Sara & Dorothy Cases
School Days
Case # 1522-D
The Conclusion
A RunningCat Production product
2009 

Recap:
	Sara enrolls Dorothy into a exclusive private school for Furries when the Dalmatian received a cryptic letter from her old mentor who know teaches there. This is done after Dorothy finds hacking into the schools computer impossible, and to have in return a back hack into her system.
	While investigating the school Sara finds an odd piece of architecture molding design throughout the school. Dorothy finds that the students, she is in directly interacting with, seam to be just students.
	When Dorothy and Sara loose communication with one another Dorothy has a panic attack and Sara gets lost searching for her friends dorm room only to end up running into a group of late teenage large Feline family who think Sara is someone else.
	The two friends are rejoined outside the schools dinning hall where Dorothy passes a PDA with the schools schematics. Sara begins to investigate the school while Dorothy goes to her first class that is taught by her former mentor.
	We rejoin Sara and Dorothy as Sara  alleviates herself of the tracking bracelet only to be taken down by several electrical shocks from tazer guns. Dorothy finds that her former mentor never sent her a letter.

	Dorothy, are you alright, Miss Poltree says staring at the young woman she know sees that Dorothy has become.
	Dorothy is in utter shock as her brain is unable to contemplate what has happened.
	Dorothy, Judith says placing her hand on her former student's shoulder.
	Slowly, with a blank stare, Dorothy turns to look at the teacher as her legs give out unexpectedly. Judith catches her before she hits the floor.
	Someone, Judith calls out toward the classroom's door but stops when Dorothy grabs her arm.
	No, Dorothy says as she begins to regain her strength.
	Judith looks at the woman, where before she seamed on verge of a total collapse, Dorothy now has a fire unlike any she has ever seen in the Dalmatian.
	Dorothy stands closes her eyes for a moment, then turns to Judith Poltree.
	What is up with this school? Dorothy asks firmly.
	It is the teacher turn to be confused as she stares back at the Dalmatian. What do you mean?
	This school, its architecture, and the computer system they are running, Dorothy says.
	I do not know what you are getting at Dorothy, the teacher says. What are you doing here and in that get up? she says turning the questing back onto her former student.
	Dorothy does not answer her but instead looks at the teachers desk. Do you have a computer here that is connected to the main server?
	Judith is not sure what to say as she is still confused by Dorothy. She watches the young woman  examining her desk. 
	When the former teacher seams blank about answering her questions Dorothy decides she needs to implement her original plan as she has a terrible feeling that Sara is in trouble. Running her hands over the smooth desk she activates a holographic monitor that is unlike any she has ever seen, but heard rumored to be in development on the Internet. The screen shows two boxes 'user name' and 'password' a full touch keyboard is now visible on the desk.
	What is your user name and password? Dorothy asks not wanting to waste time to crack it.
	Judith Poltree and the answer, she tells Dorothy.
	It takes Dorothy but a moment to recall the mathematical problem's answer from her memory.
	The teacher watches her former student swiftly hack through the computers safeguards  and firewalls as Dorothy gets in to the school's mainframe. Judith is not sure how to feel watching the former student use dozens of mathematical equations to hack the prestiges school's computer that she has always wanted to teach at.

	Sara feels cold, as her eyes slowly flutter open. She is confused for several minutes while trying to remember the last thing that happened to her. As she does so the black Cat slowly, as her muscles ache, gets up from a stone floor only to find that her movement is limited. Her arms and legs are shackled and chained to the wall.
	Alright, she says taking this all in this is new.
	Sara attempts to pull a shackle off one of her arm only to find that they are securely fastened. After giving up on trying to remove the shackle she checks the chain for a loose link. Sara slowly runs her hands across each length of chain searching for a imperfection that she might be able to exploit.
	Some time passes, how much Sara is unsure as there is no light, when she decides to sit down and think this through. She know assumes that there is a whole lot more going on at this school other than indoctrinating these Furry cubs of a Furry only society. She has this feeling that the letter Dorothy got was a ploy to get her here. Know Sara just needs to try and figure out why they want her.
	Sara slowly regulates her breathing putting her mind to the task of taking in everything she knows from the moment Dorothy showed her the letter tell when she blacked out.
	In this mind state Sara can recover every bit of information. She discovered this ability by accident on a previous case but this is the first time she is using to recover so much details.
	Several items repeat that cause Sara to review them over and over again her eyes twitching beneath her eyelids as though she is dreaming when suddenly she opens them.
	They have got to be kidding! Sara shouts out as she pieces it all together.

