Yay next chapter officially the longest chap yet! For every grey line it's a change of scene and date, just so you don't get confused. This is the chap the kits find out their powers SPOILER!

This chapter's dedicated to my cat!

DISCLAIMER: Still don't own Cats, but I claim the story!

Chapter 6

The day was quiet and peaceful in the junkyard, the young kittens were in shared lessons with Jenny and Jelly as there was now such a large number they needed two pairs of eyes to watch them. The elder cats were sleeping in shaded parts of junk piles while the adolescents scoured through the dark forest for lunch. On the other side of the park however it wasn't so quiet, the older kittens were sitting by the tall oak tree chatting and playing games. Tanto and Cori were chatting quietly on the roots of the tree laughing at the antics of most of the other kittens. Quaxo was climbing the tree above them staying out of others way, Tugger and Nyoka were chasing each other through the bushes because Nyoka had 'accidentally' spilt honey on his mane. Macavity, Munk, Alonzo, Demeter and Bomba were playing a game of cards which Mac was easily cheating at and Mari and Leo were rolling around in the grass. The kits had found the place when Tugger was being chased by Etcetera and Electra. They had been there since early morning and would soon be thinking about going home for lunch.

Coricopat stood up and stretched his bones as he'd been sitting in the same position since they came here. He heard a small thump above his head and looked up to see Quaxo walking along on a wobbly branch; he opened his mouth to tell him to be careful. Suddenly there was a loud crunch and the cats nearest turned to see the young tuxedoed tom falling down from the tree, the branch had snapped off at an odd angle and was heading towards the spot Tugger and Nyoka were playing. Loud crashes and cries came from all around, everything went blurry and Coricopat soon could no longer tell which blur was which kit. A light appeared and no matter how many times he blinked it still stayed as bright. The light began to grow, filling out all the blurry spots. Cori shook his head as the area around him began to spin. He fell over holing his head trying to stop the spinning, he cried out in pain, he didn't know what the pain was or where it was coming from but it was like he was being forced backwards. The world around him turned a bright white and the pain continued, the world was still swirling and he still couldn't see properly. He passed out.

He opened his eyes suddenly. He blinked in confusion, the old tree was back, the grass was green, the weird light had gone and he could see clearly again. There was Mac, Munk, Dem and Bomba playing cards, Leo and Mari rolling in the dirt, Tanto was beside him, Tugger and Nyo were playing nearby and Quaxo... Quaxo! The branch!

He quickly got off the roots and looked up in the tree. Tanto stared at him bewildered; he ignored her and searched for the little tom. He spotted him climbing onto the branch.

"Quaxo! What are you doing?" he yelled nearly causing the kit to lose his balance.

"Climbing!" he replied after steadying himself.

"If you're going on that branch grab onto the one above!" Cori instructed him. The cats were all looking now, curious as to what the tom was talking about.

"Why?" Quaxo asked holding onto the branch and taking a step forward. The wood crumbled underneath his light weight and fell to the ground. Quaxo was safe holding onto the branch for grim death was safe, and Nyoka and Tugger? They too were safe, because of their curiosity to Cori's outburst; they had spotted the branch and moved out of the way. The others stood in awe at the grey twin, who held his arms out for Quaxo to jump into them.

Once he was safe on the ground questions were fired at Cori. How he knew what was going to happen, was the most frequently asked. He didn't have an answer for that, yet. The kits agreed not to tell the adults about it and Cori had a new nickname – The Predictor.

It had been a while since the near fatal tree accident and most things were back to normal. Normal meaning Cori hadn't had the same weird experience since then. The night was closing in and some of the kittens were still playing in the clearing. Amongst them were Rum Tum Tugger, Etcetera, Electra, Exotica and Victoria. Tugger had become quite popular with these queens and all the others as well, but the four seemed to have formed some sort of fan club and constantly followed him around. Naturally he used this to his own advantage. Should he require anything whilst they were around he would merely have to hint at it and they would run off and return with the item in minutes.

On this night Tugger was lounging on the car boot watching the queens fight for his attention. Etcetera was yelling – or something that sounded like yelling, Electra was doing some acrobatic tricks she had learnt from George and Exotica was brushing his mane back into place. The only queen who wasn't trying to get his attention tonight was Victoria. Tugger had noticed this and was a little confused. She had been one of the main leaders of the fan club before Etcetera learnt how to speak – or squeal. Now she would follow around but not scream and flutter her eyelids at him when he made an appearance in the yard. The younger kittens were called in by Jenny as it was getting late, leaving Tugger and Victoria alone.

