Heya everyone long time no post! Sorry for the massive and I mean MASSIVE delay, I got caught up working on way more important projects that I got a little sidetracked... This chapter was in the making for a while before I almost forgot about it and to apologize for my delay I made this chapter incredibly long for your enjoyment! Yay ^_^
-UNKNOWN-
Red lights. Dim red bloody lights. That's all a dazed restrained male zebra could faintly see, as he fought the restraints that kept him glued to a wooden chair. Heavy breaths blew out from between the zebra's lips, as he suddenly remembered why he was in this seemingly empty space. Although, being bound to a chair in an empty room wasn't what scared him, but the fact of what was to come.
"Good morning, Doctor Swett..." Came a voice from what sounded like an intercom system. "Please restrain from removing your restraints, until armed personnel are advised to do so." Just a few feet in front of the zebra were two armed security guards standing quietly with their expressions cold and grim.
The zebra's breaths became more ponderous by the second as the voice continued to talk, he knew who this was and what they were capable of if left unjustified; it was one of the main reasons he left or escaped in the first place.
"I'm disappointed in you Swett, VERY disappointed."
"I-I didn't tell anyone! I swear!" The zebra quickly replied practically begging for his life at this point.
"You almost compromised my work Swett, and you almost comprised this Corporation," The voice chuckled evilly. "You're nothing more than a little rat with a doctrines degree that deserves nothing else, but an agonizingly slow death."
"Don't do this please!" The zebra desperately pleaded, as he once again fought against his restraints even after being ordered not to.
"You've seen so many pass through here, you've pushed the button countless times and silently watched, yet I bet you never expected to be at the opposite side of the gun barrel." The voice said. "Can you hear them, Swett? Can you hear my children begging for sustenance?"
"I won't do it again!" The zebra pleaded the faint sound of scratching and screeching lingering its way into the zebra's keen ears.
The voice cleared it's throat, "Agents, please proceed to remove Doctor Swett from his restraints and proceed to disable him." The voice ordered nonchalantly as if what he said wasn't of any concern to him.
Almost immediately, both guards converged on the zebra, before uniting his restraints. Once done, the zebra was lifted out of his chair and without any warning, or hesitation one guard unholstered a pistol and unloaded a round into the zebra's kneecap effectively disabling him completely. He cried out in pain, as he dropped to the ground, shakily grasping onto his newly formed gunshot wound, which bled profusely.
"You should have seen this coming, you can't escape from the grasps of this Corporation."
"Shit!" The zebra swore aloud, baring his teeth in absolute pain, with a small puddle of his blood forming underneath him. He felt warm tears flowing from his eyes, as he watched both security agents exit the room. The pain he was experiencing was unbearable, but he knew it would all be over very soon. He was going to expire in the most horrifyingly slow and painful way that no modern day mammal could imagine.
"Initiating controlled release of Apex Predators: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. Authorization Code: 1-3-9-9-5-8-7-9."
As the zebra lay wounded on the cold hard floor of his seemingly empty cage, he began to quickly consult to himself. "All these degrees for nothing!? All these years wasted! Thrown out the goddamn window! No... no it can't end like this, it just can't-" A seemingly large metallic door slowly slid open with a hiss coming to a complete stop once it disappeared into the ceiling. Loud skittering could be heard followed by the sound of sniffing and highly aggressive snarls.
The zebra's heart skipped a beat to the sounds of the "beasts" scouring the room on all fours, their lost beings forever forced from their families and friends, with ravaged minds programmed with one newly formed goal... to feed on the inferiors. He clenched his eyelids shut, as his very being trembled in fear; it was all true, he had seen these "Apex Predators" countless times in his career, he had the unfortunate job of disposing of anyone threatening this Corporation. But now, he understood his own stupidity of wanting to expose this vile Corporation for what it really is, and the moment he was captured by those cold-blooded killers, he knew he'd end up here... here on this cold hard floor defeated and with no known hope of survival what so ever.
