A Hunter's Curse

Chapter 4: The next morning...

After a long night of wandering around aimlessly and constantly on the alert for danger, Manak had finally managed to stumble back to the camp and headed straight for his tepee, keeping as quiet as possible so that he didn't wake the others.

As soon as he entered the tepee, he curled himself in a blanket and began to process what had happened that night, the adrenaline from before started to slowly drain from his body.He was still in shock as the night's events continued to prowl around his head, making him more afraid and wrapping himself deeper into his blanket.

He knew that dawn would come soon and with it, a monster of the night...

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Mileena awoke with a stiff, cold body and took in her surroundings and realized that she was back in the place where her transformation had taken place.

She quickly ran to her bag and dressed, thinking up a story for when she returned when a very hazy memory suddenly appeared in her mind....she remembered that somebody had seen her, tried to talk to her and help her but for the life of her, she couldn't remember...and then the memory drifted away.

She started to make her way back to the camp as faint memories of the previous night entered her mind. She remembered the other wolves who were her family or better yet her pack, hunting with her. She remembered howling, but the clearest memory of them all was of the moon...every wolf's most idolized goddess.

"Where have you been?" asked one of the women with a stern look on her face when Mileena arrived back at camp. "I woke up early and felt much better so i decided to go for a walk." Replied Mileena with a sheepish look on her face."You silly girl, you should be resting not wondering about," the woman scolded "now get ready, we leave after breakfast."

Mileena rushed to her tepee and hurriedly started to pack as much as she could to save her time after breakfast. "Your b-b-back!" Said a fearful voice at the entrance of her tepee. Mileena whirled around at the voice and saw Manak who had a look of disgust, courage and fear all plastered on his face.

It was then that Mileena realised that the person who tried to help her last night was none other than Manak!

"Manak...we need to talk" Mileena said not daring to meet his eyes. "Yes, i believe we do" he replied trying to swallow his fear and putting on a brave face....