Where's DRAKE!

[Yoko]

The grass was soft beneath his plush kttypet paws. Racing from one end of the backyard to another, the golden cat with black spots was batting a colorful ball just ahead of him with his forepaws. The ball made the most delightful ringing noise each time he batted it forward, and it filled Tybalt with great joy to hear it.

He dodged from one side to the other, as if the ball were some exotic creature poised to attack. Then he pounced on it! The clever bell-ball rolled and flipped Tybalt onto his back. Rather than cry out in pain, the young cat laughed and rolled onto his belly. Crouching again and wriggling his bottom.

"I've got you now!" he hissed playfully.

"DRAKE!"

Oh no, Tyablt looked up to see his sister, his lighter counterpart, padding through the kitty door flap which led from the house to the back yard.

Winnie padded onto the porch of the back yard and looked around with scolding eyes. She glanced right over Tybalt, looking for her other, even more troublesome brother, Drake. He was nowhere in sight.

Sighing, she stalked down the porch, her unsheathed claws leaving noticeably marks on the redwood.

"Tybalt!" she mewed sharply. "Have you seen our brother?!"

Tybalt shook his head. Apparently he couldn't be bothered with speaking to his sister! Hmph!

"He's off running the streets again, I know it!" she mewed worried and frustrated. "Our housefolk will be worried sick!"

"I doubt that," the golden bengal murmured.

"Excuse me!" Winnie snapped, outraged. "Do you know how much they do for us! They feed us and give us a place to sleep, and play with us! And this is how Drake repays them! By showing them he'd rather live on the street like some STRAY"

She spat the word "stray" the way she would say "filth".She could not, for the life of her, understand why Drake could not appreciate their good home. She sighed.

"What are you doing out so early this morning?" she mewed exasperated. The soon had just peaked over the trees of the forest.

"You told me not to play with the bell-ball in the house," Tybalt mewed, no longer looking joyful. "Wanna play with me?"

Winnie shook her head. She climbed her way up the white fence that seperated them from their neighbors house. Maybe the other house cats had seen Drake leave. But then, sensible house cats would be sleeping.

[Amber]

As the kit yawned, awaking from her nap, she blinked her silver eyes open. Chloe looked around her seeing that it was only a dream she had experienced and not some nightmare. She sighed and exited the bed that she had been given. The bed was huge, and the kit had room to roll around and play in. Chloe, of course, shared the bed with her identical twin sister, Addy, but them being young it was still a ginormous bed. Speaking of her identical twin, the other she-kit was still fast asleep.

Careful not to disturb her sister, Chloe crept quietly our of the bed. Her tiny paws padded out of the room of the twolegs and into another room.

She was becoming more aware of her surroundings as the days passed by. She saw a plate of white liquidy stuff laying in the kitchen and began to purr. That was her meal. The twolegs had not tried her on anything other than this delicious stuff. It gave her a warm and happy feeling.

Chloe lapped the warm stuff with her tongue and licked her mouth as she got her fill. The sound of her collar jingling as she walked annoyed her to no end. The kit made her way to the back door and padded out of the mini-door flap thingy. She looked around the yard with wide eyes. This place never seemed to stop amazing her. Knowing it would be a bit before her sister awoke, the reddish brown kit looked around the yard.

It took a moment, but the kit noticed something up on the fence. It was another cat! She padded slowly toward the cat and looked up with curiousity. "How did you climb up there?" she mewed.

[Yoko]

Winnie looked boredly around, her eyes slowly shutting as she clung to the fence. Hearing a voice below her, Winnie let her eyes flicker open. The morning sunlight shining in her eyes. She must have taken a nap up there.

She looked down. A small kit was there. This must be one of the new kits, she thought. She and her brothers had watched from the fence the day the two were brought to their new home. She'd never had oppurtunity to meet either one though.

"Well, I jumped up the trashcan and then on the branch of our tree back there, and then on this fence," Winnie explained sweetly. The kit was so adorable! "My name is Winnie, I am your neighbor. What's your name little one?"

