Chapter 7 All Alone
An excerpt from The White Lion Unicorn Series Book 1: A Colony of Tiny Nekos
Silver Moon woke up late after a restless, very little sleep night. She was miserable and all alone. She got up and looked around the trolley. No one else had been on it besides her. She stepped outside, but could find no trace of the werewolf. She got back on board and went to the kitchen area. She grabbed some fruit and nuts to help clear her head.
She needed to find out where her son was. She missed Black Wolf, but knew she couldn’t make him come back. After she ate, she sent a message to Sam Oranglov about her missing son. She was brushing her teeth when he called her back.
“When did you last see your son?”
“Last evening after dinner. I told him to come back home before dark, but he’s still not here. I get the sense he’s in trouble again, but among friends.”
“Hmm. That sounds odd.”
“I know. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was with the other tiny nekos we met the other day.”
Sam smiled. “That would sound like something he would do. Felicia and I are looking into the neko colony now. We are checking on all the available information we have so far. We also are hearing quite a few rumors from other sources. We’re in contact now with some nekos. The taller ones, that is. They don’t have much to tell us other than they are surprised to hear there are more than just White Lion who are tiny versions of themselves.”
“I never knew if he was unique. He was all alone when I found him.”
“Did you find him there?”
“I don’t remember where I was when I found him. That time period is a blur. It wasn’t too long after I started traveling around on the trolley.”
“Memory can play tricks on us, if we’re not careful.”
“Yes, I know.” She sighed.
“Is Black Wolf helping you find your son?”
“No. He took off. I don’t know where he is.”
“What happened?”
“We got into a horrible fight last night. He’s jealous of my son. I don’t think he wants to come back.”
“Okay. We’ll keep an eye out for the werewolf.”
“Good idea.”
“Let me know if anything else happens. Hopefully, your son will show up on his own.”
“I hope so. He usually does.”
Sam’s face disappeared from her tablet. She set the tablet down and finished brushing her teeth. Then she proceeded to clean up the trolley to expel some agitated energy. When she was done, she sat down on her bean bag chair and grabbed her tablet.
Soon she was writing again and starting to feel better. She went on to do some of her work. It was going well until she received a message.
It was blatant without any doubt as to what it meant. It said, “You must leave the trolley immediately. It is not your property. We will come and claim it within the next few days. If you have not vacated it by that time, we will forcibly remove you.”
She stared at the message with her mouth gaping open and her eyes big and wide. She sent the message to Sam immediately. She also told him she knew the trolley legally belonged to Black Wolf.
Sam, a vampire, sent a message back stating for her to wait for him and Felicia, a vampire fairy, to arrive. Silver Moon cried for a while and then got back to her writing. There was nothing else she could do at the moment. She kept having to fight back tears while she tried to get as much work done as she could. But she still wondered about her son.
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The nekos all slept in the lab. Some of the parents got up before the rest of them to get food for everyone. While everyone was eating, Claira Jaen had an idea, which she shared with everyone. The other nekos readily agreed. Then they all turned to White Lion and asked him to try to send all the data He had on them to the Guardians.
White Lion blinked. Then he climbed onto a chair in front of the computer. He contacted his mama to get a Guardian contact. She contacted him on the computer.
“Oh, thank goodness! I’ve been worried about you.”
“I’m okay, mama. I’m with the other nekos.”
They crowded behind him to see the elf.
“Oh, okay. Sam and Felicia said they were trying to get to you nekos. They are researching what information they have so far. And they are on their way over to us.”
“Good. My friends want me to send the Guardians all the data He has gathered on them. They think it will help the Guardians to understand us better.”
“It will. I’m sending you Sam’s contact info now.”
“Got it. Thanks, mama.”
“Take care, little one.”
He smiled as her image winked out. He found and sent all the data he could find on the computer and sent it to Sam. It took time. So, he and the nekos did some more reading. Some of the nekos, like Claira Jaen, were catching on fast, while others struggled, but kept at it.
The scientist was too afraid to leave his room. So he laid on his bed exhausted. He groaned to hear the nekos in the lab reading again. He grabbed a pillow and put it over his face. But he could still hear them.
Sam contacted the nekos as soon as he and Felicia had checked over the data. White Lion answered him.
“Hi, Sam and Felicia!”
“Hi, White Lion, and nekos.” Sam looked at all the nekos trying to crowd behind White Lion. “What are you doing at the moment?”
“Oh, I was helping them to learn how to read because Claira Jaen asked me to teach her and the rest decided they wanted to learn as well.”
“Wow. How it is going so far?”
“Well, they can all sing the alphabet and recognize the letters. But it’s hard to know how well they are doing when many of them shout out the letter names and read out loud.”
Sam and Felicia smiled. She sat next to Sam and was quiet throughout the conversation as she was piloting their ship.
“We have a fix on your location, but we can’t see how to get inside.”
“Oh, He must have closed off the compound with his controller!” shouted one of the nekos.
“He?”
“Their creator, who claims to be my father.”
“Oh. Right, the genetic engineer that we’ve had trouble with in the past. Got it. Can you get the controller from him to open up the compound?”
“I don’t know,” said White Lion.
“We’ll get it!” A couple of nekos shouted. They ran off to His room to stealthily get the controller from Him.
“Well, that certainly makes things easier. We’ve sent the data on your colony to the other Guardians, who will review the information and make more notes. They will try to contact you as well. In the meantime, we will have to pick up your mama who has been asked to leave the trolley. We have suitcases for her so she can pack up.”
“What? Why does she have to leave the trolley?”
“She and Black Wolf had a fight and he’s gone. It sounds like he’s taking his trolley back.”
“Oh, no!”
“Why didn’t she tell us?” asked Claira Jaen.
“She probably didn’t want to talk about it and upset White Lion.”
“She really is a good mama to him, isn’t she?”
“Yes. That’s why we don’t want to separate them.”
“He’s my brother.”
“He is? Well, we will scan both of you to confirm that.”
“Okay. Will we have to be separated again?”
“No. I don’t see why we’d have to do that.”
“Wait, would his mama mind me?”
“Probably not, but I can’t speak for her.”
“Okay.”
Some screaming and yelling occurred in the scientist’s room. Followed by other loud noises for several minutes.
“I take it, the nekos are getting the controller,” commented Sam.
The computer announced, “The compound is now unlocked.”
The nekos cheered. The scientist screamed.
