"We need to get out of here!" Someone on the crowd said, and many of them agreed. "We need to get out of here before what the bunny said would happen happens!"

"How do we get out?" Someone else asked.

"We take the route that the cops used to come in! We just go up and reach the roof! We will be outside before this place comes down!"

"What about the other hostages?" Harry Hopps said, as he looked at the bigger mammals around himself. "What will happen to them?"

"Who cares!? As long as we can get out of here it doesn't matter!"

"How can you say that!?"

"You are heartless!"

"I'm looking after myself, okay!?" The donkey said, looking around. "Any of you would do the same in my position!"

"I doubt it." Harry said in a whisper. However, it seemed that his brother, Jason, did not exactly disagreed with the donkey. Meanwhile, the rest of the group was still talking among themselves, many of them asking, demanding, actually, to be let out of the place before it collapsed and they got lost in the "dimension of imaginary numbers" or whatever it was.

"WILL ALL OF YOU BE QUIET!?" Bogo's loud bellow was able to silence everyone, as they all looked at the buffalo, who had removed his helmet and was now looking at all of them with an angry expression, while his other hoof held on the phone of the security room.

"What was that?" Someone on the phone said, "Chief, are you there? Chief?"

"Yes, Higgins, I'm here." The buffalo said, as he took the phone back to his ear and continued to talk. He was using it to speak with the outside since it seemed that this communication was not jammed, unlike their radios and all of the cellphone calls to the outside.

"So, basically they are trying to make all that is inside of the building to disappear from the face of the Earth, including you guys?" The hippo said, repassing what Bogo had just told him.

"That is correct, according to Mieczyslaw."

"And they can do it at any moment?"

"According to the ones present, doing what they are doing is a process that involves a ritual." Bogo said, "They are probably using magic circles around the floors to cause interference with what sustain this place. They will be able to activate them from a distance when they want and make all of it disappear. So, any sign that they are trying to get out of the place through the entrances?"

"Negative. There is no sign that they are trying to get out through any of the blocked exits, we have all of them under watch and they seem as blocked as they were before." The hippo said, "Maybe they know another way out? Well, I know that they will not want to do that if they are still inside, right?"

"Mieczyslaw is not so sure they would hesitate." Bogo said, as he looked at the black fox, who stood next to him. "It wouldn't be surprising that they are crazy enough to actually pull something like that with themselves still in here. If anything, they might actually use it as a last resort if we get them cornered."

"Well, in that case, you guys should probably try to get out through the helicopters." Higgins said, to which Bogo quickly responded:

"There are still dozens of hostages around the mall. Not to mention that since they caught up that we are here they have been changing their plan." The buffalo said, "It is possible that they have sent someone to the upper floors as a trap."

"Then what will you do?"

"We will try to do our best." Bogo said to him. "First of all, we need to have some information on what they are doing in the lower and upper floors, as well as in the rest of this floor."

"How will you do that? Didn't you said that Bellwether lost the visual on the cameras?"

"Yes, but luckily we still have Officer Fanghanel's wife." Bogo said, looking over his shoulder at the female thylacine, who was still with her husband among the rest of the mammals of the room. "She is using a couple of invisible ghosts to survey the place and help us understand what is going on."

There was a silence after these words.

"…Okay?"

"Well figure out what to do." Bogo said, talking to the rhino on the other end. "Meanwhile, I want you to work on some way to clear the entrances. Is Jackalson still doing what Mieczyslaw told him to do?"

"Yeah, he is still on the east side of the building working on the lateral entrance with the amulet that they gave him." The hippo said on the other end of the line. "I'm not sure how he knows it works, but he says that it does."

Bogo nodded, but he took the phone of his ear and looked at the enforcer that was by his side.

"You sure that thing you gave Jackalson will actually help?"

"Absolutely." The fox said to him.

Before they went inside, Marceli gave a runic amulet to Jackalson, and gave him instructions on how to use it. Apparently, the thing that they gave him was something that "bent and unraveled lines of magical energy", like the ones that formed the "bounded fields" as they called it. The jackal had started working on them right before they went inside, as it was confirmed by radio, and it would allow him to undo the magic protection around the doors and other entrances.

However, it would take a long time to actually unravel just a single bounded field, so they devised a plan to this.

They would clean the building from top to bottom; meanwhile, Jackalson would use the thing to remove the magical protection so the ones on the outside would be able to physically unblock the door and start doing their thing down there.

"And you are sure that the guys out there won't realize that the door is being unblocked?"

"The amulet will unravel the bounded field without breaking the physical space that it delimits." The fox confirmed to the buffalo. "They won't receive any warning and the bounded field will produce no effect while it is dismantled. It will be fine."

Bogo nodded. He was still a bit unsure of what to think about the plan that the fox devised, but it did seemed a good option. However, considering the change in situation, it could be up to debate if it was still the case...

"How long until you have the door unblocked and can come inside with reinforcements?" Bogo asked on the phone to Higgins, to which the hippo on the other end of the phone answered:

"Jackalson says that he will still take around forty minutes to finish what he is doing, and after that we will still have to unblock the door. I say that it will take around one hour for us to get it open so we can go inside the mall."

"One hour..." Bogo said, "Maybe we don't have all that time." He was speaking it more to himself, but some of the mammals who were near could hear him.

"Sorry, Chief. This is the best we can do for now." The hippo said, apologetically. Bogo sighed, and he said:

"It's okay. As soon as you can you need to have everything ready for when you go inside. There will surely be hostiles, so you need to be ready." He said to him. "The hostiles are a mix of mammals under mind control and golems, so you gotta be ready for all of them. Not to mention that it is confirmed that there is at least two mages leading the hostiles, so you gotta be ready. These mages are very dangerous, so do not try to engage with them if you meet them while going in, got it?"

"What? Chi...? did you just said enga...?"

Higgins sounded as if he was trying to say something, but his voice was coming broken and starting to get seriously distorted.

"Higgins?" Bogo said, "Higgins? Do you hear me?"

"Chi... canno... the ca… can't hear..."

That was all that Bogo was able to hear before the phone that he had to his ear went completely mute. Not a single sound. Not Higgins voice, not even the sound of static.

"Higgins? Higgins!" Bogo said, and this caused many of the mammals to look at the ZPD's Chief, as the Cape buffalo grunted.

"Great! The phone just died!"

"For real?" Emilia asked. "Maybe it just lost signal, doesn't this happens sometimes with phones?"

"Not with this one." The boar of the security said, "They told us that the phones of the security were guarantee never to fail, and that they would always be working, even in the case of a massive blackout."

