Ankyra Sound You will never be alone.

He thought for sure that the man would feel the pinch of his tiny teeth and succumb; it was obviously the result of faulty and immature logic, because his grappling didn't amount to anything at all. Before he could think of an alternative, the man's face bowed towards him and Reyes was suddenly airborne. He was lifted free of his earthly constraints, and as soon as he failed to feel the earth beneath his paws, the boy squirmed.

He kicked, stretched, protested --- and the more he did, the more pressure he felt all around him. The pinch of teeth that could very easily crush the lift out of him. The game felt like it had ended in that instant. A deeply rooted instinct flared to life that made his movements all that more frenzied. He growled as best he could despite the pressure, snapping at air and shrieking as if he were in the throes of death.

Then, he said through the air and came to an abrupt stop as his body crunched against the sand. Although he relished having the earth returned to him again, Reyes was left a bit spaced-out as the adrenaline coursed through his tiny body. He was quaking more from the strength of his adrenaline than the fear which had amassed during his flight, and it took him a second to get to his feet and face-off against the massive bear of a man. As he turned to glare at him, Reyes was confronted by sharp yellow teeth set in a grimace, then the lion's roar which boomed through the air. It felt like he'd been punched in the face by the hot air that exited Ven's open mouth.

He was bowled backwards by it; flinching away and rolling to his back, flashing his belly and curling up in to a useless lump just as the sound concluded. The boy huddled there for a few more seconds and then, in the stillness, erupted in to sobs.