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Chapter Two: Breaking

April's van tore into a back alley. April and Casey leapt out and began searching everywhere. April stopped when she saw the blood soaked ground.

"Casey!" April wept, she stared at the blood in horror. Casy rushed up and the color drained from his face.

"Oh...no..." he breathed. April stumbled forward and then knelt, she straightened up holding Leo's shell cell.

"I'll...call and..." Casey murmured as he touched April's arm gently. April walked around the area, desperately searching for Leo. Meanwhile Casey called and warned the guys. By the time he got off the phone April was sitting in the driver's seat, facing out, staring at Leo's Shell-Cell. Casey walked up and knelt in front of her.

"He's not here...whoever did-...they took him..."She whispered. Casey put his hand on her's.

"We'll find him," he replied gently.

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The dark van came to a screeching halt, inside the two men worked frantically to restart Leo's heart. Finally they realized he had had a severe allergic reaction to the sedative. After what seemed like years Leo's breathing evened out and his heart, beat.

"Might as well put him in now," grumbled a man in the front, gesturing to a wooden crate off to the side. The first and second man nodded and wrapped Leo's wounds in gauze. After they finished dressing his wounds he was put in the crate. The crate was just big enough for Leo to sit in cris-cross.

Nearly two days stretch by....

Leo groaned as he came to. He tried to stretch out but found that he couldn't move more than a few inches. Pain seared through his chest and leg. his leg felt broken and both his throat and chest felt like they were on fire. Leo moved his head a little to look out the small breathing holes. He couldn't see much, just the dark walls of the back of the van. There was enough light coming through to know that it was night. A jolt made him moan against his will. His whole body shook painfully. He could hear what sounded like arguing and heard doors open. The crate was dragged forward causing him to smash his head against the side. Minutes later he was lifted into the air on a fork lift and sat on top of a train car flat-bed. Straps where wrapped around to secure it. Laughter and shouts rang out around him. Leo strained to see what was going on but every movement caused a flash of blinding pain. Leo finally got himself positioned so that he had his legs pulled up to his chest. His right leg was swollen and he could hardly bear to touch it. His eyes fluttered and closed, exhaustion over taking him.

Why do I feel so weak? I just want to know...OW!!!

A electric cattle prod had been shoved in through one of the breathing holes and jammed into Leo's arm. Leo yelped loudly, too weak to prevent it from escaping. Laughter rang around him and soon more jolts from all sides, by the time they finished torturing him all he could do was cry softly. I'm stronger than this! Why? Why am i crying then? Leo shivered as the train started to move, cold air coming into his crate.

Leo lost track of time as he was carried across the area. He grew weaker and his wounds hurt all the more, at every stop the electrical torture started again. Leo was force to urinate on himself and soon was sitting in a disgusting mixture of dropped food, urine and fecal matter. They never let him out of the crate. Shame burned in Leo for having to sink as low as he had, shame that turned him bitter. Slowly that bitterness turned to hate and Leo became wild, so wild that he lashed out at anything that moved near his crate. He bit one of his tormenters so hard the man lost a finger. The torture, if possible, got worse. They stopped feeding him, fearing that they would get hurt if they came to close. One day the train stopped and was unloading some cargo, a little girl around six years of age approached Leo's crate. Low growls and snarls emitted from it as she got closer.

The girl caught a flash of wild golden-brown eyes. She hesitated but then came forward after a second. She climbed up next to the crate, wrinkling her nose at the smell. She sat down and opened her lunch pulling out a sandwich. She bit into half, watching the crate from the corner of her eye. The snarls had stopped but low nervous growls still emitted from the crate's interior. Leo's nostrils flared taking in the sent of food. Slowly the girl inched close to the crate, every movement bringing a nervous growl. After a what seemed like years the girl was close enough to look in and see the creature. Leo locked eyes with her, fear still eating at his mind unsure of what would happen next. The girl moved away of a minute and then came back smiling before pushing the second half of her sandwich inside, holding it still, eyes watching curiously. Leo sat still for a minute then reached forward and took the sandwich. He devoured it within seconds and then looked back at her, golden-brown eyes questioning. She smiled and reached back into her bag pulling out a cookie and slipped it in Leo snatched it away and it was gone in seconds.

"Lenora!! Get away from there Honey! It's not safe!" shouted a man. Leo cringed at the shout and pulled as far back into the crate as possible. A man rushed forward and snatched the girl up.

"But Daddy!" she pleaded. Her father shook his head sharply. Another man approached, one of Leo's so called caregivers.

"Hey get away from there! Can't you read? It says DANGEROUS ANIMAL! Shesh...the stupid thing bit off one of my fingers" snarled the man, waving his four fingered hand. Lenora's eye stretched wide. As Lenora's father carried her away yelps and snarls were heard coming from Leo's crate. Lenora's eyes brimmed with tears at the sound of Leo's sufferings.

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