Looking at these new wolves was like looking at a brand new species, I mean the 2 before were scrawny while showing a couple ribs, but these 3? These ones were packed with muscle to the point I could see them condense and move under the skin as the wolves lowered down to the ground in preparation to pounce... Wait what!
"Get down!" Hector yelled before he dove at me and dragged me to the ground while one of the wolves flew over top of me through the air. I heard a pained Kweh and looked to see another had latched ontop of Bjornson and was violently ripping feathers and spraying blood. The last one was lashing out against Alex while he was just barely able to dodge. To his credit he had courage as he would try to counter everytime but the damn thing was just to fast as it would return to its previous position outside of his attack range before lunging again.
Hector jumped up as fast as he could in time to just barely block claws that were inches away from his face. He was able to push the beast away but immediately grasped his side as I saw a tinge of red start to spread from under his hand.
"Shit Hector your bleeding!" I raced to get up and to his side but he just pushed me away with a shake of his head all the while keeping his eyes focused on the wolf that was slowly strafing in front of us.
"Just stay back Jimmy. I'll try and kill this thing but it needs to be fast. I need you to find something to throw against the fence to set off the electricity. We need time." He was taking a short breath with each sentence like something was causing him pain while breathing. I looked down and saw as the blood was now starting to flow down his leg.... This wasn't good. I started to look around for anything, anything that could set off the fence to give us time. I first looked towards the trees to see if I could quickly grab a branch and throw it but the only close tree was the one that the wolf was somehow right in front of.
'Shit, now what?' I thought as I quickly scanned around before setting my sights on the dead wolfs....
'Alex said anything living would work right? but trees aren't exactly a living thing so maybe?' I didn't have time to think about the intracies of life as I ran towards a huge chunk of dead wolf that still had a leg attached to it and picked it up before started to twirl around like the tasmanian devil before throwing it towards the fence line.....
BZZZZZZZZZZ
The carcas landed on the fence just as a couple more wolves were jumping over and the electricity arced straight through them as they were instantly dead and just in time the fence erected itself again but this time it acted like a catapult that flung the dead wolves far away, back in the direction of the pack in the treeline where seconds later the loud yelps of pain were heard as small flashes of arcing electricity were seen in the darkness of the treeline.
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Here's hoping that saved us a few minutes of leeway. Unfortunately the next moment was filled with the angry deep howls of something that vibrated deep inside my chest, Even the wolves that were currently fighting against us stopped and jumped over the fence... Well tried should be in that sentence atleast when it came to the two that fought against Hector and Bjornson. The one that fought Alex was able to leap over using it's dead comrades bodies as steps.
I ran over to Hector to try and see what I could do for him but Alex was already next to him helping him to sit down against a tree.
"That was good thinking using that dead wolf to set off the fence Jimbo. I think without that we could have been done for..." Alex said as he was literally stuffing some kind of goo into a deep gash across Hectors side. For a second I thought I saw something white but shook that image out of my head.
"What's that your putting in the wound? Is it some kind of healing thing?"
"Yea in a way I guess. It's a mush that we make around here that's used for basic scratches and stuff. It wasn't meant for this type of injury but in this case it's gonna have to make do. I just hope the team comes with a healer or else Hector might need to be rushed to town."
Hector grabbed Alex's arm and shook his head. By this point his skin was pale white and he was having trouble keeping his eyes open but he forced himself to talk.
"Not.... Going to happen.... Team won't be long now." He shakily said with a raspy breath.
"Phew, well if he can talk than he can heal. Just need to give him time... HEY BABAY! COME GRAB HECTOR AND BRING HIM INSIDE!" Alex yelled at the top of his lungs and seconds later Kelly ran out and stopped and gasped when she saw the shape Hector was in.
"Oh my god! Hector honey you don't look so good. Come Jimmy help me get him inside." She said as me and her helped him up and with some effort we were able to get him into the house and laying down on the couch.
"Now I'll take over from here Jimmy, go help Alex stand watch. Something ain't right with this pack of mongrels and I got a bad feeling that this won't get any easier in the next few minutes.... Do whatever you need to survive darling. I know Jasmine will skin our hide if we didn't do everything in our power to help you."
"Thank you Kelly." I smiled at her before rushing out the door and towards Alex that was applying the same gooey mush to Bjornsons wounds while also whistling and another couple of Kweh came up and stood near us.
"How is he?" I asked as I slowly approached not really sure how the new ones would react.
"Ah, he will be fine, this boy is a tough somabitch, a little bit of this here mush and a couple days rest and he will be right as rain no doubt about it." He stood up with his hands on his hips as pat Bjornson on the back and shooed him off towards the barn. Bjornson looked over to the fenceline where the wolves were yipping and growling again then looked back at Alex with clear worry in his eyes.
"Now don't you look at me like that boy, Who trained you? You think some mangy mutts gonna get me? Now go on and go make sure your hens are ok." He pat Bjornson again who... I swear to everything holy... Sighed before shaking his head and turned around and limped off to the barn....
"Did.... Did he just sigh? Are they all that intelligent!?" I was baffled at how expressive that was.
"Nah, most of em are just as dumb as a fucking pigeon. But Bjornson was the first born of his batch and after using Tame on him he stuck to me like glue. So ofcourse I trained him up a bit and now he's the cock of the walk round here. But these guys over here? Meet Bubba and Bobba, haha yea stupid name I know but they are a close second to Bjornson and just as reliable.... Just hope the damn team gets here quick cuz something is not right.... I just know it."