Collaborative Piece with Dax0042 and Shepherdboy17

Previously on Lessons In Love...

Max Fray looked at Axis with a frown as he pulled out a classic Colt Revolver, all while the terrorist leader just stood there waiting for the elder fox to make his move to. The air was cold and every part of their bodies ached from it but neither cared, for the time had come for this war between predators and prey to end. The only question was who was going to be the victor?

"Axis, I have waited a long time for this moment," Max said as he took aim at Axis, but still, he had one thing to ask. "Any last words?"

Axis nodded. "You wouldn't pull that trigger if you knew who I was."

"What the hell do you mean by that?" the elder fox asked.

Axis then removed the mask covering their face and looked sadly at Max with gentle eyes that he knew all to well.

"Kayla?" he gasped.

There she was, his own daughter. The very woman who had been his grandson's first, the one who had brought them back together as a family and who given birth to Nick's first two children.

"Why?" Max asked. "Why are you leading the Lords of Prey?"

Kayla felt tears forming. "Because Nana Noodleman and Suki Lane and I wanted revenge." she said holding back her tears.

"Revenge?" Max began to ask.

"Against the Lords of Prey who killed my beloved!" Nana shouted coming out of the shadows holding a phone in her hand. Then another voice rang out from the phone.

"Against Alex O'Connor who killed my beloved Amelia for another Kayla seeks vengeance against," Suki said with anger in her voice.

Max then looked at his daughter, knowing that she would reveal the name of the third.

Kayla was now letting her tears run free. "I believe Jimmy Crystal was behind Amelia and Martin's death. He called in a favor to the Albino who killed my husband and left me to raise my baby all by myself."

"Now I see it," Max said stepping towards his daughter who had removed her Axis outfit. "Axis ruined Nana's life, while Jimmy had both his wife and Martin murdered. But that doesn't explain why you took on Axis' identity."

Nana smiled as she snapped her fingers and Hobbs arrived dragging a dead prey behind him. The old sheep started her story. "Axis killed my beloved and raped me, it took me ten years to track him down, but I did and killed him."

Suki spoke up once again to continue the tale. "Nana then started using the Lords of Prey to go to places where they would surely be dealt with, such as Zootopia. After awhile, she found out about Kayla and I seeking vengeance for our loved ones."

Hobbs was now putting the dead prey into the discarded outfit.

Kayla then redressed herself in a simple blouse and dress. "The three of us spent years gathering evidence to find out who was responsible for Martin and Amelia's death, now, we may have what we are looking for to bring them down."

Max looked sadly at his daughter. "Your quest for revenge has brought nothing but death to Zootopia and Jasper. Hundreds have lost their homes, their lives and their faith because you three couldn't let go of your anger."

Kayla suddenly felt cold as if her father's words were cutting through her very soul. "You could have cost Nick is son and all you could think about was getting back at the one who wronged you," Max said with malice in his voice. "The day when you killed the albino leader was where your vengeance should have ended."

"And let Jimmy Crystal get away with putting the hit out on my husband?! NEVER! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT LOSS IS UNTIL YOUR TRUE LOVE IS TAKEN FROM YOU!" Kayla screamed at her father.

"I will not stop until-"

BANG!

Jimmy Crystal couldn't believe it.

Despite all he had done, despite all the success, despite all the power and wealth he possessed, he was sitting in a jailcell in the middle of the Redshore City Police Department, charged with the assault and attempted murder…of Buster Moon. Not only that but being alone in that desolate cell meant that Jimmy could be alone with his thoughts. And right now, all that occupied his thoughts was the memory of the resounding laughter of the crowd as Moon and his troupe had left him alone on stage.

Well, save for a group of Redshore's finest…

And a scorned Saluki.

"Officers, arrest that wolf!"

Jimmy remembered the moment he looked towards the side of stage, his formerly faithful assistant backed by several police officers, all of the glowering at him as the cops made their way towards Jimmy, reading him his rights and slapping the cuffs on him.

