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The inauguration of the New Den Plaza surely attracted many mammals. Most of them were already inside, however, there were a couple of them that had remained outside. Among the, there was a group of frat mammals composed by hippos, rhinos and a bunch of elephants. They were gather in the front of the mall, along with a good-sized group of mammals. It seemed that they were listening to some kind of show happening, and it seemed that they were getting quite pumped up about that.

These mammals seemed like they failed to notice a limousine that stopped on the sidewalk near the entrance of the mall. From inside, some mammals were looking outside.

"Yeah, it looks like some guys are making a party in there." A tiger on a suit said, as he looked at the situation from the tinted windows of the luxurious car. "There are also a lot of reporters in here."

"Probably here for the inauguration." Said the very attractive female gazelle in an elegant social dress and high-hells. This was no other than Gazelle herself, she had come in there especially for the inauguration, and she had brought two of her tigers with herself, both as friends and as her bodyguards. The one looked through the window was the slightly taller of the two, and he was Tyrell. The other one was Tyson, the one that Gazelle honestly could say that was the one closest to her as a friend. Of course, they were not the only ones on the limo, as there was a blackbuck on the car, whom seemed to be much more nervous than the other three.

"I just want to know who was the one who leaked that she was in here!" The mammal spoke as he looked out. "She was supposed to arrive and come in without being bothered! And now there's an army of paparazzi and mammals outside just waiting for her!"

"Calm down, Simon." Gazelle said to her manager. "It will be okay." She spoke trying to sound convincing. However, the truth was that she was a bit insecure of walking out of the limousine with all of these mammals on the outside. The fact that there were so many reporters was worrisome for her, for she didn't wanted to deal with being swarmed by them as they tried to get shots of her and try to get her reactions on camera.

Malditos paparazzi.

Not to mention that the mammals that were gathering into the front were quite agitated, so much that it was like they almost seemed like they could get violent. Gazelle didn't felt like walking near that group.

"We need to have them removed!" The blackbuck said, "We need to call the police and have all of them out of the entrance of the mall!"

"Really?" Tyson asked, looking at the antelope. "You want Gazelle to call the police and make them remove a whole crowd of mammals and reporters from the entrance of a big mall just because she wants it? That will not bode well."

"He is right." Gazelle said, looking at her manager. "They are not doing anything illegal, and I cannot simply use my position to ask for the ZPD to remove them out of the mall only so I can walk in. You know I'm not like that." That much was truth, and everyone in that car knew it. "Well, I guess I'll have to leave to the mall another day..."

"Maybe not." Tyrell said, still looking outside. This caused the mammals on the car to look at him.

"Maybe we can go around and enter by one of the back entrances." The tiger offered. "I mean, we could talk to the security and ask them if it's okay to go through the back to avoid the crowd. I'm pretty sure they would agree. If you want to."

Gazelle looked at him, and it seemed that she was seriously considering it, but her manager seemed not to agree.

"Absolutely not!" The blackbuck said, "I'll not have the Jewel of Zootopia sneaking through a backdoor like a deadbeat weasel!" He exclaimed, and Gazelle couldn't help but feel some reprobation for the speciest comment that her manager just made, but he continued:

"If she goes inside the mall, then she will be going through the front, with all of the dignity that a mammal like herself deserves! She will walk through the front doors as soon as all of these media vultures and agitators have been removed from the premises!"

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One phone call to the security of the mall, and a while of talk later, all was arrange for Gazelle to be allow inside through one of the service entrances, on the back.

They had to go around the mall with their limo, but there was already someone on the outside, waiting for them. He was a very kind cougar who helped them through the door and inside, and was their guide through the hallways on the inside of the back entrance.

Hallways that were big on themselves.

"I think we've been walking for nearly fifteen minutes, haven't we?" Gazelle asked, and the tigers saw themselves forced to agree. They had indeed been walking for quite a while. So much that she even thought that they had took some of the inner space of the mall for the service entrance.

However, as she walked inside, they were baffle by the sheer size of the mall on the inside, which almost looked like a separated city on its own.

"How?" was all that Gazelle could formulate, as she saw just how much bigger it was on the inside than on the outside.

"Maybe... a space of imaginary numbers?" Tyrell mumbled, but right after slapped a paw over his own mouth. Gazelle looked at him, and simply nodded, not asking any questions on what he just said.

Tyrell looked at her, and back at Tyson, who only smiled to his brother.

"You know, I still can't believe that you told her." Tyrell said to Tyson, "And neither how well she took it."

Tyson smiled at his brother. "Hey, she has known us for a very long time and is our friend, right?"

Tyrell could only nod at this, and soon, the three mammals were walking across the mall, trying to decide which store they were going first. And trying to figure out how to get to it in that immense place.

---

Judy was with her paws full, as she helped the many officers to keep the crowd in check. They were not only keeping their eyes and their ears open in the case of any of them getting violent, but also trying to prevent them from invading the space that had been delimited, as well as trying to prevent them from getting on each other's necks.

Judy was now trying to prevent a capybara protestor from getting physically violent with a bulldog one, both of them from different sides of the protest. The capybara was defending that Bellwether should be left free, and the bulldog didn't appreciated these commentaries, for apparently one of his great friends lost an eye while defending himself from one of the hate mobs that Bellwether and her plot had stirred. Couple of insults thrown back and forth, until the bulldog looked like he was ready to bite at the capybara.

The fact that the groups could be so violent is something that worried Judy, but not more than the fact that, after all that Bellwether did, she still had supporters. Mammals who agreed with her views so deeply that they supported what she had done. What made her feel better, however, was seeing that they were greatly outnumbered by the ones who wanted the ewe to pay for her crimes.

Among these, Judy saw two giraffes that were holding signs saying that Bellwether should be taken away and locked forever in a mage dungeon for what she had done. Judy recognized these two giraffes, for over two years ago, she had seen both of them in one of the protests that took place during the Night Howler scare, and they had been carrying anti-predator signs.

Now there they were, standing against the one who stirred all that hate and fear.

Change starts with all of us, indeed. Judy thought to herself, as she continued to do her job. As she did, she noticed that there were not only the usual protestors in there, but also some who took special attention to the fact that Bellwether was a mage.

