Fighting and adventure—two of my favorite things!

Ruse watched with a worried frown as the hyenas advanced on her father, clearly not willing to back down despite her father's imposing stature. A snarl pulled at her lips as she watched and waited, her legs coiled under her as she waited for a good opening and tried to remember all the things she had been working on and learned so far. She watched as the first one rushed him, but it didn't get very far. Her dad took care of that one very quickly with a swift bite to the face, sending it screaming and running from them with blood falling from the open wounds now scattered around its eyes. She spotted a different hyena that seemed to think that it could take advantage of him being distracted with its counterpart as it creeped up behind him and was about to pounce on him from behind, but Ruse wasn't going to let that happen.

With a growl that was far less intimidating than her fathers, Ruse leapt down from her perch on top of the mammoth's skull and she landed with her paws on the hyena's back, knocking it to the ground with her weight. She immediately bit into the back of its neck as it squealed and wriggled to get out from under her and she shook her head to tear through the skin at its scruff before it could do so. It did manage to get away since she couldn't get a very good grip on it, but it was more worse for wear than when the fight began and it quickly retreated behind its friends. She stood back to back with her father, snarling at the rest of the hyenas to see if any of them would be brave and go for them again.

"Chimera & Rusalka"