I sincerely apologize for not updating in a long while on this book. I've had an entire change of ideas for this story and completely changed the plot and everything, so I deleted what used to be of this book and have now started anew.

So without further ado, I'll get on with the chapter:

   "Nya?!" A yowl split the silence in the night air. "Nya!"

   Kai felt he'd been searching for ages. Nya had mysteriously disappeared from her usual sleeping spot, across from Kai in their alley, but the only trace of her disappearance was the scent of her fear and a trail of rotting bones.

   At first, Kai had suspected the alley cats had taken Nya, but after threatening everyone, his efforts had led him nowhere closer.

   So he just decided to follow the scent trail of rotten bones.

   Kai walked along the trail with a bushed, swishing tail, growling at every flash of blue, green, or yellow from within the shadows alongside the path the trail led through. Familiar alleyways and red brick walls came into Kai's night vision, making him suddenly realize that all his past suspicions about Nya were true.

   Jay.

   Kai growled at the thought of the hyperactive soft-gray tom. He knew that it had to be Jay. Spending most of his time seeming like he was mooning over Nya, catching her in his trap, then when she least expected it, he would kidnap her and kill her. Everything clicked together in Kai's mind. Of course it made sense.

   That filthy junkyard cat. He probably took Nya, and is probably trying to kill my defenseless sister now! He must have dipped himself in something stinky so I - or Nya - wouldn't recognize his scent.

   But I haven't been blind to his secret side all along. He'll never know what's coming for him.

   Kai sped up his pace, not even paying attention to the bone trail anymore. He let his paws lead him to the junkyard Jay lived in, and his quickly building anger give him the energy to keep running.

   Eventually Kai got to a wide area a little away from the alleyways and red brick houses he knew, and continued to sprint along a wide path of pebbles to the city junkyard ahead.

   He wrinkled his nose at the intense smell of oil and rusty metal from the large, fenced-in expanse of wasteland. Tall mounds of bright silver and rusty brown were scattered all over the place; some mounds were dotted with bits of black, some with dull gray, some even with pink. Bits of splintered wood surrounded each mound of metallic junk; each mound was surrounded with a different color of wood splinters. Kai knew Jay used the wooden splinters to mark each mound. Each color meant something different: red meant there were dangerous sharp items in the pile, orange meant flammable objects, purple meant Tall-Legs' cloth, and blue - Jay's and Nya's favorite color - marked piles containing Jay's favorite objects or pieces of scrap.

   An old, rotting, dilapidated shed stood on the far right side of the yard, within the silver-and-dark-green wire fence. As Kai approached the shed, he noticed a pile of dusty gray pieces of metal and rocks sitting on the left side of the old building.

   Kai slowed to a halt, his heart racing faster than ever. That pile of rocks and metal were sitting on top of Jay's den!

   To confirm things even more, the now irksome smell of rotten bones lingered strongly around this area. Kai didn't see Jay, but he knew the gray tom had trapped Nya in his den and piled rocks and metal at the entrance so she couldn't get out.

   "Alright, Jay. Show yourself," Kai growled, unsheathing his claws and getting into a battle stance. "You can't hide Nya or your hidden side from me. I know the truth! Uncover that pile, and FREE MY SISTER!"

   Kai heard scrabbling from below the rocks, along with muffled noises. Nya! "Nya, I'm coming!" Kai yowled, digging at the rock pile, ignoring the sharp pain that stabbed at his paws as he dug and the ever-growing cloud of dust surrounding the den site.

   "Nya - " Kai paused as the dust around him cleared. He smelled Jay's scent, coming from inside. He bushed his fur out. "Don't you dare!"

   Jay emerged, his entire pelt covered in bloody scratches and wounds. His jay-blue eyes were dull and exhausted, most likely from pain. He was panting laboriously, and looked absolutely shaken. His long tail was a torn mess, several of his claws torn from all his paws, and on top of that his right ear was torn down the middle and outright leaking red.

   Kai reeled. "Jay?! Where's Nya?"

   Jay blinked in surprise. "What? Kai?! What do you mean, 'where's Nya?' Isn't she with you?"

   Kai stopped for a moment. Jay's expression looked absolutely truthful. I was wrong? He sniffed the air around him. Sure, there was fear-scent here, but it wasn't Nya's...

   ...it was Jay's.

   "Wait, so - ?" Kai tipped his head, sheathing his claws. His mind was bouncing in all directions. "What is going on? And if you didn't take Nya - "

   "Hold on, NYA'S MISSING?!?!" Jay suddenly screeched, making Kai flatten his stinging ears. Jay pressed his torn muzzle closer to Kai's. "And you didn't TELL ME EARLIER?!?!"

   "So you didn't take Nya?" Kai asked him, bewildered. "What?!"

   "Why would I ever kidnap her?" Jay's eyes widened with new energy. "I would never do that to her! You of all cats should know that well!"

   Kai took another whiff of the air as Jay flopped down to the floor with a grunt, panting even harder. Kai smelled more rotten bones... Jay was reeking of the stuff.

   Did he... fight whatever produced the bony scent?

   "Jay, " Kai asked, digging his claws into the ground, "what in the name of the First Master happened here?!"

   "I was fighting bones -"

   "How do you fight bones?" Kai pressed.

   "I don't know, I don't know!" Jay protested, flinching as he flattened his ears and blood dripped from them to the floor. "They looked like cats made of bones, and reeked of this horrible scent -" He paused, sniffing the air. "Oh no, do I smell -"

   "YES YOU SMELL OF BONES," Kai growled through clenched teeth impatiently. So the bone cats give off the rotten scent. "Just get to the point!"

   "Okay, okay," Jay said, backing off. "These bone cats shredded the life out of me, and threw me into my den, growling a warning before blocking off the entrance..." Jay started hacking and collapsed onto the ground.

   "Jay!" Kai yowled, crouching down as Jay fell. "What did they say?"

   "I - *cough* - I think they - *cough* - they said - *hack* - "

   "What?" Kai pressed. He smacked his tail down on Jay's back to stop his coughing. "What did they say?"

   "They said -" Jay paused, his eyes filling with horror as he recalled the words. "They said, 'Beware, for we have watched you...

   "'...with the Eye of the Evil.'"

Haha, I have finally started this book on a better chapter. I felt the old version of this book - I'm going to call it the Old Draft of ITWC - was more of a rip-off than a real fanfiction, so I completely changed it. (I was also no longer satisfied with it and was not motivated to write it any longer.)

So here you have it - a new and (hopefully) better story than the Old Draft.

And until next time, cya and peace out!

Literally~!