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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Sept 11, 2009 14:33:28 GMT -5
Eclipse did this for me and it's awesome! He did a great job on it. It's Chris, Mathew and Kit! (Isn't Chris cute?) lol ;D
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Sept 9, 2009 16:02:07 GMT -5
Hey guys, I went to Tale Spin Source today and saw that Eclipse added a new artwork -- a 3D Sea Duck! ;D I thought this would be perfect for the game! What do you guys think? Seeing this picture makes me believe more then ever that making this game would be very possible to make
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Sept 8, 2009 2:44:45 GMT -5
Title: Kit, the Magician Authors: KitCloudkicker52885 and Kit_Lee Disclaimer: We do not own Tale Spin, Disney does.
Chapter Three Do You Believe in Magic?
Jeffery was pushing a trolley cart bearing the equipments for the first couple of magic acts toward his Mom in the center of the stage as the she was starting her introduction speech.
“Hello and welcome, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, young and old! Welcome to the show! I am the amazing Melissa, and this is my a$$istant. My pride and joy, my son, Jeffery! Jeffery, give the crowd a little wave.” Melissa said, looking fondly at her son.
Jeffery parked the trolley in the center of the stage and then he waved merrily at the crowd.
“Hello everybody!” he shouted happily, as if he was full of positive energy. “I’m Jeffery, the equally amazing assistant. Me and my Mom hope you enjoy our show. We really appreciate your attendance!” Jeffery said, bowing before he took a small table from the trolley and set it up, and then he lay out some magic items for the tricks on top of it.
“Ah, thank you, Jeffery dear, we can now begin.” Melissa said eagerly, picking up a tin pot with a cover over it.
In the audience, Chris looked sideways at his brother.
“Kit?” he asked.
“Yes, Chris?” Kit replied, turning his head slightly toward Chris, so that one eye was still on the stage, watching his aunt and cousin.
“I wonder what Aunt Melissa’s first trick will be? It looks neat, whatever it is.” Chris said excitedly.
“I’m not sure, Chris?” Kit replied with a smile. “I’m just as curious as you are.”
Just then, Melissa started the trick.
“Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls! You see in my hand, an ordinary pot with a cover on it, think of it as the cookie pot.” Melissa joked.
“Wow, cookies!” Molly shouted ecstatically.
“Now, Molly,” Rebecca said gently but firmly at the same time. “You already had a cookie today, so don’t even think of asking Aunt Melissa for one.”
“Aww…” Molly pouted cutely, trying not to sound too disappointed.
Back on stage, Melissa was finishing the details of the trick.
“As I was saying,” Melissa said, smiling down at Molly and her nephews, who were eagerly awaiting the trick. “This is just like any normal pot; as you can see, there is nothing inside the pot, correct?” Melissa asked, turning to Jeffery and lifting the cover slightly, so that Jeffery could peer inside at the apparently empty pot.
“Nope, there’s nothing in there that I can see.” Jeffery replied, shaking his head. “So, what’s on the menu to make appear tonight, Mom?” Jeffery asked, comically trying to make the trick seem funny and comical at the same time.
“Well honey, I don’t really know, you know how this trick works on me here lately, it could be anything.” said Melissa with an air of mystery.
At that moment, Baloo, who had been lying back in his seat, snoring since the start of the show, jerked bolt upright and was now staring at Melissa with a hungry expression.
“Anything?” he gasped, his mouth watering, “did she say ‘anything’?” then he greedily rubbed his hands together. “Ooh, baby! I hope it’s pot roast.”
“We’re not being served dinner here, Baloo,” hissed Rebecca, scowling at him. “Now be quiet!”
Kit, Chris and Molly get a laugh out of there aunt and cousin’s comical speeches as well as Baloo’s reaction.
“Let’s find out, shall we?” Melissa asked the crowd.
“Yeah, sister!” Baloo yelled out to her, cheering. “Show me the pot roast!”
Covering the pot with the lid, Melissa said the magic words: “Abracadabra!” and tapped the steal pot with her wand. With a bang, the pot lid flew off the pot and the pot started sprouting rainbow colored scarves everywhere. And then they started coming out of all the unlikely places, including the sleeves of her tux and Jeffery's costume as well as their pockets.
“Whoa! Heh, heh, heh…oops! I guess I overdid it again.” Melissa laughed as she and Jeffery were trying to finish pulling the remaining scarves out from their outfits. “Wow!” Kit and Chris both shouted in unison, their voices copying each other again, they glanced at each other, surprised that they both were speaking in unison. They smiled at each other before turning their attention back onto the show.
Baloo, however, slumped lower in his seat, looking disappointed that he didn’t get his pot roast. Kit and Chris noticed this and had to stifle their laugher behind their hands. Poor Baloo…
“Sorry dear,” Melissa laughed as she then dumped the scarves on Jeffery's head “I’ll watch it better next time.”
“Yeah, you slightly overdid it again, Mom.” Jeffery replied, laughing, popping up from beneath all the scarves. “No worries though.” He smiled. “I still believe in you, Mom.” Jeffery added, walking up to his Mom and hugging her around the middle.
“Aww…” cooed the crowd.
Jeffery then gathered up all the scarves and carried them off stage, where he could bring out the next illusion.
“Wow! Did you—?” Chris started to say.
“—just see that?” Kit finished the sentence for him. Both of them sitting in their seats, awe-struck, their mouths hanging open and their eyes bulging slightly.
“Kit, that was amazing! I want you and me to be as good magicians as Aunt Melissa and Jeffery!” Chris said excitedly, cheering and waving his arms in the air along with his brother for the appreciation of their aunt and cousin’s trick.
“We can try, Chris.” Kit replied, scratching his head in a puzzling way. “But, I’ll say this: I cannot explain that one at all! That was truly amazing!” And I can’t see how that one was done at all, he thought. Could it be real magic, or maybe the answer’s right in front of my eyes, I’m just not seeing the trick behind the magic? How did they do that? Kit now realized that he was now thinking like a real magician.
“I don’t know either,” Chris said, looking straight ahead at his aunt and cousin for fear of missing anything.
“Hold on, they’re about to do their next trick” Kit said eagerly, now watching every movement of his cousin and aunt made like a hawk.
“Now for my next trick, I’ll make my son disappear before your very eyes.” Melissa announced with a slight grin, for she always loved doing this trick with her son. “Jeffery, my brave young man, would you please take you place inside the magic box for me, I promise I won’t sent you to Thembria this time.” She laughed at her own joke as she lightly shoved Jeffery into the box
“Oh very funny, Mom.” Jeffery said sarcastically, remembering the last time being misplaced in his Mom’s disappearing and reappearing performance during the last show “Okay, Mom, okay!” he said, laughing as his Mom was pushing him in the box, as if he was fighting it. “I’m going, I’m going.” Finally, he willingly steps in the box without his Mon pushing him now.
“Bye-bye son, send me a post card from Thembria,” Melissa said as she closed and locks the door, shutting Jeffery inside.
“WHAT?! But Mom! You promised you weren’t sending me there!” Jeffery protested from within the box and the audience laughed at his exclamation and panic. “Not funny, Mom! Mooooooommmmm!” he shouted as the box was being turned around and around. “Aaahhhh!” he screamed as he fell through the trap door inside the box, vanishing completely.
“Sorry dear, I didn’t catch that,” she jokingly replied as she opened the door, showing Jeffery had indeed disappeared to Thembria.
“Kit! Kit! Did you see that? Did you see that?” Chris was so excited, amazed by the magic act that he hadn’t noticed that he repeated himself twice. “That’s amazing! Aunt Melissa is the best magician ever. I hope she vanished him with a coat on, it’s freezing in Thembria. Thank you for bringing us here, Mom!” Chris was overjoyed and still hyper, but Kit was slowly getting used to that.
“You’re welcome, Chris,” Rebecca said smiling with Molly in total shock on her lap.
“Hey, what about me?” Baloo said in mocked indignation. “I was the one who drove us here.”
Rebecca rolled her eyes and Chris laughed at Baloo’s reaction.
“Yeah, thanks Daddy Bear.” Chris said with a grateful smile, creating his own little nickname for Baloo.
Baloo smiled at the young bear cub, reaching over, he gently patted the boy on top of the head. “You’re welcome, Lil Buddy.” He said, giving Chris his own nickname so that Kit could still be called ‘Lil Britches.’
Chris looked up at Baloo with affection as he leaned over the armrest of his seat and hugged Baloo.
“I love you, Daddy Bear.” Chris said, resting his head on Baloo’s chest.
Baloo chuckled as he massaged Chris’ head. “Back at ya, kiddo…back at ya.”
“Now bring Jeffery back!” Molly said cutely to her Aunt Melissa.
Kit snaps out of his trance to finally answer his brother’s question.
“I did, I did see that.” Kit said, his amazement making him repeat himself as well. “Now I just wonder how she going to bring Jeffery back.”
Chris sat back down in his seat, eagerly watching the show.
“Watch this,” Melissa smiled, leaning down to Molly and her nephews, her cape draping in front of her slightly which got a laugh from Molly and the boys.
“Hello? A-anybody?” said Jeffery’s distanced voice. “I’m freezing out here and I’m ready to come back now!”
Everyone was looking around, trying to locate the source of the voice, but saw nothing.
“Coming son.” replied Melissa, sounding forgetful. With a few quick spins of the box. Melissa tapped the door a few times and said. “You were gone for not very long, but very far. Now it’s time for you to reappear!” Melissa unlocked the door and opened the box slowly.
The opened box was showing that Jeffery had reappeared. He emerged from the box with a few flakes of Thembrian snow on top of his head. He was also wearing a Hawaiian flower necklace.
“Miss me?” asked Jeffery smiling, taking off the flower necklace and placing it around his Mom’s neck. “Aloha Mom,” he said laughing with a sly grin, adding in a slight kiss on his Mom’s furry cheek.
“Did you escaped from Thembria?” asked Melissa, gesturing to the Hawaiian flower necklace around her neck.
“Of course I did, you sent me to Thembria with my wand, you see.” Jeffery explained, holding up his junior assistance wand. “I simply teleported myself to someplace warmer before you decided to bring me back.”
The audience laughed at the boy’s cleaver way of outwitting his own Mom.
As they both took a bow with the crowd cheering and laughing madly.
The stage lights faded for a slight moment as the stage was being prepared for the next trick.
Kit and Chris were sitting on the edge of their seats, both totally amazed by Melissa and Jeffery’s trick
“You’re the best magician ever, Aunt Melissa! And you’re the best assistant ever Jeffery!” both Kit and Chris shout in unison and then they laughed at each other for copying each other again.
Rebecca and Baloo both staring at Kit and Chris, couldn't resist a slight smile at their cheerful sons.
“Do it again!” shouted Molly cutely.
“Thank you, thank you,” Melissa said as the light come back up, the spotlight shining on her and Jeffery, both standing in the center of the stage with a small trunk.
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, as the last trick was me disappearing to Thembria, this time, Mom’s the assistance!” Jeffery said in a sly, mischievous voice with a grin to match.
Just then, two ape goons, not unlike the ones Louie sometimes used as security guards at his place, came onstage. They grabbed Melissa and started to bind her with ropes, a straitjacket and handcuffs.
“As you can see, Mom’s being put in this straitjacket and handcuffs for a reason as I’m going to make her try and escape this trunk with me standing on it, holding this special sheet,” Jeffery said. “But that not all,”
Their job done, the two goons walked toward the backstage behind the curtains, but one of them tripped over his feet and fell against the other and they both went crashing to the floor. Then they started arguing over whose fault it was that they fell, which led to a physical fight that was blocked from view by a cloud of dust.
