such a long chapter for such a long wait, man am i nice. most evil authoresses wouldent do that, now would they? sometimes i wonder if anyone is reading this...but then i look at 5 reviews and 1oo+ hits and it makes me feel funny and great inside. i have a really funny story, but it doesnt really work in the cats fandom. if anyone can tell me where you are most likely to find the noun Gilikin you get a virtual batch of bacon and a cat...reviews would be nice for this chapter too, as i worked really hard on it...

After that small meeting with characters from another musical, there were some environmental changes to the junkyard that the cats had noticed as they were practicing for the jellicle ball. Many things were permanently turned pink, and some things started to sparkle like that Edward Cullen in those books that most of the queen's owners read.

With all of these pink things and cats practicing too much, Jennyanydots was very busy. She had to look after the kittens, which were also practicing for the ball, and then she would have to make sure that there was enough food in time for the ball, as well as set most of it up. Being the Gumby cat was a big job for most, but since she had been doing to same thing four times every year for the last handful, Jenny had a new respect for those who had to deal with the performers.

"Tumble leave Jemima alone and go find more food for the ball!" she yelled before collapsing onto her bed, almost squishing her mate in her flurry. "Sorry darling." She said, giving the tom a quick kiss before attempting to get up.

"No, you don't get to leave yet. The train doesn't leave until noon…"Jenny giggled as Skimble scratched her gently under her chin.

"You know why we can't do that right now. I have tons of cats to fix up, and I need to prepare for the jellicle ball." A sigh of sorrow followed that statement, but it was very true. The last time the happy couple spent some time together was last year, when the train wasn't going as often and there wasn't as many kittens, and new cats. Skimbleshanks then got up and called over Munkustrap, but Jenny knew that this was going to cause some issues in Munk's strategic planning.

"Do you think I can borrow Jenny for a few hours, I want to take her on the train with me?" Munkustrap agreed before having to run off and break up a tender moment in Alonzo and Cassandra's life together so that they could prepare for the sample. There was a large swarm of newbies for the ball that Munkustrap had to explain to. They would put on some of last jellicle moons ball, probably the naming of cats and the jellicle ball, so that they could see how important this might be in their lives.

Sitting there bored Marybeth to bits and pieces because her friends were off flirting with toms and just making her feel sick in her stomach. The flirting was getting more and more common and she felt bad for the toms like Ethan and Mathew, who had no idea what was going on. She was sure they had no idea where kittens came from. She really wanted to play a game of truth or dare, maybe even would you rather because she was so bored?

She laid her head on her paws and started to nap when Nana and John approached, John being dragged over. He was still rather fresh to the world again after Megan died. Sure he had a new eye for things, but Marybeth was sure that he probably was going to be one of those toms who didn't mate because he had lost and it had hurt. That was understandable because she had loved and lost too and was just too lazy to get back into the game. Sure, she was probably older than he was, but that didn't stop her from making connections.

"Marybeth, how nice it is to see you, right John?" John nodded solemnly.

"May I ask why you are torturing the poor, heartbroken, tortured soul Nana?"

"Yeah, you can. You see, he has this thing where he doesn't want to be in the ball, and so when everyone left he house he just kept himself in his room. Since his parents are going to be preforming a little bit for us so we learn, I thought he needed to see some of it or he would die. Right now I think he prefers death." They sat in silence as John was released from Nana's deadly grasp, and then slink onto the cold ground for a nap.

After gathering many different single and moping cats together waiting for Munkustrap to get the older cats ready to show how a ball will work if they cooperate, Marybeth started a game of truth. Since they didn't have much space or ideas for dares, it became the game of truth.

"I'll go first. John, what would you name your first kitten?"

"If it is a girl, her name would be something like Eponine, which comes from a romance story in a very sad book, and if it is a boy I would name it Erik. My turn now. So Tim, when the day comes, what would be your last wish before you go to the Heaviside layer?" These questions had to keep rather clean, as there were adult cats watching them.

"To spend my last hour in the church that I was raised in, with my mate if I ever find one." A small 'awww' slipped through Leigh Ann's lips. Tim looked at her and suddenly had a great idea. "Leigh Ann, do you really love Josh?" she turned various shades of red before answering.

"Of course I love him, why wouldn't I? Missy, how many times have you thought that you have had a crush on someone?"

"A few times, maybe three or four. Lost count because it's harder for me to find suitable toms. Okay, Ethan what would you name your child if you had it with Cassandra." Cassandra nuzzled into her sister's side, embarrassed. They called her Cass for short and so that they didn't get confused with the other one.

"Well, to be frank the child would be a little girl that looks just like Cass, with a black stripe all the way down the stomach. And her name would be Melissa, which means bee because she will be golden just like her mom. Josh, would you care to shed some wisdom on where babies come from?" Ethan smirked. Just before Josh answered, Munkustrap hushed them down so that they could give them a hint of what it would be like. To begin, they had Victoria dance the dance that follows 'The Naming of Cats' before Mistoffelees came and sang;

"Jellicle cats come out tonight,
jellicle cats, come one, come all!
The jellicle moon is shining bright;
jellicles come to the jellicle ball." And Munkustrap sang his line before they broke out into the real ball, skipping a few songs along the way due to a lack of cats there to perform.

