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   -------------------------------------------------- Crimson Nightmares
Part II: Kitten in Dreaming By Von Krieger

   Transformation, hermaphrodite, furry, scalie, non-anthro leopard,
salamander, demon, drama, dragon cat, drow, dark elf

   This is a story set in the Belial story setting, the fan group can be
found here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/legends_of_belial/ while the
explanation for the place can be found here:
http://www.furnation.com/Demon-Man/

   Kitten collapses into a dream-like state, the salamander girl Isabara
breaking them out of the demoness' clutches, trying to pull the kitty back
from the depths of hir mind.

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   Isabara pokes tentatively at the dying embers of the campfire.  She let
her gaze drift back toward Kitten, the red leopard hadn't moved for quite
some time.  Well, shi had, but it was reflexive twitching.  Shi would mew
occasionally; the only sound shi was capable of.  Isabara knew hir
companion very well, and she could tell that her friend's mewls were sounds
of pain.

   The two had escaped from the clutches of a violent Avatar.  Their
mistress had gone on one of her periodic journeys to find more playthings.
She wasn't nearly as bright as she was vicious however.  She had made the
door to their room nearly invulnerable to harm, but the hinges were simply
attached to common wood.  Isabara's form looked rather like a massive
orange salamander.  She hadn't a clue how big she actually was, but she
figured upward of five hundred pounds, at least half of it being tail.

   Her tail was just about all muscle; she had used it as an effective
weapon several times, trying to keep the demon off of her.  She could
generate enough force to send a demon in the form of a full-grown lion
sprawling.  The door had proven to be a much less resilient foe.  Isabara
had lashed out at it in frustration, and had gotten a satisfying crack from
the framework.  One look at Kitten had been all the motivation she needed
to keep going.

   Isabara and Kitten had gotten off to a rather rocky start, but they'd
soon warmed up to one another.  Their mistress had ignored Kitten in her
games, in favor of Isabara.  Kitten had been one of her favorite playthings
for several years, and even with the amount of magical healing force
flowing through Kitten, some things never came back together right.

   After so much abuse, Kitten was essentially defenseless.  Shi was
half-deaf, half-blind, and had a severe limp that made running just about
impossible.  The demon had entertained herself by mauling and mercilessly
raping the poor creature.  She'd done it to Isabara too, but Isabara could
at least fight back, sometimes long enough for the demoness to lose
interest in sex.

   A week before, right before their ex-mistress left, she had done
'played' with Kitten, very roughly.  Kitten had been hurt badly enough that
if it wasn't for the rapidly increased healing of hir body, shi would have
been dead several times over.  Isabara could see bone through some of the
gouges clawed in her friend's furry flesh.

   Shortly after, Kitten had fallen asleep.  Not very unusual sleeping was,
as far as Isabara could tell, one of Kitten's two favorite things to do. 
Aside from a few moments where Kitten had snuggled closer against Isabara's
warm, scaly skin, shi hadn't moved since then.  The dreams had started a
week ago, the day before Isabara broke the door down.

   Isabara knew Kitten had nightmares sometimes, she could hear the soft,
terrified mews and the heavy panting.  The panting told Isabara that her
kitty was in bad shape.  Her body had forgotten that it didn't have to
breath, but it was anyway, some sort of deeply instinctual thing.  Isabara
threw another piece of splintered wood on the dying fire, hoping that it's
heat would somehow bring Kitten back from whatever dark terrors held her
hostage.  Feeling helpless Isabara curled her body around Kitten's, slowly
drifting off into a sleep far more restful then her friend's.

   Kitten opens her eyes, finding herself in a small, sparsely decorated
room.  Shi doesn't know where shi is, but it seems familiar somehow.  Shi's
been here before, but can't remember when.  A soft noise comes from the bed
in the middle of the room.  Kitten tenses, ready to flee, but shi sees that
the source of the noise is nothing more then a small, pale elven girl.

