Its Hard to Say Goodbye

It all happened so fast that Arc didn't really know where to look and he most certainly didn't know what to do. He stood there frozen, watching while his dad grappled with this bear. At some point Pan dropped out of the tree near by and Arc watched with his jaw dropped as the pangolin stabbed a claw right through the polar bear's eye. When Pan was tossed off to the side in a rolled up ball of armored scales, he ran over to where the companion had landed and made sure Pan was okay, making him unroll so he could check him before he refocused his attention on the fight that was still going on. He still held out anxious hope that his mother would show up any second now and would be the thing to tip the scales in his father's favor and they could beat the polar bear together no problem!

There was more and more blood all over the snowy ground and as the seconds ticked by and both his dad and the bear got more and more injured he felt even more helpless and hopeless. When his dad bit into the bear's neck again and was dangling there for a moment he watched with wide eyes, gasping when those giant white, bloodied paws came swinging at his dad and yanked the golden wolf off and threw him to the ground, its huge claws ripping into Naiche in the process and causing all kinds of tears and lacerations all down his stomach and sides. "Dad!" he yelled as the bear staggered back and collapsed as well, but he didn't really care that the bear was dead - all he cared about was how hurt his dad was and how when he tried to get up he couldn't.

"Dad! No no no, you're going to be okay, right?" he questioned as he rushed to Naiche's side, falling down into the snow beside him with his ears pinned back against his skull, afraid to look at all the terrible wounds that were all over him it seemed like. "W-We'll get you home and Mo will fix you up! Yeah! Or Goss! There's lots of good healers!" It sounded like he was just trying to convince himself as he started nudging his dad's cheek with his nose. "Mom's gonna be here any second now! She'll help!"

"Arcturus Fatalis"