Zootopia: A Wolf-Dragon's POV
By
Toa Coy
Time to get Judy on the job and how the wolf-dragons go about the morning.
~Toa Coy~
Chapter Six: I Got The Ticket If You Got The Ride
Judy wake up early just as her alarm went off, and her uniform was thrown on with care and looked in her mirror polishing her badge and getting her stuff ready to go out. Before she left her mind moved to fox repellent her father would not let her leave home without. She wanted to just dismiss it and leave it there but some part of her just could not fully let it go. Begrudgingly the first bunny cop grabbed the can and she did feel better about getting there. She took a train to the ZPD as she lacked a car. The looks on the pedestrians on the bus ranged from wonder to confused, Judy did not really pay it much mind and took her seat and waited for her stop.
Coy woke up with a yawn, five-forty five read the clock on the wall, as his half laten eyes blinked as he began to get up and stretch his limbs. His shirtless chest was met with the cooler air, the wolf felt a cramp in his right wing. If not for his control of fire and air someone would have noticed his nightly flights while he looked for anything that could help with the missing mamalis case. It is not easy seeing as he had to hide his fourteen foot wing span and six foot height, not to mention all the nocturnal animals around that could notice him.
A few good pops from his body caused him to groan as it felt good getting some movement in his wings as until he came back to this house they would be hidden under his clothing. And with that thought he had an hour before work and a sister to make breakfast for. Well he would if not for the smell from the kitchen.
"I guess living on a farm would cause her to be up before the crack of dawn." Coy groaned as his wings popped along with his back. "Best see what she has ready."
His trek was short and not without a smile on his face, twenty-three years can leave a large empty void that can only be filled by having them back in your life, once he got there his jaw dropped. It looked like his sister may have gone a bit crazy, due to the biscuits and gravy along with the cinnamon rolls and the pancakes with sides of hash browns and fruit salad. It looked like enough food for an small army. Thinking about who she broke bread with Coy could imagine this as a snack and how much she probably made herself.
"I think you might have noticed the larger amount of food you had when you came home." The female wolf-dragon greeted her brother as she poured tea for the two. "That month was strange to not be with several hundred other beings around but it felt nice to not have to deal with the small portion size."
"I did notice you get a bit of a belly from what I saw while at the graduation." Coy poked a bit of fun before catching a small fire ball with a miffed Dracana having a pointed finger at him.
"You know calling a woman fat is like standing in front of a tank saying hit me." Dracama replied blowing some smoke from her finger.
"I hear ya." Coy replied before hanging his head then giving a chuckle, "I miss this type of moment."
Dracana's brow was still narrowed but a smile on her face. "Ya, when you get ready for work give me information where Judy is so I can keep watch just to appease her parents."
Coy sat down and began to move food to his plate. "Sure." But before he began eating he looked at her with a question that came to his mind. "What was it like to have parents?"
Dracana wanted to be taken aback by this comment, but thinking about it out of the two she was the one that had experienced something that was an unreachable dream. Thinking about it as they eat did make the she-wolf feel joy and sadness but it was the same her brother felt. The rest of the time they ate in silence but an air of melancholy did take the place of idol chatter.
Judy was awestruck by the look of her new workplace, the building was so unlike any she had seen in the short time here. However that could be said for all the buildings but she keep eyes up as she walked into the building. A number of officers moved about the place and it looked better than she could ever dream of. Her ears turned to hear the sounds of the officers but she also heard a number of those either restrained. One was a wolf complaining that the other animal bared his teeth first.
Judy headed to the toward the dispatcher/reception desk, where she saw a...large cheetah. This was not only because all the other officers were taller and wider than her but this cheetah looked a bit large but it looked like it was mostly sugar foods like the Lucky Chomps cereal. She could tell that he was enjoying it as she got closer.
"Excuse me!" The rabbit called up to get the cheetah who started to look around for who said that. "Down here!" Judy's cheerful voice holding strong as the cheetah panned down to her. "Hi!"