“Oy…” Jeffery muttered, smacking a palm to his forehead with a mixture of frustration and embarrassment. “I’ve gotta get me some better goons…” with a flick of his wand, the two goons vanished off the stage in a cloud of blue smoke and then he turned smiling to the crowd. “Now it’s time to have some fun!” he laughed mischievously with a wink as the stage manager came out after the disappearance of the goons and helped Melissa into the trunk and Jeffery closed the lid, locking it in place.
“Now let’s see you escape that!” Jeffery said, banging on the side of the trunk getting a low groan from his Mom.
“You have no idea, son.” Melissa whispered so low that her son couldn’t hear her.
Jeffery stood on top of the trunk holding the sheet over himself and the trunk. As he started to say: “You can’t escape now, Mom, not with me—” Jeffery was cut off as the sheet fell away to reveal Melissa standing on top of the trunk instead of Jeffery! She was out of the straitjacket and the ropes and the handcuffs were gone, earning a wild round of applause from her niece and nephews, as well as from the crowd.
“Ha-ha,” she laughed. “What was that, son? I can’t escape what now?" Melissa asked teasingly, poking fun at her son’s jokes as she opened the trunk to reveal Jeffery, now bound with ropes, straitjacket and handcuffs.
“Very funny, Mom…” Jeffery said with a bored expression, clearly giving the audience the impression that he did not like being bound like this. “Get me out of this mess, would you please?” he asked, giving his mother a puppy dog pout while struggling a little against his bonds.
“Well, I don’t know…” Melissa said slyly, putting up a thoughtful posture.
“MOM!” Jeffery whined with an expression that seems to do the begging for him.
“Oh alright! Sure, I’ll be glad to.” Melissa replied with a comical laugh.
She cut Jeffery loose from the ropes, straitjacket and handcuffs, setting Jeffery free. He hugs his Mom and then they both take another bow
“It’s all a trick, I tell you, it has to be.” Kit kept insisting to Chris. “That’s impossible…” Or is it? he thought.
“A bit confused, are we?” Chris asked, grinning at his brother's stupefied expression. “Let’s just hope we can be as good as our aunt and cousin. I hope we can be, at least.” Chris added, still laughing at his brother’s looks of shock and amazement.
“Uh sure,” Kit replied, still shocked at what he was seeing. This looked more like real magic to him. Not that he wasn’t a believer in magic, he and Baloo had once switched bodies through a magical idol, but it still was rather impressive the way people can fake magic through illusions.
“Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, we have one more trick for you before a short break,” said Melissa, pointing to center stage where another cabinet was sitting in the spot light with a table, bearing ten sharp swords nearby. “My brave son, Jeffery will now assist me in the famous sword cabinet illusion.” Melissa said; looking hopeful that Jeffery would not fight this one like he did his first time...
“Don’t worry, Mom. I’m over that, I’m heading inside right now.” Jeffery said; putting on a brave smile, slightly laughing, and then he turned to face the cabinet and stepped inside, mumbling under his breath: “Yeah, if you like being a bear pin cushion…” He stuck out his tongue at his Mom playful-like as Melissa closed and locked the door.
Kit and Chris were sitting on the edge of their seats with worried expressions on their faces, concerned for their cousin as Melissa stuck the first sword in and Jeffery let out a groan from inside the cabinet, as if the sword went right through him.
Melissa continued to place all the swords in various places as Jeffery still groaned a bit louder and louder each time.
“Oh c’mon, son, it’s not that bad,” Melissa said; adopting an impatient tone of voice as she playfully placed the last two swords in place.
“YOOOUUUCH!” Jeffery screamed as the last sword was being placed right through the front of the box. “Hey, watch where you’re sticking those things! They’re worst than the doctor’s needles!”
Kit and Chris both covered their eyes, hoping that the worst didn’t happen to their cousin while everyone else laughed at Jeffery’s statement.
“K-K-Kit,” Chris gulped, stuttering a bit from the shock of seeing the neat but scary trick. “I h-h-hope Jeffery is o-o-okay. That does looks scary but fun, I want to do it too,” he added, trying to joke and to sound brave while hiding his already revealed fear.
“I’m sure he’s fine.” Kit said, while trying to convince himself of that. “It’s just a trick. And you sure you wanna do that?” he added, responding to Chris' joke. “I’m not sure on that yet, but we’ll see.”
Melissa started pulling the swords out very slowly one by one, so not to cause any more problems if there really was one.
“Jeffery honey, are you okay in there? I didn’t really hurt you, did I?” Melissa asked with concerned, pulling the last sword out for the front of the cabinet, unlocking and opening the door slowly
Jeffery pushed opened the door and jump out, saying: “I’m just fine, couldn't be better.” He beamed around at the audience with a huge smile on his face.
Kit and Chris breathed a sigh of relief, seeing their cousin was fine
“Jeffery, honey, are you sure you’re—” Melissa started to say but Jeffery cut her off.
“Look, Mom, I’m fine,” he said firmly. “Like I said, couldn’t be better. Where’s my water bottle? I’m thirsty.” he searched his pockets and pulled out a water bottle. “Oh, never mind, here it is.”
He took the cap off and drank deeply. As he drank, Kit and Chris’ mouths fell open in shock; water was sprouting out of Jeffery’s body, as though it was leaking out from the holes in his chest, stomach and back.
“Are you sure you’re okay?” Melissa asked, sounding skeptical.
“Yeah, Mom, why?” Jeffery asked, and as he stopped drinking, so did the water leak in his body.
“Oh, no reason, sweetie,” Melissa said, pinching Jeffery’s cheek. “You know how paranoid Moms get.”
“Mom…” groaned Jeffery, blushing from embarrassment and stepping back out of his Mom’s clutches. “Not in front of the audience.”
Maybe it was just a trick; Kit thought, but that was ultra real-looking. I hope Chris was joking, even if he does want to do that trick, I’m not sure Mom will let me even try it. Or would she? he wondered, witnessing Chris and Rebecca talking about how the show had been so far.
Melissa and Jeffery bowed before the audience as they went backstage for a short intermission.
As they came back onstage ten minutes later, Melissa and Jeffery stood in front of the crowd, beaming at the audience
“Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,” Melissa spoke to the audience; her arms open wide as if to embrace the whole room. “Tonight will be a special treat, for I will call two volunteers from the audience to come up here and assist me in my Grand Finale. But first…” she took off her top hat and put her hand down in it. She appeared to be searching in a very deep dept within the hat until finally, she withdrew from the hat, a snowy white rabbit. “Oh!” she chuckled, acting surprised. “How did that get in there?”
The audience laughed loudly at this unexpected magic act.
“Kit, did you see that?!” Chris asked excitedly. “How did she do that?”
Kit, however was completely lost. If the top hat had been sitting on a table when Melissa pulled the rabbit out, it would have been easily explained, like there was a hole in the table that she can put her arm through and pull out the rabbit from inside the table. But since Melissa had done it holding the top hat up in front of her with nothing underneath the top hat, Kit could only think of one explanation: Magic.
“Kit...? Kit…?” Chris nudged him on the arm, recalling him back to earth.
“Wha—huh? Oh, uh, I don’t know…” Kit said distractedly. “Maybe it was real magic.”
“Real magic?” Chris said, his eyes widening in surprise. “You mean, you don’t think this is a trick anymore?”
“After what Aunt Melissa just did, I don’t know what to think anymore…” Kit admitted.
Meanwhile Melissa put her hand back into the top hat and this time, she withdrew a piece of paper.
“Ah, here we are... Now when I call out a name, that person will come up here and assist me in my Grand Finale.” Melissa said, opening the folded piece of paper. “And the winner is...” she paused for dramatic effect while Jeffery with his set of drums, did the drum roll in the background. “Kit and Chris Cloudkicker, come on down!” she shouted and the crowd exploded with cheer and applause as the Cloudkicker brothers sat there, numb with the expression of shock before getting up and moving toward the stage.
As they got up onstage, Chris ducked behind Kit, being very shy with a lot people watching.
Jeffery stepped forward and handed them two identical uniforms. They put them on over their sweaters and Jeffery stepped behind them to help them with the back zipper.
“There!” Jeffery said, giving Kit a slap on the back after he zipped him up. “Whaddya think?”
Kit looked down at himself and then at Chris. These uniforms were exactly like the one Kit wore at Daring Dan’s Air Circus, except that there was a yellow star on the chest instead of a yellow lightning bolt.
“I think they’re great.” Kit and Chris said, slightly off-unison, Kit started speaking a mere second before Chris.
“Okay, Chris, come over here, don’t be shy.” Melissa said gently, beckoning Chris to her side. “Chris will break something for me to mend,” she told the crowd.
Chris’ shoulders were tensed and tight and he was staring down at his feet. Melissa sensed it and knew that Chris was suffering from first-time stage fright. So she bent down and hugged Chris, whispering in his ear.
“Don’t pay attention to the crowd, sweetie.” Melissa said, kissing Chris on the cheek. “Just look at your Mama and Papa and your sister, Molly, focus on them instead of the crowd.”
Chris raised his head slightly and looked out at Rebecca, Baloo and Molly and focused on them, and then he felt considerably better and his shoulders relaxed as he found the sudden desire to impress his new family and do them proud.
“All better?” Melissa asked with a warm smile as she stood up.
“Yeah.” Chris said, feeling a lot better.
“Good, now come over here,” she led Chris to a table bearing a glass bowl. “Now, I want you to break this bowl for me—and do be careful and try not to cut yourself.” She handed him a mallet
“But, that’s a pretty bowl,” Chris protested, but accepting the mallet anyway. “Are you sure you want me to break it?”
“Yes, Chris, it’s all for a magic trick.” Melissa told him, smiling.
“Okay…” Chris said uncertainly. He held the mallet high over his head and was about to bring down upon the glass bowl when someone grabbed hold of it from behind and held it in the middle of a backswing, preventing Chris smashing the glass bowl. Chris looked over his shoulder to see Jeffery standing there.
“Mom, aren’t you forgetting something, like some protective gears?” Jeffery asked.
“Oh!” Melissa gasped; her hand over her mouth. “I forgot, sorry sweetie.” She said to Chris
“Here, Chris, put these on first.” Jeffery said, handing his cousin a pair of protective gloves and goggles, along with a chest pad.
“Okay, thanks Jeffery.” Chris said with a grateful smile, glad that his cousin cares about him as much as he cares about Jeffery. He set the mallet down, took the protective gears from Jeffery and put them on. “Okay, all set, I’m ready,” he said, once the protective gears were on.
He picked up the mallet, raised it high in the air and brought it swishing down on the glass bowl, reducing it to powdered glass.
“Thank you, Chris, now watch this:” Melissa covered the powdered glass with a cloth, tapped it with her wand and said: “Abracadabra!”
There was a bang and a puff of pink smoke and when the smoke cleared, Chris’ jaw dropped. There on the table, stood the glass bowl, completely mended as if it has never received so much as a crack from the mallet!
“Wow…” Chris said in awe and then he clapped loudly, the crowd followed his lead and applause too.
“Thank you,” Melissa said, taking a bow to the crowd. “Now for the Grand Finale, Jeffery, fetch me the box.”
“Yes, ma’am.” Jeffery said politely as he dashed to the side of the stage and went out of sight behind the curtains.
“Kit, come over here, sweetie.” Melissa said, beckoning Kit to her side while Chris was taking off the protective gears. She held out a fan of cards to him. “Pick a card, any card.”
Kit picked a card and looked at it; an image of a box was on the front of the card.
“Looks like you picked the disappearing act.” Melissa announced.
Kit sighed with relief as the stage manager came out onstage, pushing a box on wheels toward Melissa. The box was on its’ side, held up several feet off the ground by six legs with wheels attached to them. At least a disappearing trick wouldn’t be so bad.
