A Son of his own Chapter 16: Reunion
Savannah Central, 2 hours after Chapter 15
Nick and Judy gradually walked down a Savannah Central street on their way to find a certain weasel Judy busted a few days back who was running a bootleg stall in a rather run down part of the town.
Just as they were about to turn off onto the next street, Judy stopped as her ears picked up a sound she would never want to hear.
Growling.
She turned around as did Nick and they both noticed an adult male tiger banging the stone ground with his fists while most onlookers backed up carefully.
Some tried approaching the tiger, only to realise he had gone savage!
The onlookers screamed and stated running indoors in hopes of getting away from the tiger.
Now it was Nick and Judy who were only on the street, with the tiger.
The tiger sniffed the air and turned around to face the bunny and fox.
He is his eyes set and waited for the duo to make a move.
"Judy? What do we do?" Nick asked in a panicked state.
"Run!" Judy yelled as she grabbed Nick's paw and started running as fast as she her legs could take her and nearly making Nick trip over multiple times.
She shouldn't have ran, now she and Nick were being chased by a tiger.
Judy could hear the tiger running after them in a savage state, he wasn't going to let them get away that easily.
The duo ran through a market Street that was rather too busy and soon everyone was screaming and tripping over each other as the savage tiger rushed through the market for 2 meals and 2 only, he didn't care about the other onlookers.
He only wanted the bunny and the fox.
"Judy! He's gaining on us!" Nick yelled as he ran as fast as he could but he was starting to get exhausted.
"I know! Hang on!" Judy yelled as she and Nick came across a small river.
They carefully jumped over some conviently placed rocks and boats but that wasn't enough to slow down the ravenous tiger.
The tiger practically leaped over the small river and was quickly gaining ground.
Nick then pulled out a dumpster as he and Judy ran into an alleyway, thankfully it slowed down the tiger but it would only last for so long.
But then Nick and Judy made a grave mistake.
They ran into a dead end.
Before they could turn around and escape, the tiger was blocking the only exit and was slowly making its way to its trapped prey.
"We're dead for real now!" Nick yelled as he started crying.
But then the tiger stopped, it wasn't stopping because Nick was crying.
The tiger smelt something far more tastier than meat.
Candy.
Licking his lips, he gradually turned around and left Nick and Judy in the alleyway with baffled looks on their faces.
"What? Did he just spare us?" Judy asked with surprise.
"But why?" Nick said with surprise too.
The duo decided to investigate the matter at paw and left the alleyway.
What they saw next made their mouths drop to the ground.
A little fox child was rubbing the savage tigers face like he was a pet and gave him a strawberry drop.
And that little fox was none other than Nathan himself, standing and staring right at death.
"Nathan?! Get away from that tiger!" Nick shouted as he saw how dangerously close Nathan was to the tiger.
Nathan showed a look of sadness but was immediately happy again as the tiger started licking his face like he was a newborn cub and started giggling.
Nick and Judy were so confused right now, why was this tiger acting so affectionately to Nathan?
"Why isn't he attacking you?" Judy said as she carefully approached Nathan and his new friend.
"As it turns out, these savage animals actually really like candy and they want to be loved" Nathan said as he gently rubbed the tigers lower jaw which made the tiger purr a bit.
"Nathan!" Nick shouted with joy as he ran to Nathan.
"Dad!" Nathan shouted back as he ran to his Dad.
They were then reunited in a big tight hug, Nick cried with joy as he was so happy to see Nathan alive and well.
"Are you hurt? And where's that wolf?" Nick asked as he searched Nathan for scratches.
"I'm fine, and the wolf, he got captured and is in the hospital" Nathan said as he shedded a tear.
But his new friend was there to cheer him up and licked the back of his head.
"Wow, he really likes you" Judy said as she stroked the tigers head and he didn't seem to mind.
"Yeah, but I have something to tell you guys, these predators aren't going savage by natural causes" Nathan said.
"What's making them go savage?" Judy asked as she took out a notebook and a carrot pen.
"A blue flower called Nighthowler, I had a nightmare last night of a bad memory of my old father nearly eating me and I saw him holding a blue pellet in his paws, he ate it and he went completely nuts, and the smell gives it away" Nathan said.
"Now that Nathan says it, there is a funny smell off the tiger" Nick said as he sniffed the air.
"Yeah, there is" Judy said as she soon noticed the revelation.
"But I don't know who is shooting these predators, if you look closely, you can see a little mark on his chest" Nathan said as he rubbed the tigers tummy to make him sit down so they could get a better look at the tigers chest.
There was in fact a slight pellet mark on his chest.
"He's right! There is a mark! With some blue stuff on it" Judy said as she went to get a sample.
"Don't touch it!" Nathan yelled.
Judy jumped back as the tiger slightly snarled at her to back off but calmed down.
"If you even touch the Nighthowler, you'll go savage yourself, the tiger growled so you wouldn't go nuts" Nathan said.
"Oh, right, well thanks for the heads up" Judy said.
Nick was so happy to see Nathan was safe and sound, and he was more happy to see that he can tame savage mammals.
"You better get a shirt on, luckily I have your shirt but it's still ripped up" Nick said sadly Ashe held out the shirt.
"It's better than nothing, let's get moving" Judy said.
"Where are we going?" Nathan asked.
"To see a certain weasel, and since no one I around because of Mr Tiger, can you take him with you in case Mr Weaselton is stubborn?" Nick said as the group started walking.
"Are you sure about that Nick? What if someone sees the tiger?" Judy said.
"Everyone is indoors tight now, I doubt they'll step outside anytime soon" Nick said.
"Okay, but Nathan, can you keep him calm?" Judy asked.
"Yes, just don't make sudden movements" Nathan said.
"Okay, let's meet Mr Weaselton, and it he is stubborn, Mr Tiger is going to have weasel for dinner" Judy said as the group walked off in search of Duke Weaselton.