Strips Of Black With Smears Of Red

The tiger looked at the long-legged lean painted dog it was likely a shock to the tiger just how vicious Kione could be. He hadn’t been joking about taking the head. There was a smug grin on his face and a glare into the cat’s eyes as they stood face to face. When the boy attacked and the tiger tried to spin Kione charged in, biting at the cat’s cheek, snarling, and letting go just as the tiger is looking at him again.

The boy wanted to kill a tiger? He wanted practice? Yeah, Kione could give him that. Kione wasn’t trying to keep his bites on for any length of time. He’d bite, draw blood, then throw out some mocking cackling high-pitched barks at the tiger when it was trying to focus. A game of bite and release, the cheek, the paw, snapping at empty air. The more the tiger tried to ignore him the worse the damage done.

Kione was determined to let the boy bite whatever body part of the tiger he wanted. Strix could get the killing blows but so long as Kione took on the head the tiger would never be able to get its teeth into the kid. Admittedly, fighting in this crazy fashion he couldn't respond to the boy. As much as he loved talking it was a tad dangerous staying this close to the kitty's fangs. The adrenaline rushing through him was exhilarating.

"Kione"