Grouchy Grizzlies

She ventured deeper, leaving a fresh scent at each turn, until, up ahead, she heard a deep bark of “Shit!” And a growl. It was a sound that she was familiar with. Bear. And the bark was a wolf. It came again, more alarmed, and she bounded forward on silent paws. She’d forgone her armor for this trip.

Now she wished she’d worn it. As she flashed into the same chamber, from the other side of the bear, across from the male, and took in the hulking beast of a grizzly, of the surroundings even as she launched herself bodily at the bear, just out of its line of sight as it advanced on the other wolf.

Her teeth ripped into the muscled shoulder of the bear, drawing blood and a savage roar that shook the stalactites with its reverberations. She’d already leapt back with a push of her paws off the beast’s bulk to thrust herself out of reach as the bear swiped for her. She skidded on stone, resetting her balance and stance as the beast turned to face her, now even angrier that it had been at the Giant’s intrusion.

Her eyes flicked to the male in question before she ducked under another swiping paw and struck like an adder for it, slashing flesh and pad before she danced back again, drawing the beast away from the black male, giving a good opening.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Hear" ---- Think