His breaths grew more shallow when the growls and snarls circled his injured body, but they suddenly dissipated. They had simply vanished, vanished without a trace and this once again left the zebra in complete and utter silence. He kept his eyes held shut but eventually, due to the eerie silence, opened his eyes to investigate, but what was revealed to his frightened eyes was something far more sinister. A lion with a pair of blood thirsty eyes stared viciously back at the zebra, with dilated pupils expressing wicking intentions, while a stream of a glowing purple substance secreted from its eye-sockets. The zebra opened his mouth to scream in horror, but his attempt was met with gurgles, as the lion clamped it's jaw down onto the zebra's jugulars, which was followed by something ripping away at his thigh and something clawing away at his abdomen, which he could feel was tearing through him.
"Feast my children. Do what you were made to do!" Came the voice from the PA system.
All feeling on the zebra's abdomen was lost, as one of the three Apex Predators mauled away at the zebra's innards and another already wasting away on muscle tissue. Tears continued to flow freely from the Zebra's eye-sockets, as his eyes rolled back into his skull due the the immense pain of the lion sinking it's fangs deep into his throat. The lion placed a paw on the zebra's forehead and another on his chest and proceeded to painful push downwards with it's paws, before ending the defenseless zebra's life with one powerful jerk that completely separated the frontal part of the zebra's throat from the rest of his body.
Life quickly faded away from the zebra after that, as the three beasts continued their feast on his still warm corpse, their bone crackling gore filled munches echoed throughout the chamber where more bone chilling howls could be heard in the distant.
...
A brown male husky sat quietly inside a monitoring room filled with scientists of various species, he observed the three "Apex Predators" intently, steepling his fingers up to the tip of his muzzle while he stared through a large colored security monitor, studying the gory scene before him. Although, these predators were identified by the Corporation to be "failed experiments" the husky viewed them differently. He considered them to be more a base for something far more powerful and far more deadlier.
The husky opened up a Malina folder titled "Research Staff" in red ink and flipped through countless sheets of paper that held the information of various researchers, before coming to a stop upon reaching a marked sheet of paper. The husky spread the Malina folder out onto the table before him; he proceeded to draw a thick black line across the eyes of the zebra from a sharpie he had acquired from a chest pocket located on his lab coat.
The picture of the zebra was small and was located on the upper left side of the paper. The husky stamped the sheet of paper with red ink, the word "TERMINATED" now dubbed the zebra's gory fate.
The husky chuckled maniacally, before closing the malina folder; leaving only the title facing upwards towards him, as he went back to watching the crimson filled screen before him. A satisfying smirk escaped the edges of the husky's muzzle, but it quickly faded. He knew these predators could never compare to his greatest creation.
Tanzanite, the true testament of the future of the predator, and yet the only known one in existence is lost in a city dominated by prey. A ticking time bomb in the middle of a crowd ready to go off at any time and anywhere, he is the ultimate killing machine; it was only a matter of time before he snaped and unwillingly revealed himself to the world.
-Nick & Judy's Apartment-
-8:30 AM-
The scenery was beautiful, the city bustling with life, with mammals going about their day without a worry in the world; it's a place Max once never really saw until he met his new-family. He loved that word; the meaning brought warmth to his heart and eased the suffering he'd endured in the past. Although, strangely enough watching all those mammals, all of those prey dominating the streets brought this weird sensation he couldn't quite comprehend; it brought about an itch that couldn't be scratched unless he, NO!
Max snapped the heinous idea that came to mind; he wasn't about to give in to his wishes, he wasn't about to become the monster preying on the inhabitants of the city!
"Why are you still hiding from who you really are? Embrace the power within, or must I do it myself?" Came Max's double's venomous voice.
"You can't make me do this..." Max grunted suddenly dropping to one knee clenching his stomach as a strange wave of immense hunger struck him without warning.
