It would seem I was the last of my siblings to find my way out of the den. It’s not that I didn’t want to, it’s just, like Nine- I simply saw no actual need to rush. One violet and golden eye rolled open to watch the eldest of my brothers make his hundredth attempt at escape, some mild look of surprise touching my handsome features as he actually managed to make his way out. What was more surprising perhaps was that my often nervous elder brother Jaeger seemed to make it out as well. I think I managed to spare a look towards my younger sister, one eye lifting in a very clear well are you going to go? gesture before my black pelted sister and the only dark one amongst us decided to stroll out in the wake of our elder brothers. I suppose I could follow- but I also suppose I could continue to lie here, one foreleg folded neatly over the other in what would one day become my trademark and signature sit, red ears pricked forward before the panicked voice of my white and black hued brother Jaeger seemed to eradicate the perfect silence I had been left with. That he had discovered something he had never seen before was both entirely not surprising and yet at least a bit amusing. Did he really think the world outside the den was going to be like the world inside the den? Then again, knowing Jaeger it might well be a slightly misshapen rock that he’d discovered and sought the need to bring us all running too. Don’t get me wrong, I adore my brother with the russet red chest, just as I adore my little sister so black and Orifel all red and white. None of them are as handsome as myself, in fact only little Nine had also inherited that special- glowing pelt and yet the silver of my own truly made me appear far more…..glowy. Maybe that isn’t a word and maybe I don’t really care.

I merely continued to sit and wait, resting at my Father’s paws as Mother looked on, neither seeming determined to stop Orifel as he led my siblings on his merry dance while Nine added her own thoughts about the magical floating leaf. It’s not like I was going to know what it is either and yet I suppose it would be a crime to let my siblings be seen without myself. I yawned once more, stretching now before unfolding my limbs in the most graceful fashion I could manage, striding towards the entrance of the den now, peering out and towards that open grassy plain that was regrettably bigger then I had actually perceived before the violet gold of my gaze found my gathered siblings and I moved to trot out after them, silver tainted pelt gleaming within the sun as my otherwise white frame loped towards them- slowing to a walk as I approached. What were that all look- oh. It did look like a leaf- a sort of colourful leaf. I think I managed to a scowl at it, wandering forward with my head held up to watch as it hovered over Jaeger and Fiel, my own small, fluffy body paused to sit beside my sister.

“I know what it is.”

I stated matter-of-factly and with far more authority then I actually had the right to possess, waiting for the attention, as always- to return to me. Because it’s all about me and always will be, regardless of what Fiel thinks just because he was born first. I moved to lift abruptly to my paws again, moving to circle my siblings now, brushing against Jaeger as I did.

“It’s a type of flying Flutter Demon. I know because I heard Mother and Father talk about it.”

Mother and Father were the authority on all things and as such I felt this added weight to my words, after all, the business of adults was forever intriguing. I let a smirk of sorts play upon my lips, looping around my siblings once more, tail trailing now against Orfiel.

“It flies around like that, above us, remembering everything we do and say. It’s small and friendly looking so that we don’t expect it.”

I meant ‘suspect it’ but I was close enough. I’m not that old- give me a break and besides I’m working this story.

“Then it waits for one of us to be alone, without the others and it sneaks into the shadows like a sneaky sneak.”

I moved to lower my frame to the earth now, creeping forward in the shadows of my brothers in an imitation of the Flutter Demon stalking through the darkness of the night, lips pulled back from my baby teeth now as I circled around just my brothers.

“And then….when it catches you alone it changes into it’s real form- that’s really scary, so scary you would die just to see it and it ATTACKS!”

I lunged suddenly forward from between my brothers to crash tackle the unfortunate Nine to the floor, aiming to land right atop her in the style of the Flutter Demon- biting down on her ear before spinning away in fits of laughter. I’m so funny.