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Rock Raider: I'll explain on what will happen to Sylvia in this chapter. Glad you liked it and I hope you like my decision regarding Sylvia.
PurpleCobra247: I'll explain everything in this chapter. Hope I can solve your confusion. Glad you liked Sly's feelings for Slyvia.
acosta pérez josé ramiro: Glad you didn't mind the lack of humor in that last chapter. You're right, the dynamtie-filled-room gag is a classic. That's why I included it. Oh, and thanks for the idea of Sylvester retailating against Hector, I've included it in this chapter.
Nightw2: Glad you liked the chapter. You'll see what will happen to Sylvia in this chapter.
Granny's decision
A few minutes after Robert and Jayne had been rounded up by Granny, the police were outside the castle. The castole itself was Built on a grassy plain. The moat surrounding the castle had completely dried up and the drawbridge was down permanently. There was a police car and a animal rescue vehicle outside the grounds. The police vehicle was a standard police car with the classic police design. The animal rescue vehicke was a white van with the desing of a cat on either side. One of the officers was talking to Granny while the other was placing Robert and Jayne into the police vehicle. Tweety and Aaooga were sitting on her shoulder. Sylvester was eyeing them carefully and watching them. He stopped when he heard Hector growling. He just turned around and tried to pull an innocent face but Hector was not impressed. He grabbed Sylvester by the neck and began pummeling him. Sylvester tried to run away but Hector kept dragging him back. Sylvia was watching the incident from a nearby tree. After a couple of seconds, she decided to get iinvolved. She readied her claw and walked over to them. With a swift slash, she scratched the back of Hector's neck. Hector yelped in pain and stopped pummeling Sylvester. He turned and growled at Sylvia. Sylvia glared back and readied her claw. Sylvester looked up from where he was and saw Sylvia and Hector staring each other down. Taking an opportunity, he readied his own claw and slashed at Hector. His claw scratched Hector's back and caused him to yelp in pain. Hector grabbed Sylvester and Sylvia in the neck but had no hands to pummel either of them with, so he clubbed their heads together. Sylvia slashed at Hector's hand and scratched it, causing him to let go. Granny turned around and saw what was happening and clonked the three of them with her handbag.
"Everyone calm down!" Sylvester and Sylvia groaned and walked away. Hector sat up and began rolling on the grass to try and massage his scratches. Granny then turned her attention back to the officer.
"So it was the farmers this whole time?" The officer askeed. The officers was a male with brown hair and blue eyes.
"Yes. They printed the counterfit money in the castle."
"How did you find that out?"
"They gave it away when they left me a note to bring this statue to the castle." Granny pulled out the statue from her handbag and showed it to the police officer.
"Why is that statue so important?"
"To be honest, I'm not sure myself." Tweety then noticed that the head of the statue was a bit off line. Trying out a hunch, he jumped onto Granny's hand and began to spin the head of the statue. It turned out to be pretty stiff to move so Aaooga came down and helped him. Eventually, the head of the statue unscrewed and fell off.
"Thank you Tweety." Granny said. Twetey and Aaooga chirped and jumped back onto her shoulder. Inside the statue was a slip of paper. Granny tipped it out and had a look at it.
"Gracious. This paper has a list of all their printing presses and their locations." Granny exclaimed. The officer tok the piece of paper and had a look for himself.
"Hmm. Well, using this, we should be able to round up the rest of the group. Thanks for your assistance." The officer said.
"It was no trouble at all." The officer went back to the car, where Robert and Jayne were restrained ni the back.
"Darn pets, they ruined everything!" Robert shouted. The police officer ignoured him and they drove off.
When the police car drove away, Granny was approached by somone from the animal rescue vehicle. The person was a female with blonde hair and green eyes. She looked around and gave Tweety and Aaooga a pat on the head. She then had another look around and saw Sylvia sitting next to Sylvesteer. They were looking at each other intently, as if they wanted to say something but they couldn't.
"Uhh, what is it that you want?" Granny asked.
"I'm here to take that cat to the animal rescue centre." The lady replied.
"Which one?"
