Edit: Upon noticing a mistake I made in later chapters about events, I realized I needed to quickly edit this chapter in order for things to make sense (I switched the occurrence of events between Next Chapter (Wii) and Next Chapter (DS).

That's all.

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A/N: The original story made it insanely difficult to write. I couldn't get inspiration, and I just couldn't finish the chapter I was working on.

Time skip to now, I'm ready to work on this story again, and now I have a better plot in mind.

So, rewrite! Let's go.

I own nothing but my original characters.

Here's the first chapter.

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Chapter 1: Peace and Battles

The Raposa Village had gone through all kinds of hell as it had been settled. Years ago, a Raposa by the name of Wilfre had been possessed by his own creations upon trying to make it so Raposa could be able to fend off by themselves without their Creator. Then he attacked the Village, covering it in shadow, and despite the Raposa had lost hope, they gained their first hero from their creator, who was created in the form of a rabbit, Penelope.

During her trials, and after her final battle with Wilfre, she had shortly been possessed by shadow goo which couldn't take her heart, but caused her to become neutral, helping both sides.

Midway during her adventures, two heroes to help her were created one named Roselyynn and the other named Thunder (though he is often referred to as different names).

After the incident with Wilfre, a while after, Mari had gotten a new deputy, Circi. And when they collected all the Items of Power, it had gone into a big mess when Circi tried to recreate Wilfre (whom she thought was dead and everyone else thought so too, though Penelope knew he wasn't), except then she created the Giant Scribble Monster and flooded the village with ink.

Under the belief the monster had killed Circi, and the fact they had to save the village, Penelope, Roselyynn and Thunder combined their powers to defeat the Giant Scribble Monster and were rewarded with a celebration (mainly because of a wedding, but they celebrated the defeat of the monster too).

Circi reappeared and revealed she wasn't dead and managed to barely escape, though in order to keep Mari's trust, she had to make an oath that she would never betray her again and came back to her position as deputy as a result.

However, after that, Penelope had mysteriously vanished, leaving Roselyynn and Thunder to take on the final challenge where Wilfre tried to take all the color out of the world in a desperate attempt to save it from its destruction, and though their world was thought to be destroyed after Roselyynn and Thunder's final battle with Wilfre, it returned.

From all those adventures and trials, now the Raposa Village and the heroes had a period of peace. However, that wasn't the case with the heroes.

The Raposa villagers in their time of peace and prosperity were very lazy. In fact, they made the heroes do tasks they probably could've done themselves all the time- giving Penelope a lot of the credit for it, even when she was aware of the fair share they all did and greatly bothering Roselyynn.

Thunder got greatly irritated of all the work, and being constantly bossed around by the Raposa (as did the other two), and he wondered of his placement as to why he was still there during their time of peace and prosperity.

And Penelope found it very stressful to be under the influence of assisting both Wilfre and the Raposa, and hated having to carrying out all of this work.

The current relationship allowed discord to develop between the heroes and the Raposa, though not shown, and the heroes began to hope something bad would happen to the ones they were to protect as sorts of revenge for all they had done.

And then there was the second village.

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The Renard Village was the Raposa Village's counterpart. Each village had an important book which connected to the Creator. The Raposa Village had the Book of Life, while the Renard Village had the Book of Truth.

The Renard Raposian people, unlike their counterpart had been in constant peace, mainly because of their recluse and because of their knowledge of how to defend themselves.

They were a scholarly group of Raposa, who put their foundation into trust and belief of their Creator, but also wisdom, knowledge of the past and hard work. They were lead by their current Mayor, Maelynn.

For the Renard Raposa, there were few cases of not knowing what to do in a crisis, as long as they were able to solve a problem. They also knew of their counterparts' trials and adventures, as well as their heroes.

Now, they didn't necessarily envy the Raposa villagers for their heroes. In fact, they didn't necessarily feel they needed heroes until a specific event fell upon them.

As the Raposa villagers had Wilfre as their antagonist, the Renard Raposa people had their antagonist, whom they knew as White Tuxedo. In fact, White Tuxedo hadn't done anything to affect them in the past, until he came up with a plan and aimed it at a specific part of the village, the Renard Raposa's Creation Hall.

For both villages, as it is known, the Creation Hall is practically their Church, but not really. The reason it was considered to be a church was because of how it was one of the only ways to be able to connect with the Creator.

The second way to connect with the Creator was through the Book of Life or the Book of Truth. And considering both Creation Halls held their respective books, if the Creation Hall was damage and/or blocked off, it would be devastating to the connection between the Raposa and their Creator.

