Hey all, DLW here. A huge thank you to all the readers, follows, fav's and reviews (helps me think more so thank you all)! Disclaimer: Zootopia and its characters are copyright Disney. (I own none of the characters in the story aside from the O/C's.)

A note to all my readers out there. I wanted to try something different with this story and found that... the long story type can be a little intimidating. With some chapters being about... 12-17k words in length, I wanted to try shortening them by a bit. With that being said, the first... 6 chapters are going to be reuploaded pieces of the first two chapters. So starting at chapter 7 is all new content. So I apologize to anyone of my readers that see the first few chapters and are confused as to why I've re-uploaded it with some tweaks. TLDR; slightly shorter chapters to make reading easier, fun, and dramatic.

The Dystopian Society

Chapter One: Predator and Prey

'Office Life'

"When we had first met again, tell me what did you see?"

[February 4, 'ZPD Precinct One' 10:40 AM]

The early morning sunlight cast itself on the rough face of the city's most active police department. Though dimmed by the overcasting clouds, there was still enough radiance to show how prestigious the ZPD truly was.

The building itself never resting, always in motion with the constant bustling of various officers. They each had a duty to uphold; a city to protect, and lives to serve.

Some such members of the force raced to their vehicles, quickly answering to the numerous calls of distressed civilians; though now more frequent as of late.

Others, however, were confined to the halls of their establishment. No rush was present in much of their activity; paperwork and research was their lot for a time, they were the pen to the sword in various issues.

Once such officer, returning to her cubical, was among this crew today.

Large and lumbering, she walked by many of the others with a bright smile despite the time of day. Each step she made sent small trembles through the ground that shook papers and jostled numerous objects from any nearby surface.

She was an elephant, stout and jolly. Proudly clad in her blue uniform like any other, she spoke and waved hello with hand or trunk to anyone that looked her way.

There was, however, one that she dared not think to offer this friendly gesture as she passed the next row of desks.

"Good morning lieutenant." She bellowed, her voice deep yet still feminine.

Sitting there just before her in a grey cubical of her own, her comrade looked away from various works spewn about with a startled smiled.

The space, plain to many standards, had little furnishing save for what was provided. A beige coat hanging neatly opposite the open door would be the only extra feature

"Good morning Francine." Judy replied, tapping paper against her desk to reorganize them.

As she placed them back down, she heard a deep resounding chuckle. One that sounded like a mixture of laughter and a brass instrument.

Francine's voice echoed through the cubical. "Did I scare ya' again?"

With nervous laughter, Judy scratched her hair and smiled.

"Nah, just too focused."

She didn't know how often the elephant managed to sneak up on her, she had near perfect hearing. Nonetheless, Judy was thoroughly impressed that she forgot to listen to Francine's footsteps, they were practically impossible to miss.

A moment passed as they regained their bearings. There was more work to be done for the both of them.

Francine turned and waved with her trunk, eliciting a similar response with the wave from Judy's paw.

Mid-step away, Francine froze and looked back.

"Almost forgot," The elephant exclaimed, now hanging onto the edge of the cubical. "Any news on the missing cases, Judy?"

Somewhat unnerved about the question at hand, Judy turned to a large folder sitting at the edge of her desk. Reaching for it, she sighed and picked through its contents until she found what she was looking for.

"Not yet," She admitted, taking a single sheet of paper and handing to Francine "But this just got in."

Nimbly, and without hesitation, the elephant took hold of the paper with the end of her trunk.

After getting a good look and now with a potent scowl, Francine placed the picture just within Judy's reach.

Disgusted from the sight, she wiped her trunk on her sleeve and spoke. "Another body?"

Tapping her fingers on the picture and picking it back up, Judy looked at it once more.

"Yeah."

She gazed deep into the glossy frame of the horrifying picture. The photo of a crime scene taken not too long ago, depicted a solitary slain wolf.

There he lay, eyes long glossed over; muzzled with speckles of blood seeping from wounds around his mouth, his collar soaked a deep red that pooled down to his shirt and onto the ground below.

