He creeped trough the grass, shifting his wight so he would hardly make a sound.

He sniffed the air and grinned.
Crawling as close as he dared- through the tall grass- he eyed his targets, A large herd of caribou.
With a quiet growl, he tensed his muscles and ran. With snarls, barks, hisses and the snapping of his jaws the grassland filled with caribou quickly became a frenzy.

He, however, was not the only one there that night...

Dozens of other wolves ran with the herd, they flicked their ears and whipped their tails, signalling the others. Some pounced, occasionally a lucky wolf would bring down one of the large animals and ripping them open.

He rammed into a elder female, nocking her of her hoofs. He had his meal but the others would hunt until thay had their own.

The rest of the herd was past them by now. He held the female under his paws, keeping all of his weight on her.

With jaws parted a snarl he moved his muzzle closer to her throat. She struggled but gave up within seconds. Her head rested on the ground, exposing her neck, qwicy accepting her fate. Besides, she was so old she probably wouldn't make it trough the winter anyway.

He lunged forward, ripping her throat open, moving back he watched as blood came in spurts, spraying the ground with it, His muzzle and chest was soaked in the crimson fluid. He had accidentally hit the main artery.

"Dammit.." he muttered, strikeing the ground with out sreached claws.

"Your highness" his ears pricked and he turned around. Two of his -and one of his sisters- guards were there.

"What do you want?" He growled, marking sure to expose his sharp, blood-stained teeth.

"Prince HuntingFire, your sister, Queen LunerFlight has requested your presence on her court tonight" His sisters guard said in a clear voice.

"Oh goodie" he drawled "my benevolent sister has requested I be graced with her presence" he spat, his voice dripping with sarcasm "she dident seem to wish me on her court for the last five malenia she has ruled though. has she?" He hissed.

"So... is that a yes?" The guard asked.

"Well, yes of course! I'm not just going to say no. This will most likely be interesting. So! Who cannot attend?" He asked in a cheerful tone, trotting toward the Castle.

"There highnesses Prince Danyal and Princess JadeEye" one of his guards stated.

He stoped, turning to the guards "Both of them..? huh... Ok! Lead the way gentlemen! But we should stop by the river first, I need to wash all of this blood off..."

"I'll get a maid to take your catch to your chamebers for later" one of his guards said, rushing off as the other two began to trot to the castle.

Hunter smiled and followed them.

She was siting on her throne, her tail swept to one side, her wings slightly unfurled, her ears perked, her horns shown. She drummed her fingers.

The doors swung open and her brother stepped in. He had taken on his human form. He wore a loose, long sleeved cyan linen shirt with his allegiance amulet exposed and hanging at his chest, lose black silk pants and his crown -a silver band with black patterning and embedded diamonds- He had black hair -like her- and glowing, frosty blue eyes.

"You called?" He asked, walking up to her.

"Yes I did. I assume you agreed?" She asked, halting her finger drumming.

"Yah, yah..." he took his seat on an empty chair next to her "if I ever left you hanging I'd hardly be a good brother" he looked around "speaking of brothers... where's King Salem?" He asked, looking at the empty throne next to his sister.

Luna and Salem were twins and co-rulers. Luna had ruled longer then Salem, for he had been corrupted by a Roting when thay were kids, only recently had he been cured.

"He said he was going to do paper work instead of court this week. I said I could manage with out him... I've done it before" Luna looked at the empty chair next to Hunter.

He noticed this and followed her gaze "Who else did you request?" He asked as he took a sip of his water.

"Leviathen" she said bluntly, Hunter did a spit take. Luna looked at him with a deadpan expression "are you quite done?" He nodded "Good. I asked for the twins to look for him earlier today"

"Phoenix and Griffin?" He flicked his index finger, evaporating the water in saliva he had spit out. Luna muttered a conformation, shifting her wings "So what your saying is that out of all your family you asked your murder-happy nephews to look for one of the most dangerous royal assassins in the entirety of the dimension?"

"M-maybe? Luna shifted "Oops" she half-chucked.

Thay looked at each other for a few moments.

"I'll look in the dungeon" Hunter shighed.

"I'll look in the Garden. they are currently obsessed with useing people as piñata's"

Luna used her shadow walk ability- dissolving into black mist- and Hunter simply teleported, fading into nothing.

Melody was trotting. She was in Maratie's Rothish Forest, looking for one entity in particular.

She stoped dead in her tracks, flicking her ears, she smiled "Hello, Kitten" she purred, turning her head up to the trees.

A golden-yellow clouded leopard slithered his way down the tree.

He growled, puffing out air "Melody. Good to see you again" he said with caution.

"You to Grant"

"What do you want?" He asked, settling into a siting position, curling his tail around his paws.

"Tisk tisk..." she sighed "always with these assumptions... but since you mention it..."

"I'll do anything as long as you leave" he deadpanned.

Smiling, she flicked her tail "Well... I know that you're quite buddy-buddy with Chevix..."

"The Trickster?-" she nodded "Well... yah. Why?" He asked.

"I need an amulet that he stole from me awhile back" she explained just what it looked like down to the microscopic specks of rust.

"Fine. I'll nab it whale he's on a run. Happy now?"

"I'll be happy when I get my amulet" she opened a portal and walked trough it.

Grant sighed "This is why it's impossible for me to get any work done..." he mumbled, walking back to his post.

"This is child abuse!" Yelled Griffin as a guard dragged him along.

"Your two thousand three hundred and ninety six..." Hunter deadpanned "But with the way the two of you behave you might as well be children" he growled the last part.

Thay had caught them just before thay managed to gut one of the maids. Luna would be sure to give the poor woman a rather sizeable raise.

"You know, I could awals just edit their personalities..." leviathan chimed in. Funnily enough the twins had managed to find him before having a mood swing and wanting to murder someone.

"Naw! We just have to keep em' looked up round' midnight" Luna chirped.

Thay walked to thethrone room and finished court in a couple hours. They made sure to keep the twins locked up for a bit... to cool down.

Author's Note

I changed the tags up a bit. Not a huge fan of the new format. Sorry for spelling errors ... also...

MARY ALMOST CRISTMAS

(Or Hanukkah/Kwanzaa... i think that's how you spell it... sorry if I messed it up)