1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

ok

so as you should know by now pouncival will be in this story so if

you do not like him do not read this story. i hope you enjoy and do

not get confused. if you are a person who pictures what you read then

you should picture the cats as cats not humans dressed up as cats.

please r&r.

and

you should also know by now that i am not a bloke and so can not

possibly own cats.

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it

had been almost two months after the last jellicle ball and most of

the queens were having kits. all of the kitten queens that had come

of age were having their first litters and all of the tribe was

excited. etcetera was the first to give birth out of the whole tribe,

the calico queen had given birth to two queen kittens, she had named

them, enyo, goddess of battle and nike goddess of victory, as they

were born out side of the den and so ran the risk of dieing. not long

after, the sisters bombalurina and demeter also went into labor, the

tribe was not expecting bombalurina to get pregnant as she had mated

with the youngest tom in the tribe and everyone thought that he was

not old enough to give her kittens, she was still giving birth when

the eldest queens were helping demeter name her new kits, demeter was

a natural mum and never struggled to give birth and always knew when

it would happen, even though this was only her second litter. the

three queens decided on astrid for the queen kit as she looked much

like her mum and the name means, divinely beautiful. for the boys

they had come up with apollo and vulcan because the first was always

screaming and the second was a ginger kit. by the time the two older

queens got to bombalurina, she had given birth to one kit but was

still pushing. it was two hours later that she finely gave birth to

the other kit, a queen, and the two elderly queens knew just what to

name them, " bomba, what do you think of boris for the tom? 'cause

if his dad is anything to go by, it will only be small, and to look

at it now it's smaller than the queen and she was last out,"

"that

is why we feel that aveline would be suiting as it means longed for

child, and she did seem to not wont to come out," the larger queen

finished of the firsts sentence and then turned to face the entrance

to the den, " and it looks as if the new father is anxious to see

his kits." a small tri-colored tom then berst through the entrance

and stopped quite a

uptly when he saw the two bundles of fluff

curled up nuslling their mum.

"

what have you named

them?" he said with his eyes glowing in the dim light of the sun

set.

"

boris and aveline, small

and longed for child," the red queen then turned to face the small

tom kit who was crawling over to his dad, who then picked it up and

placed it next to its sister, pouncival then gave his mate a lick in

between the ears and ran off.

a

few days had pasted and all of the queens now had given birth, and

this year only two had died, it was tradition for the kittens who

died to still be named and so am

ose and tacita, food of the gods

and silent, seemed fitting. they were both jemima's kittens, but

fortunately she had three kittens left, three queens,

onwyn,

sterling and andromache who was so called be cause she bit her

father, tumble

utus, when he went to see the kits. victoria and

plato had two kittens fenella and blake, electra and quaxo had three,

aamor, beau and echo. alonzo and cassandra had one tom and three

queens, aphrodite, nyx, mars and matuta, jennyanndots and jellylorum

both had one queen kit each, althea and clio, mungojerrie and

rumpelteazer had one of each and named them tamsin and thomas, male

and female twins. then old deuteronomy and his new mate exotica had

the largest litter in the tribe, six kittens all together, and only

one was a queen, ciara, the toms were called, liber, zeus, neptune,

pluto and algernon. coricopat and tantomile were the last to have

their kit, a queen named juventas. whilst all of the queens were

stuck nursing kittens it was the job of the toms to get the food, the

younger toms were sent to get the food whilst the other toms

protected the queens and their kittens.

pouncival

was hunting in a garden when he saw a queen laying under a tree, he

tasted the air for the info on the queen and found that she was not a

kitten but a young queen, she was also not a house cat as she did not

smell of humans, she looked up and she also sniffed the air. she

stood up and stretched one leg at a time, she then sat down and

washed her face with her white paw. pouncival felt that she was no

fret so he slowly walked over to her, he sat not far a way from the

sliver queen and meowed softly so as to get her attention.

"i

know that you are there so you don't need to tell me, i also now

that you are from one of the tribes, and all that you need to know is

that my name is viola, i know that i will see you again so please,

what is your name?"

pouncival

was confused by the queen, she was not old but yet she seemed too

wise to be young, he shook his head to straiten his mind and then

spook, " i'm pouncival, and how do you know so much?" he could

not stop him self from asking the question.

"

when you are from a

tribe like mine you soon learn how to read actions and smells, just

like how you learnt from a kit how you are to be polite and never

creep up on another cat, that is the jellicle way and my way is the

way of the mythical tribe, so i guess that you should be going and

catching more pray for the queens of your tribe, oh and say hello to

munkustrap for me." the queen stood up and with a flick of her tail

she jumped on to the fence and disappeared over it. pouncival wanted

to follow and ask more questions but knew that he would just become

more confused, so he turned and continued hunting.

by

the time he had returned to the junkyard there was a large pile of

prey, he, being small, could not put his catch on the top so he just

placed it at the base of the pile. he then looked around and found

his

other sitting on top of and oven, he bounded over to him and

sat down beside tumble

utus.

