The hellhound seemed to react very severely to Set's scream, reacting wildly, fighting invisible figures, calling out names of the dead. Cyril held on to the beast's mane tightly, his legs clamping down on either side of the beast, his head pressed against the hound's spine. Trying to dismount now would guarantee his being trampled, so now the best he could hope for was that the hound would drop back down onto its paws. The hound roared out "No!", sending a spike of pain through his head, rousing a rather sharp headache along the crown of his skull. Cyril closed his eyes, gritting his teeth as the beast reared up onto its back legs. The wind ripped from his lungs as the beast fell backwards, Cyril's eyes opening wide as he tried to lunge off of the beast, not wanting to be crushed by it.
The ground reached up to embrace him, a dull pan surging through his body. The sudden sound of a branch snapping by Cyril's head, drew his attention, a strange feeling of numbness coursing through his body. His head turned to catch sight of the hellhound's back, the beast in a hellish state, quite possibly on its last legs. "Thane," Cyril nearly screamed, "Bind it now!" His voice cracked as he screamed, his head roaring with pain. Cyril's eyes scoured the surrounding as he tried to stand, a twang like burning fire rippling through him as he found the source of the earlier sound of a snapping branch. His arm had been pinned beneath the beast. "Christ," he growled, punching the beast with his free hand, infuriated with his mistake.
Thane glided forward toward the beast, holding his tome with a single hand while his other reached out toward the beast, the ethereal hand pressing down onto the stomach of the beast, slowly melding into the skin. Ancient runes of languages long dead began to form on the belly of the beast, a white glow emanating from the runes as Thane began to softly whisper words unintelligible to even Cyril and Set. The binding would only work if the hound remained in the throes of death, which it very well seemed to. Once the binding was complete, the beast's body would turn to ash as Thane rends its soul and binds it to Thane's ancient tome.
She growled as the young woman made her approach, wielding a gun and a dagger. The young woman was no threat to the hellhound mother, though she was the one to taint her pups with the filthy scent of a hunter. She was clearly the most experience, the lingering scent of death most prevalent on her, the other hunters being almost nonexistent to her sharp senses. As the hunters began to rally behind the girl hunter, the hellhound's chest shook, a soft laugh emanating from her gaping maw, the laughter growing from a soft chuckle to a roaring cackle as the female hunter seemed to be frustrated by the other hunters stepping forth to join her. She began to move closer to the humans as they gathered around her, snapping her jaws tightly together, the gnashing of her teeth carrying through the forest.
The lead huntress said something that seemed to mimic another human's comment, aiming her gun at the hellhound mother before taking a few shots. The hound roared, jumping to the side, breaking into its charge, feeling a warm feeling flood through her tail and back left thigh, reminding her of a dulled hellfire from the depths of hell. "Let them fight, girl!" The hound screamed, closing the distance swiftly, he flaming orbs locked onto the lead huntress, "Let them die with you!" A crossbow bolt sunk into the ground past her head, the hound taking note of a human in the skies, one that reeked of human, typical of a fresh hunter. That one she would savor after the others, enjoying its soft meat like humans enjoy veal. The hound leaped forward now, practically on top of its hunters, her massive paws outstretched toward the humans, curved obsidian claws like sickles reaching out to them. She will stain the forest red before the humans touch her pups again.