this took far to long to get out. I apologize about that. but anyways here is it, chapter 4 hope you enjoy the 12,000 word chapter. going to make the next one shorter.
Nick lay in the grass face down as the trees were swaying gently in the wind with a relaxing rhythm, the leaves fell on his face ever so softly. He could hardly remember what happened prior to him falling asleep.
"Nick, come on you lazy fox get up." He heard a faint voice calling him.
Nick felt the world spinning. He slowly opened his eyes to see Judy still tied up to a tree. "Owww," He said rubbing his head.
"Are you just going to lay there or are you going to untie me?"
"Wait where am I? Why are you tied to a tree," he said still half asleep.
"You were knocked out with a tranquilizer. Now can you untie me?"
Nick couldn't think straight. The world was still madly spinning with an unsettling feeling in his stomach that was washing over him.
she waited a couple of seconds just staring at him. "I repeat, are you just going to lay there or are you going to untie me?"
"Yea, yea I hear you just, give me a second." He said groaning as he got up and started walking towards her stumbling over his own feet with every step. Slowly he made his was over to her. everything was coming back to him, being attacked by a wolf. a sharp pain in the back of the head. the face of the creature that captured them that struck fear into him. Seeing a savage wolf that attacked him acting calm, laying down in front of him. The conversation they had. The stories he told them which chilled him to the bone. He tried to shove the thought to the back of his mind but yet they would persist.
The wires dropped on the ground and She stood up brushing off the dirt and stretched her back and quickly scampers over to the radio on the ground next to Nick. She held down the top button. "This is officers Hopps with Nick Wilde."
"Judy, Nick?! Where the hell have you guys been? You were expected back 8 hours ago." An energetic and surprised voice came through the radio.
"We found another one of the creatures."
"Another what creature?"
"You know the same one that killed 4 of our swat team this morning. I think we ran into his friend."
"What! are you ok? Where are you? What did it look like? is it an alien?"
"Claw, I promise I will tell you every little detail, just not now. Right now I need to get this news to Bogo. Can you patch me through."
"Yea.. just, I'm just glad you guys are ok. Give me a second. Please hold."
"Is the world ever going to stop spinning?" Nick said looking up at the sky before falling backwards into a patch of soft grass with a thud. He stared up at the sky for a brief moment before he let his heavy eyelids fall.
"Is that Nick I heard. Is he OK?" Clawhuser asked.
"Yea, yea he's fine. He's just, he's just a bit tired. I'm sure he'll be fine."
"Hey dumb fox, you alright over there?" She said, walking over to him and giving him a light kick in the side.
"No Finnick give me 5 more minutes," he said rolling over onto his side.
Judy rolled her eyes before taking her water bottle and twisting off the cap before splashing him in the face with a small amount of water. "Wake up sleepy head," she said screwing the bottle cap back on.
Nick was instantly torn from whatever peaceful state he was in and pulled back into reality. He shook the water from his head having his ears flop back and forth sending some droplets of water towards Judy. She put her paws up to try to block the incoming water.
"Did you have to wake me up? I was so comfortable," he replied sitting up and rubbing his eyes with a yawn bearing his teeth fully.
Before she could reply to Nick, Bogo's voice came booming through the radio. "Nick, Judy where have you been? you were supposed to back at the Precinct 8 hours ago. I have been trying to get you on the radio but I never got an answer. What the hell happened out there?"
"We found Landen along with a tame savage wolf," Judy said into the radio.
"Landen? you mean the Landen that you told me about yesterday? Also, what's this savage tame wolf you speak of?"
"Hard to explain but it was able to keep a wolf walking on all fours under control. I think it's been affected by the night howler but it's showing very few signs of it. It was also wearing a vest similar to the creatures indicating that they were in a group."
"You're telling me that there are even more of these creatures roaming about?"
"I don't think so. We talked with it and . . . "
"So you captured it?" he interrupted.
"Welllll no... it actually captured us," she said with a hint of shame in her voice.
"Wait what? are you injured? Are you hurt? What did it do to you?" He said so quickly that she couldn't jump in.
"No, we're perfectly fine." she said looking back at Nick. He was still sitting on the ground looking up at the sky. "Well mostly fine. Nicks a little dizzy. Anyways, I think it's alone, or is at least by itself."
"Why do you say that?"
"It asked where the nearest city was."
"Did you tell it?" he questioned her with a stern voice.
"Course not. Do you really think that little of me?.. sadly I think I didn't have to. I believe it's tracing our steps back as we speak."
"We will deal with that when the time comes... So it asked you where the nearest city was, so it's lost? tell me, is it as armed as the other one?"
"It's the same as the other one."
"Is there anything different about this one that I need to know?"
"Yea, it has a bigger gun. No idea what kind. Never seen anything like it before, one of its arms is in a sling. I don't know if it's broken or something else. The wolf was brown with black patches covering its back and the top part of its face and wearing a camo vest."
"I expect you to come back and give me a full report."
"Yea we will be back in 6.." she stopped to look over at Nick, head still turned to the sky, "make that 8 hours."
"Make that 30 min. I'll have a helicopter come pick you up. You have the most experience with these creatures and we need you back as soon as possible."
Nick instantly sat straight up, now fully awake. "Wait, what!" He almost yelled. You had us walk all the way out in the middle of nowhere when you could have just used a helicopter!?"
"You said you wanted something to do and it got you away from Cactus, grove."
Nick let out a deep groan as he lay back down into the soft grass.
"I will see you two soon." With that said Bogo hung up the radio.
Bogo hung up his phone before picking it back up again to make the call to cancel the sweep of Cactus Grove for the creature and to pick up Judy and Nick. Finally, he set down the phone back in its cradle. Opening a drawer under his desk he pulling out a brown bottle and small glass cup and poured himself a drink before turning around in his chair to face the window looking out upon the vast sprawling city and all of its buildings. The afternoon light shone down upon the building and streets, glimmering ever so slightly. He threw back his drink before pouring himself another glass. Turning back around to his desk he put the bottle back into his desk and set the small glass down on his desk. Reaching into his desk he pulled out a map of Zootopia with the forest and placed thumbtack Where Nick and Judy were, and drew a line from Zootopia to it and wondered how long it would take before the creature reached the population. He didn't know. It might already be there. He stared at the map for what seemed to only be a minute but when he looked back up at the clock hanging above the door 30 minutes had passed. Bogo was torn from his thoughts as the door was thrown open.