"So Vicky," he said smoothly. The white queen turned to him, blue eyes gazing innocently into his. "What's going on with you recently?"

"What do you mean Tugger?" she asked calmly.

"Well you haven't been following me around as much as you used to and I just wanted to know if I did something wrong to make you hate me or something," Tugger played off her guilty side.

"Oh no Tugger, you didn't do anything!" she cried shaking her head. "I've just... well – been busy..."

Tugger raised his eyebrows, "What with?" he asked quietly.

"Nothing much, just stuff. You know," she scoffed trying to change the subject.

"No I don't," Tugger said. He moved in closer to her, closing the gap between them. "You've been avoiding me for a while now. I wanna know why." Victoria stuttered and muttered words Tugger couldn't decipher. He leaned in and kissed her on the lips. Victoria's eyes went wide in shock not from Tugger's kiss, but from who was stood behind him. Tugger turned to see a fuming Quaxo marching towards them. Victoria quickly backed off towards her uncle's den before something happened and Tugger put on a bright smile as if nothing had passed between himself and Victoria. "Hey Quaxy!"

"Don't 'hey Quaxy' me!" the tux yelled in the Maine Coon's ear. "What did you think you were doing?"

"Believe it or not, I didn't actually think about it. Just sorta happened," Tugger grinned.

"Oh I'll believe it. I'll believe you're dead meat!" Quaxo jumped on him and forced the taller tom off the car onto the ground. They rolled through the dirt, Quaxo clawing at his mane and Tugger mainly staring dumbfounded back at him. The older kit pushed the smaller tom off and got to his feet; both took defensive stances and began circling each other. "How dare you touch her! She's only a kitten!"

"So are you, you don't need to make decisions for her! She's old enough to fend for herself!" Tugger yelled anger boiling up inside.

"That doesn't mean you have to make them for her!" he yelled his own level of anger reaching bursting point.

"Don't be getting all jealous now Quaxy, just cause you wanna have her for yourself!" Tugger taunted. Quaxo snapped and lunged at the tom but before he reached him something odd happened. He froze in midair and a weird sensation passed through him, a tingling heat that flew through his veins and out of the tips of his claws. As electricity. It hit Tugger straight in the chest and he was sent flying backwards into a pile of junk. Quaxo fell to the ground with a thump, but recovered quickly as Tugger moved towards him. He was shaky from the shock but he closed the gap between them in seconds. He took the tux by his shoulder scruffs and lifted him so his feet left the ground. "What the hell was that?"

"I dunno... I – it just sorta happened. I don't know how I did it! Honest!" Quaxo quaked in the tall toms face. Tugger threw the small cat away from him. As he left his grip, Tugger had an odd feeling rising from his chest. It was as if things were going in slow motion as Quaxo moved slowly away from him, he felt a powerful surge run through his arms and out of his paws. As fire. The flame hit Quaxo in the stomach and this caused him to fly twice as far from the manned tom. Tugger himself fell backwards in shock. When he looked up, he saw Quaxo rolling on the ground – crying. Tugger jumped up and ran towards him. He dropped to his knees in front of the small tom and lifted his head onto his lap.

"Quaxo? Are you alright?" Tugger asked anxiously. The young kit looked at him then down at his chest, the fur was scorched off and there was a nasty bleeding gash. Tugger grimaced, "I'm sorry tux. I didn't mean too, I dunno what happened. I'm sorry..."

"What's going on? What's all the racket abou..." Nyoka walked in from one of the pipes around the yard and froze when she saw Quaxo. "What happened?"

"Doesn't matter Nyo. Go get Jenny," Quaxo told her. Nyoka ran off and returned with Jenny, Jelly and Old Deuteronomy in a matter of minutes. The two queens quickly had Quaxo patched up and took care of Tugger's singed mane. They quizzed the toms about how they had gotten like this, but Deuteronomy saved them an explanation by saying they would tell them when they were ready. But by ready they had no idea what he meant. The only cat they confided in about the discovery of their 'powers' was Nyoka and she came up with the nickname 'Burning Bush' for Tugger and 'Storm' for Quaxo. Only she and the other two knew what she was referring too. For now.

