WARNING- DARK-
Knights In Shining Armor*
Five For Fighting; Superman (It's Not Easy)
"LAST STOP!"
Nick looked up and curled his lip at the dark street they were on and shook his head as he stood up and stepped into the aisle with Skye. "This bus is supposed to take us to Happy Town, the last stop isn't even in this district! Where are we?!"
The driver, a dingy looking pig Nick recognized as soon as he lifted his head from under his hat stood up and stepped away from the front doors, pulled a fox taser, along with a small red bottle and growled. "You freaks get off my bus now." Finnick jumped from the seat and backed up as Nick stuck an arm in front of Skye and pressed her back towards the back of the bus. They all jumped as the back doors opened.
"YOU CAN'T JUST LEAVE US HERE! WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE WE ARE! THIS ISN'T EVEN A STOP!" Skye was screaming as she shoved past Nick and growled. The pig snorted as she stepped closer, with Nick pulling at her arms as Finnick tugged on her legs.
"FILTHY FOXES!" He growled as he sprayed the mace he was holding up. Skye screamed as it hit her straight in the face and Nick was gasping as he pulled her out the back doors. Finnick fell out of the back of the bus with her purse in his paws, trying to escape the taser that started flashing. Nick dragged Skye behind a building trying to get his lungs to stop burning and Finnick crawled out of the road dragging her purse with him as the bus pulled away.
"Skye." Nick looked around through blurry eyes as she kept screaming and pulled her closer trying to hide her in his chest. "You have to stop screaming and try to stay quiet! We don't know where we are! ... damn it.." He curled a paw around her muzzle and planted his lips against hers as she kept huffing. As soon as she curled her arms around him, he ran his muzzle along both sides of her face trying to pull what he could from her face with his fur.
Finnick hacked as he fell beside Nick and rubbed his eyes. "I didn't even get hit with that shit and my eyes are on fire."
Nick hissed as the burning intensified and tried not to rub his eyes. He grabbed Skye's paws as she pulled them from around him. "Don't rub it, you'll make it worse. I can't see very much. Everything is blurry. We need some water."
"Well there ain't no one around here to ask Nick."
"My p-purse. There's some in my purse!"
"I think it's still on the bus Skye." Nick whispered as he blinked, trying to get his eyes to focus as she tried to keep herself from making any more noise.
"I got it." Finnick said as Nick felt around blindly until the smaller fox grabbed his paw. "Hang on Nick. This things almost as big as I am." Nick pulled Skye closer as she whimpered and kept his ears flipping back and forth as he fought not to hiss. "Here, hold your paw out Nick."
Nick was still trying to blink as he held a paw out and felt Finnick grab one of his fingers before a water bottle landed in his paw. "Finnick, look around. See if there's somewhere we can hide around here. Call Dad."
Finnick started looking around as he pulled his phone out and cursed. "It's smashed to hell. Musta landed on it when I fell outta the bus."
Nick clamped his eyes as he moved his other paw, feeling Skye's face. "Mines in my pocket. I think Skye's is in her purse." He felt Finnick grabbing his shirt and his phone before he was trying to lean closer to her. "Hold still Skye, I'm going to pour this over your eyes." Skye sucked in a breath as the water poured over her muzzle and eyes. She tried not to flinch and Nick tried to keep the bottle in a position rested against her nose where she could feel him tilting it, but neither of them could see.
By the time he'd emptied the bottle she was whining against his chest as he tried to clear his eyes again. Finnick tapped Nick's finger and he turned his head the same direction as the small fox kept his voice low. "Neither one of your phone's got no signal. We gotta be in some kinda dead zone cause nothin I tried will pick up anything. I found a small vent we can get into that leads into some kind of basement. Looks like it's been empty for a while and part of it collapsed, but you're gonna have to squeeze into it Nick.
Nick tried to blink nodded. "It's better than being out here in the open like this."
"Give me your paw and I'll lead ya to it."
Nick held is paw out, standing with Skye clutching him and was leaning as Finnick led them several steps and tugged. He almost tripped as Skye's feet knocked into his. Finnick kept a grip on Nick's fingers until he was feeling around an old metal flap that had jagged edges around the sides. The young red fox curled his lip as the sharp edges pinched into his skin. "I can go in first and lead ya both so ya don't get cut. I already tossed her purse in the opening."
Nick nodded as he heard Finnick crawl into the space and flipped his ears back and forth as him and Skye got to their knees. The vixen whined as he held her paw up to the edges. "Finnick's going to help you get in there and I'll make sure the edges stay back. I'll be right behind you."
