It seems one of the wolves heard it’s sigh as it raises its head with its mouth with blood. Since they were huge the chicken could only be taken as an appetizer and in one little bite it was eaten down. It stares directly at the position of Andrew and the rest of the hunters whom were numbered to be ten. It seems like the wolves had a tacit understanding as they faced each other before looking at the hunters once again like they were saying, ‘Although these humans are tiny and won’t be enough to pick our teeth they would be able to hold off our hunger for a while at least until we are able to get better food’.

Andrew’s hairs stood on its ends as he noticed the gazes of the wolves fall on them, he screams at the top of his voice towards the hunters, “Run at full speed, they are about to attack us”, while cursing in his mind, ‘Fuck, couldn’t you have all made do with the meat from the chicken’. As the hunters heard Andrew’s scream, they realized today was their unlucky day and they ran with full speed trying to get out of the forest but in the presence of these wolves whom were not only huge but faster than an average hunter, their struggle to escape seems meaningless as in one step they would have covered miles which would take the hunter ten to fifteen steps to cover. The wolves doesn’t seem to be in a hurry to gobble the hunters up as after catching up with them, their steps reduces drastically and they just covered the same distance as the hunters, they were toying with them. Noticing this, some hunters tries to go through another direction, if they could spread out, at least they thought that some would be able to escape. But their thoughts were totally cut short as any hunter that tries to go in a different direction would be eaten without much scruple.

Noticing this, the hunters started giving up understanding that no matter what was being done, they couldn’t escape the pursuit of the wolves. Some started crying and some started laughing, falling into insanity. Never would they have thought that they would die this day.

Andrew seeing this situation was angry, although he has not spent too much time with these men, at least they trusted him to have followed him to hunt. If they were on a different group then he would have escaped by only himself, but now he felt like they were his responsibility and thought about taking on the wolves by himself.

But that would be a suicide mission cause just fighting one to a stalemate would put him in a dangerously weak situation, if the three came at him at once then, it did be just a matter of seconds before he was killed. Even if by some insane luck he escaped, if the alpha wolf came by then that would be the end of his story. He has only heard of stories about the alpha wolf and not even Michael has seen one but only heard stories of it from his master and from there he came to know that even if he was as powerful as Michael or even a bit powerful than him, he won’t know how he died if he came face to face with it.

Little by little the group of hunters decreases until they were just two, if Andrew was included, they would be three. Then all of a sudden, arrows were being fired rapidly from a distance towards the wolves. The arrows, although having good piercing power was not able to penetrate into the skin of the wolves but was nevertheless causing an irritation for the wolves hence they stopped their nitpicking meal and pounced on the direction of were the arrows were being shot from. On seeing this, the surviving two hunters were able to guess who have saved them cause no sane hunter would try to fight three wolves head on no matter how skilled they were or how many strong hunters were in the group, they would try their possible best to avoid the wolves and take another route. They wasted no time as the ran towards the entrance of the forest and this time around, it seems they would be able to escape without hiccup. In few minutes, they got out of the forest breathing heavily. One of the hunters has a horrid stench coming from him, he seems to have defecated on himself, well no one would blame him for being that scared, not being scared in the face of certain death would even make things seem awkward. On getting out, one of the men spoke, “Andrew saved us at the end. I thought that was really the end for me over there, never imagined I did find a chance to escape. From now henceforth I would dedicate my all to Andrew”. “Yeah, he did save us after all. But who would save him from the wolves?”, the other man said. There was silence for a while before the latter man said once again, “We should report this to Michael, perhaps he would have a way to save him”. As if they finally realized that there was hope, both men ran off to look for Michael to report what has happened. After all, if they choose not to report the issue, the wrath of Michael would fall on them after realizing that they were the only ones whom came back, as everyone knew the way Michael treated Andrew as if he was his own son.

They wasted no time as they hurried along while Andrew was in the forest fighting for his life. After attracting the attention of the wolves, he had to make the wolves all focus on him by getting closer to him in order to give the hunters breathing space and an escape route in order for their escape to be successful before sprinting off in the opposite direction of the surviving hunters. He wanted to avoid the situation of one of the wolves going back for the remaining hunters, but he had amazing speed so he should be able to escape from them after all he has been through different training environments and learnt how to move unhindered in the forest so it would be hard for the wolves to catch up with him since he wasn’t any average hunter or so he thought. His expectations was cut short as the wolves pursued him at full speed and was getting closer to him by every passing second.

“Whoosh”, a sound was heard, Andrew raises his cutlass to the front of his chest in defense and at exactly the same time the paws of one of the wolves moved towards him at an astonishing speed. “Bam”, he was hit head on with a monstrous force and ends up flying backwards for some few meters, hitting trees along the way and a tree ends up stopping his backward flight as he lays on the ground, a blood puddle below him which obviously came from him. The wolf which hit him looks at his paw and starts howling at the other wolves seeming to be smug about hitting Andrew once and being able to bring him to such a state where he would be bleeding profusely and not being able to stand.