the journey calls

Ashmedai felt his right shoulder connect with the other boy's left shoulder. Ash's right fore paw scraped down Tornach's front left leg and pinned his left forepaw successfully. This was going good! As Ashmedai threw hit bite, however, things changed.

As Ash drove his bite, Tornach turned and aimed to intercept with an attack of his own. The opponent's teeth would scrape down Ashmedai's right cheekbone and up his right jaw leaving moderate lacerations that ended as the boy gained half a grip on the edge of Ashmedai's right cheek. If they weren't sparring, it would have looked pretty odd with Ashmedai's face stretched out by his right cheek. Ashmedai wasn't amused, however, and winced at the pain. He felt a paw hook around his left foreleg halfway down from his elbow and pull away from Ashmedai while shoving towards Ash's left side and up. The two were close, so the force wasn't drastic, the two wolves being almost completely evenly matched. Ashmedai wouldn't topple just yet.

The boy had a plan, but he needed to be prepared. His hackles laced down his back, his tail flagging behind him for support as she struggled against the other. His weight was evenly distributed, his knees partially bent for balanced, and his toes splayed. His lips curled up, eyes narrowing, and face scrunching through the opponent's hold to further protect his bleeding face. He worked his shoulders up to protect his neck and tucked his chin as much as he could while pulling his ears tight against his skull to finish up his defenses.

With Tornach having his right paw hooked around Ash's left fore leg, Ashmedai decided to use that to his advantage. For a while, Ashmedai attempted to struggle against Tornach, then, all at once, began an assault. Ashmedai aimed to throw his full weight forward and to Tornach's right as he shifted his weight to his front paws, hoping to keep himself grounded and dig his right fore paw nails into the webbing between Tornach's left fore paw's toes. Ashmedai jutted his right shoulder forward with hopes of equaling the blow of Tornach's left shoulder, hoping to grind the foremost part of his right shoulder with the foremost part of Tornach's left shoulder, which already pressed into Ash. He turned his face against Tornach (towards Ashmedai's right) and attempted to get a grip on the right side of Tornach's lower jaw, with his upper jaws aiming to get a bite on his right jaw while his lower jaw sought the area of the neck that connected under the chin. As he stretched, he could feel Tornach's teeth pulling painfully on the right side of his face. It would hurt, but maybe it would pay off in the end. He didn't have enough momentum to topple the other boy, but maybe he could out-endurance him in locked combat.

Ashmedai vs Tornach Round 2/2 for SPAR