The big day was here. Nobody could believe what was happening... but it was.
Davies was anxious beyond words, it was all he could do not to have a full-blown panic attack. "Hey, buddy... how's it going?" Nick asked, peeking his head into the room.
Davies practically jumped out of his skin. "Hraka, Nick! Don't-... don't sneak up on a guy like that."
"Well there's no need to yell," Nick said. "Still nervous?"
"When was I never nervous is the better question." Davies trembled. "I mean... I still can't believe this is happening. I still... I can still remember before we even dated! Before I even knew she was a Vampire."
"I still don't know why she had that job interview in a restaurant... or was it a diner?" Nick said.
"Either way... nobody thought I'd ever get married, heck, I thought I'd get married before Judy!" Davies said in disbelief.
"Really? Any... any does in Bunny Burrow that caught your eye?" Nick asked.
"A couple. Most turned out to be... well didn't meet my standards, and others simply wanted to be friends." Davies said. "But Anna... Anna is something else altogether."
"Got you're name out there, turned you're working into a major franchise almost overnight, introduced the world to you're creativity. Heck, I saw one of the movies you wrote in theaters for the first time in over a decade." Nick said. "It wasn't all that good, everyone was so wooden a beaver could make an entire cabin from the actors with enough material left over to make furniture."
"Yeah, that film had problems from day one." Davies lamented. "It was one of those movies where the book was better."
"My point is, Anna's been good to you, and you and the entire Hopps family have been good to her ever since you guys met," Nick said.
"I know... but still... it's as serial as the day when I first became an uncle." Davies said.
"So three years old?" Nick said.
"Exactly!" Davies said, not realizing Nick's sarcastic quip. "But this... I'm getting married!"
"Calm down buddy," Nick said. "I'm certain that Anna is just as anxious as you are."
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Meanwhile in Anna's room. She and Judy were positively giddy about the entire wedding. "I still can't believe this is really happening! A thousand years I've been waiting for this day!" Anna said with a giant smile on her face.
"And I still can't believe Davies is finally getting married!" Judy said, with just as big a smile on her face. "I mean we all thought that Davies would be single his whole life. Of course, everybody thought about the same of me, and I've got two kids as well!"
"I tell you, if anyone told me that I'd ever get married, even back in the day when I was mortal, I wouldn't have stopped laughing," Anna said. "Also, I don't remember if I ever apologized for hospitalizing you all those years ago... I'm sorry I hospitalized you all those years ago."
"Thanks," Judy said. "Thankfully that hasn't happened again since that one time."
"Agreed, Frith knows what your hospital bills would look like if that happened every time we met over the last five or six years," Anna said.
"Which reminds me... why did you admit to being a Vampire so quickly?" Judy asked. "You had no reason to tell us, and you could've just used your powers to make Nick and I forget the whole thing."
"For one thing," Anna said. "I figured it wouldn't hurt to know Davies relatives... aside from your father and his extended family. That, and a few other matters. My point is that I believed that you and Nick were trustworthy, not to mention that the Cabal had an interest in both of you. And we were right." Anna said happily.
"Well yeah, Nick and I didn't tell... everyone we knew. And our little Pandora will one day create a vaccine that will retroactively allow you to marry Davies without all the ickiness that would normally imply." Judy said woodenly.
"Judy, you're robotization is showing up again." Anna admonished.
"Sorry... it flares up every now and again, you know that," Judy said sheepishly.
"Another thing... Stewart and Bonnie are here, right?" Anna asked.
"Yes, they came," Judy said. "You're not going to cause any trouble with them, are you?"
"That will all depend on them," Anna said ominously. "Specifically Stewart. Long story short, around one of his last visits I gave your mother a key to a chest filled with mementos from when he was a young buck. Traveling with his father... and that, I feel is all you need to know for now."
Judy snorted in disbelief. "What? Dad's anxious just getting on the train to Zootopia! There's no way he could've gone on adventures with Grandpa Leon."