	You have got to be kidding, Dorothy says after getting into a secret sector of the schools mainframe.
	What? Judith says looking over Dorothy's shoulder.
	Well it seams that this place was never meant to be a school, Dorothy says.
	I do not understand.
	While I am not a hundred percent certain, but this here is a translation of some ancient Egyptian text which speaks of the return of the living goddess Bast.
	So when is this supposed to happen? Judith asks skeptically.
	Dorothy runs a finger along the holographic text until she comes to some numbers. For several seconds she tries deciphering the numbers meanings, but not having any reference around them is making it hard for her to understand.
	It's a date and time, Judith says.
	Dorothy looks at the former mentor and then back to the numbers finding that sure enough the teacher is correct. Now knowing what it references Dorothy quickly tries to calculate what specific date it is.
	That's today, Judith says.
	Dorothy was not even done with the calculations when she looks at her. How do you know that? she asks.
	Judith tapes a command on the keyboard and brings up a calendar. This afternoon there is a mandatory gathering for all students and faculty on the field, she says reading the memo off the calendar.
	Dorothy looks at the date, time, and  then to the ancient Egyptian translation and sure enough the two match up nearly perfectly. What could be happening at that time? Dorothy says softly to herself.

	Sara can not believe she fell into the trap of the sect of religious nuts. She does not know whey she didn't put this together when all the clues where before her.
	Alright Sara, she begins saying to herself. Now that you know what you are dealing with you can now get out of this.
	Sara takes ahold of the chain and traces it back to where it located on the wall. She moves her other hand, to take ahold of the chain, only to find that the chain on that arm will not let her reach across her body.
	Right then, I guess I will do this the hard way, Sara says tightening the chains around each arm to make them taut. Next she braces her feet against the wall and begins to pull.

	Dorothy, what does this all mean? Judith asks.
	I am not certain, but what I do know is that I have to try and get in contact with my friend.
	Who? Judith asks confused.
	Sara, she has gibe ti meet up with the principle to try and get some information out of her to solve this case we thought we where on of a missing student, Dorothy explains searching the schools mainframe for the bracelet locater.
	How do you know about the missing students? Judith asks.
	Dorothy stops what she is doing and looks at the teacher. Students, she says surprised.
	Well that is what is rumored.
	How many?
	Um, Judith says now in deep thought. From the rumor it would seam the constant number is seven.
	Curious and curiouser, Dorothy says before returning to the computer where she doubles her efforts in search of Sara.

	Sara pulls with all her might only to have her body collapse to the floor exhausted. Sweat mats her fur as she lays on the floor breathing heavy.
	Well this is not working, she says between gasp of air.
	The black Cat now tries to figure out how she was placed in this room. As there is no light what so ever she uses her hands running them over the wall searching for some imperfection. She finds the chains very cumbersome as it will only allow her to feel to where the wall, that her chains are connected to, and the corner that curves away from her. After a while Sara believes she has mental image of the room as half circle shaped. The room must be perfect in construction as no light is seeping through a door. Sara wonders why they are keeping her in complete darkness.
	Sara begins thinking of Dorothy. She wonders if her friend made contact with her former teacher as Sara believes that it is up to Dorothy to help her out of this mess. The only thing she is worried about is what if Dorothy gets into trouble as well.

	OK, found the bracelet locater program, Dorothy says pleased with her self. Now to find the one Sara is wearing, she adds searching through a list of names that do not seam to be in any particular order that makes sense.
	The school bell chimes causing Dorothy and Judith to look at the clock on the wall.
	Classes just ended, Judith says my next class of students will be here momentary.
	I need more time, Dorothy says skimming the list of names at a brisker pace.
	Judith puts a finger against the side of her muzzle as she begins thinking. I can give one more class period after that the school's security will want to know why you did not show up in your next class, she tells her former student grabbing text books and heads to the classroom's door.
	How can I thank you? Dorothy says.
	After this is all over you will explain to me the whole story, Judith says sliding out the classroom door and locking it from the other side.
	Dorothy returns to the computer and focuses on the task at hand. Coming to the bottom of the list she sighs in contemplation why is her alias not here? Dorothy asks herself. Let's try this another way, she says thinking the problem out load. If someone lured us here then there might be a record of Sara's name some where. Dorothy taps away with surprising speed creating a simple search program that this computer system is in lack of.
	As the spotted Dog types away she becomes so engrossed by the job at hand as to not realize someone is watching her.

	Keep plugging away, the mysteries person says by the time you realize what is going on it will be to late and the goddess Bast shall have already rejoined us.
	Sir, we have some sort of abnormality in the holding room, a Bobcat tells the mystery man.

	No, who ever is doing this may not leave Dorothy alone once they get what ever they want, Sara says with a growl.
	From the depths of Sara's being everything goes dark as she has only been able to call upon this strength, this power once before, to her memory recollection.

	Sir, the abnormality activity is increasing, the Bobcat says.
	No, it is to soon, the mystery man says.

	Dorothy taps a few more lines when she begins having a odd sensation what's this? she says standing up and looking around the classroom. When she looks out the window she sees the branches on near by trees  begin shaking oddly.
	Then just as it had started everything returns to normal. That was odd, Dorothy says sitting back down and taps the last lines of code. That should do it, she says activating the program.
	The blue hologram screen goes blank for several seconds before coming to life with several lines of code running across it before finally coming to stop with a blinking cursor.
	Alright, now I am in business, the Dalmatian says with a huge grin.

