We had been out looking for another entrance to those underground tunnels all morning, without any success. But then Muffin sent out an alarm as her, Storm and Tiger had stayed behind to watch our stuff. We all ran back to the house in a hurry and up to our bedroom. The cats were on the bed and two of the Creepers, Lynx and Woodchuck, were lying on the floor, dead.

Meow,meow!=We watching and two bad humans come in and search stuff. Then Tiger go over to them and growl and one of them kick Tiger, so Storm and me open fire! “Good for you two,” I said, “these guys attacked first, so it is self defense, you did a good job, all 3 of you.” They all sat nice and straight.

Jennifer checked Tiger to make sure he was not hurt and he was just fine. “Do you know how they got inside?” asked Aari. Meowr.=No, not see how, not hear anything too, but come from downstairs. “That could mean they came in through the basement,” said Aari, “so that still does not give us a clue as to how they get in normally.”

“Still could be an old mine,” said Kristina, “like maybe right under us and they are using the old mine tunnels and rooms. But that still does not tell us why they want this place.” Meanwhile, back in town that morning. The two fake cops went to see Flo first thing, but she was gone. The neighbor said she told them she was taking the kids and going to visit her parents in Toronto.

Next they went to Alice’s house, that is Pinky’s mom. They were not quite prepared for what they found. Alice, Pinky and the 3 younger kids were all lying on the floor, covered in blood and all the furniture was thrown around the room. The cops checked to make sure and the whole family was dead, they had been stabbed! They quickly left and went back to their office to report to Bear.

“Are you sure they are all dead?” asked Bear. “Yeah, we checked everyone,” said cop 1, “why did you not tell us what was going to happen?” “Hey, that was not us,” said Bear, “someone else did that, maybe those Black Knights.” “But why would they kill the whole family?” asked cop 1, “that does not make any sense.”

“How should I know!?” shouted Bear, “Nothing is going right for us, and now maybe someone else is in on this too! Go and get rid of those bodies right away, take them out to the lake, and do it fast before anyone else finds out about this!” “Okay, okay,” he said, “but we want a raise, things are getting too dangerous.” Bear hung up on him at that point.

But off they went back to Alice’s house and when they got there, guess who they found? It was Uncle Matt and his boys. They got out of their car with shotguns and came over yelling that Matt and his boys were under arrest. Uncle Matt and the others just started laughing. The two cops started looking around and saw the men all had their guns out, then Rock came from behind and took their shotguns.

“Now,” said Uncle Matt, “what are you arresting us for?” “Murder,” said cop 1, “you killed Alice and her family!” “They are not even home,” said Uncle Matt, “neither is Flo, we just came from there.” “Nice try,” said cop 2, “that whole family has been stabbed to death, we were just here a few minutes ago.” “Then please show me where they are,” said Uncle Matt.

The cops went in first and just stopped when inside the door. The room was all in order and clean and there were no bodies or blood anywhere. The cops even went out back to look around, but no sign of anyone, dead or alive. They checked and all their clothes were still there as well, it just made no sense to those cops.

They all came out of the house just as we came driving up. I hopped out and called the cops over to our vehicle. “What do you want?” snarled cop 2. “I have a couple of your friends,” I said, and opened the back. The cops just stared as they recognized Woodchuck and Lynx. The girls rolled them out onto the ground. “What happened to them?” growled cop 2.

“They attacked our cats, so the cats killed them,” said Jennifer calmly. “Don’t get sarcastic with us lady,” he said, “you are all under arrest for murder.” “They are not even real cops,” said Uncle Matt, “so you do not need to worry about them.” “I kind of thought you were fake,” I said, “or you were being paid by Buck, but I guess it is both.

Anyway, these are your friends, you tell Buck if he sends anymore of them the same thing will happen. Now stay out of our way.” We then drove off back to the house. “Well, at least you actually have some dead bodies this time,” said Uncle Matt, then he and his boys left, following behind us…

To Be Continued.

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