"It is them." Lapinsky said, granting some of the eyes in the room to turn to the bunny in suit. "More precisely, it is Evan Canis. He is interfering with the phones."

"He can do that?" McChill asked, and Lapinsky looked at him.

"Evan Canis is considered a prodigy in Enlightened Electronics. The cameras and the phones have their own special encrypted safe systems, but someone who is skilled enough will be able to decrypt them and to hack into the system. Someone like Mr. Canis."

"Great, now not only we are without video, but we also have lost our only source of communication with the outside." Bogo said, "Great. This is just brilliant."

"What do we do now?" Someone on the group asked, and someone answered:

"We get the Hell out of here, of course!"

"What about the other hostages?"

"They are as good as dead!"

"How can you be so insensitive?"

"I'm just saying the truth! We don't know what they could have done with these guys, the phone is dead, and if we don't leave right now, we will be dead as well!"

"Will all of you just shut up!?" The loud voice of Bogo once more silenced everyone. They all looked at the buffalo.

"Will all of you please be quiet so we will be able to come up with some idea?" This seemed to be enough to cause those around him to be quiet, and some of them, like the enforcers and the rest of the rescue group, looked like they were actually thinking and trying to come up with ideas.

However, their thoughts were interrupted when someone let out a surprised exclamation. Eyes turned to see ghosts phasing through the doors, through the floor and through the ceiling, shifting in and out of the visible spectrum.

It were Chloe's specters, they had just came back of the reconnaissance mission that the thylacine had give to them.

Chloe soon was rushing to her specters, and once she was in front of them, she asked them what they had saw.

As an answer, the specters floated near her, and whispered in her ears.

The whispers were rather loud, and it was possible for those who were near to hear them. However, they were not really able to truly pick up anything from them, once it seemed that the whispers were meant only for Chloe.

"I'm still creeped out by these ghosts." Someone on the group of mammals said.

"I'm creeped out about pretty much everything right now." Someone replied, and they just looked as the thylacine got information from the specters that whispered to her.

After a while, all of the specters had already whispered to her.

She nodded, and she turned to the group.

"They have left this floor and the two floors beneath." The thylacine said to them. "But there are still small groups of golems and controlled mammals patrolling the hallways of the floors, and they even put some groups patrolling the two floors above. There are even some of them on the connections between this floor and the floors above. They are armed and ready to fight."

"In other words, they gave set traps for us in the upper floors; going back through the roof is not a good option." Bogo said, reflecting on what the thylacine had just said.

"What about the groups of hostages?" McChill asked, to which the thylacine soon answered:

"No groups of hostages in the floors below, they must have moved them into another floor." She said, "But there are still a few groups patrolling the lower floors, and they look like they are trouble. They also saw a group of mammals that don't look like they are controlled neither hostages sneaking around the floor."

"Fangmeyer, Wolfard and the other guys!" Eliot confirmed, "They haven't be caught, thank my ancestors!"

Some could agree with this, however, they had a lot of things to worry about at the moment.

"Okay, so what do we do now?" Nick asked them. Causing everyone to look at him. "We cannot go back if they reinforced the security on the upper floors."

"Not to mention that they still have the hostages in their power." Marceli said, and some agreed with them.

"Help will take around one hour to arrive." Bogo said to them, and Lapinsky said:

"Time that the hostages maybe don't have."

Everyone was saying what came to their minds, as they tried to come up with a plan to be able to formulate what could be their next course of action.

"We could continue to use these guys to patrol the building." McChill said, pointing at the specters. "I mean, it worked till now."

"Yes, but it would take a very long time." Chloe said to him, "They cannot move that fast, and they can only relay information at a limited rate. It would take hours for them to survey the entire building."

"Can't you see through their eyes while they patrol the place?" Emilia said, "I mean, you can do that with familiars sometimes."

Chloe shook her head.

"I never learned how to do that. Besides, I don't think it would make us a lot of good." The female thylacine explained, "They would still have to physically search the building, and that would cost us a lot of time."

"So, it is a no go." Benjamin said, and everyone thought of what to do now.

"Besides, there is still the fact that they have that ritual ready." Marceli said, looking around. "Even if we managed to know their location inside of the mall, they would still be able to activate that ritual and cause all of us to disappear on the dimension of imaginary numbers."

"Any way we could stop them?" Judy asked, "I mean, there must be a way."

"The only way would be to destroy the magic circles." The black fox explained, "This would mean that we would have to look all around the mall until we found the circles one of the circles and destroyed enough of them to prevent the ritual from completing. You can imagine how long it would take to look on every corner of the mall."

A silence followed this, as everyone took in what they just heard and considered all of it.

"If at least we had a way of looking at the entire mall at once..." Eliot said, and the others agreed with him, but they all knew that it was not possible...

That was when someone in the room said:

"We can."

Everyone looked at the source of the voice, while Zillah Ferron stood where she was.

She had gone to near Vicky and Cameron, and talked with them very briefly. As soon as the discussion on decisions had started, she took off her glasses and just stood there, looking at everyone, but not really focusing on any of them. Vicky and Cameron both thought that this behavior was strange, and were about to ask what she was doing, when she suddenly made that affirmation.

Yes, because the way she talked really was an affirmation.

She was looking ahead as she said that, and placed her glasses back on her face.

"There is a way we can know their location on the building and the location of all of the magic circles of their ritual all at once." Zillah said, and this caused everyone to look at her. They were all expecting to hear the conclusion of her reasoning.

"He can do it." She said finally, pointing at Marceli, and this caused everyone to look at him.

"Huh?"

"Say what?"

"What does she mean?"

Marceli looked back at the ferret, with a raised eyebrow, and she merely looked back at him.

"You can use the rune tattooed on your other paw to be able to read objects and even mammals, right?" She said, and the fox flexed his paw as she spoke that.

"By using it, you can learn the secrets of mammals and objects by looking into their immediate past, right?"

"How do you know that?" The fox asked her, looking at her with mistrust all of sudden. However, his attention was broke out of her by the voices of the mammals around him.

"Wait, is it true?" Judy asked, causing the fox to look at her. "You can really do that?"

Marceli looked at her, and he then looked at his right paw, and looked at the rune that he had tattooed on it.

"You mean, you can both explode things and see the past with that paw?" McChill asked, and the fox looked at him.

"No." He said drily, and showed him his left paw. "THIS is the Hagalaz rune, which allows me to cause objects to explode." He then showed his right paw, which had another symbol tattooed on it. "This is the Mammaz rune, which represents mammals and the conscious mind."

