AN: Guess who's in complete and utter misery? If you guessed the damned souls cursed to an eternity of pain and suffering, you're jumpin waaaaay too far over the bridge. If you guessed me, you're right! I got a tooth pulled...ow...

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Foxy Mutate

Chapter 1: Fang

It has been three months since Kit's arrival to The Labyrinth. He has successfully fallen into his own place within the Labyrinth Clan and the Homeless that they protect. The twelve year old mutate was very defensive when it came to the younger children. He was named the official Youth protector about a week ago when a stranger strolled into the Labyrinth seeking shelter.

Flashback

"Welcome to the Labyrinth, my name is Derek Maza, but feel free to call me Talon," Talon said as he gave the newcomer, Jeb, a firm shake and ignored the horrified and awed look he received from him, "Pull your weight and don't cause trouble. Other than that, make yourself at home. You're going to get a week to settle in, but after that we'll start giving you some responsibilities."

"Thank ya, Talon," Jeb said with a nod as he strolled past Talon to the depths of the Labyrinth. His smile turned dark as he saw a little girl about the age of nine turn a corner and he followed her.

Kit calmly flipped a page in the comic book Claw-oji had given him about a superhero named Batman. He found it quite entertaining, a grown man in tights running around at night with a small boy...something in the back of his mind told him it was 'wrong' but at the same time 'hilarious' to think about, so he continued to read, becoming enthralled with the action the hero often found himself in. He looked up when a local Youth ran past his door, shortly followed by a strange man he had never seen before. Kit's curiosity, a curse his Tousan often called it, got the better of him and he went to investigate.

He followed the stranger and hid behind a corner when they stopped in a room that had no exit. The door to the room suddenly shut and Kit narrowed his cerulean blue eyes. Doors were never to be shut in the Labyrinth until the end of the day when everyone went to sleep.

Now suspicious, Kit pressed his ear against the door and listened for five minutes. What he heard was not normal language to use with Youth either.

"Come on, bend over baby," Jeb said with a smile as the sobbing girl did as he said, "Daddy will make it all better..."

Kit slammed his shoulder into the door and forced it open. He had lost his desire to remain hidden when a choked sob hit his ears. Upon seeing the girl on her hands and knees, tears on her face and a very frightened and confused look in her eyes, Kit snarled and leapt at Jeb. Claws tore flesh and light roars echoed through the Labyrinth, earning the attention of the adults. The sound of a wall being broken through was what made the adults rush into overdrive.

Talon and Maggie ran in, only to see a crying girl being held protectively by a very enraged Kit as he growled and sent death glares at pants-less and severely bleeding Jeb that was lying on the other side of a wall. Talon's eyes flashed an eerie pupil-less white and he went over to the bleeding man, grabbing him by his jacket's collar and pulling him out of the room roughly, not caring if he harmed the man at all. Maggie went to the two children's side, only for Kit to snap his jaws at her and growl threateningly before he realized who he was growling at. After apologizing more times than he could count, Kit and Maggie took the girl, Megan, back to her mother.

Flashback End

Megan and her mother left the Labyrinth to another homeless shelter that day under the watch of a detective by the name of Matt Bluestone. Bluestone returned shortly afterwards to take Jeb in police custody and was introduced to a shy and bristled Kit. Kit had never met a real detective before and had asked if he was anything like Batman. Bluestone laughed and ruffled the top of his head before hinting at taking him on a patrol sometime. Before the detective left, Kit later overheard Bluestone mention him (Kit) liking the Broadway Stage to Talon for some reason, but he shrugged it off and retreated back to the Youth room.

Now, we find our young friend sitting in a branch of the Youth room deemed the 'library', reading quietly as most of the Youth completed their chores or the schooling the many people, including the Xanatos' he heard his Tousan growl about, had created.

"Kit?" The fox mutate in question's head snapped up from his latest detective novel given to him by his Uncle. He was reading yet another Sherlock Holmes novel, his favorite detective because of the wit he often showed and his casually sly tongue he used to walk around Scotland Yard's red tape. Talon stood in his doorway with a smile on his panther-like face.

