Danielle was soon washed out and landed on Vanessa. Not only that but Tami fell from the vent on top and landed with a hiss in the water that remained. She stood up and shook her paws free of water, all the while hissing at the feeling of the water between her toes. Danielle looked at the black and brown cat questioningly.

Vanessa gripped Danielle's slick hand and stuffed the hissy cat into her hoodie, all the while trying not to slip on the metal floor.

Tami, not the happiest person after being stuffed into a pocket, just hissed a bit when Vanessa picked her up. She soon quieted down and settled into the pocket. Danielle was stumbling on the ground trying to keep up with Vanessa's fast pace.

After various hallways, turns, and backtracking, they managed to find an exit door.

They busted through and wound up in a forest like scenery.

Ironic, Vanessa thought, and treaded on a dirt path that was laid before them without consequences.

After getting lost many-a-times, Vanessa finally settled down with the group, removing the cat from her hoodie. She than began to shed her heavy soaked hoodie to reveal a yellow tank, which was also wet, and hung it on a low branch that was easily reachable. She motioned Danielle to do so too, which she had a plain black T-shirt with various designs on it.

Vanessa laid sprawled across the grass in thought, contemplating about what they would do now.

Tami ran off into the woods to a secluded patch of bushes. Maybe I should turn back now.... Her thoughts raced as she turned back. She ran towards the group but decided to approach through the trees.

Both the girls didn't know what to do.

Vanessa wanted to go back, to try to find Tami.

Danielle wanted to eat.

Both of them couldn't do anything at the moment. Not to mention the damn cat ran off. Danielle wandered off somewhere, as did Vanessa. She marked every tree she passed with an arrow pointing back to the camp. Soon, a crystalline clear lake came to view, along with an abundance of lush vegetation and an array of colorful flowers. She squinted at the area and dipped her feet into the water. The water was lukewarm, and it felt good on her sore pads. She pinched her arm and still seen the beautiful oasis. She chuckled, surprisingly, being that all the bad things that happened.

Tami saw Vanessa approach the crystalline lake and jumped down from a tree to land beside Vanessa on her pads. Yeah, surprisingly she had footpads. She let out a small "Hey Vanessa." Hoping she didn't spook her too much.

Vanessa blinked as she thought someone said her name. She looked to her left and seen the cat. She grabbed it by the scruff and placed it in her lap, petting it while she was in thought. She then had the cat face her, scratching the top of it's head.

"For a second there, I thought you talked."

Tami licked her paws. "I did talk. Please don't pick me up so roughly next time." Tami purred as she was pet by Vanessa between the ears. "That feels wonderful."

Vanessa stopped and a silence filled the whole area. Vanessa's face contorted from shock to a blank mask.

"You're extremely bitchy, you know that?"

Tami hissed. "You try being stuffed into a hoodie pocket!" Tami huffed. "Its me Tami."

A sudden wind picked up and blown Vanessa's hair, along with Tami's fur. She then hugged the cat, no, Tami with all of her might. She was so relived that she was right there but a question popped into her mind.

"How come you're a useless cat?"

Her answer was a claw to the nose. She chuckled and left the oasis with her Best Friend Tami.

"I'm not ALL that useless!" Tami said. "I just don't want to freak you out." She shut her mouth. She had said too much.

"What was that?" Vanessa snapped, glaring at Tami now.

Tami just waved her tail. "Nothing. Nothing at all." She washed herself.

"Hm."

They went along their path, finding the arrows to head them back to the site, and flipped the hoodie and let it dry even more. Vanessa waited there for half an hour for it to dry. Once it did, She folded it and placed it under her head, relishing in the sweet slumber.

Tami, usually being the hungry one, got up while Vanessa slept. She went hunting seeing as Danielle was not with Vanessa. She spotted a juicy looking mouse among the roots of an oak. She licked her jaws and crouched.

She steadily stalked the poor rodent, and at the last second she pounced, only to have grass in her mouth. She growled as the rodent got away, her only means of food right now.

Tami lifted her head. Wait why am I hunting rodents? She shook her head. Oh well. I'm hungry. Might as well make my cat self useful. She hunted and caught two more mice soon after. She began carrying them back to camp.

Danielle was officially lost. She marked a tree ten minutes ago, and now is at that same tree. She tried retracing her steps, but she wound up farther from the site and it was getting darker.

Tami had arrived at camp, thankful that Vanessa was still asleep. She turned to her normal self, cat tail and all. She began setting a fire and putting the mice to cook. Even though she could have eaten them raw as a cat, as a human, she couldn't stand it without being cooked. Yeah, she wasn't that desperate. She heard footsteps in the forest and sat on alert, still tending to the mice.

Danielle growled and walked in circles, trying to think of an idea that would help her situation. She thought about making a fire, but she didn't know how to make one. She thought of yelling for help, but she doesn't want to attract unneeded attention. She thought about hunting, but she can't hunt.

She was officially lost, helpless, and hungry.

It was beginning to darken, and Danielle still wasn't back. Tami was beginning to get worried.

Vanessa hadn't woken up yet, otherwise she would stress over Danielle, but she always made Vanessa stressed to begin with.

Tami went over and gently nudged Vanessa with a stick. "Hey Van. Wake up. There's food." It was getting darker and Tami was ready to bolt for the woods and look for Danielle herself.

Vanessa's ears perked up at the sound of food. Her nose twitched slightly as the wafting smell of cooked meat entered her nose. She dragged herself over to the warm fire, where an animal was cooked on a stick, as were two more. She went to grab one, but noticed Tami looked around nervously. She too looked around, Danielle still wasn't back. She sighed, grabbing her food and pulling Tami along. She grabbed Danielle's jacket and left the site, but not before taking a bite out of her food.

