Part 1
There lived a kitten named Kitty Ranchero. He had gray fur, black stripes, and dark gray spots on his belly. He lived in a duplex near a rain forest with a nice man and woman. They didn’t have any children, but they did have a dog named Emma and another kitten named Perry, who was Kitty Ranchero’s sister.
Part 2
He wanted to find his sister, Perry. He wanted to find her because she ran away. She ran away because a guy named Todd saw Perry outside, thought she was a stray cat, and tried to capture and keep her as a pet.
There was a forest by their house so he thought she would run that way. He started to sneak out of his house and find Perry. When he walked into the forest, he realized that it was a rain forest. As soon as he got there, he realized that he forgot to pack up some stuff. So he ran back and packed up some green gum, tooth paste, some bug spray, and some magazines just in case.
When he finally got back to the rain forest, he started his search for Perry. It was cold and windy in the rain forest.
Part 3
The next day he started looking for Perry. Shortly into his journey — ROAR! Tigers jumped out from behind a bunch of bushes and wouldn’t let Kitty Ranchero go through. He was terrified but managed to pull green gum out of his backpack.
“This green gum is delicious. Would you like a piece?”
While the tigers were chewing Kitty Ranchero ran around them as fast as he could go. When he was safe he stopped to catch his breath at a river. But then he remembered that he hated water, and he couldn’t swim. He saw lily pads and walked across them.
He started to get very concerned about his sister. He was worried that she was alone and scared in the cold. He worried that she didn’t have any food or someplace warm and dry to sleep. It was later and darker. So he curled up in a pile of leaves under a plum tree. He dreamed of finding Perry, and going back home, and living happily ever after. But then he woke up and realized that he was still in the rain forest. He felt sad and cried for a while.
But then he heard a monkey in the distance. He heard the monkey say, “Hello. Are you lost?”
“I’m trying to find my sister, Perry. Have you seen her?” Kitty Ranchero asked.
“Wait. I think I saw a kitty. Is she light grey with blue eyes?”
Kitty Ranchero got excited and said, “You saw her? Can you please take me to her?”
“Okay. Climb up this tree and I’ll take you right to her.”
“But I can’t climb up trees,” he said sadly. “I’m a kitten.”
“How about you stay down there, and I’ll jump from tree to tree, and you can follow me from the ground.”
“Okay. Sounds good,” Kitty replied.
Kitty Ranchero started to follow the monkey through the rain forest. The monkey led him to a pond.
“Wait,” said the monkey. “I thought I saw Perry. Where is she?”
Kitty Ranchero felt angry and said, “Thanks for nothing! I’m just gonna go find Perry myself.”
“Okay,” the monkey said. “I like your snaggletooth.”
“Thank you. Sorry I got frustrated. I know you were just trying to help but I’m so worried about my sister. How about both of us keep trying to find her.”
“Okay. Let’s go.”
After a long day of searching they finally went to sleep on top of a tree. Unfortunately, there were mosquitoes everywhere and they couldn’t sleep. Kitty Ranchero asked the mosquitoes, “Hey, you guys want a bath?”
And the mosquitoes replied, “Sure! We’re pretty stinky!”
“Let’s climb down the tree and I’ll give you a bath in the pond.”
Once they get to the pond Kitty Ranchero pulled the bug spray from his backpack, aimed it at the mosquitoes and said, “You wanna a piece of this?”
And then he sprayed them in the face. The mosquitoes immediately started coughing and they flew away.
“Let’s never come back here again!” the mosquito leader said.
Then, Kitty Ranchero climbed back up the tree.
“That was a great idea!” the monkey said. “Where’d you get that bug spray?”
“My teacher gave it to me at Kitty-garden,” said Kitty Ranchero.
“Cool,’’ replied the monkey. Then, they both fell asleep on top of the tree.
The next morning they continued looking for Perry. Then they saw a dark and scary house in the middle of the jungle.
“I see Perry,” said Kitty Ranchero excitedly. There were vines and ripped curtains. Kitty Ranchero saw Perry in a cage with people guarding her.
“Wow, what’s going on?” said the monkey. Then a guy started chasing Kitty Ranchero and the monkey away. While they were running, Kitty Ranchero said, “By the way, I didn’t catch your name.”
“My name is Tails,’’ replied the monkey.
“I like that name,” said Kitty Ranchero. The guy, who had black ripped clothes, stopped chasing them because he was tired.
The people who were guarding Perry took her into the scary house. Before the door closed Kitty Ranchero and Tails ran inside quickly. When he got inside they saw that it was dark. They could barely see a thing. But then they saw a shadow of a man holding a lantern so they hid behind a box that said, “OPEN.” As the man passed by the box he smelled Tails and he almost got close to finding them but luckily, they ran through the hallway where the man came from. In the hallway they saw an open door leading into a room. And to their shock, Perry was locked in a cage right inside the room!
Kitty Ranchero’s eyes popped wide open.
“This is easy. Let’s just walk inside,” Tails said.
“But we don’t have the key to unlock the cage,” Kitty Ranchero said, “And there might be booby-traps!”
“Just come on, Kitty Ranchero.”
As they walked in the room, Kitty Ranchero stepped on a button on the floor and a cage with a gorilla in it dropped down from the ceiling and landed right in front of Kitty Ranchero. He screamed like a little girl.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa. What was that?”
“That was me,” Kitty Ranchero said, embarrassed. But then he remembered that gorillas loved magazines. So he took a magazine from his backpack and handed it to the gorilla through the bars.
“Here. You will love this magazine about a girl gorilla that you might want to go out on a date with.”
“Thanks!” the gorilla replied.
While they were talking, Tails found the key to Perry’s cage in a little box that was sitting on a table. Kitty Ranchero was so happy. Tails opened the cage and then Kitty Ranchero hugged Perry. But then Kitty Ranchero realized… it was a fake Perry! It was a robot!
Fake-Perry said, “Intruder!”
Kitty Ranchero and Tails ran out screaming like women. They were sad when they left, but then, one of the guards saw them. He said, “What are you doing in here?”
They ran out of the scary house. Outside they saw an evil king, who looked really ugly with a weird, small, stinky palm tree growing on his head. He was hovering over Perry, who laid in the grass. The evil king had big muscles and he was holding a knife to Perry’s throat.
Kitty Ranchero saw this and ran over to the evil king. He slapped his butt! The evil king turned around and got really mad.
Kitty Ranchero said, “Who are you looking at?”
“Did you spank my butt?” the evil king said. He was about to cut Kitty Ranchero with the knife, but Kitty Ranchero was so fast, he grabbed Perry and ran away with her.
Tails yelled behind them, “Hey! Wait up!”
They hid behind a tree and Kitty Ranchero said, “Are you okay, Perry?”
Perry started laughing and said, “I can’t believe you didn’t find me!”
Kitty Ranchero was confused. “How could we have found you?” he said. “You were so far away!”
Perry said, “That’s not a king, and those are not guards! Those are just friends, and they’re pulling a prank on you.” She told Kitty Ranchero that they set up all those obstacles themselves.
Kitty Ranchero was so surprised. “What?” he said. “I came all this way for nothing?”
“What’s going on?” Tails said.
“Never mind,” Kitty Ranchero said.
Tails said, “I’m getting out of here.”
Kitty Ranchero and Perry walked back home laughing. Kitty Ranchero felt both mad and happy at the same time.
When they got home, their master asked, “Where were you, dude?”
Kitty Ranchero cocked his head to the side. Emma, the dog, started to laugh and said, “I know all about this.” And the whole family, including the owners, posed for a picture.