"Your mind is faltering as we speak, soon there'll be nothing left of your personality, I've won, and it's time you learn first paw what I have in store for this city and the world." Max's double explained walking over to his suffering original with his paws hooked behind his back. "Maybe you'll enjoy yourself..."
"No, I won't do it, you can't make me, and I won't let you!" Max groaned wincing in pain.
"Who said I was going to make you?" Max's double laughed. "You're gonna do it yourself."
Max felt his vision go dark and soon found himself in the middle of a busy sidewalk still in the same position as before; he looked around surprised at the sudden change of his environment. The crowded sidewalk he just moments ago watching from a distance was full of prey with very few predators in the mix. Max's stomach ached more than before; he was hungry, no, he was starving.
"So many preys amongst you; it's a shame how they outnumber the city; perhaps maybe we could change that with a little 'hunting' wouldn't you say?"
Max tried his hardest to fight off the temptations, but his already weak mind wasn't resilient enough at this point. He knew what he had to do; he knew what must be done; it was survival of the fittest now, and only the strong survive in the wild.
The starving little pup slowly stood up and, upon first glance locked his sights on an isolated male deer talking on the phone. Max bared his sharp canines and licked his lips in anticipation.
"Kill"
Max charged the deer without hesitation, pouncing him and knocking down onto the ground. The deer flailed helplessly trying to fight off the pup, but despite the deer's larger size, the sheer artificial strength provided by the genetic enhancing serum was unmatched; it rushed through Max's veins igniting a powerful glowing purple flame from his paws.
"OH GOD PLEASE, AHHH-"
Max ripped apart the defenseless deer ending his life quickly by a bite to the jugular and quick, effortless snap of the neck. Then came the time to feed, to enjoy the earnings of a successful hunt.
"Yes, satisfy your undying hunger, as will I once I take over!" Laughed the double from within Max's self-conscious having enjoyed watching his weaker more pathetic original take on the role of a real predator. "Perhaps I was wrong about you, too bad I'm still taking your body."
Max was too busy consuming the deer to listen in on his double's rambling. He was focused on ripping past fur and skin with his claws, with blood coating his mouth and muzzle as he guzzled down strips of fatty meat.
"W-Why am I doing this? Am I enjoying this? No, this is all wrong, I can't be enjoying this, but why can't I stop myself, I feel like I'm looking through an unbreakable window that won't shatter no matter how hard I try to break it. Is he doing this or have I finally become the monster I feared... Judy, Nick, my family." Max merely continued feasting as the crowd surrounding him screamed in horror, fleeing the scene but Max wasn't though, he wanted to kill; to kill everyone and everything that dared to move.
And he did just that.
-The Awakening-
Max's body suddenly shot out of bed, his paws clenched onto his head looking as if he was experiencing a painful migraine, but in reality, he was no longer the loving innocent little pup Nick and Judy thought of him to be. Oh no, his time was up. He slowly lowered his now flame riddled paws from his head and into his field of vision for his now glowing eyes to see. A crooked smile spread across Max's muzzle as vicious laughter escaped his lips.
The time of reckoning had finally come! The need for blood has risen, and soon the worthless people of this city would quickly be reminded of what has been forgotten in time. All starting with...
The now devious Max slowly turned to face the red fox sleeping soundly next to him. Unaware of the monster sitting beside him eyeing his exposed neck, Nick wouldn't have to worry about feeling a thing; it'll be quick and easy.
Max slowly twisted his body towards Nick's sleeping heap, placing both paws on either side of the fox's neck preparing for the fatal chomp he'd be delivering to Nick's jugular. Max's salivating maw slowly opened revealing teeth sharpened for maximum damage as any predator's teeth should be but before he could do anything too messy a much more appealing scent caught his attention. "Prey..." Max growled darkly, his glowing purple eyes furrowing as he crawled away from the sleeping fox and off the bed towards the living-room.
