Gotta fight another fight!

His muscles ached as he sprang aside for Lia to take advantage. He could hear the sounds of her antlers score into the side of the crazed beast. He spun in a fluid motion, his eyes of ice locking onto the scene before him. He was determined to find an opening and dive back into the fray. His muscles coiled as he waited again. Lia must be beyond exhausted. The buck faltered its footing and he found his opening along its flank! His teeth sank into the flesh of the antelope and its guttural cry to the herd beyond the knoll to scatter nearly pierced his ears.

A strange wet sound made him temporarily falter his brutal onslaught. He saw her place her ebony paw over the buck and wrench his body free from her opaline antlers with a sickening squelch to it. It made his body shiver at the effect. He couldn't imagine what it felt like to have your head weighed down by such mighty appendages and then get them caught on things.

It was not dead. It just seemed more enraged and energized, its wounds seeping and spurting gore over the ground and running rivulets down its legs. It was distracted by Lia once more and he took the opportunity to rush at it again. He snarled as he leaped onto its side, decidedly knocking it over while it flailed hard against him. What was wrong with this beast? Its unrelenting energy was something to be feared! He prayed it wasn't some sickness driving the ungulate to hate them. This was prey! It had attacked them first! It writhed and screamed out to its absent herd. It seemed Lia had the same idea to knock it over. He sat on the beast, his ice blue eye peering into the goatly orb of the buck beneath him. Its mouth frothing from the pain and its eyes rolled from exhaustion.

Eltrys was panting as he tried to hold it down. He wanted to collapse into the pool beneath lazuli falls and just let the water wash over him into oblivion. His eyes drooped at the thought but flung wide open as the terrible prey-turned-predator thrashed beneath him. He snarled and leaped at the creature's throat with a renewed energy! A second wind with thoughts of home and baths and brilliant green eyes renewed him.

The beast was beneath him, he sank his teeth into its throat and felt the gush was fresh warm blood wet his tongue. The wild blood lust had him pull its head up and dash its antlered head into the ground. It would rise no more. Whatever enraged it, whatever made it fight them instead of flee died with it. A mercy.

He didn't dare take his usual hunters portin, no, this was tainted meat if he ever saw any.

He nodded to Lia, his energy waning.
"Home is not far now."

"Speech!"

487 w
1515 / 1500