A/N: The tiger saved the bunny last chapter and now has to deal with the consequences of his actions.

Chapter 2: Avoiding Responsibility

The bunny was surprisingly cooperative in coming home with me. I show her off to my parents telling them I finally have a pet. Mother responds "You did not obtain that pet during a hunt but at least you have one. Train it well." Father says "Useless tiger, you can't even obtain a pet during a hunt. You had to steal dinner from a group of foxes!" I guided the bunny to my room. Arriving in my room I took note of her attire for the first time. Her fur was dull grey, unkempt. She was wearing a green checkered shirt and blue pants. There were rips in both her shirt and pants indicating a struggle. Her eyes are lavender just like the picture I've seen with that smiling fox and rabbit. Her ears were droopy. She's sniffing constantly and still smells scared. I tell her that she will be safe with me. She crawls under my bed. I decide to leave her alone and take out my textbooks and started working on homework.

I have a pounding headache. The last thing I remember was working on homework. I check the clock it's been two hours it's now six. I look for my pet and couldn't find her. I decide not to care about it too much. I go down to the dining room for supper. On top of the table was a frightened deer. Mother asks me where my pet is. I tell her I don't know. Father says "This, is why you should have gotten one during the hunts. They would already be broken in." Mother says "I knew she left. I didn't stop her because it's your responsibility now. We can't have a new claimed pet that ran away on the first day. I am giving you a spiked shock collar (it has spikes that dig into the neck), a remote, and a leash. You are going to leave the house. Search for the bunn, and not come back without her."

I was forced out of my home. I didn't even get to eat dinner. All because I tried to save a bunny, a stupid ungrateful bunny. I claimed her as a pet something I've never had before. Predators who claim their pets this way are seen as weak. Unable to catch prey when they're able to run. I set out to find her, with a leash, a remote, and a spiked tame collar. No idea, where she went, unable to return home. I could scent her trail. I think she went this way. I ran, it led me to a dead-end street. I noticed three wolves looking at a panicking bunny. I yell "STOP, that's my pet." I was forced to explain that she knocked me out and ran away. I was feeling very annoyed with the bunny right now. I had to save her TWICE in one day and this was only the FIRST day. I still don't even know her NAME. I took the collar and leash put it on the bunny. I pressed the remote and yelled, "Don't run away again or knock me out." The bunny glared at me through her tears and said "I am not your pet." She's unwilling to walk home with me. I had to shock her every few steps.

Dinner was already finished by the time I arrived home. If I don't get to eat why should she? I leashed the bunny to my room and finally started doing homework. Fluffy walks into my room and asks the bunny "Where are you from?" The bunny doesn't reply continues looking angrily at me. Fluffy says "Come on, life is not so bad here" The bunny now looks angrily at Fluffy now but remains silent. Fluffy loses interest and leaves my room. Homework consisted of multiplication questions; why do they have to be so difficult? I finished homework and started watching television. It opened to an episode of My Little Prey: Domination is Magic (Rated NC-17). It was about the daily adventures of three prey and their predator friends that lived with them. It has a very fringe audience. TV: Once upon a time, in the magical land of Primordia. There was a rabbit that saw a sleeping injured fox during a storm. The rabbit took pity on the fox and brought him home. She put him in her bed and wished that the fox would get better. She herself slept on the floor. She tended to the fox day after day until one day the fox finally stirred and woke. The fox did not try to eat the rabbit the saved him and began to help her around the house. The fox had not eaten in several days now, he was getting hungry. The rabbit offered that he could eat her. The fox found he could eat insects and survive and that's what he did. One day, it was told that the fox became savage. He left a trail of destruction in his wake. Tons of prey and predators were dead. The bunny went to confront the fox. The bunny was unable to reason with the fox or bring herself to harm the fox. The fox did not listen and tried to kill her as well. It was said that the bunny ran and prayed to the animal gods. The gods themselves appeared and banished the fox to the moon where it was hoped that the rage would subside.

Legend has it that the bunny was granted immortality. In the memory of the fox she once knew. She unified the world now prey and predators live in harmony throughout the land. It was said that the gods' magic weakens every total lunar eclipse. On the thousandth lunars eclipse the fox will be able to escape and finish the job. It was hoped that a display of unity among different species would be able to thaw the fox's heart when he returns. Every town has their own group of six carefully chosen children to become friends at an early age to demonstrate the sense of unity the fox would expect.

I turned the television off it was another rerun. It was rather strange why this was rated NC-17. The episodes consisted of showing predators and prey working together, enjoying life and showing what they could do, to help each other. I went to sleep and waited for morning.

