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"W-what?" Samantha stammered as she looked around in confusion, the other three poachers glaring up at the sky as if some monster was about to drop in on them.

"Shit," one of them hissed, suddenly noticing Samantha again, turning his rifle away from the sky to point it at her, "Shoot the girl, she's seen our faces!"

The other two looked down momentarily, staring at Samantha for barely a moment, but it was a moment too long. The shadow passed over her, the soft rustling of feathers almost unheard as sharp talons wrapped around her shoulders, wind beating down on her back as she was yanked up into the air. She watched in morbid fascination as the figure dropped down from the cliff face behind the poachers, a glint of metal flashing behind them as the back two gave a cry a pain before collapsing to the floor. The man with the rifle quickly spun round, managing to deflect the stranger's blade with his gun, twisting his body around and flinging their attacker to the floor, forcing him to roll away, to just beside the body of the first dead poacher.

"I'm going to skin you alive!" the enraged male howled as he lifted his rifle, the two shots echoing against the stone walls as he blinked in surprise, slowly toppling over.

Samantha could only watch in confusion as the unknown male quickly inspected the four dead bodies, his head suddenly jerking up as he grabbed something off of one of them, raising his hand to his mouth and letting out a high pitched whistle. The shadow dropped from the sky, suddenly engulfing him, before massive wings shot out, the anthropomorphic eagle gripping him by the shoulders and hoisting him into the air, just as a relatively new jeep roared around the edge of the stone pyre. Even the crooks have better rides than me, Samantha thought bitterly before the shots began to ring out, gasping as she was suddenly lifted even higher, the reinforcements suddenly shrinking to the size of ants as she soared out over the canyon.

Confused, the young woman looked up, her eyes going wide as she stared at the eagle above her, the majestic bird clasping Samantha's slender shoulders in her powerful talons. A sudden sense of realization hit the novice ranger, her vision beginning to swim as she realized just how high up she was. A final thought flashed across her mind as she fell into unconsciousness. Crap, my gun.