Munkustrap lay on the back seat of the car with Demeter while Deuteronomy talked to him.

"This is terrible Deuteronomy, Cassandra and Victoria are dead. Electra's been catnapped and Tugger's gone missing. What are you going to do?"

"I don't know Munkustrap, you just worry about getting better."

"But I…"

"You leave this to Alonzo while you rest. That's all you need at the moment, not having to worry about this killer."

Deuteronomy left Munkustrap with Demeter so he could rest quietly.

"Who is this killer?" He asked Demeter.

"Listen to what Deuteronomy said, you need to rest." Demeter soothed.

"But I desperately need to know…" Munkustrap protested trying to push himself up.

His injuries had healed very quickly, despite the seriousness of them. He still had a few scars, swellings and bruises, but the worst was over.

"No. Rest and wait till your fit enough to walk. Your leg's still healing remember." Demeter said firmly, pushing him back onto the floor again.

The door to the car opened and Coricopat slid into the seat next to Munkustrap.

"Munkustrap, there's been another Murder…"

"Who was it?" Munkustrap demanded as he forced himself to sit up.

"It was Asparagus… same way of killing as the others."

Munkustrap stared at Coricopat with complete shock. "Why Asparagus, he didn't do anything to Macavity."

"Maybe he was just an easy target." Coricopat said heavily.

Munkustrap knew he was probably right.

"Are the kittens safe?"

"Yes, anyone vulnerable is being kept within the junkyard."

Munkustrap nodded with approval, this was all the Jellicles could do against this killer.

Coricopat left Munkustrap with Demeter as the injured tom lay down sleepily.

"What are we going to do Demeter?" He yawned, resting his head on the queens' lap.

"I don't know Munkustrap... Munkustrap?" The tom had already fallen asleep.

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Several weeks passed without any sign of the killer. Munkustrap was up and about and he'd started his own search to try and find Tugger and Electra, though he was having no leads at all.

"I keep reaching dead ends, they can't have just vanished." He snapped. He didn't like being left in the dark whenever his brother or a young kitten were concerned.

"Don't beat yourself up over it, no one else has a clue either."

"Your right Misto. But what if they've been hurt or killed…" His voice trailed off in his worry.

Jemima, Etcetera, Demeter and Bombalurina joined them on the wall that surrounded the junkyard, they where closely followed by Coricopat and Tantomile.

They talked for a while until Jemima spotted something moving in the bushes ahead of them.

They all looked at the spot Jemima had pointed out.

"GET THAT CAT!" A very meaty Pollicle barked to his friend.

"It's Macavity!" Etcetera cried out as the fiery coloured cat sprung out of the bushes and away from where they where sitting, closely followed by the two dogs.

"After that cat!" Munkustrap shouted. Misto, Jemima and Coricopat jumped down and followed Munkustrap as he sprinted in the direction the Pollicles and the cat where headed.

Misto and Jemima quickly overtook Munkustrap, whose leg was still healing, and they began to catch up on the cat.

The Pollicles gave up the chase when their victim leapt over a very high wall.

"This way." Misto panted when he saw the Pollicles leaving.

"It's… too… high… how… did… he get… up…" Jemima panted after several tries at jumping the wall.

"He used magic so I'll use magic…"

Misto held Jemima's paw. His body began to glow and he sprang high into the air, pulling the screaming kitten after him. As they landed on the other side of the wall, Jemima turned slowly to look at Misto.

"That… was… terrifying…"

"Sorry Jem. There he goes!" He pointed at a tail as it disappeared into a hole in a door.

They slid through the hole and into a large warehouse full of a million boxes.

"We'd better spilt up, we'll have a better chance of finding him that way."

Jemima felt worried about Misto's decision, but she agreed to it as he was older than her and she thought he'd know better.

Jemima crept slowly through the boxes, jumping at every sound and movement.

"I wish we didn't split up, what if he finds me and… kills me. Misto can rely on his magic to help him out but I've got nothing…"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Jemima screamed out loud as she heard a bloodcurdling screech from the opposite side of the warehouse.

"Oh shit… what if Misto's hurt or worse…" Jemima ran as fast as she could towards to scream, knowing what she was doing was madness. What if Misto was dead and the killer turned on her?