I was unable to bring my pet down to breakfast. Shocks wouldn't make her move. On the breakfast table were a few live rabbits that my parents scooped off the street we ate them raw. I brought some carrots up to my room and set them where the rabbit could reach. The bunny does not move to eat the carrots. Shocks were ineffective in trying to make her come with me or to force her to eat the carrots. She just looks at me with defiant eyes. I left the carrots there in my room and went to school alone.

I arrived in class. It was math again. Multiplication is rather difficult handing in my homework. I've gotten a D again. My classmates asked where the bunny that I took home for a pet was. I replied, "She's at home not willing to come with me to class." All of them laugh at me. I am used to this by now. I am the first predator that has a pet but is unable to bring it to school. Math consisted of more multiplication exercises my weak point just GREAT!

Social Studies is even worse. The normal freeform class was disrupted when classmates found the article that said I claimed the foxes' dinner to be my pet. The article also said I was unable to control my pet and it ran away and nearly got eaten by three wolves. I've obtained my pet outside of the sacred ritual of the hunt. This is largely frowned upon. During the hunt, prey has a chance to escape their predators and predators had to catch them and tame them. I've used a law to make someone my pet (although legal, it's rarely done). I was unable to control my pet and on top of that it ran away on the very first day. Everyone talked about me and my actions. I was unable to concentrate on the class and handed in nothing receiving a F grade for the day.

Lunch was normal at least, nothing spectacular still eating alone and everyone keeping their distance. I suppose I'm thankful after the Social Studies class where I was humiliated. Nothing significant happened in language class. We were taught more how to communicate effectively. Why do we have to learn language anyway? We use it every day to various degrees. Why have a class just for language? I still don't understand that. Other animals can understand me when I talk to them. I can understand them when they talk to me. Why bother having a class just for language? It's pointless!

Pet training class was different today. Instead of our normal spacious empty class room, Stonehart the lion leads us to the auditorium. The technology of the room allows the audience to hear anything that happens on the stage clearly. He grabs a seat places it on the stage. I was told to sit on the stage and wait. My classmates sat in an arrangement of chairs below also waiting. The teacher called Clawheart, a tiger stepped up to the stage with his pet deer. The tiger was wearing a shirt showing a decapitated deer. The deer was just wearing a shock collar. The tiger sat on the deer and told the deer to walk in circles while carrying him. He had a timer and the remote in his hands and said Begin. The deer started walking and the tiger started pressing the remote to the collar. Clawheart felt his pet wasn't moving fast enough so he told his pet to start again. She was made to start again. This kept going on and on. She's now crying while slowly moving. The tiger is getting frustrated at how slow his pet was moving. This time, at the starting point again. The tiger says "Begin!" and puts the timer into his pocket. He puts his left claws into the deer's flank and presses the remote again. The deer runs faster than ever before and finally completes a circle in record time. Then collapses from pain. The deer's eyes are flooded with tears.

Clawheart then says to me: "This is how you train a pet and walks off the stage." with his pet in tow.

I was forced to watch more and more spectacles of abuse. The final act made me shiver. The teacher called Foxfire. The fox steps on to the stage with his rabbit. The fox is wearing a shirt depicting clouds and a lightning bolt down the middle along with grey pants. The bunny has multiple cuts and bruises on his hands and arms. He's wearing a shirt that shows a fox eating a rabbit. He's also wearing black pants. His ears were droopy and he gave off the scent of fear. The fox leaves the stage to return with two posts and a metal bar that can be raised or lowered in between two posts. The bunny is told to jump over the bar between two posts. The fox raises the bar higher and higher as the bunny jumps over the bar over and over. The audience is applauding the display. The fox raises the bar higher still. The bunny fails at jumping that fox shocks the bunny and says "Slave, jump over it this time." The bunny tries and fails again. This time, the fox goes off the stage and returns with a whip. The fox strikes the bunny five times and tells him to try again.

It has become painfully obvious that the bunny will not succeed in jumping over the bar he has set. The fox is unwilling to admit defeat. He continues the abuse. After the twentieth failure, the fox strips his rabbit naked. We can see multiple welts and bruises on the back of the rabbit. He whips and shocks his rabbit still. We can hear the rabbit crying over and over as he keeps trying to jump over the bar. The rabbit is heard saying between sobs,"I can't do this, I'm sorry master, I will do anything else."

