Me, the Ponies and my Grandma

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

What I wanted for this vacations was to not be bothered about school or my family, to relax on my couch with my video games and friends. Maybe revealing my feelings to Martha. Who knows? Maybe she will accept them and be my girlfriend. I start to remember things about my past. My first skateboard, my first real friend, the times I cry at home and on my old school. Grandma lessons and how hard were them. So, no remembering the past isn't a good sign. Is it?

"HAAAA! phoo!...Ough" 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 realize the real reason of my coughing, the air was full of some sort of yellowish dust all around me. When I look what has stopped my falling I comprehend what that yellow dust was. I was on top of a big yellow mushroom with black dots. It was big enough to be compared to a queen-sized bed.

"Ewww, I am full of mushroom semen. haha, shroom 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 back with her walking stick 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 hit in my head stop me.

"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.

"Ok Grand. First: Ouch!. Second: the wolves are up there. I really doubt they can do anything right now." I say pointing up with a finger 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 say something 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 has a good ring to it" I thought.

"Jimmy, stay close to me, quick," she says picking up some dry wood from the ground. That's when I finally know why grandma was so nervous, pieces of timber were slowly moving by its own and regroup to form its previous canine form. One by one starts standing up and growling at us with a thirst for blood.

*shis**shis* I hear behind me the sound of a lighter trying to light followed by the bright light of a torch in Grand hands. As soon as the fire was up the beast takes steps back fearing for their lives. One didn't need to be a genius to figure out why fire + living wood creature = bad... for them.

But the small torch 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, three more take its place and little by little they were surrounding us with no way of running out.

"Grand, can't you do something else?" I ask with my grandmother behind me and extending my hands in defense position.

"Sorry, I only have the fuel to make one torch more and I don't think it will help a lot deer." She says while shielding us from the wolves by moving the torch from left to right at the creatures face forcing us to take steps back.

"That is not exactly what I mean but that it is good to know too, I guess." The Timberwolves were slowly surrounding us with its thirst for blood more noticeable than ever as they get closer and closer.

"You need to help me. Jimmy take care of them one by one. I will keep you safe from the majority of them you just worry of only for one of them. I have your back." She says winking at me with a confident smile.

"What!!!" 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.

"Wait no, no no no. what I am supposed to~" Everything moves in slow motion as I look at the wooden wolf open its fangs near my throat, there is when my instinct kick 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 has time to react at my sudden movement I fix my pose and raise my fist followed by a close punch to the solid piece of timber that made up its 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 thought me self-defense, at least at first, Later on, when she leaves as she usually does, she sends an old lady that grow up in China who says that was an old friend of hers 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 keep 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 makes me fear that the fire, the only thing that stops those creatures to rip our heads off with a bite, will die soon.

"Jimmy I saw what it seems a town near that path just follow it and you should be safe." Grand then hands me the rest a fuel for a fire, it was a can with a special gel that easy burns. She uses some of the gel to start the torch but she still needs some rope or something. she also gives me a lighter, a silver metal lighter with stars design in it and the initials J. H. inscribed.

"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 without making any sound. But that it didn't seem the same for the Timberwolves as the whistle make them paralyzed 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 happens. 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 with mud."I think she finds out I skip my training" She then grabs 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 either.) 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 hit in my head, Grand was already behind the wolves. She 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 crazy beating and I gather enough energy to stand up and look at the direction from where my Grand went. "Well, that's a pity but it will not be missed," I say while taking a quick look at myself. My cuts and bruises were all covered in mud and vegetation and when I try to take my first step, I feel pain from my leg from where I previously fall into the hole. "Seriously! after all this, that is where I get more hurt." Of course, at that moment my right hand was completely numb so no pain at all was coming from it.

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 knew this will hurt that much I wouldn't have done that, this burns a lot" I say putting the cream back thinking that the other cuts can wait for the moment.

The lighting follows by the loud thunder could be still heard but with less frequency now. At some point, the lightning emitted enough light so I was able to see houses at the distance."The town Grands told me. How far am I from my cabin?"

Traying to walk towards the town, a strange feeling passes over my head once again. A feeling to tell me that I need to stay low and jump forward. Obeying my instincts, I oblige to this sensation rolling on the ground making me crash with a nearby tree. With my legs up in the air I saw that claw was where my head use to be. I even feel how those claws cut some of my hair."How the hell does a piece of wood can get so sharp?".

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 ground 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 me was poking out of the ground, not until I face the floor once again.

I knew that I will not be able to stand up and start running again before it catches me and I can't hit it like I did with the others, no with the conditions my right hand was and it was impossible to do it with my left one, I don't have enough force or training to pull something like that with my opposite hand.

"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 me on the ground, I kick its wooden chin stunting it for a few seconds. 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 very easy burning the monster face with green flames. 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. 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 start 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.