Skye almost jumped as Finnick grabbed her pinky. Nick held the sharp edges under his paws as she crawled through and clamped his teeth and eyes as they bit into his fingers. He puffed out a breath as her feet slipped in and let go, listening to Finnick telling her which way to go and how to move. Skye fell into the space and yelped, sending Nick into panic. "Finnick?"
"She's fine, just stumbled. I'm coming back. Keep your paw up where I can reach it." Nick sighed and listened as Finnick crawled through the space. When he grabbed his fingers, he dipped his head into the space and slowly pulled his shoulders in when Finnick warned him about problems. "Tilt to the right, there's a piece on the side that's sharp." Finnick let his feet dangle before dropping.
Nick grabbed the opening with both paws and pulled himself, grunting as his whiskers tapped the sides and pulled his shoulders together. "I won't fit. If I try I'm going to get stuck."
Finnick looked back in as Nick's head lowered, and sighed. "How far are you?"
Nick shook his head. "I think my tail is still out there. Hang on, I'll try to-" He was grunting again as he backed up and lifted his tail. After twisting around he felt the little metal flap at the entrance tap against the little box it was covering. "Not comfortable but out of sight." He scooted as close to the opening as he could get, until his shoulders started aching and let one arm dangle inside.
Revil held up the phone shaking his head as the line picked up. "Sir, he's in some trouble."
"What kind of trouble?" Adam's ears perked as he stood from the chair.
"Him and the other two foxes he's with got thrown off a bus. Looks like the guy just had a problem with foxes."
"Can you get to him without being seen?"
"I think they got maced. They're hiding and crawled into some kind of … I'm not sure what it is."
"Where is he?!"
"I'm on the corner of Tejandla and Brandenia St. In District one, outside the Sahara's."
Adam growled as he stepped away from his desk and looked over the city maps on the walls. "Your in the crowned district."
"The what?"
"It's what the other mammals call that area. The richest of the rich live there. They wouldn't waste their time spitting on a fox or anyone who isn't wearing a suit made of pure silk. Don't lose sight of him. It's unlikely anyone will notice them at all. Make sure they don't see you and if they haven't gotten out of there in a few hours call me so I can arrange something that looks random." Revil looked back down the alley and left his car, taking to the rooftops trying to get closer and keep an eye on things. All he could see was the end of a tail disappear as he found a place to watch and settled in, shaking his head at the lack of street signs, lights and the way the area they were in seemed to be secluded and hidden from almost everything around the area…
"You can't get in here?" Skye asked sniffling as Finnick looked back at her and pinned his ears back.
"Give me your paw Skye." Finnick grabbed her finger and pulled her up the little slope towards the entrance. Nick grabbed her paw as she leaned against the pile of dirt. Him and Finnick were both grinning as she pulled it to her face and sighed as she squeezed his fingers.
Nick squeezed back and let his head rest against the metal box he'd crawled into. "Try to get some sleep Skye. We'll get out of here in the morning and figure out where we are." Finnick crawled over the dirt and fell, blinking as Skye caught him and pulled him closer. The small fox looked up catching Nick smirking and rolled his eyes as he settled next to her. Nick nodded off as Finnick and Skye fell asleep, but in the position he was in, he kept waking up and readjusting his body, fighting the fact that his arm was hanging out the edge and had gone numb before it was tingling enough that he was gritting his teeth.
His ears set as he heard voices, and turned trying to make out what they were saying over Finnick snoring. "Finnick…Finnick!"
"Hu?" He answered in a voice laced with yawning.
"Listen."
The smaller fox tipped his head and stood up, tilting his ears back and forth as the voices started getting closer. "Crawl back out there and see if-
Nick's eyes widened as they both caught someone growling. "He didn't leave any foxes here!"
"Maybe they're still around and we missed them. It's worth looking if there was a vixen with them. He's never brought anyone here we didn't find before."
Nick looked at Finnick as both their ears pulled back. They looked at Skye as she stirred and the smaller fox quickly took the same position next to her, letting her curl around him again as she kept a tight grip on Nick's paw. She settled with a deep breath and Nick watched Finnick training his ears as the mammals kept talking.
"He's never brought foxes before. They're almost impossible to catch."
"Why do you think we're looking? Talon knows he could make a fortune with a vixen, and Hampton said they weren't the same species of foxes. It wouldn't be as hard for her to adjust to being with another species if she doesn't care. As long as she's not mated yet whoever bought her would be thrilled and pay out the ass."
Nick curled his eyes as he forgot how to swallow. "What are we going to do with the tods?"