[nightstorm]

Brooke padded along warily, her amber eyes flicking back and forth rapidly. She paused midstep as she heard voices, and darted under a bush. Creeping forward slowly, she was startled to see two housecats lolling about in their yard. The she-cat seemed to be arguing with the tom, though what it was about, she didn't know, and didn't care to know. Instead, Brooke continued to move along, wanting to get away from the houses and the housefolk. She stopped again when a new voice sounded out, and she glanced at the little kit, looking up at the fence, where the she-cat now sat. She curled her lip. Stupid housecats. Always doing nothing but sitting around and basking in the sun, getting fat and lazy. They ought to try living on their own for a day or two. How would they fare then? Brooke briefly considered jumping out and scaring them, to add excitement to her day, then decided not to. The poor little housecats would probably die of fright...

[Amber]

Chloe still didn't see how someone could get so high up. It really was a mystery to her. Her eyes widened as she thought of trying to find a way up there. Addy would flip out if she saw her up there! Her sister was too much of a worry wart.

"Hi, Winnie. I'm Chloe!" she mewed, bouncing on her paws. She had met another cat! This was getting to be exciting. She never knew other cats existed, she had always been secluded from the world with her siblings, and when they left she was stuck with Addy who didn't like the outside too much.

Chloe blinked her silver eyes up at the cat, and purred. The little kit had yet to begun to ask questions. She was at a loss for words right now. She was in so much shock of seeing that cat.

[Yoko]

Winnie beamed at the little kit who was clearly still wondering how Winnie had climbed so high. Winnie wiggled her nose. "Chloe? What an ah-dorable name! Chloe, can you tell me? Who was that kitten with you when your housefolk took you home? You looked just alike."

Tybalt had begun to play with his bell-ball again, batting it from one paw to the other. It rolled beyond his reach and as he went to chasse it, he scented another cat. The ball disappeared, but Tybalt didn't move to chase it. He looked curiously into the shadows.

"Hello? Who's there?"

[Amber]

"You mean Addy?" she questioned at first. "Addy is my sister, we are twins." she added with a grin. "We are identical, but not really. I'm a little smaller than she is, and I have a black spot on the end of my tail. See?" she mewed, trying to lift her tail up for Winnie to see. Although the spot was very small, Chloe was determined to prove that her and Addy weren't completly identical. "Addy is still asleep, and she doesn't like coming out here, but I love it!"

"Is there any way you can jump down and talk with me? I can't get up there, and my head is hurting from looking up so high." Chloe mewed.

[nightstorm]

Brooke hissed as the housecat looked at her hiding spot, and she unsheathed her claws. "What are you going to do, housecat?" she asked, spitting the word housecat. "Run home to your housefolk? All of your kind are alike...always so suspicious...You all think you're so tough, don't you? Well, go poke your nose somewhere else it doesn't belong..." She had moved forward, one paw raised in warning, though a hint of fear naggled at her. This wasn't a small cat like its companion; he was actually pretty decent sized.

[Yoko]

Tybalt snorted. "Me suspicious? As if! You're the one sneaking about in shadows." He purred in slight amusement. "What's up with you? Are you spying on us or something? Cause if you are, I can assure you there's nothing to see in a place like this."

Tybalt motioned to the rest of the yard, which was bare except for a few of his toys.

Winnie listened to the Chloe's tail with a delighted expression. She nodded at the spot, though she had to squint to see it. Twins hmm? Nearly identical? And if Addy was anywhere near as sweet as Chloe, the two would make excellent neighbors!

"Huh? Come down?" Winnie asked. she'd barely heard the last part of the kit's question. "Of course."

She lifted one paw but was hesitant. What if her housefolk disapproved? What if they thought she was ungrateful, like her brothers? But she'd promised the kit she would come down! And it was unladylike to break a promise!

With a firmer resolve, Winnie leapt gracefully from the fence, landing on all fours in the safety of kit's yard. She looked around, it wasn't too different from her own.

"There, see. Someday you'll be able to climb up high and jump down like that!"