	Sir, the abnormality has stopped, the Bobcat says.
	I can tell that, the mystery man says. What is the status of the vessel?
	I am not sure I understand these reading, the Bobcat says.
	His boss looks over the Bobcat's shoulder to a computer hologram monitor that is divided into a dozen or so windows. The one the mystery man is most interested in is labeled vessel.
	Show me the earlier readings, he asks the Bobcat.

	Sara's eyes flutter open as she begins wondering what has happened. Everything is dark all around her and every muscle throughout her body aches. She reaches across her body to rub her arms and the sound of chains rattling on the floor follow.
	Oh right, the exhausted black Cat says. I hope I do not have to do that again.
	Sara finds that the shackles are still on her arm and legs however the chains are no longer connected to the wall. After laying on the stone floor for several minutes she soon is able to stand up although a little wobbly.
	Now to get out of this room, she says feeling the curved wall dragging the chains behind her.
	So there is no door here, Sara says having felt the entire wall. So how did they get me into this room?
	With no door to open the black Cat contemplates other ways one might get into a sealed room.

	Dorothy stares at the screen unsure if what she is reading is made up by someones twisted fantasy.
	Is this Sara? Dorothy says having to stop reading a classified file from more than twenty years ago.
	The Dalmatian is not sure about what she is reading as the file is fragmented.
	I have got to show this to Sara, she says reaching around into her knee high sock and pulling out the thumb drive. She looks around the desk for the universal serial bus port and soon finds it. Upon inserting the thumb drive a scan program pops up followed shortly by a red execute button.
	For the first time ever Dorothy is hesitant about releasing the viral program as it might not be the right thing to do since she is not sure of the full extent of what will happen. When she originally wrote the program she was quite angry that someone hacked into her system. However being here now and knowing what she knows is causing her to hesitate.
	What if I do this, she says writing a simple program and pulls out the transmitter retainer to see the frequency that the transmitter is set to. With that piece of information she finishes her little add on program to the virus and soon has the viral program migrate its self into the so called private school's mainframe only to wait dormant until she should need to activate it. And now that she has the free space on the thumb drive she copies the file about Sara onto it.
	OK, I have a back up in place, Dorothy says putting the retainer back into her book bag. Now to find Sara, she adds hacking into a sector of the mainframe that seams to run the school's security system.

	So, if I did not get in here through a door in the wall then it must be either be through a hatch in the floor, Sara says running her hands methodically over the stone floor. When she does not find a hatch in the floor she looks up. Then the only logical place must be the ceiling, she finishes saying.
	Though it is pitch black she visualize what the ceiling must look like. She crouches down, into a jumping position, and leaps up arms out stretched to touch the ceiling. Sara is unable to get to her usual full jumping hight as the chains pull her down. Landing, she hits it in such a way that Sara is unbalanced falling hard on to her side. She lays there, confused, as Sara has never lost her balance as far back as she can remember. Sara lays on the floor wondering what just happened to her.

	BAST SHALL RISE, the mystery man shouts while laughing hysterically. I must go make sure everything is ready, he says rushing out a door.
	Sir, the Bobcat shouts out only to be ignored. Oh for crying out load. That man is freaking crazy, he says and then taps away at the computer.

	Now this is odd, Dorothy says. Why would there be two security systems here, she says taping away and finding that the second security system is unrelated to the school. In fact Dorothy finds that there is someone at this second system inputting some odd commands.
	Dorothy watches as the person on the other end begins unlocking several security protocols. This  makes it easier for her to find out what is going on. After a few minutes of freely looking around the second system she finds what is going on.
	It seams that the school was not originally to be a school, but instead a meeting location for a sect of Bast worshipers. The architecture of the building is designed to bring the goddess Bast to this plain of existence. Then everything stopped for many years and the castle was then turned into a private school for upper class Furries. However five years or so ago the sect came back and in the last couple of months seven students have gone missing.
	Dorothy wonders where they went to. A moment later a new file becomes available to her. These are architecture plans that show a vast underground labyrinth that are unlike any Dorothy has ever seen.
	She traces her finger along a path that leads to a roundish shape room. There are no details of the room but the Dalmatian has a feeling that it is at the center of the school's assemble today.

	Sara sits up her hands tremble. Her hands have never shaken before. Something has come over her and she does not understand what it is. For some unknown reason Sara's body is not responding like it should.
	In all the times I have come so close to death and starred Jack1 down he finally won. I'm done for and I won't be able to tell Dorothy how much she has come to mean to me. With that said Sara sits back on her butt and stares out at the darkness wondering how much longer it will be.

