by Katamania (part 4)
hostages.
They were all feeling pretty nipped, even though they never went near the stuff
after Macavity and- don’t worry, you don’t wanna know....so each tom partnered
up with a queen to walk back to their warehouse.
Macavity and Griddlebone lead the way, acting all posh, with Macavity escorting
his older sister.
Then Mistoffelees and Gingivere followed, deciding on what to yell in the Jellicles
faces and trying to work out what they would say back.
Then Miata, Gutie, Jama and Dexia were next, laughing over some joke that Gutie
had said.
Kata and Raza came last talking about something in whispers, that will be revealed
later in the story.
When they finally reached the warehouse, they entered the room that had the
small cage with all but four of the Jellicles.
Macavity turned to Misto and nodded, his arm resting on his sisters shoulder.
Misto raised his paws and the Jellicles flinched but all Misto did was make the cages
with Kona, Munkus, Alonzo and Tugger appear in the same room.
“MACAVITY! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH BOMBALURINA???!!?” Munkus
asked in a yell immediately.
“They’re quick to the point” Dexia giggled, then turned to Munkustrap.
“You’d better watch your tone, Maca doesn’t like to be spoken to like that” She
hissed.
Macavity walked forward, looking unusually calm.
“To late” Kata and Griddle whispered and giggled.
Dexia quickly retreated to Gutie and Griddle’s sides and everyone backed up,
smiling evilly at the Jellicles.
“You know, that dame is right, never speak to me like that unless you want to see
your precious Bombalurina again” Macavity said in a dangerously soft voice as he
put his arm around his older sister, smuging.
Kata and Raza started laughing and ran out of the room, hinting at the Jellicles the
wrong thing.
“HEY!!!!!!! WE’LL SAY WHAT WE LIKE UNTIL YOU GIVE BOMBY BACK!!!” The
Tugger yelled.
“So noble, yet so freaken stupid” Gingi said in a sarcastic sad voice.
“Yeah” Jama said shaking his head as he walked out the room as well, so it was just
Griddle, Gutie, Gingi, Dexia, Miata and Macavity left with the Jellicles.
“Miata, I think you can do you know what now, since they aren’t learning”
Macavity said, raising his eyebrows.
Miata caught on right away.
“Yeah, course Maca” Miata said and walked outside, joining Jama, Raza and Kata
who were just talking, since they were, of cause, tricking the Jellicles into thinking
that they were torturing Bombalurina, when actually, she was perfectly happy,
talking with Jeanna.
Jeanna was a queen that was the kinda doctor of their warehouse, not that she ever
had much of a job, but she was really old, and nice to the strays. She was
rumoured to be Macavity’s aunt but we’ll not go into that.
“So, the Fonicles give you any trouble?” Jeanna asked.
“Nahhh, they were really careful with me, especially you Jamarcus, maybe this will
teach Tugger and Munkus something” Bombalurina sighed.
“What do you mean?”
“Sometimes, I think they just take me for granted, like Munkustrap just thinks I
act like I do for attention, which I do because the other toms don’t think I’m
smart, and I don’t have any really friends, they just be my friends cause the toms
pay attention to me cause I flirt and my looks and my dancing..so then they’ll
notice them...it’s not fair” Bombalurina said unhappily.
“Hey I have an idea Bomba, why don’t you squeal or something, to make them
think we’re torturing you or something” Jeanna suggested.
“Hey, good idea...wait a sec” Bomba agreed and took a deep breath.
“AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!”
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO BOMBY??!?!?!?!”
“Hahahahahahaha”
“Why don’t you be our friend? We don’t care about that stuff, do we gals?”
Griddle asked, joining in on the conversation.
“Yeah” The other dames agreed.
“I care” Raza said, sitting next to Bomby.
“RAZAMATAZ!!!” The dames exclaimed.
“This is a queen talk, go away” Jeanna said crossly.
“Don’t speak like that to him!” exclaimed... (guess who) Katamania!!!! (I bet you
didn’t know)
“And if it’s queen talk, I don’t want to know about it” Kata snapped and got up.
After they walked off, Jeanna shook her head.
“Sorry, she grew up with toms, she doesn’t like to talk or act like a queen.” Jeanna
said.
