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OOC: It seems reasonable.


Belladonna trekked thorugh the forest, sniffing the air and ground for any trace of Kodi's scent. she almsot knocked into a tree, before noticing Katie carefully watching two of the pups. "Heh," she snickered "You're actually pretty, girl, but I'm just oding my job here." she this, she aimed between Katie and the pups, and let loose three rounds from her gun.


Tai had stopped playign for a little while, looking about anxiously as Belladonna came thorugh the forest. "Mama..." she groaned, looking rather scared. She screamed as the shot was fired, scrambling under her Mother's legs, shaking.


Both Kodi and Katie gasped at the same time, although Katie's reaction was a lot more violent. Slowly, she picked Tai up, putting her into the den and then Cachen. "You four stay in here." she said as her mate looked about. her eyes were rimmed pink, flickering. Kodi spotted the 'hunter'.

"There." he said in a low voice, but Katie was too far gone. She growled, tearing thorugh the trees after the figure or a human man, Kodi following in haste. But not before telling their pups to huddle at the end of the den.


Tai began to cry, having protested the whole time. "No go! No go!" she said, having a very bad feeling deep in her tummy...

OOC: And this is where we leave the little ones, correct?

OOC: Yeah.

"Perfect," said Pakak, smiling. He then got an idea and morphed into an angelic wolf. "Don't worry children," he said, flying down behind them. "I'm and angel, I'll take you somewhere safe, alright?" he asked, feigning kindness.

Cachen was crying in fear. "I scared..."

"Me too..." said Lena, hoping this 'angel' would help them.

Balto looked to Jenna. "We'd better go meet the kids."

Kai looked at the angel strangely, ears pinned back. "Mama tell us not to leave." he said sternly.

Tai whimpered, leaning against Cachen, comforting him. "Who you..?" she asked, blinking tears away.


Belladonna grinned as she led the pair through the alleyways of Nome, given a split second to change into her true form, jumping onto a roof.

Katie growled, looking about... And freezing in fear. "Come on, hey, I can lead you to the boiler room." said Kodi, looking about as he lead his mate to the nearby boiler room.

Jenna nodded, frozen. "I feel like something is wrong, Balto..." she said, whining.

"I'm an angel here to watch over you," said Sakak, smiling kindly. "It's not safer, the hunter had a friend," he said. "I'll take you somewhere safe."

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Balto nodded, looking around. "I don't know what is going on."

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Aniu suddenly appeared in front of Belladonna. "Well well, the little witch is breaking the rules, why am I not suprised?" she asked. "No one but Santa is supposed to interfer with Sakak's work, but let me guess, you don't care? Your cousin is always complaining about your rule breaking."

OOC: Technically she's not interfering, she's helpping him with his work.

Kai blinked and was actually the first to relax. "Mama know where we are?" he asked, ears and head lowered and ears back.

Jenna shook her head, watching repairmen leave from the direction of the boiler room. "There's something wrong..."


Belladonna blinked, before sneering. "Actually, Miss High and Mighty, I'm not interfering. I'm helping Pakak. And even if I wasn't, who would I be if so listened to tooth rotting goody-goodies like you and Annabelle?" she asked sarcastically, before smirking. "Besides, you're too late. Everything has been set into motion. Gee, guess you're not as on top of everything as you pretend to be."

"Yeah, I'll tell her." said Sakak, lieing of course.

Balto nodded. "We should find Kodi and katie."

aniu walked over and put her paw on her chest, pushing her back. "You'd better make sure my grandchildren come out of this unscathed or I sware, I'll freeze you in a block of ice and drop you into the deepest ocean trench, got that demon girl?!" she asked, ice forming on Belladonna's chest from the contact, demons were naturally weak against water and ice. "I can't interfer now because you're working with him, but I sware, if my family gets hurt by this, you'll pay the moment this is over, got that? Your cousin gave me permission."

OOC: She was defeated by ice in the Christmas Carol and Red was weak to water.

Kai nodded after a second, protecting his younger siblings. "Where we go?" he asked, looking outside the den for the other hunter.


They did not have to look very long, Jenna heard the scream, Katie's.


"I can't believe you would even do something like that!!! You know my mother was killed by a hunter, and that she was from the mountains!" she cried, tears lining her eyes. On the floor was a a fur stole, made from a wolf's tail. It was fluffy for white.

