Just then Bombalurina walked by crying.
"What's wrong, Bomb?" Mungo asked "OH!" she cried "I can't find my
MUNKU! Have you seen him at all today?"
"Uh............"
"WAIT! Yes this morning!" Mistoffelees remembered. "I think he said
something about leadership....yeah...." "Oh yes!" Mungo said "He said he
was going to take
over leadership of the tribe!"
Both cats grinned and nodded.
"Oh! My sweet Munkustrap....he's so brave! Well at least I know he's
OK, and hasn't run away from me or something!" She shipped off.
Alonzo peeked around the corner. He had been
listening the whole time.
"Did you say 'take over leadership', Jerrie?"
"YEP!" the cat answered. "That was it!"
"Do you know what that means?" Alonzo's eyes grew
"He's going to try to kill Old Deuteronamy for the
leadership!"
"Oh NO!" Mistoffelees said "I have to talk to
Victoria! I have to warn her...."
"Relax, Powderpuff." Mungo said calmly. "Munkey
woudn't have the guts to murder an old guy!"
"Hey! You're right!" Mistoffelees nodded
"BUT..." Alonzo continued "He DOES have the nerve! He'd HIRE someone!"
All the cats gasped.
Alonzo shivered. "If I see another knife again, I'll be shakin' in my
boots! I think I'll go see Jemima!"
Alonzo walked to Jemima's house. She wasn't at her people's
place....He tried her cardboard box she had made into a home. There she
was!
She was toying with a small swiss army knife she
found. She was stabbing it at something.
"DIE YOU TURKEY!!" she said.
Alonzo froze in terror. "It can't be my sweet
Jemima.....she's who Munku must have hired!"
He ran off back to the junkyard.
"Phew!" Jemima said, whiping the blood off the knife. "I hope 'Lonzy
likes this sparrow I caught us for dinner!"
Alonzo neared an old TV set, where he found Victoria napping. "Wake
up!" the stray said, shaking her.
Victoria yawned "Huh?.....What?.....Magic....that
you?" Then opening her eyes and seeing Alonzo swiped him across the
face. "What do you want?" she wined. "Listen to me!" Alonzo then told
her of all his
incounters, ending with 'seeing Jemima murder Old D with a knife'.
Victoria listened. "Oh no........she said.......I
need my Misto! Where is he! He has to hide me! She
shivered.
"Well!" Alonzo said "I MUST go spread the news!" he ran off to tell the
rest of the Jellicles."
Victoria was left alone. Untill, her dear friend
Demeter walked by with a worried look on her face.
"THERE you are Vic!" she said "I've been looking all over for you! I
need to tell you something important!" "Me too." Victoria said. "You
first." "Well, I was helping Bomb find Munkustrap, and
I....I....I found a large lock of his hair...and his blood!"
"WHERE!?" Victoria asked
"Just south of the Old Ford. I'm afraid to tell
Bomb!"
"DON'T! I.........Jemima did it."
"WHAT?"
"You heard me!" She told her what Alonzo told her.. ".....and she
must have gotten either guilty or blood thirsty, and MURDERED Munk!"
"It all makes sense!" Demeter said, hitting her
forehead.
The two friends stuck close together after that all day.
Meanwhile, the alive and well Old Deuteronamy, was at his favorite
French restraunt. He fell in a bag of flour, and ran back into the
alley. He was heading to his tire, when Jellylorum spotted him. She had
gotten the news. She screamed: "IT'S HIS GHOST!!! HE'S COME BACK TO
PUNISH!!!!!" She ran off screaming.
Old Deuteronamy blinked. "How strange....well I
better seek out my little buddy Mistoffelees to do
something about this flour..."
At the sound of his name, Mistoffelees appeared.
"There you are!"
"May I ask what happened to you, sir?"
"I fell in a bag of flour. Could you do something
about it?"
"Of coarse! PRESTO!" Flour flew everywhere, and then disappeared.
"Thank you my son." The old cat said, and walked to his tire.
Mistoffelees smiled, and snuck off to where he knew Victoria was. He
shaddow walked to where he could see her, and with a smile on his face,
dreamily watched her every move.
She was talking with Demeter, and then Plato, a cat he very much
dis-liked, came out from behind a toaster oven. "Vicky?" he said,
looking Victoria up and down "Don't call me that," she snarled "Why
must you play hard to get?" he sighed "Well
listen, I'm sure you heard the news?" She nodded "Well you can stay with
me, if you feel safer...." "I'd feel much safer with my Mistoffelees."
she,
hissed. "Get lost."
"I tried." He said, and walked away.
Victoria sighed. "Where is that black furball
anyway? MISTOFFELEES!!"
+AH4-PRESTO+AH4- he appeared in front of her.
