Ginger Snap Cat

As he raced into the canyon, it was to find himself behind the lion, and he was able to take a moment to evaluate while the cat was unaware of him for the moment. Facing the lion, and Eligos now, was a colorful piebald pup. The pup was trapped against the canyon wall by the territorial lion. He was well within springing distance for the lion, and even as Eligos bounded down the canyon the lion was clearly readying himself for the movement that would end the young canine intruder's life. Eligos cursed under his breath and leaped forward, but he would have been too late. Kida shot past him, though, and the small, slender dog threw herself onto the lion's heels, her jaws clamped onto the cat's leg. Cypher hit a moment later. The lion turned on them in a wrath, and Eligos took the opportunity of the feline's preoccupation to leap past him between the lion and the pup, slamming a shoulder into the lion to knock him even further off his balance as the malinois savaged his rear legs.