"O.M. Goodness... They really did hire a bunny." The large cheetah spoke in disbelief before reacting to the look on Judy's face with a cuckle. "What!?" The higher tenor voice spoke as he place the bowl down. "I gotta tell you, you are even cuter than I thought you'd be!"
Hearing that work kinda made the rabbit feel a bit awkward, not too much but the norm of Bunnyborrow. "Ooh, uh, you probably didn't know, but a bunny can call another bunny cute, but when other animals do it, it's a little…" The cheetah gasped in shocked by what he had just said.
"I am so sorry! Me, Benjamin Clawhauser, the guy everyone thinks is just a flabby, donut-loving cop stereotyping you, oh…" Benjamin started to chastise himself with Judy calming him down.
"That's okay." The rabbit said before seeing a donut in the neck fat of the cheetah."Oh, you've actually - you've actually got... There's a…" Trying to point him to the food item in his folds.
"Um... A what?" Ben confused by what she was trying to say.
"In your neck, the fold... The - the, there's…" Judy said trying to point at it while the cheetah searching for it.
"Where?" Still not finding it for a moment until he pulled it out of the neck fat. "Oh, there you went, you little dickens!" To the donut before popping it in his mouth eating it whole.
Judy Hopps: Judy felt the awkwardness go up so with some nervous laughter she took this as to take her leave. "I should get to role call. So, which way do I…"
Benjamin did not really bat an eye at the rabbit's noticeable nervousness. "Oh, bull pen's over there to the left." He pointed to the door to said bull pen's.
"Great. Thank you!" The bunny cop shouted back as she walks to the room. With some of the other officers a bit amused at her. A blue wolf just smirked at the scene and waited for her to enter the room before heading towards the room.
"Aww... That poor little bunny's gonna get eaten alive." Coy heard Benjamin say before entering the room.
'Not if she sticks to her own guns Ben, not if she sticks to her guns." Coy thought to himself opening the door. Looking in he saw Judy get a fist bump from McHorn the Rhino which pushed the rabbit back a bit. Coy just entered the room and shut the door behind him and just propped himself against the wall.
From the door leading to the administration part of the building Coy noticed the hippo Officer Higgins. The light pink of his natural skin was a good contrast to the navy blue of the standard uniform.
"Atten-hut!" The hippo spoke as the chief, a male cape buffalo with the only non-tie wearing officer.
Coy watched the buffalo move to the podium he almost did not notice Higgins move so quick that he ended up in the sit behind Judy, 'He may be big but damn he is fast." Coy thought as the larger officers banging on the desks while still standing which the wolf did not understand.
Chief Bogo: "Alright. Alright! Everybody sit." Bogo spoke getting out a set of glasses, and also see Judy sitting then standing again before shifting to Coy who gave a small wave. "I've got three items on the docket. First... we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room." This time focused on a surprised elephant. "Francine - happy birthday."
Coy smiled at the rough housing of the officers, Francine was surprised and gave a tiger a noogie as they pushed themselves around a bit.
Judy applauds her new co-worker and joined in the small chant, before Bogo calmed them down and kept about business.
Chief Bogo: "Number two; there are some new recruits with us I should introduce, but I'm not going to because I don't care." The chief's deadpan was spot on with some of the snigger hard to miss with Judy nervously grinning,
Chief Bogo: "Finally; we have fourteen missing mammal cases - all predators - from a giant polar bear to a teensy little otter, and City Hall is right up my tail to find them!" He said this pointing at the map of the city with pictures and their last locations. "This is priority number one." Higgins again seemed super fast handing the files to him and with that the chief began.
"Assignments: Officers Grizzoli, Fangmeyer, Delgato; your teams take missing mammals from the Rainforest District." With that the group began to move out taking the files. "Officers McHorn, Rhinowitz, Wolfard; your teams take Sahara Square."