   Kitten slowly moves toward a corner of the room, not wanting to be seen.
The small girl looks around sadly, as if woken up from a wondrous dream and
then confronted with an unfavorable reality.  She steps to the floor and
walks over to a mirror in the corner, brushing her white hair.  She is
perhaps four and a half feet tall.  The girl sighs and turns away from the
mirror, her red eyes slowly looking around the room for something.

   Much to Kitten's surprise, the girl's gaze passes right over hir.  The
girl's an albino, Kitten realizes.  Shi watches as the albino elf dresses
herself and picks up a bag full of books, off to school apparently.  Kitten
slowly pads after the girl as she leaves the room.  The girl ducks low, and
looks like she's trying to sneak out unseen.  But a voice calls out, "Have
a good day at school, Arkebi!"

   Both the name and the voice seem familiar to Kitten, but like this place
she can't place where she knows them from.  Arkebi sighs and reluctantly
answers, "I'll try, Mama." Arkebi's mother steps out from wherever it was
that she was before.  Kitten is stunned; the tall armored figure sports
dark brown skin and blindly white hair.  The small girl Kitten is following
isn't an albino elf; she's an albino DARK elf.

   Kitten feels small twinges of fear seeing the armored dark elf, the
armor has a definite feline motif to it, Kitten knows that shi has a
definite fear reaction to large felines that walk on two legs and are prone
to violence.  Arkebi hugs her mother after a few moments and then slowly
paces out the front door.  The red leopardess follows her, not knowing why
but figuring shi out to stay with the small girl.

   The girl walks to her school in silence, her red eyes darting nervously
toward any perceived movement.  Kitten knows something as small as Arkebi
is easy prey for just about anything that would wish to do her harm.  Shi
recognizes the fearful look in the girl's eyes, shi's had the same
expression many times while running through the overgrown gardens of hir
mistress's estate, hiding under bushes, trying to evade to claws and fangs
of a beast that wishes only to make her suffer.

   Arkebi arrives at school without incident.  Kitten follows her from
class to class, the hours passing much, much faster then they should. 
Kitten looks at Arkebi's classmates, and sees that they're all taller then
the albino girl, and not just by a little bit.  Many of them have learned
strong magicks, enough to be able to transform their bodies into new forms.
One of them is nearly twice Arkebi's height, dark, smooth skin over a
partially reptilian partially feline form.  Eight large breasts adorn the
dark elf's torso, she walks on digigrade feet tipped with wicked claws, a
long tail trails behind her, the tip twitching with nervous energy.

   Kitten shrinks back behind a bookcase near the corner, a few feet from
Arkebi's desk.  The huge creature seems to be looking at hir hungrily. 
Kitten relaxes, but only a small fraction, when shi finds that the
monstrous dark elf isn't staring at hir, but rather at Arkebi.  The albino
is focused on her books, doing her best to ignore the huge cat-elf's gaze.

   It continues until the end of class, the students file out, talking to
each other excitedly, smiling at each other.  Apparently the next class is
one that they find particularly fun.  Arkebi however isn't smiling; in fact
she seems on the verge of tears.  She walks out of the classroom and turns
down the hall, walking in the opposite direction as her classmates.

   At least for a few feet.  She slams face first into an invisible barrier
and falls to the floor.  Tiny bursts of fire explode around Arkebi; she
covers her head, trying to protect herself.  A trio of Arkebi's classmates
look at her and snicker, "Magic-dead freak." they say, laughing as if it's
the greatest joke in the world.  Kitten looks down at the cowering girl
sadly.  _An elf completely unable to use magic, no wonder she's so
miserable._ Kitten says to hirself as Arkebi slowly rises up from the
floor, the beginnings of a bruise forming on the pale skin of her face.

   The small elf walks slowly to the library, finding an out of the way
table up against a wall, she crawls underneath it.  She pulls a book out of
her backpack and begins to read at a fast pace.  Kitten wonders briefly why
the girl reads so much.  The leopard blinks sharply.  She understands,
Arkebi is trying to make up for a lack of magical ability by simply trying
to know a great deal about other things.  It's why she seems so comfortable
in the library.  For the first time since Kitten started following the tiny
dark elf, she seems at ease.

