Chapter 6 is up :) See you at the end of it and again thx for every single comment you wrote. They really help me a lot.
Selina
Bob left the room, where Shira was captured in her cage, and entered a small dirty anteroom. Plaster was hanging down from the ceiling and the walls were covered with some dirty stains in different colours, which looked very ugly. The air also was filled with a very putrid smell.
He closed the door behind him and noticed Dan inside the anteroom, leaning like a 'bad guy' against a wall and with a toothpick inside his mouth.
"What took you so long to carry a sleeping animal inside a room? I´m waiting here for you for more than 5 minutes until now.", Dan asked annoyed, spitting the toothpick out of his mouth which landed directly on Bob´s left shoe.
"Man, what was that for?", Bob replied angry, while removing the toothpick with his right shoe from his left one. After some stupid movements he managed to remove it and faced Dan again, who was still leaning against his favourite wall. They stared at each other uncomprehending for some moments, not moving a single muscle.
"For your information. May you know that a sabretooth isn´t as slightly as a normal animal. They are really heavy.", the man with his little overweight answered Dan´s question while rubbing his hurting arms from carrying the sleeping Shira.
This comment finally did it to Dan.
"Oh, is the sabre too heavy for the little Bob? Is she too heavy for the poor, fat Bob?", Dan asked sarcastically while leaning forward from his wall, coming closer to Bob´s face.
"I´m not fat.", Bon replied shyly, nearly whispering while Dan´s face came closer and closer to his one.
"Do you know what … Bob? There´s something I want to tell you. Have you seen what this fucking sabre did inside my Van? Have you seen it?! The whole morning I was busy with wiping up stinky sabre pee, carrying at least 20 buckets of water from a small lake to the Van because nobody allowed me to take the water from the 'Arena Nova'! And while I worked you were inside the hall, letting me do all the work alone!", Dan made a short break to take some new breath.
"And now you have the nerve, saying me that you are exhausted because of carrying a single sabre some meters?! You know what?! Fuck … you! Fuck you and your shit laziness! ", and with this he quickly went off at the direction of another door in the anteroom. With a quick movement he opened the door, letting fresh air from the outside streaming inside the dark, stinky room. Before leaving he turned around for the last time.
"I really wanted to help you with explaining to Jack what happened to the speaking ape but now you can do this alone. I wish you much fun with Jack!", Dan shouted and bang shut the door, leaving Bob alone inside the anteroom.
"Well done Bob. Really good work.", Bob sighed and faced the entrance of Jack´s office on the other side of the anteroom. "Well, how mad could he be?", he talked to himself and started to walk …
The sound of squeaky metal wheels let Shira listen up but she ignored it. Still she was laying in her cage, sobbing quietly and thinking about what will happen next.
'Is it this? Will I die here, alone? What are this humans planning to do with me? And the most important thing … will I never see him again?', Shira thought while resting her head on her forepaws. She tried everything to get these questions out of her head but her mind was captured in her past, not allowing her to have some clear thoughts. Tears were still streaming down her face, diluting her blood on the floor.
Again the squeaky sound of metal wheels appeared but this time it was followed by another sound, when something crashed against Shira´s cage. In shock a small scream escaped her and she quickly raised her head, looking hectically around.
"Who … who´s there?", she asked with a shaky voice. Nobody answered her question and she was about to ask again when she saw something standing next to her cage. Shira crept some steps forward, so she was able to have a closer look on the thing. Her eyes laid for some seconds on the object until she finally saw what it was. A second cage.
Slowly she leaned a bit forward, trying to see if it was empty or not. Suddenly two eyes shot open inside the cage, gleaming in a dangerous way. One in a beautiful green and the other in a dangerous red.
In shock Shira winced and stumbled some steps back, pressing her back as hard as possible against the other side of the cage. Slowly the creature inside the other cage sat up, now looking even more dangerous for Shira.
'Ok, now it can´t get worse!', Shira thought worriedly and stared at creature´s eyes. It was as it would know every single fear and secret of her. Shira expected everything. That it will went out of its cage, trying to kill her and slowly ripping out her innards or doing something like that. And if this really would happen, she would not mind anymore. But what happened was exactly the opposite of it.
"Why are you crying?", a high but lovely female voice asked inside the cage. Shira couldn't trust her ears. This wasn´t really the voice of a deadly killer. Slowly Shira started removing her back from the back of the cage, making one single step forward.
"W-what?", she quietly asked in disbelieve.
"Why are you crying?", the voice asked again, this time with a more demanding voice.
Shira finally sat down again on her haunches in the middle of her cage.
"Who … are … you?", Shira asked, not answering the question, while staring inside the dark cave in front of her.
"Name´s Selina, and you?", the female answered with a friendly voice.
"I´m Shira and you are a …?", Shira continued with a questioning look on her face.
"Oh sorry, you don´t see me, or? Wait a moment.", the voice answered as she saw Shira´s questioning face. Selina put one paw through the gap between the iron bars of her cage and pushed her cage against Shira´s, until booth cages were enlightened under the single light of the room.
Shira´s heart broke when she saw which animal was captured inside the other cage. Inside the cage was a small tigress, in Shira´s opinion maybe 10 years (A/N: human years) old, with a classic beautiful orange fur with white stripes, which is typical for tigers.
But after a closer look, Shira recognised in what a bad behaviour Selina was. Her fur was covered with lots of dirt from the ground and the brown colour of the rusty cage and all in all it looked very unkempt. But this was only the beginning. A small part of her left ear was already missing and a long, still bloody scratch ran across the left side of her face, crossing her left eye. The mentioned eye also had a bad infection, which turned her normally beautiful green eye into an unhealthy red.
"Oh my god …", Shira whispered when she recognised all her brushes.
"Who … who did this to you?", Shira asked in shock.
Selina got a confused look on her face. "What do you … oh you mean this?", Selina asked while pointing with one paw at her eye. Shira just nodded.
"Well, the humans do such things to me. They always hurt me if I´m too loud or if I do something they don´t like. I always have to follow their rules and if I don´t do I will get a punishment. It already became a daily routine for me and I became used to it. Don´t mind it.", she explained to Shira who can´t believe it.
'How could someone let such a helpless little kid suffering so badly?', Shira thought while looking at Selina in disbelieve. Thousands of questions were racing through her mind, how Selina came in this situation.
"Where´s your family? Where´s your mommy?", Shira asked the little tiger, hoping that she has one.
"What´s a mommy?", Selina asked back, not knowing what Shira was talking about. She had never heard such a word before.
"Don´t be funny. Don´t say, that you don´t know- …", Shira stopped when she saw Selina´s face, that told, that this was a serious question.
So here is it. The conversation between Shira and Selina and the conversation between Bob and Jack will be continued in the next chapter. Hope this chapter wasn´t too boring. :)
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