Cat Forest
Based on a story by 11- year-old Katie (aka Kat)
Original Story
Somewhere, hidden from humanity, cars, and New Jersey, is a forest. Not a wood, a forest. And in this forest, lives Fwuffy, the hero of this story. Let’s start at the beginning. Fwuffy the cat was sitting at his human’s cat tree, (house), hoping lunch was soon, ‘cause he can’t read clocks or anything. “Ah, that’s a good human, just bring those half eaten BBQ ribs in,” he thought to himself as his human walked to the glass door, half eaten BBQ ribs in one hand. “Could you take longer?!” Fwuffy yawned as he stretched to the island, (counter), to wait for those ribs coated in sauce.So, Fwuffy waited... and waited....... and waited! His mouth felt ever so dry. “If this is how human wants to play it, so be it!” Fwuffy exclaimed in his head. He marched to the glass door and....... banged his head against the door.
“OPEN. OPEN. OPEN. OPEN!!” he meowed.
With each ‘open’, another bang on the door. “Fwuffy! Are you okay?” cried his human, concerned. But as he opened the door, Fwuffy leaped out, into the back yard. “STOP! FWUFFY, STOP!!” that human yelled, but, oh, Fwuffy didn’t care. He ran around the yard searching for the ribs, Human chasing his tail.
“I smell them! The ribs!” Fwuffy realized, sniffing around.
He tracked down the sent, but, unfortunately, it went past the fence! He looked to his right to see, a hole in the fence just his size. Fwuffy crawled through the hole and ran to the wood, sorry, forest, tracing down the ribs. He ran deep into the forest, so deep, he couldn’t see Human’s cat tree.
“So... tired.” Fwuffy groaned.
He decided to lay down next to some moss and sleep. Fwuffy slept for so long, that when he woke up, he didn’t know where he was.
“Welcome, new friend!” a cat said as he woke up. She had blue and gold fur, and emerald eyes.
“‘Cmon!” she cried, tugging his ear. “You need to look around!”
"Huh?”
"You’re Lord Fwuffy, yes?”
“Umm...I....uh.”
“Lord Fwuffy, super awesome ruler?”
“In that case, yes. Yes I am."
“Well, welcome to your kingdom, Lord Fwuffy. Cat Forest.”
And that’s where he is now, still leading the cats to destiny.
But he never found those ribs.