Squirt
By Mysticlees
Part One
The Jellicles sat around the junkyard. Well, just some. Mistoffelees, Alonzo and Tugger had been yelling about something earlier. In a huff, the original conjuring cat had disappeared to his home. Alonzo left soon after, muttering about parlor tricks, and Tugger had gone to pursue other frontiers.
Rumpleteaser and as always, Mungojerrie were in the junkyard, doing something that made a loud din. Every now and then it stopped and they giggled. Other than those Jellicles, the others were bored. Sillabub and Shen-Shen had long since discovered that trying to see what those two notorious cats were doing was impossible. Shen-Shen really wanted to see what Mistoffelees was doing, but she knew he’d be still be steamed about whatever it was he had been arguing about. So there they lay, nose to nose, just staring at each other.
"You have a very fuzzy nose." Sillabub said wrinkling her nose in an effort to stop an oncoming sneeze as she sat back. Shen-Shen sighed, and sat back also.
"I’m bored. I can’t smell any rats to chase, you?"
"Ahh-chooo! sniff, sniff," Sillabub sighed, "Nope. I think Rum Tum Tugger, Alonzo, and Mistoffelees scarred ‘em all away."
A loud crash shook the junkyard and sent the two bored cats under the cushions of an old couch. A loud chorus of giggles followed. Shen-Shen popped out of the couch. Sillabub followed suit.
"Well, those two have something to do, as usual." They shared a knowing glance. Ever since they met Rumpleteaser and Mungojerrie, those two always had something to do.
"I’m blowing this joint." meowed Shen-Shen. She started to walk off. Sillabub followed.
"Where are we going?" she asked anxiously.
"Dunno. Come on!" Shen-Shen ran off with Sillabub on her hind-paws.
***
"Watch what you’re doing with that!" Mungojerrie yelped as he scrambled out of the way of a flying box of Kools.
"Well, maybe you shouldn’t be in the way." Rumpleteaser returned, still digging in the trash for an empty bottle. "Quit your belly-aching an help already!"
"Yeah, yeah." Mungojerrie meowed, and helped his counterpart dig.
***
"ALEX!! DINNER!!!"
Mistoffelees sighed. Perched on the chimney top, he looked up at the clouds one last time, then appeared right next to his bowl, filled with a mix of remnants of his human’s lunch and cat food. It wasn’t a very appetizing array. A small human who lived in his house looked at him surprised, blinking rapidly.
"Humans are such odd creatures." he thought.
***
Alonzo kneaded into the old couch, sighing. He’d left earlier to go visit a very pretty housecat called Tafflocke. Pleasant memories of her from earlier started to emerge in his mind, when a loud crash followed by curses and giggles shattered his thoughts. Angrily, Alonzo turned and yelled in no particular direction.
"Will you tow keep it down? What are you doing anyway?"
Rumpleteaser’s head popped out of a pile of junk that was facing Alonzo’s back. "Sorry bout the noise. We’ll keep it down." Some garbage next to Rumpleteaser started moving. Alonzo was looking at her now, and she made a wide smile, jerked what must have been her left hind leg, and the garbage stopped moving.
"What was that for?" asked the pile of garbage, it’s voice muffled.
Alonzo turned back around, shaking his head. "Those two are worse than month-old kittens," he mused.
***
"Where are we?" Sillabub asked Shen-Shen as the two readily explored their surroundings. It was an unfamiliar branch of the junkyard, full of slippery bottles and old furniture.
"I’m not sure, but it’s great!" Shen-Shen purred as she leapt onto a huge mountain of bottles. She promptly slipped started sliding as the bottles rolled. "Woooaaahhh!! Sillabub!! HEELLPP!", but her friend was to busy laughing. When Shen-Shen came to a halt, she pounced on Sillabub and the two Jellicles rolled and play-fought until a bottle from another pile fell and bonked Sillabub on the head.
"Oww!" Sillabub meowed, and rubbed the sore spot on her head. But Shen-Shen wasn’t looking at her. She was looking at the cause of the fallen bottle.
Tumbling down the mountain of bottles next to the two Jellicles was a ball of black and dark-red fur. Sillabub deftly caught the small kitten and held her upside-down by her right hind-paw. The kitten swung around in circles as she tried in vain to free herself.
"Who are you, and why did you hit my friend on the head with a bottle?" The kitten puffed out her chest and said nothing.
"That little squirt hit me with a bottle!? Why you little..." Sillabub exclaimed, fuming. Shen-Shen poked the kitten.
"What’s your name?"
The kitten gave them the most indignant look she could muster upside-down. "I don’t have a name. I’ve been here since I was born. I don’t have any parents so there." and she stuck out her little pink tongue at them.