The fight

While he was following the hyenas at night till they go back to their base, he was fully focused that he could ignore the fatigue that being build up. But now since he manages to find the hyenas den he starts to feel tired.

Walking south from the hyena's den for around 30 minutes Elliot arrived at a large patch of grass, he walks inside and seeing that there is no other animal nearby he starts to flatten a small patch of grass and cut some of the grass from the other spot to cover himself and get some sleep.

After a few hours, he wakes up from the sunlight hitting his face. Seeing around him and there still no other animals he prepares himself and tries to make the bait spot. Today he going to bait the hyenas pack from their base, and he will go attacking their base.

Because he thinks that while the majority of the hyenas will be going outside to hunt, the pack that stays in the den will be smaller in number than the hunting ones.

He starts walking toward the hyena's den and trying to see the number on it, after slowly walking toward there, he manages to peek around 5 hyenas are there. Thinking that he might able to fight them if he reduces its number more he starts walking toward another location for 30 minutes and checking that there are no other animals around he put the bait and start slowly putting baits along the way to the den.

He throws the bait into den directions and starts to hide from their vision, he watches that 2 hyenas stay at the den. He slowly walks toward the den, thinking that 2 hyenas at once a little too much for him to handle. he tries to reduce 1 more hyena with baits, he put it where he was and after 5 min he positions himself near the bait location.

Luckily the wind helps him this time one of the hyenas smells the meat and walks toward it while the other one laying still on the base. While there isn't much bait left for him to use, its make it or break it for him.

Now the plan is when the hyena starts eating he will jump and try to jump and swing his arm toward its head position. and the rest try his best to kill it as fast he possibly can.

It doesn't take long before the hyena comes near him, it starts to sniff around and see that there is nothing around it. The hyena starts eating at first, it eats slowly seems to be still in alert, but after half of the bait gone the hyena starts to pick up its eating speed.

Seeing his chance coming. He as slow as possible start to move from his position and taking a stance to jump toward the hyena. Maybe because it's still eating, and the sound of grass swaying coincide with the wind blowing manage to cover the sound Elliot makes from the side of the hyena. Steeling his nerves Elliot takes deep slow breaths and jump toward the hyena from the side.

At first, the hyena doesn't realize that something peeking from his side but after the sound Elliot makes when he jumps startle the hyena into looking toward the sound direction. Seeing there is something pop-out from the grass and lunges into it, the hyena tries to react and try to move its body toward Elliot's position.

But before the hyena could take another move Elliot already falls down from his jump and with the swing of his hand, he manages to hit the hyena while the hit doesn't land perfectly in the middle of its skull.

Elliot manages to hit the mouthparts and nose were. Being hit there makes the hyena yelping in pain, Elliot could see its eye is covered with tears. Thinking his punch manage to hurt the hyena, Elliot dashes toward it and starts plummeting his fist toward it.

Punch after punch Elliot throws, while some hit misses its target, but most are hitting the head. with so many hits taken to its head, the hyena couldn't stay standing and fall toward the ground.

With the sound he produces and the yelping of the hyena, the other hyena that stays in den start coming to him, seeing another one comes Elliot starts stomping his foot toward the fallen hyena head on the ground. without long the hyena that keeps being kicked on the head stops moving entirely.

Seeing that he put the hyena corpse into his inventory, and prepare himself to fight with the incoming hyena. Right now he will have a real fight with the hyena without any sneak attacks.

With the adrenaline from killing the other hyena still rushing in his body. Elliot waits the hyena coming closer toward him, The hyena seems to be wary toward Elliot, but still creeps closer toward him.

When it comes toward here, the hyena could hear the sound of its companion from around where Elliot was. Thinking that the weird creature standing around that part as an intruder to its territory.

As the creature that invading doesn't move at all, it starts gaining speed trying to kill Elliot. While during the whole duration Elliot follows the pack of hyena yesterday. Elliot realizes something that the hyena has strong bitting capability, and they rarely using its front limb as a weapon like the lions that he sees using it to pull the prey it catches toward the ground.

With that in mind, Elliot prepares himself. As the hyena comes closer and closer, Elliot tries to position himself with his left hand in front and right hand below his arm ready to be launched toward the hyena, He lowers his stance preparing to dodge the hyena first attack.

As soon the hyena tries to bit him, Elliot sidestepped and throw his punch toward its head. But the fist miss it's target and only hitting the side of hyena's body. But still maybe because of the adrenaline, that punch he throws is hitting hard toward its body that the hyena grimacing from the pain.

With the momentum he gains, Elliot dash toward the hyena and keeps hitting whatever he can. Punch after punch he lands to the hyena makes the hyena more and more aggressive.

After a few minutes of punching and dodging, Elliot couldn't dodge one of its bites and got bitten in his arm. While there is little pain that he felt, he couldn't remove his arm from hyena bite. Then thinking that he couldn't escape. Elliot uses his finger and pokes toward the hyena eye.

Maybe feeling the pain from its eye being poked, makes the hyena let go of Elliot's arm. With his arm freed, and the hyena trashing around from the pain and loss of one of its vision. It starts to walk away from Elliot and when Elliot sees the hyena trying to run. He starts to dash chasing it, it doesn't take long for Elliot to catch up with the hyena and start hitting and kicking it and manage to kill it not long after.

When the hyena stops breathing, Elliot could felt the rush he felt during the fighting start to fade. He starts to notice he doesn't escape unscratched while the hyena doesn't actively use its claws. Elliot could see a few scratches here and there especially his arm. The place it got bitten start to feel painful.

Collecting the hyena body into the inventory Elliot starts to walk toward the hyena's den