Chapter 5: In harmony
By evening the two cats were nine gardens from there old home. "We should rest here." Jake suggested.
"Yeah." Skykit agreed. "But first we need to get away from the gardens." Jake nodded and tiredly followed the brown tabby she-cat. They found a Thunderpath. Skykit looked from side to side, and she realised the Thunderpath was empty from the end of it to the start of it.
It looked abandoned. She looked at one side and saw a high wall. "We need to head there," Jake unexpectedly mewed. "I know a good place where we can rest."
Skykit was impressed on how well this kittypet knew his way around Twolegplace.
She looked once more and gave a signal for him to follow her as she padded onto the uncomfortable, black surface. She padded closer and closer to the wall, but suddenly smelled the overwhelming stench of a monster.
She quickly ran to the side of the Thunderpath. Jake was already there.
When the monster came up, stopped, and turned onto another Thunderpath, the two cats bounded back onto it and towards the wall.
Finally they got there. The pale grey kittypet jumped right onto the wall and scrambled up to the top. He waited for his mate, balancing on the top of the huge wall. "Use the cracks in the wall to help you." He guided, and Skykit scrambled up after him, but with more difficulty. Skykit was getting suspicious of this cat now; he knew that they had to come towards the wall, and made climbing the wall look a lot more simple then when the brown tabby she-cat had climbed it.
Jake looked down and Skykit followed his gaze. There were several beds of moss there. Jake suddenly launched himself of the wall and landed smoothly on the beds of moss. Skykit copied, but had a scramble before getting to her paws again.
Suddenly a shape moved in the shadows of a huge pile of Twoleg stuff.
It came out and Skykit saw that it was a ginger tom. He had a lighter tail-tip, underbelly, and paws.
"Freddie! Good to see you." Jake mewed and came up to nuzzle the cat. "Jake! I knew you'd get out. And who's your companion?" Freddie nodded towards Skykit. "This is Skykit. I found her at the pound."
The pound? Skykit thought. Skykit had always tought that the singing pale grey tom was a kittypet, but she wasn't too sure now. She gulped.
"So where are the others?" Jake asked, looking around. Then a light blue-grey she-cat crept out of the shadows. "Ice! Harvey!" Skykit's mate mewed as a dark ginger tom padded in with a bird hanging from his jaws.
A thud was heard and Skykit turned around. A light brown she-cat stood on the moss beds with a mouse dangling from her jaws. She was followed by a big black tom who carried soaked moss, and a small dark grey tom who carried nothing but a scrap of Twoleg things.
"Sparrow! Stone, Boulder." Jake dipped his head. "Skykit, this is the gang."
Skykit's eyes widened. "So... You're not a kittypet?" Jake shook his head. "I'm a rogue." Skykit let out a sigh of relief and came up to nuzzle her mate. Then she stepped back. All the others – or, the gang – had gone back to sunbaking, eating, or just relaxing.
"But... How did you know about all the Twoleg stuff?" Skykit stammered. "Well, I spent my time in one of those, but that was because I was trapped." Suddenly three kits came bouncing up. One was a pretty russet she-cat with one white paw and blue eyes. The other was a light brown tabby she-cat with swirls all over her small body.
The third kit was a gorgeous light grey she-cat. "Aww, who's kits are these?" Skykit asked sweetly. Jake gulped. "Their mine." Skykit's fur rose. She was mates with a rogue, with another mate? "Tell me, exactly," Skykit mewed, angrily, "how many kits and mates have you got?"
Jake shied away a little. "Thirty-eight kits," he began, Skykit getting furious, "And thirteen mates." Skykit couldn't take this any longer. She raised her paw, and... Stopped.
This fact didn't matter. She loved this cat. No one could deny it. She hung her head and sighed. "Sorry. I just got-"
"-infuriated." Jake finished her sentence. He cast a glance at his friends, blinked in a way that seemed sort of... special, and started tapping his foot against the ground. Stone and Harvey followed and then, they started to sing.
"I know where you are," Jake started. "Because I was once there." Ice sung. "I know how you like me," Stone followed. "Because I once liked you." Suddenly the little light grey kit sung. She had a beautiful voice. "I was once there, I once liked you,"
"In harmony." The others followed. "In harmony." The kits repeated. "I know why you cry," Sparrow started. "Because I was once sad."
"I know that you can," Boulder sung. "Because I once could." the second kit followed. "In harmony," They all went on. "In harmony."
"I know if you're lost," Jake sung, rubbing against Skykit. "Because I am lost too," The gang followed after Jake. The pale grey rogue sung again. "I know how you feel,"
"Because I am with you." The cats sung again. "If you are hurt," Jake went on. "Or are in pain," his kits followed. "Because of the feeling," Jake sung with that wonderful voice of his. The gang and Jake sung together this time. "Of the pulse in your veins."
"But no matter what, we're always,"Jake sung in solo. "In harmony," everyone sang. And then... "In harmony." Skykit sung along.