Chapter nine

Months came and went, and the snow was beginning to melt, as spring was only a few weeks away.

And today was the day, which Yule was going to return to return to the junkyard after months of being locked in the house. She had permission from Munkustrap to go back and see the junkyard during the winter but her humans seemed deem to keep her and Macavity near the house for their first months as pets.

Poking her head out of the flap of the kitty-door, the cream and red queen looked around. It was still rather gloomy outside, as well as the ground was spotted with mud from the melting snow. She scrunched up her nose and stepped out with Macavity behind her. The ginger tom much to his displeasure was ordered to accompany her to the junkyard, since Munkustrap had left early when Alonzo had come to find him saying there had been a minor flood of water in some part of the yard.

It wasn't till an hour later that Yule marched into the Jellicle junkyard with a scowl on her face. Her once beautiful fur was now covered with coats of mud, all thanks to the laughing ginger tabby that came trotting up behind her. One the way there, he had thought it would be funny to 'accidentally' knocking her into a puddle of freezing water and mud.

"I will SO get you back for this Mac…" she hissed swiping her paw at him.

Macavity grinned and grabbed her paw, "Yes…when you have the back bone too"

"Oooh you're so impossible…now I'm off to…" Yule paused when she heard a soft giggling. She didn't recognize it as any of the cats that she knew in the junkyard. Following the sound, she peeked around a corner of a pile of tires. She narrowed her eyes into a dark scowl. There she spotted her favorite tuxedo tom, but he wasn't alone. There dancing in the small clearing was a beautiful silky snow-white kitten, and she could only guess that it was Jellylorum and Asparagus' daughter.

The both of them were dancing and held wide smiles on their faces.

When they both finished their dance, Mistoffelees bowed and took her paw in his and placed a kiss on it.

"You Victoria are a beautiful dancer, with the grace of 10 angels"

Victoria giggled behind her free paw, "You're so sweet Misto"

"Yule what's the…Matter?" Macavity growled the last part as he peered around the pile and spotted the two. His eyes narrowed dangerously, he knew he never liked that tom to begin with and especially not around his sister but he did know how Yule felt for the tuxedo tom.

Yule lowered her head, she had waited four months to see Misto again, and he was all she could think about while she was locked inside. Though she doubted he'd want to see her now, her covered in mud and Victoria a glistening beautiful princess. She wasn't even close to Queen-hood but she doubted that made a difference.

Turning she quickly ran off. She ran for Jenny's den, which was still empty, but it was a place she could wash her fur.

Macavity sat watching his twin run off, his fur bristled as he looked around the pile again. Squaring his shoulders, he walked around and walked toward the two.

Victoria was the first to notice and giving a squeak of fright jumped behind her friend. Misto was confused before he saw Macavity heading their way, and he now knew why she hid, they were yet to meet and it seemed like Macavity had more of a evil look to his face and fur then he had months before.

"Hello Macavity…I'm guessing Yule is back too?" Mistoffelees asked with a smile. He wanted to see her.

Macavity's eyes narrowed and he smirked, "Yes she is here. She's off giving herself a bath, and grooming herself like she always does…"

"Oh so she must be in Jenny's den then. Come on Vicki I want to introduce you to her" Misto smiled and grabbed Victoria's hand and led her. But didn't get far before he was tackled to the ground by a ginger blur.

Victoria screamed as she jumped back. Macavity had tackled Misto and was beating at him with his paws and claws; the tuxedo cat was in shock at what was happening. Finally he managed to bring himself out of his shock and puffed out from under the raging ginger tom.

"Oh so you're a magical cat tux tom are you? Well guess what your magic won't save you…" Macavity laughed as he ran through the junkyard in search for the tom.

Victoria on the other hand was running around trying to get help. She found Munkustrap, Admetus, Tugger and Alonzo. When she found them she was crying saying that the ginger tabby had gone insane and was hurting Mistoffelees.

The toms waited no time in going to find the two.

When Yule heard a commotion she stepped out of Jenny's den. She spotted the older toms searching for something, she didn't know why before she heard a loud scream. "MISTO!" she screamed taking off in a run with the toms following her.

The scene they came upon made Yule stop and stare in horror. The toms that came up behind her halted.

There was Macavity standing over a heavily wounded Mistoffelees. The tuxedo's cats black fur was mixed with red crimson. The cat's blood was on the ginger toms paws, a crazed look was in the toms eyes, he stared at the blood on his paws before he licked it off.

Memories flashed into Yule's mind to when Macavity had attacked her. Her body shook.

Macavity looked at the others that had arrived, he laughed and waved his paws, his magic picking up the poor tom that lay before him and flung him into a pile of junk that fell on top of him.

Tugger ran by Yule with Alonzo toward the pile. The two of them pulling things off the tom stuck underneath and helped him up and rushed him to Jenny's den where from there Alonzo ran to find JennyAnyDots and bring her back to the yard to fix him up.

Munkustrap and Admetus though lunged at Macavity and grabbed him and held him down. The ginger tom was laughing insanely; he didn't even struggle just laid there in their clutches laughing. That was until Admetus knocked him out. The two toms then dragged him off to be held somewhere until Old Deuteronomy would be able to be brought to the yard to decide judgment on what just occurred.

