Introduction to “New Beginnings”

 

So that no one will get confused, Sibera’s writing is in black, and Tigara’s is in red.

 

            Hello.  My name is Sibera, and my best buddy (and takes-forever-to-come-up-with-ideas co-writer) is named Tigara.

            “Takes-forever-to-come-up-with-ideas”?  Oh, please, look who’s talking!

We are here to present to you the story that has literally taken almost four years to write.  Four years? You are thinking.  Yes, four years, mostly because the first copy was down in the pits, the second copy was a touch better but still stunk, and the computer ate the third copy.  Thankfully, we have finally decided that we like the fourth copy and might as well let Cheezey have it to put on her web site.

Hey, the first story was all right, that is, until I got to the end.  Then it stunk.  The second story stunk because you were going through the “romance-novel” stage.

            Shut up.  But, before we bore you completely senseless, let us continue with what we really want to tell you.  As I said above, this story has taken years to polish up, and the second and third copies weren’t even finished.

Why are you looking at me like that?!  Even YOU said they needed to be re-written!

The story takes place only a couple of days after the “Book of Omens” episode, and is mostly going to be about the secret pasts and darker (not to mention comical instead of drop-dead boring) sides of the Thundercats and bad-guys, especially Bengali and Tygra.

Is it just me, or are all the other female Thundercats fans nuts over those two?  I have to admit, they ARE cute, but this is kind of freaky.  We should all be going after Lion-Ho!  (Ignore the last word; I’ve been reading the “Third Earth Inquirer” too often.)

            The original copy, formerly titled, “The Stranger”, was only supposed to have two new characters: Oceleana, the Thundercat offspring of Groun the Destroyer, and her winged snow leopard companion, Nikkita.  Somewhere in the middle, though, it got really messed up and three new characters were added in: Nokia, and his two young charges, Sibera and Tigara (basically, us).

            Hey, you were the one who dreamed we were there!  I thought it’d be cute to add us in!

            It was the perfect copy of a Barney episode.  Everyone was lovey-dovey, there were hardly any good fighting or comedy parts, and it was sweet enough to make sugar look sour.  We got rid of that as fast as we could.

            Well, I have to admit, you have a point there.

            Tigara changed the title to “New Beginnings” and started over again.  Oceleana was originally supposed to be an ocelot, but dear sweet Tigara got the name of the cat all fucked up, thinking it said “oceleon”.

It was in the middle of the night and the light was dim.  I don’t want to hear it.

So, we changed her to a leopard and dubbed her Leopara (this was after a lot of squabbling).

There are too many people with “-ra” at the end of their names!  I still think we should call her Leopat!

(Sigh)  Oh, dear….  Also, the part of Groun didn’t really fit into the story, so we cut him out and said that Leopara was the daughter of Claud-us just to give her a place.

Instead, we replaced Groun with our favorite bad-guy (evil grin).

            In the second copy, only I was to have problems to deal with.  Tigara was supposed to loose her memory and basically be a featherhead with a sweetness problem.  That didn’t work out, so we gave her a real problem to deal with as well, though she didn’t take it as violently as I did.

            Yeah, Sibera’s got a point.  When in came to common sense, my character would have been beaten by Baby Bop by a teaspoon.

            Finally, we got other old favorites into the story: Mumm-Ra (bless his bastard soul), as well as Mandora (we’re not really sure about her, to tell the truth), the mutants of Castle Plun-Darr, and Mongor (it’s a real short part for him, but we couldn’t resist).  Unfortunately, these complicated the story a lot, and thank Tigara for the fact that it’s as long as the Nile.

            Hey, YOU’RE the one that wanted Mongor in there!

            Anyhow, as we are (hopefully) finished with butchering the story, we have come to a decision.  If you’d like to use one of our characters depicted in the story, that’s all fine and hunky dory with us, just as long as you e-mail us at gfilteau@coolnet.net or rocketfilly@aol.com and ask.

            Just as long as you don’t make them totally stupid… unless, of course, you’re going to make them the comic reliefs!

Also, if you’d like to give us ideas for more stories (we keep running out of them), that’s fine, too!  Tigara and I always (literally) need them!

Yeah, please, I’ve only got three.  E-mail me at the second address and give the ideas to me.  Sibera doesn’t need anymore right now; she’s already got twenty unfinished stories on her computer!

Hey, it comes with reading too much.  And since my friend Jewel asked, I figured I might as well put this in as well: if you’d like to add your own stories to our little series, that’s just fine!  Just remember to e-mail them to us so that one of us can add in a couple checks to it, clean it up a touch, possibly add a couple extra parts of our own, (and possibly clipart from my own personal Thundercat file) and then we’ll send it on to Cheezey.

She doesn’t have too many clips, though, and she takes forever to make new ones.

Shut up.  Just remember that if you add any new characters, chances are Tigara or I might use them (but we’re not stupid; we’ll ask if it’s alright, first).

            Well, enjoy the story and thanks for coming!

            And then some….

I.                    Said.  Shut.  UP!!!!!!

 

 

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