In a blink of an eye, both beasts lunged at each other, their collision creating a deafening boom that rippled through the forest and shook the ground beneath them.
The force of their charge cracked the earth, scattering fragments of dirt and stone outward in every direction.
The alpha raised its right paw high and swung down in a diagonal slash meant to tear across the boss's face, but the boss had already anticipated the move.
She halted her charge instantly, claws hovering just inches away from her snout, the strike narrowly missing its target.
Without wasting a second, she twisted her weight forward and rammed her full body into the alpha's chest.
The momentum drove him backward, and she refused to stop there.
Step by step, she shoved him with relentless force, driving him further across the battlefield, her muscles straining with every push as if she meant to crush him into the trunk of the nearest tree.
