Macavity's Tale
I need more kittens for my training, Macavity thought unpleasantly, that
meant that he would have to go back to the Jellicle junkyard and take
someone. He frowned, he really hated visiting that happy heaviside place. He
groaned at the thought, but none the less, he needed more kittens. So, that
night, the night before the Jellicle ball, he decided to go to the junkyard,
and take a kitten. He had a few in mind. There was Electra, the whinny one,
he shook his head, she wouldn't pass a single test. Then there was Ecetera,
hm, she might work. No, she was to childish, she would fail just as Electra
would. What about Pouncival, no. A tom, no no. Even though Pounce was young,
he would still put up to much of a fight for Macavity's taste, so that ruled
out Tumblebrutus to. Victoria, hm, she would work. So would Silabub. He
groaned, but knew he had a few hours to decide.
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"TAG! Your it Electra!" Etcetera cried as she pounced on Electra from
behind.
"Why can't we play last person you tag is it! I don't want to be it."
Electra whined as Etcetera stood back up.
"Sore loser." Grumbled Pouncival, as he wondered out of his hiding spot.
The three kittens were standing by the stove in the jellicle junkyard.
Pouncival had been hiding ontop of the tunnel.
Electra made a face at the young tom, and whined some more.
"Why don't YOU be it!"
"Because I wasn't tagged!" He yowled.
"But I don't want to be it!"
"So!"
"Toms have cooties!"
"Do not! Queens do!"
"No way! Toms!"
"Queens!"
"Toms!"
"Queens!"
"Toms!"
"Enough!" Both kittens turned to look at Munkustrap, who had just walked
past and heard them fighting. "Whats all this yelling about?"
As Munkustrap walked over and settled himself down near the kittens,
Silabub, Tumblebrutus, and Victoria wondered out of hiding, and over with
heavy frowns, obviously wanting to continue the game.
"Well, Electra got tagged by Etcera, and she doesn't want to be it."
"He called me a sore loser." Electra mumbled as Pounce tried to sweet talk
his way out of being punished.
"And then SHE insulted me!"
"You insulted me first!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
Munkustrap's laughter interupted the kittens, he smiled.
"Seems to me you all just need to think of a different game to play." He
stood up, seeing Demeter enter the junkyard, and dashed over. Demeter smiled
as she saw him, and they nuzzled each other.
Electra, Ectera, Victoria and Sillabub sighed, watching them with childish
love in thier eyes.
Tumble and Pounce made faces and groaned.
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Later that night as the Jellicle moon rose into the sky, Macavity, that
ginger cat of mystery, crept into the junkyard. He frowned, seeing
Munkustrap was still here. Fortuneately, he was sleeping inside the tire and
the kitten he decided to take was asleep on the other side of the junkyard,
close to the exit. He grined, and heald back an evil chuckle as he slipped
across the junkyard. Towards Silabub.
He stopped, hearing a noise, and saw it was only one of his henchrats
dashing towards his hideout.. he'd have to give that rat a beating..
"Mac-" The kitten started to say as Macavity leaped and covered her mouth.
Unfortunately, what she did scream, Munkustrap heard, and woke up.
"Macavity!" He yelled. But before the tabby tom could do anything, Macavity
raced away with Silabub.
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Silabub woke up in an empty room, and remembered her encounter with
Macavity. "MUNKUSTRAP!" She screamed, and cringed as her loud, kitteny voice
echoed around the room.
She started to cry in fear as she heard the ever so evil laughter.
"I see you have awakened! Good, because your training begins as soon as
you've eaten!"
The evil orange/red/brown cat slid a bowl of mush into her room, and
wondered away.
Silabub listened closely, and started to cry harder as she heard the
desperate scream of another kitten and an evil chours of yelling rats. She
really was hungry, and she ate her food in a rush.
A few hours later as she sat in the corner of her room, the ginger cat
appeared.
"Ah finished, very good."
Silabub cringed.
"Aww, whats the matter, scared of me? Poor little kitten," He walked towards
her. "in a room all alone with a big, mean ole evil cat like me." He put his
paw under her chin, and stood her up.
"Get used to it!" He screamed and tossed her onto the floor. She cringed
again and cowered in fear. "Pathetic. Well, after I'm threw with you, you
won't be. GET UP!"