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As this was going on. Stewart and Bonnie were waiting anxiously for the ceremony to begin in earnest. Bonnie was more excited, while Stu seemed pensive as his father Leon regaled them with stories from the old days. "-and that was how we survived the Lost Temple of Xolotl, unfortunately. Blackpaw got the idol... doe was laughing as she flew off. Bragging about how 'once again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away'."
Bonnie just laughed at her father-in-law's stories. "Oh Leon, I don't know why we don't see you more often."
Stu just brooded, rolling his eyes. "Yeah... it's a wonder that we don't come around to your retirement home."
"Agreed," Leon said snidely. "I'm honestly surprised that Blackpaw invited me in the first place. It's been, what? Fifty years since the last time we crossed paths?"
"Oh, you're confused, Leon," Bonnie said. "Stu told me that was Anna's grandmother." She said, repeating the lie that her husband told her when she saw the old mementos in the Hopps attic.
"Well... there certainly is a strong resemblance between the two." Leon said, all too aware of his youngest son's deception. "Bonnie, why don't you get us something?"
"I'll get drinks!" Bonnie left her husband and father-in-law alone.
"By El-Ahrah's ears... Stewert. What did I tell you on your wedding day?" Leon admonished.
"Never cut cucumbers length-wise," Stewart said.
Leon groaned. "I told you to never lie to your wife! What do you think'll happen when she figures out that Anna was an immortal Vampire?" He admonished. "You're a terrible liar, and sooner or later, she's going to stumble onto something you can't just fib you're way out of."
"I don't even know where Bonnie got that key," Stu said. "I mean how was I supposed to tell her that our son was working for a Vampire I knew, had a crush on, and is now marrying our special boy!"
"True, that does sound crazy," Leon said. "But you can't keep her in the dark like this. Mark my words Stewart, sooner or later, Anna's past is going to rear its ugly head in a way you won't be able to cover up to Bonnie."
"Well, I never heard you talk with her about it before," Stewart said.
"I have, she just assumes I'm senile!" Leon protested.
"You are senile," Stewart said with resignation.
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Eventually, the wedding began in earnest. Davies and Anna walked down the aisle, escorted by Stewart, and Sir Scatch respectively. "The sooner we exchange vows. The sooner we can eat." Anna whispered to Davies.
"Have you seen the Justice of the Peace?" Davies whispered back. "Where did you find this guy?"
"He's an old friend!" Anna whispered.
The two rabbits got to the sloth priest. "We... are gathered... here today."
"We're going to be here all day." Davies lamented.
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An hour passed. "I... now... pronounce you... husband and wife... you... may now kiss... the bride." Then the sloth priest fell over on his back, asleep.
Davies eagerly kissed his bride. "You know Davies," Anna said when Davies went up for breath. "If you hadn't had to wait an extra hour for the kiss. I'd be angry."
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At the reception, everyone was enjoying themselves. Right up until a black wolf stumbled in, breathing heavily, and looking ragged.
"Long-Fang?! What are you doing here?" Anna yelled in surprise.
"You took everything from me!" Draco yelled as he held up a gun. Thankfully, Nick and Judy both tackled him as the shot without. Missing the bride or the groom. "You took my family! You took my lands! You took my home! You took my honor! YOU! TOOK! EVERYTHING!" He shouted.
"Stewart, what's that wolf ranting about?" Bonnie said to her husband with concern.
"And I gave you a chance to find a new life," Anna said in disbelief. "But instead, here you are, somehow looking uglier than ever before, and just as bitter and vindictive as I was when you took mine from me."
"I waited a thousand years for revenge! BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!" Draco snarled as Nick and Judy muzzled the ancient wolf ex-Vampire.
"A thousand years- what is that lunatic raving about?" Bonnie asked in confusion.
"YOU EVEN TOOK AWAY THE ONE ADVANTAGE I HAD!" Draco screamed through his muzzle. "YOU TOOK AWAY MY VAMPIRISM AND MADE ME MORTAL!"
"So that you could rebuild something worthwhile with your life." Anna groaned.
Then Draco threw Nick and Judy off of him. Then the guests that were Vampires turned into their Vampiric forms and charged at Draco. Only to be anti-climatically thrown off. "SIC SEMPER TYRANNOUS!" Draco shouted as he took aim at Anna.
