Losing it All

Anxiety. Fear. The feelings of all.

Twenty minutes left.

An arctic wolf trembled and sobbed in place, the feathers on its headdress quivering with every hiccup.

A few bunnies gathered together, some for comfort and others for a last goodbye.

A wolf sighed, giving a plushie a squeeze and thinking over all its past memories as a single teardrop rolled down its face.

A fox announced the time with a voice shaking more wildly than leaves in a windstorm. There was already only two minutes left.

A scream rang out. A snow leopard, the one who had cried out, collapsed to the ground. It hyperventilated and shook. "No. No, no, no, no, n-no, no, nonono, no, no, no!" Tears streamed down its face.

The renewal had not happened yet, and there was now no time left for it to happen. There was no hope.

Then, the ground split open and a gold light shaped like chains flashed around all the animals under the identification tag of "FuzzyBuddies243."

All the animals fell through the ground, shrieking, holding onto the last paw they could see, and realizing that this was how they would die.

A spike slipped off an animal's neck and glinted in the light surrounding the animals in the black abyss.

Suddenly, a bridge appeared. All the animals landed on it. But..

It broke in several places beneath animals. A wolf grabbed a bunny and darted around. An elf tail slipped off of it as he ran, but it cleared the edge of the bridge and the bunny survived as well.

Unfortunately for the rest of the animals, they fell into the abyss.

Screams and silence filled the air as the animals got sucked into the void below the abyss itself. The arctic wolf hit first, followed by the snow leopard, and then a fox, and more and more animals hit the ground. The bridge broke too, falling in pieces into the void as well.

The deactivation was complete.