Guardian Heroes [Judy Hopps x OC]

A City of Animals

                                                         "Um excuse me but...what exactly are you?''

Darkness. 

That's all that I've known for lord who knows. I knew nothing...felt nothing as I just sort of...idled there I the void like a being made entirely of air, although my ability to think was still present. Was I asleep? Was I dead? These were the only questions that I had swimming in my head. I found that it wasn't the case for the latter for something wet splashed over my face and I soon slowly but surely opened my eyes.

Immediately the light stung my eyes, as if I was a newborn just brought into the new world. Through the stinging of the sunbeams, I blinked and fluttered my eyelids and soon my eyes adjusted to light, the blurriness clearing away and my vision was restored. But before I could enjoy my renewed sight, my eyes shot wide at the surrounding I was now beholding.

I was in water...no not just mere water as I soon found out. I gazed around to see that I was lost amidst a vast ocean. A seemingly never ending sea with nothing supporting me but a large piece of debris. Fear and panic soon washed over me just as the water washed again upon my face as I rolled along the shifting waves. I tried desperately to keep my balance and stay afloat upon the hard, broken flat wood that served as my floatation device, clinging to it as I've come to believe that it was the only thing that stood between me and death.

What I was feeling...just plain indescribable. How could one describe the very emotions of waking up with no memory of what had happened to you? To suddenly find yourself being rocked around by waves of an incessant ocean as if you, yourself was a toy in a in a bathtub. By all rational thought I should call for help, but I knew that I would be wasting my breath, for I imagined that I was but a speck in a crystal blue environment to a helicopter that even by some miracle did happen to fly.

No wait! I do remember...I think. A storm? Lightning? Water? Sheer, stabbing coldness until finally...darkness. As I tried to piece together what I had happened, the roll of the waves turned me around and what I now saw filled me with hope beyond what I've never felt before. Land! Better yet...a city!

That city...such a wonder that I beheld. From what I could see, the city was surrounded by mountains that looked misty from such a far distance. Wait a minute, one of the mountain ranges from what I can tell seem to have white upon it...snow? I also saw a long structure trailing from the city to what I guessed would be the mainland, figuring it was in fact a railroad track as indeed a speeding train headed towards the city in the distance to what looks like a...desert?! Never have I seen such a metropolis before but yet I couldn't shake the thought that the city held a sort of...exotic air to it as it gleamed under a sunset sky. Wait sunset?! Damn how long was I out for? With the appearance of the city, I couldn't help but ask myself if it was located in some foreign part of the world away from the Americas. I couldn't think of any city in America, or in the world for that matter that had had neighboring mountains bordering the ocean. But how did I get so far from the shore I departed that stayed close to my home? It didn't matter to me. Where there's a city, there's people...means of communication. I was saved.

Without hesitation, I paddled as fast as my arms could towards the civilization.

I had found my way into the city, but had since suddenly came to a sharp halt. The hope and joy of salvation was suddenly replaced by confusion, alarm and fear. This certainly was a city but as I looked around in hopes of finding people I was instead met wet with another sight. I could see no trace of humans only...animals. (Yes, you heard right.) There were no humans to be seen. Only animals. Although I had seen animals before, these were different. Instead of walking around on all fours, they were standing and walking on their hind legs, they even wore clothes, some in business suits while others in more casual attire save for shoes that left their animal feet bare for as far as I could see. But what puzzled me more was the fact that they appeared to be actually SPEAKING to one another.