~*~*~*~ Prologue ~*~*~*~

Golden fur glimmered in the foggy moonlight; eye's of starlight yellow gleaming in and out of the passing shadows as massive paws danced over the forest floor, soft echo's of her following comrades that trotted next to her in even rhythm. A gathering of wild cats, bound together for their equal share of a long awaited nightly meal, though the pack was not of uniform nature, but instead an array of different breads. Some were white Siberian tigers, others just Siberian, sleek black panthers and a lioness or two, a rather unusual herd for any natural eye to consume. They were silent in their approach, devious and crafty in every movement they made as they closed in around their destination.

Streams of smoke filled their nostrils as they sleeked toward a dark clearing. Feline eyes shifted as they looked over the dark, content and sleeping village with. One cat, a white male Siberian tiger crept from the shadows, steady and dead silent, pawing over the ashes of a recently extinguished fire and raising his nose to the air and smelling it diligently. Others discarded their shadow coverings and made their way out, the golden female feline sticking close to another white Siberian male. At most there were only ten cats, but they combed the village carefully, smelling every splintering doorway, looking for their prize of freshly slauterd meat when an un formillar sound made the golden ears of the female twitch, and her smooth fur raise down her spinal cord. She rotated her head to eye the white Siberian male she had been accompanying most of the night only to catch him fondling a small child in his teeth, carrying it like a mother would her cub.

"Sheno-Lyn!!" The name shot through his mind like a lightening bolt splitting a tree and cracked like thunder "What are you doing?!" The golden female panther slinked over to the Siberian male, a low rumble echoing from the soft skin around her throat. Luckily, the child hadn't awoken yet. "We don't eat innocence, Lyn." Her amber orbs flickered at him as she filled his mind with thoughts from her own.

"But their blood and their skin. It's so new, so clean, so fresh.I haven't-"

"And you won't! Now put it down, Sheno-Lyn. I'm you're younger sister, I shouldn't have to tell you to do anything." She ended her mental connection with him, and turned her back to him and proceeded to walk away, her shoulder blades ridding up and down with her steady movements, when the worst of sounds hissed in her ears. The baby had awoken, and was now crying his lungs out as he dangled from Lyn's mouth by his thin shirt. Almost instantly a light shined on, and the golden panther found herself stricken in fear as the light covered her and penetrated her mystic covering. Human voices and loud thumps were heard from inside the small hut, and she turned herself around to eye her fear stricken elder brother.

"Lyn! Run! Get out of here!" She turned to run toward her brother as to not separate herself from him in the midst of the sudden chaos as more lights cascaded down to from the village windows and flooded the village with the nocturnal mortal lighting, but she quickly skidded to a stop before almost colliding into human legs and repositioned herself and ran the opposite direction, following one of the masses of her feline friends. But the mortal did not even register she was alive, he only saw Lyn, with the blood screaming child still locked in his grasp.

"Their you are." Lyn's clear blue eyes widened in utter fear and he cowered before the dark, hallow beryl of the shot gun that ripped into his innocent eyes, dropping the screeching child and running for his life, he had now lost sight of his younger sister. Lyn's sister stopped before interring the woods, her eyes scanning the now fully lit village frantically, hoping to see Lyn seeking refuge in the woods, safe with all her other friends and comrades. Glints of white shimmered in the very near distance; it was Lyn, running frantically like the rest. But her eye's swirled as her mind registered that the man with the gun was after Lyn. She stood frozen, every muscle in her body defined through her layers of sleek fur as she watched that man's finger go tight around that stiff trigger, and she still saw Lyn running, in open view. Then, all her senses hit her at once, every emotion mixed and shoved together in an unbearable thrust and she lurched out her thoughts, to anyone who could hear.

"LYN!!!!!!!!!"

Lyn's emotional, fear streaked eyes widened, and his sister plea of fear and mercy was the last thing he heard before he felt the bullet slam in-between his ribs, and felt himself slowly crumbled into the earth. Crimson liquid coated his once proud, white fur, and he screamed in agony, half human, half feline as he felt his bones shift and crack back into place as he morphed back into his human form, blood running down his pale skin, sand and grit intertwined in his sleek, black hair. He coughed in pain, trickles of his inner red substance escaping and splattering onto the cold dirt. His once lively blue eye's slowly faded to gray, as a single tear engraved it's self onto his smudged face as he spoke the name of his beloved sister. "." She felt him slip, and heard her name as his last thought. Her whole body shook in disbelief, and she felt her cat form leaving her as human tears soaked her feline coat.

"NOOO! LYN!!" Her screams of agony were mortal now, and she found herself gripping dirt between her human fingers. She attempted to run to her fallen brother, but the other male Siberian, had other plans. He knocked her to the side, causing her to fall over, skinning her back on a rock. He glared down at her through dimming tiger-eyes, and she picked herself up and followed him unwillingly into the depths of the darkest shadows.

That night, Alex learned the bitterness of un-forgivable actions and her hate for the mortal race grew like an untamed inferno. Spitefulness grew in her once delicate eyes, and she found herself lost in a world of lonely passion, and undistinguishable lust and it would be five years, before anyone could begin to show her differently.