Zootopian Fulf: I'm happy you enjoyed it! gotta love the soap.
Once again I'm sorry for the delay, I'm really busy lately and well... I can't help it to be honest :P
:-Next day, morning. Wolf's POV-:
I slowly opened my eyes as they got used to the sunlight, I felt like I had a hangover.
I looked around, a wolf was lying next to me and we were on what seemed to be a hospital, "Hey" I said as I tugged the wolf, he grunted and opened his eyes.
"Who… are you?" he asked.
"I could ask you the same thing" I replied, we just sat facing each other as we looked around.
"Uh… why do you have my ear?" he asked as he scratched the back of his head.
I looked at him with a strange face, "Once again, I could ask you the same thing"
We just stared at each others ears, "Your left ear is black like mine and your right ear is white" I mumbled.
"Your left ear is white…" he mumbled too.
"Wait, let me have a look" I said as I approached his ear and he let me look at it, he had stitches or something, "Look at mine, does it have something?" I said as I showed him my ear.
He looked at it, "Yeah, stitches"
"So does yours… someone changed our ears? why the fuck would someone do that?"
"I don't know but hey, now we're like brothers even though I don't even know your name" he said with a laugh.
"What happened…" I tried to remember but nothing came to mind, how I got here or whatever, all I had were just clouded memories, no one and nothing important stood out.
"I'm Asher, you?" he said as he stretched his paw out to me.
"Wolf" I said as I gave him a pawshake, as we did so my eyes widened in surprise, "Watch out!" I yelled.
"What?" he said as he looked behind him, he didn't have time to react.
I kicked him to the side and an animal came flying at me, it clawed at my face and I felt probably the worst pain that I have ever felt, after that Asher kicked the animal away and I quickly got up.
Asher and I stood against the tiger that had jumped at me, Asher looked at me for a split second and then he stared at me, "Eyes on him" I grunted.
We backed away and the tiger crept at us, I looked at one of his paws and it was covered with blood.
"We need a weapon or somewhere to hide, at the count of three we run" as I said that I saw the tiger lick his paw to taunt us, "One…" I said slowly as we were getting close to a wall.
"Three!" I yelled and ran, Asher followed me, the tiger in less than a second reacted and started to run towards us.
"Here!" I yelled as I got into a room, Asher went in and I closed the door, the tiger crashed against it and yelped in pain.
"Let's block it" said Asher as he moved a drawer towards the door, I helped him and eventually we had a decent barrier on the door, the tiger kept scratching the door but I didn't mind it, I fell tired onto a couch on the room.
"Find a medkit" I said to Asher.
He looked at me and he did a worried expression, "Right away"
After a minute he appeared with a medkit, "Does it have any pirate patches? I'll need a few" I joked.
"How can you joke in such a situation" he said as he opened the medkit and took out alcohol to disinfect the wound.
"Is it that bad?"
"Whatever you're thinking, it's worse" he said as he approached a piece of cloth with alcohol, he touched me with it and I felt like passing out.
"The fuck" I said with a grunt.
"I told you it was bad" he kept on disinfecting my wound, the piece of cloth was already red, soaked with blood.
"Am I not going to be pretty anymore?" I joked again.
"Really?"
"Defense system, go with it" I said in a robot voice.
"You're gonna look like shit" he said with a smirk.
"Oh then I'm going to be handsome in comparison to before" I said with a laugh.
"Well, your right eye won't live to see it" he said as he bandaged me.
I sighed, "I know"
After a minute he was done and the pain went down just a tad, "Look at this" he said as he approached me.
"At what?" I asked, in response he showed me a radio, "Does it work?"
"Let's see" he said as he tinkered with it, in less than a few second we were hearing the news.
We have just heard news that there was an incident on one of Tundratown's prisons, there was a savage outbreak inside, the officers weren't able to contain it and every single animal that was held inside and some officers are supposedly dead, a swat team will be sent in and tomorrow we will be getting a list of everyone that was inside and we will confirm what happened to everyone there…
After that the mayor Bellwether said some words and they kept on talking about savages and such, "So that tiger out there is a savage?" asked Asher.
"I guess he is, he did seem out of it" I replied.
"The heck is going o-" Asher was interrupted by something unexpected, a rather formal knock on the door, it wasn't like the banging that the tiger was doing.
We looked at each other in confusion and then we approached the barricade, I managed to get through some stuff and look through the window that was on the door, my eyes widened in surprise as I saw the same tiger standing there, knocking on the door. He noticed me, "Hey uh… I'm sorry about what happened"
"What?" so he somehow stopped being savage and he remembered what he was doing as a savage.
"I heard something outside, can I get in?" he asked.
"Uh…" I looked at Asher and he shrugged his shoulders, then I turned back at the tiger, "I-" the tiger was sent flying away by a rhino that charged at him, I quickly got away from the door and gestured Asher to hide.
