Pain.

It was all just pain.

And the world was growing bigger, or I was growing smaller, and orange fur erupted on my skin and I tried to scream but all that came out was a strangled yowl. I yowled and yowled, the pain tearing through my bones and digging through my insides, and then just as suddenly it was gone.

Everly Maven was far above me. She knelt down next to me and dug out something from her pocket, and then snapped it onto my neck. A collar.

I meowed angrily, trying to push it off with a paw. A paw.

I was a...

...cat.

I jumped away from her, hissing, leaping onto the porcelain sink in the bathroom. Everly shook her head at me, and said in a voice too loud for my sensitive feline ears, "Get down from there, Logan. I'm going to have to take you home."

She reached out and tried to grab me, but I scrambled away from her, falling into the sink. I meowed louder, trying to speak, as she wrapped her long fingers around my exposed belly and lifted me into her arms.

Oh my god, oh my god.

I'm a cat.

What will my parents say?

If I was human, I would've laughed, but I wasn't, so I didn't.

She carried me out the door, waved her hand, and then we were in front of a stone building that looked like it would've withstood the apocalypse, but before I could freak out over the sudden teleportation, she marched us both inside.

It was the largest freaking place I had ever been in.

The ceilings were at least twelve feet high, and the opposite wall looked a mile away. But it was mostly empty, save for a huge king bed in one corner and a mammoth sized wardrobe way on the opposite corner. The bed was neat and made up, and looked like it had not been slept in for years.

"This is Fyrai, my secret sanctuary. It sits between a pocket of space you can only reach with the aid of either magic or the supernatural." Everly glared at me with her creepy all-black eyes. "And this is where you'll stay until you learn to stop treating girls like toys."

I meowed loudly, and she rolled her eyes. "You can speak, you know. Obviously, you just aren't trying hard enough." She turned from me, then added, "I'll come back when I think you're ready."

And then she took a step, and disappeared into thin air.

I stared after her, meowing questioningly, but the air didn't do anything remarkable for me, and she didn't come back, so I stalked away, my tail in the air.

Three months later

I lounged on the huge king-sized bed, my paw resting on the book I was reading, one that Everly had dropped off on her last 'visit'. I never actually saw her; I would take a nap or something and when I woke something new would be waiting for me in the very center of the large room, and even though it was a pain to walk all the way over to the middle (the room was huge, did I mention that?), the gifts she brought were very important to me. Other than the food and water she supplied, she also sent me stuff from the outside world, like books and movies and, once, a laptop.

I hadn't seen Everly in three months, which is why it was such a huge surprise to see her suddenly materialize out of the air in front of me.

I gasped and leapt up. "Everly!"

She barely looked at me as she bustled around, trying in vain to clean up my messes. "Great. You've learned to talk again. That's...great. Okay." She faced me, and mustered a smile. "How do you feel about Italy?"

"Italy sounds nice." Anywhere sounded nice after being trapped in an (admittedly large) room for three months. "Why?"

"Because that's where we're going."

And so she scooped me up into her warm arms and then we weren't in the room anymore- for the first time in sixty two days, I was outside.

We landed on a bridge.

It was over the most beautiful water I had ever seen, blue and sparkling, and it overlooked the rest of the glittering city, and then, beyond that, the ocean. Italy? She was actually serious?

And so began our journey through the entirety of the world, searching for something. I didn't know what we were searching for; she never told me. But I knew that we still hadn't found it.

We traveled (by teleportation) to the far corners of the earth, to Europe, to America, to Egypt, to everywhere. Just a magical girl and her enchanted cat. We were the travelers from everywhere and nowhere all at once; when we first traveled, our pasts dropped away like water on oil, forgotten amidst a torrent of new memories, of new experiences.

I have to say, it wasn't half bad.

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~written by reapersaretheangels~

Hey, everyone! I'm sorry about this chapter; it was kind of boring to write and so it's probably boring to read, too, but I had to write it so I could set up their situation. You'll see why in....three chapters? Maybe four...

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