   Her peaceful state of mind is shattered when a clawed hand pulls her out
from under the table by the leg, another quickly wrapping around her throat
and pinning her to the wall.  Kitten snarls and tries to bite the offending
creature, but finds that shi bites down on nothing but air.  Shi looks up
at the towering reptile-cat beast that was looking at Arkebi all day. 
Kitten can see why, the massive dark elf girl isn't a she, a large bulge
projects from underneath hir skirt.  Shi runs her forked, sandpapery tongue
across Arkebi's face.  The girl shudders in revulsion.

   "I missssed you overrrr the weekend, pet." the combination of reptilian
and feline features adding hisses and purrs to the dark elf's speech. 
"I-I-I needed to st-st-study, Lelana.  I forg-g-got, p-please don't be mad
at me!" Arkebi stutters.  Lelana purrs softly and snuggles hir face up to
Arkebi's.  "No matterrrr pet, you can help me ssssstudy, sssstudy yourrrr
prrretty little body."

   With one massive hand Lelana pulls Arkebi's shirt up over her head,
running hir tongue across the albino's tiny breasts.  Kitten can only watch
as the huge dark elf reaches under hir skirt, pulling her straining panties
away from hir massive length of a member.  Arkebi looks at the long,
glistening length of flesh with a mixture of terror, revulsion, and.... 
desire?

   Arkebi reaches out, pushing one of the sashes covering Lelana's many
breasts aside, licking at the cat-beast's nipple softly.  Lelana pulls her
head in closer with one monstrous paw, sliding the other underneath the
albino's skirt, pulling her panties down, allowing hir entry.  Kitten
watches as the two dark elves fuck, trying to keep their cries to a low
volume in respect for the rules of the library.  Kitten, try as shi might,
was unable to curb hir arousal at the sight.  Shi lay on hir side and
lifted hir good hind leg, taking hir length into hir mouth.

   Isabara felt Kitten stir beneath her.  The little red leopard twitching
in hir sleep.  The girl-cat thrust hir hips, hir cock fully erect.  Shi
wasn't mewing in pain, so shi must be having a somewhat decent dream now.
Isabara slid a forepaw around her friend, gripping the length of the shaft.
"I can't do much for you right now kitty, but I can do this."

   Kitten feels a comfortable warmth around hir cock, not knowing where it
came from, but it did feel good.  Shi relaxed and lay back on the floor,
letting the invisible force pleasure hir.  Shi felt something enter hir
cunt, purring at the wonderful sensation.  Whatever it was, it was gentle
and trying not to hurt hir.  Which was more then the shi-creature was doing
for Arkebi.  Kitten could see small wounds along the albino's back where
Lelana's claws had pierced her skin, the scars on the little dark elf's
back showed that she wasn't a stranger to the huge beast-elf's lusts.

   Kitten shivered, hir climax rocking hir body.  Lelana growled softly,
shifting hir grip to Arkebi's ass, hir claws digging in deep as shi came
violently into the tiny dark elf.  Arkebi gasped, the pain sending her over
the edge as well.  After years of practice, Kitten recovered quickly from
the sensation.  Lelana sank to the floor slowly, Arkebi in hir arms.  The
tiny albino wrapped her arms around the leviathan's neck.  "Th-thank you
Lelana.  You're my b-b-best friend." she stuttered, tears running down her
face.

   Lelana licked her face softly.  "I hurrrt you again, didn't I pet?"
Arkebi nodded.  "Yes mistress, you did." Lelana blinked and recoiled. 
"Wh-what did you call me?" Arkebi's face took on a similar expression of
horror.  "I'm sorry!  I d-d-didn't mean to!  Please don't be angry at me! I
won't do it again if it makes you upset." The tiny elf girl snuggled into
Lelana's embrace, crying again.  "Let me make it up to you, I'll do
anything!  Just...  please be my friend?"