"hay,

how is jemima?"

"

she is still grieving,

says that it should never of happened, that it is all her fault, but

dad keeps telling her that it could not have been helped, that it was

the wish of everlasting cat, and that no one is to blame," the

larger tom was staring in to the distance as he spoke, so pouncival

knew that the tom was also grieving, pouncival licked his

others

shoulder and then laid down, he closed his eyes then remembered the

beautiful queen that he had seen.

"hay,

tumble, i saw a beautiful silver queen today, but she confused me,"

"

that is not hard to do,"

"oi,

any way she was young but she was really wise,"

"

any one is wise compared

to you pounce,"

"

do you wont me to tell

you or not," tumble

utus nodded, " good then shut up and stop

interrupting me, like i said, she was really wise, she knew what

tribe i was from, and how are tribe is

ought up, she also knows

munkustrap, told me to say hi for her." tumble

utus had laid down

next to his smaller

other and seemed to think for a bit.

"

what was her name?"

"viola,"

"

oh, so she is from the

mythical tribe, do you know how she knows a lot?"

"i

wouldn't be confused if i did, would i?" pouncival spat.

"

ok, rephrase that, would

you like to know how?" pouncival nodded eyes wide, " she is

munkustrap's daughter, him and demeter had a full out before we

were born, she went of with macavity and munku went of with unity, a

queen from the mythical tribe, so that must be the kitten that munku

had with her, does that make it clearer?"

pouncival

sat up and looked down at his

other, " yes, but then how come

you know so much?"

tumble

utus

laughed and sat up, he gave pouncival a lick between the ears and

then spoke, " like i said every one is wise when they are next to

you," pouncival shot him a sharp look and then tumble

utus

continued, " no, i just listen in on all of the gossip, i'm a

right queen really," he nudged the smaller tom who then laughed and

the two started to groom each other.

after

a while pouncival decided that he should take bombalurina some food

and see how his kits were getting on, he walked over to the pile of

food that was now considerably smaller and took a big fat pigeon off

of the top of the pile. all of the way to the den where his mate

slept he could not shake the image of the silver queen from his head,

he was so caught up in his day dream that he did not see the big

silver tom that was sitting in front of him, he walked strait into

him and fell backwards with a thud. he then jumped up and apologized

to the tribes deputy, who then bowed his head and pouncival ran the

rest of the way to the den. when he poked his head in side he saw

that bombalurina and the two bundles of fluff were fast a sleep, so

not wonting to wake them up he placed the pigeon on the floor by the

big red queens head and then laid down beside her. then he was awoken

by the sun glaring through the roof of the den, he blinked several

times to adjust his eyes to the light, he then looked at his mate who

was laying with her upper body propped on her elbows, she smiled at

the young tom and purred and the kittens kneaded at her belly whilst

suckling, " thank you for the pigeon, i saved you some, your dad

came in told me to send you to him when you woke up, but eat first, i

have the feeling that you might be in trouble."

"

thank you," pouncival

moved over to the remains of the pigeon then spoke again, "what

makes you think that i'm in trouble? i haven't done anything, not

since you had the kittens," the queen simply shrugged. when

pouncival had finished he licked the kittens and then his mate and

ran off to his fathers den. he poked his head through the hole in the

wooden box and then pushed his way in side, his father was sat

upright and his eyes were glaring at pouncival, then it dawned on

him, he had not gone to see if his mums kittens, his

others and or

sisters were ok, " how are you mom? how many?"

cassandra,

was laying with her back to the small tom and she turned her head to

talk to him, but just as she went to talk, alonzo, hissed at the

small tom, " oh so now you wont to know, only when you are asked to

come here do wont to find out about your family, if it wasn't for

the kittens being in here i would have punished you already."

pouncival's

ears twitched at the large patched toms hissing, he then bowed his

head and said softly, " sorry, i was just so excited about my own,

and then having to hunt for everyone, it just left my mind, i am

sorry dad, i'm sorry mom, please forgive me." the large tom still

sat rigged and looked as if he was trying not to pounce on the little

tom.

cassandra

then stood up and re-laid down facing the two toms, revealing four

healthy kittens, pouncival crept forward, being wary of his dad and

sat down in front of his mum and sniffed the kittens. she then spoke,

" there are three queens and one tom, the tom was the first born

his name is, mars, do you know what that name means?" the queen

looked in to the little toms eyes waiting for an answer.

