3rd person
JAKE RUNS by torch-light, on the edge of panic. He reaches a
steep banked stream and without thinking runs across it on a horizontal trunk and stops dead on the other side.
The torch illuminate GREEN EYES cutting ahead of him across the trail.
The viper wolves have him encircled.
The psychotic barks become more intense as they signal each other, getting excited.
One makes a run at him, angling on his legs from behind but Jake whirls, jamming the torch in its face.
It yips and goes past, but another moves in, He jabs it with the business end of the spear and it snarls
retreating, baring its fangs.
Now half a dozen are circling him in the open, and he sees what he's up against.
The viper wolves are six-limbed with shiny chitinous skin, their paws leathery black hands.
Intelligent eyes. Glistening black teeth in dead white gums.
Jake realizes that he is making his final stand. He whirls the torch in an arc,
keeping them at bay and feels a rush of adrenaline. It goes through him like a lightning bolt and the fear is gone.
"I don't have all goddamn night! Come on!" Jake screams
"Come on!"
With snarls and a blur of motion they ATTACK.
Jake cracks the spear down on one, then Spins as Another leaps at him and he plants the spear in it,
striking true, but Its momentum wrenches it from his hands, and the torch goes flying.
Left in semi-darkness, Jake draws his Knife as a wolf Lunges, sinking its teeth into his arm.
He yells in pain and fury, slashing with the knife which Cuts deep into the beast's shoulder and it lets go.
Jake sprints, trying to escape, but a snarling viper wolf leaps, Grabbing him by the ankle with its fore-hand.
Jake tears away, sprawling, Scrambling as three wolves charge at once.The nearest leaps at his throat just as BAM!!
An arrow appears in its chest The wolf lands on him, already a dead weight.
He pushes it off in time to see Two Blue amazons emerge from the trees, nock another arrow,
draw and FIRE in one fluid motion. An unearthly yowl as another wolf falls.
LIN leaps right over Jake, and CRACKS her bow down on the skull of a circling wolf.
Another springs at her and she drops under its weight,
but rolls, coming up on top of it with a knife in her hand.
Her knife flashes down, buried to the hilt in its chest.
Snarling, a wounded wolf attacks Jake, and he kicks it away, but It spins and leaps back onto him,
and Jake barely catches its throat in time to keep the snapping jaws away from his face.
MEANWHILE Neytiri swings her bow in a big arc, cracking it
across the heads and shoulders of two remaining wolves.
The wolves slink and circle, yelping as the bow whistles past them.
Finally they break and run, with Lin and Neytiri chasing and they bound away
through the foliage as Lin shouts after them
Jake has his adversary pinned and is choking it with all his weight.
Finally it stops thrashing. Panting, he releases it and looks up at Lin.
Her tail Lashes as she scans the forest, listening to the fading yelps of the wolves.
Satisfied the attack is over, she turns.
She regards him coldly for a second, then walks past him.
Neytiri picks up the torch and extinguishes it in a stream.
Turning to Lin with a satisfied look.