...
It was finally another beautiful day out and yet another successful day in keeping Max hidden from not only the authorities but from the big bad Corporation; something Judy took pride in doing despite the dangers of not only her and Nick losing their job, but going to prison or worse death. And yet, she seemed to always come out on top of the situation (as always) she had to do what was best for Max, and that was all the motivation she needed to keep pushing on with her ultimate goal to not only find him a better life but bring justice to the pup.
Judy couldn't help but imagine the pain Max has been through, but despite from what she heard, he seemed to be comfortable around her and especially Nick. She would be lying if she said she wasn't jealous that he was becoming more fond towards Nick but then again; it was probably a boy's thing and wasn't about to dwell on it, she just wanted to start off her morning with a cup of coffee and some couch time in front of the TV while the men of the house were still asleep in her room.
The news was the first channel to pop up the moment Judy turned on the TV via remote, she had planned to switch it but with the "BREAKING NEWS!" flashing in red at the bottom right corner of the screen with a bird's eye view of a suburban house was all it took to keep her tuned. Judy turned up the volume to hear the male reporter speaking but not too loud to wake Nick and Max. She was shocked at what she heard.
"Yes, we finally got confirmation of multiple police casualties that have taken place at this very house late last night, and I have also gotten word that the Cheif of Police has released confiscated footage from a neighbor depicting the armed assailants." The scene of the house changed to a dark recording of four heavily armed individual wearing all black combat hear firing at a small collection of police cruisers leaving them riddles with bullet holes. The mammals depicted then proceed to quickly jog over to a blacked out truck with one holding what seemed like a female cheetah, judging by the long slim tail, with a bag over her head and one carrying a young cheetah cub over his/her arm, who appeared to lag behind the rest. The individual turned to face the camera for a split second but came to a stop looking down upon a figure, possibly a police officer laying with a paw extended towards the armed mammal.
The person holding the camera zoomed in on the mammal carrying the cub and showed as he/she pulled out a weapon and shot the defenseless officer in cold blood before catching up with the rest of the suspects and quickly fleeing the scene leaving a certain bunny in shock.
Judy felt like she wanted to throw up just watching, her paws shook violently barely even grasping onto mug in which they held; she felt both grief and fear just watching the armed mammals at work. The gear they wore, the way they operated, and the way they kidnapped those mammals from their home, she damn well knew who they were the moment she laid eyes on them and it angered her immensely watching her brothers and sisters murdered in cold blood by them.
"The identities of the kidnapped mammals is currently under investigation and will be released upon discovery. Back to you To-" the TV was abruptly shut off by Judy, who let out a deep sigh before setting down her mug on the coffee table directly in front of the couch. She wasn't in the mood to drink her morning coffee anymore, in fact, her entire mood was thrown out the the window and was replaced with mixed emotions. The anger, fear, frustration, grief; it was all too much to bear at once for the poor rabbit, she felt even more nauseous just thinking about it.
"W-Who in the right mind would kill and take those innocent mammals? Is that what Spark warned me about? Was that the artic wolf sent by Biotect to 'silence' any threat and would come knocking down her door if Max was to be discovered under her possession?" Judy couldn't stop thinking to herself; all of this was like nothing she's ever seen before. What if she and Nick responded to that? It's an outcome she didn't even think of imagineing, EVER.
Judy just sighed, she still had a mission to do, and she wasn't about to let her fear and grief takeover. Max still needed their help and she'll be damned if she didn't finish what she started even if it meant her sacrificing her life for his sake. She stood up from her couch and walked over to the large window in the living room facing the city and just stared out into the world as hundreds of thoughts rushed through her mind until something strange overcame the bunny.
Her nose twitched rapidly, and her Ears perked up; the fur on her neck and arms stood straight up, she's never experienced this feeling before. She felt like she was in some sort of danger like this was some sort of sixth sense then just like a movie, she rolled to the side and watched Max slam into the window she was just looking out of, almost shattering it completely.
