Chapter 4

In the evening Nathaniel lied next to a tree having a nap. Lila came from the other side of the reserve, running towards him and stopped in front of him.

"Nathaniel wake up" Demanded Lila, making Nathaniel open his eyes and look up at the vixen.

"I'm….awake" Yawned Nathaniel and stood up looking at the female.

"Are you ready?" Asked Lila and Nathaniel shrugged his front leg's shoulders.

"Come" Told Lila and Nathaniel followed the girl.

"Okay Nathaniel you can do it. You will now mate with a fox girl you barely know. She didn't want to kill you, she just was a bit surprised I guess….It will go fine" Told Nathaniel to himself.

"It will not go fine. You will fail at the penetration, you will hurt her by mistake….what if she doesn't get pregnant? What if I can't get her pregnant? What if I can't hold myself on her" Thought Nathaniel warping his snout out of nervously.

"Here is our way to the freedom," Said Lila pointing at a hole on the bottom, making Nathaniel get out of his mind and back to reality.

"For what's that?" Asked Nathaniel.

"I've been digging for a long while to make a tunnel to the outside of this jail and now we're able to get out" Explained Lila and Nathaniel looked into the brown hole.

"Oh uhm...great"

Lila nodded and entered into the hole. "Come let's get out of here"

"But….what about Marinette?" Asked Nathaniel looking back at the reserve. Lila didn't reply back and Nathaniel looked into the hole. "Alright..." Sighed Nathaniel and slipped into the hole and crawled through the tunnel following Lila's bushy tail.

"I'm right behind you," Told Nathaniel and then saw Lila going up and leaving the hole, where now he could see the light. Nathaniel left the hole and saw, that he was on the outside of the reservoir along with Lila.

"And now?" Asked Nathaniel.

"We can now go our ways, where ever we belong" Responded Lila. "I can go back to Genoa and you to Paris"

"But…..my owner is here with me"

"Your owner?" Asked Lila questioningly.

"Yeah, I live with a human girl, that raised me since I was a little kit," Told Nathaniel.

"What?" Asked Lila surprised, then laughed. "You're a pet!"

"I'm not a pet like a cat or a dog. I'm a companion! I'm a companion to her"

"That's what pets are!"

"Okay, okay then yes I am a pet" Admitted Nathaniel. "What's so bad about this?"

"I didn't say it was bad, but I would prefer to be living free, rather than stuck at home with some crazy humans"

"Marinette isn't crazy...sort of...she's very lovable. She adopted and took care of me when I was a baby and nourished and gave lots of love to me, like a mother"

"What happened to your parents?" Asked Lila. "Are they deceased?"

"They…..got killed by two humans with a weird thing with pipes, that shouted round, tiny balls from it"

"Oh…."

"Yeah…."

"My condolences," Said Lila. "This is why I hate humans. They're bad and do this to us foxes and other animals. They want to use our fur to make them some stupid, tasteless clothes for them to wear" Told Lila. "This is why our breed is rotting out"

"But you know, not all humans are like that" Told Nathaniel. "Marinette isn't"

"I wish it was easy to believe it," Said Lila sad. "When I was a teen, I lost my parents the same way you did and I and my younger brother had to see, how the humans were taking their fur off their bodies. It was real….real…."

"Horrible, I know" Agreed Nathaniel sad, thinking about when he was younger and thought about the past. Nathaniel had got flashbacks about the humans shouting her mother and father to death, then the other one was about he being stuck in a cage and from there he saw along with the other fox kits their parents' fur being cut out from their bodies, making Nathaniel look horrified along with the other kits.

"Nathaniel, are you alright?" Asked Lila and Nathaniel's body shivered and Nathaniel shook his head to stop the flashback.

"Sorry, I just had this horrible picture in my head," Said Nathaniel and his stomach growled. Nathaniel sat down and placed his paw in front of his stomach.

"If you want I can show you places here, where we can get some food" Suggested Lila. "I'm also starting to get hungry"

"S...sure" Responded Nathaniel at the smiling vixen, then she walked off and Nathaniel looked back at the reserve, they just got out before. Lila turned around looking at the male fox staring at the reserve.

"Are you coming?" Asked Lila and Nathaniel turned around and made his way to Lila, then accompanied her.

Marinette lied on the couch sleeping. She groaned a bit anxiously, then spoke during the sleep.

"No, this did not happen" Said Marinette sleeping.

Marinette was walking at the school ground and passed by Kim and Max greeting the two.

"Hey guys"

"Hey Marinette" Greeted Kim.

"Hey" Greeted Max.

"Have you guys seen Nathaniel?" Asked Marinette and both shook their heads.

"This time I haven't seen him" Responded Kim.

"Yeah, he's usually first here from our class" Added Max.

"I go look for him" Said Marinette walking towards to the entrance of the building, then heard a girl screaming then looked around and saw Aurore running towards Marinette's direction.

"Aurore, what's going on?" Asked Marinette.

"Your friend Nathaniel is dead!" Shouted Aurore shocked. "I and Kagami found him lying behind the school."

"What?" Asked Marinette surprised then behind her passed Myléne getting the news too.

"Someone needs to call the ambulance" Said Aurore.

"Aurore call the ambulance" Said Marinette running the stairs down.

"I'll be calling my father," Told Myléne running into the school. Marinette ran around the school looking for her friend, then at the backside of the school, she found there Kagami crying next to Nathaniel, that lied there in a small poodle of blood. His head was rather a bit deep on the ground as normal, when you lie on a bed. He was more down, cause he somehow managed to break the back of the skull. His full body was paralyzed, there was no muscle moving.

"Marinette he's dead, there's no pulse or heartbeat of him to be heard," Told Kagami with tears in her eyes.

"But have you tried to do CPR on him?" Asked Marinette shocked.

"How?" Asked Kagami. "He doesn't breath and his heart and pulse aren't beating!"

"But we still can bring him to life...right?" Asked Marinette in panic looking at Nathaniel's face, which looked frozen and showed, that his death was painful.

"We can try it" Said Marinette putting her hands behind his head lifting it up, then she took her hands quickly away, as she felt how light it felt behind is head.

"Eww" Said Marinette then looked at her hands, full of blood. On the blood appeared Nathaniel's visage and looked angry at her.

"Marinette, why didn't you help me?" Asked Nathaniel.

"I didn't meant….I didn't want to lose you, I didn't know you were in trouble"

"Chloé and Kim posted on the school newspapers embarrassing pictures of me, they bullied me, beat me up and you were always saying to me, that everything would be better and it never was"

"I'm so sorry Nathaniel, I didn't know you were going through a depression"

"You're a horrible friend Marinette, I told this to god and you will go to hell for that!"

"No!"

Marinette was moving around the couch.

"No, no, no"

A Phone started to ring, scaring Marinette, which stood up screaming.

"Ahhh!" Yelled Marinette, then looked at her phone, which was in front of her at the coffee table of the room. She looked at the phone and saw, it was Adrien's number. She took the phone call and attended it.

"Hi Adrien" Greeted Marinette. "Dinner? Sure, I'll be going down. See ya" Said Marinette and turned the phone off.

"Wonder how my little fox is doing" Said Marinette to herself, thinking on her pet fox Nathaniel.