from the shadows

Hattori's gaze snapped to his subordinate, ready to shove the beast off of him if he had to, but thankfully the little koi was remarkably light and swift on his paws. And even already on the offensive, jaws snapping as he made to grab onto a forelimb, anything to slow the beast down and chip away at its defences. Hattori had no intention of letting the little warrior do all the heavy lifting, he dashed in and shoulder checked the tiger as hard as he could, the thud of their bones meeting one another audible in the silence of the Wraith's Woods. The tiger stumbled with a snarl and whipped around to slash at the Kaicho, only to stumble again as it realised it didn't have use of all four of its paws.