This is all my own work, but Newsies (characters, etc.) is the property of Disney, so I don't get sued. Please enjoy, and please, for God's sake, review. REVIEW! Please, guys, R&R, I worked my butt off last night ('til 5:40 a.m.!) and it's not even done...just let me know what you think so far.
Ah...six a.m.: when things are just not funny anymore...
Chapter 1
Kitty Kakopoulos trudged down 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York in the rain. Her light brown hair was plastered to her head, and her violet eyes sparkled with the cold. She was a porcelain-skinned girl of 17 years old with a perfect figure, and had time-traveled from 2001 to 1899. She was chasing her older brother, Themistocles, or Themi for short, who'd gone back in time to New York City in 1899 because he liked to burst out into spontaneous song-and-dance numbers and do pelvic thrusts. When he was made fun of in college, he decided to go somewhere where he'd be accepted.
Unfortunately, when Kitty landed in 1899, she landed in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was adopted by Joseph Pulitzer's sister's maid's cousin's doctor's son's gardener's uncle's daughter's father's daughter's dog's trainer's mother's volleyball coach. On a family train ride away from their mansion and Frisbee-manufacturing empire and millions of dollars in Santa Fe to New York, Kitty's train crashed into a cow on the tracks just outside of Oklahoma. Due to the flammability of the cow, the last 10 cars, which were built entirely out of gunpowder, exploded, causing a massive earthquake, which swallowed up all of the train, except Kitty's car, with her family in it. Then a tornado came along, picking up the car and taking it 1400 miles before dropping it in the New York harbor. Unfortunately, all the alligators had escaped from the Central Park Zoo that day, and were waiting in the harbor for the perfectly timed meal. Kitty's family was eaten, but she managed to climb out, with the help of a bunch of seals who knew how to speak English and fight off alligators.
And then she was on 5th Avenue, walking in the rain, and looking for her long-lost real brother. Suddenly, she found herself speaking in strange accents, mispronouncing her r's and a-r combinations. Oh, Themi...wheah ah ya? I've soiched everywheah... Her oddly exceptional and eccentric eyes darted into the next alleyway she passed, but still no sign of her brother. Unfortunately, there was sign of something else...a trio of shadowy figures engaged in a fight. Even though she knew she should continue walking and not become involved, a nagging thought at the back of her mind wouldn't let her. What if it's Themi? Besides, I'm da main charactah, and I have to get involved in everyt'ing I walk past! She leaned against the edge of the entrance to the alley, her dazzling eyes peering around the corner.
There appeared to be a boy on his knees on the ground, and two bigger and probably older boys pummeling him. The boy cried out in pain once, which prompted the tallest boy to slug him in the stomach. Kitty gasped in horror as she watched, and unfortunately, the shorter of the two boys, in a bowler hat, heard her and turned.
"Well, well, well, what have we heah?" he asked, approaching Kitty with a creepy grin on his face. She stepped back, about to run, but tripped on a loose cobblestone and fell backwards, landing on her backside and breaking her leg in fifteen places, cutting her arm open on a dull rock, and spontaneously bleeding from her head. Unable to walk, she was an easy target, and the boy grabbed her, calling to the taller one who was still beating the victim in the alley. " 'Ey, Ugly...uh...I mean...Mahrris...look what I found...an eavesdroppah..."
His companion guffawed. "Whaddaya think yah doin', goilie?"
"Nothin'...nothin' at all..." Kitty answered, terrified.
"You was spyin' on us...we don' appreciate spies, toots..." And with that, the one in the bowler, who she would soon find out to be Oscar Delancey, sent a punch straight to her stomach. Then he hit her across the chin. Morris took the last shot, a punch with his brass knuckles direct to the nose. Suddenly, all was blackness...she could hear the two of them arguing over where to put her body, and she felt herself being dragged into the alley and dropped in the corner, and then she slipped into unconsciousness.