Silabub, frightened, jumped to her feet. Still quivering.
"Humph."
Macavity left, as soon as he was well out of the room, Silabub fell to the
floor in a heap of crying fur.
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Demeter, Bombalurina, RumTumTugger and Old Duetoronomy were all sitting next
to the exuasted Munkustrap.
He'd just gotten back, he chased Macavity all over town, and nearly got
mauled by his henchrats more times then he could handle. After desperately
trying to find Macavity's trail again, he sadly gave up and wondered to the
junkyard, were he fell over from exhaustion. Thats were Demeter found him.
Then she called the others to come quickly. Munkustrap had just woken up,
and they were all waiting for him to tell them what the heck he was doing.
"Last night Macavity was here." He started, sounding sore and beaten. "He
took after Silabub, and ran off with her before I could stop him. I followed
him all the way to 16th street, then he had his henchrats after me. I tried
to keep on his trail, but his henchrats kept me busy. I lost him."
Demeter cuddled up next to him as Old Duetoronomy shook his head.
RumTumTugger glared.
"We've got to go find Silabub, if he starts training her, who knows what
could happen!" Demeter said, looking at Duetoronomy.
"What about the Jellicle ball?" RumTumTugger said.
"Finding Silabub is more important to me then the Jellicle Ball." Munkustrap
said, Duetoronomy gave him a proud grin.
"Munkustrap's right, but how are we going to find Macavity? He moves so
offten hes never seen in the same place twice!"
"Why can't he just learn to leave us alone?" Munkustrap shook his head.
"Who knows, why is he like that in the first place?" Munkustrap wondered
aloud... no one had an aswer..
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After only two days of training, Silabub was already beaten, bruised, tired,
scared, hungry and ready to give up. She was curled against the wall as
Macavity paced back and forth infront of her. She could tell he was angrey,
he'd been angrey with her every day for the past two days, and every time he
was angrey, he would beat up on either Silabub, or the kitten in the room
next to her, whom had become friends with Silabub, they'd visit every night.
With a loud groan and a swipe at Silabub, Macavity left in all his fury.
Leaving Silabub gasping for breath.
"Sil?"
"Sareghth is that you?" Silabub said, relived.
"Yes, is, is he gone?"
Silabub looked down the hall through a window in her room.
"Yes. Hes gone."
Silabub turned around and the small hiden window in her room opened up and
Sareghth crawled in.
Sare was a slight bit older then Silabub, so she had been her longer. Her
mother was killed by Macavity, and she and her littermates had been taken to
his lair. She was the strongest of her litter, and had to suffer through
seeing her litter die. Though Macavity tried, he could not, just simply
could not turn Sare over to his side. This angered him, so he beat up on her
day after day after day. And in the result, Sare's tail and left hind leg
had to be removed due to thier wounds.
"Sare I'm so scared! Hes acting like he did when you described him in your
story!"
Sare crawled over to Silabub, and laid down next to her.
"Don't be scared Silabub, I'll be here."
Silabub, laid down beside her friend, and the two fell asleep.
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"WHAT! ARE! YOU! DOING! IN! HERE!"
The two kittens got a start as Macavity walked into Silabub's room, and
found Sareghth with her.
"Run Sareghth! RUN!" Silabub screamed as her friend struggled to her feet.
She jumped infront of Sare, seeing she was having troubles standing up.
Macavity pushed her out of the way, and into the wall. The last thing she
heard before she blacked out was a cruel growl and a gasp.
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"Bombalurina," Bombalurina turned her head to see Electra, Etcetera and
Victoria wonder over. She smiled kindly. Munkustrap, and RumTumTugger had
gone to seek help in finding Macavity. Duetoronomy was gone, he said he had
some business to attend to. She and Demeter were left to watch the junkyard.
"Yes?" She sat down.
"Were is Silabub?" Electra said with pleeding eyes. "We need one more person
to play a game."
"I still say Pounce should play." Victoria said as Etcerta shushed her.
Bombalurina frowned, and looked over her shoulder as Demeter walked over.
"They want to know where Silabub is.." She said. Demeter frowned, wondering
if they should tell the kittens.
"She, she went to.. uh.. Her pets house." She said.
"Oh...Ok." The three kittens walked away.
Demeter looked at Bombalurina, who shook her head.
