"Hola! Me llama es Emilio, mi hermano es Ivan. ¿Cuál es tu nombre?" Finally, someone who I can understand. "Hola, me llama es Coronoah Larkspur. No entiendo mucho inglés." I reply while scratching the back of my neck. "What did she just say?" Says a girl. The boy translates as another man walks on. "Sorry about that folks, let me get her readjusted." He takes out a syringe and looks me dead in the eye. "Don't move or it will hurt." Hurt?! What?! Before I can react the needle is pressed into my skin and a warm liquid seems to move towards my brain. I'm dizzy for a couple of seconds before the haze clears. "She should be good now, have a nice day folks." The people nod as the man leaves. "So, what's your name?" Wait, how can I suddenly understand them? What was in that syringe? "I'm uh, Cornoah Larkspur." "Hey you can understand us now!" I nod my head, don't ask questions, only talk if someone asked you a question. "You know you can sit right?" I hesitantly sit down on the floor, must obey orders. They give me a weird look but go along with it. "So how old are you?" I begin to count on my fingers, I couldn't remember. "Quince." I reply, not really knowing how to say that in their language. "You mean fifteen?" I nod. As I become more relaxed my ears don't press themselves against my head nor does my tail press to my back. Soon the door opens and my ears and tail slide out of sight. "Okay team, I'll give you guys some time to decide if you want her. Come on Jane Doe." The man says then motions for me to follow him. I obediently stand up and walk out the door. I have to say, walking on two legs is weird. "We gotta go get you ready for transport. If they kept you in there that long they gonna adopt you." He says then pushes open a door. Several large cages fill the room and reminds me of a torture room. The man guides me to a cage about half my height. "Shift into your panther, the clothes will mold under your skin." My bones readjust and soon I'm back on four paws. Ipad into the cage and sit down on the cool metal. The walkie talkie buzzes to life on his belt. "Adopters 1079 adopting Jane Doe. Lead to cargo bay over." "Roger that over." The cart is loaded onto a weird device and I'm rolled out of the smelly institute. A rush of cool air then really, really hot air makes me freeze up. I'm basically sweating out in this heat. I begin to pant and lean myself along the side of the cage. I'm then loaded into the back of something that has cool air which cools me off. Slowly others pile into the van as I lay down. Some reach in between the bars to rub my head or just sit down. Soon I fall asleep and the world goes dark. "Wake up girl." Someone mutters then I flutter my eyes open. I yawn then look around. A girl, who I don't know opens my cage and lets me walk out. I quickly jump out of the vehicle and stretch. "Welcome home!" Someone Yells and my jaw drops. In Front of me is a huge mansion, like huge. I shift back and take in the view more. Their leader motions me forwards and I follow the group to some doors where the leader opens them. "Home sweet home. APOLLO!" A dog comes running out of nowhere and I tense up. Dog, they have a flipping dog. OMG! A huge smile breaks out on my face as the dog runs up. It's head looks towards me.
Who are you? Why do you smell like a cat? Oh Hybrid!
Hello! I'm Cornoah, guess I'm living with your people along with you.
Finally! A friend I can talk to. Follow me!
I quickly slip past them and follow the dog around the house. Someone yells but I ignore them. Apollo leads me around the house which is crazy large. In that time I had shifted into my Panther. While padding around and following Apollo, I was grasped and pulled away. Apollo started barking like crazy. "Don't just wander off in the house! Come on." The man pulls me into a sitting room where people sit. "Okay. That's Jake, Tessa, Chad, Alex, Emilio, Ivan, Nick, Chance, Erika, Justin, and Ben." Each greets me in their own way, some nod while others greet me. Most of the faces are unfamiliar but that's okay. Apollo soon joins them. "So, who wants lunch?" Questions Chance. "We have that lunch meeting with some of our neighbors, meeting at La Blue." Everyone either groans or smiles. The girls look at me and grin. "You boys go get ready, Erika and I will help Cornoah." Everyone disperses as I follow the girls up a flight of stairs. We take some turns then end up in a large room. It appears to be a bedroom. Erika and Tessa go into a closet and I hear them take clothes off hangers. They murmur quietly then a squeal soon after. Erika sticks her head out of the doorway. "We found the perfect outfit for you!" She motions me in and I gasp at the large closet. It's basically the size of the room! Tessa holds up some clothes and hands them to me. "Change into these! Oh it will accent your eyes! Please please please try it on!" She practically shoves me behind a curtain before I can speak. I gently place the clothes down and look at them. There's a green tank top the same green as my eyes and a pair of ripped and black jean shorts. A pair of black boots that look like a fighter would wear as well. I carefully shimmy out of old clothes and change into these. Thankfully there was a small hole for my tail and I looked in the mirror. My black hair hung matter beside my face as I gazed into my eyes. I step out from behind the curtain and I see the other girls wearing pretty outfits.
That's it. Will go back and fix the spacing when I find time to. Notify me if you want me to continue this.
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