Bond
by Teddy Howard
Iggy walked under the scorching midday sun. Where could that cat be? He heard some rattlings in an alley. He crept up to it and stuck his head into it. He saw Selina lying on a garbage can. She seemed to be asleep. Iggy walked up to her. Selina opened an eye.
"Oh. You. What do you want? Do you think I'm commiting every crime around here? The rats and pidgeon and crows do most of that! And those stinking dogs....." Iggy felt one of his hands shake a bit. Selina was known to be able to beat any creature in New York in a fight.
"W-Well... I do have you as a suspect in a case... You're n-not the only one."
Selina sighed. "Alright, get on with it!"
"As you may know Sammy squirrel has been murdered. You did know him, correct?"
"Yes, he was a pain in the neck. Of course not as much as those dogs, as you'll soon find out."
"What do you mean, as you'll soon find out?"
"Follow me."
Selina walked out to the street. Iggy followed hesitantly. "Get on my back." Iggy obeyed. Selina watched the cars going by. She seemed to ready herself for somthing, Iggy didn't know what. Selina jumped. Her claws cought on the bumper of a car. She waved like a flag, hanging on to the back of the car. Iggy felt very sick. Selina pulled herself in, but no sooner had she done that she jumped off again. Iggy fell off Selina's back, heart thumping like a wildebeast stampede.
"Reptiles." Selina lay on the edge of the street trying to look cute enough for somebody to pet her, which was hard enough, but impossible in New York.
Iggy got up. "Well, where to next?"
"As I said before, follow me." Selina ran through the feet of the street zombies into another alley. She crawled into a large vent. Iggy was even more hesitant now, but he followed. They started to hear voices. "Be very, very, quiet."
Iggy was good at that. So he was. Iggy's adventuring spirit took over and he walked past Selina and looked out the vent. What he saw in front of him was a group of pidgeons and dogs. He recognized one. It was the "Big Kahuna". A large dog who from what Iggy could tell was the leader of the dogs spoke out. "So you told him that you would reward him if he figured out the case? How stupid can you get? He could figure out who murdered him!"
The Big Kahuna smiled. "One thing that you do not see is that we can kill him while he's investigating alone, and make it look like he died of an accident while investigating."
"Hmmmm.... It might work. Well, at least Sammy squirrel is gone."
"Quite." Selina and Iggy went back through the vent. "See what I mean about those stinking dogs?"
"Yes. I have a question for you. They said they would try to kill me while I was investigating alone. If you follow me just about everywhere then they probably won't try to kill me in that way. They might attack two people, but the last person they would attck would be you. Do you accept?"
"Well.......I guess, if it will show that those dogs and pidgeons are the crooks they are. I'll go with you everywhere you want me to."
Iggy decides to: