With four wolves right ahead of them and six surrounding them not too faraway, the options they boys had now weren't so optimistic. They had to stand their ground and fight
The fire wolves where 5 foot tall wolves when standing on all fours, had grey fur with red streaks running down the sides.
According to a book Noah had read back in the library, the brighter the colour and the more the number of streaks on their bodies, the stronger the wolves where, thankfully all four wolves on this side had 1 streak each, with 2 being dull and 2 bright.
"Val take the first one on the right, I'll take the one on the left, as for the 2 that are further behind, we'll deal with that later"
Noah gave instructions as he ran towards the the first fire wolf, this one with a bright streak, he planned to take it out first to make escape easier if they where led to that point.
Tensing his muscles, attacked the stronger wolf with a swinging bash using the left half of his stick, the wolf lowered its head as it stepped forward, opening its jaws to take a bite of the approaching youngster, Noah seeing this thrust the right half of the stick on the wolf's head to shut its jaws but the force behind the wolf's lunge was still remain, the recoil forcing Noah a few steps backwards, with both man and wolf waiting, watching and planning the next move, the first strike was just to get a feel for what the other could do.
On the other side, Val rushed towards the wild directly opposite him, it was a weakest of the pack, with a single dull streak on its back, with a massive jump, Val swing his hammer down on the body of the wolf, what he lacked in speed he made up for with the weight and force behind his swing increasing his momentum, the poor wolf couldn't even react before it was crushed under the weight, killed right after the first blow.
The battlefield was now at a stalemate, 3 against 2, the strongest wolf among the surviving 3 was still at the back watching, it decided although they could take the 2 boys, they weren't enough to defeat them without any more loses, the loss the youngest was tragic enough, It raised it head towards the sky and issued a call, if it could be understood by humans, it would carry the message
"attack with everything, hold nothing back, kill them"
Noah and his wolfen opponent at started cycling each other, the wolf with the intent to separate the boy from his partner, and Noah with the intent to get closer to Val so as watch each others backs. The stalemate continued with neither side wanting to attack and give way to a deadly counter. This would work in favour of the wolves but would spell the end of the boys so, Val started his attack
As much as Val didn't battle much, in order gain permission to use the forest, he had been trained by Ryan and had received his seal of approval, or atleast a participation certificate which was proof that he had enough in him to survive a fight, he and Noah over the months had practice drills and even devised battle strategies, one of which they where going to implement now.
Receiving a signal from Val, Noah suddenly changed targets running towards Val's direction and leaving his back open to his opponent, the wolf was confused at first but quickly came to it's senses at decided to capitalise on the opportunity it had just received, it pounced directly , charging towards Val's unguarded back, it's sights set on drawing blood
But it's tunnel vision made it miss the large brown hammer approaching it from its right side.
When Noah turned and begin his charge, Val used a stomped the ground sending out vibrations and dust particles towards the two wolves approaching him, while the dust obstructed their vision a little, they didn't necessarily rely on their eyes to attack their prey, he was already in their range and they would never lose his scent. They sensed the boy winding up his weapon and got on the alert as they had seen what damage it did to one of their kind.
That hesitation however spelt the doom of their companion as Valdor suddenly spun on his heels swinging his hammer right into the sides of the wolf chasing after Noah, it got sent flying away only stopping after it hit a tree trunk, it wasn't dead yet, but there was no way it was going to be of help in this battle anymore.
Noah on the under hand didn't stop his charge and he lunged towards the weaker wolf, slamming his right Kali stick towards it's right joint, dislocating it.
The wolf opened it mouth to let out a yelp but was instead met with a full powered thrust right into the mouth of the wolf, with the other end of the stick sticking right out of its head, it had died under his strike but Noah's weapon was now stuck in its body, and even worse, the body had fallen over him as the wolf made a last ditch attempt to drag its killer down with it trapping Noah underneath it's body underneath.
The only standing opponent now was the stronger wolf and Val. He had spent a lot of energy for those 2 strikes so as to end it at once, but the wolf was the strongest of the bunch and hadn't done anything yet.
Val really wanted to make his chances and just grab Noah to bolt out of here, but he knew he had to get rid of that wolf first so as to ensure their safety, and he had to do it fast too.
The now dead wolf had done a good job by trapping one of the human boys, rendering him unfit for battle, and the one that was left standing was on his last legs, the wolf thought there was no better option than this and sought to attack.
The humans were despicable and whom knew what they could bring out again to stop, deceive it and turn the tides of battle. Of course it decided to wait for the rest of the pack to join it.
Raising it's head to the sky to issue a howl once again, it informed the rest of the pack of the situation and said it's possible farewell. It bared it's fangs, and charged towards the boy ready to end this tragic encounter
Val watched as the wolf utter its cry and charged, he wasn't a battle genius like Noah who could account for every possible scenario and come up with the perfect counter but he had his intuition, he took a breathe and allowed the aether all around him to enter his body and soothe the pain going through his energy channels for overusing them.
Apart from that's he did nothing and just raised his hammer, and chanted his battle art
"Hammer art: Final crush"
Loads of earth elemental aether surged into the head of the hammer enlarging it and increasing its weight
The wolf made an attack using his left paw towards the boy, it was a feint, it was aiming for the moment he would avoid it so he ended it with his bite but that was the last thought it had as the boy's hammer made contact with the wolf's head, spelling it's end.