The days passed peacefully and without fights. The cats were sitting on the junk again letting the sun soak into their fur and through their thick layer of skin. Given half the chance they would gladly lay there in the morning light for the remainder of the day, but sharing their home with the large human creatures didn't come without its drawbacks. Nearly every day there was trash and litter that was thrown around the park and in the past, due to unfortunate encounter with a beer six pack holder, one of the young kittens was strangled by it. One this particular day Demeter was walking through the park trees, when she came across an abandoned pile of rubbish that stretched across most of the area the kittens usually played. She frowned thinking to herself how humans could be so careless with things like this. She moved through the path looking through the junk, there were bottles, crisp packets, tins, cans, food remains and worst of all several beer holders.

She ran back to the yard to fetch an adult who would be able to help in the cleaning up of the forest. After informing Skimble, who had rounded up most of the tribe, they headed back to the clearing and started removing the trash. They worked in groups of three hoping to get the mess cleared up quicker that way. Demeter had been paired up with Bomba and Maristela, and the three had started work in the far corners of the clearing, where the junk was thickest due to wind blowing it over. The queens worked on the bushes and trees clearing away the junk from the objects before picking them up so as to save time from going back and forth. As they worked they hummed a tune that Jenny had sung to them when they were younger. They worked on the patch for a few hours before it was completely clean, and then moved onto another. Mari and Bomba stayed together while Demeter went a little bit further off to search for any more junk. She came across a small patch not far from where they were working and began clearing that away, listening to the birds and the sound of the little river flowing a few feet from her. She cleared up the rubbish and on her way back spotted another pile, once she cleared that up she tried to head back but was stopped by a next – slightly larger – pile.

She gave a frustrated sigh and sat on the ground, the forest must have something against her. Or maybe she had went the wrong way. She looked around and saw Bomba up a tree and Mari on the roots. No she hadn't gone the wrong way and, if she remembered correctly, she was sitting the same distance from them as she had been when she found the first pile of rubbish. She rubbed her temples in confusion and tried to think straight. Had she been walking in circles? And how had the same pile of junk continue to reappear?

She lay down on the ground and breathed in and out slowly, trying to push the crazy thoughts out of her head. She decided to simply lay there and concentrate on nothing for a while. "The rubbish fumes must be getting to my head," she whispered to herself. Demeter turned her face upwards where the warmth of the sun pushed through the leaves of the towering trees. Her paws ran through the soft grass beneath her, feeling the soft soil and small daisies and other wild flowers passing under them. She imagined how clean the forest would be after they had finished cleaning and how much better the trees and plant would grow without the clutter surrounding them. A large shadow fell over her and she opened her eyes to figure out what had blocked the sun's rays. She looked up to see a huge sycamore tree directly in front of her. Her brows furrowed in confusion, the tree had been a mere sapling before. How had it suddenly grown so high?

"Deme?" came a confused voice behind her. She turned to see Bomba looking at her in surprise. "How did you do that?" she asked.

"Do what Bomby?" Demeter enquired. Bomba motioned around her sister's form and the younger queen looked down and gasped. There around her were flowers of every colour and size. Daises, Daffodils, Roses, Bluebells, Snowdrops and many more she couldn't name surrounded her and stopped at a distance of three feet from her, where the sycamore tree was. She remembered what she had been thinking about and turned to her sister in shock.

"I thought about how the trees and flowers would grow better without the rubbish and suddenly the tree and flowers grew!" Demeter exclaimed.

"You did what?" Mari asked coming over to join them. "Wow!" she said looking at the flowers.

"Yeah, but you can't tell anyone!" Demeter pleaded.

"Why not?" Mari asked.

"Just keep it a secret for now, please?" she begged. Bomba nodded and turned to Mari to glare at her until she submitted.

"Oh alright! I won't tell!" she agreed rather annoyed. "Can I at least tell Leo?"

"No! You and him are the biggest blabbermouths in the whole junkyard!" Bomba rolled her eyes. Mari glared at her before sighing and promising not to tell anyone about Demeter's power. And thanks to Demeter the forest was clear of junk in no time and the two had come up with a nickname for her.

"No, I don't want one really," she had protested. But the queens continued to irritate her about it and she finally agreed to the nickname 'Green Claws'.

