I decided to depict some scenes that make Gris, the way he is. The protective herd stallion he is today. This is Gris chasing off Strike the cougar after his first encounter.
Gris followed Vuelo up into the tree covered hills. Sometimes he could barely see Vuelo through it's thickness. But he heard her scree. Scree! It got a little darker in the shade of the trees but Gris was no coward. He followed bravely. They traveled until ther reached a spot where a large rock jutted out of the side of a hill. They went by the overhang, when a silent thing almost landed directly un top of Gris. But Vuelo had swooped down screaming. a cougar screamed. Gris dashed forward and spun around. Hooves flung out visciously. But Vuelo was fighting the danger. A grey cougar was screaming as she ripped and clawed at it's face. She was tearing at his eyes! But then the cougar delivered a swipe with its front paw and claws. knocking Vuelo out of the sky. NO! Gris screamed, a threat,..like a stallion. He could have killed her. He saw her fallen on the ground. Still. Still. He screamed again. He charged the cougar. Though he was only a yealing, the cougar was terified. It could have been that the eagle had just destroyed his one eye, but whatever that cougar saw terrified him. He ran away and was not determined to come back.
Render/Design-me
Gris-Me
Screenshot-Dreamworks.