Bonus : 4 Day 4
Samantha Infernum-flos: "Hello I'll be doing this day in Lilly's place um weight Lilly didn't you have something you wanted to say?" I asked.
"Yeah ok look sorry about yesterday it sort of turned into a history lesson and was more about me and rex instead of being about dad but it was his story to tell. Well whatever its Sam's turn and I hope you enjoy her day I know I didn't." Lilly sighed
I found myself in the dark basement room I often see in my nightmares that are more common then I'd like oh by that I mean almost every night. This was the room my father had locked me in when I was young. Then there was the young girl who had started appearing lately when I had this dream and yes, I knew it was a dream. Strangely I could never see the girls face, but she always looked like a little angel girl. She was normally just there in the background but this time she gestured for me to follow her. She walked over to a door in the wall that I knew wasn't there in the real room I followed her through the door and into another dark room but in the center of this room was the corpse of a monster in armor held aloft by chains. She grabbed my arm and led me to where I was standing in front of it suddenly its eyes shot opened, and they were full of blue flames as it stared right at me. Strangely I felt safe rather than fear then the hole seen faded tell all I knew was a warm and safe feeling.
"Sam Sam Sam wake up." I heard Lilly's voice trying to wake me, but it felt to nice I just wanted to stay like that a little longer.
"Sam wake up." Lilly said shaking me awake.
"I'm up." I yawned slowly sitting up and stretching.
"You did it again that's the third time." Lilly said with a sigh.
"Sorry so um I'm guessing the traps didn't work?" I said referring to the simple noise traps she had rigged up to her front and bedroom door along with her fire escape window.
"No, they didn't and if I didn't know Thomas had sworn you weren't lying I'd say you were doing this on purpose." She said giving me an annoyed look.
"Sorry but I honestly don't know." I said just as confused as she was.
"I know let's just move on." Lilly said getting out of bed and starting to disarm the traps.
"Um will you be needing me for anything this morning I have an appointment?" I asked Lilly hoping she didn't ask about what it was for.
"Sure, just pick up the part from the office when you get the chance." Lilly said disarming one trap after another.
As soon as she had removed enough of the traps that I could leave I went next door to my apartment and started to get ready. I showered than got dressed and ate my breakfast but then stopped at the next step in my morning routine. I looked down at the bottle of Anti depressant in my paws. I didn't like them it made me feel stupid and I stammered and got confused so easily when I was on it but recently I hadn't felt so bad though. The strange thing was the past few days I had felt good even without them. I sighed and took one of the pills before leaving the building and walking the five blocks to my therapist.
"Um hi I'm not late, am I?" I asked walking in.
"No no not at all your early actually." My therapist DR Angus said DR Angus is a very kind otter who had been helping me.
"So how have you been if I remember correctly last time you said you were starting a new job how did that go?" DR Angus asked this with a calming smile.
"Good my boss is beyond nice she even helped me get a new apartment when my old landlord tried to throw me out." I said feeling a little embarrassed.
"What?!" DR Angus asked sounding surprised.
"Well you see the second day of my new job a mugger jumped me on my way home he took my money wallet and just about everything I had including my rent. Unfortunately, he wanted more so I did something stupid and tasered him and ran right into a diner where my boss was eating her breakfast. She not only soothed me but called Z.P.D. and maid preparations to help me within moments of finding out then she drives me home. The next day she shows up to walk me to work sees the state of my apartment and gets me a room in a building she partly owns helps me move in and everything. She even did all that after my previous landlord turned violent when he found out I couldn't pay him." I said Animatedly telling the story.
"What he turned violent where you harmed!?" DR Angus asked interrupting me and sounding shocked.
"Yes, but I wasn't really badly harmed I got a nasty scar but it's not even noticeable he only back handed me." I said subconsciously rubbing the scar.
"But wasn't your land lord a silverback and a silverback even if it was just a back hand it would have done serious damage." DR Angus said jumping out of his chair to look me over.
"like I said I'm fine the M.T.'s even cleared me for work but in all honesty you should see what my boss did to him I swear I'm sitting there on the floor dumbstruck watching a rabbit runt beat the crud out of him." I said thinking back.
"Wo wo wo your telling me a miniature rabbit fought and not only won but beat past the point of submission a silver back." DR Angus said sounding shocked.
"Yeah well not passed the point of submission just until she knocked him out he kept trying to get back up. Hhmmm now that I think about it the fight was a little one sided as he didn't even manage to even land one hit on her." I said thinking back on the fight.
"Um I think I might need to proscribe you something for hallucinations." DR Angus said giving me a funny look.
"Hay It wasn't a hallucination it was on the news and everything just check!" I said sounding shocked that he didn't believe me.
"Ok but I doubt it and you have to admit it does sound a little out there." DR Angus said pulling up a news sight.
After a few minutes DR Angus said sounding surprised. "I think I may have found it, but it only states a primate attacked a group of small class mammals it stated that there were only two injured and the primate is being treated for severe injury." DR Angus said reading from the page.
"That's it it's got to be it I think ugh it's really hard to think straight with these meds which reminds me I'd like to discuss lowering the dosage." I said rubbing the breach of my muzzle.
"What last week you asked me to raise your dosage as you said it felt like they weren't even working?" DR Angus asked with a surprised look on his muzzle.
"Yeah strange thing is the past few days I've felt urg I hate how dumb I feel on these pills. Better is the only word I can think of and I know it's not right or the right one but yeah other than some weird dreams I've felt good. Even before taking them in fact I went half the day before yesterday off my meds and I felt fine better than I have in months maybe years." I said trying to straighten out my thoughts.
"what you have been skipping doses you've barely been able to function without them In the past!?" DR Angus said sounding shocked and looking baffled.
All I could do was shrug as I had a hard time coming up with anything better but trying to say so. "All I know is I just started to feel better all of a sudden."
"You just don't get better like that but if you like ill proscribe you a lower dosage." DR Angus offered after that we talked for a bit before he was notified his next patient was weighting.
So we wrapped up our meeting shortly after and said our good byes. Before I started to get to work I walked to the nearby bus stop thankfully my transpo card had been in my pocket when I was mugged so I could at least get around the city easily enough. I went over to Lilly's office to pick up the parts Lilly had asked for and though I knew Lilly was disobeying her father's orders of no work. But I couldn't really fault her she was very casual about it, but she seemed to like to keep busy doing one or more tasks at a time. It was actually quite amazing to watch her at work cooking working on a laptop and prepping herbs all the while keeping up a conversation with me. Also, I had to admit that meal was delicious to my surprise it was her first time making pred food to. But it was shocking how much she could eat in fact she never seemed to stop eating honestly. I thought as I started to walk into the building as I did the fire alarm went off I ran into the building to see what went wrong only to find Fred spraying the toaster Thomas had been working on with a fire extinguisher.
"Damn it I can build a server tower from its bass components how come I can never seem to fix a damn toaster." Thomas ranted.
As Fred at least, I think its Fred they are really hard to tell apart started to clean up then said. "I know how you fill I can build just about anything but try as I might I can't understand how to operate a computer we all have our little weaknesses. Oh, Sam I didn't know you where hear."
"Yeah Lilly sent me to get the rest of the parts for the unit she's building for me she said it's almost done." I said a little embarrassed that she would go that far for someone like me.
