Chapter 16

        "When is the family going on that trip yet?' groaned Dusktail. "Kids, get packing! We are leaving for the trip tommorow!" yelled Len. "Can we bring the cats?" asked the kids. "We have to get more cat carriers, but sure!" he replied. Then the kids started packing and the dad left for the store. The mom came over and put collars on each of them. "There you go." she said. The dad came back a hour later with these rope things and big metal traps. Wintertail went outside into the yard. She looked up and saw clouds that looked like two cats figting. It was not like those fluffy clouds you make pictures with. It looked like real cats actually fighting. Moving back and forth jumping and leaping on each other. "That's strange." Wintertail jumped to see Frostglory right next to her. So she was not just imagining it."The first sign." said a voice on the wind."The first sign."
       The next morning the Cloudwalkers shoved them all into these tight cages. Pebblefoot, Dusktail, and Dotfur in one and her and Frostglory in another. Domino had her own cage. They went to a place where these metal falcons carried Cloudwalkers and their pets. First, more Cloudwalkers tape paper things on the metal traps. The families' things were somehow transported to the metal falcon. Then, the Cloudwalkers put them on a machine that moved through another crazy machine. Last the Cloudwalkers boarded the metal falcon. Wintertail's favorite part was when the metal falcon took off, although she kept bumping into Frostglory.The metal falcon always stayed over land (the same land they came from). It also followed the stream. That is good, thought Wintertail. We ought to find the plug much faster by traveling by air. "Go to sleep, Wintertail." said Frostglory" We should be landing soon." Now that she thought about it, she was really tired. Wintertail quickly drifted off to sleep.