Predatory Pest Control
The rest of the week has been rather hectic for many people within Kawasabus, particularly those amongst the Ishin-Mirkwood clan. Thrandeer was doing his best to keep the clan members in line, but has so far proven not to be an easy task. With the help of both Iizuka and Matt, however, they were able to keep the other clan members in line despite their increasing thirst for blood. While many clan members were pretty hectic or stressed about clan related matters, Matt had the worst of it all, most of which wasn't clan related matters.
Ever since he had last talked with Jenny Sunday afternoon, both he and the rabbit haven't been on speaking terms whatsoever. Despite wanting to try to talk with Jenny at school, he hadn't the chance due to not seeing Jenny during lunch hour or if she marched out of the lounging area as soon as she saw him. He felt bad about what happened on Sunday, but there was nothing he could do to remedy the situation. Then again, how could he if he didn't have the right words to say.
As for the matters relating to the clan, the assassinations have gotten increasingly difficult to take care of, especially since some members of the Neo-Shinsengumi have been getting involved by guarding the targets the clan was assigned to kill. But despite the problems they faced regarding the Neo-Shinsengumi, the fox was able to dispose of them without a problem. But with each night the assassinations continued, the caliber in which the fox was disposing of them had increased drastically. For instance, he dispatched several Neo-Shinsengumi members by literally severing them into pieces with numerous slash attacks.
Now it was the late morning of Friday, lunch hour having just started for many of the Kawasabus High School students. The fox had finished taking his exam for his Advanced Algebra class, having found out he made a B+ after class had let out. Now the vulpine was approaching his locker and preparing to unlock the combination lock, needing to drop off a couple a thing or two inside the locker (the most important of them being his concealed sword he carried with him throughout the morning). Once the locker was unlocked, he pulls the handle and opens the four foot tall locker, taking off his backpack quickly and using the passing of various students as an advantage to quickly hide the concealed blade. His sword was concealed with a black blanket along with his similarly colored hoodie, three red, thick rubber bands strongly securing the cloth to where it won't fall off easily. With his weapon placed inside his locker, the fox closes his locker and locks the combination lock securely, grabbing both his backpack and his packed lunch with him.
Now that his sword was hidden in the safety of his locker, the fox began to sprint towards the student lounging area to go heat up his lunch. The clothing he wore on him consists of a solid black V-neck T-shirt, which fit tightly around his muscular built torso enough to show some of the definition. Olive green cargo pants cover the legs through their entirety while the leg openings were contained inside of his black open toe combat boots. And as usual, a pair of black gloves cover the hand-paws through their entirety, with holes being seen on the knuckles of his hand-paws.
Matt arrives to the student lounging area within a mere couple of minutes, walking directly towards the microwave and noticing several students already inside. He gets to the microwave and pulls his lunch out of the bag, consisting of grilled chicken along with a salad to go with his meal. He places the chicken inside of the microwave for about a minute and a half, turning his head to the right and noticing Jenny, who was sitting quietly by herself and surprisingly hasn't left yet. Her clothing consisted of a dark purple T-shirt, a pair of sanded dark gray tight fitting jeans, and her usual black and white Chuck Taylor shoes.
The fox began to approach the rabbit with intention to talk with her, yet stopped on his tracks after taking two steps forward. He didn't know what to say to her, nor was he sure if she would end up leaving the lounging area like she had the past four days. His eyes look down towards the left and the top eyelids close halfway. He wasn't sure if he can approach her, he didn't know what to do. The sound of the microwave began going off again to let the occupant know their food was done. The fox turns to the microwave and opens the door, grabbing a hold of the heated container with his gloved hand-paws before turning to facing Jenny. This time, he was genuinely surprised to see the bunny giving a very soft, but real smile towards him and even waved at him invitingly. Perhaps things between them would be okay, he thought. And with this knowledge, the fox starts walking towards her and places the heated container inside of his lunch bag, eagerly quickening the pace of his walking with a soft smile forming on his muzzle. Matt was ready to talk to her again, and he really wanted to set things right with her again… or that was the plan until something (or someone) knocks him onto the ground all of the sudden. Gasps were heard across the lounging area along with a few devious, predatory chuckles.
The fox ends up on the ground as a result of the unexpected attack, managing to recover moments later by getting back up onto his feet-paws. He looks up to the direction where the unexpected attack came from, rolling his eyes upon seeing the ones responsible for the attack. And standing roughly ten yards away from him were Derrick, Shane, and Marcus. While dressed in different types of clothing and of different species, the one thing they share in common is the hugely muscular bodies they bore.
Derrick, Matt's attacker, is a black furred jaguar bearing brown spots across his body, with yellow eyes gazing down directly towards him. His attire consisted of clothes many typical jocks wore in school, which include a pair of blue jeans, white sneakers, white T-shirts, and a High School Letterman jacket consisting of the school's colors. The leather sleeves of his jacket were of a white color while the cloth vest bore a red color. He was the tallest of the group, being roughly six feet eight inches in height.
Shane is a tan and brown furred German Shepherd bearing sapphire blue eyes, with long brown hair being tied back with a black ponytail. His clothing, unlike Derrick's, were more identical towards those of a metal head's, his clothes consisting of dark sanded blue distressed jeans, black open toe boots, and a tight fitting black T-shirt with As I Lay Dying's 'An Ocean Between Us' album cover on the front portion of his shirt. The German Shepherd was roughly about five feet ten inches tall in height, being the shortest of the trio.
Marcus is a purely white furred arctic wolf bearing eyes much like Matt's own, but with a slightly brighter tint and less saturation to them. Long, black hair can be seen being tied back in a similar style as Shane's, with the exception of several strands being seen in the front part of his hair. His clothing was more of a mix between both Derrick's and Shane's clothing, bearing a white and red Letterman jacket like Derrick, but with distressed jeans and black open toe boots like Shane's. His shirt was an entirely different story, however, for it was purely a solid gray T-shirt with a V-neck around the collar of his shirt. In terms of height, he was the middle mammal of the three, being about six feet two inches in height.
Regardless of the species they were and the clothing they wore, all three of them were after one thing, and one thing alone. And he was standing right in front of them!
"Well look what we have here", Shane growled with a devious grin on his face following a malicious grin on his face.
"Looks like we got us an untrustworthy, mother fucking fox", Derrick growled with a similar tone, clenching his right hand-paw into a fist and using his left to pop his knuckles. Matt's eyes narrow towards the jaguar's unruly comments, yet continues to stand his ground and clench his fists tightly.