"Chief Bogo!" Clawhauser shouted as he barged into his office out of breath.
"What!" Bogo boomed at him standing up and slamming his hooves on the desk.
Clawhauser still out of breath lifted his paw, "There's been a shooting a Meadows Ridge preschool it's the creature," Clawhauser said just catching his breath.
"Why didn't you just call? I need to know these things."
"I tried. You kept putting me on hold."
He reached down to pick up his phone. "Nick, Judy there's been a change of plans." He finished his call then took a second to try to relax, but as leaned his head back his door was thrown open once more.
"Chief Bogo!"
Bogo heard a voice call. He leaned over his desk to see an otter wearing a doctors outfit, paws on his knees, out of breath, standing in front of him.
Two more officers came in, a rhino and tiger, and took the otter by both arms.
"Wait! Wait!" he shouted.
"Sorry sir. We told him you were busy, but he just charged in. We couldn't stop him." With that they turned him around and started carrying him out.
"I know more about the unknown mammal!" the otter said, just as they were moving him through the doorway.
Bogo stood up from his desk. "Wait.." he said sternly to both the tiger and the rhino. "are you the otter who examined the unknown creature?"
"Yes, I am. Now can you please put me down," he said, now slightly irritated.
"It's alright. I asked him to come. I did not inform the front desk. That is my mistake."
They quickly released him. "Sorry, sir. We did not know he had permission," the tiger said.
"It's quite alright. Now be off, get back to work, I have a feeling like we are all going to be working overtime today."
"Yes sir," they both replied and walked out and let the door click closed.
The Otter brushed himself off. "Thanks for that."
"My apologies, I didn't know you were coming. But next time, do call."
"Didn't have your number."
"I'll give that to you now. Take a seat," he said gesturing to a rather large chair. He pulled out a piece of paper from his top drawer and lifted a pen from a cup to the left of his desk. "So what did you find out?" he asked, as he wrote down his number on the piece of paper in front of him. He looked back at the Otter who was struggling to lift himself up on the chair. He eventually made it up and promptly sat down. "So.. I did a cross check, of every mammal in the database and found nothing that matched the skeleton structure."
"I don't see how this helps us."
"I just had to say that to get it out of the way. I also for some odd reason decided to cross check with the history museum just in case, thinking it might be an extinct species that has just now popped up, and I got a hit. I was right, it's a long thought to be extinct species that was only discovered 30 years ago." he said and pulled out two pieces of paper out of his pocket and handed it to Bogo.
Bogo unfolded the paper that was folded four times over.
"You won't be able to chase it down on foot."
"What's that?" Bogo said still unfolding the paper.
"I took a microscope to the body and found sweat glands all over its body."
"Sounds kinda gross. Don't most mammal only sweat through their paws? if my college education serves me right". He got the paper now fully unfolded and set it down in front of him on the desk. It was two X-rays, one of a creature they found this morning and of half a skeleton with half a skull and a missing arm and leg.
"You would be correct. Sweating from its entire body, well not entire, mostly around its armpits, face, arms, and paws, which in theory would allow it to run for an extended period of time without stopping. The water evaporating from its skin would get rid of a lot of heat generated."
Bogo picked up both images and laid them on top of each other and held them up to the ceiling letting the bright office light shine through them of both. The creature's skeleton laid nearly perfectly over the museum one. "What is this mammal called?"
"Homo Erectus is the proper name, however, the public calls it by a different name, Terror beast."
"Why would it be called that?" he asked still holding up the X-rays. Bogo separated them and held them side by side.
"It got it's nickname by being terrifying. Just the bones themselves scare prey and predators alike, very few mammal don't fear it and there is no cub, kit, calf, that will even go near the thing." said the Otter, twirling his thumbs. "There's one other thing."
Bogo waited for a second for him to say something but he didn't. "And that is?"
"When I said that this creature was extinct, I really meant it. The skeleton was carbon dated at 140,000,000 years old.
"And you're sure that they're the same creature?"
"You saw the images, the fit over each other like twins, there's no mistake they're the same creature."
"I still find it hard to believe that a single species has survived that long."
"I'm with you on that part, but no matter how impossible it might be, it's true,
"What I would have done to sit down and have a cup of coffee with this creature. I mean the things it could have told us, told us about our history, our beginning, battles that have been forgotten by time, what the earth was like back then." He let out a long sigh. "guess we will never know."
Bogo cracked part of a smile. "your wish may be still be granted."
"What?"
Bogo's phone rang again and he put it on hold now getting slightly angry but able to cool himself off rather quickly. "Two of my cops ran into another one."
The Otter's eyes lit up with enthusiasm. "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. When can I speak with it?!"
"We don't have it in custody yet and its whereabouts are spotty at best. But when we do capture it, which we will, you will be the first mammal I call."
"Can't be that hard to capture, can it?"
"A dying one laying in a pool of its own blood managed to kill four of my Swat team. This one seems to be alive and kicking. In short, I don't know what these creatures are capable of in the slightest or how deadly they are, but I give you my word we will capture it."
The Otter tilted his head slightly like he was thinking about something before he snapped his finger "the weapon." I almost forgot we didn't learn much about it, but my assistant found how it worked. It left a nice hole in my wall and holes in three more walls it passed through before hitting a steel beam. Lucky no one was hurt. Well, besides my assistant who could not hear a thing for a couple minutes but he's alright now. You have any idea where this thing got this kind of weapon?"
"Sadly no, no I do not." He said quite piqued. My apologies Dr. it seems I have run out of time. I have something that requires my attention. I have to relay this information to the mammals at the creature's last known location.
The Otter let out another heavy sigh. "It's ok, I should run a couple more tests before having the body shipped off," he said as he started to get up. He moved down the rather large chair holding onto the side of the cushion as his feet touched down on the ground. Bogo walked around the desk and they walked towards the door. Clawhuser held the door open as Bogo led him out after he went back to his desk and picked up his phone. "Officers Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde this Bogo speaking."
15 minutes ago.
Nick sat up still rather peeved about being sent out all this way only to have a helicopter come pick them up. He looked over to a tipped over log and saw Judy sitting shaking her water bottle to get the last few drops out of it. "You know you would have had more water if you had not splashed me in the face."
"I think it was well worth it," she replied tapping her feet on the log with a soothing rhythm.
