Lapis
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"Get back here brat"

I jumped back, making sure to give jasper a slight kick to the jaw.

"You can't run and jump forever, lazuli" she shouted, leaping at me once again. I slipped under her, sliding away from the thickset vixen. Darting behind her I jumped, getting a good bite on her ear. She yelped and easily threw me off. She didn't realize this would cause her ear to rip. She let out a loud gekker and charged at me again but I couldn't move in time, and she caught my ruff and pinned me down

"Got you brat" she mumbled through my fur

"Fine. But what are you gonna do now. You can't exact-" my words were cut off by a sharp, stinging pain in my stomach. I let out loud gekkers and screams as jasper clawed at my belly, still pinning me. The clawing stopped and I looked up to see jasper running, right before the world went black

Time skip brought to you by Steven universe trash

Waking up... I found myself in an abandoned barn. I heard voices around Me but they were muffled. I tried to stand up but upon standing a pain shot through my head, legs, and stomach. I let out a small Yelp and layed back down

"It's lapis! She's awake!" I heard a familiar voice say.

"S-st-Steven" I squeaked. I saw the small fox run over to me and he gave a gentle nudge to me. I slowly sat myself up and leaned against the wooden walls.

"Lazuli! I see your up and awake!" I heard another voice say

"Peridot!"

I hissed and jumped back, thrashing my brush.

"Whoa! Lapis, calm down" Steven said putting a paw on my shoulder

"WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE" I barked, glaring at peridot. I tried to ignore the pain in my stomach as I stood up, hackles raised, looking at the small green-eyed vulpine. A growl arose in my throat as I stared at her, blue eyes piercing green. At the time I never thought why or how, just stared at her until her oversized ears slowly folded down and my ears, through a still faint ringing, picked up a whimper and a fearful look pooled into her large, lime green eyes.

"Lapis, stop" Stevens voice suddenly and gently ran into my ears, making me lower to a regular standing position, but keeping my gaze locked onto the smaller, brown-yellow-green furred fox, her eyes still dotted with hope that I would calm soon, but alas I wouldn't be comfortable around her for a while.

But I almost jumped at her when her ears raised back up, her eyes thinning to a glare and her stance returning to that of a simple stand, as if she was contemplating whether or not to lunge at me to attack or for other reasons.

"I feel unwanted here Steven, I would like to move to a different part of the barn, if you don't mind" peridot said, turning off to the upper corner of the large "den". She lay down and wrapped her brush around herself, eyes glancing to me, a then unreadable look in her eyes, then to Steven, then the wall, where they stayed for a while before closing and relaxing into a state of what seemed to me was sleep.
Pain in my stomach got to me and I collapsed down to the ground, cool and lit up from the barn entry and holes in the top of the half-underground home. I wished to move and curl into a ball, my thick and warm brush curled around me, but the pain was great and immobilized me. So there I would lay, tail far from my snout and my body a sort of standing-sideways-on the ground position, and stinging feelings shocking my midsection that kept me from a soft nap that I desperately needed.

"Lapis, are you okay? I-"

"Leave, Steven. I'm sorry, but leave. I wish to be in peace, and I don't want to talk right now" I cut off the pup. I shut my eyes, desperately searching a whisp of sleep that wouldn't come for a long while.

I guess now I had been tired, more than I had thought, because I slept from that afternoon straight (unlike this cringey AF author amirite) into the next morning. I looked around and peridot was no longer in the barn, nor was anybody else. In the wall a note was scratched.

Off to hunt. Please at least let me give you food, your bone thin lazuli.

-peridot

Lazuli I thought with disdain. I had hated that nickname. Especially spoken by that tiny excuse for a vulpine.

Well, I thought, I might as well have whatever food that thing finds.

Back Then, I had refused to think that she hunted.