It wasn't long before the junkyard was bursting with old and new faces. Jenny and Skimble had a new kitten tom that they named Pouncival. Cassandra brought her new house sister Exotica whom her humans had adopted during the winter. But the familiar faces that helped Yule the most was the faces of Demeter and Bombalurina who had heard what had happened and were now sitting in the circle around the giant tire. Jelly was holding her crying daughter in her own arms. Skimble and Asparagus were sitting with Old Deuteronomy discussing the matter at hand.

Rumpleteazer came over and sat next to Yule and wrapped her paw around her shoulder. Having grown up in the same den together they would often stay up and talk while their brothers slept. Yule gave her a small smile. Demeter placed her paw on the younger queens and squeezed it.

"Let go of me! I swear I'll rip your ears off your heads" came a growl. The crowd parted as Mungojerrie and Plato who had been ordered to go and retrieve him dragged Macavity into the circle. The two held his paws down on the ground. Skimble and Asparagus soon went to join their mates and kits as Munkustrap and Tugger stepped up.

"Macavity you were here to be judged for what you have done to poor Mistoffelees. Now do you have any words you'd like to say on your behalf…brother" Munkustrap spat out.

Macavity growled, "What I did to him he deserved. He betrayed someone…I wasn't going to let him get away in hurting her!"

A whisper went among the group of cats. Yule's eyes widened, she gasped and placed her paws over her mouth, she knew what he was talking about. He had attacked Misto because of her.

"And who is this Queen that you say he betrayed?" Munkustrap asked as all eyes were on the ginger cat.

Macavity growled and looked at Yule from the corner of his eyes, "I cannot say"

"That's because you were lying. There was no Queen he betrayed! You're just saying that to get pity out of us!" Tugger shouted as he pointed his paw at Macavity. "You always hated Misto and now I can see why…Mistoffelees is a Magical cat and so are you Macavity…you didn't want another Magical cat here so sought out to destroy him"

"IF THAT WAS SO I WOULD HAVE KILLED HIM WHEN HE FIRST CAME HERE. AND I WOULD HAVE KILLED THOSE DAMN DARK TWINS THEY'RE MAGICAL TOO IF YOU CAN TILL PROCESS THAT INFORMATION IN THAT PEANUT BRAIN OF YOURS!" Macavity hollered. He threw Mungojerrie and Plato off him and advanced on Tugger but stopped when a voice came from behind him.

"He's telling the truth…He was just protecting my feelings"

All heads snapped to Yule who stepped out of the crowd. "He was protecting my feelings from being hurt. I am the queen he was talking about"

Macavity hissed as she walked pass him, "Stop protecting me"

Yule looked at him, her eyes were hollow, and "I'm not trying to Protect you just get the truth across" she spoke.

"Mac was just trying to protect my feelings"

"That still did not give him the right to attack Misto…He could have killed him Yule!" Tugger shouted.

Yule's ears went flat against her head, once again she knew it was her fault, if she hadn't been so curious to find them, Macavity wouldn't have seen Victoria and Misto as well and her friend wouldn't have been attacked.

Old Deuteronomy stepped forward and held out his paws to his daughter who walked over letting him wrap his arms around her. Yule started to cry into her fathers fur.

He let her cry for a while then let Demeter come over and took her from his arms. The gold and black queen led Yule back to the small circle of queens who were all trying to comfort her.

Old Deuteronomy sighed; he rubbed his head with paw. "Macavity…what you hold in your is dangerous magic and that was proven today with what you did to Mistoffelees. And even though you may have did it on the love of your sister that is still no right…As well as the beaten force you used on him…And if you had attacked him…there is no saying in whom you will attack next…I have no choice but to send you from the tribe"

Macavity froze where he stood. "What!? You would send away your son!?"

"I am sorry my son"

Yule was shaking from where she was. The tom she liked was wounded and in healing, and her brother…her twin…her other half…was now banished. "Father please…" she began but Tugger who had come to sit near her clapped his paw over her mouth.

"I always knew he was trouble…right from the start," Jellylorum whispered to her mate who nodded. Whispers were heard from the others as many nodded their heads.

"You will regret this…I swear of it!" Macavity shouted as he turned and stormed through the crowd. He looked at Yule as he passed; he spotted the tears running down her face. But now he felt no guilt when he saw them, he smirked his crazed look returned, laughing he ran off.

Yule that night was brought to Demeter and Bomba's den. For hours she was curled up in the back of the den crying, refusing to be calmed down or to let anyone near her.

The two Queens would watch her with symphony, but they knew the Jellicle Leader had made the right choice. Bomba always hated Macavity, but Demeter thought nothing truly bad against him…but now she didn't know what to think…she didn't know if he was evil…or just too overly protective of his sister.

Later that night, Yule had finally stopped crying when everybody was asleep. She lay staring at the ceiling of the den, her fur was wet from crying. Her eyes held a hollow look. In one day she felt like everything was torn away from her…"I knew I'd lose you Mac…just…. not this way…." She whispered. Closing her eyes she let herself fall into a deep yet haunting sleep.