I hate that this story has been unfinished for so long, so I am reposting chapters, and I will be completing it ASAP.

Chapter 1: A New Adventure

One good thing about living in a town full of animals is that the law enforcement is awful. The police station never even seemed to deal with criminals, so they were very much out of practice when I decided to, uh, break the law. Although I highly doubt that they expected their very own mayor to do so...

Whatever.

I looked behind me as I was running toward the train station. Someone was definitely running after me! Who was it? I couldn't tell. Was it an ordinary citizen? Was it Copper, the town's cop? Most likely. Was it Isabelle?!

Poor Isabelle... She'll have to clean up the mess that I left behind and get the town up and running normally again. Oh well! It's no lie that I've taken many...long breaks before, and she did fine then, so I'm sure she'll handle it perfectly well!

I looked back again. I had greater problems than worrying about some dog. Although it appeared that I was gaining some distance on whoever was chasing after me, I wasn't comforted all that much. I needed to get away. Entirely away.

What did they even do to criminals here?! The town's so peaceful, I've never even considered it. Do they even have a jail? It's so strange, the things that you suddenly begin to consider once you become a wanted criminal.

The train station! I finally made it to my destination and charged in shouting, "A train! I need a ride on that train immediately!" Luckily, the station already had a train waiting there when I ran in.

"Sir, um we-"

"Just get me on that train!"

"But-"

"NOW!" I shouted loudly. I looked back once more, but I couldn't see whoever was chasing me from inside the train station. I had absolutely no idea how close they were to me. All I knew was that I needed to leave immediately.

The monkey eyed me suspiciously. "Do you even know where you're going, Mr. Mayor?"

I didn't want to have to do this. I whipped out a gun from inside my coat and pointed it at the poor guy. "Does it matter?! I have a gun pointed at you now! I suggest that you let me onto that train!"

It's safe to say that the monkey-man was not expecting me to point a gun at him, and he froze temporarily. "Eek! Where did you even get that gun?!" he managed to ask.

I didn't have time to answer. I didn't have time to think. When I looked behind me this time, I definitely could make out someone's silhouette approaching the station. Thinking quickly, I jumped over the railing and ran to the conveniently parked train.

"Hey!" a different male voice shouted. "Get back here!"

Bang! I fired the gun behind me before slamming my fists loudly against the train's doors. Although I knew that the bullet didn't hit him, I hoped that it startled him at the very least. Whoever was chasing me then started yelling unintelligible things and his voice was getting closer, so I continued banging away on the train's doors.

CREEAAKKK! They finally swung open, and I hopped right in. The conductor looked at me funnily. "Do you have a ticket?"

"I have a gun! Do I need a ticket?"

That got his attention. "Where are you going?"

"Doesn't matter!" I shouted frantically. "Shut the doors and go! And do not let the other guy on!" I pointed my gun in the conductor's direction in case he needed some more...motivation.

I looked out a window and saw that it was Copper who was chasing me. I doubt that he was expecting to actually do any crime-stopping today, if ever. He was running up to the train very quickly, and it was actually making me very nervous. I didn't want to go to dog-jail or whatever they we're going to do with me.

"HURRY!" I shouted. "The dog's almost here!"

"I'm going!" the conductor yelled back. "It takes a little bit of time, ya' know!"

Uh-oh. Copper had made it to the train, but thankfully the doors were closed now. He began banging on them, screaming, "Open up! Immediately!"

The conductor pulled some switches. "Well, even if I wanted to, at this point it's too late." A sudden jerk-like movement caused the train to move forward. "We are on our way."

As the train slowly chugged along, the dog became smaller and smaller until he was just a dot. Then he was gone entirely out of my view. Although I couldn't see or hear him anymore, I imagined that he was very angry at the moment. He was probably shouting curses and the like in my direction.

"Running from the law, eh kid?" the conductor asked me.

I didn't feel like explaining myself. "More or less."

He seemed to catch on to the fact that I didn't feel like talking, and since I had a gun, I suspect that he felt no need to push the subject any further either. "I still don't know where you want to be dropped off."

"Somewhere," I answered. "Anywhere." I leaned up against the wall of the train and sighed. "Nowhere."

"Nowhere?" he asked with a strange expression on his face. "Well, I can make that happen."

I finally slid down into a seat. "Yeah, sure. It doesn't matter that much to me. I just needed to make a quick getaway."

"I noticed." He didn't say anything further. He didn't question me anymore. I appreciated our little relationship.

I finally pulled off my long trench coat. It was way too warm for the thing, and the clothes underneath felt so casual that I almost wanted to laugh. I had on grey sweatpants, black boots, and some green t-shirt. Like I said, casual.

