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The sun had yet to go down on the lands and already Shade was playing her games, she had prowled caught and now was hunting her prey.

The poor stallion ahead of her was running as fast as he could, but that bum leg would not let him escape the kalona mare that was hot on his heels.

Shade's lips curl back over her fangs in a grotesque smile as she closed her eyes drinking in the sounds and smells of her hunt.

The squeals of horror, piercing cries of pain, and begs of mercy all mingled with the smell of fear, blood, and sweat that battled to overload her senses. Ahead she could see the forest thinning out into the prairie lands and that was where she ended it. Charging forward like greased lightning she rammed her twin horns into one of his hind legs and watched him fall like a sack of bricks.

As she stood above her prey, a young normal stallion whom had made the mistake of thinking HE was good enough for HER, she started contemplating all the things she could do to him .. of course she'd shred that pretty deep purple coat and take it back to her baskets as a blanket but what could she do while he was still alive?!

She giggled insanely as he kept begging her to let him go, not to kill hi that he'd never bother her again ... well, now he knew the error of his ways ... to bad dead stallions could tell no tales.

With a flick of her tail she swifted kicked him in the ribs revealing in the sickening cracks and cry of pain she yanked from his throat. "Someday maybe you fools will learn to stay within your rank of mares that will move their tails aside for fools like you..." she let a sickeningly sweet tone into her voice and a mock sweetness that had drawn the stallion in for starters then laughed maniacally as she kicked again.

She loved playing these games with the lesser stallions; bait them, catch them hook line and sinker, then kill, steal and destroy.

Lifting a dainty blue hoof to strike again she heard the insistent rumble of her stomach that seemed to sound like the growling of a mother bear, who knew raising baskets could keep one so hungry?

"Oh well .. play times over then!" With swift accuracy she rammed her twin horns into his jugular and started skinning him as he died of suffocation.

((If you don't mind Im going to throw Masquerade in too in a moment ^^;;; ))

Shade was buried deep in her work skinning the lesser. That's when she heard the drum of hooves. She growled and her head jerked up, her baby was nearby and she had to protect Masquerade. Her eyes were narrowed to slits, but she relaxed at the appearance of another kalona, well at least he wasn't likely to attack herself or Masquerade.

She eyed the spot to which the stallion seemed to be heading and in which her daughter hid. "Greetings fellow kalona, be warned for your heading to the glade in which my daughter waits and I won' tolerate any danger to her." Shade's eyes were still narrowed but hit was obvious by her relaxed stance that she wasn't about to attack, she was just a mother on high alert.

A brisk breeze picked up her mane and she wrinkled her muzzle slightly, she hated when her mane got messed up and she had to comb it back into place.

She studied the stallion, he was different but easy enough on the eyes and a fine example of a pure raven blessed.

Shade tossed her mane and sneered "I mean your home no harm brother kalona, so we'll stay in the prairie away from the woods, but we'll leave when we're ready." She flicked her own tail the bright blue spade traveling easily back and forth through the bright grass.

Her eyes slid to the small thicket right on the edge of the forest line where her daughter lay waiting for her call that all was safe.

Shade tossed her mane back as she turned her eyes back towards Valaruco. The movement made the chain between her two extra horns jingle its ominous tune. She loved that sound so dark and eerie even on the brightest days. Her eyes snapped back towards the thicket as she heard rustling then her daughter's musical voice.

She had to laugh, her daughter was over eager for dinner and young very young having just recently emerged from her basket, " I didn't call for you little demon" she rustle her daughters mane with the spade of her tail.

Shade loved her daughter immensely and wasn't to afraid to show it.



Masquerade wiggled in her thicket, she could hear momma saying her name, talking about her even so .. was it safe then?

There was another voice that was speaking with her mother, a masculine one but since Shade didn't sound angry or upset Masquerade decided she was coming out anyway.

With a flick of her spaded tail she climbed out of the ticket, brushing leaves from her mane with her horn. Then she spied it, the carcass laying on the ground "dinner!" The filly galloped towards her mother and the waiting meal, not seeming to be worried about the large kalona stallion near by.

Masquerade flicke her tail "I know mother, but you didn't seem upset, so I thought everything was okay." She grinned crazily at Shade eyed Valaruco for a moment then dug into the meal Shade had caught.

Shade's grin faded away as she lifted her head to eye the stallion standing near her. She seemed non-nonchalant but her glowing eyes held all the warning she needed, if he attacked or made a move against Masquerade she would not stand idly by. She didn't know if she could beat him, but it would give masquerade the chance to get away and that was all that mattered/

Her eyes to the colt that had appeared from the woods, so that was why he seemed so irked to have her nearby. Well she couldn't blame the stallion one bit for being protective as she had been.

Not changing her posture she turned her eyes back to Valaruco "you have a fine son."



Masquerade had settled into a more silent personality a sher mother did, and she continued to eat contentedly from her meal. That was until the other foal arrived and stayed close to his father's side. She wasn't nearly as close to her mother, they didn't share all the same views, though she did love her mother as much as a kalona could.

She gave the colt a slight nod in greeting before returning to her meal, ripping viciously at the flesh as if she thought that the creature might feel it i nit's afterlife.

Her tail flicked behind her as she eyed the seemingly untrusting colt, well that was good for the msot part atleast not all kalona would respect the foals of another. Her ears flicked back towards Valaruco as he spoke about his bloodline, he was proud of this fact and with this colt it seemed to be true. "That fact can easilly be seen in your foal," she tossed her mane slightly her transparent wings fluttered against her back.

"It is nice to see so many true kalona foals being born recently, to many creatures of mixed blood are being birthed." A soft hiss echoed in Shade's chest and her lips curled up in a snarl to show her fangs for a brief moment before she relaxed into a quiet almost boredom oncemore.



Masquerade only listened in silence to the adults as she continued to rip and shred at her meal. Her brown tail flicked boredly behind her, this wasn't her idea of a good time she would have been much happier hunting down these half-bloods. The very thought of them brought a snarl to her lips and a growl out of her throat.

She didn't care if they looked at her for the growl or what they thought was on her mind. She tossed her blue mane slightly little brown ears turning flat back against the back of her head.

She snareld again and pawed the ground with a bright blue hoof and shook her head making her three horns gleam.