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The Amulet: Introduction

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                                            The Amulet


                                           Introduction


At 24 years old Cleo was already an accomplished thief.  From her humble beginnings shoplifting at the tender age of 10 years old to her time as a teenager pick-pocketing people through her current profession of cat burgler she's had a knack for relieving other people of their belongings.  Besides having an incredibly light touch the biggest key to her success was she never rushed a job.  She meticulously planned every heist and only executed it when the timing was right, because of this attention to detail and patience she had never been discovered let alone caught.

Cleo was in the middle of planning a heist of a small but very upscale jewelry store just off of 5th avenue in New York when she received word that her aunt had passed away.  She took a flight back home so she could be at the funeral.  While she was there her uncle gave her a small box and told Cleo that her Aunt wanted her to have it when she passed.  Cleo spent a couple of days visiting with family and reminiscing with them about her aunt and then went back to New York to continue planning her heist.  On the way back home she opened the box her uncle gave her and saw the amulet inside and liked the way it looked and slipped it over her neck and forgot about it.  At least she forgot about it until she accidentally discovered what the amulet was capable of.

It was a stormy night when Cleo was concentrating on some WiFi data she collected on her target.  She was looking into weather or not she could hack the surveillance system of the jewelry store when her cat startled her by rubbing its head on her ankle.  With a small yelp Cleo laughed and reached down to pet the cat that was so desperate for her attention.

“Aw, I'm sorry. I haven't given you much attention the last few days have I Princess?”  Cleo asked her cat while vigorously scathing her behind an ear.  

Princess purred loudly in response to the attention she was receiving when Cleo continued, “You have it easy Princess.  You live a life of leisure, only caring about your next meal and companionship.  If only I could have it that easy, being a kitty cat like you wouldn't be so bad.  If I could turn in to a cat and join you I would!”  Cleo said in a cutesy voice to her cat when she felt the amulet around her neck get warm.

“What the....!” was all she got out when she lost the ability to speak and move!  Her eyes widened in horror as her body started transforming!  Her body was shrinking and re-forming at the same time.  She felt her nose and mouth push out from her face and she helplessly fell forward as she felt her arms and legs changing, unable to hold her in an upright position any more.  She felt a momentary sharp pain as she felt her tailbone reshape and start to push out from her body.  She felt her head continue to change as her ears moved from the side of her head to the top as they also changed in appearance.  Her whole body starting itching like her hair was growing out all over and all the while Cleo kept shrinking.  Soon her changing formed disappeared under her shirt that was now way too big and then the changes stopped.

As soon as the changes stopped Cleo regained control of her movement and let out a blood curdling scream!  Well, at least that's what she wanted to do.  The sound that came from underneath the pile of clothes was a very loud  “HIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSS!” that sounded very feline in nature!  What ever was under shirt started moving and a couple of seconds later the head of a very scared looking Siamese cat poked out from underneath.  It cautiously looked around and slowly walked out from underneath the shirt.

“OH MY GOD!  What the hell happened?”  Cleo thought as she looked down at one of her paws that she raised up off of the floor and looked at it incredulously.  She walked over to the sliding glass door that lead out to her balcony and stared at her reflection in the glass.

Instead of seeing her raven haired, beautiful, slim and fit Asian American self a white Siamese cat with gray ears and wide blue eyes stared back at her, it's tail twitching in agitation!

She sat down on her haunches in shock at what she saw,  “What?  HOW?  How did I turn into a cat??” she thought as a plaintive meow came from her mouth.

She sat there contemplating her situation in a near panic while suppressing an urge to scratch herself behind an ear with one of her back paws she made a realization!  “Shit!  The amulet!  That has to be what did this!  I felt it get hot on my neck just before this happened!”  She looked at her reflection and she saw the amulet wasn't on her neck now that she was a cat,  “It's got to be in the pile of my clothes!”  She thought as she dashed back to where the pile of her clothes rested.

It took her a few minutes to drag her clothes around enough to where she could get to the amulet.  She finally had it in her mouth and then thought, “OK, I have it again.  Now what?  I thinks I was saying something about being a cat???  Crap!  What did I say?  Maybe I should just think about wanting to turn back to normal?”  She thought trying to hold it together mentally.

A couple of minutes of fervently wishing she would turn back to normal she dropped the amulet from her mouth and started meowing, upset that nothing was happening.  She laid down resting her chin on her paws, staring despondently at the amulet when she finally realized that she might need to be wearing the amulet in order for it work!  A feral growl came from deep in her throat as she fough to try to get the amulet around her neck, “Grrrrrrr, this is hard without thumbs!!” she complained while trying over and over to lift the amulet from the floor.  She wound up on her back with her paws up in the hair by the time she finally got the amulet draped around her feline neck and then she fervently wished she would turn back to normal.

Her mouth opened in the feline equivalent of a smile as she felt the amulet get hot again!  Soon she was sitting on her knees hugging herself with her arms, rejoicing that she was able to return to her normal form!  After a few minutes she lifted the amulet form her neck and stared down at it, deep in thought.  Most people would have locked it way and never opened the box again.  Not Cleo though, now that she knew she could turn herself back to normal she decided to see what the amulet was capable of.  She decided to go to bed and start experimenting with the amulet first thing in the morning.  She did however take the amulet off before going to sleep.
Here's the intro for The Amulet!  This was all new content.  I'm transcribing my original story to the computer now!  (There will most likely be small typos which I'll fix when I post the whole tale.)

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