Ch2 - I just can't get a rest.

"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I scream at the full force of my lungs as the sensation of free falling fills me up.

All I wanted for this vacations was to spend a good time with my friends. laughing, watching movies, playing video games, just having fun. And how I can forget about Martha. The prettiest girl in the school, his long blond hair, her freckles, and her beautiful green eyes. One could spend hours and hours looking at those eyes of her. It was pretty hard not the get in love with her. When I came back, I promise I am going to tell her what really fi----.

"Ugh.... HAA!" The sudden stop from my fall as well as the feel of the air escaping my lungs interrupt me from my thoughts. The desperate attempt to gasp for air makes me cough uncontrollably.

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"Ho my god" *Cough* *Cough* "Am-am I still alive?" *Cough* I attempt to say scratching my eyes and looking at my surroundings. That is when I notice why I was coughing so hard, the air was full of some sort of yellowish dust. When I look what have stopped my falling I comprehend what that yellow dust was. I was on top of a yellow Mushroom full of black spots and with the size of a Queen-size bed.

"Ewww, I am full of mushroom semen. haha, shrom semen." I say remembering biology class and how my friends and I laugh at that a particular lesson." I remember the day like it was yesterday. We were at summer school and it was pretty hot outside. The air conditioner of all the classroom was turn off to save energy. One of my favorite teachers, Mrs. Jackez was teaching us about how mushrooms reprod-"*Slap* I hit myself in the cheeks with both hands  " What the heck am I thinking. Focus man, focus. Ho no, Grandma?" I ask at loud finally realizing in the situation I was.

"Grand? Grand where are you?!"  My grandma shushes me from behind a tree cleaning out leafs from her grayish hair and letting me know that she was ok.

"Thank god...wait?...What the fuck was that!" I say remembering how Grand push me out of the cliff seconds before one of those wooden wolves takes a chunk of my trout. " Don't you think you could have warned me abou- Ouch!!!!" I scream as a sudden pain runs trough my molars just seconds after grand's walking stick moves towards my mouth.

"I have to talk to your mom about this lenguage of yours. But first, let get out of here and fast. They are still around" She says looking around the forest.

"Ok Grand. First, Ow!. Second, the wolves are up there" I say pointing with a finger at the top of the cliff where we can see the wolves staring at us from above while walking in circles around the edge. "And third...... Please don't tell my mother"

Grand was about to open her mouth only to be interrupted by the loud howling of one of the wolves, so loud that we needed to cover our ears. Seconds later we see how some of those creatures jump out the cliff only to crash on the ground turning them into pieces of timber. "Hey Timberwolf that's how we should call them, it have a good ring to it" I thought. "Wait, no no FOCUS." I say out loud. Apparently, I hit my head somehow when I was falling or something.

"Jimmy, stay close to me, quick," she says picking some branches from the ground. That's when I finally know why grandma was so nervous, pieces of timber slowly move by themselves and regroup to form its previous form again. One by one starts standing up and from their eyeholes, eyes start to glow with a green light once again.

*shis**shis* I hear behind me the sound of a lighter trying to light follow by the bright of a torch in Grand's hands behind what makes the wolves stop approaching us. But it wasn't enough, the wolves stop at the sight of the torch in its head but without taking a step back. It's a larger number overwhelm us. When we put the fire close to one, 3 more gets close to us what make us taking steps back instead of them.

"Grand, do you happen to have more touches?" I ask with my grandmother behind me and extending my hands in defense matter without leaving eye contact at the monster while Grand extend the fire on top of my head.

"Sorry, I only have the fuel ." She says while shielding us from the wolves by moving the torch from left to right at the creatures face. "You need to help me. Jimmy take care of them one by one. I will be going to keep the rest from you. Don't worry, I have your back."

"Wat!!!" I exclaim looking at the unchanged face of grand trying to find out if that was just a cruel joke before our inevitable demise or if she was serious about it "God dammit I never know what is in her mind"

"Ready Jimmy here comes one." Grand says while I see one of those wolfs trying to take a bite at my face. Everything moves in slow motion. There is when my instinct kicks in. Making a step forwards I place myself at the side of that thing avoiding the bite from her sharp wood fangs and before he have time to react at my sudden movement I took my pose and raise my fist followed by a punch to the solid piece of timber that made up the creature torso breaking it in half.

The torso seems to be the creature's weak point because as soon as I break it, the wolf implodes sending the remindings of its body parts all over the forest.

"Good job Jimmy. I see you keep with the lessons I ask you to do"

"OUCH OUCH OUCH!" I say moving my hand trying to ease the pain with tears in my eyes."How do I even do that?" My grandma seems happy to have though me self-defense, at least at first, Later on, when she leaves, she send an old Asian lady who says that was an old friend of her to keep teaching me a mix of different martial arts as well as a rigorous workout program. I wonder if she will get mad finding out I leave her lessons early. At least I didn't leave before I learn how to break pieces of wood boards with my beard hand, it is a cool party trick.

The sudden implosion of one of his comrades didn't seem to affect the wolves as they keep chasing us. We were like this for a few minutes. I, breaking the wolves torso one by one and my Grand in my back scaring the rest with the torch. But we, at least I, couldn't do this for much longer. My right hand was beginning to go numb and to get swollen.

