Picture black. Then picture my avatar slowly walk onto the screen from the left hand side "umm, hi. I'm hamishwarfare's muse. Something bad happened in his life that caused me to go to sleep for a very long time. He says that he got me to wake up again by using something very special from some fools. He didn't tell me who the fools where or what he used. He was going to post a new chapter for "The Underdogs" when his hard drive went to sleep. He tried to wake it up by doing the same thing he did to get me to wake up, but it didn't work. Fortunately his daddy said he could use his computer to write on until his hard drive wakes up. So let me introduce his latest story" and with that she bows to you all before skipping off the screen.


A Wolf in Lilo's Clothing Story

The Curse of the Harvest Moon

Part 1

The Beginning

Long, long ago, before the time of myth and legend. When the age of man was still young, there lived a man and his family. The man's life was hard, working long hours on a farm, but it was also happy. The man had a beautiful wife who was true and honest to him, and he was honest to her. He also had the most precious gift any being could give; a wonderful baby girl. Every day he would go to work on a farm before first light, and came home after dark. He would be tired, hungry and sore; but as soon as he entered his small accommodation, all of it washed away thanks to the sight of his lovely wife holding his child. He couldn't have been happier.

Then, one fateful day, during the harvest moon, the man came home from a hard days work to find his house ablaze. Fearing the worst, the man rushed in with out a second thought to his health. What he found, no devil could match. There in the middle of the room, in a pool of their own blood, was his wife holding onto there daughter for dear life. The heat was so great in the house that the blood on the floor had dried. Crouching over his family, he could still see the fear in his wife eyes and the hands of his child clutching onto her clothing for dear life. They where dead; brutally murdered and from the look of his wife's dress, she had been violated as well.

The heat drove him out of the building, but he did not leave the area. Collapsing onto his knees, he cried, screamed, to the gods to bring his family back; but they didn't. Snow started to fall around the house as the night went on, but the man didn't move. Still kneeling, still crying his soul out to the gods. He was in so much pain, so much anger that his water filled eyes didn't notice the crisp white of the snow change to a bloody red.

The gods of old may not have been listening, but the spirit of the harvest moon was. A beam launched from the moon and surrounded the man, but still he did not move. A being appeared in front of him, but still he did not move. It wasn't until the being spoke to the man that he moved. It asked him if he wanted the power to get revenge on the people that did this to his loved ones. With a glare that could turn the fiercest of wolves, and a desire no mortal could match, the man told the being yes.

The fire of the building surrounded the man as he screamed in pain. The being laughed loudly as the man grew bigger, faster and harrier; his eyes absorbing all the pain that the fire created, growing black and empty. The cry of the man changed into a howl as the transformation completed. No longer a man, no longer mortal; he was a monster; a giant dog like monster. The most efficient and ruthless killing machine that has ever set foot on this earth.

The monster hunted down and killed every single person that attacked his family; slaughtering them without emotion. Once they where dead the man truly lost himself within the monster; the being that changed him told the monster to gather souls for him, and to never stop killing until he gave the command. For almost a century, the monster hunted and killed without mercy, killing both man and mystical alike. The only time the people got any rest was during the day, and during the harvest moon.

Many had tried to kill the monster, but none had succeeded. The only clue that anyone had to the monsters weakness was the fact he was never seen during the day. However, that was only a guess. Eventually an alliance was formed between man and the magical creatures of the land, the only time such a thing has happened. The best warriors of each race were choosing to hunt the creature down, but still they failed. That was when the dragon lord got involved.

He tracked down the monster to his den, and then on the day of the harvest moon, he attacked. He thought he had the advantage because it was daylight outside, but he was wrong. The monster was weaker than reported, but still far from vulnerable. The battle between the monster and the dragon lord was fierce and brutal but the dragon was winning, that is until nightfall. With the light of the harvest moon touching the creature his strength, speed and endurance was amplified, making the battle a stalemate. The dragon lord started to use his wings. By flying into the air, he was out of reach of the razor claws of the monster. Or, so he thought.

The creature howled to the moon, and a beam of light surrounded him. The light changed the creature. His huge body became sleeker, his muzzle shrank in size a little but his canines grew longer. His ears changed shape, looking more like bat ears than dog-ears and his eyes changed from the empty black to blood red. The final thing that changed about the monster was that it grew a set of bat like wings from its shoulder blades.

The fight continued until the moon was right in the middle of the sky. The dragon lord and the monster where locked in battle and so the monster could not give the souls he'd gathered for the harvest moon. This caused something unexpected. The light of the moon once again hit the monster but instead of growing powerful, the creature withered. Every part of the monster shrank in size before turning into dust. The monster was defeated.

The dragon lord returned to the people, and the people celebrated. However, the dragon lord did not join in. He was worried about what the creature had said to him. The only thing that the creature said in its entire existence: treasure this defeat, but do not think the war is over. I will return and when I do, the world will be covered in the light of the blood moon…

"…and that, young one, is the story of Red Moon the Uncrushable" An old Chinese person said to his grand son, who was wearing a red tracksuit top and a pair of jean shorts.

