Monsieur Jin lived in an elegant house in Paris. Edgar was his loyal butler. Everywhere he went, Jin took Yoongi and his three kittens.
Yoongi and his kittens were pampered and given every comfort. The cats loved Jin, and he loved his cats.
The kittens were all very talented. Taehyung was an artist. He was learning to paint. Hoseok and Jimin were musical. Hoseok was learning to play the piano. Jimin was learning to sing.
One day, Jin's lawyer, Namjoon, came to meet with him. "I want to make out my will," Jin told Namjoon.
In his room, Edgar listened in on Jin's conversation through the speaking tube. Jin had decided to leave all his fortune to Yoongi and his kittens!
"Oh, no!" Edgar cried. "if it wasn't for those spoiled cats, I would get Monsieur's fortune. I'll think of a way." Edgar said. "Those cats have got to go!"
"Rock-a-bye, kitties," the greedy butler hummed, as he put sleeping pills into the cats' cream! The pills went plip-plop! Into the pot.
"Here you are," Edgar said, as he brought the cream to the hungry cats. "Once they're asleep I'll take them far away!" he chuckled to himself.
Yoongi and the kittens enjoyed their meal. They even shared it with their friend Roquefort the mouse. Roquefort skittered back to his mousehole to get a cracker but fell fast asleep!
Soon all the cats were asleep too. Jin had gone to bed, and the house was silent. Edgar gently lifted the cats into their basket.
Edgar took the basket outside to his motorcycle. Under cover of darkness, he drove far away from the city.
Suddenly, on a quiet country road, two dogs came bellowing out of the darkness toward the motorcycle.
The barking dogs startled Edgar, who drove off the road and into the river. The basket holding Yoongi and the sleeping kittens was thrown from the motorcycle!
After a frantic chase, the terrified Edgar headed straight back for the city, leaving Yoongi and the kittens behind-along with two tired out hound dogs. In the distance, a storm approached.
"Where are we?" Yoongi asked, as he awoke in the dark alongside a stream underneath a stone bridge, "We're not at home at all!" Yoongi and his kittens were all confused and frightened as the storm cam.
Back in their warm, safe home in Paris, Jin found all of his precious cats missing. "They're gone!" Jin cried, "They're gone!"
Yoongi awoke the next morning to the sound of someone singing a jaunty song. Yoongi saw the singer across the stream. It was a dapper alley cat named Jungkook.
"It is most important that I get back to Paris," Yoongi explained to Jungkook. "Would you be so kind as to show me the way?" "Show you?", Jungkook said, "I'll send you there on a magic carpet!"
He pointed to a milk truck that was puttering up the road. "That's a magic carpet?" Yoongi asked. "Step lively, all aboard for Paris!" Jungkook called.
As Jimin waved goodbye to Jungkook, he lost his balance, and fell from the back of the truck! With a plop! Jimin tumbled onto the road behind the clattering truck.
Jungkook rushed forward and caught Jimin and ran after the milk truck. Running as fast as he could, Jungkook caught up with the truck, and lifted Jimin back to safety. "Thank you, Mr. Jungkook, for saving my life," Jimin said.
Back in Paris, all alone in his big house, the sad and worried Jin waited for some word of his cats. The only one at Jin's house who wasn't worried was Edgar.
Edgar showed the horse, Frou Frou, a newspaper headline that read, "Mysterious Catnaper Abducts Family of Cats." "Look Frou Frou," wicked Edgar bragged, "I've made headlines! And they won't find a clue!"
Back in the country, the milk truck driver finally noticed his unwanted passengers, and chased them down the road.
At a railroad bridge, the kittens pretended to be a train. "Clickety-clickety-clickety!" buzzed Taehyung, "Whoo, whoo!" "WHOO! WHOO!" The whistle of the real train sounded, and it was heading toward them!
All the cats jumped under the bridge for safety, but Jimin lost his footing and fell into the rushing river below!
"Papa!" Jimin cried, as he splashed in the icy water. Quick-thinking Jungkook went right into the water after Jimin. "Keep your head up Jimin!" Jungkook shouted, "Here I come!"
Jungkook quickly pulled Jimin out of the rapid water. He struggled to an overhanging branch and gave the shivering Jimin to the grateful Yoongi. But poor Jungkook was swept away in the river, clinging to a floating branch!