Melissa opened the box and gestured Kit inside. Kit climbed into the box and Melissa closed the lid of the box on top of him. It was a few seconds before Kit realized that his head was poking out of the end of the box and his feet were sticking out of the other end.
“W-w-what is this?” he asked, the fear in his voice was apparent.
“Let’s see,” Melissa said, holding up the card Kit had picked, she pealed off the fake front to reveal an image of a box with saw cutting through it. “Oh, sorry Kit, my mistake, you picked the sawing in half illusion.”
“WHAT?!” Kit yelled, the panic evident on his face. “No…no…I thought this was a disappearing trick—LET ME OUTTA’ HERE!!!”
“Oh come now, Kit, what ever happens to ‘it’s just a trick, Chris’?” Chris asked slyly; he couldn’t resist teasing his brother, it was just too good of a chance to pass up.
“THAT WAS BEFORE I’M ABOUT TO BE SAWED IN HALF!” Kit yelled in exasperation, his head swinging around, indicating that he was struggling inside the box to get loose. “LET ME OUTTTA HERE NOW!”
Chris was wishing he had a camera, the expression on Kit’s face was priceless and he was having fun watching his brother squirm inside the box. He started laughing at his brother’s expense.
“Kit, calm down.” Melissa said gently, stroking Kit’s head. “It’ll be alright, now relax.”
Kit calmed down but still felt uneasy
“It doesn’t…hurt, does it?” Kit asked, his voice squeaking like a mouse.
“Of course not, I’ve done this to Jeffery a hundred times, not to worry, Kit.” Melissa assured him. “Besides, I wouldn’t hurt one of my favorite nephews, would I?”
“I guess not…” Kit said reluctantly.
Melissa took out her saw and begin cutting through the middle of the box. Kit watched her with frightened eyes, and she stopped and strokes his head again, brushing his hair smoothly.
“Relax Kit,” she gently. “If it helps, maybe you should close your eyes till I finish.”
“O-okay,” he squeaked and he closed his eyes as his Aunt Melissa resumed cutting him in half.
In the audience, Baloo started to rise from his seat, looking furious but Rebecca grabbed his arm and pulled him back down.
“Let me go, Becky.” Baloo snarled, pulling his arm out of Rebecca’s grasp. “I ain’t gonna sit here and watch my navigator become sliced cheese!”
“Baloo, Kit is fine, it’s just a trick.” Rebecca told him firmly. “Now sit back down, buster, before you embarrass yourself, not to mention me!” and she forced Baloo to sit back down.
Baloo just grumbled and drummed his fingers on the armrest.
Back onstage, the saw has cut clear through the box and yet, Kit felt nothing, he didn’t even feel the saw cutting through his midsection, to his great relief.
The stage manger handed Melissa two mirror-like boards, she took one and slid in between the two halves of the box, and then she added the second board before she separated the two halves of the box.
Kit nearly fainted. There, in the other half of the box, were his feet sticking out of the end. It was so bizarre to see his own legs separated from his body in the other half of the box.
Chris took the box with Kit’s head poking out of the end, while Melissa took the one containing his legs.
Chris look down at Kit’s head, stroking Kit’s chin and throat gently, all the while there was a mischievous glint in his eyes.
“If you’re as ticklish as I am, ooh, I’m gonna have fun…” Chris said with a devilish grin. And he begins tickling Kit’s chin and Kit started laughing loudly.
“No, Chris—Ha, ha, ha, ha! Stop it, I can’t—Heh, heh, heh—stand being tickled! Ha, ha, ha, ha! Please stop—ha, ha, ha, ha—I’d rather do the algebra!”
“Sorry, Kit,” Chris said slyly. “But this is my revenge for the crab attack.”
“Ooh, that looks like fun.” Melissa said, and she started tickling the feet sticking out of her half of the box and Kit started laughing some more, despite the fact that his legs were currently disconnected with his body.
“Ha, ha, ha, ha—stop it!” Kit yelled out. “I’m gonna—ha, ha, ha, ha—crack a rib!”
Chris and Melissa tickle tortured poor Kit for at least thirty seconds before they quit and begin pushing the box around the stage
Melissa and Chris pushed both boxes in opposite directions, circled each other before putting them back together.
“And now I will put Kit back together.” Melissa announced, and she started pulling out the boards that separated Kit from his legs.
Thanks goodness! Kit sighed in relief
Melissa pulled the two mirror-like boards out, opened the lid of the box and Kit climbed out, completely whole.
In the audience, Baloo sighed deeply, looking relieved that Kit was okay.
“See? I told you he’d be fine.” Rebecca said slyly, looking sideway at Baloo, who was sitting there, slightly dumbfounded at the trick he just saw. It all seems so real to Baloo.
“Yeah, yeah,” Baloo grumbled. “Sorry Beckers, I guess you sister does know what she’s doing after all.”
“Heh-heh.” Rebecca laughed. “Don’t worry, Baloo. Of course she does, and besides, I had the privilege of seeing Jeffery go through his first time at that trick, so I knew what was in store for Kit. It was partly my idea.” She added slyly.
“Huh? Wha—?” Baloo asked distractedly, “Sawing my best friend, son and navigator in half was partly your idea?!” he asked, looking slightly mad. “Well gee, thanks for the near heart attack ya gave me with another one of yer crazy ideas, Becky.” He added sarcastically.
“Ha-ha, yes.” Rebecca replied, laughing behind her hand and ignoring Baloo’s insult to her brilliant ideas. “I wanted to test to see if you were still able to help the boys in a bad situation.”
“Oh, ha-ha, very funny, boss lady.” Baloo said sarcastically. “Ya know, you and that mad doctor of a sister over there could have told me it was a trick before I got worked up. I thought my son had just become sliced cheese under that saw.” He looked toward the stage at Melissa. “Nice trick Melissa! Sorry I doubted you!”
“Oh Baloo!” Rebecca hissed, tugging on his arm. “You’re embarrassing us again!”
“Good,” Baloo said slyly with a gain. “Maybe a little embarrassment will teach ya not to give ol’ Baloo a heart attack like that again. HEY MELISSA, DON’T FORGET TO SAW BECKY IN HALF TOO!” he yelled loud and clear toward the stage. “OR BETTER YET, MAKE HER DISAPPEAR!”
Now everyone was staring at them, Rebecca glanced around at the staring crowd and blushing a deep shade of red at all the attention.
“I hate you…” Rebecca said in a low voice, glowering at Baloo.
Melissa ended the show with a spectacular display of fireworks exploding from the end of her wand, and then there was a loud BANG and a flock of doves came flying out from the wand’s tip.
Everyone in the audience stood up and applauded loudly while Melissa and the Cloudkicker twins joined hands and bowed before the crowd together just as Jeffery came walking back on stage from behind the curtains.
“Aww,” he said, sounding disappointed but looking sly. “I missed all the fun.”
“Yeah,” Chris said, turning to Jeffery as the curtains lowered down to hide them from view of the crowd. “I was going to take turns with you tickling Kit while he was in the box.”
“Oh, no worries, Chris.” Jeffery said with a grin. “I can tickle him any old time, but… ” He suddenly pounced on Chris, knocking him backward onto his back and then Jeffery sat on his stomach. “…I wonder how ticklish you are.” And he begins to attack Chris’ ribs and armpits while Chris howled and screamed with laugher.
“Mind if I join you?”
Jeffery looked over his shoulder to see Kit standing behind him with a vengeful smirk on his face.
“Not at all, cuz, help yourself.” Jeffery said before he resumed tickle torturing poor Chris.
“NO! Please stop, don’t tickle me anymore!” Chris screamed, but his pleas fell on deaf ears as Jeffery kept on tickling him.
Kit positioned himself on top of Chris’ legs, grasped his brother’s ankle and begins tickling the bottom of Chris’ foot. Chris shirked with laugher as Kit added to his tickle torture.
“Alright you two, that’s enough.” Rebecca appeared onstage; behind her was Baloo, who was watching the three bear cubs with an amused expression. “Let him breathe before he burst.”’
“Yes ma’am.” Jeffery said as he stopped tickling Chris and got up off of him, as did Kit.
Chris lay there, curled up, gasping and panting for breaths. Baloo went over and scooped Chris up off the floor and into his arms.
“You alright, Chris?” Baloo asked, pressing the young bear cub to his chest, massaging the back of Chris’ head.
“Yes!” Chris gasped, still panting. “Give me a minute to catch my breath.”
Baloo held Chris in his arms as Chris was taking several deep breaths, until finally his breathing became steady. Even then, Baloo didn’t put him down, he seems to like holding Chris in his arms and Chris seems to like being held by the large pilot. Chris rested his head on Baloo’s chest and snuggled up in his arms.
“You two gotta careful with him,” Baloo said to Jeffery and Kit. “Don’t tickle him so much at a time; it might hurt his lungs and his ribs.”
Both Jeffery and Kit looked down at their feet. “Sorry,” they said together.
A few minutes passed and Chris showed no sign in wanting to be let down. Melissa walked up to Baloo and Chris, cupping Chris’ furry cheek.
“Are you going to be alright, Chris?” she asked in concern.
“Yeah, I’ll be fine.” Chris said with a smile, leaning slightly forward in Baloo’s arms, he hugged his Aunt around the neck.
“That’s good, Chris,” Melissa said happily with a smile, hugging her new nephew back.
“I’m sorry, Chris,” Jeffery apologized. “I should have been easier on you; I didn't realize you and Kit were as ticklish as I am…” He froze, having just realized what he had said. Oops! Jeffery thought in despair. Why did I just go and say that for?! Oh man, now they’ll get back at me and I’ll get it one hundred percent worse! I guess it is as the old saying goes: ‘what goes around, comes around.’
“Okay kids, gather ‘round.” Rebecca said playfully. “Your Aunt Melissa has another surprise for you.”
Baloo put Chris down to stand between Kit and Jeffery as they looked at Rebecca with the expression of awe on their faces.
“Another surprise?!” exclaimed Jeffery, Kit and Chris in unison.
Although Jeffery already knew what the surprise is, he pretend otherwise so to make surprising his two cousins more fun.
“Yes!” Melissa exclaimed, this time talking more to Kit and Chris, who were standing there awestruck at the mention of another surprise from their aunt. “Boys, me and your Mom talked on the phone, and me and Jeffery would like to add our assistance in teaching you the ins and outs of magic. So from this day forth, we’re both your personal teachers. But as a second surprise, I asked if I could do one more thing special for you two, my favorite nephews.” Melissa said but stated to act forgetful. “Now what was it?” she paused thinking a minute.
Rebecca whispered in her ear reminding her of the second surprise as Kit and Chris started taking their assistant’s outfits off.
“Lemme help you with that.” Jeffery said, stepping behind them and pulling their zippers down.
“I guess we should return these to you, Aunt Melissa?” Kit asked as he stepped out his outfit and held it out to give it back to her.
Chris was being a bit more reluctant, he likes these uniforms and thought they’d make comfortable pajamas.
“Aww, do we have to, Kit?” Chris pouted as he asked “I kinda like mine.”
“Chris, it’s okay.” Kit said, comforting Chris. “We’re not Aunt Melissa’s assistants normally, but I’m sure she’d want us to be.”
“Aww man!” Chris pouted, but hugging his uniform to his chest and looking like he was not about to give up on keeping it.
“Oh! That was it!” Melissa shouted, slamming a fist to her palm as the memory came back to her. “No, no, boys, those junior assistant outfits are yours, and there’s a reason for that.” she said with a smile. “My favorite nephews, my second surprise is this: Not only are me and Jeffery going to teach you magic, but also you get to be my official second and third assistants, starting tonight. But since school is in session for a few months, I won’t be doing anymore shows till this summer. Till then, boys, welcome to the Amazing Melissa’s Magic Show, you are now official performers of my show, starting with your performance tonight. But you’ll be working more with me and your cousin, learning tricks and all till summer!”
