Things did not get better. Days... weeks went by and the city was not doing well. I kept seeing reports of prey being scared predators. Stores and other public facilities began to become prejudice and ban any service to predators. Then came right activist groups for the predators, some even led by prey! But the efforts were futile... I thought things would get better but predators still are going savage for no reason, and worse, the Night Howlers aren't around to instantly capture them so only the ZPD could get them, only when they were reported. I also noticed a heavy increase in the number of heartless in this world. There's so many now that I can't keep up, even the ZPD are looking in and fighting the heartless. Chirithy says it's because this world has lost most of it's light or more to be more exact, the animals have lost the light from their hearts. I haven't seen much of Nick since the press conference, and even less of Judy after she resigned from the force and went back hom. I myself had to be more cautious of going around the city as the prey were unsure of what I was. Most of the city had evacuated due to the big danger of heartless everywhere. Not too many people stayed... This world has doomed itself.
One morning I got up and Chirithy was at the end of my bed, "Alright kiddo I think it's time we go search for this keyhole somewhere else... The police have things from here" They said. I looked down,
"Chirithy... This isn't right" I said, I looked up at them, "We have to fix this"
"Well unless you can find the cause of why the animals are attacking each other, then it's best to find the keyhole before the heartless do"
"Why's that?"
"Because... if the heartless find the keyhole... it's bye bye world"
"What!" I yelled, "I didn't know that!"
"I didn't tell you that because I wanted you to focus on finding the light... which you did"
"You mean Judy, but she went home"
"I know, and she's doing fine but you've searched all around town and we haven't found anything on the keyhole... it's time to move on..." I just stared at the floor for a couple of seconds,
"I want to try and help these people first" I said. Chirithy sighed,
"I knew you'd say that, well if you were start looking for the cause I'd go ask the one that took over the situation; The new mayor"
I walked into the town hall and went straight to the mayor's office where, Bellwether was waiting for.
"Oh its you!" she said, "You're Judy's friend uh..."
"Trinity" I said.
"Trinity! That's right, ahh... how can I help you?"
"I'd like to get access to any information on the savage mammals Mayor" I asked.
"Oh really? What for?"
"I think that there may be more of why they're going savage and I'd like to look into it"
"Oh I don't think that's a good idea I mean our scientist have already try to determine the cause so many times and not one has brought back a single result"
"But Bellwether I think you-"
"Sorry this is not open for discussion, have a good day" She got up and pushed me out the room. Chirithy was there waiting for me,
"Quite the strange reaction wouldn't you say?" they asked.
"Yeah it was... ah I'm no good at this detective work, we need someone who knows what they're doing"
"Well... there is someone that I think be happy to help fix this"
"You're right, let's go" I said.
I soon had arrived at Bunny Burrow, Judy's hometown. Like Zootopia, this place was infested with heartless. After clearing most of them out I began to head to where Judy lived, or where Chirithy said she lived. I knocked on the door of her house. It was a small house, but it was perfect for bunnies. The door opened up and a rabbit in overalls and a trucker hat greeted me,
"Uh... can I help you?" he asked.
"I'm here to see Judy? Judy Hopps"
"Uh and how do you know her?"
"I was friends with her when she was in Zootopia" he stared at me before calling,
"Judy! You have a visitor" A minute later she came to the door,
"Oh Trinity... it's you! Good to see you" she said.
"Good to see you too"
"So what brings you to our quite little town?" As she said that I could hear just babies crying. I began to tell Judy about Bellwether's reaction on my question.
