Time to hunt

Alex and the two wolves finally came to the cave to hide. The reason Alex chose to hide here, is because the cave i nearly invisible, it is filled with overgrown vines from trees, bushes and a lot of moss. If you just looked at it quickly, it looked more like a hill, than a cave.

They chose to quickly go inside the cave, before the hunters caught up. the inside looked exactly the same as the outside, it was filled with green moss on the walls, the ground was cold and hard rock, with a few places where green, glowing mushrooms was protruding.

The cave was very deep, deep enough for him not to be able to see the end. Alex was a little sad he didn't have a torch so he could explore, but he quickly forgot that thought, since he was getting quite thirsty. He didn't have a solution for that problem yet, but he can probably still go a day more, before it gets serious.

He looked up, and he saw the little pup was looking at him, the pup was not growling or anything like that, it was looking at him curiously. Alex was curious too, why did the wolf actually trust him, and go with him? Was there really any reason for that?

He suddenly hears a quiet female voice saying 'it was a feeling, I don't know why we followed you, but I was desperate, and I had a feeling you could be trusted' He looked at the wolf, surprised 'so it was the mother I guess' He then said to her.

"so you can talk then? what happened? why were you followed?" the wolf looked at him like he was an idiot 'no, I do not speak, I can only communicate through thoughts, and it usually only works on demons' She had a thoughtful look in her eyes 'so why is it I can talk to you? you don't look like a demon'

Alex looked into her eyes, and gave her a wry smile "I don't have any idea either, but my title is Cursed swordsman and I was told that means I am half demon"

'that is really odd, I have never heard of a half demon before, I have heard of demons experimenting with it before, and the one that was closest to a breakthrough was killed ...' The wolf had a really thoughtful look in her eyes '... His name was Alcard'

As soon as Alex heard his name, his face turned pale white, he had heard that name before, and quite recently too. He thought back to the demon priest, he said his name was Alcard, could that really be the same person? It seems I have gotten a new objective.

The wolf was definitely was not stupid 'what are you thinking? have you heard his name before' She asked him of course.

He only shook his head and said "No, I haven't, but it does not really matter, it is all in the past, at the moment we have to survive!" She looks at him suspiciously 'Okay', she didn't really felt like prying.

"Oh, what is your name anyway?" Alex suddenly asks after a few minutes of silence.

'My name is Sara, and my daughter over there is called Jasmine' Was her answer, she didn't really think anything of it, just some normal introduction.

"Hello Sara and Jasmine! My name is Alex, and it is a pleasure to meet you"

Sara smiled, with a weird wolf smile 'Hello Alex, thanks for saving me and Jasmine!'

A day slowly went by in the cave, Alex talked quite a bit with Sara, and was cuddling with the little pup when they were sleeping. He found out from Sara that they were actually from a wolf clan in the outskirts of the demon kingdom, at the borders to my kingdom. Her pack were suddenly attacked by these hunters, and her and Jasmine were the only survivors. Right now, they were looking for a new pack to join.

Alex wakes up in the morning, still very thirsty, and now, also a little hungry. He looks at Sara and Jasmine, and tells them that he will go look for something to drink and eat for them.

He gets out of the cave, and is thinking of what would be the best way to go about things. He suddenly thinks of something, and start to work towards his goal. He looks around on the ground, and looks for newly fallen sticks. He is intending to build a bow, so he is in need of a flexible, and durable stick, and some strong vines.

It is easy to find the vines, since there is a lot of them right outside the cave opening, so he look at them, and takes one long vine, that looks the strongest, but not too thick. He starts to walk into the forest now, to see if he could fin any sticks to make his bow. while he is looking for the stick to make the bow, he picks up a lot of smaller sticks, feathers and pointy stones, to make the arrows.

After walking around the cave for almost an hour, he finds a stick around 1,3 meters long, that looks to be around as thick as your thump, and surprisingly, it is very flexible. Now that he had all he needed, he sat down and started to craft his bow and arrows. He had made a bow, 10 arrows. They were very poorly made, but they were useful.

Suddenly he hears a voice inside his head saying 'Novice crafter' skill learned. He looks around confused, and decide he should ask Sara about this when he gets back to the cave.

For now it was time to hunt.