   "Sssh, sssh, sshh." Lelana hissed, shushing the tiny girl, hugging her
tightly with one arm as shi reached into Arkebi's backpack, pulling out a
small towel.  "You didn't offend me, pet, you jussst sssurrrprrrrissed me
isss all." Kitten shivered again, this time out of revulsion then ecstasy.
Arkebi had come to accept being a sex toy as friendship.  She did
everything in her power to please Lelana, not wanting to offend hir for
risk of losing the one person in her life that treated her with something
resembling affection.  Kitten had gotten the feeling that Arkebi was
absolutely terrified of her mother, which was why she was sobbing softly
into the shoulder of her rapist, cuddling the big creature against her all
the while.

   Kitten watched as Lelana cleaned both of them up, licking the blood from
Arkebi's cuts, being careful not to hurt the little dark elf.  Shi helped
the albino to her feet.  "Come on, pet, let's get out of herrrre.  I need
sssome help with homeworrrk.  You ssssaid you'd do anything, rrright?"
Arkebi nodded.  "Right, but won't we get in trouble for cutting class?"

   Lelana laughed a strange sound considering hir vocal characteristics,
the noise was funny enough to make one laugh as well, it made Arkebi smile.
"You don't have classss, pet, and I'm ssso farr ahead of everyone else in
Advansssed Trranssssforrmasssion, that all I need to do is the final, and
I'll be done with the whole ssssubject.  Sssso how are your classssesss
going?"

   Arkebi sighed.  "Fine." Lelana looked down at the tiny elf.  "Jusssst
fine?" The albino just shook her head.  "I get A's in everything, there's
nothing else I have to do.  I'm magic-dead; you know that.  It's why you
never called me by my name since we took that course on ancient language.
You know what it means.  Arka, meaning 'a lacking emptiness'; Kebi meaning
'aura'.  My own damned name means magic-dead.  I hate being me.  I'm
different from everybody!  I'm not as big, I'm not the same color, I can't
even make a little flash of light like a TODDLER can!  I hate it, Lelana, I
hate being me."

   Arkebi wraps her arms around her friend's leg.  "My mother hates me.  I
can see it in the way she looks at me after she gets off guard duty.  I
don't have the magic power to be just about anything, and I'm too small to
be a guard like her.  There's just about nothing I can do, there's no job
for me to fill." Lelana bends down and scoops up the tiny girl.  "You can
teach otherrrrsss about things in books, like you teach me."

   The little dark elf just shakes her head.  "I don't think I could be a
teacher.  You think anyone would pay attention to someone who can't even
light a candle with her own power?  Someone who can stand behind the podium
and not be seen?" Lelana says nothing.  Arkebi sighs.  "Thought so."
Turning a corner into an alley Lelana stops.

   "Pet, you ssssaid you'd do anything, rright?" Lelana asks.  Arkebi nods.
"Yes, Lelana, I did." Lelana pauses for a second, thinking about something.
"Would you be my final prrrroject?" the beast-girl asks with a strange look
in hir eyes.  "Y-y-your what?" the albino stutters.  "I can make you
biggerrr, change yourrr ssshape.  I know I can, I did it to mysssself."

   Arkebi takes a few steps back away from Lelana, looking hir over.  "You
did that?  I thought..." Lelana laughs.  "Sssilly girl, my parrrentsss
arren't nearrly thisss creative.  Maybe all the magic you were ssssuposssed
to have went to me inssstead." shi jokes.  "I want to help, little one, I
hate sssseeing you ssssufferr.  You don't have to desssside now, you can
think about it.  Orrr you can jussst forrrget I mensssioned it."

   Arkebi looks over Lelana, then looks at her reflection in a puddle.  The
tiny dark elf nods.  "Do it." she says adamantly.  "Do whatever you want,
just get rid of all of this." Arkebi gestures to her body.  "Anything is
better then this." She begins to disrobe.  Lelana looks at her curiously.
"What arre you doing?"

