He was being trailed, keen eagle eyes picking out the motion. Soaring carefully as he was amid the trees and foliage, he was trying to identify his quarry as he was stalked through the branches.

The sudden ferocity of speed and strength caught him momentarily by surprise, and he twisted in the air and folded his large wings to drop a few feet. Claws still caught him, but his talons snapped out to grab and sink through that muzzle mask as he hissed as they plummeted from the sky. Black smoke poured from the wounding that he suffered from, but it didn't bother him, not really.

Let them fall for the moment it took for him to gather himself and assess the situation, he dissolved into smoke to reform as a humanoid form again, crouching. "Well, well, well, what sort of beast are you? No matter, they all die the same."