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The scream sent a shiver up her spine; it was even louder and more bloodcurdling than before.

She rounded the corner to see Misto lying on the floor with the fiery cat standing over him.

"MISTO!" Jemima screamed, flinging herself at the cat standing over him.

The cat yelped with surprise and as it turned over Jemima received the shock of her life. She just froze, the cat managed to slide out from under her. It grabbed her round the waist and threw her over one shoulder, then running fast towards the nearest exit.

Misto was left knocked out-cold and bleeding on the floor of the warehouse, unable to help Jemima.

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"Do you think he got a good look at the attacker?"

"We all know its Macavity, did you see all that fur Misto tore off him?"

"'E's righ', 'oo else 'as fur like da'?"

Another argument threatened to start so Deuteronomy quickly took control.

"Jemima's missing and Mistoffelees has been beaten up very badly. I want every cat to be on his or her guard. I think it's safe to say this is Macavity's doing and we know what he's capable of now."

"I'm not hiding away just because Macavity's stepping up! I'm going to find him and kill him myself!" Everyone was shocked to realise that the voice belonged to Munkustrap.

"Don't…" Deuteronomy didn't know what to say, Munkustrap never did anything like this.

"NO! I'm going to find him and rip his heart out!" Munkustrap hissed, springing out of the junkyard.

"Alonzo, Coricopat, Tantomile, follow him and make sure he doesn't do anything stupid." He usually said this about Tugger, so saying about his 'loyal' son seemed too weird.

"We'll try." Alonzo muttered as he sped after the silver tabby.

Munkustrap, even though his leg was still injured, managed to out run Alonzo and the twins. The three only just about managed to keep up.

As Munkustrap ran, his leg was sending sharp bolts of excruciating pain from his knee all the way up his back. He grit his teeth against the pain and carried on running.

"Munkus… slow…down…!" Alonzo yelled after him.

"Great I've got tag a along." He thought bitterly. He looked back as he rounded a corner and saw the twins accompanied Alonzo. "Great, I've got more on my back."

He didn't know why he was so angry himself; he didn't even know where Macavity was. He certainly couldn't run like this forever.

He rounded a corner and, spookily, ran right into Macavity. Literally.

Macavity and Munkustrap got send sprawled onto the floor in a tangle of limbs.

"GET-OFF!" Macavity hissed, trying to disentangle himself.

"I'm going to kill you, you murdering bastard!" Munkustrap hissed venomously.

Munkustrap didn't wait for his victim to reply, he just laid into him with a steady flow of punches and scratches. Macavity yelled in pain as his attacker clawed at his face. After what seemed like ages, Macavity became limp, he hadn't had a chance to fight back. All the way through the fight Munkustrap had been demanding to know why he'd killed and catnapped his friends and family, not really waiting for a response from the 'Hidden Paw'.

"Got anything to say before I cut your throat open?" Munkustrap snarled.

"You've got the wrong cat, you see I didn't kill anyone." Macavity managed to say.

"You're lying! Tell me the truth. We found your fur at the crime scene, there's no other cat with fur like yours. So don't lie to me!" he was starting to get extremely irritated.

"That's where you're wrong. There is another like me. I have a sister, Evevity; she looks exactly like me. She has the same markings, colour and everything, just like mine."

"What? You have a sister?" Munkustrap didn't know what to think. "Where is she?"

But he was too late. Macavity was dead.

"Munkustrap, you look like you've seen… Wow!" Alonzo had eventually found him and he'd just spotted Macavity's body lying at the tabby's paws.

Coricopat and Tantomile shortly joined Alonzo's side and they too stared at Macavity and Munkustrap.

"He's dead…" Coricopat said, stating the obvious.

"How…?" Tantomile gasped with amazement.

Munkustrap said nothing; he'd just reached another dead end. He'd killed a cat for the wrong reason, even if he did deserve it, and there was still a killer on the loose.

"Lets go back." Munkustrap said eventually, trying to heave himself up. His leg was killing him so Alonzo and Coricopat supported him on their shoulders and they slowly made their way back to the junkyard.