Poking my head a bit out of the bush, I looked around to see that in the distance was a young looking cat girl and cat boy. These two have been sneaking around the area lately and have been causing trouble themselves. Kitsuno and I have watched them the past few days and we can agree that they are a lot more trouble than us.
Well, I say that, but we did ruin a rich household's life a while back. The only ones I am sorry about for that are some of the kids. Jasmine and Laura mostly for two different reasons. Hope both are doing okay. Especially Laura.
I had transformed into my feral self to pose as less of a threat should I get caught by these two. At least, I hope so. The last thing Kit and I heard of these two is of them stealing people's clothes from changing room areas, making off with any wallets if they find any, and that they have stolen something from a pawn shop that has gotten them under fire right now.
Said thing that they stole was a small statue of a woman from what we heard. Not sure why so much is under this much warrant for a random pawn shop over a little statue. I am sure once I find where these two either keep their stolen stuff or where they relocate it to, more answers will come to be.
As I am watching the two, I can definitely tell some of the clothes they have with them aren't theirs for sure as they looked baggy. My eyes focus on the boy since he had his hands going through some wallets as he pulled out any cash he found and gave it to his sister. "Really is amazing how easy some of these people make it. I bet if this streak keeps up, we'll be loaded enough to get a car of our own."
The girl shakes her head as she counts the bills in her hands as she stuffs them inside her oversized hoodie she had on. "What about the statue Jake? What do we do about that thing that crusty old guy in the shop is having the cops involved?
The cat boy looks up from the wallet he was going through, "You worry too much. Besides, he's in his what, seventies? I highly doubt he'll remember after a few weeks." He then tosses the wallet aside into a pile with other stolen wallets and purses that was gathered before he started on another one. "If anything, you would think that some of the other things we made off with would be searched for."
The sister pockets the last of the cash she had in her hands before she started walking around to keep an eye on the surrounding area. I played it safe myself to slowly sink back into the bush since I didn't see anything else of their stash in the area. Those two must have the rest stored in different locations and this is just a place to dump what they don't need.
My ears did perk up when I heard them talking more. "You think those cops are still looking for those missing girls? It's been almost a year by now." Missing girls... curiosity on this had me wonder what he meant by that. Jake threw the wallet he looked through as there was no cash in it at all and started going through the clothes they stole. "Aside from what happened to the Finnegan family, kinda feels like a set event if I am being honest. Girls go missing along with kidnappings shortly after. Smells fishy to me, doesn't it Gab?"
The girl swings around and walks over to her brother. "I know, things have gotten weird around here lately. If I am being honest Jake, I think we should forget the car thing and find a way to sneak through the border up north." He then turns to face his sister as she mentioned that. "Gab, you can't be serious!? I know it's not safe here but we're fourteen. Do you really think we would be much safer up there? I heard a civil war is close to breaking out."
Civil war up north? I might need to ask Onn about all that. He's usually up to speed in world wide news on the war fronts and political stuff.
Jake continues to rifle through thw piles of clothes before pulling out a pink t-shirt. "I'm sure once we find out more on what is going on here in this town, we'll be able to take it on." Gab huffs before swatting at her brothers tail. "Yeah, sure. I'm more than certain you want to stay long enough so we can get lucky to find the girl with that dog she sold to the Finnegans. She's probably long gone after that incident."
Seems our reputation over that holds strong. Guess Kit has an admirer or something. "Maybe I do, maybe I don't. Either way, I like my odds here instead of there." Jake then gets the shirt he was currently wearing off and throws it into one of the trees before putting on the new shirt. "Alright, everything accounted for sis?" Gab nods as she keep her hands in her hoodie pockets. "Where we heading next?"
The two cats make their way off through the trees to the right of where I was hiding. I give it a few moments before I emerge out of the bush and shake myself off of any leaves that was stuck to me. Afterwhich I started trailing behind the two carefully to not alert them.
As we traveled I started listening over on their conversations more to gather more info on the two. Given that Jake said they were fourteen, gives me the thought that they are twins. Which I find odd as they look nothing alike. Gab is a little smaller than he is and her fur pattern was more like of a tiger. I'm not too familiar with cat breeds so I am just guessing in the dark for now. Her eyes were a sharp piercing blue as well. Hard to tell what else she has besides being a girl since that stolen hoodie she is wearing is twice her size and hanging down to her knees. I don't get how she can stand wearing it like that without tripping over herself.
Then again.... she is a cat. Probably has more balance than my own account.
Jake on the other hand, his fur looked darker compared to hers. His ears looked a bit fluffier too despite the rest of his fur being thin like. His eyes were a pale green from what I saw. I did notice some scars on his back when he took his shirt off. More than likely from a previous injury he had that remains as a memory now.
Their conversations were something to note of as well. These two came from an orphanage from the sounds of things. Though, given that Gab said they need to find better sleeping spots makes it seem that they don't live there anymore, potentially by choice. She did say she missed some things about it, but sounded like the owner of the orphanage was a bitch considering of the punishments she had them go through for causing issues.
Honestly, if Kitsuno and I were in said situation, we both would guarantee that person in charge would live to regret pissing us off. I still need to get even with Ashely after all. That woman wanted to sell me to a mages guild because I was a source of pure magic from what we could understand.
