Pesto Change-O!

By: Elise

Chapter 1: Oops!!!!!!!!!!

Victoria sat in her home on Kinggstong Road happily listening to classical music ripple through the huge manison. The song was a beautiful one, it sounded sad and happy and excited all at the same time. She opened her eyes as she heard her boy pet, Jimmy, pounding down the stairts.

"Mom!!! I don't want to have a nanny! I don't NEED a nanny, I'm nine years old!!!"

"Jim we've talked this over before, I need a little more help around theis big place, since your father died. It's just too hard for me to take care of you and Missy and the house, when I'm just one person."

"But..."

"No buts. We're not talking about this anymore. Now I'm taking interviws all week next week, and I expect you to be on your best behavior."

Jimmy gave a defeated sigh, "Yes mother...." He turned and slowly walked back up the stairs. Victoria heard a door slam, which probley meant Jimmy shut his door to their room. She mewoed softly and pranced up to the door, hoping to be let out. Her master smied and laughed softly.

"You want to escape to Mags?" She opened the door and Vici ran out with a sigh. She turned left and headed for the junkyard, her home away from home.

When she arrived she saw Mistoffelees practicing a magic trick. "Hi Misto." She greeted her crush happily.

"Oh hi Vic, hey listen, huh, I'm trying to find out if this new trick works, or not, and I need some help...?"

"Oh, okay, if you prmise I won't end up a pollicle."

Misto broke out into a grin, "I promise. Okay, you stand there and I'll stand here and we'll end up over there!!" He said pointinting to the old ford. Vici nodded, "Nothing big..." She assured herself. Misto nodded and whispered somthing, a bright white light began forming on his paws. It grew bigger and brighter until Vici had to look away. There was a slight ringing noise then silance....... BOOM!!!!!!!!!! The sound rang out and filled the cats ears. Smoke filled the aera and fogged up Misto's vision. He slowly opened his eyes, and couldn't see for a moment, but when his eyes finally focased he was horrified at what he saw. He looked down at his paw to see, a hand, and fingers. He felt his face, a nose a mouth and ears, on the side of his head!!!

"I'm...I'm a HUMAN!!!!!!" He shouted.

"Me too!!!!" Vici said. She was an adlut woman, about 20 years old, she had curly red hair that hung a little ways down her back. She was wearing a blue sweater and long blue jeans. She looked at Misto, he was pretty short, for a human man, about 21 he had jet black hair, the same as his coat was when he was a cat,and bright blue eyes. He was wearing jeans too, and a brown sweater. Vic looked back at his eyes and gasped.

"Misto, your eyes, their the same!" It was true, his eyes were the same as his cats. Litte pumpils, and bright blue dancing about them. Vic's were too, deep green and big rounded pumpils. "Major backfire bub." She muttered.

Chapter 2: Uh Oh!

Misto looked at Victoria with consern in his eyes. "Vic, what do we do?" He asked with ungrentcey in his voice. "Misto, you can change us back right? Oh please say yes!"

Misto shook his head and looked sad. "No...I mean, I could but I don't know how, I'd have to study up on my magic more..." Vic plopped down on Old Deauteronmy's Tire throne.

"Oh Mistoffelees. What have we done?" Misto smiled despite the mess, at how Vic didn't put all of the blame on him and reffered to the fix as what they've done. Vic looked over at him with annoance in her eyes. "What are you grinning at?" He shook the smile off of his face and frowned.

Suddenly Demter walked by, smelling ehr friends she smiled. "Hi Misto, Victori..AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" She scram as soon as she saw them.

"MUNKUSTRAP!! THERE ARE HUMANS...." She was cut off by Vici picking her up and shutting her outh gentley with her forefinger and thumb. Dem struggled and scratched Vici. "Ow! Demeter STOP!" She said. Dem stopped and looked into Victoria's eyes, seeing her firend. Vic slowly let go of the females mouth and gave her a look. "Vic? Is that you? Misto?"The red headed woman nodded and Misto groaned.

"How.....?"

"Misto showed me his newest magic trick, and after it we got humanized."

"Oh, goodness, Mistoffelees, you messed up big this time!" Dem chuckled.

"It not funny!!!!" Both jellicle humans shouted. Dem stopped abruptly. "Grrr, sorry!" She monked. Vic turned Dem so she was face-to-face with her. "You can NOT tell a single soul, do you understand?" Vici asked with big cat eyes. "Yup!"

"Demter really!"