"MAX? WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Judy questioned shocked by the sudden change in behavior in Max that caused him to pounce her from behind with enough force to almost shatter a window.
"Max isn't here anymore..." Max replied in his double's sinister voice, sprinting towards Judy with outstretched claws.
Judy was naturally quick and more than capable of avoiding the savage pup before he could slice through her fragile body with those glowing claws of his. She watched as he skidded into a large vase against the wall knocking it over, destroying it. "MAX, WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO YOU!? STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!" Judy yelled sternly towards the now enraged wolf pup.
"Stop calling me Max! This isn't Max anymore!" Max replied rushing Judy once more this time being mere inches from scratching her.
"Who are you!? What have done to my Max!?" Judy demanded preparing herself for the next attempted strike.
Max let out a low dark laugh and decided to approach the bunny slowly. "Your Max? When was he ever yours? He doesn't belong to anyone, oops my mistake, I don't belong to anyone," He explained circling Judy. "And I don't have a name and God save me if I ever had the name 'Max' what a sad and pathetic name for a child. Makes me wonder what would be good name for me."
Judy bared her teeth enraged by the way this different Max badmouth the sweet innocent pup she knew. "You're a monster! A savage beast! Max loved us; he was family."
Max's evil self snapped his fingers. "Yes, that's it! Beast... that sounds perfect." this newly named Beast chuckled licking his lips before pouncing Judy once again but from a much closer range this time having just walked near her mere moments ago.
Judy jumped to side but let out a sudden yelp when she felt her ankle get grasped by Beast and watched in as she slid back against the floor and held up upside down by the evil monster that had taken over her Max. "LET GO OF ME! NICK HELP!" Judy screamed kicking and punching the much more superior pup with little being down to affect him.
"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk... What's wrong? Afraid of dying, I see. Just let nature take its course, and I promise it'll be all over very soon." Beast chuckled slamming Judy onto the ground and pinning her fragile body down with a knee before she could run away. "Now, let's have some fun." Beast smirked raising up a paw and lifting up a single sharp claw before aiming it just above her neck.
"Don't do this please..." Judy wheezed having had difficulty breathing since Beast was knee was pushing down against her chest. "Max, I know you're still in there somewhere; please stop this." Judy begged in a final attempt to snap Max back into reality.
"Are you stupid or something? He isn't here, he's gone! How many time do I have to say it?" Beast said gasping onto the Judy's forehead to move and expose her fragile little neck more clearly. "You must really be a dumb little bunny."
"Hey! A-hole! Only I get to call her dumb!" Came Nicks voice that brought instant relief to Judy's ears.
"Nick!" Judy yelled looking over to her strong savior having viewed him in a more exaggerated manner due to her situation.
Nick was standing at bedroom entrance holding a lamp over his shoulder as if ready to swing it at the pup. "Get off her or else!" Nick warned giving Beast a treating glare to show he meant business.
Beast let out an intimidating snarl at Nick baring all of his teeth. His eyes glowed at brighter purple as he slowly stood up grabbing ahold of Judy by the neck with his flaming paws that now extended up to his arms. "Or else what? Are you going to hit me with a lamp?" Beast laughed holding up Judy to where her legs dangled, and she was gasping for air.
"Pick on someone your own size or are you too afraid?" Nick mocked Beast with the intentions of distracting him off Judy.
Beast laughed and just as Nick thought, he threw Judy aside entering a stance showing off all his claws to Nick. "Afraid? Who said I was afraid? I crave for this!"
"Well, I'm all here for you buddy." Nick shot back waving the lamp.
Beast charged Nick with bared teeth and extended claws, but Nick stood his ground, and the moment Beast was well within swinging range, he swung the lamp against Beast's head with a loud metallic *clang* sending the savage pup flying into the wall next to him.
