Chapter 27: Run...

I looked around, the monster had stopped moving after it had crashed all of the animals that were inside. I could hear all of the other animals that were with me as they were all freaking out, I did my best not to do what they were doing. As I kept my eye on the cat that was in front of me.

He knew this place, he would guide me out of here, after that, I would be able to find those cats, and then I might be able to help them. Briar, he did not seem to be freaking out like the rest of the animals that were with us, this almost looked as if it was perfectly normal to him.

I suppose, maybe it was, he had said that he had been taken into this place more than once, I kind of wondered why, was he a bad pet? I shook my head though, my mind switched to a different place as I heard something at the back of the monster that was fairly loud.

Then in front of me, there was a bright flash of light. I closed my eyes for a few moments, that way they could get used to the bright light. Then I reopened them as I heard a lot of loud noises going on around me.

I looked around, there were a couple of twolegs in front of me, and they were speaking to each other. I watched as the began picking up the boxes that the animals were in, and then walking away with them. I looked over at Briar, what were they doing with them, was this the last I was about to see from Briar.

"Where are they taking me? You have to tell me how to get out before it's too late!" I said to him. He looked at me for a few moments, and then he slowly closed his eyes, it sure did not seem like he was trying to help me get out of this large twoleg place.

He just kept his eyes closed for a few moments longer. I watched as the twolegs began getting closer and closer towards me and Briar, he were at the far back side of the monster. All of the animals that they were picking up, they all were freaking out.

Clearly this was their first time here, much unlike Briar. I shook my head, it now seemed like Briar had changed his mind, and he did not want to help me. Maybe he was afraid for me, he might not want me to risk my life trying to get out of here.

I had to get out though, did he not realize the consciences that I would face if I did not get out of here? I turned my head back to Briar, the twolegs were just a few more boxes away from us now, I needed to know what to do!

"Calm down Moon... They are taking us to the place, I will tell you from there, if you promise me one thing." He said to me. I looked at him a bit confused, but a bit surprised at the same time. I had thought for a few moments that he had changed his mind, but thankfully he had stuck to his promise.

I looked at him for a few moments, expecting him to keep talking, but he just sat there looking at me in silence for quite some time. We did not have much time though, well maybe we did once we got to the place that he was talking about.

"What is it Briar?" I asked him. He looked down at the ground for a few moments, for the first time, it seemed like he was the one that was afraid, and not me. Which I was a slight bit confused about, were they about to stab us with the thing that he was talking about?

Was that why he looked so afraid? I looked at him for a few more moments, and then I heard one of the twolegs from right next to me. I turned my head over to it, to see what it was doing. I then realized that it was picking up the rabbit that was in the box that was right beside me.

I turned back over to Briar one last time, it was now or never, he needed to tell me what it was that he was talking about before it was too late! I was not sure if what he said about us going to the same place was true... And would we even be put close together? It seemed like we were stuck in this little box right now.

"I want to go with you, I am tired of being a kittypet, just promise... If we make it out alive, that you will do that for me, if you don't want me with you, at least teach me how to make it, I am tired of being a kittypet." He said to me, I looked at him, quite a bit surprised.

I then nodded to him, but just before I was about to start talking, to try to respond to him, my box that I was in began moving up to the sky, my body began flying all around the sides of the box. I began freaking out, wondering what was going on.

Once the box was not as shaky as before I then caught my balance and looked at what was going on around me. I realized that I was moving towards somewhere, and a twoleg was carrying me in the box that I was stuck in.

It still amazed me how strong that twolegs really were. I was lucky that they did not attack us, besides the one owner that I had whenever he got mad. But he stopped doing that after the one time that I had scratched him.

Tristan looked scared for me when I had done that. He told me that they would remove my claws like they had done with him. But I was lucky enough that they had not done that to me... There was no way that I could ever hunt or be a wild cat if that had happened to me.

I moved myself to the back of the box, almost as if I was trying pretend to the twoleg that I was not there in the first place, and that he was carrying an empty box, but it seemed as if the twoleg was paying no attention to me as he just kept on carrying me.

I looked around, and noticed that we were now in a large den, we were no longer outside. I did my best to catch some my eyes on some things that I might recognize, once me and Briar got out of here, at least... That was if we could make it out of here.

I then saw the twoleg walk with another twoleg, this twoleg did not have a box with it. But it opened one of the walk ways for the twoleg that was carrying me. I looked around, trying my best not to shiver, or shout for help... I knew that nothing would be able to help me anyways.

I stood still now, and just closed my eyes, thinking back on the memories that I had when I was so much younger. Back when my mother had passed, she had told me to go to one of these places, and I did... I remember going into one of the boxes.

I remember them shooting something into me, and after that, I did not remember much afterwards. I just remember the day that I was picked up by a few twolegs, the female was smiling at me, and the male did not seem to care about what was going on.

After that, I was shipped to a new, much more scary box that I could not see what was going on around me. I remember mewing over and over again, the male twoleg kept on yelling at me angrily, I was just so afraid, and not sure what was going on.

I then opened my eyes, I was no longer moving around. I was now in a steady spot, I looked around at the surroundings that were around me, I heard several cats mewing for help. I looked at the place that I was in.

I spotted about 5 to 6 other cats that were in the room with me. I squinted my eyed to see them, through the darkness that was in the room with us. I saw one black cat just looking around, he had a smile on his face for some reason, almost as if he was enjoying all of this.