"God, every time I see one, I just wanna beat the shit out of them with my own claws. Untrustworthy pricks they are", Marcus growled, unsheathing his claws and looking down towards the fox down below. Matt merely remains at the same spot he was at, his green eyes staring up towards the others calmly. However, he lets out a calm sigh before
"Look, I'm not in the best of moods, guys. So why don't you three do me a favor and get the fuck out of here", Matt replied calmly with a frown on his face before walking towards the sofa where Jenny was located. But a ferocious kick in the stomach by Derrick stopped him dead on his tracks, the fox hitting his back against the wall before falling onto the ground.
"Whoa, seems the fucking fox here's gotta bad mouth on him, doesn't he, boys!" Derrick exclaimed before marching towards the fox maliciously. The other students in the lounging area began gathering around the area to watch the ongoing fight, only one of them stepping in front of the attackers as an attempt to break up the fight.
"Guys! This isn't the place to fight!" Jenny shouted, her arms spread as wide as possible. She may not be exactly fond of Matt at this time, but at least she's calmed down enough to where she can try to talk to him later on. When Derrick, Shane, and Marcus trying to cause a fight, she knew she had to do something despite her size. But the three predators, on the other hand, merely laugh towards her feeble attempts of trying to break up the fight.
"Oh ho! Is it just me or does this cute little bunny bitch here think she has the authority to tell us what to fucking do?!" Derrick roared with a sinister grin on his face before unsheathing his own claws, pulling his right arm back and attempts to strike the rabbit. However, Matt grabs the back of Jenny's shirt and pulls her back with enough force to get her away from the feline's attack. Now the fox was fuming, his green eyes beginning to burn in a fiery rage and his breathing getting heavier with each growl that escapes his muzzle.
The fox began to march towards the three large predators while cracking his knuckles, yet the wolf suddenly grabs him by his shirt collar and lifts him up. Struggling at first, the fox manages to get out of his captor's grip by stomping his feet onto Marcus' face. Doing a back flip and landing on his feet-paws, the fox narrows his eyes on the wolf and began sprinting towards him at an almost god-like speed. But a vicious knee-kick attack to the ribs stop him dead on his tracks, the kick knocking the fox to the other side of the lounging room. Matt quickly makes an aerial recovery and lands on the wall with his feet-paws, briefly spitting a decent portion of his own blood onto the ground before setting his sights on his attacker, Shane.
Jenny could literally not believe what she was seeing. How was Matt able to move at such a god-like pace like that? Was this only a taste of what Thrandeer had warned her about, or perhaps it was a coincidence? Either way, the rabbit was in too much shock to comprehend the sight, especially with how he was able to recover from a nasty attack like it never happened. Speaking of which, she watches the fox jumping towards the German Shepherd from the wall with both of his fists clenched tightly, raising his right fist backwards as a preparation for an attack. But the fox's attack would never go through.
"Alright, KNOCK IT OFF, YOU FOUR!" A loud, deep voice roared loudly at the exact moment the figure grabs a hold of Matt's bushy tail with his left hand-paw, using his right forearm to block the other three predators from trying to attack. All four of them turn to face the one stopping them, only for all but Matt's set of eyes to widen in shock.
The one who had stopped the fight from progressing any further was none other than the High School Principal, Salazar Lionwhite, a hugely muscular lion who stood roughly about six feet ten inches in height. His fur was mostly of a yellow and creamy tan color, with his long mane being a dark red color. His eyes were of a teal color, which complemented the color of his mane in an interesting manner. The principal's light dress shirt, which fit tightly around his hugely muscular torso to the point where most of the muscle definition was literally showing. Similarly enough, the loose fitting black flats also bore a tight fitting look thank to his legs being of a similar built, the exception being around the leg opening where they opened similar to a pair of bootcut jeans. Lastly, dark brown open toe boots were worn over the lion's feet-paws.
Once the fight had been broken up, the lion sets the fox down onto the ground right as a few police officers, both fox sized and large sized predators, arrive onto the scene. They approach the suspects and ordered the four to get on their knees with their hand-paws placed behind their heads. As the police arrested the four males, the witnesses of the fight began to give their accounts on what had transpired. Although much of the details on what exactly happened were fuzzy, not to mention it took literally two class periods just to get all the details correct, they all claimed the three predators had attacked Matt first while the fox was trying to find somewhere to sit and eat lunch.
Several minutes after jotting down the eyewitness accounts from the students, including the account coming from Jenny herself, Principal Lionwhite approaches the police officers to discuss other matters regarding the four students in custody. The debate took no longer than a few minutes, coming into conclusion that it was time to hear the fox's claimed on what had happened during lunch hour. Both Principal Lionwhite and the police officers approach the four hand-cuffed males and look directly towards Matt Wilde himself.
"Alright, Mr. Wilde, can you tell us from your point of view regarding what happened in lunch hour?" Principal Lionwhite asked with a calm, stern tone of voice, his hulking muscular arms crossed in an authoritarian manner. Last thing the fox needed was to explain everything that transpired and cause any unnecessary problems on his end. But if it meant he could possibly get released from police custody, then so be it. With a soft sigh, the fox looks up towards the lion along with the police officers in front of him and his attackers.
"It started right after I grabbed my lunch from the microwave and began looking for somewhere to sit when Derrick, Shane, and Marcus attacked me out of nowhere", Matt began, the sounds of growls escaping the muzzles of the three other predators who attacked him. "The situation escalated when Derrick started calling me 'an untrustworthy, mother fucking fox', to Marcus saying he 'wanted to beat the shit out of me with his claws'. I told them I wasn't in the best of moods and told them to do me a favor and leave me the fuck alone right after hearing their shit", he explained further on the matter. "Next thing that happens is Derrick over here starts approaching me maliciously before Jenny got between us as an attempt to break up the fight. Then he starts running his mouth again and called Jenny a 'cute little bunny bitch' and attempted to strike her with his right hand-paw, but I quickly pulled her back by the back of her shirt to prevent her from getting wounded by him", the fox recalled calmly. "Then pretty much right after protecting Jenny, I fought back out of self defense, and the rest is pretty much history", the fox finished, letting out a soft sigh before turning to face Jenny, who was briefly staring back at him with a neutral expression on her face.
