Land of Armonia

Chapter two

The Sphynx had carried the black cat to the prison champers inside a cave. He was currently in a small crate like thing. It was small. to small for him to change back into a human, and to small for him to move. The cave was dark. Since he couldn't see outside, but assumed it was morning, since he had been there a couple hours. He was hungry. He hadn't eaten all day yesterday and his stomach growled continuously. Since the time the Sphinx had left him, no one returned.

He thought about the girl he saw last night. She seemed so angry at him, just for being there. He couldn't blame her though, he probably would have felt the same way. From her point of view, it probably seemed like a Chaton was sneaking upon her tribe to attack.  But that's not how he meant it to be. In reality, he was running away from his tribe and just happened to find himself in their territory.

The Chatons were super aggressive to all the other tribes. But they were even worse to each other. They never had a chief longer than a week before a new one replaced him. And to do that you must defeat the current chief. in other tribes, he assumed they had a standoff, duel or something. But in his tribe, it was a fight to the death. This meant that a tribe member died each week. And they always suffered during the process to.

He never wanted to be chief. Even if he did, the tribe wouldn't let him. He was the only thing the Chatons seemed to care about. No, he wasn't some prince or anything. He was a weapon. The Chatons most powerful weapon. But for a weapon, they never let him into battle. They were saving him. Preserving him. The Chatons had a plan. Once the Cretos finally came out of there shells, they would make a final attack. They were going to use him to destroy the Cretos. Once the Cretos were gone, they could rule over all of the land of Armonia. Armonia was the entire world basically. It connected all the different Tribes. He assumed that once they had that power, they would make Armonia into Hell.

The cave doors opened and Two snow leopards walked in.

"why hello little cat" said one of them.

"Pathetic" said the other. The Black Cat backed up in his small cage. The Leopard who called him pathetic morphed into a human. She was dressed like the girl he saw last night, except she wore more jewelry. Her expression was cold. Her long thin hair was completely white except for one streak  of black. She knelt down and pulled out a kept from a pouch that hung from her side. She inserted it into a keyhole and The cage door swung open. she reached her hand into the cage to grab him. The cat pinned his ears and hissed in protest.

She touched his head and he started scratching her with his paws like mad. She jerked her hand away, growling, and pulled out her yoyo from around her waist. Four knives sprouted from the edges.

"Do that again and you'll pay." She hissed.

The cat looked at the edges if the knives, not daring to get on her bad side. She reached into the cage once again and grabbed him by the scruff of his neck. He felt humiliated being held like that as he was lifted into the air.

"No transforming. We're taking you to the quart."

She locked a metal collar around his neck. The Cretos were smart. If he morphed into a human, he would choke himself to death.

"Let me go I'm capable of walking on my own."

"And let you run away? No thank you."

"you could get a leash!" he said. though he hated the though of being on a leash, he hated being held by his neck even more.

"I don't think you could run as fast as us." she replied with a smirk. "Snow, transform!"

The leopard nodded. Suddenly the Leopard was growing larger. Icey spikes shot out from its shoulders forming a crest. Its teeth grew long and sharp. The end of its tail had what looked like a spikey ball of ice. It now stood about 10 feet tall. The woman holding him, carried him to the beast. She mounted it still holding him tightly.

"no funny business, you here me? Or else  Nojchilo will eat you." she smiled at the thought.

"I don't intend to eat any one. but maybe he would rather be used as a baseball, my tail the bat." Said Nojchilo half laughing.

They lurched forward and the massive cat broke into a gallop. The small black cat kept quiet the whole time. They reached the village after about 3 minutes.

It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.

Were his village was bloody, torn, and treacherous, this place was so beautiful. It had paved roads, not dirt. Each tent was personalized to, unlike his. Firepits seemed to warm every one when needed. trading markets, and structures of stone. Compared to this, his village was a dump.

As they walked down streets of stone he gazed at each tent. Finger paintings on there walls. He had never seen such a thing, for his tents were old, dirty, and blank.

One of the tents caught his eye. The flap was open and blowing in the cool breeze. paintings of trees, and fruits one the walls with cheetah print too. He thought that it might be the tent of the girl he saw last night. at the bottom of the flap, Herogi, was written on in Inc. a flower pot sat on each side of the doorway filled with apricot fruit. He didn't have much time to look at it, for they had walked away from it. After ten more minutes, he saw a larger building than the rest. He assumed it was the chiefs palace. it wasn't very big, but still about the size of a football field.

The giant leopard stopped and The woman dismounted. The leopard than morphed into a human. He looked like her, but more muscular, and mean looking. The woman walked up to the doors of the building and opened them, revealing a court room. it wasn't the entire building, but it was still pretty big.

A judge sat at the end of the room. More people at tables filled the room as well. The woman carried him to the center of the room and set him down. A dark man approached him  with a weird object in his hand. He took off the collar. He then pointed the object at his neck. The cat realized that it was a taser gun.

"Revealed yourself or we'll do it for you. And it won't feel good." Said the chief looking man that sat the head table. He had the mane of a lion, but a kind looking face.

The cat shivered at the thought. He knew that they wanted him to become human. So he did with out protest. Being a small cat for too long starts to make you ache. His eyes flickered over to a girl in the corner of the room. It was the girl from last night. She gasped when he stood up in his true form.

It was silent for a few seconds. The judge finally asked, " can you tell us your name young man?"

"yes sir." he paused for dramatic effect. "my name is Amante. I am the Yéeyik of the Chatons"