Really?

Late Into the night he slowly started to awaken thanks to the rustling sounds he was hearing. Slowly and groggily opening his eyes and looking around he didn't see anything but he did hear something seeing as how as he awoken in the middle of the night. But maybe it could have been his anxiety of being in a different environment or just the sheer ruggedness of the tree he was laying on. Even if it was either of those two though he knew he had to at least wake up and make sure he wasn't crazy or else it could potentially spell doom for him.

"What a night."

A couple minutes later after he'd woken up and was looking around without finding anything he finally heard another sound just like before.

*Rustle*

"See I wasn't crazy."

Who he was proving that point to he didn't know most likely himself though.

Turning his head to look in the direction of the sound he spotted the group of leaves he threw in the corner of the area today. Watching the leaves he patiently waited to see if something would move or create another sound. If it happened again he wouldn't let it escape him this time.

*Whoosh*

*Rustle*

Watching the wind slowly move the leaves he placed around he was left speechless.

"Fuck I am crazy it was just the damn wind, I woke up for this argghh."

Silently complaining in his heart about the unfairness of the situation he slowly relaxed his body. Thankfully it was just him not use to the environment yet and getting disturbed by sounds and things he never experience much in his sleep before. With time this problem would eventually fix itself thankfully but that wouldn't be until after he adjusted to the differences. Attempting to go back to sleep he relaxed his body again.

*Rustle*

*Snap*

This time around though he snapped wide awake because there was no wind and he also heard a twig breaking. There was definitely no explaining that sound off as mere wind. There was definitely something in his proximity and whether it was a dangerous beast or Astral beast he wouldn't know until he saw it. But this time he wasn't going to foolishly assume it was the wind and settle down he would wait as long as needed to until whatever it was showed up.

5 minutes later...

10 minutes later...

*Snap*

After waiting 10 minutes he finally spotted what created this mess and interrupted his precious sleep time. It was an Astral Wolf similar to the last one he got attacked by, but it appeared this one wandered out of the Myriad Locked Forest and stumbled its way across him. Things like this were somewhat common in this area. From time to time the beasts inside would wander out of their dwelling and get lost on the outside wandering around and even ended up attacking people but he didn't think he'd be so unlucky to run into one on his first night.

"Geh, I should of known better."

He was too lazy and unable to keep vigilance on his first night in a new environment and ended up stumbling across an Astral Wolf but this time around was definitely different. This time he was an Awakened Stage and the Wolf was an Awakening plus he wasn't going to be surprise attacked like before.

"I can definitely handle the situation this time around. I won't let it get the best of me again Hehe."

Grinning devilishly at the chance for redemption he jumped down from his branch and approached the wolf carefully.

The Astral Wolf was also warily watching him approach as well and even took a slight step back unconsciously.

Waiting until he got into dashing range so that he could unleash an attack as fast as possible he slowly crept forward until he was in the perfect range.

"Just a little more."

Whispering to himself until he finally got into range he quickly gathered as much energy as he could in his legs and arms and dashed forward.

*Whoosh*

Seeing the boy suddenly accelerate at a pace the wolf was unable to follow it became slightly dazed. But to him that daze was this mangy mutts death sentence.

Arriving in front of the Astral Wolf He brought his arm back and focused everything in him on his entire arm and pushed his fist forward. Added with the daze of the wolf being caught off guard and the speed that surpassed it the fist instantly landed on the wolfs skull.

*Crraacckk*

As his fist landed on top of the Wolfs head a loud cracking sound resounded through out the night along with the sound of a dying moan from the Wolf. Aside from those sounds it was dead quiet as if time had stopped for him and the wolf. Slowly the wolfs skull cracked open spilling blood everywhere and thumping onto the ground.

Even though he was watching the wolf fall down onto the ground dead it was now his turn to be in a daze with his fist still hanging where it impacted on the wolfs skull with blood dripping down that got stuck on his hand. He knew he was definitely a lot stronger this time around when facing the wolf especially with the factor of not getting surprise attacked this time. But the fact that he absolutely slaughtered the thing so brutally like that was definitely out of his calculations so much to the point it even surprised him.

"Ww-well then."

Breaking out of his daze he slowly retracted his bloody fist and looked down at the corpse. Looking down once again he was surprised once more as he didn't feel the need to crazily devour it this time around like last time.

"Is it because I already ate one of them? or is it because I haven't tasted any part of it this time."

Last time he killed this Astral wolf he ended up being attacked by a crazy instinct to eat it but this time around wasn't the case and the only two different factors this time around were the fact that he was stronger then this creature now and that he didn't taste it yet. It had to be either one of those options at least in his opinion because there wasn't any thing else he could think of that was different that changed from last time besides those.

"Looks like I got a free test subject though to test my theory on. Let's give it a bite."

With a wicked grin plastered all over his cold face he picked up the Wolfs body and slowly brought it over to the opposite corner from where he slept to prepare it.

"This is going to be fun."

with his sadistic smile still standing strong at the thoughts of his redemption against this mutt he slowly started to open up its body and prepare it for a feast.