Prologue

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"Sunset! I need you!" a voice called out from another room. Ears pricked, the majority red furred cat looked up and over at the opening door. A young adult, maybe twenty in age, with large round glasses poked her head through. Dark blue almost black long and fluffy hair, facial freckles, and green eyes, Renny was her name. A kind lady interested in alchemy just as her parents were. They met suddenly during a dark part of the feline's life. Where she almost died. Since that day, they have traveled many multiverses and created many potions. Learning new things constantly over the past years. Sunset watched as she grew, promising her parents that she would watch over Renny as they left. The cat had become a new adult figure to the lady, whenever godmother, aunt, grandmother, they were close, despite being different species entirely.
"Need me? For what?" Sunset mewed back.  Renny motioned for the cat to follow as she slipped back into the room, leaving the question unanswered.
Flicking an ear, Sunset got up and padded after her friend. The room was dimly lit, all kinds of strange items on the walls and desks. Gemstones, plants, small parts of animals preserved in jars, many things used in her potion making. Off to the side was the cauldron, smoking with a residue on the top, waiting to be scooped up and used. "What did you make? Something new?" Sunset asked, peering into the cauldron before frowning. "It looks like a portal potion to me, even smells like one... Maybe with a hint of peach?"
Renny replied with a small laugh, waving a hand to get Sunset to step back. "Well you're not wrong, it is a portal potion. But a set one. It will always open a portal to one universe. Any location, but that universe only," she explained, gathering up the orange substance.
"Ah, that explains the peach. Set ones always have an extra smell," Sunset chuckled, watching before realizing.
"Hey wait, where's it set to? You can't make a set portal potion without some DNA from the original universe."
"I know," Renny answered, starting to look a bit suspicious.
"Renny what did you do?" her older friend demanded, but in a calm voice.
With a sigh she fixed her glasses, definitely guilty of something. "Well,
you see, for the entire time that I have known you. You've never shown me your homeland. You mentioned it vaguely once, but I have never seen it..." Renny explained.
"You took my fur didn't you," Sunset said, raising her brows, unsurprised.
"Only a few that I found, I made sure it wasn't some random fur. I think it worked," she sheepishly smiled as she held out the bowl of orange substance.
Sunset sighed and shook her head.
"Renny, you shouldn't have did that. Not without my permission. You never even asked me to show you. You hardly asked about my homeworld," she mewed, frowning. Renny deflated, her gaze dropping down to bowl. "I'm sorry, I didn't think you wanted to talk about it. You never said anything about going back and most things mentioned sounded pretty negative,"
Sunset thought about that for a moment, realizing what she was saying was true. It wasn't often she mentioned her own home, but when she did, it was always about how braindead the cats around her was. How they failed to see a power hungry tyrant climbing to the top. Nothing was particularly positive. "Ah, well. It's still better to ask. If I made it seem negative, then it would be dangerous for you to go," Sunset meowed, sitting down and curling her tail around her paws.
"I know, that's why I told you to come, I didn't want to go alone," Renny replied, walking to a nearby desk to set the bowl down. "Is your home really that bad?"
Sunset sat there, thinking. Its been many years since she had even set foot on that world, she's not even sure if it's still there or if it had changed, maybe it's already collapsed. "Well, my mother told me stories, she told me that the elementals were convinced to move, migrate to another world to live. Sounds fine but moving caused all to come together and fall under one ruler. The one who brought the idea in the first place," She sighed, remembering the red fur of her mother, the light yellow spot on her eye acting like a sun, similar to the one she has on her own chest. "Mother believed his plan was to control everyone, become a king. She tried expressing her concerns but no one would listen. In the end she left when I was still a kit,"
Renny listened, thinking. "Did anyone else leave? Was it just you two?"
Sunset nodded, digging deep into her brain for the memories. "My father was dead. I don't think anyone else left. If they did, it was after we had left and to a different place than the one we went to," the cat answered.
Her friend seemed thoughtful, thinking of ideas on what to do. "Maybe we can go see what it's like?  Can't you put us in a safe place?" She offered, intent on seeing the world.
"I've gone back once years ago and regret it, the new ruler is just as bad as the old one," Sunset decided to point out, but Renny still looked eager to go.
She sighed. "You're not going to give me a choice are you?"
The woman shook her head and grinned.
"Alright, just stay close to me then," she mewed, getting to her paws. Her friend beamed and gathered up the materials, excited.
"I hope things aren't in ruins..."

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