ROTWOTA: Book 1 - The Beginning of Extinction

The Land Around Us

Louis had now been brought to a strange facility in the middle of the city which seemed to have recovered from the power plant blast rather quickly. He was then taken inside where he was let down in a bench while some Jaguar woman receptionist proceeded to type something into her computer and allowed them to strip Louis of his clothes and leave him down in a strange room with concrete floors and walls. While in the room, Some sort of white gas began to fill the room through a pipe in the ceiling.

Louis could do nothing as he felt gray fur sprout all over his body as he also felt some parts of it slimming out as two small mounds of fleas grew on his chest, or rather her chest. Her formally blonde hair changed into longer black ones, her eyes also changed from brown to purple. A tail sprouted from her back as her ears changed shape, became furry, and moved to the top of her head. A small snout formed as her now pink nose and newly formed mouth pushed out in-front of her face.

With the physical changes complete, Louis felt his memories of his old life fade from his head as a new personality took over, leaving him a different snow leopard girl.

Just then, the door opened to reveal a male wolf who looked about her age. It also felt weird, but she felt somewhat attracted to him. The new snow leopard was then taken to another room where the same Jaguar woman gave her clothes, food and water as the same wolf then came over to her.

"Hey, I have something to ask you. Your brother had joined another hunting team and he would like you to help another someone hunt the despicable ones that ruled our world. So Lexi, would you be interested in joining us?" Asked the wolf.

"Why not?" Said Lexi as she gladly accepted her new boyfriend's offer in her new higher pitched voice. She then proceeded to put on a dark blue jacket along with a new ID badge with her personal information as well as a picture of her face.

Name: Lexi S. Tigen
Age: 17
Birthday: 3/16/2005
Authority Rank: Human Hunter

Louis was no more, Lexi had taken his place.

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As Cody and Emma were sitting within the cab, Emma noticed that Seth was writing in a small journal. "Hey, what are you writing?" Asked Emma. "Oh, just a journal my wife got me for my birthday a few months ago. And I've felt like writing in in ever since to keep track of events that have been going on, especially these." Said Seth.

"Can I read some of them? They sound interesting." Asked Emma. Seth didn't even get a chance to respond as Emma snatched the journal before he finished his most recent entry. Emma then flipped back a couples pages and found a random entry and started to read it.

April 4, 2005 - 9:08 AM

God dammit. I knew this would happen. The power plant exploded. We desperately tried to leave the station and get out as quickly as possible. We ended up leaving half of our goods train behind at the platform. We shot past everything in our way, and almost ran over several cars while we shot past the level crossing, but thank god we managed to make it far before the shockwave hit us.

It may have completely wrecked the cargo in most of the vans but none of us have been caused any serious injury. We saw dozens of people running for cover, we wanted to save them but we couldn't, and that left us all in tears. We are currently waiting at the next station until we think it is safe to go.

Emma seemed fascinated by this entry. It looked as if she had fallen into a trace where she just kept reading what Seth had wrote down. Eventually, she came to the unfinished one where she, her brother, and their newly established friends had found Eric and his crew.

Several minutes later, Eric's crew stopped him at a goods yard. "Why are we stopping?" Asked Cody. "Eric's almost out of fuel. We gotta make sure he's complete full so we can make sure we can arrive someplace safe for the night." Explained Carter.

Looking around the area around them, it seemed completely deserted except for some trucks and tankers that had been left behind. Some of them looked like they had been attacked by something in the yard as remains of them could be seen scattered around everywhere. But there were a few non faceless trucks that were still alive and showed obvious remorse for all the trouble they had caused the engines before.

Eric managed to get some of them to speak up and ask them what happened. The day the blast happened, a 14XX tank engine named Rye was there and he left for the docks as soon as he heard the blast. And Last night, a teenage boy came into the yard and some sort of wolf-like creature was chasing him yet it had some sort of claw on its back. The creature was apparently what destroyed most of the non-faceless trucks and vans in the yard.

Carter and Cody then grabbed two gas cans and proceeded to go to the nearest fuel station and proceeded to fill Eric back up on fuel. However, when they were almost done fueling the diesel up completely, their fuel station was empty.

Cody then tried looking around the yard for tankers to use as fuel for Eric. He found some fuel tankers inside a shed which were sure to contain something at least.

Just before Cody was going to call Carter and Seth over to check out what he found, he decided to look inside the shed, and what he saw shook an ice cold shiver down his spine.

"Is there any fuel left driver?" Asked Eric. "No old boy, I guess we'll just have to conserve." Said Carter. Suddenly, all 3 of them heard Cody screaming in horror.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Asked Carter. But Cody didn't respond as he just continued puking, it was like whatever was in the shed turned him into a barf-o-matic machine.

However, when Carter and Seth looked inside the same shed, they were absolutely horrified. There, lying down the back of the shed, was a mutilated corpse of a teenage boy which if anything, was the same one the tricks mentioned earlier.

The entire left side of his face had been eaten off, bite and scratch marks were all over him and just the sight of the corpse made them both feel like they were going to vomit. Several other pieces of his body were ripped off of him, he was missing most of his clothing, and even half of his left leg.

The two men decided to leave, and while doing so, they began taking fuel from the tankers in the shed. Once Eric was completely full on fuel, they decided to check on the other survivors in the vans.

"Hey guys, how are y'all doing in here?" Asked Cody. "Not bad everyone else is sleeping, but how are you?" Asked Jenny. Cody paused at that and decided to just tell them something that wouldn't make her overreact. "Just found something uneasy in the shed over there." He said.

"What sort of something?" Asked Jenny. Cody just tried to get out of it before letting them continue to sleep. "Something that is a little too unpleasant to mention." He said before heading back to Eric's cab.

The crew decided to bring some of the trucks along to store some extra supplies and also save any lives they could. And once they were ready, they set off to find their destination.

The next couple of minutes left him in distress, Cody had seen everything that Seth had taken notes about the corpse. But he recognized that jacket, and he knew he had lost Harold.

He might have been a bully over his time at school, but he wasn't despicable enough to deserve punishment like this. But nonetheless, what could have done that to him?

The way his body was covered in claw and bite marks, only some sort of animal could do that. It must've been the wolf creature mentioned by the trucks, the real question is how dangerous would it be it they were to encounter it? Would they survive even? Cody just decided to take his mind off it and focus on their journey.