[Getsuei]

Alison Blake:
Alison was rapidly making her way to the forest area near Yami village. Thankfully it was quite near Hunters town so she did not have to arrange transport first. It took her about half a day to complete her journey after which she decided to stay in the village inn overnight. It was a bad idea to start a fight whilst exhausted after a long journey. She spent her evening trying to gather some information about her target. Apparently her target was a half wolf that had the reputation to be quite docile. Which of course went quite against the accusations made against the Moonshire woman. Yet that was no concern of hers. What was far more important was that she found out that the woman was part of a pack of wolfs... Now that complicated matters. She would have to adapt her strategy if that was indeed the case.

The next morning she got up early and ventured into the forest. She kept her eyes and ears open, watching not only the ground, but also the trees.

Ookami:
.: Ookami woke up tangled in her husband. She untangled herself from him carefully so he dont wake up. She went out to the living room to find Akyra already awake. She got her daughter dressed and they went over to her sister Tala's house. :.

Alison decided to climb into one of the trees to see if she could spot her target and to observe the terrain that she had ventured into. She grabbed one of the branches, swung her body two and fro and in a few seconds had landed savely on the branch. She then jumped from one branch to the other untill she had reached the required height. She sincirely hoped that her target would not venture out with the entire pack, because that would be a real pain. She usually only fought one half-wolf at a time, as werewolfs usually lived alone. This job might prove to be a challenge.... She did not really like challenges.


.: Once Ookami dropped Akyra off with Apatchi and Nezumi, Tala and her went for there usual morning run threw the woods. She knew once her husband woke up her would head over to Tala's house to help Apatchi with the kids. :.

After waiting for a good while Alison sat herself down on one of the tree branches. They would arrive sooner or later. She took the time to clean her gun. She had used this one for a very long time and preferred it over any other weapon. She rubbed it with her coat to make it shine in the sunlight that penetrated the leaves. She then inspected the talisman that Zig had given her, which she had been keeping in her pocket. Was this not a talisman against werewolfs?

'Well, this will be useful' she said with a sarcastic smile. Nevertheless, she still put the talisman around her neck. Zig probably had a reason for giving it to her.



.: Ookami and Tala ran deep into the forest. After a while she could smell a human but she didnt pay too much attention to it. :.

Alison spotted two half wolfs not too far in the distance. The one with the grey hair had to be her target. The other girl was, from what the villagers had told her, her sister Tala. Alison cursed under her breath, as she had hoped to be able to single Ookami out. With the situation as it was, however, this seemed not to be the case.

As Alison was seated on a tree branch quite close to the ground, she contemplated climbing a bit higher up. However, if the two half-wolfs were to climb up the tree, than that could potentially become a problem. Instead, she decided to stay seated, waiting for the other two to find her. She was still polishing her gun in a rather nonchalant way.


.: Ookami stopped and Tala stopped behind her, she was looking at the distoyed forrest that was her home. SHe was saddend by this, that because she ran away her home was distroyed.:.

Alison observed that the two girls were running, but this time the atmosphere was different. Were they going to ask for help? Alison sighed... she had hoped that they would have been curious and would have approached her, rather than run away to gather the pack in a panic. Thankfully, though, they were approaching her and were quite a while away from their home. Alison waited until they were close enough and then fired a warning shot on the ground to stop them from running further.

'Oh so sorry. Didn't mean to fire at ya', she said with a smile to the girls.


.: Ookami looked at her sister and told her to keep running to find Alcide. Ookami looked up to see where the shot came from. All she saw were trees. She narrowed her eyes too look a little better. She saw the arm of a black coat. A hunter! :.

It took the woman quite a long time to spot her. Thus her detection skills were not nearly as developed as with werewolfs. Moreover, she had been running around in the forest whilst leaving her guard down completely. The story about this girl torchering the king and queen became less credible by the minute. If this girl had managed to mislead or defeat the entire royal guard then surely it was the king and queen's own fault for hiring such incapable fools.

She allowed the other girl to get away, hoping to have been able to finish the job before she returned with the entire pack. Perhaps she would venture to find out what really had happened. Was she underestimating the girl or was the story just nonsense?

'Well that took you long enough' Alison eventually said as the girl had finally spotted her. 'Friendly advice: you'd better not prance around in the woods with your guard down after having launched an attack on royalty. I could easily have killed you by now'.


.: Ookami trun to her sister and yelled at her to go get Alcide and Apatchi. Ookami would stay behind to deal with the hunter. Tala ran towards the village as fast as she could. Ookami continued to star at the sleave. :.

