Heavy breathing could be heard as the pair ran through the park. A male and a female canine looked around frantically as they went. “There! The restroom! We need to stop for a minute and come up with a plan.” said the man as he pointed at the small structure with what was in his hands, a stop sign. The pair headed for the restroom quickly, and as they reached it they stopped. The male’s eyes were closed as he stepped into the mens restroom, his ears slowly moving, trying to listen for any sound that might indicate that they weren’t alone. He heard a shuffling sound and looked up, just in time to see a monkey male hanging from a beam near the ceiling, it’s body decayed and rotting. It hissed at him as it dropped toward him suddenly. “Master Sly look out!” called the two tailed kitsune behind him as she saw this. The gray furred male opened his eyes and looked up to see his attacker. Thrusting the bottom of the stop sign pole toward the monkey, he hit it in the chest and flipped it to the ground. As the zombified attacker flailed on the ground he flipped the sign around and brought the stop sign down execution style, beheading the monkey quickly. “Thanks. Katsaya, close the door. We may have more company coming.” he said as he turned to check the stalls for any more zombies. The female turned to see three more zombified furs shuffling toward the doorway now. She grabbed the door and slammed it with all her might, gasping when half of a zombiefied cheetah got through, both of its friends pushing against the half open door now. Katsaya was pushed back a bit as the door opened, but the look in her eyes turned fierce as she spun what was in her hands around to a ready position, a scythe. She swung the weapon down, decapitating the cheetah before spinning and thrusting the blunt end of the scythe against the other two, pushing them back again. She moved into position and front kicked one into the other out of the restroom before closing the door and deadlocking it. She turned to see the male staring at his cell phone. “Looks like there’s been an outbreak of an infectious disease in this city as of this afternoon. Things have spiraled into chaos quickly.” said the male. “What started it?” asked Katsaya stepping up behind him. “Cause is unknown as of right now. Zombie furs half eating other furs and infecting them. Sounds like something out of a poorly written movie. I don’t know what started this, but I do know that we can’t stay here. We need food, a better defensible location, and weapons that we won’t tire ourselves out using.” he said thinking. “So the Police Station then?” she asked thoughtfully. “My thoughts exactly. Though I detest using them, guns are the best bet for protection.” he said looking up the city map on his smart phone. “Looks like the station is about three blocks from here. That’s a long way to go on foot in these kinds of circumstances, but we don’t have much of a choice.” he said, putting his phone away and taking the notebook from his fedora. He wrote a quick note in the notebook, the words glowing suddenly as the stop sign became serrated like a buzz saw. A second and third line followed as and the sign began to spin on the pole and a backdoor appeared on the wall ahead. “Are you ready Katsaya?” he asked as he turned to her. “Almost Master. I don’t think I can use my tails. Please cut them off, and my hair.” said the pink kitsune handing her Scythe to the wolfox male. “Are you sure?” he asked seriously as he received the weapon, placing his own against the wall. “Yes. Please do it.” she said as she took a cloth and wrapped it around the base of her tails. Sly sighed as he raised the blade and swung it down, severing the appendages in one motion. Katsaya bit down on her lower lip as she felt it, her tails hissing as they fell to the floor. She reached back and held a length of her hair out next. Sly shifted his grip and swung the scythe upwards now, slicing off her hair at the designated point and leaving her with just above shoulder length hair. Sly’s right eye raised as he stared at her severed tails as they began to move on their own, growing four legs each as the cut area folded back, resembling pink feral foxes now. Katsaya took the cloth from before and used it to tie off the bleeding stumps that used to be her tails and turned back to Sly who shook off his amazement enough to hand her scythe back to her as the banging on the door increased. “Sounds like the two from before brought some friends.” said Kat to herself as Sly grabbed his stop sign and moved to the newly created backdoor and peered outside carefully. “Let’s go.” he whispered as Katsaya and the two foxes followed him out of the room, the door disappearing as they did.

I commissioned this pic from  fc32 to go along with a story I wrote for my pet  Dumbmutt seen Here Hope you like it Kat.

Art:  fc32

Katsaya belongs to  Dumbmutt

Sly is mine.