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MASSIVE EDIT: I'm going to re-write this in a new thread because I realised that a lot of this is/will be very anti-lore and, most of all, will stop making a lot of sense. So I'm changing it from a 'pets go missing' story to a 'Adventures of Kuraine out to tame pets' kinda story. You get the idea. It will require a large edit to the first post, and slight edits to Gondria and Skoll's stories. I'll most likely get this done tomorrow because it's late now.

Edit: I edited out the parts about Corey the Drakeadon because I feel like going back to the core hound he originally was, so I'll tame him sometime too. Also, if you ever notice I've edited a post a million times over, it's due to silly typos, repeated words, etc. I haven't dramatically edited anything apart from the parts about my core hound.

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Wiping her brow, Kuraine came to a stop outside of Baradin Hold, shattered after such effort. She'd never experienced such idiotic people. After a moment of thought and heavy breathing, she zipped through the portal back to Orgrimmar. She knew what would cheer her right up - a visit to the stables, to spent some quality time with those pets she just loved. And she had so many of them! The stable keeper had warned her that so many pets would be hard to look after, but she could do it just fine. She was a hunter after all. Without her pets, she was nothing, and she knew it.

Hopping on to her elegant mount, a greeny-coloured stone drake with fantastic purple crystals protruding from his body, she tugged on his reins and the drake knew already where he was headed. He landed outside the stable, Kuraine quickly dismounted. As said before, Kuraine's pets meant everything to her. Pets should mean everything to any hunter. So the look on her face when she saw the condition of her assigned stable... She was horrified. Where the huge space once was home to a menagerie of bright and fantasic pets, there was just straw and dirt.

This had happened before, but when it did, she didn't nearly own so many pets. Her pets had completely vanished. Kneeling down, she observed the paw prints leading out of the stable with a door hanging wide open. She could already tell - the larger, more round shaped ones belonged to Sambas, a lion from Twilight Highlands, whereas the thinner and more spaced out paw prints belonged to Loque'nahak, a spirit beast from Sholazar Basin.

She let out a sigh. She felt like a terrible hunter when this happened. What kind of loving, caring owner could let their pets escape like this - twice?

There was only one thing to do though, she had to find them all again. Of course she did. She loved them and she knew they loved her too. According to other hunters she'd told her first story to, the only reason they run away is to look for Kuraine. Apparently they don't understand the concept of a stable. She'd have to teach them better.

She also knew where she'd find them all. Back in their homelands, most likely in the same places she'd first found and tamed them in. It was where they all went last time. Probably because they get lost, and don't know where to go, and then go back to the place they first met their owner and hope that she'll come back to them again.

As Kuraine turned and got up, pulling her pack tighter to her side, the stable keeper looked at her and shoke his head. "I warned you," the Orc said. "I told you that with too many pets in your stables they'd get cramped and escape eventually." Kuraine then muttered to herself, something about Orcs, but the keeper didn't question it.

Mounting back up on her drake, she span him around and flew off. Off to find her beloved companions once more.

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Oh noes! For the second time, Kuraine's pets have escaped! But this time it's more than just a few spirit beasts... but a whole stable-load of rare pets! She's got to find them all again - the poor, lost souls will be out there waiting for her somewhere.

However the stable keeper was right. Kuraine adopted too many pets at once last time. They didn't get time to get used to each other first. They often scrapped, and she knew they weren't all happy being stuck in that stable together. She did everything she could, but apparently that wasn't enough.

Some of her pets will come back to her. Others won't. Originally she had every unique beast from Northrend and new ones that appeared after the cataclysm. She'll find them again, one by one, but others will get left behind. Some of them just never got to fit in properly and she feels they'd be better off left in the wild, where they belong, or for another hunter to take and give a better home to.

Throughout the next few days, weeks or even months we'll be following Kuraine's story to retrieve back her lost pets.

But she's not alone. She's borrowed a pet from a good friend - a charming, affectionate and beautiful saber cat who was already very fond of Kuraine, named Pearl, and both Kuraine and her friend knew that she would have no problem in helping Kuraine find her companions again.



Basically, what's happened, is I've abandoned each and every single one of my pets. Note that every single pet I owned was a WotLK or Cata rare, so yeah, it was kind of painful, but I'm doing this for the sake of having something to do in this rather dull expansion. I like to write, and this gives me an opportunity to do so.

The reason I said that some pets will come back, others won't is that, what with the new 4.2 rares and all, I realised I don't have space anymore to tame all the rares from WotLK/Cata and have other pets I want just for the sake of having and looking pretty as well. So I went through my pets, and decided that some were just so unloved. They were never used. And they won't be coming back to my stables. So I'm taking my favourites and taming them. I've already decided which ones from 4.2 I want to tame as well.

I won't give away which pets I'll be retaming and which pets I'll tame in 4.2, that would spoil the fun, but I'll make a post with some pictures about each pet when I tame them again.

If you read a recent thread of mine, I asked if anyone else also likes to ever abandon all their pets and tame them again for the thrill of the hunt, since it's fun. Well, that's kinda what I'm doing here, even though I said I wouldn't do it again. But this will most likely be the last time I ever have to do this.

So, wish me luck, and I hope you enjoy reading this adventure!

Happy hunting!

I'm really excited to read some more of this! Keep it coming, Chaoyll!

