they come at night- STRANGER DANGER!!

Before Yarou could reach her target, she felt a weight against her side-- dual impacts before teeth closed on her back in an attempt to break her spine. Yarou screamed.

Her scream was not one of fear,

But mingled rage and pain and hatred. A spasm took her hind legs as the wolf tried to crush her down, but Yarou braced herself and lurched forward, blood spattering from the wound on her back. The akita cross cursed the packmates that did not help her, but so many of them were also struggling with their own fights. Yarou scrambled from the wolf that accosted her, dodging a second snap.

A desperate burst of strength took her, and she closed her jaws on a bamboo shoot. Her body twisted, and she broke the shoot, turning before jabbing with the shoot.

The wolf charging her recoiled-- Yarou's strike didn't kill it, but did impale its right eye, sending it rearing up, screaming.