2 This is a tar allergy!

Mau Kingdom and Cat Philosophy

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written by Senem Öcal

The earth was embracing countless living creatures in the Mau Kingdom that embellished with greenery looked like a sandy beach mixed with golden particles.

This shine in the planet had also reflected to the outer layer of the planet.

The dazzling brightness of the planet Mau were enchanting many planets, but only the Queen Zavinia had been disturbed by this. The warm air created by the light of the planet was affecting her tar. Hence the old witch wasn't satisfied with the softening of the tar. Zavinia was the most powerful witch at the orbit which was no end in sight.

She used to spend the whole day sitting on the black throne which she placed in the middle of the ice-cold tar-pool that is like a heavy black wet clay appereance in her chateau and she had been used to look at the stone walls of the chateau as vacuously until her sleep time came.

She would have experimented day-to-day in a dark room that she didn't accept anyone to her room. When she was tired, she snored loudly with shaking her belly.

The walls of her chateau were made of pressed tar and the windows were made of calcite bricks. The castle where she lived could melt away in a slime because of the effect of the light on the tar.

So she never liked the light and she used to sneeze with the slightest light. She would look very funny when she sneezed and fell from her throne to the slime tar pool suddenly. Especially all the workers in the castle turned to the wall for not to show that they were laughing at Zavinya. Because she never likes laughing at all. Every day she tightened the tars more with her cold breath. Zavinya's castle workers almost never spoke there.

One of the shoe racks began to descend slowly with the clay, due to the heat in the air. While the concierge was talking he smelled a strange smell in his nose. The smell did not come from another place that was hanging in the air. Zavinya took the shoe and hid it behind her. Then the other shoe was about to came down to the tip of the nose of the duty officer. The witch took it immediately.

When she fell into floor, her shoes were jumping from her upwards feet that are usually glued to the ceiling. Sometimes they were kept hanging in the clayey ceiling for weeks. One day during the winter time, a member of the ice council came to check Zavinya.

When the counselor spoke, he felt a strange smell in his nose.

He looked around him.

One of Zavinya's shoes which was on ceiling began to descend to the floor slowly slowly with a thin clay due to warm weather in the air.

This smell wasn't coming from another place apart from her shoe that was hanging in the air.

Zavinya took the shoe and hid it behind her. Meanwhile the other shoe started to go down to to the tip of the nose of the counselor.Her shoes that hadn't been taken for weeks in the ceiling covered with moss because of humidity in the chateau. A strange smell covered the castle with a light breeze.

The old witch who didn't know what to say started to sneeze.

And then she started to blow, mumbled . Only a few minutes later the officer started to sneeze too. The shoe which was hanging in the air like a swinging pendulum hit the Zavinya's crown with the little wind that were occured by their sneeze.

When Zavinya found herself sitting in the clay mud, the orbit councilman had already left the castle.

Meanwhile a small crow was watching them in the window of the castle. It started to shriek with laughter by croaking.

"This is a tar allergy! Gaaaaak! Gaak! "

He flew away from the window.

Crow's croak was echoing in the castle.

Due to Zavinya couldn't guess exactly where the council officer was, she couldn't have shouted at the crow so she puffed like a balloon and stretched.

The castle workers also turned their backs towards to wall to keep their laughing.

Everywhere was dark because the tar rains had been turned every side of the planet to a strange dark colour. The planet on which she lived that was only her own planet.The gray and black colors were was dominant in the land. It did not seem so innocent and heart-warming at all. There wasn't any reason for joy and liveliness there. Deep red lightning strikes had maden stronger her crown which was redder than the rubies that Zavinya carries on her head all the time.

Her crown had tooken almost whole power of the red planet and its dazzling reddish color was stunning as the flashing lightning that was over the castle.

After Zavinya, the red color almost seemed to disappear on the red planet. Using the power of her crown which she took it by tricks, her aim was to turn everywhere into slurry with unnecessary tar.

Nobody knew that why she wanted to tarnish the all planet with tars.

Nobody understood her although they thought reasonably about this matter/her manner. There was no aesthetic appereance of this material which was heavy and very intense.

Zavinya's eyebrows had growed well because of tar drops that were dripping to her forehead from ceiling. Zavinya promised to big magician Tar Witch while she took over Tar Witch's magical powers about making all the place tarnished.

Tar Witch had given the last witch nail seeds to Zavinya before he had left. The seeds only could be seen by the owner and one could benefit from their power. The continuation of Zavinya's magics had depended on fulfillment of this promise.

Tar Witch who started to lose her power day by day would return to the orbit again stronger after he had stayed in the bottle that fulled with tar dust for hundreds of years.

Zavinya's daily silver colored coat was cold as ice. That's why no one would want to stand in front of her. She had rooms full of cloaks.

Her cabinets that like a boutique bazaar were filled with black cloaks. She had given different names to each of her cloaks that looked like one another. She had elected beautiful Pisiperalla for cleaning her clothes.

Pisiperalla was a kind and beautiful kitty mermaid girl with soft voice. Once upon a time she had been welcomed the birth of the sun with singing songs happily on every dawn at her planet.

The melodies from the harp, which she played so well, would have scattered around as if dancing with the wind.

The colorful tree branches sang to the melodies of Pisiperalla and swayed in rhythm.

Unfortunately, the good days had been left behind for the lovely Pisiperalla since Zavinya captured the red planet...

When the old witch was leaving there, she took the red planet's unique crown and Pisiperalla as well. It was forbidden to sing songs in Zavinya's country.

