Prologue
Faster, that's all she could think is that she had to push herself faster. The trees whizzed by in a blur but it wasn't enough. This thing following her was right on her tail, literally. She had to pull it away from the people further into the forest. There she could face it properly instead of running like a coward but at least it took the bait.
As she wove throw the familiar paths of the forest around her home she realized she was coming to just the right place to have this fight. A clearing she was sure nobody else new existed. She gave one last burst of speed to break the tree line and get to the other side before the monster could realize what was happening. Turning to face the creature that had followed relentlessly for the last 20 minutes she actually gave a moment to look it over.
This creature was a female an absolute gorgeous female to be exact. She had brunette hair that was cut short into a bob and it hung perfectly around her face as if she hadn't just ran damn near 25 miles in the woods where there were low hanging branches all along what had been their path to this place. She also had a very savage look to her red eyes, a look of pure hatred for what was in front of her. The female lifted her lip up to snarl and gathered herself into a position that would make it easier to leap out and attack.
Upon seeing this, the other female growled out a warning before they both sprang into the air towards each other. They collided with such force that the shock wave took out a small tree at the edge of the clearing not to mention it sounded like a canon firing. In a quick fury of fur and skin the fight was over in a matter of a minute with the beautiful creatures head and appendages in a neat pile ready to be lit a flame.
Sitting back on her haunches the victor of this little skirmish let out a long, low eerie howl to the moon to show her gratitude to the small sliver orb for letting her survive to fight another day