Downstream, Yoongi and the kittens found Jungkook. He had been rescued by a pair of giddy gees named Abigail and Amelia Gabble. The geese thought Jungkook was trying to learn how to swim! "You did quite well for a beginner," Abigail said, "Keep practicing!"
By nightfall, Jungkook, Yoongi, and the kittens had arrived back in Paris! The kittens were very tired form walking all day long. "We can stay at my own penthouse pad," Jungkook offered.
A burst of cheerful music greeted the cats as they approached Jungkook's penthouse. "Sounds like Scat Cat and his gang have dropped by!" Jungkook said. The kittens forgot how tired they were when they heard Scat Cat's swinging music.
"Big man Jungkook is back in his alley!" Scat Cat said when he saw his friend arrive. Jungkook introduced Yoongi to Scat Cat. "Yoongi, this is the greatest cat of them all!"
Scat cat and his band happily sang a song and loudly played their music. Yoongi and Jungkook joined the celebration with a happy dance.
"It isn't Beethoven, Papa," Hoseok giggled, "But it sure bounces!" They all danced, and sang, and had a lot of fun.
Scat Cat and his wild band played and sang, "Ev'rybody wants to be a cat!" The party lasted until the middle of the night.
After the party was over, Jungkook and Yoongi admired the full moon. "I'm going to miss you," Jungkook told Yoongi. "We will miss you, too," Yoongi said softly, "But tomorrow we must go home to Jin."
Now that he had those cats out of the way, Edgar was enjoying the thought of his new riches. "Get used to the finer things in life, old boy," he said to himself.
"Hurray! We're home!" Taehyung cried. "I'll never forget you, Jungkook," Yoongi said sadly. "So long," the alley cat replied as he turned to go.
"It can't be them!" Edgar cried when he saw Yoongi and his kittens. As soon as the cats came in the house, Edgar caught them all and put them in a sack. "Edgar!" Jin called, and Edgar quickly stashed the sack in the oven!
"Oh, Edgar, they're back! I heard them!" Jin cried.
From inside the dark oven, Yoongi told Roquefort, "His name is Jungkook! Go and get him!"
"Mr. Jungkook!" Roquefort cried, chasing after the cat. "Stop! Yoongi! Kittens! Trouble!" "Yoongi and his kittens in trouble?" Jungkook exclaimed. "You go get Scat Cat and his gang of alley cats."
"Jungkook needs help! Yoongi and the kittens are in trouble!" Roquefort reported to Scat Cat and the gang. Once the cats heard that, they were off and running. "Come on, cats, we gotta split!" Scat Cat shouted.
Jungkook watched as a sneaky Edgar took Yoongi and the kittens out to the barn. "I'll ship you all the way to Timbuktu," Edgar growled, "And this time you'll never come back!"
As Edgar was prepared to ship Yoongi and the kittens away in a old trunk, with a loud yowl, Jungkook leapt onto the sneaky butler's back!
Angry at being attacked by the alley cat, Edgar chased Jungkook around the barn. Poor Jungkook was cornered. Edgar came toward the frightened cat with a pitchfork!
Just in the nick of time, Scat Cat and the other alley cats came charging to the rescue! Suddenly, nasty Edgar was covered with snarling, scratching cats!
While Scat cat and his friends did their best at giving Edgar their worst, clever Roquefort quickly opened the lock on the trunk.
Yoongi and the kittens were free! But they weren't out of trouble yet! "Everybody out of here, fast!" Jungkook commanded.
As Yoongi and his kittens jumped out of the trunk, a swift kick from Frou Frou knocked Edgar into the trunk! Scat Cat and his band quickly locked the helpless butler in!
Scat Cat and his friends pushed their cargo out to the waiting shipping van. Poor Edgar was off to Timbuktu!
Yoongi and the kittens had a happy reunion with Jin. "I think this young man is very handsome," Jin complimented Jungkook. He invited Jungkook to stay! "We need a rougher man around the house," Jin said, as he posed the happy Aristocats for a family portrait.
With Edgar gone, Jin changed his will. His fortune would now go to a new project. A home for all the alley cats of Paris! Everyone joined in the celebration!
THE END