Chapter 9: The Breakout pt. 3

"Ugh...*cough cough*...what...happened?" I asked myself aloud.

I was is in a crevasse. A HUGE crevasse. As I became more and more confused, I started changing back to my 'Mew' form.

"UGH! My back! I think I broke my back!"

I tried to stand up, with the little endurance of pain I had. I had to limp, to keep my scraped leg from hurting, also to relieve the pain in my back. I couldn't fly, due to (obviously) too much pain to use any abilities.

Inside the crevasse, a person that didn't know better would've thought that it was a small jungle. Despite the crack in the ground (above me), which was limiting the light, I still somehow had good enough vision to see with such little of it. Cats are colorblind, but I could still see colors. I started to explore, seeing more and more flora. Then, suddenly, I heard a rustle in a big shrub behind me. "Who...who's there?" There was another rustle.

"Look, if you want to hurt me, just take me, because I'm already injured."

Another rustle. This time, It was in a palm tree right in front of me.

"Why would I want to hurt you, or take you away?" called a voice from the tree.

"WHO ARE YOU?" I called as a reply.

"I'm Ptolem (TOL-em). And you?"

"...I'm Joey."

"Nice to meet you."

"Excuse me, but why are you hiding?"

"I'm not hiding. I'm up here."

I saw Ptolem waving to me from the fronds of the tree.

"Uhm...could you come down here?"

"Sure."

With that, he jumped down and landed in front of me.

"...wow...you look a lot like...me..."

"Hm..."

Ptolem was a mew also, and he had brown fur instead of pink. I was SO jealous. I mean, how would you feel if you had pink fur or skin, walking around people with regular skin color? Yeah, that's how I felt.

I didn't dare ask where he was from, thinking he might break out in tears, like most outcasts. But, instead, he told me without a problem.

"I'm from the wild. That's why I have a strange name."

"I'm from Yucaipa."

"What's 'Yucaipa'?

"You know. Civilization."

"Ah, gotcha. So, what's it like in civilization?"

"Hm...quite boring, I have to go to an educational place called 'school'. Barely anything exciting happens there."

"How would you get around unnoticed? I mean your pink, and..."

"Oh. I wasn't always like this. You see, during an event at school, a lightning bolt hit a pole on the playground. I got near it, and then ZAP! I got hit with a huge bolt of electricity. Over time, I started turning into a mew. And that explains it basically."

TRANSITION

"HOW THE HECK DID HE ESCAPE?" said Archer, angrily.

"You saw it; he got bigger and then broke through our walls and fell off of a cliff! Just like that!" replied soldier Campfire.

"Hmph! You're lucky I'm not firing you."

"What? Aren't YOU the one who came up with the S.L.C.U.?"

"Was that an insult?"

"No, I'm just saying, you could've made their barriers stronger."

"...*sigh*...good point...I guess...but that still doesn't change the fact I'm going to contain him,properly.