	Alright, with that I have done, what can I do know? the Bobcat says taping the enter key.
	Let us prepare for her rising, the mystery man shouts returning to the cults secret security room. He stops short as he sees the hologram security monitor with red icons turning green. What is going on here? he shouts.
	Just correcting a wrong, the Bobcat says.
	The mystery man rushes to the computer and pushes the computer tech away. Why, why would you do such a blasphemes thing, he shouts with red furry in his eyes.
	Oh please, the Bobcat says making for the door. I was never into your idealism of bringing an ancient Egyptian goddess to Earth. I was in it for the money.
	But you saw the recorded footage, the ancient records, and of course the proof it's self waits in the holding cell, he shouts spitting as he does so.
	All I see is a Cat, with extraordinary military training, who did nothing to deserve  what you are putting her through. And since I have yet to be paid I am out of here, he says proud to finally get that out. He reaches for the door when he feels a sharp pain in his back. Slowly the Bobcat turns seeing the mystery man holding a jambiya with blood dripping from its tip. He realizes that the blood is his.
	The man who hired him to set up the elaborate security system comes at the Bobcat once again slashing downward. The exotic knife cuts across the Bobcat's chest. Blood flows out off him and the Cat can no longer stand dropping to the floor.
	And know to finish you unbeliever, the mystery man says getting into position to make a final killing stroke.

	Now, if I where to hold Sara where might I put her? Dorothy asks looking at the architecture plans.
	She comes comes across a schematic of an odd shaped room. There are no doors, as she can see, into the room but there are some odd mechanical devices built throughout the walls. The mechanical items, she finds, are not connection to a computer. This quit mystifying to Dorothy as the rest of the school of the is wired for security.
	The hologram monitor begins flickering making Dorothy sit back in surprise. It flickers several more times before the schematics she was looking at completely disappear leaving nothing but the blue glowing hologram.
	OK, what did I do? Dorothy asks herself taping away at the keyboard only to find that nothing is working. OK, now what? the Dalmatian says after having tryed all the tricks she knows to get the computer to restart.

	Well, I had no more use for you Bob you just forced me to implement the resurrection a little sooner, the mystery man says standing over the body of the Bobcat blood dripping from his knife. Now lets see about putting out a little announcement.

	Sara lays on her side against the cold hard floor, the darkness that surrounds her being is slowly enveloping her will to live. She hears a voice but is so depressed and resounded to what is going to happen to her that she does not care.
	C4B21 get up, someone shouts at her.
	Sara blinks blankly, as the words do not seam to have any meaning to her.
	Did you hear me, you worthless piece of crap! the voice shouts  once again.
	But I can't, Sara says softly. So softly in fact that she is not even sure if she even spoke them or thought the words.
	What did you say! the voice yells once again.
	I can't, Sara says softly now sure she said that out load.
	I can not believe you said that solider, the voice shouts you are the best, strongest, fastest , and all around perfect solider.
	But I'm not a solider, Sara says softly her lips moving ever so slightly.
	Sara is once again enveloped into the deathly silence of the cell.

	Dorothy looks at the speaker in the ceiling of the classroom as a man, who's voicer causes her fur to stand on end in fear, calling for the assemble of all faculty and students to the school's bleachers at the football pitch. She looks at the time and realizes that the assemble is happening sooner.
	Something must have happened, Dorothy says.
	She closes her eyes to try and visualize the architecture plans, for a while it is hard for her until she changes it around and instead thinks of the directions in the form of numbers. It quickly becomes clear to her. Dorothy dumps the contents of her school bag onto the desk an sees what she has to use. There is not much here as most of the equipment is back in her dorm room. While she thinks about going back to her room that may cause her to run into her roommates and she is not sure she has the time.
	The Dalmatian pushes the items around on the desk and finds the only thing she can really use is the twenty-two caliber handgun Sara gave her to protect herself with.
	I guess this will have to do, Dorothy says taking the gun and putting it into the back of skirt, as Sara does with her gun, and pulls her blouse out to cover the weapon. Next she opens a notebook and writes down directions from how she memorized the architecture plans.
	Dorothy hears people walking outside the room. She tucks the notebook under her arm and goes to the classroom's door. Peaking through the window she sees lines of students and faculty moving down the hall. Dorothy spots her two roommates and ducks back against the door and the Dalmatian can just make out their voices as they stop just outside the classroom.
	Did you find her? Dorothy hears Mathilda asks.
	Non, maybe she went to cabinet mdical? lisabeth says.
	Hello girls, a third voice is added that is the school's doctor.
	Hello Doctor Dashai, Dorothy's two roommates say together.
	Have you seen Lady Anna? Mathilda asks.
	No, I have not, the doctor says.
	We last saw the poor thing in this class, lisabeth says peering through the classroom's window.
	Dorothy sees the French roommate muzzle pressed against the glass. She stares up at the roommate silently wishing for them to go on their way.
	Maybe she has joined the other students on the way to the football pitch, Doctor Dashai says.
	Dorothy watches the roommate move away from the window. She waits another minute to be sure that neither of them return, especially lisabeth. She flips the latch on the door and slowly peeks out and finds the hall nearly empty with the last stragglers going down the hall.
	Dorothy slips out of the classroom and opens her notebook to consult which direction she must go.