Bomby shrugged then smiled.
“Well, I guess I could get used to having queens who are really my friends, and not
using me.....”
“Yeah!”
“We wouldn’t do that, we don’t care about each other! Well...we do...but we act
more like sisters or co-workers or something” Miata said, grinning.
“So, how long do I stay here?” Bomby asked.
“I think Maca said about a month or two, I don’t know, until the Jellicles get off
their high horse” Griddle said.
“That describes them pretty well, hey, this place looks like how I left it, doesn’t
change much does it?” Bomby asked.
“Nahhh, and that was a while since you were here” Griddle said thoughtfully.
“You were here before?” Dexia asked.
“Yeah”
“Hey cool, where did you sleep?”
“Here, I’ll show you...”
“But Dad... Maca”
“That’s all I have to say about the matter Katamania, I don’t agree with it”
“Yeah, you got a point, but see-”
“Katamania! I SAID that’s all I have to say about it!”
“But-”
“KATAMANIA JUST SHUT UP” Macavity yelled and backpawed Kata across the
face as hard as he could, making her fall.
“Kata, I didn’t mean-” Maca said quickly.
Kata looked at him, the same scared look in her eyes that he had seen when he had
first found her, almost drowned in the river.
“Kata?”
Kata got quickly to her feet and ran out of the room, and out of the warehouse.
“Stupid queens, never understand anything” Macavity muttered and went to find
Griddlebone.
“You slept in here? This is my room! We’re almost like sisters!” Dexia exclaimed.
Gingi rolled her eyes, maybe Kata was right.
She slipped out of the room, and sneaked into potions room, where Macavity had
jars and jars of powers that made you invisible, disappear or reappear places etc .
She took a bit out of the invisible jar, and then a bit out of a jar that made you
really strong. (this sounds like a little kids book, lol)
She sprinkled a bit of the invisibility dust on herself and then sneaked into the
room where the Jellicles were.
They were all sleeping.
“Thank the Everlasting Cat” Gingi thought to herself.
She sprinkled some of the invisibility dust on The Rum Tum Tugger, then placed
her paw over his mouth, and gently shook him awake.
He opened his eyes, and started when he felt something over his mouth, but no
one around him.
“Shhhh Tugger, I’m helping you out” Gingi whispered.
“Gingivere? Why are you helping me?” Tugger whispered back.
“Cause you helped me and Kata before, and...and I....and another reason” Gingi
whispered back.
“Hey, where am I? And where are you?” Tugger asked, realising that he couldn’t
see himself.
“We’re invisible Tugger, now shhh” Gingi said, sprinkling some of the strongness
dust over herself. She pulled apart the bars, leaving a big gap, then moved aside to
let Tugger get out.
“We can’t leave it like that, push them back” Tugger whispered.
Gingi tried, and gasped as she saw her paws.
“I can’t, it’s wearing off, if I get caught, they’ll chuck me out!” Gingi exclaimed
nervously.
“Let’s get out of here” Tugger agreed, grabbing Gingi’s arm (he could feel her arm)
and pulled her along until they were outside.
They ran a few streets away, then slumped against a wall, breathing deeply.
“Where you going to go Tugger?” Gingi asked, after she’d caught her breath.
“I have no idea, maybe to my old home, my sister might be there, it’d be good to
see Daja again.” (pronounced Dayjar)
“Hey, cool, do you want me to tell any of the Jellicles anything for you?”
“The Jellicles? Not really- Oh my god, Bomby! Do you know what there doing to
Bomby?” Tugger asked frantically.
“Yeah, she’s okay, she’s just talking to us”
“But..but I heard her scream”
“She was probably just mucking around, she’s okay, we’ve just taken her to teach
you guys a lesson, she quiet happy, talking to us about what she did when she lived
here”
“Oh, great, I can’t leave, what about Bomby, what about the kittens?”
“Kittens?”
“Bomba and I are going to be parents!”
“Oh...great... I have to go now, I..I...seeya you Tugger” Gingi said, her eyes
downcast.
