Ugh, he still couldn’t feel his a**, frankly. That stupid psychowoman, Tyki, and all her estrogen had done a number on his rump and then some, if only to remind him that while he was out ‘getting water’ he was best to be sure to come BACK, less he get his a** mauled even more when she caught up with him.

Or she’d raise a mini army of little tyrants (He still only wanted one…) to hunt his a** down and maul him the hell DEAD. Ohhh that would have been horrible. Death by spawn. AUUGHH. STUPID HORMONES!! Why couldn’t he just keep them to himself? WHY COULDN’T HE KEEP ANYTHING OF HIS TO HIMSE-fjasdlfkj;fhda;j!!

Oshit, he’d totally just tripped over something, hadn’t h-!!!!

Mettie had been contently laying in the grass, waiting for her companion to come back from one of his little trips when something had TRIPPED THE ********, jabbing a paw into her ribs which even a few seconds later she could feel! OW AND OW!! HEY!

HEEYY!!

RAWRSNAPSNARL! OSHIT! Poor Dude, his luck with Canines was rather sucky, if he did say so himself, automatically prickling up at the Maned Wolf which was probably only half his size, MAX, who looked more than ready to rip him a new one, snapping at his front legs before he swatted at her, hissing.

“Hey hey hey! I was going to apologize if you’d give me a c-!!”

SNAPGROWL!

“You wouldn’t have needed a chance if you’d been watching where you were going!!” Mettie barked back, her bright orange mane prickling. White female. Another damned white female getting after him. The last one about ‘taking responsibility’, this one about ‘WATCH WHERE U IS GOIN’ DUMBFACE!!’.

Why his life.

WHYYYY?

Fjdfkla;jdfklj!

But it seemed the maned wolf was more than happy to snap at his legs again, causing Dude to back up and frown at the canine, again hissing and swatting a paw of warning at the canine. s**t, was he just supposed to turn his back and book it or would she pull a Tyki and run the hell after his a**, maybe nom it a little bit?

Fdsfj;lasjdf.

He didn’t want pain again for it. Nooosirree. And if he ran off, or if Tyki saw him booking it, she’d likely chase him down again. Auuugh! This was frustrating. So it seemed he was settled to stand there in a puff-up war with a small female. How …
…. Uugh. He could feel is manliness deteriorating as it was (it was likely his son absorbing it in the womb. Ha! Him have a son? What?), feeling utterly stupid for just standing there.

So he carrreefully tested a sidestep, a

ARAWRRAWRRAWR!!kdlfj;lk!! DO NOT WANNNTTTT!!! And if he backed back that would mean she won. So this was kind of. A no win place to be until she gave up or Tyki came to laugh at him.

Or until the Hyena looming in the distance from them (also ‘Do not want’, what if IT wanted to eat him too?) seemed to catch the female’s attention, her ears perking up as he gave her this sort of look like ‘WTF IS U DOIN’ OVER THERE?’, and her own expression looking somewhere in ‘HOLDON, IRALMOSTDONEHEER’.

Which was fortunate for Dude, as the Maned wolf gave him another firm leer of disapproval before she shook her head and actually turned HER back to him to romp through the grass to her companion like nothing had ever happened.


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……

Nngh. That was it.

He was just.. going to go get a drink of water and then get his a** back to the Den where there weren’t crazies.