"yo G that story was cool…"

"It was no story, Jake. That really happened"

"Wow gramps, that's really intense. But why are you telling me this?"

"Because, young one, the dragon council fears that Red Moon will return this harvest moon and central park is where he was vanquished."

"But what makes you say he coming back this year?"

"It is prophesized that the year he returns, the 6 full moons before the harvest moon will be red. Last night was the second full moon that was red."

"Well, if he dose show his ugly face. He'll get his werepire butt kicked by the am-drag"

"Jake, this is a battle we cannot win with strength. The dragon lord of old was said to be the most powerful dragon to ever live, and he was at equal with the beast" the old man said with fear written in his eyes.

"Are you saying that this Moon guy is stronger than the dark dragon?" Jake said, matching the seriousness of his grandfather.

"I do not know; but it is highly likely. So we'll be training you harder than you ever have"

"aww man"

16 weeks later

Over on the opposite side of the United States, on the island of Kauai we find our heroes, Lilo and Stitch. At this moment in time they where walking across town. Its been just over half a year since Lilo went to Scotland and became a werewolf and in that year some pretty weird stuff happened. First off that convention was very useful to Nani. Even though she was not there for the entire thing, she still managed to pick up the skills required to become the assistant manager of the Birds of Paradise Hotel. To say that was money was no longer a problem was a bit of an understatement.

But that's not important. What is important is that Lilo and Victoria are still friends. You see Lilo was a little scared about telling Victoria she was a werewolf, so at first she didn't. It took her almost a week after Victoria returned from her vacation to build up the courage to tell her; and when she did, Victoria didn't believe her. I mean aliens sure, that could be believable, but a werewolf? It was then that vicotria noticed the furry belt that Lilo was wearing and asked if she could try it on.

This was what Lilo could show to her to prove that she was a werewolf. So without touching it Lilo uncoiled her tail from around her waist and allowed it to sway back and forth behind her. At first Victoria thought the tail was fake, but when Lilo allowed her to try and pull it off she found that it wouldn't come off. Lilo then moved her hair behind her ears to show her how much they had changed. Finally Lilo moved so they where staring directly at each other, it was here that Victoria noticed the cat like look to Lilo's eyes.

From there it was just a bombardment of questions: what's it like? What can you do? Can you control yourself when you're a werewolf? Can you change at will? Can you see and smell better than before? And many other questions of a similar nature. Yes, Lilo had nothing to worry about, especially when Victoria learnt that Lilo had complete control over the werewolf curse. She didn't show Victoria, because she they where at Victoria's house and her parents might see.

Another thing that Lilo discovered that day, was that her sense of smell was even better than back in Scotland. There was a smell of pine trees around her, so Lilo innocently asked if they had a pine cent around there, or if she's been in contact with one. The look on Victoria's face was of shock, because not only did she now have a pine sent in the house, she hasn't been near anything that smelled of pine since her vacation, and that was over a week ago. This shocked Lilo quite a bit but it also excited her.

Jumba studied Lilo at every available opportunity. This was the first time anything like this could be recorded and he wanted to get as much information on it as possible. He worked out how much extra food Lilo consumed; not that much at all. He examined how much stronger her 'normal' self was; almost twice as strong as she was before. He tested her endurance when she was 'normal'. There was no test long enough; Lilo's endurance was greater than Stitch's and she was also faster. He took some blood and tested it to see if there was anything different; her white blood cells had doubled in size, as well as her red blood cells. Her white blood cells where also much more aggressive. Yes, he had a new project to work on and Lilo didn't mind that much. Well, that is before he showed her the needle to take some blood.

Everything seemed to be going pretty well, that was until the full moon came to the island. For three days Lilo looked like a giant wolf cub. She couldn't leave the house and that got very annoying. She managed to convince Stitch to get morpholomew and see if he could change her into the old Lilo. Stitch got him and Lilo had a picture of herself ready for him. He did his whole change his face then the entire persons body to match the picture, only it didn't work. Lilo was still covered in fur.

They tried several times and each time she came out furry. She got so desperate that she got a picture of Nani and asked morpholomew to change her into Nani. The result was quite a bit different that what she expected. She expected two things; one to become Nani, and the more likely option of just staying the same. But what actually happened was that she did indeed became Nani; except for the fact she was now a fur covered wolf like Nani. This got Jumba, who arrived shortly after the second time Lilo tried to transform using morpholomew, thinking, and went off to theorise. As he did that, Lilo and Stitch got a whole load of pictures and just had fun seeing what people would look like if they where in Lilo's situation. From then on, each full moon has just been one big game.

Lilo snaps out of her drift in space, as she notices the dirt road they started walking up. She really enjoyed walking up this path now, thanks to Sasami. Sasami was a very keen gardener and the road they where on right now was bordered by cherry trees. How Sasami got the trees was a mystery to Lilo but she guessed it had something to do with Sasami being a druid. After several turns, they came to a house that looked remarkably like their own, except for the fact it had a veranda sticking out of the front of it, beside the set of stairs leading up to the door.

