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Chapter 12: A Bitter Discovery
Donte looked at the terrified kitten below him and retracted his claws. He couldn't do it. If this means he had to work for Macavity forever, so be it. He was not going to kill this kitten.
The dark brown tom released the orange kitten, but the kitten just sat there looking at him, frozen in fear.
"Go!" hissed Donte forcefully to get the young tom to move.
It was like a light had come on, Dom snapped out of it and ran as fast as he could away from Donte.
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Mistofeeles poofed back into the old warehouse and found Andrian looking everywhere for something. The pale cat noticed him standing there and came over quickly. Misto thought he looked kind of worried about something.
"Did it work?"
"Yeah." Mistofeeles answered starting to worry.
"Can you go ahead and take Aaron and Nova?" Andrian asked him rapidly, "I can't find Dom, I think something happened."
"Sure, I-" the black cat started, but Andrian had already ran off to try and find the missing Dom.
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A few seconds after Donte let his "Target" go, he heard a sickening thud and winced. He knew what had happened without seeing it and was not surprised at all to see Macavity come from that direction, wiping his crooked, red claws on his dusty fur.
"Welcome back to being a mindless robot." the ginger cat said with a laugh.
"You knew all along I couldn't do it, didn't you?" Donte asked, looking Macavity in the eyes, "That's why you gave that assignment to me, you knew you would win."
"Of course, do you really expect me to give you your freedom that easily?" said the Hidden Paw with a smirk.
Donte glared at his boss.
"I seem to be getting that reaction a lot lately."
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"Come on, Nova, you first." Misto said to the little, wide-eyed kitten in front of him.
Nova ran over and grabbed Misto's paw tightly. She watched, in amazement as they were surrounded by a blue fog that got thicker within seconds. All of a sudden they were in a place she never saw before.
There was junk everywhere, like at the warehouse. Her sharp eyes picked out an car, a stove and a huge tire, but what blew her mind was the number of cats. There had to be about 30 asleep in various places. It seemed that only one was awake, a silver tom sitting up on the tire, and that was where Misto was leading her.
When they came closer to the tom, Misto crouched down and asked, "Will you please stay with Munk while I go get Aaron?"
Nova nodded and Mistofeeles disappeared.
"Hello, I'm Munkustrap." the silver cat said kindly.
"I'm Nova."
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Andrian noticed the door was open slightly and sprinted outside as fast as he could.
"Dom!" he called, no longer caring for secrecy, "Dom! Where are you?"
There was a slight movement across the street and he immediately headed over there. For a second the orange tom saw two outlines of cats on the wall, but then they vanished, And Andrian found what he was looking for.
Dom was lying impossibly still on the cold pavement.
Andrian felt weak as he knelt beside the orange kitten. With shaking paws he gently turned over the small cat, to discover what his mind had told him, but his heart had refused to believe: Dom was dead.
The pale orange cat pulled the lifeless kitten into his quivering arms and broke down crying.