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It's a Wonderful World chapter 2 "Mona Lisa (When the World Comes Down)"

25 November, 2012. Three days ago.

"Come on guys! Hurry! You go on in ten!" Their manager shouted as he rushed through the stage ensuring that everything was in order.

"Are you nervous?" The grey rabbit asked his adoptive son.

"I'm scared shitless. Of course that's to be expected since this is our first show with an audience larger than fifty. There is a whole stadium worth of furs out there!" Arxidan replied, a worried look planted on his face.

"Don't worry about a thing, you guys rock, and you're going to rock tonight. It's going to be fine," His boyfriend, Rex, assured him.

"What if I forget the notes to play?" Jude asked Caine.

"You're not going to though. You have the best memory of anyfur I have ever known," Caine said to build up Jude's confidence.

"You ready for this Ryo?" His mother asked him.

"Yeah, I guess so," he replied with a dull voice.

"Come on foxy, I want more enthusiasm than that!" Luke, the blue otter and Ryo's boyfriend, says coming into view.

"You came!" Ryo ran up and wrapped his arms around the blue fur.

"Of course I did. How could I miss my boyfriend's first big concert? I'm glad your mom flew me down here."

"Thanks mom!" Ryo shouts out to his mom. His relationship with his mom has really grown since his dad left them. Ryo never really got a reason why he did, but it didn't bother him that much. His mom has been really supportive about his relationship with Luke over the last year and has tried to preserve it even as Luke lives in Riverside, going to college at UCR. "God! I missed your fur. I almost forgot how soft it is."

"You should calm down a tad Ryo, you're going to melt your guitar, not to mention the fact that you only have about five minutes until you have to go out there and perform."

"Yeah, I guess you're right, but before that," he cuts off mid-sentence and presses his lips against Luke's. "God that feels so good!"

"You're telling me. Regardless of how much I would like to continue, I should let you finish getting ready, I'll be watching you."

"And I you."

"When you said that we were going to a concert, it would have been nice to have known that it was your concert," Oscar said as he looked in awe around the stage.

"Where would be the fun in that," Nero replied to his once upon a time tormentor. Last month Oscar came to apologize to Nero. He said that the reason he was so mean to him was because that he was struggling with his own sexuality. Whenever he saw Nero he felt something in his chest and he misinterpreted it as anger and thus acted out in that way.

"Everybody who isn't in the band has to leave, right now!" The manager shouts as he ushers people out of the stage.

"Alright, well that's our cue," Josh pulls Andrew along as he makes his way out.

"We'll be in the front row watching you guys," Caine throws his arms around the shoulders of Rex and Luke. "Come on Oscar." They all leave to join the crowd.

"Well, looks like it's just about time isn't it," Jude said with a tinge of uncertainty.

"Yup, why am I shaking?" Ryo says as his voice cracks a bit.

"Pre-show jitters. It will pass, I hope," Nero says with uncertainty of his own.

"We're going to do amazing, don't worry about it. Let's rock this world!" Arxy shouts with excitement as the curtain separating them from the sea of furs parts.

"Calm down Ashe, and tell me what is going on... They're starting right now? I thought you said that we still had a few hours! Fuck! Alright so where is the epicenter? But that's just across the street from here!" Josh answers the phone just off stage as the band begins playing. He quickly runs on stage, causing the band to stop playing. The crowd roared.

"What's up Josh?" Arxy asks.

"We have to leave!"

"We're in the middle of a concert!"

"You don't understand, if you stay, you are going to die."

"And how is that going to happen?" Josh's attention goes to the far end of the stadium where a flick of white enters into the group as the furs in the back begin turning white.

"Ferals," he says simply.

"Why are they attacking?"

"They aren't attacking, just go!"

"What about Rex and the others in the audience?"

"I'll make sure they make it out safely," Andrew says before he runs off stage to warn them.

"Alright, let's go!" Josh yells as the five furs run off into the back exit. They run down the hallway and exit to find Josh's car just down the way. They make a mad dash towards it.

