Day Nine: Saturday

Jake slowly woke up and got ready due to a lack of coffee and prepared to continue digging the pit.

It had snowed during the night and the weather forecasts predicted more snow to come.

Jake makes a list of things to buy once he gets back in town and thinks about his cooking ability and how he’d introduce Hanna to his family.

He got to the pit and deepened it by another 10 feet and got a text from Kenny about how he has 2 magazines for the Desert Eagle and the bait ball is prepared for use.

As he packed up to head back, he came across the jackalope singing a merry tune and running around as if on a sugar rush.

Jake promptly covered his ears to block out the tune and pulled his keys out, causing them to jingle.

This turned out to be a bad thing as the jackalope pounced upon him, stole his keys, and began jingling them to make noise.

In an attempt to get the jackalope to drop the keys, Jake plays a lullaby and the jackalope hums with it, causing nearby birds to fall out of the sky and nests. Jake successfully regains his keys as the jackalope nearly falls asleep.

He leaves and links up with Kenny, then breaks off to go to the clinic to get any last minute information from the samples and ends up getting travel recommendations from Mr. Thomas for when he graduates.

When Jake goes to check on the lab machine, he finds it broken into and the samples missing, the camera and the laptop it was connected to rendered inoperable, and the CCTV camera shutdown.

He calls the police to report a break-in and Andy shows up to search the scene, the tranq gun is found to be missing and Jake confesses that he took it, he later apologizes to Mr. Thomas for not telling him he took it.

For luck, Jake goes to church to pray to ~~RNJesus~~ Saint Michael for protection in the upcoming hunt.

He meets up with Kenny and goes to the hunting site and sets up.

The Feral shows up approximately 2 hours after they set up and slowly lose morale.

*Beginning of the Hunt:*

The Feral appears and targets the mechanical bait and nearly falls into the pit.

Kenny and Jake fire a total of 7 volleys, 4 and 3 respectively. Only 3 of Kenny’s 4 shots hit and all of them to noncritical areas, every other shot, including Jake’s, miss.

The Feral finally manages to detect where they are located and pulls their perch down.

Kenny falls to the ground unconscious but alive and mostly unharmed and Jake is forced to the ground.

A blizzard suddenly starts up, further obscuring vision.

Jake covers Kenny in wolfsbane and attempts to find the NVGs using the flashlight, then turns the flashlight off and shifts over to throw off the Feral.

After acquiring the NVGs, Jake holsters the Desert Eagle and pulls out the Bear Mace and the multitool before taunting the Feral to attack, and Jake ruptures the Mace directly into the Feral’s face before firing two silver rounds into it and the gun jamming.

The Feral pins Jake down with the intent to crush his head, only stopping because it was stabbed in the eye.

Jake begins stabbing the Feral with the multitool, however due to the blade not being made of silver, the wounds inflicted are healed away by its regen.

The Feral begins to strangle Jake and Jake falls unconscious.

*End of the Hunt:*

*A white furred werewolf* intervened and broke the Feral away from killing Jake, allowing Kenny to clean and wake Jake up.

Deciding that the other werewolves wouldn’t like seeing random hunters, they return to Jake’s truck and find a large heavily wounded dog.

Vet instincts kicking in, Jake gets his medical equipment and begins to stabilize the dog and load it into the back of the truck to transport it to the clinic.

They arrive at the clinic, *Rippa being noticeably unhappy about the presence of the dog*, and begin to do a more thorough job patching up the dog, putting it in a cage for the night, and changing their clothes

They both retire to their respective homes for the night.