Puppies are invincible

Call it a mother’s sixth sense, call it anxiety, Ignita got an itch in her stomach to count heads. One, two, three…. She glanced up at the Falcons high above them. Her possum had been happily trotting along behind Iska and sometimes Selene. Galileo, her eyes in the sky, dipped and soared over the new caves they had just officially acquired. He was dipping and waving frantically. Not good.

She hadn’t had time to explore those caves, and perhaps her small bear son’s kin resided in those caves. She had a bad feeling.

Without saying anything she trotted from the Col towards the new caves, tracking her son’s scents. A panic ripped through her and she didn’t even know why yet as she found their tracks lead right inside.

Her nose to the ground she quickly followed. But the tracks would soon no longer be necessary as she heard the sounds of a bear and her children’s voices! Her lip curled and spurred herself into action. She rounded a corner just as she saw the bear swipe at Citadel!

She leaped with a snarl at the leg! Latching her teeth on the limb of the bear before it could pull its arm back. She thrashed with her head against the beast and with one of her back legs she swept Citadel and Balrog aside, giving them an opportunity to escape.

The bear was distracted by her ferocious attack on its arm! It made to bite her face but she dropped back down and went for its side, teeth latching into the skin and her forelimbs pushing while she attempted to tear at the flesh of the bear.