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"So, who are we going to see? Who can help us today?" RumTumTugger's list of
questions had not stopped since they left the junkyard.
"Would you shut up already." Alonzo whined. On the way to see who they could
find to help, Alonzo, Mistoffelees, and Rumpleteazer had joined them.
Rumpleteazer claimed she knew of someone who knew alot about Macavity, and
would most likely know where he was. So, thats where they were going, to see
whoever Rumpleteazer had in mind. The thing is, she refused to tell anyone
who it was.
"Come on sweetheart, who is it?" RumTumTugger said, moving up beside
Rumpleteazer, with one of his award winning smiles. Rumpleteazer laughed.
All though she did find RumTum charming, she refused to tell anyone.
"ah ah ah, my secret."
RumTum Tugger groaned and moved back in line.
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When Silabub awoke, she was alone, in her room... She blinked a few times,
and tried to remember what had happened.. the night before, Sareghth in her
room.. Macavity.. OH! Sareghth!
"Sareghth!?" Silabub ran to the secret door as a cruel laughter echoed
around the bare walls. Silabub turned around frightened.
"Don't worry Silabub, she won't be interupting our lessions any more.."
Silabub broke into tears as Macavity left.
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"Tada!" Rumpleteazer said, grining. They were infront of a house. A house on
Victoria Groove.
"Victoria groove? Oh no.." RumTumTugger groaned. Mistoffelees joined his
groan.
"You mean to tell us Mungojerrie is going to help us?" Mistoff whined.
"Yes, 'errie! If anyone knows anything about Macavity, its Mungo."
"your just saying that because you'v-" Alonzo was cut off by Mistoffelees.
"Well, lets see what he has to say." Munkustrap muttered. Not sounding all
to happy about this either.
As they approached the house, Rumple skidded to a halt.
"Ssssshh!"
All of them listened to the conversation that was clearly blaring through
the window.
"I told you Macavity, Rumpleteazer and I have no intentions of joining you
ever again. We are happy with the Jellicles."
Rumpleteazer nearly fell off the windowsill as a fight urrupted.
Munkustrap, followed by RumTumTugger, Mistoffelees, Alonzo and Rumpleteazer
dashed into the room. Munkustrap told them to stay put as he ran after
Macavity.
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After hours of being locked in a new room, a smaller room, Silabub had begun
to lose all hope of anyone ever finding her. It had been four days since she
had seen the Jellicle moon, or anyone from the Jellicle tribe, and after
Sareghth was.. well, after she disapeared, Silabub had been alone.
Macavity had been beating up on her all day yesterday because of her
failures, he had left early this morning to talk to somebody, Silabub was
alone. Not even the gaurd would talk to her.
As Silabub was about to go to sleep, Macavity busted into the room, as mad
as he'd ever been before. But this time, he was hurt.
"oh... Your hurt." Silabub said, clamping her mouth shut after she'd opened
it.
Macavity snapped his head in her direction. "What else is new?!"
He yelled.
Silabub, unable to resist her motherly instincs that grew stronger as she
grew older, slowly walked towards Macavity, who seemed to be in deep though,
and looked over one of the wounds on his side. He glared at her, and pulled
away. She only became more persistant, and tried again. He pulled away
again. Oddly, Silabub managed to back him up agianst the wall. She looked up
at him, and then back to his wound, surprised that he had not tried to hurt
her yet, and showed no signs of going to.
After looking over all of his wounds, the oddly acting Macavity was sitting
across from Silabub. The odd silence made them both uncomfrontable. Macavity
stood up, and began pacing the small room with Silabub's eyes firmly
watching him.
He stopped pacing and looked at her. Silabub was even more surprised to see
that his eyes were no longer full of hate as they had always been.
"Nobody's done that for me since... well since before I can remember." He
muttered, and laid down.
Silabub wondered over to sit by him.
"Why?"
"I don't know.."
"Yes you do... please tell me... Please? Why are you so evil?"
Macavity looked up at her pleeding eyes, and growled.
Silabub pulled back, but worked up courage, she opened her mouth.
"Daylight, see the dew on a sunflower, and a rose that is fading, roses
wither away. Like the sunflower I yearn to tearn my face to the dawn. I am
waiting for, the day. Sunlight through the trees in summer, endless
masquerading. Like a flower as the dawn is breaking the memory is fading."