   The albino shrugs.  "Getting ready." Lelana's eyes widen in surprise. 
"Now?" Arkebi smiles.  "Why not?  One place is as good as another." Lelana
smiles and takes Arkebi's backpack.  Kitten looks on in fascination, shi's
never seen a transformation before, not including hir own, she was in too
much pain to get a good look.

   Lelana closes hir eyes and takes a few deep breaths, muttering words
that have to meaning but to the mind that has them spoken.  Shi begins to
make motions with hir entire body, not limiting hirself to just hir hands
like other mages.  _Shi looks like a dancer._ Kitten says to hirself,
entranced with the lithe movements of the beast-herm's body.  All too soon
for Kitten the motions come to an end, shi hadn't seen too many pretty
things like that in hir life.

   The large dark elf lays a hand on Arkebi's body.  "Lasst chansse to
ssstop." shi asks, but Arkebi just shakes her head.  "No, keep going." The
big beast-herm looks over her tiny, pale body.  "Let'sss sssstart with the
simple thingsss." Shi runs a hand through Arkebi's white hair.  The albino
shakes her head.  "Leave that, it's the only part of me that's ever really
been normal."

   Lelana nods, placing one of hir hands across Arkebi's eyes.  "Hmmm,
perrhapsss a nissse animal color?  Prrretty kitty eyesss for my pet?"
Arkebi winces as she feels the magic power flowing through her.  "Doess it
hurrrt?" asks the concerned behemoth.  "No, it just feels funny, keep
going." Lelana grips the sides of the albino's head.  "And sssome fuzzy
earrrsss to go with them, sssome fangsss, and a nissse rrrouch tongue to
feel wonderful when you lick my pusssssy."

   Arkebi moans softly as her body begins to reshape according to her
friend's will.  "Don't stop, Lelana, it feels incredible." The mage runs
hir hands down Arkebi's arms, grasping her tiny hands.  "Some pawsss for my
prrretty kitty, pawsss with padss and cute little clawsss." Lelana's
release's Arkebi's changing hands from hir grip, sliding down to cup her
buttocks.  "Can't forget a ssssecksssssy tail for you.  We can make love in
the fassshion of beassstsss and I can hold onto it as I thrrrusssst into
you, I won't tear your back to sssshrredsss anymore."

   Kitten watches, as a small lump appears on Arkebi's spine, quickly
thickening and lengthening to a three-foot long tail with a white tuft of
fur at the end.  Lelana reaches up with hir own tail, tickling Arkebi's
face with the fuzzy tip.  "Jussst like mine." Lelana extends hir tongue,
sliding its rough length across hir friend's chest.  "Thesse could ssstand
to be biggerrr, morre fun to play with.  Maybe I could thrusssst my cock
between them, wouldn't that be fun, pet?"

   Arkebi moans, raising a clawed hand to her chest, cupping an expanding
breast, the other darts to her dripping wet cunt.  "Feelsss good Lelana,
feelsss ssso good." Arkebi hisses through clenched teeth, caught up in the
strange feelings her body is giving her as it changes.  Lelana gently pulls
hir pet's hand away, sliding a finger inside of her.  "And thisss, make
thisss biggerr and ssstrrrongerr, ssso you don't have to be afrraid of me
loving you anymorre.  I'll go all the way in, impale you on my cock and
you'll love it.  You'll love everrry moment."

   Lelana lowers hir face to the changing girl's crotch, shi licks Arkedi's
clit.  "And thisss, we'll make thiss into a nissse big cock sssso you can
feel what it'sss like to have your ssshaft milked by a tight pussssy." Shi
gives the soon-to-be-cock one last lick before stroking Arkebi's feet with
one hand.  "You won't have to be afraid of otherrrsss hurrting you anymore,
pet, not with sharp drragon'ss clawss at the end of your toess, and if that
doessn't work you can outrun them with ssstrrong feline legsss."