"Ah good so she's keeping busy I was worried she would have been driving you nuts by now." Thomas said started to help his brother to clean up.
"Does she ever stop the I mean she just keeps going and going and never sits still if she isn't working or cooking she's doing some other crazy feat. I now see why your father sent six other rabbits to do her work for her and she complains about being bored. To think she can complete such complex task with such ease and wish for more its well hard to believe." I said with a little sigh
"Yeah but that's Lilly mom and dad had her tested for a bunch of stuff and apparently she has advanced problem solving and a bunch of other things but best we understand it. She's on a completely different level then the rest of us in fact you know how most mammals can only use about 10% of their brains it wouldn't surprise me if Lilly could easily reach 12% to 15 % If pressed to her limits I've seen her do some really insane stuff. For instance, she once broke into the vault oh um you don't know what that is well to put it simply it's a very secure storage room our burrow has but anyways. A thirteen year old Lilly broke into the vault and this was with a broken arm and stuck in a wheelchair. When asked how and why she simply said she was board she broke into a high grade security system with a bank vault level door simply because she was board. It wouldn't surprise me if she wanted to she could rule this city or watch it burn for fun." Fred said seriously and sending a chill down my spine though I wasn't sure why.
"Oh, wow that's amazing and a little scary." I said sounding surprised.
"That sort of describes Lilly doesn't it?" Thomas said chucking the toaster in the trash.
"Yeah um it kind of does um where the parts." I asked trying to change the subject.
"Oh yeah I'll help you go get them." Fred said going off to do so. A short time later I left for Lilly's apartment I got there only to run into Lilly who was waiting for me on the fire escape.
"Hi." Lilly said putting her book down on a stack of them.
"I got what you had asked for." I said handing her the bag of parts.
"Good um I made you lunch its sitting in the oven um I was thinking about getting out of the house a bit and maybe hitting the gym after you eat." Lilly offered.
"Sure, I could use the exercise." I said heading inside.
And at this rate I was going to need it the tiny thin bunny that is Lilly had a hard time judging serving sizes as she kept offering me large dishes of very tasty and high calorie foods. If I wasn't careful I was going to end up massive. Oh, but why did it have to taste so good she had made me a chicken casserole a hole casserole and as if chicken casserole wasn't amazing enough on its own but Lilly was a great cook. Heck she even makes prey food look appetizing and I can't stand that stuff. I sighed and started eating as I walked over to Lilly.
"Hay I can't eat all this, and didn't we talk about smaller sizes I can't eat like you which is a shame." I said eyeing her waist line.
'I doubt she had an ounce of fat on her and this was just a guess but judging by what I had seen of her fight she'd be mostly mussel and wonder do all rabbit females have wide hips like hers and those ears' I thought as i reached out to touch them.
Lilly jumped slightly and said sounding surprised and uncomfortable as a blush creeped on to her muzzle. "Eeep Sa Sam what are you doing."
"I was just curious what they felt like there so soft." I said toying with the tip a little.
"Um Sam there sensitive plee ooooooooh." Lilly's words turning into a moan of pleasure when the tip of my claw rubbed against her inner ear.
"Oh, Im sorry I." I said pulling my paw back in surprise and felt my self blush.
"It's ok just don't do that again." Lilly said blushing and holding her ear in her paws. This hole seen was adorable well there wasn't much about her that wasn't adorable but that just took the cake.
"Ok I won't I I'm sorry I'll go get re ready to go!" I said rushing out of the room and into my apartment. My heart was racing as I shut the door and it wasn't from just the run.
"What the hech was that?!" I said to myself as I started to calm down. Once I had managed to calm down enough I changed into what I hoped was appropriate for a work out outfit. Before taking the elevator down to the ground floor I then walked around the building into the alley and to where the fire escape on lily's side of the building reached the ground. Lilly was already there and weighting with a bag that I guessed had a change of clothes in it.
"So you ready to head out." Lilly asked as I walked over to her.
"Sure, let's go." I said as she started to lead us off to whatever gym she used.
"So are you settling in well in your new place." Lilly asked me as we walked.
"Um yeah it's a lot nicer then my old place and the few of the other tenants I have met have been really nice. Though they keep referring to me as Lilly's cat or some version thereof." I said with a blush.
"Urg sorry about that but none of it was meant in ill will." Lilly said her ears wilting a little.
"It's ok I know they were always said kindly well except for the old dog in the wheelchair but from what I was told that's just how he is with everyone." I said with a shrug.
"Yeah I know him he's mad at the world but he's loyal even more so then what is common to canines show him a little kindness and he will return it many times over." Lilly said stating it like it was a fact.
"Really I'll keep that in mind but um how do you know that." I asked curiously.
"He's my other tenet I guess you could say and he's also my god father." She said with a shrug.
"What your he's your god father how." I asked in shock.
"It's a long story the short version of it is. He took a chest full of shrapnel and lost his leg shielding my mom three weeks before she found out she was already pregnant with me and my brothers. He's the one who picked my name though I've never heard him use it he always calls me my little brawler even before I learned how to fight." She said with a little smile.
"Oh, wow I'm sorry." I said feeling a little awkward.
"Well anyways he's a good guy but a little rough around the edges." Lilly said before walking in and signed me in as a guest.
"I'll go get changed why don't you start to warm up." Lilly said walking off to the women's locker room.
The gym was a cross between a dank boxer joint and a top of the line gym this was one of those places where you normally find health or work out nuts but it sort of seamed to fit Lilly. She wasn't one of the before mentioned nuts as she kept stating she was out of shape, but it was just the type of place where she'd fit in.
'I guess this is probably one of the few places where she could find someone who could keep up with her like a buff cheetah or rhino. So why am I hear I can't keep up with her I'm to weak and pathetic I bet to everyone hear I look like a shabby pig I don't belong here I shouldn't be here I need to go.' I thought turning around to leave win Lilly walked out of the locker room.
"Oh wow!" I said a little shock and aww at Lilly's outfit.
Lilly was wearing a band top and short shorts but the amount of fur she was showing was an amazing view. Plus, with her short cut fur you could see the outline every muscle you can even see some of her scars and old wound she had. She looked tough and strong sort of like a hero from the cheesy romantic novels I loved. Lilly walked over to me catching the eye of more than a handful of mails and at least three females.
"So how does it look its new because most of the time I have to deal with all that extra fur and fluff, so I hadn't had a chance to where it yet but it's really comfortable though it's a little revealing." Lilly said with a bit of a blush.
"Um it looks good on you." I said hoping my own blush wasn't as visible.
"Sooo shell we begin." Lilly said heading for the machines in the work out room.
"Hay cotton tail want to ditch that fluff ball kitten and going a few rounds with me instead." he said gesturing to a boxing ring.
Though everyone there knew that wasn't what he had meant especially Lilly who replied. "Sure if you can last one round in the boxing ring."
That got him looking happy but most of the on lookers gave him a look that all but said you pore stupid soul. I had to admit after I had seen her fight and then seeing the buff wolf who was four maybe five times her size I honestly felt pity for the wolf. As this was nowhere near a fair fight and less than a minute later I was proven right. As the moment the bell rang Lilly won the fight with a one hit knockout.
