The first official chapter to the story.

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Chapter 1
Irratation and vandilization
I just sigh as I wait for Joe and Vergil to show up, growing a little irritated. "Why is it that they are late when Joe was the one who told me to come early?" I ask myself as I check the time and just shake my head. "Guess the whole thing is off." I say to myself and turn to leave, but stop dead when I see, of all people, Derek heading this way. 'The hell is he doing here?' I think to myself and start sneaking up to him. 'Now time to see what he's up to.' I think to myself and start to spring on him, but then he turns around and shakes his head. "Xander, you really need to learn the wonderful art of stealth." He says to me grinning.
I just pout a little, looking confused at the obvious question, then ask him. "What are you even doing here anyway?" He grins, chuckling a bit and shaks his head, his floppy ears bouncing a little. "Are you serious? Didn't Joe tell you anything when he asked you out here tonight?" He then looks genuinly surprised and confused when I shake my head no. "You're serious? He didn't? Nothing at all?" "Just that I need to meet him and Vergil here tonight, and I have been waitng for the good part of an hour now." I say with a huff and sit down, pouting like a kid.
We-" "Hey gys!!" Yells the overly loud voice of said very tardy bear, and with him, standing behind him, was none other thant the little snow leopard himself. "Well well well. What have we here? Someone who had better have a damned good reason for being an entire hourl late to the meeting point?" I ask, not even trying to hide my irritability from them. "Uh, well, you see, the truth is that I had comepletely forgotten about meeting you and Derek here. Heheh, soory Xander." He says with an embarrassed chuckle as I just trip and faceplant in the ground. He then tries to look innocent and I sigh standing up. "I hate when you do that. It makes it impossible to stay mad at you for long." I say grinning and we all start laughing then. After we stop laughing it up at absolutely nothing, we make our way over to Joe's pick-up truck, with him and Vergil in the front, and me and Derek taking the truck bed.
After everyone is inside the truck, relatively speaking of course, Joe starts it up and turns it around, heading for the other side of town, near the coastline. Even during the drive up there I was left in the dark, no one telling me a single thing about what we're doing here at night driving to the coast in Joe's truck. "Ok, seriously, come on guys!! Tell me!! Please?" I say, starting to beg them, not even sure if Joe and Vergil can even hear me right now, wanting to know so bad about what the heck we're doing.
After almost ten straight minutes of my constant whining and begging, Derek finally caved in with an aggrivated sigh and shook his head. "Look, if you relly want to know, then fine, here it is. We're going to vandalize a fish factory for the heck of it, all right?" He says and waits for my reaction. I pause for a moment, then smile wide. "Okay, thanks for telling me Derek." I tell him happily, then he just facepaws with a sigh. "One of these days I swear you will drive me insane." He says and just sighs, but can't help smiling back to show he's joking. I just chuckle and my hears perk as I hear something from the inside of the truck, and when I press my ear against the glass to get a closer look I see that it's Joe and Vergil laughing it up, probably having heard me the entire time. "Oh ha ha, yuck it up you two, see what I care." I say to them, pretending to be offended.
"So Joe, who all are meeting us there tonight anyway?" I ask, getting curious as we get closer to the factory. :Oh, you know, just Keenan, Tj, and uh..." He mutters the last name, and I get even more curious. "Eh? Care to speak up? Didn't quite catch that." I say and get as close as I can to hear who the last person is.
He pauses and sighs. "Ok, the three meating us are Keenan, TJ, and, well, Bryan Ethridge." He says, finishing it with a sigh. When I hear that name I go deathly qiet and remember all the things he's done to me over the last few years. When I remember, I start glaring at the three shadowy figures slowly starting to come into shape as we get closer to the factory.
"Why is he here in the first place?" I ask Joe, wanting to know just what was going through his head when he said yes in bringing that that asshole here. "Like I had a choice when he told me he heard me in the hall and threatened to tell the Principle, but wouldn't if I let him in on it!" He says back to me, both sounding and looking slightly hurt at how I said that to him.
I wince when I see that and feel a little ashamed of myself, and then start thinking on how I can make it up to him after tonight is over with. After that, we finally stop and are at the factory. Joe gets out and unlocks the gate with a key he has and the rest of us get out of the truck too, but when I go to jump out the back with Derek, my shoe catches the truck and I fall flat on my face again.
"Ow! that hurt." I say as I sit back up, holding my muzzle in my hands to check and see if it's bleeding, but smiles as I see that I'm not as luck would have it. I stand back up, dusting myself off, and look to see everyone else here laughing at what just happened. "How could you have done that you dunce?" Asks Bryan Ethridge, him being the only one to physically stand out from us since he's the only one here that has Scales, being a Crocodile and all. "Maybe his shoe got caught genius." I hear someone say, and smile when I see that it's none other than my Hyena friend Keenan.
"Oh? And just how would you know you little smarta-" He doesn't get to finish as he is smacked in the back of the head by Joe. "Bad crocodile. No bad words from you tonight." He says and goes over to the seventh member of our little group tonight, our good friend Tj Jhonson.
What's up Skunky boy?" Joe asks him grinning and poking him in the side playfully. "How long are you going to keep calling me that?" He asks, a little annoyed at the nickname from Grade school. "Just as soon as I get bored with calling you it." He says teasingly, getting a grin out of the Skunk, then goes over to the door and pushes it open for us. "Okay then, everyone ready for some good old vandalizing?!" He asks happily, getting us all excited and we nod.
We all run in then and start looking around grinning, finding barrels of fish that we can smash and some pipes that will help us with it, so we all jst go wild, but as soon as we all start enjoying it, the smell of fish hits us hard and we start feeling sick, except for Joe. "What, you guys don't like fish or something?" He asks, grinning innocently as he goes back to breaking. It takes the rest of us a little time to get used to it, but soon enough we all go back to breaking things all around us, the floor soon being covered with Fish and busted up wood and barrel rings.
Slowly, as the hour passes by, the barrels start dwindling down to nothing left at all, the floor long having disappeared under fish and barrel, making it awkward to move around by walking. "Come on, I need to smash at least one more barrel." I say to myself as I look around happily, and hear a bored yawn, seeing Tj sitting down. "Tere has to be one somewhere, right?" He says rolling his eyes with sarcasm. "I know, right? I need to find it!!" I say laughing and start looking aroound some more, then, out of sheer luck, or maybe not now that I think about it, I spot something near the very back in the shadows next to the wall closest to us, and when I see it, my tail wags happily. "Hey guys!! Last one!! Come on over here!!" I say happily and wait until all of the others come over to lift the lid off of it, but as soon as I do, I know something is wrong as the room gets colder.
" W-What did you just do you fleabag?" Bryan asks when he feels the cold, it effecting him most, but is silenced by a glare from everyone else. What happened next would shape the rest of or lives in ways some of us had only dreamed. And none of us would ever be the same again.