As many of you know, before AMangledMisfit decided to delete the original story, I managed to salvage the first chapter of Furs and decided to create a rewritten version of the story. However, I have recently been informed that AMangledMisfit intends to continue the original. As a result, I have added (Not Original Author) to distinguish the two. With that out the road, I hope you enjoy.
Prologue
The year was 2018.
It was a time of misery for the world.
The U.S president, Stan Bailey, ran America into the ground, spending most of the budget on a massive trench between America and Canada. The Americans paid for it. In more way then one.
The large percentage of the population who didn't vote for Bailey started an uprising. They took over the western coast of the states, and got support from the Canadians.
Congress was dissolved, and America became a communist dictatorship. In mere days, millions were executed for having relatives in the resistance. The rest of the world could only sit and watch, as Bailey had threatened to launch nuclear weapons at any resisting countries.
A massive uprising occurred in New York, with the resistance taking it over. Bailey began panicking, and reintroduced conscription. Everyone between the ages of 15 to 75 were required to fight. Millions more were lost in the battle for Chicago. Bailey, in his bunker, had made one final mistake, with dire consequences.
He ordered an air strike on an abandoned nuclear power plant that the resistance leader was believed to be in. However, he hit the wrong one. Everything within miles was incinerated, and the subsequent chain reaction caused a nuclear fallout the size of the states. In minutes, America was reduced to dust.
2025
Many years later, when immediate effects were no longer inflicted, the UN launched a mass mission, in which the goal was to find and rescue any survivors. They found approximately 15,000 survivors, and brought them back to Britain.
The radioactivity had its drawbacks. The refugees began to mutate. They grew different features of animals, like ears and tails. Whilst they weren't noticable, they were accepted. But one let the cat out of the bag. A strange man with greenish-yellow rabbit ears. He was immediately sent to quarantine, but he escaped and went insane. He killed a child, before being killed himself. This came at a cost, as he turned some of the fleeing crowd into mutants themselves, at an extremely quick pace. It was assumed that he has somehow infected them, and the common thought quickly became that all mutants could do that. The UN put operation 'Vermin' into action.
A majority of the mutants, the 'Furs', were rounded up and put into camps in Northern Russia, where many died of starvation and frostbite. However, some evaded capture, and went into hiding.
2027
This is where the story starts, with a teenage boy called David. He lives in mid-London, and is one of those popular jerks. His parents hate all Furs, and that hatred has been passed down to him.
"See you David! Have a nice day at school!" My parents call to me as I leave the house.
"Bye! Love you!" I call back. But that's a lie. I hate them. They are horribly strict, and we have trout fillets every night. EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!
It's a real shame about America. Apparently, it used to be the best country on Earth. I see a can of coke on the ground. I kick it and it falls down a drain.
School is alright. I'm popular, and I've had more girlfriends then I can count. But I'm bad at the classes. I only got one A and the rest C's and D's last year. At least I'm okay at history.
I reach school. Darren gives me a nod. Shirley blows me a kiss. Willie, the caretaker, gives me a sip of his whiskey.
I reach registration and look around. Same old chumps, and… Hello! A new girl!
She has a pretty face, but that's her only redeeming feature. She has long, uneven, brown hair, dyed partially pink, but it's mostly covered with a dark blue beanie. She's wearing tattered jacket and a stained grey and white shirt. But, because I'm such a great guy, I'll make her feel loved.
"Well, hello there… I'm David, but you can call me Dave..." I say in my 'seduction' voice. Her eyes narrow for a split second, and then she speaks.
"David what?" She asks me sweetly.
"Morse" I say. She nods faintly.
"Ok. Well, you're apparently meant to look after me today, That's what Miss Gertrude told me! My name's Maggie!" She says excitedly. I think she has fallen for me! That was easy.
"Alright then, sweetheart!" I say, give her a wink, and walk to my desk. Benny is sits down next to me.
"Who's the new girl?" He asks as he sits down.
"Her name is Maggie. She looks like a Mangle, rather than a Maggie!" I whisper to him, "but I think she likes me!" He laughs quietly.
Miss Gertrude comes in, and we all shut up. She's a good maths teacher, but dare cross her and…
"Class, we have a new student today! Everyone, please greet Maggie!" Miss Gertrude says poshly. Maggie stands up.
"Hi, I'm Maggie, but you can call me Mangle!" She announces to the class. Is that really her nickname? She really must get that a lot.
The bell eventually goes, and we all stand up. We begin to move to our next lesson, when Maggie cuts me off.
"So, what's our next lesson?" She asks me excitedly.
"Our?" I ask.
"Well, because I joined the school so abruptly, I still haven't received a timetable for yet, so I'm just gonna follow you to your lessons!" She replies.
"Well, next lesson is Drama. It's my least favourite. It's over on the other side of the school" I conclude, and begin walking toward Drama, with Maggie trailing. Along the way, Maggie asks loads of questions, to all of which I answer 'not sure'.
"Uhh… Where are the toilets? I'm busting to go…" She asks, barely 100 metres away from the classroom.