Getting up slowly he made his way over to Judy and sat down. He didn't know what to say about the thing, the man. The only thing he was sure of, was that it scared him, and if scared him what about Judy? He was never one to think of her as weak. He only once underestimated her and that was the last time he did that. "Think there's a coffee place around here? I've been dying for a cup." trying to lighten the mood he looked towards her and she looked back and gave somewhat of a smile that quickly faded away. She turned back around, continuing to tap her feet against the old laid over log. There was a moment where the forest was completely quiet. Not a bird could be heard, just the light sound of her feet tapping on the log.
"Was it telling the truth?" she said breaking the silence.
"What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean, the stories it told us. Was it telling the truth?"
"What makes you think I would know?" he said with a hint of displeasure in his voice.
"You know why I'm asking you. Every time someone tells you something you are johnny on the spot with that's a lie and you are always correct."
"It's not that simple. I don't have a sixth sense. I read their facial expressions and tones of voice. I know most mammals very well But this thing is not normal."
"Yeah, I know that much."
"I have never seen one lie or tell the truth before so couldn't read a damn thing off of it. If I just go off of the voice and I base it off of other mammals then...I would say it's telling what it thinks is the truth," he said still with a lot of uncertainty.
"Did it scare you?" she asked.
Surprised at the question at first, he didn't think she would ask. "Yes, it scared me," he said after thinking on it for some time.
"I was hoping that it was just me," she said jumping off the log and beginning to pace back and forth with her paw on her chin. "This doesn't make sense. Why would you be afraid of it?"
Nick shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know."
"Like, why were you afraid? Is it weapons, the stories, clothes the savage wolf standing next to it?"
"I don't know. Everything about it made every fiber of my being just wanted to get away from it as fast as possible."
"Dammit... Well, what about the wolf? What did he call him?"
Nick bit his lower lip slightly thinking back to what it called him "Paco, it called him Paco."
"We need to help him. The creature has what looks to be near complete control over him. Poor thing must have been shot with the night howler then be brainwashed or hypnotized or something."
The only thing Nick knew for sure was that it walked on all fours. It didn't seem savage, but rather tame. Was it really affected by the night howler? he thought to himself. A lot of the signs were there, down on all fours, inability to talk, but when the wolf looked at him there was no rage in his eyes. No matter how hard he looked no anger could be seen in the wolf. It almost seemed happy when it was by the creature. "Something like that." He said not finding any better words to explain what happened.
For a while they just sat there, both fairly tired. She almost looked like she dozed off a little. As he leaned forward a little bit one of her ears popped up.
"You hear that?"
Focusing on any and all sounds he heard the faintest whisper of a helicopter blade spinning. His hearing was not nearly as good as hers. It was no wonder she heard it first.
He slid down from the log onto his feet and started walking forward at a brisk pace till he came to a small meadow. He turned his head to where the sound was coming from. The sun blinded his eyes. Putting a paw over his forehead he continued to walk backward only stopping when he had the small speck of the helicopter in his sights. Judy was quick to follow him.
They both watched as it got closer and closer before making its descent down onto the meadow causing ripples to be sent through the flowers and their fur. They started to walk forward at an angle preventing the furious wind from it landing from knocking them over.
The helicopter touched down and the door slid open they both hopped in and were greeted by a koala in front of the door and a moose up front on the controls. The koala yelled something at them but they could not understand a word of it. The helicopter was making far too much noise for any words to be passed. The koala then handed them both a pair of headphones which they both quickly put on.
"Can you hear me?" the koala's voice came through the headphones.
"Loud and clear," Nick said as he put his thumb and index finger together.
"How about you miss Hopps?"
"All good."
"Good, Anderson get us off the ground."
"Can do," the moose said as he took off.
Both Nick and Judy were both taken to 2 seats on the opposite side of the helicopter door. The koala strapped Judy in and then Nick.
"You guys nice and comfy back there?" the moose asked from up front as the koala just got down strapping in Nick.
"All's great back here. So when should I expect in-flight service?" Nick joked.
Both the moose and koala chuckled along with a tiny smile from Judy. After the koala got them all strapped in and made sure that everything was ok he went up and sat in the co-pilot seat and flipped some levers and switches. "Sorry no in-flight service. Our normal flight attendant is taking a vacation on the moon, don't know when she will be back," the koala replied jokingly.
"Just my luck," Nick said smiling. Looking out the window he watched the trees and rivers fly by and could just barely see the top of Zootopia buildings over the horizon. He leaned back in his seat and watched as the rest came into view. "You do this for a living?"
"Yea, beautiful isn't it?" the moose said.
"It sure is something"
"Wouldn't trade this job for the world."
Nicks eyes were glued to the window. Judy was on her phone doing something. God, what a view she was missing, he thought to himself. He tapped her on her shoulder with a light tap.
"What?"
"Just stop working for a minute and look," he said gesturing his head to look out the window.
She put her phone in her pocket and turned to look out the back window. "What am I supposed to be looking at?"
"I don't think we will get much time to relax, so just sit back and watch the trees pass and look over the snow-capped mountains. It's not every day you get to ride a helicopter."
"Well we don't have much time so you might as well get something do-" he stopped talking when he saw that Judy was not listening. She was just looking out the window without a care in the world. He soon joined her.
"So what you guys doing out in the middle of nowhere?" the moose asked.
"We got a weird signal and we went to go investigate it."
"Did you find whatever it was?"
"we are not at lib-" Judy started
"Found the same kind of creature as the one in Cactus Grove in the morning. Sure as hell kicked our butts," Nick said.
"Nick!" She shouted at him.
"What why does it need to stay a secret? Not like the thing's an alien. or is it?" he said looking at Judy with a goofy look. didn't even get a chuckle out of her..."I just can't find a reason why we shouldn't tell them."
Judy just sat there frowning at him.
Both the koala and moose started laughing. "We won't tell anyone, promise," the moose said.
"I believe you. My partner on the other paw.."
"fine.." he grudgingly said. "I won't tell anyone else."
"Hey, I'm getting a call from the precinct," the koala said turning and looking at them. they both could only hear him through the headphones and it was odd watching his mouth move and hearing it a second later. "It's from Chief Bogo," he continued, "I'll patch you both through."
There was a beeping sound in his headphones followed by Bogo's voice.
"Judy, Nick there's been a change of plans."
"Sir?" Judy asked.
"I'm having the pilot drop you off at Meadows Ridge preschool."
"Permission to ask why."
"The creature that you just encountered attacked not even ten minutes ago. That's all we know," he clearly stated.