There was no mirror anywhere nearby on the train, and I didn't have one with me, but I figured that I probably looked slightly insane. My attention turned to the window, where I could see a faint reflection of myself. The main things that stuck out were the unruliness of my light brown hair and the scratches and dirt from earlier all over my face.

Yep. I looked slightly insane.

My eyelids suddenly felt heavy, and I let out a yawn. It was sometime after midnight, and today's events left me exhausted. A short little nap would be okay, right? It's not like I had anything better to do. I only had the clothes on my back, that gun, exactly 2,467 bells, and a peach in my pockets. So with nothing better to do, a nap (or really a night's sleep) sounded great.

"Sir!" a loud shout from the conductor startled me awake. "It's your stop!"

"I don't have a stop..." I muttered sleepily.

He didn't seem to want to deal with it. "Well, you do now. I'm afraid I've taken you far enough. You need to get off."

I yawned and rubbed my eyes. "Okay..." I shoved my gun in my pockets and waltzed over to the conductor. I gave him 100 bells to compensate for all of the trouble I caused him.

"Your coat!" he reminded me as I started to step off.

I waved it off. "Keep it! I don't want or need it!"

"One more thing, kid," he said. "Welcome to Nowhere Town."

The words were ominous and the sudden loud crash of thunder and lightning strike seemed like much more than a coincidence. I stepped off of the train and into the rain. It was coming down pretty hard and with just a few paces, I was quickly soaked. And because I was on the run, I didn't even think to bring an umbrella. How was I supposed to know it was going to rain in this random town?

A shiver went down my spine and filled my body with chills. I quickly tried to take in my surroundings to find somewhere that might provide some sort of shelter, but it was hard to tell what was what through the thick sheets of rain that were falling from the sky.

I trudged along, roaming through the downpour when I saw an oddly familiar-looking building. Running quickly, I made my way into what appeared to be the Town Hall. It looked exactly like the Town Hall in the town that I was from. I suddenly began to doubt that the train conductor even brought me to a different place.

When I entered the building, I was soaking wet and shaking like a dog. The cool air was freezing to my skin! So I stiffly tried to walk over to the counter to see if I could get some assistance, but I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw who was in front of me.

"Isabelle?"

"That is my name," she answered cheerily. "Are you new or just visiting?"

"Uhh..." I was at a loss for words. This looked exactly like my Town Hall, even down to the point of Isabelle working there! There was no way the conductor brought me to a new town! No way! Yet Isabelle didn't seem to recognize me...

She beckoned me closer, so I moved toward her. "Here's a map of the town. Whether you're new or just visiting, it should be of some assistance."

"I'm just visiting," I finally managed to answer.

I looked at the map that she handed me. The town appeared to have many of the same shops and areas that mine did, yet it was structured completely different. There could be no way that this was the same place! Yet when I looked up from my map, I was staring directly at Isabelle who assisted me in my town where I was the mayor.

"In the town that I come from, there was also a dog named Isabelle," I told her.

She nodded quickly. "Of course! You must be talking about one of my sisters or cousins."

"And you all have the same name?"

"It's tradition."

Oh. Okay. That clarifies everything.

"Thanks for the map," I told Isabelle as I examined it some more. Specifically, I was looking for a campsite that I might be able to stay at. When I couldn't find one, I asked her about it.

She pulled out a list of papers. "Currently, a campsite is not one of the projects requested by the people in this town. Although you are not a citizen, I think I can still add your request to the list."

"Um, yeah," I said, still trying to find a place to stay on the map. "What time is it?"

"It is just after four in the morning," she said with a smile. Her smile, I noticed, was full of fatigue. I suddenly began to feel a little guilty about leaving my Isabelle on her own.

I still needed a place where I could stay temporarily. When I asked her for suggestions, she simply answered that I could see if one of the animals in the town has room to spare. I couldn't help but let out a groan. If I stayed with an animal, they'd probably get me covered in fleas...

I thanked her anyway and began to walk out into the rain again when she stopped me to ask, "What's your name?"

My name... I wasn't too sure about how the word about crimes spread from town to town, but just to be safe, I didn't give my real first name. I am a good liar, so I used my middle name instead and made it sound as believable as possible.

"Daniel," I told her. "But I just go by Dan."

"Alright Dan," she said with her usual perkiness. "I know that you're just visiting, but we'd love to have you move in!"

"I'll...think about it," was the response I gave.

I put on my brave face and walked back out into the stormy weather. Thunder still rumbled in the distance and lightning lit up the sky. I really needed to find a place to stay. I pulled out my map, but I didn't recognize any of the names of the animals. How was I expected to make a friend and crash with them for a bit? Especially at four in the morning!