Everyone looked at him as he explained that.

"By combining the Mammaz rune with my Origin, I'm able to access the memories stored in objects. This way I can see the past of an object. Combining it with other runes, I can go even further, as I can see what is happening in real time. This way, by touching a wall, or the floor, I can see what is happening on another floor of a building or into another room of a house. It is a process actually very similar to psychometry."

Everyone took in what the fox said, some of them were amazed.

Others...

"Are you saying that you could have used it to know what was happening in the building at any time you wanted?" McChill asked him, and he sounded a bit angry. "And you let us walk around like idiots, not knowing what we would face?"

"It has a limited usage." The fox said, "Doing this, like doing any other form of mystery, consumes magical energy. Seeing what is happening on another floor of a building or in another room would be simple, for it would be at a relatively short distance from the point I'm touching, and still, doing so consumes a great amount of magical energy. If I try to see something at a further distance, the prana consumption will increase exponentially."

He then turned to Zillah Ferron.

"That is why I cannot do what you just suggested, Ms. Ferron."

"Yes, you can!" She said incisively, surprising the fox and everyone around her. "You can use your magecraft to scan the entire building at once!"

"It is twelve floors!" The fox said to her. "And each floor has the area of ten blocks! This is much more than I would ever be capable of! If I try to read the entire mall at once, I could seriously damage my magic circuits due to the stress! That if I even survived!"

"You can do it." Zillah said to him. "I know you can."

"No, I can't." The fox insisted, looking the ferret dead in the eye. "I don't have enough magical energy."

They looked at each other for a few moments, and the ferret reached for something in her pocket, and pulled out something.

"You can use this." She said as she showed to him what it was.

It was a small pyramid-shaped crystal with an intense red coloration.

Marceli looked at it with interest, along with the rest of the mammals in that room.

Wait a minute... thought Judy, Nick and Bogo, as the crystal suddenly sparked something in their memory.

Marceli took the crystal from the ferret's paws, and examined it. After a while, his expression become serious, and he looked back at Zillah.

"Where did you got this?" He asked, and the ferret only looked back at him.

"You will be able to do it if you use this crystal." The ferret said to him. "It has enough magical energy stored in it to make it possible. I know it does."

For a long moment, they both looked at each other, and Marceli looked as if he was trying to see through that ferret.

After a while, the fox looked back at the crystal, as if he was evaluating what the ferret just said.

"Maybe..." The fox finally said, and he looked back at her. "It could actually work."

This was all that was needed (along with a little of talk) to convince the fox to try it.

Soon, Marceli Mieczyslaw was standing in the room, with the animals of the room all around him, looking as he got himself ready.

He was closing his eyes and taking deep breaths, as if he was getting mentally ready for what he was about to do.

He had removed his hood and, as he got himself ready, the others could see the magic circuits lightning up on his arms and on his head, as he charged them up with enough energy to make them glow. The same was happening to the rune inscribed on his right paw, and to the crystal that he was holding on his left one.

He looked at the circle that he had draw with the chalk that he borrowed from Dawn, looking like a circle with a triangle inside of it, with three runes, each one written in one end of the triangle.

Taking a deep breath, he placed his right paw right inside of the triangle, and he chanted:

"Ihwaz. Kenaz. Perthro. Mammaz. Mieczislaw." He said, as the circle also started to glow. The fox them opened his eyes.

"Let me see!" He said, and immediately, his body reacted as the circle worked. The crystal pyramid in his left paw glowed so bright that it was almost possible to see the glow through his paw!

The fox clenched his teeth as his magecraft worked, and allowed him to see.

It was as if his consciousness was expanding to encompass a wide area while his physical body remained right where he was. He could see every corner of the mall. He could hear every whisper that was said. He could feel and touch every stone and every object that was in there. He was everywhere and nowhere.

His body was in a single place, but his mind, his consciousness, his being, was spreading all over the mall at once.

This was an overwhelming experience, and it took its toll on him.

His claws and unconsciously unsheathed, and they were penetrating on his skin. He was clutching the crystal so hard that it was a miracle that it didn't shattered. His jaw was clenching so hard that there was a real danger of him causing a crack in some of his own teeth.

Everyone looked as he continued at this, some of them unsure of what was going to happen. Some got really worried when they saw just how tense the fox was becoming at that very moment.

However, Marceli pressed on, and he continued to see, to hear, to know.

After nearly thirty seconds, he gasped as he removed his paw from the circle, stumbling back as he tried to keep his balance. He was taking gasping breaths, and who looked at his face would see that there was blood coming from his eyes like tears.

"Mieczyslaw!"

"Uncle Marcel!"

They rushed to his side, soon they were holding the fox by the arms, as if they were trying to prevent him from falling.

However, Marceli showed that he didn't had trouble to stay up, as he soon was saying that he was okay. He wiped away the blood that leaked from his eyes, and looked around. His vision landed at Zillah Ferron.

The ferret and tod locked eyes for a moment, before they traded a single nod.

Soon, Marceli was completely recovered, and he was explaining to the others:

"They have taken all of the hostages to the bottom floor." He said, as he pointed at the holographic tridimensional blueprint that Lapinsky was now projecting. "They have gathered all of them on the central square, with half of all the remaining golems and controlled mammals around them. The mages responsible for this are there as well."

"You mean the horse and the tiger?" McChill asked.

"Along with a dog who I assume is Evan Canis, a wolf that seems to be the responsible for controlling the mammals, and also a coyote, but he seems like he doesn't really want to be here, from what I could see."

"All of them are Vipers..." Lana said, but she was seemingly ignored, as the rest of the mammals in there paid attention to the fox.

"The other half of the golems is patrolling the floors, but only the upper ones. I think they are most to hold us back so they will have more time to prepare." Marceli said, "Also, I located the magic circles that they are using."

"Well, that's good, right?"

"They are located on here on the ninth floor. On the fifth floor near the bookstore. On the third floor, near a food stand. On the seventh floor under a trashcan in front of a fashion store. And on the second floor, right in front of an elevator." As he explained, the fox pointed at specific points of the holographic blueprints, which Lapinsky was sure to mark digitally, so they could be easily track.

"So, we have to go in there and destroy all of them?" Judy asked, to which Marceli answered:

"Not all. Only three of them." He said, looking around as he explained everything to them. "Destroying three of the magic circles will be enough to interrupt the energy influx and ruin their ritual. It will completely eliminate the changes of them going forward and cutting our connection with the physical world."

"So they will not be able to send everything into oblivion." Nick concluded, and Marceli nodded.

