Sorry I haven't been updating in a while I've just been really busy with work. So, here's chapter 7 of this story line, comment and favorite for more stories. (Look for the obvious Robin Hood reference in Judy's perspective).
"Nick, I'm going to find you" Judy said to herself as she dashed into her apartment and quickly changed into her spare police uniform that was hanging on a hook on the arm ware next to her bed. "Looks like I'm going to need this" Judy said as she checked her holster and saw that her tranquilizer gun was safe and secure.
Judy sped over to her laptop on her table next to her bed and turned it on. Judy thumped her foot on the floor impatiently while the Pane logo showed up on the screen for about ten seconds and then booted up to her home screen. Judy then clicked on the Zoogle icon on her desktop with the touch pad.
"Okay Judy, let's hope this works" Judy said to herself as she logged onto the police database and put in Nick's phone number into the search bar. Judy reached down to press enter but hesitated. She knew that the second she pressed it every single officer in the ZPD would know where Nick was, especially Chief Bogo and she did NOT wan't to have that conversation with him anytime soon. "Looks like I'll just have to get there first then" Judy said and pressed enter.
The screen buffered for a few seconds and lit up with the coordinates of where the phone was on a satellite grid view of the city. Judy wrote down Nick's location on the notepad she had lying next to her laptop. She crossed out "SUCK IT UP" on the notepad and wrote the address underneath it and said to herself "This one of those times where I can't suck it up". Judy began to move towards the door when she stopped and realized that Nick's clothes were all shredded and he need new ones.
Judy ran over to her bed and keeled down and pulled out a hidden drawer underneath her bed that contained a pair of pants and a shirt. It was the same gray pants that Nick always wore but on the inside of each of the pockets was a blueberry and carrot pattern stitched into the thread. The shirt was an inverse of his regular one, as it was dark green with a light green leaf pattern that ran across it instead of the other way around, that even came complete with a blueberry and carrot tie.
Judy thought to herself "I've been waiting a while to give these to Nick for his birthday, but I guess now's a better time then any" Judy then grabbed Nick's clothes and quickly closed the drawer and ran outside to the street.
Judy looked around to get her bearings and glanced down at her notepad and looked at the address Nick was at. "Okay, the corner of Sher Avenue and Wood St, okay at least I know where that is" Judy said to herself and sped down the sidewalk towards the street address.
"Nick" someone yelled. "Nick!" someone yelled again. "Oh come on, not this dream again" Nick said to himself, groggily getting up off the ground. As Nick rose he looked around and saw that it was not the same dream as he was still in the same room before he was hit with the chair.
"Are ye sure it's just a God for saken dream Nick?". "Turn around why don't cha, I haven't seen ye in forever" someone said behind him. Nick looked over his shoulder and saw a fox with the exact same shade of crimson fur as himself, standing there with a wide grin on his muzzle. Wearing a green tunic with green loafers and an unmistakable yellow hat with a single red feather pinned on the side.
Nick turned all the way around to face the fox, and smiled as memories flooded back to him. "So how's life been doin in that ol town of your's, Zootopia is it" the fox asked. "It's been great Robin, how have you been lately" Nick replied.
"Oh you know, same ol, same ol, with me bein stuck here in all, not much to do except practice my aim, which is already perfect" Robin gloated and with a smirk. "Oh ya, prove it" Nick said confidently. "As ye wish Nick" Robin said and keeled down and picked up his bow with a arrow lying on top of it next to him and brought it up to his muzzle.
Robin began to draw back the string and said "Now Nick, I suggest ye don't move" Robin said and smiled malevolently. "Wait!" and that was all Nick got say before Robin released the arrow from his fingertips as it flew so fast that if you blinked it would of missed it. Nick cringed as fear flooded through his entire body and brought both of his paws up to his muzzle to protect himself.
The arrow flew right by Nick's head and grazed the tips of some of the fur on his face. Nick removing his paws from in front of his face looked at Robin smirking at him. "What are you smiling at, you missed!" Nick yelled. 'Didi'th I?" Robin replied with a grin. Nick turned around and his mouth hung so far open that he could of put a whole pawfull of blueberries into his mouth and still have room for more. Nick stared at the single arrow that somehow, Nick didn't even know how stuck deep into the wall next to initials of RH scratched onto the wall. "Ho-, how, how did you do that?!" Nick yelled.
