NOTES* updated 05/22/18

As you may know, there will be a newer (and improved) version of Cliffside that will be written by a friend of mine, Thiswastheonlynamenottaken. If you have read this version or even the very first version, you might notice I am not the best writer, nor very grammatically correct, and slightly off with the logic/common sense in the plot (which is why I won't be writing the newer version). The new version will hopefully be up by the 27th, but maybe earlier, and will have the same storyline as this version if it had been completed, only slightly altered to make more sense

NOTES

This is a new chapter one, the old one was horrible in my opinion and written in 1st person. I deleted all of the chapters that where there bc it just wasn't working out but new ones will start coming, similar to the last ones just a few things changed :) i hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1 – kidnapping

"The bunny" a toothy grin came from a dark brown wolf.

"Why the bunny, sir?" a voice quaked. Gentle whispers from the waterfall against glass filled in the silence.

"Well, an easy target of course." He laughed, liking they way it bounced of the walls over and over until it was still.

The room's door was shut tightly for their secret meeting, the master plan, the one that would give them all the power. And the last piece of the recipe for his plan was a single bunny, how hard could it be?

The shifty mammal heard every word of the plot from the opposite side of the door. What had started out as a robbery just for the thrill of it, turned into being a rescue mission. It was time to do something and fast; for the sake of that bunny, and the safety of the whole Zootopia or they would be lead to certain doom. A war lay around the corner waiting to destruct, all that was needed to begin it was a simple wrong doing; and that wolf becoming royal was the biggest wrong doing that could exist.

"Ma! This dress is too tight" nagged a grey furred bunny. She had a white under fur and black at the tips of her long ears. She was in the oldest litter, of only three bunnies. Her sister Jade, brother Zack and herself all looked almost exactly the same except for a slight difference in the grey.

The material wrapped around her was a light lilac color with many under layers making it puff up a little as well as gracefully sweeping the floor at her feet. The top hugging her body neatly and loose straps sitting on the side of her shoulders helped define her good shape. She was never one for dressing up and special occasions, always willing to try new things, but never being allowed to because of her mother.

The Hopps family is an upper in the fraction of farms. When the royals of the Zootopia kingdom fell in war hundreds of years ago, Zootopia split into fractions. Each fraction, rainforest and Sahara to name a few, has an upper family, which looked over that district and kept peace throughout the land, along with a second family doing the same.

"Stop complaining!" A sharp voice replied. "Now be ready, our guests are coming soon."

And it was true, at that very moment a bunch of mammals, some lean black panthers from the rainforest, a few camels and even some mice all dressed up in fancy clothing and masks headed to the front door of the massive farm mansion.

Judith gave a disappointed huff and slipped on a sequined grey mask, sparkling amethyst eyes gleaming through.

Sometimes she just wanted to be like a normal girl, playing outside in the fields and exploring the nearby forest. Flirting with good looking bucks and shopping for cute jewelry items. She didn't get to do that; instead she had servants that did what she wanted in a blink of an eye, even if she didn't want them to. But was worse is to keep the upper blood, she, the first born in her litter, would have to marry the second family's oldest son.

She almost felt the urge to spit at the thought of marrying that awful Buck, Austin. He always talked about himself way too much to the point it was annoying.

"I wish I was normal" speaking under her breath she hoped no one would hear her, unluckily some one did though.

"Judith Lavern Hopps!" Bonnie, her mother, hissed; squeezing her arm and bringing their faces so close it scared Judy. "I don't ever want to hear that from you again!"

The scared bunny did nothing but nod, Yanking away from the tight grip and cowardly following the taller female bunny to the front door, where she came to stand by her brother and perfect sister.

"Don't worry, mom snapped at me too," Zack whispered when Judy took place next to him. Judy snorted and gave him a playful punch in the arm. The darker grey buck did an over reacting facial expression to show how much it hurt making Judy give another giggle. He was probably one of the only few siblings she actually got along with.

Of course, Jade and Bonnie were prepared when the door was thrown open my a servant but it made the two less-mature siblings snap into their acts, both jumping a little before straightening up. Zack gave a silent snort at how much the door had scared his sister.

Judith found it unfair that the others in the family could just do what they wished, but because them three where the first litter they where so special and had to do everything.

One by one, guests trotted inside, giving a friendly hug or a gentle kiss on the back of the upper's paw; which she wiped off every day. Even jade was relieved when all the guests had entered the large room, slowly spinning around on the glossy marble floor to classic music, which in Judith's opinion was absolutely horrible.

"Aren't you going to dance with someone?" An arm linked through the grey bunny's and pulled her out of the empty part of the room. Her sister, eyes a tad darker than her own, winked at her when she spun Judith around and pushed her right into the dancing mammals.

She muttered quite a lot of sorries while pushing though the dancing couples, almost tripping half of them, including herself, on the way to the other side of the room where she knew a balcony looked out to the back yard.

The door was open obviously because the wind ruffled through the half-transparent curtains blocking the outside. Secretly slipping past and into the fresh air. The icy breeze bit at her fur; it was colder than she thought it would be. She rubbed her arms with her paws to heat up but it didn't do much. At least she was alone now.

She enjoyed the peacefulness outside on the balcony; inside with everyone dancing no one would notice she's gone. Her grey paws reached up and slipped off the fancy ball mask.

The garden was huge, mainly cute trees and a small stone patch curving through. Many flowers decorated the place and a white stone fountain sat spraying crystal clear water in the centre.

"Hello, my lady"

Judith recognized the voice instantly, quietly groaning to her self, annoyed. Why now?

She pulled on a gracious smile and spun around, the Fowey dress spinning around with her, making her look quite majestic at that moment.