Judy was able to sight some signs here and there that were anti-mage, saying things like "MAGES LEAVE OUR CITY" and things of the like. It seemed that the ones who still had a problem with mages were using Bellwether as an excuse to try to make their opinions known. These too were a minority, compared to the other protesters, who mostly wanted Bellwether to be take away and fittingly punished for what she did.

Still, the ones who were actually protesting on mages seemed to have quite a few things to say, among them, a certain wildebeest, who was speaking to a small group of mammals who had gathered around him.

"This is the proof that mages are dangerous!" The wildebeest said, "The proof that they want nothing more than to seize power and that they care nothing for the feelings or lives of mammals! Dawn Bellwether used of her evil art to try and make Zootopia tear itself apart! She is a fine example of how mages truly are! Their actions are sinful, as the Church itself recognizes their so called 'arts' as heresy of the highest level! They are sinners who sold their souls and have been marked by the Devil! Their Magic Circuits are nothing more than the mark of the beast upon their bodies! These sorcerers cannot be allowed to roam free and do as they please, like Bellwether was! They must be purged out of this world!"

Many of the small group cheered in agreement, some of them even clapping at the words of the wildebeest, while many who were around the group jeered at him and told him to give up and go home. Most, however, just wanted to keep distance from that group, which almost sounded like the beginning of some short of cult.

Judy couldn't help but feel a bit disgusted as more mammals were using this opportunity to try and sow hatred. This was something that she truly came to despise during the course of her life, especially after what she'd been through two years ago.

However, her attention was diverged from the wildebeest and his group as the crowd seemed to get agitated. Some murmurs were going around, and the mammals in there seemed to get even more agitated and it was almost as if they were all leaning to one certain direction as a single organism.

Judy knew what this meant:

The van that was bringing Bellwether had arrived.

---

Nick leaned over, looking through the tinted windows of the van, and at the many mammals outside. They were mostly making gestures to the van as it moved, mostly probably directed at the ewe, unless many of them had serious problems with the ZPD. Also, the signs that many of them were holding told a story of their own.

"Well, won't you look at that." Nick said, to no one in particular, but wanting a certain ewe on the van to hear it. "You see, Bellwether? It seems that our haters outnumber your supporters ten-to-one."

There was a lot of irony on his words, and Nick knew that was not proper behavior. Still, the irony of saying that was just too delicious to pass up. He looked at the ewe, who had a hardened face, although she still avoided his gaze. He thought that she was once more going to be quiet, but soon, she was saying something loud and clear:

"They are just a bunch of idiots who want to make some noise." She spoke with coldness, one that matched the cold look that she had in her face. "They only want to use this chance to cry out to the world their frustrations and let everyone know that they are not happy over something."

Nick looked at her, and he could now notice that she seemed more like the crazy and sociopathic ewe that he knew. Nick looked at her, and felt like he should say something back.

"Well, now that is quite harsh to say." Nick said as he looked at her, "All of that because the guys don't like that you tried to break the city apart with the Night Howlers?"

"I'm talking about all of them." Bellwether said, her tone becoming bitter, "Mammals in general can be quite detestable, be them prey or predator."

There was a heavy silence following these words, as Krys and Nick both looked at the ewe. Nick had a raised eyebrow.

"So, when you say 'all of them' you actually means your supporters? Or are they excused from this because they share of your vision?"

"They are the worse ones!" Bellwether said with a conviction that surprised Nick. "They are only supporting me because what I did serves as an excuse for their own bigotry! They say that this is pride as prey or that this is caring for the good mammals, but all of that is just an excuse for them to spit on others and use all of their speciest crap!"

Nick looked at the ewe, and he felt surprised by that sudden burst. He blinked, and soon he recovered his usual mask, looking at her.

"Wow... some might even think that you don't agree with them."

"Officer Wilde." The fox doctor said, causing Nick to look at him. "Stop. It. Now."

Nick put up his paws defensively, and there was a brief silence in the van. However, this silence was short lived.

"I wish Judy was here."

Nick looked at the ewe, as she continued to speak, seemingly to herself.

"I wish she was here so I could tell her... so I could explain." She was tensing as she spoke that. She then turned to the fox who was sitting by her side.

"Krys, maybe you can talk to your uncle. Convince him to let me see Judy so I can make her understand, before they take me."

The way she spoke was as if she was making an appeal. The fox looked at her, and it looked as if he was considering it. Nick, however, didn't quite liked the idea of that ewe being allowed near his partner.

"Hey, Smellwether." He said, catching the attention of both Bellwether and Mieczyslaw. "If you try to get close to Judy or try to do anything to her, do you know what I'll do?"

"Wilde!" The booming voice of the Chief caused Nick to turn to look. The buffalo was looking at him through the rearview mirror, and it was clear by his eyes that he was pissed. Even if it wasn't, the tone of voice that he used left no doubt.

"Stop provoking and stay down, this is the last warning."

Nick nodded wordlessly, and sat back. He looked at the two mammals, seeing that Mieczyslaw looked at him with anger, while Bellwether looked at him with what seemed fear.

"And Bellwether." The ewe perked, looking at the buffalo, who now had his eyes back on the road. "If you as much as look at Hopps the wrong way, don't think for a moment that I won't personally defluff you."

The ewe flinched visibly at this, almost as if she had received a physical blow. She then looked down and slumped over herself as she looked as if she wanted to just disappear from sight. Nick looked at her, and so did the other fox, who was sitting by the side of the ewe.

After a few moments, Mieczyslaw sighed, and he shifted on his seat, apparently to become more comfortable. However, as he shifted, his tail moved, and ended up landing right on Bellwether's lap.

The ewe blinked, looking at the fluffy tail, before she looked up at the fox to whom it belonged.

Mieczyslaw looked as if he was not even recognizing her presence, and he simply remained sitting with a professional stance.

Bellwether looked at him for a few moments, before her gaze shifted back to the tail that was now on her lap. Soon, she was reaching it, gently putting her hooves on the tail and bringing it to her chest, hugging it as if she wanted to snuggle with it.

Nick blinked, looking at the scene before him with raised eyebrows. The ewe was holding it to her chest the same way a child would cling to a stuffed toy, and the fox who was having his tail handled like that was acting as if he didn't even noticed.

