Forward she prowls, silent wraith of lethal proportions even in her progressing age. With familiarity she takes to the battlefield, striding casually but with controlled confidence to its center. Today the itch bothers her more than usual--she can feel the irritation of hunger prickle beneath her front paws. Gaze flicks briefly along her claws, eyes lingering at the fleeting memory of warm blood from rent throat coating her toes and sweeping to her ankles. Attention phases back to her surroundings. Celestial eyes keep vigilant, senses attuned as she rotates her sight about the open area, waiting. Defenses shift naturally into place. Legs bend lightly at the joints, spreading to distribute her weight equally across the planes of her form. Toes splay and claws dig to find traction on the battle-worn earth. Shoulders roll forward as her head lowers. Jaws part as her head lowers to the level of her spine, putting teeth between a potential enemy and her throat. Fat and fur bunches heavily around her scrunched neck. Hackles begin their slow raise, eyes narrowing and ears pinning. And so she waits. But likely not for long. JUPITER vs RAASKA for SPAR ROUND ZERO one two three

You and I, we were born to die

The blood stained earth put her on edge as the tiger striped challenger crossed the barren dunes. Her eyes narrowed as she moved gracefully across the pain, trying to get from point A to point B with little time. She kept herself alert, ears perked up and eyes peeled in case a challenge arose for her to take up. She was rusty in her fighting maneuvers which was why she decided to take the stroll through the dry and cracked earth. It did not take her long to find the challenge that she had been searching for. A woman stood there, age affecting her in more ways than one, with her defenses already set. Raas grinned, not planning on passing up the spar. It was quite obvious by how the woman was postured that these fields were common lands to her. Perhaps she visited often. She was one to watch out for.

Raaska would waste no time to allow the woman to accept her presence. The fact was a spar was a spar and she was going to throw herself, quite literally, into this one. Rushing in an attempt to close the distance between the two wolves, Raas snapped her jaws. She rushed straight forward, which when she had launched the attack had placed her dead centered with the femme she was to fight. Controlled breathing helped her focus on the task at hand. With the snapping of her jaws, the woman would try use the one inch she had on the other to dame to tilt her head slightly to the left in order to bite down on the woman's shoulder to inflict pain and perhaps draw a bit of blood while also trying to slam her paw down directly on top of the woman's right paw, hoping to bruise it. Her eyes shone the ferocity that she had in mind for the fight while her laid back moves suggested nothing more than a spar. This was training pure and simple so she could continue on with the vigilante wanderer style.

While these two attempts of an attack were in place, Raas also aimed to slam her center chest into Jup's head and neck, hoping that the recoil would cause the other woman to falter and move back a bit. The fur along her spine bristled from the pure adrenaline that coursed through her system. She felt alive, more alive than she had felt in a while. When she had made her attempted attacks, she tried to pull back to set her defenses. She lowered her head to level with her neck while scrunching it up and baring her fangs to defend the vital point of her body. Her tail leveled with her spine to allow her to control her movements with more accuracy and hopefully more speed. Her fur bristled as her toes splayed out along with her legs from the base to lower her center of gravity which she hoped would make it more difficult for her to be knocked over. Her toes dug into the coarse earth as she bent her legs at their halfway points, distorting the stripes running horizontal across her legs. She was pumped and she was ready to go... almost. She lowered her ears to pin them against her head to allow for less areas of her body to be attacked. She tensed, ready to move at a seconds notice. The fight had truly begun.
RAASKA VS. JUPITER -- Round 1 of 3 for SPAR

(( Normally, I don't use a character's name in an IC portion of a post if my character doesn't know that character's name, but for this I will because I don't want to put myself through 'she/her' pronoun hell, haha. ))

