Mystical Angels

What animal or mystical creature would represents these traits?

I'm trying to find an animal, mystical creature, or any creature of that matter, that represents, or can be described by these traits. - Strong - Beautiful - Wise - Mysterious - Dark - Independent - Sly - Tough - Brave An so on and so forth, you get what I'm aiming at =)

Public Comments

1. black panther
2. A maenad or bacchanate.
3. the grey wolf
4. I'd say: Vampyre or Lycan.
5. Wolves of all kind.
6. A cat either wild or domestic it doesn't matter, they represent all of those traits and characteristics.
7. i would say a skoti
8. A Sable.
9. unicorn, phoenix, the fox in Native American myth, most Greek Goddesses
10. the goddess athene?