Redhawk Caldera The Dance at the Gym

He'd opened his jaws to brace and meet with the cougar's onslaught, only to see it scowl and pivot, unleashing its wrath not upon himself and Fennec, but upon Alyx who had attacked from the rear. A small shock of wind- carried forth from the cougar's momentum, brushing his whiskers back but now that the cat had turned its back on him, he surged forward- with Fennec doing the same and launching toward its shoulder. With each snap from the jaws of the wolves came a swift vengeance from the cat- who dashed Alyx aside with a sweep of its mighty paw, only to pivot and rake its claws through the fur of Fennec's shoulder an instant later. The cat was surrounded- and became frenzied. 

It whipped toward Fennec as she bit into its tawny fur, so Bronco seethed forward to lunge and snap at the side of its neck which was presented to him. The fur and skin were thick, and the muscle so dense he couldn't get a good grip- and had missed its jugular by several inches. When the cat reared back, he fell back to the earth but before he could hit the ground it brought one of its heavy mitts directly down upon his heac, catching the back of his skull with its scythe-like claws and raking them down across his forehead, nearly pulling his scalp with it. Blood wept from the four jagged, parallel wounds, and got in his eyes, obscuring his vision. He staggered backwards, attempting to shuffle closer to Alyx. A cat caught in a corner would lash out in all directions- but if they presented a united line, he hoped they could use their numbers to simply intimidate it into running off. 

"To me- flank me!" He called out to Fennec, hoping she might circle around. "We don't need to kill it we just need to chase it off- if we all stand tog-" Words hurriedly spoken, but with the blood obscuring his vision, he hadn't seen the cat lunge forward again to clap one of its hefty paws against shoulder so hard he thought he heard something click. He tumbled sideways. He thought he felt something soft, and wondered if it was Alyx- but he was too blinded by the blood in his eyes and shocked by the blow to his shoulder to see.