Nick was now trying to process what he was seeing, and what it could mean...

---

It took a while of effort, but Gazelle and her two tigers were able to find their way across all of the stores that they wanted to go. Their first stop was a Preyda store, where Gazelle was received warmly by the attendants, and received some very nice discounts (due to her already having made merchandising for them in the past, and to having her own line of feminine footwear made by them). Followed by a stop to make a snack in one of the many cafés that were spread over the many floors of the building that looked almost like an entire district.

It was followed by a stop into a store of male articles, where Tyson and Tyrell both tried out some things for themselves. After all, it would not be fair if only Gazelle got things for herself in this little trip they were making. She insisted for them to get things for themselves, and even insisted on paying, although the Tyson protested a bit at it. Tyrell, on the other hoof, seemed not to mind being treat like this.

They walked out with a new blazer each and with a new Roarlex made of gold.

With each store they went, the number of bags that the two tigers were carrying increased. Everyone knew that females loved to shop and, although there were things for the two of them in the middle of these bags, most of it were of things for Gazelle herself. She was passing by a group of bunnies as they went to find even more stores to buy.

"Bonnie, there is no need to worry. We can get it back later."

"Oh, we shouldn't have left that with them, Stu."

"Well, we had to get out of there pretty fast, before they said something that Cotton was not supposed to hear."

"Mr. Bubbles! Look!" Said a child voice. All eyes turned to the owner, who was a small bunny who was sitting on a bench near an ample cheetah and a female thylacine. "It's her! It's the pretty lady with the beautiful voice!"

The cheetah who was sitting in the same bench suddenly perked his head. He was drinking on some milkshake, and as he rose his head, the straw remained glued on his mouth. Even as he turned around to look to where Cotton was pointing, the thing remained on his mouth, kind of looking like the tongue of a frog.

As Benjamin saw Gazelle, his idol, live and in the flesh, his eyes went comically wide, and one of them twitched as if he had had a small seizure. He looked like a giant frog, and the sight was quite comical.

Other mammals had also been drawn by the outburst of the little bunny, who had a surprisingly loud voice. Soon, everyone was noticing her presence and who she was.

"Hey! Ain't that..?"

"It's Gazelle!"

"The Angel with Horns in person!"

"Man, she is so hot!"

Mierda.

Gazelle was just about to turn back and leave, especially when she saw a vixen with a microphone and a beagle with a camera.

Vicky and Cameron were both on their way across the mall, capturing recordings of the place, when they heard the outburst coming from the little bunny and turned around to find no one other than Gazelle.

Vicky could barely believe her luck.

"Miss Gazelle?" The vixen said, "Victoria Vulpen, from the ZNN-"

She was cut before she could say anything else, as one of the tigers carrying the many bag entered her way, blocking their approach of the popstar.

"Gazelle is not taking any questions at the moment." The tiger said coldly, looking down at the two. Vicky, however, was not the kind who gave up easily.

"Just a single question and we will leave you alone." Vicky said, looking at the Angel with Horns. "Very soon Bellwether will pass to the jurisdiction of the Enforcers, and she will be taken to the Association to be judged as a mage. What are your thoughts on the matter?"

Gazelle looked at the vixen for a few moments.

One question, one answer. She thought, and approached. She crouched to be more on level with the vixen, and spoke on her mic:

"Zootopia has suffered a lot due to Bellwether's actions." Gazelle said, "She sowed hatred and anger in our society. There are all kinds of mages out there, from the good to the bad, and Bellwether is one of the mages who chose to become a criminal, for one reason or another. I don't know what are the plans of the Association for her, but I honestly believe that they should not let her escape justice, and give her a fitting punishment that a mage can receive for having done what she did."

Vicky listened to what Gazelle said, and she nodded as she smiled, fully agreeing with what Gazelle had just said.

"Thank you." She said, and soon she and the beagle who held the camera were moving away. Gazelle sighed as she got back on her feet, only to sight even more mammals coming in her direction, all with mics and cameras.

Ay no.

Luckily, Tyson and Tyrell were there to hold the reporters back, but it did not prevented them from trying to reach her.

"Gazelle!" A pig said, as he approached followed by a donkey camera mammal. "Do you still feel safe around predators after the savage attacks two years ago?"

"Back off, dude." Tyson said, but the pig remained focused on Gazelle.

"Have you ever felt any fear that your tigers could become the next savage victims, maybe while you were having a show?"

Gazelle kept her face stony. She had already a whole deal of experience in dealing with paparazzi, and she knew that it was her reaction that they wanted, not Tyson's, and she already knew that she should not give it to them.

"No commentaries." She said as neutrally as she could, and the pig was a little disappointed, but he did not gave up.

"Is it true that you are considered the most attractive female of Zootopia?" The pig tried once more, now using a different tactic, "If so, then how come you are still single?"

"She said no commentaries! Now back off!" Tyson said, coming very close to bare his fangs at the pig.

"It is truth that you pretend to retire from singing to become a politician?" Said Mark Bisson, as he came to her followed close by a rhino cameramammal. "Is that because you wish to do more for society than you can as a singer? Or there is another reason why you are abandoning your fans?"

"Back off, dude!" Tyson said, now starting to lose his cool with these guys. "Gazelle came here to relax and enjoy the new mall, not to be swarmed by a bunch of vultures like you!"

"You can't prevent us from being here, tiger!" One of the reporters said, "Have you ever heard of press liberty?"

Tyson was about to growl at the reporter who said that. However, Tyrell was able to catch something on the corner of his eye, and his reaction was like the one of a lightning.

"Hey!" The tiger said, dashing surprisingly fast to the corpulent cheetah that had come out carrying something on his paw. "Thought you could get some cheap shot, huh? Well, think again, pal."

Tyrell was about to snatch the thing out of the cheetah's paw, and only then he saw that it was not a camera, but a wallet. At this moment, the wallet opened, revealing a ZPD badge inside.

Oh, crud. Tyrell thought, as he immediately let go of the cheetah. Benjamin walked past him, and he talked to the reporters that were swarming the popstar.

"Hey, you!" The cheetah said, gathering everyone's attention. "Officer Benjamin Clawhauser. I'm off duty, but I cannot let this escalate."

