Red Quill

"Nathan! let's go help them!"

Annie rushed toward the third building where Nathan was currently in. her team manage to exit the wet market, then they saw something huge. it was a big red dog, at least six feet tall and had a red porcupine like fur. the red dog looked at them. they were terrified at the sight of this gargantuan dog that can definitely gulp a person in one go.

"ahhh! fuck this shit"

one of her team member and shouted with fear. he quickly turned around and started running in the direction to their campus.

the red dog saw this and ran towards them before leaping eight feet high into the air. the team can only gasp at the sight of almost flying red dog. it landed in all of its four feet facing them. it bared its bloody red fang to Annie's group and growled so loud that they had to protect their ears from the ear splitting growl.

the red dog made a move. it approached the man who was trying to run away and swiped its giant paws at the man. the man flew with its body being almost sliced in half. he crashed on the exterior of a white van before falling to the ground. the crash left a discernible dent on the van's body.

the man gurgled on his own blood. he can feel his guts with his own hands and looked at his pink intestines on the ground next to his body. tears flowed through his eyes while calling out her mama.

"MAMA! PLEASE, I- I WANT TO G- GO HOM- HOME sobs"

he died with his eyes wide open filled with his tears. Annie saw this. she froze in place like a statue. her eyes was filled with tears. she placed her hand on her gaping mouth resisting the urge to vomit. her legs was now shaking unable what to do now. she tried to calm herself barely doing so. she looked around and said to her team.

"scatter!"

Annie hope with this, the casualties would be greatly reduced. she came to a realization that it is inevitable that many of them will die at this moment. this was her attempt save as many as possible.

the frozen members suddenly gain their senses after hearing their leader. they tried to run in different directions to confuse the red dog hoping that the other student the red dog will chase instead of them.

the red dog run around. it looked like it was playing with its food. all it did was chase the students who was too far away and block them making them turn around from where they came from. this happened until all of the students were back together again.

Annie cannot believe what she had just witness. it seemed like that this dog used tactics to manipulate where it want the students to go. this gave no choice to Annie but fight back. she raised her shield to her upper torso and readied her hollow tube weapon.

"everybody! it seems like we have no choice but to fight back. please be ready, do your best and don't die"

Annie gave a little speech. it didn't give much morale to them but it was still comforting. the students assumed a battle stance. they concentrated on the red dog's every move.

pacing back and fort, the red dog seems to be analyzing where it should attack first. then the red dog stopped, and started running towards the group of students cramped like sardines.

instead of slashing its claws at the students, before reaching the students it turned around with its momentum the students was hit by its tail that resembled a club with nails on it, but instead of nails it was the two feet long porcupine-like fur. three students were hit. the two came flying and fell to the ground rolling several times. while the other student was impaled on every part of her body so much so that her body hanged on the red dog's tail. she wasn't even able to scream as she died. the red dog wagged its tail to shake off the annoying body on its tail.

"NOO! ANNIE, JOHN, RUN! NOW!"

Annie saw Nathan running towards them. then he reached the red dog's behind and swung his hollow tube to the red dog's lower thigh. the red dog was startled and turned around just to see Nathan swinging his weapon on its face. Nathan successfully hit its snout. feeling a counter attack, Nathan quickly jumped back evading the its claws narrowly.

"SHIT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? GET BACK NOW!"

Nathan yelled at his classmates while running in the opposite direction where the students was. but it was a failed attempt. the red dog jump a few feet higher than Nathan and landed in front of him.

CLICK

"Annie, i have a plan"

CLICK

"Okay! tell me!"

after Nathan told her his plan, Annie quickly moved according to plan. she first instructed her team to go back to campus. the red dog was too busy with Nathan so it didn't see the students running away. she then move to different direction.

Nathan kept running around in circles. the same thing kept happening, when he ran, the red dog will jump in front of him then he would go in the opposite direction only to be blocked again. the red dog wasn't attacking him which is a good thing for him. but it seemed deliberate, the red dog wanted to exhaust its prey before eating it. it really is playing with its food.