"Damn that was to easy he really can't take a punch well any other challengers?" Lilly offered but clearly the watchers who knew better and either backed up or said some light hearted version of no we aren't that stupid before starting to walk off.
As I climbed up into the ring getting some curious looks from the group that was walking off.
"you aren't excepting my challenge are you as I'd rather not as I don't want to hurt you." She said starting to remove her gear.
"Oh no I was hoping you could teach me a little of how to fight." I said a little more shyly then I meant to.
"Oh, um sure I can do that um I'll get the gear you weight hear." she said hopping out of the ring once she was gone a snow leopard walked over.
"So, what's the story with you and the bunny." He asked me.
"Um she's my boss and she's helping me with some stuff." I said blushing a little.
"Oh what kind of stuff." He asked eagerly his tail flicking back in forth a motion I knew meant I wasn't getting out of this easily.
"Um just some stuff like helping me get a new apartment and stuff like that." I said uneasily
"Oh another charity case huh but I get the feeling your more I've seen her charity cases but you're not like that are you." He said looking me up and down.
"No no it's it's nothing like that." I said blushing more.
"Oh no no no no no no no no you stay away from her you I know what you're doing, and I won't let you put the squeeze on her and don't you try that trick on me it won't work." Lilly said jumping in front of me as the air shifted and filled lightly with anger like it did when she had confronted the elephant in Junipers office or when she confronted my father. Only this time it was a lot less powerful almost like she was showing she could do it but not intending to use it.
"Ok cool your jets it was just a friendly little chat is all." he said before walking off.
"What was that all about." I asked filling really confused.
"To make a long story short he has a similar trick to mine, but he confuses mammals and for some rezone that makes you answer any question your asked. He's like a living truth serum and unless you can pull off another trick to block it your completely helpless to it." Lilly said watching him go.
"So how does that whole thing work." I asked wondering if I could learn to do it.
"It's not hard to do but hard to explain and I have no idea how to really explain it. Other than one day I got mad and it wasn't just normal anger it was pure raw rage it was to the point that I was overflowing with rage then I passed out. Next thing I knew I was waking up with the mother of all headaches and could just do it." Lilly said with a shrug and a look on her muzzle that clearly said she was searching her memory for more.
Lilly stood there for a minute thought before saying. "Sorry but that's about all I got and in all honesty, I know it's a rare thing and as much a talent as a trick. It also only seems to appear in mammals who have taken some of life's worse beating mine was literal but his well it's his story to tell but it wasn't pleasant and let's just say he owes me for braking the bitches muzzle and then some." Lilly said watching him go.
"Um this is a bit dark let's try something a bit brighter." Lilly said pulling on a pair of big padded gloves after tossing me a pair of boxing gloves.
"You can put those on if you want but this is just a warm up to judge where you're at skill wise now come at me with all you got ill block with the gloves. Your goal is just to lay a paw on me and the gloves on my paws don't count got it." Lilly said readying herself to block my attack.
"Um ok I'll try." I said as I balled my fist and then swung as hard as I could at Lilly.
To which she blocked with ease as I continued to try and attack her, but Lilly just continued to block me. But before long I started to try and mix it up as I tried to actually touch her. I tried everything I could think of from kicks jumps I even tried to use my tail and I nearly managed it with that last one. As time went on the less it felt like Lilly was holding back but at that point I was running out of steam fast. So I decided to try something desperate I hopped up on one of the rings poles bounced off and trying my best to mimic Lilly's movements and kicked off when my paws maid contact with the gloves. I could tell I had ether messed up by the low impact or Lilly new how to block it and that was almost confirmed as Lilly pushed out just when I started to kick off and sent me flying and had me landing on my tail.
I laid there panting for a few minutes as I tried to catch my breath once I had I then said sitting up. "Ok that's it I'm done, and I landed on my tail and that's going to hurt for the next couple of days."
"That's nothing a couple of time some idiots ripped some of the fluff on mine off when they tried to cop a feel" she said panting lightly as she helped me up. I had to wince as just the idea of it was painful.
"Ok that just sounds pain full so how did I do." I said rubbing my tail.
"Better than I had expected you're a lot faster than I thought you'd be and your resourceful your trick with the tail nearly got me. now that was smart trick and though it was sloppy as hell you nearly pulled of one of my own moves that I came up with and took me years to prefect on your first try. That really caught me off guard but as I know how it works and how to counter it and if you would have pulled it off right when I pushed off it would have thrown you out of the ring. But don't just take my word for it ain't that right guys." Lilly said right before the mammals who had gathered around the ring which at this point was over half the gym had burst into cheers and a few even sounded off a few unfortunately named cat calls as they all clapped.
I felt my hole face turning red in embarrassment as they did, and I quickly covered my face with my paws trying to hide my blush and calm down as I thought. 'oh god they were all watching this whole time I hadn't even noticed them and oh why are they all cheering like that did I really do that good oh help this is embarrassing.'
"ok now that is just so adorable." Lilly said with a little chuckle.
That comment had my heart racing and my chest tightening and if it was even possible blushing even brighter as my knees felt a little wobbly as I started fell little sick as I thought. 'What's going on with me oh why do I feel so strange and why did Lilly have to go and say something like that oh god ho god get a hold of yourself girl.'
"Ok ok ok I think she's had enough give the pore thing a brake." Lilly said before helping me out of the ring and to a bench. As the bright red blush had just started to slowly fade.
"I'll go get you a bottle of water you look like you really need it." Lilly said walking off once she was gone a few mammals complemented me on the fight even though I had lost.
"Not bad kitten not bad at all now I see what you are, and I have to say she's got exquisite taste" The snow leporid said to me before walking off.
As Lilly returned she gave him a dirty look then asked. "He wasn't bothering you was he."
"No um it was more of the Lilly's cat thing hmmm way do you think they keep calling me stuff like that." I asked curiously tilting my head trying to figure it out for myself and was slightly distracted by the way Lilly fought not to smile which she strangely did whenever I asked a question.
'I need to ask her about that when I get the chance.' I thought because I wasn't sure why, but I felt a little embarrassed when she did.
"No clue really I think they may be poking fun of us because we get along so easily after such a short time or they been talking to Z who I think still believes where a couple." Lilly said with a little shrug as she handed me the bottle of water.
I opened the water and chugged it all down. Up tell that point I hadn't realized how thirsty and tired I was tell then strangely it all seemed to hit me at once on top of that I felt a little dizzy.
"Does she really believe that?" I ask thankful my blush hadn't fully faded yet as it covered the fact I was blushing again at what Lilly had said.
"I think she might but not as much as she did before but yeah my best guess she ether thanks we are or she's hoping we will become one. She's one of those match makers slash shipper types so she's been trying to hook me up with someone for about a few years now. So, she'd get a big kick out of me getting a boy or in this case girlfriend and finally getting around to having an actual relationship." Lilly said with a shrug.
"Well I um what do we do next I'm a little worn out, so um can we take it easy." I asked hoping she wasn't about to ask me to do some insane workout routine.
"Don't worry its nothing major they have a few small class machines for weights and stuff you can either weight or try your paw at one of them." Lilly offered leading me into a room full of machines and mammals working out on them.
In one of the corners of the room was a cluster of small class machines. Strangely there was only one of each where the other classes had three or four of each machine.
