NaZooverse - Book 1: The Risen Curtain

Chapter 14: Taking a Decision

"Thank goodness, it didn't got damaged." Patrick said, as he finished checking on the camera that he borrowed from his father, and that the old hyena had been so insistent for him to be careful with... "Dad would ground me forever if there was a single scratch in it."

"Yeah, that's cool, but what about the video?" Sully said as he and Shawn stood near the hyena. "The mages didn't erased it, did they?"

The hyena looked at him.

"Well, it seems that the video of the ritual is all okay. We have all the recording until the moment the tiger took the camera from me."

"Great!" The pig said. "Finally we have something solid! We have something that will give our Zootube channel thousands of views! Ain't that great, Shawn?"

The sheep did not answered; he was still hugging himself with both arms, looking quite shaken. Not that surprising, considering he almost got himself a bloody shear by a mean-looking wolf, with a dagger.

The teenagers were actually taking it surprisingly well. They had just been threaten by a bunch of mammals with some very shady intentions, and they were still able to act so composed (well, two of three of them, at least), and that considering the fact that they had no training in the matter whatsoever, unlike the other mammals still inside that storehouse...

Bogo was still is a corner. He had removed his police jacket, and now stood only with a black masculine tank top that he usually wore underneath it. He was leaning against a wall, while a female ferret stood by a bunch of craters by his side, leaving her right in the level of his shoulder, which still had the wound of when the tiger flung a pebble at him as fast as a bullet. It did similar damage too, Bogo thanked the fact that he had a though hide.

He flinched when the ferret touched that area, and a strange feeling spread in there. It was warm and tingly, and it somehow felt as if there was something being pour into his shoulder. Kind of like boiling water, only without the burning feeling.

Bogo ventured to look to the side, and he saw the ferret by his side chanting something as she moved her paws over his shoulder. Her paws glowed, as she was doing... whatever it was she did on him.

Bogo could not say for sure what she was actually doing, but he surely knew what it looked like: magic.

When she offered to "help with the wound in his shoulder", Bogo was very hesitant at this. Under normal conditions, he would never have allowed her to do whatever strange thing it was she did. However, he felt a little inclined to let her do it, once he saw the good work she had done with Hopps.

Speaking of the bunny, she was also in the storehouse, Nick still by her side, anxiously checking on her.

"Nick, I told you already, I am fine! Stop worrying!" The bunny said to him as the fox asked her for the 12th time if she needed a doctor or if she still felt any pain or anything out of the ordinary.

Nick usually was not the kind who worried like that about others, and neither did he let his worry show so easily. However, seeing his partner being stabbed in the belly and bleeding profusely from there was something that could really shake someone.

There was so much blood...

Truth was; everyone was a bit shook from what had happened. Each one was dealing with it on their own way. The teenagers were in a corner, the two officers were talking to each other, and Bogo was being attend by the ferret girl who had saved all of their lives.

"Done." The ferret said as she removed her paws. Bogo sighed as he looked back, and saw that the place where once there was a puncture wound on his shoulder, seeming made by a bullet, now there was nothing left behind. Not even a scar to tell the tale, as a wound like that would usually leave.