((Previously, in the Adventures of The Hellcat. Intrepid college newspaper reporter, Maggie Malone, is sent by her editor to look into disappearances in an area known as Hooker Park. While stumbling through the woods in the dead of night, she's captured by strange men, whom plan to use her as a human sacrifice! Maggie blacked out just as the dagger plummeted downward!))
((This is the second chapter in the on-going adventures of The Hellcat. A character of my own creation. This is the final part of her origin. I know many of you genre fans out there may get disappointed that she's not running about, flashing her arse, in skin tight spandex yet, but as a consolation, I've left the poor girl nude for almost the entire story. I hope you'll accept this as my apology for being OCD about basic character development.))
((I'd like to extend a special thanks to Duke1951, whose devastatingly sexy Batgirl series helped motivate me to write my own series, and whose advice and support helped spur me on to get my fingers out of my knickers, and onto a keyboard. Without his proof reading and editing skills, this story would have been a huge embarrassment.))
((So here's the second chapter. I hope you enjoy.))
Chapter 2: The Pact
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Maggie awoke, with a fright, to find herself laying nude in a forest clearing. It wasn't Hooker Park, the forest she'd been running through the night before. It was a beautiful forest. The grass and the leaves, were emerald green. The sun was shining down warmly across her skin, and a cool breeze wafted gently over her body. She basked in the feeling for a few minutes, noting that she was still recovering from the most amazing orgasm of her life. She was clean. She felt fine. Not a sore muscle in her body. She felt amazing.
She realized that she should be alarmed, by what seemed to be such dramatic change, but she felt oddly calm...and oddly enough, still a bit aroused. She lay back in the grass, and closed her eyes, enjoying the feeling of the sunlight on her skin.
Where was she? What had happened in the dungeon? It's dingy, dusty aroma. It's dark fire lit walls, scorched from countless torches. The dampness that made sweat cling to her, as she had be bound, naked, to the alter. The terrible mad men, and that mysterious hooded fiend with the knife, poised wickedly above her helpless form, as she writhed in ecstasy from that strange magical incense.
It simply no longer mattered. She felt peaceful. Calm. Tranquil, relaxed. She decided this must be heaven. "Oh well," she thought. "I supposed I can get used to this."
Her hand rose up to gently caress her breasts as she sighed with contentment. Then she heard a rustling. She looked up, and saw a cat sitting on the ground just a few feet from her.
She raised herself up to her elbows and smiled at the animal.
"Hello kitty" she said.
"Hello girly" it said back.
Now this, indeed, startled Maggie. Her jaw dropped as she stared at the cat, slowly walking towards her, and it stared right back.
"Did...did you just say 'hello'"?
"I sure did." The cat replied "What's the matter? Never had a cat talk to you before?"
"Erm...can't say that I have, no"
"I'll make this easier on you, then" The cat stood on its hind legs, and then gradually began to form into the shape of a woman. A beautiful woman...almost. She retained her tail, her ears, her eyes, and whiskers. Her face was humanesque, save for the bright yellow cat eyes peeking out behind her long lashes, and thin whiskers above her mouth, which had a wicked grin. She maintained a light grey fur, short, which gave her body a velvety sheen. She stood tall above the still sitting Maggie, gloriously nude. Large firms breasts, standing proudly on her chest. Rounded hips on which her delicate looking fingers rested. Her legs were long and toned, and her tail swished playfully back and forth.
She was now standing right in front of Maggie, looking down at her. Close enough, for Maggie to smell her scent. It was alluring, like sandalwood, only sweeter.
It took Maggie a few moments to regain her composure. She was awestruck by this sculptured goddess standing above her. She had to resist the urge to reach out and touch this creature. She was aroused and intimidated all at the same time.
"Yeah..." she finally managed to say. "This is much easier for me."
The cat merely chuckled and crouched low, looking at Maggie intently, with that same grin on her face.
"Let me guess...you're confused. You have a thousand questions. So many, that you can't decide which to ask first."
"Nailed it." Maggie said, taking a deep breath.
"Thought so. We've got a lot to discuss, girly, so I'll give you three."
"Ok..." said Maggie "Who, or what, are you?"
"What is easier. I have way too many names, and you can't pronounce most of them with your human noises. I'm a goddess."
"Heh" Maggie chuckled. "You got that right."
The cat lady giggled playfully, and sat on her knees in front of Maggie.
"Goddess, is the easiest way to describe what I am, to you. I'm an inter-dimensional, inter-plainer sentient being, whom has great powers by your human standards. You can't conceive my true nature, any more than an ant can conceive yours. I don't mean to be patronizing, girly, but that's the physics of it. I simply exist on levels, which, the human mind isn't designed to perceive."
Maggie blinked a few times.
"Gotcha...thanks for clearing that all up."
The cat lady giggled playfully and swatted Maggie's knee, gently
"That's why I opened with goddess. You can just call me Bastet. I think some of your humans used to call me that, back when I played around on your planet. That was ages ago, though."
"Bastet? Gotcha. I can do Bastet. So...where am I? What's going on?"
"That's a good question, I'll save that for last. Give me one more."
"Fair enough... Why am I not freaking out right now?"
Bastet gave another playful giggle.
"Is there a reason you should be, as you put it, 'freaking out'?"
Maggie blinked a few times, then started laughing.
"let's see..." Maggie started counting off her fingers. "I've been kidnapped by crazy pervs in cloaks, strapped to an alter for...I've got no idea how long. I've been drugged by some crazy sex smoke. I'm pretty sure I just got sacrificed. Now I'm sitting naked in some field in...fantasy land, talking to a sexy naked cat goddess." Maggie made sure she wasn't forgetting any key details, and decided that she had hit all the major ones. "So...yeah...I've got a few reasons to freak out."