Eyewatch: Fider Fox

“So… this is chaos realm
then, huh?" I started, firing off the silent conversation as the rest of my
unit stared at me before breaking off and looked upon the horizon. I frowned,
folding my wings behind me, and exhaled while closing my eyes as I opened them,
I turned my attention towards Doax and Lutica and started speaking to them.
Their heads turned to meet my eyes as I swiftly smiled at them, they said
nothing in response. Here we are upon the inside of the Chaos realm, of an
unnamed city of the realm. The only city that houses the famous R7 and its
antics. It was not what I had expected, however. There were tall intact vacant
buildings all around us. The streets were beaming with foxes from all sorts of
species and colors that it was almost hard to tell which was a regular citizen
or an R7 member. Deciding not to stall and dwell upon the spots we were on, I
started speaking to the rest of my unit. “We all know the plan now and why Yang
wanted us to head over here…" A couple of nods confirmed this, “Regardless, our
questions remain and we still need to find where the R7 lives." “And the answer
to the dragoness chef problem," Doax remarked which Lutica nodded with a smile
upon her face, nodding in kind. I nodded also in response before assigning
everyone to their jobs.

If I had recalled, I had
assigned Doax towards the missing bodies because, following the interview
between Rinichi and Yang, there was a claim that the population of foxes was
decreasing because of the dragoness chef. So, on that logic alone, I expected
that the foxes and other species be terrified by Doax and us as well. When Doax
heard about this, he frowned but stayed silent. A slight second nod escaped
from him as his eyes break away from me. His wings lowered before raised once
again, he turned around and started spreading them, before Lutica and Quichie
stopped him and pointed to the crowd up ahead. Blushing, he nodded as he folded
his wings. Next came the conversation with the R7 and I thought that Quichie would
take the job alone. She was ecstatic upon hearing it and flew off before I had
a chance to explain it. Lutica wanted to take the flashing trees that the foxes
and the R7 were complaining about recently and I allowed her to take it despite
my protest on wanting to do so. Which left me the blood and certain order; but
I was never good in logic anyway. So blood was alright for me.

As our assignments were
passed and readied, my eyes snapped back into the reality of things and glanced
upon the surroundings before me. I had noticed Doax chatting about with the
foxes striking conversations as he could while scribbling something upon his
yellow pad. His voice was still, never rising or fall of volume which was
unnerving for me. But I try to not pay any attention to it and kept focus on my
assigned job. Quickly, my eyes peeled off from Doax and the gathering foxes
around him and turned my interest towards some buildings that were adjacent to
where I was. Knowing that the walls were smooth to the touch by the time I
threw my claw upon the surface of it and the walls started shifting. I flinched
in response and stepped back, allowing the wall to do its thing as I watched it
turn halfway. Revealing something that was inside, curiously I entered in.
Darkness welcomed me in.

A frontal office it
seems. There was a desk across the room from where I was standing. A palm tree
to its side. A chair behind the desk. A computer on top of the desk. Someone
was sitting upon the chair, I could not tell who due to the darkness. Regardless,
I walked calmly upfront and looked a second time. There I saw, another vixen.
Dead with its head face planted upon the keyboard. The computer in front of the
vixen was blanked, perhaps the power was cut off. Surrounding the face was dry
blood. Pure red it was as I stared at it momentarily and in silence before
making my move. I shoved my right claw into my pocket, grabbing a tube with no
label upon it. I dipped my claw a second time inside and pulled out what seems
to be an eyedrop instrument used to suck up samples. Since the blood was dry, I
decided to spit upon the surface of it. The blood slowly turns liquid and
continued dripping from the table's edge where it made a huge pool below the
feet of the fox as I grabbed some samples and place them inside the tube.
Squeezing the eye drop to make sure everything was inside.

