Part 3

Escape!

	  
	  
	"Come on Gentoe, this isn't time for play." Moko said as mundane as he could, trying not to be as angry as he should be. Even though he was mad, he also knew that Gentoe seemed quite upset. It was hard to keep himself clam as he spoke, but he needed to be if he had anyhope for his sonto come back to them.  
	  
	  
	"I'm not playing!" Gentoe screamed back as he continued his searching for a way out. Moko was actually taken aback by his tone. At first didn't believe his family when they told him Gentoe had escaped, but now after realizing they were telling the truth he had no idea on what he could do, nor say to his first born, but he continued to try anyhow. Moko was persistence, and the father of his pups. He needed to be in control of them, and needed to show that he was in charge of his pack.  
	  
	  
	"Gentoe, if you're upset because I put you in time out, I just did it so you could cool your head." He should have stopped there, but he didn't. 

"And I could see you"re in need of another one. . ."

	Mieka who was standing next to him slammed her hand on top of her mate's head to make him stop talking.

"OW, Hey what I do?!" Moko asked apologetically like a guilty child. It seems he wasn't in full control after all. Both parents in families of Darjeets were in charge equally and share responsibility of rising and taking care of their pack. Mieka didn't respond back as it was now her turn to try to calm their youngest offspring.  
	  
	  
	"Gentoe, please stop this fooling around. You're going to get all of us in trouble!" She tried to speak as hotly, yet as mundane as Moko had been.  
	  
"Ya'll don't care about me! You only care about pleasing our captors. I will not succumb to this life like all you had. I want out of here, I want to be free!" Gentoe yell yet again, as he still pranced around the room.  
	  
	  
	"Gentoe please, it's not like that. They are our friends, please come back honey. I promise Moko won't put you in time out ever again!"  
	  
"Yea right. . ." Moko mutter under his breath. Mieka raised her hand again; ready to strike on top of Moko head for a second time. He quickly bow down, holding his hands over his noggin for a weak attempt of a shield, whimpering and looking sorry; Hoping his sorrow face would reduce the anger 

of the coming second smack of his mate. However Mieka stopped before landing the other blow. More violence wasn't needed here. She lowered her front hand claw and calmly relaxed.  
	  
	  
	"Gentoe, my pup, please stop and listen to your mother." She attempted to sound sweet and caring. She even managed to produce a forced smile, although tense and unnatural. Moko looked confused at his mate strange expression and seen something that explains that out of place look, and decided that he should comment on it.

	  
	"Um, honey you have a piece of fish stuck in your teeth."

// SMACK //  
	  
	  
	Moko yelped loudly as he ran back to the corner of the enclosure, his head now throbbing with a red mark growing from the second blow.

"And you stay there till I say otherwise!" Snarl Mieka.

	"Yes dear. . ." Moko replied, barely audible as he was now in a time out of his own. Now that Moko couldn't cause more problems, they could now once again try to persuade Gentoe. By now both Mink and Link was busily working the door, with Link providing his body as a step stool as Mink, with the same piece of wood Gentoe used earlier was in his right hand, trying to pry open the door.  
	  
	  
	"What's taking you so long?" Link angrily yelled at Mink, who was still working.

"I'm trying as fast as I can, but I don't remember how I did this the first time. I never thought I would be breaking out again."  
	  
	  
	"Just hurry up. Your heavy and your claws are digging into my back!" Link acclaimed as Mink kept shoving the stick between the door, but as they were just starting to make progress, Gentoe had run out of ideas. He looked everywhere in the room, but all the doors were lock and impenetrable. He didn't know what to do and didn't want to give up, but what could he do? Stand there and wait for his brothers to unlock that door and come get him? 

Probably would get hurt by Link just because he made him commence to all this trouble to catch him, not to forget what Moko would do to him afterwards. That alone made him shuttered.  
	  
	  
	He didn't want to be thinking about it, and the noise from the ceiling didn’t help him either. He looked up to the roof, trying to understand what could make such a racket tonight. Guess he might as well think about that than how he was going to be punished. As he search around, he notice the few wooden boxes that was stack on top of each other. It was when he followed the tall stack all the way to the top when he finally noticed it. 

