London

Junkyard courtyard


Munkustrap was looking down from the top of the large pipe hiding their realm's entrance.

He was into his housecat form and all around the garbage seemed so big, much bigger than he usually saw them, probably due to his mood.

He was worried, very worried.

"A penny for your thoughts" said a voice from behind him.

Munkustrap turned to see a black and white patched tom approaching him from a pile of metal junks.

The silver tabby sighed and waited for Alonzo to reach him and sit near him.

"It was Tugger, isn't it?" asked his second in command looking into the dark in front of them.

Munkustrap was still looking down at the pipe's entrance.

He nodded.

"Two weeks had passed since he left" he said looking as a real tinny mouse ran in front of them to disappeared into a pile of junk.

Alonzo turned to look briefly to his chief, best friend and brother in law.

Then he turned again to look into the darkness.

"Even Cassy is worrying for him" he said to the darkness.

"I'm worried too" he admitted "it is usually for Tugger to left for weeks..."

He made a grim and shook his head.

"To follow his pleasure" he continued.

Munkustrap tensed a bit but Alonzo patted his shoulder, smiling.

"You know it is true, he is a good tom and a capable fighter and prince" Alonzo told him.

"But sometimes..."

Munkustrap this time smiled sadly.

"Sometimes he is a troublemaker, and you are right, he always look for adventures" he admitted.

"But this time is different" continued Alonzo.

Munkustrap nodded, yes this time was different.

His father, Old Deuteronomy, had told them about his speech with Tugger and his command.

It had been three days after Tugger left.

The Jellicles High Leader had became worried for Tugger's lateness.

He had have a day to fix all his business on the human world... but he hadn't came back.

Munkustrap had woke up the day after Tugger's departure with the confuse memory of his little brother saying, while Munkustrap was sleeping, that he had to do something but it would hurt very much.

Munkustrap couldn't help but feel guilty to not have woke up and confronted Tugger about it.

Maybe now they would know what was going on...

"Stop blame yourself!" said Alonzo.

Munkustrap looked at his best friend.

He had always have the ability to understand him much more than the others, except for Demeter, of course.

He sighed and looked away,

"I can't help it" replied Munkustrap "if I was awake..."

"And if Macavity hadn't attacked us all this would never had happened!" snapped Alonzo.

Munkustrap turned to look at him again.

Alonzo's blue eyes were flashing and he was shivering of anger and power.

Munkustrap quickly put a paw on his friend's shoulder and Alonzo relaxed.

He closed his eyes then he jumped down from the pipe.

"So what we are waiting?" he asked looking up to Munkustrap.

The silver tabby tilted his head aside and looked perplex to him.

Alonzo grinned.

"Lets go to find the troublemaker!" he told Munkustrap.

Munkustrap smiled and nodded.

He jumped at Alonzo's side and the two, still into their housecats forms, exited the junk yard.

Munkustrap sniffed the air and immediately sensed Tugger's scent.

"He went this way" he told Alonzo.

The patched tom nodded and let him show the way.

They walked into the dark streets.

It was past midnight and none was around.

Only some randomly cars passed them, making them blink sometimes for their lights.

Munkustrap followed his little brother's scent till they reached Hide Park.

Here he could sensed two ways.

The first led towards some other streets, the second towards the park.

He sniffed again the air and decided to follow the first, where Tugger's scent was much more strong.

He had to have made that way a lot of time.

The two jellicles walked into the London's quiet streets till they reached Kensington street.

Alonzo looked at the sign with the street's name and whistled.

"As usually Tugger treats himself very well!" he said with a theatrical sigh.

Munkustrap couldn't help but chuckling then nodded Alonzo to follow him.

They walked down the street till they reached a palace.

They stopped and Munkustrap looked around.

"A palace?" he asked perplex "what in the hell he was doing in a human palace?"

Alonzo struggled and looked up.

"His scent is also onto this tree" he said walking towards a very tall tree.

They jumped on it and reached one of the floors from where Tugger's scent came stronger.

"He entered?" asked Alonzo.

"So it seemed" replied Munkustrap looking into a window.

It opened onto a chamber, and from the look it was like a girl's chamber.

Alonzo groaned behind him.

"Please, don't tell me he was doing some spying the girls!" he said.

Munkustrap looked into the chamber and didn't know what to think.

He couldn't believe his brother could do such a thing, not even Tugger could spy a girl!

"He entered" he said to Alonzo "maybe he didn't spy her"

Alonzo looked sceptical to him.

"And what else he...?" he asked before Munkustrap turned to him with a flashing look.

"Alonzo! He is my brother, I know him" he remembered him "he could never did such things"

Alonzo didn't seemed convinced but nodded.

"So what we do?" he asked.

Munkustrap looked around and spotted an open window near the chamber's one.

It gave on the palace's floor corridor.

"We enter" he said jumping on the little balcony of the window.

They entered and looked around.

None was there so they shivered and turned back into their normal, humanoid, forms.

Munkustrap walked towards the door of the chamber's apartment and knocked.

None replied.

He knocked again and none replied again.

He tried to open but it was closed.

"It's a pity your daughter or Jerry aren't around when you need them!" Alonzo said leaning on the wall next to the door.

Munkustrap glared him but didn't replied.

"Someone called?" asked a male voice making them jump.

They turned to look into the corridor.

A orange and black tabby tom was licking his left paw, sitting into the middle of the corridor.

"Jerry!" both the jellicles exclaimed.

"Yeah this is my name!" said the tom smiling like the Cheshire Cat.

Alonzo rolled his eyes while Munkustrap eyes were caught by something hiding behind the orange tom.

He quickly moved towards Jerry and, before the orange tabby could react, he grabbed something from behind him and pulled it up.

A little orange, black stripped female kit, with a white chest, smiled at him.

"Ehm, Hi daddy!" she said.

"Rumple?" exclaimed Alonzo looking shocked at his nice.


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