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Chapter 12: Felina's Turn

While her uncle was getting settled in at the pride compound, Felina was following up on a possible tip concerning the missing munitions. After an exhaustive interrogation of the munition plant employees involved, they had finally succeeded in finding the mole. A rather intense one on one interrogation of the prisoner grudgingly got them the possible last known sighting of Dark Kat.

But when Felina and a squad of her enforcers went to check it out, they were disappointed to find only an empty storefront. It wasn't until a canvas of the area to find a witness, turned up a homeless kat that had been in the area some weeks back.

He had been scrounging in the trash cans behind a grocery store next door when he heard strange chittering sounds. Scared, he hid in some empty crates nearby. In the moonlight, he saw these weird pink things fly to the empty store. About fifteen minutes later, this huge person in a cloak came out of the rear entrance with those pink creatures around him and headed up the alley, fortunately away from the hiding Kat. The big Kat went to the end of the alley and finally turned left and disappeared the witness stated shakily. Thanking him, Felina slipped him a twenty dollar bill and sent him on his way.

Pleased by this bit of information since it told her the slaver's info had been true, Felina decided to check it out herself. She hoped to find a scrap of evidence to tell her where Dark Kat had gone when he'd left the store.

Since it was just a fact finding mission, she didn't feel the need to have anyone with her. She also didn't want anyone to know enforcers were still around the site, so decided to check it out in civilian clothes.

Wearing black jeans, sturdy tennis shoes, polo shirt and leather jacket, Felina slammed her locker closed then secreted her gun and shield inside her coat. Saying farewell to other departing enforcers, she made for the parking garage where her jeep waited. As she climbed in and put on her seatbelt, she didn't see the dark shadow slide from around a pillar and get into another car not far from her.

She zoomed out of the garage and headed toward the warehouse district with a cautious tail a couple of blocks behind her.

Kunto sighed as he kept his eye on Felina Feral's jeep. He had been left behind to shadow this Feral female due to the interest of the Tumbuka Pride. Ten's mate would not be happy if his niece was taken but she was just as difficult to monitor as her stubborn uncle.

But despite the hassle of tailing this she-kat, Kunto had to admit he liked the 'take no crap' female. She was very much like their lionesses. Most of the she-kats he had sported with since his arrival here were very clingy and worshipful, hoping to bag a lion for a mate. He found that kind of behavior distasteful. It was okay for a quick fuck but as a mate...not a chance. That type of mate was worthless in lion society because they required too much maintenance and protection. But when he thought of Felina Feral, he saw a warrior...one who could take care of herself and, he was certain, be hot in bed. She wasn't his soul mate, mores the pity, but as a mate she would be prime and he wouldn't mind making a try for her.

His musing was interrupted as he noted they were heading to a more sparsely populated area. He didn't like doing it but she would notice him so he put more space between them. He suspected she was down here because she was on the scent of her prey. Kunto truly hoped she didn't find that weird and deadly omega tonight. There was no way he could protect her from Dark Kat except to get himself killed or captured as well.

Suddenly, she slowed down and began to pull over. Kunto hurriedly pulled into parking lot for a factory that he was just passing. Pulling into a shadowed area of the lot, he shut his engine and quickly got out, closing his door quietly and locking it.

He ran soft footed to the building near the sidewalk and peered around it. Just a block ahead of him, standing in front of a closed store was Felina. Next door, a small grocery store was still open and its bright lights that spilled onto the street made her form stand out plainly.

Kunto watched her intently, waiting his chance to run up closer to keep a better eye on her.

Felina frowned at the building for a moment before stepping to one side of it and walking down the alley between it and the little grocery store. She pulled out her flashlight she kept in her jacket and searched the area as she moved further into the alley.

Kunto hissed softly to himself. She didn't go into the building but the alley. That was a very dangerous thing to do in this type of neighborhood even though it was only seven in the evening. He stood there in indecision for only a moment before running the length of the building he'd been hiding beside and made for the back, hoping to catch sight of Felina at the rear.

As Kunto ran and Felina kept her attention to the ground in front of her, another set of eyes were watching her. In a van that had been using a tracking device to follow her from the small button signaler one of them had placed on her jeep in the garage, they had arrived shortly after the pair had. Fortunately, for Kunto, they had not seen him since they had kept a couple of miles distant from her.

