Peace was never an option

Rudy had tried playing nice with the bear.  A bunch of wolves attacking it together and wrapping about it apparently wasn’t enough to intimidate it nor were bites that didn’t do overly serious harm.  Everything changed the moment the grizzly chose to swing a paw towards Art instead of admitting early defeat.  Rudy’s next chomp was far harder than the others with an angry warning snarl.  He’d been keeping a careful eye on the bear’s movements and had let go as it was turning towards him.  Rudy had been ready to dodge but then Art got between him and the bear to attack the same area.  Overprotective brother.  Rudy was going to have to prove he could take care of himself somehow.

Well, if Art was determined to fight alongside next to him then it would be stupid to not take advantage of the shield Art was making of him.  Rudy decided to finally use those antlers for something other than defense.  Tilting his head down he slammed one of his antlers into where he’d just bit, jerking his head up so that the bite became a somewhat longer slash.  Rudy now wanted to defend his brother who was the one at more risk but instead he chose to trust the others with them.  With the ladies here and Art’s own skills, Rudy trusted Art to stay safe.  Now, the idea wasn’t to kill this bear but it was going to have to come to the realization it should flee and not keep up a fight.  Not wanting to kill it didn’t mean they wouldn’t kill it should the bear choose to keep fighting.

Rudyard Carpathius