Prologue 1: A Stranger's Awakening

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"Huh? What's that noise?" Ren says as he wakes up to a strange rattling noise.

"Crap! People are coming... Gotta get a uniform, quick!" A mysterious voice says.

"Huh? Who's there?" Ren calls out, then realizes he was encased in darkness. "Where am I?" He thought while feeling around, finding he was confined in some sort of padded box. "Hello?!" He shouted while knocking on the surface.

"Ren?" A familiar voice spoke and he felt something squirm against his leg.

"Morgana? Is that you?" Ren asks.

"Yeah. What's going on? Where are we?!" The cat asks and bangs against the surface of the confined space.

"Grr... Dammit! The lid is too heavy." The voice groaned. "No choice, time to use my special move! Fu-ah! There we are!" The voice says and the lid of whatever he was confined in, literally blew off, and he saw blue fire.

"F-fire!?" Mona exclaims and quickly hops out. Ren follows suit, only to find that whatever he was in was floating in the air and starts falling forward. Luckily, he manages to catch himself and flip out of it in time. He stands up and looks around the room. Wherever he was, it sure as hell wasn't his hometown, or even the Velvet Room for that matter.

"What are those? Floating coffins?" He thought as he stares at said coffins, then notices in the center of the room was a large oval looking mirror. He then turns to a coffin that was missing its lid and was scorched. "Was that where Mona and I were?" He theorized.

"Whoa! That was amazing... Wait! Why're you even awake?!" The voice exclaims and Ren turns towards its source.

He did a double take as he found a grey furred cat with white chest fur, bright blue eyes, blue fire flickering from inside its ears, a pitchfork shaped tail and a black and white striped ribbon tied around his neck in a bow, before him.

"Another talking cat?" He questioned out loud, and somehow this cat was even stranger than Morgana.

"Hey! I am not a cat!" The feline cried in outrage.

"Uh, sorry...?" Ren apologized unsure. "What are you then, a tanuki?" He asked next and the cat growls.

"I'm not a tanuki either! I am the Great Grim! Genius magician!" The cat replied. "Never mind! Hurry up and give me your uniform!" He demanded.

"What?!" Ren said surprised, then noticed his clothes. He wasn't wearing his shirt and pants anymore, but instead a dark robe and cloak ensemble with gold accents and designs. "What the--?! Where did this come from?! What happened to my other clothes?!" He thought in shock.

"Hey! Human! Give me your clothes already!" Grim suddenly demands. "Or else... I'll roast ya!" He then threatens while unleashing more blue fire.

"What?! Why would I do that?" Ren questions.

"Wrong answer human!" The feline says, looking ready to fry the boy.

"Get away from him!" Morgana exclaims and then jumps the other cat, effectively knocking him down. Then turns to his leader. "Let's get out of here!" He says and the two rush out of the room. They run down the hall, trying to find an exit, but the strange place the duo found themselves in didn't appear to have one.

"Where... What is this place?" Ren questions as they turn a corner in the hallway.

"Defiantly not a palace, that's for sure. I have no idea where, or what, this place is." Morgana replies, running by Ren's side. The boy suddenly stopped and looks over the railing, seeing a center courtyard with grass below. He looks back to the direction they came from, then turns to the feline.

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