He tasted the blood in his mouth. It was metallic, sweet, ultimately a sign that no matter what pedestal he placed himself on he was still very much killable and mortal. Feliks didn't remember the days after he first snapped, one day he had just woken up with paws drenched in the same content he was currently spitting out of his maw. He woke up to Ruiners beating him, their jeers and taunts holding more malice than ever before. Out of the corner of a swollen eye he had seen the corpses of AntiClan warriors, the words of his assailants barely piercing his ringing ears. Something about murdering them, something about making an example out of him in front of their God, he didn't know. His interactions with Showstopper had been hard, barely a word spoken but he had scared the boy away with a flurry of fire and vengeance and... and he wanted to do the same to these folk. One kept him pinned beneath a firm paw whilst the other kicked his ribs, his face, anything sensitive area they could see. The first beating he had received whilst he was here, but at what cost? It was too late now. Something clunked against his head, with that the wolf was back to a world of slumber.
Their voices didn't penetrate his mind, but whether it be from an unknown force or otherwise he still knew what they were saying. He felt one of them press a paw to his underarm, felt their warmth against his cold form. They were fretting, thinking they might have killed him and not wanting to tell the 'boss' for fear of punishment for slaying the one who was not supposed to be slain. They said it was be easier to say that the 'mutt' just escaped instead of telling the truth, that they had been the first to find out. Time and existence lost all meaning to him again, and that was that for what felt like maybe a minute. In actuality it was closer to an hour of being dragged along the scorching sands and then being left to burn in the heat as the Ruiners were working on something. He didn't know what, couldn't know what, until he felt something compressing on all of his body and all around him. The sensation woke Feliks up to a world of suffocating darkness.
He couldn't see, he tried moving a leg and it was trapped. Panic filled him but when instincts told him to call for help, he soon realised that his lungs would appreciate saving the oxygen, for there was little to be had where he was. Which direction was up? Which direction was down? Feliks couldn't tell, but he knew he had to do something before he lost his energy. The wolf struggled to get his paws free from whatever trapped them, desperation being the final factor in writhing them free and he started pawing at whatever was in front of him. It was soft, seemed to crumble a little bit whenever he dug at it. Dirt? No. Sand. Holy fuck, he was underground. Holy fuck, holy fuck holy fuck this couldn't be real. Feliks tried his damnedest to get his breathing under control as he scrambled furiously at his prison walls, wishing he could be anywhere but here right now. He would take the news of Abner's torture twice over, he would allow himself to be utterly humiliated by those evil enough to do it, he needed freedom that seemed further and further away the more and more his gestures began to weaken.
Hope was about to be lost, silent prayers were about to be sent out to his family, when something bright finally pierced the grave. He clawed at it again more light. And again; an opening. Weakly he lifted his muzzle forwards towards the gap and inhaled, letting the cold air fill his lungs and revitalize him. With his hind legs he kicked out, breaking the surface and allowing Feliks to completely push himself up from the sand. He pulled himself away from the entrance and stood tall for a second or two. Blood and sand mixed across his body like peanut butter and jelly, and as he tried to gain his bearings he ended up collapsing again. He was shaking, but quickly came to realise that he wasn't in the Pit anymore. He would've leaned his head back in relief, only distant mumblings of Ruiners who had not heard his struggle stirred him to be as alert as possible. The wolf realised he was practically in camp, tucked away behind a pyramid, yet it seemed... empty. Were the clan raiding, maybe? It mattered not, Kokichi had told him of hidden entrances and exits and he needed to find them before they got back.
With his head low he stood himself up, and on paws as light as he could make them began to investigate around the place that he had been denied access to. Nothing seemed too out of the ordinary, apart from... was that a Church? He rolled his eyes, but pushed through the entrance until the surprised male came face to face with a Ruiner in front of him. He didn't think, his body was forced into survival mode and without so much as a protest to the contrary the male shapeshifted into a grizzly bear. He charged at hebe skinner
, aiming to knock her to the side with a swing of his paw. He wouldn't give her the chance to react, hoping to sink his teeth into her and thrash her about. Words were almost lost to him in this form, everything was instinct to the point where he almost didn't know when to stop. Even if he could've stopped, would he have? These animals had hurt his boy, his home, the rest of his family. A burst of reason came to him and he stopped, looming over the hellhound with a paw hopefully on her chest and the shapeshifted leader practically wheezing at this point.
"I am your God now," he breathed, aiming to sink the tip of a claw slowly into her eye. He twisted his foot just a little bit to let the damage feel more painful before pulling himself away, forced to shapeshift back into his normal body. The damages upon the bitch were observed for a little bit, with a commotion outside bringing him to his senses. They were starting to figure out something was wrong, which ultimately meant time was running short for the Chief. Feliks stumbled out of the Church, heart almost skipping a beat when he noticed that the attention wasn't on him at all. Everyone was looking to the sky, a giant wingspan causing some of the stay-at-home Ruiners to usher their children to the pyramids where it was safe. Perfect timing as always... Pinky... Feliks' head slumped forwards and as it did the Haast's Eagle swooped down, grabbing the underweight lupine roughly. It was enough to jolt the wolf awake at least, but his companion didn't bother apologising (not that they needed to), the way the bird saw it this family owed him more than could ever be repayed.
"Go play a game of cards after this," Pinkeye cooed, a crackle of electricity coming from his wings. "You're a lucky one today, betcha an emu you'd be fucked without me watching your back eh?". The bird took off, unable to resist sending a bolt of lightning or two down at a couple of Ruiners as he did. Neither seemed to care if it hit or not, for the two were off in the sky long before anyone could begin to process what happened. The scene painted in the aftermath was a scientist's wet dream. A Pit littered with a few dead Ruiners, an empty grave behind camp, an injured Priestess in her Church and blueish feathers scattered around camp. Oh, and blood and sand... a lot of blood and sand.