Pisiperalla was too busy there with washing witch's clothes instead of playing the harp. Zavinya had thought that she could have washed her clothes very well in the river with her shiny tail when she saw Pisiperalla first time. That's why she had taken Pisiperalla from her planet.

The queen witch was hurrying to go to the planet Mau.

"Prepare my passage cloak, Pisiperalla," she shouted.

"All right, great Zavinya," he replied.

She hastily prepared the cloak with Pisiperalla.

"Let me help you get dressed."

"I have no time! I will wear it myself, give it to me! " He took Pisiperalla's hand with a rush and began to move rapidly towards the magic passage.

"Madam, you dropped the belt of your cloak." Pisiperalla called.

No matter how much he shouted, he could not make his gentle voice heard.

"Gosh! He'll be mad at me now! I have to be quick and go after him! " he said to himself.

Curling on the ground, he tried to catch up behind Zavinya.

The witch queen had already arrived at the magic passage, waved her cloak and turned towards the threshold, stopping at the red stripe and began to speak the magic words.

"Oh magic passage pass me to Mau, the planet I want to go. Neither forward and nor back!"

Then she turned around herself three times.

A red light appeared in the passage.

Pisiperalla was watching Zavinya as both with confused and full attention.

The old witch suddenly disappeared. As soon as she disappeared in the magic passage, black smoke surrounded her.

It was impossible to see the other's eyes because of the darkness.

The weather was blind. Pisiperalla stood still for minutes, not knowing what to do.

The grayish dust clouds rose rapidly, mingling with the tar clouds, and the little star-shaped ash dunes remained around the passage, and the wind blew them all over the place. So the way back was opened for Pisiperalla. She returned desperately to the castle with the ribbon in her hand. After all, there were a lot of clothes waiting to be washed.

Luna, Zavinya's stepdaughter, was sitting on the walls of the castle waiting for her stepmother.

"Have you seen our witch with lovely Pisiperalla?" she asked.

"Well. Just gone."

"Where did she go?"

"She was at the magic passage. From there she went to Mau." she replied.

"But it is forbidden to go as far as the magic passage. Is Zavinya not angry with that?" she asked.

"Well! Actually, she didn't see me. I tried to catch up behind her to give the falling ribbon, but I couldn't. "

"Hmm so you must have seen how she went. Isn't that right?"

"Yes I saw."

"Come on tell me! What happens! " she began begging.

"Well, Zavinya stopped at the red threshold of the pass and started chanting the magic words."

"Magic words? What are they? "

"Oh magic passage! Pass me to Mau, the planet I want to go to. Neither back and nor forwards! " she said.

She was continuing to speak in a rush.

"Then she turned around herself three times. At that moment a red light appeared in the pass and disappeared. That's all."

"Now I want you to make a promise to me. You should never tell Zavinya what you saw and what you told me. You know, she is a bad witch. Both of us can get very, very angry."

"Yes, I shouldn't say that. I have to go. The laundry is waiting for me." Pisiperalla replied.

Zavinya had come to Mau in a short time in the blink of an eye, in the midst of a liveliness and light that she would not like at all.

"Who is your king here? Tell me quickly! " shouted.

The singing kitty birds were disturbed by Zavinya's shouting. The prince was pricking the cheerful roses, and the old witch slowly approached Prince Miyiv's ear.

"Who is your king, I will talk to him!"shouted her.

"What is going on here? Who are you? You dare not speak shouting like that? Prince Miyiv snorted.

"I dare. Because I am the strongest queen, I am Zavinya!" she screamed.

While talking, she did not neglect to cover her dazzling eyes with her cloak.

"Call your king here immediately!"

At that moment she began to sneeze and found herself sitting on the bushes, straightening her red crown that had slipped to the side.

"I am Prince Miyiv, Mau planet prince. What do you want? Why did you come here? " he asked.

"The reason is simple, I command you to take your planet and get out of here immediately! Sneezeee! "

"The stop of our planet is in accordance with the laws of the universe. We will stay here for a while. We also determine this period."

Prince Miyiv's tone of voice was very calm and determined.

"The vaunted shine of your planet is not beneficial to my tar castle and my tar-made objects, know what I mean?"

Prince Miyiv did not like this witch at all, who spoke roughly and gave orders.

"This is your problem. We have no intention of leaving here for now. Would you like to smell our flowers?" said and he held out a rose to Zavinya's nose.

"Sneezeee!" "You will regret what you said. You will have to take your planet and leave!" she cried.

She returned back to her own castle with funny waddle steps.

Pisiperalla and Luna were waiting for her, and she barely talked because of sneezing when she entered her castle.

"I will not let the brightness of this planet ruin my castle! Especially the smell of flowers is an other trouble. What is beautiful on this planet? "she was saying himself.

Zavinya's narratives had maden both Pisiperalla and her stepdaughter Luna quite curious. There were also such fragrant flowers on the planet where Pisiperalla used to live. .

Zavinya was having quite a busy day, and she got into her own affairs for a while and left the matter of the planet Mau aside. Luna wanted to ask a few things at a time, but the old witch didn't care about her at all.

While sitting on the walls of the castle, she thought for a moment about the planet Mau. Previously, Pisiperalla's telling about both her planet and the magic passage had intrigued her.

Pisiperalla, who went to her room, was thinking the same things. She sighed at once.

"It must be like my planet since it's bright." She said to herself and smiled as she was dreaming it sweetly.