Board Thread:Archive/@comment-24866242-20140517080038/@comment-24866242-20140517080448

Katrylle Morgahn posted July 25, 1996 02:01 AM

(Sachy)

Sachy padded quietly down the hall, hoping that he wouldn't run into that man Jarrid's wife Marrisa. If she found him in the halls, Sachy knew somewhere in the depths of his tabby-cat mind that he would be squeezed and cuddled half to death before being deposited back in Ben's quarters. Rather, he hoped, it would be better to run into Ryax or Riatea if he was going to be found by a two-legger at all. Those two knew how to treat a cat properly. What he really had in mind was finding Morgan, Riatea's Manx, and going to get some decent teasing of Orion in before dinner time.

Morgan and Sachy had learned to live with the large dog over the last year and could get along with Orion pretty well. But, Hey! He was still a dog, and it is the sworn duty of cat's everywhere to be as annoying to dogs everywhere as is felinely possible.

Sachy padded around the corner, staying close to the wall. If Marissa caught him out here, he would be cuddled to death. The very thought of it made him want to cough up a hair ball.

Coming around a second corner in the residential area of the DoomBringers base, he spied disaster. Marissa Pallin at (Sachy consulted the internal clock that all non-sentient animals posses to some extent and judged it to be 2:34pm) 2:34! Quickly, he dashed back around the corner and cowered! No where to go! She was coming this way!

Across the hall, a door opened in the wall and Sachy observed a distraught Katrylle emerge and go down the hall. Good old Kat, Sachy thought, with a name like that she's a cat lover for sure! She'll distract Marissa while I make my escape. He dashed across the hall to the door that Kat had come out of. It had already slid shut, but Sachy had a few tricks in his foreleg hair. Standing right in front of the door, Sachy jumped as high as he could. When the sensor opened the door, Sachy ran into the room and into safety.

Inside, the lights were still on. Kat must have been in a hurry. Sachy sniffed his way around the room, looking for the cat food that was always waiting in Ryax and Riatea's rooms. Surely after such a touching sacrifice as Kat had made for him she would have cat food as well.

Ah! Here we are. Tuna! She's packing the good stuff! Shouldn't have to much now, remember you're trying to cut down. Sachy helped himself to a couple of mouthfuls and then padded over to the bed. Sniffing around, he could tell something was amiss. He poked his head underneath and found himself nose to nose with a small orange ball of fluff!

Sachy primed his lungs for a good hiss, but before he could get it out, he found his nose was being licked! He sneezed and the kitten playfully rolled over and batted at Sachy's whiskers. Overcome by the cuteness of the fluff, Sachy licked the kitten's head and turned to head for the desk. Jumping up, the small tabby found a nice comfortable place on the keyboard and lay down, flicking his tail back and forth while he watched the orange kitten.

Reassured by some company, the kitten began exploring the room once again. Sachy watched with an air of disinterest as the small orange fluff chased a dustbunny into the air and then sat down and looked up as it floated towards the top of the room.

After a moment, temptation got the better of him, and Sachy jumped down and padded over to the bowl of tuna. Taking a mouthful, he looked behind him while he tore the meat in his mouth. Behind him the kitten was sitting still and watching him. Unnerved, Sachy left the bowl and went over to the kitten's litterbox. Scratching around inside of it, Sachy looked up to find that the kitten had followed him and was again sitting still and watching him. Sachy immediately got out of the box and walked back over to the door, deciding to leave the kitten to his own devices. The kitten followed him to the door and sat still while Sachy again jumped as high as he could.

The door open, Sachy walked out into the hall, all signs of Marrisa vanquished. Sachy went about ten feet before looking behind him. The kitten was there, and as Sachy stopped the kitten sat down and looked at Sachy with those big kitten eyes. In an effort to dissuade the kitten from following him further, Sachy gave a rather mediocre hiss. It was obvious his heart wasn't in it because the kitten just sat there and looked at him. Sachy gave a cat shrug and went on his way, kitten in tow. The next stop was Riatea's quarters. Sachy wasn't quite sure how to tell Morgan that he had become a father in the space of ten minutes, but Morgan was waiting right behind the door when Sachy jumped to open it.

Morgan took one look at the kitten and was just about to give a killer hiss when the kitten walked right up to him and did the same trick he had used on Sachy before prancing right into Riatea's quarters. Morgan was, of course, helpless against the kitten's charms.

The three were a study in contrasts. Morgan was huge, having prospered well hunting the rats in the old DB headquarters. The new base in the wall of the great canyon was, sadly, rat free and Morgan was afraid that he would soon dwindle down to nothing. Sachy was a middle sized cat, maybe even small when you looked at him. The tiny kitten, the smallest of the three, was dancing around the room in his clumsy kitten way while he learned how to use his body.

Morgan asked Sachy in Catonese while they watched the kitten playing with the sheets hanging from Riatea's bed.

Sachy walked back to the door and jumped up. The door slid open and the kitten looked up, eyes wide. Sachy walked out and the kitten bounded to follow him and Morgan.

The cats navigated the halls quickly, heading for the mech bay and Patch the Mouse. They were safe from the wrath of Marrisa now because Jarrid was off duty and the couple had gone back to their horse ranch. Soon they were in the mech bay. Sachy went to his cuby hole and pulled out a piece of Swiss cheese. The trio went on and soon they were at the foot of the Lighthorne mech.

The kitten looked up in awe as a small head poked it's way out of the cockpit of the mech. Thus was his first glimpse of the glorious one. Thus was his first glimpse of Patch!