"What about the ones who were not captured?" Ben inquired. "The small groups that managed to avoid being catch?"

"I'm not sure about them." The fox admitted, to which everyone looked at him.

"You found out where all of the circles are, but you are not sure about the poor civilians and cops that are still roaming around praying not to be captured?" McChill inquired, and his gaze to the fox was as hostile as ever.

"I just received a giant influx of information as I read the immediate past of an area superior to a hundred blocks." The tod said, looking at him, "I count myself lucky that I didn't fainted. Excuse me if I can only process part of the information that I received. However, I know that all of the five groups are still roaming on the mall, suggesting that they truly have not been captured yet."

"Wait, five?" Someone on the group asked. "When we checked on the cameras they were four."

"Well, there are five groups." The fox said to him, "Unless the amount of information I received made me confuse."

He would not say it aloud, but he was suspicious that the amount of information truly did made him confused.

One of these groups that he had just spoke about... he could've sworn that the Mage Chasers were among them...

"So, it seems that we have a pretty good idea of what awaits for us on the mall." McChill said, "What now?"

"Now we fight our way out, of course." Emilia said, and everyone looked at her. "What, that is what we are going to do, right?"

"She has a point." Bogo said, causing everyone to look at him, as he continued:

"They have put watch on the upper floors, and they now are patrolling all of the floors between us and the exits." The buffalo continued, looking around, as all of the other mammals had their eyes on him. "Right now it is our best option to fight to get out."

Everyone traded looks, as they knew that the buffalo was right.

"So, we go up and fight all of the golems on the upper floor so we can get to the helicopters, or we go down and destroy these circles so they can't make us all vanish?" Nick asked, and some had diverging opinions on this.

Some of them wanted to cut way through the two floors and reach the roof, so later they could go down and get all of the mammals that were still hostages. Others thought it could be better to do down clearing the floors and destroying the circles in the process, so maybe they would be able to reach the bottom floor in time for them to have unblocked that passage so they would be able to get out through it while the reinforcements arrived.

After a few minutes of discussion, it was decided that they would be going down.

They eventually decided that destroying the circles and taking away the biggest threat that these mages had was probably the most urgent matter, for it meant taking away the biggest threat to themselves and all of the hostages at once.

"So that is decided." Bogo said, "Some of us will stay here keeping what over the place, while others will go down and clear the floors and destroy these circles."

"Leave it to me." Emilia said, "I'm really good at destroying things." She cracked her knuckles as she said that, and Marceli only sighed.

"This is an occasion in which I have to agree." The black tod said, "My niece is really good at causing havoc and destruction."

The vixen puffed her chest at this, as if it was truly someone that she had to right to feel proud about. Some of the mammals on the room traded looks among themselves.

"We will be going as well." Judy said, "We might not be very useful for fighting the golems, but we will be able to dart the controlled mammals."

"Absolutely not!" Said Stu, surprising those who were near. Including Judy.

"No way you are going out there with all of these things outside!" Stu said, going to his daughter.

"Dad..."

"Jude, I'm sorry, but this..." The bunny said, "This is too much!"

"I agree with your father." Bonnie said, stepping forward. "Judy, this is much too dangerous for you. You should leave the mages to take care of this."

"I'm a cop!" Judy said suddenly. "It is my job to help however I can."

"Not in cases like this!" Bonnie said, "This is way above what a cop would normally do! Why do you even want to do something like that!?"

"To get all of you out of here safely!"

This last outburst was followed by a silence, as mother and daughter looked at each other's eyes. Then a meek voice broke it.

"Grandma..."

They turned around to look at Cotton. She still had the blindfold over her eyes, but it was possible to see that she was crying.

"I wanna go home..."

That was heart wrecking.

Anyone in that room could agree.

Bonnie looked at her granddaughter for a few moments, before her gaze turned back to her daughter. She saw that same determined look that she had many times saw in her eyes. The look of someone who truly didn't know when to quit.

She knew instantly that she would not be able to change Judy's mind. Now more than ever.

Sighing, she looked at her daughter.

"Take the zombies with you."

The was that she said that caught Judy off guard. The bunny blinked as she looked at her mother.

"What?"

"I surely cannot convince you not to go." Bonnie said, letting go of her daughter and walking to the same suitcase in which her shotgun was. She kneeled over it and opened it, fumbling inside.

"But, at the very least, I want you to take these zombies with you, so they can defend you." Bonnie said as she fumbled into the luggage. Some of the ones who were near were trying to peek on what was inside. However, Bonnie closed the luggage and walked back to Judy.

Once she was right in front of her daughter, she showed her what she had taken from the luggage: an amulet that had the shape of a small skull.

"What is..." Judy said, as she reached out and touched the thing with her fingers, only to recoil with a look of horror on her face.

It was a skull!

An actual mouse's skull turned into a necklace!

"This will allow you to control the zombies." The older bunny said to her daughter. She took Judy's paw and placed the amulet right into it. "Just hold it and give an order, they will obey."

Judy looked at the mouse skull that her mother just placed on her paw. She felt a sense of dread on having that grim thing with her, but the way that her mother was looking at her made her unable to question it.

Stu was on pretty much the same state, as he was a bit shocked.

Eventually, Judy just said that she would take them, and Bonnie finally relaxed. As much as a mother was able to relax knowing that their child was going to be doing something dangerous.

"Slizz and Zass can help as well." Ben said, and everyone looked at him, before they turned their heads to the two-headed snake, which was still on the room.

"You can help, right guys?" Ben asked, looking at the creature with two heads. They looked back at him.

"Of cour-sss-se we can." One of the heads said, "But..."

There was a silence, as Ben looked at the snake.

"We have been here for a while, and u-sss-sed a pretty good deal of our energy." The other head spoke. "Not to mention that we got hurt a while ago. This-sss kind of thing drain us-sss."

"You're not going to help. Is that what you are saying?" Marceli said, looking at the two snakes.

"Oh we will." The snake was quick to say. "But... we might need a little boos-sss-t."

The two heads then turned to Ben, and the cheetah looked back at them.

"You know how this-sss goes-sss, Ben." One of the heads said, before the other one spoke:

"We will need more energy to help."

Ben looked at them, and his face was one of fear, but also one of resignation.

"Oh, man..." He said, as he reached out for the bottom of his shirt, and started to remove it.

"Hey, hey! What's going on?" Eliot asked, as he saw Ben remove his shirt, standing there topless. Meanwhile, the snake was now approaching him, hissing in a strange way.