I shot Lilly a suspicious look and said. "let me guess you own this place don't you."
"No well I gave the owner a startup loan which I think he's paid back but he owns the place I just own this equipment and leave it hear on loan. I get to use it whenever I want, and they get free equipment though only I think five other mammals have ever used it and two are Fred and Thomas." Lilly said with a shrug.
"I still can't get over the fact you buy entire buildings on a whim." I said feeling a little embarrassed.
"Hay I never well once but that was for a good cause and I was pissed at a boar but other than that I've never bought a building on a whim. I always do stuff like buying up Z's debt or lone someone money like I did with this place and that was just a startup I very rarely buy a place out right. Though I've always done so on good faith and with good intention the simple fact that most have turned at least a small profit It must be a sign I'm doing something right." Lilly said sounding a little annoyed.
"Weight what about the boar?" I asked a little thrown off track.
"What oh um well it's a bit of a long story but there was this bore who was trying to get into the hole slum lord thing. So, he decided he wanted to buy up a damn shelter for kids and turn it into a strip club and long story short a finick fox tod approached me about it out of the blue looking for a lone to try and save the shelter. It turned into a bidding war that ended up with me buying the whole damn block, so he couldn't run them off. Unfortunately for him he went too far and trashed the shelter. After that me and that finick trashed him his place and about seven maybe nine of his goons I'm not really sure how many where there at the time. We then smashed his sick little plans to dust sort of literally. That finick has a lot of anger ok that a little hypocritical coming from me but I can at least keep my anger under control well most of the time but he went nuts smashed everything he even broke his bat to." Lilly said a little uncomfortably.
"I don't think of you as an angry person your nice and really kind you helped me out when I hit rock bottom and from what I've heard. You have helped others who really needed it." I said simply and blushing a little before I noticed Lilly was standing there blushing and speechless.
After a few seconds Lilly stuttered "I um I oh I um oh er um thank you" Lilly said before quickly heading off to one of the machines leaving me there a little confused.
I then walked over to an elliptical it was a little small for me but I could still use it easily. I walked on it as Lilly used one of the weight machines. No matter how many times I had seen it. It was always a shock to watch lily's feats of disproportionate strength and how something so small could be so strong was honestly amazing and I apparently wasn't the only one who thought so. As several others kept glancing over at her and I could see a few whisperings and judging by Lilly's smirk she ether noticed or was somehow able to hear them over the sounds of the work out equipment. which wouldn't surprise me honestly that rabbit was somewhere between a super mammal and a normal girl it was all a little insane. I then found myself wondering how she did so as Lilly started to show off as she had grabbed a large class hand weights and had started to bench press it. It was more a show of I can handle large classes as the small class weights could reach the same amount and I had to admit it was sort of impressive to watch. Me and Lilly worked out for a few hours before we finished and both of us headed to the locker room. At first, I wasn't sure why Lilly had asked me to follow her into the room tell she tossed a change of clothes at me from her bag.
"What how did you." I started to say before Lilly interrupted me.
"Z gave me a master key also you keep forgetting to lock the door I've not once had to use it to get in only to lock up for you on top of that you have no room to get mad at me for entering your apartment. considering how you keep waking up in my bed and before you go spreading rumors no we weren't having sex she's a sleep walker I think." she said as a eep could be heard from the other side of the lockers that divided the room. A few seconds later a naked black puma peaked around the corner of the lockers
"Um how did you know I was hear." The puma said blushing
"For the third time today, these are not just for display I could hear you breathing" Lilly said simply as she pointed up at her ears as they swiveled.
"Well um I'm sorry for eavesdropping." she said before slinking back to her side to continue getting changed as Lilly handed me a towel.
"The showers are over there there's a soap dispenser in there, but you can borrow mine if you want." Lilly offered as she started to walk off towards the showers.
Once I heard the water start I followed after her and got into one of the showers I quickly got cleaned as I heard Lilly hum a cheerful toon that I thought might have been a gazelle song. I soon finished and went to get dressed but as I walked out of the showers and started for the lockers though I didn't make it five steps before I slipped.
"wwwhhhhaaa" I said as I fell and hit the floor.
"Sam are you ok." Lilly said pulling the curtain back to see if I was ok. I felt my cheeks turn red as standing right in front of me was a naked and dripping wet Lilly who rushed over to help me up.
"Sam are you ok." Lilly said sounding worried.
"I um yeah but umm Lilly your um naked." I said before Lilly look down at herself and blushed bright red.
"Oh SHIT!" She said before storming off and giving me a eye level view of her rear. If I could have blushed even darker I would have as she bent over and picked up her towel her tail twitching with every move. All I could was watch unable to look away that was before Lilly covering herself with the towel and with an angry hurt glare said. "Pervert!"
"Um what." slipped out as she pulled the curtain closed.
I sat there on the floor naked for at least a minute trying to figure out what had just happened. Once I had realized I had been just sitting there I got up and got dressed as I waited for Lilly who made a show of staying on the other side of the divide in the room. A few minutes later Lilly finished getting dressed once she was done she came over to my side as she did I stood up off a stool that was used to reach the higher lockers. Next thing I knew I was pinned against the wall of lockers with one of lily's paws on my chest pinning me in place so that my toes could just barely touch the floor. As the air shifted and filled with anger. As Lilly stared at me with angry grey eyes but strangely unlike last time I felt no fear in fact I felt safe and the dull feeling caused by my pills burned away in a flash and on top of all of that the strangest thing of it all was. The sight of the furious but tiny female prey bunny with grey eyes that screamed rage and with one paw held me captive and completely helpless and I knew that that one small powerful paw could with ease end my life no it could literally crush me. I knew all this and yet in that moment she looked like the most beautiful mammal I had ever seen in my life and on top of that I had never felt more aroused. On top of all that my almost completely faded blush was back and brighter than ever that seemed to have thrown Lilly off track for a few second. As I felt the anger around me start to fade before hitting me again full force then Lilly asked sounding as angerly as she felt. "Did you do that on purpose!?"
"What?" I asked as her words snapped me out of the state I was in.
"Did you do the thing in the shower on purpose just to sneak a peek at me!?" Lilly asked starting to sound hurt as well as mad.
"What no I slipped why would I try to do that?" I said trying to focus on the conversation and not get transfixed on her again.
"Because of that fucking luck or lust or whatever the thing is urrrg I hate it." Lilly said sounding more hurt then mad as her paw pressed harder on my chest it hurt and was getting hard to breathe.
"Lilly I can't breathe." I tried to say as I struggled to breathe Lilly's expression changed instantly to one of shock and fear as Lilly dropped me but unfortunately, I fell to the floor landing on my tail again.
"Oh I didn't mean to I'm sorry." Lilly said taking a step back tears forming in her eyes as I got up then coughed before saying.
"No, it's ok and I understand this sort of thing has hurt you before. Though I want you to know I've felt the effect but never to the level of the way you described. It flares up for a few seconds but fades just as quickly and has never been enough to tempt me well not to the point of doing something stupid." I said before hugging Lilly to me.
