"It all began when I was five."
"Wait how old?!" Fiona asks.
"Five."
"Wow," Fiona puffs her upper lip and nods her head in amazement.
(Flashback Seven Years Earlier, Narrated by Tails. Narration will be in italics)
I had just arrived at my new home in a small town in the north-western borders of the late Kingdom of Acorn. Naturally, to meet new people I went to the local bar. Let's just put it as they don't take kindly to children. Add on the fact that law enforcement was practically non-existent. And I'm in for a good one.
"Hey everyone, look at this two-tailed freak," a large mobian lion laughs. Two other goons join in.
Tails responds by casually sweeping the bar stool the lion is sitting on with his namesakes. Knocking the stool and the lion onto the ground. This causes laughter to fill the room. Quickly, the other two goons are upon Tails.
"You just made a big mistake, kid," one of the goons growls. The second one readies a punch.
Tails sees the attack coming. When the punch is thrown Tails catches it in his namesakes, and throws the goon to the ground.
"Let's get out of here!" the goons get up and stumble out the door, tripping over themselves.
The rest of the people in the bar start cheering and clapping at Tails' performance.
The bartender thanked me and told me that I was always welcome at his bar. And also that those goons scared off some business. But the important part happened when I left the bar…
"Excuse me, mister," a small arctic fox says shyly. "I was watching what you did from the window. Thank you so much, one of those goons killed my father."
"You're welcome… Wait! Did you say that one of them killed your father?" Tails asks, concerned.
"Y-yeah, I don't have any parents left," the arctic fox says sadly.
"Do you have a home?" Tails asks, even more concerned.
"N-no."
At this Tails felt too sorry for the kit to walk away.
"Well, I have a spare bedroom at my new place. And if you don't mind helping out at my new business, you can stay there," Tails offers.
"Wait, are you offering me a home!" the fox squeal.
"Yes, and before that. What's your name?"
"My name is Mary Miller, what's yours?"
"Name's Miles Prower, but call me Tails."
She moved in and became like a little sister to me. The lack of law enforcement disturbed me, so I started practicing law. I learn quickly, and in a few months I had a law office a story below my condo.
"Well Tails, looks like Prower and Miller Law Offices are looking good," Mary says looking at the finished office with pride.
"Yep, we did a great job. I wonder who our first client will be?"
That question was answered shortly. We had just come back from a fishing trip, taking our usual route home through an alley when we ran into three certain people.
"Come on Banjo, we got to keep running!" A lanky sheep in blue jeans and an artsy leather jacket, helping a bear in a black doublet a brown trench coat, and bleack trousers hobble through the alley.
The bear trips on something, causing him and the sheep to fall to the ground. Tails and Mary quickly run over to the duo on the ground.
"What happened to you!?" Tails asks kneeling next to the bear.
"I-I was in a bar, a wolf attacked me. It got to the point where I had to hold him off with my gun. He rushed me, I panicked *pant* and shot him. His sister then shot me in the leg, Alex helped me get out," the bear wheezes.
Tails and Mary help the bear prop himself up on a wall. He reveals his name to be Benjamin Bar, and the sheep to be Alexandre Mouton.
"Bang!" a gunshot rings out through the night.
The group turns their heads, and sees a female mobian wolf in a detective's uniform.
"You four get out of the way so I can shoot this no-good murderer!" the wolf barks, venom pouring out of her mouth.
"Wait, from what we hear this was nothing but justified self-defence," Tails says staying right in between the wolf and the bear.
"It doesn't matter he still shot my brother dead!"
"But he didn't want to, he would have probably died if he didn't. Please think for a moment. If you shoot him dead, you'll be no better than him."
The wolf glares, holding the gun prone on its target. Unwavering for a few long moments. Before her glare turns into tears. She drops her gun, and falls to the ground sobbing. Quickly Mary runs over to comfort her.
"I-I almost killed an innocent man," The wolf sobs, "How can I ever forgive myself?"
"It's alright, you didn't kill him. You realized what you were doing and stopped. Just arrest him, he'll go on trial. You witnessed the crime, so testify," Mary comforts the wolf.
"Alright, bear-boy, you're under arrest," the wolf states, her confidence returning.
Benjamin nods and holds his hands out so the wolf can cuff him.
"I'm sorry, but I didn't catch your name," Mary says to the wolf.
"My name's Alandria Wolf, one of the few detectives in this town," Alandria says proudly.
"We'll see you later, Alandria," Mary says waving as she walks away from the alley.
"Wait for me!" Alexandre yells stumbling after the two foxes.
Later that night the three of them arrive back at the law office.
"This is a nice place you have here," Alexandre falls into one of the sofas in the reception area of the office.
"Yep, me and my little sister here built it ourselves," Tails states proudly.
"You'll defend Benjamin tomorrow, right?" Alexandre asks, his tone taking a complete one-eighty.
"You bet!" Mary states before Tails can even think.
"W-what she said," Tails quickly says nodding.
"Thanks guys. Mind if I crash here tonight?"
"Yeah I'll be doing some work tonight, and you Mary?" Tails walks over to his desk.
"I'll turn in," she yawns before heading upstairs.
"Well goodnight," Tails and Alexandre say at the same time.
"You too," she heads upstairs, shutting the door behind her.
"So Alexandre, what do you do?" Tails asks looking up from his desk.
"Well I'm an artist and a writer. I am what you call creative. Banjo is a bounty hunter, I would make more 'irregular' plans to help him catch his bounty. Some were pretty funny. Like the time I built a fake house around a pit. Banjo chased the guy in, and 'Thud!' He fell right into the pit," Alexandre chuckles nostalgically.
"Well I'll be sleeping now, good night," Alexandre yawn before closing his eyes.
"Goodnight Alexandre," Tails says with a smile before going back to his work.