Rocky didn't ask to be tossed darkly into a strange Rough-paw's Rumbler. It was bad enough that her older sister, Starry, took a Rough-paw's bait and was captured two sun-arks ago. Now Rocky and her little sister Slide would be following after her.
Slide spoke up. "Where do you think we'll be taken?"
"To some dumb Rough-paw den, I suppose," Rocky answered grumpily.
"Well, at least we survived in the Rough-paw's...what is it? Oh yeah, cities for long enough that we know life pretty well," Slide joked.
"For like, half a Moon's Spiral," Rocky pointed out.
Slide shifted a little, obviously more scared than she let on. "Well...do you think we'll be safe?"
Of course not. Where would we be safe if we're around ROUGH-PAWS? Rocky thought.
But for the sake of Slide, she said, "Maybe."
She remembered her mother's advice: yelp and shake and startle the Rough-paws. But it was too late for that. Rocky and Slide were already stuffed into the Rough-paw Rumbler.
A sudden jolt startled the two foxes.
"What was that?" Slide whimpered.
"This Rough-paw Rumbler probably stopped moving," Rocky muttered.
It turned out that Rocky was right. Two large Rough-paws swung open the clanging doors and leaned in, grabbing up the dirty cage Rocky and Slide were in.
A thunk sounded, and Rocky was quickly put into another cage. She yelped and struggled, but the Rough-paw stuck something into her paw, sending a sharp pain spiking up her leg.
A few thoughts flitted through her brain before her vision went dark.
The first one was: "Ow."
The second one was: "Where are they taking us?"
And the last one was: "Mom was wrong; Struggling only makes it worse."
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Rocky lifted her head, eyes clouded. She blinked away the creeping sleep and hefted herself up. A chattering met her ears, and she jumped back, startled. Rocky glanced around her. To her right, there was a patch of...grass? And more grass! And more! There were also...rocks? She'd never seen so much grass and rocks in one place. Not in the Rough-paw city, that is. All that was in the Rough-paw city were Rough-paws and Rumblers.
Nosing around, she noticed something move out of the corner of her eye. A flash of bright blue...and was that...?
"AAH!" Rocky leaped backward. The Rough-paws crowded around her chirped and chittered, pointing their weird little paw-things at Rocky. One Rough-paw pup yipped and reached its paw-thing at Rocky, the only thing keeping them apart was a thick Rough-paw gate that she'd seen around the Rough-paw play places that grew flowers to toy with.
Then it dawned on her.
"Oh no...Not the ZOO!"
A/N Mkay dun wif dis chappie bai
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