The blood inside the tube
turned dark red, there were even hints of purple which astonishes me. As I was
mesmerized by the sight of blood, I pondered why the dragoness never bothered
to take the corpse considering that she needed foxes of all species to make the
fox strew, right? I frowned on this thought before turning my head to the fox
again. Something tugged against my heart, urging me to answer this problem. I
gave in. Slowly, I stretched my claw outward to the fox and grabbed onto the
arm. Turning the body over, it flopped to the grounds below me whereas the arms
stretched upward as if he was stretching My eyes widened in surprise, I knew
why she did not take him. The fox was smaller in size; its arms and feet were
smaller too. But the tail was a bit bigger and fluffier than a normal fox.
Judging that, I concluded that the fox was perhaps a freenick or something
along those lines as I turned around and headed back through the hole. Exiting
as I pondered what would be my next move.

It would take way too
long to examine everyone. Regardless of living and death as my eyes stared off
into the distance. My mind pondered a strategy. Yet a second later, my walkie
came to life urging me to answer it as I snatched the walkie from my pocket
before raising it to my mouth. Pressing the button, I answered. “Hello?" “Ling?
Good, I got some answers for you." Doax started, “Same!" Lutica remarked
following the black dragon. I smiled hidden at them both in silence, coaxing
them to explain themselves. “Some foxes have reported this. But there was a
reason why the bodies were missing and everyone called for vengeance on whoever
had done it. It did confirm what Yang said earlier before we had left. Every
body killed is thrown into the pot for stewing. It is also the main reason why
the dragon kids loved it so much too." “Alright, so some foxes have indeed
called to arms against the dragoness because she killed them first to make the
strew, anything else?" “Well…" Doax trailed “There is one other piece of
information that none of the R7 knew about." My ears perked up in interest and
my eyes widened slowly as I questioned him, “What is it then?"

“The dragoness in
question is not an actual dragoness. Rather a main rival to the foxes, based on
real life. What they are trying to say was, 'the dragoness is some other
species who is a predator towards the foxes and just them. No one else.'" “Just
a predator?" I quoted him, there was silence on the other end confirming it as
Lutica coughed before reporting “I can back that up with evidence, Ling."
“Speak," I responded interested. A short silence followed before the dragoness
responded afterward, explaining “I just spoke with the R7 recently and they did
confirm about some species being a predator towards them. Despite the faction
trying to protect their citizens, Tuwil reported that the species is black fur
and scale all over, wings, tail, horns and breaths poison." “A dragon wolf?" I
questioned, “We are dealing with a blizeon, damn I did not see that coming."
Commented Doax as Lutica answered back to him, “Yeah. I was rather surprised
when I heard it too. But this does confirm such things." “But how does it go
for the theater massacre that happened two weeks ago? Was it the same blizeon
who planted see in another fox or dragon, transforming him or her into a
tentacle monster?"There was silence on the other end and I frowned in response,
desperation was in my tone of voice as my wings frantically spread and withdraw
as I urgently questioned them. No one answered.

Giving up the antic, I
told Doax and Lutica to meet one another in the shortest building rooftop that
is concealed by a taller building surrounding it. I knew that they would know
what I am talking about since they were here before in earlier times. But
disregarding that thought in my head, I turned around and started walking back
to the building I had left opened earlier. Instead of entering in, I stopped
upon the edge of the entrance and kept my eyes upon the dead small fox at the
desktop before me. I exhaled, turned my attention elsewhere, and spotted
another pathway towards my right. Intrigued, I also noticed that it was a trail
of blood leading somewhere deep upon the halls. I walked slowly towards the
hallway and peered my eyes towards it. Glanced to the horizon was where I
spotted the green glowing sign saying 'exit'. At first, I was confused by it
before peering a bit closer and quickly noticing that a white arrow was
pointing this way. Where I was standing. A gulp escaped through my throat as it
vibrated inside before completely dropping onto my stomach below, I fetched for
my flashlight and turned it on at the start of the button. With the bright
circle light shining ahead, I was on the move. But stopped afterward and
thought of something clever. A smile escaped and warmed my face, setting down
the flashlight upon the grounds was when I stepped back from it to give the
distance. I waited.

