Young Bombalurina and Demeter were walking away from their home one day in the late fall. They had just decided to get a little fresh air after spending the entire day inside.Then,they heard a loud sound come from a nearby alley.A tall, ginger, tabby walked out and stared them both in the eyes. "Well,well,well... what do we have here? House cats." he said.

"Who...Who are you?" Bomba managed to get it out.

"Maybe you've heard of me. The name's Macavity." Bomba's eyes filled with terror as she heard his name. She remembered the Gumbie cat at her house, Skittleypatt, speak of this cat. She said he had done some pretty bad things. He had committed every crime in the book!

"I... my name... is ...um" Bomba stuttered as she tried to talk.

"No need to introduce yourself. I know your names. Bombalurina and Demeter."

"How did you know?" asked Demeter, curiously.

"I've followed you two on your little walks for quite some time. I must confess, I've fallen madly in love with you Bombalurina." Macavity explained. Bomba stared at him as if he were crazy.

"I think we should run." she whispered to Demeter.

"I don't think you'll be going anywhere. Killerilion, Killenrilion, take these two back to the lair." Macavity snapped his paw and two identical twin cats came out and took Bombalurina and Demeter down the alley to an old abandoned building. This was turning out not to be your everyday walk.

The queen of the twins,Killerilion, had Demeter and the tom, Killenrilion, had Bombalurina. When they reached the old building, the twins let the sisters go and Macavity, who had been following the whole time, escorted them into his lair. Inside, there were a few cats hanging out in a huge room. They all straightened up when Macavity entered ." My agents, I have a wonderful announcement..." Macavity started," The two queens I have told you all about are here. I expect you to treat them like you treat me and if anyone doesn't..." Macavity stuck out one of his claws "..well,you get the idea. I would like you all to meet Bombalurina and Demeter." Macavity turned to the queens. "I will escort you to your room." The tall, ginger cat walked across the room with the girls closely following. He lead them up a staircase and opened a door.

"This will be your room. If you need anything, I'll get it for you. My agents, Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer, will be here in a while to show you around my lair." And with that Macavity left, leaving Bomba and Demeter alone.

"Oh, Bomba! How did our walk turn in to this!? I just want to get out of here!" "Don't worry, Dem, we'll get out of here somehow."

Just then, two calico cats walked into the room. "'ello! My name is Mungojerrie and this is my partner Rumpleteazer." said the tom pointing and the queen.

"'ello!" she said with a wave. "Okay, the boss said to take one of you on the tour at a time and, since we're going in reverse alphabetical order, Demeter is going first." Demeter reluctantly followed and waved to Bomba. Bomba waved back. She walked over to the bed in the small room and laid down.

Not long after Demeter had left, Macavity came into the room. "Well, I see you're alone." he said.

"Why are you here?" Bomba asked,getting up.

"Bombalurina, you don't know how my life is."

"Yes I do. You're a rotten, low-down thief who bosses around a bunch of Cats you have nothing left to do with their lives than listen to you." Bombalurina turned around to face the wall. She couldn't even look at him. How did this all happen?

"That's what most Cats think..." he started. " A lot of Cats don't know why I'm like this. They just know that I'm one bad guy." He sighed and said " Have you ever heard of the Jellicles?"

"Can't say that I have." Bomba said, sharply, not turning around.

"They're a tribe of Cats that don't live too far from here. I used to be one of them. My brother, Munkustrap, still lives with them. Anyways, one day I saw the coolest thing in the world in my brothers' pipe. I new coller. It was much better than mine and I really wanted a new one. So, I decided to take it. When he found out, he put me on trial for stealing. They found me guilty and I was banned from the Junkyard,that's where they live, for life. I begged for a second chance but they didn't give it to me."

Bombalurina turned around to listen. She thought that this story was starting to get interesting. " Ever since then, I've hated the Jellicles and want revenge. I got together a few rejected Cats to be my agents and day by day, I got more and more used to being bad. I was very lonely though. Until I saw you and your sister walking one day. I was attracted to you. You are a very beautiful queen and after listening to you talk for more than a year, I've found you to be a very interesting Cat. You're not prissy and stuck up like most queens I've met. You're very friendly, open-minded, and like that little spice you have." He paused. " But why would you like a cat like me." he said, turning to walk out of the room.

