Alright. Les go. I got a new chapter for y'all, and I hope you guys love it. Now, I bet all of you are still wondering who that mysterious wolf is, but worry not! The truth shall be revealed as soon as I can get it written and done.

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Judy awoke as soon as her head hit her pillow. She had been dreaming, though why she was dreaming of the instructor, she didn't know. At some point earlier the previous day, she must have been sent home, as she didn't remember much of her dream, and she knew she had beaten Nick in the ring. She even remembered walking out of the precinct. Everything after that was fuzzy.

Bracing herself for the bright light, she turned her phone screen on. It said it was half past three in the morning. Judy sighed and rolled back over after turning her screen off. She closed her eyes and waited for sleep to take her again.

It never did. She ended up staying awake until her alarm went off and she had to get ready for work. She smiled weakly to herself as she got up, turned her alarm off, and started to get ready. Her smile widened when she remembered that today was Friday, and she was supposed to go see Nick's mother tomorrow with him. She had been excited to hear that he trusted her enough to meet his mom.

As she walked out of her apartment and locked it behind her, she remembered how she had felt on her first day on the force. She had been so excited and rather giddy, with a lot of nervousness. She felt the same way about meeting Mrs. Wilde. What would she think of her? Would she accept her as a cop? How would she look at her? As an equal, or as something below her?

Many questions flooded her mind, and she mentally swept them aside. She had a job to do, and she wasn't going to let anything get her down. So she walked down the hallway with her chest puffed out, confidence radiating off of her.

As she walked into precinct one, a wave of sudden sadness hit her like a truck. It puzzled her. She had been so happy to come to work today and now she had the urge to cry. She looked around and everyone else was moving quickly and rushing to do things. Over the thrum, she could hear the special agent giving orders. She rushed over to the crowd.

In the center, there was several bodies laid on the floor, and several other things laid out. Arden was bent over one of them. She padded over to him, looking at the body.

"What happened?" She asked tentatively. Nobody had seen a case like this in some time. Murders were very rare in Zootopia, despite the large population. The wolf seemed to be calm about the whole ordeal, which unnerved Judy a bit.

"What does it look like?" He asked her, seriousness written all over his expression. He didn't seem to be in the mood for stupid questions like the one she had just asked, so she stayed quiet. Sighing, she stood and started to look around the building. Mammals were conversing, watching the security footage. Nick was nowhere to be seen. Arden stood and walked past her, and she didn't seem to notice this.

Arden's mind was swirling with questions. He still had no idea who had done it, but there were several officers injured, and the medics still hadn't gotten the bodies out of the plaza. His emotions were swirling as well. Anger, confusion, curiosity. They fought to break free of his calm demeanor, but the wolf held up. He wouldn't allow anymammal to see who he truly was.

The wolf sighed again and shook his head. He had hoped he was going to be able get in another lesson today, and then start on the firing range. His first month here had gone rather well, and now this was happening. It always happened. Someone died wherever he went, without fail. This was no different. He recognized the scent around the body, but could not put his claw on whose it was. It was someone he knew….

"Arden." A voice said. His ears perked and a smile spread across his face. His right hand woman and the best on his team, Liara Snowtail. He would never not recognize her voice. He wiped the smile from his muzzle and turned to face her.

"What is it, Snowtail?" He asked, holding himself as a professional would. His paws were behind his back and he stood up straight. The fox was shorter than him, but not too much shorter. Her fur was snow white. Her eyes glittered in the light as her tail swished back and forth.

From behind her, she pulled a box wrapped in blue wrapping paper, tied with a red sash. There was a bow in one corner, and a tag stuck to it.

"I thought that you might have forgotten your birthday today, so I went ahead and got you something." Despite her fur, Arden could see the blush that had formed. Her ears were tucked back and a small smile held on her lips.

Arden took the present gingerly. It wasn't very big, and looked almost like a box for a ring. He made up his mind then and there that it was not a ring. Using a claw, he ripped the paper down the side of it and pulled the rest of it off. The box itself was black with nothing but a name on it. It was his formal name, 'Special Reconnaissance Officer Ardenhu Fangman'.

