Coming back for a second round

The patrols he had been taking more often with Keahi had slowly become a welcome and expected part of his day, even when it landed him in various skirmishes with the area's wild life. It was good for him to get his head out of his work a couple of times a day and he was of course getting to spend more time with her as well. He had never had a relationship like this were he would just spend time doing normal, daily tasks together like this and it made him begin to wonder more about what their future was going to look like since it seemed that both of them were all too eager to spend their time side by side rather than apart.

Their morning patrol had been peaceful, but it seemed that their evening one wasn't going to follow that same theme. It was she sound of growls that caught his attention and when the looked toward the sound he spotted the cluster of coyotes that was stalking out of the shadows toward them–led by the one that had a ragged ear that he remembered from his last encounter with coyotes at the border. He scoffed a bit and muttered to Keahi, "I guess they're back for round two." He didn't give them a chance to make the first move and instead lunged forward, ignoring one of them that tried to intercept him and going right for the leader that he had fought with the last time.

"Ruga Amanto"