Akira awoke in her den with a stretch. She looked over her shoulder back at Titan, and barked, "Wake up."
Titan opened a single blue eye to look at her and yawned, "Why?"
"Today we start your training." She rose to her paws and plucked him off the ground by his scruff, and trotted out to the densite. She dropped him on the ground and snarled, "Get ready."
Still half asleep, Titan stumbled to his paws. He froze in horror as he saw Akira charging for him with her fangs bared; Akira swooped in and grabbed his leg, before letting go and dancing away. She came in again with stabbing attacks, and Titan flinched as her fangs would tear open small scratches on his gray pelt.
Akira snapped and slashed, giving the helpless pup no time to dodge or even react. But Titan began to notice a pattern to Akira's attacks, and he used that to his advantage until Akira almost always missed.
Satisfied, Akira nodded to him and told him, "Wait here." She turned and bolted away, and a few minutes later, she returned with a rabbit. "Here," she smirked and nudged it towards him. "You earned it."
Titan smiled a little for the first time since he'd been here, and he took a tentative bite.