White Tuxedo was well aware of this, as he had previously lived in the Renard Village before building a manor away from town, where he currently held his residence. In the time he was away, he had devised that plan and made an alliance with a neighboring tribe, the Gato people.

The Gato were a race of cat people, who too believed in the creator. However, unlike the Raposa, they were a warrior tribe, and built themselves off of knowledge of war and battle, survival and tradition as well as the belief of the Creator. White Tuxedo had allied himself with them, and one of their strongest female warriors (the girls were the ones who usually led the village), who went by the name, Black Cat.

So, White Tuxedo attacked the Renard's creation hall and damaged it, devastating them, and he went for the Raposa Village next, but he wasn't after their Creation Hall.

And considering the poor connection between the two villages, the Raposa villagers were unaware of what was coming for them.

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During the present day, one errand after another, Roselyynn was fed up and exhausted. "Work, work, work. All they expect of us is work." She mumbled to herself as she and the others went to the well to check on the children upon Mari's request.

Penelope and Thunder looked at her, with Penelope's rabbit ears twitching a bit. "What, Roselyynn?" Thunder asked her, looking equally exhausted.

"Those damned Raposa, that's who!" She nearly shouted but Penelope quieted her down.

"I can agree with you, and I wish they'd actually do something for once, but what else can we do?" The rabbit asked Roselyynn.

Upon getting to the well, they found no children there, as the children were likely playing elsewhere, like at the beach or something. "What we can do is not work. All those Raposa are doing is taking advantage of the fact that we're supposed to protect them, and now they're using us to do work for them."

Thunder agreed, but disagreed. "Yes, but if we don't help, Mari will freak out at us."

"She's as equally responsible for this as the others. I think the only thing Mari does is paperwork."

"Circi does the paperwork." Penelope indicated, recalling some of her experiences from helping at the Town Hall.

"Then Mari only solves problems amongst the villagers."

"No, we have to do that too." Thunder reminded Roselyynn, who blinked.

"…Then what does Mari do?" The other two remained silent, giving her bored expressions.

It hit Roselyynn. "…Don't tell me. She's always running off and playing around with Jowee at their Secret Beach, isn't she?"

They nodded. "…I sometimes wish Wilfre didn't murder Mari's Father. Maybe then the Village wouldn't be in this state. But noooooo. Mari's Father is a ghost now! He can do nothing." Roselyynn complained.

And now Isaac and Chef Cookie were fighting again.

"For the love of…" Penelope grumbled.

"Let's go handle the problem." And then the three went over to attempt to break up yet another one of their quarrels.

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"Maelynn!" A Raposa with dark brown fur with a clock on his scarf, wearing mostly blue called through the Town Hall. No reply. He checked her office. "Maelynn?" Still no reply.

He checked a few more rooms before heading to the last room and he knocked on the door upon finding it was locked. "Maelynn! Are you there?"

The door opened revealing a blonde-haired Raposa adorned in a purple gown, star shaped earrings and a green necktie.

"Yes Rikki?" She asked him, sounding bitter, but not at him.

"The villagers have been losing hope. As the Mayor, you need to do something…"

"I know, but I can't." Rikki was taken aback. "Though our beliefs are key to society, without access to the Creation Hall, we cannot get to the Book of Truth. Though I doubt the Creator ever cared about us, despite all she's given us."

Rikki couldn't let Maelynn lose hope like her people, but it wasn't working. "Maelynn, she does care. But when we need things, we're too independent to ask her."

"No. She does things for us without asking. Regardless, I know she always preferred the other village over us. They're so weak they need three heroes to defend them, and us, we get none." Rikki continued to disagree with Maelynn, much to her sadness.

"I know you believe not, Rikki, but until then, you'll see I'm right."

"We need to warn the other Village, Maelynn. You know he's after them next."

Before closing the door, Maelynn stated, "They have three heroes. They should be able to defend themselves without having to help them. They may have the Creator and her heroes, but we have our knowledge and wisdom."

And with that, Maelynn didn't reply to any of Rikki's words.

Though now wasn't the time to lose hope.

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A/N: I decided to kind of structure this first chapter like "A Tale of Two Cities", though not really.

And I probably bored you all with the history lesson, but I assure you, it will be rare when something like that happens again. It was mainly to give background and explain both situations unlike the original.

So, please review if you'd like, please don't flame and I would appreciate constructive criticism.

I will see you all in the next chapter.

Ciao!