"NO!" Stewart leaped up as the gun fired, and took the shot. Everyone was in shock. None more so than Stewart himself. "Wait... I'm not hurt." He said as he felt around where the 'bullet' went into.
"And... scene," Anna said. "Thanks for helping with this guys. Though you attempt at subduing Draco were anti-climatic."
Draco just laughed. "How'd I do?"
"You're a bigger ham than a William Shatboar." Davies said, annoyed with the entire situation.
Bonnie and Stewart were profoundly confused by everything that just happened. "Davies Tiberius Hopps! I want an explanation!" Bonnie demanded.
Davies rolled his eyes, annoyed that she used his full name. "Short version. Anna was a Vampire, she and dad used to date, sort of, it was closer to pining. As was that guy." He pointed at Draco. "Who killed her family about one-thousand years ago, then about ten years later she was almost by killed by him and turned into a Vampire by Sir Scath." He then pointed to Anna's surrogate father. "And at some point, he was turned into a Vampire, we still don't know who did that." He then pointed back to Draco.
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One-thousand years ago, as Draco lay at the foot of the cliff he fell down during his climactic battle with Annabeth. Bleeding from his wounds. Then Clancy exited a time portal and manipulated the half-dead wolf into becoming a Vampire. "Yes, we're all aware this is a cop-out. But frankly, it would be too much work to make a whole new character that would make any kind of sense within this fan fictions timeline. So yet again, It's my job to patch holes in the plot."
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Later that night, Davies and Anna were in bed together. "Did you really need to set up that whole thing?" Davies asked his new wife.
"Probably not... but let's be honest. Your mother had a right to know the truth." Anna admitted. "And Stewart would've just spin-doctored anything to cover the truth. And even after all of the crazy things that have been happening in Zootopia since the Night Howler Crisis. Would she really believe that Vampires are real on just our word alone? Probably not, but at any time sooner, I wouldn't be surprised if she dragged you by the ears back to Bunny Burrow just to keep us apart."
"No, dad's the overprotective one. Mom's usually... more opened minded than him." Davies said. "But I agree, she should know that you were a Vampire... but did we REALLY need to put up that entire thing with Draco?" He said.
"I'll admit, it was a great risk bringing him into this... but there needs to be some kind of reconciliation between us," Anna said. "What he did to my brother and I was over a thousand years ago. And what I meant as a cruel mercy, can still be used for good. I mean he's become a manager at a Bugga Burger joint when I expected him to die alone and destitute. Not to mention that he kept his gun loaded with blanks... I honestly expected him to come in loaded."
"And if he came loaded?" Davies asked. "You're not immortal anymore, and neither were half of the guests."
"And I'm sorry... look, let's just get some rest. We've had a big day, and to be honest, I'm just as exhausted as you are." Anna said.
"This conversation isn't over," Davies said.
"I'd be surprised if it didn't," Anna said, and both bunnies went to bed.
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Meanwhile, Draco was calling someone. "When the time comes, I'll do my part. But only if you agree to you're end of the bargain."
"Demiurge is a man of his word. You will be granted the same Vampirism given to the Ancient One, and you shall rule the Earth in his name." Said the aid of Demiurge
"Good, and you'll do the same for my girlfriend right?" Draco asked.
"She'll be given the same mutation, and we'll use our advanced technology to allow you to build an undead dynasty, to replace you're lost Cabal." The aid said.
"Good... look, I'm running late for my shift and I can't take the chance of anyone getting suspicious of me," Draco said.
"Understood, we will contact you later." The aid hung up. "Long-Fang is within you're thrall master. He will gather his former allies to aid the conquest of Earth."
"Very good," Demiurge said. "Did you order any food from him?"
The aid was aghast. "I-I-I didn't think that you would not ask anything further!" The aid said in a panic. "I will throw myself into the vats and-"
"It was a joke!" Demiurge said in disbelief. "Draco works at a fast-food restaurant, you can order... I was giving... it's called a joke! Sheesh... settle down. I was just making a wisecrack... it takes weeks for a new one of you to grow." Then the aid got a heart attack and died. "Well... I'm going to need a new aid."