"You got that up there guys?" Nick asked the pilots.
"Loud and clear" the moose replied.
"I'm sending two teams to meet you there. I wish you both the best of luck." With that said he ended the call.
"What's wrong with this thing?" she asked Nick. "What kind of mammal attacks a preschool?"
" I suppose we will soon find out."
The helicopter eventually made it to the preschool. They landed to the side of a small wheat field. Both Judy and Nick unstrapped themselves and quickly got out while thanking the pilots. Just like that, they were off. They watched as the helicopter flew back into the sky. They were greeted by a wolf quickly walking towards them, but they couldn't make out who he was just that he was wearing a police uniform. As the wolf got closer they could tell it was Wolford. They both walked forward to meet him with Judy leading in front of Nick.
"I hope your flight was alright," Wolford said.
"Was lovely, should have seen the view," Nick said.
"So what happened here?" Judy asked Wolford, not paying any attention as to what Nick had said.
"The details are still not fully known but we have a rhino in critical conduction who appears to be wounded in the chest and stomach. His name is..." Wolford pulled out a notebook and flipping through a couple pages, "Jarvan. The guys in the ambulance aren't sure if he will make it. From what we can piece together the creature walked in and Jarvan attacked and threw it out the window. He went around and charged the creature. Looks like the creature took him down as he did. Sadly that's all we really know."
"What about the children, where any of them hurt?" Nick asked wondering if the creature had attacked them as well.
"None of the children were hurt."
Both Nick and Judy breathed a sigh of relief.
"We had all their parents come and pick them up. Besides a lot of whimpering, they're all fine."
"And the teacher?" Judy asked.
"let's walk and talk," he said as he turned around headed towards the school and signaled with his paw to follow him. "It will be quicker."
They both followed.
"The teacher is physically fine. Mentally not so much as she is still very stressed and scared."
Judy walked in front of Wolford and started walking backward. "Would it be possible to talk to her?"
"I tried to but she was in a trance, almost like she passed out but she was still awake."
"So is that a yes or a no?" she asked.
"Maybe she's better now. I don't know but be my guest." He pointed over to a wolf with a pure black coat sitting on the front steps of the pre-school staring off into the distance. He let his paw fall back down to his side. "Her name is Adala Soble. Go easy on her. She's been through a lot." All three of them kept walking towards the wolf. "Well, I should be headed off, check in the with rest of the guys, see if they found anything. If you need me just give me a holler."
"Will do," Judy said as Wolford gave them a wave and walked off to a group of police officers standing next to a cruiser.
Judy walked up to the wolf and placed her paw on her shoulder being very slow and gentle. "Adala, my partner and I were wondering if you could tell us what happened here," she spoke with calming words. She, however, got no reaction, didn't even turn her head.
Nick walked in front of her to try to see what she was staring at. He only saw a bush, tree and a bench. He turned back around and took a closer look at the wolf. He noticed the wet fur underneath her eyes. As he looked even deeper into her eyes he saw only darkness, not a speck of light. Nick sat down in front of her as Judy was still talking to her. He pulled out his water bottle and placed it in her paw and wrapped her other paw around it.
Judy gave Nick a weird look. She had no idea what he was doing.
The wolf moved her head slowly downward to look at the water bottle in her hand. She slowly picked it up and twisted off the cap. She took a sip and set the water bottle down next to her on the steps.
"Feeling better?" Nick asked her.
He watched as her eyes light up almost like she had just awoken from a bad dream. She started quickly looking around noticing the two officers standing next to her. "Hello officers how may I help you?"
Nick noticed the fake smile she had plastered on her face.
Judy was still amazed that he knew exactly what to do. "yea, could you tell us what happened here? We are still very much at a loss and we were hoping that you could shed some light on it for us."
"Where do I start?"
"Just before the creature showed up."
She took a deep breath before starting. "It was just a normal day. The parents had just finished dropping off their children." She paused for a moment.
"Then it.. came in. I don't know what it was. It just stood there like it had never seen a school before. I got all the children behind me. I don't know what it was about him but it scared me and the children to a level which I didn't think was possible. It wasn't even doing anything. Why did I fear it?" she started crying a little. "Why did I fear it," she softly said trying to hold back the tears but they escaped. She put her paws over her face. She let her paws fall down from her face, reaching down for the water bottle next to her she took another sip. They just sat there for around 30 seconds.
"What happened after that?"
Adala took a big breath and exhaled. "Javan, the rhino that was taken to the hospital noticed the creature standing in the doorway and he charged at him."
"Then what," Judy asked.
"He collided with the thing and pinned it to a wall."
"And it stood back up after that?" Nick said astonished that anything could get back up after being charged by a rhino.
"Nick let her finish."
"Oh, sorry... please continue," he said.
"A savage wolf came rushing in and bit Javan causing him to let the creature fall to the ground.
Nick and Judy look back at each other thinking about the wolf they saw with him.
"Then he kicked the wolf to the other side of the door. I was more focussed on keeping the children safe. The creature managed to pry himself up using the wall. The creature pulled out some kind of weapon and it made a really loud bang. Jarvan was unaffected by it but other than the loud bang it made I have no idea what it was. Jarvan swung his arm at the creature and it pulled its arm out of a sling... I heard the bones shatter in its arm as he hit him."
They both winced at that comment.
"The impact sent the creature flying through a window. I heard the creature cry out in pain. Jaravan went around the building to hold the creature down. I tried to stop some of the kids that ran to the window to see what was happening. Jaravan's son was the first there. He yelled to his dad to kill the monster. The creature took out his weapon again. I thought Jarvan won as he stood over the creature but he just stood there. Then he just fell over. The creature laid there for a moment before it pried itself up. It seemed like it was in a great deal of pain... Then it started walking back to the front door. I panicked and ran to pick up the weapon the creature had dropped when Jaravan charged at him. It came through the front door. I was so afraid and the kids were all whimpering. I aimed the weapon at him and pulled the trigger. I had no idea what it would do but it took down Jaravan so I assumed that it would take it down. But it did nothing. He just kept walking closer." She paused for a moment as her grip tightened around the plastic bottle causing it to make crunching sounds.
Judy put her paw on her knee. "It's OK, it's all over," she said trying to comfort her.
