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May 12, 2007 23:17

Is it cracky enough?

Title:Trying to catch a cat
Author: Ree
Theme: Crackfic - image
Genre: General
Version: Anime/Manga
Rating: G

They're not mine...they're not yours unless you are Takeuchi Naoko. Well, some of them are mine.



Trying to catch a cat
Nyah, nyah, your mother eats toads
May it grow a fine wart on the tip of your nose
Ding dong, the cat's in the well
So run and fetch another one. . .
From Monster's Lullabye by: Meg Davis

Luna slipped into the older section of the city in a vain attempt to lose the pursuing children. She dodged through a hole in an old fence, crouched down, and waited for them to pass.

"Where did she go?" Luna recognized the voice of the girl, but she couldn't place where she knew it from.

"I don't know!" The boy's voice was completely unfamiliar.

"You were suposed to be keeping a better watch! Now how are we supposed to catch her, stupid?!"

"Don't call me stupid!"

Luna glared at their feet through the hole. 'Go on already! Why did you have to stop right here to argue?'

The girl continued the argument. "I'll call you stupid if I want to!"

"Well, if I'm stupid, your mother eats toads! You better watch out or you might get a wart on that stuck up nose of yours!"

With a shreik of outrage, the girl responded at the top of her lungs. "My mother does not eat toads!"

"Does too!"

"Does not!"

'As loud as they are arguing, I could walk away and they wouldn't hear me at all.' Contemplating her pursuers feet a moment longer, Luna backed away from the fence and struck off through the over grown yard. Upon finding a slightly beaten path, she followed it and found an old well at the end. She glanced about for the obnoxious children, and when she didn't see them, she gave a sigh of relief. Hopping up onto the rim of the well, Luna stretched out in a patch of sunlight for a well deserved rest.

*****

Luna woke up when her sunlight was blocked. Opening her eyes, she stared into the faces of the two children leaning over her. The boy grinned triumphantly and reached out to grab her. "Caught you!"

Luna jumped back to escape his grasp, and then remembered where she was. Letting out a screech of fear, she tumbled into the well. The water at the bottom broke her fall. Swimming to the side, she glared at the opening high above her head while she stood in belly deep water. Above her, she could see the relieved looks on the children's faces.

"She moved" The girl smiled down at her. "Are you alright?"

Luna wanted to sit down indignantly, but refused to soak her tail. So, she settled with glaring.

The boy nudged the girl's arm. "She's trapped! That means she can't escape. So, I'll wait here to keep her company, and you go get ChibiUsa, okay?"

'ChibiUsa? Why didn't she just use her communicator if she wanted me?' With no where run, Luna waited in the luke-warm water for the arrival of her rescuer.

*****

""Luna!"

She jumped at the unexpectedly familiar voice, and almost slid into the deeper part of the well. Unwillingly, she looked up at the white cat balanced on the rim, and thenat hte pink-haired girl behimd him.

ChibiUsa leaned against the side of the well to get a better look at the soggy, black cat. "You really are at the bottom of a well. When Yuki-chan told me, I didn't believe her. We have to get you out of there. I wish Ken-kun and Yuki-chan could have stayed to help." She looked at the white cat that was trying not to appear worried. "Artemis? Do you have any ideas?"

Thirty minutes and many attempts later, Luna was free of the well. After taking a minute to clean her fur, which helped to reassure Artemis, Luna frowned up at ChibiUsa. "The children said you were looking for me. Why didn't you call me on your communicator?"

Artemis twitched his tail, waiting to hear her response as anxiously as Luna was.

"I tried, but Ami said yours was broken, and asked me to give you the new one." ChibiUsa pulled out a new collar out of her pocket.

Luna stared at it for a moment before dropping her head and letting out a tired sigh. 'I thought the girls were being awfully quiet today.'

may07, crackfic

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