I then saw 2 or 3 other cats, they were mewing at the top of their lungs over and over again. Begging for help, and any way to get out of where they were at. Clearly this was their first time in one of the place as well. I closed my eyes for a few moments, kind of feeling bad for them.

I then reopened my eyes, I looked back at the black cat, as he was still smiling at the other cats. But now I realized why, he was enjoying the fact that the other cats were freaking out, I wanted to say something about it to the cat, but I thought it best not to.

I looked around, looking at the other 2 cats that were with us. They were both silent, and their eyes were closed. For a few moments I thought that the cats might be dead, but then I saw their breathing and I realized that they were just resting.

I wondered how they could be doing so, they must be used to these types of places like the other cat. I still felt a bit bad for the other cats that were mewing over and over again. I turned my head back to the cats that were sleeping, wishing that I could do what they were doing.

I was quite a bit tired, I had been running basically all day, first it was going into the woods to get that tansy for Oister, then it was moving all day to try and find the cats that I had been seeing in my dreams.

After that, I had almost gotten killed by one of the monsters, and I had been freaked out by the fact that a dog was talking to me. Then after I had finished talking with the dog, I then found those cats that had threatened me. Then I found the cats that I was looking for...

If I had just been paying attention, then those twolegs would not have caught me, and I would not be stuck in the situation that I was in right now. I shook my head, it had just gone from bad to even worse... I had to find Oister as well...

First thing was first, I had to get out of this twoleg place, at this point, finding the cats was out of the question. If I did not save Oister, then there was no way that Kettle would keep following me. I shook my head once again, there were so many thoughts, and concerns going on in my head right now.

I just had to get out of here, that was my first priority. I turned my head towards one of the cats that was sleeping, I squinted my eyes at the cat. The cat seemed a bit familiar, like I had seen the young cat before for some reason.

It was to hard to see the cats face because it was asleep and its face was covered by its paws. I shook my head, and my attention turned to the right side of the room, as I saw a twoleg coming into the room with the box that I had seen Briar in.

The twoleg began walking towards me, to put Briar right beside me. But then the twoleg began to stroke its chin and it turned away from me, as it then began carrying Briar to the other side of the room. It then dropped Briar off right above the cat that I had just been thinking about.

I was about to say something Briar, but the black cat that I had been thinking about earlier, that was laughing at the other cats then spoke over me. I looked at the cat a little bit upset, I was not sure how much time we had left, I had to find out how to get out of here before it was too late.

"Oh Briar! Come to join my again I see, your new owners didn't work to well for you again?" The cat said to Briar. I looked at the cat, a bit surprised that the cat recognized Briar. But maybe the new each other, it would make sense that they both had been in here several times.

Briar looked at the cat and then hissed at him. I did not blame him, I knew that the cat was clearly messing with Briar and making fun of him. I looked at them just watching the interaction that they were having with each other. Briar looked like he wanted to fight the cat, but he knew that he could not, do to the fact that he was stuck in the box.

"Shadow, what happened to your owners? Let me guess, you tried to fight them again, and you didn't win?" He said to him. Shadow turned his head away from him and no longer said anything back to Briar. But I could not help but let out a little chuckle at what Briar had just said.

Shadow turned his head over to me, now noticing that Briar was not the only cat in the room that was either asleep or yelling for help. The cat looked at me, and then he hissed at me angrily. He looked at me as if he was sizing me up.

The cat was a fairly big cat, I definitely did not want to try to pick a fight with this cat. I gulped a little bit, and the cat did seem to notice as he smiled at me. I turned my head away from him trying my best not to look at the cat and expose anything that I might be thinking about to him.

"Oh... Looks like someone thinks Briar has jokes... Look at your scraggly self... Let me guess, you ran away from your twolegs?" He said to me. I looked at the cat for a few moments, I was now a fair bit angry at him, and he could tell that I was.

It made the cat smile even more. It was almost as if he was reading my mind, and trying to get into my head at the same time. He was almost halfway right about what he had said to me. I did not ran away, but I did as well have owners like the rest of the cats in the room.

Briar hissed at the cat once again, and the cat then began to stop paying attention to us as he turned his head back to the cats that were mewing, and he then began to fake a howl as if he was pretending to be a coyote, the other kittypets then began to stop mewing.

"Don't listen to him Moon... Just pay attention to what I am about to tell you, we will get out of here..." Briar said to me. I looked at Briar and then nodded, I was happy that I had been in a monster with this cat, rather than a cat like Shadow, all Shadow would have done is try to scare me.

Shadow then turned his head back to Briar, realizing what Briar had just said, he now looked as if he was almost interested in what it was that we were talking about. He did not say anything, but I did notice that he was listening to what it was that we were saying to each other.

"Briar... Before you say what you are going to say... I want to let you know, you are welcome to stay with us, I will teach you how to make it in the wild, I will get into further detail once we get out of here." I said to him. He looked at me for a few moments, a bit confused by the fact that I had said us, but he just nodded.

I could tell now that Shadow was beginning to look more and more interested on what it was that we were talking about. As he then stepped up and began talking over me and Briar, I did not turn my head over to the cat this time.

"You have a group in the wild? That sounds cool... Can I join?" He said to me. Looking at me, almost as if he was begging for me to say yes to him. But I just completely ignored the cat, and Briar let out a bit of a smile noticing that I was doing so.

"Okay... The twolegs are going to come in, and once they are in, they are going to open up all of the cages, then one of the twolegs that is going to put a shot in us is going to come in, they will open a door, and we will have to run..."