"Okay, okay, I will never tell a single Jellicle heart or I will be condemed to h..."

"Okay, that's good enough, now, I'm going to put you down and you are going to forget you ever saw eaither of us." Dem nodded and Vic gentley put her down petting her head in thanks. Demeter left humming a song happily to herself convinced that Misto was goning to fix the human foarms.

"Vic, where are we going to stay?" Misto asked, in a squeaky scared voice. Victoria sat again and cupped her face in her hands, "I don't know Mistoffelees, I just don't....wait a minute!!!!!" Victoria's face lit up.

Chapter 3: Sudden Idea

Wait a minute what?" Misto asked perking up also.

"Well, I was listening to my head pet this moring and she was talking about........." After Vici explained Misto nodded and smiled. "Do you really think this will work?" he asked.

"Well, I'm not sure, but we dont't have much to loose...." >P> Later that day Vici stood outside the door of her house with Mistoffelees at her side. She strightened up and knocked the big brass doorknockers briskly.

"Coming coming!" A voice sounded from inside. Victoria's master opened the door and stepped out.

"Yes...how may I help you?" She asked eyeing the two.

"Good evenig madam, I'm Victoria...um...Jellicle, and this is my husband Mistoffelees. We've come to apply for the nanny job." She said with a faint smile painted on her lips.

"Ah, yes, of corse come in." Her master said opening the door and letting them in.

"Um, Mr. Mistoffelees, I couldn't help but notice your name, it sounds forgien?"

"Uh, yeah, I'm form Japan...." He got a look from Victoria.

"Uh, I mean, my pearents are from here, but we moved to Japan were I was born, and they decided to name me a local name."

"Oh, really? How long did you live in Japan?"

"Uh...two...years."

"How instering. Anyway on to the interview. Have you ever taken care of childen before?"

"Uh, yes we both had very big familys, I had four sisters ." Vic awnsered.

"Really? What were their names?"

Vici's shoulders sagged, "Uh, Jemima, Electra, Sillabub, and Halo." Her master's jaw dropped and Victora added quickly, "We were form Japan too." She jaw shut and she smiled as she turned to Mistoffelees, "Yes, well, ahem! I had six brothers." He said, lying really. He didn't even know his parents. "Rum Tum Tugger, Munkustrap, Alonzo, Pouncecival, Plato, and little Gus." He concluded. Vici stommped on his foot under the table they were sitting at.

"Were you both the oldest ?" They both nodded quickly.

"Goodness, that's a lot of experience. I'd like you to meet my two children, Missy and Jimmy." She called them and they came smiling like little angles. Victoria smiled broadly. "Hello Missy, Jimmy." She said kneeling down and shaking both of their hands.

"Hello Miss Victoria, Mr. Mistoffelees." They greeted.

"How did you know their names?" asked the mistress with a frown. Jimmy and Missy covered their mouths relizing what they just said.

"Uh...we were kinda listening in on the interview from the stairs...." Missy admited hanging her head. "I'm very dissapointed in you two, go to your rooms!! You know this is my choice not yours."

The children frowned and slopped up the stairs to their rooms. Their was heard a crash then Jimmy tripped over his sister and fell down four stairs.

"Jimmy!!" Vici yelled as she saw her favorite child topple down. She rushed to his side followed by a worried Mistoffelees.

"Ow! It hurts! Jimmy said clutching his knee. He had tears straming down his face.

"Oh, here let me see." Mistoffelees said aiding his injurry. "Hmmm, this looks bad nurse Victoria." Vic smiled and decided to play along clicking her tounge. "I think it has to come off." She whispered loud enough for Jimmy to hear. He gasped and Misto shook his head. "No...I don't think so, just a bruise, nothing a little sugar couldn't cure!" He said counjering up a bright red lollypop and handing it to Jimmy with a smile.

"Gee thanks!" Jimmy said, his tears stopped. Vici helped Jimmy up and smiled.

"Just remember to keep off that knee for a day or so, and you'll be back to narmal in no time." Jimmy nodded and scampered off upstairs.

Victoria and Misto turned around to see Victoria's master grinning from ear to ear. "So we'll be going now."

"Just a second, do you think you two can start tommorrow?"

Chapter 4: Made The Cut

Vic and Mistoffelees stopped dead in their tracks. "Uh...Sure." Victoria answered with a smile.

"Great! You can start tomorrow, come at twelve and bring your belongings."

