The 7G6 Cats

The 7g6 cats
By Ciaran Pinnell

There was once a time where cats hated humans. The cats were all without homes and they had groups consisting of ten cats each. One group was called Group 7G6. The group members were:
• Caticus, the leader. Fur colour: Black
• Fatsy, the vice leader. Fur colour: Ginger
• Kew-Kew, the secret agent. Fur colour: Grey
• Mew-Mew, his partner. Fur colour: Ginger
• Harry, computer specialist. Fur colour: Grey
• Alex, trooper. Fur colour: Black
• Tom, trooper. Fur colour: Ginger
• John, trooper. Fur colour: Ginger and white
• Jasmine, trooper. Fur colour: Tabby
• Zoë, trooper. Fur colour: Black
Their base of operation was an old, run down workshop by a river, and we join them about now.

Zoë the sleek, black cat was curled up in a ball, her eyes closed, asleep. Next to her was Jasmine, who was also curled up in a ball, asleep. It was a beautiful, black night, and all the other cats on her team were asleep, except the leader and the vice leader.
“It’s quiet, too quiet.” Caticus, the brave (but sometimes a little foolish) rough-furred black cat said.
“Aw, come on! You always say that every night! And guess what? Nobody ever comes and chases us away or anything!” Fatsy, the fat and rather likeable ginger cat said.
“It’s just that this night is quieter than any other night.” Caticus replied. Suddenly they heard a bark of a dog. Every cat sat up. “Get in the boat.” Caticus said, really seriously. There was a boat by the river. Well, it wasn’t really a boat, more like a raft made out of sticks. Suddenly dogs jumped from nowhere and barked and barked. All the cats scampered on to the boat. The dogs looked at them with their big black eyes, and thought, ‘we only wanted to find out who they are.’
But the cats, especially Caticus, thought differently. They thought the dogs wanted to harm them. The boat went swiftly down the river, not bumping into anything.
“Those dogs are on the human’s side.” Caticus said accusingly.
“How do you know?” Fatsy asked (he had to sit in the middle, just in case the boat tipped the end he was sitting on)
“Have you ever heard the phrase ‘dog is a man’s best friend?’?”
Caticus asked.
“Oh yeah, good point.” Fatsy replied.
Zoë asked her friend, Jasmine: “Where are we going?”
“Where ever the river takes us, I guess.” Jasmine replied.
“We might as well go back to sleep.” Zoë said. And they did.
The next day, Zoë woke up and smelt a new smell; it was the smell of grassy fields. They were still on the raft and the grassy fields where the smell came from were surrounding the river. She woke up Jasmine and soon afterwards the boat came to a stop on a field. By that time, everyone was awake and they got up to explore the new land. Zoë and Jasmine ran up the grassy fields, feeling the wet dew under their feet. Suddenly, Jasmine went up to Zoë and tapped her on the back, saying “it!” And they started to play game of ‘It’ and all of the other cats in 7G6 joined in, except Caticus and Fatsy.
Fatsy was about to play, but Caticus stopped him.
“What is it now, sir?” Fatsy asked.
“We need to get those humans and dogs back!” Caticus exclaimed.
“Aww, come on boss, can’t you just chill out?” Fatsy said.
“No, I will not chill out!” Caticus exclaimed. “Last night, it was the final straw! They’ve really pushed us to the limit! In fact, on the boat last night, I devised a little plan.” He unravelled a sheet of paper, his plan, and showed it to Fatsy. “What do you think?” He asked.
Fatsy looked at the sheet of paper, showing him and his team getting their own back on the humans. “Am I really that fat?” he replied, pointing at himself in the picture. Caticus sighed.
Meanwhile, the other cats had changed from playing it to hide-and-seek. Tom the fat, friendly ginger cat was counting. Zoë was trying to find a good place to hide, when she saw Jasmine saying, “Follow me, I know a good place to hide.” So Zoë followed her out of the grassy field and into some woods – it was a great place to hide. They hid in a bushy area and sat there for about ten minutes, until Zoë saw the human. She said quietly to Jasmine: “It’s a human! What are we going to do?”
“A human? What’s he doing here?” Jasmine asked
“I don’t know…”
They watched the human walk down the path, until he stopped, and shouted in such a strange…human voice: “Come on!”
Zoë and Jasmine wondered who he was shouting to, but they found out it was another four of them. They were all different shapes and sizes, and it looked like, a bit like cats, there were male and female ones. There was a bigger female and a smaller female. There were two other males, one who was younger, and an even smaller and younger one. They all walked on, leaving the cats tense and scared.
They rushed back to the field, where they found Tom still counting! “Nine hundred and ninety eight, nine hundred and ninety nine, one thousand! Ready or not, here I come!” Then he spotted Zoë and Jasmine. “Found you! That was easy!” he exclaimed, and went of to find the others. Zoë and Jasmine then went to Caticus and Fatsy, and said how they saw humans in the woods. “What!?” Caticus exclaimed. “We are in danger! I’ll have to scribble out all of my plans and start again.”
And he did, overnight, while all the other cats were asleep.

