Chapter One: A New Friend

A light orange saber tooth tiger with green eyes is running away. From the horror which he had just seen. He couldn't help but tear up as he ran. He just needed some alone time as the horror which beholden him was so horrible that he couldn't stay around and watch it for any longer.

EARLIER THAT NIGHT:

2 Saber Tooth Tigers were sleeping peacefully in the cave. It was a cold and snowy night so they stayed together enjoying each other's warmth. The female saber with a light grey black striped coat, is awoken by a out of place sound.

"Did you hear something Diego?"

A golden saber with emerald eyes looks over to his mate.

"No. Just go back to sleep, it was probably nothing Shira" The male saber replied.

But Shira couldn't help but to be cautious of it. She decides to get up and go see if she can find out what may have caused it. That's when she saw a dark shadowy figure run away. Shira decided to chase the threat. When she ran after it, she didn't seem to notice the fog that got heavier and heavier the farther she went into the forest. She had forgotten that the forest which she had entered had been known for being cursed. Some say that upon entering the forest, you would hear voices that would grow louder and louder the farther you went in, and those voices would start to form dark demon like figures that start to surround you. You would be lucky to get out alive at that point.

Shira noticed that the figure was significantly faster than her and she had lost the figure in the fog. She realized where she was and quickly looked around to find the exit before it's too late. She could surprisingly still see the mountain, where the cave which she had been staying with Diego in, was through the very thick fog. She started to bolt towards it. As she kept running, the fog became so thick, she could barely see 3 inches in front of her. Shira started to hear some strange sounds which turned into voices that grew louder by the second.

"Join us."

"Where do you think you're going?"

"It's too late."

"Stay a while, stay forever."

Shira was getting so enraged from the voices she started to yell at the top of her lungs. "LEAVE ME ALONE! STAY AWAY FROM ME! PLEASE!"

The voices still got louder and were repeating the same things. Shira could feel herself getting weaker and more fatigued by the minute. She started to black out, soon she did. That's when a dark orange figure arose from the fog. It had brown eyes. The figure decided to drag the unconscious saber to a wide open area.

TIME SKIP:

Shira had woken up only to have been tied up by vines and she could not wriggle around easy. To her left, she had noticed her mate, Diego, was unconscious and tied up aswell. Shira tried to yell to awaken her mate only to find her mouth was covered over by a piece of cloth, preventing her to be able to speak. As she looked around, he saw about 12 sabers were all surrounding the two. She was about to try and break loose only to have a paw put on her head, pinning it against the tree. A dark grey male saber spoke up.

"I see you seem to have no idea where you are." He removes the cloth from around her mouth.

Shira immediately couldn't help but to question "Where the Hell are we?!" She yelled, only to get a very immediate response.

"Welcome home, Sister." The Leader replied, with a evil grin on his face.

"Lenny." She said angrily.

"I see you have not changed much at all I see. The hate-filled kitten you've always been." He continued. "It's all your fault for killing our father, and so you just shrugged it off and ran away. And you will pay the price." He finished.

And little did anyone know that Diego had been awake for the whole conversation.

"You know each other?" Diego blurted out.

"No duh. Look, you both have 45 seconds before we turn the both of you into burnt meat. So I suggest you start saying your last remarks to each other." Lenny interrupted.

And seemingly out of nowhere, 2 human figures appear into Shira and Diego's sight. The 2 humans were careful not to be seen by the attackers. They both had hoods on carrying bows. One of the two held their finger up to their mouth signalling Shira and Diego not to let their attackers know the humans are there.

"Shira," Diego broke the silence. "I want you to know that I didn't ever want to see anything like this happen upon us. I want you to know, I would have done anything to protect you, to keep you safe." Diego finished.

Shira saw what Diego was doing and she decided to play along too. "I don't know what I would have ever done without you in my life diego. These past few weeks have been the best of my life knowing, I was with you." She replied back.

*Fhwoomp* And arrow had hit Lenny in the neck, instantly making him fall to the ground. Making the other sabres in the pack look where the arrow came from. The other sabres started bolting to take down the humans only to fail as the humans started to grab the tigers and one by one, started to do everything they could. Ripping their throats out, cutting their necks open with daggers, one by one, all the sabres had been taken out. Finally, they got the last one of the tigers trying to pounce on the humans, only to fail. All Shira and Diego could think was, how in the world they were so easily saved. Then one of the humans came forward to cut off the vines from Shira and Diego to let them free.

"Why'd you help us. Of anybody?" Shira couldn't help but to ask.

One of the humans looked at her and said "Because, we must help those who are in need most. It's our priority. No matter what species or gender."

Shira looked in confusion. "Are you paid to do this or something?"

"I've been offered rewards, but I never would take of it." The human replied. He continued. "The name's Starfire. And this, is my friend who was the one who found you in the first place."

The other human stepped into the conversation. "But I must be going now. I can reassure you that Starfire will be able to take good care of you. I was just a bystander that decided to help. But I won't be able to stay with you as I need to go back to my tribe."

With that, the other Human walked off.

Diego asked "Starfire, huh? I'm Diego, and this is my mate, Shira."

"Nice to meet you both." Starfire stated.

Diego looked at Shira then he asked "Shira you alright?"

Shira looked at Diego and she shook her head and she said "Yeah I'm fine Diego."

Starfire looked at the two sabers then he noticed the blood on the side of Shira's pelt

"Shira you've been shot by something" he said as he walked to her, when he got close enough he saw a silver crossbow bolt "You were grazed by a poisoned crossbow bolt" he mumbled as he shook his head and pulled the crossbow bolt from the wall then took the crossbow bolt to a fire pit and he lit a fire

"I need to see what kind of poison this is" he said as he took out a small knife and dipped it into the poison that still coated the crossbow bolt and dipped his knife in the fire as a horrid Odor came off of the blade and Starfire growled under his breath "crap" he said a little louder than he had intended.

Diego looked at starfire "What what is it" he had to ask

Starfire shook his head "it's a very strong poison but If we can get back to my home I can make the antidote but we need to hurry" said starfire as he shook his head "she will only be able to resist the poison for an hour" he said as he looked back at Shira.