Author's note: Hello, everybody! I'm back with my longest chapter yet! Enjoy and don't kill me! hides

Chapter 11: A New Trick

"Nova! Stop pouncing on me!" a dark kitten with a long tail yelled at his sister.

A gray kitten with black patches looked up at him and panted "But it's so much fun!"

"Not for me!" Aaron countered, "I just want to sleep, but you won't let me."

"If you want to sleep, sleep." Nova said as she stopped and gave herself a bath like she didn't care what he did. She could resist temptation. Couldn't she?

The larger kitten watched her warily. He didn't trust her, she loved to pounce too much to stop. Aaron loved his sister very much, but she could be kind of annoying at times. Like now.

After a few minutes of her doing nothing Aaron's eyes began to close. He was almost asleep when he sensed a quick movement. He shot up and found himself face to face with his wide-eyed little sister.

"Novaaaaaa!" he wined.

"Sorry! I couldn't resist!" Nova said truthfully.

Aaron got an idea. "Why don't you go play with Dom?"

The young queen frowned, "I don't know where he is, he's never in the same place."

"Go look for Andrian, Dom is probably hanging out with him again."

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A pale orange cat was using some cloth to wrap up his right paw. Not because it was hurt, but because he didn't want the kittens to know of the symbol that appeared there occasionally.

"Hey, Andrian!" came an excited voice.

He turned toward the voice. Andrian's hearing had returned about a week ago, to his relief. The young tom had almost been to the point of doubting it would return at all.

Mistofeeles ran up to him with a huge grin on his face, that could mean only one thing: he had figured out more magic.

"Check this out!" the eager black tom said quickly, "I wasn't even trying to do it!"

Misto closed his eyes and concentrated. In a few seconds he was surround by a light blue mist swirling around his lithe form, getting thicker and thicker, then all of a sudden he was gone. He had vanished into thin air. He appeared again with a pop a few feet away with an even wider smile on his face, if that was possible.

" All I have to do is think where I want to be and I'm there."

Andrian looked down at the trilled magic cat and gave him one of his rare smiles. "Congratulations, Misto, I do believe that is the most advanced technique you've mastered." the older tom looked at the warehouse all around them, "And it also means we're no longer stuck here."

Mistofeeles nodded. "We can go back to the Junkyard."

Andrian wasn't exactly comfortable at the Jellicles' home. He wasn't a Jellicle and they had always treated him with dislike for that reason. His last visit wasn't that lovely either. Despite all of that, he knew they had to return. Besides, he had a promise to keep.

"If you feel up to it, you can go first to make sure you've got your bearings straight." he told Misto.

"If it works I can start taking the kittens one by one."

Mistofeeles disappeared into a large puff of blue mist.

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Donte crouched in the darkness of a small alley across from a warehouse, his eyes trained on the door. After looking for four weeks, he had found the hiding place of his target.

The dark brown tom wasn't jumping for joy at the thought of killing the target. He felt that such a job as he agreed to was wrong, deeply wrong. He could understand killing an enemy in battle, it was either your life or his, all was even, but killing a-

Donte's thoughts were interrupted as the warehouse door opened……….

………and his target walked out.

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Mistofeeles opened his eyes and found himself home. The Jellicle Junkyard looked just like he remembered, even the box he had slept in before he was kidnapped. He noticed it was quiet and realized everyone was still asleep. He knew he should just go back and tell Andrian it had worked, but he couldn't resist going to find Munkustrap.

Munk was curled up by the tire with a small gray kitten. There was something about that kitten that sparked his interest, but he shook it off and headed for the silver tom.

"Munk!" Misto whispered as he shook the lean tabby, "Munk!"

The silver tabby yawned and looked sleepily at Misto, until his eyes focused and he recognized the magic cat.

"Mistofeeles!." Munkustrap exclaimed and wrapped him in a tight hug, " Are you o.k.? How did you get back?"

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Andrian was waiting on Mistofeeles to return, when Nova bounced into the room.

"Have you seen Dom?" She asked, "I can't find him anywhere."

The orange tom sensed something was wrong. "Nova, what do you mean you can't find him anywhere?"

The small kitten scratched her nose and answered, "I've looked everywhere in the warehouse, I didn't see Dom anywhere."

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Donte watched the orange kitten carefully. Macavity had told to him to kill this kitten if he wanted out. A sadistic move on the Napoleon of Crime's part. It was a kitten. Not a fully grown cat capable of defending himself. Just a kitten.

The young kitten jumped on a mouse he had apparently followed out of the safety of the warehouse.

Donte was torn in two and knew that was exactly what Macavity wanted. If he murdered this innocent kitten, he would be free, but would turn into what Macavity was. If he didn't, He would be doing this everyday of his life.

The orange kitten was growing closer to his hiding place, and Donte knew he must make a decision, and soon.

The dark tom pounced on the smaller cat and pinned him to the ground. He raised his free paw and extended his newly sharpened claws. Donte heard the poor kitten crying beneath him and his heart started aching with every beat.

Donte felt tears running down his fur, forming streaks on the dark fur as his paw full of claws remained above the trapped kitten named Dom.