Chapter Five
More in the Family
(Misto's POV)
"What did he mean 'adoptive brothers and sisters'?" I asked Katana, who I still couldn't believe was my actual sister. The whole Macavity being my long lost dad thing was kind of puzzling and weird for me, but I kind of just have to go with it for now I guess.
Katana smiled. "Well, I like to think of them as brothers and sisters. Macavity didn't like the idea at first, but he warmed up to it in time. I kind of-kidnapped them too." She smiled sheepishly.
"This car is where we stay when we aren't sleeping, eating, or working with Father." Katana told me.
Me and my sister walked into the large train car. Inside, there was a very...interesting mix of four cats. Two toms, and two queens.
One of them was a nyan tom. I mean, like literally nyan cat. He had silver streaks from when he was a normal color. But everything else, was totally not normal. He had pink stripes (no joke, I'm not kidding, PINK STRIPES), blue stripes, green stripes, orange stripes, you name it, he had it. He had dark golden eyes that bore into my soul almost. He was kind of creepy.
There was also a tom with a steampunk collar on. It was filled with gears and bronze wires. He had copper armor on too. It looked like it weighed him down a lot. His fur was a bright orange. He looked a little like Skimbleshanks. His eyes were chestnut colored. They were darting around everywhere, so you could tell he was kind of skittish and afraid.
There was also the smallest kitten I had ever seen. And the strangest. She was partially maroon, and partially scarlet. It looked like someone cut her in half and painted her two different colors. She had tiny claws and fangs, and she had sparkly lavender-colored eyes. She was only two thirds of Jemima's size. She pranced around the car, jumping from seat to seat, giggling and grinning at everybody.
And finally, there was the pirate queen. She had golden-brown fur with black streaks in it. She was leaning against the far wall, glowering at everybody. A large metal collar was around her neck, with a long silver chain dangling from it. The chain had a heart with a hole for a key in it. She only had one eye, which was a deep blue. A large black, velvet eye patch covered the space where her right eye should have been. Also, her left paw was missing. She had a metal replacement where it should've been. She had the sharpest claws and fangs I had ever seen.
Well, if these were my adoptive siblings, then I guess I'll have to go with it.
"Everybody, welcome Misto, or Mistoffelees. Misto, this is Pax, Xander, Kiseki, and Gaia. Their the magic cats that Father rounded up and adopted." Katana said.
Kiseki (the very small queen) pranced up the me. "I like your tail." She pawed at my black tail with white at its tip, then jumped on top of it. When I moved, my tail obviously moved also, and she pounced on it again. "It's very fluffy."
Pax (the nyan tom) shook his head. "She's also obsessed with bunnies. She's beginning to scare me a bit."
Xander (the one that looks like Skimble) laughed when he said that. "You think? She also tried to eat my finger the other day (like, she actually magically disconnected it from my paw. It was freaky). Then she tried to feed me hers. I don't think she's completely sane guys. But, who can blame her? I mean, in cat years she's six for crying out loud." He even sounds like Skimbleshanks. That means he was Scottish.
Gaia (the pirate queen) stopped leaning against the wall and paced over to me. She glared unhappily at us all. She was also definitely the biggest out of all of us. "So. You're this crazy guy's actual son." She grasped the heart locket in her palm, keeping it close to her, even though it was around her neck. She brushed a piece of fur behind her ear, and you could see that her metal claw was actually dented slightly.
"How'd that happen?" Katana asked.
"Fight. The guy only got one good swing at me before I attacked him full crazy mode." She smirked.
Katana whistled. "I feel kind of bad for the guy." She looked at me. "Full crazy mode is when she turns into a complete beast. Her magic only makes it worse for whoever's the victim." Kiseki ran over to Gaia and crawled up onto her shoulders. She was so small, she managed to scamper up to Gaia's shoulders without the larger queen even noticing (if she ever did notice, she didn't show it). "Want me to give you a demonstration?" Gaia snarled.
I smiled nervously. "Um, I'm good." Wow, aside from everything else I've said, downright scary defines them all.
"Fair enough." she said. Then she picked Kiseki up by the back of her neck and placed her on the floor.
"WEEE!" Kiseki called cheerfully, clapping her hands. The young kittens antic made Gaia grin.
Huh. So she isn't made of stone. I thought. I got alarmed when I heard Pax laugh.
"Sorry." He said, still chuckling. "Mind reading comes with my powers. You're funny. I kinda like you." He looked at his fur and then back at me. "Do you really think of me as nyan cat? That really annoying song?"
That made Kiseki hum really loudly. She hummed, and suddenly, the song 'Nyan Cat' came on. Repetitive robotic meowing filled the room. Pax yelped, ducked his head to the floor, and covered his ears. Kiseki was laughing to hard so she had to stop.
"Don't...do that!" said Pax as he got up with some help from Xander. Xander then turned to me.
"Can I show you around Mistoffelees?" he asked.
Suddenly, a voice came out of nowhere and nearly made us all jump out of our fur. "Can he visit the basement later? It's lonely down here."
Gaia grimaced and turned around, to where the booming voice came from. "SHUT UP FOR ONCE, WON'T YOU?!" She then sighed, brushed off her fur, and turned to me, beaming. "I had to get that out of my system."