"Holy fuck, get the hell off me!" Ryo yells as he is pounced on by a white furred lion with splashes of a red liquid around his maw. The others rush to help him, pulling the lion off and restraining him.

"You alright Ryo?" Josh asks as he lifts him up.

"Absolutely wonderful aside from the fact that I just got a huge bite mark in my arm," he moves his hand to reveal the bloodied holes in his flesh. He looks back at the feral who attacked him. His red raging eyes turn white as he heads towards the fur. "I'm going to rip your freaking head off, you ass hole!" he yells as the others look in amazement and horror.

"Um, Ryo," Jude says timidly.

"What the hell do you want?!" he barks as his rage redirects.

"You're on fire." Ryo stops in his place as he looks down to find his arm with an red flame around it.

"In that case, I'll melt your face off!" He roars as he places his paw on the lion's face and thoroughly chars it. After the immediate rage subsides he looks at his arm as the red flame begins to subside.

"So we have a pyrokinetic in our midst," Josh says just loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Talk, rabbit! You know something you're not telling us!" Ryo yells as his arm reignites. "What the hell is happening to me!"

"Just calm down Ryo. Once your arm fire douses, get in the car and I'll tell you as we drive," Josh says in a soothing voice as Ryo's flame dwindles and eventually subsides. They all file into the car, Arxy in the front seat and Nero in between Jude and Ryo in the back.

"What's happening Josh?" Jude asks feeling desperate to know. Josh turns on the car and begins to drive.

"Well, I'm not really a psychologist. I really worked for a company called Variable Technologies," he begins to explain. "They do a lot of research on genetics and have discovered that ferality runs in the genetics of almost every fur. I worked with them in producing a drug that activates that gene. They said it was going to be tinkered with to be used on soldiers to make them stronger and faster. When I got word that they were changing the plans I looked into it deeper and found out that they were planning on changing the drug into a virus and using it as a weapon. I was still working with them at that point and I found out that they were planning on releasing it in a city to see the destructive potential of it. As you can see, Redwood was chosen as that city."

"What about my flaming arm?" Nero asks trying to keep calm.

"Normally, when bodily fluids are traded between a fur and a fur turned feral with the drug, some of the drug is introduced into the blood stream of the fur and he almost instantaneously turns feral due to the drugs nature. In some furs cases, such as yours, you are resistant towards the drug. You know how you have been having your body increase in temperature-"

"I never told you that, I never told anybody that! How do you know?"

"I worked with your parents at Variable Tech. Well, as I was saying. With a part of your feral gene activated, it has amplified the effect, thus you have your pyrokinesis and your now white eyes."

"So I have pyrokinesis. That's quite a lot to process. I always dreamed of having super powers, and now that I sort of do, I'm kind of freaking out." Silence overtook the car as they drove through the city.

"Where are we going?" Arxy asks.

"Yeah, I've been wondering that also," Jude says from the back.

"This will get out of hand really quickly. We need to get out of town and a car won't cut it. We're headed for the air field. I have a plane there that can fit all of us. Arxy, could I borrow your phone?"

"It's no good, I don't have any service," he replied.

"Just let me see it," he says as Arxidan puts it in his paw. Josh pulls a device out of the center compartment and attaches it to Arxy's cell phone. He inputs a number and holds it to his ear. "Andrew. We're meeting at the air field still right? Good. What's the status on the boys? They're all okay? That's good to hear, it'll certainly relieve some tension over here... What is it?... Alright then. See you at the air field, honey. Love you too." he looks to his right to pass Arxy his phone back.

He looks up to find a fur mere feet from the front bumper of the Lexus. He swerves to try to avoid it and loses control of the car, crashing it into one of the trees that line the road.

"Is everybody okay?" Josh immediately turns around to check. They all groan a confirmation, roll their necks, and rub their shoulders.

"So we have to walk the rest of the way I presume?" Ryo asks in an annoyed voice.

"Yeah, the car is totaled," Josh answers.

