the first attack
There’s a lot that happens at once, the creature begins to realize even in its descent. A beast it is, but it isn’t a mindless being. The feathery and leather wings beat hard when a wall of ice appears, catching air in great gusts while it shrieks loud enough to rattle the teeth in every jaw of the equines below and around it.
Intelligent eyes pick out those that run along the red sands of the canyon, but its head swivels up toward a sudden surge of flying equines that entirely take it off guard, and it struggles for a moment to catch the hot air of the canyon in the sweep of its wings. One, two, three sweeps and it goes skyward, away from the prey it had stalked at first to instead pull up and struggle to catch an updraft. It isn’t ideal, but it’s a good way to get away from the ice that would surely damage it.
Even as it does, there are the sounds of beating wings in the air, a shriek to parallel its own, and lungs fill with air before it echoes a call back, tipping wings and turning in a heavy arc. The creature coming toward it isn’t exactly equine, but the claws on it cause it to give a second thought, aware of how fragile its own wings are and what damage could be done to them. Instead, it gives another scream, rattling the walls of the canyon from far above, and even as it does, its heavy head swings toward Pangaea first as they dare get close to it. With a beak longer than they are tall, it aims for the legs.
A swing, and a hit as razor sharp teeth catch and twist, long fangs puncturing skin and sinking into flesh and muscle before releasing when bright fire catches the attention of the beast. Suddenly, the Teryr releases and buffets with its wings, pulling back and away, folding when the two ignited flames ( and the emerging third ) chase it toward the safety of the ground instead. Not an ideal place for a predator that wishes to remain in the sky, but it aims for the stragglers of a group already, away from the ice and the darting of two bodies.
It instead aims for the few that stand at the ready with a scarred beast at their head, landing with a thunderous slam of scales and feathers. As it does, the sharp beak comes down, bloodied teeth flashing and aiming for the scarred spine of the large beast, and it lays him open, using the momentum of its landing to put more force into the blow as it does. It’s an impact hard enough to send him skidding back against the red sands, crimson spilling against his flanks and legs buckling from the blow.
Now grounded, the Teryr lifts its head and screams, jaws opening as it issues its challenge and sweeps wings wide open to send a wall of sand upward and outward, an attempt to blind the current hunting party and to keep them from reforming or attempting anything else if they can.
@Leviathan @Below Zero @Pangaea @Israfel @Sol Bestiam @Faction @Tug @Cordelia
@Pangaea took 9 damage out of their 17 total health from a hit !
@Leviathan took the full brunt of the Teryr landing nearly on top of him, and took 9 damage out of 41 !
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@Pangaea took 9 damage out of their 17 total health from a hit !
@Leviathan took the full brunt of the Teryr landing nearly on top of him, and took 9 damage out of 41 !
You have until October 8th at 11:59pm to get in your next post !