The quarry always was a dangerous place, especially for a kitten. That's way the adults stayed clear of it at all costs and told the kittens to do the same. But knowing kittens they never listen. This was the thought running through Munkustrap's mind as he raced towards the stone hole in the early hours of the morning along with several of the other kittens.

"And remind me again, who's bright idea was it to tell the kittens the quarry was a great place to spot fairies?" he yelled as he ran.

"It was Leo!" Tugger yelled from the back of the group.

"No, it was definitely Macavity!" Leo responded quite amused.

"You know rightly it was you Leo, you twit! Stop trying to pin the blame on me!" Mac yelled back at him. Leo rolled his eyes and continued running towards the quarry. It wasn't far to go, but every few meters seemed like a mile for most. They reached the quarry and found that it was a lot bigger than they had first anticipated; they would never find the kittens if they stayed in a group – especially with Leo and Mac being pissed off at each other again. Munkustrap split them into groups and decided to venture off by himself.

He ran around the deeper areas of the quarry, keeping in mind that the humans would soon arrive to start drilling and the kittens wouldn't have enough sense to stay away from the machines. He searched in every nook, cranny and cave but they were nowhere to be found. He was about to leave the deep hole to find the others to ask if they had spotted them, when he heard a high pitched giggle he recognised immediately. He ran to the source of the sound to see the kittens playing near an unsteady pile of boulders.

"Kittens!" he called over to them. They turned their heads but upon seeing the older tom, ran and hid behind the rocks. Munkustrap sighed impatiently he didn't have time for this, the adults would soon be awake and looking for them and when they found them they would be in deep shit. Munkustrap jumped down and ran round the back to get them, but the kittens obviously thinking he was playing a game, had ran around the other side. Deciding the only way to catch them was to use his head; Munkustrap ran a quarter of the way around the boulder. As he expected the kittens ran the full half way and he quickly turned around and caught them before they could react. The kittens jumped as Munk caught them and crashed into the smaller boulders on the bottom, causing the ones on top shake hazardously.

"Munkus watch out!" came a cry from a higher area of the quarry. He looked up to see Tugger, Nyoka and Macavity running down on one side and Leo, Mari and Alonzo jumping down the other. He looked up to where Mac was pointing and saw several huge boulders falling, right where they were standing. The kittens froze in terror and held onto Munkustrap. The older tom held onto them and prayed to Everlasting Cat that something would save them. He closed his eyes.

He cracked one eye open. It had been a few minutes since the boulder should have crushed them, but nothing had happened. He looked around, the boulder wasn't there. He saw the rescue party staring open mouthed at something above him, the tom looked up and saw the boulder hovering a few inches above them. He stared in wonder at the hovering stone before realising where they were standing, Munk dragged the kittens out from underneath and set them a good distance from the stone. He looked back up at the stone and realised there was nothing holding it up, the edge of the quarry and the boulder tower were a few metres from it and there was no sign of anything else that could have stopped it. The rest of the group walked slowly over towards Munk and the younger kits, who were still huddled together in fright, not taking their eyes off the stone. They stood in complete silence for a few minutes before Alonzo spoke.

"How did you do that Munkus?" he asked quietly.

"I... I have no idea Lonzo," he muttered. "Wonder when the stone will fall... down?" As he said this the boulder collapsed to the ground with a loud smash. The kits jumped sky high and landed with their fur bristled.

"Y... you definitely did something there Munk," Tugger stuttered staring at his brother in astonishment.

"Yeah maybe," he whispered. The others didn't know what to say and stood once again in silence. Macavity spotted the sun beginning to rise in the sky.

"I think we should get home, you know before dad wakes up," Mac suggested.

"Old D doesn't wake up till noon," Leo complained.

"Okay then, Jenny wakes up," he reiterated. The kittens bit their lip remembering last time Jenny caught them at something.

"I think we should go," Nyoka said wisely. The kittens nodded and ran from the quarry, praying that none of the other cats were awake yet. Especially not Jenny.

Unfortunately they reached the yard just as Jenny was coming home from teaching the mice croquet, so they received a right telling off, the younger kits were sent home and Leo received several clips around the ear for telling them to go to the quarry in the first place. The worst part was given by Old Deuteronomy when he told the elder kittens that they were not to play with the younglings for a month. Meaning that without the younger kittens imagination the older cats would be bored stiff until the Jellicle Ball. The kittens were sitting by their favourite tree trying to think of something to do.