"Really? She wouldn't let you try? There's something weird about that" she said, "But it's true, no one has been able to determine why predators are going savage. If only it weren't just predators... if prey could go savage then everyone wouldn't be afraid of predators only... But prey can't go savage"
"Actually that's not true Jude" Her dad called from the kitched, "You know very well about the story of your Uncle Terry ate some midnicampum holicithias and bit your mother"
"Oh right... but that's only because he ingested a plant you're not suppose to eat"
"Midni- what? What is that?" I asked. Judy began to walk to a garder,
"Midnicampum holicithias, they're a type of flower that are really only used to keep away insects but can turn anyone crazy if they eat it"
"huh..." Judy stopped,
"Wait, what the-" I looked over to where she was look, it was a Soldier heartless! Taking some of the midnicampum holicithias! "What are they doing!" It began to run away, "Come on!" Judy ran after it. I followed, soon more heartless appeared, trying to help the Soldier,
"Firaga!" I showered the heartless in fire, letting Judy gain speed on the Soldier. The Soldier turned and spun itself at Judy, she quickly caught it and pushed it back. It kept flying towards her and all she could do was move back. Finally she stopped it and gave it a good kick. It dropped the midnicampum holicithias but got up and started to run off. I quickly caught up to it and finished it off. Judy was about to grab the floweres when a car zoomed by, blowing the flowers in the air. A heartless gummi caught it and began to fly off with it.
"No!" Judy yelled. I had no idea what to do, but then when I look down I see Judy running towards me, she jumped and jumped on me and then leapt off, springing high in the air! She caught the gummi and destroyed it. I caught her before she hit the ground. She had the flowers in her hand.
"We did it!" she cheered.
We headed back to her parents house and she told them what happened. I had learned them names of her parents too, her dad Stu, and her mom Bonnie.
"Bah those heartless, nothing but trouble since they arrived at the farm" Stu groaned.
"So far we've haven't had much trouble with them but they do like to steal those holicithias a lot" Bonnie explained, "I wish we knew why" sighed Stu. Suddenly there was a knock on the door,
"Oh that must be Gideon with the pie" Stu headed towards the door.
"Gideon? Gideon's the one that's been delivering pie this whole time?" Judy looked at her mom.
"Oh yea you didn't know? He's been a real good partner since we partnered up with him"
"Wow..." Judy awed.
"Here are the pies Mr. Hopps" Gideon said.
"Why thank you! And here's your share of the sales... let me just put down these holicithias for a second" Stu went over to the table.
"Well well, Gideon Grey" Judy greeted him,
"Oh hey Judy" He said, Gideon had a real country accent, "Say I thought that those things uh..." He was pointing to the flowers.
"Midnicampum holicithias" Judy answered.
"Yeah them uh... I thought those were called night howlers" Judy laughed,
"Ha no Night Howlers are a group of wolves that were- Oh my gosh! Trinity!" Judy grabbed my shirt and pulled herself up to match my height, "Night howlers aren't the wolves! They're the flowers!"
"Wait... then that means" I began to put everything together.
"Yes! That's why the heartless want it! The heartless are trying to make everyone go savage!" That didn't sound right
"Um... I don't think the heartless are that smart, someone is trying to do that though" I corrected her, "But where do we start?"
"What are you two going on about?" Stu said as he closed the door.
"Dad! Keys! Now!" Stu then took out some keys and tossed them to Judy,
"Jude what are you doing?" But before she answered she pulled me outside and into her dads truck. We began to drive off.
"Okay, a couple of weeks ago, the same day you and I met. I had went to go investigate where you were at, along the way I saw a weasel that had robbed a plant store, I ignored him as someone else was already after him but later when he was brought to the station, he was found with those flowers!" Judy explained.
"So you think he may know who is behind all this?" I asked.
"Possibly... it shouldn't be that hard to find him..."
"Unless he left the city" I added.
"Oh crap that's right... How will we know if he's still there?"
"Hm... if only we knew someone that knew the streets" Judy looked at me,
"We do..." she said.
"Who?" She just stared at me the looked back at the road, "Oh..." Nick.
There still remained the question of whether he was still in the city too. Judy did ask some little white fox for his whereabouts and we found him in an alleyway... just drinking a soda.
"Nick..." Judy called. Nick didn't look at us, "Nick look, Trinity and I have found that night howlers are a type of plant! Not wolves!" Nick then actually looked at us,
"Really? Gee that would've been great info four weeks ago" He then went back to sipping his soda.
"Nick come on... I'm sorry for what I've said, for what I've done, I just need your help to fix this! I really believe we can! Don't you want to help this city?" No one moved,
"Why should I?" Nick finally said, "This city's only ever treated me as a shifty fox, I could care less what happens to it, you prey did this to yourself" Judy sighed,
"What do we do Trinity? He's not going to help us" She looked at me. I took a step towards Nick.
