Oasis
'_It's a good thing that I've already read this before_,' she groaned inwardly as the shaking bus rudely closed the book she was re-reading in her hands yet again, _'Or there's no way I'd be able to keep up with it otherwise.'_ The cephalopod had...
Lucky!!! - Chapter 04
The Red Panda closes the notepad she had written this entire saga on, I mean it's her tragedy, but even she's self-aware that it's a well good story like. Maybe she'll get to publish it one day, dunno. She reclines on her computer seat as she glances...
Chapter 13: The Bad, The Ugly, and The Worst Part 2.
**Majestic City Arc.** Ramon looks up: Trembling, gritting his teeth. _This is exactly what I need: THIS guy chasing after me again!_ he thinks, stroking the ground. The figure's black paws appear, casting two bones. A dark ball forms from...
Chapter 18: The End of Abnormal Crime Rates Part 1.
**Majestic City Arc.** "So...now what?" Justin says, staring ahead. "We know that Nickel is the culprit behind these many crimes." He rubs his nose. "Along with the detectives, too." "...This sucks so much," Isaac mentions, his hand on his chin. "We...
Dead Trees
It looked like the scruffy, note-taking rat who he'd noticed earlier turned out to have been there because she'd signed up for the tournament after all, Klein was surprised to see confirmed. Putting pen and paper aside, she'd gotten up from her seat to...
Chapter 14: The Bad, The Ugly, and The Worst Part 3.
**Majestic City Arc.** The tapir whines, creeping her way around the dumpster: Hidden. The destructive cloaker picks Ramon up, gripping his head while forming a fist. The Zorua groans, gritting his teeth. His vision blurs, eyes half closed. "Let...
Join The Dance
The room that Klein walked into was bare and white, like an empty vessel. There were two life-sized mannequins resting at its center, laying half on top of each other in a heap with strings folding down around them. As he approached them, the strings...
Showtime
"Now you're going to see a real fight," Rakim told Klein on their way to their seats as they saw the next contestants on their way to take their place in the ring. But what did a real fight look like? The otter climbed up on the rope, using it like a...
Chapter 19: The End of Abnormal Crime Rates Part 2.
**Majestic City Arc.** The three gaze: Eyes shaking, Nickel's fingers rubbing. "Well?" the mayor says to them. "Will you?" The three look at each other for a moment, lowering their brows. They nod, looking back at the mayor: Clinton cocks his...
Before A Fall
Things weren't going so bad for Soma - it wasn't even a tournament month. He'd been getting a few patients he'd needed to take care of here and there, but just the right amount, not so much that it was proving overwhelming for him to keep up. It's...
And Unjust Alike
The tournaments had never been Soma's favorite time of the year. It wasn't that the healer had anything against martial artists, but every time the tournaments came around, more of them would get hurt. The more of them got hurt, the more of them he...
Face The World
The raft on the canal between the rows of cow carcasses led Mano to a white door with a scale carved in, Libra-like. There was no doorknob, but one of the scale's sides was high while the other one was low. Looking closely, she saw that the high one...