Story - A Glimmer of Gold

A Glimmer of Gold by =redsun2002 A Glimmer of Gold It was a cold wet day outside. The kind of weather the tabby hated. As he sat on the window sill waiting for his master to pull up, he licked his paw. As he finished he looked up and out of the window. A few minutes later a lady pulled up in a yellow cab. The lady steeped out of the cab into the rain holding a clear bag filled with water. She came around to the side of the cab and paid the driver. The tabby had to take a closer look at the bag. Something gold shimmered in it. Finally the lady started to come up the drive way. Tabby's tall started to sway back and forth. "What could it be?" Tabby thought as he walked across the window sill. He treaded carefully over near the front door. His green eyes glowing with curiosity. He heard his master placing the key in the door to unlock it. The handle turned slowly as the door opened. The lady came into the house dripping with water. A couple drops feel on Tabby's head. "Oh I am sorry dear!" His master exclaimed as Tabby shook the water off of him. He looked up at his master as she hung up her coat. Tabby meowed loudly in question of what the gold glimmer was that she was holding. Master bent down and petted tabby. "So have you been a good boy?" Tabby started to purr. He then stopped and pawed twords the bag of water she was holding. Master looked at Tabby oddly. "Oh sweet kitty. You can't have this." She stood up and walked into the kitchen. She placed the bag on the counter as she rummaged in the cupboard. Tabby walked in and rubbed on her legs trying to get her attention. She looked down at him. "Give me a few minutes Tabby and then I will feed you." She stated. Tabby looked up at her. "I'm not hungry. I want to see what you have in that bag." Tabby thought as he looked for a way to get on the counter. Tabby found a chair a few feet away and climbed up on it and then jumped onto the counter. He slowly walked over to the bag on the counter. Master then found what she was looking for and pulled down a clear glass bowl. She placed it on the counter. As Tabby was about to paw the gold shimmer his master picked up the bag. She emptied the bag of water into the bowl. Tabby sat by and watched the gold shimmer fall into the bowl with a small splash. Tabby saw something with big eyes in the bowl. He then looked up at Master. "What is it?" He thought. She petted Tabby's head and he started to purr again. "Now Tabby you can not have this little fish of mine." She told him. "You can look but not touch." Tabby looked at her as if he was listening. He then meowed softly. "I don't want that fish thingy." He thought. "Its kinda ugly in my opinion." Tabby then jumped off the counter and walked to the couch. He stretched and laid down, all well keeping a watchful eye on this fish thing. Master came in the room and placed the fish on the table. "Tabby, I am going to go take a nap now. Be nice to the little fishy." Tabby meowed. Before Tabby knew it he had fallen asleep. He was seeing fish of every color swim by him. "Whats going on?" Tabby thought. Soon he saw a gold glimmer. "It must be Master's new fish thing over there." Tabby started to run twords the fish. But when he got there he saw something more. What he saw was nothing he had ever seen before. A golden cat sat on top of a pillow cleaning herself. Tabby cocked his head in wonder. "Hello?" Tabby walked closer. "Who are you gold cat?" The cat looked at Tabby and smiled the only way cat's can. "Do I know you?" Tabby asked. As soon as Tabby had asked that question the gold cat started to fad away into the darkness of his mind. Tabby woke up to find someone petting him. His little master had gotten home from school. Tabby started to purr and then remembered the dream he had. "Who was that golded goddess?" Tabby thought. He got up from the couch and left the child behind. He came to the table where the gold fish was. As he looked at the gold fish he noticed that she was the same color as the gold cat in his dream. He then placed his paws on the bowl and looked into the water at the fish. "Who are you?" Tabby ask. The fish just looked at him. Then all of a sudden he heard a heavenly voice. "I am who you need me to be." Tabby looked around thinking it was his little master talking, but no one was in the room. He then looked back at the gold fish. "Was it you who said that." The fish then jumped out of the water and fell back into it. "Yes Tabby it was me." Replied the fish. "If you won't tell me who you are, then tell me what you are." Tabby told her. "I am a gold fish." She stated. "Though I was once a beautiful golden cat before I ate this magic gold fish." She told him of how she was hunting for food in this old magic mans pound. She had been warned by her mother never to hunt there, but the warning went unheeded. So she ate one of the gold fish from the pound. She was then turned into one herself and sold to this lady who came to the old