She had turned around to face Austin. Great.

"What are you doing out here, Judith?" he questioned politely, nearing her and taking her paw in his; giving the back of it a tender kiss and stepping in even closer to bring it to near his heart.

"Just getting fresh air." She pulled her arm back slowly, trying to make it seem as nice as possible instead of rudely pulling her paw away. "How about you?" she smiled fakely, low key wishing he would just disappear.

"Followed you here" he smirked. "Thought I'd take the chance to talk to you. We are getting married when you turn 18 remember?"

"How could I forget" Judy rolled her eyes and spun back to face the balcony. It was only in one year's time. She hated the fact she couldn't marry for love and at the time she wanted to. The second she was born her fate was to be married to the other grey bunny like it or not. The feeling was like having chains shackled up around her heart, kept in a prison by stupid traditions and rules.

Austin clearly read her tone wrong because he took it as a compliment, unless he was just casually complimenting himself, which is something he'd do. "Oh am I that good now?"

You wish, she would of said but made the smarter choice not to.

"May I just say though, you look stunning tonight." He stood behind her, wrapping his arms around the slim waist. Judy didn't get to hear things like that very often and had caught her by surprise, as for his warm embrace from behind her.

"Not to bad yourself" she choked out, only just managing to make it sound smooth. And she had to admit; he wasn't the worst looking, quite good actually. His tall height for a bunny suited the slender shape of his body, his fur a grey that was almost as dark as the black night sky. A tidy white blouse hugged his torso and bright blue eyes popping out under the black mask.

"Would you care for a dance" he winked holding out a paw. Did she even have a choice? Struggling inside she almost died when she placed her paw in his and answered with a 'sure'.

Judith dreaded every moment his arms had a hold of her spinning around in the center of the dance floor, literally every single eyeball in the room judging her for her mistakes. The dancing was boring, the music was horrid and the feel of stares burning right through her ate her away on the inside.

When the music came to an end most mammals cleared to grab a drink and possibly a few snacks. Judith let go of the taller bunny the very first second she could when-

Screams surrounded the room, bouncing off the arch shaped ceiling. A huge gush of wind whirled around in the room, brushing through the fur of the mammals when both huge doors swung open.

"Get her!" a voice buzzed like the sound over a radio. Judith didn't even have time to turn before being pushed off her feet, skidding far back. There was chaos everywhere; now that she could see the whole room she saw about 5 canines, two of them holding pistols and threatening to shoot anyone in their way, others clawing away at the guards. A coyote towered over the helpless bunny, deep laughter echoing in her dizzy mind. He pulled out a huge black bag, about to chuck it over when everyone screamed again.

a window had been smashed open on the other side of the room, sharp shards flying an all different directions, along with a speedy flash of black zipping through the new way in and around the room. Gasps were let out everywhere at the shifty speed of this new arriver until it passed past the oldest upper daughter.

Judith could have sworn she jumped out of her own skin at the force that hit her chest, pushing her back onto the floor. Flying through the air more Once she hit the hard surface, she frantically pushed herself back with her long feet until a pillar stopped her from going any further.

The speedy animal had come to a stop between the growling coyote and Judith. Face fully covered with a black cloth over the muzzle and dark shades, ears hidden under some black hood of a jacket. The only fur visible on the intruder was his fingers coming out of half gloves and a tail, long, bushy and red, it looked like…

No it can't be, Judith thought, a… fox?

He looked completely unarmed and small compared to the canid with a snapping jaw until it leapt at it, a large wolf following after to get the strange mammal. It was clear it was defending the bunny when a long piece of something like metal whipped through the air. Too fast for anyone to see what really happened, the two canines slumped to the ground, blood staining the ballroom floor.

It signaled the next ones to come but they backed away, scared for their lives after watching probably their friends being murdered in less than five seconds by the one who wouldn't even show it's face. Judith, who was directly next to her savior still on the floor, had her heart racing like a fast drum. So close to the fox-like animal she might of heard a disgusted snort from it and something along the line of 'losers'

Judith couldn't help but stare at the one that saved her, more than curious about him, or her. It noticed and turned to face her while sliding the deadly weapon back where it was, somewhere hidden on his back under the sweatshirt, kneeling down to get to the bunny's seated level. The rich mammals, especially the Hopps, held their breath for what would happen next.

The brownish hand, half covered in something like a leather glove, came towards her. One finger stroking the side of her cheek; It tilted it's head as if it was concerned about the sore condition of the grey mammal. She shivered when the claw ever so gently touched the slightest bit of her face.

The intruder, her savior, realized how scared she was by the twitching nose.

Time to go, it reminded.

The crowded mammals snapped into fear again when the mysterious animal zipped out the same way he came it, this time taking something along with him. And that something was Judith.

"Find her!" Bonnie Hopps yelled, surprisingly growing a tear in the corner of her eye.

"Let me go!" she yelped for the thousandth time, struggling against her kidnapper. To her surprise he did, carefully placing her on her feet once in the place he wanted to be. She had nowhere to run to anyway, he took her for safety. Her safety too, but not only because the whole of Zootopia was relying on it, they just didn't know yet.

The strong wind flicked off the hoodie revealing what it really was.

Judy's jaw dropped. The mammal now slowly raised its lowered ears, which were hidden before; finally perking up it was one hundred percent a fox.

It was a fox.

He was a fox.

Judith had forgotten to breath and for a second she thought she was dreaming. Foxes where all dead, why is here then? He was looking over an edge of the thing they stood on; turning back to the one he took; it wasn't the wind, it was the huge eyed stare of the bunny pulling her mask of that sent a shiver down his spine.