Part VI
A morning sunlights lit up the blue cat's face, who lying on the ground in one of the alleys in Acme Acres. Furrball turned his nose up several times and slowly began to open his eyes.
"Where... Where am I?", the toon said, holding his head.
The cat looked around and remembered everything that happened yesterday.
"Fifi! Where's Fifi?", he yelled, getting up from the ground.
Furrball looked around the whole alley, but he couldn't find his fiancée. The blue toon ran out of the alley and looked at the clock on the town hall tower. Approaching the 8:00 AM.
"She's probably already in the ACME Loo!", he thought and ran toward the school.
A few minutes later the cat came into the school building. Just after the entrance to the center, he met Buster.
"Hiya, Furrball!", the blue bunny greeted him.
"Hey, Buster!", Furrball replied. "Tell me, have you seen Fifi?"
"Fifi?", Buster asked surprised. "But who's that?"
"Are you kidding me?!", the cat shouted at him and ran down the hallway to look for the purple skunkette.
The blue toon saw Babs and Shirley, who stood by the student lockers.
"Hello, Furrball!", the pink bunny said to him.
"What's wrong?", the loon asked, seeing the distraught cat's face.
"Babs! Shirley! Have you seen Fifi?", Furrball asked them.
"Who?", they said in unison.
"Are you kidding? Fifi La Fume! Your friend", the cat was surprised.
"I'm sorry, Furrball, but I think, that you get us mixed up with someone or some junk...", Shirley said.
"We don't know, about who you're talking!", Babs said.
"No... No... It's impossible...", the blue toon ran down the hallway again.
He reached the door of Pepe le Pew's office. The cat thought, that perhaps he will know what happened. He knocked on the door and went inside.
"Bonjour, Monsieur Furrball!", the adult skunk greeted him. "How can I help you?"
"Professor le Pew, I can't find Fifi! Can Professor see her today?", the blue toon asked him.
"Fifi? Forgive me, monsieur Furrball, but I don't know anyone with this name.", Pepe said.
"That's impossible!", Furrball shouted. "Fifi La Fume! The purple skunkette in my class. This is the best student of Professor! How can Professor not remember her?"
"But Monsieur Furrball! In your class doesn't have skunks!", the teacher explained to him.
"Wh- Wh- Wh- What ?!", the cat was terrified and ran out of the office.
He knew only one person, who could help him. The toon ran inside the science lab.
"Calamity? Calamity, are you here?", Furrball looked around the lab.
"Yes, I am!", he said, using a synthesizer and waved his paw to him. "What's happened?"
"Cal! A something strange was happened! Fifi disappeared! And no one remember her!", the cat said, refraining from crying.
"But... Who is Fifi?". the coyote asked him.
"You too?!", Furrball began to lose hope and go back towards the exit of the lab.
"Wait!", Calamity shouted. "I don't know who she is, but if you're looking her, I can help you!"
"How?", the blue toon asked.
"We will start from the register of births", the gray coyote came to the computer. "I need only her personal data. Tell me her name."
"Fifi! Fifi La Fume!", Furrball replied without thinking.
Calamity entered the data into the computer and waited for the results of the search. After an one minute, the monitor showed the message 'NOT FOUND'.
"I'm sorry, Furrball, but someone like Fifi La Fume was never born...", the coyote said.
"What?!", the cat screamed. "That's not true! My Fifi... My dear Fifi... I must find her!"
He ran out of the Lab, ran down the hallway and walked out of the ACME Loo.
"Furrball, what are you doing? It's five minutes to the lesson!", Buster shouted to him, but the cat didn't hear him.
The blue cat ran to the Junk Yard. When he got there, he saw the first work underway to build Montana Max's new factory.
"Stop! You have to stop work!", he shouted to one of the workers.
"Why?", he asked.
"The skunkette lived here. Fifi La Fume. She lived in the Cadillac in the Junk Yard.", the toon explained.
