'TIL DEATH DO US PART

In battles such as this, things happened in mere moments. Opportunities were taken by instinct and reflex and chances were lost in the throes of negligence and lack of observation, but above all Jupiter had learned that dwelling over mistakes were things better saved for after the battle, and kept that determinedly in her mind



It happened almost simultaneously--no sooner than she'd curled her lips back and opened her jaws and begun to close them, several of her fangs pierced the flesh of his scars, paws nearly finding their targets upon his shoulder and chest. In doing this, she found that his scars had an odd, harder consistency than she'd expected the scars to be, especially in an area that moved often. She was learning new things about Kaios by the moment: for one, not only did she now know he had a whole lot of ugly, a whole ton of ego, but also a massive amount of physical disregard to everything she thought she'd known about her own species. Loud snarls ripped from her, lips curled back and ears remaining thoroughly pinned. She tried to bring her jaws together in an attempt scrape and bunch more flesh in her teeth for good measure and to endeavor to keep a hold on it as well, hoping that the uneven, wrinkled planes of his once-charred skin would make the action a breeze.



His momentum toward her quickly became apparent at the same moment of their attacks and she stifled her urge to tense up, for being limber and quick was her greatest need right now. She felt the muscle of his right pectoral shift under her paw as his leg lifted in his movements, but the shifting wasn't nearly enough to disrupt the placement of her paw--only edged it more to the center of his chest. Jupiter swept her paws as quickly as she could to the ground and used her back legs to help shift her position, trying to side-step hastily to avoid the force of his weight, but was too slow to completely do so. The right sides of their chests were the only things to collide, and to try and right her balance she allowed the impact to cause her body to shift into a nearly-perpendicular position in correlation to Kaios, pivoting lightly on her front paws.



Despite her efforts, she quickly found that a wolf of her size and speed couldn't quite escape any attack unscathed. As she moed, she felt the tugging of teeth on a mass of fur just above her shoulder, and couldn't stifle the slight yelp as the fur was ripped from her, leaving a patch of exposed flesh about three inches in diameter.



In this motion, occurring only a second or so after having attempted to increase the area of and tighten the grip on the flesh of his face, she almost simultaneously moved to bunch her neck back, trying to pull her head closer to her, tail going out even and paws spreading to distribute her weight properly for balance in this endeavor. She hoped that this would seriously worsen his injuries, and that his forward momentum (though it would be hindered by their collision, but turning was usually difficult for wolves of Kaios' size) and her own drop to her paws would aid her further in this goal.



During all of this, Jupiter was by no means on her own. Her earlier snarling had carried well on throughout her attacks, the sound rumbling deep from within her throat and smoothly from her maw, a habitual noise that took little to no thought. In this manner she'd hoped to mask the sound of small feet plowing through the snow. In fact, he'd remained silent and still on the sidelines all during his presence, as per Jupiter's instruction before the battle. But now, still was subtracted from the equation as Mercury charged from directly behind Kaios. The tasmanian devil would make an attempt to fling himself upwards onto his hind legs, stretching as far as he could, and immediately try to wrap his claws about the brute's back left limb and attempt to sink his greedy fangs deep into the spot directly above his tarsus, aiming to tighten his grip and rip backwards and tear whatever he grabbed--hopefully the outer-most muscle there--away from its residence.








round 2/5

attacks - Tries to close jaws, hopefully scraping more flesh together and covering more area; later attempts to rip the flesh from his face by jerking backwards and down on it. meanwhile, Mercury attacks Kaios from behind, trying to latch onto Kaios' back left leg and attack just above his tarsus.

defenses - To defend against his forward force she drops her paws from his body and tries to side-step, but isn't quite enough to do so. This causes the right sides of their chests to collide and she uses the force delivered to complete her already side-oriented momentum by pivoting lightly on her paws. Ears are pinned and she is constantly snarling to hide the sounds of Mercury. Curls lips back when biting so they aren't in the way. When on all fours and angled differently, she evens her weight and casts her tail outwards. Mercury is helping defend her from Kaios by serving as a distraction in his quest for his flesh.

injuries - Decent-sized (a jagged circle about 3 inches or so in diameter) area of fur ripped clean from the area of the side of her neck.



ooc - For reference, I took Kaios' second conditional by making her move. Also, though I didn't mention the issue of mobility in the IC post, I'd still like to point out that I don't think he'd have the jaw mobility that's being claimed with half of his face encased in the 'hardened' scar tissue. Muscle tissue is also usually the only tissue to harden to such a consistency. Also, in my last post, I believe that "seeking to mercilessly sink her jaws into the tender scar tissue and rip deeply downwards," counted as a testimony to the force in which she wanted to attack with. c:



I've worked on this post 5ever and was going to post it last night, but I was up until like 3 AM switching between two options of attack, at war with myself on what the heck I wanted to do since I had two good possibilities for counter. XD Good luck~

edited to fix ooc wording about kaios' scars because I didn't say it quite clearly. XD
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