Another crappy book from when I was 12. Many cringe attacks so please kill me.
Jake Paul's POV
I scramble to put on my vans before yelling out a loud good morning to the rest of the house. "Shut up!" Someone Yells and I only snigger at their comment. I hop down the stairs two at a time before I see most of the team talking while waiting for something to finish cooking in the oven. By the smell of it, I think it's bacon. "Morning guys." I say before grabbing a bowl and some Honey Nut Oats, the best cereal ever. "I still don't know how you like that." Chance mumbles under his breath. I pretend like I don't hear him as I pour some milk in and start eating. "BACONS DONE!" Yells Erika as the rest of us crowd into the large kitchen. "Three pieces each." She says glaring at no one in particular. Everyone takes some and we are all soon sitting down and talking. My phone buzzes and I pull it out to see who texted me. It's one of my friends Ian Copperton telling us we have an appointment at one o'clock today to get a hybrid. Hybrids are the craze right now, but they really expensive. There are also a lot of rules for them due to the Hybrid Uprising. "Hey Ivan, we got that appointment." He legit drops his phone and looks at me with wide eyes. "What about Apollo? Won't he feel rejected in a way?" His English has gotten better and as if on cue, Apollo comes rushing in and skids to a stop. "Hey buddy!" I mutter while roughly scratching the top of his head. "Hybrids are actually known for getting along with other animals well, it's kind of like their animal side sees them as another animal while their human side is used to seeing these kinds of things. "Did you get the appointment?!" Says Tessa eagerly. "Yeah, one o'clock today. Takes us about 30 minutes to drive there so we will probably leave around 12 o'clock so we can get some recording in. Everyone looks at each other happy and finishes eating. I check my watch and it's about 10:52 so I have a little time before we have to start recording. Before I leave the kitchen, I make sure that all of our cameras are plugged in before we go, don't want them dying on us!
Cornish Larkspur's POV
"Eat up mutts." A man says gruffly while sliding a bowl of mush under the steel door. This Hybrid facility is horrible in several different ways. But, I'm known as a loner and have never shifted into my human side so they don't know my gender, name, or abilities. Not many Hybrids have abilities but some do like reading minds or moving objects with their eyes. Comes quite in handy sometimes. My wing of the building is for potentially violent hybrids or feral cats. The feral cats are really stuck up and are jerks, so far we have a lion, two lionesses, two tigers, a leopard, and me, a jet black panther with green eyes. "Okay you rejects! We have a potential adoption at one o'clock so be on your best behavior." The man yells so all the cats, dogs, rabbits, and feral cats can hear. Then leaves, slamming the door shut behind him. My cage is empty rather than a blanket that provides no warmth and a small door in the back for when we need to go outside to use the bathroom. I think I'll just sleep until I need to wake up. "Get up Panther!" Growls a lioness. We all look out for each other and just call each other by what we are. "I'm up, thanks." Sleeping during an adoption can get you no food for a week, or water. Each Hybrid has a person they feel connected to adopt them, usually. Sometimes the humans will just adopt any animal they want, which doesn't go so good for them. "What's behind those doors?" "Ah, those are our feral cats like leopards and tigers. Now please follow me to the ring where we can get you guys ready." Footsteps fade away as the ring door opens and closes. You can hear them talking then the doors to the non violent animals open up. Ours open too but usually no one leaves. You can practically hear all the animals trying to befriend them, or seduce them. My stomach tightens and urges me to the door, but I'm blocked by mine. So, I back up and slam myself against the door causing it to fly off its hinges and crash into the ground. I can see the group holding cameras now poised in the direction of my cage. I let out a low growl sending the common animals back to their cells. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Says a man with blond hair. I slowly pad forward and just before I reach the light I rotate my ears around, something is not right. Then I see it, a bullet heading straight for me. Time seems to slow as I dash out and knock down the people in its path. They scream while falling as the bullet penetrates the wall. One person has trouble getting up so I pad over and help stabilize him. "Bad kitty." Someone says and I look at them while digging out the bullet. "Why would you just knock into us!" "Yeah, what the heck man." I growl at the word man and finally get the bullet out of the wall. It clunks when it hits the ground and rolls to the middle of the group. "Oh, well thanks then boy." I growl again and the two girls just smile. "I think you mean good