didn't move in anyway even though she lifted his arm from her body.She needed a shower to cool her head, and she wouldn't want to see the love in his eyes extinguished while she was naked.It was a serious talk.Determined her mind, Kitty slipped in the bathroom quietly, and Erebus opened his eyes at th