Sapphire, Onyx, Falcon, and the injured Star entered the alley. Sapphire ran to Munkustrap's den as fast as she could.
"MUNKUS! DEMETER! HELP!" she shouted as loud as she could. Munkustrap was the first to emerge from the den followed closely by Demeter.
"Sapphire what is it? What happened?" Munkustrap asked, looking at the young kit.
"Where's Aqua?" Demeter asked quietly.
"We were playing...then we got surrounded by these big dark figures. They took Aqua and hurt Star." Sapphire panted. Munkustrap looked out toward the area where the kits had been playing--and didn't see Aqua. He took off as fast as he could toward the area. There was no sign of his daughter or the attackers. Demeter, Misto, Jemima, Mungojerrie, Rumpleteazer, Tugger, and Ruby came running up seconds later.
"Munkus what's happened?" Rumpleteazer asked.
"The Majestics took my daughter...we have to get her back." Munkustrap replied, glaring in the direction of the enemy alley.
Aqua was dropped in a small cage by her captors.
"Let me go!" she shouted after the dark cats as they walked away. She looked around to try to figure out where she was. None of this alley looked familiar...she wanted to go home. She curled up in a small ball in the corner of her prison, and slept.
"Hey Jellicle wake up!" someone shouted at her. She jolted awake and noticed a small black cat looking at her.
"What do you want?" she snarled at him.
"Well I was going to try to help you out of here, but if you would rather stay cooped up--" he started.
"Why do you want to help me?" she asked, suddenly curious. The small tom shrugged and looked at her. His green eyes taking her in, and sizing her up.
"You're just bait. They want to get your father here--they want to kill him." the tom told her.
Two days went by and Aqua was still in her cage. The morning of her third day there an old ginger cat walked up to her cage.
"Looks like daddy is going to forget about you, little one." he sneered. Aqua walked up to the front bars of her cage and attempted to claw him.
"My dad has not forgotten me." she snarled. The bigger cat just smirked, and looked around.
"Then where is he? Shouldn't you be home by now?" he asked leaning his face close to hers. Aqua reached out and clawed his across the cheek...drawing blood. Macavity took a surprised step back and glared at her.
"I know your plan! My father will never give the alley over to you!" she shouted after him. The ginger stopped for a moment, startled that she knew, and then kept walking. Aqua glared at his retreating form and then sat back in her corner.
"You shouldn't have said you knew." came a familiar voice from behind her. She turned and noticed the black tom was sitting there.
"Why not?" she challenged, but he just shook his head.
"Look I'm going to get you out of here...tonight." he said, looking at her. Aqua just nodded then looked back at him.
"You know...we've been talking for three days now, and I still don't know your name." she said.
"I'm Demetri."
"Aqua."