More Dazzling than the Lights

Saracyn didn't even hear the snow crunching behind him before he felt the weight of the second snow leopard on his back. He grunted, then snarled when he felt razor sharp claws dig into his skin. Avacyn was reacting in a heartbeat, biting at the feline's leg to get it to release him before he threw himself back to the snow, slamming the leopard on his back to the ground and rolling back to his feet. While he could have gone to press his attack on it, the movement he saw in the corner of his eye made his heart stop and his blood run cold. The original snow leopard had pounced on his sister's back and was grappling her around her neck. "Avacyn!" Sara bolted toward her, a crimson thunderbolt of rage snarling so loud his voice echoed around the surrounding mountains.

Saracyn used his larger size to his advantage, leaping to snatch the snow leopard off of his sister by the neck. As soon as the leopard felt the wolf's jaws around its neck, it yowled in alarm and began to struggle, thrashing its clawed mittens at Saracyn's face. Those claws scratched at his cheeks and jaws, coming far too close to his eyes for comfort, forcing him to release the feline before he could land a killing blow. Discouraged, but not defeated, Saracyn snarled and lunged at the snow leopard again, scooping the cat up before it could recover and throwing it down to the ground. The snow leopard yowled in fury and tried to claw out the wolf's eyes again, but Saracyn had had enough with all these damned predators. He caught one of the cat's paws with his own, pinning it to the ground and giving himself an opening to thrust his jaws down around the leopard's neck. The leopard fought for a moment more, but a swift snapping of his jaws around its throat crushed its vertebrae and broke its neck, killing the feline instantly with a sickening and wet crunch of bone and gristle.

"Saracyn Mendacium"