"Just great, could this day get any worse. First, we have to cancel our first big concert, then I find out that I'm going to spontaneously combust every now and then, then our car crashes and we have to walk all the way to the air field, and now I have to kick this feral's ass!" his arm bursts into flames as he throws the door open, leaving a small flame to devour the car. He marches towards the dark brown coyote in the street, his right paw clenched into a fist. His mind is clouded by anger. He is colorblind with rage as his march turns into a run.

"Ryo, Calm down! That isn't a feral," Arxy says as he takes hold of Ryo's arm that isn't aflame and gets a hold on him. The coyote looks over to the flaming fox and begins to run in the opposite direction.

"Let me go Arxy, I'd hate to see you get burnt. Let me kill this bastard!" He roars as he tries to wrestle himself out of Arxy's grip. As the fur makes his way around a corner and out of view, Arxidan releases Ryo.

"You can't go around killing everyfur who looks at you wrong, you have to control your anger, and you have to remember that a feral has white fur, otherwise an unarmed fur isn't going to hurt you. And shit will go down if you burn a random fur. Just relax and let's go," Arxy pleas to the enraged male.

"Fine! He's gone anyways. How far is the airfield from here?" His face fills with obvious shame despite his attempt to play it off.

"Only about two miles. It shouldn't take us too long, so long as we get going," Josh explained.

"Then let's get on the road!" Ryo exclaimed as he began marching.

"Wrong way man," Arxy said as he grabbed his shoulder and turned him around.

"Thanks," he replied, trying not to look embarrassed.

The five of them began walking in the direction of the airfield. They look back occasionally to see the smoke billowing from the destruction of the city. With every time that they turn around, the smoke gets closer and closer.

"You've been really quiet Nero, what's going on? You alright there?" Jude looks over at the fox with a solemn look on his face. Nero makes a large gulp before speaking.

"Yeah, I'm fine," He gives an incredulous reply.

"You could tell me, come on. Don't you trust me?"

"I'm fine, it's just that, all this shit is happening, and I'm really scared. It's starting to get harder for me to stand up let alone walk. At any moment we could get ambushed by a group of ferals. Any second Ryo might get angry and immolate somefur. We don't know the extent of his power, what if he can explode if he gets angry enough? I fear not only for our safety, but for his, who knows what might happen, he might have a spot on his body that can't resist the flame or something else that would hurt him. Either way I don't think that catching fire everytime you get angry is healthy."

"Yeah, you're probably right, but there's nothing we can do to fix that, all that we can do is help him in any way we can to prevent him from doing anything dangerous."

"Yeah, I guess you're right," he admits to himself as they continue walking down the now abandoned street. The houses are dark, the driveways are empty, and the whole street is quiet. This is actually one of the richer neighborhoods in the town.

"How did these people get out, did they know?" Jude asks as he looks around at the empty houses.

"Variable Tech has a very big research facility in this town, a lot of Redwood's economy revolves around it so there are a lot of furs around here with jobs with them and they pay pretty generously. These streets are mostly the researchers, top scientists, and the business managers," Josh explains.

"Of course it's the rich 'important' people who are forewarned before the world goes to hell. How could a company be so careless? They are killing so many furs. Not to mention property damage and the danger of it spreading. What could they be thinking?" Arxy asks. They turn around to see the city glowing with the flames of destruction.

"They don't care. Variable tech is too concerned about their financial status to care about anyfur else. They would destroy the whole United States before they lose their money," Josh explains.

"Hey guys! Look! There's the airfield!" Nero exclaims.

"Yeah and there's the others," Jude shouts as he runs towards the four other furs. He wraps his arms around Caine, embracing the warmth of his mate. Arxy and Nero run towards their respective boyfriends and do the same. Ryo runs towards them as well and stops when he only sees four furs. He looks towards Andrew with a pleading stare. Andrew simply nods his head and stares at him. Ryo drops to his knees, a blue flame slowly starts growing over his arm.

"I can't take this. I fucking hate this day. I just want to wake up from this nightmare in the arms of my beautiful otter, but I can't. This isn't a dream. I'm not going to open my eyes and see the ceiling of my bedroom. Maybe it's best I just let the ferals devour me. At least it would help get rid of this pain. Of course knowing me, I would probably catch fire, preventing myself from being eaten," Ryo begins crying as he looks at the blue flame covering his arms. "Why me? Why can't this happen to somefur besides me?" The white fox's fur is matted from tears and his eyes are swollen and red.

