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Chapter 25

Nightmare

It was the second day of the Charity Week. Things were still as hectic as it was before. The crowds weren't any lesser than yesterday. And Magdalene was very tired from it and a little bit grumpy.

She barely got any sleep last night since had to do a bit of 'chores', courtesy of Yuki. And her beloved older brother wasn't home to give her company and be in bed with her. He had to stay in school, guarding the stalls there. Then she had to wake up earlier than she should to do another 'chores', again courtesy of Yuki.

It was noon now, and the stall was closed down for the moment to take a break. Like yesterday, Yuki had bailed on Magdalene and Raion, probably 'washing her eyes' on some hunky dudes.

Magdalene had to endure Yuki's rant of how sexy the crimson fox was yesterday. And by the looks of it, Yuki was probably hunting down the same fox once more.

"Do you have another bottle of water, Raion?" Magdalene inquired as she sat lazily and tiredly in her chair, sweats ran down her face. The golden lion gave her the third bottle of water of the day for her. "Thanks"

She ripped open the bottle cap and chugged down the water shamelessly. Raion would've given her a stare of disbelief but she had already done that on her first bottle yesterday.

"Well look what we got here"

Almost instantly, Magdalene felt both of her skin and fur crawled at the familiar voice. She fearfully looked at the source of the voice and almost paled to death as she dropped the bottle into the ground.

Three people were standing right in front of her stall: a brown Anthrop bear, a yellow Furry chick, and a purple Furry rabbit. All of them had one thing in common: the aggressive word tattoo. The bear had it on the right side of his exposed neck, the chick had it on the left side of her breast, and the rabbit had it right above his right eyebrow.

Nightmare

"We haven't heard from you for a long time," the bear, Dred, said in a mocking tone as he leaned on the counter as Magdalene sunk deeper into her seat.

"Rumors said the fox that caused the Bite of '87 had returned and made contact with you," Xhic stated, giving the white vixen a knowing look. Magdalene didn't answer; she was too busy trembling in fear.

"Well it looks like we have an extra company," Banny said once his eyes landed on the defensive lion. "If it isn't Gouruden Raion himself, the golden lion"

The said lion got up and got into defensive position right beside Magdalene. He had seen her reaction when she just only heard their voices. She was shaking like a leaf. He wouldn't blame her though.

These guys were incredibly bad news.

"Envix isn't too happy of what you had done to her," Banny continued, giving the golden lion a glare. Raion released a steamy exhale through his black nose, returning the glare.

"You still haven't answered the question, Vixy," Dred said to the white terrified vixen, still in his mocking tone as he smiled toothily at her. Like always, Magdalene didn't answer and was still trembling in her seat.

She whispered something, but none of them heard what she had said.

"Excuse me," Dred turned his head to one side to get a 'better' hearing while narrowing his eyes at her. "I didn't catch what you had just said. Would you mind run that by me again?" he asked her mockingly, cupping his ear.

Magdalene whispered louder, but still unheard by any of the four. Mysteriously, she had stopping shaking in her seat and looked passed any of the three before her but none paid attention to it. Raion was also looking at what she was looking at.

"This is taking too long," Xhic sighed impatiently, annoyed at the white vixen's lack of answer. She took a step back and looked up at stall before her, humming a bit. An idea suddenly struck her, giving her a mischievous smile.

She was about to open her mouth to say out her mischievous idea, all came out was a pained choking gasp when a gloved hand suddenly clamped around her neck from behind. Her thrashing noise gained the attention from Dred and Banny.

"Kit!" Dred said in surprise at the crimson fox that held Xhic as hostage, who was thrashing around to break free but no avail. "It's been a while. How long has it been? Ten years? Fifteen years? Or is it twenty years?"

"What's your business here?" Foxy demanded heatedly, holding the thrashing Xhic like it was nothing. The scene had gone the attention of the people around, stopping at what they were doing to watch. Dred mockingly looked hurt as he placed a hand on his chest, like Foxy's words had physically wounded him.

"Are you not happy to see us again, Kit?" he asked the fox, and received a deep growl as a reply.

"I'll take that as a yes," Banny commented silently, glancing at one side to another trying to find an escape route. Unlike Dred, Banny wasn't really looking forward on facing Foxy.

