Darya zeroed in on a wolf at the edge of clearing and fired. She was rewarded with the trees being painted red. They had taken down a good number of the wolves already, with help of a few mutants and a drone. But even more lingered just beyond the tree line, gazing at the party with their many eyes. She heard Jack make a few quips about their enemy. Darya wondered if she could keep those quips going while their throats were being torn out. Despite the diversity of their skills, they were outnumbered. And bad. Darya's brief pondering was violently interrupted by one of the wolves charging her flank. How could something that big move that damn fast? She turned to shoot it but knew she would be able to bring her rifle up in time. The wolf's jaws were already upon her.

She raised her robotic left arm just in time for the beast to clamp its jaws down on it and send them both tumbling across the campground. It was all Darya could do to keep the monster from flinging around like a ragdoll. It's breath was rancid with a tinge of acidity, as if it exhaled radiation instead of carbon dioxide. Darya scrabbled at her thigh for her smg, finally finding it's handle and ripping it out of the holster. She jammed the barrel into the wolf's neck and pulled the trigger. A shower of blood shot out the other side and the beast's vicious growling turned into a pained gurgle and then silence as it collapsed on top of Darya. The woman could feel it's blood soaking into her clothes. 

[color=gold] "I'm too old for this." [/color] she realized out loud before shoving the corpse off her with great effort. Darya struggled to her feet and scooped up her rifle. There was still too many of them. Then a loud rumble cut through the forest. Darya looked to the north and her heart dropped into her stomach. A six eyed behemoth stalked out of the woods, covered in bristly gray fur and scars. It was at least as big as a small pick up truck and its teeth had to have been as long as Darya's forearm. 

[color=gold]"That's the alpha! We need to kill that fucking thing if we're gonna get out of this alive!!"[/color] Darya shouted to the others as she scoped in on the monster.