"Yeah Dad?" Kit asked, eager to get back to his book and discover whether or not there was a devil dog haunting the Baskervilles.

"Time for you to meet the rest of the clan," Talon said with a small sad smile. At Kit's confused look, Talon held his hand out and said, "Come on, kiddo. I'll explain as we walk."

Reluctantly, Kit saved his place in his novel with an orange bookmark, placed his book on the floor and hopped to his arched feet, following the mutate he considered a father as they left to the 'Cell Block'. The Cell Block was off limits to all Youth and to Kit. Kit had almost gotten in there once, but Claw had caught him and dragged him back to Maggie, who then grounded him from Movie night that week. It was much crueler than one would think, as it was the famed 1989 Batman film starring Jack Nicholson as the insane Joker and Michael Keaton as the Caped Crusader himself.

Never again did Kit try to sneak into the Cell Block, lest he miss another mystery/action film night.

Kit swallowed and inched closer to his father as they walked. After they turned right around a corner, he noticed his uncle Claw standing in front of a large steel door. A scowl was on the Tiger mutate's maw as a voice with an Oklahoma accent cried out, "Come on, Claw! Let me at least look at an old friend's face, huh?"

Kit looked up to ask a question only to receive a shushing gesture from the Panther mutate. Once Talon was sure He wouldn't overhear them, he looked back down at Kit and said, "The reason no Youth, including yourself, is allowed in the Block is because of that prisoner."

"Who is he, daddy?" Kit asked innocently. Talon clenched his fist and jaw before calming himself.

The leader of the Labyrinth looked down at his son and said, "He's nothing but scum."

"But...why is He in a cage?" the golden fox mutate asked. Talon frowned and stopped walking, causing Kit to copy his father, before he looked at the young mutate with a serious glare.

"He betrayed The Labyrinth...Twice," Talon growled the second word out before shaking his head and sighing, "Come on, Kit. No more questions, understand? He's a bad person and that should be enough."

"Ok Dad," Kit replied with a nod.

Talon smiled and resumed walking, "Good. It's time for you to meet The Clones."

"Clones?" Kit repeated with wide eyes. Talon nodded and turned right down another hallway before coming to a ladder and looked at the open manhole above them. Kit followed his gaze and blinked upon seeing sunlight.

"W-We're going up top?" the young mutate nervously asked. He hadn't liked his time up top and didn't want to return anytime soon, even if The Labyrinth was becoming boring, Kit would rather stay below ground than go up top.

"Yes. Don't worry, Kit," Talon soothed his son's fears as he knelt next to him and placed a hand on Kit's shoulder, "I won't leave your side. I promise."

"O-Ok," Kit said, swallowing his fear before walking to the ladder and began climbing it, his foxy tail ducking between his legs and wrapping around his right thigh. Derek sighed before leaping up and climbing the walls using his claws. He grinned at his awed son and climbed past him to the hole; blocking the sunlight out as he climbed out of the hole. Kit swallowed before steeling his nerves and climbing after his father.

A grey puma mutate growled as he glared at the steel door. He knew he smelt Talon walk by earlier, but the bastard of a mutate was accompanied by a strange scent that was a blend of Maggie's and Talon's. No matter what he asked though, he couldn't get Claw to open the Steel door to his cell and get a straight answer about the owner of the mysterious scent.

Come on, Fang! The mutate thought as he slammed on his head, Think! What can you do to get Claw good and riled up?

The puma-based mutate stood and began pacing his cell, racking his brain for idea after idea before he slammed one fist into an open palm. An idea hit him, but it would take a lot of good 'acting' on his part, something he wasn't good at, and a whole lot more of Lady Luck's blessing on him. Clearing his throat, Fang suddenly punched himself in the stomach.

Hard.

As expected, a sudden rush of foul, hardly digested stomach contents rushed to his throat and he bent over as he ralphed. What made it even better was the blood that had accompanied his stomach's contents. He then 'weakly' crawled to the door and began pounding on it as though he was losing strength.

