Swiftcurrent Creek pack activity · fight or flight

Sorry I didn't have a chance to post last round. I decided to kind of throw a plot twist for Jinx in here. >_> It's a tad bit unrealistic, I'm sure, but it was only a short time period to work with!

Within moments, others had converged on the mountain lion's position, all of them singularly focused on driving it away from their Alpha. She felt no alarm when Bones charged in with a wild battle cry, reasoning that if the adolescent wanted to throw her life away by being the least experienced of them, it was her funeral. It was noble, at least, to try, no matter how stupid it all was. Tuwawi came in like a hurricane, fighting alongside her and Haunter in a flurry of lunging attacks and swift backpedalling dodges. Jinx's attention to the wolves wandered at this moment, for the mountain lion briefly turned its attention on her when she caught the side of its face with her jaws.

Somehow, she found herself colliding with the beast's front, and in a strange savage scene, rising on her hind paws to grapple with it. In a blur of motion, the cat went down on its back, and Jinx hunched over it, seeking its soft belly with her teeth... But before she could land any strike at all, the cat's feet found her. Its broad front paws hooked savagely into the folds of skin between her shoulders and her throat while its back feet came up under her and found purchase in her distended stomach. Before she could even comprehend what was about to happen, the cats claws were already raking through her flesh, leaving ribbons of blood, skin, and fur between her inner thighs and stomach and along the sides of her neck.

And then, with a great kick that happened only seconds after she attempted to pin it, the mountain lion's hind feet struck hard into her gut. Panic and alarm flooded the pregnant female as she was flipped over the lion and send skidding into the dirt, her wounds on fire and the impact to her belly making her heart skip a beat. It took only seconds for her stomach to clench painfully, for her abdomen to ripple with agony, and for her body to give out under her.

As the rest of Swiftcurrent battled the cougar, which had regained its feet in an instant, Jinx lay in the dirt, clutched with fear as pain wracked her body. The force of that impact had certain consequences, unavoidable ones, which were evidenced by the blood that leaked between her thighs. As they struggled against the cat, Jinx struggled to compose herself as she inevitably miscarried her litter. The trauma and the hard impact were enough to make it progress almost instantaneously, so that by the time the Swiftcurrent pack had lain the cougar in the dirt and collected themselves, Jinx had been forced to deliver in impossibly quick succession five premature, stillborn bodies.

It wasn't even the loss of them that shocked her the most. It was the failure. She had failed Sos by losing them, here and now. But Jinx didn't blame herself. As she lay there in the dirt, soaking it with blood from her neck, her scratched underside, and the miscarriage itself, with infant bodies still too small to have lived tucked beneath her hind legs, her eyes sought Fox and they burned.

"How could you be so stupid?" she grit out, unwilling to move or let them see her weakness, unwilling to let them know what their assault on the cougar had cost her... Largely because she was unwilling for any of them to come anywhere near her dead litter.