	C4B21 get up, the voice shouts louder than Sara expected. You are strong and this is not the end.
	Sara places her hands against the floor and slowly begins pushing herself up.
	That's it, you still must finish the mission.
	Sara is in a seated position as her body tingles. Every muscle is telling her to give up with the exception of her heart as it begins pounding harder. She can slowly feel her strength returning to her, she holds out her hand and finds that it is no longer trembling. Soon Sara is back on her feet as her whole body is energized.
	Alright, it is time I get out of here, Sara says gathering the chains that lead from her arm manacles.  She twist the two sets of chain-links together and gathers the ends into her hands making a formidable improvised weapon. She begins swinging the chain around above her head and with a sudden turning throw the chain smashes into the wall causing chunks of rocks to burst away from the impact.
	She repeats the process over and over again slowly creating a hole in th rock wall.

	Dorothy consults her notes and finds that the only entrance into the underground tunnels, from with in the school, is in the hall right around the corner. She is just about to step around the corner when Dorothy hears  people talking.
	What is going on? a woman asks.
	This causes Dorothy to come to a stop and press herself against the wall at the corner while at the same  reaching for the handgun.
	It's to early, a second woman says.
	Something must have gone wrong, now a male says.
	Dorothy slides down to the floor, her back pressed firmly against the wall and peeks around the corner where she sees five cloaked figures standing right where the entrance to the underground tunnel Dorothy believes is.
	All of you shut up. If the high priest pushes up the resurrection of Bast then it is his priority, a third female growls at the other four cloaked people. That woman pulls back the hood of her cloak when one of the other members putts up their hand in apparent protest. She gives that person a snarling growl stepping up to the raised hand member who puts their hand back down.
	The hand gun slips from Dorothy's hands as she recognizes the uncloaked woman. She is a member of those Feline five that the odd girl warned her about at the dinning hall last night. Her hear heart nearly stops as the guns hits the floor and the uncloaked girl quickly turns toward her.
	What was that? she growls.
	Dorothy quickly picks the handgun up and holds it to her chest, her heart begins racing.
	I heard something as well, the fifth voice  says and being a male Dorothy believes that the five cloaked figures are the Feline five.
	Check it out, the bossy Tigress says.
	Sure, the first male to speak responds.
	Dorothy's heart begins to race even faster. Her legs do not seam to be working as she would be screaming while running away. It sounds as though the person is just around the corner ready to pounce on her. With her hands shaking Dorothy points the gun ahead of her, the barrel shaking so much that she is not even sure she could hit a wall.
	There is a loud scrapping sound of stone on stone and a man calls out.
	What is the matter with you, he yells.
	We heard something, the man who is just around the corner from Dorothy says.
	Ignore it, my hand has been forced so we must start the ritual, Dorothy hears the man, for whom she now has a great relief for being there, says.
	Yes, high priest, the Cat that was just about to discover Dorothy say, his voice indicating that he is moving away from the Dalmatian.
	Dorothy looks down at the gun and sees that it is no longer trembling. Her breathing becomes steady and even.
	Beside, Miss Black is waiting for us and we do not want to make her wait any longer than we have already made her, the man that the five Cats referred to as the high priest says.
	Upon the mentioning of Sara's name Dorothy looks around the corner and watches the five cloaked figures disappear in line through an opening in the wall. Once the last figure has disappeared the scratching stone and stone begins once again as the secret door begins closing. Not even giving it a second thought Dorothy race to and jumps through the doorway catching part of her school uniform in the door.

