"You Shall Pay!"
Corinne sat on a fence and held her head. This was just too overdone. She couldn't go home – she had promised mom she'd come home in a musketeers uniform; neither to Alphonse- he was busy with something else. She would have to wait till nightfall. Until Alphonse came back to find her.
But Miette had other plans. She chose to have a good look around the place they had just come in. there was a bulldog right over the fence. She certainly couldn't stand an empty stomach. So she jumped off the fence.
"Hey, I'm Miette. New to Paris. Could you tell me where I might get some food?" she asked politely.
The bulldog seemed to try to judge her for a second. Then he decided she was cute. So he would help her. "I'm Brutus. Regents dog. Nice to meet you. Follow me" Brutus put on his best voice.
They both went forward a few steps when Brutus in order to have a chat asked "Why did you come here anyway?"
"Corinne wants to be the first girl musketeer and I want to be the first muscateer! Cistory!" Miette answered proudly.
Brutus laughed. "You want to be a musketeer? Ha! As for your maste, girls can never be musketeers" he scoffed.
That got Miette mad. Really mad. "You aren't any better than your master are you? Meanie ." she retorted turning around to go back to Corinne.
"You dared!" Brutus growled and pounced on Miette. Miette jumped out of the way on the last moment. She screeched as loud as she could and figuring out that would be enough to warn Corinne, she ran for her life with Brutus hot in pursuit.
Corinne snapped out of her thoughts as she heard Miette screech. Then she saw her. That meanie! Out of all the cats in France had it to be hers? Corinne jumped to her feet and ran after Brutus. "That dog's really as nice as his master. Well bred brat!" she muttered. The chase ultimately led the three of them through the castle gates, but none of them noticed.
Alphonse suddenly heard what he vaguely placed as Corinne calling 'stop'. Funny. But then he leaned out of the balcony. "Corinne!" he gasped. The girl somehow had landed in the orchards and she was swinging from tree to tree. Then he saw how. She was chasing Brutus who was chasing Miette who was running for her life. "Like master like dog" he muttered angrily as he rushed down to help Corinne.
Miette chose to turn right around a girl right then. All she saw was a flash of blue and a gasp from the lady above her as she regained her balance. Brutus barked behind her. As he too ran into a maid who was holding some cloth dressed in blue. She almost tripped over and twisted her ankle. She groaned. Then came Corinne. She yelled coming through and just pushed past the girl. The girl groaned. She had dropped her dresses. She shook her fist behind Corinne "That took a week to dye you wretched brat! You'll pay for this." but it was far from over. Behind Corinne was Alphonse. He maneuvered managed not to bump into the lady, but sending her sprawling in the mud. "Sorry" he gasped as he turned a full circle and began running again.
That worked. Brutus was now a bit left behind. She tried it again, this time upsetting a girl playing her violin near the fountain. She stopped for a second steadied her chair and started playing again. As soon as she held her bow in the ready position, Brutus ran in between her legs. The maid groaned and tried to stand up only to be pushed by a girl from behind yelling "coming through". She stumbled few steps forward as she shouted behind Corinne "you'll pay!". Just before she could regain her balance she was sent into the fountain with a musketeer grinning "you're in line. Sorry" She growled and picked herself up only to find her bow lost.
Brutus was getting closer to Miette. This time she ran right into a girl smelling roses. The girl gasped. Then she looked behind the kitten. Then she gasped again. "Bad dog. Bad. Bad. Dog." She said angrily. Really Brutus wasn't going to stop for a maid. He just ran around her and she turned on her heel. She started to move forward to catch the do when suddenly Corinne pushed her right off. The rose in her hand broke. She sat up and shook her fist "Rose breaker! You shall pay!". Just around the corner Alphonse skidded to a stop and bowed down to the redhead offering his hand. The maid giggled and politely accepted his hand. After she stood up Alphonse raised his hat and then took off again leaving the girl behind him dreamily gazing into the universe.