"Anyway," Dred said, stepping closer to the fox and the chick. When Foxy tightened his grip, Dred stopped in his tracks, receiving the message. "We come to say hi, Kit. It's been a while. Oh, and we came here to collect you. The Puppet Master wants to see you"

Foxy's eye was constricted into a thin slit in anger at the title. He knew the title, and he hated the owner of the title so much.

Even more so than Vincent himself.

"He's been missing you, Kit. He wants to catch up all the years you two had been missing"

"And if I refuse?" Foxy demanded lowly, cutting Dred's small rant. The Anthrop bear smiled evilly before looking over his left shoulder, to the white vixen.

"I'll take someone else"

"Over my dead body," Foxy growled, fully knowing who Dred meant as he tightened his hand around Xhic's throat. Dred barked a laugh in full confident.

"You can't beat us anymore, Kit! That was almost twenty years ago. We've changed, stronger than before"

"I'll beg to differ," Foxy replied lowly as he released Xhic. She didn't get anywhere before Foxy slammed his gloved hand at the back of her neck, causing her to pass out. Foxy internally snorted at how quickly she passed out.

He immediately focused back at the Anthrop bear in front of him. He dodged the upcoming fist at the last fraction of a second, silently impressed at the bear's speed. He blocked the second fist and was even more impressed at the strength behind it.

"You've improved, I have to admit. You're faster and stronger than before," Foxy complimented as the two distant themselves. Dred held his head high and smirked widely. "Of course, the last time we fought, I was merely a ten year old kit, and I took you out in five seconds from now"

The smirk on Dred's face instantly disappeared, quickly replaced by anger. Unintentionally, he let his guard down as he was about to open his mouth for a snarky remark.

He didn't manage to say anything because five seconds later he was already on the ground passed out when Foxy struck him. Foxy snorted out loud at the fallen bear.

"You get offended a little too easily. And when you do, you're completely vulnerable to everything, which makes you easy to take out," Foxy pointed out the bear's ultimate flaw, the same flaw that had caused him his pride years ago.

Foxy looked up to search for the third culprit, the purple rabbit Banny. The Furry rabbit was already making a run for it, as far away from Foxy as he could. The crimson fox snorted in amusement.

"Always the smart one," Foxy commented at the slowly shrinking rabbit. "But I'm not letting you go easily"

Foxy looked around for anything he could get his hand on and his eye landed on a frying pan. He picked it up and casually spun it in the air for a moment before throwing at Banny in a large arch.

The frying pan landed on his head a distant away and fell to the ground before the "CLANK" was heard. The spectators stared in amazement at Foxy's accuracy. The said crimson fox was brushing away the invisible dust from his chest before sighing tiredly.

"Foxy!"

Turning towards the owner of the voice, Foxy saw Mary weaved through the crowds and approached him with worried expression on her face.

"Are you alright?" she asked in concern, looking at him up and down for any injury like a mother hen, unknowingly causing Foxy to raise an eyebrow in amusement. Then her concern immediately evaporated and glared up at him heatedly, which caused another crimson eyebrow to rise.

"Geez, Foxy. I just turn my back for a tenth of a second and you're already half a mile"

"That's a bit exaggerated, don't you think?"

"I'm just making my point!" Mary replied heatedly, annoyed at his sudden interruption. "You really have a habit of bailing someone out in the blink of an eye, don't you? I thought you were doing something inappropriate"

Foxy's eye twitched as his body jerked a bit at her words.

"L…Like what?" he asked in weird tone since he doesn't know how to react to her statement. Should he be disgust or amuse or something?

"Oh, like, I don't know, something inappropriate"

"M-Mary, lass, you're overreacting"

"I'm just worried, you know?! You were gone when I turn back around. I thought you were foxnapped or something"

"Mary, they would be on the ground passed out before they could do anything to me. Let alone foxnap me"

Unbeknown to the pair, the spectators had got a second round of drama and were really enjoying it. Mary sighed as her entire body relaxed, closing her eyes during the process.

"Never mind," she said gently. Her slim black tail came up and the crimson cat fidgeted it before her golden eyes landed on the unconscious Anthrop bear at Foxy's feet. "Who are these people?" she asked him, nodding towards Dred.

