Judy Hopps had taken the week off to visit her family and was currently helping her mother clean the attic. It was then that she noticed a strange wooden box and opened it, finding an old and tattered book. She carefully took it out and opened its contents.

She said out loud as she read, "The Journal of Captain Judah."

Bonnie looked over and saw the treasure her daughter was holding.

"Captain Judah?!"

"You know who he is?"

"Yes. In fact, he's our ancestor."

"Ancestor?! You mean there was a rabbit in our family who became a captain?"

"I thought it was a family legend, but if you became a cop and we found his journal, then it must be true."

Judy flipped to the first entry. She read out loud, "'It took a while, but I finally made it as the first rabbit captain of the guard. Today, I am to serve Judge Dawson Belbas. But as I am traveling into the city, I'm utterly and hopelessly lost…'"


Zootopia, 1482.

Captain Judah held a map in his furry paws while wearing golden armor.

He muttered in frustration, "I can't make hair or hide of this map!" He crumpled it up. Suddenly, two soldiers, a cape buffalo and a rhino, walked past him. He called out, "Excuse me, sirs! I'm looking for-" But the soldiers just ignored him and went by. "Okay, I guess I'll just have to keep looking…" He went down the street and found a fox dressed in purple and had a golden earring on her left ear.

She was beating on a tambourine while doing a dance. An elephant and her son were walking by when the young elephant tried to watch the fox, but the mother scolded him.

"Stay away, child! That is a gypsy and a fox, no less. They'll steal us blind!"

Judah frowned at that comment. He knew that predators had once hunted prey, but he felt they had come a long way since then. However, there were those who still mistrusted predators. He didn't care that the gypsy performing was a fox and thought that she was great at what she did, so he put some gold coins into the hat she had out.

The fox caught sight at what he did and flashed an innocent smile that made the rabbit melt. He started to go on his way when someone said.

"Alright, fox, where did you get the money?"

He looked back and saw the same cape buffalo and rhino that passed him by before.

The fox defiantly said, "For your information, I earned it!"

The rhino said, "You mean stole it!"

The buffalo said, "You're under arrest!"

The rabbit yelled right at them, "No, she is not!"

The soldiers turned toward him. The cape buffalo lowered himself and blew hot air on the rabbit, "And who are you to be giving orders?"

Judah drew his sword, "Captain Judah of the guard. I am here by order of the king. I am to report to Judge Dawson Belbas at the Palace of Justice."

The cape buffalo and rhino exchanged looks, finding it hard to believe that a rabbit would be their captain.

"Now, if you would please escort me to the palace, I would appreciate it."

The rhino said, "Yes, sir, but first, we have to deal with…" But they looked to see that the fox was gone.

"She's gone!" the buffalo grunted.

Judah mumbled under his breath, "Good…" But he was impressed at how quickly the fox got away. But when he looked around, he noticed two gold coins on the ground and picked them up.

The buffalo gruffly said, "Follow us… sir…" He took the lead and the rhino and rabbit followed after him.

On the way, Judah saw a cloaked beggar sitting on the side and saw a hat next to him, which he recognized as the hat the fox gypsy was using. Putting two and two together, he dropped the coins in the hat and went on his way. He was unaware the beggar let down her hood, looking in awe at the rabbit that gave her back the coins.


"He met a fox…" Judy gaped at this information while looking at the journal. "…and he was kind to her when no else was…"

"That does sound very similar to you and Nick," Bonnie commented.

"Too similar… I got to show this to him!" She rushed out of the attic.

It was the next day she was back in Zootopia. She had called Nick to meet her at Savanna Central and told him she had to show him something. Since they were off-duty, they wore their civilian clothes.

Nick Wilde didn't know what his partner could possibly have had that made her excited over the phone, but he went anyway to see what the commotion was about. He found her sitting at a table and waving him over. Once he sat down, she didn't waste a second showing him the journal.

Nick had read the entry and his eyes widened when it mentioned Judah running into a fox.

"It's almost like how we met, isn't it?"she pointed out.

"Carrots, if you're suggesting that fox was my ancestor, then I got to tell you that would be just crazy."

"Actually… that never occurred to me! I was just amazed that my ancestor was nice enough to foxes back then, but now, I think you're right!"

"But that's… that's… freaky! There is no way our ancestors met before we did!"

"Problem is we don't know for sure if that fox was your ancestor. But wouldn't that be incredible if it was?!" she asked excitedly.

"It would be, Judy, but like you said, we don't know for sure."

"But there is a way to find out, isn't there?" She had that look in her eye like she always did when she felt she needed to get a job done.

Nick cringed, Uh-oh… Now I've done it…


AN: Not much now, but there will be more! So, good beginning? Bad beginning? This is how it'll be like for the rest of the story, Judy and Nick trying to find answers to the journal while we see what the ancestors go through. Also, I had two brand new ideas that couldn't be put off, the first is Sahara Nights, that's basically a Zootopia version of Aladdin, and the second is Judy in the Princess and the Pauper, that's like the Barbie version but with elements to the classic book. So, good ideas? I'll let you decide.