"You have a vivid imagination, boy!", the worker laughed. "We checked the area thoroughly before construction. Nobody lived here. Nobody was here."
Furrball lowered his head, slowly leaving the construction site. He sat down on the sidewalk in front of the old entrance to the Junk Yard and rested his head on his hands.
"I... I don't know what happened... Fifi... Maybe... Maybe I just imagined her?", the toon began to cry. "The whole my life... It makes no sense now..."
In this moment, the cat saw two white mice, that were running along the sidewalk.
"Fasten, Pinky! This is our way to freedom!", the lower mouse said.
"I'm running, Brain! I'm running!", the higher mouse replied.
Furrball couldn't think more about them, when he heard a familiar piercing voice:
"Mice! Don't run away from me!"
The blue toon sprang to his feet. He knew, who it was.
"Elmyra?! What are you doing here? You should be in Texas!", the cat was scared.
"Oh, my dear funny kitty!", the girl started walking in his direction.
"What did you do with Fifi? Where is she?", Furrball began to ask her.
"I don't know about who you say, my funny kitty!" Elmyra approached the cat. "Elmyra wants to hug the kitty!"
"Only not this!", the blue toon yelled and started to flee before Elmyra.
At some point, Furrball didn't stop on a bend and ran into a roadway. A rushing lorry was driving from the opposite site.
"Noooooooooo...!", the toon screamed and... woke up.
He noted, that the top of his head is wrapped in bandages. In addition, he was lying on a very comfortable bed and was covered with a duvet. Mary Melody and Fifi were in the same room. When the blue cat saw the purple skunkette, he immediately got out of the bed, wrapped his hands around her body and began to kiss her.
"Fifi! My beloved! Please, don't more leave me! I love you!", he spoke to her with a great joy.
"Mon amour! Vous regained consciousness!", Fifi cheered. "And I think, that vous a bit little delirious!"
"Not so fast, Romeo! You must go back to the bed!", Mary said to the cat.
"Exactly!", the skunkette giggled.
"But why?", Furrball asked. At the same time, Fifi walked him to the bed, adjusted his pillow and covered him the duvet.
"While you were unconscious, I examined you.", the black-skinned girl confessed. "All your bones are intact, but you have a slight concussion. That's why you need a lot of rest. You receive a week of sick leave."
"Mary also studying veterinary!", Fifi said with a smile to her fiancé.
"Really?", Furrball asked and Mary nodded. "So, I know, who will be our family doctor!"
"That's nice of you!", the girl said, and scratched the cat behind the ear. "But now you need to rest."
Then Mary went to Fifi, who was sitting on the edge of the bed.
"I also receive a week of sick leave to you.", she told her. "Professor Bugs will understand it. I just think, that your constant presence and care will quickly lead our patient to health."
"I support!", Furrball smiled at his girlfriend.
"If the doctor asks...", the skunkette giggled.
"It's time for me to go. I'm sure, that Furrball will have a professional care. Bye!", Mary said and started to leave the room.
"Thank you! See you later!", Fifi and Furrball said simultaneously.
When Mary closed the door to the room, the purple skunkette turned her head toward her beloved.
"Hellooooo, nurse!", Furrball said to her with a smile on his lips.
"What does mon patient asks?", Fifi said, smiling at him.
"Please, lie down next to me.", the blue toon said.
Furrball moved closer to the edge of the bed and Fifi lay down next to him. She lay on the duvet and their faces were facing each other.
"Tell me, what happened? Where are we?", the cat asked.
"Nous sommes in Calamity's home.", the skunkette explained. "When this nasty dog threw vous into the wall, vous have lost consciousness. Then notre friends ran into the alley - Babs, Buster, Plucky, Shirley, Hamton, Calamity, Little Beeper, Dizzy... The dog was frightening concourse and fled. Before, notre friends looking for Montana Max and they found out what he did to nous. Then Calamity said, that he has a spare room in his home and nous can live with him. The boys carried vous up from the alley to this bed."