Both the Principal and the police look over the notes they carefully jotted down to make sure there wasn't a discrepancy with what the fox had said. Coincidentally enough, all of the information the fox said had matched the notes they jotted down from the eyewitness accounts. With this in mind, a police officer, particularly a cross fox with green eyes like Matt's, approaches Matt and pulls the keys out of his pocket, unlocking the hand-cuffs keeping him in custody. As for the other officers, they approach the three predators in custody and leads them out of the school premises and towards the cruisers outside. Although Matt was freed, that didn't mean he was off the hook. Principal Lionwhite approaches the injured fox before growling softly towards the vulpine.
"I'll be seeing you in my office after school, Matt", Principal Lionwhite spoke towards the fox with a calm, stern tone of voice. "You're lucky you aren't facing any criminal charges, but that doesn't mean you're off the hook", the lion added before turning around, taking five steps forward before turning his head towards the fox. "Although this is the final class period, I advise you to have those wounds taken care of as soon as possible. Especially the one on your left cheek", he advised, Matt's eyes widening quickly and placing his left hand-paw onto the wound, using his gloved hand-paw to stop the blood from flowing out of the wound. With the wound being mentioned, the lion takes his leave along with many of the other students leaving the lounging room and towards their final classes. Everyone except him… and Jenny.
The fox turns towards his left a little and notices the rabbit still standing there, her head lowered and her eyes facing away from him. Perhaps he could use this time to try and talk with the rabbit, hoping he could try to explain his actions to her regarding Sunday, and possibly try and set things right? Honestly, he wasn't sure, but he at least needed to check to see if she was okay nonetheless. He began walking towards her with his right hand-paw slightly raised towards her, but the bunny starts walking away from him without looking at the fox.
"Jenny, wait!" Matt pleaded, bearing an urgent tone in his voice. He needed to talk to her, he needed to set things right. Fortunately for him, the rabbit stops on her tracks despite not turning to face him, which is at least a slightly good start. With a soft sigh escaping his muzzle, the fox closes looks down towards the floor in front of him. "I'm sorry…" the fox began with a soft tone, the bunny's ears slightly raising upward a bit after having heard the fox's words. "… for the way I've acted last Sunday. Although it wasn't my intention to push you away, it was unacceptable of me to talk to you the way I did last Sunday", he continued with the same tone of voice, although his guilt began to become more apparent at he spoke. "I hope you can forgive me one say…. And if not, I'll understand", the vulpine said before turning towards his lunch bag and backpack that lay near the sofa, taking several steps towards his belongings before stopping on his tracks, his head turning to face Jenny. "Thanks for taking the time to listen. It really means a lot to me", and with those words, the fox turns away from the rabbit and walks towards his belongings, unaware that Jenny had turned to face him for a moment, a softly surprised look on her face. She wanted to talk to him regarding what he said, but she didn't have the right words to tell him. The bunny lets out one last soft sigh and heads to her final period class, leaving the vulpine to himself and hoping everything goes for the better for him.
Kawasabus High School, about an hour later
Stress! That's what some of the students at Kawasabus High School were feeling right about now. But despite the students having a common similarity, one such student bore the most of it. Jenny Bunni was that student, especially after having to check her fifth and sixth period classes as a result for staying behind to recount the fight that happened during lunch hour. And now she has some unwanted make-up work to do thanks to the three predators who attacked Matt.
Sometime after grabbing the make up work for her fifth and sixth period classes, the rabbit leaves the school premises and departs to her home by foot. While she did know how to drive, the rabbit didn't have access to a car and was required to ride the bus in order to get to school on time. She usually would do the same when it came to getting home as well, but needed some peace and quiet instead of hearing a large number of complaints from the other students. Besides, after having a stressful afternoon, who the hell would want to deal with a bunch of rowdy punks on the bus anyways?
Either way, regardless if whether or not she'll be getting home late in the afternoon or even at night, she needed some time to think. Not just on everything that happened a few hours ago, but also on the way Matt had fought the predators. If the principal didn't know about the fight, could the students have stopped the vulpine, or would he'd been too fast for them to catch. The more she thought about it, the more it made sense, and to a small extent, the more it terrified her. She knew without a doubt Matt would've found a way to kill his attackers with only the use of his hand-paws despite his size, if the principal hadn't intervened. Thank god he did, though, or otherwise Matt could've either gotten seriously wounded to the point it was life threatening, or he would've killed his attackers without a second thought.
Now that she thought about Matt, she began to recall the proposition Thrandeer had made on Sunday regarding Matt himself. She recalled the clan leader asking her to be Matt's sheath to help prevent him from becoming an unrepentant killer. The rabbit wasn't sure on why he had proposed this at first, but after seeing him fight firsthand like that, she now began to understand why. But regardless if she was beginning to understand the caliber of his skills, she wasn't sure if she can really go with Thrandeer's proposition. What if she fails to stop him from becoming an unrepentant killer? And would Matt be willing to have her as his sheath? That she was unsure of.
Walking along the side of the countryside roads as she did, she places her hand-paws inside of her pockets and continues to think about the clan leader's proposition a bit further. She wanted to find a way to help Matt, but she was still unsure of how. And was she afraid of him after the incident on Sunday? She was unsure. Looking up towards the road, the bunny notices a dirt road leading into the woods, knowing for sure this one was a shortcut leading to her home when walking on foot. The bunny turns towards the dirt road and walks quietly along the path, unaware of three sets of predatory eyes watching over her roughly a hundred yards behind her.
Shane, Derrick, and Marcus have been quietly following her on foot from a very far distance, enough to where they could see her and not enough for her to be able to track them with her sensitive hearing. The three predators had been released almost immediately after being taken to the station, their parents having picked them up and paying the fines. But the parents were not happy with what their late teen kits had gotten into at school, which lead to some rather heated arguments after finding out they've been expelled via phone call. Now the three predators were out for blood, and Jenny was their first target.
"There's that bunny bitch who thought she could try to stop me from beating that sorry fox's ass", Derrick growled softly. "To think a prey of all mammals would even dare to stop me", the jaguar growled a bit louder, but Shane fortunately covers his muzzle before the sound could echo across the woods.
"Keep it down, Derrick! Do you want the bunny to hear us?!" Shane whispered, albeit with a soft growl. Derrick quickly shakes his hand-paw off by shaking his head a few times, yet also shakes his head as a non-verbal way to answer his question. "Good! We've almost got her, just be a bit more patient, will you?" the wolf asked sternly before turning his head to the right, looking at Marcus holding a pair of binoculars over his eyes. "Where's the bunny bitch heading to?" the German Shepherd asked, a sinister grin forming on the wolf's face right after hearing him ask.
