Fucking wolves

It was the day we moved to class two. Class one -students gathered at the school but we weren't there to see it, because our lesson was supposed to be in the forest. And so, all of us gathered at the village's gate.

"Honestly, I would rather be in the school stalking the first years", I thought, "I wonder how many girls are there. Bruh, I should stop thinking something like this. At this rate, people are gonna categorize me as a pedophile. Oh wait, I'm a kid too so this is justified. Besides, is there even a universe where people are not stalking at the first years?"

"Today you all are gonna hunt an animal", the teacher said, "All of you are supposed to use every knowledge and skill you have learned. Animals in the forest can be strong. Therefore if you are not taking this seriously, you are going to die"

"Die?", I said in my head, "Geez, that's pretty rough. These kids are only four years old after all. Can't there be something easier that doesn't involve death?"

The village's gate opened and on the other side, there was a forest. Tall trees with green leaves. Some of the kids were shaking, which wasn't surprising. This is probably their first time on the other side of the walls, after all. Most of them were looking up at the branches of the tall trees. They looked at them in amazement, as they have never seen something like that before. How sunlight shone through the leaves. How the branches were moving, making the trees look like they were dancing. Branches, which they have seen mostly from behind the walls, are now directly above them. All this was new to them.

As we walked in the forest, it wasn't so long that we spotted a wolf. The height of the wolf got many kids to tremble in fear. It was a big hairy wolf with pointy teeth. And these kids are mere kids with magic.

"They aren't gonna survive", I thought, "This is like their first day outside and they have already encountered a fucking wolf!"

"Let's seek for another prey", I said before anyone got any crazy ideas.

"No!", said the idiot Dem, "If we always back off, when are we gonna succeed in this task? My mother said if we stick together, we can do anything. We can do this!"

"Screw that communist bitch!", I said in my head.

"Listen, Dem. My best friend", I said calmly, "THAT IS A FUCKING WOLF! LOOK AT HOW BIG IT IS! You can go there swinging your magic dick alone and I swear you're gonna get eaten! I'm not gonna go there! Go by yourself!"

"No, Dem is right", said another idiot, "We must go there and finish our task!"

"Why are you such a coward, Victoros?"

"Stop being a coward, Victoros"

And before I knew it, these idiots started chanting about how coward I am.

"Screw you, idiots!", I said, "Fine! But don't say I didn't warn you"

We divided ourselves into three groups, as this was the strategy we learned from school. The groups mainly consisted of people who could use the same kind of magic.

"Why haven't the wolf spotted us yet?", I wondered, "Either that wolf is dumb enough, these guys might actually have chances, or this is just some stupid anime logic"

The first group approached the wolf from the right while the second group from the left. The third group, which was where I was, stayed behind and watched.

The first group was crawling under bushes and the fear in their heart grew stronger and stronger as they approached the wolf.

"Quietly", one of them whispered, as this could be their last moments.

Quietly, one of them stood up and looked at the wolf. He raised his hand and was about to blast some magic onto that wolf until the wolf turned around and looked at him. The wolf has spotted them. In fear and panic, the poor kid didn't know what to do. He was completely frozen.

But the wolf wasn't frozen. We all heard how it growled in anger and saw how it slowly approached the first group. One of the kids from the first group knew this would've ended badly so he stood up, pushed the frozen kid away, and started shooting rocks like there was no tomorrow. But it was not very effective.

The rocks didn't do anything but provoked the wolf even more, causing it to rush straight at the kid. Not having time to react, the kid got swiped by the wolf's paw. He felt the force in it and flew on the ground, hitting his head on a rock. Other kids were scared seeing their comrade getting knocked out by a single push. Not to mention that the wolf is now right Infront of them.

They stood up and started fleeing, but the wolf wouldn't let them. It opened its mouth and bit one of them in the leg, causing him to fall on the ground. He shouted in agony as he felt how blood was coming out from his leg.

Seeing all this, the second group decided to gather the courage to stand up and started shooting fire. But this only made the wolf change its target.

