Say Something I'm Giving Up On You

3: Life Scars

Nick raced into the jail house. He ran up to the head desk and saw Officer Emma sitting there, looking over some reports.

"Officer Nick!" she exclaimed. "Thank goodness you're here!"

Nick began to pant heavily. It took nearly all of his energy to run all of the way here. He held up his paw, telling Officer Emma to give him a second to catch his breath.

"They need me," Nick explained. "You probably know that."

"Yes," Emma said. "Go back there, and quickly. They really need you."

Nick knew all of that. He also knew that he would have to suffer. They probably needed him to calm the bear down. Since it was his case, he had to take care of things. That was probably their excuse since they didn't want to get hurt.

Nick raced into the back of the building where the prisons were held. He looked around at the criminals. Some of them were playing cards, others were sleeping. They didn't look dangerous to Nick, but he had to remind himself that he helped capture some of them. He remembered how dangerous they could be.

Some officers were standing around the bear's cell. Chief Bogo was there with them, looking nervously at the bear. Whenever he came closer to the bars, the officers stepped backwards.

"Nick better get here soon," a female officer said. "This is his mission, so we'll let him fix it."

"I agree," another officer said. "I don't want to go in there and get hurt. I have nothing to do with this criminal. Nick was the one who arrested him. Let him deal with this."

Nick snorted. Cowards, he thought. Then he walked up to the Officers and acted like he didn't hear what they said.

"What seems to be the problem?" Nick asked. He had to admit, he was a little nervous himself.

"The bear—whose name is Jaws, by the way—has suddenly gone wild. He's gone savage," a wolf officer barked. "But how could he have gone savage? There are no more Night Howler attacks."

"I don't know," Nick replied. "What do you need me for?"

Chief Bogo looked at him, nervously. "Nick, we need you to go stab this shot into him," Bogo answered. "It's a tranquilizer shot."

"What about a tranquilizer gun?" Nick wondered.

"We don't have any at the moment," the wolf officer explained. "But we need you to hurry. Just rush in there and stab that shot into him. He should calm down within seconds."

Nick nodded, grimly. He had to be brave. This was his job and he wanted to prove that he could definitely do it, unlike the other cowards.

"Here's the shot," some other officer said. She put it in his paws and patted them. "Be safe."

"Yeah," Nick said, trying not to gulp nervously. On the inside, he was downright terrified. He didn't want to get hurt by this savage bear.

Chief Bogo opened up the prison door. Nick slipped through it quickly. Bogo slammed it closed behind him quickly so that Jaws couldn't escape. Nick quietly and carefully walked towards Jaws. If he could just pierce the shot through him before he turned around...

Jaws made his move. He jumped out towards Nick with his arms wide open. Nick dropped to the ground and rolled out from underneath Jaws. Hey, that was a pretty cool move, Nick thought, feeling pretty good about himself. But it wasn't before too long when Jaws ran for Nick again. Nick ran out of the way, but Jaws was too smart for that. Jaws stayed on Nick's tail as Nick panicked and tried to escape from his clutches. Use the shot, dumb fox! Nick snapped to himself. He whipped around to pierce the shot through Jaws, but Jaws turned his body away too quickly. As he turned around, Nick got up to his feet, but Jaws was already facing towards him. He slowly stalked the frightened fox as he backed up slowly.