Chapter 5: A Hideout

Kai wrapped a bandage around his leg. After the fall, he had realized he had twisted his leg.

Silvermist looked around as she just started to get used to her new surroundings. She would be staying close to Kai and his family while she was captive there.

Silvermist heard Kai coming her way. "You ready to do something else?" Kai asked her.

She looked at the bandage that was wrapped from his ankle to slightly above his knee. "I don't think you're ready," she said.

"Oh please, I've gotten much worse," Kai said as if it was nothing.

His mother heard him and said, "That doesn't mean you should try and get worse."

Kai looked back at his mother. "Yes Mom," he said.

He looked at Silvermist who was still a little nervous about all of this. "Hey, no reason to get scared. You're with us now," he said happily.

Silvermist honestly didn't know how he did it. He was going through all this chaos and hurt himself in the process, but he still was smiling. She sighed and smiled as well.

"Now C'mon, we've got a goat to drive crazy!" Kai said leading the way.

Kai looked both ways when going over by the hall. The two walked down the left hall and all the way down to the end.

He saw the golden door at the end and reached for it. Then he heard someone shout out, "Hey kid! Don't open that door!"

Kai and Silvermist turned around and the guard realised that Kai was the mountain lion they were looking for. "You! Get over here!"

Kai was ready to fight, but Silvermist didn't think he stood a chance. She stood back, shaking a little from being scared and then something came over her.

She rushed forward at the rhino guard and gave him a high kick. He took three steps back from the hard blow. Silvermist looked at her paws. What had just happened?

She blinked. She was confused. Kai saw her distracted and the guard was coming her way. "Run!" he told her.

Silvemist saw the guard pointing his horn straight at her and ran! Kai used his good foot to kick him in the jaw. While he was distracted, the two ran off down the hall.

The rhino chased after them. "Get over here!"

Silvermist opened the door to their rooms and saw Kai was limping. Silvermist picked him up and went in. She closed the door shut and put him down.

She looked through the lock and saw the guard looking through it to. She just said, "What big eyes you have."

He stopped looking and got ready to break the door down. Silvermist and Kai leaned against the door, hoping to stop him.

He slammed against the door and made a dent. The next time, he used his horn. His head broke through between Kai and Silvermist. They just looked at the rhino.

"What a lovely decoration," joked Kai.

"Arrgh!" he yelled.

"A pirate rhino? I heard those are very rare," said Kai.

The two ran as the guard pounded down the door. Kai's father rolled his eyes. "What has the boy done this time?"

Kai's father stomped over to the two young ones shivering and holding onto one another by the corner of the room. He placed his paw on the rhino's shoulder. "What are you doing scaring my son and his little friend?"

Little? Silvermist repeated in her head. She looked at Kai. He was taller than she was.

The rhino guard looked at Kai's father. "This mountain lion is your son?" the guard asked.

Kai's father, Fengbao, nodded. "Yes, he is. Why do you ask?"

"This little cub of yours messed with our leader. While they were discussing an important meeting, your cub pulled down our leader's pants!" said the guard.

Fengbao covered his mouth with his paw, trying not to laugh. The rhino guard saw him lightly laughing behind his paw. "It's not funny!"

"Actually, it is," Silvermist said.

The rhino guard went to tackle the young ones, but Fengbao pulled the guard back and flipped him onto his back. The mountain lion was not to be messed with.

The rhino wasn't sure what to say to him. The mountain lion's neon eyes narrowed and seemed to have a hint of red. "I-I'm terribly sorry sir. I must be going now."

The rhino guard got up and quickly ran out. Fengbao crossed his arms and said, "That'll teach you to mess with my son."

Kai smiled and said, "Way to go Dad!"

Fengbao looked at his cub. "Don't think you're out of trouble for one minute, Kai."

Kai looked down. "Yes Dad."

Kai followed Fengbao so his father could give him a talk. Silvermist sat down and drummed her fingers on the cold stone floor.

Everything seemed bleak. The air looked hazy and watching the people working in such poor conditions was hard to watch. She saw Kai's mother talk to one of the guards.

The guards pushed her to the ground and handed her a pale and a sponge. She started scrubbing.

