Anti-House Foxes

The **Anti-House Foxes** were a group of domesticated red foxes that lived in the woods after running away from their owners. The group eventually disbanded after all the foxes were captured by humans to be fixed (neutered or spayed, depending on the sex).

## **Description**

The Anti-House Foxes were generally friendly to any other red foxes they came across, whether they were domesticated or wild. They would refer to their own members as brothers or sisters as an indication that they considered each other family since they lived together. Naturally, the foxes viewed every other species as either enemies or food. They were extremely hostile to humans, aliens, wolves (the Terrore Pack, in this case), dogs, badgers, skunks, bears, coyotes, lynx, housecats, grey foxes, cougars, and birds of prey, all of which were a red fox's natural predators. As omnivores, they ate a wide variety of food: rodents, fish, insects, small birds, amphibians, and reptiles, carrion, Arctic foxes, raccoons, kittens and smaller cats, grasses, fruits, berries, and several other kinds of plants. If they needed to, they would also feed on garbage in the nearby towns and villages. They would bother town residents for fun from time to time, and also gained a reputation in Howler Forest for their elusiveness and sharp wits, despite being former house pets. These foxes hunted best at night, even though they did remarkably during the day, and took advantage of hostile situations.

## **Territory**

The Anti-House Foxes lived on the outskirts of Howler Forest to avoid confrontations with their natural enemies. They made their home in a large abandoned badger set, which was dry and rather sandy for them. This was surrounded by a medium-sized patch of dense, mixed forest. The nearby Swanson River made it easy for them to access clean water as well as occasionally catch fish, and the marshes near the town border served as a backup food source as well as a sufficient hiding place. The borders of their territory were the nearby town's fence to the north, a large oak grove to the south, which was Terrore Pack Wolf territory, the Swanson River to the east, and to the west, the large pile of boulders near Duncan Park, a place where human families and their pets would gather for picnic. They marked these borders with their urine.

## **Rank Successions**

### **Leaders**

1. **Wilmington:** An elderly European red fox with a British accent who escaped the captivity of his abusive owner. He welcomed Xenia into his skulk when she helped provide them with extra food, and was highly regarded in the group as a wise, benevolent, kind leader. A short time later, he fought with a rogue Maine Coon cat named Eric and managed to take the cat's life at the cost of his own.
2. **Henry:** A young American red fox who was abandoned by his human family who could no longer care for him, and developed a hatred for them as a result. Wilmington took him under his wing and taught him the ways of the wild. Henry became the Anti-House Foxes' second-in-command when the group formed, and rose to leadership after Wilmington's death. Brash, arrogant, selfish, cowardly, and immature, he refused to appoint a new second-in-command and carelessly jeopardized the lives of everyone in the skulk, including his own, by repeatedly harassing their neighbors and stealing their food. The rest of the skulk began to resent Henry, but were powerless to stop him due to his speed and strength in combat. However, Xenia stepped up to fight him, and after a long, hard fight, she finally managed to knock him down, displacing him as the skulk leader. She and the other foxes then chased Henry out of the territory for good, and he was never seen or heard from again.
3. **Xenia:** The Japanese red fox who succeeded Henry as the skulk leader after forcing him out and appointed her good friend Rupert as the next second-in-command. She successfully lead the Anti-House Foxes until one day humans and aliens arrived with dogs to capture them so they could win the rewards placed on the foxes' heads. When they dug the foxes out of their burrow, Xenia evacuated everyone and tried to lead them to safety, but they were all chased by their pursuers and driven into cages. She and Rupert wound up in the same cage, and could only watch helplessly as all the foxes placed into a vehicle and transported to an unknown location, where they were then placed in an animal shelter. They lived there unbothered for sometime; then, however, people started taking interest in the foxes and began adopting them, much to Xenia's chagrin. The members were separated permanently upon their adoption, and Xenia had no choice but to disband the skulk, knowing she would never see any of them again. She and Rupert were the only foxes in the shelter for a time until she was taken by Song Han.

### **Seconds-in-command**

1. **Henry:** He was Wilmington's second-in-command and became leader of the skulk after his teacher's death.
2. **Rupert:** He was Xenia's second-in-command right from Henry's banishment up to the skulk's disbandment. He currently resides with his former leader in the care of the Oak family.

### **Healers**

1. **Juno:** She was the skulk's only healer and was very gifted with medicinal herbs. She was adopted sometime before Xenia and Rupert were. She was never seen or heard from again.

## **Known Residents**

* Xenia (former)
* Rupert (former)
* Juno (status unknown)
* Harris
* John (deceased)
* Enola
* Mittens
* Tina
* Ivan
* Atka (deceased)
* Silla (deceased)
* Isabel
* Yvonne (deceased)
* Lucas
* Wilmington (deceased)
* Henry (exiled, deceased)