It was a beautiful day in Nookville. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and everybody was out having fun in the nice weather.
And life had seemed perfect for Mayor Sapphire when she had married a Wolf named Kyle about a year ago. Things were very happy for about a year, and Kyle was ecstatic when he learned she was expecting a baby girl.
The girl's husband in question was at the moment coming home from the grocery store to buy sugar after a hard day of working like he normally did. He had been out for a while when he just thought about going home to make dinner.
It didn't take long for him to reach his wife's house. Kyle climbed up on the front step of his and Mayor Sapphire's house and opened the door.
"Hey, Sapphire. How's my sweet baby girl?" Kyle asked. Sapphire laughed, "Did you mean me or the little one?" She replied, with her hand on her stomach. "I meant both, silly!" Kyle joked.
Sapphire smiled sweetly at him. "Well, besides a little loneliness waiting for Daddy to come home, I guess we're both okay."
She wrapped her arms around him. "How did a human girl like me get so lucky to have a wolf like you?" Sapphire asked. Kyle said, "Luck had nothing to do with it, Sapphire."
She thought her life couldn't get any better. When without warning, the house began to shake. "Huh?" Said Sapphire, looking around for the source of the sudden vibrations. "W-what was that?" Kyle asked.
Suddenly, Sapphire heard a faint whisper. "Get out...Get Out!" Her eyes grew wide and her hands started to tremble. "Are you ok?" Kyle asked.
Sapphire turned towards the wolf with goldish-black fur and grabbed his hand. "Sometimes... I just worry about what kind of world our baby is going to grow up in." She replied. Suddenly, the house started to shake again and pictures started to fall off the walls.
"Honey! We Have To Get Outside, Quick!" Kyle shouted, before they started running out of the house. They both watched in horror as the windows began to bust and the exterior began to crack.
"Get Out...Get Out Now!" The mysterious voice said, causing Sapphire to run away.
"Where are you going?" Kyle called, flailing his arms. "I need to run up to the town hall and warn my secretary, Isabelle." Sapphire replied. "I'm worried she might be hurt!"
Sometime later, Sapphire and her secretary, Isabelle the Shitzu, ran into town and approached a small group of animals outside of the real estate shop, Nook Homes.
"Mr. Nook!" Isabelle called. "Mr. Nook! I believe we have a serious problem!" Sapphire shouted.
The raccoon in the blue business suit with a tag that read "Tom Nook" turned towards them. "What is the problem?" Tom Nook asked, a stern look never left his face.
"The environment... is changing. I believe it is somehow, reacting to our presence on it." Sapphire explained. "I know it because somehow everything in my house started shaking and almost got destroyed!" She said.
"The same thing happened to the town hall!" Isabelle added.
Tom Nook rolled his baby blue eyes. "And what do you base this on?" He asked with in a snarky voice.
Sapphire got down on her knees and drew a small town with trees surrounding it in the dirt.
"Look, this is the world, right?" She asked, looking around the group as if she were making a speech. She noticed that the other animals in the group (except for Tom Nook) looked surprised, their mouths agape. "But now, think of the world as... a living being. If it were somehow conscious, then it would ultimately become aware of our effect on it." She continued.
A little dog in the crowd scoffed. "Huh right, the world is conscious. It makes perfect sense!" He joked. The dog tapped his foot three times. "Hello. Anybody?" But nothing happened, which caused the other animals in the town square to laugh.
This made Isabelle angry, she had known Mayor Sapphire since she was 13, and she knew that Sapphire would never lie about something that happened to her home, as well as the town hall. "You don't understand! If we have made too much of an impact, then that consciousness would try to snuff us out!" Isabelle cried, grinding her teeth. "I agree with Sapphire, I think we're looking at a global catastrophe, the likes of which we've never seen!"
"Poodiggery and poppycock!" A mouse in the crowd shouted. Sapphire snapped her fingers, "I think we need to put all resources now into a full investigation, perhaps even begin a town-wide evacuation." She suggested.
"Evacuation?!" Tom Nook bellowed. "Tomorrow is the Harvest Festival. Do you know how much money we would lose?" He motioned over to the police dog officer from the other side of the square. "Copper, escort Mrs. Isabelle and the Mayor home. I do not wish to be bothered any further." He commanded.
As the officer escorted them away, Sapphire shook her fist and shouted, "Damn you, Tom Nook! You could be the death of us all!"
Later that evening, Kyle watched out the window as the animals went about their business fishing or catching butterflies. But turned around to see Sapphire, sitting on the couch and sighing with sadness.
"Sapphire? Is everything ok?" Kyle asked, his voice sounding concerned. Sapphire looked up at him and sighed, her eyes filled with dread. "Kyle, I was just thinking about our baby. I want to name her... Hope." She replied. "Hope? Kyle questioned.
"Hope for a... chance at tomorrow?" Sapphire replied.
Suddenly, the mysterious voice from before started to speak. "Get Out...Get Out!"
Suddenly, the other animals outside stopped what they were doing and looked around. "What was that noise?" A little cat said, looking everywhere for the source of the voice.
"Oh-No!" Sapphire thought, she didn't have a good feeling about this. Without warning, the ground began to shake. "Oh, my God!" She shouted. She grabbed Kyle's hand and placed the other on to her stomach. "We have to get out of this place!"
"Why? It's only a small earthquake." Kyle argued, as he shook his head. Sapphire squeezed his hand tighter and pulled him close. "We have to get out of here now, Kyle!" Sapphire yelled. She opened the door and ran out of the house. "Wait!" Isabelle called, catching up with them. The voice still saying "Get Out...Get Out Now!"
All of a sudden, small cracks began to form in the ground and small gusts of air began to flow out of them. "What is that?" Asked a hamster in the crowd of animals. He pulled out a pick-axe from his bag and hit the crack in the ground.
This was a grave mistake, as that small gust of wind had caused a tornado to erupt from the ground and the hamster disappeared. The Other Animals looked up and watched the whole thing with fear and amazement.
"RUN!" Isabelle shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Everyone get up to the rooftops! We have to get up high!" Sapphire announced. The animals that could, climbed up to the roofs of their homes and watched as the others became swept up by the tornado and killed. "My God, Sapphire, they're all dying!" Cried Kyle with fear in his voice. "Don't look, Kyle! Don't look!" Sapphire replied, her heart became filled with dread.
"What the hell is that thing?!" The dog Sapphire and Isabelle had seen in town cried. "Well it's okay, we're safe up here!" A frog reassured.
"I--I don't think so!" Isabelle shouted. Suddenly, residents began to be pushed off the rooftops by the force of the wind from the tornado, as well as Kyle but he grabbed Sapphire's wrist and held on for dear life.
"Sapphire!" He screamed.
"Kyle! Hang on!" Sapphire called, tears had begun to well up her eyes. "I can't... hang on!" The wolf shouted back, "You have to! For the baby!" Said Sapphire. Kyle's grip loosened. He tried to tighten it, but the wind ripped him from the hand he was holding on to.
"Nooooooooooo!" Kyle shouted as the tornado whisked him away, never to be seen again.
"Kyle! No! Noooo!" Sapphire broke down and now she knew she was left alone on the rooftop with Isabelle and her unborn daughter, Hope.
"I...I'm So Sorry, Mayor Sapphire!" Isabelle said, comfortingly.
With her eyes full of tears and her heart broken, Sapphire blacked out.