"I-it's okay." Benjamin said looking around. "We have done it before. It is no big deal."

Ben said that, but by the tone on his voice, it was clear that "it" was not something pleasing. Also, the expression that he had on his face.

"J-just... don't freak out, okay?" He said, and looked at the snake that now stood in front of him.

Looking at them, Ben closed his eyes and stretched his arms to his sides.

Before anyone had the chance to react, the snake opened both of its mouths, lunged forward, and sank its two pairs of fangs on Clawhauser's shoulders.

"BEN!" Bogo exclaimed with a booming voice in shock, as he instinctively pointed his gun at the snake that now was biting on the cheetah.

He was not the only one who reacted to it, as everyone in the room immediately gasped, stepped back, called by the cheetah's name, or even shrieked in terror.

"IT'S OKAY!" Ben let out a squeal, as everyone around him went silent on these words.

"I-It's okay!" Ben squealed once more, while everyone else looked in terror. "I-I'm fine!"

"You are being bitten by a giant snake!" Eliot said, he was one of the ones that was freaking out the most. "I woudn't be calling that okay!"

"It's okay!" Ben insisted, as his voice was going in a high pitch. "T-they are just... f-feeding..."

"Feeding!?" Bogo said in a near bellow, his gun still ready and pointed at the snake, his finger on the trigger and ready to pull at the smallest thing. How he still didn't fired was beyond his own understanding.

"So, it is one of these familiars, huh?" Marceli said. He too was surprised, along with everyone else, but he was able to keep control much better.

"W-what?" Judy said, "What kind? What are you talking about? That snake is biting Benjamin! Oh, by Frith! He could die from the poison!"

"The snake is not poisoning him." Marceli said, and looked around, at everyone who was looking at the scene. "It is feeding on his life."

"Say what now?" Nick said, he too was freaking out, and he was not as good as hiding it as Marceli. Soon, the black tod was explaining:

"Familiars are not like most of the living creatures." He says, looking at the bunny. "They are intrinsically tied to the will and the spirit of a mage. In some cases, this connection can allow for a mage to see and hear through the familiar, as a form of surveillance, but not everybody does it."

"In nearly all of the cases, it means that the familiar will no longer be a living being in the traditional sense." Zillah said, walking forward, and catching some attention as she explained. "Due to their connection, a familiar will be able to survive on the life force that the mage supplies it with."

She looked at the scene that developed in that very room, along with everyone else. Benjamin now was holding the creature with both arms, but it didn't looked like he was trying to get it to let him go. His squeals of pain now have turned into a sound that was closer to a mewl of a kitten.

"Of course, familiars can obtain energy from feeding, like most creatures do." Zillah continued to explain, "But they mostly obtain energy from their mage master. This is particularly truth on the case of summoned familiars, like that snake. In return for their presence in the physical world, they feed on the life force of the mage who summoned them."

Ben mewled loudly, as the snake wrapped around his waist with its slender body and squeezed, as if it was trying to squeeze more life out of him.

Everyone in there looked in shock, as Ben did nothing to try to fight and just let the snake have its fill.

One of the heads let go, and left behind the bite marks made by the fangs, which leaked lines of blood. Looking at it, the head licked the wounds softly with its forked tongue. The wounds let out steam as they closed.

"Benjamin..." The head said, nuzzling at Ben's cheek, while the other head continued to suck. "You are sss-so good to us-sss... sss-so sss-sweet."

Ben said nothing in return, but let out another, tired mewl.

After a few more seconds, the other head let go, and the snake unwrapped itself from Ben's body.

The cheetah stumbled backwards.

Immediately, some mammals went on his help, holding him as if to keep him from falling. The cheetah was panting as if he had just ran a marathon, and he was worryingly pale.

The snake, however, barely minded it, or the many looks that the mammals in the room were giving it. Instead, it simply turned to the mammals that it knew that were going on that little mission, whom they were supposed to go with.

"Sss-so, lets-sss go?" The snake asked, both of its heads looking at the small group.

In no time, the group was moving, after making sure that Ben was okay, and after the last warnings of Bonnie about how to control the zombies, how they would answer to simple orders like "attack" and "stop", and that they could "become hard to control" at times.

Judy was very squeamish about the entire zombie thing.

She barely was able to command the things on her first try, and only on the third attempt, the zombies actually obeyed her order to "follow".

Now there they were, two small cops, a vixen, a giant two-headed snake and three zombies.

There were other officers coming after them, of course, like McHorn, armed with his big rifle.

Meerkovitz was still out there, and he had his rifle ready to use as he surveilled the path that the group was taking. He was still a bit freaked about the presence of the strange creatures within the group, though.

The others had remained in the room, to guard it against possible attacks. They agreed to keep contact through the radio.

So, the group was moving forward, with the three smaller mammals on the lead, with the snake and the zombies following close behind.

They passed by the hallways of the mall, which they found to be empty until now. With Nick, Judy and Emilia on the front acting as scouts, they did not found a single enemy on their path.

"Maybe they think we claimed this floor as our territory?" Nick suggested, and they continued to move forward. Soon, they arrived in an escalator, and they used it to reach the next floor.

It was easy, for it seemed that they have given up keeping watch over the stairs. This made them wonder if they had also given up watching the other means of access.

"It seems that they have." Meerkovitz confirmed to the group. "They are no longer in front of the elevators or of the other stairs and the zip lines and the rest. I guess they have truly abandoned the other floors, save for the patrolling groups. By the way, there is one going in your direction right now."

The said group was formed by seven controlled mammals and one golem. They were taken care of rather easily, with Emilia doing practically all of the work. She broke the golem with her fists and with her feet, showing that she was incredibly powerful in close combat. The other mammals couldn't help but feel admired with the skill that she showed.

The controlled mammals also were absolutely no problem, for with her dagger and her rune-induced flames, she was able to break the spell that kept them acting like that, making them be free from influence and acting as if they just woke up from a dream.

Of course, the two cops also helped, as they were able to dart a few of them that the vixen had missed. However, it seemed that the vixen was doing most of the job for the two, while Nick and Judy only followed.

"This actually makes me feel kind of useless." Nick would say to Judy as they saw the vixen doing all of the work.

As the mammals were freed from control or darted, they would gesture to the ones coming right behind them to follow. The bigger mammals would then gather the mammals and carry the unconscious ones, as they got ready to lead them to another floor, to join the rest of the ones who were on the security room. Or at least leave them in a floor where they could be better protected, once it truly seemed that the tenth floor, where they were, had been completely abandoned.

