Kera spat. She wondered how many fights he'd started, and now here he was trying to act like he'd never done wrong in his life. Bastard.

But Kera didn't speak further. She didn't even ask if he was ready, nor make sure he'd even fully found his feet. Hooves. Talons? Merely, Kera began lunging forward.

A growl found her throat again and she clamped her jaws tightly shut to resist the urge to start biting. It'd been easier with Sergei-- at least Sergei wasn't an actual, literal murderer.

She feigned a left before she went barrelling into Huckleberry's right, barging her shoulder into his side to try to make him fall back over onto the ground. Kera would, at least, keep to the rules this time.

She'd just have to kill him later.

Round: 1/5
Attack: Tackle Huckleberry to get him to fall
Defense: None
Injuries: None

Kera came suddenly and Huckleberry looked up quickly to see where she was going. He easily fell for her feint and when she hit his right side, he tumbled back to the ground with a small cry, flopping on his side. He scrabbled at the ground to get himself away from her before she could attack again, trying to regain his footing. His hind legs began to kick out, trying to knock her own feet from under her while his talons tried to regain some kind of balance.

Round: 1/5
Attack: kick at Kera's feet
Defense: None
Injuries: None

Kera knew fine well what would happen if she stayed near the hind-end of Huckleberry but her close proximity made it fairly difficult to dodge. Her paws buckled underneath her and her chin hit the ground with a deep snarl.

She was fairly quick to pull herself back up, however. Likely, in that time, Huckleberry would have steadied himself up as well. Not that Kera would let him stay like that for long.

Kera made a lunge back onto Huckleberry's flank from behind, trying to grip onto his hindquarters and pull herself up.

Round: 2/5
Attack: Grip onto Huckleberry's back
Defense: None
Injuries: Chin hurts

Huckleberry managed to clamber back to his feet but he had barely gotten his footing back when Kera was one him once again. With a terrified yelp, he found himself being pressed down and he felt a thrill of terror. His wings began to beet erratically and he tried to jump into the air. He wasn't exactly strong enough to completely bring her with, but he at least tried to get her to loosen her grip. But, it seemed, he had overestimated himself and all he ended up going was flapping his wings without gaining any altitude.

Round: 2/5
Attack: knock her off by flying up
Defense: None
Injuries: None

Huckleberry was trying to thrash her off but Kera was, at least, able to keep a grip on the hybrid for now. She wasn't close enough to his wings to get battered off yet, either-- Kera kept a her paws tightly on Huckleberry.

She did, however, kick her hind legs out against one of Huckleberry's legs, trying to make him fall over with the burly wolf on top of him.

Round: 3/5
Attack: Make Huckleberry fall over
Defense: None
Injuries: Chin hurts

Kera's kick did what she wanted it to do. Huckleberry felt his footing, once again, be knocked out from under him. With the combined weight of Kera on her back and her feet kicking him down, her superior weight smashed him into the ground and he cried out.

He was pinned underneath her now and he realized that he was trapped. He thrashed wildly, trying to free himself from her grip with a rising feeling of terror in his chest. He became distinctly aware that this was Kera on his back. This was the wolf that had killed his mother, who he had grown up learning terrible things about. That she had him pinned to the ground and could just...reach over and close her jaws around his neck.

His struggles intensified until his entire body was thrashing without any sort of control. There was a whine building up in his chest and his eyes were glazed with terror. This wasn't fun at all.

Round: 3/5
Attack: struggle
Defense: None
Injuries: None

Kera was all too aware how easy it would have been to turn her head and sink her teeth into Huckleberry's neck, but she resisted that urge. Resisting the urge, however, came with her being thrown off.

The wolf hit the ground bodily, landing with a few thumbs and a groan. It hurt. For a split second she thought she could smell tunnel N, her old den, but the crackling of the distant Spire threw her back to attention.

Like hell she was going to let that happen again.

Kera picked herself up quickly and went careening for Huckleberry, aiming to drive her forehead right into chest, dangerously close to his neck.

Round: 4/5
Attack: Headbutt Huckleberry
Defense: None
Injuries: Chin hurts, bruised

The weight disappeared from Huckleberry's body and he scrambled away from her, whipping his head around to find her. The groan alerted him and he stepped back, stammering a squeaking "Sorry" before she was charging at him again. His eyes widened as he realized where she was aiming.

I don't want to die! He reared back as she came closer and her head landed right in his chest. He stumbled back, losing his footing and falling back to the ground. But now his head was level with her chest as well. Without really thinking, he pushed himself forward, intending on doing the same thing.

Round: 4/5
Attack: headbutt
Defense: None
Injuries: None

Kera's breathing was ragged, strewn with short growls. As the hybrid's head knocked into her chest, the anger only rose, barely-contained. Growling helped. Growling was relieving, somehow.

The wolf's mouth stayed open as she peeled away, pacing and panting and growling. Eventually, she went charging into Huckleberry's side again, shoulder-first, trying to knock him over.

Round: 5/5
Attack: Knock Huckleberry over
Defense: None
Injuries: Chin hurts, bruised

As Huckleberry's head connected with Kera's chest she heard a growl deep in her throat, which made him flinch and back away. He just barely missed as she charged towards him again, passing him by barely a hair. As she charged, he only really acted instinctively and raised his front legs to push her away, his claws pulled back so they wouldn't sink into her fur. His attack was wild and uncoordinated and only fell on thin air.

Round: 5/5
Attack: push kera away
Defense: None
Injuries: None