Finally! Chapter two is here (and being re-written, too =^_^=)


Small explanations:  We didn't mention Two-a's sex after the
steam..might still be female...might be different.  We don't know (yet).

Defense power:
The listing there is the comparison of the person's increase in attack
power when defending other people.

All the ratings on the board were each person related to the others.

Four-B is not female, and is not a destroyer.  That is the enemy.
(four-b woke up last...all of it is chronological)

<smiles>  Any C&C that is longer than 10 lines can be posted to the
list...anything else (flames etc.) please should be sent directly to me.

*****

My head still feels fuzzy.

Thoughts that don't feel like mine flow around.

Who is Skye?  What is a Dragon?

I shrug, then look up at the technician...no..teacher.

"Each of you have been brought here from your own times, and worlds,
because your skills are needed here at this time"

Each of us.

There are seven of us, sitting in a half circle.  Me and my kitten.

A boy with black hair, done in a ponytail, and a girl with blue hair.

(funny, the boy seems to have an image of a red haired girl transposed
over him).

A little girl with black hair, and strange markings on her
face...like those of teardrops.

(I feel something...different about her....like an enormous power...)

An older woman, with long, tattered white hair...(getting power feelings
from her too...but more...controlled.  refined.  Focussed) and a young
man, with shorter black hair.(He's linked to the woman somehow...can't
understand it)

And one smaller red haired girl....who acts like a woman.

"Mew!" my kitten says to me.  Pay attention!

I look back at the teacher.  "The woman...creature...goddess you will be

fighting is stronger than any one thing you've fought before.  She has
the power to destroy entire galaxies...and to create them, as well.
No-one knows her name...but we do know this."

He points to a picture on the wall.  Strange..I didn't see it there
before.

The picture is of a faceless woman...with two sides.  One side blacker
than night (you can actually _see_ the pointer falling into the inky
blackness) one pure white (his pointer connects...about a foot away from
the picture.  curiouser and curiouser)

"If we can beat her in battle...legends say seven times...we can
convince her to use her power to create, rather than destroy.  If we do
win, then a new universe will be created, and their people will evolve
to the point we are at now.  If we lose...all civilization...everywhere
you know it...will disappear."

Wow, heavy consequences.

"as you are probably hungry, and dying to train to get better, we have
for you breakfast," large platters fill the table.

There's enough here to feed an entire _city_

(for some reason..I doubt there'll be much left after we're all done)

"And we will escort you to your various training rooms when you are
ready."

Everyone looks at the food.  Then at each other.

"Dig in." the teacher says before disappearing.

.........

I was right about the food.

There's only one eggroll left...and that ponytailed boy is about to eat
it.

*****

Following the not-man right now.  I still don't understand him.

"Mew." my kitten states.  It's magic.

The not-man turns.  Looks at me.

"What did the kitten say?"  he not-asks.  His voice isn't coming from
him.

"Can't you understand her?" I ask.  Curious...he should hear her too.

He not-shakes his head, "I can't understand her.  I don't even know what
she, or you are."

I blink.

Kitten blinks.

"Mew?"  "What?"

He not-stares right at us, "Do you know what you are?"

"Mew!"  Of course!

"She says she knows..." I say.  This is confusing...how come she knows?

"Mewmew purr!"  I'm a kitten!

I start giggling.

"What did she say?" he not asks me.

I reply, "She says 'I'm a kitten!'" and start giggling again.

He not-rolls his eyes and continues not-walking.

*****

She doesn't know.

The thought runs through my mind.

I can feel her mind...see into it.

All her memories are there.  They're just blocked...walled off.

I sneak into her memories as we continue following the magicman.

kittens...cats...flying through the stars.

colours...different ones...

purples...greens...blues...yellows...reds...

going to different places.

I pull back.  These are MY memories!  I look farther in...who am I?

a man...catching a cat...a cat with purple wings and a blue chest.

the cat...linking to him.

Like I am with Her, I realize.

Flying around.  the cat having kittens.

One of them...me...placed in a box.

Taken to a world...and given to someone.

Given again to Her...I feel her name...my name...

"Mew!" I state.  Cat.

"Mew!"  Rayne.

"Mewmew!"  Dracat.  Dra.

She stops.  Looks at me.

I crawl up her shirt...curl up on her shoulder.

"Purrr"  Starkitten.

"purrrrmew"  Dragon.

"Thank you, love" she whispers...rubbing my fur.

That feels good!

"purrrrrrrrrrr" you're welcome.

*****

Working working working...Too bad school is getting in the way of this
story =^_^=

Next up!  DEV gets some more work (We have a request on the
transformation scene)  and Landings gets a little more work on it
(hopefully enough to post soon, too)


Liath Shadow
Shadow Dancer
Shadow-Chan

"History is set in stone...the future balances on a knife blade.  Why do

we keep yearning for the dangerous future?"

"Because we can"