Had focused too closely on the females ahead of him, as he watched them quietly his attention suddenly perked. He spotted a partial glisten of something in the foliage and allowed those rough pale sapphire lips to ripple, his nose bridge crinkling as his neck arched and eyes shifted to focus on the one spot amongst the trees. He remained laying down, blocking all paths to the creature he protected.

As he lost focus to the dragoness's he began to rumble deeply, the webbed spines along his back shuddering as his tail swatted at the ground, nostrils flaring wider than before as he collected what scents he could, though they were muddled heavily in the scent of the forestry. 

The little one behind him went silent, the sound of mini jowls hushed except a quick squeak. Her movements almost silent as she tried to scurry up the side of the large pale beast who guarded her, thus the little head of a young dragon peaked upwards before hiding under the far side wing of Ace. 

At this point the brute would arise, the shredded carcass now abandoned as he rose his head high, wings tightly tucked though one held a light lump within in (which was visible like a tumor under skin), that feral stare he held pressuring at the forestry as he huffed, "Whose there?"