"Officers Higgins, Snarlov, Trunkaby: Tundratown." With that it only left a buffalo, a rabbit and a wolf-dragon. "Officer Drago-wolf and our first bunny: Officer Hopps…" which had the rabbit on the edge of the chair, but the sighs and blank stare did not temper her joy. "parking duty. Dismissed."
Judy looked confused by this and why the chief was bringing Officer Dracowolf in on this. As Bogo began to move on with Coy walking up to the rabbit, Judy spoke her mind.
"Parking duty?" She almost shouted in anger. This did get the chief's attention if only just to see what the child was throwing a tantrum. "Sir, you said there were fourteen missing mammal cases."
"So?" Bogo still not willing to give the rabbit the time of day.
Judy Hopps: "So I can handle one. You probably forgot, but I was top of my class at the academy." Judy praised herself. "Officer Dracowolf could be better used then a babysitter."
"Didn't forget. Just don't care." Still not giving a flying squirrel about her. "As for the blue wolf he wanted to be help you but I think he is just wasting his time."
"Sir, I'm not just some token bunny." Judy pointed out but still got nothing from him.
"Well then, writing one hundred tickets a day should be easy." The chief challenged her before leaving the room with only the rabbit and wolf there.
"A hundred tickets, I'm not gonna write a hundred tickets. I'm gonna write two-hundred tickets! Before noon!" She declared as if Coy was not there.
"I would say you are just asking for him to kick you off the force." Coy shook his head as Judy hopped off the chair. "You don't know how long it took just to have me be your partner."
"I just think that I can out do his expectation and show I'm just as good as anyone else." Judy said with determination but stopped when she got to the door. She turned back and asked Coy. "So where do we go to for parking duty?"
Dracana was walking in savanna central and enjoying the cultural of this city, given how her body acted with eating much more food due to the more predator nature and the old saying that to know a place eat the food. After a early lunch the red wolf found her brother and charged going around writing tickets for those cars on expired meters. The she-wolf did find Judy in her meter maid outfit rather adorable, but her brother just had a safety vest on. She did not show herself but instead she felt like ice cream and the parlor with the elephants did make her look at this as a challenge. With brass in pocket she walked into the place it looked like it was all elephants, however they did notice her it was not mean but it did look like they wish she had gone elsewhere. Dracana did not pay them any mind, the past twenty-three years was a vacation for her with nothing world ending, she walked up to the counter and just had a kind smile on her face.
"Excuse me but do you have anything for those of six foot in height in the sunday variety." The she-wolf asked nicely, saving the puppy dog eyes before she pulled out her money.
"That will be a small with nuts and be a bit big for ya." The jerk, a term meaning being behind the counter and serving ice cream, pointing to the menu.
"Okay." The dragon in hiding smile. "I'll take one and will pay double if I can not finish it or I vomit while also cleaning up the mess."
The jerk had a bemused look before he looked the wolf straight in her eyes. "You're on." He began to make the sunday with a grin on his face because no matter what he gets money.
The jerk began to fix the dish which could hold normal portions, but to normal animals this was four gallon scoops of four different ice cream. With that bananas and the whip cream followed by cherries, which lead to the mountain of sugary goodness that a younger Dracana would have lost her mind. However the she-dragon just grinned and began the challenge going slow and drinking the melted ice cream as it happened.
During this challenge Coy looked over to the parlor as Judy wrote a ticket for her own vehicle because he was away checking the much taller and larger vehicles a bit farther down. The wolf just chuckled at the rabbit's expressions, it kinda made him happy he stuck his neck out for her.
The sounds of tires screeching and a horn drew the police's attention, noticing a fox, white van with a red cab, and sheep driving it.
"Hey, watch where you're goin', fox!" The sheep yelled as the fox walked past it. The van drove away blocking the view of the fox, but Coy did write down the tag as that was not right for an almost hit and run.
As he wrote it down he noticed Judy heading after the fox, who Coy knew was Nick.
I wonder how it will be different from the film.