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Chapter 6: One kitten saved
Macavity had left a few minutes ago and Andrian had propped himself up against the grimy wall holding his side gingerly with one arm.
"Are you o.k.?" Mistofeeles asked in a shaking voice. He had watched the whole thing in shock and fear, huddled in the corner.
"Yeah, I'm fine." the orange cat answered him quietly, "He's done worse before."
Misto moved toward him and stepped on something soft. It was a piece of cloth that he was sure wasn't there before
"Why did he leave this?"
Andrian starts to laugh bitterly but his broken ribs cause it to turn into coughing.
"He's not stupid. He knows he needs me functioning somewhat properly for the Ball. If he didn't I would be dead by now."
"What so special about the Jellicle Ball in to months?"
"I was born during the last jellicles ball with a curse." He paused and looked at the faint outline on his paw, "A curse that says come my first year, I'll have enough power to destroy an entire living race."
A silence fell between them.
"So Macavity is going to….." Misto stopped, not wanting to finish.
Andrian looked at him evenly. "That's right, Macavity is going to use me to kill all the Jellicles."
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Rumpleteazer entered the Junkyard with her little bundle of life. She headed straight for her den, looking for her brother.
"Jerrie? You there?"
"Here, Teazer." said her twin coming up beside her.
"I didn't see Mistofeeles, but I found some kittens there, see?" She showed him the little gray kitten asleep in her arms.
"What would Macavity want with them?" He pondered out loud to himself, "Well, we better go tell Munk."
Rumpleteazer nodded and the two calicos headed toward the tire.
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Munkustrap listened to Rumpleteazer's story. From what he could tell Macavity was probably using the kittens for leverage against someone, but who?
"I don't know exactly what he has in mind. Teazer, you did a good thing by rescuing this kitten and if you plan on getting the others please be careful. In the meantime, I'll take the little guy to Jenny and get him checked out." Munk said taking the gray furball from Teazer.
"O.k., Munk." Rumpleteazer replied and left with Mungojerrie.
The silver tabby went to find the Gumbie cat and passed several jellicles curious about the kitten. He asked around for Jenny and was directed toward the old car. He knocked on the door and waited.
An old queen with tiger stripes and leopard spots opened the door.
"Jenny, could check out this kitten? Rumpleteazer brought him in."
He held up the little cat and Jennyanydots smiled. "Well I'll be! That's Ean."
"Ean? You know him?" Munk asked.
"Of course, I was there when he was born." She took Ean and tickled his chin lightly. "He's the youngest of Honey's kittens."
"Why would he not be with Honey then? Did she lose them?"
"No, no." Jenny replied as she was looking at his paws. "Her family had her chipped and was going to get rid of the kittens, so she entrusted them to an young tom she had rescued off the streets. I think his name was Andrian."
The silver tabby sighed, "So he was telling the truth."
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The calico twins were back at the old train station. They entered but everyone and everything thing from Macavity's headquarters was gone.
Rumpleteazer glanced at her brother.
"Leaving with out telling us, that means……"
Mungojerrie finished for her, "He knows what you've done."