Chapter Five

What happened next left Will in disbelief. The other Goblins had charged the boar without any planning or strategy. In addition, they were screaming and yelling their lungs out! The boar was immediately startled and tried charging away, but some of the Goblins had managed to surround it already. Chief was one of them, he was staring it right in the eyes. However the boar continued charging, Chief managed to roll to the side dodging the boar, but the two Goblins next to him got knocked in different directions. The size of the boar compared to the Goblins was huge, it was like a bull compared to a human. One of the Goblins who got knocked away hit a tree trunk, the sound of the spine snapping was loud and made all the other Goblins stop in their tracks.

Will walked over to Chief and helped him off the ground, Chief had a huge grin on his face. "Why happy? Boar gone!" Will exclaimed with his still developing Goblin vocabulary. Chief just shook his head and held on to Will's shoulder, "Good hunt! Only one die, boar run far, get tired." After saying this, Chief gathered up the other Goblins and they ran off in the direction of the boar while huddled together. Will decided to hang back a bit, following but keeping a certain distance. [Don't they have some kind of hunting strategy? Tiring out the boar while risking their own lives? That can't be worth it. Just the sense of smell being this good makes them excellent trackers, but the way they use it is terrible. Even prehistoric humans did better than this, and they didn't have all these advantages.]

As they moved through the forest, Will kept pondering on why the Goblins hunted this way, he also considered different ways to approach the hunt. He didn't have any previous hunting experience, everything Will knew he had learned from movies or school. The Goblins had obvious advantages that humans didn't have, the first was their size. They could move stealthily through the forest without making a sound, yet these Goblins stomped around not caring about the noise. Despite their size, they were also strong, they could grow bulging muscles. Chief was a good example of this, his muscles were very disproportionate to his body size, a Goblins body was very malleable. Another advantage was obviously their sense of smell, counting all these advantages, Goblins should be hunting masters. Yet these Goblins acted like complete amateurs, which amused Will considering his own experience on the subject.

After running for almost an hour they finally reached a small clearing with a pond, the boar was almost foaming at the mouth while ŀȧpping up as much water as it could. It was obviously tired, and the Goblins charged immediately. Will sighed while shaking his head. As the first Goblin reached the boar, he thrust his stick straight at the boar's rear end. The stick penetrated the hide, however it didn't go deep, the hide was tough and covered in rubbery bristles. As more Goblins arrived, most of their attacks were actually deflected by the bristles instead of penetrating the skin. The boar cried out in a panick and started bucking, several Goblins were knocked away. The ones in the back got their skulls crushed by the hind legs, while the ones in the front got knocked into the pont. Chief was also struggling, but he managed to keep avoiding the hits from the boar, he was obviously more experienced than the rest. He managed to get a few stabs in but none of them were critical enough cripple the boar.

Will was desperately trying to think of something while watching his fellow Goblins getting injured and dying around him. He looked around taking in as much of the environment as possible, and as if a light had turned on in his head he got an idea. Will ran back into the forest but wasn't gone for long, he came back to the edge of the clearing with a decently sized rock. It was almost the size of his own head, and quite heavy as well. He ran towards a big tree and started climbing it while keeping the stone under his left arm. Will was struggling quite a bit, however his claws dug deep into the bark as he slowly moved upwards. He reached the top and stood on one of the thicker branches, it was long and reached almost to the center of the clearing. Will held on to the stone with both hands and took a few deep breaths, and with a cracking voice, screamed while charging along the branch. As he reached the end of the branch, Will leapt as far as he could toward the boar on the ground. He had to time this just right or his plan would fail miserably. Will had figured that his weight wasn't enough to cause any major damage to the boar, and just stabbing it with a stick wouldn't do either. So he devised this plan to use gravity to help him achieve his objective. Just as Will was about to land on the boar's back, he swung the stone down.

*CRACK*

The boar let out a gurgling roar, and stumbled forward in a dizzy manner. All the Goblins looked confused, they had no idea what had happened. Chief however, figured it out almost immediately and charged the boar again. This time the boar didn't resist, it didn't fall down, but it just stood there as if it had received an electric shock. All the Goblins followed suit and crazily stabbed at the boar. It took almost an entire minute before the boar finally fell to the ground dead. Will rolled off the back and onto the ground, he just lied there panting while looking up at the orange sky, the sun was starting to set. The Goblins were ecstatic, and Chief let out a roar. They surround the boar and together lifted it up above their heads, as they started moving back towards the cave, Chief just walked over to Will with a massive grin on his face and picked him up over his shoulder. Will didn't resist, climbing the tree with that huge rock had taken almost everything out of him. He made a note to himself to train harder once they got back. Will laughed to himself as he remembered that Chief used to carry him around like this when he was still little, [That was only 3 weeks ago.] he thought as he dozed off.