   The mage pulls hir pet against hir.  "You won't have to be afrraid
anymorre, little one, not when thisss thin, frrail frrrame is packed with
ssolid mussscle." Lelana too is beginning to be aroused by the
transformation; shi lowers a hand to stroke the growing bulge under hir
skirt.  "And to cover you body, sssoft, ssssmooth ssscales.  Ssso
wonderrrful to sssnuggle."

   Lelana begins thrusting against Arkebi, not wanting to disturb the
placement of so many muscles in hir friend's body while the change is going
on.  "And I'll make you prretty, ssso very prretty.  A gorrgeousss pattern
of spots and colorrrsss." Lelana picks up Arkebi and turns, holding hir up
against a wall so shi can slide hir length into the former albino's new
cunt.  The shadows of the alley and Lelana's bulk block Kitten's view.

   "I'll make you biggerrr laterrr, little one, I love you being sssmall
and sssweet like thisss." The magic force flowing trough both of them makes
this coupling far shorter then their last in the library.  As the two lie
gasping for breath, a loud ringing can be heard, followed by a magic
enhanced voice, "Fire at the school!  Aid is urgently required to put out
the flames!  All magic users in the area report to the school!"

   Lelana looks down at hir transformed pet.  "I have to go,
sssswethearrrt. I'll be back asss ssson asss I can, pleassse wait forrr me
at yourrr houssse." Lelana sets Arkebi softly on the ground, adjusts hir
skirt and runs off to help with the magic-gone-wrong created blaze.  Kitten
pads softly over to Arkebi, the girl pushes hirself up into a crawling
position, making hirself on eye level with Kitten.

   Kitten mews and recoils in horror.  Not because Arkebi is ugly, but
because shi recognizes hir.  There may be scales on his face, and it may
not be as battered, but Kitten recognizes it.  The coloring and pattern is
the same, throughout the dark elf's ears, body, and tail.  Kitten is very
familiar with that pattern; it's adorned hir own body for as long as shi
can remember.  The feline blue-green eyes that slowly scan the alleyway as
Arkebi tests hir enhanced vision, the very same that Kitten views every
time shi looks into a mirror.  The white hair, the small white tuft of fur
at the end of the tail, everything tells Kitten who the newly transformed
girl that kneels in front of hir is.  The red and black leopard spots tell
Kitten everything about the girl, and tell hir a few details shi had
forgotten about hir past.  Hir name, what shi was, where shi came from. 
But as many questions as shi had answered, shi had more.

   Arkebi picks hirself up and stuffs hir clothes in hir backpack.  Shi
didn't have to wear them, not everybody did.  But for the first time shi
wasn't ashamed of her looks, or hir body.  Kitten followed behind hir past
self; wondering what had happened in hir past.  What had led her to leave?
Where was Lelana?  The giant of a girl didn't know hir own strength
sometimes, but Kitten could see that there was a loving bond, albeit a
strange kind of love, between the two of them.  Shi had to find out, shi
had to see what had happened to hir.  Shi knew shi wasn't going to like it,
but shi followed Arkebi anyway.

   The newly transformed dark elf spent a great deal of time looking at
hirself in the mirror, admiring her shiny scales, hir cute fuzzy ears, hir
big fluffy tail, hir enhanced breasts, hir new male equipment.  Shi
couldn't wait for Lelana, shi had to try hir new organ out.  Shi lay down
on hir bed and began to stroke hirself and soon hir new dick swelled to
it's full length.  On a normal dark elf, Arkebi's cock would be impressive,
but on hir tiny body it looked absolutely huge.  Shi could nearly...  no...
shi could actually tit-fuck hirself.

   Lost in the feelings of hir new body, the time passed quickly for
Arkebi, and Kitten as well.  Kitten could feel everything hir past self
did. It felt nice; shi had forgotten what it was like to have hands, to
actually be able to grip something, let alone the sensation of having
breasts.  The wonderful feelings faded just as soon as they arrived; Arkebi
having experienced hir first male orgasm and laying back on hir bed,
panting and licking the sticky liquid from hir face and breasts.