"You guys sure you will do okay?" Delgato would ask to the two smaller cops, and Nick would, of course, be the one to answer.

"Relax, dude." The fox would say, "We have a pugilist mage, a two-headed snake and a trio of undead. We will be fine."

This seemed to be enough for the lion, as he and the others did the job of guiding the mammals back.

Truth to be told, some of them were actually glad to open some distance from the giant snake and from the zombies, once they were still quite freaked out about that.

The snake and the zombies continued to follow obediently, and they would occasionally help. As the snake was able to let out sprays of acid and an explosive cloud to destroy the golems. The zombies also were no small game, as they were strong enough to tear apart golems on command, as they had demonstrated a few times since they arrived on that floor.

"Kind of makes you glad that they are on our side, huh?" Nick would say to Judy, and the rabbit would say nothing on return.

Nick was sure glad for having the things on their side, for they were able to save him from some close calls. They meet a few groups patrolling that floor, and in them, a few golems seemed to specifically target Nick. Some of them came very close of actually managing to cause some serious damage to the fox if the others had not saved his tail.

It is like these guys actually have a problem with me... Nick would think to himself, and wonder if this was actually farfetched...

The goal was to reach the point where the magic circle was and destroy it, it was straightforward, that much was for sure. However, it didn't changed the fact that unpredicted things would happen on their way to get there. Like finding one of the groups that was sneaking around the floor.

Wolfard was on the lead of the group, and he was greet by the sight of Emilia going on the lead of the group. Soon after came Nick and Judy, and the wolf was glad to see them, although he almost lost it when he saw the giant snake and the zombies, but he was calmed down.

The rest of the small group was also a bit freaked by the sight of the entities that were following the group. However, they relaxed as soon as they heard the entire story (or most of it) and now knew that they were there to rescue everyone on the mall.

However, the other ones were still guiding the mammals of the previous group, who had been freed from the mental interference, to the upper floor. They would have to wait for them to come back, and this could take too long, and they just didn't had time.

"You will have to take them up there." Judy said to the snake, who looked back at them. "You have to take them to the upper floor safely." She said, and the snake looked back at her with it's two pairs of eyes.

"You are not our boss-sssssss" The snake said to her, and Judy looked like she was ready to have a discussion with the huge animal that could probably swallow her whole if it actually wanted.

However, she simply looked at him, and she said.

"Take them to safety, please." She asked, and the snake looked back at her for a few moments, before its two heads traded a look among themselves.

They ended up accepting to attend to the request of the bunny, and they were guiding the group to the upper floor by the closest access. The mammals agreed to go with the snake, despite some of them still being a bit edgy for being close to a predator that could feed on mammals, as well as being venomous.

"Ju-sss-st don't get your-sss-self killed." One of the heads said before they departed with the group. "Ben wouldn't stop whining if you died."

They watched as the group departed, and Nick said:

"What a charming mutant snake, isn't it?"

With this, the group now formed by three mammals and three zombies continued their way, with Emilia still on the lead, and ready for anything.

"We are passing by a Catsco store." Judy said on the radio, "Near one of the bridges."

"Good, you are close." The voice came through the radio. "Keep going for another fifteen hundred feet and then turn right, you will find it on a corner, printed on the wall of one of the pillars."

"Roger." Judy said, as she and Nick continued their way, with the zombies right behind them.

Suddenly, the group stopped as Emilia gestured for them to stop, and they looked over to see what she had just saw.

Three golems stood around thirty feet ahead of them. They were truly difficult to miss, for they were bulky, shaped like rhinos, and they were as big as elephants.

"Okay, now these ones are big." Nick said, and he was actually a bit worried by how big and strong these ones looked. Emilia, however, was not impressed in the slightest, as she only smiled at them and cracked her knuckles.

"The bigger they are, the louder they cry for their mamas." The vixen said, "Just leave it to me."

The vixen then charged forward, leaving the cops and the zombies behind as she went head on to the golems.

"Hej, lisice!" The vixen cried out as she ran on their direction, and the golems turned to look in time to see the vixen running in their direction. The fox then jumped over, her fist ready as she brought it directly in the horn of the closest golem.

The impact had been substantial, and it managed to produce a crack in the horn of the huge golem. However, it did not broke the thing off as Emilia had expected when she threw that punch.

The vixen was quick to react, as she swung her leg and hit the side of the head of the golem. This kick caused the golem to turn its head, and produced some cracks along the jaw, but it once more failed to have the damage that Emilia had hoped for it.

They are not only bigger than the other golems! Emilia thought, as she saw just how little damage she had actually made. They are also thougher!

As she looked at the golem she had just attacked, she almost failed to notice the other two golems that were coming on her way, and one of them swung a huge fist in her direction, to which the vixen had to twist her body to avoid a direct hit. Still, the fist impacted the side of her body, sending her down spiraling into the ground.

"Oh, carp!" Nick said as he and Judy both saw the vixen being hit and sent to the ground. She was, however, soon getting up.

Okay... that hurt. The vixen thought as she got up, and she was just in time to see another golem now trying to step on her. She was quick to dive out of the way, and she clenched her fists as she passed magical energy into them, using both them and the runes to make them even harder, and intent into bringing these golems down.

She would dodge the blows that came from their big limbs, and she would answer with her own punches and kicks. They managed to do some damage, but only limiting to producing cracks on the entities. They didn't made the damage that she wanted. Not only that, but punching such a hard thing was starting to cause her fists to hurt, even though they were hardened!

Emilia was starting to pant from the effort, and this time she failed to register the leg coming in her direction on a kick. She realized it just in time to place both arms, hardened by rune and magical energy, to defend herself.

This was probably what saved her life, but it didn't stopped her from being tossed back against a pillar by the force of the blow, colliding violently with it and falling to the ground.

Nick and Judy panicked, as for a moment, they thought that the vixen had actually died. However, they saw her stir and move a bit, but it looked that the impact had succeeded in knocking her out.

"Oh, my gods!" Judy said, looking as the golems walked to her. "Nick, we have to do something!"

However, Nick knew that there was not much that they could do.

The golems showed that they were strong enough to handle the vixen, who was far stronger than they were, and they almost made it look easy. That meant that the two cops would not stand a chance.

But the fox also knew that they needed to do something. They just needed a plan.

Okay, they had three golems that were under Judy's control, there had to be a way that they could use it to their advantage.

Nick looked around, looking what there was around them and what they could possibly use for their advantage.

Then, a plan formed on his head, and he wasted no time in communicating it to his partner.

