The Wolf and The Hunter

Chapter 2

Jimin was on a branch of an enormous tree, sleeping with the moon above his head. He had set up a trap a few feet below him. He tied a string to the trap that is connected to his wrist. The string would wake him up if the trap had sprung. A wolf saw the meat under the trap and slowly approached it. Unfortunately, the wolf was clever. She knew that the meat was hooked up to a trap. She examined the trap and disarmed it using her teeth. After making sure that it was completely disarmed, she gulped down her meat.

Jimin however realized the tension on the string on his wrist was gone a few seconds later. He opened his eyes and saw the wolf; happily eating the meat. He was furious.

"HEY!" the wolf looked up and immediately ran in the other direction. Jimin slid down from the tree and gave chase. The wolf was not fast, but she was clever. She ran towards where there were lots of obstacles which the hunter would need to overcome. Jimin was not the brightest in the group but he was dexterous and flexible. He weaved through the obstacles with ease.

They played tag for a few hours. The wolf's stamina was depleting but Jimin's was still full of them. The wolf then made a final sprint towards a raging river. At the last moment, she jumped over it. Eventhough Jimin was flexible, he doubted his legs strength, added with his short height, he would not get far if he were to jump. He started to turn back when he heard a scream. He got up to the branch of a nearby tree and scanned his surroundings. He saw a girl getting pulled downstream by the raging river beside him. He quickly tied a rope to one of his arrows and shot it over the girl just a few metres downstream. The arrow was embedded into a cluster of rocks. He tested the rocks' strength by pulling the rope a few times. After he was sure that the rocks could hold the arrow in place, he put his bow over the rope, grabbed each corner of his bow and slid down towards the girl. He managed to save the girl but got some bruises here and there. The girl however had a lot of bruises on her body. A few cuts here and there. It was then he realized she was naked. He turned around trying to hide his red face.

The girl, who was sitting on her knees, dumbfounded as the hunter who was trying to kill her had saved her. She looked at her body and realized why. Another thing she realized was her naked body. She shrieked and covered her sensitive parts with both her hands. Jimin threw his shirt to her, revealing his well-toned body. It was her turn to turn red. She took his shirt and wore it. Jimin nonchalantly took her hand and started to walk back towards his camp.

The girl tried hard to release herself from his grip but he was very strong. He may seem small but the strength in his hands are like a bear's (I know there's no expression like that but it was all I got). She gave up as she knew that she would never be released from his grip. She stopped struggling and followed his lead. He lead her to his camp which was just a stone's throw away from where they were, in Jimin's case as he would have thrown the stone very far. It was about a 1 hour walk. Surprisingly, no predators were encountered. Jimin let that thought slide when he was nearing his camp.

The girl tried hard to keep all the predators away by releasing a certain hormone. The hormone could be detected by animals but not by humans.

"What is your name by the way?" Jimin suddenly asked.

"It's Yerin,"

"Nice name," Yerin resisted the urge to smirk. They reached Jimin's camp. He gestured Yerin to go into the tent to get dressed.

"I have spare clothes in there. Try them on," he stated. Yerin got inside the tent and looked around. From the outside it looked small and would be breezy inside but it was actually cozy and not that small. She spotted his clothes at one end of the corner neatly folded.

"Can you also grab me my red shirt?" he shouted outside the tent. Yerin looked through folded clothes and saw the red shirt. She also took the green pants that was below it. She gave the shirt to him by putting her one of her arm out with the shirt while most of her body was still inside the tent.

"Thank you," Jimin wore the shirt while Yerin wore the pants. She got out of the tent and saw Jimin starting to start a fire.

"Could you please gather some water into the pot there from the nearby river?" he asked pointing to the pot beside the tent. She looked over and nodded. The small hours went by with Jimin giving orders and Yerin reluctantly doing some but did most of what he asked to do. Given that Jimin said 'please'.

Jimin felt very satisfied. Most of the time, no one would have did what he told them to do. He would be the one to do what others ordered him to do. He realized she was getting tired. He felt bad for putting her up with most of the tasks he would do alone. He told her to sit down and get some rest. Yerin shook her head. She was determined to finish the task that was given to her. Jimin asked her to put up the fence around the perimeter of the camp to prevent any wolves from entering. Although Yerin could just give out the hormones that would make the wolves go away, or even come, she didn't want him to know her secret. He took the fence from her hands and told her to rest, his voice getting stern. She obliged and laid down on the mat beside the fire pit. Jimin finished the fence at a much faster rate than her. She would've been surprised but her body was tired and could not process time at the moment. She closed her eyes and fell to a deep sleep.

The boy looked over his shoulder and saw her sleeping. He again felt bad for making her tired.

"She had just been pulled by a raging river! Of course she would be tired!" he scolded himself. He looked over again and started to smile.

"She's really cute," he thought. He then started making dinner for the two of them with some leftover meat from yesterday's catch.