The Afternoon of the Nyokat

by Phelicity

I live on a planet called Mirror. Did you know there was such a place? Oh yes, and it's very much like another planet, but in a different dimension. Humans and kitties live here, too. No, I can't tell you how to find it. For one thing, I don't know. I'm only a kitty. My name is Yticilehp. In the part of Mirror where I live, we speak the same languages as parts of Earth, English and Feline. That's why you can understand me. One afternoon, when I had decided to gather my toys and put them away, I heard an enticing humming coming from a bunch of toys in the corner. I turned to look, and I saw a toy kind of like a fuzzy eisuom that I hadn't seen before. It spoke at me! "Play with me!" it said, showing pointy sharp teeth. "I'm soft and battable." I ventured closer. I never had a toy that spoke before. "Play with me!", it said, and raised its paw, showing pointy sharp claws. "I'm fuzzy and chewable." "What are you?" I asked in my best Feline. "I'm your Nyokat", it said, with beady little eyes glittering. It didn't act much like a toy to me, but you know what they say about curiosity? They say it here, too. I went to pat at the Nyokat. But when I touched it, it was hard like metal, and it tried to bite me! I barely jerked my paw away in time, and ran across the room. It came after me, chattering its pointy teeth like it really wanted to bite me! This was no kitty toy! I ran into the bedroom, and it ran after me, with a rat-a-tat-tat of hard, pointy feet. Scootching under the bed, I turned and I could see it coming after me. Its mouth grew wider, making scary "heh-heh-heh" sounds and its eyes blazed purple. What kind of a horrid little monster was this? I struggled out the other end from the bed and ran for the closet. Thank goodness my human leaves the closet door open! The Nyokat was right behind me, making awful noises and trying to bite my tail! I was so terrified, I made a huge leap to the highest shelf, scrabbling to get my hind feet up there, too. I almost didn't make it. But as I got all of me up there, I knocked off a big hat, and it fell right on top of the Nyokat, plop! It began to growl fiercely, and the top of the hat was jumping as it tried to fight its way out. Any second the jumping was going to move the hat enough for it to get out! I meowwwed as loud as I could! All the commotion brought my human running to see what in this world was going on. "What are you doing up there?" my human asked. "Why do you look so scared?" "Mewww! Myowww!" I cried frantically. Then my human looked down at the noisy hat jumping and growling, and her eyes got wide as mine. "Oh don't lift the hat!" I cried in terror, but she didn't understand me! I'm not furry good at English. She bent down to pick up the hat, but the raspy growls coming from beneath it stopped her. She stood up, lifted her leg, and Squoooosh! stomped her foot hard on the hat. Crack, rattle, whirrr, went the hat, and all was still. I held my breath when she bent down again to pick it up, sighing because the hat was ruined. Underneath it lay a furry small pile of little metal chips, short wires, and beads. Some of the beads looked like teeth to me, but nothing moved. My human looked so puzzled. Then she went to get the Busterdust and swerped up the whole little pile with that. It was gone. My human reached up her arms for me, and I got a good, long cuddle. I was so relieved that scary Nyokat was gone! Later on, I went to bat my toys and started putting them all in a nice, neat pile in the doorway, cause that's where toys belong. But I looked up to where my human had hung the Busterdust. Was it humming? Was it rattling a little? Oh dear. Oh dear.