"I respect and owe you too much and value your friendship far too much I wouldn't dare risk accidently throwing it away on something like that." I said as I felt Lilly calm in my arms it was strange like back in the elevator in the hospital. Her body at first twitched as if it wanted to resist though there wasn't anything for her to resist against, but it slowly calmed and relaxed as her breathing and heart rate slowed. To the point that if it hadn't been for her eyes where open and alert you'd think she was asleep it was actually really adorable but what happened next surprised me. She let out a little sigh before curling into me and rubbed her head against my chest.
After a few minutes Lilly let out another sigh and said. "Ok we need to go before someone walks in on us."
"Ok." I said before letting her go and getting up off the floor where I had been sitting after that me and Lilly left the gym but, on our way, home we ran in to DR Angus.
"Oh, Samantha it's good to see you out and about oh and who's your friend there." DR Angus asked me.
"Oh, this is Lilly she's my boss and friend we just came from the gym down the street oh um Lilly doctor Angus doctor Angus Lilly." I said introducing the two.
"Um hi huh have we met you look familiar." Lilly said with a slightly confused look.
"No not to my knowledge." DR Angus said simply before shaking Lilly's paw.
"Though you might know one of my many brothers one was a doctor in the triburrows or a librarian in savanna central or well if I keep going weed be hear awhile. I have twelve of them and I'm used to being recognized by random strangers." DR Angus said simply.
"Your brother wouldn't happen to be doctor Trever would he and If you think twelve is bad that's considered small compared to us bunnies and our families. I have ninety one siblings and my mom's expecting another litter soon and where considered a small family" Lilly said simply.
"You um yes that's my brother um your joking right." DR Angus said more than a little surprised.
Nope it's the truth." Lilly said simply.
"Oh, my that explains a lot actually." DR Angus said stroking his chin.
"Explains a lot about what." Lilly asked sounding annoyed and more than a little angary.
"Oh no offense meant I just hear a lot about sibling issues from my few rabbit patients." DR Angus said trying to apologize.
"Ok um what type of doctor are you." Lilly asked as I shook my head mouthing no. Though this turned out to be redundant as he didn't get a chance to answer as Lilly stomach growled really loudly as Lilly blushed dark red.
"Um what was that?" DR Angus asked sounding a little afraid.
I on the other hand was laughing and tried my best to say. "Th that Lilly's stomach she's got an insane metabolism and hasn't eaten recently so she must be starving."
"Hay well actually yeah I'm really hungry and a little tired actually I need to eat something soon or I'm going to pass out again." Lilly said surprising me as she hadn't shown any sign of fatigue up to this point.
"Um is she serious." DR Angus asked sounding both surprised and worried.
"Yes, she's is that's the insane metabolism thing again Lilly why didn't you say something sooner." I said in a concerned scolding tone.
"Because Sammy's diners like a block away and that's where we were heading." Lilly said simply as she started to walk off.
"Oh, ok well looks like we have to go see you soon DR Angus." I said before following Lilly.
A few minutes later we walked into the diner where I got a chicken tenders plate. As Lilly devoured plate after plate of pancakes after her ninth plate Lilly finally said she was done and once we had paid we started to head for home. As we walked back home a lion wearing only female underwear burst out of a building half a block behind us and he was being chased by the zpd. Who were quickly catching up as mammals tried to get out of the way as Lilly got readied to stop him but before she could pounce the lion grabbed me spun around and tried to throw me at the officers but missed sending me flying out into traffic. What happened next well it was like it was all happening in slow motion Lilly jumped onto a parked car and then darted forward on all fours before jumping onto a moving car that was passing the one she was on. She then jumped again grabbing me and I found myself staring into her now pure green eyes right before Lilly rebounded off the front window of a car. I heard it make a loud cracking sound when she did, but it held as she started to jump from car to car loudly spouting a large number of swears and curses every time she jumped. As I felt her body her amazingly powerful and small body took the impact of the landing I then felt the force of the launch from each jump as she made her way to the other side of the road across the moving traffic. But as Lilly tried to land on a parked car on the other side of the road one of her hind paws caught on the side of the car and we fell.
'No.' I thought as an image of Lilly body hitting the ground and the sounds of bones braking flooded my mind along with fear so much fear. I grabbed Lilly's leg and pulled her into my arms as I felt the impact of my back hitting the roof of the car sending a jolt of pain through my whole body Before I was flung off the roof and hit the ground and it all went black. Next, I knew my eyes shot open as I gasped the wind knocked out of me and then I noticed Lilly was staring at me with a worried look on her muzzle but it just for that moment it was like when we first met and she again looked like an angel if only for a few seconds.
"Sam Sam are you ok Sam please say something anything." Lilly begged sounding scared and panicked as she set up on me not realizing she was giving me an eye level view up her skirt and oh god why wasn't she wearing any underwear.
"why aren't you wearing any panties." I managed to force out though I couldn't really think of anything else to say as Lilly stared at me for half a second before she burst out laughing.
"I'm sorry I'm sorry but I can't stop of all the things you could have said that wasn't what I was expecting are you ok." Lilly said as she fought to regain her composure.
"I think I landed on my tail again and other then having the wind knocked out of me and being sore all over I'm fine." I said once I could breathe and set up causing Lilly to slide into my lap where I hugged her before realizing we were surrounded by mammals with their phones out recording us I blushed and froze with stage fright.
The moment Lilly recognized my fear the air shifted, and rage flooded out of her in waves before she said in her calm way which was strangely scarier than if she had yelled it in anger. "Ok you have enough now clear out."
Lilly got up out of my lap as mammals fled in fear as I smiled feeling safe again right in the middle of the maelstrom of rage that emanated from Lilly my little guardian angel.
We eventually maid our way home and Lilly treated my bruises with some cream stuff that she made from some plaints that eased the pain. Once Lilly had finished that she started to clean up but before she could then put away a few jars. There was a knock on the door that turned out to be a small female otter.
"Oh, Lilly your hear I've been trying to get in touch with you all day but I've been so busy. My kids are sick it's just a cold but its spreading and me and Zeke can't afford to get sick and I was hoping you could help the kids?" She asked sounding worried.
"Um ok but I'm short on supplies so I doubt I have I'd need on paw and I need to know what I'm dealing with first um there's a floral supply shop across the street from Sammy's diner. Sam can you head there and pick up what I need I'll text you what herbs that I'll need to make the remedies." Lilly asked me as she started to look around to see what she had on paw to work with.
"ok I'll go get what you need." I said starting out the window and wonder how I had so quickly gotten used to using a window rather than a door.
"Oh, weight you will need this just tell them to put it on my bill." Lilly said handing me what I think was a herbalist license before returning to the task at hand. I then started to climb down only to meat Z on her way up.
"Oh, hay kitten where you off to." Z asked climbing up the ladder.
"Hay Z um Lilly's helping one of your sick tenets. I don't really know what's going on with all that other than Lilly doesn't have what she needs so I'm going to go get what she needs." I said with a shrug before letting her pass and heading down to the street.
I put in my headphones and started to walk as I hit random on my playlist getting gazelles try everything song that for some rezone seamed to fit the moment. As I felt happier then I had in a long time even though I had never been in a worse situation and probably would have been in even worse one if it wasn't for Lilly. About halfway there my phone pinged with a text from Lilly It wasn't long after that I reached my destination. As soon as I walked in I was surprised by how pleasant and beautiful the shop was. The shop was nice and cool and smelled pleasantly of earth and plants and was wall to wall flowers. I walked over to the counter and up on a small platform that was there so smaller mammals could reach the counter where I was greeted by a young mail lion.
