Siko-Yama awoke to stars in the sky and a chirp in the air. He was vaugely aware the ground was shaking, and he didn't see the sky clear, there were bars in the way. He was dazed and was trying to keep himself from throwing up, and coughed and gagged on his own vomit before he swallowed it. He shook his head and started to wake up. He looked around his environment.
He was inside a small, confined carriage that was made of a strong metal that he could not identify. The only source of light was a small window, about 2x7 inches, and it had four bars barring it up. SikoYama gained the small strength he had to look out of the window. A starry sky, slightly cloudy, with the a full moon in the sky. He looked down. It looked like a rocky road. He could hear two sounds, the scraping of something on the road and footsteps. He got the thought that the carriage was being pulled somewhere by somebody. He looked to see two people with the same studded armor that woman wore earlier that day pushing the carriage holding large metal bars. This confirmed his theory. He then looked around outside. He saw that the carraige was being pulled on a curved road that seemed to be on a large mountain due to how steep the road was.
He heard a small groan behind him and turned to see Kreese slowly get up, his head gently touching the ceiling. "Y-Yams? Ugh..." He bent his head and put his paws over his eyes and spun a little, and remained that way for several minutes. SikoYama finally had the urge to speak with him. "Where the heck are we?" he asked. "I don't know." Kreese replied as he rubbed his eyes and looked out the window. "What's outside?" "I think we're in a carraige on a mountain or something." "Lovely!" Kreese exclaimed sarcastically. Then they both heard another groan. But it wasn't a normal groan, it sounded like a stomach growl. "Is that you?" "No." Kreese and Yams felt around until Yams found his paw on a big lump of furry fat. And that fat laughed. "Hahahahaha, Stop tickeling me, STOP HAHAHAHAHA," Boro yelled loudly, and Kreese slapped him on the head, jolting Boro up wide awake and slamming his head on the ceiling, making it shake slightly. One of the carraige pullers, a pig, tried to keep the carraige steady and yelled to the kids, "Keep quiet in there, you brats!" before resuming his work. Boro rubbed his head and looked around. "Where are we, it's really dark." "In a carraige or something, I don't know." Kreese said, and lifted his paws up while saying so and putting them down.
Several minutes passed until SikoYama looked to the carraige pullers. "Hey, bird brains!" he yelled to the pig. "What?!" the pig yelled. Taken aback slightly, Yams kept talking. "Where are we going?" "Up this mountain, down to the shore, on a boat, crossing a lake, and going to a factory." "Whose factory?" "Have you ever heard of a peacock named Shen?" "No." "Then don't ask." Yams opened his mouth to reply but closed it. He looked over to Kreese and Boro. "Who's Shen?" "I don't have the slightest idea," Boro said, and Kreese just shrugged his shoulders. Yams growled and held his stomach. "I'm hungry." "Me too," Boro replied, followed quickly by Kreese yelling, "You're always hungry!"
They all sat for a few hours silently, trying to sleep but were unable to due to them being unconscious for a near entire 24 hours. Dawn fell upon them as the carraige went off the mountain and wheeled through a very thin forest to a shore filled with several boats. Many people were there, from the poor to the wealthy. However, that took a small amount of space compared to the amount of SF soldiers walking with similar carraiges around a gigantic boat with at least a hundred of those carraiges piled on there. The one with the boys in it was quickly piled on top of a bunch of others, and the carraige was pointed sideways so the window was pointed to the right and they could see the sea onwards. Quickly, another long pile of carraiges were piled where the boys' view was, and another carraige's window was the only thing they could see. Inside the carraige appeared to only be two people; a female cub that looked about the boys' age, and a small male cub that looked to be about 2.
The female cub's fur was all sticking out and mangled, and she looked over to the direction of the boys. She quickly stuck her head to the bars and her face was so eager it almost made Kreese laugh. "Hi!" she excalimed, and SikoYama jumped. "Uh... hi." he muttered, and laughed without making too much noise. "Ugh, I've been DYING to hear somebody's voice, this kid in here's been crying non-stop, 'I want my mommy, I want my daddy, I need to change my diaper, bla bla bla, ping pong dingle dangle.' It's extremely annoying." Yams was a little surprised at how inconsiderate she was, but he found it rather humorous. Kreese laughed at her. "Well aren't you a little messed up!" "Well don't you smell like rhino pee and bird poop!" Boro nearly wet himself laughing at this, and Kreese flopped his ears down and was humored and angry, somehow, at the same time. "What's your name?" "Yuki!" she said, and a big grin that stretched ear to ear. "Well, Yuki. Do you have any food on you?" Boro asked, which proceeded to have Kreese punch him in the arm. "Actually, I do!" Yuki said, to the delight of Boro and the surprise of Kreese and Yams. She then proceeded to pull many strange things out of her pocket, including a fish bone, a small stick of bamboo, a single piece of gold, and a tangle of what appeared to be fur. "Here you go, fetch!" She said, and threw a small, half eaten dumpling inside their carraige. Boro looked at it. It was, as I said, a half eaten dumpling with mold and hair on it. "No thanks..." Boro said, and picked it up and threw it down onto the boat. A worker then proceeded to pick it up, smell it, take a bite out of it, throw up, and throw the dumpling in the lake. Yuki shrugged and started rambling about something Yams could not understand as Yuki spoke really fast without hesitation. In that time, the boat left land and was halfway to the city. Kreese then yelled, "Will you shut up already!" to Yuki, and she shut her mouth rather quickly after that. And instead of looking hurt or mad, she playfully stuck her tounge out at him, and Kreese starts banging his head against his paw.
About a minute later, after being lost in his thoughts, Yams looked to Yuki. "So what's your story?" "Hm?" "How did you end up here?" "Oh. Well, my mommy and daddy left me on the door of an orphanage when I was two days old, or that's what I was told, and I was there until about a year ago. Then I ran away because they call treated me mean and said how I would never be adopted. I ran and ran until I found a small homeless couple with a shelter in the trees. I've lived with them until these weird guys came in and burned it down, they took me, and left my adopted parents to die. I was thrown in here and have been for..." she paused to look at the wall inside her own carraige, which had several tally marks, then looked back, "15 days." "Wow. We've only been in for one." "Oh."
They were silent the entire ride there, and then arrived at Gongmen City by dusk. As the sun set, all the children were dragged in chains, Yams, Kreese, Boro and Yuki chained next to each other, through a backstreet to a hidden factory. Once inside, they saw many wolves and machines making metal, and Yams did his best not to be visibly scared. Kreese's knees were buckling due to fear, Boro's stomach was growling like crazy, and Yuki was laughing like crazy at the wolves because 'they look so stupid in those pants'. Yams looked up to see a peacock in what looked like silk dress robes. Quickly the four were put to work on a large cogwheel that spun a machine that made some large metal object.
And they worked on all night until the next morning, and were thrown onto the floor of a large cell, given stale noodles and a bowl of dirty water for nourishment, and a slammed shut door.
"What do you think is gonna happen now?" Yams asked, as he laid on the ground. "No idea," replied Kreese, as he tried to be comfortable on the ground. "I'm hungry," said Boro, clutching his stomach. "I like it. Not the work, but the machines are awesome!" Yuki said, sitting up but quickly falling down. "Well whatever happens, we're gonna have to deal with it." Yams finally said, as each of them slowly dazed into sleep.