` ✦ ° — DARK NECESSITIES / O, ATTACKED.

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// TW: violence, blood, death

It was pretty much common knowledge that straying outside of the Observatory's walls past sundown was... well, risky. There was a chance that you could have yourself a pleasant sunset stroll, the cool breeze winding through your fur and the fresh air exhilirating your senses. It could go just as normal as could be. However, with the neverending drama with Sunhaven quitting to cease, one could never be too cautious. One could never be too safe within the borders.

Titan had learned that today.

It had all happened too fast for him to even comprehend. Three or four wolves had him surrounded in a matter of moments. They held a certain feralness to them, an undeniable ferocity that only a bloodthirtsy wolf could harbor. They all attacked with keen strategy and considerable strength, and while Titan had managed to fend off two of them, the older two were harder to defeat.

Titan bared his canines, a [sub]low[/sub] growl rumbling in his throat as he backed up and tried to quickly figure out the best course of action. Just then, one of the two had lunged for him, and Titan quickly met its attack with his own brute force. He pinned it to the ground and wrangled it so that it couldn't escape. One [sup]high-pitched [/sup]whine later, its throat had been torn out, its mangled body cast against the base of a nearby tree.

The Astral Seraph let out an aggravated ( r o a r ) as the last remaining wolf latched onto his back and [sub]sank[/sub] its deadly whites into his shoulder. Titan gritted his teeth, channeling his energy so that he could focus on defeating the lupine instead of his bleeding arm. He had managed to roll over onto his backside, effectively squeezing the air out of its lungs and rendering it winded. Titan heaved, his lungs desperately c l i n g i n g for air. He got to his paws, his body's weight feeling [sub]heavy[/sub] under his week arms. He locked his luminaries onto the wolf, his amber eyes like a weakening fire — the glow was ceasing, but yet the embers still crackled and flared up with intensity.

One step towards the lupine and Titan had channeled his remaining energy into outstretching his foreleg in its direction. With one flex of his paw, the wolf wheezed and staggered, sounding as if it were choking and gasping for air. Its throat was closing up. Titan's brows knitted together as he concentrated, and the more he clenched, the more constricted the wolf's breathing became. It was a few seconds into this process when Titan's mind began to clash. "Resist... RESIST..." He ordered of himself, and yet a part of him wanted to see this pathetic creature perish.

Thankfully, he had been overrided, and he mentally demanded, "Re... S̵̮͗͐̋͊Î̶̥̚Ṡ̴̢̡̮̹T̵͙͛́́͝ͅ!̵̨͙͝" He set his paw down onto the ground, ceasing his invisible grip upon the wolf's throat. It continued to wheeze and stumble as it ran off to join its surviving packmates beyond the borders. Titan, on the other hand, was lucky that his jugular hadn't been ripped out. However, still sustaining a bite to the shoulder, various scratches and teeth-marks on his backside and flank, he panted heavily and cringed as the stinging pain began to settle into reality.

The lion had managed to drag himself away from the borders, but as soon as the Observatory had come into view, he had [sub]collapsed[/sub] onto the floor. After executing his abilities for the first time in months, his energy had been nearly emptied.

// tit was attacked by a small group of feral wolves and sustained bite marks in the shoulder, backside, and flank. he is also physically and mentally drained after use of his abilities. he collapsed on the outskirts of the observatory, barely clinging onto consciousness.