Nemesis felt the heat wash over her body, a familiar warmth that burned just under her skin becoming the same outside her tough hide. She welcomed it. She reveled in it-- but he had escaped her grasp with just a few tail feathers missing. And she hated that.

With a roar, she tried to turn and then charge, hoping to swipe at him with the horns on her face before he flew too high out of reach. "What's ammatter, pwetty bird?! SCARED?!!" She screeched, her flesh smoldering with the stink of scorched skin and peach fuzz. Suffice to say, she was in her element.

{ FIGHT STATISTICS }
GERTRUDE V. NEMESIS
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN

{ ATTEMPT }

~ hit him with her horns before he gets out of reach

{ DEFENSES }

~ use tail to guard wounded flank

{ INJURIES }

~ prior injuries;;

• sore body, recovering from fight with fisher

~ current injuries;;

• bloody brow
  
• slash across lower ribs (near stomach)
  
• light burns across skin

Gertrude laughed. He was a fool-- more so than her esteemed leaders. Louie had been a fool, one who wielded a powerful weapon and then let it loose without so much as sicing it on someone. Nemesis had known fools her whole life-- and most of them were men. There was the occasional, fool hearty but quick witted women. Nemesis was still loyal to Fang simply because she was intelligent and didn't push any of the wrong buttons.

But damn. Gertrude took the cake. He tried to cut under her neck and she threw her head down, trying to throw him to the ground. She tried to stab him into the earth with her horns, and failing that, she tried to stomp a foot on him. Anything to get him pinned down right where she wanted.

She would be happy to break all of his pathetic, birdy bones.

{ FIGHT STATISTICS }
GERTRUDE V. NEMESIS
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN

{ ATTEMPT }

~ pin him down with horns or foot

{ DEFENSES }

~ use tail to guard wounded flank

{ INJURIES }

~ prior injuries;;

• sore body, recovering from fight with fisher

~ current injuries;;

• bloody brow
  
• slash across lower ribs (near stomach)
  
• light burns across skin

But the bird wriggled out of her grip once again. Anger broiled under her skin and she huffed, groaning with pain as Gertrude dove under her again. She threw her tail wildly, hoping to hit him as he came out from under her-- surely he wouldn't stay down there where she could step on him?

Regardless, she stomped her feet, trying to stumble out of the way. Hot, sticky blood was dripping from her wounds and she wasn't liking how many cuts he was putting on her. He kept going for such dangerous shots and succeeding though-- and she didn't like it one bit.

{ FIGHT STATISTICS }
GERTRUDE V. NEMESIS
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN

{ ATTEMPT }

~ TAIL SLAP on ya way out!

{ DEFENSES }

~ stomping feet

{ INJURIES }

~ prior injuries;;

• sore body, recovering from fight with fisher

~ current injuries;;

• bloody brow
  
• slash across lower ribs (near stomach)
  
• light burns across skin
  
• scratch down belly

She felt her tail hit the bird-- but he didn't fly off like she expected. No. (Well, he had, but he had come back just as quickly, which she wasn't expecting.) Instead, she felt a prick-- a burning, stinging pain shoot up her spine. He was biting her!! He was biting her tail!

Oooh, that was the last straw. With a roar, she slammed her tail into the ground as hard as she could, letting out a blood curling shout. It would alert her family, the rest of the Merrymen, and it would spell the end of the bird in a heartbeat.

"GET OUT OF MY HOME NOW! I'LL KILL YOU!" And as her tail hit the ground, whether it hurt Gertrude or not, she turned her massive body around and got ready to deliver her final blow, if he dared stick around.

{ FIGHT STATISTICS }
GERTRUDE V. NEMESIS
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN

{ ATTEMPT }

~ POUND INTO THE GROUND

{ DEFENSES }

~ nyah

{ INJURIES }

~ prior injuries;;

• sore body, recovering from fight with fisher

~ current injuries;;

• bloody brow
  
• slash across lower ribs (near stomach)
  
• light burns across skin
  
• scratch down belly
  
• tail wound