The Hunters were catching up with the fugitives.
The leader stopped, rubbed fresh blood between his fingers and claimed confidently: «The tiger was here only five minutes ago. The animal is badly injured and losing strength. We're almost there. Get ready to meet the beast!»
«Yes, sir!» – The hunters said in unison.
Meanwhile, Kyon asked himself: {How to lose a tail?} – If he didn't come up with anything in ten minutes, the hunters would get them. The bleeding tiger was doomed against twenty people with royal phasers among them (6). They would harness the beast and kill the fat freak.
If he only had the superior (3) grade of the wind element, he would have carried the tiger on his back, isolating the smell from the outside world with a vacuum barrier, but alas.