"I just.. fell, I was so afraid," she said releasing her grip slightly around the bottle. "I fell over on my knees as he kept coming closer. It took the weapon from me. It felt like my heart was going to beat out of my chest. I didn't know what it was or what it wanted. But then it just turned around and started walking away. It went over and picked up the wolf Jarvan had kicked and put it over his shoulders and walked away." She handed the water bottle back to Nick.
"Do you know what direction he went?" Judy asked her." She shook her head.
"I tried to move but my body wouldn't budge," she replied in tears.
Judy took her paw off her knee. "Thank you for your telling us. We really do appreciate it."
"Hey, guys I found something," Wolford yelled from across the field.
Judy ran over as fast as she could. Nick passed the water bottle back to Adala. "Keep it. You look like you need it more than I do," he said happily.
"Thank you," she said as she gave Nick a smile wiping away a tear at the same time.
"I'll have an officer drive you home," he said kindly
"Nick, come on," Judy said calling him.
He started to walk but stopped as she reached and grabbed the sleeve of his shirt.
"There's one other thing I think I heard it say."
Nick turned back around to face her.
"It said, I guess I am a monster. What did it mean?"
"I'm sorry, I just don't know." Everything about this was messed up. Why would it attack a school? What would it gain from doing so? Every turn of event fails to bring any answers only questions and pain.
"Hey, you coming?" Judy yelled to him.
He started walking over to Judy. "Don't get your tail in a twist, I'm coming." He walked over to where Judy and Wolford were. "So what all did you find?"
Wolford pointed down to the ground. Nick looked down at the ground where he was pointing. He saw a small patch of blood.
"Whatever it is it appears to be bleeding the trail leads off to the east, into the forest." Wolford turned his head and pointed into the forest.
"We should get a team to capture this creature, how many mammal do you have with you?" Judy asked him.
"I have twelve here at the moment," Wolford replied as he doubled checked by counting them.
Judy put her paw under her chin. "Do you have a map of the forest?" She asked Wolford
"Yea one second let me grab it from my glove box," he replied as he went over a cop car and started rooting around in his glove box. After a couple seconds he stopped. "Aww here it is," he lifted his head out of the car holding up a piece of paper.
Nick heard the click of the glove box shutting.
Wolford walked back over to them map in paw.
"Why do you need a map?" Nick asked her looking a little confused.
"I'm just thinking but... He could not have gotten very far with the wound Adala described to us. There's a river two miles in that direction." She pointed to the map. Nick looked over her shoulder down at the map there was a river. "And the only way across that river is a bridge that's to the south. We can flush him out if we have two officers walk slightly west .5 miles should do. and we need a team of six to head east and wait at the bridge and send three officers to the other side of the bridge and hide in the bushes and wait for it to start crossing. The other four officers will head straight in and start moving him towards the Bridge. After we get him to the Bridge it will be forced to cross and as soon as he's halfway across the Bridge the three officers on the other side will hop out and block him from moving forward while we come in from the other Direction closing him in." Judy said with assurance.
Nick was amazed that she had thought this up in so little time. "And what if the creature attacks us?" He asked.
"I don't know much about these creatures but from what I do know it's bleeding and has a broken arm at the least, if not more broken bones and if it is as smart as I think it is. It will avoid direct contact and opt to run rather than have a standoff. At least that's what I would do if I was in its situation." Judy said as she took out a pen and turned to Wolford. "is it ok if I draw on this?" She asked him.
"Um, yeah, sure," Wolford said.
"Great thanks," she quickly replied as she placed the map on the hood of the police cruiser. Both Nick and Wolford looked over her shoulder.
"So where are here," She circled the preschool on the map. "And the creature is somewhere in here," she circled part of the forest and putting a couple dots down.
"What are the dots for," Nick asked.
"There are all the officers we have and we all need them to converge on each other driving the mammal out of hiding." She drew lines from all the dots converging on the bridge. "Wolford I need you to get your officers ready I still don't have a full understand of what we're up against but I have a pretty good idea," Judy said handing the map back to Wolford.
He looked down at it for a second. "Care to tell me what you do know about this creature, what we're up against here," Wolford asked in a confused tone of voice.
Judy bit her lip trying to think back a little. "It's wearing a protective vest that is impenetrable with the dart guns we have. Go for its arm and legs when shooting. His weapon is still unknown to me but when he captured me and Nick he said something about a 50cal."
"Wait, you were captured by this creature!?" Wolford asked in shock. He took spent a couple of seconds just staring at Nick and Judy. He let out a deep sigh. "You know what, it doesn't matter and anyways what the hell is a 50cal?"
Judy squinted her eyes really trying to remember what the creature said.
Nick saw Judy struggling to remember. He turned to Wolford. "When we were with the creature he said his friend was shot with a 50cal we don't know if that's the weapon it had but it would be safe to assume that he does. He said. A 50 cal Muzzle Velocity (2,800) fps (853 mps) Muzzle Energy (11,500) foot-pounds (15,582) effective kill range (2,000 yd) (1,829 m)" Nick said with clarity. He looked down to see Judy staring at him blankly. "What... I have a good memory... sometimes," he stated.
"What. How is that even possible, they don't even allow other mammals to carry dart guns, how did this thing get ahold of something that can rip a hole through an inch of pure steel?!"
"We just don't know," Judy said shaking her head.
"That's just madness, I didn't even know weapons like that existed," Wolford said as he scratched his head.
"Another thing." Nick chimed in. "We should also warn you that the creature also a tame savage wolf with him."
"Wait, what, how is a savage wolf tame?" Wolford questioned.
"Wel-"
"We still don't know, the only thing we know is it follows his orders," Judy said cutting Nick off.
"What kind of orders?" He Asked again
"We believe he could order the wolf to kill anyone. Along with other tasks," Judy said as she took a deep breath."
"Dam.. what the hell has this world come to," Wolford said as they all just stood there not knowing what to say next.
Nick broke the silence. "We should get moving before the creature moves out of optimal range."
"Agreed." Judy quickly responded. "Wolford, can you prepare your officers for the assault?"
"I will do that now, but before I got is there anything else you would like me to tell them before I send them in?"
"Yea one last thing. this creature will not hesitate even for a second to kill anyone of you, keep your distance for your own safety. Same goes for the wolf."
"Understood I will have my officers ready in five minutes," Wolford said as he walked away to get them all prepped.
Nick saw Judy walking over to a police cruiser, he quickly followed. "So Where will we be in of this?"
"We will be pushing directly east straight towards him, following the blood trail, " she said as she grabbed two tranquilizer guns and tossed one at him. He caught by the tip of his paw almost dropping it.
