A Son of his own Chapter 9: Cliffside Asylum bust
The trio soon arrived at Cliffside Asylum and as Nick said, it was built near the edge of a waterfall. The building stood in the dark and gloomy area and the trio got goosebumps by looking at it but they moved on and snuck up behind a small guard post and spotted two wolves on patrol.
Nick started doing crazy hand gestures both Judy and Nathan didn't understand, Nathan was about to open his mouth but Nick placed his paw over it and whispered "In other words, follow me as we sneak past them and don't make a sound."
Nick stood up and started to tip toe past the guards, but before he could sneak pass safely, one of the wolves caught his scent, he felt his spine shiver as the wolf came closer and closer.
Just when he thought it was all over, Judy started howling and Nathan followed along with her.
The wolf howled back in response and caught the attention of the other guard who can over and said "Gary! Stop it! You're going to start a howl!"
"I didn't start it!" Gary yelled in response but they both ended up howling and soon the majority of guards guarding the Asylum joined in and became distracted.
Nick, Judy and Nathan run across the bridge as fast as they could and Nick asked "Who's idea was that?"
"It was Judy's" Nathan said as he pointed at Judy.
"Clever bunny" Nick said.
"So how do we get in?" Nathan asked as the reached the end of the bridge.
"I have an idea" Judy said as she spotted a large pipe not far from where they were.
They climbed through the pipe and entered the building. The first room they entered was a wreck, broken items, piled up junk and Nathan felt like an insane mammal or doctor would appear and scare them. Noticing a door, the went through and into another room but it was filled with state of the art equipment, x-rays, computer monitors, test tubes, a patients bed and boxes of syringes.
As Judy recorded everything with her phone light on, Nick pointed at some large claw marks on the floor and a savage tiger tried pouncing them but the glass cage prevented him from doing so, the trio looked in horror as they saw an entire hallway filled with cells containing many savage mammals including Manchas, they walked until they reached s cell with broken glasses inside.
Just shined her light and a savage otter wearing pants growled and shimmered under the bed to avoid the light.
"That's him! We found our otter!" Judy said.
"And he could use a bath too!" Nathan said as he covered his nose.
"Mr Otterton, my name is Judy Hopps, your wife sent me to find you, we're going to get you out-" Judy said before Otterton pounced on the glass which made the trio back up in fright.
"Or not, guess he's in no hurry to get back home to the Mrs" Nick said.
Suddenly, they hear the door opening and quickly make their way to an open cell and hide inside to avoid detection, to their surprise, it was Mayor Lionheart and a honey badger doctor talking about the current situatio, unaware Judy was recording them. Just then, Judy''s phone started to ring which alerted the Mayor and the doctor, the doctor then called security and the entire room went into lockdown and the cell the trio were hiding in quickly shut as wolves came to the door.
As they tried very hard to pry the door open, Nick, Judy and Nathan knew that they were busted and Nick cried "We're dead! I'm dead! You're dead! Everyone's dead!"
"Can you two swim?" Judy asked as she placed her phone into a plastic bag.
"What? Yeah we can swim why?" Nick said.
Judy and Nick hopped and flushed it, but before Nathan could get in, the wolves spotted him.
They opened the door and shot him with their taser pistols while Nick and Judy flew through the water pipes.
Nathan fell off toilet and froze on the floor as he felt the electricity surge through his body.
Outside, Nick and Judy slid out of the pipes and fell over the waterfall and into the deep water below. Nick was the first one to reach the surface and looked around started screaming "Carrots?! Nathan?! Judy?! Son?!"
pJudy resurfaced and held the phone in her paw and said "We gotta tell Bogo!"
Nick was glad that Judy was safe but quickly noticed Nathan wasn't with them and shouted "Where's Nathan?!"
"Oh no! He must still be in there!" Judy exclaimed as she looked up to the Asylum.
"We have to get him out! If anything happens to him, I will never forgive myself" Nick said as he started crying.
"Don't worry, we'll get him out of there, and when we get more officers, we'll put that lion behind bars!" Judy said as they swam back to the shore.
Nick thought about Nathan getting hurt and his hear turned to anger as he snarled "If that oversized cat lays a claw on my son, he's going to wish he was already arrested by the time I'm done with him!"
Meanwhile in the Asylum...
Nathan was sitting in a glass containment cell while bluntly staring at Mayor Lionheart who came to talk with the "only" intruder the wolves found. The wolves removed his shirt and pants, only leaving him in his vest and boxers just incase he was carrying something and held them outside the cell tauntingly as Mayor Lionheart said "Don't take any of this personally child, but I can't have you telling everyone what you have seen here, it's only a temporary stay until we can figure out what's happening."
"I understand, but I would be happier if I hadn't been slashed on the head, and to make it worse, being shocked by your guards, if that doesn't satisfy you, then I don't know what will" Nathan said.
"I'm sorry to hear that, but you must stay here until we figure out what's happening, are you sure he's the only one?" Lionheart said, pointing his attention to the wolves.
"He was the only one in the cell, based off what we smelt, how a child sneaked in is my question" Gary said.
"Says the wolf who's prone to howling and likes to taze kids" Nathan said.
"Watch your mouth fox, I howled because someone else was" Gary said sounding ticked off.
"Don't tell me what to do" Nathan said.
"Make sure he doesn't get out, it's bad enough we're hiding savage animals from the public" Lionheart said as he walked off with everyone.
Nathan's anger became fear and worry as he didn't know how long he was going to be stuck in that fell, he started gently crying and the doctor couldn't help but show sympathy for the young fox. She ruffled through some work boxes until she found some crayons and candy bars.
"I am so sorry about them, they're not nice mammals, I wish I could help you, but take these, I am very sorry" the doctor said as she pushed the crayons and candy bars through the breathing holes of the cell.
Nathan slowly cried as the badger left the cell room completely and the only things to keep Nathan company were savage predators.
As Nathan opened a candy bar while sniffling, he heard whining from the other side of the room.
Nathan looked across and saw a savage wolf pressing against the glass when he saw the candy bar, Nathan felt so sorry he couldn't share with the wolf.
"Maybe it's best I don't eat anything, incase I agitate anyone here" Nathan said as he placed the bar on the floor.
He felt uncomfortable as he saw that from the other side of the room, all the savage predators were staring at him.
"Why is everyone staring at me?" Nathan said to himself.
Some of the predators started banging against the glass, the cell that the wolf was in started cracking as he charged into it.
"If that wolf gets out, he better be more interested in the candy bars than me!" Nathan said as he started to panic.
Nathan got caught, can Nick and Judy get to the Asylum on time? Or will Nathan have to escape himself? Found out in the next chapter!