"Wait", I said, "Why didn't it burn?"

I turned to look at Asta and asked:

"Hey, can you shoot me with fire?"

"Why are you asking that?"

"Just shoot me with fire. I want to know what it feels like"

She shot me with fire but it didn't burn me. I felt the heat but it was rather just a sudden shock. It was obvious to me that fire magic isn't regular fire, as it did not seem to react with oxygen while in contact with another substance.

"But it does react with oxygen when it's 'activated'", I said in my head, "Otherwise it wouldn't even appear as fire.

Another child screamed in pain, which immediately caught my attention.

"They cannot do it. Should we go and help them?", one of the kids asked.

Looking at how the wolf attacked kid by kid and not a single one of them could beat it, I said:

"Nah, let's just sit here and watch. The wolf hadn’t spotted us yet, so we're safe"

"What are you saying?", one of the kids said, "We have to help them!"

And group three revealed themselves and ran to attack the wolf. Dem shot water at the wolf but it dealt no damage (obviously). Two of the kids grabbed the wolf by its legs and started pumping fire from their hands while others shot rocks at the wolf's head. This, however, wasn't enough.

I took my bronze sword and was about to swing it at the wolf but it quickly turned around and kicked me with its feet and I immediately flew away.

"Shit! I didn't expect it to be this strong", I thought while trying to stand up.

In the middle of everything, another wolf showed up as if one wasn't enough.

"A...another wolf!", Dem said while trembling.

"We should run away, now!", I said.

"No!", another kid said, "We can do this! Dem, you said it yourself, didn't you?"

Dem was already running away.

"Hypocritical idiot", I said while running away from the wolves.

We didn't run in the same direction. It wasn't organized at all. It was all chaotic, as the kids were running everywhere and the corpses of the fallen ones were lying on the ground. Fear took our heart, as none of us knew where we were running. We just ran, for each of us knew that if one of us decided to stop, he would have been killed.

After running for a while, I found a big rock I could climb onto. Behind me was Dinna, Bente, and Asta. I helped them get up on the rock

"Hey, help me too!", Dem said.

"No, you're gonna stay down there", I said.

"What are you saying? Of course, we are going to help him", Dinna said.

"Fucking hell", I answered.

As five of us were sitting on the rock, we.

.....did nothing. What the fuck could we have done? It's a fucking wolf.

"Well, we have to do something", Asta said, "We can't be here forever"

"No, I would rather sit here forever", I said, "You are all pretty exhausted and I lost my sword. There's nothing we can do"

"I hate this!", Dinna shouted while throwing a rock in anger.

The rock hit the bigger rock we were sitting on. It bounced and broke. Well, almost. Tiny pieces of it flew away but most of the rock remained whole.

"Wait, why did it break only a little bit?", I asked in my head while smiling, as I might know what was the reason behind it.

"Dinna", I said, "Are you able to move that rock you just threw?"

"Why do you ask that?", she said, "You always speak something weird"

"Yeah, and a moment ago he asked me to shoot him with fire", Asta said.

"Just trust me and try to move that rock!", I said in frustration.

"Stop it! We should be planning on how we can take the wolf down!", Dinna said.

"This is the plan!", I said, "Just trust me!"

"Fine!", Dinna shouted in disbelief and tried to use her powers. However, she couldn't move the rock.

"What? I...I cannot move it", she said.

"You can't!", I said in excitement, "You can't!"

I quickly stood up and grabbed the rock. I smashed it on the bigger rock we were on and the result was as I thought: the sound it made wasn't a sound regular rock would make.

"Hahaa!", I shouted in excitement, "Hurry! We must find more rocks like this! Search for rocks Dinna can't move!"

At that moment, they dared to question my intelligence but decided to obey me anyway. When we have gathered a pile of them, I asked Asta and Bente to use every bit of their powers to heat the rocks.

"Hotter!", I shouted.

"I cannot!", Asta said, "This is my limit"

"How about you, Bente?", I asked.