"He, could you give me a little more warning before you do that?"
She just gave him a smirk. "You caught it so what's the problem?"
"I've already been knocked out twice today rather not make it a third."
"O quit your complaining." She said shrugging at him. "Here take some more darts." She walked a little closer to Nick handing him a pack of darts.
"Thank you for handing it to me this time." He said sarcastically
"O shut-up," she said with a small laugh under her breath.
He inspected the dart gun holding it in the still early morning sun. He moved it around letting the light bounce off the metallic surface before shoving it in his holster. "Let's hope it doesn't bleed to death like the other one." as he said it a shiver ran up his spine as the memories of the creatures laughing as it was laying in a pool of its own blood came back. He looked over to Judy to see about the same reaction he had. He quickly shook his head back and forth a couple of times shoving thought out of his head.
Judy shook her head quickly as well. "We half to remember that it's injured, I mean it was charged by a rhino sent through a window and is bleeding. I wouldn't be Surprised if it was dead lying against a tree."
"I hope it's alive laying against a tree I still half to pay him back for hitting me in the head with a branch and for using that tranquilizer on me," Nick said as he rubbed the back of his head where he had been hit.
"speaking of you getting injured how is your arm doing?" Judy asked him looking at his arm still covered in bandages where the wolf had bit him. there were six patches were the blood has soaked through the bandage. He held up his arm twisting and turning it. "Stings a lot, but I think nothing's broken." These are some nice bandages though. made him wonder why the creature had fixed up his arm. He couldn't find a good reason for this creature to have helped him.
"Officers Judy hopps and nick wilde this Bogo speaking." The radio on Judy belt blasted out. She quickly reached down picking up the radio holding it in front of her.
"Chief Bogo?" she said surprised. "What can I do for you?"
"I have helpful information on the creature and whatever you do you most bring it in alive," Bogo said in a very demanding voice.
"That's what we were planning on doing..." Judy said in a very confused voice.
"You wouldn't have called just to tell us not to kill it," Nick stated to Bogo. "There has to be more to this."
"You are correct, I did not just call to tell you not to kill it. paid me a visit and told me more about what it is."
Nick opened his eyes wider. "So you mean to tell us you found out what species it is?" he asked impatiently.
"You both know the exhibit in the natural history museum about the terror beast?"
"Yes, what about it?" Nick responded.
"Wait, what I have never heard about this," Judy cut in.
"Really?" Nick asked her raising an eyebrow.
"Sorry The last time I was at the natural history museum I didn't have much time to looks around and enjoy it. You know running for your life tends to impede the viewing of exhibits," She said sarcastically as she smirked at Nick. "Sorry chief please continue."
They heard a heavy sigh over the radio. "Anyways, crossed cheeked the history museum and he got a hit. It's the same as the terror beasts bone structure"
"Wait wait but that's impossible!?" Nick cut in.
"What, why would that be impossible," Judy said looking at Nick still very confused about what they were talking about.
"It matches no other known mammal. That's why we need you to bring it in alive at all cost."
Nick waited a moment before replying, He didn't want to tell him that it might already be dead. It was unlikely but it was however a possibility. He however did not inform him of the creatures encounter with the rhino. "We will do everything in our power to bring it in alive you have my word chief," He stated clearly with confidence.
"Good I will be expecting your arrival shortly." Bogo said as he hung up his end.
"Can someone please tell me what this terror beast is!" she shouted out. Nick turned back towards her to see the look of murder in her eyes.
Everyone in the nearby vicinity heard and all looked in her direction.
"Calm down carrots, don't get your tail in a twist."
She shot him a frown. "Just tell me, come on I'm not asking much here."
Nick always thought she was cuter when she was mad, just the way her face squishies down was just so adorable. But she looked like she was ready to blow a gasket. It was either tell her now or endure her wrath for the rest of the day. He leaned his back against the cop car. "The terror beast are an extinct species.. well assumed extinct."
"Well, obviously not. But why did that surprise you? some mammals in history have been said to have died off only to appear a couple years later." She said holding eye contact with Nick."
Nick crossed his arms and lifted a paw to scratch the back of his head. "Yea.. you could say they have been missing for a couple years."
"How many years have they been missing. When were they last seen?"
"It's not a question of when they were last seen. It's a question of when they last existed."
"Stop prying me for questions and just tell me how old they are all ready."
"You're going to want to sit down for this one, or as least find something to lean against," he said gesturing to a cop car.
She walked over to the police cruiser positioned opposite of Nick. "So...?"
"Paleontologists found a set of bones 30 years ago, it was like nothing else. They didn't really know what to think of it. It matched nothing they had ever found before. They carbon dated it at 140,000,000 years old and called named is Hominin."
"What 140,000,000 years old!? Why the hell would a creature that old be doing running around?"
"Don't know, but the public came up with a nickname for the creature, terror beast."
"Why would it be called that?"
"For some odd reason, which has yet to be explained I might add," He said as raising a finger. "The skeleton just by itself scares most mammals predator and prey alike and even more so with child runs from it doesn't matter if it's a mouse or a lion cub they all run away almost instinctively."
"Did you?" Judy said leaning forward from the car looking up at Nick.
Nick chuckled a little. "I think I was six when my mother first took me to the history museum. She took me over to see a new exhibit they had just put in. and being the little cub that I was I got all excited about this new never before seen mammal. Guess my curiosity got the best of me."
Judy let out a small laugh as she leaned back against the car.
"It's hard to fully explain the feeling that I felt when I first laid eyes on this.. Thing. It caused me to instantly run behind my mother's leg and I looked around to see other smaller mammals do the same thing," He waited for a moment turning his head looking into the dark forest with the overhanging trees. "It felt like the same things when we found the other one in Cactus, grove. Even more so when we encountered the one in the forest," he turned back to look at Judy. "Just an overwhelming sense of dread and fear." He said he leaned his head back against the car.
"O.K guy's I have my officers ready let's get a move on," Wolford said as he came from around the car staring at them both. "Umm.. am I interrupting something?" he asked politely as he stared awkwardly at them. They both quickly took a sidestep away from each other.
"No nothing at all." Nick replied as quickly as he could.
Wolford just smiled at them both. "Well.. anyways the guys are ready? Cause We need to get a move on."
"Yea we're as ready as we'll ever be." Judy said as they both walked to Wolford and the rest of the officers. Nick could hear car engines starting he looked to his right to see three police cars driving to the east. He looks to see four other officers that were walking south in the field.