"No, Macavity." Bomba said walking toward him. " Now that I know all you've been through I....I sort of think I could like you. I didn't know that all of this had happened to you before." Macavity walked closer to Bomba and they stared at each other for awhile.

Then, just as they were about to kiss, Mungojerrie, Rumpleteazer, and Demeter returned.

" Oh my..." Rumpleteazer said, fainting . Mungojerrie caught her without looking down.

Macavity looked over and screamed " Mungojerrie, get out of here!!!!!"

"Yes, sir!" Mungojerrie said, finally taking his eyes off Macavity. He drug Rumpleteazer down the hall and took her into their room.

"Good bye, Bombalurina." Macavity said. Then, he walked out of the room. Demeter walked in and sat down on the bed.

"Demeter..." Bomba started.

"Yeah, Bomba?"

"I think I'm in love."

"WHAT?! Bomba you can't fall for him. He's not good." Demeter said.

"Oh, Demeter. He's not who you think he is. He's got a soft side." explained Bomba.

"I still don't know about this." Demeter sat down.

Then, the door opened and Macavity walked in again. "Bombalurina, could I see you for a moment?" he said, quietly.

"Sure, I guess..." she said. The two walked out of the room and into Macavity's room.

"Bombalurina I..."

"Please, you can call me Bomba." "Okay, Bomba, after I left your room I got to thinking. I think you and your sister would be wonderful agents for me. That is if you want to."

Bomba stared at him for a while. She thought about it. Did she really want to do this? She really liked Macavity and, in the end, decided that she would do this for him. "Alright, I'll do it. I can't promise you that Demeter will want to, but I'll do it." she said.

"Oh, thank you, Bomba. Thank you. So how about that kiss that was interrupted before?" he asked.

"Well, I guess we could..." Her voice trailed off and she grew closer to Macavity.

Just then, the door opened. It was Mungojerrie. "Oh why, oh why, oh why..."

Mungo sighed. "MUNGOJERRIE!!!!" Macavity yelled.

"Okay, boss, I'll go away." he said, turning around.

"No. I want you to take Bomba and, perhaps Demeter, on their first mission."

"Well, do you want me to get Rumple up?"

"That's fine."

"C'mon, miss. We're going to get Rumple up." Mungo said as he took Bomba's hand and lead her out of the room.

"So, where's your room?" asked Bomba.

"It's right down the hallway. Rumple should be getting up from fainting soon." They walked down the hall and opened the door to Mungo and Rumple's room.

Rumple wasn't up so Mungo decicded to go without her. "Well, I guess we should be going then." he said, making his way towards the stairs.

"Wait. I need to get Demeter." Bomba said. She went into their room and found Demeter staring out the only window in the place.

"Demeter, I was wondering if you would like to come with us on my first mission. Macavity wants us to be agents for him."

Demeter looked over and said "Do I have a choice? I'll end up as one of his agents anyway so I guess it doesn't matter!" She sat for a second and then said "What do you mean "us"?"

"Oh, Mungojerrie is going to be helping us." Demeter sighed and walked out the door.

"You guys ready to go?" Mungo asked.

"I guess..." said Bomba. The trio of cats left Macavity's Lair.

"You'll see! I'll teach you everything there is to know about being one of Big Mac's agents." Bomba smiled and looked at Demeter who had an almost annoyed look on her face. Bomba's smiled faded. Couldn't Dem understand that she loved Macavity? Bomba turned away and,silently, continued to follow Mungojerrie.

They walked for a while. Then, they came upon a large house. "Where are we?" asked Demeter, finally speaking.

"This is where Rumple and I live. Victoria Grove. We're going to start on something easy. You two are going to steal the Miss's pearl necklace."

"Sure!That'll be easy." said Bomba.

"Uh, uh,uh! You have to get past the Miss's first. The pearls are upstairs." added Mungojerrie.