Now they slowly pulled up behind her jeep when they noted she was no longer in it. Piling out were four lions. They looked around carefully before noting the alley and the flash moving down it. The leader signaled his pride mates to split, two to each side of the alley then they began to stalk her.

Felina was oblivious to the shadows sneaking up on her as she had found a clue. She stooped and picked up what appeared to be a piece of wooden crate that had fallen here. The piece had the munitions plant logo on it. Excited she slipped it into the pocket of her jacket then carefully searched the area more thoroughly but after not seeing anything more, she moved forward again to the end of the alley where she hoped to find some trace of Dark Kat's destination.

Just as she was about to reach the end, her stalkers struck.

"I have you!" The leader crowed in triumph as he grabbed Felina by the waist causing her to drop her flashlight.

Snarling angrily at being inattentive, Felina slammed an elbow in the chest of her attacker then her fist came up and caught the lion in the face breaking his nose. Howling he let go but his pride mates quickly surrounded her to keep her from escaping.

Furious, Felina kicked out to a male whose shadowed form moved close, leaping into the air and connecting with his chin, sending him to slam into some trash cans against a wall. The other two quickly waded in to grabble with her and she became a wildcat of elbows, knees, and head butting. The two unlucky males let go when one received a knee to the groan and the other was seeing stars from the head butt. The leader once more grabbed her and this time received a laser pistol to the chest.

He froze!

"Back off! Now!" Felina barked.

All the lions backed up. One of them behind her made a last ditch effort and threw himself at her legs sending her crashing on top of him, making her weapon go flying.

Before she could recover, they all grabbed an arm and a leg and unceremoniously hauled her to their van. One of them had stuffed a clean handkerchief into her mouth to prevent her from crying for help.

Kunto watched helplessly from the end of the alley where he had been hiding. When she had gotten the drop on them, he had been about to jump in to save her but like any battle, the tide turned to the group's favor and they overwhelmed her.

Growling furiously, he raced back around the building until he reached his own vehicle. Thankfully, she fought so much that they were only just getting her into their van, so Kunto hat time to move his vehicle to the front of the parking and wait to follow them.

As they finally moved off down the street he waited impatiently until they were a good two blocks ahead then followed discreetly. Keeping his lights off, he trailed after them as they wound their way back up to a more affluent area and, what do you know, the same house the pride had raided to rescue Ulysses.

So it was the Tumbuka Pride that had pulled this stunt. They couldn't get the tom so they settled for the female, Kunto thought angrily.

'Well, Tau two times the charm...you won't be keeping her either!' Kunto said to himself.

He pulled into a side street and parked. Silently, he moved through two backyards until he reached the house Tau had holed up in. Slipping close, he listened carefully to see how many there were. After five minutes, he moved away from the house until he was far enough away to use the phone.

"This is Kunto, I need immediate assistance to rescue Ulysses' Feral niece from Tau of the Tumbuka Pride. Send whoever you can get...quickly...here's the address..." He reeled it off. "I'll cause a disturbance to distract them so she won't be violated, though believe me she will make Tau regret ever laying a paw on her." He said with a soft smirk. "I'll be careful...just get here on the double." After receiving confirmation, he hung up.

Kunto looked around for a moment trying to come up with a way to distract the pride inside. It had to be a big enough distraction to insure Tau would stop what he was doing as well. He looked to the street then grinned suddenly. He leaped the fence and returned to the street, pulled a lever then raced back to the back of the house again.

Inside the room he heard the sounds of a very noisy struggle.

Felina was furious and afraid. She recognized this lion from the one's that had threatened and succeeded in taking her uncle. The lion gave her a growl of anger as well as a look of lust that was strange since his face was covered in blood from the nosebleed she had given. The rest of his pride had dragged her into this bedroom and tossed her onto the bed.

Tau had gone to the bathroom to wash his face and Felina used that time to look around. She couldn't leave the bed because at least four lions kept an eye on her. When Tau returned the others quickly left the room.

She tensed, as she could guess what was planned next. The lion grinned at her.

"Now I have you! Once we've mated you will be tied to my pride. I may have not gotten your uncle but you are just as good a prize, though he would have been better." He said smirking.

"Just try it!" She hissed.

"Don't worry I will. Your uncle may have been my equal in strength but you, my dear, are not." He said arrogantly.