"Sylvia. Since you uncovered the scheme of her owners, she's onw homeless and needs to come with us."
"I see." Granny turned her head and looked at Sylvia. She was still looking into Sylvester's eyes. Granny watched as the animal rescue officer waled over to Sylvia.
"Ok Sylvia, time for you to come to your new home." The inspector said. Sylvia looked at Sylvester intently. She could feel tears filling her eyes. She was sitting to the cat who had saved her life and was about to be seperated from him. She didn't want that to happen but knew that there was nothing she could do to prevent it. She hadn't told him yet, but she had feelings for him. She wanted to stay with him. She stayed completely still and looked at Sylvester. His eyes were filling with tearsd as well. No one had shown more concern for him than Sylvia had. She had helped him in an attempt to catch Tweety. It had gone well until Hector had gotten involved. She then had helped him in the castle and tried to protect him from her own owner. He had feelings for her but didn't want to say out of fear of rejection. He just looked back at her intently. Granny, Tweety and Aaooga were watching them the whole time.
"Aww, puddy love." Tweety remarked. In her mind, Granny made her decision. She walked over to the agent and tapped her on the shoulder.
"Excuse me miss…" Granny began.
"Mrs. Suzy Wild." The inspector replied.
"Uhh, Suzy, would you object if I took care of Sylvia?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Well, she's obvioulsy taken a liking to my other cat. I don't think it would be fair to separate them." Upon hearing this, both Sylvester and Sylvia looked up at Granny. Suzy had a look at the two cats and had a think about the situation. After a minute, she had made up her mind.
"Ok, you can take care of her. I see your point that your cat would be lonely if they were seperated. And Sylvia would be sad at the rescue centre as well." When they heard this, Sylvester and Sylvia looked at each other with a smile. They had gotten what they secretly wanted, Granny was now adopting Sylvia. They leaned their heads against each other sub-consciously but soon realised and backed away from each othe. Everyone started laughing. Eventually, Suzy returned to the animal rescue vehicle and it drove off, leaving Granny with all of her previous poets and her new arrival Sylvia.
Later that night, the group were in a clearing of a nearvby forest. Granny had decided to camp out for tonight and they had set up camp before it got dark. Granny had just prepared a makeshift fire and was waiting for Hector ro come back with some more firewood. They had recovered their beloongings from the Inn and most of it was in the car. Tweety and Aaooga were in the birdcage, which had been hung up on a tree branch above the tent where Granny was going ot sleep. Sylvester and Sylvia were eyeing the birdcage from afar. They were both looking for a light snack but knew that they couldn't while Granny was around. The car had been parked a few metres away but was still visibole. Grannyw as searching through the suitcase that she had brought and digging through it. Eventually, she closed it.
"Oh dear, I left the matches in the car, I'll have to go get them." Granny muttered. She stood up and began heading back to the car. When they were gone, Sylvia stood to her feet and climbed up a nearby tree. Sylvester just looked up in surprise.
"What are you doing?" Sylvia looked down with a sinister smile on her face.
"I've got an idea to get those canaries." Sylvia readied a claw and cut off a portion of a branch before jumping down with it in hand. Sylvester had a look at the branch and realised what she intended.
"Oh I get it. I'll give you a hand." Sylvester held part of the branch while Sylvia held another part. Together, they wrorked the branch towards the top of the birdcage. Tweety and Aaooga watched as the branch came closer and closer.
"Here we go again." Tweety muttered. Tweety and Aaooga looked at each other and smiled. Sylvester and Sylvia had hooked the birdcage and they were pulling it in. They pulled the birdcage to them and had a look inside. Tweety and Aaooga were gone but the cage was loaded with sticks of dynamite.
"Yikes!" Sylvester pushed Sylvia away from the birdcage before all the dynamite exploded. When it did, Sylvester was caught in the blast and Sylvia was knocked to the ground. When she looked up, she saw Sylvester completely burnt black from the explosion. The branch that had been used had been completely destroyed She briefly began to panic out of worry for Sylvester's safety.
