Hey there everyone! I´m updating! Finals are coming and I don´t think I will be able to update during the week, so I´m giving you this before I vanish from existence. Way overdramatic. So, I finally released the first chapter of my long fiction! It took a while more than expected, but it´s out and I´m happy I finally did it. Go check it out! And if you do please read the author´s notes since there is some very important information in there. Anyway, here we go with the new chapter! This is supposed to be the serious chapter (I can never know if you do consider them serious. Please tell me!). Enjoy!
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"Mister Manchas? Judy Hopps, ZPD. We just want to know what happened to Emmitt Otterton." Nick and Judy arrived at the household of Mr. Big´s mentioned driver. They heard the door creak and a big black paw came from inside the house.
"You should be asking what happened to me!"
"Wow. A tiny otter did that?"
"What happened?"
"He was an animal! Down on all fours. He was a SAVAGE! He just kept screaming about the NightHowlers, over and over, the NightHowlers!" Nick widened his eyes as an idea popped inside his head and he only hoped that Judy would catch on to what he was about to do.
"Oh, so you know about the NightHowlers too? Good, good. Because the NightHowlers are exactly what we are here to talk about, right?" Nick signaled Judy to talk and the bunny quickly got together what was happening and followed the play.
"Yep. So open up the door and tell us what you know and we will tell you what we know."
"Okay." The jaguar closed the door just to open it a second later. Nick and Judy went inside and heard what the mammal had to say.
"Look, I knew mister Otterton. He´s a florist and one of the most relaxed animals I´ve met in my life. I sincerely don´t know what happened to him after he escaped the limo, but I overheard him saying that NightHowlers were a threat to predators."
"Specifically predators?" Judy asked while taking notes on her little booklet. Nick was looking around the house and found over the table some magazines that didn´t draw his attention. Then the jaguar continued speaking.
"He said that NightHowlers were being used to target predators. I don´t know why he knew that, he was just a florist."
"Hey Carrots."
"Yeah?"
"You know about plants right?"
"Yes."
"Isn´t NightHowlers the name of some plant that makes bugs get away from vegetables and that kind of stuff?"
"I don´t kn-wait. Midnicampum Holicithias. Those are the NightHowlers! And when I was a kid my dad never let me get close to those because they made someone go nuts."
"Someone is weaponizing them and targeting predators." Nick completed the idea and both mammals looked at each other proudly.
"Thank you Mr. Manchas. You have been of big help." Judy said while going for the door, Nick going in front of her.
"You are welcome officers. I hope you stop this whack-AH!" Suddenly the jaguar was on the floor and turning crazily, making Nick and Judy confused and scared.
"Mr. Manchas?" Suddenly the jaguar growled at them and bolted towards Nick. The fox covered himself with his paws and waited for the worse, which never came. Judy had jumped and kicked the animal on his chest, sending him backwards and giving the pair a window to escape, which they took without hesitation. Unfortunately the jaguar was following them.
"Officer Hopps to dispatch." Judy waited for what felt like an eternity until Clawhauser picked up the call. "Clawhauser! We have a 10-91, jaguar gone savage. I need backup at Vine and Tujunga!" Nick suddenly grabbed her paw as she was starting to slip and through the falling walkie talkie Clawhauser´s voice could be heard calling the rabbit´s name.
"There, head to the sky tram!" Judy signaled and Nick bolted faster than he had ever done, leaving Judy trailing as Manchas was about to catch up with her. As she heard the jaguar jump at her Judy jumped and used a light pole to spin and evade the attack, but she slipped and almost fell an enormous distance. Luckily she had grabbed from the edge of the wooden floor.
"Get in. Carrots? Carrots!" Nick was holding open the door as he saw Judy struggling to get herself back up and she told him to go. Next he saw Manchas going slowly towards him as his grip on the trap got weaker, seeing that his escape pod was leaving the place.
"No, no, no, no. Buddy, from what predator to another..." Manchas jumped at Nick and all that he could do was cover himself with his paws.
Clink
Judy heard as the pawcuffs got into the pole after being placed on the jaguar´s ankle, but the sound that the cuffs made didn´t allow her to hear what Manchas had done, until the fading screaming did.
"NICK!" Judy could only see as the fox was falling from the wooden platform and struck several branches before hitting the ground, no sounds coming from him after that. Judy ran as fast as she could and when she reached the lower level she saw the chief of Zootopia´s police arrive and she went to him at fll speed.
"Chief! Get a medical team over here immediately! Nick has fallen from at least seventeen feet!"
"On it. Bring a medical team to my location, we have an injured mammal. Fell from 17 feet and need immediate assistance."
"There´s a savage jaguar cuffed to a pole on the platform. I´ll go with Nick." She rushed to the fox who was just a few feet from her position and once she arrived she gasped seeing Nick bleeding, with splinters as big as a fork on his body and his left leg seemed to be broken in million pieces.
"Nick! Nick can you hear me!? NICK!" She shook the fox and managed to wake him up, which made the pain return to the vulpine´s body.
"Ahh! Judy, help me!"
"Help is on its way. Hang in there Nick."
"Ah! It hurts! Please, make it stop!"
"Just wait, aid is coming. Fight the pain Nick. You have to fight it."
"It´s...so...much...pain." Nick closed his eyelids and his body got limp. Judy screamed his names many times and started crying when the paramedics took her away and starting using a defibrillator to get the fox´s heart to beat once more.
