Not long after the incidental fight with Remus, some temporary peace seemed to come upon Kururugi Shrine, upon Japan itself. On the shrine, Lelouch and Nunnally eventually got used to the "me being a wolf" thing.

One winter night, Suzaku and Lelouch decided to have a little fun, by trying to give me a heart attack with a sick act. Here's what happened: I was walking through the hall of the main building on the shrine's grounds, and when I made a right turn at a corner, I saw a horrifying poster with a red-eyed bear that looked like it was about to eat me at any second*.

I screamed my lungs out and stormed out of the main building in a rush, whilst I heard Suzaku and Lelouch laughing hard near the storehouse.

My nostrils flared, and my eyes shone gold, as my fangs were exposed. Those boys were wolf meat. "SUZAKU AND LELOUCH, YOU WAIT UNTIL I GET MY CLAWS ON YOU!" I roared. "JUST WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO?"

They saw how angry I was as I sprinted up to them, phasing to my wolf form and snapping my teeth like a deranged animal going for the kill. The boys jumped for the rafters, and made it there in time, just before I reached them. "Don't ever do that poster again. I want it down from where it stands before I return to the main building for the night, you hear?"

Suzaku, frightened, saluted me and said, "Yes, ma'am."

Lelouch did and said the same thing.

"And pronto!" I added, more firmly than I meant to, really, and the boys jumped down the rafters and made a beeline for the main building.

As I watched them go, I gave them a small snarl of warning. I then turned to Nunnally, who was sitting in her wheelchair nearby. "Sorry about that little show, Nunnally. I just hope that they learned their lesson," I said.

"Me too," Nunnally said, and a small giggle escaped her mouth, before she began laughing.

I laughed along with her.

"Were you really going to bite them?" Nunnally asked, becoming concerned again.

"No way; I haven't the nerve to attack a human, let alone my human friends," I confirmed, before we began laughing again. Right after that, Suzaku and Lelouch came back, panting harshly.

I looked at them disapprovingly. "I really hope you learned your lesson, boys: never cross a girl, even if she's a Beast," I said. "Now, did you put it out?"

"Tore it to shreds and tossed it into the bushes," Lelouch confirmed.

"Good," I said. "I hope not to see that cursed thing again."

"You won't, trust me," Suzaku said, and I smiled slyly.

With a look of trusting, I turned away from them and said, "I'm going hunting for wild boar. I'll be back before 8:00, hopefully. And I need to refill my meat stash."

And with that, I ran down the hill to hunt some meat and to keep on the lookout for anything dangerous, counting Black Demons and… Romulus.

*This poster that I speak of is real, not fake. It is the DVD poster of the 2010 movie, Bear. Trust me, that thing is something horrific. I first saw it by accident when I was 13; the date was approximately Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010. I was at school when it happened. Seeing it just once has haunted me from that day forward, but if you want to go to Google Images and see it, be my guest. It is exactly how I described it in this chapter. Just don't be mean and send me a link, because I don't want to risk dying of fright.