I hurried after Pride as we entered the stadium. This was just getting more and more complicated.
In the field were Lyra and Dart, both were covered in scrapes.
"Well did either of you succeed?" Pride demanded and they both flinched.
"Sorry Pride, they are both still alive." Lyra whispered.
Pride huffed angrily, "you're telling me we didn't kill any of them! Useless all of you." He spat and continued out the other side of the stadium.
I hurried after him in an attempt not to make him angrier. Only Jagged was dead, did that mean my first goal was actually completed in a backwards way? Well whatever I'll take it.
"Where are we going exactly?" Dart asked.
"A hobby if mine." Pride replied, "and to make sure you're either in complete control of your humans or your humans are adequate material for this team."
That sounds rather sketchy. Was this that test thing he mentioned earlier.
(What if he just decides to kill us all off and go solo.)
(He won't)
(How would you know.)
(Every cat is inherently lazy, he will keep most of you around for grunt labor if nothing else.)
(So a slave, great)
"What happened with you guys? Also where is the brainless one?" Lyra skipped over to me.
How she managed to skip as a cat was rather impressive. I think I will try it later.
"Jagged is dead." I replied and continued walking as she froze for a second before hurrying after us.
"Who did it I'll pay them back!" She growled.
I tilted my tail at Pride and her eyed widened, then she shut her mouth and didn't say another word for our whole journey.
Speaking of which, I looked around, where are we going? We left the deserted streets behind and entered human territory.
Pride kept to the back alleys so we only crossed paths with some drunks and a few homeless humans.
Most kept to themselves curled in blankets looking half dead.
The ones that did notice us blinked and either froze or hurried away. I continued to pad along when an obviously far to drunk human blocked our path waving a bottle.
And he is a goner I thought just ad Dart said the same.
"Snack time."
Pride's jaw closed over his head before the human could do anything.
I felt a little queasy at the thought of eating human as Pride chewed on his catch with a rib hanging out the side of his jaw.
Please don't make me eat human. I thought, probably tastes awful!
Pride finished his snack and continued walking without saying anything about our destination. Good, at least eating human didn't seem to be the test.
We somehow ended up near one of the busiest buildings in the city. Sky Tower, a known tourist attraction. Some brainless rich fool wanted to make the world's tallest tower. So they did, they just built another foot higher than the previous record. You know, this state might have an issue with rich people building extravagant things. An abandon school the size of a small city, the largest tower, a mall full of nothing but chocolate stores, etc... yep we definitely have a weird upper rich population here.
We "snuck" into the tower, and by snuck, I mean Pride waltz right in and gave probably half the place a heart attack, and the other half an instant coma. Needless to say no one tried to stop a pack of large wild cats from going up the emergency stairs. Even the hired security guard paled and left us alone. I never would of picked Pride as the tourist type, but I guess even control freaks can enjoy a view?
A couple of the more dumb ones tried to take awkward selfies with us in the background.
As we started up the tower my stupid mind started to wander again. I could totally destroy the world, why did I keep thinking about this, it wasn't like I cared about more than a handful of people. People died all the time, starvation, plague, wars, heck I could be doing the world a favor by ending all suffering once and for all. But then he'd be disappointed.
I wouldn't even have to do it myself, I could just direct the others into doing the actual pushing of buttons. As long as I was destroying the world Pride wouldn't try to kill me, and I could live with Ryan and maybe Kyle and Noah in a planet filled with cats. It really was a great outcome for me. Now I just need to somehow smuggle two cats off the planet without them dying.
Up and up we went. I smirked at the thought of trying to guess what was going on in the security guard station.
-Well hello sir, I have an issue to report-
-What is it my good sir?-
-Cats sir, in the stairwell-
-Cats? What are they doing?-
-I'm not sure, they might be sightseeing before blowing up the planet.-
-Well in that case, I suppose we'd better let them sightsee. If the planet is to be destroyed at least they will have enjoyed the view and possible remember us in a textbook.-
Do cats even use textbooks? Or school? I glanced at Pride, somehow him sitting behind a desk and meowing his abc's didn't seem logical. Cat school probably involved a lot more battle, blood, and dead mice.
My paws started to get a little sore when we burst out a door at the top of the tower. I looked around as the tourists and maybe some locals stared back at us.
This place was odd, like any rich person creation. Maybe this one was into abstract art? It had elevators along the sides that people could stop at any height they wanted for private viewing rooms. In the rafters above us were all the mechanical parts whirring around. I watched the cables slowly moving.
Pride launched himself upward and landed on a beam in the rafters then beckoned to the rest of us.
Well whatever? I leapt up behind him followed by the others.
A random person ran for the exit and Pride didn't do anything. Interesting, I would have expected him to take this place hostage or something. Or maybe we are supposed to? Darn did I just fail a test!
The people flooded out after the first person survived with hushed whispers of terror. I watched the last one leave and glanced at Pride.
"Kill?" I asked.
"Yes and No" Pride replied watching the cables. "This way is far more fun."