Soot and Jelly were sitting next to Mina. "You felt something?" asked Jelly.
"What was it?" hissed Soot pouncing on Mina's head.
"I don't know, but it felt familiar & evil at the same time." Mina replied shaking off Soot. Soot fell on Mina's back with a slight thump. "Ouch."
"Sorry Soot." Soot got off Mina's back. Jelly told them goodbye and went to talk to Jenny. Vicky and Jemima came by and asked Soot to play. Mina fell asleep by herself.
~ "Midnight Lighting! Belladonna! Come here!" called their mother. Midnight Lighting and Belladonna were hiding in the crate. Belladonna sneezed."There you are." said their mother, grabbing them and gently pulling them out of the crate. Their mother sighed. "What am I going to do with you two?"
Midnight Lighting, which was Mina's mother's nick name for her, shrugged.
"I know what you can do. You can give them to me." Macavity walked out of the shadows. "Oh come now., they're mine to begin with."
Midnight's and Bell's mom fluffed up ready for a fight. "Over my dead body."
Macavity shrugged. "As you wish." He unsheathed his claws. Macavity and the girls mother proceeded to get into a fight. Fur flew, blood flowed.
"Girls run!" screamed their mother. "After them!" roared Macavity. Midnight & Bell took off. The rats chased after them. "Midnight wait!" cried Belladonna. She didn't. She ran faster and hid behind a trash bin. The rats caught up to Belladonna and tackled her. "Midnight help me!!" cried Belladonna as they dragged the small kitten away. Midnight Lighting came out of hiding. Bell was gone. "Bell? Mommy?" she asked looking for them. She ran back to the alley that they lived in. And found her mother. "Mommy?" she said rubbing against her side.
Her mother coughed. "Mina, Midnight Lighting, look at me." she said, using both Mina's real name and her nick name. "What Macavity said isn't true. You & your sister aren't his." "Who's are we then?"
"Your father is Old Deuteronomy."
Midnight Lighting gasped. "What? Our...Our father is Old Deuteronomy?"
Her Mother had told her & Bell about him. About how he was the leader of the Jellicles. "Yes, Midnight. He is your father. Go to him. He'll take care of you." Her mother coughed out one last breath & died, a drop of blood running from her mouth.
"Mommy?" Midnight said pushing her."Mommy? Mommy please wake up!" she cried, pushing her mother, begging her to wake up. "I never even got to tell her that Macavity got Belladonna." she thought as she stumbled out of the alley.~
Mina woke up from her nap. "Not again." she moaned.
"Not what again?" asked Patchy.
"Hey Patchy. I had a bad dream. I had hoped I had left it in the past. But it's always there, waiting."
"Tell me." Patchy sais sitting down next to Mina. She told Patchy about what happened before she joined the Jellicles. How her mother was killed & her sister captured by Macavity.
Meanwhile a gray blob was watching them from the shadows. "Grab Mina & then get out." Belladonna thought. She leapt from the darkness.
