Free The Immortal Design by Angel C. Ernst

she doesn’t get away from that monster.
       It dawned on me that I had witnessed this scene before. This was almost the exact same scene from my nightmare. The giant black wolf, Willa, the forest, the night sky and me. Mostly however Willa not afraid of the wolf. I managed to get myself back into the Jeep and called out for Willa to join me.
       Willa turned in my direction and saw that I was safely back in the Jeep and had the door open and waiting for her to run to safety. That’s all it took. Willa had broken eye contact with the monster wolf and it lunged in her direction. She move unbelievably fast and was out of reach from its snapping jaws. The wolf circled back around and charge her once again. This time Willa stood her ground until the last minute. As the creature rose up to knock her to the ground Willa grabbed the beast in a bear hug and tossed it into a large Cypress tree nearby. The wolf yelped in pain but it wasn’t finished with its challenger. Holy crap, I’m on a date with freaking Superwoman, I thought as I watched the scene unfolding.
       Willa had plans of her own however. She began to circle and stalk the wolf as if it was her prey. I couldn’t help but watch in panic as she fought an overly large wolf. I knew I couldn’t take it in a fight, I was wounded and I could barely see straight as it was. I had to do something though or the girl I was falling for would die right in front of my eyes. I looked around in the jeep for anything I could use as a weapon.
       In the back I found a small wooden crate. I didn’t know what was in it but I opened it to see if there was something I could use to help fight off the wolf. Inside I found exactly what I needed. A small cross bow along with a hand full of silver tipped arrows. My father must have been to one of his auctions he went to all of the time and forgot to unload this trunk from the jeep. I grabbed the weapon and two arrows.
       I stepped out from the jeep took aim and yelled “Hey over here you freak!” then let the arrow fly. It all happened in slow motion like from a movie scene. There was Willa standing off with the wolf as it made ready to attack her, my arrow slicing through the air with its target locked, I was about to get the wolf who had tried to kill my best friend and the girl of my dreams. What happened next though was the last thing I had ever expected.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    10.
     
       “NO!” Willa screamed. The wolf had jumped and was in midair as Willa leapt at the same moment and tackled the wolf. She saved it from my arrow piercing its hide. The wolf calmed and stood next to her as they both looked at me in shock. Not that I would know what a wolf looks like in shock, but if I could imagine it, it would look just like it did now.
       “Johnathan, what are doing?” She sounded angry.
       “Willa get away from that thing. It’s vicious and was about to kill you!”
       Willa turned to the wolf and growled deeply, the wolf turned tail and ran. She calmly walked over to the jeep and stood there with her hands on her hips glaring up at me. “What were you thinking Willa? And how the hell did you manage to pick up and throw that thing into a tree? Willa you could have been killed just now” I was shouting at her, I hadn’t meant to but I had been scared to death I was going to lose her.
        “Where I come from we are taught how to handle wolves. We show them that we are the top predators and we do not back down or break eye contact. He attacked because you distracted me. I’m ready to go home now.” She was already getting into the jeep. So much for the perfect night with the perfect girl.
       I walked around to the driver’s side of the Jeep and tried to open the door to get in. The door was still jammed. “Willa the door is jammed I can’t get in from this side.” She slid out from her side and gave me room to climb through the Jeep to get behind the wheel.