"This way…" I sigh, and lead her toward it. Now we are gonna be late! Mr Thereto will not be happy!
She goes in, and tells me to wait. As if I would go in the girls toilet. I'm really tempted to just run… until she starts talking to someone.
"It's definitely him. Yes, I am sure. Why would I have called if I wasn't? Ok. I'll meet you at the rendezvous point" she says in a hushed voice.
What?
She comes out and bumps straight into me.
"Umm, where was drama again?" She asks innocently.
"Who were you talking to?" I ask her.
"No-one" she replies.
"You were. You were talking about me."
"I gotta go!" She says, and attempts to run. I grab her jacket to stop her, but it rips clean off her back… and exposes a white, fluffy, furry, fox tail.
She's a fur.
She stops mid-stride, and sees that she's been uncovered.
"Now you've seen too much!" She says, and turns toward me. I stare at her and do the only thing I know how to do!
"FUR!" I scream at the top of my voice.
Maggie charges at me, and I get shoved to the ground. She whips off her hat and uncovers the top of her head, revealing… fox ears! Oh God! She's going to eat me! She's going to infect me!
"GET OFF OF ME, YOU FILTHY VERMIN!" I scream at her.
"I prefer the term Half Fox, thanks" she says, before pressing a finger to my lips, and muttering something inaudibly. I hear footsteps! I'm saved!
I try to shout, only to find my lips are stuck together! What did she just do? She smiles at the shocked look on my face, with her right ear twitching, and places something on my forehead. I can't see what it is, because I'm still being restrained by her.
I see Caretaker Willie come round the corner, carrying his shotgun, loaded and prepared to fire.
"Ah! A wee fox! Oh, ye'll not be stealing any of our chickens any time soon!" He laughs crazily, and takes aim. Maggie turns to face him…
"I'm not here to get shot by some hooligan! Toodle-pip!" She giggles, and throws down some sort of smoke bomb, removing everything bar Maggie from view. I hear some nearby screaming, a distant shot from the shotgun, and then a strange sound that sounded like a very strong wind blowing.
The smoke eventually clears… And I'm no longer at school! What the hell? Where the hell am I?
It appears to be a square room, ten metres long and wide, with a very high ceiling. The walls are made of a weird, dark, stone-like material, and the floor is the same. Maggie is standing beside me, looking down at me, smiling.
"Welcome to the Caves!" She says happily. I leap up, and try to find an exit. There isn't one, except a ventral grate on the ceiling. There can't possibly be a way I can get out of this.
I turn to Maggie, ready to force her to let me out of here. I clench my fists and try to speak, but forget my lips are sealed. She just laughs at me. She pulls out a phone, and starts dialling. I continue looking for another way out.
"Yeah, I got him. Come to the interrogation room" Maggie says to the receiving end. There's no other way out!
There is a cracking sound. I slowly turn around. And then I wish I hadn't. It's what I feared. It's another fur. Hold on a second, it's the mouldy rabbit fur! But, he's dead…
"Mangle! I told you to get close to him and capture his parents! Not capture the boy himself!" The rabbit man exclaims in a raspy voice.
"Yeah, well, he blew my cover. There's absolutely no chance of me going back there now, thanks to 'popular boy' over here!" She motions towards me.
With all my strength, I prise my lips open.
"Why are you trying to kill my parents?" I blurt out suddenly. The rabbit just stands there with a bowed head, but Mangle, which is clearly her real name, whips her head around, wearing a confused look on her face.
"How did you… I put you in a lip bind! No one has ever escaped from one of those before!" She says.
"A what?" I ask surprisedly. "Lip bind? What's that?"
"Never mind that… David, we wanted your parents because of their roles and how much they despise us. They would rather commit genocide then keep us in camps… and their roles allow for easy persuasion. So, we would have captured them, and locked them away in a cage" Mangle says calmly.
"You little sh*ts, you all deserve to die! You're foul abominations, and a crime against nature!" I scream at them.
For the first time, the rabbit turns to face me. He has dead, grey eyes, that pierce your very soul. Mangle claps a hand over her mouth, and looks at me with clear hatred.
"Hmm… We WERE just going to let you go with a memory wipe… But I have a better idea…" he says.
Mangle looks at him with an evil grin.
"Mouldy, you don't mean…" She says menacingly.
"Oh, yes…" Mouldy says… And he starts… Forming a shadowy ball in his hands?
"W-what are you going to do to me?" I stutter. Are they going to kill me? Eat me? Make me into a Slave? Turn me into a portable fridge?
"Stay still!" Mouldy laughs, and he releases the ball towards me. I attempt to duck, but not in time. It hits me square in the chest, and I fly back, slamming against the wall. Mangle is laughing. Mouldy is just grinning.
Ow!
My head!
In two spots?
I go to rub my head, but instead of my hair, there is something else on the top of my head! What? Oh no! NO!
The same feeling in my heads travels through my body, before finishes at my tailbone! No!
I feel it. I'm in CONTROL of it!
I HAVE EARS AND A TAIL!
They… Just…
TURNED ME INTO A FUR!
I don't think this will be frequently updated, but I'll do my best. Toodle-pip.