"C-Claw! H-Help me...PLEASE!" he pleaded to the door in front of his plexi-glass cell, "I...I think...Somethin's wrong with...meee..."

His lines over and done with, Fang feigned fainting as he fell to his right on his side. After a few moments of waiting patiently and resisting the urge to shout out "You gonna save me or what", relief washed over Fang's mind as Claw opened the steel door and then fumbled for his keys. Fang couldn't see the look on Claw's face, having his eyes shut to pretend to have fainted from weakness, but he supposed the kind hearted Claw had wide eyes upon seeing a former friend unconscious on his side and blood spotted puke in the middle of his cell. As soon as Claw put two fingers on Fang's neck, the Puma mutate snapped his eyes open and smirked.

"Too easy, Claw," he said smugly as he grabbed the shocked tiger's throat and sent a jolt of electricity through it. Claw convulsed in his grip for a few moments before falling to the side, unconscious. Fang got to his feet and dusted his shoulders off, a smirk of satisfaction on his face.

"Well," Fang said with a grin as he looked at the unconscious tiger, "I'd like to say it's been fun, Claw, but I'd be lying. Now...to get that fucking Panther out of my way."

Fang stepped over the unconscious tiger and, with a second thought, shut the plexi-glass door while leaving the steel one open. Claw might have betrayed him, but he was still a friend, Fang reasoned with himself. He shook the kind act off and went to the right, following Talon's scent along with the stranger's. Payback was a pleasure he could not wait to indulge in...again.

Kit gaped at the statues frozen on the building he stood on. One looked like a small flying squirrel because of the odd wing formation under his arms, and he looked to be the smallest. The tallest had a glare locked on his features, glaring at something unknown to the golden furred mutate. The largest, weight-based, had humongous hands, feet, ears, and an oddly smaller head than one would expect. He also seemed to look scared, something that all, save for the glaring giant, the statues had on their face. He was drawn to one in particular, though.

Her face looked like the picture of his Aunt Elisa, whom he had yet to meet, but much younger. A horned crest forged from a type of material rested above her sad eyes, making Kit subconsciously reach out to her. His claws traced over her saddened and scared eyes, before recalling the face of a girl that hid behind a pole. A frown adorned the fox-boy's face and he looked up at the Panther with confused eyes.

"Who are they, Daddy?" the golden furred mutate asked quietly. Derek smiled sadly down to his son and placed his hand on his shoulder.

"The one before you is Delilah," he said, "She is the clone of your Aunt Elisa and Demona, and is possibly the smartest, save for Thailog...He's the glaring giant."

"Oh..." Kit sighed out as he looked at Delilah again, "I-Is she dead?"

Before Talon could respond to the question, the Oklahoman voice spoke up again, "Peh, bitch might as well be!"

Talon and Kit both snapped their heads over to see the puma mutate sneering at them. His hand charged with electricity and he swung it to his left, shattering the statue's head reminiscent to a gargoyle-esque pirate. Talon's eyes widened and with horror he whispered, "Burbank..."

"Heh, fuckin retard," Fang chuckled out before looking towards Talon and cracking his knuckles, "Round three, Maza. Winner takes all."

"You...You... Son of a Bitch," Talon growled, clenching his fists and flaring his wings out. Kit ducked behind Talon, the glare coming off the puma making him extremely uncomfortable. The panther looked over his shoulder at the blonde and said, "Kit. Run."

"H-Hai..." the boy replied, but didn't move.

"NOW!" Talon barked before he charged Fang. Kit dashed towards the hole leading to the Labyrinth, hoping to get some sort of help for his father. Fang, despite being on the losing side of a headlock, charged one electric bolt and managed to fire it at the golden furred boy. Kit took the hit to the back and fell to the ground.

"NO!" Talon roared, tossing Fang to the side and rushing to the downed boy's side. The panther mutate fell to his knees and looked down at the unmoving body that was the boy he adopted. Thankfully, Kit's stomach moved the slightest inch and Talon released a breath he wasn't aware he was holding before he turned towards a laughing Puma.