"I told ye Nick, all I hath been able to occupy myself with is to practice my aim" Robin said with a satisfactory smirk on his muzzle. "Okay, besides that, did you miss me?" Nick asked. "Yes, Nicholas I didi'th miss ye" Robin said smoothly.
"Alas, I knew I see the day we be able to chat again, just like ol times eh?" Robin said with a smirk. "Yes me too Robin, still talking like an old Englishmammal too I see" Nick said and smiled. "Gotta stay in character don't I, they don't call me Robin bloody Hood for nothin Nicky Wicky" Robin Hood replied with a satisfactory smirk on his muzzle. Nick hated it when Robin called him that, but was very glad to see his old friend again.
"Okay I think your milking it" Nick said and walked over to Robin and gave him a warm hug. Robin Hood returning the hug replied "Hark, now where hath I heard that remark before" and smiled at Nick.
Nick stepped back and realized it had been almost two decades since they last spoke in person, so to speak. "Still wearing your green tunic and loafers I see" Nick joked. "What's wrong with my attire, it's age appropriate for me at least, for ye, well I think not, and ye forgot about my hat" Robin said and slightly tipped his hat down at Nick. "Sure Robin, who could EVER forget the hat" Nick said with a smug grin on his muzzle.
"Yes, it bei'th the hat, how do ye think I get all the fair maiden's" Robin replied and smiled.
"Speaking of fair maiden's, dare I ask again, but do ye hath a fair maiden yet, or am I goin to hath to wait two more long decades waiting for a "yay"?" Robin asked and lightly slapped Nick on the back. "Well I-" Nick began but was silenced by Robin putting his paw on Nick's shoulder. "Ah, not deny'in it, are ye Nicky Wicky" Robin said and smiled. Nick glared at Robin as he gave him a hearty laugh that Nick was pleased to hear after such a long time.
"Well I don't know" Nick said. "What ye mean, ye don't know, it's either a "yay" or "nay" Robin said and laughed again. "Well there is someone I like but I'm not sure if she likes me as more than a friend" Nick said knowing what Robin was going to ask next.
"What'eth be her name my good lad?" Robin asked, his smile gleaming with curiosity. "Her name is Judy" Nick replied dreading what came next. "She bei'th a vixen?" Robin asked. Nick swallowed the fear that was clumped in his throat and slightly blushed. "Hey there Nicky Wicky you ain't lookin' so crisp, are ye, blushing?" Robin asked, bewildered from Nick's sudden change of emotion. "Is she noti'th a vixen Nicky?" Robin persisted.
"How can you tell?" Nick asked, utterly confused on how Robin seemed to know. Robin then proceeded to laugh and said "I be a fox Nick, and ye be one too, I stare at this fur all morn till the sun seti'th across the land, and yet ye think that I cannot tell if a fellow fox with the same crimson shade of fur as I, if he be embarrassed or not?".
"Dang it!" Nick said out loud to himself. "So Nick, if she not bei'th a fox, what she be?" Robin asked curiously, shifting his body weight and leaned on his bow that was vertically pined to the ground. "You're probably going to think I'm crazy but" Nick paused, sighed and continued "She's a bunny, Robin, and I just can't get her out of my head, she's like a virus spreading through all of my thoughts, corrupting me with her cuteness". Robin Hood's expression changed to something Nick had never seen before. Robin's expression flashed in confusement for a split second and then transitioned into a blank stare. Robin even dropped his bow that he was leaning on because he was so shocked.
Nick looked at Robin and thought to himself "Great even HE'S shocked about it, look's like it was a waste of time telling him!". Robin's blank expression then slowly, not as slow as Flash's at the DMV, but surely broke into a wondrous smile as he clasped both of his paws onto Nick's shoulders. "Wow Nicholas, in all the tales of legend in the entire forest of Sherwood and stories I hath had the pleasure in listening to over CENTURIES!". "I hath NEVER heard of such an achievement!" Robin replied, smiling with assurance. Robin then took his bow off of the ground when he dropped it from Nick's response to who Judy was and threw it behind him in to the corner.
Nick, not expecting that answer from him, pricked his ears and tail up in excitement. "So, you approve?" Nick asked. "Why should'th that decision be up to me, who do ye think I bei'th, yer father, I be close, but not that close to ye" Robin replied.