“Now she’s had a fight with you? For crying out loud Maca, I told you she’d be
trouble, but you didn’t care, she’ll be back, Raza didn’t go with her did he? They
don’t like to be separated... anyway, we have to talk about Bomba, how long is she
staying for, and where is she going to stay? She’s carrying kittens you know”
Griddlebone told her younger brother.
“She is? I guess it’s with that show off Tugger guy, she’ll stay until the Jellicles
realise that they’re not the highest ranked cats in London, she can stay in Teazer
and Jerrie’s old room, no, wait, Gutie’s there isn’t he? Ummm, how about
Macazity’s old room? No one’s used it since he got killed, yeah, she can stay there,
Kata had better come back soon or she’ll be in trouble”
“Don’t yell at her when she comes back, she probably just wants to have some
space and time to herself, when you think of it, she’s never alone”
“I guess, what if she doesn’t come back?” Maca asked collapsing into his thrown of
a chair.
“She will, she will Maca” Griddle insisted, walking behind him and massaging his
shoulders.
“Thanks Griddle... She can look after herself, I’ve taught her enough, and Exotica
and Jerrie and Teazer taught her a bit as well, and your training’s given her a few
head steps, she’ll be back, if you see Raza, tell him to see me, okay Griddle?” Maca
asked, standing up and rolling his shoulders to loose them up a bit.
“Yeah sure, where will you be?”
“In my lair”
“Yeah, cool, just calm down, everything’s going to be okay, go visit the Jellicles
and give them heaps, okay?”
“Yeah, thanks sis”
“No worries”
Kata stopped running, and dropped to the ground next to the river where she had
lived when she was younger.
No one was there, Istar was off with her mate, Xen and Zizz were off with their
tribe, Az was dead, her mother was dead, her father was on the run, Lessa... well,
who knew where she was.
“Hey, Kata, you okay?” a voice behind her asked.
“Raz? What are you doing here?”
“I followed you all the way, you run fast and long” he grinned, flopping beside her.
Kata nodded, a fake grin on her face.
“Don’t give me that smile, what happened?” Raza asked, taking her paw and
squeezing it.
“I was trying to get dad to do something, but he didn’t agree, so I badgered him,
and he slapped me, it’s stupid, but things like that really hurt me, it even hurts
now”
“That’s because there’s a deep gash on your cheek”
“There is?” Kata asked, looking at her reflection in the water. “Oh, ouch” Kata
giggled.
“What are you doing out here? This is where you were born or something, isn’t
it?” Raza asked, dipping his paw in the water, then placed it, with his wet fur, on
Kata’s cut .
“Yeah, I was born here, I just had to think, be by myself you know”
“Oh, sorry”
“Nahh, you don’t count”
“WELL THANKS”
“Raza, you know what I mean” Kata said, pushing Raza’s paw away from her
wound. “Lay off...It’ll be fine, and if it gets infected, do I look like I give a damn?”
“There, your back to your normal self” Raza said teasingly as Kata rested her head
against his shoulder, thinking.
Macavity burst into the dames room, causing Dexia to drop her tube of fur dye,
Griddle and Bomba stop their conversation stop in mid sentence, Gutie and Gingi
look up from their game of poker, and Miata stop in mid sentence to her slave.
“Tugger’s escaped, the bars are pulled apart, and he’s gone, but do you know what
there was on the ground around and inside the cage?” Macavity asked in a growl.
The dames and Gutie shook their heads.
“The dust that only we know about, so do you know what that means?”
They shook their heads again, Gingi feeling nervous.
“That one of us let him out, and when I found out the double doer who did this, I
shall personally-”
Raza crashed into the room, looking around.
“Where’s Kata? I can’t find her” Raza asked, staying near the door.
“Ugh, she...’s away” Maca said haltingly.
“Where? why?”
“Umm, tell you later, now, as I was saying before, what I find out who helped
Tugger escape, they shall find themselves-”
“Tell me now, I want to know where Kata is”
“Raza, I’m talking”
“So am I, where’s Kata?”
“She ran away”
“Why?”
“I....I...I’ll tell you later, Raza please, guy talk or whatever”
“Fine” Raza scowled. He and Kata had decided how he would act, and Raza was a
good actor, he had to act like he had been looking for Kata all afternoon, and he
hadn’t followed her, or talked to her.
