THE RESCUE

  Derek was on his way to the outpost of the national park. When he heard something strange, he heard some strange laughing, but it was nothing like a human being

This was something that was pretty uncommon to find, as there had been no such incidents in the national park in the last century.

Even if Derek was relatively new on this job but this was the first time in his small career of 8 months as a forest ranger that he was met with something so eerie in the Park

Derek took out his binoculars and tried to look in the direction from where the sounds were coming.

He couldn’t see anything as there was a line of trees in his line of sight.

Derek decided to check out the problem or whatever the source of the sound was and then, decide if it was necessary to call for backup.

With his jeep which was pretty good for defense if he were to be attacked by any kind of wild animal. made his courage grow and He moved in the direction of the sound.

As he reached closer and closer to the source of the sound, the laughing grew in loudness and it felt like there were at least a dozen sources of the sound. It felt like laughing vowing and groaning at the same time.

At this time Derek was confident that the source of the sound was something he knew, it was hyenas. As he had heard this type of noise a lot of times and they are this excited when they hunt something big.

But the strange thing was that hyenas should not be in this part of the park. Rather they should be on the opposite end of the park.?

Now Derek started getting a little bit worried,

What was so good that got these hyenas so excited?

Was it one of the endangered elephants? They had hunted down. Or something like a lion as they are the biggest enemies of the lions.

But both the lion and the elephants are also not supposed to be in this part of the park.

And if they had hunted a white lion then that would be a big problem. In itself, as there were only 10 of them left in this world

Thinking about all this and driving as fast as possible Derek reached the place from where the voices were coming. He noticed, what looked like 2 dozen hyenas. Were encircling what looked like a little human girl who was hiding in the trees and sobbing Continuously and it looked like the hyenas were getting excited seeing the little girl sobbing and crying.

This kind of behavior somewhat took Derek by surprise. Why were these hyenas acting so differently? And why were so happy when they hunted such a small target? As all this was going through his mind. Derek took out his Radio and contacted the people at the station. As he elaborated on the problem while driving,

The Response from his superion even before he could finish his report left him speechless and angry at the same time his superior said,

Derek don’t Try to act like a hero those hyenas are not your problem,

Derek asked what about the little Girl? Should I just let her die?

The superior said the girl is not your problem instead, trust me to get out of there the girl doesn’t concern anyone of us.

The response of his superior once again bewildered Derek.

But Derek was ragging in his head, these stuck-up people have no worry for human life even if she is a tribal girl should we let a little Girl die to hyenas? These rich and entitled bastards!!! and Derek muted his radio after telling them the location and asking them to send reinforcements.

At this moment Derek reached close enough for the exited hyenas to notice him.

They turned toward Derek and growled at him in unison. This kind of movement Freaked Derek out. Derek thought to himself, what is wrong with these hyenas

These do not look like normal hyenas. They look a little bit bigger with What feels like a lot of muscles. For some wild hyenas, these looked well-fed and well-looked after.

But Derek was not concerned about the Hyenas being able to harm him as he was in his Jeep and was made to be able to withstand an attack from a parade of elephants. What Derek was concerned about was the little girl in the trees. She was probably 8 or 9 years old from the looks of it. She had dirty Black hair, a thin frame, and was wearing equally dirty clothes.

Derek took out his service revolver and pointed it toward the sky.

He did not point it towards the hyenas as, it was illegal to kill wild animals, until and unless it was in self-defense,

Derek was just making sure that he did everything within the protocol, and he was 100% sure that the hyenas will run away scared once they heard the bang of the Gun, so Derek pulled the trigger and Bang! the Revolver released a Thundering sound, this was an official tool made to scare away animals.

After pulling the trigger Derek noticed that instead of running away scared the hyenas were looking toward him and Derek thought he could feel disdain in their gaze towards Him.

And he saw some of the hyenas now losing their playful nature towards the girl who had stopped sobbing and now was looking towards Derek with shock and interest in her Dark Black eyes, the hyenas were now trying to climb up the tree and some of them came and encircled the jeep.

And it felt as if they were looking at a dead man, looking at these human-like emotions on hyenas scared the shit out of Derek and he pushed the gas pedal on the jeep and rammed it toward the tree to get the little girl and get out of this place.

Derek pushed the gas pedal so hard that the jeep leaped out like a rocket toward the tree where the hyenas were encircling her, the hyenas got out of the way of the speeding jeep and looked towards the little girl.

The girl had stopped sobbing now and was looking at Derek with a smile of genuine happiness on her face. This did not go unnoticed by Derek, and this little change in the girl made his resolve to rescue her stronger.

The jeep reached the trees in a blink of an eye, Derek popped his head out from the top of his open jeep with cages, this jeep was made with this kind of rescue in mind so it had a big door or window on top of it was like a modified sunroof,

Derek Popped out of the sun Roof with a real gun this time and looked at the girl and shouted jump, I will catch you and bring you to safety, the little girl was frozen at her place but responded with a little nod when Derek Shouted the second time.

Seeing this the hyenas started to try and climb the roof of the Jeep. but Derek was ready, he switch on the electric fence modification of his jeep, it made the outer metal cage of the jeep eclectic fence and anyone touching it will be electrocuted.

As some of the hyenas reached the Jeep they were electrocuted and ran away whimpering, seeing this magical scene the little girl did not hesitate anymore and jumped towards the jeep.

But this, made the hyenas go mad, and started to surround the Jeep and try to get in. but were electrocuted and went limp.

But one of them was able to reach the top of the jeep and able to stand the electrocution, and this shocked Derek and he pulled the trigger out of shock. The hyena was shot and but the bullet went into one of its front legs, it was not mortality wounded but it will die sooner or later as the wilderness was not a forgiving place,

This made the hyenas even more frenzied but the hyena which was shot and looked like it was their leader made them stop their attacks with a low growl.

All the Hyenas started to retreat with the injured hyena at the back and it looked like it was covering their rear for any more attacks from Derek. As the Hyenas retreated Derek turned his attention towards the little girl, and as he was about to ask her if she was alright or what was she doing so deep inside the jungle, he had a thousand different questions in his mind but before he could say something

He heard a soft growl coming from the Girl it felt like she was saying THANK YOU,

the next thing Derek saw was his neck being slit by the Small blade-like claws of the Girl.

Derek’s last thoughts before it all went dark were, Weren’t all the werewolves supposed to be dead a century ago, weren’t all the werewolves eradicated? Is this what my superiors wanted to warn me about?