Once the beast was out of sight, the big grey wolf turned to the human, their eye's meeting again, the eye's of the wolf glowed and glinted in the dark.
"Are you okay, human?" the wolf asked in it's gruff voice, Tyler blinked as he thought of what to do next. he could barely say anything, he couldn't even stutter. The wolf walked over to the human, kneeling down he looked Tyler over, he didn't seem seriously injured, just worn out from the run, and being punched a couple of metres from the big monster thing. Tyler lowered his knife and let out a breath he didn't know he was holding in.
"Y-Yeah, I'm okay" Tyler said, his voice sounding like a little squeak, he was terrified of the wolves that had shown up as well as him not having any energy left from being chased.
The grey wolf looked up the the cliff face and waved to the others to come down, they all slid down and made there way over to the wolf and the human.
"Good, can you get up?" The wolf asked, holding out a giant paw, Tyler grabbed it and pulled himself up, but immediately fell back down when he felt an immense pain in his left leg. He checked it and found a big tear in his trousers and there was a big gash down his calf, it was leaking blood and was making a small puddle, turning the snow red.
"Damn, must've cut myself when I was running across that log" Tyler said as he remembered slipping and a sharp pain in his leg. The wolf knelt down and looked it over.
"That's a very big cut, while it can be healed, we can't do it here, that beast will be back with his friends, we need to find a safe place" The wolf said.
"I have a camp, it's quite far but I have one, I think one of your friends is there too" Tyler said.
"Who, you mean a wolf?". the wolf asked.
"Yeah, she said her name was Athena" Tyler said, the grey wolf's expression changed as it's eyes went wide when he heard the name.
"Athena, she is there?" the wolf said.
"Yeah, do you know her?" Tyler said.
"Yes, she is my sister, I knew she was up to something, what has she been doing with you? why are you all the way out here and she is back there at your camp?" The wolf said, a disappointed look crossing his face.
"That beast attacked us, she told me to run while she fought it, I think she might be hurt, we need to get there quickly" Tyler said, grabbing his rifle and slinging it on his person. The wolf, shocked at what he heard grabbed Tyler and picked him up in his arms.
"I'll carry you, your leg is injured and you'll be slow and you could bleed out, you can direct us" The grey wolf said, getting on all fours with Tyler on his back, "Which way is it?".
Tyler pointed in the way he came from, "It's that way". As quickly as it was said, the whole group was running off in he direction, back to Tyler's camp and hopefully, to Athena.
"There it is" Tyler said spotting his tent and the dead fire next to it. The pack came to a stop and the boy jumped down from the grey wolf's back.
"Where is Athena?" he said.
"I don't know, the fighting took place here" Tyler said, walking around the fire, all broken from the clash. He noticed his tent door open, and a faint noise of breathing. Fearing the worst, Tyler pulled the tent door up and found Athena, on the floor of the tent sleeping wearing Tyler's spare parka and scarf, and was also wrapped in a blanket Tyler had in his burgeon.
"I found her she's here" Tyler shouted to the other wolf's as he rushed in and knelt near her. She was hurt badly, from what he could see she had several cut and gashes with probably more under the blanket. Then, her eye's opened, she looked up to Tyler and weakly smiled.
"Tyler, you came back" Athena said, barely able to speak.
"Please, don't talk, your really hurt, I got help, that beast ain't coming back anytime soon" Tyler said, they both turned their heads to the entrance where the big grey wolf was entering, he sat himself next to Tyler, leaning over he rested a paw on Athena's head.
"Athena, what happened, why are you covered in wounds, why did you run off?" The wolf said.
"Because, Denahi, I didn't want to see him harmed, I'm tired of seeing innocents get murdered by these barbarian savages, I just want to do what was right, I know I disobeyed you but please forgive me " Athena said, nodding in and out of consciousness.
"Of course I do Athena, you are my sister, no matter what I will always side with you, i understand why you did it, I would've done the same thing, but please, rest now, you need it" Denahi said, placing a paw on her head as she slowly fell into a deep sleep.
"I'm sure I've got some spare blankets in my bag, she could use my sleeping bag if she needs to, I'm going to try and light that fire up again" Tyler said, getting up but was quickly pushed down by Denahi.
"No, you will stay with my sister, just because your wounds are not serious doe's not mean you are in need of medical help, your leg still needs patching up, and you need to warm yourself up, leave the fire up to me, one of the other's will come in to check in on you, she is a great healer and very skilled, her name is Sakara" Denahi said exiting the tent.
Tyler opened his burgeon and pulled out a couple of wool blankets and his matt, he rolled it out next to Athena, he draped one of the wool blankets over her. He grabbed one of his thinner blankets and rolled up into a makeshift pillow, he pulled up his sleeping bag and climbed into it, pulling it up and the wool blanket.
He got into a comfortable position and rested his head to sleep, he looked over Athena, she was fast asleep by that point. He smiled to himself, suddenly yawning as he closed his eye's.