Small icicles hung on to the drake's wings as his body pierced the freezing cold air of Northrend. Kuraine cursed to herself again and again, she hated this place, mostly because of the amount of time she used to spend here a couple of years ago. She'd flown through most of Northrend now, from Warsong Hold in the Borean Tundra, to where she was now, some place in the middle of Zul'Drak.

But her drake let out a sharp cry as the next gust of freezing air hit them, so she decided it was time for a break. Tugging upwards on the reins, her drake quickly descended downwards and landed rather harshly in the snow. He was a dragon made of stone, there wasn't really a lighter way for him to land.

But as she dismounted, she saw something fabulous ahead of her. She made a huge grin, told her drake to stay where he was, and silently moved forwards, backing up against trees whenever she could.

Not fifty paces away, in the middle of a pack of snow leopards, was Gondria - the beautiful and very much rare spectral tiger. Barely anyone had seen this creature, nevermind managed to get this close to it. Kuraine was barely ten paces away from the cat now. The snow leopards glared at her, ready to make her their next meal, but Gondria didn't have a care in the world. It looked at Kuraine, then away again, licking her paws in the snow.

Kuraine's grin turned into a slight frown. She'd tamed Gondria before, so why wasn't she running towards her owner in glee? Perhaps she'd forgotten her already. So all Kuraine could do now was try her luck. Kuraine edged forward, slowly - she didn't want to startle the leopards. She began to hold her arms out towards Gondria, but holding them low and spreading out her hands, to show she meant no harm in case of an attack.

Suddenly, one of the leopards hissed fiercely at her and right before it could charge, Gondria leapt, letting out a huge, spectral roar and slapped the leopard with one huge paw. It backed off slightly, looking offended, but lowered it's head. "The leopards obey her," Kuraine thought to herself. "She's become their leader... Yet she doesn't seem to mind me being here." She sat down in the snow, back against a frozen tree, and watched. Clearly Gondria didn't mind her being there, and she seemed to be defending her, so she doubted that Gondria had forgotten her completely.

She was tired. She looked over at her drake, fast asleep in the snow... She wanted to sleep too... but she couldn't. Not here. She didn't know when Gondria might turn against her. But her spectral eyes pierced into her and she stared right back, but she could almost feel the cat's eyes boaring into her...

... Kuraine awoke. Slowly. It took her a while to gather her surroundings, her eyes were blurred and she felt almost as if she'd been knocked out. She felt the cold of the snow underneath her and the empty plain in front of her... No! She'd fallen asleep and now all the leopards were gone - Gondria as well. But before she even had time to react to it, she felt a presence beside her. Underneath her right hand, a soft, cold and light body, glowing faintly. It was Gondria, wide awake and curled up, still staring at Kuraine the same way she was when she'd fallen asleep.

She felt more surprised than happy as she ran her hand behind the tiger's ear. Gondria made a delightful and echoing purr.

"That wasn't hard at all..."



I'm totally open for criticism by the way! Tell me what you thought or how I can improve, and I'll take it into consideration for the next posts I make.

well so far i liked reading it, i am so curious how it will go on .

Here's another picture I took of Kuraine, Gondria and an unknown but cute little friend!

Very cool! I like this bit, too.(:

Kuraine and her drake sit in the Storm Peaks, waiting patiently for the beast she knows could turn up here sooner or later...

Kuraine, her drake (Which she had now taken to calling 'Phosphor'.) and Gondria sat in the snow, curled up together, Phosphor leaning against a large, round and strange disc.

Skoll wasn't here. Yet. This was most certainly where she first found him. She remembered it like it was yesterday. They'd been there all night and all day. She'd asked people in Orgrimmar just the other day if they had seen the creature she described as a large, lightning-blue wolf with fur that stutters with electrical sparks anywhere in the Storm Peaks recently. One such interesting person told her yes, a paladin, that he had spotted a bizarre looking wolf that seemed to fit her description nicely. So after that very meeting, off she was to the Storm Peaks and she wasn't planning on leaving until she'd got her beast back.

Hours were spent with Phosphor and Gondria mostly sleeping by the disc, but Kuraine took to sitting low on a ledge, her eyes constantly scanning the horizon for anything.

It was getting late in the second evening when suddenly, perched on her ledge, her tall, Blood Elf ears pricked sharply. A rustling close by, and the pitter-patter of paws in the snow. And then a panting, of a hungry animal. And it was right behind her, only a few yards away. Drawing her bow she flipped round, aiming it steadily and surely. Right at Skoll.

Skoll reacted before she could, snarling and backing off into the bushes he had just emerged from, clearly more offended than angry. Kuraine blinked, lowering her bow slowly. She threw it aside to show her pet she meant no harm. She even let out a soft whimpering sound - an sympathetic apology. Skoll understood immediately, his tongue lolling stupidly out the side of his mouth, and he loped over towards her as fast as his huge paws could take him.

Giving her pet a rustle of the fur down his neck and a proud and strong pat on the side, this was the happiest she'd ever seen him before. Usually his emotions, which tend to come through between a hunter and their pet, don't show at all. He was always the serious, ready-for-battle one. All work, no play. But now he stood beside her, wagging his tail like a lovesick puppy.

She too was certainly pleased. She jumped off the ledge, landing beside Gondria, who gave Skoll a welcoming lick on the muzzle as he followed down.

"Now," She spoke aloud, all three of them looking at her keenly. "To Sholazar?"



Spent a good two evenings looking for this sonofa... I was watching YouTube videos when suddenly NPC Scan scares the pants off me as per. And there he is, at his disc... as per.