The lamp had bent on a ccompletely different angle the moment it made contact with Beast's skull and was that point useless, so Nick tossed it aside and rushed over to his beloved to see if she was unharmed. "Judy! Are you alright!?" Nick asked looking her over for any serious injuries she may have endured.
"Y-Yeah," Judy replied with a raspy tone rubbing her neck. "Max..."
Nick grabbed Judy by the shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes. "Judy listen to me, we gotta get out of here before he gets back up." When she seemed reluctant on leaving he lifted her up bridal style much to her surprise and made for the exit of their apartment.
Judy, on the other hand, opposed the idea of running and fought to convince Nick to stay and help the poor little pup she promised to protect, but her requests were quickly shot down by him much to her dismay.
"I knew this would happen, why did I ever let you drag me into this?" Nick questioned as he continued making his way out of the building with Judy still held in his protective grasp.
"Because you love me! And because you're a good guy! I could've helped him y'know." Judy replied crossing her arms.
"Yeah could've, you almost got yourself eaten by a savage-"
"He's not a savage! He's just confused. That's all." Judy interrupted.
"Judy, I'm not willing to bet on it, your life is more important to me. I love you, and I won't let you die in there." Nick replied.
"Yeah? Then if you really do love, then you'd give me a chance to snap him back to reality."
"I'm sorry Judy, but no, I won't let you risk your life in there, we're getting out of here and that's that."
...
Beast groaned rubbing his head having not only received a massive blow to the head with a goddamn lamp but he almost literally flew straight through a wall, but all in all, he was unscathed. He was just covered in a little bit of dust. Although, that little show of heroism from the fox was pathetic, he just got a lucky hit on him, in fact, he just dug his own grave the moment he challenged Beast and would soon know real pain and suffering.
Beast sniffed the air, and a scent led out to the front door of the apartment, so he ran over to the window, he almost shattered with his initial pounce on the bunny and kicked out watching the glass fall to the sidewalk below and sure enough, he saw his targets leaving out the apartment Complex's front door. He smirked and jumped from the floor he was on, which was the 5th floor, and land on the ground below fist first destroying the cement around him and indenting the area where he landed.
"YOU CAN'T RUN FROM ME FOREVER!" Beast roared into the air before going on a full on rage driven dash that would make a cheetah jealous towards the escaping couple. Strangely enough, Beast left behind a continuous stream of purple when ran even when he jumped over obstacles. "I'LL CATCH YOU BOTH SOONER OR LATER!" He laughed evil as if toying with Nick and Judy.
The pedestrian watched with awe and shock as a small cub plowed through and over people and other various objects some even chasing after him with phones drawn to document the whole thing. The streets were also packed with traffic giving Nick an idea of hopefully slowing Beast down if he went running straight through the cars but he was quick to learn that no one can truly run from the Beast.
Beasted laughed at Nick's feeble attempt to slow him down and simply jumped from car to car as he got ever so closer to his fleeing prey with bloody images flashing through his head of himself ripping them apart from both the inside and out.
Nick was at this point desperate for options aiding in helping them escape but of course his options were limited much to his dislike and soon found himself landing dead center of an intersection with cars on all four sides stuck on red lights and the walkways barely navigatable at this point and was forced to come face to face with the monster he'd been running from... Beast.
Beast jumped from one final car before landing a few feat away from Nick, he laughed starring at his cornered prey and found joy in having just foiled any chance of them escaping.
Not like long after the crowd chasing after Beast soon caught up, and we're standing from behind the stoplights video recording the whole scene had never seen such an event such as this unfold ever.
"It appears we've racked up quite an audience here, now the world can see first-paw what awaits it. True power at it's finest." Beast grinned clenching a fist up into the air.
"You don't have to do this-" Nick attempted to plead but was cut short by Beast yelling an early response.
"Yes I do! And you're going first foxy, I'm gonna rip you and your stupid bunny from limb to fucking limb!"