Silvermist narrowed her eyes and said, "Leave her alone!"

Kai, Fengbao, Kai's mother, and the guards all looked at her. Silvermist then started getting cold feet for doing so. The guard gestured for her to come over.

She swallowed hard and slowly walked over. When she was about half way, the guard shouted, "Get over here now!"

She ran over and stopped in front of the guard. The guard looked down at her and said, "You're the new little wolf huh?"

She cocked her head slightly. How did they know her? When people came, did word get around? She just held her head up right and nodded. He just said, "Then I guess you have no idea what the rules are, now do you?"

She shook her head no. "Well then let me explain them to you," he said. "Never question the guards! Always do what the guards tell you! When you are told to work, you work. When you are told to eat, you eat. When you are told to go to sleep you rush to your sleeping spot and snooze. If our leader calls you to come to him, you come, with no questions to ask."

Silvermist raised her small paw, trying to ask a question, but he just yelled, "Don't make me repeat myself. Go to the lunch room and eat!"

Silvermist shook in her place from the big rhino guard. She was scared. "But s-sir, I'm n-not hungry."

"What did I just say?" asked the rhino. He looked at his partner. "Didn't I just tell her?"

"Yes you did. Yes you did," the ox said.

The rhino just narrowed his eyes at the little wolf and yelled, "Just get out of my sight!"

He knocked her aside and the two left. Silvermist held the tears back. I just wanna go home, she thought sadly.

Kai's mother, Sue, came over to Silvermist and Silvermist hugged her tightly. "It's alright," Sue said softly.

Silvermist cried on the mountain lioness' shoulder. "P-p-please just t-take me h-home!" she said through her sobbing.

Sue just said, "I wish I could sweetie. But I don't know how to."

Kai and Fengbao were silent, until Kai came forward and said to Silvermist, "Don't worry. I'll find a way to get you home."

Silvermist started to calm down a bit when she heard this. "You will?"

"Of course! We'll all escape out of this horrid place. But first we need a plan," said Kai.

"Right now, we will go to eat. We have been instructed to do so by the guards. We're having enough trouble with them now, we shouldn't start another fight."

Kai nodded and Sue carried Silvermist to the lunch room. She placed her down on the seat and Kai's parents went to go and get some food. Silvermist looked at Kai.

He was drumming his finger on the wooden table and thinking. "What are you thinking about?"

"We need to plan our escape right?" he asked her. Silvermist nodded. "Then we need a super secret hideout to think up our plans!"

"We do?" Silvermist asked. Kai nodded.

"Super heroes have secret hideouts. And so do the villains, but we're heroes. We just need to find the right place," Kai said still thinking.

Silvermist looked back at the closet. "How about the closet we hid in last time?" she asked.

Kai shook his head no. "It's too small," said Kai.

Silvermist then remembered how small it was and how Kai accidently had kicked her, trying to find a good place to stand. "Then where do we go?"

Kai pondered in his mind and tried to think of a good place. "I got it!"

Silvermist looked at Kai and said sharply, "I'm not going back in that crummy old air vent again."

"I know, I know. I'm still sore from that, if you haven't notice," Kai said gesturing to his bandaged leg. Silvermist nodded and told him to go on. "I know this one room by the guards' office! We can listen in on their plans and stop them before they hurt more people."

Silvermist smiled at his plan. "That's just what we need."

"But first we need to get there. The room is completely empty. I don't know why they haven't used it," Kai said.

"That's even better," Silvermist said. "We could even decorate it with crescent moons and stars, and even some crafts that we can make."

Kai was silent, skeptical about the idea, but then he just said, "Fine. But I don't want to see any girly flowers in there. Got it?"

Silvermist nodded, "I don't like girly flowers anyway. I like crescent moons, full moons, blue moons, and forests."

"Okay then," Kai said thinking it was odd. But Silvermist was a she-wolf, she loved howling at the moon when she was at home. She would howl at it, even though their neighbors would complain that they couldn't sleep.

Silvermist saw Fengbao and Sue coming back with some food. "After this, we'll go there, agreed?"

"Agreed," he said.