Fur-al High

[Brooklyn K. Grey]

      "Its mainly about a character who offers his normal life to be an undercover in the government to find out about his past," Zane mumbled in between bites, knowing all too well how cliche his story sounded. But it was alright, he had found a sort of mysticism to working with that type of action-like character. But as he finished that sentence, he realized just how full he was. Pushing the half-eaten plate of eggs toward the center, leaving a bit of change beside the plate as his contribution to the tip. With the way Shinzuu acted around her, he was sure Tabby was going to need all the support she could get. "Go get some sleep, man. You look like you're gonna hit the table any minute now," Zane said as he stood up, shrugging his bag over his shoulder. "And thanks for the conversation." He waited for a minute to see what Sam was going to do as he finished his drink, before sitting it on the table, giving a quick wave before heading out the door to find his way to the library.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Shinzuu breathed heavily for a long while, lying there on the ground in pain. He slowly got up in defeat and just picked up his sweats and his shirt, not even bothering to put them back on. Blood was visible on his fur, but it wasn't dripping since a lot of the cuts clogged fairly quickly to stop the bleeding. Shinzuu passed by the abandoned house and couldn't help but stop and stare at it for a while. Though he had never really been near it, it reminded him of how the house felt after his father had died all those years ago, and Shinzuu just stood out front, staring at it.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Veronica followed Reno into the living room so she was standing just inside the doorway. As she listened to him speak, she looked around the room. She watched him walk over to the fireplace and spotted the picture, noticing who was in the picture. She looked away before he could see her looking though and moved back into the entryway, passing in front of the door to admire the staircase. "You could take it with you, you know..." She said softly, talking about the picture that Reno had been looking at before putting it back facing the opposite direction. As she said that, she brushed dust off the railing to see the full beauty of the wood, acting nonchalant.

[Srgntcuddles]

Reno looked at the picture for a moment after Veronica spoke. "...I've got one at my place..." he said turning towards the kitchen. As he did that the bird that was still perched on his shoulder took flight and went towards Veronica. It then went up the stairs and took a left down the hallway. The stairs led up to the hallway, intersecting it. Hallways going left and right with a door at the top of the staircase that led to a bathroom. "Oi...Crazy bird!" Reno turned and went after it. Halfway up the stairs he slowed down, seeing the same young rabbit at the top looking down. The boy had a slinky in his hands and was crouched down ready to send it down the steps. He did so and the slinky made it's way to the bottom. Reno watched as it went step by step, turning around to watch it get to the bottom. At the bottom the two older rabbits stood, seeming just as exited as the boy at the top. They were standing right next to Veronica, so as he looked at them it might have seemed odd to anyone else. snapping out of his hallucination he turned and went the rest of the way up the stairs. At the top he looked both ways and scratched his head. "Where'd he get off too? Little bugger..." he kind of mumbled.

[Armalite_]

Sam gave a small smirk as Zane ran out the door. He sat at the table alone surrounded by their dishes. Tabby offered to fill his mug for a final time with the black oil. Sam declined. He lit up another cigarette and scratched his nose. He stared down at the change on the table while Tabby made her rounds picking up after the boys. Sam sighed, picked up his pack of smokes of the table and stood up, the long chain hanging off his jeans clanged against the seat as he got up. He stuffed his hands into his pockets and locked the cigarette between his lips as he made his way out the door towards home. He figured he'd cut through the park to save half an hour of walking.

He finally made it to his dumoy house at the end of the street. The old beater sat on the drive way indicating only one thing; dad was home. He shook his head as he made his way up to the door. He fiddled with his keys as he struggled to find the one belonging to his house. He pressed out the cigarette on the step under his boot and opened the door. The sound of the TV in the next room was the only sound in the house. He walked into the room, the old fox was passed out on the couch while empty liquor bottles littered the floor. "Old man's got the right idea..." Sam muttered to himself as he stepped around the bottles to get to his room. He opened his punk poster covered door and fell down on his bed, moaning in comfort.