"So it begins." Nick stated.
"Yea, the blood trail leads into the forest we should get going." Judy said as she walked forwards following the blood trail into the field.
Nick walked close behind her as they made it to the forest.
Judy pulled out her radio. "This is team four is everyone in position?" she asked into the radio.
"Team three in position."
"Team one in position."
"Team two in position."
"Stay safe and good luck to you all." She said before strapping the radio back to her belt.
they walked into the forest still following the trail of blood drops leading them deeper into the forest. The musky air felt like it was suffocating him like no had been in these woods for years. They kept following the trial Judy held up a paw signaling them to stop. "What?" Nick asked quietly. She pointed to a small pool of blood with a trickle coming from behind a tree. He felt his heart skip as all the blood in his body warm up as it moved to his major muscles. With his paw shaking slightly he drew his pistol from his holster with one hand he held it up pointing it at the tree. She did the same thing.
She gestured him to go around the left. He nodded his head as she went to the right around the tree. He felt like his heart was going to beat out of his chest drip of sweat were forming on his paw that caused him to tighten his grip to keep the pistol from slipping. His finger press on the trigger more and more the closer he got.
"Now!" Judy shouted they both jumped forward pistols aimed at the tree but nothing was there.
Nick let out a sigh of relief. He looked at Judy to see about the same thing.
"Well the creature was here." Judy said as she holstered her pistol.
"What do you think happened here?" Nick asked crouching down inspecting the area closer. The tree next to him had a small amount of dried blood on it.
the grass was bent down in the area where the creature sat.
"I don't know."
He placed his paw on the tree. It was still warm to the touch. "carrots." He said nervously.
"What?"
"It's still warm.." He said as he reached down to take his pistol out of his holster. He stood up as tall as he could with the pistol raised next to his head. His eyes darted back and forth as he slowly turned in a circle making sure to look in every direction. It's one thing to have it sitting right in front of you but it's another when it could be lurking in the shadows watching them. The thought of it scared him. Judy froze. He knew she was a tough rabbit but if it scared him this much how much would it affect her? She tried to hide it. But a small piece of loose metal on the pistol started clinking against the gun. She was shaking ever so slightly. She looked like she was barely able to hold it together. He was scared himself. But that didn't stop the fact that they needed to find this creature.
"It's quite." Judy said concerned.
He took a second to listen. There was nothing there was not even a gentle breeze in the tree leaves the only thing he heard was his heart beating like a drum throbbing in his chest. The quietness was eerie like a scene from a horror movie. He broke the silence. "well it appears to have stopped the bleeding. There's no blood trail leading from here. This is going to make tracking it a lot harder."
gun shot echoes came from the forest. Causing him to nearly jump out of his skin. They both started running as quickly as they could to the sound of the gunshots followed by faint screams. As they ran Judy took out her radio again. "Wolford! What's happening!" Judy yelled into her radio.
"Team 3 is non-responsive confirmed gunshots. We're sending a medivac chopper to their location now."
"If you can contact them tell them where one the way will reach them in a minute tell them help is on the way!" she said running as fast as she could. Nick had trouble keeping but he managed to stay somewhat close to her. He passed through cobwebs and shoved tree branches out of the way as he ran some of which caused small cuts across his legs and face they were so minor that he really didn't even pay attention to them he just kept running.
"Good afternoon folks," a voice came from Judy's radio in her paws.
"Oh thank god you guys are OK what happened why di-" But she was abruptly cut off.
"I would like inform you that I'm not the animals that I just put down." Judy came to a halt.
Nick remembered that voice.
"Where are you what did you do to them!" She shouted into the radio with anger in her voice.
"As I recall I told you that if you followed me I wouldn't be playing as nice, and yet here we are Talking in wonderland," It said calmly
took him a second to realize what had happened. The creature had attacked them and was not talking through the radio. He saw Judy grip tighten around the radio.
"Judy we need to get a move on," he said staring ahead into the woods.
"I see you have made your choice. Now the question stands, who's the hunter and who's the hunted? it's a question that I already know. Do you?"
it's words sent shivers down his spine.
"No matter how far or fast you run, the world isn't big enough to hide from a soldier. So with that said, let the hunt begin..."
Judy pressed down the button on the side of the radio acted like she was going to say something but she released the button and strapping it back to her belt. She took off quickly into the woods running straight towards where team two was. He started running after her.
"No you dumb bunny wait! We don't know what happened it could be leading us into a trap, we should wait for backup!" he shouted forward at her. The words reached her but seemed to bounce off as she kept running. The woods only seem to get thicker and more dense the deeper he went into it. He started to hear the sound of raging water coming from the east. He kept running after Judy headed northeast, further towards the river "Judy wait!" he shouted as she hopped through a bush.
He quickly jumped through the bush as well and saw her standing still looking forward. he was panting still out of breath from running that fast. "Do you ever think before you do anything you could have gotten yourself killed," He pausing at every word to take a breath. He walked up to her she was still staring forward. He turned his head to see what she was so intently looking at. He looked down at a battlefield. The lion was lying face down in the dirt 2 gunshot wounds protruding out from his upper back. The elephant was up against a tree with a tranquilizer dart sticking out of his neck. He looked over to his left to see a tiger laying on his back with a bullet wound to the shoulder and chest. The grass had turned a dim red where he lay. Nick ran past Judy who was still frozen staring at everything. He ran over to the tiger we went down to cheek the pulse. "Still alive." He turned to looked back at Judy. "What are doing! call Wolford! get some help don't just stand there!" Trying to snap her out of the trance she was in. The sound of a helicopter was getting closer and closer every second.
"Yeah," she said faintly as she shook her head a little. Snapping her back to reality. She lifted up the radio. "this is officers Judy Hopps, we found them, all officers down."
the helicopter now overhead rustled the tree and tall grass. A ladders dropped down followed by a deer, elk with some Medical equipment strapped to their sides.
Nick ran closer to the helicopter and meet up with the two mammals.
"What happened here." the elk said loudly trying to talk over the roar of the helicopter.
"We have one unconscious one in critical condition and one other pulse stopped." He shouted back.
"Ok let's get the helicopter landed in this clearing then we can get them out of here."
