Hello, this is my first attempt at writing an story ever, so please review and be as critic as you can so that I can get better. This is my intro for a Zootopia story where humans exist. English is not my native language so if yous guys notice anything wrong yell at me.
"Good morning class, today we are continuing from where you stoped yesterday with Mr. Coppers about the Great War." A brown furred rabbit said while standing in front of a classroom full of bunnies and few other mammals."Since you already know the reasons this terrible war started now we will learn about our armies that are aiding our allies in Magna."
"Ms. Brown are we going to talk about soldiers in a history class ?" The grey furred rabbit asking the question had both ears raised and its violet eyes casting na questioning gaze to the teacher.
The older rabbit sighed and turned on a projector before answering.
"As you might know there are certain species of mammals that originally existed in one continent but not the other and more than 90% of our armies are constitude of humans, an especies exclusive to our continent of Zooria and humans had a very important role in how our society was formed." While talking she placed the first picture on the projector, the image showed a drawing of three creatures.
"This image is an old drawing depicting how a hunting pack of savage humans looked in ancient times." Afther scanning the room and noticing that several kids where waving their hands wanting to ask questions she pointed at a small black rabbit that nearly jumped out of his chair while talking.
"Teacher you said that they're savage from the stone ages but they are walking on two legs and carrying spears."
"Good question Max." Hearing this the small kid happily raised its ears.
"The reason they are walking on two legs is because humans were the only mammals that never walked on four legs in any stage of evolution."
She then pointed at the legs of one of the humans before continuing the explanation.
"If you pay close attention you will notice that their legs are longer than normal, cientists believe that their legs are this way to help them climb trees and large rocks, not only that it also makes them very dexterous acrobats. Humans also d..."
" why do they look so different from each other, the one in the left has a wolf's head and the one in the middle don't." Judy asked with burning curiosity.
"Hopps what have I told you about interrupting my explanations?" The angry look on the teacher's face and the sound of her foot stomping the floor quickly made the younger rabbit back down and apologise, earning a few laughs from the rest of the class and mocking comments from a chubby fox in the back of the classroom.
"Everyone calm down." Afther the noise stopped she continued. "I was getting to that part since it's tied to why they have weapons."
"Humans are extremelly vicious omnivorous predators but they have blunt nails instead of sharp claws so to compensate for that they crafted rudimentary weapons using wood and sharp stones, it's believed that they hunted both in packs and alone." While pausing to catch her breath the chubby fox in the back started talking.
"They don have claws HA, they are no... viscous predators, Hehe they are no real predators right Travis" Then the fox began laughing while playfully punching the arm of a ferret sitting next to him.
"Haha... yeah." Travis said timidly.
"Well that is where you two are wrong, the may have no claws but humans always where the apex predators of any area they resided in, they were know to hunt any mammal that was unfortunate enough to enter their territories and they didn't hunt just for the meat they skinned their prey for their fur, sometimes even before killing their victims." Hearing this the whole class went silent.
" what do you mean by... skinned alive, e-even if they were savage isn't it too evil? " A small lamb asked stuttering with a nearly crying voice, obviously shaken by what she just learned.
"Well Mary, humans are almost furless, having just some fur on their heads to protect it from rain and wind." She paused while thinking how to explain it to the kids.
"So because of this they used they sharp weapons to skin other mammals so that they could use their fur for themselves, but they are were... evil, they were just savages that couldn't resist their violent urges." She then sighed and akwardely smiled.
"This next image that i will show you is a little heavy, so be prepared okay."
Afther saying this she changed the image on the projector, now showing a photo of a modern human wearing military grey clothes.
"This is a male human soldier." She said while avoiding looking at the image.
The kids eyes widened seeing this new image. The human in front of them was wearing a military jacket, a pair of pants, fingerless gloves and a helmet. He seemed almost normal inoffensive, with it's furless face and lack of claws and fangs. But he wasn't, a very large knife was sheated and hanging on his thights, on one hand he had what looked like a rifle, not the tranquilizer type that the police used but the ones that killed and were forbidden, but what chocked them the most was what he was holding on his other hand.
"It's a zebra skin." Mary cried in terror.
The whole class was silent, not one of the kids managing to avert their gazes from the dreadfull picture.
"When mammals evolved and started living in harmony we needed someone to help maintain the order and unify the land." This was not pleasant subject to lecture the rabbit thought.
"Humans are not incredibly strong like bears or fast like cheetahs, but ever since the beginning our continent's army was always comprised of humans, why is that? It's because humans were made for fighting." Then once again she changed the pictures, the image now displayed a male human and a male wolf side by side.
"As I already explained before humans have longer legs also their torsos are smaller, while other mammals evolved and began walking on two legs our bodies haven't changed that much. Humans on the other hand always walked on two legs so because of their body they have a better sense of balance and maneuverability then we have."
The kids still were listening in silence and she believed some of them had not blinked yet.
"When we started living togheter firearms didn't existed we only had just started crafting swords and shields to arm our armies, now remember which mammals used this kind of weapons since ancient times." Afther this some of the kids started changing their expressions, showing that they understood where she was going.
"All this factors, combined with their natural ferocity and the fact that they were mostly pack hunters turned them into an fearsome army that was essencial in unifying our land, humans have been soldiers ever since, that's why none of you have seen a human in your lives, since they tend to stay at communities around areas of military value and rarely venturing in others places, unless it's for war."
She then placed the last image on the projector, it was a wolrd map displaying the continent of Zooria and the eastern continent of Magna, divided in West Magna and East Magna.
"Unlike Zooria, the armies in Magna were comprised of several diferent especies and because of this their never managed to unify the continent like we did, because several especies had animosity with another especies, causing it to be divided in two, our allies in West Magna and our foes in East Magna."
Sitting on her desk she then stated to the abnormally quiet class.
"Well thats all, questions ?"
"They really only know how to fight ? Don't they have other jobs, like being officers?" Judy asked.
"It's know that any human six years old or older must be trained in combat and in case of emergencies or wars, any human from the ages of sixteen to fourty years old must enlist. But I think that there's actually a law that benefits those that hire unemployed humans in times of peace but never met anyone who had employed one"
"They hunted any mammal right, did they have any mammal that they liked to hunt more than the others?" Max asked with his ears lowered, wanting any answer except for bunnies.
Hearing this the older brown rabbit actually frowned, no one had ever asked this in the previous years she teached this class, normally the twelve year old kids just asked if they were safe and then jumped throught the door to go home early for the weekend. She then opened a drawer in her desk and picked a book she had prepared in anticipation for this class.
"It says here that even before they mostly abandoned their –Cough- skinning habbits they indeed had a favortite prey." She then turned the page and giggled at the sights of her students serious faces.
"Their favorite prey are red foxes, apparently they liked hunting foxes so much that they had Fox Hunts, but the strange thing is that they..."
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The sound of the signal ended the class interrupting her speech.
"Well, see you kids next week, enjoy the weekend."
Most of the kids had recovered from the earlier shock when they heard the word weekend, but there was one that had not. A chubby fox timidly dragging his feet while walking slowly whith his head and ears lowered.
"Fox Hunt" He said quietly.
That weekend he would have nightmares about furless creatures and bloodied knifes tearing skin and flesh.