Back at Heathergate Headquarters, Ada had a premonition… some type of pressure on her chest…
-I'm too young for this….
Pain in my chest?
-I'm in perfect physical shape and health…
Ada, puzzled, looked at the radar to check upon Garrets location…
The dot disappeared!
Ada ran to the radio to try to connect with Cree…
No response.
-Marcel, do you copy? Roger….
The interference came back as it faded, but no answer.
-Cree?
Do you copy? Roger…..
No response, not even the static Ada heard when radioed Marcel….
So Ada hopped on to one of the crew ships designated to patrol The Frozen Territory:
The Albatross.
A practically smaller size aerial transportation, equipped with the latest technology to clean up communications with static signal, could not clear up Cree's message to reach Ada's home base.
Meanwhile, Benson seemed to have received a distress call, with unknown location pinned….
-mayday, mayday….
Shapeshifters attacked base camp south of The Void Earth…
Anyone copy?
The static in the background became louder, making impossible to understand what the person was talking about.
-mayday….
And the signal suddenly disappeared from the radar where the coordinates firstly originated
….faintly and slowly disappeared…..
Another; weather related issue raised too…. An electric storm, with winds over 200km/h
A fast decision was needed to be taken….
Back at Cree's, the alpha male of the wolf's pack had overcome Cree, pinning him to the ground, while Marcel watched with horror, and unable to reach his gun, desperately tried to get a hold of a rock to throw it at the alpha male wolf that pinned Garret to the floor.
His big size and strong paws easily overcame Cree's efforts to get the alpha male wolf paws off his chest.
The alpha male wolf started to sniffle him and locked eye with Cree. Cree, tried to reach to his knife hidden inside his boot.
-just a bit more
Thought Cree, as he reached once again to grab his knife out of his boot.
The male alpha wolf, already drooling and panting due to the scuffle with the other wolfs to stop the excitement of catching both out of guard at the river, growled as he got closer to Cree's face.
Cree, finally got ahold of his knife and without hesitation took the knife out….
They both locked eyes…
A silent invaded the air….
The alpha male wolf stopped growling and his demeanour changed all of the sudden…
Cree also stopped, like being in a trance, his arm dropped as well as his knife to the ground.
It seemed that he gave up on the fight….
The rest of the wolf pack came around Cree's body and sat, giving the way to the leader of the wolf pack.
Marcel got pinned to the floor as well, and got surrounded by the wolfs as well.
The eerie silence of the area became heavily filled with warm air and the clouds start to roll into a faster cycle…..
The electric storm was about to land in the area where Cree and Marcel were located, lightning and thunder took turns to make their presence getting closer, and a brief light rain announced their closeness to the area.
Nothing moved.
Then hell broke loose, lighting like a whip torturing its prey, one after another hit the area without compassion. Darkness and winds picked up, pushing some little old trees to the ground.
The rain started to fall, destroying everything it touched, lacerating every surface and every element it touched on its way to the ground.
Cree and Marcel managed to get off the wolf's closeness and quickly ran to some caves they spotted before landing, on the other side of the river, where The Albatross landed, which it open its side door as Cree and Marcel got closer in.
Both, Cree, Marcel and the pack of wolfs; suddenly found themselves, sharing the vacant space in the cave. They had no choice, but to wait until the electric storm passed by the area.
-wished I could've gotten faster to The Albatross to pin our location to call for help!
Mumbled Cree…..
-Darn!
As he stumped on the floor, waking up the wolfs already fallen asleep waiting for the storm to finish passing by.
Cree and Marcel managed to gather some wood to start a little fire to warm up the cave.
The Albatross, was left with their doors opened, like waiting with open arms, the return of their owners, unable to get it due to the electric storm, that lighted up the inside every time thunder made its way to hit the ground by the hills.
A subtle scuffle woke up Garret in the middle of the night, not convincing enough to wake up Marcel, who exhausted, dripped dead sleeping. He is a heavy sleeper, not even if hell breaks loose, would wake him up..
A soft growling woke Garret up.
He witnessed the alpha wolf change into a human….
It was a shapeshifter without a doubt….
And transformed into a human he recognized immediately….
-Ben?
Whispered Cree with hesitation….
The shadow of a huge wolf slowly transforming into a human shape was something Cree never witnessed before.
The wolf, then shape shifted to his human form, did not say a word, but started to stare at Cree, which made him feel uncomfortable. Unaware of the other wolf's shape shifting into humans as well, surrounded Cree, and approached him, not leaving possible escape route.
Cree backed up a little, but everywhere he looked at were wolves shape shifted into humans….
Without notice, one of them approached him to confront his defensive moves.
Another came behind him, and knocked him down to the floor.
The storm became stronger as the wind gusts got stronger….
-job well done!
Said one of the wolves in the pack, that transformed into a human, gave instructions to the other wolves to surround Marcel too.
Marcel dead asleep did not even tried to wake up to defend Cree. He also got knocked out by one of the wolves that turned into human.