Disclaimer: I do not own any character in this story except my OC

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There's no food left... none.

He'd tried to find something... anything to eat, but there was nothing. The only reason the small animal managed to stay alive was asking for food from a large bear that lived in a cave near a road. The last time he had received food the bear named Vincent demanded that he stop begging him for food. But the small creature understood, Vincent was a bear and needed much more food than a fox like him. The fox remembered when Vincent told him about that raccoon that had tricked him and got him trouble with the humans.

The fox growled at the thought of humans, they only care about their selfish needs and want. All they do in find a nice, peaceful forest area, cut down all of the trees in a 20 mile radius killing or dislocating any animal that lives there. They then build these structures and go about their lives as if nothing happened. Because of them he couldn't keep up my vegan way of life and had to go hunting, but found nothing.

As the fox sat by the side of a road he looked up through the night at Vincent's cave. 'I could take some...' But he thought again 'no I couldn't do that to Vincent, after everything he's done for me' The fox, Jace, turned his head to look at the human structures 'Perhaps I could scavenger for food or something.'

Crash!

Jace jumped at the sound of the thunder. He looked up in time for the first drops of rain to fall on his face. Jace heaved a sigh, took one last look at Vincent's cave and started for the houses with slight optimism, or he was just hungry. As he descended down into the valley he realised that the hill was much steeper than he had thought and soon he was stumbling down the hill, very loudly. He was going so fast that when he arrived at the first backyard fence he crashed right through it. He lay on the floor dazed, struggling to regain his senses

"Oh my god!"

"Holy Crap!"

"AAAAAHH!"

Jace slowly stood up still looking at the ground as he heard the humans freak out.

"Honey, get it, GET IT!'' screeched a loud female voice. Jace quickly lifted his head in time for a broom to whack him in his left flank. He quickly jetted past the man who had hit him and ran to the front yard.

"Someone call animal control!" yelled the same female voice. Jace took off weaving from the sidewalk to the street in a random pattern trying to confuse the humans. After running for a while he saw a hedge. Without thinking he turned his body and ran to the leaves. ' Man...'thought the exhausted fox as he leaned on a tree to rest. But as he did he felt a sharp stabbing pain. "What the... "said the confused fox when he turned around and saw that there was blood on the tree. He looked down at his body to see dozens of small cuts on his body. Before Jace could react he went light headed due to hunger and fell to the grassy floor of this small forest.

Before passing out the fox cried out in a hoarse whisper "Help...."

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"Man, this is what life is about." said the sleek quick-thinking raccoon as he relaxed on a tree branch eating a late night snack of Twinkies and coke. It had been 4 days since the raccoon RJ, had officially joined his new family of animals. Although he had lied and used them they still found a way to forgive him and welcome him in loving arms. He had spent most of the last few days having fun and getting to know them, which is great, but he wanted to have some alone time. He was just about to close his eyes when a voice called from below

"RJ, did you here that?" sounded the voice from below. RJ gritted his teeth and looked down to see Tiger, who had also recently been introduced to the family, looking up at was a large Persian cat . He had a soft Russian accent and gentle way about him, although he had a short temper when it came to some things. "Hear what Tiger?"

The cat looked around "Perhaps it was just me, but I swear I heard someone say 'help'".

RJ rolled his eyes and jumped down from the branch and landed softly on the ground "Well if it will get you to let me relax. Fine."

As they started to walk Tiger said "Well RJ I'm sorry that I'm interrupting your sleep but I thought that if something did happened you would be best equipped to handle it."

"Well then I'm sorry, I just don't like being bothered in my alone time."

Tiger took a quick glance at RJ and said "No problem."

RJ crossed his arms and asked "So where did you hear this noi-" said RJ before he froze.

"What?" Tiger turned his head to see what RJ was looking at. "Oh..."

It was a small fox, laying unconscious on the ground with stains of blood around it.

"Holy crap!" gasped Tiger as RJ approached the fox and checked for a pulse. " Is he..?" worried the cat."

RJ stood up "No, but he's banged up. We should bring him back to the log. If we don't get him warmed up he could get sick."

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The next morning

"RJ, Tiger, what the heck were you thinking?" asked the turtle, Verne, in pure amazement that RJ and Tiger had bought some unknown guy into their log to rest. Verne was constantly worried about everything that he wasn't expecting. It wasn't that he was mad, he just loved his little forest family and didn't want anything to happen to them.

