Ok, chapter 5 is a bit longer.
The box continues to shake and sway and we cant see where we are going. Now, we are all scattered about the box, trying to steady ourselves, as we are bounced about the thing. More human voiced are heard as we hover in the air.
It is freezing cold in the dark box, with no light to keep us warm. Finally, the chick that we dont know breaks the ice.
Hi, what are your names? it chirps out.
Im Primrose, Prim answers.
Hi, Im Onyx, Onyx responds.
My name is Daisy, Daisy cheeps.
And Im Cloudy, I finish.
Hi everyone, Im Lilly. Nice to meet you, Lilly chirps.
I can tell Lilly is a bit awkward. She stumbles about a lot and cant quite see right. Shes very sweet, though.
Nice to meet you, too, Prim says, for all of us.
We talk with Lilly for a bit, and then we all get tired and fall asleep. I have a horrible dream, too.
I am in a dark tunnel and I cant find my way out. Onyx is at the end of the tunnel, but no matter how fast I run, he never gets closer. I hear his voice encouraging me to keep going, but instead, I fall because I am too weak.
Im moaning, telling him that I am sorry that I cant keep going and he turns around and walks away. I lay there, crying.
And when I wake up, Im on the floor of the box, crying. Everyone thinks Im still sad because of the whole box thing, but it was the dream that upset me this time.
Now, we are no longer in the air, we are sitting down on something. We just dont know what, because we are still in the box. There is a loud noise that sounds like an angry roar that startled us all. Then, there is a constant whirring sound and we all get thrown back to the back of the box.
Wherever we are going, there are lots of twists and turns. We are jostled around the box, yelling and cheeping in fright.
I accidentally ram into Onyx.
Im sorry! Im sorry! I squeak sadly.
Its ok, Clouds, he answers.
Oh, wow! Hes got a nickname for me! Clouds! Its so pretty! I feel like dancing around, but instead I am thrown to the opposite side of the box, where I ram into Daisy.
Sorry! I call to her.
Its fine, just watch where youre going! she responds.
Its kind of hard to control where you are going when you are being thrown around in a small box. Eventually, we are all bruised up and painful from that bumpy ride.
The bumps come to a stop and the whirring sound is shut off. I hear a door opening and we are being picked up again. The box sways back and forth and we are thrown around again.
We are carried up some stairs and I hear another door. Onyx, Primrose, Daisy, Lilly, and I are on separate sides of the box, to minimize ourselves from bumping into each other again. I am in a corner, where I peck out a bit of the box so that I can see whats going on outside of here.
It reminds me of being in the egg, not being able to see very much. I dont like the feeling.
We go through a doorway and into a cool room where there is a small plastic tote box with a heat lamp over it.
Were here, guys! Come look! I call out.
Everyone comes dashing over and takes a turn looking through my hole. Pretty soon, everyone has made holes to see out of.
We are set down on a table and the human that was carrying us walks away. We cheep in disappointment, wishing that it would put us in the warmth again. We are all hungry and thirsty.
I stare out my hole and see the human return. It picks the box up again, but we are not headed toward the brooder! It walks us across the kitchen and out a back door.
What we see astonishes us.