Smiling Crocodile

A walk along the river seemed like a peaceful enough way to get a look at some of the lands that surrounded Valta's territory–or at least he thought it would be until he spotted Kotori up ahead of him seemingly squared off with some kind of attacker. Curious and always willing to lend a paw in a fight, he picked up the pace to catch up to his alpha and as he got closer he got a better look at the long, scaled reptile that was crawling out of the water with it's jaws wide and hissing at the Fatalis man. Well, that was certainly an interesting opponent! Ciná had never fought a crocodile before, but there was always a first time for everything.

Taking a quick look around, he spotted a fallen branch near by and he made a quick detour to grab it before bounding over to join Kotori. If nothing else he could at least assume that he wouldn't want to get too close to this thing and getting something to occupy its jaws was probably a good start. As soon as he was near enough he flung the branch at the crocodile's open jaws and almost as if it was a reflex for the aquatic predator the sharp teeth snapped down around it, making the wood splinter. That was his opening and he lunged forward, pouncing with both paws on top of the reptile's long snout and pinning it down. Surprisingly, even though its bite had seemed incredibly strong, it did seem to struggle to get out from under him or to reopen its mouth which worked out swimmingly for them.

Cináed