Clawhauser? Tyrell and Tyson both thought as they both stared at the cheetah. The officer continued to look at the reporters, who now had all of their attention on him.

"You are here harassing someone who is shopping, and I just cannot let that happen."

"Back off, copper!" One of the reporters, a beaver, said to the cheetah. "You have no right to tell us what to do!"

"Actually, he has." Said another voice, making everyone look over to see who had arrived now. It was a corpulent warthog in a security uniform, followed by two wolves and a tiger, the three wearing ZPD uniform.

"This mall has policies of its own." The warthog said, "One of them is that we are to disrupt any kind of disturbance that is being caused, and we also have authority to take outside someone who is causing ruckus, which includes harassing someone."

"We are doing our job!" Said one of the reporters, "We have press pass!"

"Your pass do not give you the right to harass a mammal who is shopping." Eliot Fanghanel said, "Now, you guys better stop now or you will- Pumpkin!" Eliot suddenly said as his gaze shifted. The reporters all looked at him confused, meanwhile, Chloe, whom the wolf just sighted, let out an exasperated sound as her husband caught sight of her, and she already know what was going to happen.

"Chloe! My Pumpkin!" Eliot said, waving his arms, as if he was trying to catch her attention. As if she had not seen him yet or if he was trying to stand out in the middle of a huge crowd. The others looked at him as he kept with his antics, it was Wolfard who stepped forward and talked to the reporters.

"You cannot harass someone for a story, as it clearly seems that you are doing." The wolf continued from where the other one had left. "Now, you either stop this right now or we'll arrest you and escort you out of this mall."

The reporters all looked at them, seeming like they wanted to protest, but they saw that there was no point in insisting, and they soon were leaving, though some of them still tried to get a shot at Gazelle and her tiger bodyguards, only for the cops and mall security to insist in them leaving.

Gazelle sighed in relief as they left, although her relief didn't lasted very long.

"Clawhauser, did I saw this tiger grabbing you by the wrist?" Wolfard asked, looking at the tiger, who was nervous all of sudden. However, he was relieved when the cheetah shook his head.

"It's okay, he didn't knew that I was a cop. I don't want to press charges."

Gazelle and the two tigers breathed in relief at this, feeling a wave of gratitude towards the cheetah. Still, the wolf turned to the tiger.

"Well, anyway, you should be more careful, Mr. ..." The wolf said, but stopped. Wolfard actually now felt quite bad for having forgotten the name of the dancers who performed with Gazelle.

"Tigereye." Tyrell said to him. "I'm Tyrell Tigereye."

"Well, Mr. Tigereye." Wolfard said, looking at the tiger. "You need to be more careful when acting. I know that your job includes protecting Gazelle, but you could easily get a caution for aggression like that."

"I'll have that in mind, sorry." Tyrell said, and he looked at Clawhauser. For a moment, both big cats traded looks, and the tiger nodded at him, to which the plump cheetah nodded back. To someone who was looking, that nod could almost seem of the conspiracy kind...

"Well, guess we'll be going." Said Fangmeyer, and Wolfard nodded, turning to look at Fanghanel, who was still in there with his wife, talking to her as if he had forgotten about everything. Chloe was smiling as her husband held her paws, although she knew that he was supposed to be focusing on his job instead of talking to her.

"Oy, Fanghanel!" The wolf said, "We have to go now. You can talk to your Misses later."

"Rock n' roll!" Someone cried out, causing many to turn their heads to look at the one who did. The one in question was a sheep who was dressed in a suit and tie, but he was behaving not in a way that someone dressed like that would behave. He had both his hooves up making some kind of sign with them, and he was bobbing his head as if he was hearing a song that no one else heard. The sheep was also not alone, as a group of mammals was imitating his actions, all of them of different species and different kinds of clothes, although all of them acted the same way, putting their paws or hooves up and making rock n' roll signs and bobbing their heads at the rhythm of a music that only they listened.

"Rock n' Roll!"

"Rock n' Roll, baby!"

"What the?" Fangmeyer said, as she and everyone else soon was taking knowledge of the group. And it seemed that they wanted attention, for while they walked, they continued to shout things like "Rock 'n roll" and "Sick music". Not only that, but they were starting to cause a ruckus, as one of them kicked a trash can, and the other used his big foot to roll a bench over.

"Oh, great, a bunch of agitators..." The warthog said, and Fanghmeyer decided to do something about that.

"Hey, you!" She said, walking to the group, who almost didn't seemed to recognize her presence, as they continued with their antics. "Hey, I'm talking to you guys!"

One wolf who was coming forward turned to her, and made a sign of horns with his paws as he screamed. "Rock n' roll!" The wolf looked almost out of his mind, he even had his tongue out of his mouth as he panted and drooled, and his eyes were wide, and the female tiger could swear that his pupils were glaze. Was this guy high on something?

"Yeah, okay, 'rock and roll', I get it." She spoke to the wolf. "Look, I don't know what you are doing, but you gotta stop it because-" she said as she placed a paw on the shoulder of the wolf, but it proved to be a big mistake, for the wolf immediately reacted to this by twisting his head and biting her arm.

It was not just a playful bite, and neither it seemed just to scare, for the wolf bit as hard as he could, and immediately broke the skin, prompting the tigress to scream as he arm started to bleed.

"Jessica!" Wolfard cried out, and everyone gasped as they looked at it. The wolf was over the tigress, and some of his pals soon came to help. They didn't bite, but they held her down and one of them even stole her dart gun. After a while, she managed to free herself from them, without her dart gun and with her arm bleeding from the bite.

"ROCK N' ROOOOOOOOOOLLLLL." The wolf cried out, almost howling as he did, and this was what it took for hell to star breaking loose, as the others in the group started to charge at the other mammals in the mall, punching, clawing or even biting. Some of them, the strongest ones, put themselves to lift the benches from the ground and toss them on nearby stores, shattering the glass. Some of them pulled out knives, pipes, and other improvised weapons that they had and started to use them to attack others and to vandalize the mall.

Soon mammals all around were running for their lives. Some of them stood there, in shock, as it was the case of Gazelle, who could not believe that it was really happening.

