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And finally, after a dreadfully long wait...

Munkustrap's Bad Day- Chapter Two

A frail, elderly cat was hunched by the side of the road as Macavity and Munkustrap passed. "Please 'elp me, I'm just a poor old tom, nowheres to go, me eyesight's bad, me legs'r weak, an' I've got scurvy an' arthritis an'-" THWAP.

Munkustrap grinned proudly, then quickly attempted to change the grin to a wicked smirk. "Look, Macavity- I knocked out a 'potential enemy', just like you taught me to!"

After a miserably failed attempt to cat-nap Mungojerrie at the Jellicle Junkyard, the Napoleon of Crime and his new counterpart fled the area in embarrassment , and Macavity decided that a lesson on knocking out potential enemies was definitely in order. Thus, he had given his brother an "extremely useful" seminar, detailing how to stun adversaries- or perhaps those who weren't actually your adversaries yet, but looked like they could be.

Unfortunately, Munkustrap had much more trouble finding actual 'enemies' than he did knocking people out.

Macavity stared in an evilly bored sort of fashion at Munkus, who was still twitching as he tried to perfect his evil smirk, and sighed. "Come now, brother. If you ever want to be a real criminal, you must abuse more dangerous folks."

"But I thought you told me to ruthlessly injure and/or murder innocent, unsuspecting cats!" cried Munkustrap, confused.

Macavity pondered this for a moment. Then he replied, "Well, they have to be dangerous innocent and unsuspecting cats." He leered, showing his teeth to the elderly cat, who had woken up. "Unlike this pathetic old ragbag. Now hold on, brother- I need to sharpen my teeth." The mystery cat whipped out a mechanical pencil sharpener, plugged it into his portable socket (don't ask), and, with a dreadful grinding sound, sharpened each fang to a perfect point. "Alright, let's leave."

The two cats headed back to Macavity's lair, singing "Dun dun dun, dun dun dun, dun dun dun!"

"Dun dun dun, dun dun da-da-da, dun dun, dun dun da-da-da, dun du-UN!" added Munkustrap, but was quickly silenced by a look from his older brother. Finally, they reached their destination. Macavity knocked on the door of the lair, inspecting the slimy goo.

"Zorken sncheecker floooog!" He hissed into the door in a strange, coarse language. The scruffy-looking cat who had opened the door for Munkustrap yanked it open again.

"'Ey, boss." He growled to Macavity. "Griddlebone's waitin' fer ye, by the way." Then he noticed Munkus. " 'Ey, why'd ye bring back tha' yuppie scum from the Jellicles?"

Macavity hissed and replied curtly, "Oh, you'll see, Shark-Bait." He brushed past Shark-Bait(for that was the cat's name), and he and Munkustrap continued to the next room, and walked down the stairs,

down

to

the

basement.

"Be on your watch for the dead rats. They enjoy live prey." Macavity informed Munkustrap. The silver tabby considered asking just why dead rats would like any sort of prey at all, but he decided that he ought not to ask impertinent questions, and so refrained. It was quite dark down there, besides, and he didn't really want to know the gory details of what creatures resided in the Basement. Plus…it smelled like lemon cleaning fluid, so it had to be a bad place.

Anyways…Back to our story. As they ventured further into the bleak chambers of the Basement, a pair of glowing green eyes met them out of the dark, followed by a fluffy white Persian. Griddlebone sashayed over to Macavity, smiling in a disturbing and yet seductive manner. "Welcome back, Pookie." She purred.

Macavity blushed. (Of course, since he's already red, he turned purple instead.) "Honeybear, how many times do I have to remind you NOT to call me that?" he muttered.

Griddlebone looked crestfallen. "But pookie, it's so-"

"Don't you dare say 'cute', woman!"

Griddlebone looked cross but regained her composure quickly, and immediately asked, "Did you bring me something shiny?"

Macavity replied, "Not this time, but I did recruit a new accomplice to help me accomplish my EVIL, SADISTIC, HORRIBLE, CONNIVING, WICKED, NASTY-"

"You don't have to go through the entire list."

"Plans." Macavity finished sullenly. He nodded at Munkustrap, who Griddlebone had strangely failed to notice. "My brother finally got some sense knocked into his head, and decided to be a true man and join the dark side of the force!" He laughed demonically and motioned for Munkustrap to follow him into another chamber, looming in the darkness of the Underworld yes, I forgot to mention- 'The Underworld' is what Macavity had fondly nicknamed his lair.)

"Where are we going?" Munkustrap asked, but Macavity only emitted a maniacal cackle in response. Munkus shrugged and followed his brother. A large door creaked open, and they slipped into a large room. Macavity flicked on the light, it was a frightening, blood-freezing area decorated with…

Flowers, care bears, and Hello Kitty! Pink walls! Is this a joke? Munkustrap wondered. Macavity quickly read his mind and answered the mental question. "Griddlebone insisted on the décor." The scarlet tom growled., heading to the back of the room, where an oddly-shaped object stood draped in a piece of satin. Macavity grinned at Munkustrap. "Prepare to be awed and blinded by the extent of my evil-ness." He declared, whipping the sheet off to expose a large, bumpy plant, mostly green-coloured but tinged with red and yellow. It appeared to have a large mouth, like a venus fly trap, but this thing's mouth protruded with rows of gleaming, white teeth. This 'trap' stood on a thorny stem. Little tendrils curled out over the floor.

"Isn't she…beautiful?" Macavity breathed, a glazed, hypnotic look in his eyes. "So…beautiful…"

"Erm…" Munkustrap opened his mouth slightly. He wasn't quite sure that he'd call the plant-thing-monster (whatever it was) 'beautiful'. "Um, eh, er, ek, eee, uh-"

"Get to the POINT!" shrieked Macavity.

"Y-yeah, it- I mean, she's, beautiful?" he said, looking slightly perturbed. "Uh, yeah!"

Macavity smiled, exposing fangs equaling that of the 'Thing'. "I'm glad you agree; it's good that you agree, seeing as she eats cats." He smiled again, menacingly. "My evil friend, meet the Demi II!"

-finis chapter-

A/N: Ummm...I'm really sorry about the wait for this chapter, I really am. Thanks so much for reviewing, I love feedback, any kind of feedback. Constructive criticism would be really nice though. :)Oh, and kudos to anyone who gets the musical references in this chapter. xp

le gra go deo,

Eponine