"We could climb the tree?" Quaxo suggested.

"Don't you remember what happened last time?" Cori reminded, Quaxo nodded.

""How bout we go find fairies in the quarry?" Mari taunted.

"Shut up 'Stela!" Leo snapped massaging his ear.

"We could go find queens," Tugger said all too suggestively.

"No!" the group yelled.

"It was only a suggestion!" Tugger defended. The kits rolled their eyes and went back to thinking.

Leo stood up and yawned, "I'm bored!" he exclaimed.

"Aren't we all?" Macavity asked.

"I'm gonna jump in the lake!" he said suddenly.

"Erm... why?" Alonzo asked not really wanting an answer.

"Cause it'll be a lot more fun than sitting here!" Leo said and ran off towards the large expansion of water.

"Leo don't!" Munkustrap yelled as the rest ran after him. Too late, he jumped into the air and dive bombed into the lake. The kittens gasped as he disappeared under the water and waited eagerly for him to resurface. After what felt like ages the tom appeared over the water and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hey guys come on in the waters perfect!" he called beckoning for them to join. Most of the kits shook their heads but Mari took a few steps backwards, ran to the edge and jumped in, splashing water in the other's faces. A few laughed and many more complained that their fur was wet.

"I hate water, it's too wet!" Bombalurina complained as she frantically tried to dry off her fur. Tugger caught Misto's eye and the pair of them crept up behind her, picked her up together and threw her into the water. She screamed as she flew through the air and even more when she resurfaced. Several cats on the ground laughing. Nyoka, copying from older example, pushed Tugger in and jumped up and down giggling when he came back up his mane sticking to his skin, making him look like a drowned rat. Soon all the other cats were in the lake splashing each other and daring each other to swim out as far as they could. Leo swam out into the middle of the lake taunting the others and calling them chickens. The rest told him to come back but he swam around ignoring them, until Munk threatened to tell Jenny.

"Alright I'm coming! Don't get you tail in a knot!" he yelled starting to swim back. He suddenly stopped, eyes widening and his face frozen in horror. In a blink of an eye he was gone under the water.

"Leo!" they yelled, wondering where he had gone.

"Leo, come back up!" Mari called, hoping he would listen.

"Where's he gone?" Nyoka asked frightened. Tugger held her hand and looked over at Munk.

"Alonzo and Mac you come with me and we'll go find him," Munk instructed. "The rest of you stay here."

"I wanna come," Mari protested. "He's my brother!"

"I'm the oldest, so apparently I know best. Just stay here please," Munk told her. She crossed her arms but stayed where she was. The other toms swam out to the middle and dived under. They swam down and saw Leo struggling to get himself free from something. It was a giant plant of some kind, it had caught his foot and dragged him under. He saw them comming and motioned for them to leave. They looked at each other confused and stayed where they were, watching to see what he would do. They watched as he kicked and flailed about trying to get free. A bright flash came from the tom and hit the plant, it immediatly let go of his foot and the tom swam quickly to the surface.

The other toms quickly swam up too as their breath was catching short. They gasped in air as they reappeared on the surface, they ooked over to see Leo grinning at them not even out of breath. They swam back over to the group and got out of the lake. The toms caught their breath lying on the grass and the others shook the water out of their fur.

"Wha - What was that?" Alonzo gasped.

Leo brushed the final drops of water off his coat, "What d'ya mean?" he asked.

"What do you think? How did you make that bright light?" Macavity said irritated.

"I dunno, I was just wanting the thing to let me go and then it just sorta happened!" he informed their confused faces.

"Loads of odd things have been happening recently haven't there?" Bombalurina observed. "I mean first Cori being able to see Quaxo falling from the tree and then..." she looked at Deme who was staring back and Tugger, Misto and Nyoka looked at each other knowingly. "Then Munk stops that boulder and now this happens! What's going on?"

"I don't know Bomba, we'll ask dad if something serious comes up," Munk reasured.

"And me nearly drowning wasn't serious?" Leo asked shocked.

"No, no not really," Tugger joked.

"Seriously though, if something happens and nothing we do can help them, then we'll ask dad for help," Munk said. The cats nodded in agreement. "I think we should get back it's nearly dark, we don't want Jenny up our tails again!" the kittens nodded again and ran off into the forest and back to the junkyard.