"Sylvester! Are you alright?" Sylvia ran over to Sylvester. He shook himself, restoring his fur to the usual colour and smiled. Sylvia gave a sigh of relief. They turned and looked at where the birdcage was and saw another birdcage in excatly the same case. Tweety and Aaooga were looking out of the cage and laughing.
"How did they do that?" Sylvia asked.
"Who knows. They always do stuff like that." Sylvester replied.
"Oh, guess I'll just have to get used to it." Granny soon came back with a box of matches at roughly the same moment Hector returned with a bunch of firewood. Granny went over to Hector and gave him a pat on the head.
"Good boy Hector, now let's get a fire started." Granny said. Hector dropped the firewood in the centre and Granny lit it, creating a nice warm fire for everyone. Granny then turned to Sylvester.
"Now Sylvester. I know you've been through quite an ordeal so I'm going to let you rest tonigh. I'm putting Hector on watch for tonight." Sylvester looked at Granny. He was relieved that he wouldn't have to stay awake for the night as he was quite tired. He had been through an awful lot over the last two days and was glad to get some rest.
That night, Granny took the Birdcage down from where it was hanging and took it inside the tent with her so Tweety and Aaooga would be safe. Hector was walking around the came, trying his best to stay awake. Sylvester was sleeping opposite the tent. He briefly opened one eye and yawned. To his surprise, Sylvia was nowhere around. He quickly looked around and saw her sitting in a tree. She seemed to be looking over the forest. He gave a sigh of relief and decided to join her. He climbed up the tree and sat on the branch Sylvia was sitting on. Sylvia turned her head to look at him and smiled.
"Are you ok?" Sylvester asked. Sylvia turned and looked at him. She motioned him to come and sit next to her and he did so.
"I was thinking about my old owners." Sylvia replied.
"Huh?"
"I had noticed a change in their behaviour but never expected them to turn to what they were doing."
"Would they have any motive?"
"Not really. I don't know why they changed."
"I guess we'll never know."
"I guess." Sylvester took a very deep breath and sighed. He looked over at the view in front of them. The moon was up in the centre of the sky and thre were no clouds in sight. Sylvester gave another sigh, which made Sylvia turn and look at him.
"Are you ok?" She asked. Sylvester turned and looked at her. Hhe thenr ealised that, if he was to tell her how he felt, it would have to be now.
"Sylvia, I have something to tell you."
"Well, there's something I need to tell you as well."
"Is there?"
"Yes, something that's been on my mind since yesterday."
"Ok, then you go first." It was Sylvia's turnto take a deep breath. She was very nervous about saying this as they had only known each other for two days, but she could no longer keep it to herself. She reached out with her hand and grabbed Sylvester's. He was taken aback by Sylvia's gesture but said nothing.
"Sylvester. Ever since that incident on the farm, you've been on my mind. Earlier today, you saved my life and that's when I realised. Sylvester…I love you." Sylvia began to blush, as did Sylvester. He didn't think that Sylvia liked him. What she said gave him the courage to say it himself. He held onto Sylvia's hand tightly and looked into her eyes.
"Sylvia, You really like me? Ok, then I'll say it. Sylvia, I love you…too." Sylvia's heart filled with joy. She didn't think that Sylvester liked her but now that she knew that he did, her heart was put to rest. Without thinking, they both leaned together and kissed. They were unaware that Tweety and Aaooga had opened the tent a little and were watching.
"Aww." Tweety muttered.
"Just like us." Aaooga added.
"Well, it had to happen eventually."
"Yep."
"Well, Sylvester and Sylvia sitting in a tree…"
"K, I, S, S, I, N, G!" Tweety and Aaooga began laughing at the little rhyme before returning to their cage. Once they were there, they gave each other a long kiss before falling asleep in each other's arms.
TH-TH-TH-THAT'S ALL FOLKS!
A/N: Well, that's that finished. I enjoyed writing this. Now I can get on with the next FoxFang. Oh, just a little note. I will be going to another boarding college very soon (screams in terror) so my updates will slow doen greatly. I may be able to post the first chapter of the next FoxFang but I am not sure. Anyway, I thank everyone for reading this and I hope I can write at my new boarding college.
