Man In Black - Season 1 - Episode 68

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Man In Black - Season 1 - Episode 68

The moment Anne raised that gun, the tiger bounded forward one step, then another, and then another, a blur of brown, faster than any dog Chuks had ever seen, showing wickedly sharp teeth as it closed the little distance between them.

All she had to do was fire the gun, but Chuks’ heart sank as he watched her wrestle with it. He had been right about what made Instructor Max unafraid of the gun: it was neither cocked nor had the safety in the right position.


Anne only managed to get the safety fast enough. Chuks saw at once that she couldn’t have the gun cocked in time, that she was already no more than meat for this freakish-sized cat.

The moment he had that part figured out, he didn’t even have to think. He tossed the iPad aside, pushed Anne back into Segun and dove in front of her just as the animal pounced, paws and claws extended.

He covered his head with his hands and braced himself for those horrible teeth to sink into his flesh.

There was the slightest suggestion of wind across his face as it happened. He heard the animal yelp, and then a thud. He still waited for the bite, for the slash across his arms, but as with the slap he had expected Anne to recieve from their field instructor, it never came.

Lying on the ground, Chuks tentatively opened one eye. Just in front of him lay the tiger, half on the trail and half on the grasses that bordered it, struggling to regain its feet, with an arrow sticking out of its side.

Arrow? Where the arrow come from?
The animal turned its head and saw Chuks sitting there, and it stood and staggered. Behind him, Anne shouted for him to stand up. Chuks struggled to do so, just as something dropped from the tree just above. It landed on the tiger— Chuks heard an audiblecrackas it did —tumbled on the ground, then rolled into the darkness.