"Maria!" Tyson's voice broken her out, as he slammed a coyote that was going towards her, sending him flying as he howled. The canine landed heavily on the ground, but soon he was getting up, and he put his paws up.

"Rock n' roll!"

Tyson was fast to try and take Gazelle out of there, and many mammals were also trying to flee. However, there was another threat coming.

Other mammals were starting to vandalize the mall and attack the ones who were trying to run. They were not behaving crazy like the first group, but the cold expressions on their faces were just as disturbing, as they knocked the mammals out and started to carry them away.

"W-what?" Gazelle said, as she and Tyson both stopped, and she was still trying to process what was happening-

"Rock n' roll!" The cry made her turn around, in time to see a crazy-looking rhino charging at them.

---

Nick looked at them for a few moments, but he managed to diverge his look as the other tod glared at his direction.

Okay, that is really happening. Nick thought to himself, as he knew what was going on just a on the other bench. He was deep in thought at what was happening, and he wondered if Bellwether had any knowledge of the meaning of what she was doing with that tail now.

It was a fox thing, of course, and so most mammals would not have a deep knowledge of this. Still, Nick was a fox, and he knew very well what that meant, and so did the other fox, unless things were different in Pawland.

Nick wondered what the enforcers would think if they saw that...

Nick sighed as he looked outside, trying to distract himself from what was happening. He looked at the outside, and he noticed that it was actually a very nice day.

The birds were flying on the morning sky. The trees were changing their color in answer to autumn, painting them on hues that went from red to yellow. There were three burly elephants on football jackets charging in the direction of the van on all fours...

Wait, what?

The next thing that Nick and all the others in there knew was that the vehicle jolted violently as something heavy made contact with it. On the outside, the three elephants now seized the vehicle, pushing it with their trunks and with their arms, as if they were trying to figure out how to open it.

Other mammals came after them, as if they were following the three elephants through their running. Some of them were very controlled, with stony expressions and carrying weapons that looked to be made of stone, like clubs or even primitive swords. Others were far more agitated, as they had glazed eyes and maniacal smiles, and were carrying bricks, pipes, small army Swiss knives, and other improvised weapons.

Nick was tossed back and forth as the elephants shook the vehicle, trying to make sense of what was happening at the moment.

"K-Krys! What's going on!?" Bellwether asked, as she tried to hold on to the fox doctor, who was holding her in return.

Bogo was trying to make sense of things as well, as he took was tossed and turned as the elephants shook the vehicle, seemingly trying to destroy it.

All of sudden, the whole world flipped for these four mammals, as the elephants, in a combined effort, flipped the van over on its side. Once they did, the three stood before the flipped vehicle, rose their arms, and cried out:

"Rock n' roll!"

At this, some of the mammals who had come after the elephants rose their paws and hooves in agreement, as if it was a celebration. However, the other mammals remained with their stony faces. Among them, a rhino and a cheetah who were walking to the flipped vehicle.

The ones inside were still recovering. Nick had his head pounding, and Bellwether was almost hanging as the chains on his cuffs were still bound to the chain that came from the ground, which was now turned to the side as the van had been flipped. Suddenly, the doors of the van were rip away from their hinges, as a rhino and a cheetah both peered inside.

Bellwether looked at them in fear, especially when the rhino came in her direction. However, the rhino simply ripped her chains from the ground, and started to pull the ewe out of the vehicle.

"H-hey! Who are you? What? Let me go!" The ewe cried, and Mieczyslaw was quick to recover.

"Dawn!" He cried out, and he seemed to be ready to do something, but the cheetah was faster. He advanced and smacked the fox on the face with the back of his hand, sending his with his head on the metal wall of the van. Soon the fox was slumping unconscious.

"Krys!" Bellwether cried out as she was carried by the rhino. Meanwhile, the cheetah reached out for the unconscious fox and pulled him by the leg without any care. Soon, the two mammals were being dragged out of the vehicle, leaving Nick behind.

"H-hey!" Nick said, now starting to recover, and instinctively reaching out for his gun and aiming up, but the two mammals were out of his vision now.

Suddenly, the vehicle started to move again. However, this movement was accompanied by booming and by the sound of glass breaking and metal bending, as the elephants who had flipped the van now looked like they wanted to smash it. Meanwhile, Bellwether and Mieczyslaw were both taken. The fox was not resisting due to being unconscious and with a line of blood leaking from a wound on his head, while the ewe was crying out, ordering the one carrying her to let her go despite the rhino clearly having no intention of obeying.

The crowd that had formed now had dispersed, as they wanted to avoid whatever was that that was happening. The mammals in there, both the ones who were acting crazy and the ones that looked like soldiers, were doing a very good job at intimidating the crowd, as it seemed that no one would dare to stand on their way.

However, Judy Hopps was not like most mammals.

She had been shocked to see the car being attacked by elephants, and even more when she saw these deranged mammals now trying to crush the car, with Nick and Chief Bogo still inside. However, the bunny didn't remained motionless for long, as she soon pulled out her dart gun and fired at one of the elephants, hitting his big behind.

"Rock n' roooooooll...~" The pachyderm said before slumping to the ground. The other two, however, seemed unfazed, and still determined to crush the car. Meanwhile, the other mammals seemed to have noticed where the shot came from, and had their attention turned to the bunny.

Judy had to run to avoid the bricks and stone swords that were throw her way. Luckily, help soon came, as the other officers were coming forth and given her back up as she came to them.

Meanwhile, the mammals who were inside of the building of the Superior Court were drawn outside by the sound of the ruckus that was going on. Sully was angry for having the interview that would make them famous interrupted, but that soon changed as he, along with the two enforcers and his two friends, saw what was going on outside.

"Oh, by Mieczyslaw..." Said Emilia as she looked at that, and she saw the car being stomped on. "Krys is in there!"

"And so is Bellwether." Marceli said, as they both looked at the scene.

"Man!" Sully said, "Patrick, are you recording this?"

"Looks like the interview will be for another time." Marceli said to the teenagers, "Emilia, we have work to do."

"Right!" The vixen said, and she pulled out something that she had hidden in her clothes, which looked like a short sword or another kind of similar weapon. Soon, both foxes were charging in direction to battle.