"Um excuse me can you help me my boss said you have an assortment of herbs she needs um she gave me a list." I said pulling up the list on my phone.
"I'm sorry miss though we do have a large collection of herbs and can even special order anything else you may need. You must be licensed in order to just perches most preprocessed herbs let alone ready to use ones as they are highly regulated. Especially after the hole night howler's thing a few years back." He said apologetically.
"Oh yes I know my employer has a license and sent me with it." I said getting it out of my bag and placing it on the counter.
"I hope you know that even if this does pass the checks I will have to contact your employer to verify it first." He said putting the card into a machine on the counter.
"That's fine um mind if I use your phone mine is a little small." I asked simply.
"Sure go right ahead." He said helping me up on to the counter, so I could call Lilly it took about twenty minutes to get through all the procedures and for him to hunt down the needed herbs. As he did so he made polite conversation. He even tried to explain a few things about herbs to me I didn't really understand much of it other than that though the things he was giving me where commonly referred to as herbs most weren't actually herbs somewhere moss fungi or where just trimming from some plants. After that I filled out the paperwork to put all the purchases on Lilly's billing account. Once I had finally finished that and gotten out of the shop night had fallen but thankfully the street lights provided more than enough light to see my surrounding's not that I really needed it as a cat I had good night vision. I started to walk home strangely I didn't feel calm and safe like earlier I felt on edge and jumpy. I tried to convince myself that I was just on edge do to my meds wearing off but even, so I couldn't help but to pick up the pace to try and reach the safety of my apartment and Lilly as I did I spotted a familiar mammal. It was the mugger only now he was in a suit instead of the rags he was in last time, but I was sure it was him. I started to run there was only a few blocks between me and safety. I struggled to pool out my phone and all I could think was to get in touch with Lilly. I somehow managed to find her number and call her as I just barely avoided running into a light post in the proses.
Thankfully she picked up on the third ring. Oh, hay Sam what's up hav." Lilly said cheerfully before I interrupted her. "Lilly help I'm being chased by the mugger I'm almost back help."
There was a half second pause before she said. "Where are you try to make it to the fire escape I'm on my way just get hear I'll take care of the rest!"
She sounded furious and it almost sounded like she was growling before hanging up as I continued to run. Looking back, I didn't see the mugger, but I did see a car as It veered onto the curve I just manage to get into an alleyway between buildings that the large medium class car couldn't even try to fit. Though once on the other side of the building I continued to try and reach the fire escape. I didn't stop running tell I reached the alley way with the fire escape I stopped trying to catch my breath before heading toward the fire escape. When suddenly two cars blocked one end as a third car blocked the other entrance to the alleyway. As several mammals got out as I tried to climb up the ladder I almost made it up to the first platform when the largest tiger I've ever seen grabbed my tail and pulled me off the ladder. I screamed in pain when he did thankfully he quickly switched to holding me by my legs.
"We got her let's go." He growled as two other tigers walked over.
"LET HER GO OR DIE YOU MOTHER FUCKING ASSHOLES!" Lilly practically roared as a dropped sledgehammer landed on one of the tiger's head followed by an extremely pissed of Lilly landing on the other and kicked off of him knocking them both out.
"I'd set me down now she's not kidding she will beat you up really really badly." I said hanging upside down from his paw. His only reply was to growl at me.
"You don't scare me, but she should scare you." I said calmly with no trace of fear as I hung there staring him down though he didn't listen to me.
He however was clearly disturbed by how surely, I said it unfortunately I didn't realize it at the time that my skirt had fallen down but at least I was wearing panties. he didn't reply but he did however whistle loudly calling over his buddy's. As Lilly grabbed her sledge hammer as she did so I noticed her change in attire. Her eyes where a solid green all hints of their normal blue gone and full of a furious rage that would have most mammals three times her size running for their life's. For me however it sent a warm rush through me that I had only ever felt in heat. Next I noticed her outfit she was wearing a Kevlar vest a pair of big metal gloves that I learned later where called gauntlets. Her sledge hammer had a pink handled that had what looked like children's drawling all over the handle and been covered in a see-through plastic and strangely though it was definitely not rabbit size. Though it was close it seemed to fit her even though it was almost comically big in her paws.
'Tiny bunny with a big hammer why does that sound familiar.' I thought as three wolf a badger a fox a bore a strangely familiar ocelot and a wolverine stepped between the tiger and Lilly. I felt sorry for them Lilly however looked like she was looking forward to kicking there buts.
"Look sweetheart head back inside before you get hurt." the bore said as he lights up a cigar before Lilly sledge hammer smashed him in the face braking his tusk and knocking him out.
As the others had turned to check on their comrade Lilly struck she punched the wolverine in the back of the head knocking him off is paws and sent him flying a few feet. I couldn't tell if he was unconscious or not, but he wasn't getting up as Lilly knocked the fox's hind paws out from under him. She then grabbed his right leg and stomped on the foxes lower back then there was a loud snapping sound as the fox yelped. The ocelot pulled out a knife and tried to cut Lilly but Lilly just knocked it out of his paw then grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back.
"You really should have learned your lesson the first time." Lilly said as I realized he was the ocelot from the bar.
Lilly then dislocated his elbow and snapped his arm before yanking him around and punched him three times before dropping the badly beaten and unconscious mammal to the ground. The remaining mammals stepped back as they just realized Lilly wasn't a normal mammal and was as far from a helpless bunny as you could get. As she had brutally and quickly taken down about half their group.
"I warned you." I said in a almost sing song way as Lilly calmly walked over to her hammer and picked it up. She then started to twirl the hammer like a baton.
"Leave now and this ends continue and I'll brake you." she said simply before tossing the hammer up in the air and past the third floor before catching it and propping it on her shoulder.
"Bitch!" The fox groaned as he pulled out a gun only to have his paw crushed by Lilly's hammer.
"No guns you use those, and I'll Do more than brake a few bones!" Lilly said in a cold murderous tone as her rage flooded the alley that seemed to frighten them, but it wasn't enough to scare them off. We'll all but one wolf but he didn't make it far as he was shot by the tiger when he tried to run thankfully the tiger wasn't aiming to kill him and shot him in the leg.
"Don't be stupid she's just trying to trick you don't fear her fake violence fear the real thing and kill her she's just one little bunny." The tiger said sounding revolted by Lilly. That had just made me mad.
"Hay you big bully shut up." I said shoving my taser into his eye he screamed and dropped me.
I bolted for the fire escape several of the mammals tried to stop me only to be blocked by Lilly, but I managed to make it up to the third floor before stopping to look down at Lilly. She was fighting the mammals who had tried to stop me most notable was the wolfs who were each wielding shock batons. It was then I noticed a badger who had pulled out a knife to stab Lilly in the back I stopped him buy pushing a large flower pot full of dirt and flowers off the fire escape. To my surprise it hit the mark and landed on him Lilly looked up in surprise I waved at her she started to wave back but was interrupted when a shock baton nearly hit her. She then returned to the fight as I continued to climb soon reaching Z's window I knocked as hard as I could on the window hoping she was home.
