Chapter 27 At the Chocolate mansion Pufftail the Detective Cat

We are at the backstage of the Chocolate Mansion.  The Humans are making lots of noise, watching the Play of Romeo and Juliet. in the meantime, the Tabio and Chocolate Point play is still in intermission.  Enter Catnip Pufftail and his two assistants, Soft Paws and Chocolate Help.

Catnip Pufftail,: Allow me to introduce myself. I am Catnip Pufftail, and I am here to solve the myster of the missing pages of your script.  By the way, Why didn't you memorize it?

Tabio: Well, sir, I just found this script a week ago and we didn't have time to do much rehersal, so we are doing it as a dramatic reading.  So, we  only finished the balcony scene, and then the rest of the pages dissapeared.

Daigo: That's not what you told us!

Trashio. I think that they went in the trash.

Daigo: You always say that!

Tabio: Hey, there boycats.  Don't get your fur up!

Catnip Pufftail: So, there is a difference of opinion of exactly where the missiing pages were last seen.

Tabio: Think that I brought the whole manuscript here to go over a bit before the play was supposed to start.

Catnip Pufftail: So, we will start looking around your dressing rooms.

Daigo: We don't have a dressing room, we just put on our costumes right here!

Catnip Pufftail takes out a magnifying glass and starts to examine the whole area.

Trashio: How long is this going to take? We can continue the play.  and make it up as we go along!

Daigo: As if you even read it before?

Trashio: Sure, I did.  Tabio and Chocolate Point go get married secretly, then there is a fight.

Catnip Pufftail: Stop bickering, I need absolute quiet to do my examination. Soft Paws, hand me the footprint powder!

Soft Paws: Sure boss, here it is

Catnip Pufftail:  That's talcum powder!

Soft Paws: I'm sorry boss, but the Super Secret Detective Store was all out and they gave me that instead.  It was cheaper so I thought that you wouldn't mind.

Catnip Pufftail: Oh never mind.  Hand me the camera.

Soft Paws:  Well, don't you remember that you had to pawn the camera.  We have to use Chocolate Help's phone now.

Catnip Pufftail: Well, yes. Ok, so come here with the phone and take a picture of this:

Chocolate Help: I'll take the picture, its MY phone.

Soft Paws: Yes!  It is the distictive paw print of Catastrophe, the Cat Burglar!

Catnip Pufftail:  Yes, see the identical scar on the left front foot and the back left foot?  Did you see any other cats here backstage?

Trashio: Well there was a servant cat who took out the trash. . .

Soft Paws: 

Chapter 26 Catnip Pufftail - Fearless Detective Cat.

Scene: Detective Agency of Catnip Pufftail.

Chocolate Help:  Mr. Pufftail, there's a call coming in!

Catnip Pufftail: A call?  The first one this week!

Softpaws: Boss it's Monday night, of course it would be the first one of the week, we just opened!

Chocolate Help:  Mr. Pufftail, it is from my house! The Chocolate family always has a party when one of the latest litter comes of age! It is my younger sister's coming of age party, Chocolate Point!

Catnip Pufftail: Ok, we got the place, what is the crime?

Chocolate Help: Let me listen.  Yes, Yes, no, yes, OK! Got it.

Catnip Pufftail: Is there a case?

Chocolate Help:  Yes.  Tabio, he's the great great great great great great

Catnip Pufftail :  Stop with the greats!

Chocolate Help"  Ok, the umteenth great

Catnip Pufftail: (puffing his tail) grrrr

Chocolate Help: (gulp) grandson of the playwright Tabsphere,

Catnip Pufftail:  Yesssssss \

Chocolate Help: Yes, he is putting on the cat entainment for Chocolate Point's coming of age party and

Catnip Pufftail:  And what?

Chocolate Help: The play can't go on until they find the missing pages!

Soft Paws: Boss, this sounds like the work of Catastrophe, the Cat burglar! \He sneaks in while the cats are sleeping and takes scripts!

Catnip Pufftall: Yes, Softy, you may be right. We have to check out the scene of the crime!

Chocolate Help:  That's easy, I call back and tell them that we are on the way!

Catnip Pufftail: On the double!


Exit ,

Chapter 25 Backstage break

We are backstage after the emotional Balcony scene of Tabio and Chocolate Point play.  There seems to be a problem . . .

 
Trashio - Hey man, where's the rest of the script?

Tabio: Well, that's all the pages that I found so far!

Dagio - Why didn't you tell us that the play wasn't finished when we started?

Tabio - Well, it's a good start, no?

Trashio - Let's trash this.

Daigo- You would say that wouldn't you.

