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Kicatu was up early. She wanted to explore before her mother got up.
She crept out of the box and was almost to the door when her father
stepped from the doorway.
"Where do you think you are going?" Mistoffelees asked his kitten.
"Uh..to...the....the...Kitchen?" Kicatu told the magical cat.
"Than why, my dear, are you going through the door that leads
outside?" Misto smiled. Kicatu had her tail between her legs. Misto put
his arm around his daughter’s shoulders.
"It’s OK. I know that you want to go to the Junkyard, but wait for your
mother and siblings. OK?"
"OK!" Kicatu said energetically. She ran back to the basket and pushed
against her mother’s head.
"Mother! Wake up! Can we go to the Junkyard today? You promised!" A
white head came up among the other furry bodies.
"OK. We can go. But you must eat first." Victoria said as she licked her
kitten’s head. She stood up letting little bundles of fur fall off of her.
"Everybody up!" Kicatu called to her brothers and sisters.
"Ok, we’re up. No need to yell." her brother, Micotu, said.
"Yea. Why d’ya get us up so early?" her sister, Hicatu, said. Only Picatu
joined her sister in getting everyone up.
"Com’oncom’oncom’on!! I wana see aunt Etcetera and uncle Pounce!!"
Picatu said in a whiney voice. Misto appeared out of a cloud of smoke.
"Weeee muuuust geeet tooooo theeeeee juuuuuunkyaaaaarrrrrrrd
eeeeenn tiiiiiiime." he said in a spooky, vampire voice. "Eeeef weee
doooon’t, thaaaan theeeee booooooogy caaaat weeeeel cooooooome
aaaaan’ geeeeet yooooooo." The kittens screamed and ran into the
kitchen.
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Munkustrap was making his usual rounds when he spotted a mound of
fur. He walked up to it and sniffed it. The bundle wriggled, yawned, and
screeched. Munkustrap saw it was a kitten. She was all white with a
light orange tail and ears. The back of her head was light orange that
came to three little triangles between her ears.
"Please don’t hurt me."
she said in a terrified voice covering her head with her paws.
Munkustrap sat down on the ground.
"What is your name?" he asked.
"Yum-Pop." she answered.
"No, I mean your second name." Munkustrap replied patiently.
"Pop!."
"Grrrrrrrr. No." Munkustrap tried to be patient. "My family name is
Smokey. That’s my first name. My second name is Munkustrap. Do you
see?"
"Don’t have a second name."
"What!? No second name? Well, I’d better take you to Old
Deuteronomy."
He picked the kitten up by the scruff and carried her to the Vicarage
wall. He found her to be incredibly light.
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Victoria proudly led her seven kittens to the Junkyard. This would be the first time most of the inhabitants would of seen her kittens. Misto walked in the rear to make sure that none of the kittens got left behind or lost. When they arrived, Victoria waited outside while Misto went in.
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Mistoffelees crept into the Junkyard. He saw Jennyanydots and
Jellylorum knitting; Alonzo and Rum-Tum-Tugger fighting; Jemima
sitting alone; Etcetera and Pouncivil watching their 3 kittens; Electra
and Tumblebrutus laughing with each other; and everyone having a
grand old time.
"Could I have your attention please?" Misto called out to the rest of
the group.
"I would like to perform a small bit of magic." with that, he made a top-
hat appear. He reached inside and one-by-one brought out his 7
kittens. There was an audible gasp from the audience. There lined up
were Micotu, Licatu, Picatu, Nicotu, Sicatu, Kicatu, and Hicatu. Misto
looked proudly at his kittens and then, he pulled Victoria out of the
hat. She rose elegantly. The crowd applauded as Victoria gathered her
kittens and started to introduce them.
"These are Kicatu, Hicatu, Licatu, Picatu, Nicotu, Micotu, and Sicatu."
Etcetera and Pouncivil came forward with their two kittens.
"These are Asap," Etcetera pointed to the male kitten, "and Nimue."
she pointed to the female kitten. Asap was white with light brown
stripes and Nimue was white with a light-blue tint to her coat.
"They’re beautiful." Victoria said.