A challenger appears--a barely-taller femme swathed in black. Smirk crawls across her visage; it seems like even since she has killed Kaios, only dark wolves present themselves as opponents. Oddity, Daegmar, Canta. And now this woman. The lass wastes little time, not bothering with courtesies or useless prattling, and Jupiter finds herself already favoring the lass. They will earn each other's identities through opened flesh and spilled blood. They would fight until they knew they deserved the pleasantries of the other. Back limbs spread slightly to better balance her weight and brace herself for the incoming force of the other, though from the appearance of the other's "long, nimble legs" (ooc: quote taken from profile since further specifics of Raaska's build aren't provided), Jupiter personally assumes that the woman will likely weigh less than the fire-pelted woman. Enemy jaws reach for her left shoulder. Jupiter seeks to thrust the rolled shoulder slightly forwards and sharply up by trying to suddenly straighten her balance-bent leg in an instant. She aims to thrust the bony top of the shoulder blade in the fleshy area just behind the other's chin--the tender hollow nestled between solid jawbones--in an attempt to harshly force the woman's jaws shut and in hopes of bruising the flesh there (counter). As she does this, Jupiter's own parted jaws raise and cock to her own left to reach for their own target--the other's scruff, hopefully made more accessible by Raaska's lower-oriented target of Jupiter's shoulder. She seeks to firmly and fully grasp (top teeth aiming for the right side of the scruff and bottom aiming for the left side of the scruff) the nerve-bundled skin about three inches behind the other's ears. This minute raise of her head causes the other's chest to collide with the center of her own. Her balanced weight steels her against the impact as the "nimble" wolf clashes with her, causing her to hardly flinch, though moderate bruising begins to blossom at the center of Jupiter's chest. In her peripherals she spies opponent's front left paw lifting to move towards Jupiter's front right paw. Jupiter quickly tries to slide her right paw forward along the earth, hoping to stop it so that it is in vertically in line with Raaska's left shoulder. Her right shoulder pushes forward in this move. By doing this, she attempts to use the length of her leg to block the other from being able to instantly and fully put her other paw back down in their close proximities, endeavoring to trap her opponent awkwardly on three legs in an attempt to throw the other's balance (counter, damage pending?). Weight redistributes as she does this. Other defenses remain solidly in place. Neck remains scrunched. Eyes are still narrowed and ears still pinned with aggression. Gaping jaws seeking a target hopefully still offer some protection/obstacle to her throat. Forward-rolled shoulders (as even her left is still forward, as it sought to roll forward and then jut upwards) offer some guard to the lower base of her throat. Hackles have fully raised by this point. Hind legs remained partially bent for balance, and weight constantly shifts to properly compensate for her movement as the warrior seeks to remain in harmony with her center of gravity. Claws of all four grounded paws seek traction on the earth and toes remain splayed to offer stability. JUPITER vs RAASKA for SPAR ROUND zero ONE two three

OOC: Ditto but fight posts are so long that I usually run out of pronouns xD

The other woman noticed her almost immediately, bracing her own defenses proportionately as the nimble and fast wolf rushed forward. Her opponent reacted like a well-trained warrior would. She shifted her defenses to allow counter attacks to set into place. The brown-faced woman shifted her legs to allow her more of a balance for when Raas would inevitably strike. She liked this woman, and Raas would be eager to get a name when this fight was over with. The woman would counter as Raas got closer by straightening her legs to make her shoulder rise with an attempt to land a good blow on Raaska’s jaw. The nimble lady instantly moved her face to the left more only to feel the boney shoulder blade of her formidable opponent.

She instantly closed her mouth, her pink tongue moving against the side of her jaw (right side) only to find that the wound had a worse sting to it with pressure than without. This would surely leave a decent bruise and would put her out of any large amount of talking in the process. As Raaska reacted, moving her head to the side slightly to avoid the shoulder blow, she moved her head farther away from Jupiter’s attack on her scruff. Teeth griped her nerve bundled fur not as firmly and fully as Jup had intended. (Raas’ pulling to the side a bit caused Jupiter to catch a small bit of skin along her scruff closer to the right side of Jup’s body, narrowly clinging to it). This allowed Raaska to pull away from the attack with ease though minor tearing of the fur and skin had occurred. This was something that would need minor medical attention but would not scar if handled properly.