"Sorry to break up the happy reunion, but we have to go. We have company," Josh says after he turned around to find a group of white furred anthros heading their way. The three foxes diverted their attention from their mates to the group of about ten ferals.

"Fuck that's a lot of ferals, do you think we can out run them?" Jude asks.

"Not a chance," Andrew replies.

"So what are our choices?" Arxy asks with urgency.

"Fight," Ryo says getting up from his sorrow. The blue flame enlarges as he walks towards the ferals.

"I'm sorry Jude, I just can't contain it any longer, I love you. Please, remember me as your arctic wolfie and not what I'll become," Caine looks down at Jude with a loving gaze in his blue eyes.

"What are you talking about?" Jude asks with a scared chuckle.

"You might want to let go of me right now, I'm sorry I wasn't more careful. I don't want you to feel held back because of me, go on, live your life," Caine said. Jude was holding him tighter than ever, almost crushing his ribs. Caine closed his eyes for a prolonged period of time. When he reopens them his eyes are a blank white. The enhanced fur looks down at Jude. Where once, lust resided, hunger and aggression now lie. The all white wolf opens his muzzle and digs his teeth into Jude's shoulder.

So this is it? This is what my life amounts to? The only thing I will leave behind is the fact that I was the lead guitarist of a band that almost was. This sucks. As a feral I'm probably going to either eat a few people or get burned alive by Ryo right now. I hate this! The rest of my life spent as a mindless zombie. The worst part about it is the fact that my boyfriend did this to me. Sure, it'd probably make for a good story, but its a boring life. No! I refuse, I refuse to be a killer! I refuse to let my mind be wasted by this gene. I refuse to be feral!

He reopened his eyes. He looked at his paws to find them completely white. He started panicking. He looked around to find his boyfriend on the ground beside him with a bullet in his head. He looks back down at his paws to find that they are their regular red. He sighed with relief as he lifted himself off the ground.

"What the hell is going on here? Wasn't Jude just a feral? He still has the eyes though doesn't he? So, is he like Ryo? Rex?" he turns back to find Rex just staring at him. "No! Rex, please! Don't do this to me! Come on fight it! Fight it for me! Look at me, look at my eyes. I love you, I can't live without you. Please, don't. You're strong enough to fight it!" Arxy begins crying. Rex lifts up a paw and wipes the tears from Arxy's eyes.

"Sorry, babe. This is happening and there isn't anything that I can do to prevent it." He looks down at his arm at the claw wound. "life happens and sometimes you just have to deal with it. Please, move on. Don't waste your life mourning over me. I do have one last request though, kiss me one more time," Rex says trying to keep strong, but unable to hold back a few tears.

"Anything for you." Arxy closes his eyes and moves his muzzle closer to Rex's.

"Arxy don't!" Josh yells looking over at the couple. Their muzzles meet and their tongues meet. A couple seconds into the kiss the two furs disappear from sight. Josh looks around and finds them on the roof of a hardware store.

"Damn it! Arxy! Get back over here!" Josh yells from the middle of the street. Their kiss ends and Arxy looks over at Josh. Suddenly, he appears next to him.

"What just happened?" Arxy asked as a bewildered look made it's way onto his face.

"You teleported instead of ripping people's heads of." He pulls out a pistol. "I said that bodily fluids make a fur a feral didn't I?" He points it at the white wolf in Arxy's arms. "Poor boy. I wish I could have protected you." He pulls the trigger. "I love you, son." Arxy drops the lifeless body of what once was his bestfriend, his boyfriend, and his lover.

"Could I borrow your pistol please?"

"Are you going to kill yourself?" Josh asked with a worried tinge in his voice.

"Of course not, I have some rage to work out."

"Alright, in that case you might want to hurry up. Ryo seems to be having quite a bit of fun."

"One more thing though, how do I teleport".