“But there’re two conditions.” Melissa and Rebecca said in unison. They both glanced at each other before they laughed, seeing as they did the old talking in unison deal again.
“The first condition is this: You have to finish all your work for me and your Dad at Higher for Hire first, your chores, cleaning your rooms and such.” Rebecca said, speaking directly to Kit before turning to his brother. “Chris, I’ll have to add some duties for you later when you get more adjusted,” she added, smiling, knowing she was going to have Chris help with paper work, answering the phone for her and taking messages when she’s not there and normal chores most at first.
“The next one…” Melissa cut in. “Is that you two have to give me a hug at each practice and I want a twin hug, not one at a time.”
“Sis!” Rebecca giggled. “Don’t you mean just have fun?” she inquired, laughing behind her hand.
Giggling, Melissa replied. “Yes, but you can’t blame me for wanting to hug my loveable nephews, I love them both so much that I could just eat them up.”
Jeffery was getting red faced at the moment, though he loved his Mom as much as she loved him, Jeffery was such a modest bear cub like his cousins and couldn’t help feeling embarrassed whenever his Mom goes overboard with all this mushy stuff – hugs and kisses and all.
Kit and Chris stood there awestruck, also slightly red faced for a moment before both said in unison: “Do you really mean it, Aunt Melissa? And do you, Mom?”
“Yes!” replied both Rebecca and Melissa, this time slightly off timing. Melissa spoke a split second before Rebecca did.
“Now, boys,” Melissa said, bending down to their levels. “You are to go with Jeffery to our house everyday after school, so you can practice and learn magic trick with us. We’ll have a two-hour session, and then I’ll drive you home. Would you two like that?”
“Yes, Aunt Melissa!” shouted the Cloudkicker twins in unison, punching the air joyfully.
“Alright kids,” Baloo said, grinning. “Come on, it’s time ta go.”
“Aww, do we have to, Daddy Bear?” whined Chris cutely, giving Baloo the puppy dog face.
Baloo chuckled at his new nickname, and he liked it coming from Chris. He walked over to Chris, scooped him up, tossed him high in the air and caught him again in a one-arm hug.
“Heh, heh, heh, of course we have to, Chris.” Baloo said, tickling Chris’ armpit. Chris squirmed and laughed in Baloo’s arm before Baloo stopped. “You got yer first day of school tomorrow and you’ll have to get up early if ya want a big breakfast before school. Now say goodnight to Melissa.”
Suddenly, Chris felt sleepy; he let out a big yawn before saying sleepily: “Goodnight Aunt Melissa.” And he snuggled himself up in Baloo’s arms, rested his head on Baloo’s chest and fell asleep.
“Heh, he had a long, exciting day,” Baloo said, chuckling a little bit. “So he should be tired.”
“Aww, he’s so cute when he’s asleep.” Melissa cooed, walking up to Baloo and kissing the now sleeping bear cub on the cheek.
“Yeah,” Rebecca agreed, smiling as she watched Chris sleep in Baloo’s arms. “Like an angle sleeping, he looks so innocent and peaceful.”
Kit and Jeffery were watching the adults cooing over Chris.
“One thing for sure,” Jeffery said, chuckling. “He won’t have any trouble attracting the ladies’ attention unto himself—he practically does that in his sleep!”
“Yeah,” chuckled Kit, looking amused while nodding in agreement. “Well, it’s looks like we’re leaving. I’ll see you in school tomorrow.”
“Yeah, hey maybe we could eat together at lunch.” Jeffery suggested, looking excited at the idea, it would mean seeing his cousins a bit more.
“Yeah, we can do that.” Kit said, smiling. “Chris and I will meet you at lunch tomorrow and eat with you.”
“Kit, come on, we’re leaving.” Baloo’s voice called out to him from the nearest exit.
“Coming, Papa Bear.” Kit called back, then he turned back to Jeffery. “I gotta go, see ya tomorrow!” And with a wave of his hand in farewell, Kit dashed out the door after his Papa Bear and brother.
Authors’ Note: Whoo! It took us a week to write this chapter! We hope you’ve enjoyed this chapter. Chapter four will be up a bit later, but it will be up, don’t worry. Until next time, stay safe and well as we write the next chapter. God bless you all!
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Sept 4, 2009 23:02:50 GMT -5
If it's okay for me to put this opinion here. I think that Disney or who ever makes the Disney Video Games Well, they just need to go ahead and make some sort of TaleSpin game for Playstation 2 and or for one of the newer game systems with better graphics and features. Cause I think that the Segas Genesis TaleSpin Game was better then the Nintendo Version but they really need to make an even better one now that they have the technology and graphics and the systems to do it with. At least that's my opinion. Your friend, Kitckw Your opinion is good and I agree, Segas Genesis TaleSpin Game IS better then the Nintendo Version, but I wouldn't want to remake that game when we could just create a whole new one with with the players playing through each and every episode of TaleSpin.
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Sept 4, 2009 22:45:55 GMT -5
Yes, the Plunder and Lightning scenario will be based off the pilot movie instead of the 4-part episodes, so that we could work in the Home Is Where the Heart Is song
I imagine the Plunder and Lightning scenario would be the first and longest scenario.
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Sept 4, 2009 21:45:32 GMT -5
Hey guys.
I have several ideas for a Tale Spin video game, I know that there were a few of them already made but let's face it - the graphics of those games stinks, I want better quality graphics in the video games, more realistic-like, a game for PS2, PS3, PSP, XBox, and Wii.
Now, I've noticed that some games made for or based off movies and TV series are disappointingly short, the Kingdom Hearts series are longer than those games!
Now I have a lot of ideas for a Tale Spin game, my ideas comes from DragonBall Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Kingdom Hearts, Spider-Man 2 and Ace Combat Zero.
"Why do your ideas comes from those games?" I hear you asking. "What is it about those games that inspired you to make a Tale Spin games?"
These games are popular with me, and I've played them countless times and I got a few ideas from each games.
Kingdom Hearts for the graphics and combat control
Spider-Man 2 for the city-wide explorer (anyone who plays this game knows what I'm talking about, as you can explore New York in between missions or days) so you can explore Cape Suzette
Ace Combat Zero for the aerial actions in the sky between the Sea Duck and the Air Pirates
DragonBall Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 for the scenario-style of telling the story. Each scenario is referents a season in the show's series, like the Sayian Saga is referents the start of the beginning of season one. The Frieza referents the second season of the show
In this game however, I'm thinking of making it have 61 scenarios, each referencing a single episode of Tale Spin, where you can play as Baloo or Kit, or just Baloo. (sadly Kit is not in every episodes.)
Example, you're playing in the Stormy Weather scenario, There will be a cutscene where Dan pretends to offer Kit a ride home, it'll play through that as it did in the actual episode but in the 3-D animation like in Kingdom Hearts As the Sea Duck emerged out of clouds, the outscene ends and the Sea Duck will freeze in mid-flight while Kit's fall slowed as if in slow motion and the player will hear Baloo's voice yelling: "Oh no, Kit! Hold on Kit, I'm coming for ya!" Then the Sea Duck unfreezes and the player has to play through rescuing Kit
And in the Idol Rich scenario, it'll begin with Kit walking down the dark alley, saying "Next time I decide to take a shortcut, I won't--uh-oh!" But instead of meeting the gang leader, the cutscene ends and player start making Kit attack the oncoming street pirates
Pretty cool huh?
Now, I'll explain Baloo and Kit's methods in a combat attack
Baloo punches bad guys with his fist or pick up a nearby cargo crate or a trash bin and throws them at the bad guys
Kit either throws his airfoil like a boomerang or jump-kick
This game will be every TaleSpin fans' dream! I hope they'll someday make the game just like I described. It would be awesome if they did create this game.
I'm making of having it made by Square, the company that makes the Kingdom Hearts game.
All through the game, there will be the TaleSpin theme music in the background, like in the end credit of the pilot P&L movie, like this:
It'll keep repeating itself through out the game, the sounds will be low like it's in the background. Well, what do you guys think of this?
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Aug 27, 2009 3:55:14 GMT -5
Hey guys, I decided to let you guys really see and compare the different between the Sea Duck and the PhoenixThe colors for the Phoenix is based off of Ace London's plane ("Ya got that right.") Anyway hope you enjoy these pictures: The Sea DuckThe Phoenix
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Aug 26, 2009 15:32:59 GMT -5
Eclipse from TaleSpin Source drew a picture of my character from the Organization Phoenix: Mathew Cloudkicker Now, this is REALLY good, exactly how I pictured him and this is a lot better than my own picture of him What do you guys think? I think it looks so cool and awesome. I asked Eclipse if he'd do two more pictures like that. One father and son portrait (Mathew, Kit and Chris) and one family portrait (Mathew, Kit, Chris, Baloo, Rebecca and Molly and maybe even Wildcat.) I hope he's up to it, it'd be really great if he did those portraits for me ;D
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Aug 23, 2009 21:37:10 GMT -5
Title: Kit, the Magician Authors: KitCloudkicker52885 and Kit_Lee Disclaimer: We do not own Tale Spin, Disney does. Chapter Two Meeting Aunt Melissa and Cousin Jeffery
As the following day was Sunday, the crews of Higher for Hire were relaxing, enjoying a nice day off, but none more so than Baloo, who was currently asleep in his hammock under the wing of the Sea Duck with his cap over his eyes.
The Cloudkicker brothers were inside, up in their room, spending some time together by wrestling around on the floor, both laughing playfully. Kit had Chris pinned down upon his back on the floor, sitting on Chris’ stomach.
“Okay, okay, I give up!” laughed Chris as Kit was tickling his ribs.
Kit grinned as he got up from his sitting position on Chris’ stomach and held out a hand, offering to help him up, which Chris accepted and was pulled to his feet. He took a moment to catch his breath, sitting down on his bed.
“Hey, Chris, what was it like in the orphanage?” asked Kit, sitting down on the bed beside his brother. “I mean, I’ve never been to one, except for yours. Did they treat you alright?”
“Not really,” said Chris, shrugging, suddenly looking a bit depressed. “Well, Miss Applebarn and Simba cared for me but nobody else did. Miss Applebarn was sort of like a Mom to me, I’ve loved her like a Mom.”
“Sounds like you two were really close.” Kit said sympathetically, placing a comforting arm around Chris’ shoulders and pulling him close, giving him a one-arm hug. Chris snuggles up against Kit’s side, feeling comforted in the presence of his brother, his head resting on Kit’s shoulder.
“We were,” Chris affirmed. “She wouldn’t stand for the other workers being mean to me, neither would Simba. There was this woman, Mrs. Cole, she was very mean to me. When she would punish me, she’d locked me in a closet.”
Kit gasped. “What?!” he couldn’t believe anyone would be so cruel to Chris, a cute and lovable bear cub. He wrapped both arms around Chris and hugged him tightly.
Chris sniffed as he continued: “It was dark and scary in there, I yelled to be let out, but all I heard were the other kids laughing at me and taunting me through the door. I got down on the floor and cried until Miss Applebarn let me out and held me. She rescued me, and I’ve been under her loving care ever since, until I was adopted. She made sure I was happy.”
Kit felt a rush of fury toward Mrs. Cole as he held his brother in his arms. If I ever meet that horrible woman, I’ll make her pay for what she did to Chris, by the sound of it, she traumatized him!
“What happened to Mrs. Cole?” asked Kit.
Chris suddenly grinned. “Simba gave her the axe, but not before she got a black eye from Miss Applebarn. Since that day, she’d been protective of me. I nicknamed Mrs. Cole ‘Evil Woman’.”
“That’s good,” Kit smiled. “That nickname’s more fitting for her anyway.”