"Keep filming them!" Sully said to his hyena friend. "Patrick, keep filming them!"

Back on the place, the cops had formed a half-moon around the mammals, and they were trying to dart as much as they could. They successfully darted a few, but the others looked like they barely felt the darts on their bodies.

"We need to get them under control!" Judy said to her fellow officers. "And we need to get them away from the vehicle! Nick and the Chief are both there!"

"Okay, and how do we do it?" McHorn asked, as he took a break from firing to reload his dart gun. As he did, two blurs passed by them.

Emilia and Marceli both dashed in direction to the mammals, and they were able to dodge a few blows. It seemed that the foxes were skilled in close combat, as they were able to dodge the blows of the mammals and even deliver a few of their own. Emilia had just knocked out a rhino with a punch to his temple, while Marceli tripped a hippo with a swipe of his legs.

"Wow! These foxes can fight!" Said Delgato as he peered from the place he had been taking cover. McChill was by his side, and he was peering too, and he had to admit, even though begrudgingly, that these foxes had skills. As well as the other cops who were seeing them fight with the many mammals.

"Rock n' roll!"

"Rock n' roll!"

Some of the mammals continued to cry out as they were tried to hit the foxes, while the other half continued to attack in silence and with stony expressions.

"Hey, Uncle?" Emilia said, "The expression on their eyes..."

"Yeah, I noticed." Marceli said, as he and Emilia both got surrounded by the mammals.

Judy looked at them being surround, and a loud sound called her attention, making her look back at the two elephants who looked like they were still trying to platen out the police van and its occupants with it.

Oh, my gosh. Nick! She thought, and turned to the two foxes. "Nick and Bogo are still in that van!"

The foxes looked at her, and turned to the van in question. They share a look among themselves, with Emilia showing her blade to the tod. Marceli looked for a moment, and he nodded.

With this, the vixen reached out for something inside her clothes, and pulled out what seemed to be three pebbles. With swift movements, she placed the pebbles inside three holes that the blade had on its hilt. As soon as they were in place, she started to say something:

" Sowilo._ Ansuz_._ Thurisaz_. _ ** Mieczyslaw** _!"

With this, the blade of her weapon started to glow, and soon, it was involved in flames that glowed in the same light as the ones of the aurora. It was something quite spectacular, but not more than what she did next.

As the mammals around her tried to attack, she instantly swung the blade, and the flames jumped out of it and hit the mammals. Instantly, they were covered from head to toe on the glowing flames.

"By the Great Kings!" Delgato exclaimed on surprise.

"What the heck is that pelt doing!?" Said McChill as he, along with the other officers, saw as the mammals were engulfed in flames.

However, instead of starting to scream and beat their own bodies to put down the flames, the mammals were acting as if the flames didn't hurt them. However, they did started to slow down and, after around five seconds, the flames disappeared on their own, and the mammals feel to their knees. They looked around, panting and looking confused, but they were completely unharmed.

Emilia did not wasted her time, as she immediately dashed once more, charging through the mammals with surprising speed. Each time she moved, she swung her blade, sending forward tongues of the aurora fire into the mammals, and this fire quickly involved them, lingering on their bodies with flames of blue, green and purple colorations.

She soon covered all of the mammals who were attacking, and then, she turned to the van, which was now close of being truly smashed, and dashed to it. With a mighty jump, she made a mortal leap over the head of one of the elephants and landed on the van.

"Rock n' roll?" The elephant said, looking at the vixen. Emilia looked back at him with a smile and a wink, before she swung her blade once more, sending these flames into the two elephants' heads. The flames lingered on their heads, as the two stumbled backwards. They burned for solid seven seconds, before vanishing form their heads as if they had never existed and leaving behind no harm done to the pachyderms.

The two big mammals looked confused, as well as part of the mammals who had been hit by the flames. Some of the mammals had received no damage from the flames, and they had not been marked in any visible way, and not even their clothes had been damaged. All that happened to them was that they were left confused as to what had just happened.

However, the other half of the mammals who had been involved by the flames were not like that. For once the flames went off, they no longer looked the same, as their clothes had vanished, as well as their appearance as mammals. Now they looked like living statues made out of polished stone and with lenses in place of eyes.

"What the heck?" McChill asked, as he, like many others, didn't truly understood what had just happened.

What were these things?

Judy knew the answer, for she had seen something similar to it just days before.

"Golems..." The bunny said to herself as she looked at the mammal-like living statues.

These statues wasted no time, and they immediately tried to attack Marceli, only for the fox to dodge out of the way and place the pad of his paw into the chest of the thing.

" Hagalaz." The fox said, and immediately, his paw glowed on the point it touched the golem. As he removed his paw from there, now there was a runic symbol marked on the point he touched. With amazing agility and strength, the fox grabbed the golem by the arm and swung it hard, sending it crashing against another golem.

Many of the mammals cried out, and all of them scrambled away from the two things that were made of stone and looked like mammals. That was what Marceli expected.

Pointing his paw pad to the golem, Marceli said once more:

" Hagalaz."

With this, a symbol glowed on the paw of his pad and the symbol that had been printed on the golem (which was the exact same of his paw) glowed, right before it caused a combustion, resulting in an explosion that destroyed both golems, raising a wave of dust.

"What the!?" McChill said.

"Sweet cheese and crackers!" Judy exclaimed aloud as she witnessed that scene.

Many looked completely startled, and the mammals who had been attacking now were fleeing the scene. Meanwhile, Marceli just remained in place as he looked at the place where the two golems had just explode, his expression emotionless. Although it was possible to see his cheek twitching slightly...

"Uncle!" Emilia cried out as she saw one of the golems rushing to the black tod, its stone weapon on hand and ready to use it. The vixen wasted absolutely no time, as she flexed her legs and bounded forward. She covered a very good deal of ground on that. As the golem rose its weapon, Emilia gave two more bounds with her legs, and she was on the way on the moment that the weapon was going down on the tod.

The vixen managed to parry it with her own blade, and then, she managed to push back the golem. Right after, she clenched her fist, which glowed slightly, and she punched the golem on the chest.

This punch was enough to break the stone chest of the golem, which then crumbled to the ground. Its eye-lenses glowed a bit, before they went out.

