---- I could hear the crack developing in the mask.

But then all of a sudden a loud crash echoed and I hear the men curse.

The touch was gone in an instant What the fuck! From where did it came! Did it just barge in through the glass window? I don't know who they were talking about.

I furrow my brows to open my eyes and that's when I see a blur of a dark fur.

Fur? I blink to clean my vision of tears when I see a huge jaguar standing in front of my body.

That dark fur.

I...

know it.

Nala...

Using the little strength in me I lower my hand to ---- eee look at the timer.

54 seconds.

Almost over.

Gulping I lower my hand to remove it when suddenly Nala growls at me.

As if asking me not to do this.

S Tam sorry Nal Tcan't But then I see one of the wolves shifting behind her, ready to attack her.

And without a thought I push myself up.noveldrama

Shielding her with my body.

The huge wolf slams into me and my body is thrown into the air.

Thit a wall or something and my body drops down on the floor.

Something wet drops down from my forehead and I lift my shaking hand to touch it.

Blood.

My vision starts going hazy.

---- 15 seconds.

I struggle to look up and I watch the three wolves surrounding Nala from all the directions.

They had scratches and cuts but Nala looked worse.

She was limping.

One of them had managed to take hold of her hind leg.

5 seconds.

T watch them attack her altogether.

Her sharp scream echoes in my mind as I watch the horrifying scene of one gripping her neck.

The other pinning her under his claws and the third one tearing skin off her belly.

It was brutal.

Cruel.

Her face was morphed in fear.

And I struggled to reach her.

To crawl towards her.

She is laying her life for me.

Is she stupid? Why? I don't want her to die...

no please.

But it was too late.

---- os The wolves rip her to drop her on the floor and I hear her whines.

Blood was pooling around her.

She was bleeding from everywhere.

Yet her eyes...

they were fixated on me.

As if the king me for saving her life that one time when she was still pup.

Her fear filled eyes are the last thing I saw before the shadows start surrounding me.

I struggle harder.

A little closer.

A little longer dammit.

Please.

I just need to touch her, I can heal her.

She can live.

She cant lay her life for me But nothing happened according to me.

I wasn't the one controlling these shadows.

I couldn't prolong this for even a second.

And just like that I plunge into the darkness I came from.

The scream caught in my throat.

Nalaaaaa!