“Now, if you own up now, I won’t be as hard on you, I want to know why you let
him go for a start, and all your punishment would be, is working in the kitchens
for three weeks with Sarreb” Macavity said.
The Hells Dames and Raza pulled a face.
“Who’s Sarreb?” Gutie asked.
“The only most disgusting tom ever, he is really weird and blinicle” Miata
exclaimed and the Hells Dames started laughing, Macavity and Raza joining in.
“What’s blinicle mean?” Gutie asked.
“Ummm, don’t worry, we’ll tell you later when we see a real one, well, I mean
Sarreb is a real one, but, yeah, we’ll show you later” Griddle explained.
“HEY DUH King Natch, what should we do?”
“Raid on the Fonicles” Natch said in a bored voice.
“Who DUH they??”
“It’s...it’s...Macavity’s tribe” a Pollicle said in a timid voice.
“Ahhhhhhhh!”
“HEY! I’M THE KING, AND I SAY, YOU RAID THE FONICLES! I USED TO BE
ONE YOU KNOW!!!!”
“You DUH were?”
“AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!”
“Yes I was, now get out of here, and raid them!”
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
“.....so that’s why she ran away”
“When will Kata be back?”
“I..don’t know”
“Hey, what’s that noise?”
Macavity and Razamataz looked out a window, and both raised their eyebrows
when they saw the stampede of Peaks and Pollicles, a very smug looking Natch at
the head of the pack.
Just starring at them made the song ‘Leader of the Pack’ run though Maca’s head.
“What the hell are they doing?” Raza muttered.
“I have no idea, why, it’s just Gutie, Jeanna, Sarreb, the Hells Dames, you and me, I
sacked the rest of the rats and cats, they were getting annoying.” Maca told Raza.
Raza grinned.
“I’ll go tell the others eh?” Raza asked, pointing out the window.
“Yeah, you’ll have to definitely tell Griddle, and try and find Jama for me, he
should be at his lair or whatever, try to avoid Sarreb, the only reason he’s still here,
is he makes a good pork roast”
Raza grinned again, and went to look for everyone.
Jamarcus was day dreaming, (which was very unusual for him) about a stray that
lived a few alleys away called Josy. She was a fairly tall, and had dark, deep blue
eyes, and a dark red coat, almost black, with a few white patches here and there.
She was the toughest fighter ever, and could beat most toms. They had got into a
fight early that day, and he looked fondly at the gashes in his arms.
“HEY! Marcus, the stupid Pollicles are attacking, and your dad wants you to join
the fun” Raza exclaimed, barging in Jama’s lair, not bothering to knock.
“Why doesn’t Kata take my place” Jama growled. Lately he had been paranoid
about how his Dad never paid him any attention, but spent all his time with his
adopted sons and daughters.
“Wha? Whatever, Kata isn’t here, she’s...away” Raza said, debating on whether to
tell Jama or not about his and Kata’s little joke.
“Oh, well, why not then” Jama decided, and got up.
“Jerrie?”
“Yeah Teazer?”
“Where are you?”
“I’m in a corner, near Skimble and Etectra”
“No your not, I’m over in the middle of the wall, I’m not near Skimble” Etcetra
protested.
“Hey, where’s Tuggy?” she asked herself, already forgetting the conversation.
“Well, who’s this?”
“Oww! Jerrie!”
“Oh, hi Teazer”
“Hey Jerrie, tag, your it”
“Tag, your it!”
“Tag, your it!”
“Tag, your it!”
“Tag, your it!”
“Tag, your it!”
“Ahhh, quit it Jerrie”
“Tag”
“AHHHHH, QUIT IT YOU LITTLE BROTHER!”
“Little? Your Teazer’s younger brother?”
“Hahaha! Go Jerrie”
“Little brother”
“Little Jerrie”
“Hahahahaha”
“Teazer!”
“Your brought it on Jerrie”
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! DIE! DIE! DIE! STUPID POLLICLES!!!!” Gutie
screamed as they came out of the warehouse, followed by the rest of the gang.
“C’MON! FIGHT BACK!!!!!” Natch orded, as the Pollicles turned and ran away.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
“Stupid Pollicles” Natch muttered and turned and walked away....right into a secret
entrance into the warehouse.
