DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?

Situational awareness was something she had been trained with since as young as she could remember. She had been aware of Medusas pet, subtly, keeping in mind the fight with her deceased mate and Jupitor. She had known the pet had helped in bringing her love down to his death and she would not allow the same fate to become her. She would fight, and try to live, to avenge him as she had promised. She had everything to live for. Pups to care for, her relationship with Zara to progress and strengthen, and her goal to retrieve Amenti. Death simply was just not an option.

The seconds seemed to go by so slowly. Each breathe of pain was electrifying to her system. She remembered the aggressive night they had spent together. Medusa had taken advantage of her weakness for pain. It was so difficult for her not to roll in the feeling of it and yet she was sadly disappointed with the ferocity that the viper was showing. She knew this was a fight to the death, knew one had to fall for the other to prevail, yet she had hoped that in the end they would both be brutally bloody and almost merged together with their wounds. Perhaps in a sense they were both sets of wounds each had received for the time being were minor scars, minor tearing, and nothing that screamed deadly and she wondered which would be victorious in the end.

Medusa had dung her fangs into Newts right shoulder. Newt had been anticipating a vicious bite. However, Medusa had removed her bite as soon as it had hit only leaving a small tear and another set of half an inch deep puncture wounds. Newt had braced herself for the shaking motion that never came. Her abdomen had been tight. Her weight had been evenly distributed through out her legs. Her claws still clung at the earth waiting for the backwards movement but instead she felt Medusa push backwards with her own forward momentum. She had thought the difference in weight between medusa and herself would have overpowered the viper. However, it seemed Medusa was unwilling to yield. As medusa had been pushed backwards she had turned her head towards newts left side. Newt had missed, snapping at air, and left her jaws open and lips still curled back in a snarl. Her ears still remained pinned to her head. Her eyes still slanted but still very much alert. Her tail was still swaying to protect her back end. Her shoulders were rolled forward and her head still tucked downwards to protect her throat. The hair around her body had stood to attention to protect her as best as it could. Her paws still griping the earth and her toes were still splayed.

Newt shifted her weight to her back end, crouched and shoved her body forwards to meet Medusa face to face. Her back toes pushed into the ground to help center her body. Her tail had pushed outwards to also help with her balance. Her front paws curled into her chest (as the moved forward) and then she pushed them out in an attempt to push them into Meduas chest/shoulder area (while she was attempting to attack and keeping the height difference in mind). She allowed her muscles to relax while in her forward motion. She also maintained her shoulder rolled forward and the hair around her body was still upright in an attempt to protect the skin beneath it. At the same time that Medusa was aiming to grab newts nose, newt had turned her head on a slight angle, kept her head level with her body, and opened her jaws (lips curled backwards, eyes narrowed, ears tight to her head) in an attempt to grasp medusas bottom jaw. At such a close proximity she saw no other quick attack option. She would need to go for Medusa's face. With jaws splayed open and her head on a slight angle she would strike quickly and fiercely (while maintaining a lowered head to protect her throat) towards Medusas bottom jaw. She would attempt to grasp the top portion of medusas bottom jaw (Tongue and fleshy area beneath the tongue) with her upper fangs and her bottom jaws would aim to dig into the fleshy bottom portion of medusa jaw. Her head was at a slight angle while her bottom jaws would be attempting to hook into the soft bottom portion of Medusas jaw and her teeth would be attempting to hook into Medusas jawbone for a better hold. If her attack succeeded she would close her jaws immediately upon contact in a bone crushing motion. She would then attempt to shake her head violently to the left and then to the right in an attempt to sprain medusas neck and possibly break or dislocate her jawbone. She had hoped this would also deflect any further attacks from Medusa fangs. If her attack were not successful then she would still be attempting to do as much damage as possible to medusa jaws and area around her cheek.

Medusa had also desired to hit the back of Newt?s right leg once again, mimicking her first assault in an attempt to trip her. However, Newt had pushed her front legs up, curling her paws towards her body in an attempt to have her forelimb hit Meduas while standing crouched on her back legs and pushing her body forwards towards Medusa. Then she would pushed her legs out at the same moment she was attempting to bite her jaw. The movement would be one quick swooping motion of her legs. If they landed then she would push her paws out in a shoving motion to push her weight into Medusa chest/shoulders to keep Newts body upright for a moment and push her weight difference onto the Medusa in an attempt to push Medusa off balance.