"Right where we want her", Marcus answered, removing the binoculars from his eyes and placing them back into the bag next to him. "I think its time we catch our prey, don't ya think?" he asked sinisterly, pulling the bag over his shoulders before turning towards the other two predators.
"Yes", both Shane and Derrick answer simultaneously, the two males standing up and allowing the three predators to start walking towards the direction hastily, albeit quietly to avoid being spotted.
Roughly a hundred yards up ahead. The rabbit continues walking along the dirt path to help quicken her trip home, her hand-paws continuing to remain inside her pockets as she walked. She was still thinking about how to answer Thrandeer regarding his proposition. Her eyes were looking down at the ground in thought, unsure of how to answer the clan leader when the time came. Could she become Matt's sheath and stop him from becoming an unrepentant killer? That question kept playing within her mind endlessly, with no answer coming into her mind whatsoever to help her answer. But with that in mind, however, she lets out a sigh before puling her phone out of the right jeans pocket.
"I don't think there's anything I can do…. I'm sorry, Thrandeer, but I don't think I have what it takes to help keep Matt from becoming an unrepentant killer" Jenny thought within her mind before pulling up her phone, the black screen showing the reflection of her face and some of the environment. "I guess its time for me to give him a-" she began in her mind, but stops upon noticing faint movement from the reflection of her phone, stopping dead on her tracks and quickly turning about a hundred-sixty degrees to the right. "Who's there?!" the bunny shouted, her eyes surveying the direction where she saw the moving figures.
Unfortunately for her, she no longer saw the moving figures she saw through the reflection of her smartphone screen. But whether or not that meant they were still there, that was an entirely different story. She knew better than to assume the figures she saw had left the scene, since thanks to her strongly sensitive hearing, she was able to capture the sounds of running footsteps scattering across the suspected region of the woods. While they didn't sound like they were approaching her, the bunny knew she couldn't stick around for long,
"Time to hop on out of here!" Jenny exclaimed within her mind before turning back towards the path and making a dash for it, sprinting as fast as she could away from the suspected region. This time, the sounds of footsteps approaching her from behind began to become gradually louder, which meant, despite managing to remain ahead, they were slowly starting to catch up. The bunny needed to get out of there, and quick! Pressing the button to her phone, she slides her thumb across the unlock slider and pulls up the dial pad. But before she can dial any of the numbers, the phone suddenly dies due to a low battery, much to her surprise. "Damn, I thought I charged my phone last night! Fuck!" the rabbit exclaimed in her thoughts, placing her phone back into her right pants pocket and began focusing her attention on getting the hell out of there.
As the rabbit continues to run, the three predatory males continue to chase their prey with haste. If she had never pulled out her phone and discovered the three through their moving reflection on the screen, they would've gotten the bunny that much sooner. But to them it didn't matter, so long as they got what they've wanted in the end. Then again, they can use some extra exercise anyways. Derrick leans his torso forward a bit as an attempt to increase the speed of his running, which leaning forward helped add more weight to the direction in which he was going. The bunny was indeed fast, he had to admit, but the jaguar was much, MUCH faster!
Right as the feline drew close enough to get the rabbit, that's when he suddenly lunges towards her like a predator going in to kill its prey. Unfortunately for him, Jenny jumps to the left and dodges the male, the jaguar growling angrily upon missing her. Shane attempts to lunge at the bunny, but unfortunately for him, he, too, misses when the rabbit jumps to the right. The rabbit looks back for a moment and couldn't help but let out a few humorous chuckles at the sight of the two predators, seeing them growling in utter failure before turning her attention towards the front of the path. Alas, a meadow comes in view and the rabbit's relieving smile began to form on her face. She was almost out this mess, she can go to a nearby house owner's home to call for help, and alas the rabbit can finally seek shelter…
… or that would've been the case if Marcus didn't lunge at her and successfully catch the bunny like she were the wolf's prey, her body sliding roughly ten feet from where the wolf made his impact. The bunny yelped in pain after being pushed roughly ten feet with her body roughly pressed against the ground, yet Marcus merely grins and continues to glare down towards his successful catch. The bunny had finally been caught, and now it was time to celebrate his victory.
"Looks like the big bad wolf's caught himself a nice, cute bunny bitch", Marcus growled deviously, licking his lips in delight and watching the rabbit squirming under his grip as an attempt to free herself from his hold. The wolf wraps his large hand-paws around the smaller rabbit, his fingers grabbing a secure hold of her DD-cup breasts while doing so. Jenny's eyes widen quickly upon feeling this and began squirming around his grip a lot quicker as an attempt to free herself from his grip. "Though I must admit for a bunny, you're quite the handful", the wolf admitted with a tender murr in his voice, moving his fingers around her bunny sized DD tits in a circular motion. Both Derrick and Shane catch up within seconds after the wolf secures his perverted grip around the bunny's squirming body.
"Awesome catch, man!" Derrick exclaimed with a devious tone in his voice, tenderly malicious purring escaping his mouth while beginning to crack his knuckles.
"Looks like we'll be having us some tender rabbit meat tonight", Shane growled with a vicious smirk on his face, his tongue licking his lips tenderly at the thought of consuming freshly cooked rabbit. But with the wolf raising his left hand-paw upward, using his right to pin the squirming bunny on the ground, Marcus turns to his fellow predators and began to grin maliciously.
"Whoa, hold on a second, boys", Marcus began with a tender, predatory tone of voice. "I'm just as hungry as the rest for revenge as the rest of you guys are, but why should we rush things with a hot piece of ass like this slut here", the wolf murred tenderly before grabbing a hold of her tits with one of his large hand-paws, caressing the tit with a circular motion, loud yelps escaping the rabbit's mouth as his sexually assaulting groping continued. Both Derrick and Shane turn towards each other with soft frowns on their faces before grinning widely, their heads turning towards the captured rabbit in the wolf's grip.
"Now that you mention it, that does sound rather exciting" Derrick replied friskily, walking slowly towards the wolf while watching the rabbit trying her best to escape Marcus' grasp, but to no avail.
