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Vaughan sighed as he slowly wandered down the path before him, his eyes trained on the butterfly a few paces ahead of him. He'd been relentlessly following the orange, black, and blue thing for quite sometime now, amazed at it's size and beauty. He smiled when it landed, his rump jutting up into the air as he crouched down for a pounce.

Before he could though, he heard something moving slowly though the bushes to his right and he instead directed his pounce that way, claws extended incase whatever it was happened to want a fight. It was only when he found himself nose to nose with a Lunacorn. He blinked, looking up into the creatures eyes before turning tail, running as fast as his little paws could carry him, terrified that if he should look back, he'd see the larger creature behind him.

Finally though, he couldn't keep up his pace and he slowed to a slow walk, his breathing hard and laybored. What had he been thinking? He shouldn't have just jumped into that without knowing who, or what, was behind the bushes. He stopped, sighing heavily. Atleast his claws hadn't drawn blood. The Lunacorn probably wouldn't have let him go if he had. He looked around, rather lost since he hadn't been watching where he'd ran to. He had to find his way back home...

He turned around, then sniffed the air, searching for something familiar on the breeze but only getting the sent of water and woods. He decided to try and find the water. If he could do that, he should be able to see where the sun was and from it, what direction he should then head to. It was a slow progression, but he finally made it to a lake. Hot and tired, he stumbled over to the water, reaching eagerly for it without really looking around of being cautious as to what could be around him. And the innocence of his youth would be his down fall as his hand scooped water up, bringing it to his mouth only to stop when nothing but red liquid dripped from his fingers.

Shuddering, Vaughan tried to wipe the thich, blood like liquid from his hands, not knowing what was going on. He looked out over the lake, his eyes wide in horror at seeing all the crystal clear water gone, replaced by a sea of red and the ora of death that suddenly hung over it. He jumped up with tears in his eyes, stepping backwards before turning to run, his instincts telling him to get away. He started away before suddenly getting hit from one and tossed into air, coming down for a landing in the horrible lake of blood he'd been trying to excape from.

Vau struggled to get to the surface, his paws paddling their hardest though he didnt seem to be getting anywhere. Something tightened around his back legs, pulling him down into the depts of the lake as a seering pain ripped through his hind legs. “Help!” He finally screamed before blacking out, the water filling his mouth and the taste of blood heavy and strong.

Vaughan groaned, blinking his eyes open, disorientation making him lay still for a while and stare up at the stars before he screamed and jumped up, his eyes widening with the memory of what had happened. Whimpering, he looked back at his hind legs, claw wounds scrapped down as if something had sunk their claws in and hadn't wanted to let go. Shuddering, Vaughan looked at the lake once more, uncertain what had happened. The water was clear again, glittering with the moons rays like a million diomands. Shaking his head, Vaughan turned and ran for home, his bleeding, pain ridden hind legs slowing him down only a little as fear covered the pain he was in.