While Medusa was attacking her pet had made its way towards Newt. It was intending to bite the back of Newts left front leg. Newt had been attempting to remain aware of the wolverine as best as she could. While the wolverine was attempting to bite newts left leg. Due to Newt springing off her back legs and tucking her front legs against her body she had managed to avoid the wolverines attack all together. Perhaps Cerberus was protecting her, seeing that Newt hadn't been aware of Stheno coming, but because of her determination to meet Medusa head on she had caused the wolverine to miss. If she was successful in meeting Medusa head on and pushing her paws into medusa body she would slam her legs back down on the ground to center her body and recover her balance again. While doing this, she was hoping to stomp down her left paw on the wolverine?s body to attempt to cause some serious harm and send the creature running.

MEDUSA vs. NEWT for DEATH
Round three of four
ATTACKS: She is attempting to bite Medusas bottom jaws and hold at the same time that medusa is attempting to bite her nose. If she is successful in grabbing the bottom jaw she will immediately close her jaws shut and shake her head left to right in an attempt to dislocate or fracture medusas bottom jawbone. If she does not grab the jaws she is attempting to bite anything on the bottom portion of Medusas face, cheek, side of the jaws, muzzle, ect as viciously as she can muster. She is also attempting to push her front legs into her chest and then shove them out and into Medusas chest/shoulder area to attempt to push Medusas backward. She is then attempting to stomp her feet back down to the ground to maintain center body balance and to attempt to stomp on onto wolverines head/body.

DEFENSES: In her attempt to bite she had missed and kept her jaws open and lips still curled back in a snarl. Her ears still remained pinned to her head. Her eyes still slanted but still very much alert. Her tail was still swaying to protect her back end. Her shoulders were rolled forward and her head still tucked downwards to protect her throat. The hair around her body had stood to attention to protect her as best as it could. She kept her abdomen tight. Her weight had been evenly distributed through out her legs. Her claws still clung at the earth.

While she was attacking she shifted her weight onto her back legs to keep her balance in her body. Her back toes pushed into the ground and her tail swung outwards to help center her body and maintain balance. While newt is aiming to bite medusas jaws she has her head on a slight angle, level with her body, and lowered to protect her throat. Her lips are curled backwards, her jaws are parted, her eyes are narrowed and her ears were tight to her head. She allows her muscles to relax while in her forward motion. She also maintains her shoulders rolled forward and the hair around her body was still upright in an attempt to protect the skin beneath it.

INJURIES:
First round: Bite wound to the upper right shoulder where the shoulder and shoulder blade meet about a half an inch deep.


Second round: Newt is attempting to slam her right shoulder into medusas left shoulder hoping to counter the weight and cause minimal bruising should it succeed. The second bite wound was a few inches away from the first and more vicious in nature. So she is left with a seeping pulled wound. Where the skin has been ripped into but no damage to the muscle has been done. It is a clean tear to the right so the skin would be slightly free and bleeding would be nothing life threatening but significantly seeping.


Third round: Medusa bit newt?s right shoulder but released immediately. In my previous round I had said Medusa had grabbed and tore to the right, making the wound a seeping wound. But the way Medusa reacting in this round means that wound needs to be changed into a half an inch deep rather then the tearing wound I had expected because Medusa in her post had wanted to tear to the right. However in this round she had said that she had bit and released immediately. So now Newt has two sets of half inch puncture wounds in her right shoulder a few inches apart from each other. The bite to her nose is pending due to Medusas reaction in the next round to Newt attempting to bite her bottom jaw. She has also avoided the wolverine?s attack by raising her body up off the ground, curling her legs into her body, and attacking Medusa head on.

Ooc: The section with the wolverine confused me. I was unsure if it was assumed that the wolverine hit newt due to the sentence ?Immediately the creature stepped backwards, hoping that it would be able to pull Newt?s left paw backwards? this is assuming it scored its intended area however, with newt rearing up to meet Medusa head on and slam her paws into her chest/shoulders she is avoiding the attack and I am unsure of any alternate attacks that the wolverine would have had. So I am considering it is still forward from missing the bite and when newt slams her paws down it will be directly beneath her paws. This isn?t to say that it cannot avoid this attack I am still giving reaction time.