And within the hour, Jimmy was sitting in his cell, head bowed, arms crossed, and eyes wide in shock. But that was the first half-hour. As time passed, Jimmy's brows began to furrow with indignation, his hackles rising in anger as he began to process what had happened. And being the egotistical narcissist he was, Jimmy did what he always did in this situation…

Blame everyone but himself.

"Traitors…the lot of them," Jimmy growled after a long period of silence, his memory flashing with the faces of everyone involved in the show that ultimately caused his downfall. And when his memory fell on a certain koala, well, Jimmy could care less about the bloody knuckles he gave himself as he delivered a powerful blow to the cement wall behind him as he bellowed…

"DAMN YOU, MOON!"

"Well, well, well, I'm glad to see those anger management issues have paid off."

At that moment, Jimmy looked from the now cracked wall to the door of his cell, the heavy slab of steel opened to reveal the rather peculiar sight of a water deer, a doe to be precise, dressed in a tight, form fitting scarlet-red pantsuit, a gold blouse underneath her jacket seeming to strain under pressure of a pair of busty breasts that seemed to bounce as the doe's high-heel clad feet carried her across the room to Jimmy, the enraged wolf growing even more angry as this strange doe just looked at him, a teasing smile tracing her lips as she took a seat on the open bunk across from him.

"Who the hell are you?" Jimmy growled, placing his hands on his knees as he leaned forward, his eyes narrowed and teeth bared at the doe, who to his surprise, greeted the action with a bored frown and quirked eyebrows. But, again to his rage, Jimmy saw the frown return to a playful smirk, which as Jimmy observed was beautifully outlined by the jade prosthetic left tusk where a real one should be.

"Easy, pup," she sweetly cooed in a condescendingly sweet voice, reaching out to grip Jimmy's wrist, the wolf immediately pulling it back, his face scrunching in disgust. Though the deer wasn't too fazed as she simply let out a soft chuckle.

"My name is Jade Tusk, and I was sent to represent you in court."

"Well," Jimmy said, his tone suddenly changing from hostile to somewhat jubilant, his teeth now present in a winning grin instead of a rapid snarl, "that is certainly good news. I can't wait to get out of this hell hole…So, uh, how you gonna do it?" Jimmy added in, a sort of sadistic grin a his face as he began to formulate his own plan of revenge.

"Don't worry yourself, Jimmy," Jade Tusk said as she leaned forward, the doe closing the small gap within the confined space as she placed a hand on Jimmy's knee, the wolf licking his his lips hungrily as his soon-to-be lawyer seemed to deliberately push her chest out, making her large breasts appear even bigger.

"I'll take care of that…I can make a pretty good case for you Jimmy, but it'll take time."

Jimmy's equally lustful smile quickly feel at the word "time."

"How much time?" Jimmy inquired, his tone a mixture of curiosity and irritation. Jade Tusk merely grinned.

"Let's just say," Jade Tusk continued, leaning back as she spoke, "I wouldn't have gotten you house arrest if I thought you'd wouldn't be in this 'lovely establishment' for a prolonged period of time…I guess we'll find out if it's true if 'good things come to those who wait.'"

Jimmy quirked and eyebrow and sly grin at this.

"You secured me house arrest?"

"I did."

Despite the fact that he knew that he would be sleeping in his own bed instead of a bedbug ridden mattress, the thought actually bringing him some comfort, Jimmy, ever the businessman he was, had a sudden thought cross his mind as he stared at the doe skeptically.

"What's the catch?" Jimmy said as he looked at Jade Tusk, who had since risen from the bunk she sat on, her retreating form as it walked towards the door, which was held open by a wolf sergeant, who received a rather overt, tongue-filled kiss. But, before she even stepped out, Jade Tusk glanced over her shoulder, sending Jimmy a smirk. Though the emotion behind it was somewhat aloof.

Teasing, genuine…forewarning?

As it turns out, it was a mixture of all three, given what she said.

"Let's just say that I, under my employers request, can get you out of spending time in prison…"

A pause.

"Though you'll need to do something for him in return."