Prologue
Four young toms were playing in the sun watched by their father. The oldest was a silver tabby he was nearly a grown tom now, next in line was the twins, a ginger tom and a black tom, they were slightly yougner than their brother and youngest were their black and white brother. The four of them were playing tag and the father decided that they were safe so he decided to go and have a talk with some of his friends. Telling the oldest to look after his little brothers.
"You can't catch me Munk", the black tom with leopard spots called, he also had something that looked like a mane. "I'm too fast!"
"Hah", Munk, the silver tabby said as he touched his yougner brother. "What did you say?"
"Get off", his brother grunted.
"Did ya see that Lonzie", the ginger cat asked. "That's why you shouldn't sell the skin before the rat is killed."
Little Lonzie laughed and the black tom glared at him. Lonzie stopped laughing and took off with the black tom after him.
"Munk, Mac help", little Lonzie yelled as he tried to escape his older brother.
"Tuggie be nice", Munk said as Lonzie hid behind him. "He's still just a kitten."
"He's a very dead kitten when I get my paws on him!" Tuggie growled.
"Why because he laughed", Mac asked as Lonzie hurried over to hide behind him.
"Why is he always picking on me", Lonzie asked. "Why are all of you always picking on me?"
"Because you're the youngest", Munk said and rubbed his head at his little brother's side lovingly. "But we pick on you because we love you."
Lonzie swatted at him and Munk jumped away laughing. Suddenly there was a rumble from behind them and a barrel fell towards the four young toms.
"Watch out", Mac yelled and they dived out of the way. But the barrel had knocked other junk loose and that fell down on little Lonzie.
"Alonzo", his three brothers exclaimed in terror.
Later tha evening Alonzo was lying in their den shivering in fright. He was sleeping and dreaming nightmares. His brothers were all watching him carefully. Soon they fell asleep... all but one of them. Munkustrap snuck over and looked at his littlest brother's scared face. He reached out a paw and softly scratched the little tom beneath the left side of his jaw and the terrified frown eased a little.
"Munk..." Munkustrap heard him mumble.
Satisfied that his little brother knew he was there Munkustrap lied down again and fell asleep. The Rum Tum Tugger opened an eye and snuck over to Alonzo's side and sighed. He knew that he somtimes acted as if he didn't like the kitten, but truth was he loved his little brother a lot. Tugger was the yougner one of the twins so Alonzo was his only younger brother and that meant that he had to be extra protective over him... according to Tugger. When Tugger saw that his little brother looked worried and scared he took his paw and rubbed a spot on Alonzo's forhead and the terrified frown eased a bit.
"Tugger", the kitten whispered and Tugger smiled and went to bed.
Macavity woke up and hurried over to his littlest brother's side when he heard him whimper softly. Macavity reached out and let his paw trace Alonzo's face from the corner of his left eye to his ching. The kitten sighed happily and mumbled his older brother's name, feeling safe now that he knew all three of them was there. Macavity however didn't went back to his own place. He curled up around Alonzo to protect him from anything. Nothing, nothing was ever going to hurt his little brother.
