Warnings: anything you can think of might be in this story, so for right now it's for adults just in case, I know for a fact there's a Lemon somewhere maybe a dozen, who knows.
Summary: Quatre owns an animal preserve, but this preserve is no ordinary thing. You see he protects endangered creatures. WHAT! That's what a preserve is? Well, did I mention the fact that these animals are all human based. You know human with cat ears and tail, or centaurs and fawns, and some times a dragon or two :wink wink:, but while his men are out hunting (safely 'so they said) they mess up big time and Heero gets stuck with an annoying black fox with a broken soul. Read about how this little black fox becomes so much more…
READ THIS FIRST: Authors Note: Okay a little background information, any creature will be referred to as an animal, for example. If it's human with fox features it's a fox, with dog features, a dog. I will let you know if a normal animal. And also they age a lot I mean a LOT slower then real Humans, the ratio ten human years for every one year, so let's say the creature is 18 human years then it is almost two creature years. But there minds developed as quickly as a human so a two year old creature has a twenty year old knowledge. Got it, good.
Gami1x2: I hope you like.
Chapter One: Caught
The twenty men took a step back. They had been chasing three foxes, one black, one red, and one blond, when their mother jumped from the bushes, immediately transforming into a full fledged fox that towered a good twenty feet over the twenty men. They took another step back when she stepped forward. She growled out and snapped at the men, killing two of them as a warning. The men took the warning and left. She then picked up her three babies and ran in the opposite direction. Hoping the hunters would not follow.
She made it back to the burrow in little time and put her babies back on the ground, changing back into her true form. A beautiful woman with long chestnut brown hair and startling violet crystals (1) for eyes. Her ears matched her hair, along with her paws and tail. (2).
"Come children get inside." She ordered them a little harshly, but it was for their protection. She had seen hunters here before. They took creatures for god only knew what. They came around at least once a year and always took a male creature. Unfortunately for her, all three of her children where males. She looked at them lovingly. Solo, a blond little fox, with spike hair and a leader. He was her first born, almost three turns old (thirty years, though he still magically looks like he's eighteen). The next was Duo, her second born, looked almost exactly like her, but with black ears, paws, and tail, with a happy and loving personality, he was almost two turns (twenty years), having only three human years left to go before his birthday. And lastly, but not least, was Trio, her youngest baby, with red hair and features and stunning green eyes, he wasn't even a turn yet, half way there.
"Mama, what was them?" Trio asked. His vocabulary a little on the odd side, but perfect for a toddler. He held his paws out to her, wanting to be picked up. She did so with a smile. She took him to there makeshift chair, a stump, and sat him down on her lap. Solo and Duo sat on the floor next to her, also wanting to know what the humans where doing here.
"They are hunters, my love. They will take you away from your home so don't go anywhere near them. They come once a year and their very dangerous, so if you ever see another human you run home as fast as you can, and you scream as loud as you can, and I will always be there to protect you." She said softly, giving the young fox a kiss on his cold nose. The boy giggled and jumped down from his mothers lap, landing on Duo and biting his ear.
"Ewww, Trio, ge' off me." Duo said falling to his back at the weight of the boy from the jump. He rolled over and threw Trio's weight off him, before pouncing and tickling the boy mad. At that time Solo joined in. There mother laughed at the site of her three boys wrestling on the floor. No human would ruin her family.
"Mama, when's daddy coming home?" Trio suddenly asked popping his head out from under Duo. Duo and Solo froze at the question and looked at there mom. They both new the answer, but Trio seemed to always forget and it always had the same result, he would run off crying and not eat, crying himself to sleep, then having nightmares all night. Their mother forced a smile on her lips.
"Someday, honey." She said, she new it was a lie, but she didn't want her children to be depressed. Duo and Solo looked at each other. They knew what their mom was doing and decided that it was best for Trio, for now, to not know the truth. In truth, their father had been killed by a bear a few seasons ago. Helen stood and went into her room, coming out again with a book in her hands.
"Yeah, a story." Trio cried out, jumping once again into his mothers lap. Duo and Solo lay on their bellies this time. Waiting for their mother to begin. When she did the three little foxes soon feel asleep and she found herself taking each boy to their own beds.