Foxy looked down at the Anthrop bear for a moment, and then shifted his gaze at Xhic behind him, before staring at Banny a distant away. He didn't answer immediately, although he was already prepared for the answer almost twenty years ago.

"Trouble from the past," Foxy answered lowly, almost growling. Mary stared at him as her hands froze from her tail.

"B- Ah… Mr. Foxy!"

Another person, shorter, ran up to Foxy, earning the attention from both crimson pair. Magdalene stopped right in front of the crimson fox, looking very worried.

Mentally, Magdalene was kicking herself for nearly giving away her relationship with Foxy.

"Are you okay, Mr. Foxy?" Magdalene asked worriedly.

"I'm fine, Magdalene lass. No harm has done on me," he replied. When he noticed her visibly relaxed, he couldn't help it but commented out loud. "Fortunately you're not overreacting like someone"

Foxy received a jab of an elbow from another crimson figure of the trio on his side. He ignored the pain but smiled teasingly at Mary.

His smile quickly disappeared when his eye landed on the golden lion that stepped in front of the crowd, directly looking at him. An eyebrow raised in curiosity.

'He must be the lion Magdalene had been talking about, Gouruden Raion is his name. I didn't get a chance to meet him,' Foxy thought silently to himself. At the same time, another thought came to his mind. The eyebrow lowered and a frown was replaced.

Something about the golden lion was bothering him. Foxy wasn't bothered by the lion's intimidating height and build.

He was bothered by the look the golden lion gave him. He knew something. He knew something more than he should. Or he knew something more than he shouldn't… about Foxy.

"Foxy?" Mary said, bringing him back to reality. He looked at her questioningly. "What are we going to do with these three people?"

Foxy didn't give an answer. Instead, he looked around the stalls surrounding him and his eye landed on three long ropes from three different stalls.

Grabbing all three of them, not bothering asking for permission from the owners, he tied both Dred and Xhic with two of the ropes.

"Where are you going?" Mary asked with a frown when Foxy grabbed the one ends of the two ropes that tied the two unconscious figures.

"Where they belong," he answered stoically as he headed at the third person a distant away, dragging the other unconscious two behind him. As he passed Raion, the two shared a look, before the lion looked away.

Mary tried to stop him, demanding for more answer, but something told her to stay out of the way. She had seen it when he said that the three people were trouble from his past. She fidgeted with her tail once more.

Mary had never really got much from Foxy's history. She had been spending a lot of her time with him and secretly had become her daily routine to see him. Yet she knew very little of him.

All she knew about him was that he had been playing violin since he was three, he lost his right hand when he sixteen for some reason he didn't tell, his father was a craftsman who had built the violin he had been using ever since and deceased for protecting his family, his mother followed a few days later for unknown cause and…

That was pretty much it. There were still a lot of things he didn't tell, lots of holes to fill in. He was a walking mystery to her and to everyone at Fredbear High.

It was as if he was holding back something.

And then there was the thing she had heard from the crowd before she approached him earlier.

"Did you hear what the bear had said?"

"Yeah, he said the fox that caused the Bite of '87 had return"

"Isn't the fox held in custody?"

"He was, but he broke free, or was released I think. And shortly after that he disappeared"

"Do you think the bear's telling the truth?"

"I hope not. The Bite of '87 is a terrifying event to occur. Another bite will raise havoc to the city"

Mary had heard about the devastating Bite of 87th street and the blood red fox behind it. She had read a full article around it. It sent cold shivers down her spine. She couldn't believe such action could come from a fox.

Her golden eyes widened as the fur on her tail stood on end. She looked up at where Foxy had gone to. The description of the fox almost matched with him. The fact that the Anthrop bear knew about the blood red fox and the fact that he and Foxy knew each other was not a coincidence. And the fact of Foxy wouldn't share anything from his past…

Could he be…?

'NO!' Mary yelled in her thought as her hands wound tightly around her tail painfully but she didn't register it. 'Foxy is definitely NOTthe same fox who caused the Bite of '87! He's just… too… nice… too passionate… too… loving. He couldn't be…'

Mary bit her lips hard as the thought dominating her mind. She gripped her tail tighter than before.

'Could he?'