Survive [2]

A four-legged beast was trotting around the woods. It looked in a certain direction and sniffed. It was hungry, and it found something delicious.

It changed direction and sped up from a trot to a canter. It quickly approached its destination, and soon it came to a stop. It peeked out from behind a tree.

There it saw a young human boy chewing on something brown and crispy. It didn't know what it is but it really smelled delicious. It wanted to eat it, it felt that the food should belong to it, not that weird hairless monkey. It started to drool.

It focused its attention on the boy. It judged it was weak, there was no air of vigilance from it. It made its decision. It will kill that boy and then eat both the brown crispy food and the boy.

It crouched, ready to pounce and devour.

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"YES YES YES!! MEAT MEAT MEAT!!!!" Luka impatiently grabbed the roasted rabbit and immediately bit into it.

"GAH! Hot hot hot... I should've expected that. Why am I dumb?" Luka carefully blew air at the roasted rabbit and slowly bit into it.

The skin crackled and his teeth dug into the tender meat. Juices seeped into his mouth, making him drool even more. He chewed and more juices flowed out and stimulated his taste buds.

"Could use some salt, but it's still good!"

Luka took more bites and filled his hungry stomach. Having only eaten stale bread and fruit for 5 days he finally satiated his craving for meat.

Suddenly, Luka heard a growl behind him. The hair on the back of his neck stood on end. On instinct, he quickly jumped away, barely dodging the creature that pounced behind him.

He turned around, it was a gray wolf. He heard his dad talk about these things. While gray wolves would form packs sometimes, they often act alone. Encountering gray wolf packs is a bit rare, so you'd usually see gray wolves acting alone.

Normal adults can fend off gray wolves fairly easily, but Luka is still a 10-year-old kid. Luka realized the wolf found him by following the roasted rabbit's scent. He glanced at his dagger, he left it beside the bonfire.

He threw the roast rabbit in the opposite direction. The wolf took the bait and Luka seized the opportunity. He dashed towards his dagger and picked it up. He immediately used Aura and enhanced his entire body, making sure to keep using the breathing technique to replenish lost Aura.

Seeing that the wolf is preoccupied with the rabbit he acted. Taking a stick from the bonfire and threw it at the wolf. Luka was hoping that the wolf's fur would catch on fire, but it didn't work. The wolf noticed something was thrown at it and dodged.

The wolf felt annoyed. How dare this hairless monkey disrupt its meal? Well then, the boy will be part of its meal then!

The wolf growled, and it pounced, opening its big maw intending to mangle Luka. Seeing this Luka dodged. The wolf bit into thin air, but before it could react, Luka stabbed his dagger into the side of the wolf.

Luka pulled out the dagger and blood flowed out from the stan wound. The wolf howled in pain, but it was enraged!

The wolf pounced once more and Luka dodged again. The wolf pounced, and Luka dodged. This repeated a few times until Luka tripped on a stone.

The wolf took advantage of this and bit into Luka's left forearm.

"AARRGH!!"

The wolf's fangs sunk into Luka's flesh. Blood dripped into the wolf's tongue, stimulating its bloodlust even more.

Luka's expression grimaced. The wolf's bite was strong, and it hurt like hell. It may have hurt, but it wasn't on the same level of pain he experienced when he died in his past life. Luka steeled his resolve and his expression turned serious. He gripped the handle of the dagger and stabbed towards the back of the wolf.

Now that the wolf was biting down his arm, it wasn't a moving target anymore. He stabbed multiple times and the wolf whimpered. The wolf let go of Luka's arm.

"Oh no, you don't!"

Luka prevented the wolf from retreating, he head locked the wolf with his arms and legs wrapped around the wold's abdomen. The wolf struggled free, wiggling around, trying to shake off Luka, but he wouldn't budge.

Luka started stabbing the wolf again. A stab in the stomach, a stab in the eye, a stab in the side. He stabbed and stabbed and stabbed. Blood pooled into the soil below.

Soon the wolf stopped its struggle. It was dying. The wolf was just twitching now, waiting for its death.

Luka let go of the wolf and laid down on the blood-soaked ground. He breathed heavily. He was starting to feel weak. He lost quite a lot of blood from the wolf's bite.

'The damn dog might've torn open an artery.... shit.'

He picked himself up and walked toward his bag. He took out his remaining rope and tied it around his left arm.

"This should slow down the bleeding... I hope. Would be nice if I had bandages though."

He looked at the wolf's corpse. The smell of blood might attract more beasts, so Luka left the scene.

However, he still lost too much blood. He's a kid, he doesn't have much of it. Soon after Luka fainted in the forest underneath the night sky.

Not long after, a cloaked figure appeared from behind the trees and approached the unconscious Luka.