At this point, Judy forced herself out of Nicks protective grasp and stood up to the savage pup even halting Nick in his tracks when he attempted to near her. Her face and tone grew stern; she straightened her posture as she slowly approached Beast.
"Are you giving yourself up to me so quickly? Evolution must've really fucked itself over hasn't it." Beast said watching Judy approaching him.
"Max... Remember when we found you in that alleyway alone and afraid? You told me I'll only see you as a monster?" Judy recalled still approaching Beast.
"W-What are you doing? It isn't going to work-"
"Max, I never saw you as a monster once in my life since I met you, you were a sweet little boy who wouldn't hurt a fly..." Judy continued.
He can't escape no matter how hard you try-"
"I could never understand the pain you went through, but I found it in my heart to risk everything for you including my life, I even lied to the FBI just to make things right and provide you with the love that no one else could give you."
Beast snarled becoming visibly enraged but when he tried to charge Judy he found himself becoming increasingly weaker with the once rich flames emitting from his body growing dim. "No... NO!" Beast howled before using whatever piece of strength he had left to force himself to close whatever distance was left between him and Judy.
Judy stopped dead in her tracks when Beast seized her by her collar and lifted her up into the air with rage driven strength.
"SHUT UP YOU STUPID BITCH! BEFORE I KILL YOU!" Beast roared.
"I never told you this Max but you've become family, and I would never want to lose you, I love you, WE love you Max and not even you being a monster could ever change that... please come back to us." Judy finished noticing how the flames covering Beast were diminished entirely by this point and the only thing left of Beast were his glowing eyes, which slowly faded away to their original color.
"Judy!" Nick yelled when Beast lifted her up.
Breast was truly enraged by Judy at this point and roared into the air before slamming her body onto the ground and went in for a swift, deadly chomp as a final effort in achieving the last laugh but Judy instinctively brought up her arm to block causing Beast to clamp down on her arm with teeth penetrating fur and skin sending blood pouring out of her arm.
Judy let out a loud, painful cry that was soon replaced by whimpers coming from Beast as he quickly released her arm from his maw.
"J-Judy?" The pup said sounding more like a horrified Max. "W-What did I do-" The copper taste and smell of fresh blood invaded Max's senses, he gasped in shock when he saw Judy clenching her blood riddled arm holding back the blood. "Judy I didn't mean to-" Max was suddenly shoved back by Nick, who had come to Judy's aid.
"Stay back you!" Nick yelled Max causing in him to flinch in surprise. He was mortified by Nick's hostility towards him, if we weren't already crying He'd be bawling begging for forgiveness, but something told him he was far from that. He was hated and deserved nothing more than to live out the rest of his days far away from the city. He didn't want to hurt anyone else ever again.
Nick was in the process of helping apply pressure Judy's mauled arm, she seemed alright but was a bit shocked at the moment. "Judy, are you okay?" Nick asked inspecting her blood riddled arm.
"Max..." Judy whispered solftly in a daze.
"What was that?" Nick asked not quite understanding what she said.
"Max!" Judy burst out searching for the pup only to discover he was no longer present; he had seemingly vanished without a trace possibly forever for all she knew, and it worried her deeply more so that her injuries were of little concern to her at the moment. "Where is he, where's Max!?"
"Judy, we need to get you to a hospital, your arm is messed up." Nick said.
"No, not without Max..." Judy replied becoming faint from the loss of blood.
"I'm not concerned about him Carrots, I'm concerned about you and whether or not you don't want to go, I'm taking you." Nick explained picking her once more.
Judy couldn't believe her ears but didn't object to him or him picking her up to take her to get cared for. She had honestly never feared something more tham seeing Max acting the way he did, she was frightened how could a small innocent pup such as him act so vile and so savage? She couldn't quite wrap her head around it at the moment, she just wanted to close her eyes and rest and pretend that all of this was merely a horrible nightmare that would soon come to an end when she awoke.