Seeing her sick fascination with him he felt chill down his spine. Taking a minute to breathe he thought up a plan to help elder oaks if she really needed them he could use that against her or so grey thought.
"What exactly do you want from me vixen depending on what it is I might help you if you help me." Grey stated trying his best to be intimidating but failing.
"Oh what a schemer are you sure you're not a fox in disguise. JAJAJAJA."
Giving her a stern but menacing stare to calm her down, grey thought that would shut her up.
"AWWWW." Unfortunately for him to her he was just a cute little rabbit trying to scare someone far above himself. "I might keep you all to myself after everything is over but unfortunately the you right now is too weak."
"But you do have the potential to help me defeat the dreaded fox king, turning me from his slave to a queen! And when that happens you can be my royal toy… I mean servant."
"Hmmm if you're queen what will happen to the truce between our tribes." Grey said trying his best to ignore how she almost called him a royal toy of all things.
" Well…" pretending to pounder about the this as a sly smile appeared on her face a few seconds "If you aid me and visit me every now and then I don't mind staying away from rabbit meat. Plus, both foxes and rabbits are polyamorous as well as fertile. And a queen could always use a king beneath her."
She said as she gave some of her red luck aura to his weapons.
Grey kept Ignoring her very implied statements "So scarlet what exactly is this red glow and how will it help me." understanding how she is willing to help him albeit indirectly in exchange for his somehow high potential to help her in the future was better than nothing.
With a pouting face scarlet mockingly said. "Hmph your no fun why so serious. Oh right many of your folks are dying. ~sigh~ fine, I just gave them a mixture of luck and unluck to help assist you. The luck is to help you stay alive and the unluck inside the weapons however can make the weapon do critical damage to foes."
"Interesting… just don't tell me how long it last, I need to think it will run out any moment to get me to fight in the right mindset." Grey said as he was packing his equipment to go battle.
Curiously scarlet asked what those cords he had were.
" These are rope hooks they are acting more like rope darts now though. Very useful weapons but they need a lot of practice to use fortunately only nine of us young ones learned it. But now any rope can be a weapon for me given enough time."
Scarlet just nodded "well you just need to damage the leader critically, I will then swoop in and save him have the foxes retreat, while you can save as many as you can. But they will comeback for revenge after he's done healing because of his brother so they can hunt together next time because the king is overprotective of his little brother."
Grey was pissed that he couldn't totally kill off the one that started the raid on his friend's home before a thought crossed his mind. "Are they only going to attack this burrow?" With slight fear in his tone.
Scarlet just shook her head. "But with my luck on your side I'll be able to hold them off for another three moon cycles at least and at most four."
Realizing how he had a limited time frame to prepare to take down the leader grey frowned.
'Speed is key no time to rest unfortunately.' He thought to himself.
As he was leaving the damaged building he stopped in the door frame then looked back at the fox "Just know a queen can still be a puppet to someone overlooked, no beast is absolutely safe" before hopping away in the midst of the chaos.
Scarlet stood there shock on her face a shiver going down her spine as a crazy smile appeared on her face. "JAJAJAJAJAJAJA" loud cackling was heard echoing through the room. "Interesting, please resist it'll be all the more fun when you submit young one."
After hoping around all the debris for a while grey used is rune hesitantly still remembering how he hurt his throat yelling and his head felt like blowing up due to enhancing his ears.
After a quick scan of the area, he noticed a few things one there was a massive battle by the schoolhouse area, the second was the elder and fox leader were both out of breath and something heavy was hopping towards them.
After some planning he came up with a dangerous plan. Hopping towards the elders battle he saw the fox on the attack pouncing after the elder absolutely focused on the hunt leaving behind a trail of flames in his wake.
Whilst the elder was evading with everything he had. Hidden behind some rubble grey was lying in wait with his big boomerang ready to launch at the first sight of an opening.
Some time passed and elder oaks managed to trip the fox with some string he had set up mid fight. When abruptly a huge boomerang came out of nowhere hitting the fox on head and snout with a loud ~crack~ knocking it out.
The fox's snout was now crooked and eye pierced by the end of the tool due to some unlucky events. Effectively blinding his right eye and disabling his sense of smell
Elder oaks was crouched down gasping for breath while looking for the young buck that helped him only to see the last person he expected to save come to his aid.
Grey ran up from behind the fox looking at the now burnt rabbit in a cracked brown armor. "Damm old geezer if I knew you were this strong I wouldn't have swapped your hair grease with syrup. Won't happen again scout's honor."
In a tired but raspy voice the elder said "I had that handled… but since you helped, I'll forget all your pranks for now."
"Yeah; whatever just head to the school district they really need you over there they are being swarmed."
"UGH, OW my face hurts." The fox said in a pained voice stumbling to his feet but still dizzy.
"Look out, let me finish this guy and then I'll go." Said elder oaks.
"NO! Go now they really need your support. And don't worry about me I can hold him off until back up arrives they are a few seconds out." Grey said with a straight face lying as if it was as easy as breathing.
The elder looked at grey for a moment before hopping to the schoolhouse shouting "No one but me is allowed to kill you, otherwise your mother would kill me so stay alive till backup comes."
Grey stared at the fox that now looked him in the eyes. "Sorry, this might be my final trick."
the elder disappeared in the distance soon enough as greys hands tightened around the ropes.