New Days
By: Etcy

It was New Years eve. I was at this hotel with my family celebrating the new millenium. I went out to the balcony; I wasn't feeling to well. It felt like something bad was going to happen. I looked over the ledge of the balcony and watched as a fat, white cat ran by to a junkyard across the empty street. I laughed to myself thinking of the show "Cats". I put the thought to rest as my cousin came out and pulled me in by the arm to dance.
"Lets go Carissa! Jeez! You're missing all the fun!" cried my cousin, Vanessa.
"Okay, Okay! I'm coming!" I ran in laughing and smiling.
When we finally got inside we realized the live music had stopped and everyone was looking at the door with worried looks on their faces. Vanessa and I tried to squeeze through the already crowded room to see what was going on.
"EVERYONE ON THE FLOOR!" I heard a loud booming baritone voice call.
Everyone dropped but me until I saw the man. I had a very confused look on my face. I didn't know what was happening. The man came over to me grabbed me by the shirt and through me to the ground. I landed with a "thud!" The man took a gun out of his pocket and put it to my head.
"Don't cry" the man said with an evil tone in his voice. Of course I started crying. I was scared out of my mind. "DON"T CRY!" he screamed in my ear till I was deaf. I couldn't hold back the tears.
"That's it!" the man took a step back and fired at me. I fell to the floor and heard faint sounds of crying and screaming. Then everything went black.
I saw lights all around me. I felt at peace, motionless, there was nothing around me but the wonderful bliss of happiness.
Then, out of no where, I felt as if I was being pulled down by a strong force. I struggled to stay where I was I didn't want to go back, but I couldn't hold against it; it was too strong.

At The Junkyard Across The Street

I was forced out of a tight hole. I felt cold air all around me but somewhere near there were many other bodies. I could feel the closest one to me and I crept over to it. Being hungry, I cried very loudly. I heard muffled coos of 'Oh, Victoria! They're beautiful'. I felt a rough tongue on my head. I couldn't see anything, and I could hardly hear. All I felt was a very strong hunger. I crawled closer to the warmest body next to me and began to suck on a nipple that I claimed for myself. The milk that came from it was so satisfying I couldn't stop eating.
As the crowd died down I heard only two voices.
I felt a paw over my head, "Mistoffelees, she looks almost exactly like you! Although she is the smallest of all of them. What shall we name her?"
I then heard a soft but strong voice, "Well, can we name her after my mother, Aurora?"
"I think it's a beautiful name" a proud voice, which I supposed was my mother, said.
Then the other voice, which I supposed was my father said, "What about the other two?"
"Well lets see. The male looks somewhat like Plato." My mother said with a giggle. "How about….hmmm…how about Jerome?"
"I love it"
All through this I continued suckling, listening to them name my brothers and sisters, as I tried to memorize them all one by one, including my own.

Two Months Later

"Mommy! Mommy! Tell Aurora to stop pouncing me!" said Otto after I pounced him good.
I ran in after him and pounced him again right in the middle of his tattle tailing. I heard the lady-master and man-master chuckling at the sight of me pouncing him. So, I did it again. Otto started to whine so mamma came over and picked me up by the scruff, which immobilized me.
"But Momma. I was only playing" I whined to her.
"I know sweetie" She set me down by her and licked my head. I cuddled up putting my head in her soft snow white fur.
"John, isn't that just so sweet" the lady master of course was talking about my brother, Dominic, who was rubbing against her legs.
"Yes of course it is Angela" the man-master picked up Dominic and placed him over by and momma me. I batted him over the head playfully.
"Momma can we go play?" I asked sounding like an Angel.
"Yes, go on. But be careful" she said with a laugh.
We ran outside and saw my sister Adeline sitting by herself. I looked at Dominic with my head cocked in a questioning sense. We both walk up to her.
"What's wrong with you?" I asked as I sat down beside her
"Nothing I was just thinking"
"Oh, okay you wanna play?" I asked getting ready to pounce on top of her.
"Yeah!" Before I even noticed it, she was on top of me. I had a startled look on my face.
"Woah! Hey you're fast" I got up and shook my head.
Then I saw my father, Mistoffelees walk in through the white picket fence around the yard. I ran to him with lightning speed and a huge smile across my face. "Daddy!"
"OOF! OW! Hey!" I looked down to see why he said 'OW!' and realized my paws were on fire!
"Daddy! Daddy! My paws are on fire!!! Look they're sparkling!" I didn't know what to do. Mamma heard me, I guess, and came out through the cat door.
"What's wrong?" She asked very worried.
"Oh nothing!" I looked at my father strangely, what did he mean nothing? "I think we've just got potential magic" I didn't know what it was at the time so very stupidly I asked him "Daddy, what's magic? And why are my paws sparkling?" He laughed at me as he picked me off his chest and sat me in his lap. My brothers and sisters were also intrigued by this and wanted to know so they gathered around Misotffelees. My mother came over and picked me up out of his lap putting me in her own and sitting down.
I cuddled in her fur and looked up as my father put his hand behind my ear and took out a deck of playing cards. I giggled with my brothers and sisters. He showed us a few tricks and I ran up to him. "Daddy, am I going to be able to do that?"
"Looks that way" He lifted up my sparkling paws and waved his own paw over them saying a few words in a tongue I couldn't understand, and the sparks stopped! "Wow!" I said in amazment.
"Mistoffelees?" Mother said as she motioned for me to go play inside the house. "I don't want word of her having magic to get around, especially to Mungo and Rumple" I listened to her from the porch. "I just want her to be safe, she is so small and so young. I don't want Macavity to be looking for her because of her magic." She looked up at the porch and spotted me. My eyes went wide as I ran in the house wondering who Macavity was.
I hid in the bed the lady-master had bought for us when we were born. I peeked up over the edge as Mother and Father walking in through the cat door. I giggled to my self and they obviously heard because the next thing I knew I was being picked up by the scruff of my neck by my father.
He hopped inside the bed and lied down by my mother, then laid me down in between them. I purred and closed my eyes. "Aurora, we need to talk to you" my father said in his calming voice. I looked up a little worried I was going to get in trouble for spying on them. "Aurora, you have the power of magic now, but you must keep it a secret. Tomorrow we are going to the junkyard. It'll be a first for you guys and its going to be a little hard for you because you have to learn to keep those now powers under control."
I nodded to every word he said , but my mind was somewhere else. "Daddy?" I interrupted him, "Who's Macavity?"

To Be Continued………..

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