Jenny's eyes were widened in fear and her pupils were shrunken down to the size of peas in horror at the realization of one thing: she was about to get raped by the three hulking predators. But an idea soon came to the bunny's mind and forcefully sinks her two long front teeth down onto the wolf's hand-paw, making the wolf wince in pain and briefly loosen his grip on her. That was more than enough time for the rabbit to make her escape, jumping off of his hand-paw and attempting to make a run for it. But her luck ran dry when Derrick lunges right towards the bunny and grabbing her by the legs. She tries to crawl away from the feline predator, but to no avail. She was literally being pulled towards him by her right leg.
"You're not getting away from us, bitch", Derrick growled aggressively at his prey, soon managing to get the female rabbit close enough to grab a strong hold onto her ears. The sounds of belts being loosened and the sounds of zippers being pulled down began to fill her ears. "You're gonna be our fuck toy tonight!" he roared, his left hand-paw moving to her shirt and ripping it off, exposing her torso and the maroon colored lace bra she wore underneath. Licking his lips at the sight of the undergarment. He moves the same hand-paw down to his belt and beginning to remove the buckle securing the strap.
The sounds of clothing being removed has already become unbearable for the rabbit to hear any longer. Her breathing quickened rapidly, and her strengthened her attempts at crawling away from the males. But despite her best attempts, it was no use. Jenny began looking left and right in a state of panic and hoping she could find something she could use to free herself from Derrick's grip. To no avail, she couldn't find anything to use to get herself out of this mess. Tears began to form in her eyes at the realization she can't escape, her eyes snapping shut as the bunny chokes back a couple of sobs. Her heat leans forward for several prolonged seconds, right as Shane and Marcus pull their pants down to their thighs, with only a pair of boxer briefs containing their packages inside. She suddenly tilts her head back with her mouth wide open, with nothing but an extremely loud, shrilling scream escaping her mouth in hopes of someone to come to her aid.
On the road nearby, a minute ago
"Great, just great…." was the thought that was currently running inside of Matt's mind while he was driving back home to drop off his belongings, minus his concealed sword. Not even half an hour ago, not only did the fox had to grab make-up work for his fifth, sixth, and seventh period classes, but he also had to deal with both a couple of shitty nurses and an ass hat of a principal. He had gotten a three day out of school suspension as a result of getting into a fight he didn't even start, let alone defend himself. Although fortunate to not be facing any criminal charges, today was definitely not his day.
As the fox continues to drive towards his home, Dimmu Borgir's 'In Sorte Diaboli' was playing through the speakers inside of his car, albeit at a lower volume to now blow his strong sense of hearing out. But honestly, he can use a bit of loud, aggressive music right about now to help settle his nerves. He moves his right hand-paw onto the circular volume control nob, his fingers gripping onto the knob gently and securely. But before he can turn the volume of the extreme metal music any louder, however, his ears perk up to the sound of a distant, loud shrilling scream. Instead of turning the music up louder, he turns the volume completely off and pulls the car over all together. He turns to the left and notices the dirt road up ahead, which was the direction where he heard the shrilling scream. He quickly kills the ignition and listens to the ongoing scream as closely as possible. And almost immediately, he recognizes who it was that was making those loud screams.
"Jenny?!" Matt thought right as he pulls the keys out of the ignition and grabbing the concealed sword of his, stepping out of the car and quickly sprinting towards the source of the sound with an almost god-like speed. Quickly placing the keys in his right cargo pocket, the male looks at the path up ahead and discovers the meadows, seeing the three predators he fought earlier along with the bunny herself. And what he saw made his eyes grow wide with pure shock.
The fox discovered why the bunny had been screaming the entire time, with Derrick having pinning her down on the early soil with his upper body along with his right hand-paw bearing a tight hold on Jenny's ears. He wasn't exactly sure where his left hand-paw was located until he watches the belt being pulled off from his pants. Now that he saw this, the entire event he was witnessing fifty yards away was making complete sense. The three predators were about to rape the bunny they had captured. But one thing was for certain: Matt wasn't gonna allow that to happen, not on his watch!
The fox's eyes narrow with a deathly glare, his fur began sticking upward in an aggressive manner, and he began snarling aggressively with his teeth exposed. Gripping the sheathed, cloth covered weapon in his right hand-paw, the fox lunges towards the jaguar and performs a deadly hook kick on the right side of Derrick's face, surprisingly knocking the hulking feline a good fifteen yards away from Jenny. The bunny rolls onto her back and leans her upper body upward, turning towards her savior with her arms wrapping themselves around the bra covered chest. And her eyes widen at the sight of who her savior was, the one she had met roughly a few weeks ago.
"Matt?!" Jenny exclaimed with pure shock, her eyes shot wide open and her mouth open in a similar manner. The fox turns his head towards her direction briefly before turning back to the jaguar, the fox watching Derrick standing back up onto his feet-paws and rub the right side of his face.
"God dammit, Matt! Who the hell do you think you are trying to interrupt our plan?!" Derrick growled furiously with an aggressive frown on his face. His eyes slightly widen, however, at the sight of Matt's eyes, the black irises completely void in his jade green pupils. And the sight of such eyes legitimately began to terrify him to the core. He wasn't looking at the eyes of Matt Wilde… he was looking at the eyes of an unrepentant killer. And the fox was staring directly at his next victim.
"Leave him to me, Derrick. I've got this prick", Marcus growled with a devious grin on his face, the wolf starting to sprint directly towards the malicious vulpine.
"Marcus, DON'T!" Derrick shouted loudly as an attempt to warn him, but unfortunately fell on deaf ears. Matt quickly vanishes into thin air and began moving towards Marcus, making the wolf stop dead on his tracks as a response. Everybody began looking for the fox despite hearing the sounds of rapid footsteps around the area. "What?! Where did he-" the wolf tried to say until he felt a hard object hitting him on his stomach, knocking the lupine roughly ten feet into the air unexpectedly. Marcus looks down towards the person who had attacked him, which the fox had done using the cloth covered sheath of his blade. The fox suddenly jumps high up into the air and catches up with the lupine much to everyone's surprise, even Jenny's as well. Nobody expected the fox to jump at such a height to catch up to the wolf.
The vulpine manages to catch up to the wolf in the air within a second before performing a vertical attack with the concealed sheathed sword, knocking the lupine onto the ground with a powerful enough force to break a few of his opponent's ribs. Landing onto his feet-paws as the fox did, he turns his attention towards the German Shepherd nearby, the predatory dog sprinting at the fox in a similar manner to the wolf. Now it was time to take things up a notch! Matt leaps forward and aims the front end of the hidden sheath into the male's left eye socket, a painful howl leaving his muzzle from the sudden attack. The fox looks down towards the black hoodie concealing the handle of his blade and pulls it off, throwing the jacket at Jenny's direction before grabbing the handle of his sword.
