Secrets Revealed || TFCRP Novella

Chapter 2

Waking up again, Bouncestream couldn't open his right eye, he was in a larger crate now, still in the white room, but, it wasn't the same white room. He had a cone over his head, but his neck felt better, though, patches of his fur were missing as he looked around, and it felt as if his mostly torn off ear, was completely torn off.

"Where am I?" Bouncestream called out, hoping someone could hear him

Another cat, a tom with a Russian accent, responded. "You're getting ready to be sent to the pound, the humans who brought you abandoned you feral."

"I keep hearing that term, 'feral' what does it mean?" Bouncestream asked, tilting his head.

The Russian cat laughed. "It's what you are, a cat who was born and raised wild, I can tell by your scars. What are you?"

"Like, where did I use to live?"

"Yea, I had a few friends from the Clans and-"

"Oh!" Bouncestream smiled. "I'm Bouncestream, and I'm a...former ShadowClan warrior."

"'Former' huh? Did you get exiled?"

"Me? Nah, but, almost..no, I faked my death."

"Wow, you must have some nerve, staying so close to the Clans then," the cat laughed as a Twoleg came and opened Bouncestream's cage, picking him up and putting him in a new crate.

"Damn it," Bouncestream growled. "If I end up with claustrophobia, I'm telling Furstar," despite everything, the young tom would never forget his idol, his favorite cat in the world: Furstar.

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Sitting in a large kennel, filled with kittens was humiliating, and he just stared, wide-eyed at any passing Twoleg. "Help me..."

"You look funny mister," a small cat piped up. "What are you?"

Bouncestream looked at the kit, it was a shabby tabby. "I'm a warrior, or, well, I was a warrior.."

"Oh, oh hey!" Kits were easily distracted as two Twolegs entered the hall. "Humans!"

The room erupted in cats begging to be adopted, but Bouncestream stayed quiet, casually shredding up a mouse toy as the Twolegs stopped in front of his cage and pointed at him, inaudibley chattering before a third Twoleg appeared and picked up Bouncestream. "H-hey, let me go!" He swiped at her, which only seemed to make the Twolegs laugh, how humiliating!

Bouncestream was taken into a back room and was given multiple tests, the Twolegs even shooting something into his shoulder, it only hurt for a moment though. Bouncestream sighed as, once again, he was placed into a crate, this one made of weak wood and he was handed off to the Twolegs and off he went.

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Bouncestream was back in his cone as he sat in the Twoleg's den, they had such a huge yard, why couldn't be okay in it?! So unfair. Bouncestream looked around, studying what was around him.

"You new here?" The she-cat in the corner asked, and then, without even waiting for a response, continued. "I'm Missy. Man, can you smell that ham? Mmm, so good!" Her country accent was thicker than Bouncestream's was, making him jealous.

"Hello Missy, I'm," Bouncestream looked around, noticing the "ham" and the window...Ham Light...no. "Hamlet, my name is Hamlet."