"Well I mean you are standing right next to me, so there's that" Nick said as a sly smile spread across his muzzle as both he and Robin laughed. "Wow, just the thought of it eh, the thought of a fox and it's former prey comin' together in somethin' I never even believed was possible" Robin said. "Granted, I bei'th from England and thought I heard'th it all" Robin said. "Just picture it in yer imagination, picture it as clear as a tapestry or a fresh painting" Robin said while turning Nick around and standing behind him, waved his paw in front of his face gesturing up as if their were the most beautiful arrangement of stars in the sky.
"Picture history bein' changed, for a fox and a bunny, predator and prey, vow to each other their love and commitment for one another!" Robin exclaimed. Nick grinned and said "Oh ya, I'm picturing it all right". "Oi!". "Get those slimy rotten thoughts out of yer head!" Robin yelled and slapped Nick on the side of his head.
"OW!" Nick yelled and rubbed the side of his head. "Between you and Judy I'm going to get bruises everywhere!" Nick yelled at Robin. "You should save'th those types of thoughts for yonder Nicky Wicky, I should know!" Robin replied. "Wait, you fell prey to the dark side too" Nick asked with a shocked expression on his muzzle.
"Oh yes did I, even when I fist met Marian, they would not stopi'th" Robin explained. "But do ye want to know what helped?" Robin asked. "Do I want to know, yes, yes I do" Nick said and smiled, remembering who told him that.
"Well what I uncovered is that first, flirt with them a little it helps remove some'th of ye thoughts, and second, use ye wild card!" Robin said and grinned. "What do you mean "wild card"?" Nick asked.
"What I mean is, the maiden's love'th the tail, Nick" Robin said and gestured at Nick's tail, silently swaying behind him. "Whether she be a vixen or a bunny, they always love'th the tail" Robin said and grinned.
"Hark, what does ye bunny that ye like even look like Nicky Wicky?" Robin asked, twirling an arrow in his paw that he grabbed out of his quiver that appeared out of nowhere. "Where did you get that" Nick asked, pointing at the arrow in his paw and then at his quiver he had slung over his shoulder. "Oh this" Robin said and laughed while looking at the arrow in his paw and pointed his thumb back at his quiver on his shoulder.
"Sorry, trade secret" Robin replied and grinned. "Well technically, I'm part of your "trade" since your my great, great, great, great, oh you get the idea, grandfather" Nick said and smirked.
"That is to bei'th true Nick" Robin replied. "Basically it's the slight of paw, or in this case, tail" Robin said and pointed his thumb back at his own tail behind him.
"Yes but when did you have the chance to that I was looking at you the whole time" Nick replied. Robin laughed and said "Not the whole'th time Nicky Wicky".
Then the thought struck him, when Robin turned him around and gestured at the ceiling that' when he used his tail to grab his quiver and bow behind him. Nick then smiled and said "You'eth to be right my foxy friend" copying Robin's speech pattern.
"Am I to bei'th right, yes, yes I be right" Robin replied copying Nick but in his English accent. "So Nick, what'eth ye bunny look like?" Robin asked again and smiled. "Well" Nick began and smiled and then said "She's a bunny for one, so there's that".
"C'mon Nicky, stop holdin' out on me" Robin said and smiled. "She has gray fur with white fur around her muzzle, and she has adorable amethyst eyes and cute little bunny ears" Nick said and smiled at the fact that he just called Judy cute.
"I just love the way how "cute" she looks when she flirts with me, and just the way her nose twitches when I'm around her, it's just, exhilarating!" Nick said, panting for some reason.
"Ah, she sound'th like quite the maidian for ye, right Nicholas?" Robin said and flashed his white teeth at Nick. "Yes Robin, she's amazing, I just love her integrity and ingenuity to face problems head on, no matter the risk" Nick replied.
"What else hath ye be doin' since we last spoke'th" Robin asked. Nick then explained everything that happend since they last talked since he was twelve years old. He explained how he used to be a Pawpsicle hustler and when he first met Finnick and everything that happend from the past six months.
"Wow, ye hath done'th so much in yer life, it be incredible" Robin exclaimed. "So, how has your maiden been" Nick asked. Robin frowned and said "She bei'th good my lad, but she still bei'th waiten' for I". Nick frowned as well and asked "What do mean?".
"I mean that shei'th be waiten' for I to come back to er'" Robin explained. "With me bein' stuck here there's not much I can doi'th to see her".