"People like you don't deserve to live after trying to rape an innocent woman!" Matt growled and pulls the sword out of its sheath, performing a diagonal slash attack that slices the German Shepherd's upper body in half from the top of his right shoulder through his left oblique muscle. His body's bloody contents start spewing all over the place and painted some of the greenly grass red, with Shane dying almost immediately from the attack. Quickly landing onto his feet-paws and turning towards the other two predators, the malicious fox began snarling towards them and tightens the grip on his sword. "One down, two to go", the fox growled and began walking in the direction where Marcus and Derrick were located.
The two predators could not believe what they've just witnessed, their best friend and ally getting slaughtered by the fox like Marcus was butter. How could the fox have so much strength despite his four foot height? Like the two predators, despite having seen him kill once while having been intoxicated, Jenny was still shocked as hell with the ingenuity of his killings. Never before did she see someone hack an opponent cleanly with a katana, and the sight honestly scared her regardless if she was being protected by the fox himself. She couldn't bear the sight anymore and quickly shuts her eyes, bending her legs upward before wrapping her arms around her thighs and burying her face onto her knees. The two males, on the other hand, stand up and look directly at the fox with a mixture of both fury and terror.
"You bastard…. YOU BASTARD!" Marcus shouted before sprinting at the killer as fast as he could despite his broken ribs. Unfortunately for him, however, Matt quickly stabs the wolf right through his stomach and pulls the blade upward, hacking the wolf from his stomach right through his skull. The body's bloody contents start shooting out of the deadly wound much like water shooting out of a fire hydrant before collapsing onto the ground.
One predator remained, and he was looking upon the fox not out of aggression anymore, but of terror. Pure, fucking terror. He no longer cared about trying to get back at Matt nor having his 'fun' with Jenny. No, he needed to get the hell out of there, and now! Derrick's eyes gaze towards the trail on his right before getting up onto his feet and sprinting away from the scene. But upon making it halfway to the trail, however, the vulpine 'teleports' in front of the jaguar with a sinisterly calm look on his face, his green, iris-less eyes looking directly towards the feline's frightened eyes.
"Where do you think you're going?" Matt growled sinisterly at the jaguar before the feline attempts to turn around and make a run for it. But before he could take a step away from the fox, Matt performs several horizontal and diagonal slash attacks from bottom to top. The bloody contents that were once contained inside were now splattering out of the body, a body in which was severed to many pieces thanks to his blade. And with the third and final predator dead, his job was done.
Now that the three predators were dead, the fox places his left hand-paw inside the corresponding cargo pocket and pulls the navy blue rag he had on him out. Holding the sword with his right hand-paw, the fox uses the rag to slowly clean both sides of the sword with one swipe. His sword now shined once again after being cleaned from the blood of the three predators, only to place the sword back inside of its sheath much like placing his rag inside of the pocket he pulled it out from moments before.
With his blade cleaned from the blood of the three predators, his eyes now set themselves towards the bunny roughly thirty wards away from his position. The fox notices the bunny still curled up in a ball with her face buried onto her knees as if to shield herself from the bloody sight. He honestly couldn't blame her one bit on that regard, since he's killed all three of them swiftly and having literally hacked one of them to pieces. Walking towards the rabbit as he did, the fox picks up his hoodie on the way and kneels in front of the rabbit, unzipping his hoodie and wrapping it around her shoulders gently.
"Jenny…" Matt began, the black irises returning to his eyes and his jade green pupils looking at the bunny not out of malice, but with a mixture of concern and comfort. Jenny raises her head and reopens her eyes, noticing the fox kneeling in front of her and starts crawling backwards from him. Matt's eyes widen at this before moving forward, his hand-paws gently grabbing a hold of her shoulders in a reassuring manner. "I'm not gonna hurt you", the fox said with a soothing tone, his jade green eyes staring towards her sapphire blue ones. At first, the rabbit's breathing was panicked and rapid because of the killings. Yet after taking a few moments to look into the fox's comforting, reassuring eyes, her breathing slows down enough to where she was breathing at a more normal, yet slow, pace. "Are you wounded?" he asked with a curiously calm tone in his voice.
"N-no… I'm not hurt", Jenny answered, her eyes now looking down towards her right and her upper eyelid closing halfway. "Not physically at least…" she added before bending her knees upward and wrapping her arms around her thighs, curling into a ball for the second time after the three predators had attempted to rape her. The fox gently places his gloved right hand-paw under her chin and tilts her head up softly, her eyes moving towards his with surprise. A slight blush formed on her face when he did that, but the fox didn't notice the blush since his eyes were fixed upon hers.
"C'mon. I'll take you home", Matt said towards the rabbit before standing up onto his feet-paws, offering his left hand-paw to help her up. The rabbit looks towards the hand-paw for a moment before slowly taking it and lifting herself up with his hand-paw.
"Thank you…" Jenny replied softly with nod, grabbing both parts of the hoodie Matt lent her to cover her torso. She manages to pull the zipper up enough to where it passed her cleavage area. Nodding at the sight of this, the fox notices the torn shirt she formerly wore before it got ripped off, picking up the pieces of her previous shirt before placing them in her pocket. If they were to leave, he had to ensure not only he left any evidence behind, but the evidence of Jenny's presence as well. Once all the fragments of her torn shirt were picked up, he places them inside the main pockets of his pants temporarily before turning to the rabbit next to him.
Now it was time for the two to get on out of there, or else the local authorities, clans, Neo-Shinsengumi, or possibly any nearby neighbors in the area may come upon the place in which the bloody assassinations took place. And the last thing Matt needs is a murder charge on his ass along with possibly being killed on sight by the locals or Neo-Shinsengumi. With this in mind, the fox began walking towards the path he came from back to his car, with the rabbit following him from behind. But an idea suddenly pops into Matt's head, acting on that idea by kneeling down on the ground and leaning his upper body forward, his arms raising backwards towards the bunny behind him.
"Hop on my back, Jenny. I'll be faster for us to get out of here if I carried you to my car", Matt suggested and causing the rabbit to look at him with a slight blush on her face. She didn't expect him to suggest carrying her in a piggy back. Then again, despite the odd suggestion, she nods with understanding and approaches the fox, slipping one leg at a time through the gaps between his muscular arms. Since he did have an unusually fast speed, that could help with fleeing the area as is. Gently wrapping her arms around his neck as she did, albeit securely, the fox quickly stands up and began sprinting away from the grisly scene.