"We need you to get them out of here as soon as possible the creaaa.. criminal that did this is believed to still be nearby." Two gun shots faintly echoed out from the forest being drowned out by the helicopter and a faint sound of glass shattering. He turned and looked at Judy she was still fine. The deer and the elk that were also still OK. He looked up at the helicopter cockpit and only saw red splattered all across the cockpits glass. "Run!" Nick shouted out and him and the elk and deer both took off towards Judy as the helicopter spun madly out of control. They made it over the her and jumped behind A log as the helicopter came crashing down onto the open clearing the rudders still spinning against the dirt kicking up muck everywhere and tearing apart the blade it now engulfed in flame followed by a massive fireball and shock wave sending shrapnel in all Direction a part of the helicopter flung past to his right he looked back to see where the elk and deer they were no longer next to him he looked back to the forest to see the elk with a rudder impaled in his chest hanging from a tree. The deer was further down with a metal rod sticking out from her chest impaling her through her heart.
"Nick what the hell happened!? Where did the deer and elk you were with go?!" she said as she started to turn around.
Nick placed a paw on her shoulder to keep her from turning around. She went to stare directly back up at him. "Don't look..." He had bigger problems to have Judy freeze up. Like where the creature was and what its next attack would be. Would it stay hidden in the shadows or come out for a straight attack. What about the savage wolf how would that play out. What was his next move and what was the needed counter. He peeked his head over log to see the crashed helicopter still burning with fearsome intensity. neither him nor Judy could pick up the creatures locations the other sounds were overwhelming.
"What the hell is happening out there!" Wolfords voice blasted out from the radio.
Judy raised up the radio and held down the top button as fast as she could. "helicopter down!. All other mammals believed to be deceased! We need backup!"
"Just hold on we will be at your location in 5 minutes." Wolford said frantically.
Nick started to get up. trying to get a better look at what was left of the helicopter. Judy grabbed his arm and pulled him down back behind the log just as a bullet whizzed just over his head.
"Well, he's to the right of us if you're wondering," he said with his back up against the log looking at Judy.
"And you yell at me for not thinking!?"
He tried to hide his terror in a joke laughing it off. But there's only so much he could joke before fear soaked through. He looked down to see that his right leg had started shaking. He grabbed his leg to stop the shaking. He looked over to back Judy. Her whole body was shaking dart gun held up to her chest. She was worse than she would ever admit. Not to say he wasn't scared, just her more so. "Hey, I'm going to crawl over to the end of the log. Get a better look."
"Ok... Just be careful."
"Yea..." He said as he went down on all fours and started to make his way over to the end of the log. he noticed a patch of tall grass that he could peer through. He kept crawling forward till He got there. He could see the rear end of the helicopter, or at least what was left of it. Not what he need to focus on. Trying to ignore the burning sound of the helicopter and the roaring river. He surveyed the surroundings. He heard a thunk and tree leaves drop directly across from him. He was over there. He started to crawl back to Judy. He's directly in front of us we might be able to wait for backup to get here."
"That's gre-."
she was cut of as a gunshot echoed through the forest. Nick instantly turned to see where the gunshot came from. there was no way that it could have moved that fast.
"How the hell did it get behind us!" He shouted.
"Nick..." Judy said faintly.
Nick turned to her to see her holding her side. She lifting her hands to see blood gushing out. She started to stagger taking a step crossing her legs before falling over. "Judy!" he shouted running over to her grabbing hey by the collar of her shirt and jumping over the log to the other side and laying her down. She grunted in pain as he lifted her paw from her wound to inspect it. It had torn a hole straight through her side. there was nothing he could do. She was losing blood by an exponential rate.
"She's going to die if I don't do something quick." He thought to himself. his fist tightened. His heart was beating fast before now everything in his body was screaming. Every sound ten times louder and every muscle in his body was now firing on all cylinders. He tried to say something to Judy to tell her everything was going to be alright but it only came out as a growl. He heard a twig snap behind the log. He grabbed his dart gun and jumped over the log to see the creature standing right in front of him. He instantly fired off his dart gun into his chest.
"you learned nothing." It said before he kicked him in the chest sending the dart gun out of his hands as he was knocked back over the log.
The kick landed right in the middle of his chest sending what felt like a shock wave of pain ran through his body as his back his the grass sliding along for a second. He couldn't breathe. When he tried to inhale but could only gasp in short breaths. He held his paws to his chest. trying to get his breathing back to normal. The creature jumped over the log and started walking towards him. It didn't seem to notice Judy and walked right past her. He turned over now on his paws and knees and looked at Judy to see her chest rise then fall. He waited for it to rise again. But it didn't.. He felt his heart skip a beat. the shaking stopped.. It didn't feel like anger or hatred. It was just a warm sensation running through his body. "I'm going to kill you." He said softly.
Nick charged forward at the creature on all fours as fast at his legs could carry him. He jumped about to pounce it. But felt an impact on his side knocked him off course. He hit the side of a tree. He didn't feel any pain as he fell to the ground and quickly got back up and saw the savage wolf on all fours standing next to him teeth showing. He looked back at Judy Before running back in. The creature held up the gun. Nick started running to the side a gunshot went off grazing the fur off his back and rushed straight back in. It fired off another shot he felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder causing him to lose balance and fall forward in the muddy grass. He took his paw and placed it over where the pain came from. It felt warm. He removed his paw and looked down at it. it was covered in red. it was blood, his own blood. The creature slowly walked towards him.
He held onto his shoulder looking back up at this creature slowly making its ways towards him. If his heart could be beating faster it would be. He felt his body throb again this time it was not rage hate but like a truck hitting him. He fell back down to the ground when he tried to get back up, like every fiber of his being wouldn't move at the sight of this, this, thing. He cried out in agony as the pain from his shoulder rushed in. Still keeping his eye on the creature ever getting closer. It flinched for a second he looked behind the creature to see Judy still alive holding an empty dart gun. The dart gun fell from her hands as she cracked a smile.
"Got you." Judy muttered before closing her eyes once again.
The creature bent down and pull a tranquilizer dart out of his lower leg. But it did something unexpected it took a rope out and attached it to the wolf. Before heading off further east towards the river.
Nick groaned as he forced himself to get up and follow the creature stumbling with ever step. He pushed through some bushes to find the creature standing at the edge of the cliff looking down at the river 70 feet down. (21.336 meters)
"Sorry Paco you're not going to like this." the creature said before picking up the wolf and jumping off.
"No!" Nick shouted as the creature dived towards off the cliff. He ran over to the cliff and watched the creature fall and disappear into the white water below.