Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-30921738-20180813175759/@comment-30921738-20180814164229

Liska bounded over to the edge of the river and motioned for Kayla to follow. Kay huffed and followed her, sitting down at the edge of the river.

"Now, you should kno-" Liska was interrupted by a loud snap in the distance. Liska froze, and Kayla followed her example. She swiveled her black ears around to where she had heard the snap. Now she could hear faint footsteps getting closer.

"Don't move," Liska whispered. She lifted her nose the slightest bit and sniffed the air. Kayla did the same. She smelled wolf.

"A wolf?" Kayla asked quietly. "Can't you easily beat a normal wolf?"

"Never underestimate your enemies," Liska responded. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a large wolf jumped out of the bushes. Kayla whipped around, her fur bristling with excitment. But when she saw the wolf, she froze.

This wolf was no ordinary wolf.

Instead of the normal brownish gray fur of the wolves on Drendale, this wolf was a brilliant blue and green. He had a collar ringed with spikes on his neck, some sort of contraption on his back, and glittering orange eyes. But those yes did not have the blank, unknowing expression of a normal wolf. Those eyes... they were filled with malice.

Liska instantly knew this was danger. She whipped around and spread all nine of her tails in the air, a common way to show how powerful she was. But the wolf did not understand and back away. Instead, he smiled evilly, which was not a thing that normal wolves did.

"Why isn't he running away? Doesn't he know never to mess with a nine-tailed kitsune?" Kayla asked.

Almost instantly, the wolf pulled the contraption off his back. It looked like a curved stick with a string attaching each end. With incredible speed, the wolf took a sharp weapon tipped with a feather out of a pouch on his back and pushed it to the curved stick.

"Kayla! Go!" Liska shouted. Kayla did not understand the danger and stood frozen in place. Without warning, the feather-tipped weapon was flying toward Kayla's chest with incredible speed.

If it weren't for Liska, Kayla would have been dead. Liska breathed a plume of fire at the sharp object, instantly burning it. Kayla now understood the danger and jumped out of range of the wolf's weapon. The wolf bared his teeth and shot another sharp object at Liska. Liska knocked it out of the air with one of her tails.

Kayla jumped behind a tree and peeked around it at the wolf battling Liska. Kayla knew that Liska could easily stop a normal wolf, but she was sure that Liska could also stop this unusual blue wolf.

Liska jumped into the air and pounced on the wolf. The wolf lashed out, scraping Liska's stomach. Liska howled with fury and jumpeed off, then spun around and blasted fire at the wolf. The wolf jumped to the side, and shot another weapon at Liska at the same time. Liska jumped to the side, using her tails to propel her.

"Now!" The wolf shouted in an unknown accent. Kayla gasped. Normal wolves could not speak.

Suddenly, a bunch of animals jumped out of the woods, holding weapons in their paws. There was a lion, a hyena, a penguin, an owl, and a crocodile. All the animals were unusual colors, from blue to red. And they all had those intellegent eyes, glittering with malice.

Some held swords, which Kayla was familiar with from stories Liska had told, some held nets, and a few held those curved sticks. Kayla now remebered Liska saying somethign about them. They were called a bow, and the feathered object was an arrow.

Liska was surrounded. She turned around in circles until she saw Kayla hiding behind the tree.

"Go! Don't come back for me!" Liska shouted. Kayla slowly backed away, but didn't dom as Liska had ordered. She couldn't let this happen.

"I said GO!" Liska shouted. Then, in a flash, she became a huge black bear. She swung her massive paw around, trying to hit one of the animals. But while she wasn't looking, the blue wolf shot an arrow right as Liska. It landed in the center of her chest, right on her heart.

Kayla screamed. She tried to jump forward and help, but her legs weren't working. Liska turned back into a blue-gray kitsune and flopped onto the ground. She opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out. Then she closed her eyes and lay still.

The blue wolf turned to the other animals, acting as if killing kitsunes was completely normal. "Catch the kit!" he ordered. The animals scattered into the woods.

Kayla's legs finally obeyed her. She charged into the woods, trying not to cry. Her caretaker, her only friend, her mentor, was dead. And now Kayla was running through the forest, being hunted by evil animals that could easily kill a nine-tailed kitsune. She was homeless, lost, and too young to be on her own.