Darkness. Darkness was every where around Rumpleteazer. Darkness in her heart. her head. she heard a queens scream and then a loud bang like from a gun. She then remembered being lifted into the air. Her eyes were not open yet. she was a small kitten. Too small for her eyes to be open. She DID however remember a pair of muscular arms holding her. One arm was under her legs, the other under her shoulders and tilting up her head. She leaned to her right side and her head hit the chest of what she thought would be a tom due to the flatness but also muscularity. She then heard him speak to her. It was a voice that sounded like a young tom, rather high pitched. he said "Rumpleteazer. i love you." then she felt a pair of lips on her forhead, then she felt herself placed on something hard yet squishy, like rotting wood. She felt it nudged a bit, then it rocked back and forth like it was on water. everything faded after that.
She awoke to find the sun beaming on her damp fur and her eyes open. she looked around. she was on an upturned crate on a bay of a river. She looked behind the crate and saw streets and alleys and trash and fast moving heaps of metal on the roads. She crawled back into the crate and curled up in the corner of it, whimpering in fear. She soon heard voices and paw steps. She soon realized they were toms voices and the paw steps were getting closer to her crate. "HEY! knock it off!" a voice called and then laughter from some other toms. "POOF!" another one yelled at him. "im not a poof! i just think that you should take a LITTLE pride in what you look like! so you dont look like a hobo!" he yelled. "you ARE a hobo John!" a different tom yelled in reply. "oh shut up." the one now known as John replied. She felt something hit the box then splash into the water. she meowed loudly in a shriek of fear and covered her eyes with her paws and whimpered softly. "oh NOW look what you did Bell!' the one called John said in irritation. there was laughter and one yelled "MY NAME IS NOT BELL! MY NAME IS BELLIAN! NOT BELL!" he protested. "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!" a deeper toms voice came. he sounded still in teens, but older than the rest she had heard. He padded over to the box and looked inside finding Teazer. "Guys, hush and look at this" he said softly. Teazer still had her paws over her eyes as four toms tried to get space to peek a glance at the calico queen kit in the crate. "wow" John said "a kit. what should we do with it KC?" Teazer heard a scratching noise as the older one scratched his chin in thought. apparently his name was KC. "i dont know. ya think we should.. care for it?" he asked questioningly. "WHAT?" the others sounded in unison. "its a kit!" "we arent queens or something!" "we should just leve it and pretend we never saw it!" she heard these protests and couldnt match voices to names because they were all around the same times. She heard a smacking noise like a machine gun. "SHUT UP!" yelled KC. he then started to say softly "hello there little one" Teazer kept her paws on her eyes and whimpered slightly. "Its okay. them idiots arent going to hurt you and neither will I." he tried to reasure her. the small kit meowed slightly, softly, then slowly put her paws down and opened her eyes to see the head of a black tom around 17 or so looking into the crate with deep green eyes. "there ya go little one" he said with a small smile that showed his fangs slightly and Rumpleteazer whimpered slightly at the sight of them. he closed his mouth with a smile still and said "you are okay. where is your family?" he asked. Teazer tried to think but realized she couldnt remember anything. it had obviously been atleast a week or so she was unconsciounce from the heat and thirst and hunger because she was slightly bigger, but still very thin. and she knew she could speak, and she was slightly more developed. But there was a problem.. she couldnt remember anything except for her name... that was it. 'oi don' know.." she said slowly. The Tom questioned "whats your name?" she blinked a couple times then said "Rumpleteazah" The black tom smiled more and reached in a friendly paw "im KC. nice to meet you. Let me help you out of there." Teazer was a lil cautious at first, but grabbed the extended paw nonetheless and let him help her out of the crate. She stood there silently as KC told the 4 teenage toms to introduce themselves. "Im Bellian" a cream colored tom with brown and black patches and bright orange eyes stated. he had also a brown patch over his left eye. he was the shortest and looked to be about 12. he wasnt very muscular but not fat either. just Short and biggish. The next tom to speak said "Im Jake." the one to say this was quite handsome Teazer thought. He was completely white, with bold blue eyes that contrasted to the rest of him, except for his black nose and one black ear. He was tall for his age, probably about 13. He was thin, but she could see toneness in his chest and abbs and arms and legs. His face was sharp but somewhat sharp. His headfur was bushy and full around his face. she quite liked it herself. The next was "John. his brother."said a tom the looked around 15. He was mostly black and he had white socks and some white patches over his body, including around his mouth trailing up his nose and between his eyes to fade near his head fur. She turned to the cat beside her and had to look up a good bit. he was DEFINITLY the oldest. he looked to be about 17 and was black and orange. His whole head was black and he had orange everywhere else, save for his tail which was black and orange striped, and black dots all over him like large freckles scattered all over his body. Teazer let out a smile to all of them. They returned the smile and KC asked her, "if you have no family or anything, would you like to stay with us? we are all strays and live together and are happy to help you out Rumpleteazer. we can also treat you how to hunt for food, defend yourself, find shelter, everything." he smiled at her with his warm brown eyes. She thought it over for a few seconds then nodded and everyone cheered. To be honest, they had acted like they didnt want a kitten, but they were excited they were getting a beautiful queen. And they guess they were happy to have a new friend to teach skills to. The group began walking and talking with Teazer as they walked down a few alleys to a big grean trashbin. its was HUGE. one of the really big double trash boxes. They crept into a small crack behind the bin and they all disapeared. Teazer thought she should follow them, so she went through the crack where they went and found a hole in the trash bin. She went through it to find that it had been made into a den! a large one! it had four little nest beds, a small bucket with trash in it, and some cans here and there. It was big, but boy was it a mess. OBVIOUSLY teenage toms lived there. They smiled at her as they noticed she was admiring the place. "Do you like it Rumpleteazer?" John asked. Teazer nodded and said "I's very noice! I's so big. Where do oi sleep?" she asked noticing the toms were going to all the beds and getting ready to go to sleep, sprawling out and yawning. Rumpleteazer was a bit tired herself but didnt show it. she liked being around the toms. She thought herself cool for it. KC thought for a moment then his eyes lit up and he said "I'll be right back" he darted out of the opening of the den then came back in with a basket. He dropped it in a corner and put a blanket and small pillow in it they had lying on the ground. He smiled at his work and glanced at Teazer questioningly "Is this okay?" Teazer flicked her tail slightly and went over and carefully crawled into the basket, she sniffed at the blankets a bit, rubbed the pillow with her head fur, then that was it. She nestled around in the basket and smiled widely declaring "Oi love i'! i's so soft! 'ow did you ge' i'?" KC chuckled slightly at her Cockney accent where she didnt pronounce her t's all the way. like in get. she would say ge'. It was i'. and how sometimes other words were rendered differently. Like to her was loike, I was oi, how was 'ow, what was whot, white was whoite, he found it amusing. He just smiled and went to his bed and said "found it outside." he let out a deep yawn then and rolled over onto his bed facing the wall going to sleep. Rumpleteazer smiled as she looked around her at the friendly toms who were all now going to sleep in their beds after John and Jake had a little fit throwing a can at each other which made Teazer giggle quietly. She yawned, wrapped up in her blanket and snuggled against her pillow and fell asleep fast.