Katie was the first of the four friends to walk out of the chamber only to find a forest before her, it was a thick and lush forest and with her new Puma hearing she could hear the snapping of branches in the woods. She moved forward to allow her other friends to enter the woods.
“You must be the girls.” Said a voice as she turned to see a woman, well a bobcat woman standing there with a bright yellow vest over her fur covered breast. Her name tag and vest marked her as worker.
“Yes.” Said Jade as the woman nodded.
“Good, I an Liz and I will be leading you and the other group to our little community.” Said Liz as she looked at all four of them. “I feel I should remind you ladies that while you all signed up for the matchmaking program you can turn back to human if you are not with child.”
“Thank you.” Said Amber
“Another group?” inquired Molly
“Yes, a group of four men are becoming cat people, they should be finishing shortly. Truth be told all four of them signed up for the match making program as well.” Reported Liz as Katie raised an eyebrow, this couldn’t have been better if she tried. Then a door next to the room they had used opened and four man walked out, the first one was a black panther man which looked somewhat familiar to her followed by a Tiger man and a Cheetah Man she didn’t know. Last one out was a Lion man. The four man all looked at the four women and for a moment no one moved aside from Liz who introduced herself.
“Well why don’t we go around and say hello to each other.” Advised Jade “I am Jade.”
“Molly.” Said Molly as she eyed the tiger man and he eyed her.
“Amber.” Said Amber as a brief moment of recognition crossed the Lion and Panther’s face, however it left the Lion’s face but not the Panther’s.
“Katie.” Introduced Katie as the Panther’s eyes widened a bit but no one else did.
“Jim.” Introduced the Cheetah man
“James.” Introduced the tiger man
“Robert.” Introduced the Lion as it was Katie’s turn to recognize the name.
“Steve.” Said the Panther looking at Katie, both of them recognized each other but so far it seamed that only Katie and Steve seamed to release who each other was and most importantly that Katie and Robert where in fact engaged to each other on the outside.
“So shall we head off, please stay together while we head to the town where you will all be staying.” Said Liz as they headed down a path, unaware of who each other where the group began to merge and people began to talk. Maybe it was the fact that they had just become cat people but so far no one had dropped last names or who they where outside. Katie and Steve waited for the others to pass and pulled back a bit.
“What the hell are you doing here?” inquired Katie “Did you follow us?”
“No…I was about to ask you the same damn thing.” Whispered Steve as suddenly laughter could be heard as both looked toward Katie and Robert who seamed to have shared a joke with each other. “My God they don’t recognize each other.”
“Clearly not, so what the hell are you doing here?” inquired Katie, the change did make everyone look differently and Jade and Molly had never meet Robert or Steve or any of his friends truth be told. Same went for Robert's friends and truth be told she wasn't sure how well Robert and Amber knew each other, it was their families who where forcing this marriage not them. Was it possible that they didn't recognize each other.
“A last-ditch attempt to avoid marrying her.” explained Steve as Katie looked at him, his dark panther eyes looking at her now. “You all?”
“The same.” confirmed Katie “Wait why would he not want to marry my best friend?”
“Katie did you see that!” inquired Jade as Katie blinked.
“Later.” whispered Steve
“Agreed.” confirmed Katie as the 8 of them followed their guide deeper into the resort.