During the performance, the cats looked like they were having a blast so Nana leaned over and asked John in his ear; "Now do you regret coming to see this?"

"no." he whispered back. He wished for a second or two that he was able to go and dance just as well as his mom, but Josh had gained that trait. Afterwards, he saw his brother using it and Leigh Ann was dancing next to him, and they were having a blast.

Meanwhile, far off in the rest of the junkyard, there was a rap battle going on. Two toms, Ethan and Joseph, had challenged each other to a dance off, but since they couldn't dance they were going to rap, and they each had a queen on their side if they needed her. The judges were Pounce, Tumble, and Mungojerrie, as Rumpleteazer was one of the queens.

Ethan was going to go first, and he was going to rap the song Knockout by Lil' Wayne and Nicki Minaj, because he found it fitting because of his black paws, and because his queen that would portray Nicki was Jemima, which was finding it hard to rap.

"Hey Barbie, ah, ah, ah, are you into black men?
He- hey hey hey Barbie! I can be your black ken
Wow! Cause' once you go black, you never go back
She wore her hair black, with curls in the back
Then she threw that a$# back, back, back
Then I fell to the mat, and after that
everything went black!" He rapped, getting into it more and more. Though he knew this was all he would get, he was going to have fun doing it. Jemima started to rap like Taylor Swift.

"Baby 1, 2, 3
Tell 'em get the referee
Cause he can, get the knockout
If the telephone rings
Its emergency
Cause he can, get the knockout
Get the knockout" Though it wasn't really rapping, most of the judges were pretty happy with it. Jemima gave Ethan a hug, which caused him to turn a shade of pink that most people never saw him turn before. Then Joseph prepared himself.

"I won't rap because I found someone else, but we will still need Rumpleteazer. I pull out but Leigh Ann wants to rap." He was right because Leigh Ann came in and she had her papers ready for Rumpleteazer to read. They were going to sing 'Up out My Face' by Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey, which they both liked, but Rumpleteazer never learned the words. Leigh Ann started the song.

"Mariah, I was in the million dolla meetins he was cheatin
All up in the church,he was sneakin with the deacon
Cats away,well the mice will play.
Lol smiley face have a nicer day.
'Cuz pop pop pop it goes my rubber band
so stop stop stop sniffin that contraband
'Cuz you was penny pinchin' my accounts laced
Attention! About face" Rumpleteazer was bouncing with the energy was almost to the point of bursting, as she really wanted to rap her part of the song, and was just brimming to the top with sugar in her veins.

"I thought we had something special, we had something good
But I should'n let another mechanic under my hood
If you see me walking by ya boy, don't you even speak
pretend you on a sofa, and I'm on MTV
Might see me on a poster, see me at a show
But you won't see me for free boy, this ain't no promo"

The judges found it harder to choose a winner to settle the dispute, so they rated the performances out of ten, and the one with the higher sum of numbers would win. The total of Ethan's performance was 22, but he lost by two points by Joseph, who had hired someone to take his position. But they had given him a few extra points that they had lying around because he actually took part in his rap.

By the end of the day, everyone was in their dens to prevent bug bites because the mosquitoes were considerably horrible. Munkustrap was making sure that newer cats like Maccy and the sisters were comfortable with the den that they had. When he got home, he found his loving mate putting the kittens to bed. Instead of settling them down, though, Munk had just disrupted the cause. All four of them, or it seemed like five, pounced on him as if he was in a cartoon.

"Daddy, can you tell us a story? We promise to behave and go to sleep if you do!" Demeter smiled at him, so he chose a really good story.

"Only when you are sitting in your bed." The kittens rushed to their respective beds before he started.

"A long time ago, there was a pirate cat named Growltiger, and he was rather unpleasant. His coat was torn and seedy, and he was missing an ear and he only used one eye. Being as intimidating as he was, most of the villages went into lockdown when he came by on his barge. They locked up the silly goose and fortified the hen house because of their fear.

"As captain of his crew, he made sure they showed no mercy to any cats of foreign race, because they had mauled his missing ear. Though these foreign cats stayed far away from him because they knew what he would do to them if they didn't.

"On a very peaceful summer's night, Growltiger and his mate Lady Griddlebone were spending some sentimental time with each other. As they sang the last duet of their lives, the Siamese came creeping in their sampans and their junks. He didn't know that though, so he and Lady Griddlebone kept singing. He thought that his manly baritone was what got him all the queens.

"Soon the Siamese were so close that they could overhear the lovers singing their last duet. When they boarded the ships, leaving their sampans, they battened down the hatches on the crew in the bunks of the barge. Lady Griddlebone gave a loud screech before she jumped off the edge of the boat to save her life. Growltiger soon was surrounded by the fierce Mongolian crew, and they made him walk the plank! Then all of the cities and towns that he had terrorized rejoiced. The end." By the time he had finished that story, all of them had fallen fast asleep, and had probably missed the wild arm gestures he worked so hard on.

"That was a great story, Munk." Demeter said with a smile on her face as she came to lean on him. They spent the rest of the night in that position.

(Long chapter huh?)