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The Case Of The Furry Tail

Chapter 2: The Day After

Nick blinked slowly as he heard the sounds of medical equipment beeping next to him and he looks around, he grips his head in pain as the bright light above him shines directly into his eyes and covers them, he looks to the door opening with a deer nurse coming through and smiling at him " Hello how are we feeling today? " Nick groaned in response and sat up in his chair and white hot pain shot through his body as he yelps out looking at his leg that had been lifted into the air with a cast " W-what the? I broke my leg? " he suddenly opens his eyes wide and looks around him quickly, his heart rate sky rocketing as the events of last night had come flooding back to his brain " Judy! Where is Judy!? " Nick shouts at the Nurse as she was setting out his breakfast and she looks at him with a smile and gestures to the door, he follows the point and finds Judy standing there with a get well card and blueberries, she knew that they were his favorite.

" Are you feeling better Nick? " Judy walks into the room and closes the door behind her jumping onto a seat next to his bed and places the gifts down on the bedside table and smiles at him " You remember what happened last night right? " Nick huffed and sat up as straight as he can and tries to calm himself " I remember.. running.. and then seeing something, and then the bunny.. and then..! " He looks around for his shirt and tries to get up, but yelps and falls back into bed gritting his teeth " I can't move while this damned cast is still on my leg! " Judy put her paws on his arms and nods " Don't worry, i made sure that i got it before they put it in for wash, it was quite muddy and disgusting when they helped you into the ambulance, i'm guessing that you wanted the things in the pockets right? " She lifted up two bags named evidence one and evidence two with a smile

" Thanks carrots... " he sighed and relaxed on the bed chuckling " You know.. before now i haven't ever broke any bones, and i did all because i tried to catch that thing without back up.. some cop huh? " Nick sinks into his bed with his ears pinned to his head and sad eyes, Judy leans over and punches his arm with a caring scowl " You've forgotten what i did when i chased weaselton haven't you? " Nick chuckled at the memory of her chase in Rodent-town and looked at her with a caring gaze " I still can't believe that you told me that y'know. i would have imagined that you would kept that as a secret considering that it was kind of a bust at the time. "

" Turned out to be our best lead though. so i'm glad i did it. " Judy sits back down and sighs unhappily gripping the side of the bed " What was that thing Nick... It took down the jaguar and left him bloodied.. What can take down a predator that strong? " Judy shivers a little at the thought of it scaring her, If it scared Nick... imagine what it would do to her.. she didn't want to if she was perfectly honest

" Hey carrots... Would it be too much to ask you to get me a glass of water? The nurse forgot to give me one.. " he laid his paw on hers with a smile, Judy blushed softly at this simple affectionate touch and nods letting go of the bed " Right. I'll be right back. " she jumps off the chair and walks out of the room and down to the nearest water cooler, meanwhile on the opposite side of the building, Chief Bogo and Clawhauser were walking up the many flight of stairs to get to the floor of which Nick and The jaguar had inhabited.

" Chief? " Clawhauser huffed getting to the final flight of stairs and holding the side of the rail, Chief Bogo looked back at the Cheetah and grumbled " What is it Clawhauser? " the cheetah opened up the door and bit his lip then looked at the superior " That creature that Judy had reported... you don't think that its the Night Howlers again do you? " Chief Bogo walked through the door and sighed " It could be likely that the Night Howlers are involved again.. but this is on a scale that we haven't seen before. Remember that the savage animals only attacked... but they never killed.. " Chief Bogo observed and looked at the numbers " Which one is Wilde's " Clawhauser pulled out a little napkin he kept the number on and pointed down to the hall " Number 783 Nicholas P. Wilde. " the cheetah told his superior and started walking quicker wanting to find Nick in good spirits as soon as possible, he also knew, that even though the Chief was shown to be stonehearted he cared about his officers and wanted to make sure they were all well, just as much as Himself did, he looked at the rabbit in tracksuit bottoms and a shirt and elbows Bogo " Chief isn't that Judy? " Clawhauser started to walk even faster, which turned into a slow jog waving his paw " Judy! "

Judy looked around at her name being called with such joy ' That voice sounds oddly like... ' she turns left and watches as the chubby cheetah all but sprints to her " Clawhauser! " she dropped the cup of water as he picks her up into a hug and she chuckles trying to gently push him away and jumps down " Ben? Chief? Why are you two here? " she dusts her self and starts pouring another cup out for Nick and now herself, as she began to cold sweat... where ever Bogo ended up with his police outfit, she knew it couldn't be good..

" Officer Hopps.. we need to talk about this creature that Officer Wilde was pursuing after, is Wilde awake yet? " Bogo asked the small mammal " He just woke up a few minutes ago, follow me. " she takes the cold cups of water and walks back to unit 783 smiling at Nick as she walked in, the two larger mammals following suit and sitting down " Hey Carrots.. Chief? Clawhauser? What are you guys doing here? " He flicks his ears a little confused, he hadn't taken the Chief as a person to visit injured officers in the hospital, he's usually a lot more inclined to send other people to continue with his work.. then it dawned onto him, he was the only one who had been in close vicinity to the creature, so not only was he the victim and a key witness. ' oh great... getting questioned by cops again.. haha.. how ironic. ' Nick thanks the rabbit for the cup of water and looks at the cheetah and buffalo " You wanna know what i saw right? "

Bogo nodded and sat down on a visitor chair and puts his cap down on the table and opens up a file named the Furry Tail, " The creature you reported last night was found earlier this morning hiding inside the woods that you chased it into, though still covered by darkness, we managed to snap a picture before it disappeared, we were unable to correctly decipher its face, but we did get its body and found that it has a pattern of Cream and then white stripes, however it was too small to be a tiger or a lion so we can rule those mammals out. " Nick looks at Judy with a worried expression " Too many Mammals are in that category, is there nothing else that we can rule out? " Bogo shakes his head and places the file on his lap, Nick picks up the file and look at the pictures, Judy looks at the file over his shoulder and shivers slightly, just the very thought of that thing creeping around and they didn't know what it was made her entire being shiver, Nick noticed this and held her paw softly nodding at her and then looking back to the Chief and cheetah " So you want us to take the case right? " Bogo nods and stands up to leave, he turns around and gives the trio his best smile " If anyone is to solve this thing, its you two.. Clawhauser will be standing by to relay anything and give anything you two need to bring this thing down, I'll be taking my leave now, Get better soon Officer Wilde. " Bogo leaves without another word, Clawhauser smiles at the duo and sits on the opposite side of Nick

" If there is anything i can get you, just let me know ok you two? I wanna help out the best i can on this case.. " Nick and Judy smile at the cheerful cat and nods " We don't doubt that you'll be useful in this Ben. " Nick chimes in and rests his head back going back to sleep the painkillers taking effect, Judy and Clawhauser leave his room and leaves the fox with the nurse, meanwhile in the unit of the injured jaguar he was sat up with a smile as he jumps out and rubs the fake blood and injury off, he touches his ear and looks down the hallway at the rabbit and cheetah " Agent Crash here... Operation Furry Tail is go.. time to bring down those Three.. "

Chapter 2 End.