Ziva does a long jump in the air and, with the knives aimed at the beast, drives them into the eye sockets of the creature. But it results in no response. As if it didn't acknowledge it, it got stabbed. With a swipe of its claws, it knocks Ziva off of it, and she does a roll, leaving the knives behind.
The beast begins to attempt to pry the knives out with its claws rubbing it, but all it does is shove them in deeper.
"RAAAOOR!"
"Hiss!" she pulls out another pair of knives that were hidden behind her belt and with swift speed begins zig-zagging, making it easier for Ziva to avoid random attacks.
As she gets closer, she within a split second does a sudden turn, placing her front right leg turned inwards, and with a twist, it is on the left side of the beast.
Jumping towards it, she brings the knives closer, but the beast stands up and backhands her hard enough to send her flying into a distant lone tree dozens of feet away from them.
*THUD*
"Agh!"
Her back slams hard enough to shake the tree, causing old dead leaves to release and slowly fall.
*Huff huff huff*
She begins heaving, trying to get the air back in her lungs after getting them knocked out.
The bear begins to stand at the full height of over 8 feet tall and lets out a menacing roar in the process. Dropping back down. And then beginning to charge
Ziva looks over up the hill to see the three still dealing with the first bear that attacked. How can she expect to be able to stop a second bear on her own in her current state?
But after just a couple of seconds of charging a booming, an unknown roar from the distance is made.
"WRAAAAAGH!"
The beast slows its charge and begins turning around searching. How can it search with its eyes being stabbed out? No, how did it know where to charge me? I know I made both eyes unable to see.
The beast continues to look around wildly but doesn't seem to have a sense of direction exactly.
Ziva, however, looks around and tries to figure out the noise origins. Looking around more intently, she eventually sees a dark figure, of which begins to see it more clearly.
It stands at an approximate height of maybe over 7 feet and has a slightly hunched posture, with it having strong hind legs and a tail whipping.
But after even closer detail, it appears to be wearing torn and ripped clothing on its chest and pelvis region. But after realizing the colors of the feathers colors and the broken horn, she realizes not what she is looking at but who they are looking at.
"Oh my god, that's -"
In a split second, the creature goes on all fours and begins rapidly running in the direction of the bear that is blind.
"Wragh!" it tackles the beast far from Ziva by about 10 feet, and they begin to wrestle.
The bear appears to be heavier, so as they both roll, the bear has a better advantage as well as height when fully standing.
Coda wrestles the bear to the ground, trying to hold it while he places both hands in the mouth, trying to break the jaw. But surprisingly, the bear, though it looks like the jaw has no muscle to even be working, it can keep a tightly shut while growling.
The bear, however, begins to get a better paw position and begins to stand while Coda is trying to pry the jaw still.
"It's standing! It's going to strike you!" Ziva screams, holding her back while leaning against a tree.
Her prediction was correct as once it gets back up, it swipes its right claw into Coda's left thigh, causing some bleeding and weakening his leg enough for him to take a knee.
The bear stands up and lets out a more ominous roar with two front claws about to drop onto Coda.
"ROAAAAAGH!"
Coda jumps backward, but instead of attacking, he hears some thudding noises. Looking over his left, he sees another large figure running down the hill, burning with fire with blood-red eyes.
"Coda! Look out!" Ziva yells, trying to get away from the heavy fighting of beasts.
Coda, with a brief shock back to reality, stops trying to fight like an animal, but more strategically.
*Coda's POV*
I need to focus. I lost control of all my awareness and just went wild. I need to beat these two freaks if I have to. I can't beat them with straight-up savagery as I would like to, but I need to with strategy.
A large black bear tries to drop into me with both claws to force me into the ground, but I take my right foot back, and when it dives down, take my left fist and with my hips direct my strike to knock its direction away from my missing me.
But by the time I look at the burning beast, it is already within 5 feet from me. I turned to face it, but it already made contact. Opening its jaw, I catch it, but it begins to burn my hands while pushing me back.
Did the other four die, and it is trying to finish me off?! No, that's not the concern right now! I need to fight these two until then or better yet. Kill them both.
I strengthen what I can with my legs and stop the flaming animal, and force its head down into my knee with enough force to stagger it back and hear a snap.
"ROARGH!" The bear cries out
Ziva moves further away from the fight up the hill to check on the others and sees Ungar in a small hole while Sheila and Alistair tend to him.
"Agh..." Ziva hisses, holding her back as she gets closer
Sheila stands up briefly, expecting a fight but stops realizing it is Ziva.
"Ziva! you alright?"
"Does my hand holding my back indicate I am fine?!" Ziva snaps back
"Hey! My brother just had something weighing a ton smash down on him until it ran off in fire!"
"That beast ran off to fight a two versus one down the hill! So don't tell me about that!"
"What? What the hell do you mean a 'two versus one'?"
"Coda-er...Whatever the hell he is! He is basically this thing and is fighting both of them at the same time!"
