Happy (almost) New Year! Here's another lovely update. I've never written a fight before so please excuse me!
Also exciting news! I've started writing a story with my lovely friend Elora about everyone's favourite calico twins! You will find it on my page, please check it out!
"This is never going ta work..." Mungojerrie mumbled as he, Rumpleteazer and Mr Mistoffelees walked up to the junk yards main clearing.
"Are ya sayin' that my genius plan ain't good enough?!" Teazer huffed, elbowing her brother in the ribs. In truth she was just as worried as he was but she had hidden away for long enough, it was time to face her fears.
Mistoffelees trailed behind the pair, trying not to let his nerves get the better of him. It was much harder to control his magic when he got emotional. Accidentally shooting lightning at his fellow Jellicles was not the way to win them back.
Their plan only consisted of going outside and standing together, not letting any looks or whispers bother them. And if any cat were to ask they would tell them the truth, they had nothing to do with it.
It seemed that life had gone back to normal for the rest of the Jellicles. The kittens were playing a game where they would sneak up on one of the adults. Unfortunately Etcetera made it impossible as she could not stop giggling.
Some of the adult queens were sunning themselves on the old tyre, while Bombalurina was shamelessly hitting on Tugger, who pretended not to be interested.
Munkustrap, who was chatting to Jellyorum, was the first to notice the trio. He nodded at them, glad to see that they had finally remerged from their dens. The Jellicle protector glanced around clearing, ready to intervene if anyone decided they had a problem with the threes arrival.
It didn't take long for others to spot them, a silence spread across the clearing as several pairs of eyes stared at them.
In a moment of panic Mistoffelees vanished, he couldn't stand how they were looking at him. As soon as he was gone the talk started again, each cat muttering amongst themselves, some throwing looks of distain in the twins direction.
"I told ya..." Mungojerrie said quietly, feeling disappointed that Misto hadn't stayed.
"Shut up." Rumpleteazer advised, wanting desperately to go back to her den. But she stood her ground. She grabbed Jerrie's paw and dragged him further out into the clearing, daring to meet every cats eye that they passed.
"Should we go back?" He asked, bringing his head close to his sisters.
"No we gotta stay. We ain't done nothin' wrong." She replied in the same quiet voice.
"But-"
"I ain't gon' argue with ya."
As the twins bickered they failed to notice Plato step away from the group of toms he had been talking to had head towards them.
Jennyanydots quickly gathered up the kittens who hadn't yet started playing again and told them to go home to their mothers. A couple of them went to protest, but Jemima, being the eldest, nodded and guided the rest of the kits out of the clearing. She understood something bad was going to happen.
"I'm surprised you even dare show your faces." Plato said, glaring down at the two.
Rumpleteazer shrunk away from the tom. She may have been older than him but he was taller, and stronger.
"An' why wouldn't we?" She challenged from behind her brother. She didn't want to let this cat bully her.
Plato laughed. "Oh come on, everyone knows it was you two. I for one wasn't surprised, if any cat it was going to be a couple of lowlives like you."
"Watch it..." Mungojerrie growled, flattening his ears against his head.
"Touched a nerve have I? You best control yourself before you get you and your criminal sister in even more trouble."
From the other side of the clearing Munkustrap stood up, about to go over and defuse the situation. But he was too late. Mungojerrie tackled Plato to the ground, biting and scratching at every patch of fur he could reach.
"Jerrie stop!" Teazer cried.
Plato kneed Jerrie in the stomach, giving him an advantage. He flipped the calico tom over and pinned him down, slashing his claws across his face leaving identical marks to the ones he had given to Rumpleteazer the week before.
The fight didn't last long. Munkustrap pulled Plato up by the scruff of his neck while Skimbleshanks grabbed Mungojerrie's arms before he could retaliate.
The toms glared at each other, breathing heavily. Each one satisfied that they'd managed to do some damage.
"Explain yourselves!" Munkustrap ordered. It wasn't often that he got angry, but he would not tolerate fighting.
"As you saw, he just attacked me out of the blue! Macavity makes his henchcats vicious." Plato didn't hesitate in clearing his name.
Jerrie hissed at him, while Teazer came to his side. "We ain't 'is 'enchcats no more." She said, sounding a lot calmer than she felt.
"Ha. Likely story." Plato scoffed.
"Why are you so quick to blame them?!" Alonzo called from the sidelines. "Are you just trying to cover up that it was you who ratted us out to Macavity?!"
He knew very well he was stirring things up. But there had been rumours, there had always been rumours. While the twins and Mistoffelees had been in hiding many cats had talked amongst themselves, if they thought hard enough everyone had a motive for betraying the tribe.
Arguing broke out all over the clearing, not a single word clear above the din. Each cat accusing another or disagreeing with someones theory.
"ENOUGH." Munkustrap shouted. Silence fell immediately. "All of you, back to your dens. Now!" He snapped.
"You three, with me." He looked at Plato and the twins. "And you." He added, glaring at Alonzo who was trying to sneak away.
"Skimble please fetch Jenny and Jelly, these two will need checking over once I'm done talking to them." He said in a much calmer voice.
The railway cat nodded and dashed off to get his mate and her friend, leaving Munkustrap to deal with four very guilty cats.
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