Hi, guys. Sorry I haven't been on a really good updating recently. My life has gone even crazier than before.
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Jenny's face broke out into a delighted smile as she saw a big group of cats headed towards the junkyard. She dashed towards her bright orange mate, who was walking towards the front with Munkustrap. The Gumbie Cat dashed towards Skimble, enveloping him in a hug.
"I'm so glad you're safe!" she said. "The tribe is still the same size, right?"
"Plus one," the Railway Cat said, ushering their nephew towards Jennyanydots.
"Oh, Tristam!" she said, falling to her knees to give him a hug. "And our two?"
"We're fine, Mom. Just don't squish us," Pouncival said, holding up his paws as if to defend himself.
Jellylorum weaved through the cats that were streaming back into the junkyard to see her friend.
"Any major injuries?" Jenny asked.
"If so, all were healed. We owe that to our four conjurers," the creme-colored queen said.
Shimmer carefully picked her way through her family up towards Tristam, who had wandered over to the other kittens. Shimmer grabbed hold of the tom-kit's paw. Majestic followed closely behind her.
"This is Tristam," the gold princess said.
Majestic took a mental note of the look of venom Puck gave the new tribe member. Jealousy tasted sour in the young tom's mouth.
Magic smiled. So a certain tom-kit had a crush on her little sister.
"Come on, Shimmer. I want to show you something," Majestic said. Love and caring coated her words.
"Alright," the princess said, dropping her friend's paw.
Majestic realized something. The rain had stopped. The sky was starting to change to the rich hues of sunset, but it had been as blue as Shimmer's eyes before. The black and purple queen smiled, and started walking towards their den. Her little sister skipped alongside her, carefree and innocent.
They walked to the cardboard box they called home.
"Now," Magic said, bending over a little bit so she could see Shimmer's face. How brilliantly blue her eyes were! "I want you to close your eyes. I have a surprise for you."
The small princess's eyes grew excited, and a happy smile broke over her face. "Okay," she said, putting her little gold paws over her eyes.
"No peeking," Majestic teased. Shimmer gave a shout of laughter. "Alright. Follow my voice."
The black and gold queen led her little sister into their den. "Now stay right here," she said, dropping the heavy curtain behind the princess.
Shimmer waited in excitement. She heard little twinkling sounds that meant excess sparkles were flying off Magic's paws. "Alright," she heard her sister say.
The princess hurriedly pulled her paws away from her eyes. A gasp escaped her throat. There were sheer scarves hanging from the ceiling, with little glowing balls hanging from them. A happy fire burned in the corner, surrounded by smooth little stones. She laughed. Her older sister was standing on top of their giant pillow, grinning at her.
"Oh, Majestic, you're the best sister ever!" Shimmer cried, running over to Magic. The queen laughed, pulling her little sister into a hug. The gold princess stifled a yawn in Majestic's shoulder. Majestic smiled and sat down, humming softly. Soon, the gold princess was asleep in her arms.
"You're wrong," the black and purple queen said softly, putting Shimmer down on the pillow. "You're the best sister a cat could ever have."
Puck frowned as he watched Shimmer show the new kit around the junkyard. The sour taste in his mouth just increased his bad mood. He turned and started towards the lake, kicking a pebble.
The tom-kit stopped about three feet away from his original position. He whipped around and strutted over to where the gold princess was introducing Tristam to Exotica.
"Hello, Shimmer," he said, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. His plan was to make this new imposer think that Shimmer was his.
"Hi, Puck! It's so nice to be home again!" the princess said, her eyes shining with excitement. Tristam stood there rather awkwardly. "Did you meet Tristam? He was really nice to me at Macavity's lair," she said.
The gold princess was totally oblivious to the dark cloud that passed over Puck's face at the mention of the other tom-kit. Exotica noticed. Puck shook the dark look off his face with feigned cheerfulness. "Can't say I have," he said through a smile with gritted teeth.
Tristam grinned nervously. "Hi," he said, kind of intimidated by the other tom-kit's negative demeanor towards him. "You know, Shimmer, I'm going to go see Aunt Jenny. She said she wanted me to come and see her," Tristam said, eager to get out of Puck's presence.
Shimmer's face was crest-fallen. "Alright," she said. "I'll see you later."
Puck breathed out a sigh of relief when the intruder was gone. Then he side-looked at Shimmer, whose happy demeanor had lessened slightly. "You wanna go play in front of the junkyard?"
Shimmer turned her head his way. "Majestic says I should stay in the junkyard," the princess said.
"Oh, come on, Shimmer. There's always a guard out there, anyway," Puck said, pulling her towards the entrance of the junkyard.
Shimmer sighed and allowed herself to be guided away.
Exotica slunk away, thinking it wise to go and tell Majestic where Shimmer was headed, and chuckling. "Kitten love," she mumbled to herself.
Shimmer nervously dashed around with Puck outside the junkyard. As far she could see, there wasn't a guard right now.
Suddenly, the ground left from under the princess's feet. She looked around wildly, trying to figure who was behind her. The presence was familiar, and wasn't all that happy.
"Now where's the other one?" a voice said from behind her. The voice triggered memories. Shimmer started to scream and wriggle.
Majestic's ears twitched towards the entrance of the junkyard. She looked up, loosing concentration in the gold ball of energy she and Mistoffelees were forming. Her paws moved, breaking the energy connection. The ball exploded unexpectedly into a billion gold flecks of light.
"Shoot," she heard Misto mutter. But seconds later screams became clear. Screams coming in Shimmer's voice.
"Heavyside, Shimmer!" she exclaimed, almost tripping over her feet in her rush to get to the princess. As she raced towards the entrance, she barreled into Exotica. "Sorry," she shouted, jumping up to go again.
"Oh, Majestic! Shimmer went outside the junkyard, with Puck," the dark queen said, sitting up and brushing her fur off.
This didn't seem to be any news that Magic needed. The young queen gave out a cry, then started towards the entrance again. Mistoffelees came rushing after her.
"Sorry," He said to Exotica, helping her up before running off after his best friend.
When Majestic got outside the junkyard, several toms and Electra and Etcetera had surrounded the intruder. When the young queen saw who was holding her sister, her eyes turned fiery with rage.
"You," she said, her voice a deadly whisper.
"MAKE HIM LET ME GO! GET HIM AWAY! LET ME GO!" Shimmer screamed. She was completely spazzing out. The only time she had been in the presence of the tom had been before her eyes were open.
Magic growled at the tom. "I want to deal with him," she said. Tumblebrutus, who was behind the tom, took a running start, then front hand-springed into the air, doing some kind of unnameable twist, in the process grabbing the gold princess on the way down.
"Sorry," he whispered to her, before passing her to Pouncival, who, being the fastest tom, raced Shimmer to Misto, who pooffed her somewhere in the junkyard.
Majestic smirked slightly. But then she tensed and growled. Her not-really-her-father father hissed at her. "Well, if I can't have both, the one that remembers her father should be coming!" he said.
"You are not my father," Magic threw at him. "I've meet my real father, and he's everything you're not. You just hurt. You hurt my Mum. I still haven't forgiven you for that," she said, lunging and scratching at him. The tom dodged easily.
"I see you haven't gotten any better without the element of surprise," he said.
Majestic grinned at him. "And there's something I forgot to mention," she said, jumping up into the air. From there, several lighting bolts flew at him. Two hit the tom in the stomach, causing him to fall to the ground. Munkustrap growled at the tom.
"I'll be back," Magic's fake father promised. "And next time, I'll get the two. You can count on that."
Author's Notes:
Was that too rushed? I'm not able to write exactly how I want to for some reason the past few days.
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