During the waiting
period, I heard updates from Doax and Lutica. From Doax, he told me that the R7
was planning to attack Balance for keeping the blizeon in question in luxury
and free will which I could approve if it were not for them to start massacre
everyone there for vengeance. I sighed and shook my head, answering Doax “Do
not let them. They will go angry at you but this vengeance thing is not cutting
out for the frustrated R7. Seal them or isolate them if you have to. Convince
them-" “Alright" Interrupted Doax as he went silent. Next was Lutica who
explained, “The R7 are not responding to any more questions and were resorting
to invasion towards a different realm than their normal group." “Just help out
Doax, alright?" I ordered, “10-4." Responded Lutica. The rest of the time went
silent and peaceful for me as my eyes grew heavy upon standing still in one
spot of the room. My legs and feet were growing pains that I would need to walk
them at times to rid the pain within them. Upon the next hour, I saw something
in the distance. A box of some sort that was pushed forward into my view.
Curious but nervous, I slowly walked to it while snatching my flashlight from
the ground and walked to it. Slowly approaching, I reached out with my arm and
grabbed upon the flap of the opened box. I pulled myself closer and looked
inside. There was where I spotted an organ of a fox.

It was still beating and
pumping blood. Yet the said liquid was pouring out from the thin long rod
sticking out from it. I swallowed anything that was inside my throat and set
aside the flashlight before picking up the organ. Rose it out from the box, I
stared at it. I had noticed that the organ was spitting blood faster than it
could pump which meant that something had struck it. I pondered over that
statement while turning the organ around; something came up. A white note, a
nail stabbed against the organ and the paper as I ripped it from where it was
attached to and dropped the organ to my feet. On the note, it said “As of today
after the massacre in Neither realm and the attack on Chaos; the number of
foxes dead was enormous. Resulting in a higher rise in blood which was sold for
exchange within the illegal markets and amongst other stuff…" My eyes went wide
and repeated the sentence several times. Thus afterward, I snatched my walkie
and rose it to my mouth shouting at my teammates “I have our answer to the
first three clues. Come to the rooftops, we will meet shortly." I turned around
and flew off towards our designated meeting spot.

I arrived late, having
not known where the meeting spot was regardless of where I had specified. As I
landed, everyone else was already there. My cheeks became warmed as I met the
eyes of smiles and sometimes laughter as I growled at them silencing them
before taking up my spot within the broken circle that my teammates had made.
With the silence came my voice as I started the conversational meeting with
them, opening up the statement with the organ I found shortly before my
departure. I held it in the air and dangled it like a fish inside a net.
Everyone else was disgusted by it, their faces showed it. I smiled faintly a
bit, flapping my wings while I set the organ to the side upon the ground
adjacent to where I was standing as Doax remarked, “Where did you get such a
thing? It looked so real." “From the building where I last left off from," I
replied without hesitation or missing a beat as the black dragon nodded
carefully and silent keeping his eyes on the organ. My mouth split opened and I
stepped forward towards the center of the circle, growling to keep their eyes upon
me while I started. “Alright., so we only have a bit of information listed in
finding the clues towards the case we were presented with." “Right." Barked
Lutica agreeing with me while Doax and Quichie just stared at one another then
to Lutica before setting their eyes to me. I resumed, “Hopefully they will
point towards the right culprit and not the culprits that the foxes claimed it
to be. What have you all gotten for us today, class?" I questioned with claws
behind my back and stood up straight perfectly while keeping my eyes trained
upon my teammates.

Neither of them said
anything for the first few seconds. The silence was our first presentation, but
I did not care for it at all. I shattered the silence with a few words from my
mouth as Doax stepped up and spoke, “Sir, there is a track of blood upon the
grounds of where I was at. It had led me to one of the closet bunkers. Upon
opening it, a note was inside. Here." He ended, shoving his claws inside his
pockets and fished for the white piece of note before pulling it out. He threw
it upon the flooring which I picked it up. And rose it into the air just inches
away from my face as I slowly opened the crumbling paper before me. Words were
written on it as I scanned the paragraph before my eyes before raising them
towards Doax, a slight nod in response before handing the paper back towards
him. He set himself back while I exhaled responding to the silence again. “Doax
has found a note containing a hint as to where we would find the fox. Rinichi
was captured recently and place in the Chaos realm. His fellow teammates does
not know of it as well so we are on our own here." “So guess this means we will
have to find him huh?" Lutica asked, I nodded. “Indeed. Without the help of the
R7 or other officer units, since of course they are far from where we are as of
right now." I explained. “Right…" Trailed Quichie as her wings dropped and she
stared back upon me, “Anyway. We have the information, so we need to find where
this bunker is that Doax had entered into." “I think I know," Lutica replied,
catching the eyes of the others including my own as we all stared upon her, she
smiled before spreading her wings. “Northwest is the position of those bunkers.
That was where Doax had come fr-" “No." Doax interrupted, shaking his head
“Northwest was where I had arrived from. I had another stop after arriving into
the bunkers." I looked at him with curiosity as he coughed and explained where
he had gone.