"What happened?" whispered Asher.
"A rhino sent the tiger flying" I whispered back.
"What?!"
"Hell if I know… the interesting thing is that the tiger went back to normal"
"How?" he asked.
"They said that the savage thing has being going around for a few months, maybe time?" I doubted it was that but it was a possibility.
"It could be… maybe they have to be satiated in some way? he did drink your blood" he replied.
"It can't be that, he didn't have any blood on him apart from mine in his claws and I doubt he was taking a shower here, maybe it's… Eh, forget it" I had thought of something way too convenient.
"Come on, spill it" he said with a smirk.
I sighed, "Maybe it is my blood, but I don't mean it as satisfying his thirst, I mean that my blood has a cure or something"
I expected him to burst out laughing but he didn't, "We can actually test it, when this rhino leaves we can get some blood out of you and me too so we know if it's just you or both… or no one"
"Sound like a plan" I said as I went back to the couch.
"What're we gonna do now?" he asked as he sat on the bed.
"I need some rest" I said as I took a painkiller from the medkit, "And we need the rhino to leave"
Asher laid on the bed, "I won't say no to resting"
"Neither will I…"
:-Night time-:
I woke up and Asher was looking at something in his paws, "What's that?" I asked as I rubbed my eyes.
"A paper, it was on my clothes, it had my name and a warning next to it" he replied as he turned to look at me.
"What warning?" I asked curiously.
"To not use my name" he replied, "See if you have one"
"Your name?" I asked as I searched in my pockets.
"I don't know, it just says that"
"That's strange… Oh you have to be fucking kidding me" I let out a grunt as I looked at the shirt I was wearing, it had a pocket on the right side and if anything was in there it was now stained with my blood, "Just who in their right mind makes a pocket on the right side?" I searched that pocket and pulled out a paper, I looked at it and I couldn't read a word.
"Well, let's go with that it said the same thing, we're not using our real names" he said as he stretched out his arms and let out a yawn.
"Whatever, let's get the blood and leave this place. We're sticking together, right?" I asked as I approached the barrier.
"Ear brothers!" he said with a laugh.
I laughed too, "I'll take that as a yes then" I looked through the door's window and no animal could be seen.
"Help me with this" I said as I started to move some stuff away from the door, eventually we were done and the door was clear.
"Where are we going after this?" asked Asher as I opened the door.
"Honestly… I have no idea, let's just find an abandoned place and settle there for some time" I stepped out and looked around, the tiger was lying on a pool of blood.
Asher sighed, "It's not like I have another plan"
"Let's go" I said as I walked out and Asher followed me. We found a room with the equipment to draw blood from us and we used it, we had two syringes with our blood.
"So, we're testing this on rats, right?" asked Asher as we walked out of the hospital, there wasn't a soul around.
"I guess" I said as I walked towards Little Rodentia.
We reached it and we went around the fence looking for an opening, when we found one we went in and searched for a rat, we found one and managed to grab it without it biting us, I injected it with some of my blood and we waited a few minutes, eventually someone spoke, "What… I'm normal again?" asked a low voice, Asher and I looked at each other and then we looked at the rat, it was back to normal.
"It worked!" said Asher happily, I nodded and looked back at the rat.
"How are you feeling?" I asked.
"Like shit, I ate animals!" yelled the rat.
"We know but now you're back to normal, it means that there's a cure" I replied.
"What's been going on?" asked the rat confused.
"All we know is that savages have been going around for a few months" replied Asher.
"My family… can you guys let me go?" said the rat.
"Yeah" I said as I put him down, "Be careful though"
"I will!" he replied as he ran off, eventually we couldn't see him anymore.
"Well, now we test yours" I said to Asher.
"Let's go get another rat"
:-A few minutes later-:
The rat that Asher injected with his blood went back to normal too, "What if they were satiated by that amount of blood?" asked Asher as we got out of LR.
"We'll test it eventually"
"Sure-" we were interrupted by screaming, it came from some apartments that were pretty much next to us.
"Are we going?" I asked.
"Maybe we can get a place to stay" said Asher as he shrugged his shoulders.
"I'd like that" I said as I started to go towards the apartment.
"Same here" Asher followed me.
The screaming had stopped so we started to go from door to door trying to hear for something, eventually I heard the sound of something breaking inside one of the apartments, I gestured to Asher that the door where the sound came from was the one and then I kicked it open.
I went in and a bunch of bunnies were cornered by a panther, I jumped on top of it and held it down on the ground, Asher closed the door and helped me hold the panther down on the floor, I injected it with some of my blood and as I held the panther down I spoke to the bunnies, "What happened?" I asked.
"W-we wanted to help him and he started to have seizures or something, after that he tried to attack us" replied the one that seemed to be the older, "He went savage"
"I realized that much… Asher, now we'll see if it works"
"Yeah, let's hope it does" he replied.