[Brooklyn K. Grey]

       Zane wandered as he left the diner, taking a longer way around due to his good mood. He slipped his headphones up from around his neck to drown out the sounds of people moving about. He crossed the street to slip into the library, waving at the information receptionist on his way to up to the reference section. It was almost funny, the fact that the library workers saw more of him than his classmates. But that was perfectly fine with him, as he synced his laptop with the wireless internet and pulled up his email to send the story to his editor. "And Then You" by Greg Laswell began playing on his Ipod as the "Message Sent!" flashed on his computer screen, causing Zane to smile and lean back his seat and quietly sing along. "How my thoughts, they spin me 'round. And how my thoughts, they let me down..."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Shinzuu saw Veronica appear and was about to say something when he saw Reno run past the door and up the stairs. He clenched a fist tight and bit his lower lip, So that's how it is, huh? You just hung out with me to get to her... Not that it seems she has any problem with it... Shinzuu ran off, not knowing where he was going. Before he knew it, he was on the far side of town and turned a corner, running head first into Schad. The two tumbled onto the ground, and Shinzuu groaned as he opened his eyes, finding his face in Schad's chest. He felt the boils build up under his fur and quickly scrambled away. "I...I'm sorry. I didn't see you..."

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Veronica watched the bird fly past her, up the stairs, and down the hall to the left. After that she watched Reno scramble up the stairs after the bird. When Reno looked back down the stairs at the area beside her, she looked to the side as well, wondering if there was something or someone next to her and she had missed it. When she didn't see anything or anyone there, it confused her but she shrugged it off. As she started up the stairs, she thought she heard footfalls on the pavement but when she looked behind her out the open door she saw no one. "I think it went left..." She said in response to Reno's question as she continued up the stairs though it seemed as though it was directed more to himself than to her.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

"It's fine, I, uh, just hope you're not enjoying the view." The possum said awkwardly as she scooted herself out from underneath him, not wasting any time to allow him to enjoy it, even if he wanted to. She had seemed to have been in a daze until she had run into him, as if her mind was elsewhere. She stood up, brushing herself off, halfway wondering where Veronica was again. She found it odd that they didn't seem to be around each other as much as she remembered, but shrugged, figuring it wasn't any of her business. She offered her hand to help him up, noticing some of the cuts on him. "You alright man? Get too close to a cat fight?" She smirked, figuring he wouldn't like her dry sense of humor since he was often being followed by several girls at school.

[Srgntcuddles]

Reno heard left so he went left, coincidentally towards his room. He saw his door open at the end of the hall and went to investigate. Upon entering he looked around his room for the bird. His bed was against the far right wall when you step in. A window directly in front of the door in the center of the wall to the left of the bed. A small nightstand next to his bed to the left as well. The cover on his bed was orange, though it was much darker from the dust. On the other side of the room were some dressers and a mirror in the middle of it. He eventually found the bird on the window sill, outside the closed window was another bird of the same size. This one with a noticeable brown spot on it's left eye. "What is this? A bird house? Heh..." he joked as he opened the window. The second bird flew in and around the room, quickly joined by the first one. They eventually tipped something over which started a bit of a domino effect that opened his closet door. Once it opened a wrapped up object fell from it and landed before Reno; It looked like a violin case. Reno dropped to his, he knew what it was. It was the violin he had wanted on his birthday. His parent's death made him forget all about it, he didn't even think he got it anyway. It made him think about how great his parents were and how much he missed them all of a sudden. He couldn't hold his tears back this time, luckily his back was facing the door so if Veronica did come in she didn't see him in such a state. He tried not to make any noise and hide his sniffling so she didn't hear. The two birds landed on his shoulder, both carrying a letter in their beaks together. They dropped it on the present, getting his attention. He picked it up to investigate it, he guessed it was a letter from his parents on the gift. Reno couldn't bare to open it, he might do it later when he was alone.