Tabio- Hey you Street cats, we already took off those itchty costumes, lets just leave the curtain closed and go out and party!

Dagio - You've got to be kidding!  We are the only street cats in a house full of Siamese! Do you know what they are going to do to us if we walk out there in our fur? \

Trashio - yeah, well my costume was really dirty

Daigo,- You are always dirty. Look at you! Why don't you ever clean yourself?!

Trashio - You think that I want to lick this stuff?

Daigo- You do have a point. . .

Trashio.  Well what are we going to do about the missiing pages?

Tabio - ok, I have a plan.  We put the costumes back on, and I'll go back and see if there are any more pages stashed somewhere.

Daigo - Where? In the trash?

Trashio- That's my department.  I'll go.

Daigo,- What and leave me alone?  No way!

Tabio- Ok, well, then we all go.  We won't be long.  Wait!  I know.  We'll invite some of the Siamese to help us!

Daigio- And if they don't?

Tabio - Well its a plan, no?   Yes! I got it!  We'll go ask Detective Catnip Pufftail!  He's famous!

Trashio- Who?

Tabio What?  You haven't heard of him?  He's solved many cases! The Cat of the Baskervilles!
The Scarlet Cat

Daigio- Well if you want.

Tabio. Sure. Let's put on the costumes and we'll be back before they notice we've been gone.

Exit


Catch the rest of the blog posts here:
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/03/chapter-15-chocolate-point-and-tabio.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/chapter-16-chocolate-point-and-tabio.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/chapter-17-chocolate-point-and-tabio.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/06/chapter-19-picky-chocolate-points.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/06/chapter-20-tabio-and-friends-choose.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/09/chapter-21-chocolate-point-gets-read.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/09/chapter-22-street-cats-arrive-at-party.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/09/chapter-23-act-ii-scene-1-tabio-and.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2015/01/chapter-24-act-ii-scene-ii-tabio-and.html

Chapter 24 Act II Scene II Tabio and Chocolate Point

Act II Scene II
Setting in the orchard outside the Chocolate family mansion

Chocolate Point:  Meowwwwww  Meeee  owww  I'm singing, singing for the fun and longing

Tabio: (to himself) She really has a wonderful voice,

Chocolate Point:  Mee  www, Meeeeoooow, how can I meet him again?   I don't even know what he looks like? He was dressed like a lion at the party, and I was a lioness, we are meant to be together!

Tabio: (to himself)  Yes, I know what she looks like, a Siamese!  They all look the same, but she has the deepest blue eyes.

Chocolate Point and Tabio at night

Chocolate Point:  Wait, do I hear someone in the tree?

Tabio:  Yes, you do I just slipped a bit.

Chocolate Point: Yes!! I know that voice,  Please show yourself,

Tabio:  You are the sun of my life, the laughter in my eyes, the catnip of my smile but you may be dismayed at my fur, it is not the cream of the Siamese. I'll stay hidden for a little while.

Chocolate Point: I'm tired of this cream and brown all the time.  I can't even tell my sisters apart anymore.  What do I care for a different color fur?

Tabio: What is this?  Tis true.  The color of the fur doesn't make the cat.  I have known a black cat, who was as soft as a kitten, and a piebald who was covered in dirt.

Chocolate Point: These ideas are hard to chew,  give me time to pounce on it.

Tabio: Pounce all you want, as long as you pounce with me.  Your eyes captivate me.
You are the sun, and I am the moon.  I'll sing to your beauty every night.

Chocolate Point.  Yowlllll Me oowwww,   Woooooowww

Tabio: I'll make it a duet  Meeow  Meoow, Weeeeeooooow, what fine music we make together. But you should know, I'm a tabby street cat.

Chocolate Point:  I never knew the song of a tabby.  such low and dark notes you sing.

Tabio: And your soprano is liting, plucking the strings of my heart.

Chocolate Cream: Come in now Chocolate Point!  It is getting cold outside and it is starting to snow.

Chocolate Point:  My singing tom, you had better go, or the snow will show every one of your steps, although the snow may cover your tabby fur. (louder) Yes nurse, I'm coming.   Is there some warm milk?  (to Tabio)  I still don't even know your name?  What is your family?   How can we meet again?

Tabio:  I'm Tabio, and I'm not in a distinguished family like yours.  I'll come back to this tree and we will meet again. Yeooooowwwwll

Chocolate Point:  Be quiet.  the nurse will suspect that it is not just me out here.

Tabio:  I'm sure of that!  I'll be discrete, but my heart is now yours, a song a day keeps the heart in the right way. Bye my sweet, tomorrow we'll meet. In this tree I'll dream of thee.

Chocolate point exit.  Tabio exit

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