He got up, and stormed out of the room.
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Why did I do that!? Why did I let my guard down! That rotten kitten!
Macavity thoght as he paced in his room.
"I AM NOT WEAK!" He shouted, then, he laid down putting a paw over his face.
"Crying?" He muttered, and sat up, wiping a tear from his eye.
"Am I crying!?"
He shook his head, but indeed, he was crying, he was sad, and he felt
emotion. He looked in the direction of Silabub's room, and wondered how the
young Jellicle had managed to get so much emotion out of him.
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When Munkustrap returned to Mungojerrie's house, he was already talking to
the others about Macavity. They turned to look at him as he walked in. He
wasn't to beaten up, although Mungojerrie grinned, knowing he'd be fussed
over by Demeter as soon as he set foot in the junkyard.
"Welcome back oh fearless Pollicle." RumTumTugger said, looking at
Munkustrap with little amusment in his eyes. He yawned, he was laying on the
window sill. Rumpleteazer, Alonzo, Mistoffelees and Mungojerrie had made a
circle in the middle of the room.
Ingoring RumTum's comment, Munkustrap sat down to the left of Alonzo, next
to Mungojerrie.
"Mungojerrie said he knows where to find Macavity, and he might just be able
to get us in." Alonzo said.
"Good, lets get back to the junkyard and inform Duetoronomy."
Munkustrap said as they headed for the window RumTum was opening.
"Good, going home."
RumTum said, eger to see Bombalurina for whatever reason he deemed worthy.
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Later that night, Silabub was awakened by Macavity. His eyes were red, he'd
been crying.
CRYING! Silabub sat up instantly.
"You, you've been crying!"
"Yes... quite a bit.." Macavity confessed. For the first time since Silabub
had met Macavity, she forgot completely about the stories told about him.
All she saw now was a poor little tom kitten who'd been crying.
Macavity wondered over to her and sat down.
"You asked before why I was like this. I though about it for a long time....
And I decided I'd tell you."
Chapter 2
"Please! Please don't hit me!" A young kitten cried as his father, a tall,
lanky, ginger figure stood over him, on hand roughly on his shoulder, the
other hand in the air with claws bared and ready to swipe down and land
another powerfull blow to Mac's face.
Cravit thought for a moment, and then his hand, frozen snaped and swiped a
blow across his son's face that his son would never forget.
As his son cowered in fear, he walked away to take to other matters. Like
dealing with this cat whom had been around him to ofeten. Duet.. Duetor...
something like that.
Mac curled into a ball of fur, fussing over his new scar. His mother, Avity
limped over.
"Oh Mac... Did he hit you agian?" She called her son over and cradled him.
Mac nodded threw tears. "Don't worry sweetheart. My friend, Lavidikz is
organizing his Jellicles to help."
Mac still cried, unable to say anything.
"What are you doing with him!? I though I told you to stay in your room!"
Mac's father had returned. His mother stepped bodly infront of him.
"You can't keep on doing this..." She begged, still, sounding as strong as
she was. Mac cowered behind him.
His father's cold, heartless gaze met with Mac's, Mac shuddered. His father
turned and before anyone could do anything, Cravit and Avity were fighting.
Mac watched in horror unable to do anything. His father landed a good blow
to his mother's face, and bit into her neck. He turned, facing Mac as Avity
curled up in pain. He ran over, picked Mac up, and through him against a
near by brick wall before storming off.
A few minutes pasted before Mac struggled to his feet and limped towards his
mother. He nuzzled her.
"Mmmom?"
She was cold.
"Mom?"
Very cold.
"Mommy please, answer me... Mommy.." Mac fell into a heap of tears as his
mother still did not answer.
The next morning, as a storm poured down rain and lightning, Mac looked up,
as his father, a looming shadowy figure stood over him. His father was not
looking at him though, he was looking at Avity. He picked up her limp body,
and heaved her high over the brick wall, Mac could only gasp as his father
strained to hear the smash of her limp body come in contact with soild
ground.
He then, looked at his son with his heartless eyes.
"Pity." Was all he said.
Mac could only stare at his father as he walked away.
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"Sir? Macavity, Sir?" One of Macavity's ugly henchrats interupted Macavity's
story.
Macavity glared.
"What is it?"
