Help!

[cursico]

Cursico was thrown into a small cage. He yowled to be let free. He clawed franticly at the bars. The human that had caught hium laughed nastily and left.
Cursico threw himself at the bars. Other cats in cages looked at him. "Theres no point" One said sadly "We need a cat on the outside to escape. Cursico looked at the cat. It was a wonderful shade of ginger. He couldn't help but purr at her.
She made a face and turned away from him. "It was nothing" She hid her blush.

[SHADE. :D]

Tala had heard the yowls. She ran to the cages, careful to slip into the shadows to avoid being captured by the twolegs herself. Her stormy grey dappled coat blended perfectly with the gloom. She begged the small silver bell on her kittypet collar not to give her away as she slipped past a large male twoleg. She reached the cage where the ginger and white tom was imprisoned. "Can I help at all?" her voice was desperate.

[cursico]

"Yeah, can you see a key?" Cursico asked hurriedly, eager to get out.
The ginger cat beside him looked curiously out from her cage, a cat had never got in without a two-leg before! She was shocked and excited. Muffin looked at Cursico. Cursico kept his gaze fixed on the kitty-pet.

[SHADE. :D]

Tala scanned the walls and cages desperately. "No." Her voice sounded worried. She leapt at the nearest lock, the one on the cage that held the she-cat. She clawed and bit at the hard, rusted metal hopelessly. "It wpn't break!"

[cursico]

"The keys are normally on the two-legs or in a drawer" Muffin mewed putting her paws against the bars.
Cursico paced the small space inside the cage.
Muffin looked around, but she saw no key. She scratched helplessly at the bars.

[fernie. (:]

Bambi skidded to a halt in the dark room. 'Tala?' she mewed quietly, then saw her friend's dappled pelt. 'I came, because I thought you could use an extra pair of paws.' Bambi looked at the rows of cages, and shuddered.

[SHADE. :D]

"Bambi!" Tala pressed her muzzle against her friend's gratefully. "Come on; we need to look for some keys!" The dappled grey she-cat scanned the walls with her sharp eyes. She spotted a hook on the wall. The keys! The rusted silver keys hung high on the hook. Tala leapt up, scrabbling at the keys with her paws. She tried this a couple more times, unsuccesfully, then turned and leapt onto a dusty desk nearby. Papers scattered all over the grimy floor from beneath her delicate grey paws. Tala leapt from the higher surface, catching the keys in her paws. They jerked free and she landed heavily. The dappled she-cat winced. She moved her right forepaw, and pain shot up her leg. "It's twisted!" she moaned. THe kittypet tossed the keys to Bambi, her eyes bright with pain.

[cursico]

Muffin watched the cat. She didn't know what to say when the cat said she'd twisted her ankle. She scratched at the bars pretending not to notice, after all, with all this noise humans could come along any time.
Cursico meowed sorrowfully to Tala, he felt guilt for the cat. He looked at Bambi wondering what the cat would do.

[fernie. (:]

Bambi moaned. This racket would alert someone soon. She ran up to Tala when she saw how her dappled friend had injured herself. 'Don't worry; you get to the door and keep watch. Can you do that?' she looked at Tala with worry. 'I'll get the cats out. How many are there in here?' Bambi grasped the ring of keys in her teeth.

[cursico]

"Ten" Muffin answered "There were twelve yesterday they..." She left the sentence unfinished and looked away sadly.
Cursico rubbed up against the bars in his eagerness to go free.

[SHADE. :D]

Tala gritted her teeth and shook her head. "I want to be useful!" The dappled kittypet looked at her friend. "I'll help the cats escape when they're free. Should we take them back to the wolegplace? The one's that don't have homes?"

[fernie. (:]

'Yes. That'll be the safest place. Now how many do you think there are? Can you guess?' Bambi mewed as she climbed to Cursico's cage with the keys clamped in her teeth.

[cursico]

"Ten" Muffin repeated. Twelve yesterday. She watched the Kitty-pet jump onto the cage.
Cursico paced nervously, he kept imagining Two-legs coming in at any moment.

[fernie. (:]

'That's a lot.' she said, unenthusiastically. She climbed to Cursico's cage, then fiddled with the ring of keys. 'Which one is it?' she asked tensely. She grabbed one in her teeth, and positioned it so it was in front of the keyhole. She inserted it and turned. Nothing happened. She quickly tried the next one, but that didn't work either. There was one more key on the ring. She tried it quickly and was met with a click of satisfaction. 'Yes!' she yowled. She sidestepped along to the next cage and did the same, with the right key this time.

[cursico]

Cursico jumped out and stretched. He looked around to make sure there were no humans around. Muffin scratched at her cage whilst Bambi opened it. She jumped out, glad to be free.