PANT PANT PANT

Nathan was now out of breath. he can barely run and he was getting slower and slower. if this keeps up, he will definitely die. at this moment, Annie talked through his walkie talkie.

CLICK

"Nathan, we're ready!"

CLICK

"good, i can't keep this up anymore"

Nathan said while gasping for breath. he turned around and ran facing the red wolf. he concentrated to his limit, before the red dog could swipe him he jumped to his right side and rolled a few times before getting up and ran away in the opposite direction the red dog was facing.

'come on you son of a bitch!'

he ran for a couple meters before the red dog catch up to him, it jump into the air and landed in front of him two meters away. the red growled loudly. its started dripping down its mouth. its red eyes stared at Nathan with the intent to kill. Nathan stopped running, he spread his hands to his sides as if provoking the red dog.

"FUCK YOU! YOU KILLED MY CLASSMATES!"

Nathan yelled at the gnashing red dog. both Nathan's hands gave the red dog the finger. as if being provoked, the read dog was about to run towards Nathan.

STEP STEP

Nathan smiled with satisfaction.

"haha gotcha!"

it was too late when the red dog noticed the jeepney moving towards him at an alarmingly fast speed. the red dog couldn't react.

CRASH!

the front of the jeepney crashed into the body of the red dog sending it flying away a few meters. it rolled on the ground while whimpering out of pain. the red dog was limped on its right front foot. then it howled calling the remaining two of its smaller red dogs.

the jeepney stopped in front of Nathan. Annie got out of the passenger seat beside the driver seat. she jumped with a worried look on her face. she then hugged Nathan as tightly as she could. she closed her eyes and patted Nathan's back.

"don't ever do that again!"

Nathan smiled as he looked at Annie's sweaty face. he can't think of anything to say so he just said.

"sure"

Nathan took a deep breath and let out a long sigh. he hugged Annie back and closed his eyes.

just after the red dog got up and called its smaller dog, the Alpha red dog turned its side facing Nathan, Annie and Joseph. suddenly its fur stood up in a straight line in all direction. then it shook its body violently. it was like a dog just after taking a bath splashing water all over the place. but in this case, deadly red, two feet long, porcupine-like fur flew everywhere hitting Nathan and Joseph.

"uhh, guys? the red dog is doing something! we have to do somethi-"

before Joseph could finish what he was saying, a two feet long porcupine-like fur pierced his chest accurately hitting his heart. he died in an instant. while another pierced Nathan's side just above his left kidney. it went from back to front. Annie was almost hit by the same material that hit Nathan. only a few centimeters and they both be impaled together.

Nathan and Annie was so caught up in the moment that they didn't know that the red dog was already up. they also didn't hear Joseph calling them.

"ah!"

Nathan's face became distorted with pain. he fell to his knees. he looked at his torso and he saw a red material piercing him on his side. Nathan looked at Annie with a surprise look uttering one word before collapsing.

"shit"

THUD

"Nathan!"

Annie held Nathan who was laying on the ground while his blood pooled all over. tears started flowing on Annie's eyes. Annie tried to press her hands around the pierced side of Nathan to stop the blood from leaking out of his body. but it was useless as the blood was also leaking from the other side of the wound.

"no, no, no, no!"

Annie don't know what to do anymore. her body was shaking from fear. Annie looked at the Alpha red dog walking towards them. most of its fur was gone, bald patches can be seen on its body. she can now see the bright red skin of the damn monster.

burning with anger, Annie raised her weapon and rushed towards the pack of red dogs.

"AHHHH!"

Annie yelled her lungs out. running towards the enemy means death, Annie knew that but she doesn't have a choice. she will never be able to outrun the red dogs, she certainly can't lead the damn monsters to their base endangering more people. all she wishes was to kill at least one of the smaller red dogs before she dies.

BANG BANG BANG BANG.

before Annie could reach the pack of monster dogs, a loud continuous gun fire startled her then she stopped moving. whimpers of the dying dogs can be heard. the two smaller dogs ready died, while the Alpha was injured. it was hit on one of its bald patches. unfortunately it still had the strength and ran away. it left a trail of blood as it disappeared from their views.

"what the hell is that!?"