Hi everyone this is my second CATS fanfic (even though I'm not done with the first one). Anyway it is combined with another musical made by Andrew Llyod Webber called Starlight Express, I'll never understand why it's not popular here in the U.S.. But anyway on with the story.
Of Trains and Felines ch 1
It was a normal Monday morning, families just getting up, eating breakfast, and wondering 'When the heck is it going to be Friday or Saturday?'
But in another household things were a little different.
"I told you mom, you could just throw them away!" A teenage boy said to his mother.
"You sure? You used to love these things when you were little." His mother said.
"Yes, when I was little!" He exclaimed. "Now that junk is a waste of space: throw it out, donate it, I don't care! I mean what kind of 18 year old still plays with toy trains?"
*HONK,HONK* Outside the house a car was honking filled with teenagers.
"Look mom I gotta go, I'm late!" He said as he left and slammed the door behind him.
'Where did I go wrong?' The mother thought and looked at the box in her hands. 'Well, no use keeping these anymore.'
The mother went outside and threw the box out into trash bin.
Right on time, a trash truck came with two men emptying out trash bins into the machine where they would be dumped at the junkyard.
Junkyard
The junkyard the home of broken and forgotten treasures, where rats and mice savage for food, and the home of many felines.
*Sigh* "I wish there was something to do." A young calico kitten by the name of Jemima (sometimes Sillabub) said.
She was on top of the old TSE 1, there was nothing to do on this dull boring day.
Victoria and her brother, Quaxo, were in Italy with their owners.
Her mother, Demeter, was cleaning up their den as her father, Munkustrap, was resting after guarding the junkyard again the previous night.
Jennyanydots and Skimbleshanks were cleaning their den.
Her Uncle Tugger was with his owner for some wedding.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer were staying home due to a family reunion.
Her Aunt Bombalurina, was in a cat show.
Electra and Etcetera had the cold.
And Ever-Lasting-Cat, knew where the rest were.
Jemima curled up into a ball position, there was nothing fun to do that irked her.
*CRASH**OOOOWWWWWW!*
A loud crash made the kitten jump and made her fur puffy.
'What was that noise?' She thought as she went to where the sound came from. As soon as she reached her destination she found two grown men.
"Well that's the last of it." One of them said. "How's your foot Frank?"
"Terrible! What the heck was in that box?"
"Who cares, let's get lunch!"
The two left leaving a huge cardboard box for Jemima to investigate.
'Hmmm, I wonder what's in it?' Jemima thought. She walked around the box it was bigger than her, but it seemed pretty easy for a human to carry it. She then kicked the side of it, it didn't budge an inch and it felt like something hard was in it, as she jumped on top of the box and opened it. Inside there were a bunch of toy trains.
Jemima's eyes widen by the sight of all the bright colored trains, they were old, peeling, but they seemed to be okay.
"Coolio, free toys!" Jem said as she eyed her prize. Upon scan her riches Jem noticed something shiny glaring in her eyes.
'What's that?' As Jem tried to reach she accidently feel into the box.
'Great, just great!' She thought, Jem jumped on a corner of the box for it to fall over and let her and the trains fall out. Jem got up and started to look for what she was looking for. But something caught her eye.
"OHH, this is pretty!" Jem said as she picked up a observation ar, it was long car with pink paint with glitter on it, if this car was seen at night it would probably shiny like a star. Jem placed it on the ground to see if it could still roll to her surprise they worked just like new.
"Wow, you look new; you must be a first class car or something."
If the obervation car was alive 'she' would take it as a compliment.
Then, Jem spotted a red and baby blue car 'coupled' together, Jem picked them up and observed them. The blue one had a checker pattern like design on its sides while the red one had a wood panel like design. Jem was starting to wonder were they the only ones stuck together, than an idea formed in her head and she asked.
"Are you two mates, like mommy and daddy?"
If both caboose and dining car were alive they would've blushed a shade of hot-cotton-candy-pink, and any train in ear distance of the conversation would be laughing their heads' off.
Soon a strange scent filled the air it smelled like: sandwiches, hotdogs, cake, salads, and fries. The other scent was smoke the kind of smoke humans breathe in that the older cats told her to never go near but it was a weak smoke smell since the other scent that covered it was bubble gum. Jem turned around to see a brown 'ex-smoking' car and a yellow buffet car.
"Oh, so that's where the scents were coming from." Jem said as she put the two with the other trains she found.
Jem then say a red, white, and blue train connected to a silver and ice-blue freezer truck, a green money truck, a red and white dynamite truck, a silver and red armaments truck, and last a blue and white repair truck.
"These little fellas look like you're from outer space or maybe the future." Jem said.
Jem tried to reach around for some of her new toys and realized there were no more.
"What where are they? I was sure there was more."
Jem scratched her head and wondered where the rest of her new toys have gone, then it hit her they were still in the box.
The young queen then scattered to the box to collect her new friends.
Done, the next chapter will be up very soon, guess who the trains are if you know the musical.
