Chapter Ten

Once they reached the Rainforest District Kiana explained everything to the pair, that it all began when she was ten years old. She was doing a history report for her project on families and went to the library to find out more about her family when she stumbled upon a history book about everything that had ever happened in the world and stumbled upon the Great Hunt, where she learned that her ancestor Joseph had made a deal with some humans due to how unfair Zootopia treated the predators, who back then were not in charge of the city. He made a deal with the humans so that they would eliminate all the prey animals and with every single prey animal gone the predators would rule the city. However he had been backstabbed when the humans decided to hunt both prey and predator in Zootopia.

Joseph's betrayal had left such a deep wound in the city that everyone banished him and he left, never to return. Kiana thought everyone would love it because of how her family played such an impact in history but once she did everyone hated her and her family. It had gotten so bad that they packed their bags and ran away to the circus, where they remained ever since.

"At first I thought it would be fun to live in the circus." Kiana said "Preforming in front of an audience, no school work, free popcorn and soda... but I began to realize to realize working in this circus was not as fun as I thought it would be. My parents died after they had an argument with Mr. Baloo and I had been on my own ever since, waiting for the day I could finally leave the circus and actually have a normal life."

Nick and Judy looked at each other before Judy said "Well, maybe they made a mistake in the history books. History does get updated every day and I bet that maybe your ancestor didn't have anything to do with the Great Hunt in the first place."

"I... I never thought about it." Kiana said "But if Joseph wasn't responsible for this, then who was?"

"That's what we're going to find out, after we find Ella and Logan." Judy said.

Once they arrived at the clubhouse the first thing they did was look inside where they saw Ella and her friends trying to teach Logan how to walk like a regular human but before they could enter the clubhouse, something snapped. The trio looked around to find a hooded figure cutting the ropes that secured the treehouse to the tree and Nick shouted "Hey! What do you think your doing?!"

The wolf ran off just before he could sever the last rope and Judy ran inside to get everyone out before the last ropes broke apart and the whole clubhouse collapsed into a heap of broken boards and ruined furniture and other items the kids had put in their clubhouse.

"Our clubhouse!" Ella cried in shock and horror.

"My mystery books!" Stan cried

"My favorite Soccer star posters!" Chris exclaimed in horror.

"My songs!" Susan exclaimed in horror.

"My best red dress!" Isabella cried sadly.

"My art projects!" Jason cried in horror.

"Everything is ruined!" they exclaimed in union.

Logan rushed up to Kiana and hugged her tightly while whimpering. Kiana comforted her friend and said "There there Logan, i'm here."

Nick rushed up to Ella and hugged her tightly before he said "Ella, are you alright? You're not hurt right?"

"No, but our clubhouse is ruined!" Ella said sadly "It took us a week to make it... now it's ruined."

"There there, we can make another one." Nick said before he gave Ella back her phone "By the way, you dropped this."

Ella took back her phone and said "Thanks Daddy." Just then there was a ding sound and she looked down to see a text written on it by Cody, making Ella exclaim "Oh no! I forgot my date with Cody at the graveyard!"

"Date? DATE?! You never said anything about a date with that kid!" Nick exclaimed angrily.

"I was going to... but I forgot when Logan and the circus came to the park and..." Ella trailed off when she noticed how angry Nick was becoming.

Before Nick could respond Judy came back with a stick that held a model of a human handprint and said "Look at this! It looks like someone's trying to frame humans for this accident! And get this, this thing comes from the circus!"

"So someone from the circus is causing these accidents on purpose?" Kiana asked "Why?"

"That's what we are going to find out." Judy said "Let's split up. I'll take Isabella and Susan to the circus to question the ringmaster while Kiana goes to the library with Chris and Jason to find out more about the Great Hunt and see if she missed something."

"And me and Stan will look after Logan, and keep Ella company on her date." Nick said before she turned to Ella saying "You asked for it kid, just don't think about going for a kiss and you won't get grounded until your an old maid... or I turn that jerk into a human skinned rug, one or the other."

Ella blushed bright red as the group went their separate ways; two for the case, and one that she was forced to take along and the worst part was that this group had her father. Ella had no idea how she was going to explain this to Cody once she arrived for their date.

"I don't suppose we can forget about the date and just stay here to teach Logan how to be a real human right?" Ella asked

"Don't try to worm your way out of this one young lady." Nick said "It's bad enough your date likes graveyards. But just to let you know, if he so much as tries to pull a fast one, I'm going to burry him alive, make him a headstone saying 'Here's what happened to the last dope who tried to date my daughter' and dance on his grave."

Ella blushed redder as she sighed and said "This is going to be a long day."