I hurriedly thought of making a stretcher like construct like we use to do in training where you carry injured back with you. So I pulled some vines gathered the sticked and even small logs around, I hurriedly gathered the scattered meat chunks that I thought were not innards or any thing.
"Huph!!" I put about a 200 kilo load on the stretcher which I dragged towards the cliff side where the entrance was. I hurriedly carried it back as I huffed and puffed from the exercise I am suddenly getting. As I got near the entrance I dropped the package as I pushed the boulder into a full open.
I dragged the logs and meat chunks inside and hurriedly turned it sideways to drop the load.
"Fuck! I'm so out of shape, only 50 meter to walk but damn I'm winded!" I looked back and felt reluctant at the sight of many more meat chunks that would be left wasted if he ignored them.
"Okay, let's do this. For food and wood!! Hah that rhymed." I laughed a bit to take out the tense situation.
One by one I hauled my ass for ten minutes straight and gathered most of the meat chunks so I decided to get the wood pieces cause I need them for fire wood and stuff.
I went and get as much log and branches on the stretcher as well as vines for rope, can't have my military rope used for simple things. Soon I gathered a lot of stuuf inside the cave that it piled up into a small hill of wood and meat.
"Do I need rock or stones?" I breathed heavily as I felt sore all over from carrying so much stuff the past thirty minutes. This was the most exercise I did just this year alone, do these place have calendars or something?
Man I'm beat, but it would indeed be great if I could have more. My mind was filled with various thoughts of what I should get to prepare me inside and my fears took over as paranoia flooded over me.
"Yes let's get everything, I must be prepared." I stood up and weakly started to gather even small rocks and things on the ground. Some rocks were even shiny like quartz, I kept pick things which made me look like a garbage hoarder in one of those dumps.
"Oh, a glowing cirle rock!" i bent over and picked up a yellow Rock that glowed with warm light.
"You'd be great for a night light." I smiled as I walked my weary ass around gathering stuff, as I filled my stretcher i walked back and noticed the Tooth in the Cliff wall. I pulled on it and it came out very smoothly and left a mark that seemed like it was cut cleanly.
"Damn that is sharp!" I looked at the Tooth that was as long as my fore arm, it looked like it was the canine tooth of the wybern. I loked around and saw some of the smaller teeth on the trees and the ground.
"Jack pot!" I hurriedly dropped the stuff on the strecher and walked back to gather the teeth as well as some bone fragments around the place. There were even some bones that were quite intact so I took it to myself into getting them all.
I gather a hefty amount of five bones and thirteen teeth which was quite small when you consider the size of the owner when it was alive. After dropping the bones in the cave I noticed something wrong but couldn't put my mind where.
"Hmm, what's seems to be wrong?" I looked around and noticed nothing was wrong, everything was normal. The wind, rustling of trees, birds chirping in the sky and crickets singing.
"Wait, everything is normal!!" I panicked and looked around as I held Gimli's axe. I fumbled about and remembered my Glaring staff was in the stretcher earlier before I decided to pick up bones.
"Shit!" I immediately ran leaving the stretcher behind as I felt something staring at me but I was still 50 meters away from the cave entrance.
"Grrrr!!!!" This time it was not my stomach but something else, It was a pack of coyotes with red tuft of hair on their backs.
"Shit!!" I ran with strength maybe coming from adrenaline but it seemed futile as these coyotes seemed faster and bigger that the usual coyote.
"Grragh!!" one jumped from the bushes as it pounced on me with a fast speed that made it too late to dodge.
"Eat this!!" I swung the axe as it neared me and the feeling was scary as well as exhilirating as the blade of the axe landed on the side of the coyote's face.
*Bamm!*
"wait, that doesn't feel right." I looked at the axe then at the downed Coyote which was still alive but just had a bleeding wound on it's face.
"Shit this thing is still blunt as fuck!! Fuck! Fuck! fuck!!!" I ran again as the other coyote's were closing in but my heart lurched as I saw one large coyote about the size of a wolf 10 meters ahead was already positioned in front of me waiting.
"Shit, I'm seriouosly fucked!!" My mind was in a mess but I thought of a stunt I had made during Ranger training.
"Here goes nothing!!" I kept running straight to the cave even with the large coyote in the way. Seeing me still running forwards made the large one ready to pounce.
"Come at me mother fucker!!" I taunted as I ran forwards without stopping and my heart kept beating so fast that time seemed to slow down but I still charged on. The Coyote crouched and pounced to me as it's jaws oped wide to bite my head.
But I suddenly ducked and slid onn the ground with the axe held closely so it wouldn't grab on anything then as I slid down the beast I swung my fist in an uppercut as I targeted the pack's royal jewels.
*BANG!!*
*AWROO!!!!!*
Pained cries sounded out that it made the rest of the coyotes flinch at the pitiful sight of their leader. While I went for the run as I reached the Stone oulder that I pulled with ease in an instant.
*BRrrBOOM!!*
As soon as the cave entrance was closed I fell down like a noodle just newly boiled.
"Fuck! That was so close." My breaths were so loud that the glow worms were spooked by it but I didn't care as I felt like my throat was burning. I feel so thirsty that I crawled towards a pool of blood nearby and took a sip. Then all that is left is darkness as I passed out.