Phoenix Maplewood Meleagris gallopavo

Thank god.

For the first few minutes after the assault on the turkey's bottom, Tavi tried to retreat. Not an all-out retreat, more of... It looked like she was playing "keep away" with the bird's tail feathers. The turkey would lunge and chase her, she would side-step and try to be fast, maneuvering around it as much as possible, hoping it would become too tired to fight. But one wrong step (and a stupid twist of her ankle), and Tavi was down. She hissed a curse from between her teeth as she fell, quickly being overtaken by the angry bird. Its pecks were frenzied; she felt chunks of fur being torn out of her shoulder, her belly, her toes being grabbed, and the girl turtled. She tried to protect her head with raised paws, growling intensely with every nip or stab of that damn beak.

Was this onslaught ever going to end?!

Apparently all the turkey needed was a punching bag to distract it. Right as Tavi felt like the world was ending, the bird gave a sudden, strange call. Its attacks stopped - so gradually, Tavi popped her head out from behind her raised arms. They were bloody from the attacks, but not too badly damaged. The sight of the turkey thrust in to the dirt (its head raised by Ukko the puppeteer) made her grin stupidly as she unfurled herself, getting to her paws. "You did it!" her voice chimed, suddenly quite cheery, lauding Ukko for the win. "I - I totally had him," That was a lie, but a playful one. It had been Ukko who went down first. "Just another few minutes and I would'a unleashed my uh, my secret moves!"