Finnick leaned forward curling his lip as they heard a heavy sigh. "Nothing I don't guess. No one would believe them if they said anything because of where we are."
"He doesn't want to keep them? We get more for the males."
"Not foxes. Tods usually don't live for more than a few days after someone picks them up, regardless of why they want them and the customers complained about it too much. Vixens don't if they've been mated. They can last up to five years if they haven't. It's why they're so expensive. Sensitive mammals. He hasn't been able to catch one for years."
Nick's vision was still blurry, but he looked down and saw Finnick pinning his ears back as they locked eyes. They both ticked their eyes between each other and Skye as Nick felt his throat close. His eyes glossed over with his lips curling up so far that his teeth were showing as he fought off the hissing, wishing he could cry and knowing he needed to stay quiet. He looked at Skye as he pulled his lips together and Finnick plastered his ears to his head as they locked eyes again. Nick curled his brow down and Finnick turned his head as he sucked in a breath and closed his eyes, already knowing what his brother was thinking. A lion kissed a deer, even foxes who weren't the same would always be singled out for being with another species and end up worse off than if they'd …..
The tears washed away the sting that remained from the mace as another kind of pain tore through Nick's soul and shattered the dream he'd been building in his heart…..
Finnick startled as Nick yelped and jerked his arms up, grabbing the inside of what had once been some kind of ventilation shaft. Skye jolted awake and grabbed his paw as he was pulled far enough that his fingers were all that had a grip on anything. "NICK!" She'd grabbed his wrists and Finnick was pulling on her sleeves trying to keep help her keep him from getting dragged out by the tail.
"STAY IN HERE!" He screamed and managed to curl his lips angrily as Skye kept tugging.
"NO!" She snarled as she kept grabbing at his paws, almost being pulled into the shaft.
He managed to kick his feet enough that his claws grabbed something and pulled himself forward enough to grab the inside and pull himself closer. His brow curled and he exposed his teeth snapping at her. "You gave your word! Don't do anything unless I tell you to! Stay in here! Stay with her!"
Skye fell back as he was yanked hard enough that Nick rolled over to his back and was gone. She fell back screaming as Finnick was thrown into her chest. They heard Nick yelp several times as someone started screaming as everything fell silent. Finnick wrapped his arms around Skye's Muzzle shaking his head. Her eyes were red and the fur under her cheeks was burnt, but she kept shaking her head as she tried to get her vision to clear. "Ya gotta stay quiet!" Finick hissed. They leaned away from the metal as claws scraped around the inside of it and Finnick tipped his ears as he heard someone growl.
"Where's the vixen!"
"Fuck you." Nick growled before they heard him yelp again.
"STOP!" Finnick cringed after Skye screamed, listening to the laughing coming from outside as Nick growled again.
"She's still in there. Tell her to come out."
"No. She's mine."
Skye and Finnick leaned closer as they heard them arguing. "We know she's not mated. Tell her to get out here or we'll break your arms."
Nick was laughing before he yelped and started hissing between growling. "What is this? Someone forget to take care of the place and let the floor cave in? Go in and get her yourself if you want her that bad."
Another growl and Finnick leaned away as they heard claws scraping around again. "Burn her out."
They both gasped until they heard Nick laughing again. "Fire! Lots of trucks and cops and people who love to watch things burn."
"I guess we'll just have to wait until she gets thirsty then."
Finnick perked his ears as Nick growled again. "Send the brat out first vixen."
"Brat?"
Finnick felt around his chest and huffed as he found the pacifier around his neck. "Skye. Don't do nothin unless he tells ya to. We got one chance to get outta this shit and I ain't got no idea what he's thinkin." He stuck it in his mouth and climbed up the pile of dirt, motioning for her to follow him. His feet had just gotten off the ground as he was snatched by an ear and pulled into the sunlight, curling his arms in front of his face. He blinked a few times and curled into a ball whining as he was met with the sight of two large males glaring at him.
"What the fuck?" a large panther asked tipping a brow as Finnick sucked on the pacifier and squirmed around reaching back towards the vent whining. The cat dropped him and looked back at a large wolverine as he rolled across the ground before looking up and pouting as he rubbed his eyes.
"You want her, you gotta take him too." Nick growled as he shook his head.
"She's mated? She can't be yours, he's not a red fox."
Nick sighed and Finnick looked at him for a second before he snarled. "Stay where you are brat." They looked at Finnick and back to Nick as the little fox's eyes glazed over. "I didn't say she was my mate. I said she was mine. That little brat is one of hers."
