Part 1
A small shadow crept along the wall of the evil tribe leader Malicious' palace. Malicious who was once named Melodious was ruling the tribe with a grim grip and forced his tribe members to work in his mines so he could get gold or whatever precious was inside his holes in the ground. The shadow was a young tom named Alonzo. He was two years old and still not a grown tom. You weren't until you were five years old.
He was a white and black patched tom. His eyes were honey colored. He was wearing a black leather band around his forehead that was partly covered by his black and white bangs. He also had a black leather bracelet around each of his front paws and on his back paws too. It was the marks of a worker also known as a slave. Alonzo worked in the mines but today he'd managed to sneak away from his task. Alonzo was an explorer. Explorers were young cats that were forced down into small tunnels to see if they could find anything. They weren't so supervised that's why he could sneak off from the guards.
The tribe was big, it was about fifty cats in it and at least twenty-five of them were slaves, fifteen were guards and ten were working in the palace. Alonzo's parents were two of the cats in the palace. His father was Malicious' adviser and his mother was Malicious' whore, at least that's what she was called by everyone else. She was Malicious' number one female attention. Alonzo sneaked a peak into the palace and saw Malicious sit on his throne. The tribe leader was ginger and muscular. Alonzo's father, Hadey, a black and white tom stood on his right while his wife, Alonzo's mother, the cream colored Velari sat in Malicious' lap licking his cheek and caressing his arm. Alonzo made a sour face.
"But sire", Hadey said to the tribe leader. "We can't be more effective than we are at the moment. The workers are-"
"Not working at all Hadey", Malicious growled and pushed Velari away a bit. "Every month another queen or tom goes home to care for their newborn kittens. The guards are all toms so they can't have kittens."
"Yes sire", Hadey tried.
"So I've figured it out", he rose. Velari sunk down on his throne as Malicious walked towards another window in the room. "To get the workers to work more… we need to stop the kittens."
"How sire", Velari asked and licked her lips in a seductive way.
"I'll order my guards to kill them all."
Alonzo gasped in horror but his parents and leader didn't hear him.
"Oh sire what a wonderful idea", Velari said and embraced him. "We have four of them you can take."
"Yes", Hadey said. "They aren't doing any good anyway."
Alonzo's eyes widened in fear.
"Don't you have an older son too Hadey", Malicious asked.
"Yes sire, Alonzo he is two years old and works as an explorer."
"Huh so he is of use then… Very well. I will order my guards to kill every cat under the age of two."
Alonzo gasped in horror again and took off. He had to save his four little brothers.
As Alonzo ran towards his home, a den made of stone a bit from the other workers' dens because this was the home of two palace workers too. He could hear the other workers and guards sing from the mines.
(Malicious' guards)
Dig...
Carry...
Drag....
Heave....
Faster!
Dig...
And lift....
Carry...
And pull
Drag...
And pull up...
Heave...
Faster!
(Slaves)
With the sting of the whip on my shoulder
With the salt of my sweat on my brow
Everlasting cat
Can you hear your people cry:
Help us now
This dark hour....
SAVE US
Hear our call
Free us
Everlasting
Remember us, here in this burning mine
Save us
There's a land with peace for us
Lead us to a peaceful land
He looked around and grabbed a basket and hurried in through the thick curtain working as a door. When he got inside he hurried over to a crib where four small forms lay and mewed. Their eyes had opened just a week ago. They were crawling around a little and when they heard him they all looked up at him.
One of them was black from top to toe except for a white spot on his chest. His eyes were a strange mix of blue and amber. He was the smallest of the four. He was looking at Alonzo in confusion as if he knew Alonzo shouldn't be home yet.
Beside him another black kitten with three white paws, a white patch on his chest, white face and a white tip on his tail were wrestling with a white kitten that had a brown patch over his right eye and most of his nose. He also had several other brown markings and his head fur was a mix in different browns. They both had blue eyes. Then there was a kitten that was a mixture of white, black and grey. He had a brown patch over his left eye and his eyes were green.
"Hi", Alonzo told them and caressed all of their backs and ruffled their head furs. "I think it is time for your nap now."
The first kitten and the last one immediately cuddled up together. The other two continued wrestling.
"Patch, White", Alonzo said and they looked at him innocently. "Do like Pirate and Black and go to sleep." They pouted but joined their brothers. Alonzo chuckled and sighed. He heard screams from the other slaves' dens and hurriedly put his brothers in the basket. They whimpered a bit. Alonzo kissed their foreheads and shut the basket's lid and hurried out and ran towards the river singing softly. He could hear the slaves from the mines again.
(Alonzo)
My brothers, I have nothing I can give
But this chance that you may live
I pray we'll meet again
If She will hear us
(Slaves)
SAVE US
Hear our prayers
Free us
From despair
These years of slavery makes us
too weak to fight
Save us
There's a land with peace for us
Save us
Out of bondage and
Lead us to a peaceful land...
The river flow through the tribes' land and led out through a tunnel that was forbidden to go through. The humans and other tribes lived on that side. Alonzo put the basket down near the shore. It was protected in the high grass and Alonzo himself was barely visible. He heard crying from the basket and opened it up and hushed his little brothers and sang softly:
(Alonzo)
Hush now my babies
be still, loves, don't cry
Sleep as you're rocked by the stream
Sleep and remember
My last lullaby
So I'll be with you when you dream
Alonzo gave them all one last kiss each. The one called Patch looked at him and he gripped the leather bracelet around Alonzo's wrist. Alonzo kissed the little paw and then gently made the kitten let go and place the paw back in the basket, shut the lid and bent down to the water.
(Alonzo)
River, oh river
Flow gently for me
Such precious cargo you bear
Do you know somewhere
they can live free?
River, deliver them there...
"Hey what are you doing", a voice yelled and Alonzo saw four guards watching him. He pushed out the basket further in the river. Two of the guards grabbed him and held his arms in a iron grip. The other two tried to catch the basket. Alonzo struggled to get free and stop them.
"Let me go!" He screamed. "Leave them alone!"
He got loose and ran after the guards to stop them from getting the basket. They were close to it now. But when one of the guards jumped down on a boat to catch the basket he created a wave and the basket disappears into the dark tunnel. Alonzo's brothers are safe now. He fell to his knees and sang:
Brothers, you're safe now
And safe may you stay
For I have a prayer just for you:
Grow, baby brothers
Come back someday
Come and free us too...
Tears poured down his cheeks as he hears his friends sing again and he thinks of the precious cargo the river carries.
(Slaves)
Spare us
Send a savior to help us
And save us from this doomed land
Save us to a peaceful land
(Alonzo)
Save Us!
That's the last thing he can say before being knocked unconscious and dragged back to Malicious' den for punishment.
TBC Yes I'm not done with my stories yet. I planned to post this before The shape shifter but since Insanity's childe PM:ed me and asked me to write a slash I had to do that first. I'll hope you'll all like this as much as you like my other stuff. :)
The song originally is Deliver us from the Prince of Egypt I only made new lyrics.