Chapter One

The Party

This is a story about Mr. Paws. He’s a nice little kitty owned by a nice auntie. One day Mr. Paws saw two kids come in. They were Garret and Coo. Mr. Paws thought good, two things to play with. He didn’t know what they were quite yet. All of a sudden Garret walked up and opened up a bag..out came a mouse (a fake mouse), an intruder thought Mr. Paws. Then the boy named Coo gave him a bell that rolled around and made noise. First he thought, Oh goodie a toy. But first things first, he needed to stop the intruder and save everyone.

The intruder kept hiding away under the couch. Garret for some reason kept reaching under and putting it in front of Mr. Paws. But Mr. Paws did not like that. So he reached out and kept batting it around. There! He thought, but it kept coming back for more. Mr. Paws thought, for an intruder, it was not very smart. Then he kept biting it and biting it, till it was all wet, and Auntie Sherry came in and put it up on a shelf. Time to play with the bell, thought Mr. Paws. He tried pushing it.... it rang! Cool, thought Mr. Paws. "I think I’ll throw it!"

While he was throwing it, Auntie Sherry put on the Christmas carol kitties CD. Then he started to dance. Suddenly, he heard...Cats!!!! And then he heard the part with dogs in it. "Uh oh" he thought!! Then he heard the cats again and started dancing. He kept dancing, one two, one two, he thought. The dogs kept making him stop whenever he heard them. "I wonder who brought dogs to the party?" He was so scared that dogs were there that he thought and Coo unzipped their bodies and they were really dogs. Then he realized that it was just Coo and Garret and he dance again. He did some jump kick dancing and broke a lot of dishes.

All of a sudden, Garret, Coo and the rest of the family went into the kitchen to get some food. "AAAAHHHHHHH!" said Auntie Sherry. "Mr. Paws!!!!!!!!!!!!, you are going in the dog house."

"Oh great", thought Mr. Paws. Then she put him in his carrier and then into the car. All of a sudden he saw from the back window that Garret and Coo and their parents were leaving. Mr. Paws was sad.

Chapter Two

Mr. Paws at the dentist

Mr. Paws was at the dentist and Sherry and the dentist were talking. They did not notice that Mr. Paws was using the toothbrush to scratch his back. He looked at the toothbrush. "Yuck," said Mr. Paws. He put it back in its holder. Then he went to the X ray room. He took an X ray of what he had for breakfast that morning. He looked at it and said, "I don’t remember eating that mouse. But I do recognize that 7 pounds of catnip I had this morning." Then he went back to the main dentist room. Then, he got out the teeth trays. "I’m hungry". So he got some catnip, filled the trays with catnip, then took out his own teeth and put the catnip teeth in. After he sucked out all the catnip, he put his own teeth back in. He decided to go look out the window. What he saw amazed him. A skate park!

He noticed the lock on the window and pawed it until it opened. He squeezed through quietly. "UGHHH, a tight fit" he thought.

Then, when he got to the skate park, he found a skateboard under a tree. He stood up on it and dug his claws in for a good grip. Then he started to move... "Oh Oh Oh!" he thought. He finally realized he could make it go in any direction he wanted by pushing the ground on the opposite side with his paw. He went faster and faster. "If there was a speedometer on this thing, I’d be afraid to look!" As he got going, he went all the way to the other side of the skatepark. He got to a set of stairs. He started walking up them with his back paws while pushing the skateboard up with his front paws.

At the top of the stairs, there was a sunny spot, just right for lounging around in. He stretched out on the skateboard for a catnap. Then he started to move. As he got going, he noticed he was on a big half circle. "I wonder if this is what the kids call a half pipe?" He began to pick up speed as he went down. "I hope my fur doesn’t fly off", he thought.

As he got to the top of the other side, he kept going up. He started spinning. He looked down, "I am dizzy, cats belong on the ground. I hope it is true that cats always land on their feet."

The kids were saying, "wow. That cat did a 900! Only Tony Hawk can do that!" Mr Paws though, "A hawk can skateboard too?" He looked down. "Uh Oh AHHHHHHHHHH!"

He fell down and made a hole in the half pipe. "Uh Oh, I’m in trouble. I’m out of here." He found the skateboard and started rolling on it toward the dentist office. He smashed right through the wooden door. Sherry ran in the room to see what all the commotion was. "Mr. Paws! Where have you been? You are in deep deep deep deep trouble! You are in the dog house!"

"Not the dog house again. At least she doesn’t know about the half pipe." As he felt himself plunked into the cat carrier, he noticed a soft yellow thing stuffed in with him. It said, "Hey, watch it buddy!"