"Where’s Munkustrap?" as if on cue, Munkustrap came from behind
some junk carrying a kitten in his mouth.
"Oh Munkustrap, I never knew you had a kitten." Victoria exclaimed.
Munkustrap put down the kitten.
"It’s not mine, I found her just inside the gates." the kitten that
Munkustrap was carrying ran to Victoria’s and etcetera’s kittens. She
sniffed at Kicatu and sat down on the ground looking at the others.
"What’s her name?"
"Yum-Pop!" the little kitten said.
Their were giggles from the group.
"She said she never had another name." Munkustrap told the tribe.
"I need someone to take care of her and give her a second name."
Munkustrap looked around for volunteers. Electra raised a paw.
"I will take care of her." Tumblebrutus was trying to pull her down, but
Electra just pulled him up along side of her.
"And Tumble will help me, right?" She shot her mate a warning glance.
"Yea, right." he said with hopelessness in his voice.
Munkustrap pushed Yum-Pop with his nose.
"There’s your new family." Yum-Pop walked to Electra and Tumble.
"Hi."
"Hi" Electra said back to Yum-Pop.
"Come on." Tumblebrutus said impatiently "Let’s show her where she’s
gonna live."
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After Electra and Tumblebrutus left, Munkustrap turned to Victoria.
"So these are yours. I never knew you had so many" he said counting
them. "Seven! Wow."
"Well I’ll be, he really did pull seven kittens right out of a hat." Tugger
said.
"And one lovely queen." Misto said looking at Victoria who was blushing.
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Yum-Pop hopped along side Electra. Electra, who got tired of her
running in circles, picked Yum-Pop up by the scruff and carried her to
the place she and Tumblebrutus call home. When they arrived, Yum-Pop
went directly to a soft pillow, that was Tumblebrutus’ bed, and went to
sleep.
"Humph, now my bed is taken too." Electra put a paw on the disgruntled
tom’s shoulder.
"Don’t feel too left out." she said, "you can share my bed." they went to
a pile of sweatshirts (clean) and lay down.
"What should we call her?" Tumblebrutus asked his mate. "I will not
have a kitten with such a..a.. .HUMAN name."
"Yum-Pop isn’t a human name."
"You know what I mean, a name that a human would give a cat."
"Oh. I don’t know. Let’s talk to old Deuteronomy after we get some
sleep."
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"I’ll get you!" Micotu ran after his sister who had dumped a great load
of flour on him.
"Nicki! Get back here! I’ll beat you up like the Rumpus Cat would do to
a nasty ol’ Pollicle."
"Great reason for me to stop." Nicotu called back.
"Oof!" She ran into Munkustrap.
"Sorry sir, I’m running from Mici. I was minding my own business and he
jumped on me."
"Mm-hm" Munkustrap looked down at the kitten. Micotu, covered in
flower, ran up to them and started arguing with his sister.
"I did NOT! She dumped some flour on me."
"Did NOT!"
"Did TOO!"
"Did NOT!"
"Did TOO!"
"Did NO.."
"QUIET!" Munkustrap shouted over the kittens bickering. Both kittens
fell silent.
"Now that we can hear each other, who wants to go first? Micotu?"
"Well, sir, I was sitting playing with my mouse and all of a sudden, I
was covered in flour. When I looked up, there she was running away."
Nicki stuck her tongue out at her brother.
"Ok, Nicotu, would you like to tell us of your story?"
"Sure! I was walking on this beam and I heard a noise so I started
running incase it was a Pollicle or something, than Micotu pounced on
me, I finally got away and ran into you." Micotu stuck his tongue out at
his sister. He was still covered in flower.
"I think I know what happened. Nicki, you were walking on a beam and
you accidentally knocked a bag of flour on Micotu, you heard the
noise of the bag hitting the ground, and ran. Micotu, you were playing
with your mouse and a bag of flour came down on you. You saw Nicki
running from the noise and thought she pushed it on you on purpose. Do
you see?"
"Yes." they said in unison.
"Good, now go play. I think your mother wants you." Munkustrap gave
them a little push to get them going. They scampered off. Munkustrap
smiled.
to be continued...
Victoria