Chapter 1. Capture

In the kingdom of wonders, two little girls, a little cat, and a pink pig were walking happily in a forest. They were talking about a giant balloon man that they had seen in a market the day before. Lulu the cat jumped up and down, left and right, and all over. Sometimes she was chasing a fly, sometimes she was following a lizard, sometimes she was singing a wonderful meow meow song, and other times she would start a little playful fight with the pink pig. The pig, with his pink tail wagging, tolerated his bouncy cat friend even if he did walk closer to one of the little girls.
 
①“Bufa!” Suddenly a bigger cat appeared behind them. No one of them noticed her. They were too occupied in their own world. This cat…was Laughing Cat.
 
The bigger cat jumped from tree to tree after the company, trying to hide. She watched each of them in the little group with big cat eyes. “That little cat,” she thought, “seems so cute. Hmmm. I need to get closer.”

Laughing Cat made a big leap forward and landed in a tree out ahead of the group of friends, quickly hiding behind the leaves. Now she could see the little cat clearly. The little cat had two big black eyes. They are so big and so black that they almost seemed to be too big for her small little face. Too cute! Her head twisted from side to side, looking at everything, wanting to see everything there was to see. 

Too cute!
 
Inside of Laughing Cat her heart melted to watch the cute little cat. She suddenly had an urge to take the little cat, and keep the little cat for herself. Silently and swift, she jumped out from behind the leaves, flew over the company of friends, grabbed the little cat, and then “Bufa!” Laughing Cat disappeared into the forest.

​The two little girls and the pig stared into the forest in the direction where Laughing Cat had disappeared. She was gone, and so was little Lulu Cat.
 
“They seemed to be so happy,” the bigger cat thought. “With this cute little cat, I will be happy too.”

 ① “Bufa!” is the sound it makes when something suddenly appears or disappears.
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