"Nick" he looked at me, "Look, I don't know much about this world, or it's history but... I know that predators aren't having it easy and it's the prey's fault obviously, but if you don't help us well... we're still going to save this city! And not only will you miss a chance to redeem yourself, you'll only help show that only prey will do what it takes to make things right... but please, I'd like you to come with us" Nick stared at me with his shades. Then he stood up,
"You really think that this place can be saved?" he asked, "That you can just get a reason why predators are going savage and everything will be perfect for everyone? Well you're wrong! No matter who or what is a hero, prey will only look at predators like they're monsters..."
"It can change," I replied, "You can help them realize that" He sighed and looked down.
"You don't understand... there is no reason for me to help..." Then he smiled at me, "But I took an oath, never let them see that they get to you, let's go"
"Really!" Judy gave a little happy hop. Nick gave us a nod, and just like that, we were off.
Judy began to tell Nick about the recent knowledge collected and the possible lead.
"A criminal weasel huh? Sounds like Duke Weasleton and, yes he's still here" We soon discovered him sleeping in a cardboard box"
"Hey Duke" Nick woke him up.
"Wha-" He sat up, "What do you want Wilde?" he asked sharply.
"I want to know what you were doing with night howlers and why you were stealing them" Judy asked.
"What is it to you fluffy? None of your business and even if it were I'm not saying a word either of ya" He curled up back into his box and began to try and sleep.
"What do we do now?" Judy asked. That's when I remembered something,
"I have a friend that'd be happy to help" I said.
"Ice 'em" ordered Mr. Big. A polar bear began to lower Weasleton into the ice water,
"Hey! Woah woah!" He looked at Mr. Big, "You dirty rat! Why are you helping them? She's a cop!" He pointed to Judy.
"Because their friend here helped me recover some of my grand mama's stuff" Mr. Big smiled at me, "Now ice this weasel"
"No no! I'll talk!" We all looked at him, "Okay, I was stealing night howlers for someone!"
"Who's this, someone?" Judy asked.
"A ram named Doug, got a drop spot underground. Just watch it! Doug is the opposite of friendly... he's unfriendly..."
We let him go and the three of us headed over to the said location. It was in an abandoned subway station. Sure enough, we found the subway with a whole farm of night howlers. Inside was a ram in a hazmat suit, he was creating some kind of blue mixture. The three of us snuck in and hid under some tables. After a minute of observation, Doug opened up a briefcase, inside was a gun! Doug loaded it with some sort of blue ball. I looked up and saw pictures of animals faces, some were X out. One was Emmit Otterton, another one, Manchas. Then it hit me, this guy was the one turning animals savage! He shot them with the night howlers and turned them savage!
"Psst..." Judy signaled for me to do something quick. I got out from under the table and gave the ram a good whack, he fell down, unconscious. Judy and Nick got out and Judy headed for the driver room of the train.
"Uh carrots, what are you doing?" Nick asked.
"Trying to... start..."
"Okay well i seriously doubt that's going to wor-" Suddenly the train began to move, "Oh... what do ya know"
The train began to move, Judy had planned on showing all this to Bellwether. Everything was running smoothly, until suddenly a banging noise started to come from the top. I got a overwhelming sense of darkness. I readied myself, that's when an Invisible came through the top hatch of the ceiling. Nick also saw it,
"Ah! What is that!" Judy looked back and too saw it,
"Don't mind what it is, just help Trinity take care of it" she told him. Nick slowly walked behind me,
"You can take him right?" He asked. I jumped and parried with the Invisible, they always carried giant swords, and backed it into the wall. I quickly gave a heavy blow to it and it broke through the back door. More heartless were following the train. A violet had casted fira and shot a fireball at Nick. He jumped as it burned his foot,
"Hot hot!" he cried. I cast Firaga back at the group of violets. I could see that the Invisible was coming back. Then without an hint it dashed forward and swung at me. I would've been dead but something stopped it, Nick had grabbed the Invisble's arm with his tail. He through it back and I lunged at the invisible, giving it a spark dash, finishing it off.