"Z Z Z help please Z." I shouted as Z walked over and opened the window.
"What's wrong kitten" She asked sounding worried.
"Lilly's in trouble she's being attacked down below." I said clearly shaken and afraid as Z darted to the railing before darting back in.
"Call the Z.P.D. if you haven't already." She said grabbing a baseball bat as she ran out her door I pulled out my phone and went to call the Z.P.D. but stopped. Calling the cops didn't seem right somehow so instead I called Thomas and by extension Fred.
"Hi Sam, what's up where on our way home does Lilly need something." Thomas said in a way that clearly said he was trying not to laugh at something.
"Lilly is in trouble please help." I said into the phone then there was silence on the other end of the line.
As I was just about to say hello for the third time Thomas said. "Where is she." He said in a tone that sent a chill through me.
"Z's apartment" I stuttered wondering what was up with these bunnies how are they all so scary. Though I knew scary was the wrong word, but I couldn't think of the word at the time.
"Where on our way will be there soon." He said before hanging up the phone I then returned to watching the fight Lilly had knocked out the wolfs but the wolverine was back on his feet.
Though by the way he was holding his arm it was clearly broken in fact they all looked like they were about to drop but Lilly was fine well she had some blood on her but as she wasn't in any visible pain, I didn't think it was hers. The tiger on the other paw was clearly not happy and was calling someone on his phone. I had a feeling this wasn't going to end well I especially had a bad feeling about him and I wasn't sure what, but it was bad. I climbed down to Lilly's window and opened it so I could escape if needed before running to the railing to watch Lilly. She had just knocked out the last of the grunts before turning to the tiger.
"Well that was fun but now it's your turn big boy or are you to scared of the little bunny to fight me." She said sounding cocky, but her actions told another story. Though her hammer was slung on her shoulder and her posture casual. Her grip had tightened on her hammer and she was clearly ready to move she had her eyes fixed on the large tiger she was ready to fight.
He growled then reach for his shoulder holster as he did Lilly bolted forwarded at that moment it happened again things seemed to slow, and I could take in everything that happened next Lilly's hammer collided with the tiger's paw as he tried to aim his gun at Lilly she then knocked the gun out of his paw and a before he could try grab it Lilly kicked it under a car.
"Big mistake little bunny." He growled and swiped at Lilly who just simply hopped out of the way.
Lilly then responded by swinging her hammer at him he tried to dodge it but he was a lot slower than Lilly and the hammer hit his leg he growled in pain before trying to stomp on Lilly the strange thing was the pain didn't really slow him down as Lilly beat on him it was sort of like with my former land lord only with the tiger the madder he got the more rash and almost savage he became.
"Hay leave her alone." Z shouted baseball bat on her shoulder as she climbed over the car blocking the alley.
"I don't think that will work he's really pissed and really wants to catch Sam." Lilly said as she dodged a strike from the tiger and try to get him to keep his attention on her.
As Z was followed by a few other mammals like a beaver with a chainsaw the female otter from earlier with a lot of knifes she had a chef knife and a large butchers knife and several combat knifes. Then there was the pig he just looked scary and had a big scar on his face he had a massive knife and a chain. Surprisingly later I learned he's a baker and really nice last of the group was another otter who looks like he was a teen he had a baseball bat and a bike helmet on. I started to climb down thankfully the tiger seemed not to notice anyone else not even me he just seamed focused on trying to kill Lilly. The other mammals who were watching the fight with didn't seem too eager on changing that as he was much larger than the largest of our group and towered above Z and it didn't hurt that he was a predator. I know prey species have a natural distrust of preds as we are literally built to hunt and eat them but the truth is us preds weren't to comfortable with other preds especially ones that are bigger or stronger or more dangers then our self it usually wasn't so bad with members of our own specie but other with specie it wasn't so easy. One thing I've never really understood was why so many prey where so scared of us when we pred especially us smaller ones are scared of most of them and each other in fact I believe that's why we preds agreed to the hole living in harmony with other species thing. My train of thought was interrupted when the tiger tried to grab one of the knocked out tigers guns only to be shot through his paw causing him to roar in pain and knocking the gun out of his paw. The shot had came from the old dog in the wheelchair who had made the shot from an upstairs window he saluted Lilly before pulling his gun back in the window.
'I really need to find out what his name is.' I Thought as the tiger cradled his hurt paw and Z took the opportunity to hit him over the head with her bat.
That didn't seem to do anything besides making him really mad he then grabbed Z by the neck choking her as Lilly struck him in the back but that didn't stop him as he continued to choke Z his eyes now slitted with savage rage. As Lilly tried to stop him Z struggled to try and breathe I hit him with my taser again and he dropped Z and fell over, but this didn't stop him for long seconds after being zapped he started to get up but now on all fours.
"Oh crap I think he's gone savage get back." Lilly ordered before he pounced at her and with one swipe of his claws sent Lilly flying into the wall.
Thankfully her vest protected her from the tiger's claws, but the impact knocked the wind out of her as he started to prowl over to Lilly.
"Z catch." I said tossing her one of the shock batons.
I grabbed the other baton the thing was as big as a sword in my paws, but it didn't matter as it was light weight enough that I could use it without much effort. Me and Z hit him with the baton and my taser on max I smelt burnt fur and flesh, but he just wouldn't go down as my taser ran out of charge seconds before the baton.
"What the hell is wrong with this guy." Z said sounding scared as he turned to attack me. Thankfully he was met with Lilly sledge hammer finally after Three more blows to the head with Lilly's hammer the tiger collapsed out cold.
"Ok how the hell did he manage to keep getting up." Z asked sounding a little scared and shocked as Lilly dropped into a sitting position.
"No clue at first he was just a tough fight but after the first six or nine blows it honestly felt like I was fighting myself then he just went nuts." Lilly said panting her eyes where turning a pail blue as her ears wilted as she looked exhausted it was like the fight had drained some of the life out of her.
"What." Z started to say before she was interrupted by one of Lilly's twin brothers shouting Lilly's name as they ran over. If Lilly's wardrobe change for the fight was dramatic it had nothing on these two they were suited up in ear to tow black combat gear Thomas had a large sniper rifle slung on his back a shotgun in his paws and at least three I could see at a first glance of his large revolvers strapped to him Fred on the other paw had his auto pistols and in his paws was a assault rifle and he was covered in packs of ammo.
"What the hell are you two doing are you insane why the hell are you hear and more importantly why do you to look like your about to go down guns blazing oh god if the Z.P.D shows up where so screwed!" Lilly said sounding annoyed.
"Sam called us and said you were in trouble and sounded scared we figured if you were in real trouble it had to be bad, so we suited up for war now what's going on." they said in unison both sounding worried drawing surprised and odd looks from the surrounding mammals.
"Stop that its creepy and I'm fine I already took care of it though I could have used you earlier that tiger Bastard was one hell of an insane fight even with my sledge hammer." Lilly said reminding me of a mother scolding a young kit.
"Sorry." The twins said at the same time before shaking their head and saying sorry one after the other.
Lilly just shook her head in annoyance then jumped in surprise at the sound of screeching tires as several more cars pulled up and unloaded a large group of armed mammals. All were in suits and where at least a medium size class or above and aiming a gun at us.