"It's a trick. Get her out here."
Nick shook his head scowling at them and rubbed the blood away from his forehead. "Get out here vixen."
"Why do you keep calling her vixen, what's her name."
"Her name is whatever I want it to be."
Finnick slowly crawled to the vent and grabbed Skye's paw as it slid into daylight. Yelping as she was yanked out. He stood there reaching for her as she dangled from the wolverine's paw. The large male chuckled as she bared her teeth. "Too much fight in her for her to be-
"That's because of the kit. Don't you know anything about foxes?" Nick asked raising his chin as the panther looked back at him snarling. "She's mine. She does whatever I say, with whoever I say."
The wolverine and panther looked at each other and narrowed their eyes. "It's a trick. No vixen takes orders from a tod, and none of them can survive being with more than one. Who's the kits father?"
Nick scoffed before he laughed. He knew the risk of what he was doing as the wolverine dropped Skye, watching Finnick scramble to her. "How the hell should I know? I can't even count all the guys she's seen or been with. She does whatever I tell her to."
Finnick jumped into her lap and buried his head in her neck, trying not to show the understanding he had with what Nick had said. There was no way to count how many guys Skye had seen in her life or how many she had been around and Nick was using their assuming he meant something else trying to get their minds somewhere else.
"Can't count them?" The panther snarled as Skye kept trying to clear her eyes. "You control a vixen? Prove it."
"Get up." Nick barked. Skye curled her lip and they both chuckled shaking their heads. He shrugged as they both narrowed their eyes. "You want to see it get out of the way. She can't see me because of that shit they sprayed in her face."
The panther sighed and stepped out of the way letting Nick walk to Skye as Finnick looked back at him wide eyed. He tapped his teeth a few times and Finnick snapped his head over Skye's shoulder as Nick leaned closer and growled. "Get up. You're a pretty girl and that's all they see. Let them see what you really are."
Skye's lip curled and when he came into focus she could see the fur matted around his jaw. Her teeth started pulling back and Finnick watched Nick's shadow raise a paw as he bit into her neck. The vixen curled around him yelping and looked like she was flinching away from Nick, when in reality she had done both in reaction to the sharp little teeth sinking into her neck. "Get up." Nick snarled and Finnick ground his teeth in further causing her to whine and stumble to her feet, keeping a paw on the back of his head as Nick squared his shoulders and looked back at them shrugging.
The wolverine sighed as he looked at the panther. "We can take her back so he can see this. Vixen, how long has he had you?"
Skye cringed as Finnick's teeth ground together. "Answer him!" Nick growled as he dipped away from him trying to get away from the sting in her neck.
"F-four years."
"Four years….with more than one." The panther looked her and Finnick over shaking his head. "Too much trouble with a kit that small to take her back. Tell her to leave."
Nick looked at them raising a brow. "For? She can't do anything unless I tell her to. That's how it works. That's the Deal. She can't see shit right now and he's too small to do anything."
The panther laughed as the wolverine grabbed Nick making him yelp. "Then she won't have gone too far after you explain how to do this."
Nick tried to yank away snarling as Skye whined. "I'm not going anywhere with you when I have other business to take care of."
"Get rid of her or we'll do it for you, unless you want them to come along. Talon doesn't mess with them if they aren't old enough to take care of themselves. More likely to get messy that way." He curled a claw across his neck and shrugged. "We don't like messy, but if that's what has to happen. If that kit is why you still have her, do you want to risk it?"
Nick looked back at Skye watching her shaking her head as she kept getting louder, partially due to Finnick's teeth, the fact that they had no idea where they were and they were practically dragging him away as he started screaming. "Find your way back! Nothing here is as important as what losing you will cost! Don't you stay here and get in anymore trouble!"
Skye was left turning circles listening to them laughing as Nick snarled several times and she heard him kicking a few times before she was on the ground trying to pull Finnick away from her neck. He let go spitting as she started bawling and wiped the blood from his mouth as she fell forward. "Skye we gotta go find help."
"I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING AND THEY TOOK HIM!"
"All they could see was you! We gotta leave and get help. I ain't big enough to see anything down here. Pick me up and see if you got anything on you we can use to find our way back!"
"My purse."
"Screw the purse Skye. I got your phone We need to-" Finnick looked up as she pulled something from her pocket and nodded as she held it out. "That'll work."
She picked him up and was using her paws to feel along the walls as he guided her around larger objects.
