Fighting and adventure—two of my favorite things!

Ruse stood behind her father, appreciating the tap of his tail against her just to make sure they both knew where one another was. This was her first time ever being in what felt like a real fight and it was exciting and nerve wracking all at the same time. She did her best to not pay attention to the nerves though as she snarled and growled at the last remaining hyenas while her father met an attack from one of them behind her. She always wanted to make him proud so she tried to remember all of the things she had been taught so far about fighting and defending herself so she could show off a bit of what she had learned, but as she really got into the fight she ended up kind of making it up as she went along which seemed to be working out for her so far.

After the last hyena that her dad sent running, she could tell that they were starting to get nervous and had backed up some, seemingly less willing to rush into a fight than they had been moments prior. One of them made one last ditch effort to get the upper hand and rushed at her, but as soon as she met it with the same energy and rushed back at it with a hard snap of her teeth it backed off and skittered back to its brethren. That finally got the message across and they started to dissipate, running off with their yelping laughter back into the grasses until their cackling eventually faded off into the distance.

Once she was sure they were gone she grinned and spun around to face her dad, giving him a wide smile while her tail wagged behind her as she looked up at him. "How was that?!" she asked excitedly, her front paws prancing a bit in her excitement. "Did you see me jump on that one hyena? I bet it didn't even see me coming!" She giggled and went to lean into her father's chest while her tail was still wagging a mile a minute behind her. If all fighting was this fun then she definitely wouldn't mind learning how to do more of it!

"Chimera & Rusalka"