“Yeah, I thought so too.” Chris said with a sly grin. “So, Kit, can you do magic?” he asked eagerly, deliberately changing the subject, talking about his past was making him feel depressed and he didn’t want to feel that way.
Kit shook his head. “No, I can’t, and neither can Ping.”
“But, what about all those amazing things he did? He pulled a quarter out of my ear!”
Chris got up from the bed and went to the bedside table, pulled the drawer open and took out the quarter he got from Ping and held it up for Kit to see.
“Chris, that was just a trick, anyone can do it.” Kit said, slightly exasperated, stepping forward toward Chris and taking the quarter from him. “Watch.”
He closed his hand over the quarter and when he opened his hand, palm up, Chris gasped. The quarter was gone! Then Kit reached behind Chris’ ear and withdrew the quarter.
Chris stared at it for a moment before exclaiming: “WOW, how did you do that?”
“Like I said, it’s a trick, anyone can do it.” Kit said. “I’ll show you how to do it.” He held out his hand, palm up with the quarter sitting in the center. “When you closed your hand around it…” he made a fist over the quarter. “You simply hide the quarter between your fingers.” He opened his hand, the quarter was gone.
Chris looked closely at Kit’s palm; it was then that he noticed something silver between Kit’s middle and index fingers.
“Oh, now I get it!” he exclaimed in delight, which surprised Kit, he was expecting disappointment rather than delight.
“And then, I reach behind your ear, and it has to be behind your ear, otherwise you would see it and wouldn’t be impressed.” Kit explained. “I reach behind your ear, like this and flip the quarter over in my hand and then draw my hand back, making the illusion that I pulled a quarter out of your ear.”
“Wow,” Chris said in awe. “It’s amazing how a trick like that can look like real magic! What else can you do?”
“Well,” said Kit, walking over to the bedside table and taking an old fashion key out the drawer. “I can make this key disappear…”
“Oh, cool, let’s see it!” Chris said excitedly.
Kit put both hands behind his back for a second then he held them out in front of him, the key was gone.
Chris stared in awe at Kit’s key-free hands and then he clapped loudly.
“Wow, how did you do that?” he asked.
Kit smirked as he lifted his right foot. There, between his toes, was the key! Kit’s smirk vanished to be replaced with a depressed look, remembering the last time he did this trick, it brought back painful memories.
“Kit?” Chris said, noticing Kit’s expression. “What’s wrong?”
Kit hung his head, what should he tell him?
The truth, Kit thought. He was open with me about his past; it’s only fair that I do the same, no matter how painful the memory is. With a sad, defeated sigh, he sat down on his bed and motion for Chris to sit beside him, Chris obeyed and sat down, looking sideway at his brother with concern.
“Chris, the last time I did this trick, I was pretending to betray my friends.” Kit said sadly. “I’m not happy with everything I did in the past,” he continued. “I never went to an orphanage like you did, I was out on the streets my whole life and I had to…do things to survive, like—like stealing…” he turned his face the other way, unable to look at Chris or let Chris see his shame. “I learned those tricks from petty thieves and I… I used them to steal food undetected…”
“Oh, Kit, you didn’t have to steal, you’re better than that,” said Chris, sounding disappointed.
Kit still wouldn’t look at him as he continued his tale.
“When I was ten, life on the streets was becoming unbearable to me, until that time, I’ve been living with a bunch of Air Hobos. And then there was this man… I stole money from him and he threatened my life and had the cops on the lookout for me, I had to get away, I had to escape from Freeport.”
“But what about your Air Hobo buddies, didn’t they try to help you?” Chris asked.
Kit shook his head, looking ever so ashamed.
“They won’t do anything when the cops are involved…” he said bitterly. “And things were getting dangerous enough for me without the cops on my tail. There were bad people on the streets, at first they seem nice but once they get what they want from you, they never give you another thought. They took what they want after I helped them get in to steal stuff and then they abandoned me, leaving me to fend for myself against street thugs and cops.”
Chris wrapped his arms around Kit, who was close to tears and hugged him tightly. Just the story alone was enough to give Chris nightmares. So his brother had it very bad growing up and by the sound of it, he had been used and betrayed more than once or even twice. Chris was astounded by how great Kit turned out after all the harsh hardships he had endured.
“…I stowed away on a cargo plane, taking a ride out of Freeport. The plane was half way to Greenport when we were attacked by Air Pirates.”
“That must have been scary.” Chris said, with a hand on Kit’s head, pushing it to his shoulder, inviting Kit to rest his head there. Kit nodded and laid his head on Chris’s shoulder, allowing himself to be comforted while Chris massaged the back of Kit’s head and his ear.
“It was,” Kit affirmed. “Gunfire and bullets were flying everywhere; I took refuge in one of the cargo crates. The pirates got onboard and they took everything that was valuable. Then, I was discovered by Dumptruck as he grabbed the back of my sweater and lifted me up out of the crate. I thought I was a goner… and then, their captain, Don Karnage took an instant liking to me and said that I had the potentials to be a great pirate. He took me from Dumptruck and carried me off to his plane and flew me to the Iron Vulture.”
“You—you didn’t join the Air Pirates, did—?” Chris fell silence; the glum expression on Kit’s face was answer enough.
“I didn’t have much of a choice,” Kit said miserably. “It was either I join them or be thrown off the Vulture way out at sea… At least they gave me some food and a cabin to myself. I spent one year with them before I finally got sick of ‘em and escaped. That’s when I met Baloo, I sort of…crashed into him during a cloudsurfing landing and then I hitched a ride in the Sea Duck. Baloo and I became fast buddies; he hired me as his navigator on the spot when we landed here.”
Kit took a moment to gather his thoughts before continuing.
“I’m not telling you everything, sorry, I missed a little detail. Before I escaped from the Air Pirates, I took what I thought was a ruby from Karnage. Well, Baloo was broke and he was behind on payments for the business and the plane, so I told him about the ruby and offered to split it between us so he could buy back his plane.”
Chris chuckled. “I bet he didn’t believe you when you told him about the ruby.”
Kit stared, wide-eyes at Chris. “Are you kidding me? He thought I was talking about a bottle cap collection before I told him it was a big glowing jewel! Even then, he didn’t believe me. I had to remind him that the pirates couldn’t have come after me for nothing…that convinced him… oh yeah, Baloo and I were chased by pirates a few times,” he added. “Sorry, I forgot to mention that.”
“It’s okay, Kit, but what happens next?” Chris asked intensely.
“Well, before we got to the place where I hid the Stone, it was too late.” Kit said. “Papa Bear lost the business and the plane to Mom. He pretended to go along with being the staff pilot so he could fly us to the place where I hid the Stone. It all went well, even if Molly did stowed away with us…we got the Stone but the pirates came after us, we managed to evade them with a mixture of Papa Bear’s genius flying skills and my cloudsurfing…”
“What is cloudsurfing, exactly?” asked Chris curiously.
“I’ll have to show you sometime, but you won’t be able to do it, not as long as you’re acrophobic. What you do is you skim on the clouds on an airfoil while holding on to the towrope attached to a plane. The Sea Duck is equipped with a towrope line. “
“Oh, kind of like waterskiing behind a boat, except it’s with the clouds and a plane, right?” Chris said. “No wonder they call you Cloudkicker, it’s beyond me why I’m even a Cloudkicker.”
“Chris, you can’t help which family you were born to.” Kit said gently. “I bet that if our birth parents were here, they would be just as proud of you as they would be of me, and they would love you no more or less than they would love me. Being acrophobic is something you can’t help, but you’re still my brother… you’ll always be my brother and I love you.”
Kit pulled Chris into a comforting embrace.
“Th-thanks.” Chris sobbed, a single tear sliding down his furry cheek before he snuggled himself against Kit in the embrace. “I love you too.”
“You’re welcome,” Kit said, massaging Chris’ head. It seems that they were taking turns comforting each other. “Back to my story then. We managed to evade the pirates, but the next day while Papa Bear and I went to see Shere Khan about the Stone, the pirates came and kidnapped Mom and Molly.” “What?” gasped Chris, looking scared for his new Mom and sister. “How did you get them back?”
“We went to Pirate Island and rescued them…” Kit said, he pushed Chris away and turned his back on Chris, hugging his knees. “But the rescue mission came with a price. Papa Bear and Mom were about to take the heat from the pirates for me and Molly, but I couldn’t let them, I didn’t want them to get hurt because of me. So, I pretended to rejoin the pirates and betray Papa Bear and Mom…Last time I did that trick where I make a key vanish behind my back…I did it while I was acting like a betrayer!”
Chris hugged Kit from behind, trying to comfort Kit, who was on the verge of tears. Now Chris could tell that Kit didn’t like to do that trick anymore, it reminded him of how he had to act like a betrayer.
“They ran for it, leaving me behind. Baloo…he thought I really did betrayed him.”
“Oh, Kit,” Chris whispered, hugging his brother tightly. “There was nothing else you could’ve done. But don’t you see? Because of you, Dad, Mom and Molly are safe, you saved them.”
“I know,” Kit said, wiping his eyes on his sleeves. “But I’m still reminded of that day every time I do that trick.”
“Well the way I see it, it was because of that trick that they’re still here.” Chris said gently. “Have you ever thought of that?”
“No…”
“Then you should,” Chris said firmly. “You saved three lives with that trick; the trick should serve as a reminder of how brave you were to risk your freedom from the Pirates and your friendship with Baloo to save him, Mom and Molly. Don’t think of your act of betrayal when you do the trick, think about how things turned out because of that trick.”
“Yeah…” Kit smiled weakly, and then his face brightened. “Yeah! You’re right, Chris, I never thought of it that way. Thanks.”
“Heh, heh, you’re welcome.” Chris said, smiling broadly.
Just then, Rebecca appeared at the doorway to their room.
“Hey, Kit, I just got off the phone with Aunt Melissa.” Rebecca said, and Kit’s face brightened at the mention of his favorite aunt. “She wants you and Chris to come downtown, she’s dying to meet Chris and she got a surprise for you both.”
“What is it, Mom?” Kit asked.
Rebecca chuckles. “If I told you, it wouldn’t be a surprise. Now hurry up and get Baloo’s lazy bum out of that hammock so we can go."
Kit grinned mischievously. “Okay, Mom. C’mon, Chris.” He grabbed his brother’s hand pulled him outside. They reached the beach, under the wooden dock. “Keep an eye open for a crab, I want it to prank Baloo with.” He said, scanning the water until he saw one, he grabbed it and stood up.
Suddenly, he heard several yelps and cries of pain, he turned on spot to see that Chris was covered with crabs, hanging onto his ears, nose, arms and legs.
“Ow, ow, ow! Get ‘em off me, get ‘em off me!” Chris yelled, stomping his feet in the water and swinging his arms around as though hoping to throw them off. “Chris, hold on!” Kit shouted, and rushing to Chris’ side, he batted the crabs off of Chris. When that ordeal with over, Chris stood glaring at Kit, no longer cheery.
“This prank has better be worth it,” he growled, poking Kit in the chest. “I don’t want to have been attacked by crabs for nothing.”
“It will, it will be worth it.” Kit assured him. "Trust me."
Back on the dock, Kit and Chris moved silently and stealthily toward Baloo. When they reached the hammock, Kit started to hold the crab beneath hammock, its’ pinchers snapping toward Baloo’s behind.
“Don’t even think about it, Kit…”
Kit was so startled; he dropped the crab and leapt backward in shock, the back of his heel landed on Chris’ toes.
“Ow! My foot.” Chris cried, clutching his foot and hopping up and down on one foot. They both look at Baloo, he was grinning with his eyes still closed.
“How did you—?” Kit began but Baloo cut him off.
“I heard the crab attack on Chris.”
“Oh great, attacked by an army of crabs for nothing!” Chris groaned despairingly, reminding Baloo of the way Kit had said ‘Oh, no, not gorilla birds!’ “Life is so cruel...”