Rivel gaped as he watched them dragging Nick down an alley and jumped from roof to roof trying to get a good look at where they were going. He slammed his paws to the bricks he was looking over as they vanished under several large awnings and picked up his phone. "We have a problem. I lost the boy. Some nasty lookin mammals took him from the place."
Adam leaned forward with pursed lips at the urgency in his voice and growled. "You lost him to nasty looking mammals…"
"I'm pretty sure I know where they went, but I can't follow them without getting spotted."
"Why didn't you stop them before they took him!"
"You told me not to be seen! He was with the Heavenly Walker and another little fox."
Adam swallowed as his throat nearly cracked from anger and growled as he shot from his office. "Do a survey and get me an address, find out what we're dealing with, and Revil, if that boy is damaged you better start praying."
Nick was shoved into a room looking up as a little mouse poked out of a dish on the table. "Hey Talon, this guy knows how to train vixens."
The little mouse sighed as he jumped from the bowl and shook his head. "Have you both lost your minds? You brought a tod and not the vixen?"
"She was spoiled. Had a kit. Plus she's his. Did whatever he said."
The mouse looked at Nick and cocked his head to one side before he sighed. "I'm supposed to believe this kit can do something people have always failed to do."
"She did. He said it had something to do with the kit she had. It wasn't his kit."
The mouse leaned forward with his nose wiggling as Nick sighed like he was bored. "Why would that cause a vixen to take orders from anyone or survive being with more than one? You look like you couldn't handle yourself, let alone a vixen."
Nick looked at him and curled his lip. "Where did you come from? You're a Roraima Mouse. Also known as Podoxyms roraime. There have only been seven of your kind seen since 1927."
This had the mouse standing on his feet and curling his lip. "You have my attention. Keep it and explain how you trained a vixen."
Nick looked at him and around the room curling his lip. "No. Why would I do that? Something that valuable isn't something you just tell people about."
The mouse leaned against the bowl and snapped his fingers. Nick yelped as he was slammed to the wall with a wolverine and a panther on each side of him, looking back at the little mammals and showing his teeth. "You'll tell me because I can see what will make you talk."
Nick scoffed and rolled his eyes as the door opened and watched several mammals come in, shaking his head. "What is this a species convention? Nothing special here. Polar bear, wolf, panther, lion, tiger, ra-
"Eh, Ramsey." The mouse chuckled as he pointed out the tiger. "That's the one." The panther and Wolverine stepped away as the tiger stepped in front of Nick and growled. His ears flicked a few times as he looked up frowning and the mouse snickered. "Everybody has a tell. You should learn how to control that tail of yours." Nick took a step back as the tiger lowered his head and landed on all fours as his lips pulled over his gums, growling as he backed himself into a corner. "No claws Ramsey." His eyes flew open as a massive paw swiped and he was thrown to the wall, yelping before he landed with a thud and leaned up on his paws, looking up wide eyed as a growl set his ears back…..
Revil cringed as the line went dead and rushed down several flights of stairs before he was standing at the entrance of what looked like an abandoned building. A quick look around and he pulled the door open, sucking in a breath as several large mammals turned. Deep scars and shaved places from recent tattoos that were meant to be hidden under fur had him backing away as the largest, a polar bear snarled and stepped forward curling his fists. "I uhm, heard this was the place too…ugh…" He had no idea what they were doing, but tipped his ears as the bear started chuckling in a deep voice that sent all the mammals around him leaning back into positions that relayed they weren't worried about his presence.
"What species you look for?"
"I…don't really know yet? Maybe a fox?" he asked nervously as the bear stood up.
The bear laughed as the smaller predators eyes grew, watching him stand at his full height. He had to be a good nine feet tall, larger than the biggest bear he'd observed the kits father with.
"No fox here. We show you what else we have, then you pick. Yes? You want only for short time or want to buy and keep?"
Rivel curled his lip as he stepped back to the door. "To buy and…keep? What do you mean to keep? Oh shit…uhm…just looking first?"
The bear chuckled as he watched the smaller mammal dip is ears back, displaying what he believed to be extreme nervousness as he motioned to a panther. "He will show you stock."
Rivel cringed each time he looked through a small window in the steel doors. He stopped as the cat in front of him ended the 'tour' and gulped. "Do you have a bathroom? I really wanted a fox. I need to uhm…How much is it to…ugh?"
The feline laughed as he preened his whiskers. "Foxes are difficult to come by. Even the few we have had don't last long, they're difficult to train unless they come very young and still don't live long. Makes them very expensive. If you need a moment to decide you can stay in this room. It is forty thousand to buy one to take home unless you're wanting one trained for specific things. To stay for a few hours or days depends on the species you want." He motioned to one of the doors and Rivel cringed as he stepped inside, after the door slammed behind him with a heavy metal clink. After sweating for an hour and not getting a signal on his phone the door swung open as the panther stood with the bear. "Choose yet?"
