Silver walked around, her sharp eye's looking around the forest, a fall chill causing her to shiver for a moment. A flicker around white movement caught her eye, and in an instant her knife clicked out, as she threw it to the source. A panicked squeal was heard before being cut short, and she walked over, pulling her knife out and sticking it into the dirt before pulling it out to clean it. Closing the knife, the stuck it into her pocket and grabbed the large fluffy tawny ears of the hare. Turning back, she continued her hunt, her knife at the ready. After a couple hours, she was holding two hares and a squirrel, as she began the journey back. Just to have some fun, she ran up the side of tree and pushed off, landing on the side of the one next to it and repeating until she reached the top, and gave a small smile, jumping from branch the hares and squirrel held tightly in one hand. As she was running, however, she didn't see the shadowy forms following swiftly beneath her. A black form launched into the tree's, a panther with piercing green eye's, soon blocked her way. Silver gave a surprised yell as the panther launched as her, and she felt claws prick her flesh as she fell. She shifted into her Lynx form, her silver fur glittering in the near-dawn light, as she bared her teeth at the panther. Although her lynx form was around the size of a female lion, she was about half the size as this panther, as she dug her claws into the shoulders of the panther. A Dark!? This hasn't happened in a while.. I thought I lost them! God, this should be funnnn. Snarling as the ground was just about there, she flipped around so the panther was beneath her, hearing the snap of bone as it's spine broke. She lowered her head and sank her teeth into the tender windpipe of the black creature and bit down, crushing itand killing the panther. Claws and teeth suddenly dug into her skin and she let out a deep growl, letting got of the neck and whipping her head upward, yanking down, and hearing another snap as the black form of some sort of dog fell off her back. As she looked around, she could see more of them beginning to surround her, forcing her to coward in the center of them. She lashed out at those nearest, her paw catching a racoon as it smacked into a tree, hearing a snap before it fell heavily down. As they tensed, Silver simply let out a fierce growl, watching as paws left the ground, she closed her golden-amber eye's tightly, waiting for the paws to claw at her pelt. But they never came. Instead, she found an odd surprise when she looked up. A large black wolf stood over her, it's fur marked with gray and white markings. A white marking slashing horizontally across the top of it's muzzle, near it's nose. The tail was a pure black, before fading into a gray, and then a pure white. And he seemed striped like a striped hyena, the stripes a dark gray. She couldn't tell for sure with the blood staining his legs, but she thought she could make out grayish whitish stripes on them. Watching wordlessly wordlessly, tucking beneath the wolf, huffing as wide eye's looked around at the jet black forms.
Blade huffed through his muzzle, his large form standing over the silver lynx, his piercing blue eye's looking around the remaining crowd with a snarl, the few that had attacked laying motionless at his paws. His black ears gave a flick, and his gruff voice came out. "Leave. Now." The wolf watched as they began swiftly fleeing, sure to return with more. He turned to Silver and gave a soft huff, nosing her up. With a silent signal by flicking his tail, they began to run back, slipping into the den. They both shifted to their human forms partially, ear's and tails refusing to fully shift away quite yet. He watched her quickly pack up, as he noticed blood. "Hey, you seem to be a bit hurt. Are you alright..?" He watched as the clean puncture marks, looking to be from claws, bled with her movement. "Yes, I'm fine. Let's just go." She slung the backpack over her shoulder after speaking, wincing slightly, before turning to the wall. Faint growls and snarls were heard, obviously the Dark's were near, as he looked around. "Where are we going to run out from? They'll catch us in an instant if we do.." He faded off and she took a metal rod and swung sharply towards the wall, letting go as it demolished a hole into the wall. He could see her face being a mixture of pain, and sadness, before he started running, hearing her close behind. His black-gray high tops crunching into the leaves as they fled the woods. They ran towards the town, the sounds of the Dark's fading away as they refused to leave the forest quite yet, instead using their messengers to howl and yowl messages to all those that were apart of their clan, or trying to join it. Blade and Silver shut the noises out as continued to run towards the town that was far ahead of them, his large fluffy tail streaming out behind him as he weaved in between the large stumps and jumped over the rocks, Silver always following close behind him.
Blade and Silver sat by a fire, both deep in thought. They were both curious on to why they looked so familiar to each other, why they felt the need to protect each other, and why there seemed to be some hidden, unknown bond between them. Giving a soft sigh, they met each others gazes and picked up their packs, both moving swiftly and quickly towards the mass of buildings, it growing steadily larger by the minute.