Zoë woke up to the tickle of soft dewy grass. She stayed quiet, and watched her leader make plans on a little sheet of paper. He used a pencil to write, which Zoë didn’t know how to use. Soon all the other cats got up and they asked Caticus about the plans. It was to follow the humans through the woods and find out what they do, where they live and then have their revenge. So, after breakfast (fish from the river) the cats went to the woods, and waited in the bushes for some humans to pass. About half an hour later, they were still waiting. “Do…do you think they come to the woods at this time?” John the cat said. And just as he said that, a human came walking past. All the cats quietly followed him. One time he turned around suspiciously as if he heard them, but they hid and he carried on walking. They sighed with relief and carried on following him until they got to a road filled with strange roaring things on wheels. The man waited for the strange things to go past, and then he crossed the road. The cats tried to follow him, but the roaring things came back and scared them. “Wh - wha – what now?” Fatsy asked, and Caticus replied “There must be a way to cross this!”
So soon the roaring things all went into a traffic jam and stopped, which was a perfect chance to cross the road. Caticus went first and made it across. Fatsy scampered across and made it too. Then Kew-Kew, then Mew-Mew, then Harry all made it across. Tom, John and Alex all went across, but just as it was Jasmine and Zoë’s turn, all the roaring things started up again from the traffic jam and started moving. Zoë and Jasmine had to wait, and while they were waiting they heard a human approaching them. They had to run across the road, whether the roaring things were moving or not. They ran across the road, while the roaring things went speedily towards them. They dived under one of them, and heard it roar like a dragon. It then started moving again, and all different roars passed above them, Jasmine made a run for it and made across. Zoë then made a run for it, and all the roar passed around her and she closed her eyes…and made it across! She then felt pain coming from her tail area. And saw the tail wasn’t there! It was cut off by the evil roaring thing.
“Are you ok?” Jasmine asked Zoë.
“I think so…don’t worry.” Zoë said, breathing heavily.
The cats had lost sight of the human, but found that they should follow the path the human went. They did, and the found a huge dazzling town filled with shops, roads and those strange roaring things. Humans were walking about, and the cats saw them going into the shops or houses. The cats also found out that the humans were driving the roaring things. They crossed the road, this time it was easier as there was a little place in the middle of the road where the roaring things were not allowed to go, and then went across to the outside of a big shop.
“Harry, you’re good at reading, what does it say?” Caticus asked.
Harry looked up at the big signs on the outside of the shop. He read: “F-foke us…no wait…sorry, fooocus…Focus, yeah Focus! For die and gardening.”
Alex exclaimed: “You’re right Caticus, these humans are dangerous! They want us to die while gardening!”
“Come on, we need to find a good place to have a base!” Caticus ordered.
The cats carried on walking down the path, trying not to be seen by the humans, until they got to a road, which was very quiet and had barely any of those roaring things at all. “What does the sign say, Harry?” Caticus asked.
“Fart Close…er sorry…Farm Close.” Harry replied.
