43 Mistake (1/2)

”Don't be stupid i dont care if you're fucking superman! Going back there is suicide!” Benson yelled.

”Hes right” Suzette begged ”please don't go again”

Phillip sighed ”Fine, ill get some help”

”I don't think those park rangers will help us again”

”I don't plan on asking them” He said taking his phone out, and dialled Koos up.

”Hey oom Koos, tell me you're still around?”

”Nope, sorry Phillie, were already heading back to SA”

”Shit!”

”Whats wrong?”

”No i just needed some extra man power”

”I can still orgenise that for you, give me ten minuites”

”Ok”

Ten minuites later Koos phoned back.

”Ok boet, there will be three Russian guys coming over to help you, it better be worth it, we had to pay them a lot of fokkin money”

”Thanks Koos”

Half an hour later the knock came on the door. Phillip opened the door allowing the three men to enter.

”You Phillip?” The one asked.

”Yes”

The man shook his hand ”Im Anton, this is Yuri and thats Kurig”

”You men can shoot?”

The three lifted their trench coats to reveal their own AK47's ”Da”

Benson clapped his hands ”Good, now were talking”

Phillip jumped into his Jeep again, his duffle bag in the boot. Surprisingly Suzette also joined.

”You sure you want to come?”

”If you die now, atleast ill be with you in your final hour” She said smiling.

”Thats reassuring” He smiled back and drove off.

At the road where the mound was, Phillip first turned around before he got out.

”Ok, down there is a spot i need to inspect, you three stay up here and keep watch, make sure nothing that moves accept for me stays alive long”

The men racked the AK's and nodded.

”Make sure she stays safe above all”

”No problem”

Phillip gave Suzette a kiss then after he shouldered the duffle bag slowly headed down again. Just as he did before, but this time he moved in a wide angle around the mound, then started planting landmines and claymores. He made sure there were no gaps, any angle around him from the forest's side was boobytrapped. Then as a contingency plan he placed the C4 in such a way that he could hide or run past it and detonate it so it could aid him. Feeling more comfortable he turned to the mound. Firstly he checked the ground around it, lines of wolf tracks lead from it into the forest, some ended behind rocks, some behind bushes and trees. Then he looked closely at the mound, the stones he saw was not stones on a closer look, it was infact bones, mostly human. It was an ambush point, but, why would someone come down here on purpose? Usually ambush points are on regularly used game trails? It was almost like one should be lured down here first, Phillip wished Anna was here to explain this, but she pulled out like a real bitch when he needed her most, so much for that lovely kiss.

'You're going to have to give her more than just a kiss, to get her out here' A voice spoke to him, Phillip slowly turned around, but instead of seeing a woman, there was something that almost made him wet himself. It was a very large wolf, but skin less, it was a skeleton, the muscle still attached to the bone, and its eyes still in the sockets. It snarled but had no lips to draw back, Phillip lifted the AK and fired, the wolf turned and ran, he at first had it on burst, but quickly switched to full auto and let loose, three out of five of the old Angolan rounds hit doing massive damage but it didn't go down, it turned to him but its hind leg tripped a land mine and blew it flipping forward into the air. Phillip used this time to reload and step back, but this thing wasn't done, as soon as it hit the ground it came at him still, using its front legs to drag its blown away hind quarters along, Phillip continued firing, it started going right again, running in an arc, Phillip felt sick seeing it drag its intestines behind it, It yet again turned to him but tripped the wire of a claymore and blew its front legs of by the knees, it roared and relentlessly started dragging itself using its front stumps, at that moment the men who stood watching above found it safe enough to also start firing. Phillip didn't really want this, now they made their presence noticed to this thing, it roared and turned to them, Phillip saw it head straight for the block of C4 so he slinged the AK and got the detonator ready, the skinless wolf literary tripped over the C4 when Phillip slammed the button. The explosion lit up the forest with its thunderous explosion, Phillip misjudged the potency of the explosive charge and got caught in the blast.

”Phillip!” Suzette yelled seeing him get thrown a couple of meters back, she started running down the hill to aid him.

”Phi...p”

He was dazed, confused, his ears rang.

”P...lip!”