"

of cause he don't, his

stupid, he's just a worthless peace of flesh," alonzo spat at the

queen who bowed her head to look a way from the angry tom, pouncival

by now was half laying and half sitting, he was also starting to

shake waiting for a paw to hit him on the back of the head, but it

did not come, " i'm off, you better not be hear when i get back

and you better hope that i have calmed down." alonzo then turned

and left through the hole in the wall of the box.

"

don't wary about him

dear, he's just upset that you did not come and see me, but i'm

not worried i understand how you are excited about your own kittens,

how are they by the way," pouncival's mothers tone had soothed

him and he had stopped shaking.

"

they are fine, but

please tell me the names of my sisters,"

"

the one that looks like

me is aphrodite, goddess of love, oh that reminds me mars means god

of war, the one that looks like your farther is nyx, goddess of the

night, and the last born, was born in the dawn, and i know that you

know what the goddess of the dawn is called,"

"matuta,"

pouncival answered with a smile.

"

well done, see you

aren't stupid, i think you just get confused, and don't listen to

your farther, he's just jealous of your uncle munkustrap becoming

the deputy." munkustrap was made old deuteronomy's deputy after

the last one died, but that was ages ago and pouncival was cleaver

enough to work out that his mother was just trying to cheer him up.

he looked down at the kittens once again and then licked his moms

shoulder turned and left.

pouncival

had reached the clearing when he was leaped on by alonzo. alonzo

pined the small tom down on the floor by holding the scruff around

pouncival's neck. he then let go but still pined the young tom down

and spoke in to pouncival's small ears, " i thought i told you to

make sure you stayed away from me, do you wont to be punished? do you

have a fetish for it?"

pouncival

squirmed underneath the larger tom, " no! please don't i'm

sorry that i didn't come see the kittens, i was excited about my

own, please! mom understands, please don't punish me,"

alonzo

laughed and then whispered into his sons ear, "i don't think that

apologizing is going to work, you always apologize and then a few

days later you do it again," by now munkustrap and skimbleshanks

were sat on the car tire that was in the clearing, looking at the two

toms, but neither said anything, and alonzo was not worried. he

simply hissed at pouncival and then gave him a harsh bite on the

shoulder and let the tom run away. pouncival ran all of the way out

of the junkyard and to his favorite spot, under the tree where he met

the silver queen, viola. when there he was pleased to see that the

queen was not there, he laid down his sides heaving as he tried to

get his

eath, he hissed as a pain shot through his shoulder then he

heard a familiar voice sound from behind him.

the

cat jumped down and padded over to meet him, " what happened to

you?" the silver queen sat down next to him and waited for a

response.

"

you should know, you

know everything," pouncival shot back, he was trying not to let any

tears full and then the pain came back and he hissed this time

tensing up and bowing his head.

"

well, i don't know

everything, but i was going to make sure that i would see you again,

i think you are cute, would you like me to help with that?" the

queen did not get an answer and began to lick the wound, she was

gentle and pouncival could not stop him self from purring, " so

tell me, what happened so that i can become wiser"

pouncival

rolled on to his side so that he could look at the queen, " i had

forgotten to go see my moms new kits and dad punished me, although

not as badly as most of the other times, mom did not care that i had

forgotten, she knew that it was because of my own kittens," he

sighed and the queen stopped licking and laid down next to him.

"

oh, so you have a mate?"

she received a nod, " why do you come here?" she looked down at

her new friend who had closed his eyes.

"

i can be alone, the

others don't like strange humans, they're scared that the humans

will kick them, but i know that these humans are nice, they give me

food and don't pester me."

"

oh, so do you wont me to

go if you wont to be alone?"

"no,"

pouncival leaped up and licked the queens ear, " i like you here,

it's nice to have someone that doesn't make fun of you or judge

you, i like you here please don't go." he looked deep in to her

blue eyes and then licked her again, she licked him back and the two

shared tongues fro a bit then she spoke.

"

would you like to come

see my tribe? they're friendly, they wont be nasty," she nudged

his shoulder with her nose and stood up and hopped on to the fence,

pouncival then stood up and followed. the two jumped off of the fence

and on to the pavement below, they then ran along it a bit until they

came to a road. after looking both ways several times they crossed,

and continued on their way, they turned down streets and crossed

several roads before they came to a stop out side a park. they

squeezed through the railings of the gate and trotted down the

stairs, " this is our home, the humans don't come here no more."

the

two cats walked over to a wooden house with a long piece of metal

attached, at the bottom of the piece of metal was sat a tabby tom. "

hello viola, who is your friend, oh, pouncival of jellicle tribe,

nice to meet you," pouncival was shocked no one had told the tom

who he was but yet he knew.

"

hello," pouncival

stuttered, then he and viola walked in to the little house, in side