They walked the path, and though there were houses surrounding them, but the cats didn’t feel intimidated because all the humans weren’t looking out the window at them. The cats went to the end of the road, and went behind the back of the house to see a long grassy garden. They wanted to jump and play in it, but they remembered that there were humans lurking, so they went round in the bushy area. They found a hole and went through it and came face to face with a dog! They all scrabbled back into the hole, until the dog said: “Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you.”
“You won’t?” Zoë said. All the cats had already gone but Zoë.
“No, I won’t. Who are you?”
“Er… Zoë…who are you?”
“Sheba...what species are you?”
“Er…” Zoë said, bewildered by this strange question. “Cat.”
“Oh. Hello Cat the Zoë. Sorry, I mean Zoë the cat.” Sheba said.
“So you’re not going to hurt us? Does that mean you hate humans too?” Zoë asked.
“No, humans are our friends.” Sheba replied.
“Oh…are they friendly to you, then?” Zoë asked.
“Yeah! They feed us, they give us walks, they pet us and lots more!”
“They’re not friendly to us.” Zoë said.
“How do you know?” Sheba asked.
“Er…um…well…that’s what our leader says.” Zoë replied. Then she remembered the rest of the cats. “Ok…I gotta go!”
“Ok, goodbye Zoë the cat!”
And Zoë rushed back through the hole and stumbled through the bushy hedge growth. She saw the cats on the other side of the lawn. They managed to get across without being seen. So she took a step out of the hedge growth and into the great garden lawn. The sun was bearing down on it, and Zoë felt really hot and she really wanted to lie down. But she still tried to get across until she heard a human voice.
“What’s that-out in the lawn?” it said.
Zoë froze, chilled to the bone. Two humans came out of the door and strolled to Zoë. “Oh dear, its hurt. We should take it inside.” One of them exclaimed. “Well, we do have a hamster and two guinea pigs…but I guess we could keep it in one room.” The other one said.
‘They’re going to imprison me!” Zoë thought, her heart beating fast.
One of the humans picked her up, and Zoë felt herself moving towards the place where they live…
“That’s it! This is really the final straw!” Caticus exclaimed. He had had it with the humans. First they send the dogs to chase them out of their home, and then they invade the woods around the cats’ new base, and then the humans threatened them with their roaring things and then they captured one of their troopers! “Fatsy, communicate with the boss and tell him its war, and tell him to tell all the other groups.”” Caticus ordered.
“Yes sir,” Fatsy said, putting his hotdog down and picking up a walkie-talkie type thing. “You know, these humans really make good food.” He said while turning the walkie-talkie on. Caticus grumbled. They were, at the moment, living down an alley way, surviving on food dropped by the humans. All the cats listened to the conversation that Fatsy was having.
“Hello? Oh yes, hello boss. Vice Leader Fatsy of Group 7G6 here…what do I want? Well, it’s like this, the humans have pushed us to extremes so we had to try and spy on them, and while we were, they captured on of our troops. And now it’s war! No, not with you, the humans. Yes. Yes. Yes? Yes. Yes. No…ok, so we meet at the woods. You’ll bring all the squadrons? Ok good…bye, bye…yeah…ok bye!”
“What did he say?” Caticus asked.
“Er…I forgot.” Fatsy replied. “But I think we’re meant to meet him at the woods.”
“Ok, good. Cats, we’re moving out!” Caticus exclaimed, and they made their way to the woods. “I just hope Zoë’s ok…” Jasmine said, sadly.

