ps i know thats just a filtered picture of a lepord

Lanta walked towards the stage where she would receive the Nectar from the local Greencloak. "So don't summon anything that isn't from the jungles of Zhong" said Keesha. She knew that her older sister didn't want her to call anything, in case it was better than Jem, her tiger. Kanta had a pretty good spirit animal too. Pixy was a Zhongese mountain cat, not from the jungles, but she fitted in and anyone who didn't know better would think she was from around here. The name was the only give away. Her brother hadn't called a spirit animal, but he would be Chief when their parents died so that didn't matter to him. Her parents didn't have spirit animals either. In fact, the twins were the first to call a spirit animal in a long time. Klant, her younger sister, sat in the audience with her mother, while her brother and father said the words of the ritual. She was brought forwards by her sisters. She wondered what she wanted to call. A tiger? No, her sister had that. Perhaps a bird of some kind. It didn't really matter. She knew that no matter what it was she'd love it. The Greencloak handed her a golden cup with the Nectar inside. She took it from him politely and put it to her lips. it tasted like fresh river water, her favourite drink. She savoured the taste. Then there was a bright flash and a snow leopard appeared on stage. Oh no, she thought. Snow leopards were not good luck. In fact, they were considered poison in her village. But she couldn't help but marvel at the magnificent beast. She held out her hand and the leopard nuzzled her palm. Then someone yelled, 

"It's a snow leopard, kill it!" The leopard growled in surprise at this harsh comment. Someone knocked an arrow in their bow and Lanta leapt in front of the leopard, having the arrow sink into her hand. 

 "No!" she shouted. "She's my spirit animal!" The leopard looked up at her with beautiful blue eyes. "It's ok" whispered Lanta to her new companion. "I'll look after you. I won't let them hurt you." The leopard licked her hand where it was bleeding. Lanta looked up to see that the clouds were covering the sun. "Looks like there's gonna be a storm" she said to her spirit animal. Then she looked down to see the similarity of her coat to the cloud above. When she said the word, storm, the leopard looked up. "Do you like that?" she asked. She gave a soft meow. "I know what to call you. Storm." the leopard licked her hand again. Everyone was talking as Lanta left the stage, her new companion, Storm, by her side. Then someone threw a knife at her precious spirit animal. Storm jumped out the way and Lanta kicked the man hard, knocking him over. Storm scratched him on the leg for effect. "Nice job" said Lanta, but she could see what Storm was thinking. Teamwork. Then she nudged her hand. She looked down at it and realised what Storm was trying to do. "Oh, ok. How do I do this?" she said, holding out her hand. Storm jumped at her and disappeared into a tattoo on the back of her hand. The greencloack ran over to her as she released Storm again. 

 "Did you just call her into passive state three minutes after meeting her?" he asked. 

 "Um, I think so" said Lan. "Isn't that normal? You can do it." 

 "It took me days to get Tooroo into passive and your sisters months." Lan looked at Storm. The leopard looked back up at her. She stroked her silky fur and Storm purred happily.