Marcus could feel himself slowly slipping. The end was inevitable for him now. The end was near and pretty soon, within a few seconds, it would be here. He felt his life force being sucked out of him as everything began to drain away.
This was it. This was the end of the road for him.
Just as he was about to slip into the abyss, he heard a shriek of pain and suddenly his own pain had stopped...or began to die down at least.
He could not see clearly but he could hear what was going on around him. Eric and the kitsune, whose name Marcus never caught, were fighting. From the sounds of it, they weren't going to stop either.
Whilst they were busy dealing blows to one another, Marcus's wolf healing kicked in, taking away the last of the pain and closing up the wound on his neck. Soon after that, his vision cleared up and he was able to pull himself up and finally take in what was actually happening.