Tantomile sighed. She had had the most wonderful day ever. Her brothers had got her a present and it wasn't even her birthday, she looked at the bracelet's sparkling gem in her paw. The day had been made even better when her crush had talked to her, true it had been short but he had talked to her! She was so happy with her life right now. She twirled on the spot and began to dance to a tune she remembered from the Winter Ball. She twirled around the yard, jumping and leaping gracefully. She felt like she was almost floating. Like the world had fallen off her shoulders and nothing could pull her down. She closed her eyes and continued to prance around the yard, performing jumps even she didn't think she could pull off. She sighed once again and sat down. She looked up at the moon which appeared to have become larger while she was dancing. She gazed at the stars listening to hear what they had to say. She could have sat there all night but right then she was interrupted from her daydream by a call for her. It sounded close but when she looked around the mountains of junk she couldn't place where it had come from.

"Tantomile! Look down!" the voice called again. Look down? She looked down and to her surprise she saw Tugger looking up at her. But the thought of Tugger soon flew from her when she realised where she was sitting. She was high up but she couldn't remember climbing the junk for a seat and she was in the middle of the clearing. She screamed.

"What's going on?" Munkustrap burst out through the junk pile nearest Tugger, he was followed by Quaxo, Demeter and Nyoka. Tugger looked at them open mouthed and pointed upwards.

"Tanto what are you doing up there?" Quaxo asked quite frightened.

"I don't know!" she cried.

"Tugger how did she get up there?" Demeter demanded.

"Well she was dancing in the clearing and next thing she started floating up," Tugger told them still watching Tantomile.

"And that's it?" Demeter asked.

"That's it! Isn't it enough?" Tugger asked panicking slightly. "Tanto's stuck up there with no way of getting her down!"

"Really comforting Tug!" Tanto yelled.

"... That we know of yet," he added.

"What's with all the noise, some cats are trying to sle..." Leo began to complain.

"Tanto!" Maristela yelled. Leo turned and his eyes widened upon seeing his friend floating above them.

"What're you doing up there?" Leo asked stupidly.

"She's just chilling out what do you think thicko?" Mari said sarcastically. Leo glared at her then looked back up at the distressed queen.

"Tanto can't you just float back down?" Quaxo inquired.

"I probably could, but I don't know how!" she whimpered.

The cats stood there trying to figure out a way to get Tanto, but the longer they stood there the more chance an adult would come and they would, more than likely, blame them for Tanto being stuck in the air. After a long time of thinking most of the other kittens had arrived and Munkustrap knew that sooner or later the adults would come looking for them to take them to bed.

Munk sighed and the kits turned to look at him. "I don't know how we could get her down. I think it's time we told dad,"

"Tell me what?" the familiar deep voice asked. The kittens whipped around to face the old leader gazing down at them, with Nyoka by his side.

"Father... Umm, we didn't mean to. I mean – I don't. I..." Munkustrap stuttered.

"Tanto's stuck!" Nyoka yelled noticing the queen high above her. Deuteronomy followed her gaze and gasped quietly. Deuteronomy stood looking up, but he didn't seem to be looking at Tanto. He was deep in concentration. The kittens watched the old tom as his brow furrowed in thought, wondering what he could possibly be thinking about.

"Couldn't possibly..." Deuteronomy muttered to himself. "Perhaps, it's quite plausible."

"What is father?" Nyoka asked.

"Kittens follow me," he started to walk from the clearing.

"What about Tanto?" Cori enquired.

"Yes, yes of course. Just a second," Deuteronomy turned and muttered some strange words under his breath. Tantomile slowly floated back down to the ground. Deuteronomy turned without another word and walked away towards his den. The kittens hesitated at first but quickly followed after him. Maybe now they would find out what was going on.

Okay, chapter 5, 6 and 7 were supposed to be one chapter. But after finishing chap 5 and starting the next part I decided I wanted to write more than I had thought I wanted to write previously and that I would then need to split the chapter up. And in the middle of chap 6 I decided the next bit was going to be long as well, so it's now chapter 7.

Munkustrap's part is dedicated to my cat as he was stupid enough to wander into the quarry half a mile from my house. They told me he was freaking lucky to have survived! He's definatly staying in the house the rest of this summer.