let the ravens gather

*Natalya* · 09-24-2014, 07:35 AM

Nemesis would be the first to speak, spitting venom at his great-aunt unabashedly, thinking he understood the workings of the world. She heard Helios's submission, but paid it no heed. That would be dealt with later. Instead, she rose and approached the child who had spoken out against her, placing herself nose-to-nose with him and speaking in a harsh almost-whisper. "You understand nothing. It was because of my mother's weakness that I was allowed to live. They did not know of my inconvenience until after my eyes had opened, and for them it was too late. But blindness is just that - an inconvenience, not a disability. MY other sense adapted well without sight, but tell me what senses fix a mishapen leg? Tell me how that wolf would ever be able to move normally? The laws of our gods are clear. We kill those who would be unlikely to survive. IF the gods wish this one to survive to prove himself, so be it, but that was not my call to make."

Her head turned in Gaia's direction briefly before turning back to Nemesis. "Your sister was allowed to live because I had proven that blindness was not an issue," Chryseis's words caused her head to swivel and she barred her teeth, "And I will prove it again." She turned to face the traitor-cousin, smiling at Chione briefly she felt a surge of pride and clicking her tongue already to gauge the distance. She heard the words of the victorious female in the distance and gave them only a moment's attention. Someone needed to hurry back to the packlands to retrieve her other children. They needed to protect their young as best they could. She hoped the others would run, but she knew that Nemesis was likely to go into the woman's open arms. He had so little faith in the religion of his family and the ways of the gods already. She wanted to reach out to them all, to tell them to flee, to tell Solo to protect his Princess, the future of Olympus. Natalya could say nothing, though. She needed to focus on the task at hand.

(ooc;; start fight stuff here! no defaults would be great, but hopefully we can finish this before the weekend anyway xD GL - PS: starting distances agreed on by Raii and SAF -)

Her eyes narrowed into a ster, unseeing glare as she set her defenses, spreading her legs and toes slightly and bending her knees to center her weight. She pushed herself slightly forward to focus her weight on her toes for quicker movement as her shoulders rolled forward to give added protection to her neck. Her head dropped and her chin tucked against her throat to cover the vital area, her ears pressed against her skull and her tail stuck straight out behind her for added control. Finally, she tightened her abs in preparation of movement and her hackles raised as a sign of her anger. Her jaw remained slightly open to allow for continued location of her foe. Her tongue clicked again and again, the sound bouncing off of the female as she approached from what Natalya had determined to be, through this method, her right side.

Natalya waited until her opponent was within a wolfslength before stepping to her left to reduce the directness of the attack upon her and sprinting at Chryseis to meet her. The clicking emitted from her sped up as she ran, ceasing when contact was made between the two. Natalya lowered her body almost all the way to the ground before pushing her front legs up off of the ground in order to lessen the blow when Chryseis hit her by countering with her own weight. She felt a bruise blossom on her right shoulder and hoped that the impact of her own weight would throw off the bitch's balance while simultaneously causing bruising. They two sable women were nearly the same height, but Natalya had almost thirty pounds' advantage on her challenger.

She felt the scraping of teeth attempting to find purchase against her neck as she drew her chin even further against herself and continued in her forward momentum to attempt to ram her forehead into the spot where the right side of Chryseis's neck met Chryseis's right shoulder, an area exposed by her attempt to bite Nat's right side of her neck. She would not know if her attack hit its mark before she felt the bitch latch onto the edge of a thick roll of scruff on the right side of her neck, the target being further to the left (Chrys's right) than the attacked having originally intended because of Nat's shift in that direction. She winced, but the skin there was tough and the bite was not enough to make her howl in pain.

Natalya's paws would come back to the ground then, simultaneous with Chryseis's attempt to crush a foot that was not yet there. Natalya would be unaware of having avoided such an injury, the only reason being the nature of her counter. She would shake her head viciously in an attempt to get Chryseis to relinquish her grip as she tried to slide her right foreleg from inside to outside, hoping to sweep the challenger's left paw out from under her.

Round 1 of 2 | Dominance

Attacks: Attempt to knock Chrys off balance and cause bruising by leaping at her, attempt to ram head into spot between right neck and shoulder, attempt to sweep left paw.

Defenses: Eyelids narrow, ears flat, tail raised, head lowered, chin tucked, knees bent, widened stance, weight focused slightly toward toes, toes spread, ears almost flat, shoulders rolled forward, hackles raised, and tightened abs. Clicking tongue used like echolocation (http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-to-see-20120504 - it is successfully used by humans IRL and something I included in Nat's development, if you have any issues with this let me know) Stepping to the left to make the attack more indirect. Countering Chrys's weight with her own to lessen the impact.

Injuries: Moderate bruising to right shoulder, puncture wounds on right side of neck.

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