Oh my Oh my... Is this true? I am a cat.... !!!!

Whiskered Awakening

A/N: Penelope's POV unless said otherwise.

Funny how I thought that nothing could actually become worse than things were already. I mean, I was Penelope Eckhart,.... THE PENELOPE! The villain from a game I was playing just days ago. HAH.... if I knew that things could have gotten worse then I would have definitelly thought of myself being lucky back then... I haven't even managed to do one thing right! 

First the servants... then my brothers... I barely escaped life and now?! What is this?!!!!

The first thing I noticed as I regained consciousness was the softness beneath me. It was unlike anything I'd ever felt before. Slowly, I blinked my eyes open, only to be greeted by a world that seemed both familiar and utterly strange.

"What... what's happening?" I mumbled to myself, the words barely forming in my mind before dissipating into the air. I pushed myself up onto my paws, or at least, what I assumed were my paws. They felt oddly small and delicate, not at all like my usual hands. "This can't be real. This must be a dream."

But as I looked around the room, the vivid details painted a different picture. This was no dream. This was my reality, no matter how bizarre it seemed. Everything was too big and not only that but I could see my very own paws!

I padded across the chamber, the plush carpeting cushioning each step. It felt surreal, like I was moving through a dream world that had been pulled straight from the pages of a fairytale.

"Okay, Penelope, calm down," I muttered to myself, trying to steady my racing heart. "You're in some sort of... accident. That's it. Just a little nightmare..... Nothing you can't handle....not as if things were already bad as they are.... now calm down...."

I reached the ornate mirror that hung on the wall and peered into it, expecting to see my own reflection staring back at me. Or at this point expecting that this was just a dream but that was too much to ask for. Instead, what I saw was a beautiful ragdoll cat with plush white-pink fur and icy blue eyes. At least my eyes looked the same but the rest... not as human as I liked it to be. It took a moment for the realization to sink in, but when it did, it hit me like a ton of bricks.

"I'm a cat," I whispered, the words barely audible even to my own ears.... not it was just a mew but I knew the meaning of it. "How... how is this possible?"

The cat in the mirror blinked back at me, its expression unreadable. For a moment, we locked eyes, two beings trapped in the same bewildering reality. This had to be a bad joke for sure. This couldn't be true. It had to be a dream... maybe a pleasant for once... I mean maybe my family would at least treat me nice if I were a cat or so I hoped. For now, I didn't know what to do at all! This was just too ridiculous. 

"This can't be happening," I said, my voice rising in panic. "I have to find a way to fix this. I can't stay like this forever. I won't."

But as I looked into those icy blue eyes staring back at me from the mirror, I realized that there were no easy answers. I was alone in this, trapped in a body that was not my own! 

"Okay, Penelope, think," I said, trying to steady my racing thoughts. "There has to be a way out of this. Some sort of... Ah I don't know.....I just have to find any way!!!!"

As I padded across the chamber, the weight of my newfound reality settled upon my shoulders. However while I was pacing back and forth, the system window popped right in front of my face. There was my answer to what was going on but not how to fix this shit.

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The thing was... I couldn't even read what it was saying at all! I was freaking out and the mewing that was coming out wasn't making anything better at all. This was not supposed to happen. No one could think that this could even happen. Nothing like this was actually going on, there was no main arc with Ivonne turning a cat... not to mention Penelope who I was now... This was just ridiculous!!! WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO NOW?!