“Well, what do ya want?” asked Baloo, opening his eyes and turning his head to look at them. “Lemme guess: Becky told ya ta get me up outta’ this hammock and you two couldn’t resist prankin’ me by setting a crab loose on me.”
“Uh, that was Kit’s idea…” Chris said nervously, backing away. “I was just going to watch…” And then, he turned on his heels and dashed back to the building, which told Baloo that Chris was not fond of getting in trouble.
“Well, Kit…” Baloo said, sitting up and stretching. “What’s Becky wants me up for?”
“Aunt Melissa called, she got a surprise for me and Chris and we wanted to go, so Mon told us to get you up.” Kit said.
“Oh, well, ya didn’t have ta set a crab on me fer that.” Baloo said, frowning. “I’d be glad to take ya.”
“Thanks Papa Bear.” Kit smiled as he took hold of Baloo’s arm and heaved him out of the hammock.
They walked up the dock toward the tall wooden building before them, Kit tugging on Baloo’s arm the whole way.
Rebecca’s car was out in front of the building and she, Chris and Molly were standing around it, waiting for them.
“Finally, what kept you, Baloo?” Rebecca said, climbing into the passenger’s seat.
“Well, I dunno, Becky…” Baloo said; a sarcastic edge to his voice. “Maybe I was doin’ what I’m supposed ta do on a day off—takin’ it easy!”
“Just get in, Baloo; we’re going to be late.” Rebecca said in her no-nonsense voice.
Grumbling about being ordered around on his day off, Baloo climbed into the driver’s seat while the kids got into the back seat.
Kit, trying to lighten the mood between him and Chris, was being silly with Chris, teasing him about the crab attack. Chris wasn’t totally mad at his brother, he in turn teased Kit on his failed attempt to prank Baloo. After a few a minutes, Kit, Chris and Molly were chatting and laughing, Chris returning to his cheery self again.
“Kit?” Chris said. “I wonder what Aunt Melissa has as a surprise to show us.” “Hmm?” Kit thought for a moment before saying: “That’s a good question, bro, I only know Aunt Melissa some from our last meeting, she didn’t say much about herself, just that she loved me and had something to show me one day.” I wonder if this is that something? he thought eagerly.
“Oh, I know what it is, Kit!” Molly cutely chimes in with a smile.
“Oh no you don’t, young lady.” Rebecca said gently and firmly at the same time. “Want me to tell Aunt Melissa that you ruined her surprise for the boys?”
“No, Mommy.” Molly said, imagining her aunt’s disappointed look. “Let’s let Kit and Chris see for themselves when we get there.” Rebecca said gently “Speaking of which, we're nearly there.”
“Whoa”! Kit shouted, noticing his surrounding, looking at the beautiful building passing by his window. “Hey, this isn't the way to Aunt Melissa’s house,” he stated, looking confused. “This is the way to the theater downtown, right?”
“That’s right, kiddo.” Baloo replied, answering Kits confusion,
“But if were going to see Aunt Melissa, we need to go the other way.” Kit said
Chris was staring at his brother amazement, seeing that Kit had good navigational skills.
“Wow.” Chris said in awe. “Where did you learned to read maps? I wish I could do that.”
“I learned it when I was younger, I’ll teach you if you’d like.” Kit said with a smile.
Rebecca interrupted them, saying: “I can’t say boys, but we’re going to meet Melissa there and then you’ll get your surprise. She asked me not to reveal anything at any time till we got there.”
Kit and Chris both sighed and said: “Okay,” looking disappointed.
“Oh don’t be like that, boys.” Rebecca said gently, “you’ll have a great time today, I promise. Until then, turn those frowns upside down.”
They gave her a weak smile and said: “Okay, Mom.”
Later, after arriving at the Cape Suzette Theater of the Performing Arts, they all walked inside, meeting Melissa backstage.
“Kit!” Melissa shouted, running forward and engulfing him in a big ‘Aunt Melissa’ version of the bear hug. “Ohh, how’s my favorite nephew? I missed seeing you, sweetie.”
“I missed you too, Aunt Melissa.” Kit said, snuggling up in Melissa’s embrace and hugging her back. “Oh, and you can’t say I’m your favorite anymore, Chris might get jealous,” he said, gesturing toward Chris.
Melissa looked over at Chris. “Aw, you both can be my favorite! Come over here, Chris and give your Aunt Melissa a hug.”
Chris walked slowly up to Melissa before she scooped him up in her other arm and hugged both him and his brother. They hugged for a moment before Melissa released them and was now looking Chris up and down.
“Aw, Chris, you’re so cute, I could just eat you up!” Melissa exclaimed, pinching Chris’ cheek. “And you have such adorable, pretty blue eyes!”
“Thanks, ma’am.” Chris muttered, looking down to hide the fact that he was blushing scarlet at her complements.
“What’s the outfit for, Aunt Melissa?” Kit asked, noticing her magician costume for the first time. “I didn’t know you were a magician.”
“Oh sorry, Kit, I wanted that to be a surprise, sweetie,” she said, looking at Kit while ruffling Chris’ hair affectionately. “Yes, I am, in fact, a magician and here I have something for you and the family.”
Melissa conjured five tickets with backstage passage, sparkling with a firework effect, out of thin air. She handed Kit and Chris two special ones.
Kit noticed that his and Chris’ tickets were gold while Baloo, Rebecca and Molly’s were silver.
“Wow, you really are a magician!” Chris exclaimed, overjoyed. “That’s a neat trick! I love magic! Kit’s been teaching me a few tricks.”
“He has?” Melissa said, acting surprised. “Well, that’s just wonderful. You’re such a sweet little gentleman, aren’t you?”
Chris nodded, blushing again as Melissa tussles his hair. He’s such a modest bear cub.
“Heh, heh, heh, heh.” Chris laughed, almost giggling at the kindness of his new aunt.
“Aww…” the rest of the adults cooed,
Just then, another bear cub came walking backstage from his dressing room. His fur was chocolaty brown and his eyes were hazel blue. He was dressed in his junior magician’s assistance costume. Kit knew him as Jeffery, a friend from school.
“What’s all this awwing for, Mom?” he demanded, “Are you embarrassing Kit?”
“Who, me?” Melissa asked innocently, gesturing to herself. “Oh no, son, I would never do such a thing! I was just having fun with your other cousin.”
“COUSINS?!” Kit and Chris shouted together, looking confused.
“Oh yes!” Melissa exclaimed in delight. “Kit, Chris, this boy here in the ruby red and gold assistants outfit, is my twelve—almost thirteen— year-old son, Jeffery.”
“What?” Kit exclaimed, his jaw dropping. “B-b-but how? I though you were just my friend from school, Jeffery! No way your m-m-my cousin.” Kit was so shocked by this revelation that he couldn’t help stuttering a little.
Jeffery laughed at Kit’s shocked and stupefied expression
“Yeah, sorry bout that, Kit. Mom told me not to tell you yet.” Jeffery explained with a grin, both hands behind his head, trying to keep his composer.
“Wow!” Chris said in awe, gazing at Jeffery with admiration. “You’re my cousin and you work with you Mom doing magic?”
“Yep” Jeffery said, moving over to Chris and ruffling his hair like Melissa did. “It’s pretty neat too, gives me something to do with my Mom. My hobbies have been magic for a few years now, so Mom added me here as her assistant. You’ll see me in every trick tonight, except one.”
Jeffery leans over and whispered in Chris’s ear that he and his brother are going to be helping in a trick at the end of the show.
“Wow,” Chris exclaimed, excitedly. “Hey, can we tell Kit?” he asked in a voice so low that Kit could not hear, he wouldn’t be able to any way, as he was getting yet another hug from his Aunt Melissa.
“Not yet,” Jeffery said, pointing his finger to his head. “Keep it in here, Chris, till later.”
“Okay, Jeffery.” Chris said with a slight laugh.
“Kit, Chris, I hear that you two are working on doing magic together, like me and Jeffery.” Melissa said, ruffling Jeffery’s hair.
“Mom…!” Jeffery whined, batting her hand away from his hair. “You’re messing my hair up and I had it nice and neat for the show tonight.”
“Oh sorry, dear, I guess old habits are hard to break.” Melissa said, pinching Jeffery’s cheek, which caused him to blush, before turning her attention back to her nephews. “How bout you read your tickets? Go on, there’s a nice surprise on them.”
“You never run out of surprises, do you?” Kit remarked, grinning.
Melissa laughed and said: “No, I guess not. But then again, a magician is rarely out of surprises. Now hurry up and read your tickets!” she urged them.
Both Kit and Chris did so and it said in Melissa’s handwriting:
This ticket permits you, Kit and Chris, my nephews To be honorary assistant in my show tonight. So be listening for me to call you up. And as a special gift, you will be dressed-up as assistant In the trick. See Jeffery after I call you on stage for you outfits.
“Wow!” Chris yelled, jumping for joy like he had too much sugar again, saying: "Thank you, thank you Aunt Melissa! That’s so awesome!”
“I though you would like that, Chris.” Melissa said with smile, massaging Chris’ ear gently. “Oh Kit, what’s wrong?” she asked, noticing the nervous look on Kit’s face. “Don’t you want to help out too?” she finished putting on her tux and top hat.
“Nothing, Aunt Melissa, I love it!” Kit said earnestly. “But what are you going to do to me? I see I’m listed as main assistant, right?”
“Oh yes, Kit,” smiled Melissa. “Don't worry, you’ll love it. But it’s still a surprise.”
“Okay,” Kit said as Jeffery was jumping up and down with Chris, both happy to be working together and having met each other. Kit observed his brother and cousin for a moment, even though they were not blood relatives, he still couldn’t help but wondering if being hyperactive due to even a small amount of excitement runs in the family…
“Hey, hey, attention please.” Rebecca called out, interrupting the happy meeting. “That’s better, sorry,” she laughs happy to see her sons happy. “Hey, I have an idea, let’s get a picture of everyone together for a family picture,” she suggested. “So we can remember this moment.”
“Sure!” everyone agreed as they got together, from the tallest to the shortest.
As the stage manger came bustling over, he stopped and offered to take picture for Rebecca. She agreed and handed him her camera before going to stand next to Melissa.
“Say ‘abracadabra!” Melissa said, and as they did all so, she made a shower of confetti rain over them like Ping had done the day before, but Melissa did it so differently, it was like a different trick.
Just a second away from the camera flash, Jeffery grinned mischievously as he held up two fingers behind Chris’ head.
“Still think it’s all a trick now, Kit?” asked Chris, clapping wildly, oblivious to what Jeffery had done in the picture-taking.
“Hmm…” Kit was stumped this time. It was a trick, wasn’t? He didn't know because this was his aunt, a pro magician, not some amateur like Ping was.
Kit smiled and nodded as he tried to think of a prosper response for his brother’s question.
“Heh, okay, you got me bro. I don’t know this time.” Kit said. “Aunt Melissa, can you tell us how you did that?”
“Nope! Sorry Kit, a true magician never reveals his or her secrets.” she smiled, knowing the one she had planed for him would be one he would never figure out.
“Miss Melissa, they’re ready for you and your son,” said the stage manger who took their family picture.
“Aww, do you have to leave already, Aunt Melissa?” Chris and Kit asked in unison. “How did you do that?” they asked each other. “Do what?—Say what I say.”
Melissa laughed; they look so funny and cute asking each other the same question at exactly the same time. Jeffery was watching them with an awed look on his face.
“Sorry boys, I’ll see you on stage at the end of the show, I promise.” Melissa said, giving her favorite nephews a big hug and a kiss on their forehead.
“We’ll be watching, sis.” Rebecca said, placing a hand on Melissa’s shoulder. “Front row right?”
