12 THE DAY SILKY SAVED THE DAY

CHAPTER 12 THE DAY SILKY SAVED THE DAY I looked up. Terry was right! Flying cats! A whole bunch of them...13 to be exact, with Silky in the lead! They were flying in formation, coming in low and fast, like fighter jets.

"Oh, great," I said. "As if a giant gorilla wasn't bad enough, now we're being attacked by a flock of flying cats!" "How do you know they're attacking us?" said Terry. "Maybe they want giant bananas, too." "Cats don't eat bananas!" I said. "Everybody knows that. Besides, they look angry, not hungry!" "Maybe it's the gorilla they're after," said Terry. "Look how scared it is!" Terry had a point. The gorilla was no longer

shaking the tree. It was staring at the cats, its fur bristling. It roared loudly, but if the cats were worried they didn't show it. They were definitely taking aim at the gorilla. We braced ourselves for a 13-flying-cats-and- one-giant-gorilla collision. But it never came.

At the last possible moment the cats separated into two groups, flew past the gorilla, and soared up into the sky, where they re-formed into a menacing circle high above us. That's when the gorilla started to climb the tree. "There are no giant bananas up here!" shouted Terry. "We already told you that!" "I don't think it's after giant bananas anymore," I said. "I think it's getting into a better position to fight the cats."

No ba.na.nas. Ba.na.na. The gorilla climbed higher...

and higher...