"We'll be there!" Mistoffelees agreed. And they walked out of the door.

"YESSSSSSS!!" Victoria and Misto shouted as soon as they stepped out of the house. Vic jumped into Misto's arms and he twirled her around joylessly.

"We are sooo good!" Misto shouted giving Vic a high-five.

"Wait, where are we going to sleep tonight?"

"I guess at the junkyard." Misto said with a look on his face that ment trouble.

"Your right. That's the only place....."

"We can sleep in the old ford, I mean you can sleep in the back, and I'll sleep in the front."

"Yeh, but what'll we do about being seen?"

"Well, I guess we'll just have to find out when we get there."

When they arrived they stopped apruptly when they saw Rum Tum Tugger lounging on top of the old ford, humming some sort of rock and roll song to himself. Vic looked at Misto wide-eyed, and he smiled. With a puff of smoke they both turned invisable. It appeared that Tugger was the only one there. The moom shone brightly in the black night sky and stars twinkled like tiny lights in the atomsphere. Victoria put hand on Misot's shoulder to make sure he was still there, and guided him to the ford. Tugger, opened his orange eyes and looked around, somthing smelling like humans. "Helllooo????" He called with a smile. No answer, all that happened was the door to the old ford opened and closed.

"Holy Banazzna!!!" he cried, "It's haunted.!!!!!!!" With that he lept off of the car and scurried off with a wild look on his face. Victoira relized she was visible now and burst out laughing along with Mistoffelees.

"Did...did you see his face???!!?" She asked inbetween laughs. Misto nodded and coved his mouth to stifle the laughs.

"Well, we better be getting to sleep." Victoria suggested. The magic human agreed and crawled into a cat-like position on the front seat, while Tori streached out in the back.

"Good-night." She whispered.

"Night." he replyed with a happy smile. With that they both drifted off to sleep, dreaming of being cats again.

Chapter 5: Starting Out

The next morning Victoria woke up woth the bright yellow sun shining through the car's dusty windows. She yawned and looked in the front seat, seeing that she was alone she climbed out of the automobile and greeted Mistoffelees.

"Good morning, gosh I feel like I slept in the back seat of a car..."

"Uh, Vici? You did." Misto reminded.

"Hee, of corse I did, I feel like I'm forgetting things every minute."

"Yeah me too, well I counjured us up some, 'Belongings'," he said pointing to two rather large bags sitting on the ground.

"Ah, great, what time is it??" The red-headed female asked with a smile.

"Hmm. Last time I checked, it was eleven fiffteen."

"That late????" she asked. "Geez, I really am forgetting things, even waking up!" Mistoffelees chuckled at this and looked at the sun.

"Well, I belive it's noon, we better get going." Vic nodded and stood up. Picked up a bag, which she guessed was hers and began walking.

It took then about fiffteen minutes to get there, but when they did, they found Missy skipping rope in the front yard. She smiled as soon as she saw Victoria and Misto. She ran into Mistoffelees' arms and hugged him.

"Woah! What was that for?" he laughed.

"I missed you guys! Jimmy and I were waiting for you two alll day!!!!"

Misto couldn't help but grin at this and gher carefully put Missy down. Victoria smiled also and let herself into the house with Missy and Misto following.

"Hello???" she asked.

"Ah, Victoria Mistoffelees! How nice to see you! Oh, and by the way, my name is Sharron Honnay. I figured since I'm going to be working with you for a while, so we might as well know each other's names!" Victoria laughed along with Sharron too and smiled.

"Your room is upstairs, fourth door on the right, you can't miss it." Victoria nodded and gathered up her 'belongings' and headed up the stairs. Mistoffelees followed and Jimmy and Missy followed him. She counted the doors and found hers and stepped inside. There were two big beds, with a bright sunburst quilt on each one. The windows were open slightly letting the fresh spring breeze ruffle the soft lace curtins handging on the window. She wondered to herself why she hadn't ever seen this room before. Jimmy smiled:

"This is my mommy's and daddy's old room, well..that is until my daddy died. Then my mommy moved downstairs she just couldn't be in here anymore." He finshed by hanging his head and sighing. Victoria remember when that happened, a car crash, a lot of crying and sadness.....she remembered the day before, Christmas day. He had given her a collar, it was beautiful, and jewled. She fingured her neck where the collar would have been, but found, suprisingly, on it's place a dimonand necklace. She frowned and turned back to Misotffelees. The kids had gone and she shrugged and said,

"Well let's unpack!" Misto nodded and wondered why Vic said somthing that way, it didn't seem quite right, almost human sounding. He shook his head and began to unpack clothes and other things.