"Im not scared of you."

At her comment Alison burst out laughing. 'And yet you will cling to your pathetic little life with everything you have got in a bit... The irony.' She stood up on the tree branch and leaned against the tree whilst looking down at the woman. 'Sometimes it is better to have fear than no fear at all'. She was wondering what she should do. Should she stay up in the tree or jump down on the ground? It would be easy enough to shoot her from here. 'I'm here to extend a little warning'.

.: The woman came into Ookami's view. She only fears for her daughter and husband life. She does not fear for her own. Who is this woman to tell her what to fear. :.

"Who are you to tell me what to fear."

.: She wasn't scared, she had speed on her side. :.

A rather evil smile crossed Alison's face. 'We'll see if you are still so tough in a few minutes'. With that she jumped down from the tree landing on the ground with a soft *thud*; her gun was drawn and ready to fire. She was well aware that the woman might be faster than she was, but there was one big difference. Alison knew what she was dealing with, the other woman had no idea what was in store for her.


.: She watched the girl jump down, she was now standing in front of Ookami. Her face pointed towards the woman. Her eyes pointed to the gun. Ookami was fast, defanatly fast enough to dodge a bullet. She wanted to run, but she stood there, waiting for the girl to make her move. :.

Alison wasn't sure if the woman was very courageuos or just plain stupid. She would have known better than to keep staning there whilst someon was pointing a gun at her.

Her grin widened as she took aim. 'Very well. Let the games begin!' she said, whilsting fiering on the ground in front of her to prevent the woman from bolting forward. She preferred to keep her targets at a distance.

.: A bullet came close to her feet. Ookami jumped back and cruwched into a defensive postition. She wondered how long it would take Tala to come back with the men. She could dodge bullets for a long time. Only, she didnt know how long she would last if it came to a fight. :.

[Tala Moonshire]

Tala ran back forwards the pack but when she heard the second shot and decided to make a loop back around to the hunter's back.... Maybe she could ambush her* no one is going to hurt my sister *tala thought as she made her way through the woods. She sent a small messenger back to the pack and tala made her way back forward the noise.*

[blackcat]

Alison observed how the woman jumped back and then decided to stand still some more, but this time in a defensive position. 'I suppose stupid it is', she muttered to herself as she again fired a bullet right in front of the woman. Her reaction to this would decide Alison's further course of action. If she were cocky enough to jump back and stand still yet again, she would finish her off. If not, Alison might spare her life... Perhaps... If she felt like it. 

ooc: Tala, could you specify what the 'little messenger' is? It was a little vague ^__^".

[Getsuei]

.: Ookami was noticing a pattern. The woman was shooting so Ookami would get further away. So this time, when she shot Ookami jumped to the side then got closer to her. She could see her sister Tala coming into view. With out back up! :.

[Tala Moonshire]

* tala sneaks up behind the hunter as quiet as a mouse. She knew the small wolf she sent to the pack would get back up but she had to go and try to help her little Sis before she got hurt.*

[Smoke + Mirrors]

Hearing gunshots, Itsy sat up and looked around for any sign of the disturbance. It was only a few minutes before something drew his attention from the distance and brought him back to something much closer - his web. Crawling down the tree he was perched in, he viewed his web and was not surprised to find something struggling in his web.

It appeared to be a small canine of some kind, furry enough to be some type of wolf or a rather wild dog. Regardless, that was all that he had caught in two days, so he was going to eat it. Creeping down his web, Itsy reached his right hand under his jacket and pulled on his string, weaving it expertly between dexterous fingers until it was ready.

He descended upon his next meal with a quirk of his lips and his prepared thread. Within a few moments, it had stopped yipping and was well on its way to being wrapped for easy liquefaction and consumption.

[blackcat]

The woman was actually getting closer to her... This amused Alison greatly. Although she preferred to kill her targets with her gun, as this cost her hardly any effort, she had been trained in close combat as well. Moreover, guns also made fine weapons to hit people on the head with.

She now pointed her gun directly at the girl. She had given her enough chances to escape... Alas, the girl was too stubborn to know what was good for her.

At that very moment she suddenly noticed that someone was behind her. Even though the person was trying to be very quiet, the leaves on the forest floor gave her away. Within a few seconds Alison had reached for her other gun which she kept in a holster on her left hip, had turned sideways and pointed her gun at the girl. 'How nice of you to join us'.

