Generation Fur

Chapter 8

A couple weeks later, there was new staff in the castle, and even though we knew the names of the person that lead the second assault. We couldn't find out anything about them, but there were no new attacks, so it seems they were waiting on something. By the third week I was starting to get a little suspicious, and so was everyone else on my team. currently we were eating at a table in the mess hall, and even though no other Fur was around us. The other Fur eventually stopped giving me crap while I was in the line to get food. Just recently they stopped actually giving me the crappy food and gave me what everyone else got that day.

"Ugh, this is getting so boring," Blaze groaned looking up at the ceiling and then at his brother. Only to see him looking at the wall behind him with a head bent backwards over the headrest of the couch. With his mouth open and his tongue hanging out lazily. Blaze slapped his chest and Blake shot up, smacking his lips like he had something present in mind.  Then Blake looked at his brother shocked and a little offended, but Blaze didn't care and just flicked off Blake.

The two leapt at each other and started a pointless wrestling match. Rolling around on the ground punching, smacking, growling, and swearing at each other. Lilith and Amethyst came in about three seconds after this and they looked at the two fighting brothers and then looked at me, I just shook my head putting my hands up. I had no part of that, and wasn't planning on getting involved.

"Okay then," Lilith said and then she hopped over the two. As did Amethyst and they both sat down on the opposite couch from me with a plate of chicken. I always wondered what the Fur race ate. Wasn't it cannibalism if they ate other animals, or did they just not care and think of animals as just sources of food like I did?

"I wonder if were going to get another mission anytime soon" Lilith said and Amethyst agreed, I nodded as well. Ever since we had gotten the job of protecting the King it was just guarding him from reporters, journalists, civilians, or well Furs that wanted to touch him for some reason. All of the Furs on my side always recoiled if they touched me by accident, always pulling back their claws, paws, and arms to themselves, and rubbing them on their clothing. As if that would get rid of the fact that they touched me, and that I was there. I wasn't planning on going anywhere anytime soon.

I looked at the twins once more to see that they had calmed down and were sitting against the wall breathing like they'd just run sprints. I internally chuckled and pointed at the two with my thumb, making Lilith and Amethyst look over at them as well.

"Are you two done being stupid now?" Lilith said and the two just glared at her and gave her the finger. I smiled, the door opening as the King came in, wiping the smile as quickly off my face as quickly as I could blink. What did he want?

"I can tell all of you have been bored for the past couple weeks, so I am giving you something to do. Even if you are technically my personal guard now. I am sending you all on lengthy stealth missions." He looked at us all in turn, and surprisingly didn't glare at me when his eyes met mine, but he did smile, and that was unsettling. "Sadly due to the requirements that I have set out for this mission all of you will be going to different parts of my Kingdom. Working your way in while getting to know my subjects, make friends, and get information."

"What would we be looking for?" Amethyst asked and the King looked at her for a moment. Then he lifted a finger like he just remembered something before pulling out a file from his robe. Then he handed the file to her and we all crowded around looked at the information.

Blake was going to the northern part of the kingdom, Blaze was going to the western part, Lilith was going east, and Amethyst was going south. There was no set time to be back, and the purpose of the mission was to find out any information they could about a new organization that the King had 'reason' to believe was trying to assassinate him. Really, he was just trying to get a way to get the others to leave me so that he could do whatever he wanted to me, and I didn't like it. Not. One. Bit.