The fox ignores his pleas and tells the bunny to try again. The bunny's jumps are lower and lower now, and vastly below where the bar is. The audience continues observing the spectacle with eager anticipation. I am horrified. The show goes on.

The rabbit is now limping and just walking through the two posts and pleads to the fox "I can't do this, I can't take much more of this. Please master, stop doing this."

The fox thinks he's being insulted and lied to. He replies "You can and will jump over this bar." The rabbit is now barely able to move. He's bleeding all over the stage. The fox keeps on abusing the rabbit.

The rabbit is heard whispering to the fox "Please forgive me master, I have failed you." The rabbit stops moving entirely and closes his eyes. Stonehart steps on to the stage and asks the fox if he would like to send his pet to the hospital. Foxfire replies "No, this pet has failed it doesn't deserve to be saved. He humiliated me in front of the entire school." The fox then whips the rabbit to death.

Stonehart says "For killing your pet. You will receive an F. You are not allowed to own another pet until after the next annual hunt." The fox leaves the stage. The lion picks up the rabbit and throws it in the garbage can. The lion then addresses the class: "Everyone, you have seen what can be done to your pets and how to train them. Do not do the same thing as Foxfire did else you will receive an F. You Elunatee, I hope you take this lesson to heart. You will finally be graded on this subject because you now have a pet. It better be here next class."

The lion dismisses the class and school is over. I go to the washroom puking into the toilet over what I was forced to watch. This was the first death. I was forced to watch personally observing until it happened. Sure, I have seen other pets die before but it was never so elaborate and heartbreaking. Shaken, from my experience I begin to walk home. I vowed not to be like Foxfire.

I walked home without incident. I got to my room still trying to forget what happened in the last class. I noticed the rabbit sitting there still leashed to my room. The carrots weren't eaten. She looks weak now and still looks at me defiantly. I try coaxing her to eat carrots. She refuses and knocks them away. I try shocking her to make her eat carrots. She just cries from the pain and refuses food. I give up on trying to interact with my pet. That refuses to eat or speak. I do homework why is it always math? it's only math class that constantly gives me homework. My other classes rarely give me any.

While working on multiplication problems I heard screams coming from the kitchen. It must be dinner preparations. I tried bringing my pet to dinner. She still refuses to move willingly. I don't want to drag her downstairs. I just leave here up here and go downstairs myself. I arrive at the table. I am served mutton. Cotton was given some grass. Fluffy was given a plate of carrots. We all ate at the table. I heard that Cotton prepared the mutton today. Mother asks "Why is your pet not here?"

I tell her, "I am unable to train my pet to do anything shocks aren't working."

Father says, "Not only, did you get a pet using a law. You can't even train this one. At least it didn't run away today."

I finish dinner and return to my room. The rabbit still looks at me defiantly. I decide to browse the internet. I found a flash game depicting a cat being thrown out of a catapult press space and the cat would be launched into various obstacles. A score was given based upon how far it travels. Obstacles included venus fly traps and various forms of dynamite. It was strangely addictive. I played that until it was time to sleep.

Morning came, I was still unable to get my pet to do anything. She won't eat. she won't speak. Not even shocks will make her do something. I went down for breakfast and prepared to go to school. Parents nabbed some deer off the street. We just ate it raw. After breakfast, my parents had other plans. Mother says, "If you cannot bring your pet to school, you won't go at all, your rabbit looks like it's starving to death. If it dies, you will be kicked out of this house."

Father says, "it's unbelievable, you can't catch a pet. You can't even train a pet that you used the law to claim. I agree with your mother. If you cannot get your pet to eat something or do something. You will no longer live here. We're going to send you to an orphanage."

This was it! I was going to get kicked out of my house all because of this ungrateful unresponsive rabbit! I ran up to my room in anger. I searched for the remote and I pressed and held it. The stupid rabbit is just crying still refuses to speak. Nothing is working. I'm also late for school because my parents won't allow me to go. I realize the danger of the situation I am in now. I shouldn't kill the rabbit and I can't get it to obey. I beg the rabbit, "Please tell me, what you want, so that you will eat something." The rabbit does not respond. I say "I will do anything, please just talk to me." The desperation is evident in my voice. I am greeted with silence only the sounds of the rabbits uneasy breathing can be heard. After waiting an hour I break down and tell the rabbit that I will be kicked out of my house because I can't get her to do anything. I tell her about my life and my lack of friends. I cry while asking her "What is that that you want? just name it and I will do it. Please say something, do something, anything." The rabbit stops ignoring me and opens her mouth to speak...