	Sara runs her hand at the spot that she has been pounding away at and finds the stone surface  cracked. She is able to get her fingers around a stone and pulls it free from the wall.
	As Sara is investigates the hole she just made clicking sounds come from with in the hallow stone wall. She is unsure  where exactly they are coming from do to the echo but it sounds to her like some one is turning a combination lock or something similar to that. Several clicking sounds begins happening and the of two stones above her lets in the first bit of light.
	Sara shades her eyes and begins hearing voices from the opening.
	Something is not right, an older sounding man says.
	What is it? a younger sounding female asks.
	One of the sacrifices is already dead, the old man says.
	Sara wonders if this is the girls that went missing in Miss Poltree's letter.
	Her eyes, now adjusted to the little bit of light, can now see what she has gotten into. Sara finds that the cell is just as she had figured it to be. A curved wall leading to a flat the wall where her chains where once connected to. Above her a flat round stone had partially slid open letting in flickering light.
	We must have seven! the old man growls.
	It's to late to get another, a young man says.
	Maybe not, a new voice of a woman says. That spotted canine is in the tunnels.
	Dorothy, Sara softly says.
	Yes, I have her scent, the old man says. She is not not the perfect sacrificial subject but will do.
	So the last sacrificial being to help us bring the goddess Bast to Earth will be the vessels best friend, the woman who brought up the scent says.
	Dorothy is walking into a trap, Sara says,
	Ah dammit, Dorothy says tearing the skirt that is caught in the stone door.
	She is left with only a small bit of skirt. She picks up the dropped twenty-two, which she had dropped when got the skirt caught in the door. She looks down the stone corridor and sees flickering lights.
	Oh, that can not be good, she says.
	Dorothy runs down the corridor stopping every now and again. It does not take her long before arriving at a large arched doorway that leads into a large roundish chamber. From her hiding spot, at the chambers entrance, Dorothy sees twelve cloaked figures in there. One of whom has a cloak that is highly decorated  and she figures that is the high priest. As she is looking around the chamber she spots three rather large round holes of some sort that are partially open.
	Sara must be in one of those, Dorothy softly says.
	You could be right, someone whispers in Dorothy's ear.
	Which one could ... Dorothy begins saying but cuts herself off when she realizes that there is someone behind her. She turns her head to a wide grin of sharp teeth. Dorothy has to blink several times to be sure she is actually seeing what she is before her. Hello, she says finally.
	Bo, the person says.
	Dorothy jumps and points the little twenty-two at the Tigress who scared her. Before she is able to pull the trigger another person grabs ahold of her arm that held the gun from behind her. The person jerks her arm in such a way that Dorothy drops the gun causing it to slide along the floor stopping at the lip of one of the holes.
	Ah Dorothy MacMillan, it is so nice of you to help us out, the man in the decorated cloak begins saying.
	Dorothy watches the man approach her as the other cloaked figures step aside to let him through. The person holding Dorothy by one arm tightens his grip while pulling it upward.

	Sara listens to the sudden commotion above her and looks up with something sliding across the floor above her and stops at the lip of the opening. She hears a man say Dorothy's full name which tells Sara that these people more than likely know know who she is.
	You are not an ideal sacrifice but considering that we are now have a limited amount of time that can not be stopped, in the end you shall have to do, Sara hears the old man say.
	Where is Sara? she hears her friend shout out sounding as though she is in some pain.
	You mean the vessel. She is here and now that we have all the pieces together we can begin.
	Sara does not like the sound of that. A moment later there are more grinding and clicking sounds of gears moving come from the hole she made. Sara looks around trying to figure out what is happening. Several clicking sounds occur, from where her chains where attached to the wall where the remaining links fall to the floor. She watches the links as they begin to vibrate as the floor moves with a quick jerking sensation upward. The partial opening above her opens up fully causing the item that is on the lip to fall down to Sara who catches it easily finding that it is the twenty-two that she gave Dorothy.
	Sara goes to stick the little weapon in her jeans only to realize that she is not wearing the clothes she had on earlier. Instead she has a white halter top dress ensemble with a belt of cord around her waist.
	Sara adjust her plan of attack by pulling the cord free. She checks the twenty-two to make sure a bullet is chambered, next she raps the cord around one hand, and gathers the chains close to her now she has several weapons.
	The floor comes to a jolting stop a good ten feet or so below the circler opening.

	Dorothy has both arms held behind her back and is moved to one side of the chamber as she watches these fanatics' leader go to a podium and begins manipulating some dials. Soon loud grinding, like when the hidden door opened and closed, and vibrations fill the chamber. She looks to the three holes and watches as they now fully open. Dorothy looks for the handgun that she dropped but is unable to find it. The Dalmatian jumps slightly when as a person comes up behind her and begins cutting her uniform off. She tries to struggle against the man who now holds her arms in the air.
	I wouldn't struggle to much, the person behind her whispers. You don't want to to be cut, yet. The person says with how Dorothy can only describe as being glee.
	Dorothy feels her clothing cut off her along with the bandage she had wrapped around her torso. While it is some relief, this is defiantly not how she wanted it to happen. Soon the persons holding her and the one who cut off her clothes remove the cut up clothing from her body leaving her only in her panties. If she was not so frightened she would be beet red embarrassed. Her only hope is for Sara to save her.
	The grinding stops and Dorothy looks to the podium where the cult leader is speaking to his followers. She does not know what he is saying, as he is speaking another language, Dorothy is brought back to her current situation when shackles are placed around her wrist.
	She's not wearing the bracelet, the male that is holding her says.
	The other person comes to look and pulls back her hood. How did you remove the bracelet? the woman says who Dorothy finds is the schools principle.
	Wouldn't you like to know, Dorothy says happy with a smile with knowing something  Miss Leopald does not know.
	The Snow Leopard slaps Dorothy hard across the face before racing to the podium. The male attaches Dorothy's chained shackles to a hook on the wall and joins the principle. Dorothy rubs her cheek with her hand watching the the fourteen people listen to the principle.
	A chain suddenly appears through one of the holding cell holes. Dorothy smiles once again as she realizes that Sara is coming.
	Oh you are so going to get it, Dorothy says as she sees the chains become taut when they become anchored.