Before the house however, was a breath taking garden. The dirt road that they where on divided two perfectly green lawns bordered by the large trees of the forest. There was a small pond in the centre of the lawn to the left of them, and beautiful flowers surrounded it. The right hand side lawn has a single tree growing in the centre of it. The veranda had several baskets of flowers, as well as a table, some chairs and French windows leading into the house.

Lilo was going to knock on the door, when she noticed a newspaper was lying on the table beside a cup of coffee. Walking over to the table, they heard the Scottish national anthem playing from within the house. They walked through the door and instantly got chills down their back. Not because of the décor, or seeing something inappropriate; no it was because of the air conditioning. The air conditioning was on so high that Lilo could swear she could see her breath. Within a blink of an eye, Lilo changed her smooth skin to match that of Stitch's, covered in black fur. It was here that Hamish's head appeared from the kitchen,

"ah lass, so good of you to come. Umm why are you covered in your fur?"

"Hamish it's freezing in here! How you can live like this I'll never know"

"chuckle sorry about that, I'll turn down the AC for you." Hamish said before his disappeared back into the kitchen "would you like a drink of anything? Or perhaps something to eat?" he continued as he shuffled around the other room.

"No thanks we're fine" Lilo said as she sat down on the sofa with Stitch right beside her. They could actually tell when Hamish turned off the air conditioning it was that cold.

"well why don't we go out onto the veranda. It's a lovely morning and I think I left my coffee out there." Hamish said as he appeared in the sitting room. He was wearing a black short-sleeved t-shirt with a pair of khaki combat shorts and hiking boots.

Now, that they where sitting in the warmth of the Hawaiian air, Lilo returned her fur back within her.

"so what was it that you wanted to talk about Hamish?" Lilo asked once all her fur had changed into golden brown skin.

"Well you remember when you told me that you'd like to fight bad mythical creatures that are causing mayhem?"

"oh yeah, I remember that. It was just after you got settled in with Sasami. Hey where is Sasami anyway?"

"She's out back gardening right now. But back to what I was saying. I've heard that there are dragon sightings in New York city. There are reports of property damage, but no real injuries. You want to take a look into it for your first case?"

"Wow, New York city. I've always wanted to go there. And I bet you want to go there as well Stitch; to see a truly massive earth city?"

"IH IH!"

"chuckle well I guess that's the two of you all set, but there is one person that we need to get the ok with, and that's Nani." Hearing this both Lilo and Stitch gave a loud gulp. "I take it she'll likely say no"

"Yeah probably; we really made her angry the other day."

"Oh, what did you two do?" Hamish said as he looked at them over the rim of his cup.

"Well, she had just come back from a date with David and they where talking at the door while me and Stitch where trying to get to sleep. They just went on and on and on, and some of the stuff they where saying was far too mature for my sensitive ears. So, me and Stitch helped them cool down by dumping a bucket of ice cold water onto their heads."

Hearing this Hamish spat out his coffee and started chocking slightly, but from the look on his face, you could tell he was trying to laugh. After several seconds, Hamish managed to catch himself and return his breathing to normal.

"Lilo, as your social service officer I have to say that was very wrong of you; you shouldn't have down that to your sister and David."

"and what if you weren't my social service officer?"

"I wish I could have been there to see their faces" Hamish finished with a huge grin. Just as he said that however, he got slapped on the head with a glove.

"How could you encourage her to do that to her older sister?" a blue woman with long blue hair and golden eyes said from behind Hamish, she too had a smile on her face.

"What? I said she shouldn't have done it." Hamish said as he turned around to face her.

"yes, but you also said you wished you could have seen it" Sasami finished as she took her gardening glove off his head.

"Admit it, you wish you could have seen it as well" Lilo said with an accusing smile. Stitch was too busy laughing at the memory to focus on the conversation.

"Why do I need to wish, when I can just ask the trees to show me?" Sasami said before laughing "Ah its good to see your still mischievous Lilo"

"hey Sasami. I love your garden, it's beautiful"

"Why thank you Lilo. But how do you like Hamish's idea of going to New York to search out this dragon?"

"It sounds like lots of fun, but I don't think Nani will let us go" Lilo said with a downcast expression.

"Well, there's no harm in asking. So let's go and see if she'll allow you guys to travel. Who knows I might even be able to convince her to change her mind if she dose say no" Hamish said as he got up from his position at the table and went into the house.

"This could be the start of a whole new adventure Stitch." Lilo said as she got down from her chair and followed Hamish into the house.

"I think you may be right Lilo"


Thank you all for waiting so patiently. I'm hoping to return to a normal, or better, updating routine. I don't know when "The Underdogs" will update again. It all depends on whether I can get my hard drive working again without damaging it. At worst I'll have to write the chapter all over again, and it was a long chapter. Oh and before I forget; Disney owns everything except Hamish and Sasami who are mine and red moon the uncrushable who belongs to cydra(used with permission). So until the next time. Be well!