The wolf's hands were tied behind his back, seemingly bent in awkward directions. His pants bore scattered stained gashes as if cut by some kind of tool.

There were several other wounds and bruises heavily scattered throughout making it impossible to determine what had truly killed him.

Yet most distinct of all his injuries was the absence of much of the wolf's tail.

"Another pred missing his tail." With a huff, she placed the picture back into the folder and neatly aligned set it at the edge of her desk.

She stared at it a moment longer, the case itself no more than a reminder of ongoing strings of violence in their fair city.

In moments, Judy heard Francine shift and stretch.

"What do you think, Hopps?" She yawned, raising her trunk and curling it just below the ceiling.

"It's a wolf," Judy yawned, having seen her comrade contagiously do so. "So probably some rival pack."

She had seen wolf packs upset with each other before, her being on the force for years gave her that experience a hand full of times. So, naturally, she would have been of the first to see the outcome.

"Think its got something to do with the others?" Francine replied, nearly on the verge of a second wave of yawning.

Judy tore her gaze away, not wanting to be affected by the elephants actions again and pondered the action.

"No, this is a weapon," She stated, replaying recent crime scenes over and over in her head. "Sharp teeth are better for that kind of work."

Confused, Francine scratched her head. "We should be able to nab em' right?"

In turn, Judy shook her head; ears raising once more. "We can't, not without evidence."

Not willing to admit defeat, the elephant continued, noting several sections of their law.

"How about under conspiracy?" She added, clasping her hands together and wrapping her trunk around them for comical effect.

Judy's ear twitched from hearing this, she had known Francine to think of various creative ways to capture criminals. Sometimes she made a 'guessing' game of sorts about it, and she would never give up.

Imaginative as she was, Judy shrugged her shoulders "We'd need to prove it."

Back to where she began, Francine mentally thumbed over each section. Varying branches of legal banter still struck her as foreign, but the few she did know were used quite often.

"What about, pack behavior?" Francine thought aloud, leaning on Judy's cubical and yielding a slight creaking noise with it. "The Predation Clause says we can at least question his buds."

Judy, firstly hearing the creak of her cubicle about to come crashing in on her, slid her chair back and grit her teeth in fear of the worst.

Seeing this reaction and quickly realizing the danger of being an elephant in a small office, Francine lifted her arms away from the cubical; not before finding a very well bent piece of the material invading the already limited space.

No longer in danger, Judy met Francine's nervous smile with a quizzical stare.

"He was alone according to the report," Judy replied, scratching the small patch of her hair. "And found in the middle of the street like that."

"Let me guess," Francine started, taking step back, not allowing herself to lean against anything this time. "No witnesses?"

Before she could respond, a loud chime sang its way past them.

Twitching her ear and focusing on the source of the sound, Judy found her cell phone alarm going off. Quickly, she silenced it and stood up from her desk.

She grabbed the envelope, her phone and several other objects before pulling her coat down from the cubical wall.

"No clue, but if it is them we'll get them soon." Judy replied, fixing her coat sleeves and making her way towards the hall.

Watching her superior move towards her, Francine stood to the side; though not by much more than a few inches.

"I'll catch up later," Judy said, sliding by the small space of the hall. "The chief wants me to meet him over at the prison in an hour."

Having had Judy walk past her, Francine resumed her stance and wondered. "Aren't you running early?"

Pacing forward to her next destination, Judy called back. "Not early enough."

Now curious as to what was truly going on, Francine asked. "Why?"

Stopping on a single step and feeling herself nearly jump with excitement, Judy spun around with gleam in her eyes that even she thought impossible.

And with a wide grin she boasted. "A hunter wants to work with us."

With an audibly explosive gasp, Francine brought her trunk up in a futile attempt to silence herself.

Turning about and walking towards the exit, Judy waved goodbye. "See you later Officer Francine."

Watching Judy walk off, Francine waved back with a giddiness in her voice. "Take care Lieutenant Hunter Hopps."

"At first, I didn't see you, only my goal in mind."

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