Disclaimer: See first chapter, and Phantom belong to the ALW and the RUG too.

Chapter 10: Transformation and a Sneaky Magician

Without thinking, Tugger ran and made a flying leap at Bomb, hitting her and they both fell to the floor.

CRASH!

The sandbag hit the floor, right where Bomb had been standing. Without knowing what had happened, Bomb pushed Tugger off herself and yelled,

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" Tugger merely pointed at the bag. Bomb's eyes filled with tears of fear, and gratefulness. Tugger instinctively took her into his arms.

"I'm sorry Tugger," she said through her tears.

"Me too."

With all the commotion, no one had seen the boy with messy ginger hair sneak down from the rafters.

"Places!" Ms Dramaton yelled.

The curtain was raised for their last performance.

'Something is wrong, Macavity is up to something,' Demeter thought, 'He's singing this song with too much truth in his voice.'

They were nearing the end of the show, in the middle of "Past the Point of No Return." As they neared the end, Macavity took Demeter in his arms and they paused for a moment when they finished, then Macavity sang, ending on:

"Anywhere you go le me go too!

Christine, that's all I ask of…"

Demeter ripped his mask off, and the infamous "Phantom of the Opera" chord played. As Macavity and Demeter performed the escape to the dungeons.

The roaring of the crowd was deafening as the cast took their bows. Ms. Dramaton stepped on stage and motioned for everyone to get quiet.

"Thank you for coming tonight," she began when everyone was quiet, "Thanks to our new students," she motioned at the Jellicles, "This has been our best production ever! And, also thanks to our new students, this has been the production with the best turnout we've ever had," she motioned at the audience, "Now I'd like to make an announcement," she looked very excited about what she was going to say, "We have made enough money to keep all of our programs running here at Stage and Screen Prep!"

There was a deafening cheer, and then all of the Jellicles, plus Macavity and Griddlebone, felt a sort of surge go through them. They were beginning to transform back into Cats.

"Mwahahahahaha!" Came a deep laugh and the lights went out.

"Macavity!" Demeter whispered, her ability to sense the ginger tom back in full swing. Munkustrap reached for her hand and placed it on his arm, and began to make his way to the general area of the door. He could feel his night vision, slowly but surely, coming back, but it wasn't back completely and he heard another laugh, much closer this time. Then, he felt Demeter's hand wrenched off him. He whipped around,

"Demi!" he yelled, terrified. Then he heard a muffled scream. He ran toward the sound and a paw met his face. He fell to the floor, and a strange sensation overcame him. He felt little pricks all over his skin, and he could feel himself shrinking. The sensation finally stopped and he was able to stand up.

It had been so easy for Macavity to shut the lights off. The musical had been designed for easy shut offs. He had been lucky too, though. He expected that his night vision had come back more quickly then the others. He could see perfectly. He found Demeter, put his hand over her mouth, and pulled her hand off of Munkustrap. He immediately made his way toward the door, but had been set back a little before he could get there. Demeter had gone limp, as though she could not stand up and she had screamed. Though the scream was muffled by his hand, it was heard by Munkustrap. Macavity hit Munkustrap in the face with his hand, I mean, paw. He ran a little, dragging Demeter behind him, but then suddenly fell to the floor himself. He could feel his body shrinking and his fur growing back. He felt Demeter, who had finished her transformation, slip from his hands, and make a break for it. The lights came on, and the room was halfway filled with cats! Macavity caught sight of Griddlebone, he had finished transforming and yelled,

"Come on!" The two snuck out of the doorway before anyone had seen them.

Munkustrap immediately looked for Demeter and found her running to him. The humans were screaming in confusion, unsure of how all the cats had gotten there. Some of them were coming to there senses, opening doors and putting the cats outside. The silver tabby looked around for the Mystery Cat and Griddlebone, but saw no trace of the two. Suddenly he felt warm hands around his middle, and felt himself being lifted into the air. Out of the corner of his eye he could see Demeter being lifted up by another human They were both carried to the nearest door and set outside. The two waited for a while for the rest of the Jellicles to bet put out. When all of them were assembled, Munkustrap made sure everyone was there before they parted. When they did part, some of them opted to go back to the Junkyard, whilst others went to their respective homes. Demeter and Munkustrap were walking back to the junkyard.

"Munku," Demeter said, "Why and who transformed us?"

"I don't know Demi," Munkustrap replied, "But we must have done whatever they wanted us to do. I suppose their identity and their reason will always be a secret.

Misto entered his home, smiling to himself.

"Tux!" said his human, Jessica, relieved, "I've been looking for you for a month!" The Freshman girl took the in her arms, hugging him. Misto tolerated this, he was quite fond of his human. Jessica sat her kitty down and said,

"Guess what, Tux! Thanks to some new students, who kind of disappeared mysteriously after the production," She shivered form the creeps, but continued, "We raised enough money to keep all programs running at Stage and Screen Prep!"

'Imaging that,' Misto thought, his black coat slightly shimmering.

"Tux," Jessica said, laughing, "You look glittery again!"

A/N: YAY! It's done! That was the last chapter! What did you think. I know that I didn't do much with "Phantom"and I don't know if that bothers anyone, but I'm sorry if it did.

I would like to appoligise to those who caught this in the last chapter. The only person who caught this and told mewas Sleeping Tiger (Kudos), but I put that Gus had acted in East Glen. In truth he had acted in East Lyyne. I think I misspelled that, sorry. It always sounded like Glen to me in the song, so that was my fault! My appoligies!