Marceli looked back at her, and Emilia only smiled at him. However, this distraction was what it took for another golem to come at her, his weapon ready and striking. Luckily, Emilia was not hit, but the blow made her weapon fly out of her paw and fall away from her.

The vixen was surprised, but she recovered quickly. She looked at the golem who had attacked her, and immediately adopted a fighting stance. As she did, her fists both started to glow slightly, and she then charged at the golem. The stone creature immediately reacted, swinging its blade at the vixen, aiming for her neck. Emilia, however, used her closed fist to deflect the stone blade, and answered with a punch to the leg of the golem, completely shattering it and sending the stone being into the ground. As it was trying to get up Emilia, fast like a lightning, stepped over it and gave a punch to the head of the golem that completely shattered it.

More golems were coming, but Emilia was soon proving to be too much for them, as she dodged or deflected their weapons and answered with a flurry of punches and kicks that were able to shatter the stone that composed the bodies of the golems. All of that under the amazed eyes of the ZPD and of some of the mammals who had not ran away when the mess started. One or two of them were even filming the fight with their cellphones.

Emilia had already managed to break a few golems with this, and only four of them were left. Three of them were stepping back, apparently retreating from fighting the vixen, while another one, the biggest of the four, shaped like a rhino, was now advancing, and he was carrying a big stone sword that was almost as big as it was tall. It truly looked fearsome.

The golem swung the sword, and immediately, Emilia brought her two arms in front of her body, blocking the attack. However, the strength of the blow was still enough to send her flying back a few meters, landing painfully on the ground. Emilia grunted as she felt her arms sting in the place where the blade hit her.

The golem was charging for another attack, and the other mammals all looked in horror as it seemed that the vixen was going to meet her end.

However, Marceli was faster, as he rushed to the golem and jumped in a way that he came very close to the face of the golem. It seemed to startle it, as it stopped and stumbled backwards. Meanwhile, Marceli pulled out his own blade from his clothes, and immediately swung it. It didn't do a lot of damage, but it managed to leave a deep cut on the stone that was the body of the golem.

As the golem stumbled backwards, this was what Emilia needed to recover and to resume her attack, as she jumped over her uncle and deliver two successive punches on the chest of the golem, cracking the stone and forcing it to stumble backwards even more. Now both of the foxes took turns in attacking the golem, Emilia with her fists and Marceli with his dagger, and both of them successfully pushing the golem back.

At some point, the golem went down on one knee, and this was what Marceli needed. The black tod immediately thrust his paw into the chest of the golem, pressing his pad into it.

"Hagalaz!" The fox said, and his paw pad glowed, printing the runic symbol on the chest of the golem. The thing reacted quickly by trying to punch the fox. However, Marceli swiftly dodged the blow and pressed his paw on the arm of the thing, which once more glowed, and the rune was now printed on the arm of the golem. With one final movement, Marceli passed beneath the golem and pressed his paw on the leg, printing the rune a third time on the leg of the entity.

With this, Emilia clenched both of her fists and slammed them on the head of the golem as hard as she could. This caused cracks to appear on the head, but it did not shattered. However, it did made the golem stumble backwards and retreat, now grouping with the other three golems.

As the two foxes looked, they stood at a distance. Marceli simply raised his paw, the pad turned to the golem, and the rune tattooed on his pad glowed. Immediately, the three identical runes that had been printed on the body of the golem glowed, before they reacted violently, causing the three marks to explode at the same time.

The result was a big explosion that startled all of the mammals around. Many of them ducked out of the way or fell flat on their rumps from the scare. Pieces of broken stone and golem parts flew everywhere.

As soon as the dust settled, there was a small crater where once was the rhino-like golem, and broken pieces of it and the other golems laid around, like pieces of broken toys.

"Wow..." Someone standing near Judy said, as she, along with everyone, looked at the two foxes, baffled at what they had just witnessed. Judy continued to look at them as they turned around and ran in direction to the broken van.

Nick!

Judy soon bounded as she rushed to the broken van. The two foxes arrived there first, and they were already climbing on it to look inside.

"Krys? Krys!" Emilia said, as she looked through the open door, hoping to see her cousin inside, but she only saw Officer Wilde in there.

"Krys, are you there? Krys?" She said, and as she did, her uncle came by her side and looked inside. Right at this same moment, Judy hopped into the van and looked inside too.

"Nick!" She cried out as she saw her fox friend. "Nick, are you okay?"

Nick recovered a little bit, feeling his body.

"Do I look like a red pancake?"

"No."

"Then I'm fantastic!" The fox said, and Marceli had been looking around, and he saw no signs of the ewe or of his nephew.

"Where is Bellwether?"

"And where's Krys?"

"They took them." Nick said to them, "Before the elephants started to try and crush this like a soda can, a rhino and a cheetah came and took Bellwether and the doctor."

"Did they came to free her?" Judy asked, wondering if this was all a plan to help Bellwether escape.

"Well, she didn't wanted like she wanted to go with them, she was trashing." Nick explained. "The doctor tried to save her, but they knocked him out, and then they took both of them away."

"Took them where?" Marceli asked, to which nick answered.

"I don't know, what was when the elephants started to pound the van and I started to feel as if I was in a trash compactor."

Judy didn't truly liked this metaphor, as the image of Nick being crushed under the metal truly disturbed her.

"Oh, Nick..." Judy said to him, "I'm so glad you are okay."

"I'm okay too." Bogo's voice suddenly said, coming from the front seat. "Thank you very much for asking."

Judy suddenly remembered that the Chief was in the van too, and she felt ashamed of herself for forgetting.

"Oh, sorry Chief! Are you okay?"

"Got a bump on my forehead, and feel like I'm inside a sardine can, but other than that I'm fine." The buffalo said, "What is happening out there? I heard explosions."

"Just dealing with some problems." Marceli said to them, "But, are you sure you didn't saw where the mammals took Bellwether and Krystin?"

"Yeah, we were kind of distracted when the elephants decided to try and smash the van with us inside. I guess they only wanted these two." Nick said, he tried to move, but the van had been significantly damaged, and it was hard to move inside. "Could you guys give me a paw getting out of here?"

"We need to find Krystin and Bellwether." Marceli said, and Bogo agreed with him.