girl Chad." I nod my head at this and look at their supposed leader. Rules are we have to submit to the leader before we can be adopted and my gut is telling me their the ones. I slowly walk over to the leader and stare at him before bending my right front paw and touching my nose to the floor. Sharp intakes of breath can be heard as I do so and I feel a soft touch on my fur. Seeing as I'm no harm the man rubs my head and I purr at the nice feeling. Suddenly the intercom crackles to life and words roll out of it. You see, I don't know that much English. When a Hybrid is born, they pick up on their parents language quickly. My mom was Cuban and dad was Puerto Rican, making me fluent in Spanish. Out of nowhere a man clips a leash onto my metal collar, making me growl at him. He shows fear but walks me through the building. We walk through winding hallways until we reach a door that says "Adopters". The humans go inside while I am dragged to another room where a girl stands reading a magazine. "Oi, we got the Jane Doe here." I growl again at him as she nods. He unclouded the lead and leaves me with the lady. "Okay you're going to have to shift back first of all." I sigh and shift back into my human form, butt naked because the clothes I had before are now shredded. I'm only about 15 years old but that doesn't matter. My eyes are the same as my panthers, green with a triangular pupil, and jet black hair goes just past my shoulder blades. Two black ears stick up from the tangled mess and my tail lies limp near my legs. The woman looks me up and down before guiding me to a room with a shower in it. "Take a shower and wash your hair please, I'll be waiting for you when you get out." I nod and quickly jump into the shower. The frigid waters runs over my skinny body as I scrub it until it's red and raw. I massage my scalp with the sweet smelling creams until it's smooth. I rinse out the creams and step out of the shower where the lady is waiting for me. For some reason most Hybrids don't mind nudity, I guess it's due to us being different or something. The woman hands me a towel then leads me over to a huge wardrobe. She takes careful measurements then runs to the back of the closet. "It's summer so I'm going to give you what's in right now." She comes back with some black capris and a shirt that says team ten on it. The shirt is a mixture of green, brown, and gray giving it a weird vibe to it. "Your owners requested the shirt, don't ask me why." the pants have a hole in them for my tail which I am grateful for. she also gives me some undergarments and I quickly slip them on. She roughly pulls my hair and sits me down in a chair. A brush seems to appear in her hand as she roughly yanks the brush through my black locks. She then takes a weird thin price of plastic and runs it through my hair, occasionally catching my ear in the process. A weird circular device ties my hair and she steps back to look at me. "Somethings missing." She mutters then walks back to the closet for a couple minutes. I look around the foul smelling room when she comes back out with a black item that looks flexible and a pair of weird items that are roughly shaped like feet with strings attached to them. She takes a tool out of her pocket and takes off the metal collar, thank life. She then slips the black thing over my head where it tightens again on my neck in a seemingly comfortable way. It's pretty, the string crosses over the other one giving it a nice texture. "Okay, most Hybrids don't know what these are and they are shoes. You will have to wear them from now on." She says while holding up the gray objects. She slips one on each foot and ties the strings into a bow, it's called a bow right? She steps back and looks me over then takes out a walkie-talkie. "Transport requested." Almost immediately a man arrives with a lead and clips it to the necklace. He guides me to a room that had the words "Meeting Room" on it and ushers me inside to see the familiar faces from the ring. There are two girls and nine boys in the room and they each study me. My tails and ears are pressed against my head and back until Mr. Rosenhower walks in with a wicked smile. This causes me to brace up and my ears jump to detect any violence. "Nice to see the Jane Doe in here. Now if she causes any problems just yell, but that won't happen." He says while glaring at me. I gulp and slide my ears back down. My tail stays flat against my back and out of sight. As he gets up to leave he leans down and whispers in my ear. "Obedece o vea qué puede hacer una bullet real." His voice makes me tense then he walks out. The figures from before watch me in fascination before loudly talking to me. The sounds I don't understand and can only pick up some common words. "Hello, I'm Jake and these are my friends. We are in a famous group called team ten. What's your name? Hey, can you talk? Do you understand what I'm saying?" My head tilts to the side in confusion. What are they talking about? Suddenly one man speaks clear.
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