Smiling Critters 2: The Story Continues.

Bad Luck?

DogDay: *Whisper* Guys? Are you around? Gimme a signal, or something!

Both DogDay and CatNap had arrived back at the hiding place and had started the search. They decided to take the supply room as a reference, and started looking around.
DogDay was opening all the doors possible, calling for his friends. Meanwhile, CatNap was watching the hallways so none of the Rejected Critters came to attack them, as well as watching DogDay so he wouldn't do anything dangerous.
They didn't find anyone, but DogDay wasn't going to give up. Their biggest guess were the kennels. But they had no idea where that could be.

CatNap: I hope we arrive on time...

DogDay: Of course we will! They cannot be too far. But it's weird sometimes. Where are the Rejected Critters whenever we arrive?

CatNap: No idea. They may be hiding once they see we're coming, 'cause they have no chances of winning.

DogDay: Hehe!

DogDay approached a door, and opened it. It was a room a little strange for his taste, with bars on the floor.
DogDay entered, seeing that under each grate there were strange, narrow, deep cubicles.
It was beginning to irritate him that some of his friends were in there, in some cubicle...
But, despite seeing blood at the bottom of one of them, there was no one inside it.
He didn't know whether to feel relieved or worried. He was relieved that they weren't down there, but he was concerned about the origin of the blood and the true whereabouts of his friends.

If they weren't there, where could they be perfectly crammed and controlled...where could they be?

Suddenly, he began to hear noise from outside, like a distant conversation approaching.
With nowhere to hide, DogDay ran behind the door and hid there.
The conversation came closer in the form of desperate blows and screams.
When the door opened, he was scared to see what came in.

HypnaHyena: Oh my gosh! Oh my fuckin' gosh!

BullyBull: HypnaHyena, chill! It's not that deep!

HypnaHyena: I just put a condition! No killing unless they get out of hand!

BullyBull: I didn't kill her! I don't even know the reason why she's in that place for starters!

Her?
Were they talking about the girls...?

HypnaHyena: And how did she get into a locked crate? I could say by magic, but I do not believe in those things!

BullyBull: Listen, I have NO idea why was she in that crate...maybe GraciousGoat or Bubbaphant know something?

HypnaHyena: What if they killed that dove?!

...Killed that dove?
A portion of DogDay's spirits collapsed at his feet.
PeaceDove had been crammed into a crate and had suffocated to death?
And they didn't know who the murderer was...?
DogDay was beginning to fear that this future awaited others. Or even worse than suffocating to death, locked in a box...
...but was there anything worse than that?

BullyBull: It is unlikely! GraciousGoat is clever, but he's weak, plus he's friends with that girl; and Bubbaphant is strong, but incapable of even harming a fly.

HypnaHyena: ...Are you sure it wasn't you? You are the one who spends the most time with them...

BullyBull: My, my, my! Is it jealously what I see?

HypnaHyena: Cut the joke! This is something serious. This is going to be a blow to that girl's former friends.

BullyBull: Well, since you know how to dose it, you tell him.