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Rated: 13+ · Campfire Creative · Fiction · Animal · #2340441

A tale of Planet Mizzer where humans and Humanimals live like the 90s never ended!

[Introduction]
A Mizzer Educational Filmstrip for Elementary Students

"This is the story of how humans created us Humanimals and how we came to Planet Mizzer! Long ago during the summer of 1998 a strange crystal meteorite landed in Griffith Park in California! When the humans approached the strange glowing crystal they discovered any animal touched by its beams of light would transform...Standing on its hind legs, gaining hands with opposable thumbs small species would often become bigger and most importantly they became more intelligent and able to speak human languages! Well the human scientists took the crystal and tested it on all kinds of animals and discovered nearly any animal could be transformed into a Humanimal with the exceptions of creatures without brains and faces like sea sponges and jellyfish and hive insects like ants and bees they discovered you can't give personhood to a single ant or bee anymore than you can to a single skin cell.

Then in the year 2002 a group of humans calling themselves the Neo-Hippies left Earth like the Pilgrims searching for a better life. They took with them in their mountain sized spaceship seven males and seven females of just about every species and breed of Humanimal they could they flew toward a wormhole a once in a thousand years astrological event that would take them to the opposite side of the Milky Way to the New Land of Milk and Honey...

And there they awakened their freshly made Humanimals from their pods the Humanimals then set out and would create their own town to the east of each human town the Humanimals divided themselves into different districts, each Humanimal Town is dived like so...

In the very center are the Domestic Dog and Domestic Cat Districts divided along the diagonal, the inner circle contains the following three districts, to the North the Livestock Mammal District containing all the breeds of Barnyard Mammal, to the Southeast the Woodland Mammal District containing mammals native the Europe and North America and to the Southwest the Tropical Mammal District containing exotic mammals native to every where else, then the outer ring with the Bird District to the North and the Reptile/Amphibian District to the South, the Fish and other 'Water Peoples' like the Cetaceans went to live in Mizzer's various waterways where they can keep themselves comfortably wet and the Insect People live in separate towns underground.

We should always be grateful to our glorious creators the humans for uplifting us from ordinary animals so that we may also have the joys of speech and culture!"

Now you might have some questions about what you just read...This story takes place 15 years before the 'Wrangler Invasion' event in most of my fanfiction and fictionpress stories so we won't meet any of the usual characters

Some rules

You may play either a human or Humanimal character
If you do play a Humanimal aside from the species mentioned above who can't be made into Humanimals Mizzer does not have Mystical Species like dragons and unicorns and no prehistoric species like dinosaurs like only animals available to people of the 1990s

(For a certain someone I'm willing to 'fudge' and say a Dire Wolf might be born to normal wolves because of a super rare mutation making them a 'genetic throwback' if you will)

Mizzer has existed for five thousand years with no new Humanimals being created from normal animals (Despite normal animals existing on farms and zoos, they didn't seem to take the transforming crystal with them) at this point in history all Humanimals have been born anthropomorphic for five thousand years and several distinct 'family clans' have been established

OK and finally Mizzer's western continent has been slowly trying to remake the United States but seems to be obfuscating by calling the states 'Counties' and nearly every place has a Plant/Nature themed name like Oregon is Rosewood County and Portland is Rosella and so on and so forth


OK let's start by introducing our characters

Name: Nightshade Silkfur
Sex: Female
Age: 14
Species: Domestic Cat ((Felis catus) Breed: Bombay
Favorite Music: Classic Rock
Favorite Food: Seared Tuna
Favorite Book: Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Hometown: Rosella of Rosewood County
Appearance: Delicate and Slender Black Cat-Girl with emerald green eyes, is not one of the Humanimals who got the genes for long Human-like 'head-fur' on her scalp so to make up for what she sees as a defect she often wears an 'Egyptian style' golden Headband (Really it's made of plastic)
Bio: Nightshade is a very typical upper middle class Cat-Girl, her Dad has a respectable office job and her Mom is a homemaker...And she sees them as complete and utter duds! She's beginning to suspect her parents don't have good ideas when they tell her she must never set foot outside the Cat District without an adult not even to the next door Cat District 'Who knows what those brutes would do to a delicate young cat like you?' When the PSAs on the TV made by the humans they're supposed to listen to say Prejudice is bad and Mizzer's homemade television shows (i.e. things that aren't 20th century reruns) show different species of Humanimals being friends. Lately Nightshade has been working on a secret plan to follow her dream to become a rock star, to sneak out of the house and run away down south to New Hollywood (The first colonized area that is equivalent to California never got an official county name for some reason most just call it 'The First Land' to audition for Animal Idol where Humanimals of all species are welcome to sing their hearts out and be judged by notorious that Dog-Man Simon Puggerson!
Name: Ozzy Ozzford
Sex: Male
Age: 17
Species: Vampire Bat
Favorite Music: Rock and Metal
Favorite Food: A+ Blood
Favorite Book: Doesn't really read very often
Hometown: New Bristol
Appearance: Models himself after legendary human rockstar, Ozzy Osbourne. Typically dresses in black with piercings in his left ear.
Bio: Ozzy dreams of becoming a big time musician like his idol. Yes, he's well aware of the irony of a bat admiring and dressing as the original Ozzy. He has his own band comprised of his high school friends, and they're hoping to win Animal Idol to help launch their career.
One night during Summer Vacation, Nightshade packed her backpack with bits of food like jerky and enough of her saved up allowance to pay for a greyhound bus...Oh yes...She had been planning this for a long time!