"Theres a.. a Ratchern here to see you?" The henchrat said.
Macavity looked at Silabub, who was disapointed to see the evil in his eyes
yet again. "I'll be there in a minute." The Henchrat left. Macavity turned
to Silabub, glared, and got up and left.
Silabub watched him, upset. She couldn't help but already feel sorry for
him, and she had so much more to hear...
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"So your saying you know where he is, and you already have a plan on how to
get us in there?" Duetoronomy asked Mungojerrie once they had all esembled
back to the junkyard.
"Yes 'errie."
Rumpleteazer grinned. Munkustrap shook his head.
"We need all the toms we can get, this is going to be hard." Mungojerrie
said, and told them his plan.
*****
At the end of the day, Mungojerrie had recruted all the toms, besides, Gus,
Asparagus, Tumblebrutus and Pouncival, to accompany him to Macavity's lair.
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Macavity returned to Silabub's room some time after midnight. Silabub was
awake, and pacing around the room. She turned towards Macavity as he
entered.
He smiled, which shocked Silabub.
"I brought dinner." He slid her a bowl of food. Surprisingly enough, it
looked good. As Silabub sat down to eat, Macavity laid down.
"Now where were we....
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The next few days went by so slow: In the morning Mac was woken up early and
had to find breakfast for his father. After breakfast, he had to make sure
the gaurds were all awake, and most of the time he was smacked across the
room in waking them up. Then he had to feed all the cats his father held
captive. By that time it was lunchtime, and he had to find his father lunch,
give some of the guards breaks and put others on duty -which ended in more
hitting- and feed the captives. He then had an hour or two to calm down
before he had to do it all over again, only for dinner.
A week after his mother had died, Mac had been up all night. He'd been
crying, and talking to his mother. He'd made a grave for his mother, though
her body was never found.
"What am I going to do mother? I can't handle much more of this treament. I
can't sleep, I can't eat, I'm so tired.."
He waited, but nothing happened.
The next day his father went evil. Simply evil, he tortured and beat and
bruised Mac every time he saw him.
That night, he curled up next to his mothers grave. Surely his left leg was
broken. He looked at his mothers grave, then up in the direction of the
heaviside lair, he fell asleep with tears in his eyes.
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"MAC!" Mac woke with a start as his father called him. Mac blinked a few
times, it was still nighttime. He walked over to his father, who stood
infront of a fire.
"Yes father?"
"Come here.." Mac slowly walked over to his father, being only a young
kitten, he knew he was going to be hit, and he also knew he could do nothing
about it...
"I saw that grave you made for your mother.."
His father started off. Mac was very frightened, for his father was staring
off into space. The way he did before he did something horrible.
"Yes father..."
"I wasn't pleased.."
"I'm sorry father I jus-"
"SORRY!" His father's voice boomed around him. He growled.
"I wasn't going to do this before, but since your SORRY I guess I'll have
to!" He picked up Mac, and held him over the fire as the young kitten
yelled, pleeded and begged for his father to stop.
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The following morning, burned, sore and in pain, Mac could only cringe as
his father called his name again and again. Mac couldn't get up, he just
simply couldn't it hurt to much. He winced as his father walked to him, and
kicked him.
"GET UP! I've called you to many times!"
"I can't father, I can't stand.."
His father picked him up viloently, and slammed him against the brick wall,
his face close to his.
"You'll stand, and for backtalking to me, you'll do more then your normal
amount of chores... More then that. Mac."
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The next week was more horrible then it had ever been. Mac had two broken
legs, a broken tail, quite a few broken ribs, and his eye had been siverly
injuried. He could not walk. His father had been calling him for the past
hour, Mac was hidden in a pipe. His father finaly found him, and hit him
numorous times across the face.
As his father went to hit him again, Mac grabbed his paw.
His father's shocked face sent Mac to do something the poor, crying kitten
on his mother's grave never would have done.
Dispite the pain, he grabbed his father's other arm, and twisted them,
glaring into his father's eyes as his eyes filled with hate.
"Sorry father, couldn't hear you." He broke both his father's arms,and began
to beat him, right before he landed a killing blow to his father's head, he
yelled.
"My name is no longer Mac, from this day forward, I will be known as
Macavity!" With that, he hit his father another time, and his father lay as
limp as his mother.