"He is right." The buffalo said, "We need to find these two before the ones who took them go too far. Set up a perimeter around the area and start searching."

Judy wanted to stay there with her partner, but she knew that Bogo was right, and even Nick agreed, as he told her to find the doctor and the ewe. Judy nodded, and soon, she and the two foxes were moving away from the van, while the other officers came to check on them.

"We need to move now." Judy said to Delgato and McChill.

"What about the Chief?" McChill said.

"He and Officer Wilde are okay, but they are stuck into the van." The bunny said, "But we need to find Bellwether and Dc. Mieczyslaw. During the attack they both were taken by the mammals. We need to set up a perimeter and start to search for them right now!"

With this, the cops were quickly mobilized, and they started to go around looking for the ewe and fox who were being carried by a rhino and a cheetah. They looked for a while stablishing a perimeter. As Judy looked, she suddenly saw Trunkaby coming nearby, he looked wounded and panting.

"Hey, hey!" McChill said to him, "Take deep breaths." The polar bear said, and he panted as he tried to say something, but he was too winded to actually talk.

"T-they were attacking everyone." The elephant said, "T-they were taking them inside and attacking who tried to leave. T-then these ones came from the outside carrying Bellwether and a fox."

Judy had been walking on their direction to talk to the elephant, and she heard what he just said.

"Wait! Did you saw Bellwether and Dc. Mieczyslaw?" She asked, looking at the elephant, who looked back at her.

"Y-yeah... They were being carried by a cheetah and a rhino, Bellwether looked like she wanted to escape and the fox was unconscious. I passed by them when I was getting out of the mall, before they blocked the door. T-they are in there now."

"So, they took Bellwether inside the mall?" Judy asked, "Are they holding them inside?"

"They are holding everyone inside." The elephant said, "There are a lot of mammals in there who area attacking everyone. Many crazy mammals screaming 'rock and roll' and stuff, breaking the stores and vandalizing the place. And also all of these mammals that don't show emotion and attack everyone and drag them away. They took the entire mall. I managed to get out before they blocked the front exit, but there is still a lot of mammals inside. It looks like they are taking the entire mall hostage!"

Judy looked at him for a few moments, as her eyes widened. She looked back at the mall, now seeing a lot of mammals gathered around the entrance, and the front doors really looked like they had been blocked with whatever was handy. She felt a sense of dread as she realized that Trunkaby was saying the truth.

By Frith! My family is in there! And so are Ben and the others!

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The inside of the mall, bursting with activity and happy mammals just an hour ago, now was deserted and almost looking like a scene out of a post-apocalyptic movie. Broken windows on the stores. Trash everywhere, coming from turned and destroy trashcans. There were even some areas with vegetation around that had been set on fire.

The mammals who had not managed to flee the mall now had either been taken by these guys who took the place or hiding. As it was the case of a certain cheetah.

Benjamin Clawhauser peered over a corner, checking if there was no one on the way, or if there was anything in there that could mean problem. As soon as he saw that the coast was clear, he was able to breathe a sigh of relief and to continue to walk.

Benjamin was still asking himself how something like that could have happened. It was everything so perfect. Everyone was calm and happy. Benjamin himself was happy. Then all of sudden, it was a mad dash for survival and to try and get away from the mammals who were attacking everyone and breaking the mall.

Mammals were running, almost stepping over each other, as they tried to escape the madness as fast as they could. Many mammals seemed to have managed to find their way out, however, Ben was pretty sure that many, like himself, had ended up stranded in the place.

However, what was worse was that, in the middle of the running and the mess of mammals screaming and trying to escape, he had gotten lost from the mammals who were with him. The many bunnies and the thylacine had disappeared from his sight, as they were taken by the tide of running mammals, and now their fate was unknown.

Ben was worried about Chloe Fanghanel, for he already saw that these mammals had no qualms on attacking female and cubs. However, he also knew that she was with Eliot, and he saw how protective the wolf was of her, as he alone fend off two rhinos who tried to get to her, and Ben was pretty sure that Eliot was with her wherever she was.

His greater worry was the Hoppses. Now, he didn't considered them helpless just for being bunnies, but he was sure that they had not the same skills that Judy had. Not only that, but there was a really young and defenseless bunny with them. The thought that something could have happened to them after they got separated from Ben. The cheetah was not sure how he would be able to face Hopps if that happened.

Suddenly, a noise behind himself made the cheetah snap back into reality, letting out a surprised squeal as he instinctively turned around on fighting stance, only to find a very scared gazelle looking back at him.

However, Ben soon realized that this was not just any gazelle. But that it was Gazelle herself.

The popstar had a tear on her dress, and she was limping from one of her legs. She had a wound on her thigh, and while not seeming to be big, it was bleeding and looked like it was quite painful.

She was panting as she looked at him, and it was clear in her eyes that she was scared. Ben quickly recomposed himself, not wanting to make her more nervous than she already clearly was.

"H-hey." Ben said, trying to think of what to say now, but Gazelle beat him to it.

"I-I got lost from my friends." She said, and Ben knew that she was referring to the two tigers. "They were trying to take me to an exit, but we got ambushed. T-they came from all sides, and the two tried to fend them off, but they were many... T-they told me to run and... a-and I just..."

She was shaking and Ben knew what he needed to do. He walked to her and gently held her by the shoulders.

"I-its okay." Ben said to her. "Calm down. Take deep breaths. It will be okay, I'm here now."

Gazelle held back into him, and she looked into his eyes.

"C-could you help me?" She asked, her voice was shaken and, to Ben, it seemed that she was fighting back the urge to cry. "I-I don't know the place. I'm lost and I don't know where to go."

Truth was, Ben too didn't knew where to go, and he was pretty sure that he had gotten lost as well. However, there was no way that he could bring himself to say something like that to someone who was in need, especially when it came to his idol.

Of course, under any other circumstance, Ben would be giddy and bubbly for having the chance to be face to face with Gazelle and to talk to her. Goodness Gracious, he was actually touching her right now. However, this was a moment of danger and tension, and he knew that there was no space for fanboying right now.

She didn't needed a crazy fan at the moment, she needed someone who could actually help her.

And Ben was willing and ready to be that someone.