He looked around, and found the Jellicles.
The looked up with a scared look when they heard him.
“Shhhhhhhh, I’m helping you” He whispered, getting the spear key out of the floor
boards.
“Why?” asked Etcetra.
“Who cares? Thank you friend, you are welcome to come to our Junkyard
whenever you want” Munkus said in a soppy voice.
“No way! I hate Jellicles, I just hate Maca even more” Natch said.
“FINE!” Munkus said, obviously miffed.
“Get out of here” Natch said, as he unlocked the biggest cage first, then Alonzo’s,
then Kona’s, then Munkustrap’s.
“Well, thanks anyway” Kona said thankfully. Then the Jellicles all ran home.
“What was with those Pollicles and Pekes anyway?” Dexia asked, as all eight (Maca,
Griddle, Gutie, Gingi, Jama, Dexia, Miata and Raza) of them sat down inside the
Dames ‘hanging out’ room.
“I don’t know... I have a funny feeling Natch is upset” Maca said.
They all laughed.
“Well, it’s all Gingi’s fault, if you hadn’t attracted him-”
“Shut up”
They started laughing again.
“Hey Maca, where’s Kata?” Miata asked.
“She’s... she’s-” Maca said.
“She’s away on a holiday” Raza said firmly, as he took a sip from his 7-Up and leant
back to rest on Griddle’s chair.
“Oh...yes Raza” Miata said, nodding her head and smiling in a fake way.
“Shut up you”
“DUH! King Natch, why are you angry?”
“Because ‘duh’ you are stupid idiotic Pollicles, that’s why!”
“DUH! No one speaks to us like that! Get out of here!” And they dumped Natch
outside the Yard and closed the door in his face, so Natch was once again, a loner.
“So, what’s been happening back at the warehouse?” Kata asked Raz as he came up
to her.
“Ummm, nothing much, Tugger escaped, Natch led a Pollicle rebellion on us, the
Jellicles broke out, but Maca doesn’t know that...yet...ummmmm, Bomby’s
settling just fine, Dexia’s acting like Bomba is her role modal, so you probably
don’t want to come back yet...Ummm, that’s about it, how’s your lonely life
going?”
“It’s not lonely, just peaceful, I actually have time to think!”
“Oh wow!” Raza said sarcastically.
“Oh shut up, it’s different, but I couldn’t live with it, to quiet, I need action, that’s
it, I’m going back to the warehouse”
“Really?”
“Yep”
“Good, I’m getting tired of saying your on a holiday, Maca’s really sorry, I think”
“Who gives a damn what he thinks anyway?”
“Yeah, you go gal”
“Yeah! I go man!”
“Your crazy”
“Thank-you”
“Kata, your back!!!!!!!”
“Yeah, whatever, I’m going to sleep”
“WELL FINE!”
“Nahh, just kidding, I have to see Dad I guess, what’s been going on?”
“Ohh, normal stuff. We got ‘attacked’ by the Pollicles and Natch, the Jellicles
escaped, Bomba’s fine, that kinda thing you know”
“Oh, sounds fantastic Miata”
“Oh, it’s been fun”
“Totally!”
“Katamania, could I speak to you?” Macavity asked, coming up to them.
“Yes Dad” Kata mumbled and said goodbye to Miata, then followed her dad into
his private lair.
Griddlebone walked in, needing to speak to her brother.
She found Maca, an annoyed look on his face, sitting on the edge of a sofa, and
Kata on another sofa, looking equally annoyed.
“You’re back Kata?” Griddle asked, moving to the side as Jama joined them.
Jama sighed, annoyed as well, to find Kata there.
“I wish I wasn’t” Kata muttered.
“Oh shut up, no one’s keeping you here” Maca snapped back.
Kata and Maca, though they didn’t notice it, were sitting exactly the same,
identical expressions, and their heads propped by their paws that were resting on
the arm of the sofa.
Griddle was taken back. She hadn’t seen them fight this bad ever...Kata was
difficult she knew....why did she come back if she was just going to act like this???
Gingi, was walking around outside the warehouse, totally bored.
