Mythlands: THE HEIST

Convention of Cats 9: Epilogue or Styrr's Epic journey

Epilogue or Styrr's Epic journey

The Yule Cat greeted Bungle as he returned to function room F with the tiny LolKitten padding along by his side.

'Hail and well met noble Glass Cat.'

'Greetings Jólakötturinn. Have the supercats and Chesh returned with the item?'

'They have. I know not how they got it through the door, for it was fully as big as I and squeezing in is an impossibility.'

'Magic my dear Yule Cat. Now step aside so we may enter and conclude the convention.'

He did so and they walked in. Ginger, Griffin and The Cheshire Cat were waiting by one side of a huge object by the podium and the supercats and an uncertain Styrr waited on the other side.

Bungle glanced around and noted that most of the cats had taken their seats, although The Hungry Tiger was still picking over the remnants of the buffet. He anticipated that there had been a lot of talk in his absence and was gratified to hear mention of Oz and Narnia ... he had aimed to grow dissent and his direct agents had continued to add fuel to those fires. Soon he would cap it off with a show.

As he approached the podium, he reflected that his attempts to strike up an alliance with Loki had been more successful than even he could imagine. When told that the LolKitten was just one of a small tribe of LolCats, the Asgardian trickster had fully committed to their partnership. There were things in the Vault that he wanted and things The Glass Cat desired and they shared a desire for anarchy in common. Loki had highly approved of The Glass Cat's notion that Oz and Narnia should burn!

He had also asked if Bungle had pictures of the LolKitten. Bungle promised to send him links.

In several days The Hare and others would depart in the former creature's private jet, on their way to the board meeting at MCI. The Glass Cat intended to be aboard that jet, for he had business in Domain City with Renard and other agents. Loki's plan would be all the stronger for the cat connection, although Bungle intended to keep his role secret from The Hare ... just in case.

But now ...

'PREPARE THE PORTAL!' boomed the Yule Cat, on Bungle's signal.

The Glass Cat stepped up to the podium. 'Brothers, sisters ... you see before you the MAGIC WARDROBE. Procured at great expense and difficulty for this is the last way to reach Narnia undetected! The tyrant Aslan guards his conventional borders with the same fanaticism as he enforces his extremist religion and oppresses those of his people who he deems unworthy, like our friend Ginger here!'

The cats in the room swayed and hissed, caught up in The Glass Cat's rhetoric.

'One day we will see an end to tyranny in Narnia and in the monarchies of other despots such as Ozma of Oz! For now, we in the great nation of cats, whose brotherhood knows no borders ... for now, we can only raise our voices to be heard and in some small ways aid those brave resistance fighters who struggle so valiantly! Styrr the Troll, step forward!!'

Startled, Styrr moved closer, hugging the new war club he had been given.

'Let your voices ring out, fellow cats! Cheer our new brother, the brave and powerful Styrr. He who has volunteered to return with Ginger to Narnia as a vanguard in our efforts against the tyrant. At Ginger's direction, this courageous troll will harry the outlands of Narnia and bring succor to it's downtrodden people. He will be the first and show them the way ... at least until we have freed their rightful queen Jadis and restored her and her armies of liberation to power and toppled the tyrant Aslan! Our very own Griffin J Cat will accompany them as a translator and once Ginger has reunited with his people, Griffin will use his inter-dimensional jumping powers to return to the mortal realm and from there, back here to a heroes greeting!'

As the room erupted into cheers and chants of STYRR, STYRR, STYRR and GRIIII FIIIIN!!! The Glass Cat beamed benevolently down upon his fellow cats and spared a last thought to Jadis, the White Witch.

Styrr was grinning now, bowing to the crowd.

Moments later in a massive flash of light the three travellers leapt through into adventure, while Bungle mused about the queen.

He was sure that she and others of her ilk ... many others ... were to be found in the Vault. She would be grateful that the cats had released her and facilitated her return for the surprise conquest of Narnia. Or at least the eventual return and the eventual conquest, for the Queen was bound to see and in her gratefulness accede, the point that he would make.

That the road to Narnia lay through Oz!

Fini.

While CONVENTION OF CATS is over, you'll be seeing a lot more of these characters, but for now, rejoin The Hare aboard his private jet as he travels to Domain City to the big board meeting and indulges in some ... REFLECTIONS WHILE FLYING.