   Kitten could see Arkebi's ears prick up and instinctively swivel toward
a noise, just as Kitten's own did, the one anyway.  Kitten watched hir past
self bound out of bed and out into the main living space, Kitten followed,
only to find Arkebi backed into a corner, looking terrified.  Hir mother
was home, and shi had been drinking, preferring the state of semi-oblivion
this late in the afternoon.  The dark elf warrior draws her sword.

   "How'd you get in here you little beast?  Who do you belong to?"
Arkebi's mother doesn't recognize hir, and hir past self is too terrified
to speak.  _So this is what happened to me._ Kitten reflects sadly.  "Out!
Out you damned monster!" Kitten watches as Arkebi ducks under a stroke of
the sword, caught up in instinctual urges from hir new form.  "Out!  Get
out you damned monster!"

   The leopard-girl watches the expression on Arkebi's face go from sheer
terror, to deep sorrow.  Shi tries to talk but the best shi can manage is a
mewling stutter.  Shi manages to avoid another blow of the massive blade.
"Get out of my house you freak!" Arkebi ducks the blade and darts out the
door, hir mother on hir heels.  "If you come back I'll cut you head off you
little cat-bitch!" she yells.

   Kitten darts after hir fleeing past self, hir bad leg remaining
strangely stable.  Arkebi flees as fast as hir new legs can carry hir, the
adrenaline rush fades, but the instinct to flee remains very strong in hir
mind.  Arkebi looks around, surprised to find hirself outside the city
gates, not remembering how shi got there.  Shi knows shi can't go back.

   Hir mother, despite being a drunk, was a by-the-book type of soldier,
she'd have reported Arkebi as someone's escaped pet.  Shi knew shi'd be put
up for auction and would spend the rest of hir life as someone's sex slave.
Shi didn't want that.  So shi fled.  Kitten could only catch brief glimpses
of things, a ship, darkness, fear of being discovered, hiding away for a
long time, catching and eating rats, and finally another forest, one like
she'd only seen in pictures in books.

   Kitten followed Arkebi through the forest, watching hir past self;
becoming more and more feral.  Kitten realized Lelana had made a mistake,
shi had accidentally made Arkebi's instincts too strong, they overwhelmed
the poor girl.  Shi watched hir past self grow leaner, unable to get enough
to eat enough to maintain hir.  Shi watched as Arkebi alternately ran from
larger predators and watched them from trees.

   Arkebi took a particular interest in one predator; the academic
knowledge that lie buried in hir mind, mostly unused first identified the
beast as a female Wrath.  But shi knew they weren't native to this
particular part of the world.  Shi supposed it had to be a transformed,
like hirself.  It wasn't entirely like a wrath anyways; it had fur, and
several other feline features.  Arkebi knew it was a female because of the
two tiny offspring that it had.  Not able to remember what baby Wraths were
called, she dubbed them kittens.

   Arkebi followed them, mostly because they mother had to make a goodly
number of kills the feed herself and her kittens, but partially because shi
was curious.  Arkebi lost sight of them for a week or so, as shi made
efforts to stay well away from humans.  Shi'd been told growing up that shi
would never be able to take part in one of the raiding parties, a small,
magic-dead dark elf would be an easy target for humans, and they would do
horrible things to her, just because of what shi was.

   When shi once again found the wrath, her kittens had vanished.  The
mother appeared to be looking for them, making strange sounds, calling out
for them, but never receiving an answering cry.  Arkebi had crept out onto
a thick branch.  Watching the Wrath-cat search in vain for her kittens, but
shi hadn't noticed until she put all hir weight on it, that the branch was
dead.

   It snapped under her weight and sent Arkebi crashing to the ground.  The
pain of the fall sent hir rational mind running to the little dark corner
of hir brain where it hid as the Wrath came bounding toward hir.  Arkebi
was out of breath, the wind knocked out of hir from the fall, she couldn't
move.  Shi closed hir eyes waiting for the snarl of the beast, and the
claws and fangs that would sink into hir.