"Goddamn...marriage and kids? And I wasn't invited?" Fang mockingly laughed out, "Some pal you are, Talon."

"You son of a bitch...That was my son, dammit!" Talon snarled, his electric claws coming to life as a roar erupted from his throat, "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!"

"That's more like it!" Fang laughed out as he charged Talon and tackled the Panther, sending them flying into Thailog's statue, knocking it slightly as it fell to the right and knocked into the beaked clone's statue. A domino effect followed and ended with Delilah's statue falling towards a groaning Kit.

While the domino effect was going on, the two mutate alpha males were duking it out, electric gloves and all. Bolts of electricity flew from both males' hands and impacted everywhere. One blast in particular managed to strike the falling Delilah statue, knocking it to the right and earning Kit's attention. The golden mutate noticed the statue's fall and pushed himself forward in a small body leap, spinning onto his back and catching the statue with his hands going to the shoulders of the beautiful clone. No sooner did his hands contact with Delilah's stone form did Kit give out a yowl of pain as electricity surged through his body.

Talon glanced over at the familiar yowl from his adopted son, only to be slugged in the gut by an electrically powered punch from a smug looking Puma. Fang laughed as Talon's eyes rolled into his head and he coughed.

"Dumbass," the mutate laughed before stalking towards a trembling fox mutate stuck beneath a statue of a hybrid clone, "Well kid, I'd say it's been a blast, but we've not known each other long enough..."

"D-daddy..." Kit grunted out, his eyes going to the panther that twitched in his unconsciousness. The golden furred boy's eyes widened as Fang charged up an electric pulse in his hand.

"So long, squirt/dobe!" Fang's voice along with the voice of the raven haired boy with evil red eyes that haunted his dreams said, "Time to die!"

"NO!" Kit roared, his eyes flashing blue as he vanished in a puff of smoke, replacing himself and Delilah's statue with the remains of Burbank as Fang shoved his hand into the ground. The puma mutate roared in agony when his hand hit the steel reinforced rooftop the Clones were set upon.

"SON OF A BITCH!" Fang roared in pain. He turned to see Kit crouched over an unconscious Talon, Delilah's statue resting nearby on her back. Fang's eyes turned white and he saw red as he stalked towards the child.

"Nice trick, brat," Fang growled as he readied another attack, "But you'll never survive this..."

Kit's head slowly looked up and Fang stopped approaching. The calm black whisker marks had thickened even more and the canines in the young mutate's mouth had grown longer. Wind swirled around the golden furred boy and his tail lazily swayed left and right as blue slitted eyes glared at him.

"...Hurt him..." the boy said with a dark tone before narrowing, "Hurt daddy...Make you hurt!"

"What the fuck?" Fang tried to comprehend what he had heard, wondering if the pain in the ass gargoyles were nearby before the beating sunlight reminded him that was impossible. The puma mutate then dropped to the ground as a golden blur shot at him. He hopped back to his feet and sneered at the fox boy glaring at him.

"You...missed?" Fang questioned when he felt a sudden pain along his back. Looking over his shoulder, Fang's eyes widened in horror as he saw one of his wings sliced in half.

"S...Son of a..." the puma cursed before falling to his knees and passing out from the shock. Kit kept an even glare on the rogue mutate before rushing back to Talon's side. In an animalistic way, Kit rubbed his face against his surrogate father's, giving the small purr of concern and a forceful nudge often seen when an animal comes across an injured member of its family. To his immense relief, Talon groaned and slowly got to his hands and knees.

"L-Lucky shot...Kit?" Talon asked, earning a happy nod from the fox-boy sitting before him, "Then...what happened to Fang?"

Kit looked past Talon with a horrified face before his eyes rolled into his head and he fell atop Delilah's statue. Before Talon could follow his son's gaze, his jaw dropped when cracks formed along Delilah's body.

"No...Fucking...way..." the panther whispered as stone skin chipped away and the hybrid clone slowly sat up.

AN: Read and review. PS: Taichou update soon, possibly after 3rd chap of this story. Apologies. Have to see Captain America film before updating. Read and review.