"What about your Band of Merry Mammals?" Nick asked. Robin sighed and said "They bei'th waiten' for me as well". "Well, then you go and see them" Nick said. "I would Nicky but alas, if I goi'th to them, who would keep an eye on ye, right Nicky?" Robin said.
"What do you mean?" Nick asked. "If I goi'th to them, then I shan't be able to come'th back here" Robin said. "No" Nick said, putting his paw on Robin's shoulder. "You should go to them, I'll be fine Robin" Nick said and slightly smiled.
"Well if ye bei'th sure, then I'll be off!" Robin said and slightly jumped up. "And Nick, take care of ye'self" Robin said and pulled Nick into one last hug. "You too, Robin Hood" Nick said and hugged him back.
"Oh and Nick, one last thing" Robin said. "Yes, what is it?" Nick asked, holding back tears. "Make sure ye get that bunny to be with ye, Little John and I have a wager on whether ye can get her or not" Robin said and laughed.
"Don't worry I will Robin, and say hello to the Band for me" Nick said. "Will do Nicky, will do" Robin Hood said and smiled at Nick. "See ye in another life brotha'!" and with a tip of his hat and a small bow Robin faded in to darkness.
"See you Robin Hood" Nick said to himself, as he was then alone in the room again.
Nick sat down up against the nearest wall and started remembered the first time he first met Robin when he was twelve years old.
About three or four years after the junior ranger scouts fiasco, Nick was put in a class at his middle school where he was the only fox in the class. The rest of the students were an assortment of prey and other mammals. Nick didn't really pay attention in any of his classes and was deemed a untrustworthy slacker by his classmates.
Until one day in history his teacher told them the legend of Robin Hood. Nick was stunned that even that long ago, a predator, a fox for that matter, was respected and recognized as a hero.
Nick was intrigued by the idea of a fox being a hero to not only by his friends but also by society. So after that day, Nick some digging on and discovered that the famous Robin Hood was his direct ancestor. Nick became overwhelmed with joy.
So he read as much as he could on how Robin Hood came about and what he did to help the town of Nottingham. So over the next couple of weeks Nick created a personality for himself, one that would help him get through life of being a fox, and talked to him whenever he could about how to be a better fox.
After a while he stopped talking to Robin and decided that if the world's only going to see a fox as shifty and untrustworthy, that there was no point in trying to be anything else, no matter his species history.
So Robin Hood slowly disappeared out of Nick's conscience and became only a memory. Slowly Nick realized that even though people respected Robin Hood back in the day, no matter what he did now, no one was going to respect him.
Nick sighed and said to himself "Thank you Judy for helping me realize that Robin Hood wasn't completely dead in my memory".
Then Nick heard a distant voice, one that sounded very familiar. "Nick!" the voice yelled, and Nick realized who the voice belonged to.
Judy.
Nick looked up and saw Judy running to him with a despaired look on her muzzle. "Judy!" Nick yelled and started crying with joy.
Judy ran and jumped into his open arms, and buried herself deep into his chest. Nick wrapped her arms around her, and started to pet her ears.
"Nick, are you okay, did you get hurt?" Judy asked, her voice quivering with concernment. "Yes Judy, I'm okay" Nick said and smiled. "I missed you my adorable little bunny" Nick said, but not to be annoying, but because he actually missed her.
Judy, picking up on how he said it, then said "Well I really missed you too my handsome fox" the same way Nick sincerely said it and leaned up and kissed him on the cheek. Nick smiled and kissed her back and then said "I had quite the conversation today". "With who" Judy asked while looking around and saw that there was no one else there.
"Your probably going to think I'm crazy but" Nick smiled and said "With Robin Hood". Judy's expression changed to confusement and bewilderment.
"Wait, do you mean THE "Robin Hood"?" Judy asked. "Yup, THE Robin Hood" Nick said and then explained to Judy everything that happened to him in middle school when he was twelve and the whole conversation he had with Robin.
Judy responded with "But if he was in your imagination, then how is that RH on the wall and the bow there too?". Nick, confused looked up at the wall he was sitting up against and saw the RH initials carved into the stone. He then looked across the room and saw in the corner, the bow that Robin gave to him.
"How did those get here if you weren't actually talking to him?" Judy asked again, very VERY confused.
Nick didn't have the faintest idea.
So that was a good chapter eh? Comment on this story on how you think the bow and initials were in the room even when Judy got there? Chapter 8 will be out soon. Cheers! :)