“I had come from the R7.
I had wanted to know a bit of information about the bunkers that were located
west from where they were." Doax explained, “As it turns out, they were using
these bunkers in case they had no more room to sleep in. Or they were farther
away from their home building." “Was it not closer to where they were? Man…
They are lazy." I commented which Doax nodded in kind, smiled a bit before it
disappeared as he said to us. “Yeah, it was near. About two miles at max to say
the least. Guess they did not want to position the bunkers further off in case
they were picked off by something overhead." We all went silent, but I decided
to speak for the group. “And where is this bunker that had the information
needed?" “Isolated and away from the rest." Doax answered, adding “It was weird
for that isolated bunker to be away from the other bunkers. My initial thought
was that it was the leader's bunker which was Tuwil and Rinichi." “That cannot
be," Lutica commented, interrupting the conversation as I and Doax fell silent,
shifted our eyes over to her as she resumed,

“I was just talking with
Tuwil about the isolated bunker. She claimed it to be isolated because of the
white note found inside of it. The door was locked, the key was safely stored
somewhere that no one else would find it." “How did you get in, Doax?" I questioned
him, raising a brow as he sighed collected himself before admitting “Through
the window." “He dug himself a hole." Admitted Quichie with a small smile, Doax
glared at her but she ignored him while she continued “He clawed at the ground
and dug himself deeper inside, eventually popping into the underground of the
bunker. Trespassing inside of it." I rolled my eyes while Doax angrily grabbed
Quichie but she was too quick for him. She ducked underneath him and snickered
quietly as an amusing dragoness watched on. I coughed, growling at the three of
their silly game depriving them of any relaxation while we were on the job.
They compelled seconds after and stood at attention while I ordered, “Guess
this means, we will be together in one group. Everyone follow Doax towards the
bunkers." They all nodded as Doax remained blushing and embarrassed as he
turned away from us, spread his wings, and flew off. So did we.

Arriving onto the bunker,
we landed on the ground. Before us were many bunkers all scattered in every
direction upon the horizon. All of which were the same color as before. We
stayed in silence, our wings folded behind us while I turned my head over to
Doax who stepped forward and squinted his eyes staring. For a few seconds
afterward, he pointed to one of the bunkers and spoke “That one." We stared at
him as a result, switching our visions from the black dragon to the opened
bunker before us. Then I sighed and shook my head before leading the way
forward. We walked the distance until we reached the bunker that Doax was
talking about. Opening the door, we walked inside. It was not what I had
expected at all. The bunker was empty and cleaned off of any dirt or blood
therein. A new paper was settled upon the white clean grounds, complete with
tiles that shine upon the lightbulb above of it. Saying nothing, I split from
the group and walked a bit to the white paper. I grabbed it, rose it to my eyes
before looking at the paper. It was a drawing of a fox looking out from what
seems to be a jail room. Yet there were no silver bars or his paws, just his
yellow eyes that narrowed, unnerving me a bit. I handed the paper to Doax and
pointed at the drawing. The dragon shook his head, “I do not know where this
is." “But I do." Declared Lutica, as our eyes looked at her. “Come on!" She
demanded, taking the lead this time as she fled out from the door and took to
the skies once again.  Disappearing
before our eyes, the remaining dragons left upon the ground stared at one another
before quickly following the dragoness. Wondering curiously where she was
leading us.