(You actually bought something in red AND a whip? I didn't think you had it in you, Blossom XD)

Nick froze when he heard a dog's growl. He looked towards the alley he had just been passing, every hair on his brown tabby coat standing on end. A wave of relief washed over him as he realized the dog hadn't even noticed him and had been growling at something else. But concern soon hit him again as he realized just what exactly the dog at been growling at for there, frozen with fear, was a young boy. He didn't look that much younger than Nick.

Now, Nick had never exactly been the hero type but he'd never exactly been the hearltess type either. That dog was going to kill that boy unless someone did something and seeing as there was no one else around, that 'someone' would have to be Nick. Also, it would give him a good chane to try out that new trick his grandmother had taught him.

Before he knew it, he was growing bigger, his fur was growing shorter and changing to a much lighter tan. In the space of a few seconds, Nick had gone from an ordinary tabby cat to a proud bullmastiff. For years the boy had always had to change back into a human if he'd wanted to change into another type of animal but now he could quickly and easilly go from one animal to another, a trick that was about to come in very handy because before he even had time to come up with a good strategy as to how to deal with the other dog, it lunged at the boy. Without thinking, Nick let out a loud bark as he ran into the alley, full speed ahead towards the attacker.

The loud bark startled the other dog and it halted as it turned to look at what had made the sound. While shock was a fairly hard thing for an animal to show through facial features alone, Nick could've sworn he saw a look of fear and suprise on the smaller dog's face as this large beast of an animal charged towards it.

The smaller dog just stood there, not quite sure what to do and when it had finally decided to run it was too late and Nick was upon him. The boy loved animals and would never intentionally hurt one so instead of taking a bite out of the canine, he simply knocked him over. Being nearly twice the other dog's side made it easy to bowl himover without Nick hurting himself and doing such a thing would most likely simply wind the smaller dog so it was a win-win for everyone.

It only took a moment for the street dog to recover being run into by the giant and the moment it did, it ran out of that alley like a bat out of hell with its tail between its legs. As Nick watched the dog run, he let out a little 'huff' which sounded like something between a bark and a sigh. He then turned his attention to the boy. He looked frightened but other than that was unharmed.