Defying Bloodlines

[~D o r i t o s~]

Defying Bloodlines

Follow The Law or destory it, what will you choose?

...Defying bloodlines...
...Moss is a plague...
...It grows everywhere...
...While Lightning is invincible...
...It will never cease to exist....

(Inspired by Warriors, but very different from it!)
Time- Present
Species- Cats (mainly domestic, but there can be some crosses too, every once in awhile)
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There are two Communities. The Indoor and Outdoor Communities. Indoors are either Pets or Showcats, living with Humans. Pets, are obviously, Pets. Showcats are technically a Pet, but they are entered in Cat Shows for sport or fun. Through a cat’s eyes, Showcats and Pets are allowed to interbreed, since it is the Human’s decision how their kittens live their life. For instance, a Pet and Showcat has two kittens. One can become a Pet while the other can become a Showcat.

Then there are the Outdoor cats. Outdoors are either Streets or Wildcats. Streets belong to nobody, living on their own - or perhaps with a small group of four or five, or just their mate, sometimes their children as well - in hidden dens in parks or under a Humanhome. Their homes are always within cities, suburbs and the like, never straying into Wildcat land. An Outdoor cannot become a Pet or Showcat, it is simply not to be so. But, with all the Streets being converted into Pets by Humans, perhaps someday that law will change. Unfortunately, no High Four of any State seems to be willing to make this law official, although some are already living by it, much to the High Four’s discontent.

Now, Wildcats are also Outdoors. But, they do not live in Humantowns. They live in what few uninhabited wilderness is left - they are perfectly aware of the reason why there is so little forest left. They hate Humans - scratch that, they despise Humans for destroying what rightfully belongs to the Animal Kingdom. They will kill any Indoor cat on sight, sometimes even a Street cat, if they seem too friendly to Humans. They don’t even call Indoors ‘Indoors’, they call them Betrayers…most of the time, anyway. It is quite rare to find a Wildcat that is friendly to Indoors. Wildcats - although rarely, due to their rather small numbers - form small groups, that works almost the same as a Lion Pride.

I have mentioned the ‘High Four.’ In the United Kingdom, there is a King and Queen that makes the laws, and has their servants see them through. There is a complex system, and they seem to work much like Medieval England once did, but that is all American cats know of them. Here in the United States, each State has a High Four. One cat representing Pets, once cat representing Showcats, one for Streets, and one for Wildcats. They and members of the Feline Government (who earn their rank, ‘royal blood’ and such does not matter) create and pass laws. In England, it is unknown exactly when, the first King and Queen of cats were chosen. During the Revolution, American cats made their own system. Each state has it’s own High Four, four siblings with a specific, distinctive Marking(s) on their chest. In California (where this story is set) the Markings are a medium-sized diamond on their chest, and four colored paws.

For example, a white California High Four cat usually has a black diamond on his/her chest, and has black paws, and every California High always has orange-amber eyes. All High Fours across the USA have the same four problems.

Forbidden love. Interbreeding. Impurebloods... and, those who do not follow the path chosen for them.

Indoor and Outdoor cats may interact if they want, but they cannot interbreed, or fall in love. Those who have fallen in love always keep it a secret, and their kittens, if they have any, are told to never speak of their blood. It has happened before. Once, there was a public execution of any halfbloods, but that tradition has long since been exterminated. Today, it is strongly advised to keep to your kind, and if you happen to unwittingly fall into love’s inescapable grasp, or to be born halfblood… keep it to yourself. Some cats, however, like the old way. It has been reported to the California High Four many times of cats being killed simply because of what blood flows through their veins.

The High Four - Sonya, Kaiyu, Shafui and Tanyi - personally do not approve of this, but they also personally don’t approve of interbreeding, but they have made it perfectly clear that halfbloods are not to be blamed, their parents should be. Halfbloods are sometimes killed, anyway, to avoid any further mixing.

Also, there are cats who choose to not live the life that flows through their body. Let's say, a pureblood Pet, for instance, chooses to live the life of a Street, breaking The Law. To narrow it down, The Law says "Stick with your own kind."

Despite The Law a year and a half ago, a group of cats called the Rebellion formed in California it was lead by a brown tabby-and-white tom named Baoki, a purebred Street, who was by far the wisest and strongest out of them all.

The Rebellion was made of at least nearly half of the cat population in California, and they were all hell-bent on ridding the world of The Law, even if that meant killing every last cat in California's Feline Government.

Baoki had a mate named Laura, a mostly white cat with a brown tabby head and tail, also pureblood Street (Street, Pet, Wildcat, and Showcat must be capitilized) and one son, who looked just like a mini-clone of Baoki. In fact, they decided to name him Bao. Bao agreed with everything Baoki said, but not just because Baoki was his father, he actually saw the truth in his father's words.

But Baoki was not the only one with great skills. No, there was one other, a brown, ginger and white tortoiseshell she-cat named Moss, who had smoldering eyes, and her left ear was almost completely torn off. She had even greater power than Baoki, and was specifically sought out by the High Four to kill him. She agreed to assist them, gathering Feline Government cats to create the Cult, and led an ambush, on the day that was Bao's birthday.

Moss was a heartless, merciless she-cat, and she couldn't care less about The Law, even if she was half Street and Pet herself. But she had been given great power by the Cat Goddess Tiagra, who had intended that Moss used it to destroy The Law, only to have it backfire. Moss saw her chance, and chose to keep loyal to the High Four, knowing that someday the perfect chance to kill them and take over would arise.

To Moss, killing Baoki was only a small stepstone in her advance to power. She had her followers kill Laura, while she herself went after Baoki. She had heard tales of his impressive strength, and was rather disappointed when she killed him with one swipe to the throat. She then went searching for Bao, who at the time was half a year old, but found no trace of him whatsoever. It was as if he had disappeared from the face of the Earth.

Little did Moss know, the white tigress Tiagra herself had seen her own oppurtunity. It had hit her like a lightning bolt, what she had to do. Behind Moss's back, she took the petrified tomkitten and fled. Bao had seen the whole thing, his mother and father being slain. He couldn't even speak as Tiagra took him away. In her dangerous, yet so gentle jaws he fell into the blackness of slumber.

The next morning, Bao woke up to find himself in a cardboard box- a moving cardboard box. It had taken him a moment to realize that he was being carried in it. When it finally stopped shaking, two little hands had reached in and pulled him out, and Bao found himself face-to-face with a female Humankitten, whom he would later learn to be Celeste Pichowsky, and her parents Juleit and Stephen Pichowsky. Celeste had named him Fluffina, because he was still too young for them to know his gender yet, but when they found out he was male, Celeste refused to rename him. Now, he is stuck with the name Fluffina. He actually doesn't mind though, but make fun of it, and he'll bite your head off. Ba... Fluffina does not remember what Moss looks like, just her eyes.

On that exact same day, however, a prophecy was given to Moss and the High Four by Tiagra, which would later become public and common knowledge to all cats throughout California.

'In exactly one year's time, the Chooser shall emerge, and once again shall the Rebellion form. You will know, for his eyes will glow.'

One year has passed, making Fluffina a year and a half old, his birthday. Join Fluffina on his journey to rid the cat world of The Law once and for all! Or, join the Cult and work under Moss. What will you choose? Choose wisely, grasshoppah.