"Really?", Furrball was surprised. "How long have I been out?"
"An one and half day.", Fifi said. "Nous were worried about vous. Notre friends even brought a gift for vous!"
The skunkette pointed at a box full of bottles with milk, which was near the bed.
"But what happened with Montana?", the cat recalled.
"He heard many bitter words from our friends on the next day at ACME Loo.", the purple toon said.
"I doubt, that it will change his behavior...", Furrball sighed. "His parents should work on his behaviour... Parents!", the cat shouted and looked around the room. "The photo! Where is the photo of my parents?"
"It's here!", Fifi said, handing him the framed photograph, that lay on the bedside table.
"Do you make a frame?", the blue toon asked, hugging the photo to his breast.
"Calamity did it.", the skunkette explained. "I told him votre and votre parents' story and showed him the photo. He said, that he would do a nice frame for its."
Furrball looked again at the picture and put them back on the table.
"Mon amour ... What did vous say, when vous wake up?", Fifi asked him.
"You see...", the blue cat began. "When I was unconscious, I had a dream... No, I had a nightmare! I was in a world, where you never existed! Whole Acme Acres was identical. But you wasn't be there! It was horrible! I even met Elmyra. I was running away from her and I was hit by a truck..."
"Really?", the purple skunkette frightened.
"But this nightmare explained so much for me. Fifi, my life without you makes no sense! I love you! I love!", Furrball hugged her to him.
"Oh, mon petit pussycat of passion! I love vous too!", Fifi wrapped her hands around his neck.
"Someone once said: 'There are many fish in the sea, but you are the only one for me!'", the cat smiled at her.
The skunkette giggled and started to kiss him. In this moment Calamity entered the room.
"Mary told me, that Furrball regained consciousness... Oops!", the gray coyote saw the engaged couple, who were kissing in the bed. "That maybe I'll come later..."
"Cal, wait! That's not what you think!", Furrball said to him. "I don't know what to say. You gave us a roof over our head. The words 'Thank you!' aren't enough!"
"You are my friends! How could I react differently?", Calamity smiled. "Make yourselves at home. Hungry? Thirsty?"
"No, not yet. Thanks!", the cat smiled.
"Now I have to leave you alone in the house. I have urgent business to attend to.", the coyote said. "See ya!"
"See you, Hawking!" Furrball said, noting the synthesizer of his friend.
"Hehe, good joke!", Cal smiled and closed the door of the room.
"It's amazing, what Calamity did for nous, mon amour!", Fifi said to him.
"Yes, but we shouldn't abuse his hospitality...", Furrball sighed.
"Yeah, I think so too...", the skunkette became sad...
"Even before the wedding, we should look for an apartment to rent. And it will cost a lot... Besides, paying bills... And we still don't have a work!", the cat sighed.
"Nous will have to cancel the honeymoon. A wedding reception will also be modest. And the money will be allocated for the purchase of a studio flat or something like that.", Fifi said.
"I'm sorry, my kitty!", the blue toon hugged her.
"The main thing, that nous somes together, mon tiger!", the skunkette stroked his cheek.
"You're right!", Furrball smiled and turned his head toward the family photo. "You know what?"
"What, mon amour?", she asked.
"As soon as I recover... I have to go there. I must!", the blue toon said.
"Good. I'll go with vous.", the purple skunkette assured him.
"Really? Feef, thank you!", Furrball said and after a moment he groaned loudly.
"What's going on?", Fifi asked worried.
"That's my back.", the cat replied. "I still feel pain after hitting a brick wall."
"That I'll give vous a back massage!", his fiancée said.
"Do you think, that it will help me?", he asked her.
"Mon fingers can work wonders!", she giggled.
Furrball lay on the bed with his back to the top, with the head pointing towards his beloved. Fifi began to massage his back. The blue toon felt like in seventh heaven. The skunkette's massage was extremely pleasant and relaxing. The cat began to purr loudly.
END OF PART 6