Cat Out of Luck (Unfamiliar Territory)

Some disasters start with good intentions. Others start with cats who think graduation ceremonies need more excitement.

Mischief is a perfectly reasonable cat familiar with simple priorities: sardines, proper napping spots, and maintaining his witch's magical education through selective chaos. When he helpfully destabilizes a portal to improve a boring graduation ritual, he gets transformed into a human body and stranded in a dimension where monks keep trying to pet him.

Indignity upon indignity.

But the interdimensional mishap is no accident. A cosmic entity called the Collector has been systematically harvesting independent familiars to power reality's portal networks—thousands of beings stolen and reduced to magical batteries.

Now Mischief faces a choice: find a way home to safety and sardines, or accept responsibility for beings who've been waiting decades for someone to care enough to fight back.

The problem is he's stuck in a body with the wrong number of legs, his chaos magic works differently in human form, and he's starting to suspect that maybe, possibly, the universe made a terrible mistake giving him any responsibility whatsoever.

Sometimes the only solution is to teach rigid systems proper behavior through applied chaos.