"Sorry dady." He picked up his father, and hurled him over the head as his
father did his mother.
With a wicked glare in his eye, his adrenaline rushing high, he found much
glee and joy in killing his father.. He rushed towards the captives...
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Silabub, who had finished her dinner, looked at Macavity with so much pity,
she ran imediately to him, and nuzzled him.
Macavity, still shocked by his emotions, and how much he had revealed to
this Jellicle in such a short time, he could do nothing but nuzzle her back.
He stood up.
"I, I wanted to thank you for helping me.." He walked outside, and a few
miniutes later, he and Sareghth entered.
"Sareghth!" Silabub screamed and ran towards her friend. Macavity smiled.
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Mungojerrie and the other toms were taking deep breaths, preparing for thier
enterance.
Mungojerrie was to go in and stall as long as he could, that wouldn't last
long, then the other toms were to come in, and help Mungojerrie take the
gaurds while Munkustrap looked for Macavity, hopefully Silabub wouldn't be
to far away...
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"Sir! Macavity! There is some disturbence downstiars, sir! Jellicles!"
Silabub gasped. Macavity looked at her, pleeding, for a brief moment, but
before she could do anything, he dashed out the door, leaving her alone
with Sareghth in her room with the memory of all he had told her...
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Macavity dashed out of Silabub's room. He had just explained his entire past
to her, and he had cried two nights ago. He couldn't believe the difference
this kitten no! A cat, Silabub was no longer a kitten, she had grown into a
cat. He was about to run down to the Jellicles and shoo them away so that he
and Silabub, whom he had grown to love, could be together, alone so that no
one could hurt either of them again, but no sooner had he headed downstairs
then Munkustrap, the tabby Jellicle surprised him.
Munkustrap and Macavity tumbled head over paws down the stairs, clawing...
Soon, they stopped trying to hurt each other, and concontrated on the
stairs, and trying to stop falling, it was a long way down, with steep
stairs in a spiral...
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Silabub jumped into the door, and knocked it over. She dashed towards
Macavity, just in time to see him pounced on by Munkustrap, and them both go
head over paws down the stairs, she watched in horror, then jumped down
after them, screaming as she saw them hit stair after stair in the long,
twisting spiral. Sareghth could only watch, but she tumbled down the stiars
after her friend.
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After what seemed like hours, the siverly wounded toms hit the ground..
unmoving.. the fighting stoped. The toms and the henchrats stopped...
Looking at thier fallen leaders.
Alonzo looked up as the crying Silabub bounded down the last few stairs in a
fury of tears.
"Silabub!" Skimbleshanks yowled.
"Silabub, are you alright?" Mistoffeless wondered alowed.
All the toms watched as the reached the end of the stairs. Skimble hit
Alonzo on the head after seeing that the tom noticed what a nice young cat
Silabub had turned into. As Alonzo rubed his head, Silabub reached the two
toms.
"Don't worry Silabub, Macavity will soon be over with for good."
Speechless, Silabub looked up at him, then back to the fallen toms as the
other toms came over to get Munkustrap and the henchrats ran off.
As the toms picked up Munkustrap, he shook his head, comming too, Silabub
was still seated at the end of the stairs, Macavity still on the ground.
Munkustrap hissed and looked at Silabub, pushing the other toms away. He
walked over to Silabub.
"Are you alright."
Silabub nodded.
Munkustrap looked at Macavity, he growled, and started forward as the fiend
came too.
At that point, Sareghth had made it to the bottom of the stairs. Skimble
walked over to her.
Macavity struggled to get up, but it was useles he had broken his leg. But
Munkustrap hadn't gotten off any easyer, his front paw was broken. Macavity
had no way out, this was it. He pinned his ears and growled softly as the
tom aproached him.
Munkustrap raised his paw and-
"STOP!"
Everyone turned to look at Silabub, who could no longer be called a kitten.
She raced forward, towards Munkustrap and Macavity. Munkustrap asumed she
would say he was to hurt to fight, and Alonzo or one of the other toms
should do something, but what happened next surprised everyone.
Silabub dashed past Munkustrap, and helped Macavity to his feet, and then
nuzzled him.
Everyone, but Silabub and Macavity gasped.
"Sil, I"
"You don't have to understand Munkustrap, just help me help him back to the
junkyard, or someplace were we can get him some help for his wounds."