[Getsuei]

.: Ookami took the chance that the hunter was focused on Tala to do a hand spring back out of the way of the gun. But she did keep her focus on her sister. She didnt want anything to happen to the only blood family other than Akrya. :.

[Tala Moonshire]

Tala froze but she didn't look a bit scared. This hunter was not going to intimate her. She knew if she had to dodge the gun shots she had speed on her side. She knew that she would do anything for her Sis, Ookami.* hey if you have to take someone take me… as the alpha of our pack I will take responsibiliy for all pack members.

[blackcat]

'Oh so you finally moved away from the gun!' Alison exclaimed as she saw Ookami to a back flip from the corner of her eyes. She was in fact keeping her eye on both of the Woolfs. Perhaps things were getting interesting.

In reply to Tala's remark she answered; 'I am here to punish both of you for your attack on the royals'. She paused and then continued with a broad grin: 'But if you want to sacrifice yourself, then by all means. She' *Alison nodded her head towards Ookami* 'will have to back out though. Let's have a one on one fight, fair and square.'

[Smoke + Mirrors]

After he devoured his snack, Itsy fixed his web and disposed of the cocoon that had held his prey. There was a bit of fur that had escaped in the brief struggle, but he didn't care enough to take care of it. Instead, he crawled back up into the taller tree his web was strung from and debated on taking a nice nap.

The only thing that was keeping him awake was the possibility that the gunshots earlier had meant a fight of some sort. If there were people running around in this area, doing violence upon one another, then he could possibly get another meal out of it.

However, if it was just a hunter taking down some game, then it wouldn't be worth fighting over some dead animal that the hunter rightfully took down. It would be even worse if it were a Hunter going after a target. Perhaps he would go check it out later.

[Getsuei]

.: Ookami jumped again on to a low branch in a tree that was behind her. There was no way she was letting her sister scuafice herself. That wasn't the was Tala raised her. She narrowed her eyes at the hunter. Ookami was getting mad at both Tala and this hunter! :.

"I am not letting Tala sarafice herself! It was my idea to take the King and Queen. They were distroying our forrest!"

[Tala Moonshire]

*Tala was alittle shocked that Ookami actually put an attack out on the royals without her say, but she knew that the attack was justified* It is true what she says. The royals have destroyed most of our southern Forrest and we have done nothing to them. This land is sacred to our pack and we have every right to defend it.

[blackcat]

Alison burst out laughing at the two women. They were so dumb that it was amusing. 'You are clearly doing a great job at keeping your pack in control!' She shook her head and gave Tala a rather malicious grin. 'Well, I shall give you some friendly advice then. Next time you want to get rid of royalty... Get someone else to do it for you!' A *bang* was heard at the end of the sentence as she fired her gun at Tala.

[Smoke + Mirrors]

The gunshot made Itsy jerk and curse as he got his braid caught on a twig. After freeing it, he glanced around, noting that the sound came from the same place as before and that meant bad things. It probably was a Hunter after its prey, considering that if it were a simple game hunter the previous shots would have scared away all the forest animals.

He would have to be attentive to make sure that if they started heading his way he had time to get out of the way. Reluctant as he was to pull down his web just yet, Itsy resisted the urge to flee the area. Perhaps something would be scared from the fight and end up in his web and he would have something more to eat than that tiny canine.

Shaking his head, he scurried to the top of his web to keep an eye as well as an ear out for anything headed towards his web.

[Getsuei]

.: Ookami couldnt let anything happen to her sister. Tala had the pack, Apatchi and Nezumi to take care of. She was not letting her sister get hurt. Ookami ran infront of the bullet before Tala could be hit. The bullet hit her in the right shoulder. It stung like crazy, and Ookami let out a howel that she new was going to bring Alcide and Apatchi running. :.

[Tala Moonshire]

*tala caught her sister. She had just taken a bullet for her. The howel brought tears to her eyes and she knew that it would bring out the pack. She held her sister and put pressure on the wound. She heard a howel in the distance and With the tears in her eyes she looked at the hunter* I would sujest that u leave cause the pack are on thierway here right now. Unless u want to fight all of us, u Should leave now… they aren't going to be very happy u shot of one our top ranking members… is this what the royals want? To start a war? We have always been peaceful but we can fight if we have to…

[blackcat]