It didn't take long for them to get to his car at the end of the trail, having taken roughly about forty five seconds to get from the assassination site to his vehicle. Unlocking the car as he did, the fox kneels down and sets allows the bunny to step off. The rabbit quickly walks to the other side of the car while Matt enters the driver's seat, quickly texting Iizuka about the incident and asking him to clean the 'mess' up. With the text message sent, the fox pulls up the GPS on his phone and hands it to the rabbit.
"Here, go ahead and place your address in the GPS", Matt said to the bunny before noticing her turning her head towards him. Her eyes gaze towards his for a moment before looking down at the phone, grabbing it slowly before typing in her address into it. The fox grabs his keys from his cargo pocket and sticks the car key inside the ignition, turning it forward and letting a loud growl escape from the engine. He began driving away from the site and starts surveying the road, making sure no locals or Neo-Shinsengumi were in the area. Fortunately for him, not a single unit was in sight, nothing but the huge pine trees they were passing by with each passing second.
The ride to Jenny's home was rather quiet for the most part, no music being played on the radio nor words escaped their mouths. The GPS device occasionally instructed Matt to turn on the correct roads when he was within a small distance from the said roads, doing so without a problem. Upon stopping at red lights, the fox occasionally turns to check on his passenger, the rabbit sitting on the passenger's seat with her legs bent upward and her arms wrapped around her thighs. Her eyes stare blankly towards the compartment with tears threatening to drip down her face. But none have ran down her cheeks… at least not yet.
Roughly fifteen minutes after fleeing the site, Matt and Jenny arrive at the house where Jenny lives. Upon looking at the house, he was surprised to see the house resembling the ones you can find right by the beach, with the homes themselves being supported on eight to ten foot tall wooden decks. Coincidentally enough, her house was literally a short walk away from lake Erie. The fox pulls up to the driveway directly under the house itself and kills the ignition of his car, pulling the keys out and stepping out of the car.
"We're here", Matt spoke calmly before pushing his car door shut. The rabbit herself gets out of the car shortly after, although a bit slowly in a hesitant manner. The fox notices this while the rabbit was getting out, soon watching the rabbit stepping out of the car and heading towards the wooden set of stairs on the left side of the house. Walking up the stairs as she did, Matt follows her calmly and locks the door with a press of a button on the key.
Upon making it to the top of the eight to ten foot tall wooden deck, the fox can see the house was a story high and beautifully structured. Pale blue painted the wooden portions of the house while brown bricks can be seen on the columns of the house. The roof, from what the fox can see, appeared to be a dark charcoal or perhaps dark brown. But because of where he was looking at the roof along with the gradually darkening skies, it was hard to tell which color it was. But regardless of that, the house was beautifully constructed and looked like it had been constructed no more than two years ago at least.
The bunny approaches the front door to her house and grabs her keys from her left pocket, grabbing the key to her house and sliding it inside the door's lock on the knob. Turning the key to the left, she turns the knob in the same direction and pushes the door forwards, taking the key out of the lock and allowing both her and the fox to enter the one story home. And the interior of the house made the fox's eyes widen slightly with genuine surprise.
The interior of the house looked entirely clean to the core, not a single scratch, spec of dust, nothing. The cleanliness, while impressive, was not the main reason why the male was genuinely surprised. No. The reason why he was surprised at the interior was how the house was beautifully and artistically decorated it was, the color scheme of the room being various shades and tints of brown. The walls were colored a light tan while the wooden floor contrasted the walls with a brown color three shades darker than the tan color. He noticed the floor mats in the living room being a much lighter, saturated brown color. The ceiling and the edges of the wall around the doors, flooring, and the corners of the walls. The color scheme itself brought a relaxing feeling to the fox himself, which almost made him softly smile. But the color of some of the furniture popped out from the various shades and tints of brown, but bore a much similar meaning nonetheless.
Right near the front door, a cerulean blue colored L-shaped couch was spotted on the fox's left side, with a brown coffee table placed in the middle of the living room. Roughly a yard away from the coffee table, a large entertainment center roughly about the same height as the coffee table was seen, yet was a couple feet wider than the table itself. Four drawers were seen on the entertainment center itself, two of them on each side with two shelves being spaced between one another. An Xbox 360 and two controllers for the console occupy the top shelf while several games and movies occupy the bottom shelf. A twenty four inch HDTV was centered on the top surface of the entertainment center. The entire living room looked like home, and a very small, but genuine smile starts forming on the vulpine's face.
"Your place looks nice, Jenny. The colors go well with each other", Matt commented, walking into the living room and closing the door behind him, noticing the rabbit taking a seat on the L-shaped couch and curling into a ball. The bunny rests her chin on top of her knees and wraps her arms around her legs, her facial expression being as sad as a funeral attendee. Although no tears were shed, her eyes were on the verge of shedding them at any given moment. Matt approaches the bunny and takes a seat on the couch next to her, his left arm gently wrapping around her shoulders in a comforting hug. The rabbit's body tenses at the moment he did this, but relaxes when she looks up to his jade green eyes with her sapphire blue ones. "Is everything alright…?" the fox asked, the bunny's eyes narrowing slightly in sadness before turning away from him. She didn't know the proper answer to that question… but there was one thing she could say, though.
"Thank you… for taking me home and all", Jenny began, turning to face the fox's face as she spoke. "It really means a lot to me", she finished before seeing the fox nod, turning away from him right after and resting her chin onto her knees. The fox was about to say something else when the sound of his phone's ringtone going off, the ringtone being Shadows Fall's 'Casting Shade'. He moves his right hand-paw to his phone case and grabs his ICarrot phone from the case. Pulling it out as he did, he looks at the caller ID and notices 'Thrandeer' on top of the 'Answer' and 'Decline' touchscreen buttons respectively. He hits 'Answer' and places the phone on the right side of his face.
"What's going on, Thrandeer?" Matt asked.
"Matt, I need to speak with you at the Penthouse immediately", Thrandeer answered over the phone, the rabbit's eyes briefly turning to face Matt after hearing Thrandeer's voice.
"What about?" Matt asked again, thoughts about the clan already hearing about the killings right as they spoke, which honestly wasn't surprising since he had texted Iizuka about the killings earlier.
