HAT: Okay, ultimate challenge. Not just a challenge, but also a story! Hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I own nothing besides the plot.
Mungojerrie lies on the ground and looks up at the stars that twinkle with delight and they seem to taunt him, the stars having fun while he lies there staring at them and wondering what they could possibly be doing that's so fun. He's bored and the night's young, but there seems to be nothing there to do. Suddenly a weight lands on his chest, making him release any and all air in his lungs and he looks up and glares at his sister.
"What'd you do that for?" he demands with his Cockney accent (A/N: Yep, still not trying for accents).
"I'm bored," she replies with the same accent.
He rolls his dark brown eyes and shakes his head. "Well, I am too, but you don't see me pouncing on other cats."
"Yet," she mutters. He shoves his sister off of him and rolls onto his stomach, his eyes starting to droop. Is there nothing to do but sleep? "Oi, oi! I've got an idea. How about a challenge?"
That gets his ears perking. "What kind of challenge?" he asks, opening his eyes and looking up at his little sister.
She grins. "Whoever can steal the most things without getting caught wins."
That seems doable so he nods. "Alright, I'm up for it. What're the rules?"
"Um... You can't steal more than two things from each house... and... anyone in the tribes that lives with a human, their houses are off limits."
"Alight, I can live with those rules."
"Great! We meet back in the den in two hours. Ready? Set? GO!"
The two thieves take off and Mungojerrie runs to the first house he can see and carefully checks for anything that could endanger him and slips inside with no problem. Once he's in he navigates the house to a more secure part of the house, one that would contain more tantalizing objects to steal. He creeps into the adult human's bedroom and finds a jewelry box. He licks his lips and opens it, finding many objects that would be the object of his affections and he finally chooses shiny ruby earrings and throws them in his bag before he quietly closes the box and slips back out of the house. He checks the position of the moon and nods. He's got plenty of time to beat his sister.
The next house has a dirty Pug and he has to flee with only one necklace rather than two like he'd planned. In the next house he has better luck, stealing a bit of food for later. However before he could escape the human yells at him and chases him with a broom, causing him to flee as quickly as possible.
Stupid humans, he thinks sourly. Why can't they all be like ours?
He shakes his off and glances at the moon only to find that he has room to steal from one more house. He breathes deeply and looks around. He spots the house Jennyanydots lives in when she's not at the junkyard and shakes his head. Time is ticking and he needs time to get back to the junkyard. He spots one that he has yet to rob and isn't occupied by any cats he knows and he decides to leave his bag in a safe bush and he slips inside, looking around for something worth stealing. AS he makes his way to the master bedroom he realizes he's being followed.
"Where do you think you're going?" hisses a queen.
He turns around slowly and sees she's all black with icy blue eyes. "Um, I lost something in here and need to get it back," he lies.
She hisses and lunges for him. He dives to the side and nimbly climbs up into a bookcase and looks down to see her quickly following. He finds a nice china cup and picks it up quickly before jumping off as she swipes at him. He tucks and rolls and heads for the master bedroom to steal something more valuable, hopefully a diamond, but this mad queen's chasing him like a demon. He slips into the master bedroom and sees two humans asleep, both of them adult, and he gets on the night stand beside their heads and raises the glass up as the queen enters.
"Don't you dare," she hisses.
"Leave me alone and I won't break it and have these humans blame you," he hisses back.
She growls and he goes to the jewelry box and deals the largest diamond he can find before he jumps out of the window before she can see what he's doing. He looks through the bushes and finds that his bag's gone. He looks up at the moon and curses, breaking into a run in the direction of his shared den with his sister. He'll just have to tell Rumpelteazer someone stole from him and let her know how much he had. He enters the den and sees Rumeplteazer with her bag and... his!
"That's cheating! You can't steal from me!" he growls.
"Ah, ah, ah, I didn't say we couldn't steal from each other. I just said from the houses that anyone in the tribe stays in or their humans."
He growls and crosses his arms, sour about the fact that he didn't think of that.
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