Chapter 20 is finally here! Yay!

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Freeing all the kittens took much longer then June had hoped it would, but then again there was only one makeshift lock pick and at least twenty cages that took at least 2 minutes tops to open. As she made her way opening the cages, June hoped that their kidnappers wouldn't come to check on them anytime soon.

Fortunately, fate seemed to be on their side as June managed to open all the cages without any disturbances. All the newly freed kittens immediately began searching for their siblings and mewed happily once they were all reunited, except of Javik and Lilly who decided to stick together.

"Oh dudes! I'm so happy to see you guys again!" mewed June as she joined her siblings.

"Mew! June! You're ok!" cried Otter.

"Dude! I was getting worried about all you guys! Is everyone ok?" said June.

"Nyet, it would seem that I have sustained injuries when I tried to fight back." replied Kody.

"Oh Kody!" mewed Sitka as she as well as the rest of the kittens looked at Kody's fur.

His fur was missing in several places from being ripped off his body. Apparently they ripped his fur off so hard, the skin had come with it leaving pink flesh exposed and dried blood.

"Does it hurt?" asked Matthew.

"Not really, the pain subsided after a while when I cleaned them." he replied.

"Those meanies…" mewed Otter. "What I wouldn't give to bop them in the nose!"

"Same here dude, but right now we got to figure out how to get out of this place." said June.

"I got an idea…" said Matthew. "We should organize the rest of the kittens into groups. We'll all search the place for an exit while at least one of us acts as look out so we'll know when they come back."

"Yeah, that great and all but what will we do if they come back before we can get out of here?" asked Sitka.

"We could use that new trick that papa taught us, da?"

"That's a great idea Kody! While we keep them away, one of us is going to have to lead the others out of here."

"Um…I'll do it…If that's ok with you guys." said Otter.

"Sure dude! We'll make sure everyone here knows it." retorted June.

The siblings then quickly set their plan into motion. June, Kody, Sitka and Otter rounded up all the kittens into groups to search the place while Matthew hid by the door, listening carefully if the kidnappers would return. The room, since it was a basement, had only one exit besides the window near the ceiling.

"What are we going to do?" asked one of the kittens. "The window is too high to climb out of here. How are we going to get out of here?"

"Calm down dudes! We'll think of something! Hmmm…" thought Sitka.

"Why not use those boards, da?" said Kody while pointing to the boards of wood stacked next to the window.

"All we have to do is move it closer to the window and make it like a ramp. Simple, da?"

"Great thinking bro!" mewed Otter. "Come on! Help me move this!"

Otter as well as a few of the other kittens ran over to the boards and moved it as best as they could without making too much noise. Eventually the managed to move one of the boards into place and aligned it perfectly for them to run up to the window.

Sitka then ran up the board to test its strength. It was a bit scary but the board seemed strong enough to hold if the kittens went up one at a time. She then checked the window and surprisingly it was open.

"Alright! Here's are exit but we have to go up the board one at a time!"

"You guys hurry! They're coming back!" mewed Matthew as he ran from the door.

June immediately took action.

"There's no time for that! Everyone run up in pairs of two! We'll try to hold them back!"

No sooner had June spoken the kidnappers had returned. As soon as they saw the kittens freed from their cages they called for backup and ran towards them.

"Get back here you little brats!"

Instantly Kody jumped in front of them and glared the two cats as a dark aura began to appear around him.

"You would do well not to call us that, da?" mewed Kody in a sinister voice.

The cats stopped and lightly gasped in horror at the kitten, for they had never seen anything so creepy before. (He did really well to perfect his aura, so well that he could actually give Vodka a run for his money.)

Soon June and Matthew joined in and created their own little auras while Otter and Sitka were busy leading the other kittens out. It seemed like their plan would work as they held back the cats as well as their reinforcements but unfortunately that had two factors going against them.

First off, they were kittens and no matter how creepy they were with their auras there was no way these cats were going to let them get away.

The second thing was that they hadn't learned how to maintain their auras for very long so only two-thirds of the kittens managed to make their way up the boards before it finally gave out.

The cats advanced on the kittens, hissing and growling at them.

"Oh dude! Run!" cried June.

The kittens ran up the board as the cats chased after them. As Sitka had mentioned the board was strong, but not strong enough to hold so many kittens running up it at one time and it began to wobble. Kody and Matthew ran up the board with June behind them.

"Hurry! They're gaining on you guys!" cried Sitka at the top of the window.

The first two made it and exited but just before June could reach the top, one of the cats behind her swiped at her legs and tripped her.

"Mew!" cried June as she tried to gain back her footing.

"You won't escape us you little trouble maker!" said one of the pursuers.

Then the unthinkable happened.

The board fell down, sending all the cats with them to the ground. June seeing that it was collapsing made a daring leap at the window.

"Mew!" said June as she was only able to grab the edge.

"June! Hold on!" mewed Sitka as she tried to help her sister but it was too late for June had lost her footing.

"JUNE!" screamed Sitka as she watched her sister fall to the ground.

Suddenly, she noticed that some of the cats had exited the house and were running straight towards her. Regretfully, Sitka fled in the direction of the others, leaving June behind to fend for herself.

'I'm sorry June!' she thought as guilt ridden tears fell from her eyes.

Oh no! June! Please be ok! Whats going to happen to her? Stay tuned for the next chapter!

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