Kodi was gaping. He shook his head, eyes afraid. "No! That was a mistake! It wasn't meant for you!" he regretted it immeadiately.

"... Who's it for then?"

There was no answer from her mate.


Belladonna gritted her teeth, looking extremely frightened. She concentrated, her paw becoming engulfed in green fire. The flame was intense. "Don't presume you have any right over me! Or my cousin!" she said, before grinning, her face looking rather mad in the eerie firelight. "Besides, there's nothing you can do now. It's all going on right now. And once we take down that jolly freak, there'll be no more Christmas, and I will personally reign chaos and disorder down!" she said with a loud laugh. She heard the scream, and shrugged. "Andcits goingcall according to plan."

Tai and Kai followed Pakak, Tai comforting her little brother as they walked. They trustee the faux angel, worried for their family as night fell.


Belladonna glared at Aniu but grinned. "I jumped, I couldn't take it anymore. It was too heavenly." she said, her smirk leaving. "What does it matter? Guide or not, once this is all over I'll be granted access to the seventh circle. I'll have more firepower than you could imagine in your worst nightmares. And this world will end in chaos, suffering, and fire." she said, eyes lit up madly.

OOC: Some people say there are degrees of, youknow where. The seventh circle only is granted access by powerful demons who torture the souls of the *****. So... If she's bad now.. *shudders*

Aniu laughed. "You have any idea how many people try to ruin Christmas every year? Haven't you tried and failed every single year?" she asked. "And being a Spirit Guide means, I guide my family back to what's right," she said, her eyes glowing and shattering Belladonna's spell on the bandanna, causing it to revert back to normal. "You do know your cousin is an Arch Angel, right?" she asked. "If anything, that would make you her equal, you'll never surpass her, that hurts, doesn't it? Is that why you left Heaven? Anabelle always outdid you?"

OOC: Aniu's getting a little payback for Belladonna messing with her family.

Balto blinked, watching that happened. "Uh, am I the only one that saw that?" he asked, staring at the bandana.

A look of pained rage screwed up tightly on Belladonna's face. Aniu was right, she couldn't surpass Anabelle as an angel, so she wentctue easier route: down. Shaking her hand, she spread her large wings, and jumped over Aniu, towards the forest... Immediately she began searching for Pakak.


Katie's eyes, brikmij with tears, stared at the bandana. Kodi smiled shakily, picking up the knotted cloth, and put it over her neck. "so... Didn't expect such a strong reaction." he joked, Katie burying her face in his fur, laughing and crying.


Jenna blinked, eyes widening. "Wait! If you two are here, and we are too... Who's with the pups?!"

Aniu shook her head. "Always the easy way out with you, isn't it?" she asked, loud enough for her to listen. Aniu looked up, seeing a sliegh flying over. "This isn't good...why now? Can this day get worse?"

"Something isn't right here," said Balto, looking around the room. "There's something just not right about this whole thing..." he said, then told them about what they'd seen that day.

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"Wait!" said Denali, interuppting. "What mean lady mean 7 circle?" she asked, confused. "Why she want more circles?"

"Well..." said Aniu, thinking, trying to consider how to explain it to a pup, she had nothing.

Lenatei rubbed her head. "Please tell me they have some knowledge of the afterlife," she whispered to Jenna.

Jenna shook her head. "I like to assume they won't be... There, and it's a scary subject for little ones."

Tai shuddered, her tail bristling. She tried to avoid the question. "The mean lady is from a bad place, where bad people live. Don't worry about it, cause we are all going to be good and go to the good place where Grandma is from. Okay?" she asked, ears pinned back.

Blaze seemed to buy it. She nodded, but looked to her sister to see if Denali approved of this answer.


Goldie gulped, her brow furrowed. "Tough question." she whispered to Cachen.

"Bad guys are confusing..." said Denali, cocking her head.

"Well..." said Lenatei. "Let's just say she works for the other side than I do, and remember what I said about Arch Angels?" she asked, getting a nod. "Well Belladonna wanted to be an evil one, ok?"

Denali blinked, then nodded, understanding. "I understand, she bad lady!" she said.

"Why you say she took the easy way out?" asked Kenai.

OOC: That was a refrence to her song in the series.

Kai blinked, but smiled. "Well, sometimes it's harder to do the right thing. So, she took the easy way out by being bad:" he said, rubbing Kenai's head.


Blaze nodded to her sister, pouting. "She very bad lady!" she said, looking back up at Aniu. "What happen next?"