The train had just now left the tunnels and we were in open sky. I jumped up on top of the train. Nick joined me, some Air Soldiers had came in and attacked. Nick and I took care of them without any problems.
"AHH!"
"Judy!" Nick gasped. We went back inside, Doug had gotten back up and was attacking Judy. Nick quickly grabbed him, "Get off of her!" but Doug shoved him back, he fell against the wall. I quickly charged and swung so hard he flew out the front window. Suddenly the train make a sharp turn, it began to tilt!
"Brakes!" Nick ordered. Judy tried to grab the brake but it broke off...
"We have to get out, now!" Judy said. We all three jumped out of the window and landed inside a building that the train had entered. It rammed straight into a wall and blasted into a fire. The three of us sat there, staring at it.
"It's all gone" Judy said, "All the evidence"
"Well... not all" Nick held out a briefcase.
"Oh Nick! You clever fox!" She punched his arm and took off with the briefcase, "We got to show this to Mayor Bellwether!"
We had ran and were almost at the exit when a familiar voice stopped us, "Judy!" We all turned.
"Bellwether!" Judy quickly ran to her. Mayor Bellwether was accompanied by two rams, "Bellwether you are not going to believe what we have found! And it's all in this briefcase!" Judy explained.
"Yes! You did very good Judy, now just hand me the briefcase" Bellwether held out her hand. Judy paused for a second,
"Wait a minute... how did you know where to find us?" She asked.
"Oh you know... just that I'm the mayor..." Bellwether tried saying. But the three of us ran towards the door. But the door was guarded by a couple more rams. The three of us turn and ran into a different part of the museum. Nick and Judy kept going but I stopped and turned around. Two rams saw me and charged. They tackled me but I held on and pushed them back. I then dashed forwards and gave them both a jab. Then finished them with a spin. They fell back in pain. Bellwether and two more rams came,
"Ugh you..." snorted Bellwether, "I told you, you should've just stayed out of things that don't concern you!" She snapped her fingers and the two other rams charged. The same result happened. She looked at me, "You think you're all that smart, trying to out muscle me and give your friends and escape route but guess what! I know who you are! And I had a back up plan..." Before I could do anything, she shot me... with a tranquilizer. I fell to the floor and was slowly blacking out. Bellwether walked over to me and bent down to look me in the face, "Oh weren't expecting that? Were ya? Haha and I still have more men to go after those two, you, lost" I fought back the urge to let the darkness consume me. A ram had picked me up and carried me over to a hole in the museum, it was a hole with fake plants and animals. The ram dropped me into it. Then before I knew it, Nick and Judy were next to me in the hole
"Trinity!"Judy put my head on her lap, "Are you okay?"
I didn't answer, instead I raised my keyblade and casted,
"Esunaaaa" (Esuna) and suddenly I was back to a healthy state. I stood up, "Now I am" I said. Bellwether started laughing, "Well it's too bad you didn't cast that while you were free, and I have this!" She held up the Night Howler Gun and aimed it at me.
"Why are you doing this?" Judy asked.
"Why?" Bellwether laughed, "Because I am tired of predators treating prey like they are the lesser being! You of all should know what it's like to be underestimated or unappreciated! Aren't you sick of it? Sure predators may be bigger and stronger but we prey out number them ten times! So while they can try and be scary, we can out rule them and rid the world of them! I've been turning the predators savage so that we would finally realize what threat they actually still are! Join me Judy! We can create a world without fear, without predators to always out show us! Or... would you prefer to be slain by your gold wielding friend?" Quickly I lunged at her, but she was prepared and shot me with the night howler. I stopped and held my stomach, expecting to feel something but... I only smelled... blue berries? I got up, and looked at Bellwether. She then realized something was wrong and check the gun. It wasn't loaded with night howlers... it had blue berries!" I took a step froward but her and the rams all stepped back in fear, "Well you can' hurt me! I'm the mayor! No one will believe what you have to say! You have no evidence!"
"That's where you're wrong!" Judy then took out her carrot pen and played a audio clip, "I've been turning the predators savage so that we would finally realize what threat they actually still are!" All I could see in Bellwether's eyes were fear. She began to try and run but soon we both realized we were surrounded by the ZPD! We had won.