"Well, this is fancy, isn't it?" He smiled a little. Lifting the rather stiff box open, he saw what was inside. A cross, ornately designed with a ruby in the center. What caught his eye was the dragons that were wrapped around the sides of it, their tail coming to meet at the bottom of the cross. He stared at it, rather stunned at the way it was designed.

He blinked a few times, his ear flicked, and a chill ran up his spine. He felt as if something was crawling and curling around him. Before he realized what was happening, he had pocketed the necklace, turned, and flipped the cheetah behind him onto the cold tile floor. He blinked again, still registering what just happened.

"What was with him?" Judy asked no one in particular. Her brows were furrowed and her ears erect with blood filling them, making them red.

"What was with who?" Nick suddenly said from beside her. This made the rabbit jump, literally. She had hopped a few feet back, her arms raised and ready to fight. "Whoa. Calm down Fluff." Nick said with raised arms.

"Sorry." She said as she relaxed. "It's just the Fangman was a little bristly when I asked what was going on when I got in this morning." She sighed.

Nick chuckled a little, holding a donut out to her. It was whole and had a carrot design on it. "I had some time before I got here, so I stopped by our favorite donut place and got us some."

"You did get Ben some, right?" Judy asked with a half smile as she took the donut from her partner. She took a bite out of it and nearly squealed at the taste of it. The mammal that made it, an antelope, was on of the most revered in the city.

"How could I not? The cheetah could smell a donut half a mile away." Nick joked. Judy nearly choked on her own donut.

"Nick! That's just rude!" Judy scolded. Her eyebrows drew down in a slightly playful anger. Nick's smile didn't deter, though. After a moment Judy's own smile returned. She giggled a little.

The rest of the day was rather uneventful, if trying to find out who killed the officers the night before counted as such. Arden had started sporting a necklace that none of them had seen him wear before. It was rather intriguing, but Judy couldn't get close enough to see exactly what it looked like. She assumed it was a cross, but she wasn't sure.

Shrugging it off, she went back to writing down what she had been working on. Her and Nick had been doing their paperwork for almost an hour now, and she was almost done. Miraculously Nick had finished before her. She made a mental note to ask him about that later. Her ears perked up as Nick approached. Her nose twitched as a delightful smell wafted into their cubicle.

Her head turned as Nick rounded the corner. In his paws were a box of donuts and a drink carrier with the logo from their favorite coffee shop. She couldn't help but smile as the smell of her half-caff carrot mocha latte.

"Need a coffee break?" He asked sarcastically. As he held the cup holder down, Judy grabbed her latte and took a sip from it. She wasn't worried about its temperature due to the fast that it would have been cooled on the ride over to her.

"Thanks Nick." She told her fox companion. He shrugged and set the donuts down on her desk, out of the way of her stack of papers, and grabbed half of the good sized stack she still had left.

"We need to get done so we can get back and pack for tomorrow's trip." He said with a sideways glance. She nodded, still reveling in the taste of her coffee. When she was done with enjoying it so much, she hopped back into her chair and got back to work.

'Well, now I can get this done in half the time.' Judy thought to herself. She couldn't help but let her mind wander. As she did, she didn't realize that time flew, and that her work was done faster than she thought it would have been.

Now, I know this is really late, and I know you all hate me for it, BUT! I have a very good reason for it.

-silence ensues- What? You want me to explain? Not today, sorry.

Anyway, REVIEWS!

TheGreatWaff: So mysterious~! Ooooooo~. Lol IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM! Heh, thank you for the compliments.

RebelMetalWolf: You should know exactly who it is. *dodges knife* STOP THROWING SHARP OBJECTS AT ME! *huffs* Anyway, I'll conspire with you later.

BOOM, done! Now that that's over with, I'm doing to go get some sleep. My werds are slurink togethur. Ugh, I need slep, sheep, SLEEP! God, I'm going to bed….

May inspiration light your paths,

Leon