Water Horsin' Around

He held fast to the hippo’s hind leg, weaponized teeth tearing straight to the bone as he shook his skull left and right. All the better to bring pain to the dying creature. Caedes registered Bowen above the beast’s back, pain erupting from it’s maw as she worked at its  injuries.

As the hippo crashed to the ground, its immense weight sending shockwaves through the parched earth, Cadaver felt a surge of triumph course through his veins. The beast's thrashing ceased, replaced by desperate gasps for air as it struggled to rise once more. But Caedes and Bowen were relentless, their feral instincts driving them to finish what they had started. But then the hippo decided to begin to drag them into the water. But Caedes was more than that, he was far more relentless than his struggle. Cadaver only added to the tug of war.

The hippo's struggles grew weaker, and eventually it fell.