151 Red Eyed Faust - 8 (2/2)
*Ahhhhh woooooo!!~~* the wolf lets out another big howl, but this time it last even longer and louder. The proud wolf stops her howling and stares at face reflecting in the eyes, showing her dominance to Gus. She did not intend to let Gus go freely after he lands Lethal blows on her.
Gus takes Bella, wraps his shirt around her body so that she doesn't loose more blood and runs back into the woods hurriedly as he can.
”Ahhhhhwwooooo!!!~~~” suddenly several other howls can be heard back.
”Dammit they came this fast?” Gus hears a howl of a wolf and turns back to face whatever is behind him.
Faust and Gus are beyond belief, there are 7 wolves in front of them beside the wounded wolf and there are 6 wolves on top of the highest cliff behind them and soon the wolf who just got taken down by Gus, gets back up in her feet and join her pack. All of the wolves are big, but except for one wolf that really stood out the most catches the eyes of Gus. It was on the cliff and it stands in the middle of all six wolves like he was the leader, he is at least 8 feet tall with a bushy tail which is almost half a meter long. It's ivory canine and steel like claws are looking like a deadly weapons. It can bite a head of a human in a snap, yet Gus did not seem like he's afraid.
”Faust, take Bella and run to the village, I will be behind you.” Gus gives instruction to Faust and walks towards the pack of wolves calmly.
”Huh?” Faust is quizzical , how can Gus walk into the pack of 14 wolves without any protection or a weapon?
”Raka! it's me Gus, do you remember me?” Gus shouts out surprisingly to the 8 feet wolf while he stretches his hand forward as a sign of saying he's no harm to the wolves.
The pack of wolves were all growling lowly but yet, aren't taking a step forward as the 8 feet wolf is walking down the cliff. It demonstrated it's dominance among other wolves. The big wolf, walks up in front of all the others and stands right opposite to Gus.
”You have become so big huh? Haha you must be leading all the other wolves. Do you remember my voice? I saved you when you were a little cub, look at you all grown up.” Gus says with a friendly smiling face.
Raka appears to be really calm, it doesn't lower his head up to Gus as if it was full of pride, but he seems to not be harmful for now and Gus was relieved for that. The big wolf looks at the wounded wolf, who now fell back down to the ground beside him as if this time even her ego couldn't help her stand the strong blow for long. Gus senses a little tension in the air as to how Raka is growling and seeming unsettled.
Raka without a warning swings it's claw at Gus all of a sudden, piercing the flesh of Gus's left shoulder. Gus was in disbelief by this sudden deadly blow.
”Grandpaaa!!” Faust is scared to his wits while clutching Bella tight and witnessing his grandpa getting slashed right in front of his eyes.
”Faust, why are you still here? Just run back to the village. I'm alright!” Gus shouts as he grits his teeth while holding his left shoulder tight, hoping to stop the bleeding while he was down, kneeling on one of his knees.
Bella is bigger than Faust, he is not able to carry her and he is worried if Bella's wounds will tear open more if he dragged her to village. And his grandpa is fighting on the thin thread of life and death with the wolves, Faust doesn't know what to do at all. His head is spinning and he is in anxiety breakdown.
*”Dammit! I was careless, the claw reached deep and cut down my tendons, I can't use my left arm anymore and there are 13 wolves standing in front of me”* Gus muddled to himself while taking deep breaths to calm himself. *”If only I have any enhancements with me right now aghhhh”* Gus stressfully thinks and gets up on both of his feet, grabs the wooden sword tightly getting ready to fight to death with the wolves. As his chances of slipping were reduced to none.
Enhancements that Gus wish he had with him are the elemental stones of different attribute. Each stone here have its own element hidden within them. Humans started using these elemental stones to enhance their physical properties greatly at the time of wars.
The elemental stones were used until now are a red stone which looks like a garnet that consists bombarding nature hidden within it. The red stone can help the user to release fire power from small to large merging with the spiritual power the warrior has.
And the green stone that looks like a sapphire gem. The green stone contains the air element within it, any user can manipulate the air to their comfort and produce strong winds or gusts. It can also help in enhancing arrows, spears, cross bows and javelins making the tool travel fast with the aid from air.
Also, the purple stone, looks like a purple ruby which can call thunders and lighting in a second. In addition there are more stones which no one had learnt about yet. And these elemental stones when equipped to a weapon which was made specially for you is called enhancements. That Gus wished for.
On the side of Faust, he seems to be overwhelmed by his emotions.
*”Coward, stupid body, coward heart. I'm the most useless thing ever. I let Bella get hurt and now grandpa too. I should have listened to Tim, why did I ever come here in the first place?*
*why was I so stupid and scared for my life? Why can't I just be brave enough to save people?* Faust questions himself repeatedly and cries over how frantic he was.