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Deep into the woods, where nobody dared to venture and those who had rarely came back, a piercing scream could be heard from miles away. The flowers, ever curious creatures they were, had never heard such a distress sound in their lives and wanted to investigate what on Atra was going on. So, they summoned a small feline that was passing by to them and cried, “Oh Sir! Oh Sir! Would you be so kind to investigate what is going on?” The feline had always minded his own business and was certainly not eager to put his nose where it could be eaten, so he had simply turned away from the please of the flowers and kept on walking – until he himself heard the distressing sounds. Cursing his curious nature, the beautiful cat quickly perked his ears up and followed the sound, ignoring the flowers cheering on the background. After walking and sniffing for a bit, the beautiful, big red cat could not place what species of animal he was tracking. This edged his nerves to no end, not knowing what he was getting to, especially since he oh, so humbly considered himself one of the smartest creatures in all the three forest realms. Pushing these thoughts aside, the feline quickly went back to work and walked until he stumbled upon a strange creature he had never seen before. It wasn’t a chimpanzee and it wasn’t a baboon, so what could it possibly been? The said creature was in distress, crying in pain about something happening in its big, round stomach. The feline quickly got closer to it and when the creature got scared, he used his soothing powers that he typically only used with his pray upon it. He quickly inferred that the creature was giving birth. He didn’t want to get himself involved in something that was so strange, but he couldn’t exactly leave this creature and its soon to be baby to die out in such dangerous place. The feline, wishing that he would not regret this decision, quickly helped the creature until a different kind of cry pierced the air, the cry of a child. As soon as the feline laid eyes upon the small creature, he knew that something special had just been born. Coming back to reality after being enwrapped by the baby, the feline quickly urged the mother with its eyes and gestures the get up and start walking out of these dangerous woods. He knew that the mother had to be exhausted, yet he still pushed until she stood up, took her baby, and followed him out into the open where it would be easier to find her people. The mother, tired and sore, stopped before the edge of the woods, to try to thank the beautiful big cat that had been so kind to her and placed a blessing upon him. The cat didn’t really understand what was going on, but he could infer that sometime of gesture meaning gratefulness had just been placed upon him. The cat, not the most sentimental animal, quickly pushed away any feelings of attachment, put up his tail, and walked back to the woods and wondered what would become of the special baby he had just helped deliver to this world. Well, his curiosity would be soothed as the years passed and he kept stumbling upon the baby. Some years passed and the baby quickly grew up to be a smart and curious one. She kept stumbling upon paths not meant for her, whenever she went astray from her mother in order to keep on looking at the pretty flowers that helped other people. When she was still merely a child, the same exact feline stumbled up on her once again after several years. He quickly became alarmed when he recognized those same special eyes about to eat a flower that would kill her almost immediately. Quickly jumping up and tearing up away from her hand, the cat was surprised, and in all honestly a little bit offended, that the small girl had not even yelped in fear when a big cat had jumped upon her, she had merely laughed. A bit exasperated, the cat started berating her in his own language and it oddly seemed as if the girl could understand what he was saying. He was even more shocked when the girl answered back, completely confused as to why they could communicate. Shaking his head, the cat quickly escorted the small creature back to her village, which in all honestly took longer than expected because the girl would not stop looking at the pretty flowers. And so the years passed and the cat continued stumbling upon the girl. He didn’t know if it was fate, but as he grew more used to her, they started having adventures together where he would tell her stories about his kind and she would tell him why she was so obsessed with the pretty flowers. Because, in her words, “they helped cure the people”. Whenever they went on adventures together, they pretended to be knights, saving the woods from the evils that threatened it. The feline noticed that even though she had a special ability of communicating with almost every species they ever met, she had a special liking for the herbs and the medicines. The time when they stumbled upon an injured bird, when the girl was more grown and looked identical to the mother whom he had helped all those years ago, she stopped and quickly helped the bird with its broken wings. And so the years passed and their adventures together grew. He would helped her study for her study for her biology test and she would scratch his ears. The girl grew into a women in the matter of time, yet she never stopped visiting her feline and they never stopped going into the woods looking for new adventures to complete. While she grew stronger and beautiful, the feline became slower, his mane had become mostly grey, yet he was still as wise as ever. The feline knew he didn’t have much time left on the planet he called home, so he was dedicated to teach the girl all he knew about helping others and having one quality many creatures lack: kindness. When his time of death came to him, he quietly soothed the girl and told her to dedicate her life helping others, because that is where her talents were laid upon. After the death of her best friend, the girl became motivated into honoring her cat and his last wish, for her to be kind to others. After she finished her doctoral degree, she soon did something that almost gave her kind mother a heart attack, she signed up for the Infinity Knights Academy. Training was hard and rigorous, yet whenever the girl wanted to give up, she though of her beautiful, big cat and was motivated to try again. She passed her final Infinity Knight test with flying colors and was soon ready to get aboard the spaceship and  become the official doctor and special communicator of the Infinity Knight Crew. And that, is the story of how I became an Infinity Knight.