They say your life flashes before you eyes when you're on Death's doorstep. Well mine was long flashback. I traveled through my life from when I was a child, to when I had come of age and was ready for my first battle. When Hel came to me and asked me to steal some of Hade's fire and many years beyond that. I saw my family, my wife and children. All dead now of course, that was five hundred or so years ago. My life stopped rushing by when I saw that beast that kicked my ass. I could hear it's mocking voice, laughing at me and taunting me. My eyes snapped open and took in a deep breath. I was alive, that was a good sign. It took me a moment to realize that I wasn't in those dark evil woods. I was back at where I had started, where I had left Marcus and Sofia. I looked down at my chest where the beast had slashed me open but the skin was fully healed. I could still feel the burning sensation on my chest, as if it just happened. Since I wasn't bleeding out and dead, I'll deal with it. I got up on my feet and looked around, and that's when I spotted Sofia walking up to me. I smiled and waved at her, she frowned with concerned eyes. I was alive and that's all that mattered to me. She didn't need to look at me like that. I didn't like it very much.

"Oh hey you. How's it going?"

"You almost died. That's how it's going. I told you to be careful out there."

"Trust me. I was but I got my ass kicked. It happens. I'm not Superman or Goku."

"That's so not the point. You were lucky that Snakeblocker saved you."

Snakeblocker? What the fuck is a Snakeblocker?

"Who?"

That's when Marcus and another man walked up and stood next to Sofia. The person I didn't know was brown skinned, was wearing blue jeans, with snake skinned cowboy boots, a black t-shirt and to complete the look. A black cowboy hat. His long dark hair flowed in the wind, like as if he was some majestic being from another world, he very much well could be.

"That's Snakeblocker. He's the one who saved you from death."

I looked over the man to check out his power. If he was the cause of the bright light I saw before going off to dream land. Then he must used some sort of magic and judging by his aura he must have been a shaman. Which made sense, the lad was Native American but from what tribe, I couldn't tell you. It didn't matter really but if he was out here, he might know something about the creature I faced. Smiling, I held out my hand to shake his, he return the gesture and we shook hands.

"I thank you for saving my ass back there. I'm Jake, pleasure to meet you"

"You're welcome. Good to meet you Jake, I'm Snakeblocker and you're lucky I showed up when I did. It would seem you were not meant to die yet."

"Do you know what it is? For I have no clue but it must be killed."

Snakeblocker nodded.

"That I do, it is an evil spirit. A Wendigo."

I looked at him confused, I had no idea what that was. Never ran into it til now.

"A what?"

"A Wendigo. It is a being that is born when a person take part in the act of human flesh consumption during a harsh Winter. It slowly turns the person into both a beast and An elemental spirit of the wind and cold. They are powerful but are always hungry, always looking for it's next meal. It never stops feeding. I've been tracking this one for some time now."

Fucking great. No wonder I got my ass handled to me.

"Well, great, now that I know what it is, I can kill it or unless it's one of those can't die assholes?'

"Oh no, it can be killed. You must burn it to ash. Fire is it's weakness."

"Indeed, being an elemental spirit of cold. Fire would do the trick."

Sofia looked at me, she had crossed her arms and gave me that "you're not thinking what I think you are" look and she was right. I looked at her and grinned.

"No, you're not going to go back out there. You were lucky this time. Next time, you'll die."

"Maybe." I shrugged.

"You don't even have your axe."

"Yes, I couldn't take it with us, It wouldn't allow me to pick it up."

"That's because of the spell I put on it. Only I can wield it but that's okay, I can call it to my side."

I held my arm out and opened my hand and wait for a moment,in mere seconds my axe came flying through the air and flew into my hand. I looked it and smiled. It still had blood on it from the wendigo. If it bleeds, we can kill it.

"I'll be going back out, but this time. I'll be ready. This time, the outcome will be different. Trust me on that but now I must get prepared. Keep an eye out for that thing. I'll need an hour. Then the hunt begins."


"Zane, buddy. It's okay that you beat Mastermind. I mean, who I hasn't? Well besides myself. Haven't been put in the ring with him yet, but that's besides the point. Anyone can beat him that had half a brain. The fact he lost to a walking, talking corpse is just sad. Yes, I know you're a zombie, big fucking deal. What kind of reaction did you think I was going to have? I've been on this Earth a lot longer than you have and let me tell you, if you think you're scary or frighting. I'm sorry to tell you, but you're not even close to the shit I've dealt with. A zombie is no treat to me. Now if you were a Draugr, you know. A real zombie. Then sure, maybe. I might be a little worried but you're not. That being said, I'm not going to underestimate. You can take a lot damage and just shrug it off. I could chop off your arms and legs and leave you nothing by a torso and I'm sure you'd be just fine, til I destroyed your brain of course. You're a low tier monster and due to movie and t.v. shows, you're more of a novelty than a monster. Everyone knows how to kill your kind, you can blame pop culture for that. No one fears you and nor should they."

"So please, get over yourself. The fact you would even allow yourself to be turned into the undead disgusts me. No one in their right mind should allow that or keep living like that. I can always end it for you, you won't have to be a corpse anymore but I already know you won't let me or else you would have ended yourself by now. So I'll settle for just kicking your ass on Savage. Then maybe after that. You'll see just how worthless you truly are. So go eat brains and fuck yourself. I'll see you Saturday.""