Once upon a time, there was a beloved stuffed plush cat. Her human called her Styches. They were as close as a child and their favorite child could be. And every night, her human would pray for Styches to be a real cat. It was like the Velveteen Rabbit story.
But Styches never became real. However, she obtained a soul of her own. And while she could never move or speak to her human, as soon as the child was out of the room, the plush cat would sit up and stare longingly after her.
When the child reached the ripe age of fourteen, she abandoned Styches on the side of the road on a rainy day. The plushie cat didn't know what to do. It had been not even a week or two earlier that she had watched Toy Story 3 with her human...
And even though she was just a plush cat, she was smart enough to know that even if she made her way back home, she would find that she really had no home to return to.
So Styches began to wander the world. Children would see her, picker her up, and play with her, but not one of them took her home. She began to live a very lonely existence, and her once pure heart began to darken until there was no light in it. Even her button eyes lost the sparkle that used to shine in them.
After many, many years of her solitary wandering, Styches accepted that she couldn???t move anymore. She was ripped in many places, and her stuffing was falling out. The unfailing love of a child that had once granted her life was fading, and the raggedy plush cat was resigned that she would meet her end soon.
Until she met the angel feline, who was much like her, only he was real. He settled down next to her weary body, and asked her if she wanted to be a real creature. But Styches declined. She had nothing to live for.
???That is pathetic,??? a new, huskier voice said. It wasn???t anything like Antoccino???s soft voice. Styches looked up, and saw the devil cat in front of her. He was sneering down at her, and she felt herself bristle at his expression. ???You would turn down the chance to live just because you lost your human? You think that being a child???s plaything is your only purpose in life????
Styches didn???t say anything to the devil, but instead slowly stood back up. Her legs shook from exhaustion, and her body trembled in pain, but her eyes had a fierce glint in them; a shine that had long since been missing. She accepted Antoccino???s offer to become a real creature, and soon, although she retained her plush-looking form, she was a living, breathing cat.
And she lived just to prove to the devil that she could indeed live without a purpose. Originally, she had planned to do it just to spite him, whether or not he was watching, but much to her surprise, the devil, who???s name was actually Iaxe, stuck around. It didn???t take long for things between them to get rolling.
It was like something out of a fairy tale, only more??? Realistic. He was persistent, always bothering her just to see which of her buttons that he could push. And slowly, as they learned about each other, of course, they began to fall in love.
Antoccino, Iaxe???s brother, knew from the start that they would be together, so when he caught them snuggling one day, he wasn???t surprised at all. In fact, he went to curl up with his own mates, a small smile on his face, because he knew that his devilish brother had finally found the one thing that would keep him from being completely destructive.
It wasn???t long before Enrine came into the picture. She was the apple of her daddy???s eye, and her mother???s baby girl. Her big silver eyes melted just about everyone???s hearts, even though half the time, the shy baby looked like she was glaring.
But everything was perfect for the small family. Iaxe settled down, Styches learned that she did have a purpose, a purpose that she found in her mate and baby, and Enrine??? Well, she just had to grow up before deciding anything.
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