"Oh God, we are going to die! We are going to die!" I say finally crying as I saw more green eyes coming out from the dark of the forest." Grand, I can't do this anymore, more and more of those things keeps coming. Do something"

"Yes, It seems that that last howl was a call for more of its pack." She says holding me closer with his free arm struggling with the timberwolves with the other.

A loud thunder was heard in the night's sky reminding us that it was still raining. The loud noise was followed by larger drops of water falling down the sky. Now with this and the fact that the torch was lit for almost an hour bu now makes me fear that the fire, the only thing that stops those creatures to have a bite to our heads, will die soon.

Grand seems to notice this and she takes out something from her purse. She then hands me the rest a fuel for the fire, it was a can with a  gel that easy burns used to start small fires. She uses some of the gel to start the torch but she still needs some rope or something so the piece of wood didn't burn fast. she also gives me a lighter, a silver metal lighter with the initial J. H. inscribed on it.

"Here, take this and don't move" I didn't have time to process what she meant as Grand takes out a whistle and blow it but it didn't make any sound. But that it didn't seem the same for the timberwolves as the whistle make them paralyze for a few seconds. The green glow of his eyes no longer there. Their entire body shakes, each part of their wooden bodies moves independently of each other making a sound of wood against wood.

At the same time as that happen. Grand put herself on the left side of me and extend her left arm putting it so it touches my throat. Then she uses her right foot to push forward one of my own foot. The simple motion makes me fall in my back hurting my head as well as covering myself in mud."I think she finds out I skip my training" She then grab a bush nearby and with one hand she takes it off from the ground with roots and all. (Don't ask me how she did it because I don't know.) and put it on top of me as an attempt of camouflage.

While I was in the mud trying to recover from the buzzing in my ears caused by the crash of my head with the floor of the forest, my grandmother was already behind the wolves. With the almost death fire from her touch and some statements that say something about the timberwolves mother, Grand runs back into the forest bringing the attention of all the wolves who were there and go chase up to her living me alone.

After a while, when finally my heart stops its beating like crazy and I gather the enough energy to stand up I look at the direction from where my Grand goes. "Well, that's a pity but it will not be miss." I say while taking a quick look at myself. My cuts and bruises where all cover in mud and vegetation from the surroundings.

Fearing for an infection I seat near a tree which leaves gives some decent protection from the rain. I took my first aid kit from my backpack and opened. It was full of bandages of all sizes and shapes, scissors, gloves eyes washes and more. I take out the disinfectant cream and use it on my leg that was the one in the worst state. "Aaaaa, shit if I have known this hurt that much I wouldn't have done that."I say putting the cream back thinking that the other cuts can wait for the moment and bandage my knee. My injuries weren't as bad as I first thought, just some small cuts on my arms and face. The worst injury I had was in my right knee from when I fall from the hole as well as my right hand that was a little swollen.

The lighting follows by the loud thunder could be still heard but with less frequency. At some point, the lightning emitted enough light so I was able to see houses at the distance."A town? How far am I from the cabin?" The town was not so far from where I was sitting. Getting ready to go there, a strange filing goes through my head, that I need to stay low and jump forward. Obeying my instincts, I oblige to this sensation rolling in the ground and crashing into a nearby tree with my legs up in the air just before a fast claw rose my head. I feel how those claws cut through some of my hairs."How the hell does a piece of wood can get so sharp?"  I thought while I stare at the timberwolf upside down in front wanting a piece of me.

I stand up and start running towards the town without looking back but I still could hear the sound of its footsteps on the muddy floor of the forest and the sound of breathing in my neck. Running as fast as I can, I didn't notice one of the roots from one of the trees in front of my was poking out of the ground, not until I face tho floor once again because of it. I knew that I will not be able to stand in time to run again before he got me, no with this leg. I can't hit it like I did with the others with the conditions my right hand is and it was impossible to do it with my left one, I don't have the enough force or training to pull something like that with the left one.

"Ho crap, think, think what my grandma will do? Grand!" I exclaim putting my good hand into the pocket of my coat. With the creature at mere inches of me and I being in the ground I kick its wooden chin of his stunting it for a few second. The enough time to throw the can with the fire fuel at it. The creature catches the can and crushes it with its fangs making its content to leak all over its face."Perfect" I say with the lighter already lit in my hand throwing it.

Even with the rain, the fire catches relative easy burning the monster face with a green flame. The wood wolf just moves its head up and down and jumps like a bull with a cowboy on its back trying to put the fire out. The last thing I saw was it disappearing into the deeps of the forest.

While I was still on the ground trying to calm my heart once again from the fast heartbeat a stare at the clouds from which rain has just stopped along with all the lightning and thunder leaving the sky with only heavy clouds. While I saw the night sky, I see what could be the biggest bird I ever see in my life. If I have to judge it by how far I think they were from me, I will say that they were at the size of a big dog, of those dogs that a kid could ride or maybe of a small horse.

I keep staring at the group of big birds that starts flying towards the direction of the town." Ho, that cloud looks like an elephant, hahaha funny" I laugh at myself. "Jesus! I think I have a concution" I thought finally coming back into the real world. "I need to find help." I say finally walking towards the town.