"You know what I mean, Matt", Thrandeer answered over the phone. And despite the calm tone he was bearing, something told the fox that the clan leader's expression might say otherwise. "I expect to see you within the hour", and with those last words, the buck hangs up and the line goes dead, the fox placing his phone back into his case before standing up. However, he turns to face the bunny before placing his left hand-paw onto her right shoulder, the rabbit tilting her head upwards to look at him curiously.
"I gotta get going, Jenny. The clan leader's needing me tonight", Matt spoke towards the bunny calmly before removing his hand-paw from her shoulder and placing it onto the top portion of his sword's sheath. "I'll call you tonight and check in with you, okay?" he added reassuringly, the rabbit's eyes gazing at his for a second before lowering her head, nodding upon hearing those words.
As Matt began to depart from the house slowly, the rabbit gently tightens her hold around her legs, the underside of her jaw gently pressing against her knees harder from her actions. She started shaking slightly in fear and her eyes start to form tears which threaten to stream down her face at any moment. Her eyes shift towards the moving fox, and her heart began pounding harder inside of her chest. She was afraid, but not of him, however, but for some other reason she couldn't comprehend. The frightened bunny watches the male grab a hold of the doorknob and twisting it to the right. That's when she acted right then and there, the female bunny jumping from her spot and dashing towards the fox, suddenly wrapping her arms around the male's waist. The fox releases his grip on the knob and turns to face the bunny holding his waist tightly, noticing her face buried into his shirt with sobs escaping her muzzle.
"Please don't go! I don't wanna be alone!" Jenny cried, tears now streaming down her face as sobs continue to escape her mouth, her shoulders shifting up and down in correlation with every other sob. "I don't feel safe, not even in my own home!" the rabbit continued, her sobs getting gradually heavier as tears continue to stream down her face, some of which stain the fox's shirt. Matt's eyes widen a bit with surprise, not expecting Jenny to dash towards him and begging him not to leave. Jenny's arms tighten gently around his waist to make her need for his company more apparent. "Please don't go! Please…!" she begged, Matt's eyes slightly narrowing towards her in a compassionate manner.
"Jenny…" Matt thought before slowly wrapping his arms around her torso, his left hand-paw gently stroking the back of her head comfortingly. He held her in his arms for at least another several minutes, gently holding the bunny in his arms and even rocking her left and right occasionally. Unfortunately a text message notification sought the end to that, the male moving his hand-paws from the rabbit and the right grabbing his phone out of its case. Quickly sliding his thumb over the slider, he reads the message and discovers it was Katagai who sent the message.
"Get to the Penthouse at the Inn, immediately! Thrandeer really needs to speak with you about the 'mess' you've made!" As soon as the fox read Katagai's message, he shrugs and places his phone back into the case, his eyes looking down towards Jenny momentarily before closing them.
"Thrandeer's waiting for me at the Penthouse. I'm sorry, Jenny… but it looks like I can't stick around", Matt said with an apologetic tone before reopening his eyes, looking down to his right as the bunny tilts her head upward towards him. Her sapphire eyes look directly at Matt's face, which her eyes were now puffy and red from all the crying she did for the past several minutes. Her breathing began quickening slightly in a panicked, betrayed state, and her heart was beating inside of her chest. The fox's eyes widen a bit as soon as the bunny starts taking a few steps back from him, yet a suggestion came to his mind all of the sudden, one that'll gladly suit him and the bunny. "But… you're more than welcome to tag along if you want me to keep you company", he said right after the suggestion popped into his mind, which the bunny began to softly smile at him in relief before suddenly wrapping her arms around his waist tightly.
"Matt! Thank you, thank you!", Jenny replied with relief in her voice, shaking her face gently against his chiseled abs and causing the fox to blush softly at this. But before he can leave, there is one more thing that's needed to be taken care of.
"Its not a problem. Though do you happen to have any clean clothes to change into?" Matt asked with a calmer tone of voice, Jenny releasing her grip around the fox as she heard him.
"Well, I do. But what about Thrandeer?" Jenny asked, making the fox close his eyes and softly smirk towards the bunny.
"A few minutes ain't gonna kill him", Matt replied with a reassuring tone in his voice before reopening his eyes. "You go on ahead and change into something cleaner real quick, and I'll wait here for you. Sound good?" he suggested, placing his hand-paws inside of his pockets as the rabbit nods a couple times towards him. She turns around and began walking to her bedroom door, which was located just a few yards to the left.
As the bunny opens her bedroom door and closes it behind her, the fox grabs his phone and began to notify the clan leader regarding his status as of now. The fox made sure to let the clan leader know he would be bringing Jenny with her for reasons he would explain when he got there. By the time he pressed the send button, his ears flicker to the sound of her bedroom door opening, the rabbit stepping out of the bedroom in nothing but a fresh pair of clothing. And holy hell was it a wonderful sight to witness.
The clothing she wore genuinely caught the vulpine's interest, and was something he never exactly expected her to wear. A red off shoulder top covered her torso tightly to the point where the top shaped her DD-cup breasts noticeably, with long sleeves covering her arms from the breast line down. Her skintight black leather pants covered her waist down to the bottom of the ankles, the rise of her pants being low enough to show a bit of her toned stomach. The leg openings of per pants were tucked into her black open toe boots, which the boots themselves were a bit taller than ankle high boots. If one word could describe how she looked, stunning would be that word. Matt couldn't help but blush at the sight before snapping his attention towards a jacket in her possession.
"Here, this belongs to you", Jenny said to the fox, the male looking at his hoodie for a moment before gently grabbing it, placing it over his left should and held it with the corresponding hand-paw. "I appreciate you lending it to me", she added, the fox giving a soft nod to her before turning towards the door.
"C'mon, lets get going", Matt suggested before grabbing the doorknob and twisting it to the left, opening the door and holding it open for the female. The rabbit nods towards the fox with a thankful gesture before walking out of the house, with Matt following behind. Matt locks the doorknob and closes the door behind him, both of them heading downstairs and towards the fox's car below. Grabbing his keys from his pocket and pressing the unlock button on the key, the fox opens the driver's side door while the bunny opens the passenger's side door. Now was the time to get going! The fox buckles himself in and places the ignition into the slot, the bunny doing the same as the fox turns the key forward as a loud roar of the engine signaling its ready for use. Pulling out of the driveway and turning towards the right, the two began driving towards the destination with haste, the sounds of tires occupying the silence of the environment around them.