Meanwhile, one of the golems poked the fallen vixen with a huge stony finger, before it picked her up and holstered as if she was a doll. It rose another hand, and it looked to be about to do something to the vixen, when:

"Hey!" A voice suddenly came, and the golems slowly turned their heads to look. Their lenses-eyes caught sight of a fox at a distance from them, looking back at them and waving his arms wildly, as if he was purposely trying to catch their attention.

"Hey! Heeeeeeey! Here! Right here, boulder-heads!" The fox screamed at the stone creatures.

This succeeded in calling their attention, as the golems, one of them still holding the unconscious Emilia by the leg, started to walk in the direction of the fox. And they were rather fast.

Nick wasted no time in turning around and sprinting, and this caused the golems now to actually run in his direction.

That's it. All of you follow the fox. Nick thought as he went forward, the golems hot on his heels, as they were surprisingly fast for creatures that big.

Nick passed by a few stores, and turned on his right, in direction to one of the bridges that connected the sidewalks. As they went in, Judy was watching from a corner, in a part that the passing golems didn't looked as they turned and walked into the bridge after the fox. The bunny had an intense look on her face as she held the mouse-skull amulet in her paw, any queasy feeling of holding the piece of a dead mammal forgotten, as she focused on the plan.

Once on the bridge, Nick turned around and looked at the golems, which now were closing in at him.

"So, dudes." He said, looking at all of them. "Any chances that you guys have a particular thing against foxes?"

One of the golems, the one that had Emilia on it's stony hand, walked over to Nick, raising its other hand and getting ready to crush the fox. However, it didn't had the chance, for at that same moment, three zombies jumped on it from behind.

A wolf and a tiger clung to its arms, while a trunk of an undead elephant grabbed it by the neck from behind.

This caused the golem to lose its balance, and to immediately drop the vixen that it was holding.

Nick wasted no time, as he dashed forward and picked the falling vixen on his arms, like a hero from a movie, while she as still unconscious and as she was on his arms.

Man, always wanted to be on a situation like this. Another item to cross from my bucket list.

The next thing Nick did was to run, as he managed to get past one of the golems by running between their legs and in direction to Judy, who was waiting in the entrance of the bridge, holding the amulet that she used to command the zombies to attack.

Meanwhile the zombies had somehow managed to overwhelm the big golem, as they combined strength was enough to rip out the arm of the creature, making it come lose like an arm breaking off from a doll or a mannequin. Next, they charged at the golem once more, and this time they managed to, with a little of effort, rip out the head.

The lenses of the golem glowed and flickered before they went off, the body going completely limp.

However, this was not a victory in the traditional sense, once there were still two golems to go, and they were quick to attack.

They punched the zombies hard, making their bones break under the powerful impact and propelling them back, as they feel to the ground.

However, these creatures were already dead. So broken bones and internal damage meant little to them. They simply got up and continued following the order to attack. The tiger roared and the elephant trumpeted as they charged at to golems once more.

However, it seemed that this wouldn't be so easy.

The golems were much more resilient than the zombies. They had managed to take down one, but only because the three overwhelmed it as they caught it on surprise, and now they were facing two in a direct combat.

The elephant zombie was now trading punched with one golem. His own punched seemed to do little, while the punches of the golem produced some damage, as skin and bone broke with disturbing sounds, which the zombie seemed to completely ignore.

Meanwhile, the wolf and tiger undead were now facing another one. They were each one trying to attack the golem by grabbing and biting at it and pulling at the limbs, as if they were trying to rip them off. However, the golem was a lot stronger than they were, and it was able to overwhelm them as it tossed the wolf aside like a doll and managed to throw the tiger on the ground, right before it rose a stone foot right over the head of the zombie.

Judy saw this, and she instinctively looked away. However, he sensitive ears still were able to pick up the sound of the head being crunch and squashed by the stone foot. The sound alone was enough to make her feel very queasy. The bunny knew, if any of the zombie stories had any truth, that the zombie would not be getting up again.

As the golem had taken down the tiger, the wolf had advanced to it, and it managed to grab on the arm of the golem and climb to the head, where it climbed at the golem's face.

The stone entity, suddenly having something blocking its vision, started to shake its head, and soon, it was charging blindly as it shook its head.

"Nick! Look out!" Judy said, as she saw the stone creature charging at their direction blindly. That was when the golem tripped and rolled in their direction.

Nick heard the noise and turned his head to see the big mass of stone coming in his direction, like the giant stone ball from Indiana Bones. Nick immediately ducked as he held the vixen close to himself, and he heard a sickening sound.

As he was recovering, he looked at the place where Judy was, and saw that the golem had rolled right over that point.

The purest horror spread over his chest as he looked.

"JUDY!" He cried out, dropping the vixen and running on the spot that his partner had once been.

The wolf zombie was there, grunting as it tried to move, but both of its legs had been broken as the golem fell over it. However, there was no sign of Judy in there.

"NICK!"

Judy's voice made him look up, and what he saw nearly made him have a heart failure.

She was fine and in one piece, but she had somehow got stuck in the rhino's horn!

She was holding with all of her four limbs, while the golem, now on all fours, shook its head like a savage mammal, as if he was trying to shake the bunny off its horn.

Crap! Crap, crap, crap! What do I do!? What do I do!?

That was one of these rare moments in which Nick lost his composure, and he looked around, looking for some way to help Judy. That was when he saw the amulet that controlled the zombies on the ground. The bunny probably dropped when the golem passed by her and she saw herself forced to hold on its horn.

Nick was barely even thinking, he just went for the amulet and grabbed it in his paw.

He looked at the wolf. The thing could hardly even stand with these broken legs.

He turned his looked at the elephant, who had managed to make one of the golems fall, and was now trying to break it, but with no success.

"Hey, you!" Nick said, shaking the amulet. "Stop that and come here!"

The elephant completely ignored him, as it continued to attack the golem.

Nick cursed under his breath and looked back at the golem to which Judy was holding. It was shaking its head violently, and at any moment the bunny could not be able to holds and be tossed like a ragdoll. Worse, the golem could start charging at things and literally squash her between the rock and a hard place. Worse yet, the golem could actually stand and use its hands to remove her and squish her.

With these thoughts, Nick turned to the elephant zombie, held the amulet high, and order:

"Stop!"

Immediately, the elephant stopped, turning and looking in direction to the fox.

"Come here!" The fox commanded again, and the golem was now coming in his direction.

How did I do that!? Nick thought as the zombie came obediently by his side, like a trained iguana. It stood by his side, and Nick was about to order it to tackle the golem. However, he detained himself as soon as he realized that doing that would put the bunny in even more danger, as she would be between two wrestling big bodies, what would only increase her chances of getting squashed.