Later that night Victoria and Misto went down stairs for dinner. There was a huge table set with all sorts of things. Victoria had changed into a flowered skirt and a white blouse. Mistoffelees found himself staring at the beautiful woman before him, but was brought back to earth when Nelly the maid asked:

"Chicken Mr. Mistoffelees?" He looked at Victoria who shrugged, only been fed cat food all of her life. He nodded with an unsure smile. After dinner Victoria and Mistoffelees put the children to bed.

"May I have a glass of water???" Missy asked sweetly. Misto nodded and hurried off to get her one.

"Miss Victoria, will you sing as a good-night song????"

Vic smiled and nodded, covering Jimmy and Missy with a big blanket and she sat down at the foot of Missy's bed. She looked vacent as she remembered a song that her mother used to sing to her, "Little one, close your eyes. Dream of only good things.....Little one, rest your head, time to go to sleep. In this room you'll be, safe and warm with me." Her voice got quieter as she saw the children drifting off. "Little one, close your eyes, go to sleep." She finshed with a faint smile, and stood up, turning out the light, and making sure everything was alright. When she turned to leave she saw Misto standing in the door way, smiling.

"That was beautiful," he whispered. Vici smiled in thanks and took the galss of water from him, lacing it of Missy's bedside table. This nanny thing, wasn't going to be so bad after all.......

Chapter 6: Getting to know you..

As the days and weeks passed on Misto and Victoria seemed to be getting the hang of their jobs, even getting to love the children. The only down side was that they were forgetting about being a Jellicle, about the junkyard, about their friends. About being a cat. Everything that was a lie, turned real, and true, until one night.....

It was a warm summer night, fire flies were blinking on and off, Victoria sat outside on the porch swing, just enjoying the slight breeze. It was Jimmy's birthday today, and he got a new cat, whom he named Rocky. Latley he had been upset about a cat...Margret, yes that was her name. That he had lost, just before Victoria and Misto came. So Mistoffelees, that wonderful man, got him a new cat, a orange and white one. Oh, how Jimmy was pleased! But now he was in bed and asleep, with his sister, who was starring in a local theater play, The Glass Slipper. She was Cinderella, a maid who was pushed around by her cule mother and sisters. Until she went to the ball and met.... Her train of thoughts were intrupted when Mistoffelees crept outside. Victoria smiled at him and patted the swing, inviting him to sit down. He obliged and grinned at her.

"I was helping Missy with her lines, she wanted me to play the part of the prince, and she wanted to throw in an extra kissing part, I think somthings going on..."

Vici laughed and smiled, "I think some one has a crush on you!" Misto smiled and chuckled.

"That's not the only crush in the household." Tori gazed into his eyes and slowly wrapped her arms around him, Misto smiled and kissed her, and to his delight, she kissed him back. He broke it and smiled happily. Tori rested her head on his strong shoulder and closed her eyes. Misto was greeted by Rocky, who purred happily as the two people pet him.

"Mistoffelees, do you ever have the feeling that you're forgetting somthing big?"

Misto looked vacant and replied, "Yes, I know what you mean..."

Victoria looked at the moon, it was full that night and shone brightly in the darkened midnight sky,

"Moonlight, turn your face to the moonlight, let your memory lead you, open up enter in."

"If you find there the meaning of what happiness is, then a new life will begin..." Misto joined in, then they remembered, Victoria remembered a junkyard, warm and happy, her friends, her family, her home. Misto remembered play tag with his friends, being a kitten growing up, being whole. When Victoria opened her eyes she felt like she was at a lower level. She looked down, she was white, all white, and furry cover her body. She looked at Misto, he was a black and white cat, his mystical blue eyes remaining.

"We're back!" Vic cried. "Let's go home."

Jimmy walked outside, hearing voices. "Rocky, how'd you get out here? Huh? What's this???" He picked up a piece of paper and read,

'Dear Misstress, Missy, and Jimmy,
We have gone to the city to meet out destiny, and will not be returning. We would like to thank you for your warmness and hospitally. We love you all very much. I know you will miss us as much as we are going to miss you. But it is for the best. Thank you again.

All The Love,

Victoria, and Mr. Mistoffelees

At the bottom there were two small pawprints........

Bye, Missy, bye Jimmy...