Cativation - Chapter 14

The stone stair leading to the temple is quite long, but with Bluetail and Laptop’s speed in soul form, they arrived in front of the temple in blink of an eye.

They peek through the temple wooden gate into the hall and see two rows of cat monks laying there neatly and motionlessly. There are sound of “purr purr” coming out constantly from them. The hall is dimly lit with five big candles and the ambiance is relaxing and sacred. Those cats are praying to a golden statue of sleeping Buddha in front of them. There are about twenty cats there and a few human monks. Bluetail knows those human monks can’t see those cats because no human would allow cats to meditate next to them, cat is an inferior race on Earth after all. Also, it would be weird if cats show they can pray here anyway. Every cat in this hall should be in their soul form.

“I have been here before, there actually aren’t any cat living in the temple, only monks and a few dogs. Every cat monk here is in their soul form and most of them live in Japan while some are from oversea.” Said Laptop.

“How do we prank them?” Asked Bluetail.

“I don’t know, I have never trying to prank them before even though it isn’t my first time here. I just feel an impulse today and got some nerves with you around haha.”

“Since we can’t interact with real world in soul form, we don’t have a lot of options here. However, we can touch and talk to other soul forms, maybe we can figure out something.” Said Laptop while scratching his head embarrassingly.

“So, you pulled me here without any real reason and without any action plan? Do you think this gentleman have so much free times to waste like this? Tell me why do you want to prank them else you go prank them yourself.” Bluetail face darkened. He thought this will be a quick and fun prank so he decided to take a break from the routine, who know this guy isn’t reliable at all.

“Don’t you find these monks such a bunch of hypocrite? They pray all day for nothing, they talk flowery and sage words while having a heart of serpent. We are doing a good deed of pranking… Fine! I have a grudge with the leader of this bunch of monks.” Laptop noticed Bluetail’s deathly stare and hurriedly said.

“What grudge?” Frowned Bluetail. Prank every cat monk here for a personal affair? Isn’t this too much?

Laptop gritted his teeth: “The leader of this group of cat monks is a hypocrite. His name is Bottle and he is my neighbor. We used to be friend until a month ago, something happened and we are fighting each other now. He kept going to my house and break everything, my owner got mad and threatened to take me to the shelter after a few times. I want to get back at him now, he bragged about his cult a lot and I want to ruin that.”

“Tell me more about the details, why do you two fight each other? What could turn things to this point of no return?” Asked Bluetail.

Laptop hesitated then let’s out a sign. He looked at the sky and his eyes are full of sorrow. He solemnly said: “One month ago, a family moved next to our houses. It was a young couple, full of vigor and energy. They have a nice smell and gave me and Bottle tasty foods from time to time. Me and Bottle snuck in their house one day and saw Jade. She immediately captured our hearts.”

“The old and wise once said: One can give up everything but not beauty. Me and Bottle became archenemy from that day onward.”

Bluetail eyes almost popped out. He doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. They are fighting to this extend for a girl? One is about to get kicked out of his house, other is about to get his life work ruined. Damn maniacs. Laptop wants to pull me into this mess too, I don’t want to be your friend anymore. That Bottle too, he is a cat monk but still want to get girls? Deserved to be ruined. And what with that proverb? One can give up everything but not beauty? Tell me who the hell said that so I can go and pull his whiskers out, if he is dead I will go and dig his corpse out to pull his whiskers out.

“So, she is Bottle’s lover now?” Bluetail closed his eyes to calm down while asking.

“No, she isn’t. She is going out with another cat, his look is better than us and his human family is really rich, his treats smell so good I dream about it every night while drooling.” Said Laptop.

Bluetail almost fainted. You guys are fighting for a girl who doesn’t go out with neither of you and in couple with another guy. Are you guys stupid?

“She said she only stays with that guy for his treats and she had her eyes on both me and Bottle, that’s why we are trying to kick each other down.” Said Laptop knowing what Bluetail is thinking.

“Help me brother Bluetail, just do this for fun and I will own you one. That Bottle guy is a hypocrite so he deserved it regardless, we are doing it for justice.” Laptop pleaded pitifully.

“Your dumb ass is being manipulated by a girl and you still keen on doing this? I am speechless. I guess the outsider always see better than the inside. Fine, I will help you this time, for free yea, your favor isn’t worth shit anyway.” Bluetail sighed. They are already in front of the temple gate and Bluetail relationship with Laptop isn’t bad, Bottle seems like a bad guy too so he agreed.

“Let’s come up with a plan then.” Said Bluetail.

Moving out next months, lot of thing to do.