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Chapter 8

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Brook

"Wake up, mutts!" a voice called I arose from my sleep and stared at the source of the voice. There was a disgusting small man whose shirt was way too small and had a receding hair line. In his mouth was a cigar which made my nose twitch. Forest was already awake and was starting to growl. "Ah shut up! Now get your mangy butts out of there!" When we didn't move the man growled and pressed a button. The entire cage felt like it was electric. It felt like a thousand watts of power went through me and it hurt. We yelped and jumped from the opening, ready to take off, but there was simply a wall. Within that one second that we stood there wondering what was going on, the only door closed and the guy hopped back in his truck and drove off.

"What? Where are we?" Forest asked.

"You, my friend, are in a dog pound," a voice creaked from the other side of the room. It was dark, but I could make out several other really depressed looking dogs.

"A pound? What's a pound?" Forest asked. That word was new to us.

"You sure are strange if you don't know what a pound is," the dog croaked.

"Uh… we…. Uh… we aren't from around here. So, uh, what is a pound?" I replied.

"A pound is a place where dogs are brought after they've been captured," another dog replied. Just then, a door opened and a streak of light came in. A human came in, flipped on the lights, and did some kind of motion with his hands. A truck backed up into the room and soon stopped. A cage door on the other side of us opened and one of the humans opened a slot on the side of the truck. Four large guys came and each picked up a heap of fur. When all four heaps were in the cage, the humans left the room, but left the lights on.

"Forest, are those…" I started.

"Yes," the four heaps were four bloodied wolves.

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Blaze

I slowly opened my eyes. That first shot had hit me, and for some reason, the other humans started to shoot at us, too. We ran, but we couldn't make it. The last thing I remember was falling on the ground and watching Celest fall to her knees as a bullet sped through her human chest.

Celest! My vision was slightly blurry, but that didn't stop me from getting up and tripping over something on the ground. I sat back up and shook my head as the blurriness faded. I had tripped over Celest. I instantly lay down and started to see if she was breathing. I stared at her chest, never blinking until her ribs expanded. I let a sigh of relief and checked the area. Snipe was there, so was Maddy, but surprisingly, Maddy didn't have any bloodied wounds. I waved it off and continued searching. The whole place was filled with dogs. All of them were lying down and sighed a lot. I looked at the cage beside us, and to my surprise, the dogs in it were standing up. Wait, were they dogs? They were much bigger than any others and they had a different scent. It smelled like the forest.

"Hey, who are you?" the green one asked.

"I'm Blaze, and you are…" I replied.

"I'm Forest and this is Brook…" the green one started, but then another voice spoke up from the other side of the room.

"And I'm Breeze and this is Copper," I looked at the other side of the room and sure enough, there were two others.

"Let me ask you a question now. What are you?" Forest asked.

"I'm, we're wolves," I stated. Then I heard Celest groan and I looked as she awoke. The others soon got up, too. "This is Celest, Snipe, and Maddy." I commented.

"We're wolves, too!" Brook, the blue one spoke up.

"Whoa! We met other wolves! Who are they?" Celest excitedly asked.

"That's Forest, Brook, over there is Breeze and Copper," I answered. Celest practically jumped for joy.

"So, how did you get in here?" Snipe asked Forest.

"Breeze, Brook, Copper, and I were all ambushed by humans, you?" Forest replied.

"Ambushed by humans," Snipe smirked.

"How do we get out?" Celest suddenly asked.

"I was waiting for someone to ask that! Let's bend some bars!" Copper spoke up.

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Forest

After an agonizing hour of bleeding gums and bent bars, there was a hole big enough for a wolf to fit through in all three cages. We snuck around to the door, careful not to be seen.

"Hey," Celest tried to gain someone's attention.

"Shhhh!" I shushed her.

"Hey!"

"SHHHHHHH!"

"HEY!"

"WHAT!" I quietly screamed.

"Why don't we just use our disguises?" Celest commented.

"…Good idea," I retorted. We all changed into our human forms and I took notice of Copper's human. He had a tan colored button up shirt and a copper colored tie. He had a dark brown suit jacket and he was pretty much wearing a suit, but it didn't look so tight or made him look like a business man, instead he looked like a teenager after prom. The top few buttons were unbuttoned his jacket was loosely on him. He had tan blue jeans and copper colored tennis shoes. His hair was messy and copper colored. His eyes followed suit. I had to admit that he was pretty good looking himself. I caught Breeze practically drooling when she saw him and I had to snicker. She punched me lightly, but she was stronger than she looked.

"We ready?" Blaze asked. I had already confirmed that he had been the leader of the other group. Our group on the other hand, we weren't entirely sure. I was the first to think of it, but Copper was also stronger. Breeze would make a great leader with her strength and how easily she navigated. Brook, she didn't seem like she wanted the attention.

"Let's go!" Snipe announced. He seemed to be like an exile. It wasn't like he was treated like one. Maddy stayed with him and Celest didn't leave him out. It was Blaze who made him seem unworthy. He often scowled at him and never really asked him opinion. Maddy, now she was tricky. I wasn't quite sure about her, but he scent seemed so familiar.

We headed out to what looked like a garage. Five different trucks were parked, but only one seemed to be occupied with humans.

"Hey, why don't we hijack one of these?" Copper suggested.

"Uh, we can't drive!" Breeze scowled.

"We can try!" Copper hopped into the truck and all we could do was sigh. This truck was a normal truck and wasn't one of the trucks that we had rode in during our merry trip here. Inside the truck were enough seats to place five, but three of us had to ride in the back. Copper, Breeze, and I got stuck riding in the back. I heard Blaze turn the keys and the truck start up. I also heard the four humans who had been working on the truck start to walk over.

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