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The top of Rune’s skull connected with Artemis’s chin, sending up a blossoming sense of pain that radiated from the uppermost point of his head and out across the top of his skull from the force of the collision. Admittedly it was a poor move, causing his senses to rattle a bit as the initial shock of it nearly disoriented him rather than his opponent, but he was glad that it had struck. It was only unfortunate that she refused to move her own left forepaw pinning his right forepaw to the earth, and used his inattention to further inflict harm there. He felt her attempt to dig her heel into his already fractured and bruised toes, felt the joints strain under stress as she twisted her foot, and was sure the second toe from the right, beside the outside one she had initially fractured, was fractured now as well. Her own toes flexed, her claws digging painfully as they attempted to wedge between his toes and into the soft flesh there, and in response he attempted to curl his own toes tight together, trying to make it as difficult as possible for Artemis’s claws to reach the webbing and inflict damage as desired since he likely could not remove it under her weight.
His opponent was quick as she simultaneously tried to reach across his lowered skull in order to grab his pinned right ear, and with it exposed as his senses quickly – though not quickly enough – began to come back to him her teeth found their mark. Searing pain flared from the bitten appendage, momentarily blinded him, but at the same time it sent him into necessary action. Through narrowed eyes, his gazed fixed upon the woman’s ivory chest and throat, and with an attempted twist to tilt his head to the left, aligning his jaws appropriately for an optimal grip that likely placed more strain and stress upon his fragile right ear, Rune tried to part his jaws and attempted to reach forward and bite at the base of Artemis’s throat from his position with his head beneath hers, intending for his lower incisors to fit just off-center to the left of the midline of her throat and his upper incisors to connect on the outside of her neck for him to try to pinch off her airway and finally get her attention.
Using the same forward momentum from his attempted forward assault, he attempted to quickly draw his weight forward on his right side. Attempting to turn his shoulders so that the right shoulder protruded forward and the left was drawn slightly back, Rune tried to slam his right shoulder and weight forward into Artemis’s left shoulder while she moved in the opposite manner. He intended for the turn to place the leftward side of his chest in the path of her shunting shoulder rather than the desired wedge between his left shoulder and chest, and hoped to strain the joint as well as bruise where his right shoulder connected with hers. If he was lucky, he hoped it would throw some of her weight off of his pinned right forepaw. Trying to further his luck at unbalancing her, Rune attempted to quickly slide his left forepaw across the ground and into Artemis’s, attempting to shove at her paw slightly back and outward toward her right and possibly move it enough to weaken her balance and give his right shoulder attack more room to potentially unbalance her.
Throughout his attacks, Rune maintained his defenses. His lips were drawn back not only as he tried to bite his opponent but to bunch the skin around his nose and eyes, and his eyes were narrowed to offer the best protection to them. His ears, despite Artemis’s assault on the right, remained pinned against his skull, whatever good it did him now. His shoulders remained rolled forward, gathering the flesh there about his neck and particularly with his assailant’s own fangs so close, and his dark hackles were raised protectively along his neck and spine. Though beneath the attacking jaws of his intruder, Rune kept his neck arched protectively to save his throat, or as best as he could at the angle of his own attempted attack. His core was tight, his muscles braced, and his weight distributed evenly between both hind legs and his right foreleg, as they were the only stationary limbs upon the ground. Each were bent to keep his center of gravity low and his claws dug into the ground for purchase while his tail flagged outward and slightly to the right for balance.
RUNE & WARJA vs ARTEMIS
For Right to Drag Artemis off Secretua Territory
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