'Why of course Alonzo! I would be glad to!' So Bomby turned and entered the flat with a stupid smile. I heard suddenly, the roar of a fire, and Bombalurina walked out with a sad look on her face.

'Alonzo dear,' she said, 'The kittens have burnt your book, along with my new pearl collar.' She said, holding up a burnt brown collar, and that's how the collar became brown.*

So naturally, since she didn't complete the favor, I added three dollars to her debt." Alonzo said, pleased that he'd not gotten any cut off's from Bombalurina.

He turned around and the queen screamed, and leapt onto him.

"Ignorant huh!? Alonzo, DEAR?! I'll show you 'dear'!" Fur went everywhere, and Old Dueteronomy could do nothing but yell over the hissing and growling.

"ENOUGH!" He cried, and stood up. The two stopped, and stepped back into the line. He slowly sat down, and growled slowly. "What happened next?" He said. He began to wonder why this collar seemed so important, he didn't remember any collar, he only remembered the green paint.

Mistoffelees stepped up from the group, and sighed.

"Of course, my first favor, naturally, was next.

*I was practicing my magic, turning random objects different colors and patterns, plaid just happens to be my favorite, when I accidentally turned this brown color plaid with green and the burnt brown it already was. Now, as I moved in to read the tag, I knew that I couldn't change the collar back to it's normal color, since my powers spark out after a while.*

"HAH! I knew you weren't all powerful, sparkly britches!" Mungojerrie called with a taunting laugh from behind Misto. He smiled, enjoying this new nick name. His friend growled slightly, and continued.

"Well, when I saw the tag, I knew that I had to hide the collar immediately! It was Victoria's, and everybody knows how Victoria gets when people mess with her things! So I called Bomby over to get rid of it for me.

'Bomby, I'll take off two bucks if you toss this in some ocean or river somewhere for me.' Bomby nodded without a word, and disappeared.

Well, the next day, I saw Bomby, WEARING the collar I'd told her to toss out. I ran over to her.

'Bomby! What are you doing? That's the collar I told you to get rid of!'

'Are you crazy,' She chided, 'I just got this collar, brand new.' She always did think of me as just another stupid kitten. I sighed.

'No Bomby, that's the same exact collar!' Suddenly, without warning, she jumped on me, and that's how I broke the collar."*

Mistoffelees stopped, and rubbed his shoulder where Bomby had gotten him earlier, and sat back down.

Munkustrap cleared his throat.

"How does Victoria's collar tie into any of this? We just want to know why Bombalurina was going to paint the old clock! It doesn't belong to any of you, and I'm sure it wasn't a good message she was about to put up..."

Mungojerrie began to laugh, he slapped his thighs.

"Nope, not a good message!" He continued to laugh as Alonzo spoke up.

"The collar is the reason Mungo and I dare Bomby to write the message."

"What was the message?" Old Dueteronomy asked. Mungojerrie stopped laughing abruptly. Mistoffelees looked at him.

"Vikki loves Misto." Mungo said under his breath.

"WHAT!"

"C'mon Sparkly britches! It's funny!" Misto growled, and aimed his fingers at Mungojerrie, meaning to shock him. "YAH!" Mungojerrie turned and jumped into Alonzo's arms, he laughed sheepishly, and waved. Alonzo turned, and dropped him.

"Please, please," Old Dueteronomy sighed. "I have a headache, and we are no closer to ending this then we were when Bombalurina dropped the paint! Now please, in a coherent fashion, explain the rest to me."

Mistoffelees stepped forward.

*"Well, after a few other small favors, I discovered that Alonzo and Mungojerrie were somehow plotting against me, so I wanted to ask Bomby to spy on them for me, to pay off her debt, since I only had ten bucks on her then. But when I went to ask her, she was up at the old clock, an evil look on her face, and she began to paint. I turned and saw Mungojerrie and Alonzo laughing, and knew that this was not a good idea! So I used my magic, and jumped up beside her, and told her that whatever they'd asked her to do, she couldn't do it!

'They didn't ask me to do anything!' She cried gleefully insane.