"Why the hell did I think this was a good idea?"

Mark thought to himself while hiding behind a tree in the middle of the forest. He stood as still as possible, covering his mouth to quiet his rampant breathing. The forest was dark with only the faint moonlight piercing through the tree limbs.

*Crack*

The sound made him freeze up. His eyes couldn’t help but look down at the large shadow on the ground.

"Grrrrr"

The power of the growl could be felt through his entire body. It felt like he could have a heart attack at any second.

Within ten minutes of his search he was able to find the beast, but what he wasn’t prepared for was the fact the wolf was the size of a two story building. The size alone left him speechless, but he quickly realised the dangerous position he was in just by looking at the wolf's eyes. It was hungry, very hungry.

Of course his plan was to kill it, but now? Yea right, there isn’t anything he could do to even leave a scratch on that thing.

"This is just pathetic. This is something I trained to deal with for years and this is what I'm doing? Fucking pathetic!"

The thought reflecting through his head was doing nothing to help his situation, but this is all he could think of. Shame and fear is all he could feel. It was a depressing feeling, but it took his mind off his situation for a bit

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Before he realized it, the forest was quiet again. He slowly peeked his head around the tree and noticed the wolf was gone.

"Oh thank god." He muttered to himself.

He relaxed a lil and stepped slowly and quietly out from behind the tree. He looked around and noticed the tracks were leading towards the west, away from where he was. He took a deep sigh of relief and laughed to himself.

"I may have survived but…"

He looked down in defeat, he may be happy about living but he knows no matter what, he has nothing to show to his uncle. Nothing to prove he is capable of becoming a templar. His dream was nothing more than just a dream.

"…Forget it. I’m sure my uncle can get me a pretty good desk job in his department. Let’s just head home while I still can."

He turned around to begin his walk out, but then…

"HEY!!!! ANYONE!!!"

Mark froze upon hearing the scream from behind. He whipped around towards the direction of the screaming and noticed it came from the same direction the wolf had gone.

"Oh no"

Suddenly the ground started to rumble beneath him. Leaves began to fall from the trees onto the ground, and so did Mark’s heart. He wanted to run so bad but for some reason he couldn’t. All he could do was stand frozen again.

He then hears the bushes rustling in front of him. It was the wolf, it had to be. There was no hope of running anyway so all he could was just accept his fate. He closed his eyes as if he knew it was over for him.

But then…

"GUH!!!"

A boy that looked around the same age at Mark came running out of the bushes and ended up tackling Mark to the ground. They both grovel in pain.

"Ah fuck! The hell you're just standing in the way for!?" The boy shouted.

Mark opened his eyes and noticed the guy on top of him. He shoves him off

"Why ain’t you watching where the fuck your going!?"

"I’m kinda in the middle of running for my life!"

The two men argued with each other like children but all that came to an end when the wolf came pouncing from out the bushes, jaws open ready to kill anything that’s in front of him.

The two boys stopped arguing and screamed in unison–

"OH FUCK!!!"