"Who are you?" asked Mr. Paws.

"My name is Pikachu", said the yellow thing. Mr. Paws asked, "Are you a dog?"

"Course not! I’m a mouse you big...what are you anyway?"

"My name is Mr. Paws and I am a cat and I ate a mouse for breakfast".

"Well, I don’t think you want to eat me, cause I am full of electricity", said Pika.

"Okay, I definitely won’t eat you" said Mr. Paws.

"You got that right!" said Pika.

As they felt themselves lifted up and put in Sherry’s toy car, they began plotting their next adventure.

Chapter Three

Double O Cat and Mouse

Auntie Sherry was making final preparations to go to Vermont. She was trying to get Mr. Paws into his cat carrier. Mr. Paws was giving her a very hard time cause he didn’t want to go. The reason he did not want to go was he and Pika had signed up to become secret agents. Their mission was to stop Gold Claw. Too Late. She stuck him into the carrier. What she did not know was that the carrier was actually a super powered spy car, complete with catnip spray missiles that explode and shoot catnip all over. This gets stuck in the fur of their enemies. They stop and eat it all out of their fur and the good guys can escape.

When they were on the highway, Mr. Paws and Pika (hidden in the carrier) snuck out and put earmuffs over Sherry. Then Pika pressed a button and wheels came out of the cat carrier and rocket boosters came out of the back. Sherry said, "Oh, it’s hot in here. I’ll open the moon roof." Mr Paws turned on the invisibility ray and they shot out of the moon roof.

They started speeding off toward where Gold Claw was thought to be. Pika said, "We had better look out for the cat Ninjas that Gold Paw has".

Mr. Paws said, "Don’t worry, I have brought along a secret weapon. It’s called the gum blower." He pulled out what looked like a mini tranquilizer gun filled with bubblegum. Pika said, "I get it, they get tangled up in it and we escape. Cool!

"Watch where you are going" said Mr. Paws as the power poles whizzed by. Pika turned his head toward Mr. Paws. "What?" At that moment they nearly hit a tree! Mr. Paws yelled "turn the wheel!"

They looked at the map. " Gold Claws’ lair is coming up. We better park it here and use our jet packs to get in. Don’t forget the invisibility belt." As they took off, Pika said, "I hope they don’t have an invisibility detector". Just as they entered the airspace of Gold Paws’ lair, an alarm went off. "Uh oh" said Mr. Paws.

"You can say that again" said Pika.

"Uh oh" said Mr Paws.

They ran up and hid behind the big alarm bell. Ten gold ninjas came running. They did not find anything. Mr. Paws shot out a gum tranquilizer out of his gum blower at each ninja. First they got tangled and then they went to sleep. "Sleeping like a baby" said Mr. Paws. "Let’s get out of here before the babies start crying".

Mr. Paws said, "Uh Oh I forgot to put in the recorder that has my meowing! Sherry’s gonna be mad. Hurry, we must get Gold Claw and get back in the car or Sherry will notice that we are gone.

Meanwhile, Sherry said, "You okay back there? I guess you are probably just sleeping. We are only five miles away from Vermont, so I guess I’ll let you sleep"

"We’re here! Mr. Paws, wake up. Mr Paws???"

Meanwhile back at Gold Claw’s lair, Pika said, "Maybe if I can just rearrange these wires, then it only goes off when a bad guy walks across." Mr. Paws said, "I’m glad you are doing it and not me!" Pika said, "It’s OK if I get electricity on me, cause I can just lick it off. It’s tasty, you should try it sometime."

"OK, let’s get down to business!" said Mr. Paws. "Let’s find Gold Claw!"

"I have an idea" said Pika. "You know I’m kind of gold colored. Well, maybe, just maybe he might want to eat me. And when he grabs me, I’ll zap him!"

So they walked into Gold Claws’ lair. Gold Claws saw them and said, "Hmm, do I go after the mouse, or chase the cat! The mouse!" he shouted. Fifty ninjas came running and they were all after Pikachu.

Pika let them grab him, but they handed him to Gold Claw.

ZZZZZaaaapppppp!

"Let’s get out of here!" said Mr. Paws. "Mission accomplished. How are we going to get back to Sherry?"

Pika said, "Get in the carrier!"

They got in and Pika pressed the missile buttons. They flew and flew and flew till they got to Vermont.

Sherry found the cat carrier on top off the car. "Now how on Earth did that get up there? Mr. Paws, you are in the doghouse!! Again!!!"

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