A males fate in the beast world

Under attack

They had been sleeping for a couple of hours at their resting spot for today, near a side branch of a river. Around dawn, suddenly howls could be heard, brought to them by the strong night wind from the west. Both of them were immediately awake. While Kathy grabbed her backpack, Winston nobbled her with his teeth and swang the female on his back. Without further delay the tiger started to run in the direction of the east.

He did not knew how many pursuers were after them, so the best option was to follow the wind. Otherwise they could be heard or smelled more easily by them. The pursuers had already enough advantages. No need to add more.

Winston with a frightened Kathy on his back could only go at half of this full speed. Also guessing from the variety of sounds around them, the pursuers are likely more in number. He was sure, that they could and definetly would try to encircle the female and him. Maybe the howls from the west were just a trap to get him to the east.

During this thoughts Winston worked his way through the area, which was still lit up by only a few rays of the rising sun. He tried his best to avoid their eyes as he plunged into a nearby forest. He hoped that the forest scent would masked their scents at least lightly.

All of a sudden sounds from in front of them could be heared. As Winston detected beasts behind as well, he changed directions again and found a small cave entrence by chance. After droping a scared Kathy, who's complied body was shaking, he nudged her into the entrence.
Watching until she vanished in the darkness inside the hole, Winston turned around to face the pursuers.

Five beasts appeared before his eyes. Two black wolfs a few meters before him, two oranges tigers right behind them as well as a bear in the corner of his left eye about a kilometer away. They all seemed to be at least two-striped.

While Winston was thinking about the quickest way to wipe them out, one of the tigers transformed to a human.
"Just give up and hand over the female. You can not win against all of us. Maybe we even let you get away alive. That is if you do not make a ruckus.", announced the arrogant two-striped tiger. While pointing at the other tiger, he continue:" Dillan here got a fourth stripe a month ago, so better be clever and run."

///

I took in every detail in front of me. They are not to underestimate especially when they have experience to fight as a group. Cautiousness and speed must be my priorities. Otherwise today may be the day I am going to lose my life...

Running away would be the wiser option for me, but i still have the duty to protect the female, nontheless.

The decision was made in the split of a second, so it took the attackers by surprise as i leaped right before the wolfs, caught the two heads between my front paws and banged them together, making them both fall unconscious to the ground.

While the four-striped tiger immediately started to counterattack me, the other tiger, still in human form, stood frozen in place.

The problem was the newly at the scene arrived bear, which tried to smash my backbone with his giant paw.

All of us letting out our beast pressure made the air nearly to heavy to breath. While jumping sideways to avoid the bear paw behind me, i tried to get the throat of my other opponent between my jaw.

It was an energy-sapping exchange of avoidance and small hits, until the tiger growled at the still frozen human. Seeing my chance in the short moment of abstraction, i jumped at the tigers throat and got my jaw into it. But because of that i could not dodge the bears attack and he smashed me to the ground. The sound of cracking bones, filled everyones ears. The tiger, whose throat was still in my jaw, assaulted my head with several strong hits of his paws. As he noticed that i did not stop squishing his throat, he threw himself on his back to get rid of me. Thanks to that move i got out of the bear's reach. For a moment at least.

Finally i managed to get my teeth through the strong skin and layers of muscles to rip the tiger throat apart, once and for all. A deep gasp of breath escaped it, before the tiger felt lifeless to the ground. Blood flowing out of his wound, dyeing the earth in different shades of red.

I was exhaused. This few minutes took nearly all my strengh from me. My instinct screamed to flee, because of the heavy injuries i had already received. As pain started to cloud my mind, i caught sight of the cave entrence behind the bear.

My duty is not finished yet. Remembering that, i escaped the next bear attack by a hair, with rolling myself to the side.

The bear is getting more and more agressive as time goes by. I need to finish him next, but i can not forget about the wolfs and the frozen human.

With blood shoot eyes the bear let out a earsplitting roar before lifting both of this front legs to stomp me to death. But he underestimeded me as i rolled myself again. This time right under his belly as he came down, biting into the soft abdomen and ripping out a huge chunk of fresh. Blood splashed all over me and its iron smell filled my nose all the way. The bear yelped in pain and before he could react, i kicked him a few meters away with my hind legs. The bear skull hitting the ground hard, gave me a second to assess my situation.

The wolfs were laying right behind me, slowly starting to regain consciousness, while the frozen human decided to transform and leave his comrades behind. Despiceable.

While lifting myself with much effort from the ground, i vomited a large amount of blood. I need to finish this soon, otherwise i can not keep my promise to bring her to the beast city. Would she cry for me?

FOCUS. The bear was back on his feet again, but a bit instable due to the hard meeting between his head and the ground. However he still started to run in my direction to launch the next attack.

While starring at the with killing intent fuming bear, i racked my brains for a good counterattack. I need to take him down during this attack or i will run out of energy.

As the bear jumped at me, teeth bared to sink them into my fresh, i jumped to the side. With this he ended up biting down hard on the wolf laying behind me. As he yanked his head back in total shock, i used the energy of his movement and struck a letal blow on his lower cervical spine to break his neck. The sound of cracking bones sent goosebumps all over my body. This horridic sound is one of the few things i will never get used to.

As i gasped for breath my lungs burned, my body ached everywhere and my consciousness nearly drowned in pain. Somehow i managed to kill the wolfs and dragged myself to the cave entrence, leaving a trail of blood in the dirt behind.

///