"Mistoffelees...." she cooed
"I've been looking for you." Mistoffelees said with a half smile.
They kissed.
"Well kitten," Mistoffelees said short of breath,
"How goes it?"
Victoria's eyes filled with tears. She told her love the whole story,
".....and Demeter found Munk's body....Jemima MURDERED HIM!" She cried
on Mistoffelees' shoulder.
Misto's eyes were getting wetter too, and he finally said "I have to
protect you. Come on. We're going to find Mungo, and all three of us,
will visit another dimention untill the fur stops flying."
Mungo peeked from behind a corner "Someone say me
name?" he said in his English accent...
"Yes Mungo" Victoria said. "We're going to another dimention."
Mungo nodded. He wasn't quite sure what dimention
meant. "Well." he said "Let's go then."
+AH4-PRESTO+AH4- The three cats appeared in another time and place.
In nother part of the junkyard, all the Jellicles except Victoria,
Mistoffelees, Mungojerrie, Jemima, and Munkustrap gathered in hiding
places from Jemima.
Demeter snuck her way to Bombalurina, who had heard all the
news.....except for one part. "Bomb..." Demeter started "There is
something we've been keeping from you."
"WHAT?" The red cat said
Demeter told her about what she found.
"Oh no....." Bomb said "My sweet Munky!.....killed by a kitten..."
she cried. "Everybody!" Cassandra hissed. "Shut up! I hear someone
coming!"
Then silence.
Sure enough Jemima walked on the scene. All the cats were petrified
with fear. Jemima looked everywhere for another kitten like
Victoria or Rumpelteazer to play with, but found that evreyone seemed to
be avoiding her. She sadly walked off, to another place.
Meanwhile, about half a mile from the junk yard, Munkustrap sat on an old boot. He rubbed his nose. "I better start getting real with myself" he said. "Mungo's right. I'm not street wise. I'm a regular street idiot! Besides, I can get Demeter to fix my cuts and scratches. With that Mungo of hers, I bet she knows all the first aid there is. Bomb is probably missing me anyway" He was about to turn back, when Jemima came running to him. He was the only cat who seemed to pay any attenion to her. The two cats walked hand and hand back to the junk yard.
All the Jellicles were curled up in their hiding
places. When once again Cassandra hissed "Shut up,
someone's coming!"
Two sets of foot prints neared the jellicles, and
then Munkustrap walked foward.
"MUNKY!" Bomb said running into his arms, "You're SAFE!"
Following Munkustrap was Jemima. All the cats were still afraid of
her.
Hearing the comotion, Old Deuteronamy went to where the Jellicles were.
"IT'S OLD DEUTERONAMY! AND HES OK!" Rumpelteazer mewed. "Look out!"
Jellylorum said "He's a GHOST!"
"No, I'm no ghost" 'Solo man' said
All the cats looked at Alonzo who shrugged.
"That means....." Demeter said "No one was killed..." "And THAT
MEANS...." Tantomile said "YOUR Mungo started a FRANTICNESS in our
tribe! He should be punished!"
"Now wait a minute!" Alonzo said MISTOFFELEES was the one who said was
going to take over!" "YOU wait a minute!" Coricopt snarled "You told us
MUNGO said that".
"Well uh...."
"It doesn't matter!" Exotica purred "Mungo is
probably with Mistoffelees now. Victoria too."
"We must SUMMON him!" Tumblebrutus laughed.
"MISTOFFELEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!" Demeter screamed out into the empty
junkyard.
In the other dimention, Mungo was playing Victoria a pinball game, and Mistoffelees was reading "Stuart Little" (A book about a yummy mouse) All of a sudden, Mistoffelees heard his name. It peirced into his head as a cammand to return. "C'mon all." He said "I think all is better". "Wait a minute...." Mungo said. He shot one more pinball in hyperspace. "BEAT YA!" he laughed at Victoria. In a flash of light, they returned to the junkyard, in a circle of the rest of the cats.
Jellylorum pulled Victoria into the circle, so only
Mistoffelees and Mungojerrie remained in the center.
She turned out to be the 'spokes cat'.
"WHY did you start this rumor, kittens?"
"Rumor?" Mungo repeated...he didn't know what that meant either.
"We started NOTHING!" Mistoffelees stammered. He
tried to use a 'jedi mind trick' that he saw once when
his owner was watching STAR WARS
"Nothing.....happened...."
Bomb finally screamed out "IT WAS JUST FUN ANYWAY! Everyone is safe,
no one is in danger!" A cheer rose from the cats.
Munkustrap kissed Bomb. Tugger kissed Ecetera. Alonzo kissed Jemima
Mungo kissed Demeter, and finally, Mistoffelees reached over, and kissed
Victoria. Alonzo and Jemima went to Jemima's box where they ate the
sparrow together.