She was thinking of Tugger. She knew she liked him, but he loved Bomba, that was
clear, and Bomba loved him back, they were mates...but Gingi still couldn’t admit
that Tugger was taken.
Her head snapped up, as she heard a noise and smelt an unfamiliar scent.
“Okay, who’s there? I’m a dame and if you want to hang around and fight?
Good luck! Bring it on!” Gingi
snarled.
“Hey... cool it sister. The name’s Josy, and I’m looking for a tom called Macavity,
he lives here?” the cat, now known as Josy asked.
“Yeah, why do you want to know?” Gingi asked causally.
“Need to talk to him”
“Fine, follow me”
The tall, dark red with white patches queen, followed Gingi, her dark blue eyes
looking around.
“Maca! This queen Josy needs to speak with you!” Gingi exclaimed as she walked
in.
Jama’s head snapped up, and he blushed, nobody noticed though.
He causally sank into a chair overflowing with cushions and chucked one of them
at Kata.
It hit her in the face, but she didn’t seem to notice, she just hugged it to her chest
and buried her face into it.
“Okay, we’ll talk in the lounge, Griddle, come with me and we’ll kept talking on
the way there, Jama, stay here and wait for me, kay?” and with that Gingi, Josy,
Griddle and Maca walked out, leaving Jama and Kata.
“What’s with you?” Jama asked casually.
Kata didn’t answer him.
“HEY! SIS! I’M TALKING TO YOU HERE!”
“I’m fine” She whispered.
Jama shrugged and ignored her.
A while later Maca walked back in, Jama and Kata hadn’t moved at all.
Maca ignored Kata as well and walked to him son.
“Marcus? What did you want?”
“Nothing, I just wanted to see my father, I haven’t seen him much lately” Jama
said, directing that comment at Kata.
It hit it’s spot, making Kata get up and run out of the room, silent tears coming
from her eyes.
Maca and Jama watched her in surprise, then turned back to each other.
“Okay then, ummm, what did Josy want?”
“MACAVITY!!!”
“Wha-? Oh, yes Mistoffelees? I haven’t seen you for a while...”
“I must go Macavity, my-I must go, goodbye” Misto said and disappeared after
shaking Maca’s paw.
“This is a crazy day” Jama muttered, getting up himself.
“Going already Marcus?”
“Yeah, I’m hungry, I’m going to get a rat to eat or something”
“Fine, come again soon...”
“Sure, whatever” Jama said in an offpaw way.
“Kata? You okay?”
“Of cause, why wouldn’t I be?” Kata answered softly from her hammock.
“Where have you been?”
“Holiday”
“That’s what Raza said”
“Yeah? Good on him”
“Well I don’t believe it, what’s the real reason?”
“It’s nothing Gingi”
“Doesn’t look like nothing, Katamania doesn’t cry, who are you and what have
you done with Kata???”
Kata laughed, still upset.
Raza came in and exchanged a look with Gingi.
“Kat, what’s the matter?” Raza asked, after he received a shrug from Gingi.
Kata sat up, whipping her eyes.
“My father and brother just hate my guts, that’s all” Kata sniffed.
“No they don’t! Where did you get that idea? Maca was really worried about you
Kata! You should’ve seen him!” Gingi said, walking up and leaning on Kata’s
hammock that was about level to her shoulders.
“Ha! Well you should’ve just seen them! ‘I never get to see my dad anymore! no
one’s keeping you here! I can’t trust you anymore!’ That’s what I got!” Kata said,
a fresh flow of tears starting.
“Aww jezz Kata! You know I hate it when you cry...” Raza muttered, walking over
to Kata and hugging her.
“Awwww” Gingi laughed.
“Eh, guys? Could I talk to my sister in private?” a voice said from the door.
“Umm, sure Jamarcus. Kata, come out with us later, we’re going on a shopping
spree” Gingivere said, patting Kata’s paws and walking out.
Raza glared at Jama for a sec, then gave a small grin.
“Kay, sure, seeya Kata. You feeling better?” Raza asked, squeezing Kata’s paw.
“Yeah, sure Raz, seeya later I guess” Kata said. What could she say with her older
brother there?
Raza walked out and closed the door.