Without further words he dropped onto the bed and crawled toward her. She eyed him coldly, he would not see fear in her eyes, she vowed. Before he could cover her with his body, she lightning kicked his face. He was prepared for that and caught her foot then flipped her over, dropping his body down on hers.

He really shouldn't have underestimated her. She grunted but tensed her body, grabbed his arms that were on either side of her and rolled. She sent them over the side of the bed which caused him to hit the floor with his back and her on top. He grabbed her arms and didn't let go until she simply drove both of her elbows into his ribs and, for good measure, dropped her right heel to his crotch, forcefully.

He wailed in shock and pain, releasing her. She quickly lunged up standing on his chest, using it as a springboard to the bed and over to the other side heading for the window which she dived through after covering her face with her arms. Finishing her forward flip by landing on her feet, she paused only a moment to get her bearings and was about to race off when someone reared up in the dark near her.

She made a move to send a fist toward this possible attacker but the lion caught her fist.

"Easy, Felina. I'm Kunto from Tendaji's Pride. I've sent for the calvary but we should get out of here before Tau and his pride pour out the door any second now." Kunto told her quickly, releasing her fist and moving toward the fence.

Felina stood there a moment then came to a decision when she heard Tau roar for assistance and his face showed up at the broken window.

She ran after the dark shadow of Kunto as it went over a fence, ran across another lawn then over that fence to where his car was parked. At that moment, Kunto's distraction arrived in the form of the wailing sirens of the fire department. The truck pulled up to the activated alarm he had set off and looked around for a fire or other problem.

Felina and Kunto piled into his car and drove off slowly so as not to alert the fire department of anything unusual about them.

"That was a good trick." Felina said in admiration.

"It's all I could think of that would cause enough of a distraction." Kunto grinned. He pulled his cell phone out of his pocket and speed dialed a number. "Kunto, here...distraction and Felina's enforcer training effected an escape. I'm heading away from the scene with her. Abort your mission except to watch and make sure they don't try it again...oh yeah, it was a no winner for Tau again...right...see you guys later." He said smiling in pleasure at his success.

"Thank you for the rescue now would you be so kind as to take me back to my vehicle?" Felina asked.

Kunto blinked at her in disbelief. "You want to go back there?" He said shocked.

"Of course, I still need to look for more clues besides the one I already found." She paused a moment to search her pocket and sighed in relief when she found the piece of crate intact. "Besides, I need to retrieve my laser pistol. Those don't grow on trees you know and I can't allow someone to find it and be harmed by it." She told him.

Kunto sighed in resignation and made for the place the whole chase began. Instead of pulling up in front, he drove into that same parking lot he'd hidden in and drove to the end, turning into the back road behind the buildings, he stopped his car behind the factory building allowing his headlights to shine down the road so that she could search better.

She gave him a grateful look before climbing out and looking around for her flashlight and pistol. He climbed out and helped her. He found her pistol and she found her flash then began a painstaking search for any clue to Dark Kat's whereabouts.

She'd almost covered the entire back street to the point where the homeless kat had said DK had turned when she finally lucked out. Covered in mud, probably when a street cleaner had come by, was a sheet of paper with a diagram on it. Notes along the margin were written in Dark Kat's distinctive handwriting. Excited, Felina carefully shook the water off it and walked to where her vehicle was parked out front.

Kunto went back to his vehicle and followed her. As she got in, he pulled up along side.

"Where are you going now?" He asked.

"Back to headquarters. I need to get this analyzed by our CSI as soon as possible." She said starting her engine.

"Then I'll follow you. " Kunto told her.

She frowned at him. "You don't have to do that. Thank you for getting me out of that jam but I have work to do." She told him bluntly.

"Just as stubborn as your uncle." Kunto said shaking his head in annoyance. "Look, I've been ordered to protect your pretty tail. As you saw, other prides now want you since you aren't like any female they've seen besides lionesses and they want you to breed on the off chance you might birth another hermaphrodite like your uncle." He said firmly.

"What?!" Felina shouted.

Kunto winced and folded his ears in defense.

"I do not intend to be mated to a lion. I have no desire for family. I'm an enforcer and I've worked hard to reach the level I have. I have no intention of throwing that away with a mate and kittens." She snarled angrily. "Stay out of my life."

With that parting remark, Felina gunned her engine and tore away. Rolling his eyes in resignation and annoyance, Kunto raced after her.