"What did you give to her?" asked a bunny.
"It's confidential" I answered as the panther stopped struggling.
"Oh god I'm so sorry" said a female voice, it was the panther.
"That was quick" said Asher astonished.
"She turned just a minute ago so it probably was because of that, but we know that it works" I said as we got up from the panther and I helped her up, the bunnies got a little bit scared.
"Is she normal now?" asked a bunny.
"I'm so sorry for what happened, I couldn't control it" said the panther.
The panther kept on apologising to the bunnies and eventually I got bored of it, "Look guys I don't mean to pry but this guy here and I need a place to stay, can anyone help with that?"
The bunnies looked at each other in worry, then the panther spoke, "I don't know what you did but you stopped me from doing something horrible, the least I can do is house you for a few days"
"We appreciate it" said Asher.
After some more apologies and goodbyes we left the bunnies apartment and the panther gave us the key to another apartment, we thanked her and then we left to the apartment, to our surprise we actually had a working T.V so we watched the news.
"I guess things will get better" said Asher as we watched the news.
"Yeah, for everyone but us, we don't know what the heck happened to our ears or how did we end up together" Asher sighed and we kept on watching the news, Bellwether stated that we could expect to see Zootopia back to everyday life in about a month, that the only savages left to deal with would be outside of our walls. After that they said that everyone inside the prison was identified and that now they were going to show everyone that passed away.
They probably wouldn't do this on normal circumstances but this time they showed a picture of the deceased and the crime that he had committed, as we watched something unexpected came up, a picture of me without the white ear and my name, it said that I had committed mass murder.
"That's…" mumbled Asher.
"Me…"
"Your ears, look" he said curiously.
"Yeah…" the image changed to a white wolf, it said Asher Wolford, mass murder.
"Ha, you're a mass murderer too" I said sarcastically.
"The ears…" he really cared about the ears, I just nodded.
"Wait… we're dead"
"What?" I couldn't believe he didn't notice.
"That's deceased people Asher, we are dead, at least everyone thinks we are" I said with a grin.
"Do you remember doing such a thing?" he asked slowly.
"I don't…" I have no memory of me going around murdering people… 'How strange'
"So let me get this right, we killed people, we went to prison, somehow we forgot everything and now everyone thinks we're dead"
"That sums it up" I replied.
"What the fuck… so that's why the paper said to not use my real name"
"We both don't remember what we did but now we have a clean slate so who gives a shit, we are dead, we are other animals!" I was starting to get excited over everything I could do now, it was perfect.
"Whatever we do we're in it together, ok?" he said as he looked at me.
"Ear brothers" I said with a laugh, he laughed too and we kept on watching T.V.
"Hey, do you recognize this?" I asked as I showed Asher the necklace that I had on my neck.
"No… why?" he asked as he looked at it.
"No reason, just wondering… So what did you do before all this?"
"I went to the army, not because I love this country but because I needed money" he replied.
"Mmhm… I have to ask you something, would you be up for some… blood money?"
"Whatever it is if it brings money then I'm in, I don't have a family to go back to so I'm all alone… and I actually hate this fucking country, it has only brought me hard times" he sighed.
"Then let me make you an offer, you do know what I mean with blood money, right?" I asked with a smile.
"I'm not sure but it involves killing something, right?"
"I haven't told you what I used to be, have I?" this was dangerous to do, but if he accepts then I would be golden.
"Nope" he said slowly.
"I was a hitman, a hired assassin if you want"
He looked at me with a strange face, "Really?"
"Yeah, it pays really well and I mean it" I answered, "Of course we would have to wait until Zootopia goes back to normal, we have to start here. So, what do you think?"
After a minute of silence he spoke, "How well does it pay?"
"At first it won't be that much, but when we get to the important targets you'll see a whole new meaning to swimming in money" I said with a grin.
"How would we split the money?"
"50/50 even if we're not doing the job together" it was the best deal he could get to be honest.
"So that's it, we kill someone and we get paid?" he still had some doubts.
"Pretty much, of course some works will be hard and you'll need to leave your morals behind, for example if you have to kill a target next to it's family then you do it" of course you could just wait for another oportunity but sometimes that wasn't the case.
"The pay better be good" he said with a smirk.
"Then you're in?" I asked.
"I told you, if there's money I'm there" he said with a grin, "And we are mass murderers anyway"
"We were Asher, were, now we are dead" we really had it set up for this to go well.
"Then it's settled" he said.
"Yeah, maybe we'll find something about what happened to us and our ears too" I said as I got up and let out a yawn, "I'll go sleep"
"Sure" he kept on watching T.V and I went into a room... I'm going back to my old ways, killing for money, but this time I'll manage myself and I'll do whatever I want with the money... I'm not arguing.
Time for a change of scenery, right?
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