Muffin's Adventure in the Space Jungle (Chapter 3)

Muffin’s big brown eyes reflected what lay before her. ‘Wow! I’ve never seen anything like it before!’ Muffin looked out to see a wide and open glade surrounded by tall trees. Only, the glade was not grassy as there was no grass on the ground. In fact the ground did not look firm at all, but it did not look like a lake either. It looked like a large soft green mass.

‘How unusual.’ Muffin purred. ‘What ever could it be?’ Muffin’s face glowed as the setting red suns reflected off the large green mass and onto her orange furry face.

‘I wonder what it feels like?’ Muffin was a very inquisitive creature and always liked to feel things to see whether they were hard, soft, smooth, rough, hot or cold. ‘Maybe I should just touch it with the tip of my paw.'

Muffin cautiously crept down the bank to the edge of the large green mass. She reached out her left paw (she was a left-pawed cat) and… she touched it!

‘Oooh, that feels strange. Kind of soft and squidgy. A little bit warm too. Maybe I’ll just check it again.’ Muffin once again reached out her paw and touched the big green mass. This time a bit of it remained on her paw.

‘A bit slimy too! But it still feels nice to touch.’ Muffin, now feeling comfortable with what lay before her decided to walk onto the green mass so that all four of her space cat paws were on it.

She started to sing to herself, ‘What a lovely squidgy thing! What a lovely squidgy thing that I have found! La di-da da da di-da!’ As she sang, she began to dance on the green mass. She was having a great time. She started jumping up and down on it and watching in amazement as ripples were sent all across her ‘squidgy thing’.

Then came the moment she would quickly regret. You may have seen earth cats before. If you have you will probably have seen them doing that thing they love to too on nice furry carpets – they get out their cat claws and start scratching and pulling on the carpet. Muffin, though she was a space cat, was no different from the earth cats in this respect. She also enjoyed digging her claws into things and this squidgy green mass seemed to be exactly the thing to do it on.

Muffin crouched down low then, using her springy leg muscles, she leaped high into the air. As she reached the highest height she produced one, two, three, four sets of cat claws from her cat paws. Then she fell back down, faster than rain, towards the large green mass with her claws ready to dig in.

‘Wahoooo!’ she screamed with glee. ‘Here I come!’

Muffin landed with a great big, ‘KATHUMP!’ which was immediately followed by a sound that shook the entire space jungle, ‘RAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!’

[Chapter 4]