We decided to CHANGE the name of this story to avoid confusion of another story called "The Savage Within"and named it "The Savage in us all" . School, and other important matter got in the way in writing this story but that's about to change soon. This chapter is a bit short but things will start picking up in. Anyways please enjoy, as always chapter are subject to further edits. On with the story...!

Chapter 3

It was 2:30 in the afternoon, adam was resting on the couch next to Luke while he was watching TV. However Luke couldn't get his mind off what happened in the last few hours.

"Did I seriously beat David up? What the hell was I thinking, he was going to hurt Adam even more, I had to do something. Besides David has this coming for a long time, someone had to put him in his place." Luke thought subconsciously.

No matter how hard luke tried he couldn't shake the feeling that he took it to far and that there was another way he could have handled it.

"Damn, I wonder how Mom and Dad will take it?" he thought laughing, "Or better yet how will the school take it, I was seen as a good kit before this, now I might as well have a muzzle on me like they did to dad when he was little." he continued to say to himself.

Luke then looked down at Adam, exhausted from the beating he took. "It will be awhile before his parents find out, how will they react. Are they gonna force us to end our friendship, am I just too dangerous for him to be around."

Luke continued saying, "It's not like it's going to change when we get to high school, bigger mammals, bigger bullies, and even more drama. Adam can't protect me forever, I can't believe he still stuck around this long with me." Luke scoffed at what he said.

Luke then got up, walked into the bathroom to splash water onto his face, when the water made contact and slowly flowed down his face and muzzle it brought a comforting feeling which he needed. He looked up at the mirror and stared at the red fox looking back at him. He looked at the fox with a scowl

" You don't belong here, you just ruined your reputation in front of all your friends, do you honestly think they are gonna let that go?" he told the fox. "Hell, it makes them think you're even more strange. It's not like Mom and Dad are gonna help you with this one. Their always busy, you sometimes come home to receive nothing but darkness and cold air. Admit it you dumb fox! You're never gonna fit in anywhere, you're even lucky that bunny stayed with you."

As soon as Luke got that out of his system, he pressed himself up against the bathroom wall and sobbed releasing all of the anger and stress that has been building up inside him. He couldn't control it anymore, he didn't wanna live this life anymore, he was done pretending. This time Luke was determined to change everything, no matter what it costs.

He slowly rose looked at the mirror and said, "I know what to do".

Luke exited the bathroom and walked to his room and emptied out his backpack and all side pockets. He went to his dresser and took out all of the clothes he thought was necessary and proceeded to wrap them up tightly and put them into his backpack. He walked downstairs and into the kitchen slowly as to not wake up Adam and took snacks, water bottles, and bars to put in his backpack's side pockets. Luke knew that what he was about to do what dangerous but he knew it would help him if he ever got into any rough situations, He went into his mom and dad's office which was full of neatly organized paperwork and pictures of Luke and his parents.

Luke went to his dad's desk and opened up a hidden drawer which contained a tranquilizer gun, a few tranq darts, and a camping knife (Like a swiss army knife), Nick fearing that if any criminals tried to attack Luke taught him how to shoot a tranq gun and how to use a knife. Also in the drawer was about 200 dollars which acted as emergency money in case anything bad happened.

Luke brought all of this back to his room and managed to put all of this into his backpack. He put a few twenties into his pant pocket and slid the tranq gun into his pants and hid it with his shirt. He then went into his closet and slipped on a jacket and put a sweatshirt in his backpack as a backup. He then walked down the stairs and began to head to the front door until he saw Adam sleeping, he stopped and looked at the bunny sleeping on his couch and headed back into the kitchen and wrote a note and left it on the kitchen counter. Before he left Luke noticed Adam tossing and turning in his sleep. He took a folded up blanket and placed it on Adam, the bunny then grabbed onto the blanket and fell back into a deep sleep which brought a smile to Luke's muzzle. " I hope I can see you again soon" he whispered looking down at Adam. Luke then walked towards the front door and exited the house.

As the fox began to make his way to the sidewalk he looked back at the house that he had called home since he was a kid, he thought of all the happy moments in his short life that he shared with Nick and Judy, the times Adam came over to hang out with him playing outside late with all of his neighborhood friends brought a few tears to the fox's eyes. Despite his thoughts and feelings he knew he had to keep walking, he then took out his phone and earphones and began listening to music trying to push any thoughts of returning home out of his mind.

After several minutes of walked the young fox saw the enormous city of Zootopia in front of him with beautiful buildings and lights, Luke couldn't help but stare in awe at the city that stood before him. Then he began thinking of that city that appeared in his dream at school, and slowly saw it being destroyed in front of him by that sheep who he couldn't figure out. He began rubbing his head trying to understand why he kept thinking about that city. "Ugh! I gotta stop worrying about this, just gotta keep going." Luke said to himself.

The fox then began making his way towards the city, putting one paw in front of the other, hoping that he had made the right choice. "I hope this works, just keep on moving Luke. Just keep on moving." Soon Luke began his journey into the city as the the grand city lights slowly began to engulf him...

END chapter 3

Looks like Luke is taking a big risk here, will it pay off? How will Adam react to Luke leaving? Stay tuned for more, thanks for reading. Please follow and comment, constructive criticism is well appreciated. Take care.