Alison could not help but laugh at the scene which unfolded in front her eyes. Although the pack leader could have easily dodged the bullet one of her 'top members' had just thrown herself voluntarily in front of the bullet. This was like watching one of those lame B movies. She stopped, however, when Tala voiced her threat. Alison threw the wounded Ookami to the side and grabbed Tala by the arm, forcing her to stand up and pushed her against a tree. She then placing her hand against Tala's throat. 'Now you listen, and you listen good. It took me a few minutes to take down one of the "top members of your pack" and I was not even trying. Just imagine what I could have done if I was.' She placed a bit more pressure on Tala's throat for effect. 'There are a lot more hunters than there are half-wolfs in your pack so I advise you to reconsider your threat. That little cunt over there' *she made a movement with her head to the place where the wounded Ookami was lying* 'is the one that got you guys into this mess. If you want to avoid a war I suggest you start using your *beep* brains if, you have any. Get a lawyer or the Gods know what, 'cause your pack wouldn't stand a chance'.

As Alison could perceive that the pack was now quite close to where they were, she let go of Tala and quickly jumped back so the half-wolf would not be able touch her. 'Think of this as a friendly warning'. With this Alison turned around and started running in the direction of the town as fast has she could. She did not want the half-wolfs to catch her. Remembering that it had took Ookami quite some time to spot her when she had set herself down on the tree branch, she grabbed the nearest tree branch that was strong enough to hold her weight and swung herself up into the three. She then continued on her way whilst jumping from tree branch to tree branch.

[Smoke + Mirrors]

Hearing the gunshot and then the howl, Itsy knew for sure that it was a Hunter's fight but did not know why one would be going after wolves or even the half-wolves that had a camp somewhere around here. He hadn't got a hold of one yet because they never traveled alone and he hoped that he didn't because of their howling for help.

One little howl was all it took for the entire pack to come running.

This is why he resolved to work fast if he ever did catch one since any one of them would be a full meal that he rather needed at this point. He just had to make sure that they didn't call for help before he knocked them out and wrapped them up.

His mouth watered slightly at the thought, but he quickly swallowed it away and looked around because it sounded like something was moving through the trees now. Keeping very still, Itsy listened carefully, only moving his eyes to look for what he could just barely hear.

It was getting closer.

[Getsuei]

.: Ookami's eyes strugled to open, and she tried to sit up, but when she did she just fell back. She couldn't rest, she needed to protect the pack that she had once abandoned. Only, a darkness consumed her. :.

[Tala Moonshire]

*tala waited until the hunter was out of site and picked up Ookami and takes her back to the rest of the pack in their village. she laid her on the nearest bed and does what she can to revive her* Come on Ookami.... live...

[blackcat]

Alison quickly glanced over her shoulder to see if the wolfs were following her. Apparenlty they had chosen to retreat as she could not perceive anything moving on the ground below. However, she thought it best to keep on the move just in case. As she was about to revert her attention to what was in front of her, she felt herself collide with something, or rather someone. The sudden implact caused her to lose her balance and to fall off the branche; taking the other person with her.

[Smoke + Mirrors]

Having been napping for the past while, he startled when he heard something crashing through the trees towards him. Quickly transforming into his humanoid form, he was not entirely startled when it crashed into him and sent them plummeting towards the ground.

With his eyes open and the cause practically in his arms, Hawkins found that it is a rather fetching girl who was the cause of the ruckus. Another shift and he had the wingspan to carry them in flight or, at least, prevent them from meeting the ground at a dangerous speed.

He wrapped his arms around her, noting that she seems to be carrying quite a few heavy metal items that are most likely weapons. How intriguing. Once he had them properly airborne, he took a chance and looked at her face.

~~~

The sound of large wings flapping made Itsy cringe and scoot closer to the trunk of the tree. From what he had heard, something had happened about a half a mile away and now there was a rather large thing flapping around that was probably big enough to eat him if the loud whooshing noises were to be believed.

He hoped that it stayed far away from his net since anything that big could possibly plow right through his web despite how strong and well-constructed it was.

[Getsuei]

.: Ookami heard her sister yelling at her to live. She opened her purple eyes weakly and looked at Tala's big blue eyes. She saw Alcide and Akyra in the room, she was a little upset about that because she didn't want her five year old daughter to she her mother shot, Alcide was used to seeing her bloody becuase she was so recluse. :.

"I'm not dying yet, i still have to annoy my big sister. Alcide get Akyra out i dont want her seeing me like this."

[Tala Moonshire]

Tala smiles and there was tears in her eyes. She grabbed her sister and hugged her* I thought that I had lost you… don't u ever do that again…