Legacy: Infinity (Book 3)

Chapter 11.5: Sleep Tight!

Chapter 11.5: Sleep Tight!

Out of the darkness invisible paws caught her shoulders and flipped her on her back. More paws pressed down on her chest and maliciously gleaming eyes stared down at her. "Get out," the voice growled and the paws moved to her throat, slowly suffocating her as she spat and spluttered in shock at the sudden assault.

"Jay!" Amelia shrieked. Paws thumped all around her and as her mind emerged from its frozen panic her limbs grew cold and all she could see were those malicious blue eyes. This idiot just messed with the wrong cat!

Seething in anger, Jay used the energy her fury gave her to headbutt the blue-eyed cat in the chest, forcing it off of her. Regaining her paws in the darkness, she used her ears to pinpoint the cat and went after it with a volley of vicious swipes.

She felt skin tear beneath her claws and hot blood smear her paws as the cat tried in vain to defend itself from her invisible attacks. Just a little more...The cat was cowering, she could smell its fear, it hadn't expected her to put up much of a fight.

"Grrr," she growled as some cat bit down on her tail. Whirling around she abandoned her former prey to turn to the stubborn cat whose sharp teeth were clamped down on her tail. She slashed at the dark but the cat had the sense to back away out of reach.

With an annoyed grimace as the pain started bothering her, she jerked her tail painfully close to her and forced the cat to either let go or step into her attack. The cat was too stubborn to let go and Jay felt her claws cut across the cat's soft ears.

Now that she had a feel for where the cat was, Jay launched herself at it. The cat let out a surprised cry as it was forced to the ground, Jay's claws in its shoulders and her teeth pulling at its ear. "You creeps messed with the wrong cat," Jay snarled, ripping at the cat's soft flesh as it cried and vainly tried to scratch at her and kick her off. But with every nick and scrape Jay got she returned it ten-fold, harshly punishing the struggling ball of fur.

"Jay! Jay!" Amelia's call sliced through her blood-lust and she paused, her claws still embedded in the cat's soft skin.

Blinking in the darkness she turned around and saw the faint gray light beyond the arch. She could see Amelia's silhouette, four crumpled figures laying around her. "I'm coming," she called back and Amelia lashed her tail in impatience. Dragging her victim across the ground by the scruff she went to find her first attacker and found the cat long gone, even its fear scent was fading. The coward took off and left his friend to take the fall, typical.

With a massive heave she sent her victim sliding across the ground past the arch and she stepped under the arch after it, letting the faint light gleam on all her gory glory. "Looks like you were having fun," Amelia mewed, eyes narrowed.

Jay snorted, sitting down and cleaning some of the blood off her muzzle. "I haven't been able to let loose in awhile. Haven't killed anything but prey in moons." Amelia, however, looked crisply fresh. Not a hair out of place, only the blood on her claws and jaws showed the work she'd been doing. "Did you kill them?" Jay asked casually, staring down at the motionless cats.

"No, they're still breathing, for now. What about you?" Amelia asked, looking down disdainfully at her bloody victim.

"She's still kicking," Jay mewed, with a roll of her eyes. "The other one got away though," she added.

"Then we can expect more company if we stay here," Amelia growled.

"Not necessarily," Jay mewed, already knowing what she wanted to do. "What do you say we go to them instead?" Jay mewed, pausing mid-lick to stare at Amelia.