Four years passed since Siko-Yama, Kreese, Boro, and Yuki were locked in a cell and forced to work in the factory where Shen produces metal for a future attack to reclaim Gongmen City. All of them were barely fed, the most food they got was two half eaten bowls of noodles from the wolves' meals. As a result, they were barely able to grow like normal cubs and looked skinny and lean, but strong for their age due to consistant work. They all had several jobs, and did just about every one that they could handle with the wolves doing the other ones they couldn't handle. During this time as well, all of them grew a strong bond with one another and were practically their own little club.
It was 2 pm on a sunny Saturday afternoon, and the four kids finished their morning jobs and were thrown into the cell, planned for more work at 4. As usual, Siko-Yama and Kreese crashed on their sad excuses for beds, (a small clump of bamboo with feathers,) Boro complaining about hunger despite him being used to it, and Yuki doing something near her side of the cell that the others didn't care for or know about. Yams tried to fall asleep but failed to do so, as with Kreese. He then gets up and looks to see Yuki nowhere in sight. "Eh. Guys. Where's Yuki?" he asks, and Kreese and Boro look to where she usually would be and don't see her there. They both shrug their shoulders.
Yams walks over to the wall, and sees a big hole right dead center into the wall. "Uhm. Guys. You should probably come over here." Kreese and Boro walk over and gape at the hole. They stood gaping until Yuki came out of the hole and store at them. She had rock dust all over her, and her fur was sticking up more than usual. "Oh, hey, guys." "Yuki. What are you doing?" "Excuse me, but what have you been doing these past four years when I've been digging this?" Yams stood in his place about to make a comeback, but stops. Kreese just laughs. "Excuse me, but how did we miss this, guys?" "Well it doesn't help I covered the hole with bamboo when the guards were here." "That's why. I was wondering why that was there."
After about a minute, Boro asked the dumb question, "What's the whole hole for, anyway?" "To escape, dummy!" "Oh." Boro felt stupid after asking, and Yuki looked back. "We should escape now, right?" Yams asked, and Yuki looked to him. "Well we could, but I doubt we can get away with it easily. This hole leads up to the sewage system here, and that surprisingly is guarded until around midnight." "Well that's stupid. Who would want to mess with pee and poop?" "No idea."
So around four, they got locked into the small cell with only a door in the front. Without speaking, they nodded to each other, and waited until the only sounds were wolves working on fewer machines, and they removed the bamboo from the hole, and began crawling. First went Yuki, Yams, Kreese, then Boro. They crawled for at least 20 minutes before an awful and foul smell reached their noses.
"Smells like poop." Boro said. "Noooooo, I thought it smelled like dumplings!" Boro's ears flattened and his stomach growled. "Now I'm hungry..." "Boro." Yams growled, and Boro whimpered. Yuki looked out to see a lot of large tubes humming, and a large dam-like system that flew a liquid that Yuki assumed was urine, but she didn't want to take chances. She jumped down the 2 foot drop, as did the others, (With Kreese tripping after he landed,) and they all looked around. "Okay... what now?" Yams asked, and Yuki pointed to four barrels on the other side of the large basement. "No... don't tell me..." Kreese trailed off, only with Yuki to nod and Kreese whimpering.
They grabbed the barrels and rolled them over to where the hole was. Yuki pulled out what looked to be a small knife, flicked her wrist and a large blade flew out. "Where'd you get that?!" Boro excalimed, and Yuki broke out her wide, familiar smile and looked to him. "I snatched it from a sleeping wolf about a year ago. Thought I might be able to use it." Yuki then stabs the sword and cuts a part of the top off, and does that to the rest of the barrels. "Climb in!" she told them, and they climbed in the three barrels, and Yuki climbed into hers after putting her sword away. She put her cut off top on, and so did Yams and Boro. Kreese hesitated and whined, then put his on. Yuki pushed her barrel into the sewage and it slowly floated away down the system, the others following with Kreese, nearly crying, pushing down.
The barrels rolled down the large river-like sewage system, and eventually they ran into a pipe. The pipe was luckily big enough to fit the barrels and Yams recalled it as feeling like when he went down the small waterfalls that his parents took him and Xin Lah to every summer, except this was larger and had more force. Boro's screams echoed across the wall, (Just as much as Yuki's laughing and cheers,) and they eventually went straight down into a very large lake. The barrels floated, and they all removed their lids for breathing.
It was a starry night sky, and the moon was at it's 3rd Quarter. Yams smiled, and looked over. Yuki was ahead of him, as was Boro, and Yuki was laughing like crazy out of joy and Boro was shaking. Yams looked behind and saw Kreese's barrel unopened, but he heard Kreese whimpering in there. "You can take it off now." Yams said, and Kreese slowly took the lid off, and his face was blotchy. "Were you crying that whole time?" "Maybe." "What, are you afraid of water or something?" Yuki asked, and Kreese looked to her. "No, I'm afraid of pee and poop flying everywhere around me." "But none got in any of our barrels." This statement was counteracted by Boro vomiting into the water, then looked into his barrel. "There's a big turdy in here!" "Okay, make that most of our barrels."
They engaged in conversation for a while before the water suddenly got more vicious. This caused for lots of water with excess sewage to be flown into each person's barrels, causing them to put their lids on. They all felt nauseous, and tried to communicate while yelling through the barrels. Boro's vomiting could be heard, Kreese crying, Yams's verbal disgust at the sewage, and Yuki trying to collect the group together. After they all calmed, and went silent, a large rushing sound was emitted from ahead of Yuki.
"Guys, what the heck was that?" Yuki said, and Kreese replied with a loud, "How am I supposed to know?" and Boro vomiting in response. Yams' reply was not there until he figured it out. "IT'S A WATERFALL!" he yelled, but he was too late as the barrels flew away from the water and down a large drop.