Hey Guys, a brief interlude with the Mutant Babies...Just so we know what's going on in the Humanimal World
The Mutant Cubs as they were called by everyone who knew them, were perhaps the biggest marvels of this decade, a cannister of some sort of mutagen labeled TCRI had somehow come through a transdimenstional portal in space and come to Earth, fallen to Earth and crashed into the Cincinatti Zoo Nursrey where five young animals were being treated for Zoo Flu
If the miraculous mutatation wasn't enough these young Mutant Cubs grew faster both physically and mentally, even through they were physically toddlers they had the volcabulary of grade school students.
Even though Taylor, Caesar and Julia all had siblings in their adopted familes to play with. (Older sisters in Taylor and Julia's case and a younger brother in Caesar's case) All the Mutant Cubs preferred to play with their fellow Mutants because they had spent an entire winter together when the Fellowship Herd fostered them.
During their time in Felly Forest they spent much time in the Nursrey playing together and gushing over their heroes the Fellowship Herd, one day, Zeb the Zebra had been sent out on a very important mission.
Zeb was coming back to the nursrey prancing (Of all the Cubs she still struggled with walking upright that may have been because of her long spindly equine legs) With her Teddy Bear clutched in her mouth
In the nursrey, Caesar was holing up Julia the Hyena and Rye the Anteater in his strong Chimp arms, because the window was so high up. "Do you see Zeb yet?" Caesar asked
"No." Said Julia "I don't see her yet."
"She's a black and white horse..." Rye grumbled "How hard..."
Just then Zeb came in flinging th door open "I saw her!" She exclaimed (She had moved her Teddy Bear from her mouth to left hand)
"Gah!" Shouted Caesar losing his balence and the whole Animal Tower fell with Julia going in one direction and Rye going another, Rye landed on Taylor the Flamingo.
Zeb blushed seeing what she had done to her friends, so she bashfully sucked on her Teddy Bear's ear and said quietly "I saw the Princess."
The Mutant Cubs scambled over to their Zebra Herd Sibling
"What was she like?" Asked Caesar
"Was she pretty?" Asked Taylor
"Did she look more like her Mom or Dad?" Asked Rye
"She was a Unicorn like her Mom." Said Zeb "But instead of being brown and white with a black mane she was GREEN and white with a black mane, I saw her when Zander was feeding her!"
"What was he feeding her?" Julia asked
"He was feeding her boysonberries." Zeb said "He would eat the berries...And then upchuck the berries into Amalthia's mouth!"
"That's how Mom and Dad feed me." Taylor said "Only they feed me pink milk."
Taylor sighed dreamily "I wish I could be a Princess."
"But we're not." Zeb said "We're not Unicorns we're 'Mundane Beasts' as the grown ups call it...So we can't be royality."
"Why can't mundane beasts be royallty?" Julia asked indignatly
"I don't know." Zeb said "I guess it was something to do with the 'mundane' bit"
"I wonder..." Said Caesar "...What would happen if a Mundane Beast did become royalty?"
That last line was foreshadowing...And in case any of you suffered and accute case of diabetes from these chapter, here is some free barf bags