Kata locked her eyes with Jama and hugged a pillow to her chest again.
Jama sighed and jumped up to sit next to Kata.
“Kata, Katamania, you’re my...little sister I guess now, I just have to get used to
the fact. Before you came, Dad used to spend almost every day training me and
telling me stories about what he used to do.
Then you came, and now all he talks about is Kata this, and Kata that, and I should
tell Kata this or that. I guess I just have to get used to you...” Jama said, avoiding
Kata’s eyes.
“At least you have a real dad” Kata said quietly, her voice muffled by the pillow.
Jama’s head snapped up.
“Well, what happened to your Dad? I bet you still see him sometimes...” Jama said
slowly.
“Me? See my Dad? HA! My parents disowned me ages ago, they though I killed my
little brother when really someone else drowned him. I just ran off to kill a rabbit
for Aztec, and then got back....and...he was dead, left in the same place where I left
him, not breathing, him fur was all wet....and-” Kata stopped, and started crying
again.
“Hey....I didn’t know....Kat...do you want to tell me about it? It’ll help...” Jama
said quietly, putting his arm around her protectively.
Kata rubbed her eyes and sniffed.
My parents found me next to Aztec, and just assumed I had killed him. All my
sisters believed them as well. He was my only brother as well, I had four other
sisters, Lessa, Xentos, Zizztsa and my identical twin Istar. My parents already hated
me, now they didn’t feed me at all, or do anything for me... I was only about 3 as
well. So I left. My father went after me, and knocked me out, putting me in a
bag, he chucked me off the bridge, but your dad found me and saved my life. He
had Griddlebone look after me till she came here to live for the Hells Dames, when
you was 15 and I was 14...You know the rest...my life sux...I don’t know if you
remember, since we’re both 17, but I tried to kill myself when I was 15, that’s when
Raza became my best friend, that’s my life. Now Dad hates me because I’m the
stupidest idiotic queen ever, and you don’t like me because you say Dad pays more
attention to me then he does to you.”
Jama was lost for words.
“Hey...sis, I’m sorry, I didn’t know anything about your life before Dad found
you... friends?” Jama asked.
“Kay” Kata sniffed.
Jama tickled her, making her smile.
“Where’s Dad?” Kata asked, nuzzling Jama’s paw.
“He was in the thrown room when I left him...do you want me to come with
you?”
“I don’t want to see him, I just want to know where he is so I can avoid him...
come with us to steal some stuff at the mall.” Kata said, jumping down lightly to
the ground.
“You should face him Kat, but it’s your life, sure I’ll come, lets go...li’l sis” Jama
said, jumping down next to her and putting his arm around her again.
“Kata, Jama, you ready to go on a shopping spree?” Gingi asked, brushing her head
fur into place.
“Yeah, what mall this time?” Kata asked.
“I think South Nap Lane would be a cool place to hit, they have the best studs
ever!” Dexia exclaimed, checking her fur from all angels in her mirrors.
“Yeah, we haven’t done that in ages” Miata said, clipping on her studded wrist
bands.
“Are you feeling better now Kat?” Raza asked gently, hugging her from behind as
he walked through the door.
“Yeah, I’m better now Raz” Kata answered softly, kissing him on his cheek.
“Wooooooooo” The Hells Dames giggled.
“Shut up” Kata giggled back, grinning.
“At least she’s better, c’mon” Dexia said, linking her arm through Jama’s and
smiling at him.
Miata, Gingi, Raza and Kata rolled their eyes and Jama blushed.
“Why do you guys do this?” Jama whispered from under a coat rack.
“It’s fun” Kata giggled.
“This way we get stuff, and Maca’s fame just grows larger!” Raza added.
“How do they know Maca did this?”
“We always leave something in the shape of a circle with a M inside it”
“Okay, I guess that works...”
“Jamarcus? Razamataz? Dames? What have you been?” Macavity asked.
He was waiting for them in the Dames room.
Kata turned on her heal and headed for the door, but Jama and Raza caught her
arms and held her back.
“Still alive?” Maca asked Kata.
Kata ignored him and nuzzled her head against Raza’s arm.
“Fine, try and ignore me, see if I care, what did you get me?” Maca asked Griddle.