Rivel, cleared his throat and sighed. "I uhm. Think I want to buy one? It's sort of not for me, a gift for someone else. But I didn't know how it worked so I uhm-
"HEHEHE." The bear laughed and Rivel scrunched his shoulders up as the panther leaned into him shaking his head. "Is common. Go get money and then we talk. Cash."
Rivel dipped his head as they stepped out of his path. "Maze go with you." He fought not to shrink as the panther lifted his head. "Never stay in one place more than a day. Never let one leave without escort after they see. No one find us without someone telling them. Keep things safe."
He dipped his ears as the panther stood up and swayed his tail. "Can I call someone? I don't know what he really wants and want to make sure he gets something he likes."
The bear laughed as the panther looked up at him grinning. "Gift is for male? Mate is male? Males more expensive. Harder to train."
Rivel smiled uncomfortably as he held his phone up. The panther laughed as he raised a paw back towards the hall they'd come down, cringing as the cat took his phone and did something to it before handing it back. He took a seat trying to keep himself calm as he tapped the numbers. Adam picked up growling. "Where is he."
"Sorry. They said the males are more expensive than the females and will only let me leave with an escort to go get the money and bring it back? But they don't have any foxes right now."
Adam's face dropped as he looked up at Manny and fell to a dead calm. "How much?"
"Forty thousand to just buy one, but the males are more and some cost different if you want them specialized or trained for something specific."
Adam ground his teeth and Revil looked up watching the panther chuckling and preening his whiskers again. "Tell them I'll be coming to look around and bring the cash with me. Send me the address."
Revil cringed as he held the phone out and hit the speaker. "Could you repeat that so they can hear you?"
"I said, tell them I want to come and look around and I'll bring cash with me, more than enough to pay for what I want. And Revil, when we get home you're going to pay it back." Revil cringed and the panther chuckled as he leaned over and gave the address. He hung up after Adam growled a few choice words to him saying he'd be there within an hour.
The cat chuckled. "Are you from one of the safe houses? You seem trained well. It's common for them to send others they have bought before to pick up new ones."
Revil dropped his head and jumped as the panther snapped his teeth at him. The cat walked away laughing as he stuffed his phone in his pocket and wiped the sweat from his face. He sat fumbling with his own paws until a red fox walked in and marched to him. The bear and the panther who were watching both snickered as Adam grabbed him and slammed him to the floor. Revil cringed and turned his head, holding his paws up as the red fox's teeth snarled in his face. "Incompetent idiot! Can you not do anything right?!" Revil curled into a ball on the floor as Adam stood up and turned back to them fighting not to growl. "I want a fox. A boy."
The bear shook his head as the panther cocked his head to one side. "No foxes here."
"You have a fox here. He is already mine."
All the predators in the room took notice and braced as the bear growled. "Yours… You train him to train vixen?"
Adam curled his brow looking around and ticked his eyes back and forth as he slowly shook his head. "You aren't fucking up the future. He's my grandson."
Teeth flashed as predators jumped, and the lights cut out as the room exploded into flashes of light that left most of them stumbling over each other, furniture, and confusion as the building was flooded with mammals covered in black….
Skye stumbled onto another street and Finnick was shaking his head watching everyone around them act as if they were invisible. Even as early in the morning as it was with people being in a rush or half asleep he couldn't believe what he was seeing. They weren't even paying attention to the blood all over both of them from where he'd bitten Skye. She'd finally been able to see enough to avoid running into anything and she sat on a bench curling into ball as the cold wind cut through her fur. Finnick plopped beside her and pulled her phone out of his pocket kicking his feet as he picked up a signal. "Hang on, hang on I got a signal!"
"Call my dad first!" Skye whined as she rubbed her eyes.
Rose wrung her paws next to the coffee pot as Nicholas hung up and shook his head, pacing the kitchen again. "I'm sure they're fine Rose. After the stunt they pulled last night this is just showing their asses-
He held his phone up and his face dropped as he stuck it to his ear. "Roger?"
Finnick looked at Skye and shook his head. "The lines busy. Wanna send a text?"
Skye shook her head as she rubbed her eyes again. "He has an old phone that doesn't get them. Try your Dad."
Rose sucked in a breath as Nicholas fell into a chair and cupped paw over his muzzle. "She never came home last night?"