Raas noticed Jupiter's motive of trapping her in an awkward scenario mid-move. Instantly, she reacted, pulling herself back in time to narrowly remove the paw in question from the devil's snare. Her eyes narrowed as her solid defenses remained in place. She would rush take the distance she had tried to put between them to her advantage to sneak around her left side and slam into the woman as a slide by from side to side while trying to bite down on her back left leg with Raaska's powerful jaws. This was war.

Most defenses remained in place as she kept her legs bend and spread to lower her center of gravity and make it harder for her to fall while splaying out her toes to maintain balance. Her tail and ears were tucked to give Jupiter less to try and grab on to while her teeth barred. Her scruff was held tight to tense it up in an attempt to protect her neck and she hissed fiercely as she attempted her next move.

RAASKA VS. JUPITER -- Round 2 of 3 for SPAR

Blood touches ivory fangs and she relishes in the taste as it slides down to pool minutely on her tongue. The other manages to pool away--lighter but also more quick, but the other pulling away gives Jupiter time to both see an anticipate the other's actions, which solidifying her own defenses. Legs bend slightly, weight distributing and toes splaying, claws finding purchase on the earth. Tail flags even for balance. Neck scrunches, chin tucks against the upper portion of her throat, jaws gaped slightly as her head lowers to be in line with her spine. Hackles stay raised. As the other moves to her left side, she seeks to turn with the other woman. She pivots upon her front left paw, front right sliding along the earth, as she swings her hips to her own right and hopefully out of range of the other's woman's jaws (realistic dodge/damage pending). The woman attempts to cut off the other's dash by meeting her perpendicularly. Jupiter's left shoulder barrels forward, attempting to slam into the other's left side, just behind her opponent's front left limb as she seeks to to majorly bruise ribs and throw balance. Jaws lash out as she tries to grab the other's spine, target centered between Raaska's shoulders and hindquarters, top teeth seeking the other's upper right side, about an inch or so from the peak of the spine. Lower teeth seek the flesh just above the vertical midway of Raaska's left side. Jupiter's left paw reaches to try and hook around the knee joint of Raaska's left foreleg, hoping to pull the appendage towards Jupiter's own body to try and trip her as she moves, attempting to both hinder her and hopefully keep her from re-positioning easily. Weight distributes as limb lifts. JUPITER vs RAASKA for SPAR ROUND zero one TWO three

Pulling away from the female hadn't been the best idea as the other's defenses tensed and improved before Raas could manage to successfully complete her attack. The woman had slid to avoid the blow that Raas had been aiming to land on her leg and when Raas tried to cut her off with the slam with the dreaded shoulder that had already dealt much bruising to her body. Her eyes narrowed as she quickly made her adjustments to move in a direct path to make herself parallel to her opponent. She gulped. This woman was obviously more skilled than her and she felt as if she was making a fool of herself. She found her head parallel to the queen's tail and when Jupiter went in for a blow to bruise ribs, the woman rushed forward to avoid the attacks before turning to throw her attacks at the woman to hopefully settle the match. She was panting but still had enough energy for one more round.

Raas launched herself at the woman head on with her head down and her neck scrunched up tight to protect her neck from any serious harm. She was aiming to slam into the center Jupiter's chest with her right shoulder while taking her left paw and attempting to wrap it around Jup's front, right leg towards the bottom near her paws in order to try and throw her off balance. Raas hissed slightly while doing this, the bruising from earlier was stinging. She would also try to bite the other woman's right shoulder while her attempt to slam into the other woman's center chest was going on. Her defenses remained constantly in place.

Raaska's body was tense with all of her attacks and her ears were pinned down so she could react at a moments notice while her teeth were barred and her eyes narrowed in determination. Her hackles and haunches were raised as fur bristled down her spine from the adrenaline that was pumping through her body and making her ears pound with the blood that needed to move faster than usual. Her neck remained scrunched up to protect her throat while her head remained down until the final moments where she would attempt her attack on the woman's shoulder. The woman's toes would be splayed on the occasions that she was not moving and her legs were bent slightly to lower her center of gravity to make her harder to knock over.

RAASKA VS. JUPITER -- Round 3 of 3 for SPAR