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          Mouths dropped, eyes bugged out, whiskers started twitching and the turtle dude’s leg started tapping.  800 years old?  You have to be pulling my tail! 

          “You’re pulling our tails,” Paws meowed looking at Alex suspiciously.  “There’s no meowing way that statue could be 800 years old.”

          Alex’s whiskers twitched.  “It actually could be as old as when the humans built the pyramids.”  His tail twitched when he saw he was losing the group.  “Let me meow it to you this way,” Alex continued, “this statue popped up in the 1200s in Europe.  A bunch of female humans owned it  but they were called witches by other humans and were killed.  It’s a statue that honored all of the cats of the ancient world.  It was known to have paw-mazing power.”

          The turtle-dude and the cats just looked at each other when he meowed this. “What is it?”  Alex asked.  “What did it do?”

          “It caused an earthquake in the cave,” Tippy meowed.

          “Holy meows,” Alex yowled, pawing down and putting it in his backpack.  “I need to get this back where it belongs.”

          For some reason this seemed to really tick off the turtle dude, “You’re not going 

anywhere with that,” he said.