User blog:InklingBear/Life of Pets - Magic Kit

Story #6 - Magic Kit
 1:30pm 

It was a rather gloomy Thursday down in Royal Woods, Michigan. The rain was somewhat heavy for a brief period of time before the weather actually managed to calm down a few seconds in.

Upstairs in Luna and Luan's room was Cliff the cat, exploring the interior of their bedroom in spite of his shear boredom of nothing to do to keep him occupied for a while. He had a ball of yarn to play with, but he unsurprisingly grew tired of it after playing with the toy for a good quarter hour. The cat walked over to Luna's purple guitar, laying one of his paws on the strings as he stroked them to emit a rather dissonant chord.

The sound of the notes did not seem to satisfy the quiet feline as he stared the instrument down in disappointment with a soft sigh, before he walked away from it and to Luan's side of the room without uttering a single sound. He looked around Luan's belongings for quite a while, up until his sights soon became fixated on a magician's hat, along with a wand resting directly beside said item.

"Ooh, such interestin' attire the girl's got here."

Cliff inspected the accessory, observing it's appearance right in front of him as he rested his paw on the tip of the magical hat.

"Quite fancy lookin', I gotta admit."

As the curious feline decided to take a quick peek inside of the hat, Luan's white hare popped out from inside, startling him as he jumped back a few inches from his sudden appearance before telling off the confused hare sitting inside the hat in front of him.

"Hey now, would ya mind not doin' that? I'm not used ta gettin' all surprised like that."

The rabbit twitched his nose around, staring intently at anything in his sight as he started gathering some information before he responded back to the cat.

"Oh, sorry there pal. Had no idea you weren't used to surprises!" Gary said, with a sheepish little smile. "Say uh, you know where I can grab some carrots around here? The girl done ran out up here just last night."

"Somewhere downstairs in the kitchen I guess." Cliff answered as the rabbit hopped out of Luan's hat, hopping over to the entrance of their room before he exited the bedroom to head downstairs. The shear curiosity of the black feline influenced him to lift up the magic wand, staring at it for some time before he waved it around the air.

"Hmm..." The cat uttered before he made the tip of the wand make direct contact to the tip of the hat as it poofed up a random item inside, influencing the feline to widen his eyes as he witnessed the awe of magic from the wand he now currently has a grip on. He let out a questionable meow in understandable curiosity as he reached his feline paw into the hat before pulling out the content. It was the same white hare he talked to just a minute prior, only with a carrot to munch on as it clearly satisfied his famishing desires. The cat couldn't utter anything as he was understandably in light shock, as he was confused as to how Gary appeared back into the black hat.

"Mmm. That's a real good carrot!"

Cliff looked to his left and right before he became fixated on the bunny.

"What the...? How did ya-"

Gary swallowed before he interrupted.

"It's a little thing called magic, my silly feline friend. Well thought out tricks to impress your friends. I know that cause I've been with this family for about half a decade."

"That's amazin'," Cliff reacted, eyes slightly widened before he thought of something rather interesting. "Say, ya mind lettin' me borrow that hat?"

Gary replied with no hesitation to show before he delivered a timely wink towards the feline. "You bet! Knock 'em dead."

Cliff looked at him with a soft determinated smile before Gary stopped him to add in another comment to their conversation as he lifted himself out of the hat to show off his backside in front of the feline's confused irises.

"Eh also, someone oughta take control of that dog, he bit me on the tip of my poofy little tail! I'm surprised it wasn't my butt."

He twitched his tail for a second as Cliff grabbed a hold of the white hare, stroking and massaging his backside ever so softly to soothe his pain.

"Don't worry, I'll take care a him. But first, a lil' somethin' for me."

 Five Minutes Later

Downstairs, Charles, Geo and Walt all emerged from the dining room and into the living room, sparking up a little conversation between the three of them as they would soon land their haunches on the carpet in front of the blue family couch.

Charles laughed in amusement.

"Boy, you're not gonna believe what I did to that mangy rabbit."

"You ate the poor thing?!" Geo reacted in understandable shock before Charles reacted back, eyes widened as he would sound rather blunt.

"What? No! That's insane!"

"And literally absurd." Walt added.

"I had that little guy runnin', but not before I crashed into some cloth and accidentally ruined a perfectly good birthday cake for the kid's seventh birthday."

The white canine started to chuckle now as some more chatter took place for the three animals before the lights in the living room suddenly went dim. The three pets looked all around the interior, wondering what the heck has happened.

"Uh oh." Charles reacted.

"Hey! What gives?" Walt added.

"Who turned out the lights?" Geo asked in a soft voice. "Did they short out somehow?"

A long pause befelled the surprised animals in absolute silence before they were all greeted with a smoke ball, partially filling the room up with smoke as Charles began coughing with Walt attempts to clear the air as he flew upwards about a couple feet.

Surprise!

As the smoke cleared out, it revealed to be the great feline, standing tall and confident on his two hind legs, wearing Luan's hat as he held a good grip of the wand in his right raw.

"Presto! It is I, the one and only Magicat! Here to impress and entertain my faithful companions since... well, however long it was since we've first met each other."

Charles, Geo and Walt all looked on in confusion for a second before the dog stepped up to ask Cliff a question.

"Uh cat, what's with the jig?" He asked before the canary and the hamster both gestured towards the curious white canine.

"...What? I'm not allowed ta spend a good portion of my time ta prepare a simple act of entertainment for you guys, is that it?"