[fernie. (:]

Bambi grunted with the effort of climbing to some of the higher cages. She got all but one cage unlocked, holding a pretty tabby she-cat, when large, booming footsteps echoed just outside the door. She hissed in alarm and yowled to Tala, 'Get them all out, I'll follow later!' she scrambled to the final cage and opened it hastily. The cat sprang out, bolting after the others, when a shadow blocked the doorway.

[cursico]

Muffin didn't even stop running, but she didn't run out from under the legs either. She was annoyed to no end at being locked up. She'd heard them talking about killing her. She jumped onto the mans leg and quickly climbed up to the head, where she clawed out the mans eyes and bit into his face. Cursico followed his sisters example and jumped onto the man clawing into his legs.

[SHADE. :D]

"Go!" Tala yowled at Cursico and Muffin. Unsheathing her claws, she shut her eyes tight and turned away. Lashing out, she a man's leg. The twoleg howled in anger and reached down to grab her. With a sueak of fear, the dappled grey kittypet dodged, then turned hit the man's cheek in a backlash with her hind left paw. It groaned. Tala felt shockwaves travel up her leg. This wasn't so bad! She leapt onto the man's head and tore out tufts of hair with her claws, spittong angrily. Her paw twinged constantly with pain, but she ignored it.

[fernie. (:]

Bambi sprinted to the door. 'Come on, let's just go!' she screeched.

[cursico]

Muffin looked into the eyeless eye-sockets. She hissed angrily into the unseeing face and stuck both her paws through the sockets and into the brain. She constantly bit into the screaming mans face. Cursico let go of the man's legs and ran out with the other cats.

[SHADE. :D]

Tala leapt down. The man lashed out at her, hitting her twisted paw. She yowled in pain, landing heavily. The dappled grey she-cat's legs splayed out beneath her. She struggled to get up but her injured paw prevented movement. She screamed as two strong hands picked her roughly up. "Help!" she screeched.

[fernie. (:]

Bambi yowled. She leapt up and bit down on the strong man's hand, hanging there. He let go of Tala and shook his hand until Bambi flew off, and hit one of the cages. She sprawled, motionless, to the floor.

[SHADE. :D]

"Bambi!" yowled Tala. She struggled to help her friend, but her injured paw hampered her. Tears sprang to her blue eyes. She dragged herself over to her friend. She hissed as a second man approached, carrying a sharp claw like object. Being a kittypet, she recognized the knife. Tala wailed as the main picked her and Bambi's limp body up. She struggled but felt the knife bite her flank. She sank her teeth into the man's finger, but found it gloved. The knife bit harder. Tala gave up and wept brokenly as she and Bambi were taken deep into the building.
[ooc;] I hope you don't mind. ^^;

[cursico]

Muffin was still clinging onto the first guys face. He was slowly dying (as her paws are in his brain) And slumped to the floor. Muffin jumped off and ran after Tala and Bambi. She quickly caught up, aimed just above the gloved hand that held the knife and pounced. She grabbed the hand and shredded the ligaments, pulled the glove off with her paws. The knife fell with the glove, the man was so surprised and angry he dropped the other cats. Muffin was smart and quick enough to grab the knife (By the handle) And move. The man lumbered after her, cursing and holding onto the useless hand.

[fernie. (:]

Ooc: Tis ok. Muffin's being a teeny bit too great at this savaging men thing, isn't she?
Bic: Bambi groggily awoke, then realised she was being carried far above the ground. She slipped back into unconciousness again.

[SHADE. :D]

Tala wailed s the man dropped her. A flash of ginger was the last thing she saw before she cracked her head off of the ground. Pain enveloped her, from her paw and head, and blackness washed over her. Thoughts drifted through her numb brain as she lay there, limp. Who am I kidding? I'm just a housecat... She did not hear another man approach. He yowled at Muffin. Clutching a torn hand, he made a last attempt o grab the fierce loner. The other men stayed way back, whimpering.

[fernie. (:]

~Coffee~
Coffee had been slinking around the small village, and had decided to explore the large grey building that was the pound. He jumped onto a window ledge and peered in. When he saw two of his friends unconcious, he hissed. He stuck his nose in the small gap between the window and the ledge and jerked it opened. He pelted in and hid under a desk. He wouldn't act until the time was right, or at least until the twoleg had gone.

[cursico]

Muffin left with the human still running after her. She was going to lead it to the woods then lose it. The man continued, but stopped once Muffin led him out the pound.
Muffin stopped when the man stopped, she turned and stared at him, willing him to continue chasing her.

[[xoxo] shard. :)]

Suddenly a lithe siamese burst into the pound. "I couldn't find you all in twolegplace, so I thought you all got captured!" Then Sentres noticed a pretty dappled she-cat in a cage. His eyes watered up with tears. "Tala!"

[fernie. (:]

Coffee burst from beneath the desk. 'Sentres! I'm so glad you're here! The twolegs... I didn't know they were that horrible! We need to get them out.' he said, motioning with his dark brown tail to the cages.