She opened up her bedroom window, she was on the 2nd floor but she was not afraid, she jumped out the window and as a cat she turned gracefully in midair and landed on her feet. Perfect landing! She bowed to an imaginary audience.
Name: Charles "Chuck" Jones
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Species: Human
Music: Country
Food: Buffalo-styled Chicken Wings
Favorite Book: Redwall saga
Hometown: New Buffalo
Bio: Chuck dreams of getting involved in animation. He has ideas that, honestly, wouldn't be the sort that would be for family viewing. He works on roughs in private. He wonders what else he can do.
Name: Zandros (Zan) Pryde

Sex: Male

Age: 18

Species: Liger (Panthera leo)

Favorite Music: Blend of hard rock and alternative rock (Huge fan of Chris Cornell)

Favorite Food: Barbecued Horse Steaks

Favorite Book: "The Brothers GruffOpen in new Window.

Hometown: Mechanic’s Row, Sagebrush County

Appearance: Zandros stands out the moment he enters a room; tall and powerfully built, with a lean but muscular frame that reflects both his tiger stealth and lion strength. His fur is a deep, glossy black inherited from his mother Ariela, patterned with striking gold stripes, a rare fusion of his lineage. His eyes are a sharp amber, almost glowing in certain light, often unreadable but always intense. His mane is a wild, untamed halo of darker fur, hinting more lion than tiger, though faint streaks of bronze shimmer through it. He typically wears rugged, grease-stained work clothes when helping his father at the garage, but favors simple earth-tone layers and hoodies when he's out trying not to attract attention, despite the fact that he always does.

Bio: Before he was a mechanic or a father, Kesar was a lion of strength, speed, and ambition. Born into a proud family in Sagebrush County, he was a local sports legend a rising star on the high school football field. Scouts whispered his name. Coaches built entire plays around him. He was set to inherit not only his father’s construction empire but also the respect of a community that saw him as royalty in the making.

And then he met Ariela.

A rare black tiger with unmatched grace and fire, Ariela was a cheerleader contending for the captain’s spot. She had a commanding presence fierce, driven, elegant and when their eyes met under the Friday night lights, something unspoken passed between them. In a world where species lines were rarely crossed, their chemistry was electric…and dangerous.

In the Humanimal world, there’s an unspoken law: Lions stay with Lions. Tigers stay with Tigers. Cross-species romances are discouraged, not only out of tradition but fear. Mixed offspring often don’t survive stillbirths, deformities, heartbreak. Everyone knows the stories. Everyone’s heard the warnings.

At first, Kesar and Ariela resisted. They chalked up their connection to coincidence, nothing more. But they kept running into each other at school events, at local gatherings, at quiet places they thought only they knew. Over time, resistance gave way to stolen moments, and stolen moments gave way to love.

Their decision to be together came at a cost.

Kesar was disinherited his younger brother, Jabari, took over the family construction business. His football prospects dried up as whispers spread. Ariela, too, was cast out by her family an honored bloodline embarrassed by her choice. With no one to turn to, the couple built a new life from scratch.

They moved to the outskirts of New Hollywood and opened a small garage, fixing vehicles by day, staying up late dreaming of a family that might never be. Ariela became pregnant several times, but the babies never lived. Each loss carved deeper scars. The Lion and the Tiger community both took it as proof that their love was unnatural.

But then...Zandros was born.

Their miracle child. The only known Liger in 4000 years. He survived, and he thrived.

~ ~ ~


Zandros grew fast and strong, taller than any Humanimal his age, broader, heavier, unmatched in strength. Yet with his power came pain. Other children avoided him, mimicking their parents’ fear and judgment. Adults spoke in hushed tones. Teachers grew nervous when he answered too loudly or clenched his fists. He lived in a world that both created him and wished he hadn’t been born.

Now, at 18, Zandros walks the line between pride and solitude. His story is not one of shame, but one of survival, strength, and quiet defiance.

Zandros grew up in the oil stained streets of Mechanic’s Row, a working-class stretch just outside of New Hollywood in Sagebrush County. From the time he could lift a wrench, he was helping his father, Kesar, repair engines, tune bikes, and rebuild vintage solar trucks in the family run garage. The garage is more than a job; it’s a legacy. It’s where he learned focus, discipline, and the unspoken bond between father and son.

But while his hands grew skilled with tools, his heart was always somewhere else.

Zandros writes in the quiet hours; song lyrics scribbled in grease-marked notebooks, poems written on the back of invoices, stories dreamed up during lunch breaks. Music is his secret language. The world rarely gives him the space to speak freely, so he pours it into chords and verses. He’s taught himself to play an old, battered guitar left behind in the shop’s back room, tuning it with the same precision he uses on engines.

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