Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-37629772-20190728101720/@comment-38232361-20190819071103

Roxy let go of the small, struggling worker only to get on all fours as she growled menacingly at the much bigger soldier ant. Though the confrontation between the two didn't have a chance to occur as the partially eaten building began to make a rumbling sound. The little Cu Sith jumped out of the way as the whole building collapsed.

When the crashing stopped, Roxy carefully stepped closer to the rubble surrounded by a thick cloud of dust. She fanned a paw to clear it as she coughed into her other one. When the dust cleared, one couldn't even tell what kind of building used to be there unless they were present before the demolition of the Pizzeria and Apartment building. She then kneeled down infront of this one part of the rubble when she saw a familiar sight. It was the framed picture from the little memorial infront of their room, the wood splintered and the glass pulverized on top of the old, worn photograph. She picked up the broken picture gingerly as she looked at it, looking into the redheaded man's sparkling green eyes before hugging it and sobbing uncontrollably.

All this time, it wasn't both of the pooches keeping hope that he would come back. It was just Lulu who kept believing he would come back, and Roxy who kept feeding her the same lie for over three years. The truth was, Roxy knew when he didn't come home and heard the sirens rush to the bank he always frequented, when the neighbors were whispering about what happened while Lulu was sleeping, Roxy knew that he wasn't coming home.

Her memories of her life with the young man played out in her mind in black and white. The two years they spent before she turned from regular dog to mamono, to the one as a manono, to the one with Lulu joining their family, to the three without him, and his last words to the two girls before he was gone forever played through her mind like an old film.

"I'll be back before you know it, I promise! Take good care of eachother and the place while I'm gone! I love you....."

".....I shouldn't've let you go....."

Roxy's paws trembled as her tears fell onto the picture, leaving long streaks where the dust and rubble was washed away.

"I should've begged you to stay.......or wait another day! If I didn't let you go to the bank that day.......I could've kept my promise! If I made you stay.......Theo and the werebats wouldn't be captured, or on the run! If I didn't......"

She clutched the picture against her chest and began to sob, completely disregarding the existence of the ants that probably scattered when the building came down.

"I'm sorry Toby......"

MEANWHILE

Lulu looked out to where Roxy flew of for another moment before turning to the werebat.

"Yeah, I'm going after them."

She looked around the crowded shelter under the bridge at the other werebats huddled together in safety.

"And so is anyone who doesn't want to live in fear of the HMEP taking their lives and the lives of their loved ones ever again!"

MEANWHILE

Kreed kept hiding behind the big, fuzzy white Yetis cage, kerping an eye on the now deaf and blind robot and a ear out for the Gatekeeper sure to be on his way after that screech made the robot how it is now.