Snips and Snaps

King of the Streets

There was a wild feral in the town of Hetomo. An ugly and foul thing, they called her.

Her name was Halo, but they called her ugly after she hospitalized her eighteenth master.

Ugly wasn't like other cats. She was a cat spirit but she wasn't like many of those either. She was a tuxedo cat, but her markings stained her skin as well.

Her skin, which alternated from snow white to almost black brown at sharp lines, and her eyes, one a brilliant blue and the other a deep amber, made her quite the prize. Only thing was, few could catch her and even fewer could keep her.

In her life she'd had fifty four masters. Forty two of which had been hospitalized by wild cats claws. No matter what they did she always escaped them and no one could lure the cat in.

They called her ugly, king of the streets. The other cats all thought her a rebellious hero and a few had even learned to follow her. They were often called uglys demons.

After the fifty fourth master though the people left ugly alone, still called her names and sprayed her with their hoses if she came too near their houses but didn't go following her nor did they try to sell her to anyone.

She roamed the streets and they liked to say she played in the sheets. Many male cats tried their luck to bait her in, non had succeeded.

In Hetomo ugly worked around the docks, checking fish for fishers and inspecting nets. She had a nose for disease and could tell you if a fish was bad to a point where cooking couldn't save it from just a sniff at it.

Three towns over though, where she was known still as Halo, she slept.

Three nights a week and a full day ugly was never found in Hetomo, but three towns over and normally in another cats garden.

A very pretty, obviously special bred cat lived three towns over. Her name was Tsubaki. She had glowing white fur and a stunningly fair complexion. Soft freckles were splashed over her cheeks and nose and she had the most beautiful green eyes in all the worlds.

And halo adored her.

Tsubaki had an easy going master that didn't mind stray like Halo hanging around, and halo hardly minded tsubakis master.

The purebred was a playful things that loved her garden and loved showing it to Halo. They were pleasantly surprised to find that Tsubaki also liked to be laid down in her flowers.

Halo had first fallen for the purebreds eyes, then her smile and laugh and then, after Tsubaki had shared such innocent curiosity in halos tuxedo marked skin, the whole of her.

The first time they'd been caught in the flowers Tsubaki's master hadn't been pleased. Later though he came to see there was no point in trying to stop the two and that is was easier, better even, just to let them be. Tsubaki always seemed to be in a brighter mood after halo came by, sex had or not had, anyway.

It didn't matter how many times someone tried to own ugly, halo always got away and went back to her angel.

Her angel though was a show cat. A popular one too. Many masters would come and ask for kittens, hoping to find beauty like Tsubaki for themselves.

Tsubaki was far from pleased when her master finally made her breed. She didn't like it but in return for her behaving her master paid halo, so the stray didn't have to work and could stay with Tsubaki longer.

Tsubaki did enjoy that. And when the kittens came she enjoyed the later nights when she had a much older cat on her teet as well.

Of course the kittens loved halo, their father as far they cared. And so halo came to sleep three towns over four nights a week.

The kittens all were show cats, like their mother but they enjoyed it, and they especially loved winning big shows since their master would take them out with halo in tow to get ice cream.

Even after the kittens left halo always went back to her angel. And without kittens around it was fun bed the white show cat in the flowers again. Tsubaki of course tsked and called her naughty after but, wasn't that the way of strays?