Stella's Story

Chapter 13 - Freedom

      As I walked by the guards, I got a peek of where I am. I was in a village. A big village. Houses were made of whatever they could find lying around. I saw a hollow log as a house, a stick place, and other things.
I looked ahead of me to see that we were headed to this big bamboo structure that was on the boarder line of the village. It was bigger than the other huts and it had some guards standing around it. We approached the hut and the guards came to a stop. I stopped as well.
Then two cats came out of the room. One in front of the other. One was a tall and skinny like he hadn't eaten in days. The other cat behind that one was Liliana. I stared at her and hissed. "Traitor!!" I spat at her. She stopped and laughed. "Oh Darling, I am not a traitor, I just simply belong here."
She looked at me and slowly walked around me in a circle. She growled and yelled. "Tie her wings up. I don't want her to escape from flying away." Right as she commanded that, the two guards pounced on me and struggled to keep me down. I wasn't going to let her win. Not after what she has done.
I fought back to keep them from tying me up. I clawed and hissed at the guards to get off of me. I struck one on the eye and he flinched back. Great! I kicked the second guard off of me and sprinted away. "AFTER THEM!" Liliana screamed, piercing my ears.
Then the skinny cat swiftly chased after me. He was extremely fast. Anytime now, he would catch up to me and tackle me. I thought quickly. Wings. As I was sprinting, I spread my wings open. I looked behind me to see the swift cat on my tail. I jumped and flew away as fast as I could. As I flew into the air, I looked down to see that one cat slow down. He knew he couldn't catch up to me.
In the other direction, I could see Jason looking up at me and smiling. I felt bad for leaving him and the boys behind, so I circled around in the sky once and dived down in Jason's direction. I was going really fast and as I was about to hit him, he ducked and I attacked the guard as I landed on him. He hissed and fought back.
While we were in the cat fight, Jason cheered me on. Then he swiped at me and gave me a scratch on my front leg. I screeched in pain and then Jason yelled "That's it!" Then he pushed me off and pinned the cat to the ground. "Get your brothers Stella!" He yelled at me and bite down on the cats neck. They way he fights is like a warrior. Like he has experience with fighting.
      I hesitated before flying off. I could hear cats hissing crying as I flew above. I searched for Oliver and Tucker and I found them still in the cage. I dived down and landed in front. "Hi boys!" I said. They looked happy that I was there.
       I opened the cage to let them out and called for Jason. He heard me and sprinted away from the guard, to us. I noticed that behind him, was the swift cat "C'mon Jason!" I shrieked. I looked back at the boys "Go. Go now." "But-" Oliver said "I'll catch up. Go before it's too late!" They turned around and sprinted out towards the house.
       I turned back to see Jason almost where I was. He didn't look scared, he looked... like he was enjoying this! Huh. I flew up a few inches as Jason approached me. I motioned for him to jump to me, and he did jump.
       I almost lost his grip, but then I tightened my grip and flew higher. We laughed as we looked down to see the cat growl because he lost us. Heh. That's good. I looked around and sniffed to find the house. There it is. I turned around and flew in that direction. "Wow, I can't believe that we just escaped that." I said "Neither can I..." He replied. "...Neither can I..."