"That-that doesn't make sense? Whatever, he is on his own until then." Sheila says, attending to her brother he is likely unconscious.
"Grr...Why aren't you all helping?! Or doing anything?!"
"Does it look like we can? Ungar has what Alistair says is 5 broken bones, andraisedAlistair is trying to help his recovery faster."
"And Coda is supposed to fight 2 of those things for 6 hours?! Fuck that. Screw this I am helping him myself. Regardless of my back issues." she says, stomping back and grabbing Ungar's one-handed axe
*Coda POV*
I back-fist the other bear behind me and follow up with several flurries of punches to stagger and cause enough damage to tire them out. Hopefully, they can be tired out.
"RAGH!" I snarl as I drive my hand with an incredible amount of force to force the head of the black bear into the ground, causing dust and dirt to fly around me.
"Wrargh...." It whimpers and doesn't move for a couple of seconds. Putting it at least temporarily out of commission.
I turn back around with the burning one wiping its claw too close to my face for comfort but it misses several times until I counterattack with a left hook to the bear's right, and then follow up with many more strikes pushing it back by snapping of bones with every punch.
Are these damn things regenerating or something?! No, they look worse every time I hit them, but it is like they don't feel or acknowledge that I'm destroying their bodies.
I turn back around to the black bear, and it just about lunges at me, but I uppercut it and attempt to take that chance and try to break the black bear's jaw. But before I could, a powerful swipe slashed my back with a tear that sent my feathers up instantly.
"AGH!" I cry out.
The black bear attempts again, but I catch its jaws before it could get my neck. But the one behind me bites directly into my right shoulder and pulls me back a pit, pressing its weight down on me. The beast's fire has burned out, but it is charred up and has a lot of burnt fur and exposed muscles and bone. These things have to be zombie bears or something!
But with the charred bear pressing its whole damn weight down on me while the black bear is trying o bite me, I can't hold on for much longer!
"GGRRRAH!" I redirect the black bear's push into the charred bear behind me and it tears a chunk of my shoulder out spreading blood all over my body I get away for a brief moment and check my shoulder and see the exposed muscle and missing skin.
It feels like it is throbbing in pain, and I feel like clenching it tightly. But I don't have that damn luxury of resting. Damn it!
My vision also seems to be switching between red and clear constantly, and I can't even focus on what is going on.
The charred bear swallows the chunk, and it bit off as the black bear fights for the leftovers. But as they fight it out, I see in the corner of my eye a small yet fast figure running towards them.
Ziva?!
She jumps in the air with a one-handed axe in hand and drives it into the back of the black bear as it begins to jump and run wildly. Giving me a chance to take advantage of the distraction to attack the charred bear.
I run towards it and wrap my arm over the bear's neck and force it to the ground. It fights back, but I managed to take both of my hands inside the mouth of the bear and begin trying to pry the jaw open again.
"WRAGH!" The bear struggles and tries to swipe at me, but I am on top of it on its side. It can't reach me.
I begin opening the mouth as it tries to clamp shut, but I begin hearing cracking. And then...
*CRACK!*
I feel a strong jolt, and the jaw unhinges fully with a loud snap with a sudden whimper as it drops. But I am not taking any unnecessary chances.
I keep going and finally tear off the jaw of the animal, and it goes limp. I toss it away and begin smashing my hands into the bear to make sure it is dead.
*Ziva POV*
*Huff huff huff* "Damn rabid beast! Just died!" Ziva yells, still holding onto the dirty fur and the axe in the bear.
The bear jumps up and turns and spins around, but only when it finally dives backward, crushing Ziva under the likely hundreds of pounds.
With the wind knocked out of her lungs as well as feeling incredibly sharp pain in her back.
It rolls off of her as she is breathing heavily, trying to recuperate herself. But she can't move.
The bear gets back up about to finally kill her. It stops looking up as a blurry dark figure tackles the black bear over.
With the two of them getting on the ground and Coda begins to savagely beat the bear while being on top. He keeps slamming down his right fist into the bear. But the animal doesn't seem to be responding to them or moving. But Coda seems to keep smashing the animal's head over and over.
Ziva, however, senses something different about this. He seems to be wild more than before. It seemed like he was stable, but now he doesn't seem to be aware it is dead.
"Oh shit..." Ziva remarks unsure of the situation
Coda stops and turns its head with a dark aura around him. Something different than before. Something primal now.
Coda stands at full height with his back straightening and sees his full posture as being very muscular and clearly bloody. He begins walking over to her, and she backs up but stops.
What the hell do I do? That is Coda, but I don't even know what is happening. He just killed 2 bears, and I can't outrun him. My whole body is weak, and in no way could I outrun him. I have no choice but to...hold my ground.
I try to straighten myself, but my back aches with a sharp pain, and I collapse on my knees. So pitiful!
I look up, and as he gets closer, I notice something, He is about 6 feet from me standing tall and high above me. Is he about to kill me? What is he thinking?
With a brief movement of his right hand lifting a bit, I shut my eyes instinctively out of reflex and brace myself.