CH1: Neko

Before I begin my tale my name is Elias, Elias Lockluster currently at the age of twenty-one and managed to finish college earlier than expected. I have a normal family, a regular loving mother and not so usual father, lastly an annoying younger sister who has a strong sense of justice. Actually I would have stayed in college for another four years or so to finish medical school and ended up getting a doctrine, but sadly I couldn’t deal with the pressure. The more I studied, the more it became real to me how I would be putting someone’s life in my own hands, which was too much for me to handle. My dream was to always be a doctor since the days I was a kid, looking up to my mother, but at the end I couldn’t achieve my dream.

This haunted me for years.

So at the end of the day I finish regular college with a bachelor’s degree and ended up becoming a salary man. When school was put behind me I ended living on my own in the city of Cailean, currently the season is fall and itself looks elegant. A developing city where people and others come and go as they like, which is the center of America’s economy and telecommunications.

The neighborhood I live in is close to the Gauss Train station, a high-speed train that runs regularly which takes me to the inner city where I work at the office day in and day out. The train follows no set schedule, making the Gauss Train an ideal way to travel from the suburban towards the inner city.
Before I can make my way to the station I would always had the encounter.

Mew…

I heard a small animal noise.

I would turn over to see a cat coming out of the bushes, wanting to get my attention, I recognized this cat all too well. Actually it was quite hard for anybody to forget such a creature with its shiny white fur and bright light purple eyes that could be seen a mile away. For the last two weeks it’s been coming to me ever since I feed it my breakfast before I departed to the Gauss Train during my first encounter.
“Hey, sorry I don’t have anything special today, just some leftover sausages I had last night,” I pulled out a small container of food. “Here you go,” I smiled as I laid it on the ground for the small cat to eat.

For the last week or so I’ve been meeting this cat before I made my way to work, but this relationship between us didn’t start off so charming. When I first met this cat, its fur wasn’t clean and not getting any real nutarian by its body rate, and when I first saw it coming out of the bushes its trust for people was rather low and hiss at me whenever I got close to its general direction.

After a few days of greeting this feline it grew to trust me, now it comes to greet me and of course asks for food. Now I know what you must be thinking, I’m a lonely person if I have the time to greet this cat on a regular bases-

No, far from it.

While it’s true I do live on my own doesn’t explain my actions. When I was younger I had a cat of my own who hiss at me as well when he first greeted me as a kitten, but overtime grew to love me just as I grew to love him. But like most humans we tend to outlive are pets and over time eventually pass away before we get the chance to say goodbye. So I guess in a way I treated this cat that stared with its purple eyes like my own deceased cat without me being aware of it-

Till that fateful day.

“Hm? Guess he’s not here today? Oh well, maybe he might show up next time” I said rubbing my chin thinking of the cat’s whereabouts.

I waited for a few minutes thinking the white cat would show up out of the bushes, but since I couldn’t be late for work I decided to board the train later that morning. Even though my voice seemed uncaring about the cat’s whereabouts, I couldn’t seem to get my mind off of its appearance, especially those purplish eyes. I felt as though when those eyes stare their staring into my soul. On my way to the train, at the city, and into work.
It wasn’t till later that night when I got off the train of how I really felt.

“What the-?! W-What happened to you?!” I shouted in shock as the same small cat came out of the bushes, expect badly injured.

I took off the coat of my suit and wrap the young cat to stay warm, taking quick glances at his body, this cat must have been in some kind of fight. Judging from how deep his injures were didn’t seem like another stray cat attack him but rather a larger animal, maybe a dog? Neither way I had to treat him before his body bleed out since it was too late to take him to a vet. I ran for dear life to my apartment, grabbing the first aid kit I keep under the bathroom sink and without any hesitation I preform medical assists on the cat’s wounds in the living room.

“Phew! I’m little rusty, but at least I was able to stop the bleeding…” I said nearly out of breath, I was lucky enough to add the last bandaged on the cats left paw.

His breathing remained consistent and was able to make eye contact with me, luckily even after being attack the little cat was able to remain conscience throughout being treated.
Even though I treated him, I should still take him to a vet in the morning just to be on the safe side, plus I don’t have work tomorrow so it should be fine.