Mistoffelees looked at RumTumTugger, RumTumTugger looked at Alonzo, Alonzo
looked at Mungojerrie, Mungojerrie looked at Skimbleshanks, Skimbleshanks
looked at Plato, Plato looked at Ademetus, Ademetus looked at Bustopher
Jones, who looked at Munkustrap. Munkustrap turned to Silabub, and looked at
the floor.
"I'm sorry Silabub, but I just can't help you.. Macavity has hurt us all, I
couldn't bring myself to help him to the junkyard. He might hurt other
Jellicles. I can't trust him."
"You can trust me, right?"
"Of course Silabub, but your a Jellicle, and I've known you most of your
life I-"
"Then trust me now. Macavity is no longer Macavity. Help him."
Munkustrap stepped forward, and helped Silabub lead Macavity to the
junkyard.
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Chapter 3
Munkustrap, Macavity, and Silabub were behind the other toms, and Sareghth,
as they entered the junkyard. The Jellicle ball was to be held tonight,
because all hopes of getting Silabub back were so high, so all the Jellicles
were there as Silabub, Macavity and Munkustrap walked in.. together.
Gasps arose from the crowds as everyone ran foward to attack Macavity. Gasps
agian were heard as Munkustrap cirlced Macavity, not letting anyone near,
and Silabub stood protectively by Macavity. Sareghth cringed behind Silabub.
"What is the meaning of this Munkustrap?" Old Duetoronomy said.
"Ask Silabub, I'm not quite sure myself.." He stepped away, Silabub and
Macavity were now surrunded by Jellicles. Macavity winced, and Sil told him
to lay down.
Silabub took a deep breath, and began to tell the tribe of what happened
since she was captured by Macavity. Including Macavity's past.
By the time she finished, Macavity was on the ground in much pain, as was
Munkustrap.
All the Jellicles turned to one another, looking for answers... Electra
stepped forward. No one else moved. She walked up to Silabub, and Macavity,
looking at Macavity, she stood by Silabub.
The Jellicles again looked to each other, knowing that Electra was saying
she thinks Macavity should be helped, given a fair chance.
Next to join was Munkustrap, then Pouncival, then Jennyanydots and
Jellylorum with tears in thier eyes. Soon, all the Jellicles were on
Macavity's side, they all looked up to Duetoronomy.
"I cannot vote against all of you. We shall restore Macavity to his health,
and see from there."
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Chapter 4
The next few months were spent nursing Macavity and Munkustrap back to
health. They were both much more wounded then anyone thought.
After five months of getting the two back to health, the Jellicle ball was
finaly held. It was the best Jellicle ball ever. This time, a story was told
and a song was sung about Macavity, in his honour.
Old Duetoronomy planned to tell Macavity that he had been welcomed into the
Jellicle tribe after he sent someone to the Heaviside lair.
After the Jellicle ball, everyone said a sad farewell to Bustopher
Jones but knew he would be back, in a different life.
Everyone was extreamly tired, and fell asleep soon after the ball.
Victoria, Electra, Etcetera, Pouncival and Tumblebrutus had all grouped up,
and slept in a small group.
Alonzo and Cassandra were curled tight in a ball.
The toms were scattered around the junkyard, all but Munkustrap who was with
Demeter, and RumTumTugger who was with Bomabalurina.
The rest of the queens fell asleep on, around or in the tire.
Sareghth and Tumblebrutus were sleeping in the stove. Silabub was pleased to
see that her new friend had found someone she liked. She was also happy when
Duetoronomy had told Silabub that her friend may join the Jellicle tribe.
Macavity, Duetoronomy and Silabub were the only ones awake.
"Will you join our tribe?" Old Duetoronomy said, the past few miniutes he
had spent discussing things with the both of them.
Macavity looked at Silabub, and then to Duetoronomy.
"I would be hounered, but.."
Silabub frowned and looked at him.
"But I wouldn't be here much. I can't change compeletely, and I still have
buisness to atend to, but I will never again hurt the Jellicles. Farewell."
And with that final nuzzle to Silabub, Macavity raced towards the exit..
"Goodbye, Mac."
Silabub said, and couldn't help but shed a few tears as Macavity, the ginger
mystery cat, slipped into the darkness.
The End
By: franges@erols.com