   They never came.  What Arkebi did find was a furry face pressed up
against hir body, sniffing hir scent.  The Wrath sat down on her haunches
and made a questioning noise, not exactly sure what this thing in front of
her was.  She sniffed at Arkebi a few times before deciding on a course of
action.  The Wrath snuggled up against Arkebi, trying to get her to suckle.

   Not knowing what else to do, and not wanting to anger the creature,
Arkebi drank, a slow change coming over hir mind all the while.  Having
smelled a mix of humanoid, cat, and reptile on Arkebi, the Wrath had
apparently decided that shi was in fact one of her kittens.  Hir mind did a
strange thing, after a lifetime of suffering and fear, and several months
of isolation and terror, Arkebi's mind simply decided that it didn't
particularly like it's past, and didn't see a need for it.  So Arkebi
forgot about hir past, hir mother, hir heritage, hir original form, hir
friend Lelana, and made hirself anew.

   Snuggling into the Wrath's fur shi purred softly, the first word she'd
spoken in a long time, and the last she would speak for another long time.
"Mama." shi purred; accepting hir new identity as the Wrath's lone kitten.
Arkebi had forgotten hir past, hir body growing heavy and strong again, hir
flattened tummy growing.

   So that was it, that was where shi came from, that was why shi thought
of hirself as Kitten, why shi didn't have a name.  As shi thought about it
Kitten decided shi liked Kitten better then Arkebi, while it wasn't the
name shi was given by hir real mother, Kitten wasn't essentially an insult.
Kitten watched as hir past self and hir adopted mother faded slowly into
darkness, as did the forest.

   Kitten opened hir eyes and blinked them, feeling very, very warm with
orange in his vision, a whole lot of orange.  shi yawned and felt the
orangeness stirring all around hir.  "Kitty!  You're awake!" Isabara picks
up Kitten in her powerful arms and hugs the red and black spotted beast to
her chest.  "You've been sleeping for a whole week, having nightmares the
whole time almost.  I was so worried!"

   Kitten returns the hug as best shi can with hir forelegs and paws,
finally remembering who Isabara is.  Shi looks around, finding not the
confining cell, but an open plain, filled with tall grass.  Shi mews
happily, questioningly.  Isabara giggles.  "I broke us out.  That dumb old
cat bolted a nice, strong door to plain wood." Isabara picks up her tail.
"This thing's good from more then being a kitty blanket you know."

   Kitten looks around, blinking at the unfamiliar bright light of the sun.
"Kitten, you look....  different.  Look at me." Kitten turns hir head to
Isabara, who stares intently as Kitten's face.  "Kitten, can you see my
hand?" Kitten looks at Isabara, confused, shi nods.  "Um...  Kitten, I
don't know what happened while you were sleeping, but....  close your good
eye."

   Shi does so, and finds that shi can still see!  Shi can see just as shi
had in hir dream, with both eyes.  "Your eye is better, kitty!" Isabara
shouts excitedly.  "What happened?  What were you dreaming about?" Kitten
mews excitedly, trying to tell Isabara, but while hir eye has gotten
better, hir ability to speak is still as it was.  Looking down at the dirt
Kitten unsheathes a claw and scratches into the dirt P-A-S-T.

   Isabara nods.  "Must not've been a very nice place, huh?" Kitten shakes
hir head, no, it wasn't a very nice place.  Shi scratches into the ground.
"WHERE GOING?" "Home, to my family.  Do you have family, Kitten?" Kitten
pauses for a moment, how long ago was it?  She hadn't any clue when the
past she dreamed about had been.  Shi was a dark elf, or at least shi used
to be, it could've been years, it could've been decades, and it could've
been centuries.  But there was something that shi felt, something that was
just beyond what shi could remember.  Kitten didn't know why, but shi
nodded hir head.  "Good." said Isabara.  "'Cause we'll find them too."