The elderly tiger felt his body grow weak and unable to put up anymore resistance against the wolves.
In his last efforts he blocked the attack which was intended to kill one of his own bloodline.
Not only was the young tiger his grandchild but also the hope of his clan rising from the ashes and becoming a mighty existence once more.
No way was he going to let him die!
Exerting the last of his strength he did succeed in injuring the old wolf, now everything else that happened next would rely on luck and the young tigers strength.
The young tiger was furious at the sight of his elder fall before him, he let out a loud and terrifying roar.
He charged towards the wolf on the elderly tiger and intended to take a risk to kill him while he was wounded.
Noticing his attack the wolf backed off from the the elderly tigers and turned to face the young tiger who was charging towards him.
The fight turned into a defensive battle for the surviving wolves, the old wolf had just recovered from the attack of the elderly tiger and assessed the situation.
Letting out a loud howl towards the sky he then turned towards the remaining wolf. "Keep the brat busy, I will join the fight immediately. We just need to wait for reinforcements and the other groups should be searching for us by now. They should find us soon!"
His words were within reason, their clan members should have finished killing the remaining tigers and be searching for the next prey.
They only needed to locate them from the elders howl and join in the fight.
Victory would be theirs, they just needed to buy some time and not take anymore risks!
Today had been full of surprises, first was the elderly tigers final fight as he was believed to be unable to do so thanks to him being on his death bed.
Second was the return of the young tiger which possessed enough strength to interrupt their plans.
Third and finally was the elderly tigers sacrifice and inflicting a heavy wound on the old wolf decreasing his fighting ability.
Unbeknownst to the old wolf…much more surprises were in store which had completely gone unnoticed.
Inflicted with injuries from their previous battles and their next fight with the elderly tiger, their spirit energy was running low and their blood loss was becoming a problem.
Their injuries were also affecting their movement, their bodies could not perform to their full capabilities thus they began to show much more flaws during their fight with the young tiger.
In a few short exchanges the young tiger gained a few injuries on his body, mostly heavy scratch wounds and a bite mark, he was also very tired from escaping with the others and then returning to fight.
The remaining wolf and old wolf were covered in wounds and had lost quite a lot of blood but held on and kept up their exchange of attacks.
Despite the young tigers advantage he was too young and inexperienced, facing to opponents he swept his claws towards the wolf but his attack fell on an empty target.
The wolf dodged his attack at the last moment and used his body to slam into the side of the little tiger exerting the remaining strength he could muster.
The old wolf slammed his body towards the young tigers exposed chest area as he sent the tigers body flying backwards which fell to the ground.
The body of the tiger hit the ground heavily and twitched as it curled up into a ball defensively.
The blow dealt the tiger a lot of damage and broke some of his bones and damaged his internal organs luckily he was still alive and breathing.
At this point resistance was futile…
Whatever advantages the young tiger held were thrown away in a moment of carelessness.
The flow of the battle changed once again and the wolves were to be victorious once more.
Perhaps if he was more careful and planned better he could have bought more time and escaped….even won this hopeless battle.
Sadly he was too young and experienced and let his emotions cloud his judgement because of his elders defeat.
The two wolves panted heavily as sweat dropped from their white fur, the old wolf took a deep breathe as he turned towards the young tigers direction and smirked. "Today sure has been a surprise for my old bones, on several times I have been delayed during this little distraction. Never mind… The battle has turned in our favour once more. The remaining tigers will be hunted by the rest of the pack when they arrive so rest up while I deal with the brat."
His gaze turned vicious as he thought about how much time he had been delayed, not only that… He was too injured and lacking energy to chase the remaining pests of the tiger clan.
If he waited for the others they would surely snatch the achievements and his reputation would be at further risk within the clan!
He walked towards the injured tiger that had curled into a ball, as he got closer the angrier he became.
Such a small and young child had caused him a powerful and cunning old wolf to be in such a weak state!
His gaze only focussed on the young tiger as his murderous aura locked onto the small and vulnerable body that shivered after sensing his approaching death.
"Ah." A small noise was let out from behind him as he heard the noise and looked towards the recuperating wolf.
To his shock he saw a large cat on the wolfs body which now lay lifelessly.
The large cat was the lynx who had rushed ahead of everyone else!
After searching for the locations of the survivors, Shadow and Korah's groups met up with remaining survivors.
At first they were fearful of the group but upon hearing they arrived to help they dropped their guard and showed them which way to find where the remaining wolves were.
Unfortunately the wolf howl intended to call for allies had also given away the wolfs location to unknown enemies!
The first to arrive was the lynx who took advantage of the old wolfs lack of awareness towards his surroundings and killed the recuperating injured wolf.
After the old wolf looked upon the corpse of his comrade who he just went through a difficult life and death experience with he felt a sense of loss and rage.
He thought back to his previous words in a mocking manner. 'The battle is in our favour? Ha! This battle is who's favour? I don't even know any more! What the hell is happening!'
He lifted his head towards the sound of footsteps coming towards his direction, a large group of beasts lead by a white deer that had a small white rabbit sat on its back.
The old wolf was filled with despair as he lost the power over his body after he saw the surviving tigers following behind.
'They managed to get help. Then what about the other wolf packs? If they ran into this group of beasts they would have trouble dealing with them split up!' The old wolf fell into a panic.
A cold voice came from the white deer that gazed indifferently upon the old wolf. "Pin him down."
Very qiockly the lynx appeared over the old wolfs body with a playful smirk on her face.
She jumped onto his back and used her body weight to push his weakened body to the ground while grabbing the scruff of his neck with her teeth.
The old wolfs face was filled with shame and disbelief!
This lynx has equal strength to himself when he was at in his prime condition… No, she is even stronger!
This large cat was a 7th spirit gathering beast!