My Little Treasure

chapter twelve: (part 4) a cat and his yarn

(Later that night)

(Barnacles's pov)
Kwazii saber and I have searched the entire octopod still no sign of Kwazii's ball though, "I think it's high tide time we call it a night mateys" saber yawned, she's right, it is getting pretty late "meow" kwazii mewed sadly,  "don't worry kwazii, we'll look some more tomorrow" I reassured him, "if ya say so captain" kwazii responded reluctantly, we headed toward the octo-shoot that led to the pod split into mine and kwazii and Saber's rooms

As kwazii and saber went to their respective side of the door, I went to mine and stretched and yawned, as my yawn faded into a tired growl I turned and started toward my closet prepared to change out of my uniform, when I tripped over something and fell on the floor, I sat up right and shook my head "what on earth?" I questioned unsure of what I just tripped over, as I glanced up, I saw kwazii's yarn ball "so this is where you went" I chuckled to myself as picked up the ball, kwazii's gonna be happy about this

(Saber's pov)
As I was starting to nod off "do ya think we'll ever find my ball?" Kwazii asked worried, I gave him a reassuring look "me and CB don't give up easy" I remarked, "you've got a point there matey" kwazii responded tiredly with a slight laugh and a hint of a grin, *thud* "captain barnacles" we said in concerned unison, that sound came from the other side of the wall that separates our room from the captain's and whatever that sound was it didn't sound good, I flipped through the door and over the octo-shoot

"captain are you alright? we heard something fell" I asked worried, "my ball" dad gasped, I looked up at the captain and sure enough he was holding kwazii's ball of yarn in his paw, kwazii happily front flipped in front of captain barnacles and garbed his ball from the tall white bear "I've missed you" kwazii said aloud squeezing the ball between his paws and purring at the satisfying feeling of digging his claws into the soft yarn,

"how'd ya find it?" He questioned looking up to the captain, "well it found  me, I was fixing to change out of my uniform when I  tripped over it" barnacles laughed, "oh, sorry about that matey" kwazii apologized quietly, "it's alright kwazii, at least we found you're ball" the captain assured him, "correction, you found it captain" kwazii responded, "well I'm glad you're okay captain and that this was able to be shorted out but now we really should go on to bed before we go on to new Zealand time and break our body clocks forever" I remarked sluggishly to the two older boys, they both nodded in agreement

"thanks again captain" kwazii said hugging barnacles, "anytime, I'm always happy to help" CB responded accepting the hug from his best friend and liutenant, "night captain, come on kwaz" I said tiredly, "sleep well you two" CB yawned in response, and with that we all three headed to our respective beds and slowly drifted to sleep

(End of chapter twelve: a cat and his yarn)