Heya Guys and Gals! Brought you a new chapter, as usual reviews will be much appreciated both critical and suggestions. Also, as an extra I put some Undertale references in there. Have fun finding them!
Beginning Summary: Patrolling can be a bit…boring, especially when it's a waiting game until midnight. Nick and Judy will have to do more than just waiting to try to get the criminal's attention.
After that emotional experience in the parking lot, Nick seemed bored, staring out the window like a cage animal. His head was resting on his right paw; his face seemed plain with his eyes half-opened. Nick squished half of his face slowly as he observe the streets; sheep children were playing hopscotch by the sidewalks, a frustrated and annoyed wolf father has 12 pups on an extremely-long stroller and finally the view of Grillby's Grizzly Diner, a small log-styled diner that sits between a park with red-neon signs pointing to the building and a small grey patch of asphalt used as a parking lot. Then I heard a noise, a growling noise. I turned and looked at Nick which looked down at his other paw, clutching his stomach. My stomached also growled a few seconds later as a response; I hold my stomach in discomfort. I forgot we both didn't had breakfast.
''Wanna go get something to eat?'' I asked Nick. He looked at me and smiled, going back to his old personality.
''Sure, we can stop at Grillby's'' He suggested, pointing to the humongous log-looking building. It was probably the size of a two-story building…for bears of course, that's almost a six-story building for rabbits. I gulped at looking at its size as I slowly passed it.
''Aw…you passed it…'' Nick sadly pointed out with his fox ears going down. I turned to him.
''Don't you think Grillby's is a bit too big for our species Nick?'' I asked with my voice getting higher, while pointing out at the size of the building. Nick just ignored my argument and folded his arms, while cocking a smug eyebrow and unleashing a confident smile at me.
''Is the little bunny scared of some bears?'' Nick teased me. I just gave him a shocked look then looked at him frowning angrily. I am certainly not afraid of some bears, I'm Judy Hopps! The greatest cop in ZPD's History, I fought with a feral black panther, I imprisoned a criminal mastermind and surely I'm not scared of some bears.
''No! of course not! And you know what Nick, We'll go there and prove you wrong.'' I exclaimed to Nick with fiery attitude and filled with determination. I jerked the wheel and made a sharp U-turn that almost toppled both of us and the car. Nick though, was still confident and grinning all the way until I parked at the partially dilapidated log-building. We both got out and I put on my friendliest face, puffing my chest out in confidence and beaming with happiness. A cop needs to be presentable at all times. Nick on the other hand, was just strolling lazily beside me, with his paws in his pockets and wearing his cheap sunglasses
As we entered the family-establishment diner, the mostly empty seats were overlapped by thick sets of roots and branches of the log; the entire restaurant was just one big arched room with some of the roof covered in green vines and the floor is made of checkered black-white diamond patterns. A small amount of bears were here, a polar bear, a brown bear and the barkeeper, a large grizzly bear. The polar bear was wearing a fine black suit and blue tie, probably one of Mr. Big's men. Nick was already leaning on the wooden-bar counter when I was still observing the place, resting on his right arm as he was checking his claws on the other paw. The grizzly barkeeper was very stone-faced and emptionless, wearing nothing but a dirty stained apron.
''Ey! Grillby! Good to see you again old pal, how's your ma'am? ''Nick said enthusiastically as he greeted the stone-faced grizzly, which was twice his size. The bear just stared at him frowning while cleaning glasses, giving no response but his stare. Then out of the blue, his raspy and deep voice spoke.
''Mama is fine in Sibearia.'' He replied in a thick broken accent, spitting into a glass and cleaning it with his dirty towel.
''Great, great…listen, I gotta introduce you to my partner, Judy Hopps, you might know her as the cop who cracked the Night-Howler Case perhaps?'' He said smugly, not paying attention to the bear and acted like a douchebag. Gosh! I hate it when Nick tries to impress his colleagues by using me. The bear slowly shifted his enormous head to me, staring at me coldly. I shivered a bit at his frightening gaze but I straighten my posture and walked enthusiastically to the bar stools, in which I had to climb up to. By the time I was sitting on the ripped cushion on top of the stool, everybody was staring at me, including the bear which had to take a step forward to observe how tiny I was compared to him.