"Sure, I guess he's allowed to. He's Macavity's actual son. I'm allowed down there, so maybe." Katana answered the voice.
"Good." it said. The cat speaking sounded female, maybe a year or so older than me.
"What was that?!" I asked.
"That was Calypso." Katana answered. "She's your last adoptive sister, but she's refusing to work for our Father. We have to keep her locked up in the basement, but she still uses her magic to carry her voice up here so we have to hear it."
"Yeah, hear it...every...single...darn...day. And she never shuts up!" Gaia complained, exasperated.
"Refusing...refusing to work for our father?" I asked. Kiseki flung her arms around me.
"You haven't been told about it yet! I get it! I just do it because I honestly don't understand the offer Macavity made with me, but I want you to work with us! Plus, you're Macavity's SON! He probably loves you!"
"He has a funny way of showing it…" I grumbled, remembering how he had kidnapped me (sort of).
"The past doesn't matter anymore Misto." Xander said. He walked over and hugged me, just like our littlest adoptive sister had as well. "You're home."
I hated the way he said 'home'.
As if there was no going back to the tribe.
At all.
oOoOoOo
(Tantomile's POV, Telekinetic Dream Vision)
"This...this doesn't make any sense at all." I heard someone familiar say behind me. I turned and saw Mistoffelees behind me. I looked down, and realized I must have been dreaming again. I had a purple glow around me, which meant I was invisible to the naked eye.
But my dreams always turn out to be true. Usually, they either are happening right then, happened earlier, or they were going to happen very soon. This looked like it happened a bit earlier.
"What doesn't make sense?" asked a cat who looked like a younger Skimbleshanks, but with a bunch of steampunk bling.
"The whole 'finding out your long lost father is actually a creepy psychopath' experience. The whole 'finding out you're not the only cat with magical powers on this earth' experience. The whole 'I have the oddest adoptive siblings ever' experience. It's a little overwhelming to be honest."
A tiny brown and red queen flung herself at him, laughing. "Just remember the bunny rabbits, and all will be okay." she said.
"It's late. Almost ten thirty. You, my young sister, have to get to bed." A black and white speckled queen with pink eyes said. I assumed she must be Katana, the cat who kidnapped Mistoffelees. She picked up the tiny little kitten. As she was scooped up and carried away, the younger cat screamed. "REMEMBER THE BUNNIES!" as if it was some kind of of phrase that could save the world or something.
The nyan colored cat walked over to Mistoffelees."Misto, I'll show you to your room. Xander, you and Gaia go to yours. Night Calypso!" He called the last one.
"Night Pax." a voice who was supposedly Calypso called back. I then looked at one of the cats leaving the car, Gaia I think was her name, and gasped. She had only one paw! And one eye! She had to be the one who attacked Skimble!
I had just figured out a major clue to this mystery.
oOoOoOo
I sat up, still on the floor of Tugger's den. We had all stayed the night, and didn't even bother going back to our own dens. We were too tired. Except for Mungojerrie. I didn't know where he was.
I glanced outside. It looked around six in the morning, judging from the bright sunrise casting a beautiful glow around the junkyard. The door was cracked open. I slipped outside to see who it was that had gone outside.
Alonzo was standing on the roof of the car, staring out at the distant horizon. I turned there. He was facing where Skimble had come over the hill the night before.
"You're guessing Macavity's lair is in that direction?" I asked, looking up at the much taller cat. He glanced down silently and nodded. I faced the sunrise again.
"You worried?" I asked. He nodded again. A single tear rolled down his cheek.
"Still upset?" I asked. He nodded again.
Is she reading my mind? Alonzo thought.
"I'm not reading your mind." I told him. He looked at me skeptically. I smiled. "Well, I did that one time. But sometimes, you just know." I gazed out at the horizon again. "Sometimes, you just know."
We waited there for a few minutes before I told Alonzo about my dream.
He was confused after I ended. "The queen who attacked Skimble is-is my adoptive sister? This doesn't make any sense!" He shouted. I shushed him before he could wake up the entire junkyard. "You know, that's exactly what Misto said a few hours ago." I said with a grin.
He smiled, gazing away again. "At least I know he's safe." But his face fell into a deep frown again. "But our dad's a psychopath? I honestly didn't see that one coming."
I shrugged. "Psychopath could just be a strong word for someone who's a little bit...cray- cray I guess. Misto might be exaggerating." I said, although even I didn't seem to sure about that.
All we knew, was that Alonzo and Mistoffelees had other siblings…
And, they may or may not, all be evil.
A/N
Oh wow. Now Tantomile knows about the adoptive siblings. I feel somehow that Tantomile is kind of stalking them...Okay! I mean that as a joke, don't stare at the screen like that! Also, anyone want to guess where Mungojerrie went to?
My sister helped so much with this chapter! I would like to thank her for all the support she has given me throughout this fanfiction! Critique as much as you like, just don't swear or say anything inappropriate. This fanfic is the opposite of gas station bathrooms-clean!
That's it for now, see you next time!
Sayonara (Goodbye)!
-Luna
(PS, Kiseki means 'Miracle' in Japanese for whom it may concern).
