Issue #6-Chapter 11, Part 1

When Aleke and Silverus dashed towards the direction where the old man's scream echoed from, the lycan's roar echoed right in front of them which caused them to be there as quickly as possible. They couldn't imagine failing to rescue someone in need. And by the time they got there, they stopped moving and slid forward a little, gasping with their eyes widening.

They saw an old man lying there while the three lycans were charging after him. He wore some plain, green clothing, was bald headed, and had no weapon with him at that time. He bent forward and panted, probably seeing himself being hurt or something.

Now the lycan in the middle was no ordinary lycan. Not only did it have a lot of strange tattoos all over its front body, but also dark gray fur shining under the moonlight and the streetlights. It was exceptionally tall for a lycan, slightly taller than the other two in between. It darted its glowing, purple eyes at the old man.

The crows and ravens' cawing were cheering down at the scene from the street lights. The lycans were halfway towards the old man and raised their claws up in the air, getting ready to strike him. They bared their fangs while they growled at him, with some drool leaking out from their mouths.

The old man looked up and gasped when his enemies' shadows were casted upon him. Silverus glared at the enemies and looked down at his arrows standing beside him. Once he returned his attention to the scene, he pulled out one of the arrows without even looking at them and aimed his crossbow at one of the enemies-the one in the middle.

Aleke broadened her fearful, twitchy eyes and shivered with her mouth open, while she gazed at the scene. She then looked up at Silverus and cried out loud, "Silverus, what are we going to do now?! The old man's about to be killed any minute."

Silverus turned his eyes left for Aleke without looking her in the eye. "Aleke, I'm going to need you to check on that old man and take him to safety." He turned his eyes back to the scene and tightly narrowed his eyes. "I'll distract them away from him."

"Ah!" Aleke quickly turned back to Silverus and expressed her worried look on her face. "Are you sure about that?!"

"Just do it, Aleke!" Silverus roared impatiently when he shot his crossbow at the one in the middle.

"Okay," Aleke said in her calming tone, nodding at Silverus a little although she appeared a bit reluctant at first.

Silverus ran away from Aleke and watched the one in the middle screeched out of pain and stopped advancing, kneeling down on the ground. The other two lycans stopped moving and turned to the one in the middle. They watched it pant and its blood oozing from its wound.

"Hey there, you bastards!" The lycans turned to Silverus' shout on the left and watched him aimed his crossbow at them. "That's right! I'll shoot one of you guys and I'm not afraid to fire another one! So come and get me!"

As soon as those lycans roared at Silverus, they bounced forward and chased after him. Aleke saw Silverus ran for his life, she turned back to the old man and saw her opportunity to carry him, while the larger one remained unconscious. The old man slowly sat up straight while he gazed at the larger one, still fighting through the pain.

The moment she placed her hand on him, he turned his head around and looked up at her. Before she could even lift him up, she noticed a bit of blood oozing from one of his legs to create a little pool of blood. "Here, let me help you, sir."

"Oh, well thank you," the old man said while Aleke lifted him up from the ground. Although he was a bit heavy for her to carry, she was strong enough to withstand his heaviness.

"Don't mention it." She and the old man turned to the larger one, and they saw it still unconscious. It panted heavily with its head down, and its blood still oozed from its wound, dripping onto the ground.

"We need to take you to a safe place right now before that lycan gets back up and get you healed right now," Aleke added, "Who knows how long that monster would become unstunned again."

The old man turned back to the werewolf and Aleke, nodding. "Yes, I guess you're right. We really do need to get going now."