mans store. She looked at Tabby with sad eyes. Tabby looked on her with pity. "How was she suppose to know that it would really happen?" He thought to himself. "Is there no way to change you back?" He asked her. "I was told by one of the gold fish the man kept in his home that I had to die before I could live again." She lowered her eyes and cried even if no one else could see it. Tabby looked at her. "I will make you a promise my golden goddess. I will find a way to save you." Tabby's golden goddess looked at him and smiled in the only way she could. Her eyes glimmered with hope. "Thank you so much Tabby." Day by Day passed by as Tabby tried to find a way to help his new friend. Soon months had passed. Yet there seemed to be no hope. Tabby would visit with his friend every day. And soon he found himself wanting to be with her even more. He found himself craving the touch of her soft fur ageist his. He knew the only way to feel her fur would be to some how set her free. Tabby then looked at her. "Set her free?" He thought. "How am I to do that?" A couple more days passed and he went to see his friend. She looked old and tired. "Whats wrong Gold?" He asked her. She looked at him with sad eyes. "I am dying my love." Tabby cocked his head. "Dying? How can you be dying? Its been less then a year sense you came here!" "I know my dear." She said. "I am afraid gold fish don't live long at all." Tabby looked at her and walked away. "I have a promise to for fill. Even if it takes me all my life." Tabby climbed up on his window sill and sat for a while thinking. The window was open just enough for him to slip through as his masters where not looking. "Where are you going?!" Gold yelled at him as he left the house behind. Tabby did not hear her as he trotted along the street to the old magic mans home. Within three days he made it to the old mans house just to find it closed up. He looked down at the ground and started to head home with his hopes destroyed. "There's nothing I can do now." He told himself. "Nothing you can do huh?" A squeaky voice said. Tabby looked around, but saw nothing. "Up hear." Tabby looked up at a old table in front of the store. "A mouse?" Tabby questioned. "Yes a mouse." The mouse replied. "Are you looking for someone?" The mouse asked. "Not really." Tabby stated. "Just trying to restore a friend to her former self." The mouse cocked his head. "It would not be a gold fish would it? One that would have been a cat before?" Tabby stopped and looked at the mouse. "Yes it is." He paused. "How would you know that?" "I know that because I watched as she transformed." The mouse climbed down in front of Tabby. They where now eye level. "She was foolish to eat the master's gold fish." He stated. "All those gold fish are protected by the master's magic." Tabby nodded. "I know that, but she has learned her lesson." Tabby sighed. "I need to find a way to change her back." The mouse saw how said Tabby was and leaned in to whisper something in his ear that no one could hear. Tabby's eyes lit up like the Forth of July. He took off running down the street as he meowed loudly. "Thank you mouse, thank you so much!" As Tabby ran down the street his heart beat faster and faster in hope of reaching his true love in time. "Gold hang on! I am coming for you!" After a long while Tabby made it home, but as he went to climb in the window he noticed it was shut tight. "Whats going on!" Tabby placed his hands on the outer part of the window. He scratched at it trying to get someone to let him in. Tabby then noticed little master crying as his mother went and picked up the fish bowl. She looked in the bowl at the gold fish that was floating belly up. Master walked twords the bathroom with Gold's bowl. While Tabby all the more tried to get in. Little master wiped the tears away and finally saw Tabby at the window. Little master came to the window and opened it just enough for Tabby to get in. Tabby did not stop to thank little master, but rushed to the bathroom to save his golden goddess. But as he rounded the corner her heard the worst noise ever. "Flush!" Tabby's eyes went wide as Master walked out or the bathroom with the empty bowl. "No!" Tabby thought. "This can't be." He went over to the toilet and looked in it to see nothing. Tears started to fall from his eyes as he cried for his love. "Gold, I made a promise to save you." He spoke. "And I will not brake that promise." He cried even more. "I found out what would have broke the spell." He wiped the tears from his eyes. "Love." He said. "Love would have saved you." He left the bathroom. He walked slowly to the window sill. The storm was returning. Tabby looked up into the sky. "I loved you my golden goddess." And somewhere within his heart he heard her say. "I love you too." For some reason it was never meant to be and he knew it. For the rest of his life he sat on that window sill, until one day his master showed up with a gold glimmer cuddled in her arms.