"Look Verno," said RJ " He was just laying there, and he's obviously not an adult yet. What harm could it be to let him rest in the log?"

Verne shut his eyes in frustration and stroked his forehead, "RJ, he could have eaten someone."

"Now wait Verne," said Tiger, slightly nervous, " I'm sorry that we didn't ask you about this first but-" Verne leered a Tiger in an angry manner, silencing him instantly. Verne knew that Tiger was desperate to fit into the family so one stupid move could ruin it for him.

The turtle crossed his arms and said "I will try to forget this problem if nothing bad happens. I like you two but I just... we just can't go around and let anyone come in with out even talking to them."

"Sorry." said both the mammals in a solemn tone. It was still very early in the morning so only they were awa-

"EEEEEEEEEE!" screeched a distinctively young female voice.

"What the hell was that?" question RJ after recovering from the sudden outburst.

"What is that?" said an adult male voice.

"OOO its a doggy can ... can I pet him, please?!" yelled a hyperactive voice.

"Okay ,okay no one say anything else... it's still asleep, just everyone carefully walk out the log." said a strong female voice.

Soon a female skunk, 2 opossums one male one female, a squirrel, and 5 porcupines 2 adults and 3 children.

"Say there, Verne would you know why there's a fox in the log?" Asked the male adult porcupine, Lou

"Yeah, I mean like, what the heck?" said the awkward teenage female opossum, Heather.

Heather's father, Ozzie, wrapped his arms around his daughter "Yeah, what is going on?" asked the opossum.

Verne looked at Tiger and RJ and said "Maybe you should, you know, explain."

Stella, the skunk, walked up to Tiger, whom she was dating. "What is Verne talking about Tiger?"

"Um.. eh... well, RJ and I found a fox... a young one, perhaps Heather's age..." gulped the nervous cat.

RJ saw this and stepped in "We saw that he had some injuries so we bought him back."

That was when Stella's strong side kicked in. She looked at Tiger "What the heck were you thinking, something bad could have happened. What would you do if someone got hurt?"

Tiger was trembling "I-I don't kn-"

"No, you don't know. I like you but sometime you just don't think." Stella finished his sentence before turning her attention towards RJ.

'Oh crap."thought RJ as she turned to him. But before she could say anything Verne interrupted "Wait, yelling won't accomplish anything Stella."

Stella signed "Yeah, your right." she looked at the log with the resting fox in it, "we have other things to bother with now."

"Oh yeah I forgot about the doggy, Verne what are we going to do with him. Can we keep him. PLEASE?" spoke Hammy the squirrel.

Verne tried to control his aggravation at the squirrel "I don't think so Hammy."

"Awwww."


'What the....'

Bu-Bump Bu-Bump

'What's going on?'

Bu-Bump Bu-Bump

'What is that sound?'

Bu-Bump Bu-Bump

'My... my heart'

Suddenly Jace woke up in a field in the middle of the day.

"Hey Jace!" cried out a familiar voice, "bet you can't catch me!" Jace turned to see Emily, his sister. He smiled, it was like he was a kit again. He rememberded the summers that he and his siblings would chase each other through this field. He ran after them in pure enjoyment. After a few minutes of play he heard another cry, his mother.

"Come on kids, time to eat!"

Jace nearly sobbed when he saw her, she was the perfect example of a vixen. She had deep brown eyes, a coat full of luster, a long bushy tail and an elegant stance.

"Mom!" Jace yelled as he started to run at her. But when he started to run at her the ground started to sink beneath him. "Mom...Help me!" he yelled as he sunk deeper in the ground. "Mom please help me!" Jace was sobbing now. Finally he could no longer see her and everything started to fade to black again.

'Mom!'

'Mom'

'...help.'

Jace opened his eyes and he was laying in a log with leaves at the bottom to make it more comfortable. He could hear voices coming from outside.

"I say we kick him out, he's to dangerous." one male voice said.

"How do we know that he's bad?" replied another male voice.

"I just worried about the kids." said a female voice.

"Aw mom, we're fine."

"Yeah."

"Stop babying us." quickly replied the 3 young male voices.

It was then that Jace knew it was time to show himself and see who was talking about him. He stood up inside of the log and walked to the exit of the log ready for anything that may happen.

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I very impressed with the way that I handled this. I mean I just picked a random topic and stuck with it. Future chapters will be longer.

PS. If you read my last story, this is not the same Jace that was in Twisted. This one has a different back story but the same personality.