The New Litter of Kittens

Note: This story takes place 2 months after the Jellicle Ball. Mistoffelees and Victoria are together.

"Lookie! Misto and Vicky have kittens!" Poucival hollered at the top of his lungs.

"Hush! You'll wake them!" Victoria said as she set the small kitten down. The kitten looked exactly like Mistoffelees, and she immediatly started to puff her fur out and hiss. Pouncival backed up. The other kitten, which looked like Victoria, hid behind Mistoffelees."They're always doing that." Victoria said by way of explaination."They don't like anybody."

Cassandra and Alonzo walked up just then, and Cassandra said, "So, you FINALLY brought them to the junkyard."

"They've only been around for 1 week, what do you expect?" Mistoffelees looked at his daughter, who hissed and swiped her claws at Alonzo.

"Hey, look, this one looks 'zactly like you, Misto." Pouncival peered at the little black and white kitten, who chose to run away.

"Yeah, and you know what that means." Cassandra looked at the little kitten.

Mistoffelees nodded. Yes, he knew what that meant. The way magical powers went, the kitten that looked " 'zactly like him", was the kitten who'd get the powers. So the little kitten would be the magical cat when he was gone. He shook his head. No time to think about that now. Alot of Jellicles had come to see the terrified kittens.

"Lookie, this one looks like Misto." Pouncival pointed at the small kitten, who started to wail.

"Now stop it, it's not a freak show." Jennyanydots slapped his paw, which hurt his pride more then his paw.

"What're their names?" Tumblebrutus looked at the kittens from a distance.

"Because Jade brings good luck." Victoria glared at Pouncival. "And the other one is Cornelius, and before you ask, because we like the name."

"Didn't know she could talk, did you?" Misto asked, laughing." Cornelius can, but dosen't."

The kittens immediatly turned to Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer, who had just arrived. Cornelius hid behind his smaller sister and whispered, "Don't talk to them. They bad." And Jade answered, "You think everybody bad, Conilius!"

Rumpleteazer sniffed, but said, "I don't appriciate being called bad, Mister Kitten!"

Cornelius screamed and ran away, and Jade said, "I can't esplain him, he have no manners!"

As time passed, the kittens got older, and the biggest event of their short lives happened. One day, while they were playing, Jade absent-mindedly pointed at Cornelius and lightning shot out.

Jade screamed and ran away, leaving her brother crying. Mistoffelees took firmly by the paw and went to talk to her.

"Yes, but I don't want you using them without me there, okay?" Mistoffelees looked at her sternly.

"Yes, Daddy, I won't use my powers." Jade said ernestly, cackling inside.

Later that day, Jade went up to Munkustrap. " You know, nobody can mess with me now." she declared. "Wanna know why?"

" "Cause of this!" Jade yelled. She shot lighting one direction, but, alas, from her lack of control, she ended up zapping Munkustrap. Next thing she knew, Misto was looking at her and frowning." I told you not to use your powers."

"But I didn't mean to zap him!" the little black and white kitten stared at her paws.

"Exzactly. You could hurt someone else, or your self." Mistoffelees sent her on her way with a little pat on the rear. When he turned away, she made a face. "I'll do what I please, thank you very much!"

Later that week, Cornelius was on the look-out( "For spies" he had proudly told Tumblebrutus) when he saw the cat. He screeched, and ran to tell someone. The only cat he could find was Jemima, who was asleep.

"What? Who's there?" she woke up with a start. "Oh, 'Nelius, don't do that. I thought you were Macavity!"

"Oh, no. Go find someone slighly bigger then me, and by all means, STAY WITH THEM!" Jemima started to look for Munkustrap or Alonzo. At least THEY would be able to fight Macavity, she thought.

Jemima smiled. "Go find one of the other cats. They'll be able to protect you better. And find your sister."

Jemima started to walk away when she heard a rustle in the bushes and a "Hey, you're squishing my tail!" and Jade and Pouncival came out, dressed as Macavity. Jemima gasped. "You were dressed as Macavity! You scared poor Cornelius half to death!"

Jemima started to scold. "I should tell you're Mama, Jade! And you," she started to adress Pounci.

Cornelius walked up with Mistoffelees, Victoria, and Alonzo. "It was Macavity! I saw him!"

"Jade! Pouncival! It was you!" Alonzo looked from one to the other, from the little kitten to the teenager.

What they didn't see as they scolded the mischievious pair was the ginger shadow in the bushes behind them.

"Probably with Tumble." Cornelius said sourly. He had grown attached to the other cat as much as Jade had grown attached to Pouncival.

The pair of kittens whirled around. "Who are you?" Jade asked, suspciously.

It sounded familar... that name... oh, well, Jade thought. They could still play with him.

"Okay," Cornelius said doubtfully. "But we have to get home by 6 o' clock."

"Oh, you'll be home in no time." The Hidden Paw led the unsuspecting pair toward his hideout.

"I wanna go hooooooooome!" Cornelius wailed. "You didn't tell us your real name."

"I have many names. That is but one, little kits." Macavity poked at the little black and white kitten.

"I detest kittens with a large vocabulary. You'll not get any food from me." Macavity then left the kittens to their own devices.

Jade concentrated very hard on the lock of her cage. The lock broke and the door swung open.

Jade raced over to find that Cornelius' cage didn't have a lock."Come on," she whispered to her brother. "Let's get outta here..."

Meanwhile, back at the junkyard, all the Jellicles were frantic over the missing kittens.

"Macavity probably got them!" Pouncival exclaimed. "Just imagine what he'd do with Jade's powers! Or he could just kill them! Or..."

"I'm sure you're making Misto and Vicki feel really good right now, huh Pounci?" Tumblebrutus took a swipe at the teenager, but Pouncival dodged Tumble's paw and continued his list of "Or he could"s.

Mistoffelees suggested that he conjure them back, but Munkustrap said that that would be dangerous because Macavity might figure out Jade had powers. Bombalurina said they could go and steal the kittens back, but Demeter pointed out that he may have brainwashed them.

"Then what's the point of getting them back?" Rum Tum Tugger exploded. "Look, Jade's a smart little kit, she, and she alone, will get them out of this probably."

"What?" about ten Jellicles yelled. They all scoffed and went back to planning.

"Come on," Jade whispered, passing the sleeping guard at the door." This is easy! I could get us out in my sleep!"

But then they heard Macavity scream behind them, "She's related to that Misto-whatever! Get them!"

The two kittens ran at top speed but they were cornered and they had two choices: surrender or use Jade's magic. Jade whispered to herself something that sounded like "Presto" and they dissapeared.

Suddenly, the pair appeared in the junkyard, and in a flurry of "Hey"s and "Are you alright"s and "I told you so"s, they were greeted by the older cats.

"What happened? How'd you get back?" Pouncival was looking at Jade the whole time.

"She used her magic." Cornelius had a look on his face like, "And she's my sister."

"Good girl." Mistoffelees picked up the little kitten who smiled as wide as Bustopher Jones, but Mistoffelees said, " But you still can't use your powers without me there, onless it's a desperate situation."

"When you're grown up." Misto looked her over, making sure she was all right.

"And you're doing that all ready." Pouncival pointed out, acting as though he hadn't been worried at all.

"Yup. I sure am!" Jade smiled again, and all the Jellicles laughed because she ran up and gave Pouncival a big kiss. And a very red Pouncival ran away shouting "Bleach!" at the top of his lungs.