“Yes sis, you’ll be right in front of me for the whole show.” Melissa said before turning her attention back to her nephews. “Oh, and Rebecca?”
“Yes?” Rebecca acknowledged her.
“Just be sure to have Kit and Chris ready for me to call them on stage,” Melissa said, “so they can go change into the costume outfits I have for them backstage behind the curtain. Jeffery will help them out, so no worries there.” She then gave Kit and Chris a hug. “Also Kit?” Kit looked up at his aunt as she addressed him. “I can’t reveal the trick I'm doing on you just yet, but I hope you’ll like it."
“Gee, thanks Aunt Melissa! I’ll try, I promise.” Kit replied.
Silently, Chris was laughing behind his hand, thinking: Oh yes, this is going to be great! I can’t wait to see his face and watch him squirm…that’ll be priceless! For he knew the trick that his brother was going to be involved in…
Melissa smiled at the two bear cubs before saying: “Well, I gotta go, hope you’ll enjoy the show.”
“We will!” Kit and Chris replied in unison, there voices mixing.
As she left, Jeffery came over and hugged them both as he walked by before taking sip of water from his water bottle to stay hydrated in his assistant’s costume, but he didn’t mind it, the jump suit was his design after all.
“And don’t worry, my cousins.” Jeffery said, hugging Kit and Chris. “You have a great time, we heard you’ve seen Ping and Grace, they’re good but you’ll find that me and Mom are as well,” Jeffery said with a wink before he walked out to the stage after his mother as Kit and Chris went to take their seats.
A few minutes later, they had taken their seats and Rebecca had got refreshments (again, since Baloo’s payday was a few days away.) and sat down as the light over the audience faded and went out and a spotlight appeared on the center of the red and gold curtains. And then music and a drum roll begin to play.
“Ladies and gentleman,” said a male voice over the PA system. “please put your hands together and welcome Cape Suzette’s own, the amazing Melissa and her assistant, the equally amazing Jeffery!”
“There they are!” shouted Chris, whooping, hollering and cheering for his aunt and cousin, as did Kit.
Rebecca and Baloo looked over at the children and say to each other: “This is the best idea ever,” as they watch the kid having the time of their life.
“Thank you! thank you!” Melissa said waving her pink and lavender silver stared cape around the back of her tux and shoulders, making her wand appear with a bang in her hand as she had Jeffery bring out their first trick…
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Aug 17, 2009 21:15:28 GMT -5
Title: Kit, the Magician
Authors: KitCloudkicker52885 and Kit_Lee
Disclaimer: We do NOT own Tale Spin, Disney does.
Chapter One, Introducing: Chris Cloudkicker
Chris Cloudkicker was sitting on his bed, looking nervous. He was a twelve-year-old bear cub, his fur was a golden shade of light brown and his eyes were blue and he wore a light blue woolen sweater with a navy blue neck collar. He was usually a cheerful bear cub despite his upbringing in the orphanage, but today he was very nervous.
He had just been told that he has a brother—a twin brother— and that he was going to meet that brother today. At first, he was excited, whooping for joy but now that the excitement have worn off a bit, he begin to feel anxious and slightly apprehensive.
What if he doesn’t like me? What if he’s big and mean and will push me around? All the negative questions that goes through a young boy’s head when under such anxiety.
“Chris dear, they’re here,” said his caretaker, Miss Vanessa Applebarn, a motherly-looking fox with a kind, good-natured face.
Chris begins to panic, he was half-tempted to dive under his bed but he stayed where he was, trembling.
Miss Applebarn sensed the tension and stress Chris was under and walked over to his side, bent down and wrapped her arms around Chris.
“Don’t worry, Chris,” she whispered, knowing exactly what was bothering him. “I’ve spoken with them, they’re really nice people and your brother is really very kind, he’ll love you, I think he already does. He practically demanded to see you; he’s very much looking forward to meeting you.”
“Really?” Chris asked as his face lit up with a bright and joyous smile.
“Yes,” Miss Applebarn replied, smiling gently. “You better hurry, don’t want to keep them waiting, do you?”
To respond to that question, Chris leapt out of Miss Applebarn’s embrace and dashed out the door.
Entering Simba’s office, Chris saw four bears standing around the lion’s desk. One of them looks exactly like him, except for the lime green woolen sweater and his fur was brown. Compare to Chris’ golden light brown fur, this bear was darker than him. He knew this had to be his brother, there was no mistaking it. Apart from their fur, eyes and clothes colors, they looked exactly the same. His twin also wore a blue baseball cap with a red brim.
His brother stepped forward, grinning and holding out his hand for Chris to shake.
“Hey, I’m Kit, Kit Cloudkicker. And you’re Chris, right?”
“Yeah,” Chris replied, accepting the handshake. When the handshake was broken, Kit flung his arms around Chris’ shoulders and hugged him very tightly. When the embrace ended, Kit took Chris by the hand and led him over to the big fat gray bear in a yellow flight shirt and a red pilot cap.
“Chris, this is my adoptive Dad, Baloo von Bruinwald.” Kit said, gesturing to the pilot.
“Hi, sir.” Chris said timidly, looking down at his feet so to avoid eye contact. He couldn’t help it, he has always been a bit intimidated by people bigger than him and Baloo was like a giant to him.
Baloo smiled gently, bending down to Chris’ level, he reached under Chris’ chin and lifted it up a bit.
“Hey there, Chris,” he said, patting Chris gently on the head. “The name’s Baloo, best pilot in the skies—if it got wings, I can fly it, sometimes if it doesn’t.”
“Wow, really?!” Chris asked excitedly, forgetting his shyness. “Can you really fly anything, even if doesn’t have wings?” “Uh, well… sometimes, yeah.” Baloo said hesitantly.
Chris grinned and chuckles. “I’d like to see you try to fly a refrigerator.”
“Well I—HEY! Are you sayin’ I’m fat?” Baloo asked indignantly.
The female bear laughed. “He got you there, Baloo,” she said, lightly punching Baloo’s stomach. Baloo just grumbled as he massages his stomach. “Hi, Chris, my name’s Rebecca Cunningham, nice to meet you.”
“Nice to meet you too, Miss Cunningham.” Chris said politely, taking her hand and kissing it.
“Oh, my, what a nice little gentleman you are…” Rebecca said, smiling down at Chris. “…unlike someone I know,” she added with bored expression, her narrowed eyes seems to be directed at Baloo.
“Well, Chris.” Simba said, speaking for the first time since Chris’ arrival. “These two are interested in adopting you, as they’ve already adopted your brother. Would you like that?”
Chris looked shocked and surprised, he stared up at Baloo and Rebecca and then he glanced at Kit and the little yellow she-bear, who was looking up at him hopefully.
“No, I wouldn’t like it…” Chris replied in a hushed voice. Baloo and Rebecca hung their heads, looking disappointed and Kit was staring at him with wide disbelieving eyes, his mouth hanging open. Then Chris put on a big grin. “…I would LOVE it!” he shouted, and then he fell backward onto the floor in a fit of laugher, pointing at their priceless stupefied faces. “Your faces! Ha, ha, ha, ha! PRICELESS!”
They stood there with stunned looks on their faces. Kit recovered first; he marched over to Chris’ side and lightly bonked him on top of the head with a fist.
“Ow!”
“Don’t scare me like that again!” Kit said, trying to sound stern but his mouth kept twisting into a grin, ruining the desired effect. Then he flung an arm around Chris’ neck, bringing him under a headlock. “I mean it, Chris, if you ever scare me like that again…” he left the rest of the threat unsaid as he proceeds to give his brother a light nuggie on the head, so not to hurt him…much. Action speaks louder than words, after all…
“Okay, okay!” Chris said, laughing despite his slight discomfort. “Sorry, Kit, I just couldn’t resist. You can understand that, right?’
Kit laughed and gave Chris another good nuggie on the head for good measure, saying: “Ah, I joke sometimes too, but don’t do that to me again! Twelve years I didn’t know you existed and you scared me like that! Heh, you’re quite a kidder, bro, but I still love ya.”
Kit then released Chris and pulled him into a big bear hug.
“I love you too, Kit.” Chris said, enjoying the brotherly embrace, it felt so good to be with his brother.
“Chris,” Kit said as they ended the embrace, gesturing to the little yellow she-bear. “I’d like you to meet my adoptive sister, Molly.”
Chris approached Molly with a warm smile. “Hey there, kiddo,” he said, patting Molly on top of the head. “You’re a real ray of sunshine, aren’t you?”
Molly stared at him for a moment and then she giggled. “I like you, Chris.”
“I like you too, Molly,” Chris bent down and hugged her. “So far, you haven’t kicked me in the shin yet.”
That comment was met with laugher from the adults and Kit.
“Well,” Simba said, addressing Baloo and Rebecca. “Since Chris has no objections in being adopted, you need only sign these forms and then be on your way.”
Baloo and Rebecca signed the forms, since they were not married, they would be sharing joint custody of Chris, as they do with Kit.
“How did you guys get here?” Chris asked as they were walking down the front steps of the orphanage, looking around for a car or some form of transportation
“Flew.” Kit said with a grin.
“Flew?”
“We came by plane.” Kit explained to his brother.
Chris froze in mid-walk down the steps, a look of terror on his face.
“Chris, are you okay, son?” Baloo asked in concern, placing a hand on Chris’ shoulder from behind.
“You c-c-came by…p-p-plane?” Chris asked, stuttering from apparent fear.
“Yeah. What’s the matter, Lil’ Buddy?” Baloo asked, scooping Chris up in his arms, afraid he might fall down the rest of the stone steps in his near-petrified state, carrying him down the rest of the way. “Don’t ya like planes?”
Chris looked at Baloo’s face, still looking scared. “Y-y-yes, I love p-p-planes.”
“Then what’s the problem?” asked Baloo, looking confused.
“Yeah, Chris, what’s wrong?” Kit asked through a look of concern. He reached up and patted his brother consolingly on the back.
Chris moaned, he didn’t want to make his brother think that he was a little baby who was scared of high places, but he couldn’t see a way out of this without admitting his fear.
“I’mafriadofheights.” Chris blurted out in a rush.
“What did you say, sweetie?” asked Rebecca, she too looked concerned as she place a comforting hand on Chris’ cheek, giving it a gentle rub.
Chris closed his eyes lazily, feeling himself relaxing to Rebecca’s touch. Rebecca smiled as she lifted Chris out of Baloo’s arms to hold him herself.
Chris wrapped his arms around her neck as she massaged the back of his head. It felt nice to be held, comforted and loved, as though by a mother.
“It’s okay, Chris,” Rebecca said soothingly, “Now, can you say that again? – More slowly this time?”
“I’m afraid of heights,” he whimpered in her ear.
“Oh, you mean you’re acrophobic?”
Chris nodded his head against her shoulder in reply.
Rebecca glanced at Baloo for help. Baloo thought for a moment before giving his opinion on the matter.
“Well, we could blindfold him, if that doesn’t work, I could fly low…”
Rebecca shifted Chris so that she was holding him with her right arm, looking at her watch on her left wrist.
“It’s two-thirty, Baloo,” she said. “Why don’t we wait a little while before we coax Chris into flying home with us?
“Sure Becky,” Baloo agreed. “But what’re we gonna do in the meantime? We can’t just stand out here all day.”
Rebecca gently set Chris down on his feet before looking thoughtfully at Baloo.
“I’ve heard this town has a magic show that starts at three this afternoon,” she said. “We could go to that…”
Molly suddenly got excited. “Yeah, Mommy, let’s go!”
“Sure, sweetie. Rebecca said gently. Oh wait, I forgot to ask what the boys think. “Kit, Chris, what do you think, wanna go?” she asked.
“Sure, that sounds great.” Kit replied.