[nightstorm]

Brooke hesitated, confused. No housecat had ever stuck around after she had spat at them like that. What next?

"I'm not spying on you," Brooke meowed grumpily. "Nor am I suspicious. I am merely cautious. Those stupid creatures you call Housefolk don't like cats like me, and they probably don't want you speaking to me either..." She bristled at the thought of one of them coming out and throwing stuff at her, as usual.

[Yoko]

Tybalt frowned a little. "Housefolk? Don't get me started on them! I can go on for days! I can't play in the house, mew loudly, go in the white room, sleep on couches, or wonder the hallways at night."

He sighed, not realizing that a non-kittypet wouldn't understand a word he'd just said. Sitting with his tail wrapped around his paws, he looked up at the rising sun.

"I tell ya," Tybalt mewed. "But they aren't all bad I guess. They do feed us pretty well."

[Amber]

Chloe mewled with delight as she saw the other cat jump down. Winnie had been so high and jumped down from there without getting hurt, that was amazing! "I can't wait till I am able to do that." she mewed completely amazed by the she-cat.

Remembering her manners, knowing Addy wouldn't be pleased, she blinked to the she-cat. "Thanks for coming down, it really helps me out, and doesn't make me feel like I want to jump up there with you." she purred. She knew there was no way that she would be able to jump on the fence just yet. She would try it, once Winnie had gone anyways, if Addy was still asleep. Or maybe just in a spare moment alone.

"Do you know how to get this thingy to stop making the annoying noise it does?" she questioned the older cat, trying to scratch at her collar.

[nightstorm]

"They are pretty bad..." Brooke murmured, somewhat wistfully. She blinked. Stupid, stupid, stupid. What was she thinking? Was she actually...dare she think it? Missing the home she once had? Never! The thought shocked her. Still...to be able to curl up inside when it rained, to have a warm lap on cold days...someone to play with...

Brooke shook her head. "Still, I prefer being alone," she meowed, sitting down, her fur relaxed. "I don't need any Housefolk. I can find my own food, and take care of myself, much better than my-" She stopped. Why was she even talking to this housecat. "Never mind." Her eyes narrowed as a bird flew overhead, letting out a loud call.

[Yoko]

Winnie's whiskers twitched. Such a sweet kit, she thought. If only she had a sweet little sister than two rough-housing, loud brothers. The spotted sandy kit gave a quiet purr of amusement.

"No, no, darling," she mewed, though she was only a few moons older, "please don't ring that, you'll wake up the housefolk."

Reaching out with a single paw, Winnie placed her claw between the bell and the collar.

"Stay still."

Winnie snatched the bell off of the collar and a light ringing was made, but it hit the ground and ended.

"There," she mewed simply with a bright smile, as if she had just won a trophy.

"Hey," she mewed, just remembering, "Did you happen to see a cat like me earlier, only he's grey"

Tybalt didn't understand much of what the other cat had said, but he got the feeling that she knew quite abit about Housefolk too...Then he remembered!

"Hey, have you seen a cat that looks like me only grey?

[Amber]

Chloe stopped immediately when she heard Winnie. The one thing Chloe was good at was listening to others. She may not listen to her sister, but other cats deserved respect. And she also didn't want to wake up the housefolk, they would just come out and pick her up, and bring her back inside with her sister.

And at the mentioning of staying still, Chloe looked at the older cat like it was something she was able to do. Staying still was harder than she could imagine, but she managed it. But when the ringing ceased when she moved, her silver eyes brightened. "Thank you so much!" she purred, bouncing on her paws excitedly.

No more ringing! Being the little curious kit she was, she padded slowly over to the bell and tapped it with her paw, and when she saw it moved, it became a new toy. The kit mewled with delight and began to chase it around, forgetting about Winnie for a moment.

Realizing how silly she must look, she ignored the urge to bat at the bell and went back over to Winnie. "Sorry." she apologized.

"A cat that looks like you but gray?" she mewed thinking. "Umm, I don't think so, I haven't been able to get outside today until now. My sister might have, but Addy's still asleep." she suggested.