“Where am I?” Zoë asked herself, and got up and felt a strange feel under her feet. She was used to the feel of grass and other outside grounds. But this felt different; it felt…homely. She sniffed and smelt the smell of calmness and warmth. She looked around, and saw a table, a few chairs, a door and a sofa. She found she was sitting upon a basket, a fluffy basket, which had a certain warmth to it. It was much better than lying outside. But she came back to her senses. She was meant to be in the wild. She had to escape. But she found there was no escape, and she was trapped in. But it wasn’t really a prison trapped either. Suddenly the door opened and she turned around to see a human come through the door. The human said; “Oh, you’re awake, great! Here’s some food.” The human put a bowl on the floor which some strange stuff inside it. It smelled delicious, so Zoë started to take a small bite out of it. It was delicious! She carried on eating. “I hope you like it.” The human said, and she (Zoë thought it was a she) went out the door and closed it behind her. Zoë carried on eating until she finished every last scrap. Then she lay down. Maybe she’ll start escaping tomorrow.

The 7G6 Cats marched through the woods, searching for the boss. They stumbled upon a path, where they saw another cat.
“Are you the 7G6 Cats?” He asked.
“Yes.” Caticus simply replied.
“Then come with me.” He said, and the cats followed him through the woods. They went through all the paths and bushes, until they got a big field, with mounds in the middle of them. There were flowers and bushes about, but it looked like all the trees had been cut down, but strangely there were only one or two tree stumps. But in the middle of the fields is what caught the cats’ attention. All the cat groups and tribes had all centred round the mounds, while the boss was in the middle of the mound. The cat lead the 7G6 cats to where all the other cats were. The cat who had lead them there then next to the boss. “Thank you, Jack.” The boss said to him, and then the boss turned to the rest of the cats. “I am here to plan the attack on the humans…” So the cats planned, for two days they planned, and finally came up with an idea…
Meanwhile, Zoë from her peaceful sleep, and thought straight away, ‘Maybe these humans are nice after all, and Caticus was just imagining it…’ So she stretched, yawned, got up and scratched at the door that she was kept in. She heard one of the humans saying “I think she wants to go out.” And another one replying: “But what about the guinea pigs and hamster?”
“I guess we could keep her from them…”
‘Oh yes! I don’t even know what guinea pigs and hamsters are!’ Zoë thought. “Hmm…I suppose so…ok then.” So one of them opened the door and Zoë sniffed around, and smelt new smells. She looked around her, and saw about six humans surrounding her, and they all petted and hugged her. ‘So this is what it is like to be loved’ Zoë thought. And for a day she was loved by the humans, for three days, in fact…
Zoë woke up early in the morning. She was sort of getting used to home life now, and maybe she should even stay with them for the rest of her life. Caticus was wrong…then she suddenly thought: Caticus! And the others! She’d better get back to them. But the humans! They’ve been looking after her well…what should she do? The cats were her friends but they always – especially Caticus – were warlike, whereas the humans were kind and loving. So Zoë decided to stay at home. She couldn’t leave the humans, definitely not. So she sauntered out of the door and saw the humans, and they stroked her. One of the little ones showed her around. There was even an upstairs! It was great! Just then, when Zoë and the little human came downstairs, they saw the rest of humans getting ready to go out. “Ah, there you are,” A bigger one said to the smaller one. Then she turned to Zoë. “Be a good cat, we’re going out for a bit.” And they all left.
Zoë lay down on the rug for a bit. There was silence all around the house. The hamster was asleep, and the guinea pigs were both outside. Suddenly she heard a big bump coming from upstairs. She crept upstairs and jumped into the room where the bump came from, ready to fight, when she saw…Mew-Mew and Kew-Kew! “What are you guys doing here!?” Zoë shouted. The two other cats were surprised by this.
“We’re here to save you, duh!” Mew-Mew replied.
“Well…I sort of…” Zoë stuttered.
“Sort of…?” Kew-Kew said, expecting an answer.
“Sort of…want to stay here.” Zoë said firmly.
“WHAT!?” Mew-Mew and Kew-Kew both shouted at the same time.
There was a big silence. Suddenly the two cats burst out laughing.
“Ha, ha, ha, ha! That was a joke right?” Kew-Kew laughed.
“Yeah, ha, ha, ha, ha! Cough, cough!” Mew-Mew tried to laugh.
“Yeah…ha, ha…all a joke…” Zoë said, sadly.
“Come on, we have to get back.” Kew-Kew said.
“Yeah, the boss has ordered us to do battle with the humans. We shall get rid of them!” Mew-Mew said.
“What?” Zoë said, surprised. But already Mew-Mew and Kew-Kew were escaping out the window. Zoë followed them until they stopped at the woods, where preparations were being made…
A few minutes later, every cat was ready. They all went into lines and squadrons, all hatred in their eyes. The boss got prepared, and shouted the orders: “Fight!” And all the cats rushed upon the town, but then another cat got in their way…it was Zoë. “What’s the meaning of this?” The boss asked.
“The humans are nice. Really they are. I’m not sure if you were imagining it, but really, you cannot trust a book by its cover.” Zoë said passion in her eyes.
“But humans aren’t books!” a cat shouted from the crowd. “No…well…but…er…They’re just really friendly and kind. I’ve been with them for about a week. They protect you from the cold, give you food and love you. Please, stop the attack.” Zoë said.
The boss hesitated, then said: “Alright…we’ll what it’s like to live with humans. Maybe they are nice. But if they’re not, it’s war.”

And in the end, all the cats lived in nice home. Harry the cat lived in a home full of clever scientists, so he fitted in. Mew-Mew and Kew-Kew lived helping the special agent company.
Tom, John and Alex all lived in a nice home. Fatsy lived in a home full of people who eat a lot, so he definitely fitted in. Caticus didn’t trust humans at first, but then he lived in an nice household full of loving people. Jasmine lived in a big household and loved every bit of it. And finally Zoë, she lived with the household that she used to be with. The end.