It had been exactly nine years since Marisella and Macavity had joined the Jellicles.
In those short nine years Marisella had found out she was infertile and had gotten herself into the life of drugs, alcohol and hard crime. She had killed her brother several times and had brought him back to life. At the ripe age of twenty two she had slept with more toms than she could count, killed cats, and become a terrifying monster with her magic, especially when her brother was around. Not to mention she had semi adopted Demeter after Grizabella left them.
Macavity had lived a calmer life by comparison. Grizabella had left him and the tribe some two years ago, he had fallen in love in his young age with Callestia, he was an amateur, at best, with his magic but he didn't mind. He figured he had a long time for Tantomile and Coricopat to teach him. He had a good group of friends going and was a very well behaved tom kit apart from some very accidental zaps of uncontrolled magic every now and then. The dark side of his life was his sister but his love for Callestia seemed to make it all better.
Marisella and Demeter had formed an odd alliance. The ginger queen had been downright abusing her brother and even killing him, but she adored and doted on the young queen who was now twelve years old. Something that Munkustrap wasn't too fond of since he held no amount of trust for the ginger queen whatsoever.
Jenny, Skimble and Exotica had all remained close to Macavity, while they had all stopped talking to the reclusive sister a while ago. Deuteronomy had taken another mate, Rosie. Jennyanydots and Skimble had had a little queen kit they named Rumpleteazer. Jellyorum had a tomsom, that she named Muggerstone who was now three years old. Everyone seemed to be doing well. . .except for Marisella.
Not once since she had begun to learn magic had she obeyed any rules given to her. She had injured, set fire too, nearly drowned, harmed numerous Jellicles and secretly killed her brother in the years she had seriously been taught magic. Around the time she almost "accidently" killed Asparagus Jr, Deuteronomy had put a stop to her lessons all together, something which infuriated her and sent her into five days of non-stop drinking and hard drugs. None other than Macavity took diligent care of her when she stumbled back home, coming down from her high.
If anything she only hurt herself and made Macavity look better in the eyes of the Tribe. Helping her made him look like the better cat and, ironically, made her even more furious at her brother.
One day, before things were to go extremely wrong, Marisella saw the perfect opportunity to practice magic again without anyone noticing. She went into a back clearing and began to find little bugs and mice to torture.
She laughed as they squealed in pain and then would abruptly snuff their lives by blowing them up with a bolt of magic. It was Munkustrap, now a strong young tom of sixteen years old, who followed her that day. He and Marisella had never gotten along and he was always spying on her, trying to find ways of getting her in trouble. He noticed the way she slunk around and how Macavity was always flinching around her. On this day he had finally figured out that she had had begun practicing magic behind his father's back.
Marisella knew though, she always knew when someone was following her. She was drunk on power that day and decided to try and seduce the young tom. Why not? After all it would present a challenge and she liked a challenge.
He stayed well hidden and Marisella was even impressed. But after three hours of playing 'spy on Marisella', she began to tire of his games.
She shot a bolt of magic at a junk pile and sent some piece of it flying off over the Yard fence and into the field beyond. She sighed and turned around, her black paws on her hips. "Ok Munkustrap dear! You can come out now!"
Munkustrap crossed his arms and walked up to her, "What the hell are you doing out here Marisella?" he demanded, "After you almost killed Junior a second time I thought my father forbid you to use magic unsupervised."
He stood about her height, strong blue eyes looking back at her defiantly.
She smirked, "I never liked listening to authority. While your da' was good to me all these years I just could never find it in me to listen to him. And then he tells me I can't practice without his supervision? Ha! Well I just didn't want to listen to the old fool."
"Old fool?! Watch your tongue Marisella!" Munkustrap shouted. "If it wasn't for my father you'd be back out on the streets. Maybe even dead." He continued to glare at the ginger queen.
She smirked, her former idea to seduce young Munkustrap had disappeared. He was too hard headed. "You'll make a great Jellicle protector one day Munkus."
"Don't call me that!" He snapped at her, gaining a frown. "You will address me by my full name."
She was beginning to grow impatient with this tom, "Demeter likes me better you little shit. And you know it!"
Munkustrap only growled at her. The ginger queen was already short tempered enough, this silver tabby was pushing his luck quite far. Not able to resist it she snarled and shot off a bolt of magic but Munkustrap was quick enough to see it coming and dodged to the side. The bolt struck a junk pile that wasn't sturdy and Marisella watched in surprise as it began to topple over!
She screamed as she ducked under a piece of old car and took cover. Munkustrap shouted for help as the trash crashed down in a massive avalanche around them. From the main clearing there came a resounding crash that echoed. When the crash faded Deuteronomy, Jenny, Skimble and Jelly took role call of all the cats and found that Marisella and Munkustrap were missing. With fear beating in both Deuteronomy's and Macavity's hearts they raced neck in neck to where the dust that followed the crash was coming from.
There Deuteronmy screamed for his son, "Munkustrap!" His voice echoed over the scene of trash.
Macavity's confusion blinded his ability to sense his sister and Munkustrap and in his panic he began tearing through the trash with his bare paws. Suddenly he heard a muffled sound and pointed to where it came from.
His ears twitched, "Over there! Munkustrap I think!"
Deuteronomy hurried over and tore through the trash quicker than Macavity had ever seen him move. In his heart he hoped Marisella would be dead. It earned him a mental punch from his sister.
"Stupid pollicle! How dare you?!" she shouted in his head.
"Marisella?" he whispered, utterly astonished.
"Yes it's me. Now help me out of here!" she snapped at him.
He was going to ask her where she was when suddenly he saw a black paw shoot up from the trash. He ran to it and grabbed hold of his sister. He pulled and she made a great show of gasping for breath after he pulled her up. Around the same time Macavity pulled out his sister, Deuteronomy pulled out his son.
The pair rushed the cats they were supporting back to the waiting crowd where they made way and hurried to the main clearing. Along the way Deuteronomy turned to his son, "What happened Munkustrap?" He asked earnestly.
The sliver tabby clutched his bleeding side and glared at Marisella, "That peke of a cat Marisella! That's what!"
Her face grew red and she growled, "Why you little-!"
She raised her claw but on an impulse Macavity grabbed her and sent a pulse of his own magic through her body which made her freeze in place for a split second, enough to distract her. She whipped her head to look at him and he shook his head, warning her. She pressed her lips together in a straight line and then let Jellyorum fix her up.
Marisella's luck had come to an end. Once Deuteronomy had spoken to both her and his son, Marisella claiming that Munkustrap tried to rape her and she had no choice, he made the queen stand before the Great Tyre. Her ears were pressed back close against her skull as she stood alone before the Jellicle leader and all the other cats while Macavity stood with the rest of the Jellicles, Callestia held his paw.
For the first time in his life Macavity saw Deuteronomy frown. The ginger tom wanted to shrink and disappear but he knew even with his own skills that that was impossible. He knew his sister was going to be severely punished.