Rose sobbed as she read his lips. "No. We talked to Shirly earlier. She said they got on the bus as she was driving by the stop after she left the diner last night. How do you know she wasn't there if you're working the night shift, maybe she left earl-" his face fell as Roger started screaming. "No. She didn't stay here last night Roger. Nick and Finnick never came home. I'll…I don't know. The last place they were seen was getting on the bus."
He hung up looking back at Rose as she shook her head and tried to catch her breath. "Go get Jasper. See if he can go to the bus station and pick up anything. I'll call the police."
Rose rushed out the front door and he was chewing his lip as an officer picked up. "I need to report three missing kits."
"Are you the parent? When and where was the last time they were seen and what are their ages and names?"
"I'm the father of two. Nicholas and Finnick Wilde and Skye, I mean Heaven Walker. They're seventeen, sixteen and fourteen. They were all together the last time they were seen. Last night around one A.M. at the-
"Sir, have there been any problems at home that would indicate any of them would run away?"
Nicholas cringed as Nick's recent attitude and actions made him run a paw along his face. "Maybe, our oldest hasn't been… he's just at that age."
"Sir, we don't look into cases of kits over the age of sixteen who have possibly run away. We can have an officer come about the younger kit in about an hour if you give me your address. You can file a missing persons report on the other two after twenty-four hours, but more than likely at their ages they're just together somewhere and will turn up in a day or two. The parents of the other child will have to file a report." Nicholas growled as he clenched his jaw. He sighed as he gave her the address and Rose came back in with a tense Jasper as his phone went off. He stood from the chair shaking his head as a message from Skye's phone came through.
"It's Finnick. We got thrown off the bus after the guy driving tired to use a fox taser and maced Skye and Nick. We don't know where we are. I got Skye's phone but mine got smashed when I fell outta the back of the bus. We don't know where Nick is. We had to walk to find a signal and there ain't no street signs. Dad- its bad."
"Stay where you are. Look around and tell me what you see." He text back as Jasper raised a brow. "Rose. Call Mr. Big and tell him I'm not coming in today. I have to call Roger. Jasper I need you to call Shirly and find out which bus they got on. If there is anyway you can track where they got off and talk to the driver…"
Jasper nodded before he was gone and Rose cupped her paws together as Nicholas looked over the phone. The message Finnick sent had him shaking his head. "People here act like they can't see us even though we're both covered in blood and Skye's face and eyes are pretty bad. The buildings all look like they're made different. There's lots of different stones and the lights here look like little trees. The benches look like giant leaves."
Nicholas' face fell as he looked at Rose and shook his head. "I know where they are. It's a small area where really rich mammals live. I've had a couple of people from the limo service as customers there." He sent a text to Finnick before he was talking to Roger and Rose rushed down the basement stairs. Roger was already in his car and driving when he hung up as Rose returned wearing the armor and he shook his head. "We won't need that, not where we're going. Roger will probably beat us there. I just don't understand how they got there on one of the buses. They don't even use limos very often because they have their own cars and drivers in that area." Rose growled and he threw his paws up and pinned his ears back before she rushed out the door and was impatiently waiting for him in the car. He puffed a breath as she bounced in the seat and grabbed her paw. "Rose, Nick got separated from them." Her paws were waving around and he kept ticking his eyes between her and the road as he shook his head. "I don't know. Finick just said it was bad." She cupped a paw over her face as he sped through Happy Town.
Roger raced around several corners, ignoring a few nasty screams after he reached the area Nicholas had told him about. He had his head stuck out the window and growled at a few people he tried to talk to as they ignored him. His head snapped up and the car screeched to a halt after Finnick jumped over a bench shaped like a large leaf that was folded in half. He left the car in the middle of the street as he rushed around it and growled looking at both young foxes. Skye jumped as her father grabbed her and Finnick cringed as she was frantically trying to explain what had happened. After getting them in the car he called Nicholas and was trying to explain where they were as the silver foxes car pulled up behind him.
Nicholas and Rose jumped from their car and Rose was sniffling as she reached in cupping Skye's face. "We left marks with lipstick so we could find Nick again." Skye was swinging her arms around growling and complaining as Roger looked into the back seat at Finnick. Nicholas was looking around shaking his head when his phone rang. Jasper was explaining he'd found the driver and the silver fox was blinking as he listened and watched Finnick pointing to the last place they'd left a mark. Roger was still growling as Skye kept trying to tell them what had happened, but she wasn't making a lot of sense, and Finnick kept flipping his ears back each time her father looked into the back seat for an explanation.
