Have you ever seen that movie with Liam Neeson where he fights a bunch of wolves? If you haven’t, don’t it sucks. As Drake is staring down the Alpha Timberwolf in a Liam Neeson-y fashion, the wolf was paying more attention to its smashed in cheek. The Alpha turned to him and howled as it began charging forward. Drake pulled out his bow and fired arrows rapidly, but did very little damage, the wolf being made of wood.
“Oh you are an annoying wolf aren’t you? You are starting to piss me off as it is, don’t make me angrier,” Drake snipped. Hunter was behind him, barely able to move from the stunt he pulled with his sword. While he thought Drake could more than likely tear it apart, there was nothing to keep it from reforming, so while Drake fought, he planned diligently.
Drake pulled out his dagger ready to fight it hand to paw, and jumped on its head. He began carving at it, cutting huge chunks like an axe in… well… wood. The wolf lurched up and Drake jumped gaining a huge boost in the air, as he turned to his side and crashed into it with a pile-driver, causing the wood to shatter and splinter through the middle of the wolf until it busted in half. Drake laughed thinking it was over. He walked over to Hunter and began helping him up.
“Well that thing wasn’t too tough, should we call PETA and tell them a harmless creature was killed?” joked Drake.
Hunter looks over to the creature slowly reforming back together and comments, “Check before you assume things are dead Drake, look at that thing!” Drake turns and looks as the two ends reconnect and stands up growling at them ferociously. He groans as he turns and fires an arrow and thinks about what to do.
Elsewhere in the woods, Jacob and Tim are heading towards the growls and commotion they heard. Jacob is casually dragging the manticore behind him, expecting to eat it later. Jacob reaches the top of a small hill, revealing a small clearing of the forest where a river runs through and animals drink.
“Cannibal!” exclaims Jacob when he jumps into the river.
“Um… isn’t it cannonball Sensei?” Tim confusedly asked. Jacob merely glares at him as he pulls some dog jerky out of his pocket and chewed it slowly.
Tim chuckles as he says, “I don’t think dog jerky is made from actual dogs Sensei, heh.” With a grin Tim dives in the river and swims around. They hear another loud howl as they both jump out of the river and throw on shirts and Tim put on his cloak.
“We should really check that out,” Jacob says as he begins running. “Wait... *gasp* Sensei… *gasp* can’t… *gasp*run… *gasp* that fast *gasp*,” Tim calls trailing behind.
Back in the fray, Drake bashes it around while trying to not use to much energy, unknowing how long it will take to destroy it. He kicks it into the ground fracturing its skull. Hunter is thinking how to beat it when suddenly the obvious hit him. “Drake!” he exclaims.
“Yeah!?” Drake yells back as he kicks it to the side.
“It’s made of wood!” Hunter points out.
“Oh really, I didn’t fucking notice,” Drake snips back mad at the obvious statement when he twists the wolves paw off.
“I mean it’s flammable idiot!” Hunter explains.
Suddenly Drake gets what he’s saying when he asked, “How do we set it on fire?” Looking at Drake’s quiver he asked, “Do you still have those flint arrows?”
Drake pulls one out and says, “Of course I do ever since-” “We both agreed to never speak of what happened in Switzerland!” Hunter interrupted.
Nodding Drake fires the arrow into the wolf’s side and shoots it with a steel arrow causing a spark, fire spouting up the wolf’s side. The wolf rolled over putting out the fire, and fresh wood grew over the burnt spot.
“DAMMIT!” Drake and Hunter spouted in unison.
Jacob and Tim had just arrived to see the wolf catch on fire and roll over. Turning to Tim, Jacob told him, “Stay back here, we may need you if we can’t figure out a safer way to end this.” Tim nodded as Jacob ran over to Hunter.
“Hey man, are you alright?” Jacob asked him, seeing that he couldn’t move.
Hunter turned to him and gave a slight sigh, “Thank goodness, we could use any help, even yours Husky. Yeah, I’m okay, I just used to much energy.” Jacob nodded and looked at his katana on the ground.
Picking it up, he asked him, “Hey, I saw what you tried to do and I have a plan, can I borrow your sword?”
Hunter looked at him oddly and asked him, “Do you even know how to use that thing?”
Jacob looked at him annoyed and responded, “Of course I know how to use this thing, what’s so hard to understand about ‘swish-swish-stab’ it’s a sword, not a fucking fighter-jet.”
Hunter cracked a smile and with a shrug said, “Sure, go for it.” Jacob nods and looks and spots what he’s looking for, a large dead tree with leaves hanging limply all over. He dashes to it and shouts to Drake, “Smash it again!” Drake nods at him and begins tearing it to pieces.
Turning to the tree, Jacob takes a hard swing and cuts the tree down, and he kicks it on the wolf’s lumber. The timberwolf reforms with the new wood and is doubled in size.
“HUSKY YOU IDIOT!” both Hunter and Drake yell in sync as the wolf lets out a howl.
Then Hunter notices all of the dried out crackly leaves covering the Alpha’s body and yells, “Husky, you’re a genius!”
Drake catches on quickly and fires another flint arrow in the center of the densest patch of leaves and quickly fires the second arrow. The sparks hit the leaves and the wolf is engulfed in flames. It begins rolling around and whimpering as the fire burns on. Slowly the entire outer wood becomes black and the wolf stops moving. Jacob quickly sets up two posts next to the burning wolf and shoves a thin tree through the manticore he killed. Dragging it to the wolf, Drake and Hunter give him an odd look as he tosses it on the post. Turning the side of the tree and spinning the manticore he asks them, “Manticore meat anyone?”
Thirty minutes later Jacob, Tim, Hunter, and Drake sit around the fire eating the manticore. Finishing his sixth serving, Jacob looks at the rest and says, “You know, I may hate spikey kittens, but they taste amazing.” They all face-palm just as they hear a scream.
Mary and Ian had just walked out of the woods and the carcass of the manticore was crushing Ian as he had sleepwalked into the poles knocking it off. Jacob threw the carcass off of him and exclaimed, “Yay, I saved Ian!” Jacob then thought for a second and muttered, “Oh, I saved Ian.” Ian glared at him, and everyone else just stared, other than Hunter who was trying not to choke on his manticore meat laughing.