Hold On

Chapter 5

A/N: hey guys I hope you enjoyed the last chapter and that you enjoy this one. Please comment and vote for this story and check out my other stories along with my new Quotev account at www.quotev.com/Allygator98 thanks for reading! -Allygator98

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When you shift...you look like the animal you are.

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I can't believe this. I'm literally half animal now. That's why they call us mutts. The orderly walked over to my shocked body and scooped it up. He walked back to my cage and put me back inside, shutting the door and carrying it back to the first room. The lizard hybrid was gone, thank God but there was a tiger hybrid in her place.

Not too sure if that's safer but you can't judge a book by it's cover. My cage was sat back down on the floor and the orderly opened it back up after grabbing a First Aid Kit. Two of the hybrids were already done getting groomed for the auction and another one was now getting brushed while the tiger hybrid was getting bathed by two orderlies. The orderly motioned for me to step out but I just whimpered and limped back to the back of my cage, which I was able to get to better than in my human form. "Come on. I just need to get it cleaned up and put disinfectant on it.", he explained, motioning for me to come out again. Hesitantly, I limp over to the orderly and let him see my injured leg.

He smiled, taking hold of it gently, "Atta girl." He quickly disinfected it, causing pain to spread through my leg and a whimper to escape me. He glanced up at me before quickly taking me out of the cage. "Alright, just take your bath and I'll wrap it up so you can get groomed.", he told me as he put me in the round basin filled with warm, soapy water. The two orderlies in charge of washing us, quickly started to scrub me with soap before rinsing me off and drying my fur. Once I was out of the tub, out of instinct, I shook my body clean of the water best I could before quickly stopping myself from trying again.

I am NOT a dog. I may look like one but I'm not one. The orderly from before quickly picked me up and wrapped up my leg with gauze, taking me over to the grooming station afterwards. I was quickly groomed before being put back in my cage. I smelt like jasmine and my coat was super shiny as was the others'. Mr. Hill and Doctor Ramirez walked into the room and looked at us, smirking at what they saw.

They saw starved, scared hybrids that are about to be sold. They saw living and breathing dollars. That's all we ever were to them. One by one, our cages were grabbed by the orderlies and being carried out onto the stage. I was the last one out onto the stage where I was dropped down onto the floor, paralyzed in fear. In seats were hundreds of men, women, and children watching us, just hoping to be able to buy one of us.

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A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it's been so long! I've been busy and honestly didn't know what else to write. :/ So I finally decided to go with what was on the top of my head. So this chapter might've sucked and I'm sorry for that but hopefully the next chapter will be better. Please check out my other stories also. Thanks for reading and happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate it! -Allygator98