[Armalite_]

Sam opened his eyes when his stereo began to blast a loud dose of The Exploited. He looked at his watch and saw that he had only been at his house for a little over half an hour. He wasn't asleep to begin with really. He heard some pounding at his bedroom door. "Will you turn that down, Sam!?" He could hear his dad yell. Sam didn't move from the bed, he just lay there in a tired delirium while staring up at the ceiling. He learned that if he let his dad go on for long enough, he would eventually go away. He turned his head and looked across his room at his lacross gear that littered the corner of his small room. He missed the guys he used to play with. He lay there a moment in thought while his dad continued to pound at his door and his speakers boomed.

Sam made up his mind. He got up, picked up all his gear and chucked it into his bag. He pried open his window and climbed out with his stuff. He was glad the house wasn't two floors because he only had to "fall" four feet to ground before sprinting out of his backyard towards school.

[Brooklyn K. Grey]

      Zane sat for a bit, singing along until the information receptionist came over to sit at the other end of the table, which silenced him almost instantly. "I take it you finished your story on time," Melinda laughed, turning the computer around to read the story, titled "A Midnight's Evanescence". "Mmhmm. And it even came out the way I had hoped. Though I don't like the fact I had to end it so abruptly..." Zane replied as he once again pulled his headphones to rest around his neck, the Ipod now playing "Right Where It Belongs" by Nine Inch Nails. "Slow day around here, I take it?" Always is. Its why I'm always able to wander on Sundays. Everyone uses the day to go out with friends, or rest. Not many people see it as a day to go to the library." She mused as she continued staring at the computer screen, leaving Zane to smile. Melinda was the mold-breaker of the nerd stereotype, choosing to accentuate her tiger stripes with extravagant colored clothing whenever she had the chance. But that wasn't often considering she was a junior at Feral High, just like Zane. The tiger was the first person he had made a quick friendship with, meeting when Zane first moved here from New Zealand as a freshmen one year ago. Their friendship had developed into a brother-sister type relationship, and Zane himself never wanted that to change.

       He spun the computer around, ignoring her annoyed expression as he quickly navigated the keyboard until finally a ding issued from the speakers and "Message Sent!" once more flashed on the screen. "Check your phone." Zane smirked, watching Melinda slowly reaching into her pocket to pull out her phone, "New Message" glaring on the screen. "You can send full-length text documents to someone's phone?" She asked with a somewhat impressed tone, which was rare for the tiger to let someone hear. "Yours. And any other smart-phone. But everyone else, including me, that have 'outdated' phones are pretty much out of luck." She pressed on the touch-screen to pull up the story, once again starting to read where she left off. "Showoff."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Shinzuu scratched his muzzle and his neck furiously as Schad got up, "Trust me, there's nothing even remotely pleasant about it. You probably don't know this, but I'm literally allergic to females. My skin breaks into boils like crazy when I get even near a female. So far, only my mom and Veronica don't affect me. Anyways, that's kinda why everyone thinks I'm gay, is because I stay far away from women. No one knows about this, so could you please keep this under wraps?" Shinzuu backed a little ways from the hand as it made his nose twitch a bit, and stumbled his way up, using the wall of the building. "But yea, I'm fine. If you're talking about the blood, it's nothing. Just a few scrapes from the park. I thought that I was strong enough to at least do some warm-up exercises, but as you can see, I'm still not. Lucky for me, you can't see the boils or bruises on me because my fur's so thick and dark. Anyways, sorry again." He ran straight around her and darted around an incoming bike and started to run home on the opposite side of town.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Veronica followed Reno to the room and stood in the doorway. She looked around until the present was knocked over to land in front of Reno and he fell to his knees. After seeing this, she moved out of the room and leaned against the wall to the side of the doorway. She felt like she was intruding a private moment. "I'll be outside..." She said in a quiet tone. She walked down the hall then down the stairs. When she got to the bottom, she went out the door and sat on the steps with her chin in her hands, watching cars go by and birds fly around.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Schad didn't manage to get a word in edgewise before Shinzuu darted off. She thought it was pretty awkward. After wandering somewhat further, she noticed a library. She didn't know there was a library close by.. If she was close by. She wondered if they carried American comic books like the libraries in America carried manga. She looked it over, debating, then walked inside, browsing the shelves for anything good.