Like I always do in my life I tend to overthink certain things with my brief thoughts.
“Well I don’t want you to move any more than you have to. So I think for tonight I’ll sleep on the couch with you to make sure if anything else happens” I talk as if I was expecting the cat to start speaking English to me, it just gave the regular mew noise and I nod thinking that was a yes.

After a few minutes of changing I switch into some sleeping clothes, and laid on the couch while grabbing the cat and place him on my chest.

“Alright little guy, get some sleep so I can take you to the vet tomorrow morning,” after a few blinks of staring at me, the cat curled into a ball and slowly went to sleep, and soon so did I.
Something in me change that day, every day I was always repeating the same thing over and over again. Wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, and sleep then repeat the same process again to the point it became so complacent for me I didn’t really noticed how boring my life was until I made that encounter many weeks ago. Even though my routine was change, for once I could go to sleep with a smile on my face. It wasn’t until the next morning I would find an unexpected surprise.

1

Back in high school I was always put on a pedestal, for being perfect in just about anything, whether it was grades, sports, and beauty. People would single me out as this perfect being but that was not the cast this time. I never saw myself as a perfect being, while I did take pride for who I was I hated the idea of being perfect because nobody saw me for who I truly was and accused me of being something else.

Ugh, look at Alexia, walking like she owns the school…

I swear she can be such a slut, she’s probably mess with half of the guys here at the school…

It would better if she was out of the picture, she thinks she can act like nothing’s wrong.

Her presences makes me sick!

Lies.

Every single one of them were, but yet I couldn’t argue with them because if the shoe was on the other foot then I would be saying the exact same thing to another girl in my position. No matter what verbal abuse I dealt with I managed to stand proud of who I was. A strong sense of pride dwelled within me and because of it I was able to survive most of my high school years.

Yet.

It was my own pride that had consume me. Because it wasn’t long, I Alexia Beltz had undergo a supernatural change.

Mew?

I felt smaller and my vison seemed to change, when I look at my hands they appear like paws, round and pink. I tried to run, confirming this wasn’t real but I soon tripped, not knowing how to walk on all fours, until I managed to see my own reflection. I couldn’t believe it, what I saw was a coat of shiny white fur, the color of my eyes were still the same but my pupils were closed into mere slits. I was a cat, but for some reason I didn’t want to believe it, the truth was right in front of me but I still couldn’t believe it which caused me to suffer, trying to live this bazaar life.

Months went by, I was cold, hungry, and tired.

I couldn’t trust anybody, just as nobody couldn’t trust me.

When I thought all hope was lost someone did approach me when I rolled out the bushes. Reaching the point of starvation I saw a young man probably around the same age as me with a suit-his eyes mirrored the word pity-

I hated him for that.

Day by day I hiss at him relentlessly but all he ever did was smile, a warm smile I couldn’t understand.

Days grew into weeks and for some reason I came to trust this young man as he brought me food. Oddly enough as I watch him leave for the train, some part of me went back to my old ways, letting my pride get the best of me.

Don’t let him pity you!

You’re stronger than that!

Don’t let others look down on you!

Those thoughts course throughout my mind, I went wild after he left that morning. I wanted to prove my strength, but I ended up doing more harm than good and before I knew it I was soon going to die.

Yes, this was a fitting end for me.

After all, I curse myself towards the end and I curse the only person who ever showed a sign of kindness to me. It was only logical that I die, so I don’t have to suffer and those who tried to help don’t have to suffer for their time wasted. I wanted the light in my eyes to disappear but life decided to give me a second chance-he came.

What the-?! W-What happened to you?!

He shouted, grabbing me under his arms and rushed my little body to his apartment to where he treated me, what was this I was feeling? I started to realize he wasn’t taking pity on me at all, at the end of the day he only cared for my own wellbeing-today made that clear.
Alright little guy, get some sleep so I can take you to the vet tomorrow morning.
I wanted to laugh since he still thought I was a male cat but that didn’t matter to me, for the first time in my life I never been happy someone treated me on equal terms. Whether I was a cat or human, I accepted the fact just being here was good enough for me.
Then a miracle happen, I was human again.

2

Morning.