Danielle decided to crash where she was, knowing her friends would find her. She just kept waiting until she heard a rustle in the bushes. Excited, Danielle opened her large mouth and spewed whatever she filtered through her mind.

"Hey, Tami! Are you there!? I've been waiting for like, forever! Is Vanessa with you? I sure hope not. She can be mean at times!"

She shut her mouth once she realized that it wasn't her friends she was talking to, but two cloaked persons that she couldn't make out their faces. She bit her lip as the came closer, and when they were at least and arms-width away, she screamed as loud and long as she could.

Tami's ears perked at the sound of Danielle's screaming. "Danielle!!!" She jumped and while in midair turned into a cat, much to the astonishment of Vanessa. She was too worried about Danielle to care and continued running as fast as her paws could carry her.

Vanessa soon bolted afterwards after Tami, but she was too fast. She cursed and decided to make a left, which resulted into crashed into someone else. She fell deftly and sprung back up. She wanted to glare at the person, but his sheer size and height made her more frightened than angry.

Tami dashed through the woods. She came across Danielle who was struggling against one cloaked person and hissed. She jumped on the man's head and began clawing his face fiercely.

Vanessa was staring down at the large man, well what she seen she could have conclude as male. The man began to shift and put his arm behind his head, then pulling something off of his back. Her eyes widened as the silhouette of the sword was familiar. A hoarse laugh boomed from him, her ears stinging from the intensity. She placed some of her weight on her left. As the sword swung at her, she ducked under it and bolted to the direction, only to be blocked by the sword digging into the grass. She looked at her attacker with anger and everything turned red as she lunged at him.

The man attacking Danielle, now feeling the pain of a hissing angry cat, began to flee. Tami stood in front of Danielle, hissing and spitting.

Danielle then began to hug the poor cat to near suffocation, not knowing it was her friend Tami.

"Oh thank you kitty, you saved my life! I always hated cats, but you're an exception!"

Danielle would have talked even more if Tami hadn't put her paw on Danielle's

mouth.

Tami opened her mouth to speak as she tried to get out of Danielle's grip. "Danielle! Its me! Tami! Are you ok?"

Danielle stared wide eyed at the cat that just talked. She inhaled deeply.

Tami, knowing her friend, she shook her head back and forth. Don't Scream. Don't scream...she muttered in her head.

On a single move, Danielle thrust the cat away from her and closed her eyes, now inhaling even more deeply than she could.

"NO!"

And then she let loose a terrible screech that crippled Tami, along with most of the animals in the forest.

Tami, not one to curse lightly unless seriously surprised cursed. "What the hell is the matter with you!"

Danielle held her mouth and breathed deeply, trying to relax herself and comprehend the situation. It felt like hours went by as they heard a baritone wolf howl and growl loudly, too loud for a normal wolf.

Meanwhile, Vanessa wasn't feeling so hot.

Her lungs felt like they were on fire. She desperately tried to dodge the sword, but sometimes it would nick her and pain bloomed from the area. It wasn't even unwrapped. All she could remember was the sword in front of her and then nothing. Pain boiled from her arm as something sliced into her arm, the weapon still stuck in there. She looked at her new attacker, much shorter than her first attacker, but taller than her definably. A piercing scream erupted from somewhere in the forest, paralyzing her for a brief second as the mighty sword crashed into her left side.

The force propelled her into a thick tree, Pain blossoming throughout her entire being. She had a hard time to collect her bearings as a blue hand with a bite mark on it lifted her up by whatever was left of her yellow tank. She hesitantly sucked in a breath and released it, only to find that she was laying on the ground in nothing but her ripped, dirty, bloody jeans and her white bra, that was turning to a sickeningly brown from the dried blood. She closed her eyes and opened them, her eyes wandered to the full moon that rained its majestic rays down on her.

She felt something click inside of her. Pain bursted from her head and she clutched it tightly, not allowing herself to scream. Her hands felt like they were shifting, as was her whole body. She felt her muscles bunch up and tighten. She felt her bones shift painfully, as she seemed to gain height as well as mass. She rolled over on her hands, now thick taloned paws that had dark matted fur covering her whole body she presumed. She gotten up quickly and leaped backwards as the ground collapsed from the impact of the sword. She howled a monstrous howl and growled at the two opponents. Something snapped as she now seen everything in a tint of red, malice now etching into her being. She chuckled, a deep hoarse laugh that still have her femininity in it. She scrolled her large tongue over her large teeth, the brute's blood still lingering on her taste buds. She couldn't wait to taste their flesh.

Tami was beginning to freak out. She had heard the howl and began madly dashing towards it, not knowing why, something called her to it. She could hear Danielle following close behind trying to keep up.

Wreckage met Tami and Danielle as they followed the decimated trail. Blood wafted into Tami's nostrils and she put a paw on it, not wanting to smell the blood. Danielle was amazed by the destruction. A thunderous yelp lied ahead of the duo, Danielle ducking as a large furry mass came flying towards them, and into the tree that was behind them.

Tami followed the furry mass trying to find out who or what it was. She dashed with Danielle following close behind. Strangely, Danielle was quiet.

Vanessa groaned softly as she felt her body shift again, a dull ache this time. She felt herself become smaller, weaker, and tired. She struggled to keep her eyes open, but before she drifted off into her own world, she seen a petite furry mass bound over to her, followed by silvery-blue.