"We have a pulse! Get him inside the ambulance!" As fast as a lightning the paramedics placed Nick in the back of the vehicle and went full speed towards the hospital, leaving a sobbing Judy behind them.
"Please be okay Nick. Oh this is my fault. I´m sorry." She cried loudly and Bogo went to her and placed a hoof on her shoulder.
"Hopps, he´s going to be alright."
"This is my fault Chief. I forced him to help me. He wouldn´t have gotten hurt if he hadn´t met me."
"Hopps, this was not your fault. This was caused by a criminal."
"He was a savage Chief. He chased us down on all fours and tried to bite us. He´s up there cuffed."
"I would like to believe you Hopps, but there´s nobody up there."
"What? But I cuffed him! He hurt Nick!"
"Hopps, he might have gotten away. We´ll have to check the security cameras´ footage and see what happened."
"I´ll go with you Chief."
"Hopps, listen..."
"I need to do this Chief. They hurt my friend. I have to stop them."
"Okay Hopps. Let´s go see the footage." Judy got inside the buffalo´s SUV and both went toward the ZPD, where Bogo witnessed the chase that they had been part of and then both mammals stayed shocked when wolves came in and captured the jaguar. Bogo followed the mammals across the cameras and tracked them to an asylum at Zootopia´s limit.
Many patrols came into the building and Bogo and Judy leaded the teams that restrained all the wolves and surprisingly Major Lionheart was there. After seizing the compound and placing the savage animals in proper and public positions Judy was thinking about what was making the predators go savage, until an idea popped inside her head.
"Chief, remember that weasel I caught stealing?"
"Yes I do. What´s with that?"
"Well, he was stealing Nighthowlers, the flowers that are making the predators go savage."
"Ok Hopps. He has a bootleg movie stand in the outskirts of Savannah Central." Judy went over there and hoped that the mammal would cooperate, but since he didn´t she had to ask a favor from Tundratwon´s mob boss, Mr. Big. When the weasel told her everything she needed she called Bogo and revealed the location of the drop spot wit the ram. Judy called for backup as she went towards the place and once there several officers raided the train wagon. The rams confessed without being asked to, which lead to Bellwether´s incarceration. Judy then went to the hospital and waited in a cushioned chair until a koala came to speak to her.
"Are you with the fox?"
"Nick Wilde?"
"That one."
"Yes I am. What happened?"
"Amazingly he didn´t break any ribs. The splinters were big and deep, so he has some fresh wounds there. The real bad news is his leg."
"What´s wrong with it?"
"We had to amputate it."
"What?"
"He broke the femur into dozens of pieces and when ge got a severe cut on the leg it got infected quickly. The infection entered the holes that every bone had left and it was threatening to spread to his entire body, which left us with the desperate measure we had to use. I´m really sorry. A special prothesis has been ordered since the injury was related to a police case, but it will be hard for him to adapt.
"C-can I see him?"
"Of course. He´s been quite altered by the feeling, so have patience if he behaves like a jerk."
"I will, thanks." Judy entered the room and saw a sobbing fox touching the space where his leg used to be and he looked up when the sound of the door closing reached his ears. Judy expected Nick to enter a frantic stage of rage directed towards her since it was because of her that he got involved in the case. But he only got received by a fox full of despair and sorrow.
"C-carrots. M-my leg. It´s...not there. I lost it." Judy started sobbing as she got close to the bed and placed her paw over his and squeezed it.
"I´m so sorry Nick. This is my fault. I-I´m sorry."
"Yes Judy, it is your fault." Judy gasped and was about to move her paw away from his, but suddenly he carried her and made her sit on is ap, where he gave her a warm hug. "But I forgive you Judy. You don´t have to worry or continue blaming yourself. Yes this happened and it could have been avoided, but as bad as it may be, it helped a bigger purpose. You saved Zootopia and I´m glad I could help you throughout some of the process." Judy was sobbing on his shoulder and felt how he nuzzled her neck, so she returned the action.
"Nick, I´m going to help you every single day I can. You´ve got a good friend in me and I will never leave you since today." She kissed his cheek and readjusted herself to look at him, both still in their hug.
"Thanks Judy."
"It´s the very least I can do."
"Hey, you know what else you could do?"
"Anything Nick. Tell me."
"After I get my prothesis and I get used to it, would you like to go on a date?" Judy´s eyes widened and looked confused at the fox.
"A date?"
"Yeah. With me of course. What do you say?" Nick smiled tenderly at her and Judy giggled at the fox.
"You really don´t know the concept of timing do you?"
"I don´t think so. And?"
"I would love to Nick."
THE END
Here´s another chapter guys! This is the first one where I don´t make Nick and Judy a couple at the end, wow. This could be open for a follow up, or not. Who know? Anyway, if it looks like it has some mistakes is because I wrote this pretty late at night and I also wrote it pretty fast. Seriously, I usually take more time in chapters of any length and ultimately writing has been flowing naturally from me. Please guys go check my other story and help me with the request I made over there! It´s for the story´s plot since it will define how the story will go and I would love to have all your support, which will make the story follow a certain path. You are literally making the most important part on my story. Well, hope you enjoyed the chapter and with that I say to you goodbye.
Have a nice day everyone!