The sunlight flashed within the living room, I began to wake up since the light bother my eyes, the suns way telling me to wake up. I stretch my arms in the air to get the blood flowing while slowly opening my eyes. My vision was blurry trying to make out the view that was before me, then I froze. Moving my arm in order to stretch, I realized, only then, my body was being used as a comforter by a girl. Actually much worse than a girl, much worse or-better?

"H-Huh?"

A girl.

A naked girl.

A naked girl!?

“Whaaaa?!”

That’s right, a naked girl.

With long white hair down to her spine, too hard for me to see her butt. Neither way she was laying on top of me, before I could say anything else, she raised her head without warning. Her eyes were light purple making eye contact with me so I had to react swiftly.
"Uhhhh, I know this looks bad but I can explain-"
The girl blink several times to understand what her situation was, looking around, her face shone red from ear to ear while displaying a face as if she shame her entire family-now comes the screaming.

“Kyaaaa!”

“Ahhhh! W-What the hell?!”

* * *

So here we are back to the present.

A naked girl covered in blankets with a slender body and a young man confused to what was happening, not knowing how to explain any of what was going on. If I knew this was the start and end of my days of being so complacent I would have punch myself in the face, hoping this was just a silly dream and I could wake up from it any minute now. Then again I would be calling myself a lair if I said this scenario didn’t turn me on…a little.
After the sudden outburst moment of us both screaming, we stared confused and shocked not knowing what to say next. Then someone made the first move, the girl managed to open her mouth, still flustered.

“W-What do you think you’re doing?! Taking advantage of me?!” she said blushing, still wrap around the covers.

“You?! What about me?! One minute I’m sleeping on the couch with a cat on my chest then you-!?”

I stop speaking, clear as day I saw it, cat ears twitching in spilt second pacing, and they were on top of the girl’s head.

The realization hit me like a ton of bricks, now that I look at her she had white hair and the light purple eyes, but what really caught my attention was the patches on her arms that were wrap in the same general area when I patch up the cat.

“D-Don’t tell me you’re the same cat that slept on my chest?!” I shouted, feeling more embarrassed of the time I spent with the weird cat-girl and by the fact this whole time I thought the cat was male.

This wasn’t possible?

It can’t be possible, right?

Right?!

No amount of screaming in my mind was going to save me so I had to think, think of the next question to ask, but it was a rather lame one.

“So, are you?! Are you the same cat that slept on my chest?!”

See?

Just hearing me say that sounded lame, but the girl actually step back, second guessing if she should answer or not.

“W-Well if so, what are you going to do about it?” she asked concern.
What am I going to do about it? I didn’t think I would get this far with another statement so I ask another question. One I really didn’t want the answer too.

“If you were the same cat that slept on my chest, how did you become one in the first place?”
The girl then lowered her guard, her face was rather sad thinking of the reason. She plop down on the couch still covering her revealing body.

“Honestly…” a subtle choke in her voice but she continued “…I don’t know how I change. All I can remember is walking back home then things got dark and-poof, I’m a cat”

I was never the one to judge character, but she clearly wasn’t lying. All of her emotions seemed real, from the point of the sudden screaming to the current sad disposition.

That didn’t change the fact now I had a naked girl sitting on my couch (not a bad thing) but the cat ears was a problem. Clearly out of the ordinary, I wanted this problem solved before it got any worse and effected my complacent life.

Complacent life? Did I really care about that?

Anyway.

Back to the topic at hand, I needed to make a move soon before things got awkward.

“H-Hold on a second…” I walk over to the other room to grab something at which the girl turn over perplexed.

“W-What are you doing-?”

“Here take these!” I said with snapping speed.

Clothes.

For things to move forward she needed to be dress, or else I wasn’t going to get these dirty thoughts out of my mind. The girl paused looking at my odd posture and blush once more.

“W-Wait I can’t wear men’s clothing, especially yours. It’s wrong…” she said twiddling her thumbs.

“I know how you feel, but these are only temporary until we get you proper clothing. Plus, you won’t need to be in top fashion of where were going”

“Going? Going where?” she said startled.

To be honest I had a similar feeling as her-

Frightened.

I had a pretty good idea what was going on but I didn’t want to believe it was true. Where we were going was a place I tried living without, over the years this place tend to bring me embarrassment, shame, and flat out being annoyed to no ends.

My home.