Hryupo unconsciously strained toward Ziya with her hive mind, that strange psychic link she had to all her kind. His panic was making things more difficult, and if they were to move as one, they would be far better off. She knew it instinctively, and so tried to link with him instinctively, to bring his mind under the calming influence of her own. They were both water creatures, but not of the same breed, but something as ingrained as that connection would always make attempts.
All the same, she dunked them both under the water, as it was far too difficult to tread water with him attempting to climb up her. She worried for her delicate fleshy gills, and as if on cue, one of his scrabbling arms snagged the puffy flesh.
Black spots clouded her vision as an exquisite brand of pain lanced through her. Water had engulfed her head now, and she struggled to orient herself through the pain and the panicking creature atop her.
Her teeth were sharp enough to probably sever tendons and bones if she had a mind to bite the predator, but those claws would be just as effective against her flesh.
Finally finding the direction of the beast swimming toward them, she gave another powerful flick of that tail for distance.
Concentrating, she let out another sonar click, but this one reverberated on a level that couldn't even be properly heard. Instead it traveled with frightening clarity and force, straight into the vulnerable softness of organs and tissues within the creature's chest cavity.