The Normals

The Normals


By: RubyFire

"Oh really?"

"Really!"

"Well, if being normal is that, then I worry about normal people and cats."

RubyFire sighed and shifted her weight. She'd been listening to this stray named Kyle talk about being how great a certain magic was 'Normal"He called it. Sounded kinda boring. "I think I'll stay my hyper, insane self." She kicked a hind foot at the stray Tom. He instantly punched her in the stomach and sent her skidding across the alley way.

"Listen, you brat," Kyle pressed Ruby hard agist the ground. "Try it or else you'll be sorry." He looked around to check if any one was watching and quickly left around the building corner.

Ruby stood and considered her options. Normal meant that you would fit in and the Toms in white coats wouldn't chase after her anymore. But it meant that she'd be like everyone else. Was it worth it? If she didn't want to die, then maybe. The tall Queen shook her fur of dust and tried to ignore her aching side. Kyle said that there were more stronger than him and they got what they wanted. 'Well, maybe I'll just try and see.' She thought and ran off to the junkyard.

"Mistoffelees! Mr. Misto, can you do me a favor?"

The Black and white male looked up from some magic book and nodded.

Ruby hesitated and asked him to repeat a spell. He intently listened and grew curious about it. He echoed back the words:

"Leaves f faded gray, and a child's nightmare.
A full grown one's wish and a bleakish lair.
Black and white, red or green,
Fur change to ours, this young Queen."
Mistoffelees stared at Ruby and waved his paw infront of her face. Her eyes were focusing and un focusing, back and forth. Then a small light, no bigger than a small claw, appeared before her. Misto moved back, startled. The light grew and Ruby's intended eyes stared at it. Finally she reach out a paw and touched the now large light. It became blinding.

Misto covered his eyes and once he opened them, before him wasn't Ruby, but an average sized Queen, with medium gray fur, at medium weight and an average colour of eyes, medium brown. "Ru- RubyFire? Where are you?" The strange Queen looked at him with cold eyes. "I am. You are Mistoffelees, correct?" He nodded, now very scared. "Thank you for your service." She quickly stood and left in a blink of an eye. Mistoffelees, alarmed, knew that this wasn't Ruby but some. other cat. No, it wasn't a cat, it was a robot!

****

"Hello, my fellow members." Ruby's grayish coat couldn't gleam in even this bright light inside the warehouse. Other's just like her, nodded and said hello in complete unison. A few stood from their spots in perfect rows and greeted her.

"Welcome, new cat."

"We hope you enjoy your stay."

"I will, of course." Ruby turned and looked at a much larger Tom infront of them all. She walked to him and began talking, exactly like a robot.

"Hello. I am #4652 reporting as new user." The leader Tom handed her a small metal color with a the her number on it. She put it on without hesitation then walked to a spot in the rows where she fit in perfectly.

*****

"Light out. good night." The leader walked up and down their sleeping rows. Ruby laid on her back, uncomfortably. What was this? All they did was stand in the rows and do nothing else. they couldn't get every one to do everything exactly like everyone else if they did something else. Ruby wanted to sigh but she couldn't bring herself to. What was happening? she was caught in some wheel, or currant and couldn't get out. This body may have been stringer than her previous one but she wanted out. Ruby poked at young kitten in the row next to her.

"Hey, wake up." The kitten opened its eyes and stared at her. "What are you doing? If the leader catches you-"

"The leader isn't going to catch me. I'm outta here." Ruby, with great difficulty was able to stand up part way. "You wanna go too?"

The kitten began screaming frantically. "Escape! Help! Help! get 're get 'er!"

Some huge cats began stalking toward her. 'uh-oh. exit time.' She looked frantically around till she saw a window high up in the rafters. She was just barely able to get her body to do as she told it. In fact, it was wanting to run right to the guards!

Ruby was able to mummer something. The guards paused then resume their stalking again. She said it again louder. "Do you live?" Then she screamed on top of her lungs. "Are you alive!?!?" The guards looked at each other then retreated into the darkness. The Cats around her in their sleeping rows began to stir. "Wake up! Wake up! Live again, you morons!" Ruby began insulting and ranting and raving on every subject that came into her now coming back insane mind.

The other cats began to stretch and looked at her. The began to then add in their comments her and there before going on and on and debating with each other. Soon it was like a huge fight where everyone was punching someone else and where being beaten up themselves.

Ruby saw this as great exit and began running around and up the ladders and catwalks to the high window. She pushed open the window and moonlight brightly streamed through. She laughed gleefully and started signing. 'Jellicle Cats come out tonight, jealous Cats come one come all, the Jellicle moon is shining bright Come to the Jellicle Ball!" She laughed mechanically and leaped through the window and onto the roof.

"You again, you brat!" Kyle, the stray she met, leaped form unknown source and punched her jaw. She stumbled back and wiped the blood from her muzzle.

She chanted a few words:

"Dancing bear, painted wings.
Things I do remember
And the song my mother sings
'Deing dreams in smoldering embers.
A fly away wish
Now past gone
and now and with my heart I will do this,
To see me away, to the horizon and on,' "

Kyle looked at her for a moment then swung another punch at her. His paw caught in something spongy and string. "What the-" A black and white stripped face smiled at him and realsed his fist. "Never touch her." Tantomile quickly took all her witch powers and used at full force to send Kyle over the ledge of the roof. "Now dear, I hope you know-"

"Yes mother. I will never do this again." Ruby clapped her paws and her fur became its original black, white, and red. "How to home, mother?"

"On your wish. Silly you are!" Tantomile hugged her daughter. Ruby thought for moment and then she found herself and her mother balancing on a broomstick high above London. 'Wow. What view! Now to home, my broom stick!" The broom seem o shake a little then slowly dipped to the junkyard ground and the passengers hoped off then it disappeared.

The Jellicle looked at them and Coricoipat happily hugged his sister. Quaxo ran to Ruby and hugged and kissed her. Cori asked his sister, "What was THAT all about." Tant shrugged.

"My daughter called me for the first time through a special witch magic between mother and daughter. Such as a love bond between many other cats and kittens only this is magnified and strengthened with me and her father were witches. The magic is a strong love than most. It is that we are connected by our magic." She paused and scratched her head. "Oh dear. I'm not coming up with the right words."

Quaxo quickly added, "No. I understand in an unclear way. I had it but can't explain it."

Ruby sighed and rested her head on his shoulder. " I learned something. Normal isn't good. Don't go with the crowd and be yourself otherwise you're not happy." She paused and smiled. Mistoffelees was bouncing around practically, "You have magic! I could train you. You're the right age and have the power. Please? I would like to. Will you try?"

"No"

"No?"

"Well, not yet anyway. Maybe another time but not now. Another time anther situation. For I still have a billion more to deal with like everyone else. In that way, i am normal in my own way at the same time too."

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