Nicholas watched Rose running a paw along the last wall she found a lipstick arrow as Roger growled again. "How the hell did they end up here!"
"A bus left them here. Jasper found the driver. He took him to Mr. Big. He has a little bear nurse that can look at Skye and Finnick."
"No! I want to stay and find Nick!" Nicholas leaned into the car looking at Skye and cringed at the blood in her fur and still on his youngest son's muzzle. Finnick shied his eyes as Rose slammed into his father's back, trying to pull him back to where she'd found the lipstick trail along the walls of several buildings.
"I wasn't big enough to see where we were at or where we were going Dad."
Nicholas grabbed Rose as Roger kept trying not to snarl. "Skye, you both need to be looked at. Finnick, take Roger to Mr. Big's place. Make sure you tell them everything that happened. We're going to find Nick. I'll call you as soon as we find him."
Roger pulled away shaking his head as Nicholas and Rose took to the place the lipstick had stopped on a wall. He drove to the Big manner with his jaw clenching. They were led inside with Skye keeping a grip on her father's arms, still whining about staying where they'd been so they could find Nick as a little bear stepped past the desk and took her to another room. Roger was screaming as Finnick dipped his ears back in a chair that was too large as Mr. Big raised a paw. The arctic fox took a seat watching the bears around them and glanced at Finnick as Jasper came in, dragging a slovenly pig with him he tossed in front of the desk. Roger's face fell as he found out what had happened and he looked at Finnick, tilting his ears as the small fox turned his eyes.
Finnick explained everything as Roger kept watching Skye in a room across the hallway and dropped his face in his paws as Jasper growled. The wolf raised his head as he looked at Mr. Big. The shrew grunted as the bears curled their lips, watching the pig in front of the desk looking between all of them nervously. "Take Mr. Walker to his daughter, Finnick, go and make sure to have Ms. Beesly look you over as well."
Finnick jumped from the chair as Jasper waited for Roger to get to the next room and looked in watching Mr. Big. rubbing his chin as Jasper perked his ears. "What do with him?"
Mr. Big rubbed his chin watching the pig chuckling as the bears raised a brow. "You believe something about this is humorous...Hampton, is it?"
The pig scoffed as he looked around. "You don't have any idea who I am."
Mr. Big smirked and chuckled as he tipped his head to Boris. "I do not believe you realize who you are speaking with. Behave like animals and you will find the like. You and your associates are not the only mammals who can be… ruthless." Jasper's ears tilted to his head as Mr. Big waved a paw. Him and Finnick watched the door close being a massive bear who was grinning in a way that sent their ears back as they watched the driver get plucked from the floor screaming. The wolf turned his eyes as he motioned for Finnick to go into the next room. Roger was sitting with Skye as Ms. Beesly grabbed Finnick and started wiping off his face. He was growling and trying to jerk away from her after she picked him up, until Jasper leaned over curling his lip at the little fox. Finnick sighed as he stopped squirming and flipped his ears back listening to Skye and Roger.
"Dad! We left him there!"
"I'm sure they will find him Angel. Nicholas said he would call wh-"
"WE HAVE TO GO BACK AND HELP FIND HIM!"
Roger watched Ms. Beesly shaking her head. "It will be at least a few hours before the ointment I placed in her eyes clears her vision. She's lucky it was fox mace and not something meant for another species or it would have damaged them permanently and caused an infection in her lungs."
"Heaven, we're going to have to wait." Roger said forcefully and cringed as she started sniffling. Jasper sighed as Ms. Beesly looked over Finnick and dropped his head as the Arctic fox curled around his daughter…
Nick heaved as he backed into the wall, whining as the tiger chuckled and cracked his neck. The mouse on the table folded his arms over his chest and curled his lip. "Wirely little fox. Either you're crazy or the information you have must be worth a great deal if you're willing to let this continue."
Nick caught his breath, backing up and curling his lip. "Fuck you."
Talon shook his head as he looked at the tiger. "I'll find out what I want to know. Everyone cracks at some point." He stepped closer to the edge of the table as the panther held a paw out and stepped into it shrugging. "Get him talking, if he doesn't, make sure he isn't moving when you're done. Don't kill him." The other mammals that had been in the room left chuckling as the tiger looked back at Nick grinning. He backed away on all fours again snarling before he went flying. The table he flew into was knocked over and landed on his chest after he rolled over the top. He barely shoved it off with a yelp and the pain sent him curling into a ball whining as the sight of orange fur blurred into vision again….
Notes; Nope-