A small window pane up just above the boxes laid above him like a portal into another world just on the other side. With Link and Mink quickly figuring out the door he had so easily gotten through, he knew he needed to hurry. Gentoe pranced over to the base, figuring out how in the world he was going to climb it.  
	  
	  
	"Gentoe." It was Kisley, who was standing next to her mother. Till now she was silence, trying to understand what's been doing wrong to his young brother after she was woken up by him. Even after Moko and Mieka attempts failed, she was still unsure what she could of do to help. She knows that the older siblings would eventfully finally find a way past the door lock, but Gentoe was still upset, and neither of them would be gentle. 

Link had blood on his mind, and she didn't like his anguish looks. This worry was perhaps what had finally prompted her to speak, and try one last attempted to persuade her young brother to come back. Her tone was soft, and light. Gentoe didn't know why he stopped because of her voice. For a second a gust of guilt washed through his mind as he stood by the wooden crates.  
	  
	  
	"Gentoe, please think about what you're doing. You not just going to hurt yourself you know. We too will be affected by consequences that you will impose on us. The Humans and Water Dragons are our caretakers, but they never think we were their prisoners. That might change by what you're doing now." Gentoe taken a second to acutely do what her sister asked him to, and think.

	"I don't. . . I won't know what they will do, but this life isn't for me or for you guys. Our so called caretakers are holding things back from us, not telling us the truth about our world. There something better than here, something I had heard from before. Rumors about the outside."  
	  
	  
	"Gentoe, we heard these same things, but that doesn't make them real." Kisely replied.

"How can you make that judgment without even knowing the truth?" Gentoe snapped back. 

	  
	"Our entire life are spent in this cage. We never even had seen what outside of these walls." Gentoe however frown, looking down on the floor in a snout of depression, before looking back at Kisely. She seemed confused now too. What Gentoe just said sounded truthful. She always wonder's about this Rain, the Humans and Water Dragon's called it, which was threshing down this night stronger than she could ever remember from before. She even knew more than Gentoe though rumors that were told during her own past checkups.   
	  
	  
	She remembers a couple of months ago even before Gentoe egg was even laid, when she and Mieka argued about this thing called an Ocean. This apparent large body of water thousands of times larger than their own pool in the enclosure. Mieka had been around long enough to know for herself that this body of water doesn't exist, yet Kisely knew she was wrong. With certain nights where the regular noises of the building were too small to pick up, she could hear this ocean. It's slowly crashes along the banks just outside, what even these banks are as well. That small hint made her keep believing it was real, but she never dreamed about ever escaping just to see what it's was like, when all their needs was taken care of by the   
workers here.   
	  
	  
	But it was the day a few weeks after Gentoe egg was laid when she request these things called photographs of what these oceans look like. Shinda said she would fetch some for them, but after a few days since the request she never brought any. This was perhaps because Shinda forgotten them, or if as Gentoe suggested, she never brought them because it could influence there development, which in turn could make Darjeets start asking more questions and for more freedoms. She never forgot her request though, no matter how long ago that was. She, like Gentoe had been distrusting of their caretakers lately, but unlike her brother, she never shown her distrust. Kisley never was on one to be outspoken.   
	  
	  
	"Gentoe. This is all nonsense." Mieka finally spoken.

"No it's not Mom. . ."   
	  
"Wh. . .what?" This was the first time Kisely ever standup for something.

"What if he’s right, what if we trust our caretakers more than we should have?"

	"I. . .I don't know." Mieka seem confused along with the rest of them. First Gentoe, and now Kisley too. Dose the rest of the pack also don't trust the people that feeds them?  
	  
	  
	"Gentoe, we can talk about this. I know you want to escape, but you will make the workers angry. We can't be too rash on this yet. Please come back." Kisely asked.

"I. . . I guess you’re right." Gentoe replied, looking at the ground again. Both Mieka and Kisley look surprise that they finally got through to him.

