The creature's ears twich- I notice how sharp the ears are, like a doberman dog, but longer. My breath hitches when the wolf moves a little forward, I take a step back and shudder in fear , but never - not in my worst nightmares- would I have imagined what happened next.
I was aimimg the flashlight directly on it's face, but then the creature's head started to lift, it went higher and higher , the light that was fixed on it's face , was on it's chest, then it's abdomen- and then I realised it was a huge wolf, and it was standing up on it's hind legs. I swallow the lump in my throat, and start to move back slowly, with the flashlight in one hand , and the gun in the other which was shaking violently, both aimed at the wold creature.
I started to calculate my odds of getting out of the situation alive, but with every passing minute- the realisation of how big and dangerous this thing is became clearer. One thing was important- I needed to keep my eyes on this thing while I take slow , carefull steps back, I planned to make a dash as soon as there's enough distance between us.A creature this big, can't be too fast, right?
As I continue to step back slowly, the creature continues to watch me , the light was still on it's abdomen , but I could see the shadow of his huge head and the glowing eyes fo uswd on me. All if a sudden , the creature tilts it's head like a dog would do out of curiousity, I stop , thinking it might have exposed my plan- but then I hear the deepest, scariest growl behind me, I freeze in fear , there's another one? How did it sneak up on me so quietly? This this is huge- it doesn't make sence for it to be that quiet.
I swallow hard, taking a deep breath , at this point my blood runs cold and I start to shake violently, I hold my breath as I start to turn around slowly, my eyes are looking down at my feet as I make slow movements, I know sudden movements can startle a predator and cause it to attack, and I didn't plan to be any wolf's dinner.
As I'm turning , I see two dog legs, they are bigger than my feet, longer, wider, and the claws on them are sharp and as big as a hand-knife, another growl - it is so deep that I can feel it in my core, I keep looking down, trying to show submission - but a snarl makes me jump and yelp, I shut my eyes tighter and cover my mouth. The gun falls from my hand and the flashlight aims straight upwards. I c9an't believe I'm going to die like this, alone in the woods, eaten by wolves- I came here to get a story, looks like I'm going to be someone else's story.
I decide that if I'm going to be killed by a creature, I need to at least see it's face, my killer's identity. So I gather all of courage, and I slowly open my eyes, the dog legs are still there, not moving, Slowly I point the flashligh that I'm holding down - I can now see the color of the fur, it was a variety of black, brown, a little white..like a German shephad. I continue slowly , going up it's legs , I notice it doesn't have canine genetalia- is that a....
A huffing sound coming from the creature, makes me jump again , I close my eyes again and shudder "oh dios mío" , I shudder and take a few deep breaths before opening my eyes again, then I continue to shine the flashlight on the creature, when I notice it has a shape that looks more like a human- it has a muscular abdomen and chest , it even has male nipples, then I nptice the long strong arms that end up with human hands- lomg fingers and long shiney black claws- they weren't curved like a canine's or any other predator's claws, those were straight like human nails. It's neck was thick.
And then, I reached it's face, it was like a wolf's face, just like the first creature that I saw, sharp ears, long muzzle, but the eyes...the eyes looked human, big , wide, honey-yellowish color, beautiful. It didn't show it's canines, and it had a solemn expression.
We stood there starimg at each other for what seemed like hour, for some reason, I felt like my fear was suddenly...gone. And then , the craziest idea came up to me, my hand moved by itself, reaching towards the creature's face, slowly, not fearing the fact that it might cut off my hand with a snap of it's jaws..for some reason, it felt familiar, like I know him, like I trust him...my hand touches the side if it's face, short coarse fur runs between my fingers as I move my hand across the side of it's face. The creature make a small huffing sound, low and quiet, and then it closes it's eyes and leans into my touch.