Northstar Vale take control

Posting with permission from Chelsie-welsie :D Feel free to auto-hit him since he's in such close proximity, but he's not attacking -- more acting like a shield/trying to get them to back off so at least Jinx can escape

Originally, perhaps inexplicably, Haunter had been slow-trailing Fox. Her scent had crossed him outside of the Creek's boundaries and he had nosily followed—though if he had actually ran into Fox, he wouldn't be able to explain what he was really doing or why. After following the trail for some time, he found that it abruptly began to mingle with Jinx's, and he mistakenly assumed that the females were going off together, which meant that his presence would likely be unwanted.

Still, instead of returning to the lands of Swiftcurrent, he left their twin trails and made a path of his own before realizing that he had come dangerously close to Northstar Vale, a pack that Jinx herself had informed him about; although his memory did not serve him well to remember whether this was the pack with the alpha that needed to be usurped, or the pack that had brought a four-wolf emissary to their borders.

Either way, as he loped their border (missing Fox somewhere along the way), he came across both female's scent again, and wondered immediately why Jinx had gone on, and Fox had went back the way she came. The fur along his spine prickled, and he followed Jinx's trail instinctively, wondering what the pregnant aggressor was doing. He saw the chase occurring long before he could even make it to Jinx's original destination, and without thinking, the long-legged inkblot shot off after the trio from a distance.

He had caught up only when she had been tripped up, his pale superior suddenly at the mercy of a massive, autumn-hued she-wolf and a dark, smoky wolf with an equally volatile presence. But they would not kill her if Haunter had anything to say about it; and it was the first time in his entire history that he was willingly putting his life on the line for something other than food. He launched forward wordlessly, intending to shove himself betwixt the oppositely poised defenders in an attempt to deter/block them from further wounding the rat-trapped Jinx.

If he had to, he would fight them both, as it would not be the first time he had stupidly tested more than one wolf.