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"Come here kitty" I coaxed , motioning my hands, the kitten just stared at me and sat on it's cute baby bum.
I sighed and looked at to Mike.
"It's not listening Mike" I complained. He gave me a hard stare and motioned me to continue with his chin.
"It's just a kitten Ashton, grab it carefully and then boom we're done" he said hands making some gestures.
"Easy for you to say, come here and do it" I retorted annoyance starting to bubble but a cute 'meow' snapped me out of my state and I glanced back to see the cat inching it's face towards my still outstretched hand.
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"Come on kitty, come to papa" I said, too excited to see the cat walked on its chubby baby legs.
"Eww, choose your words Ash" Mike said in disgust yet I didn't care as I could feel the kitten licking my fingers.
"Oh, that's it Ash just a li'l bit more" Mike cheered as I smiled.
This kitten was too cute for it's own good. It's still undistinguishable what was the breed of the kitten since its body was still hidden under the big garbage box. My heightened sense of smell was doing a bad job of making me inhaled all the foul odors from the garbages but I didn't have a choice in this, the kitten was under there when we located it.
A sudden swift of wind passed us making Mike and me shiver from the cold but as the wind passed so the odor, I cringed from the fouly smell but I froze when a certain scent mixed along with it.
"A shifter" I unconsciously mumbled.
"What?" Miked asked as he heard me.
I looked at him wide eyed and scanned the area. I certainly smelled a shifter's scent, though it's faint but I was certain my sense of smell was not tricking me.
"You did not smell it?" I asked, he gave me a confused look and I prepared to explain when another cute 'meow' was heard. Oh, I forgot. I looked down and cooed at the sight, the kitten was now wholly out of the dark and now happily lapping my hand while nudging it's head on my palm. It recognized me. I smiled at that.
The kitten looked up and I was greeted with a cute pair of eyes, pale blue and green. It was a smokey grey Russian blue cat. A cool breed of cat. I looked at Mike and smiled.
"Guess our job's done here" he gave me a wide smile and nodded patting my back. I scooped the kitten and inched it's face towards mine.
I froze and almost dropped the kitten when a sudden smell hit my nose. A shifter. Goddess, this kitten's a shifter? Yet left alone? I immediately scanned the area looking for it's mother, using my sense of smell I couldn't smell another cat shifter. I looked back at the pitiful kitten and craddled it to my chest.
"Mike can't you smell it?" I asked, he furrowed his brows and was going to ask me when I held the kitten to his face. He scrunched his nose and hit with the realization when his eyes widened.
"Holy shit" he gasped. I nodded and cradled it back to my arms.
"I guess we don't need to hand it to the humans anymore. I bet this kid's a year old now. I can't smell another cat shifter so it's probably abandoned. But there's a distinct smell on it's fur that I can't place, due to all of this garbages".
Mike nodded and prepared to gather our things, he handed me a towel and I wrapped it around the kitten. It immediately snuggled and curled on me. I smiled, this kid needs pampering.
Mike talked to the woman outside and explained to her that the kitten needs to be examined carefully and cannot be adopted due to it's situation. The kitten still needs nursing and since it was a shifter we need to decline the offer, but of course they didn't need to know that.
Mike signalled me to go out and I saw no woman anymore. Good. I cradled the kitten carefully and walked to the car when a sudden noise sounded like chirpping resonated in the alley.
A distressed chirp continously engulfed the deserted place.
I turned back stunned when I could smell another shifter. My surprise intensified when I could see a clouded leopard cub. Its fur was coated silver with big black spots shaped like clouds, hence where they got their name. I stared at it with fascination and confusion when it countinued calling, emmiting such a cute tiny sounds.
Then it struck me when I realized that cubs do the 'calling' to catch the attention of their mother.
Oh oh!
As cue, a big snow leopard emerged from the darkness, it was growling and hissing at me.
A throaty growl kept on flowing from it's mouth, a warning. I'm on her territory and somehow maybe I disturbed her cubs and she's giving me a warning sound. I didn't touch her cubs though.
The silver clouded leopard run it's tabby legs to its mother and circled around her back legs, the mother kept her stance and still giving me a deathly growl and stare. She's unlikely to attack carelessly since her cub was around her, she's assessing the situation. Good for me.
I slowly backed off, away from her not giving a glance at her cub, it might aggitate her, as a shifter I know how territorial a mother shifter could be to her offsprings, leopard wasn't an exception.
Another tiny whines could be heard from the deepest corner of the alley and two leopard cubs emerged, giving me another surprise again. One snow leopard and tan clouded leopard cubs.
Then and there I realized that snow leopard couldn't produce a full breed clouded leopards without any genes from a snow leopard, if it was her offsprings. Weird. So where was the mother of the clouded leopard cubs?
But the way the said leopards encircled and nudged around the snow leopard said it all that it was the one taking care of them.
This was a full blown discoveries. We were only here for a kitten and all I saw were leopards. I needed a raise.
"Ashton what took you so long?" Mike went up to me jogging and halted when he saw the shifters in front of me.
"Don't move Mike" I whispered as the mother leopard was startled by Mike's entrance growling at us now ferociously, she was gathering her cubs around her putting them under her belly, guarding them.
Okay time to negotiate.
"Hey? We won't harm you and your cubs we're just retrieving the kitten" I said trying to convince the mother.
And I guess I did more damage to the situation when it or maybe she growled loudly startling the both of us and the sleeping kitten on my arms.
The kitten gave a big yawn and whined after hearing a growl from the mother leopard. I clutched the kitten to me securely, it was so small and could be mauled easily by the big leopard.
But as the leopard emitted a sound, a 'calling' sound I was met with a struggling kitten on my arms. The cubs were restless and licking to their mother responding to her call.
Mike tried to get my attention but I didn't pay him mind when the mother continued calling, the kitten successfully squirmed out of my arms, scaring me to no end when it trudged to the mother leopard.
"Shit! Mike get the ----" I was cut off with the sight at front of me.
As soon as the kitten was out of my grasp the mother leopard immediately lunged to the kitten and carried it with her mouth. The way she would carry her cub. The kitten's head was too small so she opted to carry around the kittens abdomen.788Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZoEyWYrBBC
I tilted my head and observed patiently.
Did the mother just recognized the kitten as her own? to prove my point the leopard carried each of her cubs to the corner and laid, belly out.
The cubs immediately latched to her nipples suckling and so the kitten.
"Holy shit Ash did you see that" Mike said perplexed.
"I did" I answered.
The kitten was hopeless in latching a nipple and the mother leopard had enough of letting the kitten on its own. Her head moved forward latching her mouth to the kitten and placed it near her face, the kitten immediately latched on the protruding nipple and suckled.
The leopard watched us and growled lowly. Somehow she's not seeing us as a threat anymore. Maybe she sniffed our scents and recognized us as shifters.
"Mike let's come back later we need to process this and let them alone for a while. We will convince the mother to go with us for the safety of her cubs but for now let's leave them alone" I explained, there's no use in retrieving the kitten anymore.
"But dude what if they'll be gone. We need to help them" Mike said worry laced on his voice.
"Snow leopards are territorial, she marked this as her territory it won't be easy for her to leave and mark another territory" Mike nodded and glanced back at the shifters.
I looked back and smiled at the piercing gaze of the mother leopard. I'll let them for now, we will surely rescue and give them a safer home.
It was obvious that these shifters were abandoned and they need a long ass pampering.
Looking back at the group I made a decision that even myself couldn't imagine doing it,
I'll surely be the one to give them that.
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