“YEAH!” Chris shouted, looking so excited. “That sounds so neat! I’ve never seen a magic show before. Oh, I’m so excited!”
Later that afternoon, in the town square, there was in fact a show being set up by a local magician and his lovely assistant.
Rebecca bought the tickets AND the popcorn and soda for five, as if she had a choice… Baloo was nearly always broke, so it was up to her to pay for the snacks and drinks as well.
Ooh, sometimes I just want to strangle that bear… she thought darkly as she paid for HIS large soda and bucket of popcorn and a hotdog.
Chris was looking so overexcited like his new sister, Molly was.
“Kit?” Chris asked.
“Yeah?” Kit responded as he found his seat and sat down, his soda and small box of popcorn in his hands.
“Have you ever seen a magic show before?” Chris asked, sitting down next to his brother and cramming a handful of popcorn into his mouth.
Kit paused and thought for a moment, trying to think whether he had or not.
“No…I don’t think so…” Kit replied. “If I had, I was really young and don’t remember. But I hear they’re really neat.”
Rebecca then interrupted the boys, saying. “Chris, I think you will have great time being part of the family. I already feel that in my heart.”
She sat down next to Chris with Baloo sitting on her other side and Molly sat on her lap.
Chris slightly blushes, giving Rebecca a hug over the armrest of his seat.
“They’re about to start,” Baloo said before cramming a whole hotdog into his mouth. Rebecca glared daggers at Baloo for his lack of manners, which went on unnoticed by the large pilot.
Just then, the magician, a medium suture panda bear dressed in a black and green suit with a white undershirt came on stage.
“Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to my show! I'm glad you all came out to this very exciting magic show!” yelled the panda magician to the crowd. “My name is Ping, the Great! And this is my lovely assistant… Grace!” Ping pulled out his magic wand, making it appear as if came from thin air into his hand.
Chris, who was watching very intensely, exclaimed: “Wow! Did you see that, Kit? Wow! That’s so neat! I wonder how he did that?” he asked, still overexcited.
“I don’t know Chris,” Kit replied, “but that sure was neat! But, there has to be a catch...” But what, Kit thought.
Chris claps loudly in amazement as the panda wave a starry sheet in front of his assistant, making her disappear and then reappear with another wave of the sheet.
“WOW!” Chris shouted, clapping wildly. “That’s the most amazing thing I ever seen in my life! Kit, can you do anything like that?”
“Of course he can!” Molly said before her brother could speak.
“Uh yeah, sure bro.” Kit laughed.
“That’s cool,” Chris said as they watch the magician on stage pulled a rabbit out of his top hat.
“Aww, cute rabbit!” cooed Molly, watching the bunny more than the magician. Rebecca and Baloo look at her and smile.
“Now Molly,” Rebecca said. “You can’t have the bunny, but yes, he is cute.”
Chris was on the edge of his seat, looking over at the magician, wondering what trick he had in mind next.
The panda magician, Ping said: “I have a special one for you now, ladies and gentlemen. As you can see, there is nothing up my sleeves and nothing in my hands... Now, watch closely.” He reached into his sleeve and pulled out a long rainbow colored scarf, it was so long that it took him a full minute to reach the end of it and pull it out of his sleeve.
He then took out his wand, pointed it high over the audience and said the magic word: “Abracadabra!” There was a bang and a shower of confetti burst out from the wand’s tip and flew over the audience.
In the audience, Molly laughed cutely at the words with a giggle and a smile, even as she and her brothers were being showered with the confetti.
Ping gave his wand a flick and it transformed itself into a bouquet of flowers, saying: “Ta-da, a set of beautiful flowers for a pretty lady.” Bending down, he gave the flowers to Molly for her cute laugh.
Molly giggles and thanked him. Chris was totally awestruck by all this.
“Kit!” he shouted, “This is so neat! Thank you Mom and Dad, for bringing me! If you really can do magic, please show me some! I want to know how it all works, like how did he do that flower trick, how did he pull the rabbit from his hat? And all the other tricks.”
Chris overly excited, asked his brother over and over, how did he do this, how did he do that, it was almost like he was hyper from too much sugar or something.
Kit was at a loss, he really didn’t know how it was done. Some of ‘em looks like simple stuff I’ve done. I guess I can show Chris a few of ‘em … he thought.
“Now for my final trick, I will make my lovely assistant levitate!” Ping said.
He lays his assistant (also a panda bear) on a table and covered her with a magic sheet. Chris looks on carefully to see how it was done, but he could not see anything out of the ordinary.
Ping waved his wand over his assistant, using a rising motion with his hand and his assistance rose a foot from the table and hovered there.
“As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, she is actually floating above the table.” Ping the magician said. “Now watch carefully!
Now Chris was practically on the edge of his seat in excitement.
Ping then passes a hoop around and over his assistant, completely passing around her.
Chris grinned broadly and clapped wildly, whistling in his appreciation of the trick and the show he had just enjoyed so much.
Kit and Molly look at their brother in amazement, seeing he wasn’t as timed as they thought.
“Chris, you okay bro?” Kit asked, “It’s just a trick. And I think you’ve had a little too much soda…” he added, gently taking the soda bottle out of Chris’ hand.
“Yeah, I’m fine.” Chris replied smiling, not caring that his brother just took away his root beer. “I just love this show so much.”
Ping the magician was saying his good-byes and thanking the crowd, saying:
“You’re too kind, you’re too kind!” he said, bowing with his assistant and then. He bent down to face Chris, who was sitting in the front row, and said: “Hey kid, I think you got something in your ear.”
“I do?” Chris said, looking surprised and confused.
“Yes, you do.” Ping said. He reached behind Chris’ ear and withdrew a quarter. “See?” and he gave it to Chris to keep. “Buy yourself a gumball, kid.” This little gesture put Chris’ excitement for magic into full swing.
“Wow, thank you, Ping.” Chris said in awe, accepting the quarter and gazing at it as if it were some fabulous treasure. Turning to his brother, he said: “Kit, you have to show me some tricks sometime, I want to do magic too!”
“Well now, that sounds like a great idea.” said Baloo, watching his two sons having fun and talking as if they had never been apart.
“How cute, Chris,” Rebecca said, smiling in amusement. “I’m sure you and your brother would be great at magic.” She said encouragingly.
“Kit, whaddya say, bro, can you teach me, please?” Chris asked insistently with a cute puppy-dog look. “And yes, I loved the show, Mom, thanks for asking.”
“Sure,” Kit replied. “I’ll do what I can.”
“That is so sweet, Kit, for you to teach your brother magic.” Rebecca said, giving both her boys a hug. Compare to Chris, Kit acts a little more mature, she thought, observing the two bear cubs. Chris seems a little more childish than his brother. Maybe it’s because Chris wasn’t forced to grow up so fast and toughen up for street survival, Kit acts like an adult sometimes and Chris is acting a little younger than his actual age. He gets so excited over little things. But he does seem happy.
As they left the town in the Sea Duck, Rebecca held Chris in her arms the whole way back home, just to be sure he didn’t feel unsafe flying back home. She sat in Kit’s usual seat, with two of the children on her laps - Chris and Molly
Baloo flew low as he said he would, though Chris and Molly talked about the show more than anything else.
Kit was thinking to himself the whole way home, wondering: Do I really have a talent for magic to teach Chris? I don’t want to let my brother down.
As Chris reached out from his new Mom to hug his brother, he said: “Kit, you're the greatest brother ever!’
“Aww…” cooed Rebecca and Baloo as Chris took Kit’s cap off and pretended to pull a rabbit out of it.
Back at home, Kit was thinking of some simple tricks to show Chris, he thought: I can show him a few tricks… but which ones?
When they entered the upstairs’ bedroom of Higher for Hire, Chris took over Baloo’s bed while Baloo set up a hammock downstairs in the corner of the office, like Kit did on his first night there when the place was still called Baloo’s Air Service.
Kit spent the rest of the night trying to think of what to teach Chris as his brother slept in Baloo’s bed, sleeping with a peaceful smile on his face.
Authors' Note:
We, KitCloudkicker52885 and Kit_Lee, are working together on this story, we really hope you've enjoyed the story so far. Your reviews will be most welcomed and appreciated.
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Aug 11, 2009 22:23:54 GMT -5
Hey, Pashka Geraskin, I hope you don't mind, I took your drawing of Kit as a magician and colored it, what do you think? The idea for the color of Kit's cape came from the color of Darkwing Duck's cape, cool huh? I hope you like it.
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Aug 6, 2009 21:38:32 GMT -5
I took a coloring book picture of Kit from TaleSpin HQ and colored it, then I made a copy of that Kit and edited it into Chris, what do you think? I call it "Kit and Chris, Play Ball!" lol Well I hope you guys like it. Nice Cloring and editing Job here Kc5 really nice Love the I got it I got comic bubble thats a nice add in there. Thanks for share and I like it. Nice job deffently imaginative Jut leave me to wouder though whos troughing the ball Ballo I guess but since this is for you fan Fiction stories it could be Baloo or Matthew. But Nicely done. very cute Sincerely Your Friend Kit Lee Christopher. :0) It was Mathew who threw the ball, he got a good arm for throwing. Neither of the two brothers caught the ball though, they ran around in circles under it until they bumped into each other and fell to the ground on their backs. The ball will land on the ground between them. lol That's funny when you imagine the scene playing in your head, LOL
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Aug 6, 2009 18:40:32 GMT -5
I took a coloring book picture of Kit from TaleSpin HQ and colored it, then I made a copy of that Kit and edited it into Chris, what do you think? I call it "Kit and Chris, Play Ball!" lol Well I hope you guys like it.
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Aug 2, 2009 23:22:34 GMT -5
Here is a great and awesome video, made by disneymisc, (aka Kitckw) upon my request Disneymisc did an AWESOME job on this video, I mean, it's PERFECT! A round of applause for this brilliant masterpiece, made by Disneymisc are in order **Claps loudly and enthusiastically**Now, on with the show!
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Post by KitCloudkicker5285 on Jun 26, 2009 21:24:49 GMT -5
Kc5! My friend and pal, wow I can honestly say this is the 100% pure spurtial other version of my two story for Kits 13th Birthday you did very very well on this. The reference to Disneyland or world with Mousey land was priceless, and I only wish i had thought of that. the blind fold gag was right from mine and chrisno's story. I'm literally speechless. tears of Joy Bud causes this was really really full of heart and emotions as well. excellently done. you know I would be honored if you like i Did yours conceder my story Spread your wings and yours and together. Cause they are so much the same in the same heart felt style as well. nice job 10/10 ;D man I'm speech less. A 1 Bud nice. no excellent job. Home is were the heart is thats the best ending ever. Thank you for sharing Your Friend. Kit Lee. Christopher. :0) Thank you for those kind words, Kit_Lee. Do you know what's funny, I never even thought about your Spread Your Wings fan fiction, I haven't read it in a long time, I was writing from my own ideas and wrote the characters based on how much I knew of them I'm reading your Spread Your Wings story now, I seen a few similarities, but not much. I was wondering if I could edit it for you, make it neater and such Example, a line from your story “Well” Baloo stated “I know you wanted to be alone on your birthday, but Miss Cunningham and I decided to give you a little surprise party. What do you think, kiddo?” I can't see Baloo referring to Rebecca as "Miss Cunningham", even while speaking to Kit, he'd most likely would've said "but Becky an' I decided ta give you a little surprise party." Also, I can't really picture them married, but I, along with many others loved the idea of those two getting married but in my writing, I had to stay realistic and write the characters the way I know of them from the show in order to stay true to their characters. From what I've seen, even as they go out to dinner sometimes, especially the StarryWood episode, they'd most likely share joint custody of Kit. I can't really see them being anything other then close friends, much less being married couples. But it is a very good story, I love it too. Hoping you're well God bless you --KC5285
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