''What you two order.'' Grillby asked in a very demanding manner, staring at both me and Nick. At which I elbowed Nick in his torso and he flinched from his douchebag position and looked at the barkeeper.
''One Salmon please.'' Nick said proudly, putting one finger in the air. I looked at him and elbowed him again. This time he just replied with an 'ow' and looked at me curiously.
''I'm hungry too y'know.'' I said to him giving a small frown. Nick just laughed and the other bears just sniggered, except Grizzly since he was searching through the metal freezer for fish. Nick shot 'really?' look at me.
''No offense carrots, but you're a bit…small. The portions here are bigger than your entire bunny body. Besides, you barely even eat meat. It's better if we share our meal.'' He explained to me suavely, twirling his cheap sunglasses around his finger. I just frowned back at him, and pulled my body to his face. I shrugged his advice and slammed my fist on the counter, raising two fingers in the air.
''Grillby! Make that two Salmons!'' I yelled excitedly. A few seconds later, he turned around carrying two Salmons, each one was the size of 1 and a half meters, slightly taller than me. My eyes just stared at the enormous fish as Nick gave a smug look.
''Well, chow down carrots'' Nick said before revealing his set of carnivorous sharp teeth and ferociously tear the flesh of the dead fish while his claws were scratching out its scales. I was horrified; I've never seen such act from any animal, eating another animal by chomping down on their cold raw flesh while tearing its meat out producing small hints of blood. I looked at my fish which was untouched and wondered how I am going to eat it without claws or sharp teeth.
''You wouldn't have any forks or knives back there would you?'' I asked Grillby nervously smiling. He just puffed then turned around and stabbed a cleaver into the wooden counter, creating a deep split into the wood; surprising me and making my fur jolt up, I thought I was going to be sliced by a cleaver.
''Knife for rabbit officer. Careful, very sharp.'' He said shortly before turning around and tried cleaning small plates in a rusty metal sink. I shot a look at Nick and he just gave a sly smile with blood all over his mouth and paws, giving me a horrified look on my face; in which he ignored and continued eating the rest of the salmon.
When we were finished, I managed to nibble a small portion of the fish, which tasted horrible and the smell after it was left was disgusting, I almost barfed. Nick on the other hand was full, tapping his stomach and using one of the bones of the fish as a toothpick. When Grillby came over and he saw my fish still uneaten, he frowned down.
''You no like fish?'' He asked me, pointing his long sharp claws at the fish. I politely shook my head. He leaned over me and stared at my face and eyes as he growls closely to my face, leaving me absolutely paralyzed before he returned back to his normal posture.
''Fish cannot go to waste.'' He said shortly before grabbing it by the tail and tossed it in a chopping board behind him. He then lunged and clawed the fish until he greedily ate every last meat, making horrible roaring noises and tossing plates and cups everywhere, smashing onto the ground and shaking the entire building. I ducked down the counter, terrified, pulling down my bunny ears. In under a minute, he had devoured the entire fish and when he turned around, he had returned to his stone-faced self with the entire fish gone; leaving him dusting his paws.
Nick reassured me by putting a paw over my shoulder and took out a few $10 bills from his wallet and a handful of coins.
''Keep the change.'' Nick told Grillby as Grillby dragged the money and coins down to a pocket in his apron, making a harsh clanking sound effect as we walked out of the log building. My stomach growled again when we reached outside, this time Nick noticed and he points to a nearby supermarket across the street.
We both happily agreed to go there, crossing the near-empty street and entering S-Mart Choice Supermarket. Our police uniforms brought us much attention in the supermarket but it faded away overtime as we tried to shop for carrot-flavored snacks or just actual carrots. We passed through various isles, grabbing a few Papa Papyrus's Canned Spaghetti, Temmie Flakes and a frozen turkey…that last one was Nick's. We ended up buying more stuff than we need since Nick's appetite is 'growing' according to him, although we did meet Finnick on the way outside and Nick bought a few Pawpsicles.
When we fitted all the paper bags into the back of my small Mini Hoofer, it looks like my car was pregnant since the stuff were bulging out but Nick tried to ignore my negative comments on buying too much.
Nick offered to drive which was a relief since I was tired on sitting on top of encyclopedias and dictionaries just to see where I was driving and ended up snoozing all the way until we reached Amor Peak.