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The next morning Duo found himself awake before the rest of the burrow and left to get some fresh air and to drink some water at the spring near by. Completely forgetting about the hunters Duo, walking lazily to the spring, yawning every few steps. He stopped for a moment to stretch, raising his hands over his head and leaning backwards a little. There was a satisfied pop in his back and he continued to make his way to the spring. He entered the little archway, made by the trees tangled branches and stepped over a few big rocks.
He was almost to the spring when something sprang out and grabbed his ankle. He looked down in a panic and saw some sort of dark thick metal wrapped around his ankle. He bent down to pull it off, but two more sprang out of the ground and grabbed his wrists, fully panicking now, Duo tried to pull them off. He took a step back, only to get his other foot caught. Duo cried out in panic.
"Mother!" He tried to run to the burrow but found that the things where stuck to the ground. He tried again and ended up falling to the ground on his back. Another wrapped around his torso, and another around his neck. They were not tight, but they stopped Duo from changing into his fox form, which scared him greatly. He cried out for his mother again still fighting with the alien stuff around his body. At that moment Duo's ears picked up sound from the nearby bushes. He turned to see five humans walking out from them, coming towards him. "MAMA!!!" Duo screamed as loudly as he could.
"Hurry and shut him up, we can't let the mother hear, or well be out here for another night." One of them said. The men snapped into motion and put a gag in Duo's mouth. The gag was hard and forced Duo's jaw open as far as they could go without breaking it. It was extremely painful and made Duo shake with fear at what the humans might have planned.
"Remember, Quatre said we can't hurt them, and that where suppose to get a grown male with no litter." Another man said. "He doesn't want them to be depressed, remember, Mueller?" Mueller looked at the still struggling boy.
"He looks at lest sixteen maybe seventeen. And I didn't see him with a litter, so he doesn't have one. And he's male." Mueller said, walking away from the smaller man as the others carried the struggling Duo past him. The other fallowed him with a worried expression. /Then why was he calling out for his mother/ He thought. Mueller was an idiot, and it was time he paid for it, so the man kept his mouth shut, and followed the idiot man back the camp.
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Duo was placed into a cage what was on top of four large wheels, the restrains being removed. Duo immediately changed into his fox form and tried to squeeze threw the bars. He got a hard slap on the nose, which caused him to yelp and curled up in the middle of the cage. He couldn't get away. His mother hadn't come for him, and they where moving now. Duo closed his eyes, not wanting to see what would happen, and remained in the middle of the cage shaking and whimpering. (3)
"DUO!" He heard it. It was faint, meaning pretty far. But he heard it. His mother. He heard her. She was looking for him, she would save him. He got up and yelled as loud as he could in his full fox form.
"MOTHER!"
"Shut up, you." The man next to the cage said, poking the butt of his spear into the cage and hitting Duo in the back of the head with it pretty hard. Duo fell forward unconscious, everything around him going black, and silent.
"You dick. We have orders not to hurt them." The man from earlier had said. The other shrugged with a mocking smile. And laughed a little before saying.
"Oops." He then ignored the man. How could this be happening? He had heard the mother fox crying out form her baby. Didn't the others? This was a whelp, a puppy, a foxling, whatever, point was, it was one of a litter belong to the mother. Don't they remember him from yesterday, when the mother had protected him? They were ignoring Quatre's direct orders. Otto shook his head. He would let Rashid now immediately, when they got back. There was nothing he could do for the foxling right this minute. He only hopped nothing more serious would happen in the time it took to get to Quatre's preserve. Otto also knew that Heero would be even more pissed off then Quatre. After all this was Heero's troop of hunters, and they had a reputation of being fair hunters that treated the animals kindly, making sure never to hurt them, but also never failing to bring one back. But because Heero had to assist Treize with his catch, which he had heard was a rare black and white dragon a difficult catch for any prized hunter, in fact even Zechs had went with them, which put Mueller in charge. And the idiot of a man hated animals. Otto was only there to make sure the troop caught a fox, a special request from Quatre.
Yes Otto would enjoy watching Mueller get punished for this mistake.
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Please review…pretty please.
(1) Darker then amethyst (2) I'll have a picture of them up in photo bucket in about a day or two. (3) Duo may have the knowledge of a seven teen year old, but he also lived a very sheltered life in the wild, and is only about two in his real age. It's difficult to make him strong and weak at the same time, but don't worry. Once the initial shock has passed Duo strengthens up. I promise.