// CLICK //

	"I got it!" Mink exclaim in a success as he finally got the door latch to open. But it was short lived.

"I'M GOING TO GET YOU GENTOE!" Link screamed as he sprinted out of the cage. Mink loss his balance and fell over to the ground onto his back. Gentoe saw his brother raged, and his earlier fears returned. Without knowing at first, he leaped, front paws catching the edge of the bottom crate. It was hard for his small forelegs and fingers paws, but he just managed to pull himself up just before Link reached him. Still terrified, he again started the climb the next crate, with Link doing the same.  
	  
	  
	"Link, stop this now!" Mieka yelled. Kisley didn't stand still this time, she bolted from the enclosure and ran over to the crate, with Mink who finally recovering from the fall and went after them. By now Gentoe was at the top crate, with Link below him. Both of them were out of breath from the climbed. Gentoe looked at the glass panel, its small latch holding the window in place. He somehow understands what was needed to open the panel and getting on just hind legs, he reached over and tug at the latch. It was strange that it opened smoothly. As Gentoe started to climb up to its shallow concrete divot, Link was almost up and over the last crate.   
	  
	  
	Seeing this Gentoe hurried, pushing the panel open with his snout, not realized as he worm his way though, the darkest prevented him from seeing what was below him. Before his mind could tell him to hold on, he felled though. Everyone gasped, even Link. Kisely was at the base, as Mink just climbed over the first box. Mieka watched nearby, as did Moko, which looked from behind in his self appointing time out; saw the horror of his youngest pup sliding out through the window. A dreadful second later, they all heard a fleshed slapping sound on the ground from the other side. 

This was follow by a loud cry by Gentoe as he hallowed in pain. Link pulled himself over to look, but he could barely make out his youngest brother, who just manage to get to his feet but tearful as the pain continues to ravage his left side of his body.  
	  
	  
	"Don't you walk away, get back here!? Link said up from above, but Gentoe kept on walking down the hall, still haven't attempted to run yet. Link had to say to himself that he needed to stop him, and closing his eyes, he too also leaped over. Mieka yelled for him not too, but it was too late. Mieka and Moko heart's sank after hearing another smacking sound from the other side of the wall. They watched as Mink hurriedly climbed to the top. He just saw Gentoe running away down the right as Link tried to give chase as best as he could, but to his left, he saw the other side of the door. He remembered they were a push bar on that side, and the bars seem always unlock over there.  
	  
	  
	"Mom, I can get the door open and let us out. We can't let Link hurt him again." He said. Mieka was at the base of the crate beside Kisely now, looking wench and horrible.

"I don't what you to get hurt too Mink." She said softly.

	  
	"I see the bottom; I think I can land it. Trust me." He said being insured of himself. Mieka taken a moment to think about this, but with each passing second could mean not catching, and losing both Gentoe and Link inside of the Aquarium. Plus Mink was an intelligent Darjeet, and knows what he was doing. Reluctantly she nodded. Mink taken it as her answer, and he too went though. Unlike the other two, he judged his decent and landed on his feet. It still hurt badly, but he made it down ok. With stinging hand claws, he went down the left till he reached the door, and again reared up and shoved the bar in. The door opened. Kisely helped him open it completely as Mieka came over.   
	  
	  
	"We will need to stay together. I don't know what we will happen to us out there." She then turned around. "Moko, aren't you coming?"

"But I can't leave." He said mournfully, standing by the cage door, still hesitance to speak his mind for the fear of another bashing.

"Gentoe and Link got out, and possibility in danger, and you just want to stay here? They are your pups!" She said.

"I know and I"m worried too, but you put me in time out remember?" He replied. Mieka face palmed.  
	  
	  
	"Ok, you"re no longer in time out."

"Hurray!" Moko leaped in the air in a short celebration. Mieka had to smile from her mate once again childless behavior.

	"Come on you two, we need to catch up to them." Leading the three, Moko ran out followed by Mieka and Mink. They ran straight into the darkness, not knowing what surprises would be waiting for the pack inside the dark Aquarium.