A brief pause for the three pets took place before the hamster responded to the unamused cat.

"We're not saying you can't. If you want to show us something, then my undivided attention goes all out to you pal!"

The canine and canary both gestured to the hamster in unanimous agreement before it gave Cliff more confidence to pull off his magic.

"Oh, well alrighty then!"

He took off Luan's magic hat as these words read the feline's lips.

"Watch in awe!"

Cliff set the hat down on the wood table in front of him as his smile widened before he waved the magic wand around, soon touching the surface of the bottom of the hat. It poofed up something inside the hat as some smoked emerged from it before the cat stuck his paw inside, pulling out a deck of playing cards.

"Now friends, for my first trick of the day, a simple card trick!"

He spreads them out in his paws, motioning towards the neutral canine without having the cards face upwards.

"Pick a card!"

Charles looked at the cards very carefully, before he took a bite out of the one he selected.

"Give it back." Cliff snatched it out of his salivating mouth. "Alright, time for a little shuffle."

He took several seconds, mixing up the cards as he set them all down on the table, moving them all around the surface as the canine, canary and hamster all observe the awkward act of entertainment, but not before they shared a confused little glance at each other. The cat finished the shuffling process as he gathered up the cards as he straightened them out in a slightly askew but neat stack before he drew the playing card on the top.

"Ain't this your card?" Cliff confidently stated while Charles stared his act down in silence, showing the same card he drew before he reacted with a satisfied little smile.

"Eeyep. That's the one."

"Voila!" Cliff said loud and clear as he bowed down while the three animals showered the feline with applause for a trick well played.

"Ooh! Can you tell our fortunes?" Geo asked out of his shear curiosity.

"Nah, Ham. I'm savin' that for a later story," Cliff answered. "And now, for my second act!"

He waved the wand around the hat this time as the three animals observed the black cat, lasting for a couple of seconds before the tip of the wand made direct contact with the flap of the hat, smoke emerging from the inside of the hat again as the magic feline stuck his paw inside to pull white, red and pink petaled flowers, a set of unused handkerchiefs, and finally Gary the white hare out in the sequential order, with satisfied smiles that sells the satisfaction.

"Presto!"

As Gary laid eyes on the dog that bit the tip of his tail, his eyes quickly started to widen open before gulping in fear. The three pets reacted to the act in awe, until Charles got a good glimpse on the hare before he stared it down with a devious smile, proceeding to get up off of the couch to chase after the animal, happily barking in the process as Gary quickly made a run for it up the stairs and into the hallway.

"Ay dog! Come back here!" Cliff shouted to no avail, but failed to grab the canine's short spanned attention before he facepawed. "Oh boy."

 Another Five Minutes Later 

Charles was back on the couch now, only with his nose turned slightly red from receiving a door to the face as he softly rubbed on it in shame before he whimpered with Walt and Geo staring the injured dog down. Cliff was a little mad from the incident with the dog but he had to let it go immediately as he was ready to get his final act on the show now, feeling more determined than ever to pull his act off, but not before he could separate Charles away from the frightened bunny to make sure they don't get all roughed up before his show was done.

"Alrighty, for my final act of the day," He whipped out some newspaper and a modified pitcher filled with two percent milk. "Let's make some milk disappear. I call this one, the Vanishin' Liquid!"

Those five words immediately grabbed the attention of the pets sitting on the family couch as they sat back and observed the cat do his magic. He was lightly sweating, but he wasn't going to let anything stop him from doing one of the coolest magic tricks in the Loud House. He folded the piece of newspaper up like a triangular cone, before he did the very next step, carefully pouring the entire white substance inside the newspaper.

The pets were in suspense now, wondering if this trick would be enough to blow them away. The cat waved his paw around the top of the cone for a second or two before he snapped, soon crushing the cone up into a ball of wad without a single drop of the milk gushing out of the paper, leaving the audience of animals completely stumped and dumbstrucked.

The cat stood there proud as he tossed the wad of newspaper off to the side now, currently bowing down to his final act of the afternoon. "Voila," he said as the pets clapped and cheered him on. "Thank you."

"I'm amazed!" Geo commented.

"Very nice. Now I gotta go do something that needs to be taken care of." Walt added before he flew off to the upstairs hallway followed by the hamster shortly after.

Charles walked over to Cliff, congratulating him for a show well put together. "Great stuff you pulled off there Cat," he said, shaking the feline's paw before Gary took a step back away from the dog, eventually getting himself cornered as Charles walked over to him. "Hey you."

Gary was scared to what Charles was going to do now, quivering silently as he looked into the eyes of a mad canine, as it turns out, it was only to make amends. The dog patted him on the head as the hare was acting rather confused now with the sudden change of attitude.

"No hard feelings there, rabbit?"

Gary smiled along before sighing in relief, hopping over into the kitchen as Charles watched. He came back into the living room with a few strips of bacon, waving it in the air to grab the dog's undivided attention. The second Charles laid eyes upon the strips of breakfast meat, he instantly salivated, licking his lips as he followed the white into the kitchen, barked happily as he was presuming to have a little feast with him before it was all quiet in the living room now, with Cliff now sitting back down on his haunches as he glanced over towards the audience with a satisfied smile.

"Well, that's our show. G'night everybody!"


 * belch*

Cliff softly blushed.

~End~



Trivia

 * This story marks the first short of the series.