"As far as our studies have discovered, it is done by simply imagining yourself in the place you want to teleport. As far as we've seen, you can't teleport through a wall."

"Sounds good." He takes the pistol and a few extra magazines from Josh and teleports toward the flaming fox in order to help.

"Bang!" Nero shout as fires his digit gun which is pointed at the feral form of Oscar. A bloodied hole appears in his head and he falls over.

"Oh my god! What did you do?" Andrew exclaims.

"I killed a feral, I thought we were all doing it." he replied innocently.

"You're a telekinetic?"

"And a telepath, why else would I invite Oscar if I didn't know the shit that was going to happen. It's the perfect opportunity for 'accidents' to happen. Vengeance is a beautiful thing isn't it?" In case you didn't get it, that was me telling you that you better not fuck me over. Josh looked at the blood splashed on the fox in horror. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, 'he's a murderer, he can kill somebody without a second thought'. Well you're wrong with that assumption. He hurt me so much over this year, he deserved it. My actions are justified. Are yours? You killed their boyfriends just so you could activate their abilities. Give me one reason why I shouldn't send a telekinetic bullet straight through your skull?

"It was an accident!" Yeah right, just about as much of an accident as me shooting Oscar. Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you so chill out. Although, if you give me any reason, you better pray that I am in a good mood. Now pardon me, I have to help with the ferals. Nero runs off towards the other two furs burning and blasting the onslaught of ferals.

"Are you alright Jude?" Josh walks over to Jude and offers him a helping paw. Jude grabs it and Josh lifts him up.

"I'm alright, it hurts quite a bit, but I'll survive," he rubs the almost completely closed wound on his shoulder.

"At least you turned feral for a moment before reverting. Ferals have a hastened regenerative rate. That's why your wounds are almost healed."

"It wasn't my bite that I was referring to," he says solemnly as he turns to look at the wolf on the floor with a bullet in his head. He drops down and touches the white wolf's paw. The rest of the wolf's body begins to ascend. Jude looked at the wolf then looked at his paws. He began thinking of being light. As he opened his eyes he found himself floating just above the surface of the ground. "I-I can fly?"

"No, you can't. This isn't exactly flight. You're actually floating, and that's because, right now, you are lighter than air," Josh explains to him.

"How is that possible?" Josh places a paw on Jude again.

"I have an ability myself. I can figure out a furs ability by touching them. And as far as I can see from you, it appears you have what I would call, spacial manipulation. In other words-"

"I can change the composition and mass of things."

"Exactly."

"And that means that I can join the battle."

"Yeah, it does, but be careful, I've never seen an ability like yours being used, I don't know the limitations of it or anything about it. Try not to send yourself into space."

"Will do." Jude runs off toward the others. Ryo has a feral's neck in his grip, Nero is about ten feet in the air, firing down at ferals as they run past, and Arxy is teleporting around the furs shooting them as they turn to attack him. Jude does a few seemingly meaningless activities such as jumping in the air and tossing a rock in his hand and catching it. Next he studies the patterns of the three foxes and the ferals for about a minute. He takes one of the pebbles he gathered and flicks it towards a feral's head. As the rock leaves his paw he changes the mass, making it as heavy as a car. From his experiments he discovered that doing that doesn't change the speed at which the object is going. The pebble goes barreling through the air and burrows itself in the skull of his target.

"I'm pretty sure they will be able to handle it, come on Josh, we have to start up the plane," Andrew said pulling at Josh's arm.

"Alright, let's go." They run past the gate and run towards their plane. Once they get into it they drive it onto the airfield and begin to warm up the engines.

"That's the plane isn't it?" Ryo asked, his blue flames beginning to transition back to red.

"Yeah, we should probably hurry up," Jude says calmly as he continues to flick rocks towards the group of ferals.