"Ne...neither can I", she said.

Bente is the shyest of the girls, which is why I rarely even bother to talk to her. Don't get me wrong, I would if this were a romance anime. But there just hasn't been enough screen time.

"This is not enough", I said in my head and turned to look at Dinna.

"Can you lift that big rock and use it to keep smashing the pile of rocks those two are warming up?", I asked while pointing at a random rock that just randomly appeared on screen for plot reasons.

As time flew by, the pile started to get thinner and thinner until it was ready. In real life, it would've never happened but for plot reasons, let's just say it finished in five minutes.

"Dem, cool it down with water!", I said.

Dem created water out of thin air and splashed it at the mysterious thing we just created.

"Shhhh", the sound came out, as the water touched the hot substance.

"What...what is that?", Dem asked while looking at how steam came up after his water splashed onto it.

I approached it.

"This?", I said while lifting it, "This is the strongest weapon this world has ever seen"

"This is", I said while looking at how it shone under the light of the sun, "This is an IRON SWORD!!!"

"It isn't perfect, but it can kill, I'm sure of it"

"That looks like a regular sword", Dinna said.

"Oh, haven't you watched anime? Every time we get introduced to a new weapon, it's gonna be so overpowered it would help us beat the boss"

"Wh..what?"

"Nothing. Forget it"

A wolf started to approach us while making sure we were aware of it. It made the howling sound so we would surely remember how it beat us during the last round.

"Of course it appeared AFTER we made the sword", I said in my head, "The victory is obvious"

"Quick, Dem! Make sure this rock we're on is wet", I said, "Trust me! I have a plan"

Dem started to pull his pants down.

"What the fuck are you doing?", I asked.

"You said to wet the rock", the idiot answered.

"WITH YOUR WATER MAGIC, YOU DAMN IDIOT!"

Asta and Bente left the rock as I commanded. But the wolf didn't chase after them, for Dinna was keeping it occupied by shooting rocks at it. Provoked, the wolf started to run right at us but slipped on the wet rock.

Dinna lifted a boulder and dropped it on the wolf so it couldn't move. Wonder why she didn't use this tactic before? Me too!

Anyway, we jumped off the rock, and Bente and Asta started shooting the wolf with fire to make sure it didn't notice how I was approaching it.

Wondering where should I swing my new sword at, I found the perfect spot and shouted:

"Hippity, hoppity, YOUR PEN IS MY PROPERTY!"

Blood splashed as I cut the wolf's (censored word)!

Oh, and I also penetrated its stomach to make sure it was dead.

"We...we did it!", Dinna shouted.

"Yeah", I said, "But the task isn't finished yet. We also have to carry this back to the teacher"

We carried the wolf back to the teacher and looked at how there were only five kids left. They didn't have any wolves with them but they did have bruises and wounds all around their body.

“Huh, noobs”, I said in my head.

"They killed the wolf!", one of the kids shouted in amazement.

"Yeah, and we are not gonna do it again", I said.

"Good. We must now return to the village", the teacher said.

But as we were approaching the group, another wolf appeared. We swiftly ran to the teacher with the corpse we just killed, but Bente was way too exhausted to run. She stumbled on a rock and got bitten by the wolf. I was about to run to save her but the teacher grabbed me and didn't let me go.

"Why are you stopping me!?", I asked in shock.

"She has to deal with this by herself. This is her test", the teacher answered.

In shock, I looked at the others, but they were all just standing and looking as if they were accepting it. Believing I couldn't do anything, I just stood there and watched. We heard how she screamed for help. We saw how she was eaten. But we did nothing.

"This is messed up", I said in my head, "And they are all just looking. Are they accepting this? What happened to the 'stay together' -ideology?"

With all of them, I stood there and watched. Fear was in my heart, as that was a reminder for me that this isn't just a game. This is a reality where we must fight for our lives. And I was sure there was a reason the teacher was accepting it. As it wasn't just a mere test. It was propaganda telling how we must fight. For those, who do not fight, shall all die.