	Sara is not sure what is going on above her but she is not going to stand around any longer. Taking the chains she slings them above through the hole and catches them on something as she pulls them tight. She climbs up the chain and as her head comes above the hole Sara surveys the area around her finding a rather large roundish room with more than a dozen  cloaked figures standing to one side. She also spots Dorothy nearly naked and chained to the wall.
	What occurs next happens in a blaze of flying bullets and fighting. In the end four of the cloaked figures are dead the rest are either to injured to fight or incapacitated
	Well that was interesting, Sara says helping her friend out off her chains.
	You were amazing, Dorothy says rubbing her wrist.
	Thanks, Sara says blushing.
	Dorothy looks around at the cloaked figures hey, where did their leader go? she asks.
	Sara looks around as well and sees an open door off to one side. It seams he is running away, she says.
	Typical, Dorothy says with a smile.
	Dorothy's smile changes as she feels a jolting pain in her back as a large bang rings out. She slowly falls into Sara's arms.
	DOROTHY! Sara shouts catching her friend and looks to where the shoot came from, finding a person in a fancy cloak standing on an upper tier of the room holding Sara's Jericho handgun. You! she growls loudly.
	It's got a kick to it, the man says.
	Why? Sara growls.
	Oh, she is just in the way.
	Sara's anger boils as she lowers her friend to the floor gently. She grabs at  each shackle, tears them apart, and begins approaching the man. He fires at Sara where she easily dodges it. Sara is just feet away from the upper tier when the black Cat is fired upon and again dodges the bullet. She springs to the upper level grabbing ahold of the tier and pulls herself up. She is know a couple feet from the leader of the sect and can easily grab him. He fires while backing away from Sara. This time she doesn't even try to dodge as the bullet hits her in the left shoulder. Sara grabs the man with her right hand while feeling nothing but overwhelming anger. He drops the gun as Sara lifts him to dangle over the ledge.
	The hood of the cloak falls away and Sara can now see who her enemy is. She does not recognize him and only knows that he some form of Lion/Cougar hybrid. She sees that the man is really scared.
	Please don't, he says with a whimpering cowl.
	Why? Sara growls.
	All I wanted is to fulfill what I was meant to do, what Bast castle was built for.
	What is that?
	To bring the the ancient goddess Bast to Earth.
	And you where going to kill to do it?
	It's the only way.
	Why me?
	Because you are the perfect Furry. The perfect vessel for a living goddess.
	Well guess what? I am not perfect, Sara says and begins letting go of him.
	Sara no! Dorothy shouts out.
	Sara quickly grabs him seeing her friend kneeling on the floor below why? she asks.
	He knows about your past, Dorothy says through gasp of air.
	Sara looks at the hybrid and wonders if it is worth learning more of her past just to keep him alive. She looks at her partner, her friend on the stone floor bleeding. It's not worth it, she says and tosses the man screaming causing him to land head first against the stone floor snapping his neck and slides into the cell Sara had occupied.
	Sara picks up her gun and jumps down to the floor and rushes over to Dorothy. She tears her dress into pieces and presses them against Dorothy's wound.
	He had so many answers that you have been searching for, Dorothy says coughing up blood.
	Stay still, Sara says laying her friend down and looking around for help. The only thing she sees are the cloaked figures and the podium which catches her eye. She rushes to the podium and finds it has stone knobs with some form of writing. As she stares at the dials the characters begin to make sense to her. The black Cat looks to the ceiling of the hall and turns the knobs. The room begins vibrating and shacking as stone gears can be heard moving from all around the room.

	Well, she does not seam to be here, Mathilda says looking at the crowd of students and faculty in the football pitch stands.
	We should ask Miss Poltree, lisabeth says pointing the teacher out. After all she is the last of us to have seen her.
	Miss Poltree herself  is standing on the bleachers searching for her former student having not been able to return to her classroom when the assemble was called.
	Down at the front of the bleachers a slender Cheetah is also looking for members of her group as she has not seen them since before the wonderful breakfast.
	 lisabeth and Mathilda are making there way to the math teacher when the ground begins rumbling and everyone begins to all at once try and get off the stands.
	Look! several people shout causing the students and faculty to look around for a moment before seeing the field splitting open like a giant chasm. At first people believe the ground is sinking and the rush to get away from the stands, for a few, begin again. But something begins rising out of chasm and it has everyones curious attention.

	Sara has her body covered over Dorothy as the room rises up into the sunlight. When it comes to a stop she looks around and finds that they are in the middle of the school's sports field. Just when she thinks it is over the walls to the room fall flat with a loud crash and something Sara never expected happens, screams. She turns around finding a stadium stands full of students and faculty.
	Sara stands look at all the people as several girls are screaming in fright, others are slack jawed in surprise and many others are just plain confused.


