The Chasse — Ep3
Episode 3: At the Camping
“Are the tents settling for good? We can’t afford to sleep in this cold forest”, Gomz whimpered.
“Alright people. No time to talk now. I’ll wake u guys up at 4AM sharp. Download and Refresh yourselves. Let’s rock the rest of this Dandeli forest. Sleep tight and safe”, said VP’s trainer Mr. AshokRangan.
11pm in the night
I was in the tent with Sam and he was writing the log in his book in the light from the dim lamp.
‘Dude! I too have habit of writing but why don’t you write this at the end of our trip?’, I sat up.
“The devil is in the details my friend. You could forget something or you might remember the one you wanted to write but have no space or time later. My log is purely for yanking out everything that’s happening on the trip”, his eyes shone with greatness.
‘Yeah! We have like 5more hours to wake up again. Don’t you think that you should require some rest? Cause once you begin writing, you never stop and forget about what’s happening. Like this wild cat that’s been scratching our tent by my head for the past 15 minutes without a fucking break’, suddenly I remembered it was a wild cat and we’re in middle of forest.

He closed the book and stuffed it inside his bag. Shushed me and pulled the meal-box from my bag.
‘Hey! What are you…’, shut my mouth with his hand.
Whispered, “We don’t know if there’s only one. Let’s hope it’s the only animal in here. Don’t make noise and open up the cover of this lamp. I’ll fry this bacon strip which will induce some smell alerting the animal. Let’s throw this as far as away from our tent”
Wore the gloves and carefully removed the glass top of the lamp. Felt the heat though. ‘What if it comes for more you dumbass!’, my voice had more intensity while I whispered.
“I have an Arrow for that, sucker! We’ll tackle whatever happens. Let’s not alert everyone.”
Bacon was ready and the smell made me crave in the middle of the night. Slowly pulled down the tent’s zipper and the animal came around. As we threw the bacon strips away, the cat ran towards to grab.
‘Man! They’re faster than my house cats’, meanwhile he pulled the bow-arrow gun and aimed for it’s head.
“Boom!”, he gave me a sharp proud look. But the cat was now growling. An arrow swooshed near my ear and hit the cat.
Turned around to see our trainer holding a Bow in his hand. He raised his right eyebrow and said, “You should’ve gone for the head”.
“Holy mother of God Ash! That was so cool”, Sam got excited.
“Now go inside you idiots. And turn off the damn lamp before that grizzly bear sees us”
And a roar was heard from the nearby trees.
~to be continued~