It seemed like a lost cause. I looked as if I had just survived the zombie apocalypse and highly doubted that anyone would want to house my dirty, smelly, wet self anyway. I sighed and found a tree nearby that seemed to offer a decent amount of coverage from the rain. It would have to do for now. I didn't want to have to walk around anymore than I needed to.

So I leaned my back against the tree and tried to get as comfortable as possible. It wasn't comfortable at all, but I was exhausted and needed somewhere to rest. In a few hours the shops should all be opened again, and I could change my clothing and even buy an umbrella if the storm still hasn't cleared up.

What could I do until then? Sleep. It wasn't comfortable, like I said earlier, but when you're as tired as I was, comfort hardly seemed to matter. It had been a long day/night...

KABOOM! The loud crack of thunder startled me awake. I wondered how much I had slept. The rain was still coming down pretty hard and the thunder and lightning seemed to only be worsening. I sat up entirely from where I was sleeping and frowned. Maybe I should've at least tried to crash with an animal...

Speaking of crash, another thunderclap sounded through the air at the same time a strike of lightning hit scarily close. I stood up and waited to see how close the next one would be. The loudest clap of thunder that I had ever heard and the brightest flash of light I had ever seen filled the air around me. My body tingled as if I was full of electricity.

Then a strange snap followed by a creaking noise came from behind me. It wasn't thunder...so what was it? I looked back and saw that the tree that I was resting under was falling right toward me. I was nearly frozen in terror, but I slid my feet back in just enough time to avoid getting hit.

Well, almost.

It would've been enough time to avoid getting hit had I not slipped in the mud as I was sliding backwards on the balls of my feet. I fell forward and hit the ground palms first, then I flattened onto my stomach as the tree flattened my right hand.

You know what really sucks though?

I'm right handed.

I could feel my bones snap and crack due to the weight and force of the tree that had collapsed and landed on my hand. It hurt like nothing I had ever felt before. Well, these past couple of hours have just gone brilliantly, haven't they?

Crying out for help, I struggled to release my hand, but it was of no use. I shouted louder, but the sound of rain and thunder seemed to be masking my voice to anyone who could've been nearby.

"Oh no!" I heard a squeaky female voice call out once I had given up on my cries. "It does look like one of the trees fell down by getting struck by lightning!"

Another voice, again female, spoke up too. "That's what I figured... We can probably dig out the stump and plant something new in its place."

"Hey!" I cried out. "Don't forget about the person who's getting crushed by the tree!"

I rolled my head over to see who the two strangers were. One of them was a squirrel-girl whose pink fur was clearly visible even through the thick sheets of rain. The other was surprisingly a human girl. I couldn't make out most of her features, but her hair was dark blue and in a ponytail. They both ran over to me.

"Oh my gosh!" the squirrel exclaimed. "I didn't even see you there!"

"Thanks," I muttered sarcastically. "But you see me now, don't you? A little help would be nice..."

The blue-haired girl motioned for the squirrel to follow her lead. They worked together to try and roll the tree trunk off of my arm. It was no use. The trunk was simply too heavy, even for the both of them.

"I have an idea," the girl said, fishing through her pockets for something. She whipped out an axe. "Don't move."

"Wasn't planning on it..."

She lifted the axe high into the air and chopped the trunk inches away from where my hand was trapped underneath it. Then she swung again and again until it a completely split apart. She moved over to the other side of me and swung her axe again and again, creating another slice in the trunk. Now my hand was only trapped under a small log.

The girl pushed the log off of my right arm and stood up. "Isabelle did tell me there was a boy visiting... I guess that's you."

"Are you the mayor?" I suddenly asked, struggling to get to my feet. My right arm hurt unbelievably, but I tried not to think about it.

"Yes, I am," she said firmly. "And I do not take that title lightly."

Unable to bear it any longer, I looked down at my right arm and was horrified to find that I couldn't move it. It was a swollen, bloody mess, and there were definitely bones in places that they shouldn't be. Without getting too graphic, it was disgusting and it looked just as bad as it hurt.

"Look at his arm, Jade!" the squirrel exclaimed.

The human girl lifted my right arm, and I reeled in pain. She examined it closely and touched certain areas only to watch me shriek out in pain. "I'm no expert, but that definitely looks broken."

"It feels broken," I told her through my teeth as she poked it again. "Is there a doctor or somewhere I can go?"