The rest of their conversation was either them poking fun at each other or on their next target areas to steal stuff. The clothes was so they could constantly change from their previous wear after a while despite some bigger clothes they keep taking. Every now and then they hit a store that has second hand stuff that was sold into it and they try to make out with some of it.
The one thing that comes to mind of all this for me is, how often these two are doing this. Jake even said that they may sneak into a house tonight to screw with someone's stuff as payback for throwing water balloons at them when they were minding their own business, and at the same time soaking some cards Gab was hiding from the shop they had just robbed, rendering them useless as they faded the signatures on them.
Curiosity kept my attention from this as I am wondering if there would be anything Kitsuno and I can sneak in on and snag what we need. No doubt people will care if some common stuff was stolen, should be easy. I do wonder what Jake means though by how they were going to screw with the house.
I froze up as they stopped and Gab turned a bit to her brother, but her attention was grabbed by my presence. "Jake, look. A fox." Jake turns his head towards my direction and looked at me as well. "A fox? That's weird..." the two looked at me in dead silence for a few minutes before I darted off to my left a few feet and leapt over a fallen tree. "That fox looked funny."
"How long do you think it was following us? Cause that was just weird." Gab shakes her head before turning around. "I told you things are just getting more strange." Jake looks off to where I darted off to and slowly turns around to keep walking with Gab. "Gab, I feel like I have seen that fox before, not sure where though."
Later that night
Kitsuno and I snuck around quietly in the dark. Both of us were wearing black tights and t-shirts to match. It took a little guessing to find out what house the two cats were gonna break into, but we managed to tail the duo once the sun fully set as we saw them dart out of the forest and head towards a two story house right across from a small tree preserve in town.
When we reached the house we saw the two get onto the roof and I caught a glimpse of Gab climbing into the window before being followed by Jake. Kitsuno and I stayed on the ground and crept around close to the house. "Okay, so what's the plan to get in Shade?"
I thought for a moment before getting under a window to peer inside a bit. "Well, first thing we need to see is if anyone is actually home right now. I doubt these two would try this when someone is home unless they know they can overpower them. Maybe. Either way, if it is just them, we can act however we want so long as we don't run into them." Kitsuno then looks into the window with me as we try to see whay the house had in the room we were looking in. So far it looked like the laundry room. "And what if we do run into them?" I get down and start walking towards the back of the house. "I say we run. Not worth getting caught with these two. Plus it sounds more like that they are going to damage the house. And I'm not about that kind of thing just for this. We just need to grab stuff we want and get out."
Moving towards another window, I poke up to see what I could find and saw that it was the kitchen area. I looked around a bit to see what good stuff was hanging around the kitchen. Sadly, this is a normal house and not that manor I stayed in. So no hanging meat and that such. To say that I am bummed about that really shows how much longer I wanted to stay in that manor before making it barren. Mainly the kitchen part cause I liked that.
We made our way around the other side of the house and poked around another window to see what it was. We found the garage and it appeared empty aside from a bunch of tools laying around on a workbench. "Hey Kit, does Onn need any new tools? If any of these are good we can grab them for him." Kitsuno muses over her thoughts a bit. "He did say he needed new belows. I don't think we'll find those in the garage though. I didn't see a chimney on this place."
Looking around, I noticed there was another window and walked over to it. My eyes lit up a bit as I saw that this one was cracked. "Kit, anyone watching?" She looks around to the other houses and paid attention to the lights of any moving cars that were in the distance. "No, Doesn't look like it sis." She then looks at me. "You sure you know what you are doing? What if you cause a bigger blast than you need to? Or even more, alert those two upstairs?"
"I've been practicing sis, I won't cause a flash fire like I did that one time." Cupping both hands together as I faced the cracked window, I focused my magic to form a small heated ball of energy to the size of a golf ball before stepping back and forcing the energy toward the window. This made contact quickly and caused a bright flash, this is followed by the sound of the window smashing open. "Shit! That was too fast."
We both quickly looked inside to where the small fireball went to and saw a black scorch mark on the other side of the garage. Kitsuno slaps her forehead, "Nice one Shade. What do we do now?" Reaching inside, I feel around the glass shards carefully to find a latch on the window and slowly undo it to loosen the window, or what was left of it I guess. This was when Kit grabbed me and ushered to to pull my arm out as she saw movement.
As I got my arm out and we backed away from the window, the door inside opened up and out poked one of the cats. We quickly ducked down from the window as we listen to their movement. "It sounded like it came from in here."
"What do you think made that noise Jake? Nobody is here but us." The footsteps came closer to the window that was broken. "One of the windows... exploded?" Crap. We needed to move quietly and quickly. "Someone else has to be around. Why would a window explode?"
We made our way around to the back again. Listening to their movement showed that they were either going to find us, or they are planning on escaping. Best bets is we do not get seen by them at all.
"Come one Gab, let's get out of here. As much as I want to keep clawing the guys stuff, I don't feel like getting shot at by some robber." I listened to their movement some more to see if they were heading upstairs. That would give us a minute to scamper off into the woods and pretend we were put for a walk. "Can I at least do one more thing before we leave? Something to leave a permanent stain that makes this guy remember to not mess with us."
"Better make it quick then." No idea what she means by that but that means we have a little more time. Kitsuno and I started sprinting towards the woods. We kept going until we dove into the brush and were hidden for a moment to turn around and look at the house. I spotted Jake climbing out of the window and he turned around to help Gab out and they leapt down from the roof. "Come on Shade, we need to get out of here."