The fox desperately put himself to think. That was when he looked at the two zombies that were still left, and had a really stupid idea.

"Judy!" Nick said, crying at the bunny.

"What!?" The bunny cried out, as the golem was still shaking its head to shake her off.

"I'll try something!" The fox said, and he said:

"If... When we get out of here, we will mark another movie night! This time I'll really let you pick the movie!"

"What!?"

"You will get to pick the movie!" Nick said to her. "And whatever it is, I'll watch it with you! No matter if it is a police mystery or a cheesy romantic comedy! Okay!?"

"Nick!"

"Okay!?"

"Okay!" The bunny finally said, still holding with all of her strength to the golem. "Deal! No turning back on your word this time!"

"Right!" Nick said, and he walked over the dead wolf, grabbing on its shirt thigh, and turning to the elephant.

"Grab!" The fox ordered, and the elephant's trunk touched and flailed around, until it managed to wrap around the wolf.

Judy was looking, and she noticed that the golem was getting up. Probably getting ready to remove her. She then looked in direction to Nick, to see an undead elephant raising an undead wolf, and Nick was clung on it.

For a moment, she wondered what she was doing, when an idea came in her head.

No. He wouldn't do anything so stupid...

However, Nick confirmed that he would do it, once he gave another order at the elephant.

"Toss!"

"NICK!" Judy cried in horror, as she saw the elephant get ready to toss both the zombie wolf and the fox that was willingly clinging to it.

"YOU DUMB FOX!"

Just as the golem was reaching out with its hand to grab the bunny, the elephant zombie flung the other zombie and the fox in its direction.

The wolf collided with the side of its head, throwing the golem slightly off balance.

Nick used this chance to reach for Judy, yanking her out of the horn and jumping with her out of the golem. They rolled on the ground for a few feet, while the golem was stumbling around, trying to get the wolf off, but the undead canine was holding on with claws and teeth.

Looking at them, Nick then looked at the elephant, and rose his hand with the amulet.

"Chaaaaarge!" Nick commanded, to which the elephant soon obeyed, as it turned to the struggling golem, and trumpeted as it charged in its direction.

The collision was so strong that it caused both smaller mammals to flinch, as the elephant managed to ram the golem so hard that they both flew off the bridge.

As the golem and the two zombies fell of the bridge, the two mammals were panting heavily.

Even when they heard the sound of the three hitting the ground far below, none of them said a word. Maybe they were both too shocked that the plan of the fox had actually worked.

They looked at each other for a few moments, and it looked like they were trying to find the right words to say.

However, a booming sound broke them out and make them look to realize one thing:

They had forgotten that there were three golems!

And the third one was now coming at their direction!

The fox and bunny had to immediately part to avoid being crush by the giant stone entity, however, they both were left dazed by what just happened.

Nick was the more dazed of the two, as he tried to get up, only for something to grab on him and press him against the ground, making so much pressure that a little more and his ribs could break.

Judy looked in horror as the last golem was now pinning Nick to the ground. The worst part was knowing that she probably could do nothing about it, considering that they ran out of zombies and that none of her weapons would be good enough to bring that big thing down.

"Finally..." The golem said, with a voice that somehow felt familiar to both bunny and fox. "After so long, I finally have you where I want you. This is for all that you did to me, you little ball of fur." The golem said, and it was raising its hand, ready to slam it down on the fox.

"NICK!" Judy cried out on horror, while Nick turned his head and close his eyes shut, waiting for the end to come.

However, the end didn't came.

At that moment, two birds made of fire fly through the air and hit the golem, causing it to stumble back and let go of Nick.

The fox and bunny both blink in surprise, and they look over, to see the source of the attack.

They both are surprised. Especially Nick.

"Mom?!" The tod cried, as he saw his mother walking forward with an intense gaze in her eyes. By her sides were coming two dancers in suits, both of them looking as serious as she was. In her paw, she was holding what seemed to be a flashcard stack.

Opening the stack and flipping through the flashcards in there, she stopped at one and took it to her mouth. She bit on it and ripped it out of the stack, holding it in her mouth, before she blew it out.

The paper flashcard floated on the air and then it dove down, disappearing in the ground and producing a rippling effect on it, like a pebble falling on water. Immediately after, the ground rose and moved forward, like a wave.

Such wave collided with the golem, which was still recovering, producing a loud booming sound as the wave shrunk back into the ground and the golem stumbled back from the hit.

Immediately, one of the tigers by her side put his paws together, and focused his energy between them.

"Combust." He said, and then he put both of his paws forward. The energy that accumulate between them projected forward like a directed beam of pure heat. Not really visible, but causing a distortion of the air as it flew through the air in direction to the golem. It hit right in the shoulder of the stone creature, and the super-heating of the area in a single instant caused a combustion, resulting in the shoulder exploding, causing the arm of the golem to fall to the ground as pieces of the shoulder flew everywhere.

Meanwhile, the other tiger was already rushing forward, and as he rushed, something happened to the air around him, as it seemed that dust was gathering around his body and compacting together to form something. By the time he arrived at the golem, he was covered in plates of rock that looked like an armor.

He collided with the golem hard enough to push it back. Then them, before the golem had time to react, he grabbed the remaining arm of the golem and applied a judo-like movement, tossing the golem so hard that he broke the handrail on the bridge and fell.

The sound of the golem hitting the ground below was heard, a group that was coming behind the three mages walked forward.

"Got that, Patrick?" Sully asked to the hyena, who simply nodded. He was still wondering why the pig was so keen on catching everything, they pretty much got a lot of images in their travel from the first floor to there...

Meanwhile, the others were still in silence, as Tyrone checked on the unconscious Emilia, who was slowly coming to herself. Tyler looked at the two cops, while Sophie Wilde walked forward, and her gaze was on her son.

Nick was on shock as he looked at his own mother, who looked at him with the worried gaze that was so common for mothers to have.

"Nicky... we need to talk."

This concludes this chapter, hope you all enjoyed it.

Also, I'd like to take a moment in here to pay respects to Tommy D. "Tiny" Lister Jr., who passed away recently. He was the actor who voiced Finnick. Now, I didn't truly knew the guy or followed his career, but I felt that I should post something about him, especially since a few days ago I read something online of some racist person who said they were glad that the man died.

So, here are my respects to "Tiny" and my condolences to all his friends and family.

Please, read and review. No flames, but constructive criticism always welcome.