"Oh..." sighed Bomba. She walked up to the house and Demeter followed. They walked in the cat door. Mungo appeared next to them.

"I'll distract her." he said looking at the Missus. He walked up to her "Meow! Meow! MEEEOOOW!"

"Awww. Hey, boy. Ya' want some food?" she walked over to a cabnet and pulled out some food. Bomba and Demeter snuck in and walked right through the kitchen without a problem.

"I can't believe I'm doing this." whispered Demeter.

"Shhh!" hushed Bomba. They got through the living room and up the stairs. Bomba assumed that the pearls would be in the Miss's bedroom and walked in.

Bomba jumped up on the dresser and looked in the jewelry box. There it was. The pearl necklace. Bomba grabbed it and jumped down. "Let's go!" The two walked back down stairs. The Missus was right in the doorway. "What are we going to do?" asked Bomba.

"I have a plan." said Demeter. "REEEEEOOOOW!!!" She let out a loud meow and the two ran under a table.

"Huh?" said the Missus, turning around. While she was looking around, Bomba and Dem ran out the door. Seeing that they had left, Mungo ran out too, leaving the Missus quite confused.

"That was good,huh?" laughed Demeter.

"I thought you said that you didn't want to be one of Macavity's agents." said Bomba.

"Well, I've decided that it's not that bad." replied Demeter.

"So, what do think about Macavity?"

Demeter sighed. "He's going to take some getting used to." she decided.

"Hey!" yelled Mungo.

"You guys want to go back or not?"

"We're coming." Bomba shouted back. The two got up and followed Mungo who was already on his way back to Macavity's Lair.

"Macavity?" asked Bomba,later that night.

"Yes,my dear?"

"Um... as you know we got the necklace and well, Demeter would like to be one of your agents too." Macavity padded over to Bomba.

"That's wonderful!" Macavity smiled. "So, now, do you want to finish that kiss?"

Bomba grinned. "One second." She walked to the door and shut it. Mungojerrie wasn't going to bother them now. "Okay." she whispered. Macavity wrapped his arms around her and the two enjoyed a long, luxurious kiss.

Almost half a year later, Bomba and Demeter were big time agents for Macavity. Bomba and Macavity were officially in love and all respected Dem and Bomba.

One night, Bombalurina and Demeter were outside of the building practicing hunting moves. Suddenly,they heard a sound from a nearby alley. They froze. The two knew what to do. Bomba positioned to pounce when a familier figure walked out. It was Skittleypatt the Gumbie Cat! Two other cats were with her.

"Skittleypatt! What are you doing here?" asked Demeter.

"There's now time to explain now! You two have to get out of here." Skittleypatt saw that the girls were looking at the toms behind her.

"Oh! This is Munkustrap and Rum Tum Tugger. They're Jellicles."

Jellicles! The word rung in Bomba's mind like a bell. "JELLICLES!!!" she yelled. "They're not good!"

"Bombalurina! I'm a Jellicle now! And soon you're going to be a Jellicle because you can't live here! You'll end up killing cats one after another. You'll steal and steal until there's nothing left to be stolen!" Skittleypatt explained.

Demeter understood. She sighed. "Bomba, you know she's right. We can't do this anymore."

"Do you understand?" asked Skittleypatt, sternly. Bomba lowered her head.

"Yes, I understand." sighed Bomba. "Then let's go." said Skittleypatt, walking toward the Junkyard. Bomba followed.

Up, looking out a window, Macavity, Mungojerrie, and Rumpleteazer watched as they left. "Your going to let them go!?" asked Mungo.

"Yes." replied Macavity.

"But...but why?" "I want what's best for Bombalurina."

He turned away and left the room.

Bombalurina and Demeter quickly learned to love the Jellicles and love being Jellicles. Demeter even had a mate. Munkustrap. Bomba,on the other hand, couldn't forget Macavity. But she sort of liked Rum Tum Tugger. The girls had made a friend. Her name was Wrenabelle. She was a black cat. Her kitten, Mistoffelees, was black and white though. Bomba and Dem were now true Jellicles but never forgot Macavity.

Once a year, at the Jellicle Ball, they sung of his deeds.