Meeting You

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Trigger Warning: Eating People and kidnapping mention

It was a pretty stormy night. Lightning seemed to flash every twenty seconds, and when there wasn't lighting, heavy rainfall hit the roofs of homes like hail.

So imagine getting caught in a storm like that. You would naturally search for shelter. Unfortunately, that's what a teenage boy did, entering what he thought was an abandoned mall. He was never seen again. An entity known as Cartoon Cat, if you had asked him, would've said it was the best meal he had in a while.

Little did he know that there was another surprise waiting for him later that night.

He was roaming around the old mall, which now had a thin lair of dust on the ground, when he saw some footprints in it that looked new. A statistic smile grew on Cartoon Cat's face as he followed them.

The footprints stopped at an open window. Drat! Whoever entered got away. He was just about to leave the mall and go wait somewhere else to get a good meal when he heard a cry.

A baby's cry.

Cartoon Cat looked around until he saw a wooden basket nearby a few rocks. It had hands moving around in it. He picked up the little baby girl that was inside, and when she saw him, she stopped crying and looked at him, sneezing from the dust.

Who just leaves a baby lying around? He thought. Right when he was about to put the baby in his mouth to eat her, the infant smiled at Cartoon Cat. He then chose not to eat her, because for some reason, he suddenly had no interest in eating her. But what would he do with a baby?

BOOM!! Lighting flashed again, followed by thunder. The baby began crying again. Cartoon Cat was now brought out of her eyes and into reality again. He put the baby on his shoulders and she closed her hands on his fur, as if she was giving him a hug.

Right then and there, any thought of him leaving the baby at a police station in the town nearby of the orphanage, disappeared. In the past, Cartoon Cat would've never thought he was capable of feeling these emotions that were for humans, but now, he understood why the woman he ate last week let the little boy she was with escape.

The woman wanted to protect the boy. Just like he now wanted to protect this baby girl.

BOOM! Thunder boomed again and Cartoon Cat remembered the baby girl in his arms. The woman he ate the week before had done some things to calm the boy she was with, so maybe he could do those things.

The boy had been crying, and the woman was singing to him to calm him down. Cartoon Cat replayed the song in his head until he remembered it perfectly.

"Hello darkness, my old friend," he sung, the baby's cries got quieter, as if she wanted to hear the song. She turned her head to the voice she heard.

"I've come to talk with you again," He continued. "Because a vision softly creeping, left its seed while I was sleeping."

BOOM!! Thunder crashed, but this time, the baby paid no mind to it. BOOM!! It went off again. No cries left the baby girl as Cartoon Cat continued to sing. "And the visions, that were planted in my brain, still remains. Within the sounds ... of silence."

BOOM!! BOOM!! Thunder clapped twice, as if it was desperate to get the baby to start crying. She still didn't. She smiled at Cartoon Cat, even bouncing up and down in his arms.

It wasn't until he continued to sing did he realized that he was smiling. But it wasn't Cartoon Cat's normal, creepy smile. It was a soft and gentle one. "In restless streams, I walked alone ... narrowed streets of cobblestone."

"Ah," the baby muttered happily, her smile widening. It seemed like she was going to laugh.

Cartoon Cat didn't stop singing. And with the baby girl looking at him like that, he didn't want to stop. "'Neath the halo of the street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp, when eyes were stabbed with a flash of a neon light."

He looked at the baby again, getting lost in her e/c eyes. "That split the night ... and touched the sound ... of silence."

Two men, who most likely kidnapped the baby, looked through the open window, and looked at each other, panicking. Then, one quavered to each other, "Forget the kid. Let's get out of here!" They took off running, but Cartoon Cat grabbed them with his tail and tied them up with it as well.

By now, the baby girl had fallen asleep and Cartoon Cat placed her back in the wooden basket, careful not to wake her up. He then ate both of the men and washed himself from blood in the storm, which seemed to be clearing up. Picking up the basket, Cartoon Cat carried it to the second level of the old mall, and curled up to the basket, sleep soon wrapping him up in its comforting spell.

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