Epilogue:

	Dorothy opens her eyes finding herself in a medical bed. She looks around and finds Sara asleep in a chair next to the bed. As she tries to move she finds it hard as her body is taped up with bandages. A nurse enters the room and sees Dorothy awake he comes over to her.
	How do you feel, the Great Dane asks her.
	Alright, I guess, Dorothy answers. What happened?
	You where shoot in the back and are extremely lucky that you had Doctor Dashai as your surgeon.
	How long was I out? Dorothy asks.
	Two days, a new person says entering the room.
	Dorothy sees that it is the Tiger doctor from Bast.
	Hello Dorothy, he says taking the chart from the nurse who had just made some notes on it.
	Hello Doctor ... she begins speaking only to stop, realizing that the doctor said her real name. How do you know that name? she asks.
	Oh your friend explained it all to me, he says pulling a chair next to the bed.
	Are you angry?
	I might have been if I was not already suspicions about what was going on at the school.
	Can you tell me what happened?
	He sits and watches the nurse leave. There was a secret sect of Egyptian Bast worshipers who believed that your friend could be the Earthly vessel for the Egyptian goddess Bast. So by some manipulation at the school they where able to trick your friend into coming to the school.
	That part I got, Dorothy says. So, what of the missing students? she asks.
	Well it is true the sect took several students to be sacrificed. The missing students is what got me concerned over something going on at the school. However, I did not realize that Miss Leopald was part of it, the doctor says.
	It made it easy for her to manipulate people since she had control of the bracelets, Dorothy says.
	When you came to the medical office by being severally electrically shocked and she insisted on not letting me adjust your bracelet is when I began suspecting she could be involved.
	But by then it was to late, Dorothy says.
	The doctor bows his head and with a heavy sigh says yes, it seams one of sects sacrifices died of starvation.
	The others?
	Malnourished and dehydrated but will recover.
	And what of the surviving sect members?
	They have been turned over to New Furtains police special enforcement, Sara says having just woken up.
	Miss Black, how are you? Doctor Dashai asks.
	Pretty good, she answers stretching both arms and legs.
	So it's over? Dorothy asks her friend. Sara is silent so Dorothy turns to the doctor and he too is silent.
Well?
	Not all the sect members, it seams, where at the gathering, Sara says.
	But you two have dealt them a very nasty blow and the tunnels are being investigated by some very interested archaeologist, Doctor Dashai says.
	Including Human ones as well, Sara adds.
	That is new, Dorothy says.
	Well the mayor is saying this may be a step closer for better Furry Human relations, Sara says.
	By the way, Dorothy begins asking did you find out why the mayor just happened to be at the school?
	It seams he was paying a visit so that the mayor could check up on a friend of his child who goes to the school, Doctor Dashai says.
	From the doorway Dorothy sees some people she never expected to see again Mathilda, she says.
	Sara and the doctor look to the door.
	Is it alright to visit? Mathilda asks.
	Sure, for a little while, Doctor Dashai answers.
	Mathilda takes a step into the room but is pushed aside by an extremely excited lisabeth.
	Lady Anna, you are alright, lisabeth shouts racing for Dorothy. She comes to a jolting stop when Mathilda grabs the back of her shirt.  lisabeth looks at her roommate with a pouty look.
	The last person to come in the room, with flowers, is Dorothy's old teacher.
	Hello Dorothy, Miss Poltree says with a smile while having to wipe away a tear.

	Sara and Doctor Dashai leave the new visitors with the two of them going to an office that the hospital is letting him use while Doctor is visiting.
	So, Sara any ill effects? the doctor asks.
	None that I can tell, Sara answers.
	I did some digging like you asked.
	And what did you find?
	Well it is mostly rumor as there does not seam to be any hard evidence.
	I understand.
	The rummer from my contacts still within the government of the southern Asian state of India is that the United States had a secret military Furry program.
	Yea, I got that a, black operations force.
	Yes, well it was rumored that there where four squadrons and at the end of the war the surviving Furries where ordered to be put down.
	Sara nods her head in understanding is that all?
	It is also rumored that not all them where actually put down. Some escaped, going AWOL and are believed to be living here in New Furtain.
	Alright, thank you doc, Sara says getting up and heads to the door.
	Miss Black, Doctor Dashai says stopping Sara. There is one more thing.
	What would that be? Sara asks her back to the doctor.
	You are different form any other Furry and there is a possibility that you may be something more.
	Doc, if you don't mind I do not want to be anything more. All I want to do is protect my friend and help people out every once in a while when I get to use my gun so I can finish the mission, Sara says causualy leaving Doctor Dashai so she can return to her friend.

	A few days after Sara brought Dorothy home she is going through the mail and comes across a small package addressed to her. When she opens it she finds a letter and a thumb drive, the second one in the last several months. She opens the letter and finds that is has only a few lines on it but it is the first few words that cause her to stare at it. Your school days ....