"Crap take cover!" Lilly shouted as she grabbed me and pulled me behind a dumpster as bullets pinged off of it.
Luckily there was plenty of stuff in the alley to take cover behind like a dumpster trash cans a chicken coop that had only one chicken in it a old couch under a makeshift awning and a bunch of other random bits of junk.
"Ok anyone have any clue why this many mammals would be after Sam because I got nothing?!" Lilly shouted.
"Nope!" The twins said at the same time shooting back.
"Weight what there after kitten what the hell's going on?!" Z asked sounding very panicked.
"I don't know I'm just scared I don't know anyone who would do this, and I haven't done anything bad to anyone they just started chasing me!" I said panicking and starting to cry.
"Shit Fred Thomas if you were stupid enough to show up like that please tell me you called mom?!" Lilly shouted as Fred continued to returned fire.
"Nope we called dad we weren't going to pull any punches." Thomas said with a laugh that sounded slightly crazed.
"You are insane!" Z shouted sounding scared.
"No, we aren't but these guys are they have no clue who their shooting at oh there going to piss them self's when they figure out there shooting at the first heir of the matriarch of iudicio sanguinum et salices carpetis." Fred said as he reloaded his gun.
"Fred you idiot they don't know that it's supposed to be a secret dammit Fred!" Lilly scolded.
"The what of what?" Z asked.
"Long story for later but for now know it's a family thing and in this case a good thing as." Lilly said as a armored personnel carrier slammed into two of the cars of the mammals who were shooting at us. This was followed by three more armored personnel carriers and a fleet of civilian cars and the Z.P.D and swat.
"Yep that's dads doing." Thomas said as an armed forces helicopter zoomed overhead.
As an army of bunnies poured out of the cars and the armored transports all where of varying ages and all were dressed differently but at least half where in body armor but all where heavily armed with every type of gun known to mammal kind and several where armed with melee weapons. the most notable was a female in a dominatrix get up and was armed with a whip and a lot of knifes then there was a elderly female in a nightgown and curlers she had a flame thrower next to her was a massive buck who towered above the rest he was in a mechanics outfit with chains crossed on his chest and a minigun slung on his shoulder lastly there was a rabbit I think covered head to toe explosives and holding what I think was a potato gun and in the chopper was a mail rabbit In a uniform that I was sure belonged to one of the higher ranking member of the military.
"Holy crap fluff this is all for you." Z asked sounding shocked.
"Well we don't call her princes for nothing." Thomas said getting up as the Z.P.D. started to hall our attackers off.
"Urg will you two stop its going to be a pain in the ass to explain all of this and I don't need you idiots making it worse for me!" Lilly scolded her brothers as they walked over to the continuing to grow hoard of heavily armed rabbits I just stood there and watched tell Lilly wandered over to me several minutes later.
"Ok I think we are done with that mess. could you please try to gather together anyone who would like an answer to what happened in the common room, so I can try to explain the insanity that is my family?" Lilly asked clearly frustrated before walking off.
The common room used to be the laundry room but when Lilly started her restoration of the building it was moved into the basement in replacement for the old furnace and other old equipment that was down there. Lilly then used this new open space to make a place where the buildings tenets could relax and hang out. the common wasn't anything special it had a tv a few old second hand gaming consoles a collection of board games and a massive comfy old couch. it didn't take much or long to get the mammals who were present and at least seven more mammals to come down as Lilly set up her laptop and connected it to the tv and then pulled up a forest map.
"Ok this is a bit of a long complicated story try to bear with me hear and save any questions tell I'm done. Well ok back before the founding of this city there was a few small farming lands and a few towns but the first of these was. well I won't bother with the latten translations as they aren't even recorded in the officially public records anymore. so, I'll just use their english names but the first was the village of scarlet burrows this story begins even before that so be prepared for a lot of history. so anyways before all that there was these two warring countries whose names I don't even know. ok look long story short this entire zone was turned into a blood poisoned and destroyed wasteland." Lilly said hitting a key that turned most of the massive forest that was at least as big as the city itself into a red stained filled of mud.
"Now this was the best I could do with the time I had and isn't nearly accurate as the history book describes it in great detail of the insane levels of horrors and destruction. You need to understand it was worse than you can even imagine, and I can't even start to explain how bad it was. though one of the major points you have to understand is it was so bad that the very ground itself was so saturated with blood to the point it poisoned everything. Nothing could live there not mammals not reptiles maybe some insects but defiently not plants well all but one that is the iudicio sanguinum et salices carpetis or blood willow. well that's the name of the one my family owns there more common name is ancient woods all that's really known about these plants is that it's an ancient mutation on a standard weeping willow its roots run insanely deep and the thing lives for well no one really knows as the only three in existence are far older than any record of their existences." Lilly said hitting a button that pulled up a picture of a painting of a red leaved willow tree that someone had stabbed a knife into it and surprisingly it bled where it was stabbed the ground was polled in blood with a hole at the base of the tree.
"This is a painting of the bloody willow or least as it was at the time and yes the tree did actually bleed but that was merely because it was drinking the blood from the soil this is it today." She said hitting a button that brought up a modern photo of a larger tree its leaves where green streaked with only a few patches of red leaves left.
"This tree saved my family its roots reached so deep that It was able to reach unpolluted sections of the water table it was a source of clean water in a literal river of blood. My ancestors trapped by war maid their home in its roots feeding on what little they could off the tree, but it wasn't enough they were starving dying by the dozens forced to cannibalism to survive. That was tell one of the mothers had had enough she stole weapons and fought a war of her own she led the survivor's against both army's and they fought and won. They fed on their kills and took what they wanted even long after the war ended but as mammals grew scarce they returned to their farming roots. As it turns out the land that was once tainted and been body strewn had become very fertile in that time they could grow more crops faster and hardier than any other and my family grew rich from it to the point they owned the entire battlefield and still do to this day or at least they own the sovereignty rights to it." Lilly said hitting a button on her computer that showed the battle field it then changed to the triburrows and most of its surrounding territory's.
"On top of that my family owns a great chunk more I come from an ancient empire of wealth, but it's so spread out that my direct family barely touches it. Well except for my mom she has access to all of it but no clue how other then it follows some ancient set of rules only the heads of the family are allowed to know. Though because my mother is the matriarch basically she's the top dog of all of it all and she's responsible for running the family business and as her first born daughter I'm technically next in line to be matriarch. Thankfully I must be willing to take the mantle and as I'm not, so it will likely go to one of my sisters along with the family business." Lilly said with a sigh
"What is this family business you keep mentioning?" Z asked.
"Oh god I was really hoping I wouldn't have to explain that um long story short it varies depending on the matriarch of the time, but it tends to involve fighting or killing for money which is why I don't want the job." Lilly said clearly braced for a negative reaction.
"Weight what?" Several said in shock.
"I come from a family of mercenaries ok but me and most of my siblings have chosen to not go in that line of work but even, so my family is essentially an army for hire. Well parts of it are most are normal citizens well as normal as you can get with a family like mine but it's like the old saying says you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family." Lilly said starting to unhook her computer with a sigh.
"Look I'm still the same bunny as I was yesterday you just now know something I'm not proud of. Oh, and Sam I still need those herbs I'll have the doses you asked for ready ether late tonight or early tomorrow." she said before walking off.