Prologue: Fast Xephmor
It was the moment of Fast's dreams. He was in an amazing restaurant, eating one of his favorite meals, across from the most beautiful women he had ever met. They talked, they laughed, and they even enjoyed the silence as they looked into each others eyes. Fast took her home after their wonderful night. The moment was right, Fast leaned in for a kiss, but before he could, the ground started to shake. Fast looked around, and than looked back at the girl to find she was gone. The walls of the world around Fast fell down and burst into flames. A large voice appeared out of nowhere and yelled, "GET UP," Fast quickly jumped out of the world of his dreams, into the soft comfort of his bed.
He quickly leaned up from his once dazed sleeping, into a panting fear from his dream, turned nightmare. Fast scratched his head and sighed, 'Yeah right, me in a normal relationship,' he thought to himself as he got out of bed.
Fast was a dark red anthro fox, yet he wasn't uncommon in his world. Even with his big ears, a fuzzy white muzzle, a big fluffy tail, all in all, a fox that could stand on two legs. Fast started to get dressed in his usually clothes, he put on a white t-shirt that had a brown 'F' on it, a matching teal jacket and shoes, and a pair of blue jeans. Fast walked into the bathroom and grabbed a comb. He used it to comb his long brown hair, which during the night had ended up covering a lot of his face, out of his brown eyes. His hair was long because he never really wanted to get it cut often. At times people mistook him for, or even made fun of him, looking like a girl, though Fast never really cared that they thought that.
He went down stairs from his second floor room to the kitchen to find his family at the table. His fraternal twin brother and sister, Aftiel and Kaitou, and his cousin Axonn, the three were eating breakfast at the table as Fast entered the room.
Aftiel was sixteen years old, a year younger than Fast. He was a gray anthro hedgehog with five spines, the top one stuck out straight, while the others were curved up, he also had red marks on the outside of the bottom two spines. He had blue eyes and small bit of hair, which matched his fur color, which went in front of his eyes a bit. He wore a short sleeves jacket that went down to his knees and was always zipped up, and a pair of black pants under it. He also wore a pair of white shoes with red marks.
Kaitou, who was sitting next to Aftiel, was, of course, also sixteen. But like Fast, she was a fox, through he fur was much lighter red. He tail was a little fluffier than Fast, but her ears were a little smaller. She had long red hair that was like Fast's only curlier and blue eyes like Aftiel's. She wore a white t-shirt, a black vest, black shorts, and black shoes.
And next to her, and still half asleep, was their cousin, Axonn. He was a very dark furred hedgehog with a brown muzzle, unlike Aftiel's tan muzzle. Axonn had six short spines that were curved slightly down, though they usually stayed straight. He had a small patch of short brown hair on his head, though it was mostly covered up by a little black hat on his head. For clothes, Axonn usually wore a gray t-shirt, a short sleeved black jacket, gray jeans, black shoes that had a green trim around the bottom of them, and black gloves.
Fast, Kaitou, Aftiel, and Axonn all lived in the house together, no parents or anyone else. It was like this because Fast, Aftiel, and Kaitou were abandoned around the time of there births. It took a long time, but they eventually learned about each other and finally reunited. As for Axonn, he never really talked about his past, and the rest respected that. They weren't a perfect family, they all had there faults, Fast was a mute and couldn't speak, Aftiel was prone to anger issues, Kaitou always acted like a little kid, and Axonn, well, he kept things bottled up inside.
Both Aftiel and Axonn gave Fast sleepy grunts that usually translated to, 'Good Morning.' While at the same time Kaitou was already out of her seat and was hugging Fast, as she did every morning that she got up first. "Morning," she said with a smile as she released him from the hug.
Fast made a bowl of cereal and quickly ate as the others slowly ate eggs Kaitou had made. Usually Fast would get up early and make the eggs but the others knew that when he slept in and got cereal it usually meant he was going to go for a morning jog. After eating, Fast got ready to go. He said his goodbyes and that he would be back later, and with Axonn's sleepy comment of, "How is he so awake this early?" Tem was already out the door.
On Fast's jog, he would just head out of town, past the houses, past the stores, past everything, until he was in a large grass field. The wind was blowing hard causing the grass to just flow with it. Fast always came to this field on his jogs, mostly because; this was the reason behind his jogs. He came to this place to find calm, to meditate. Fast sat down and closed his eyes to open his mind. 'Silence is golden,' he thought to himself.
"Duck tape is silver," a voice behind him said, along with the sound of tape coming off of a roll.