The squirrel and the girl shared a glance before looking back at me. In her squeaky voice, the squirrel sadly answered, "No... We only rely on Nook's medicine." She turned to face the girl. "Maybe you can bring him to your house, Jade! It's nearby, and I can run to the store to get some medicine!"

"But I don't even know him!" she said, dropping my arm and backing away. "I don't want some strange boy in my house if I don't even know him!"

"Then let's get introduced," I said, wanting that medicine if it really would help heal my arm. "My name is...Dan, and I take it from what the squirrel said earlier that your name is Jade?"

The squirrel chimed in. "And I'm Peanut!"

I tried to give a friendly smile, but it turned into a grimace because of the pain in my arm. "Well, now we're introduced, so can I at least get that medicine now?"

Jade furrowed her brows. "Fine. You can come with me." She looked at the squirrel. "Peanut, you can run to the store and pick up some medicine and a fresh set of clothes."

As Peanut ran off, we began to walk to Jade's house, which wasn't too far off in the distance. She was silent the whole way there until I finally asked what time it was as we walked inside.

"8:03 am," she answered as she walked over to the fireplace.

It was the end of March and springtime was finally warming things up, but due to my shivering coldness and the rain, she turned the fireplace on anyway. When I looked at her again, I realized that she was also shivering and wet. It finally hit me that she didn't have an umbrella with her throughout our entire time in the rain.

"I'm going to go upstairs to change quickly," she told me. "Don't try anything funny."

What could I have really done? I had a broken arm, and I was probably coming down with hypothermia or something. The most that I could do was sit in front of the fireplace and look around the room.

And to be frank, the room was kind of...bland. I guess to some it may have looked nice, but I found it to be quite boring. She chose to use the "Classic" furniture set, which I had always considered to be pretty plain. It's not that I have a problem with themes, but she could have at least chosen something more interesting. In fact, her fireplace was the most interesting thing in the room.

Jade came down the stairs in a fresh set of clothing. Her dark blue hair was still neatly tied into a ponytail though. Her outfit was very business-like, and there was no mistaking the fact that she was the mayor. She wore the red business jacket from the HHA, a formal black skirt, long grey socks, and black loafers. I couldn't really tell you if it matched well or not, but she pulled the formal look off.

She's kinda cute, I thought to myself. In a weird business-like way.

"Hopefully Peanut gets back soon," I said, breaking the awkward silence. "And hopefully this medicine actually works."

She nodded and sat down by the fireplace next to me. "I agree. We've already wasted a lot of time today, and I still have so many things to take care of."

"Didn't you just say that it was only a little after 8 am? You still have plenty of time to do whatever you want!" I almost wanted to laugh, but my arm hurt too bad.

She crossed her arms. "Excuse me! I am the mayor! Who are you to tell me what I do and do not have time for? Being the mayor is an extremely difficult and time-consuming task, and I take it very seriously!"

"I can tell..." I muttered underneath my breath. I didn't mention the fact that I was the mayor of my old town and that I hardly did anything. Most of my days were spent goofing off and having fun! Well, until I ran into a little trouble with the law...

It was quiet except for the crackling of the fireplace. I guess Jade figured that she would try to break the silence, but it sounded a bit forced. "So why are you here, Dan?"

I leaned back a little bit. I already lied about my name; it shouldn't be too hard to lie about everything else. "Just thought I'd go on a little adventure! And, well, I ended up here."

Her brows furrowed, and I was worried she might get a bit too skeptical. If she found out that I was a criminal, "Miss Business" would surely turn me in! But she let my strange and sudden appearance to this town slide for now. However, she still had other questions.

"Why were you out during a storm?" she questioned.

This one was easy! I didn't even need to lie! "I got here really early in the morning, and I needed a place to stay, but since I'm just visiting, I don't have one. I didn't know that the storm was going to get so bad, so I just thought I'd take cover under that tree. But clearly...that didn't work out so well."

She not-so-subtly examined my face. At first I thought that she was boldly checking me out, but then I remembered all of the scratches and gunk that covered my beat-up face. I hoped that some of it at least washed off in the rain, so it didn't look too suspicious, but then I realized something. Because my little accident earlier, Jade probably just figured that all of the marks were from that!

There was a knock on the door, and Peanut entered the room. "Medicine and a fresh set of clothes!"

"Hopefully this works," I said as I stood up and grabbed the items with my good arm.

Jade stood up as well and brushed herself off. "I agree, but even if it doesn't, I'm afraid you'll have to leave my house. I have duties to take care of, and I can't leave you here by yourself."

"Can I at least go into a room to change real quick?" I asked her. Then the carefully balanced items in my hand all fell onto the floor. "Actually, I think I should take the medicine first..."

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-TOW