"Oh, we have to finish? Alright stand back guys," Nero says as he vaults himself closer to the airfield and away from the ferals. Arxy grabs hold of Ryo and teleports them both next to Nero. Jude launches upwards and slowly floats back to the ground. "I love doing this," Nero says with excitement as he puts his paws in a position which looks as though he is holding two submachine guns. He points each at both ends of the mob of rushing furs and begins making a machine gun noise. Furs begin dropping dead and blood begins splashing. Slowly the mob of white furs begins decreasing in size and blood stained bodies begin to line the street. He closes the distance between his hands and the mob is quickly eliminated.

"And you didn't do that in the first place, because?" Jude asks.

"You all seemed as though you were having so much fun. I didn't want to disrupt it," Nero says with a smile on his muzzle.

"Well, at least its over, come on, let's get to the plane," Arxy says as he begins walking towards the gate of the airfield. The others join him in their walk towards safety. They turn around to find more ferals gathering from the end of the street. Suddenly their casual walk turns into jog and then into a run as their urgency becomes greater. As they pass the gate Nero turns and closes it and continues running to the plane. With the plane in sight, their run becomes a full out sprint as the ferals gain ground on them. Once they arrive at the plane the all look back at the crowd. The quickly file into the plane.

"Go! Go! Go!" Jude yells as he begins condensing the air in order to make balls of ice. He then flicks them into the ferals closest to the plane. Nero does his best to push them away or kill them. Arxy shoots a few shots and realizes that he is out of ammo. He retreats into the plane and sits next to Ryo who also doesn't have any ranged combat. As the plane approaches the end of the runway, Nero and Jude get into a seat and buckle up. The plane soon rises and quickly gains altitude with the aid of Jude's ability. The four foxes look out the window to see Redwood ablaze and white furred ferals raging through the streets.

"So tell me again why you four are covered in blood?" A bear in a blue uniform asked the four foxes sitting in fold up chairs in the white room.

"We had to kill our best friends, our neighbors, our teachers, and even our police force because they were all turned feral by a drug and were trying to kill us," Arxy replies.

"Yeah, yeah, so tell me about this 'drug'," the bear demands from the quartet.

"As far as we know, all furs have the feral gene and Variable Tech has developed a drug that activates this gene. The drug remains constant in a furs bloodstream when he or she is exposed to it. If bodily fluids are swapped between a drugged feral and a regular fur then they will also turn feral. Some furs, however, have a natural resistance towards this drug and may acquire certain abilities from having it introduced into their bloodstream," Arxy speaks up again.

"So you all have, 'superpowers'?"

"Yes," Arxy answers yet again.

"And what would those be?"

"I have the ability to teleport," Arxy begins.

"I have spacial manipulation," Jude continues.

"I have-"

"Wait what was the last one?"

"Spacial manipulation?"

"Yeah, what is that?"

"Well in simpler terms, I can make a pencil weigh as much as a car and vice versa. I can also make said pencil acquire the properties of gold or any other substance."

"I get it now, go on."

"I have pyrokinesis, I can catch fire."

"And I can move things with my mind."

"Well that's all pretty-"

"Sir," a black stallion says as he enters the interrogation room of the Palmdale police station, "I think we should evacuate the station."

"And why would we do that?"

"Just come outside, and let those kids go, their story checks out." The group of furs leave the room and head towards the roof to find a group of police furs with weapons aiming downwards. They look past the edge to find a group of ravaged furs with white fur.

"We need a bigger plane."

*This is a broadcast across the nation. As you all know the feral epidemic is growing sporadically. If you are in need of aid, we will help you, there is, and always will be hope so long as our fur has a speck of color on it. We will overcome this turn of events and become stronger because of it. This has been Josh, the leader of the rebellion, the resistance, the survivors. There is strength in numbers so we have to unite in order to overcome this. Joshua, signing out*

So, in other words, I need an army. Any furs out there with a fursona who would like to join my army (get their character in this story) please PM me with your concept of your character. Please include some description, some backstory preferably on how you got involved in the feral or "zombie" apocalypse, and a superpower you would like if you want. I am accepting characters that would prefer not to have their feral gene activated although I cannot guarantee your character's survivability is very high. Yes, I reserve the right to kill off your character in my story as I see fit.

Thank you for reading, comment if you would like, and stay tuned for the beginning of the next chapter.