The Wolfman
"Even a man who is pure in heart
and says his prayers by night,
may become a wolf
when the wolfbane blooms
and the autumn moon is bright"
-Jenny Williams. The Wolfman (1941)
First Part.
Home coming.
Blackmoor Woods, London, 1891:
The carriage stopped at the front of the mansion, the door of the vehicle was opened and a young man, who was fifteen years old, with black raven hair that reached the bottom of his ears, came out, it was wearing an elegant black suit.
At the treads of the mansion there was a man, a strongly built one, with long black hair, having a half on a low ponytail, he was wearing a black suit as well, when he saw the younger one, he approached him and smiled.
"My brother" he said as he hugged him "It´s good to see you again"
"I said the same bro" said the young man hugging him back.
"Welcome home Kenai"
"Thanks Sitka"
They separate and Sitka examined Kenai.
"It seems school is doing good to you"
"Oh no it isn´t" said Kenai sighing "It´s horrible as hell"
Sitka laughed and shoved his brother playfully.
"Come on, it can´t be that bad"
"It is, I don´t know how you handle it for so long"
"With patience, good attitude and listening to my teachers"
"Well, I don´t think I can handle it anymore"
"You can Kenai, you´re just exaggerating things"
"You think I am?" asked Kenai with a teasing look.
"Positive"
They both laughed and Sitka placed a hand on his brother shoulder.
"It´s good to have you back Kenai"
Kenai was currently studying veterinary science at the White Horses Academy, a very prestigious one, where his grandparent had studded as well as his father and brothers, Sitka and Denahi, now it was Kenai turn, during the school year Kenai stayed on the dormitory's that were inside the school, alongside with his roommate, Hiccup Haddock the Third, who was also studying veterinary.
And now, for the summer vacation, Kenai had returned to his family mansion, the one who Sitka owned, since he was the oldest of the three brothers, after his parent´s death, on the will it was declared that each one of his sons will receive a part of his fortune, divided on equal parts for the three sons, the mansion was for Sitka, while his summer house was for Denahi, and the beach house was for Kenai, when he reached the age that was wrote on the will.
And now, Kenai was going to spend his vacations with his brothers, and was to meet his brother fiancée.
"Well, come on in" Sitka "It´s cold outside this"
And it was true, despite been summer, the sky was gray and the wind was blowing strong.
"Okay" said Kenai turning to see the carriage, where a servant was putting down Kenai´s suitcases from the vehicles top "Oh, thank you, I will take them to the house"
"None sense sir" said the servant, a grown man who had a black moustache on his face "I can do it"
"Well, then let me help you please" said Kenai, then he, the servant and Sitka carried the suitcases until the house.
The entrance of the house was very elegant; the ground was upholstery with red and gold velvet, while the walls were red.
"It´s just like how I remember it" Kenai.
"Yes, we don´t have so much time to remodel"
"Oh yes, the wedding is taking a lot of your time"
"Yes…" said Sitka, not happy, Kenai noticed it on his tone, he placed his bags on the ground, and then he took the ones the servant was carrying.
"Thank you"
"It´s an honor sir" he said and then walked out of the room, leaving the two brothers alone.
"You don´t love her, right?" asked Kenai.
Sitka sighed and looked at him.
"No, I don´t"
"Then, why are you going to marry her?"
"Because Kenai… Dad was very specific"
"But Sitka, you once told me that…"
"Kenai, I know, but… I must honor the last will of our father, marry to the only daughter of Sangilak, a family tradition that had kept our families united, since centuries ago, Kenai, even if I don´t agree with it, I have to do it, I can´t break the tradition"
"You always respected our traditions" Kenai.
Sitka smiled and nodded.
"And come on, it can´t be that bad"
Kenai shrugged, which made his brother to laugh and put him into a headlock.
"Let´s not think about that now"
Kenai laughed and go out of the headlock, and then he looked to his brother who was laughing as well.
"But look who´s here, is our little brother" said a voice in front of them.
They looked in the direction where the voice was coming, to see Denahi, who had just appeared on scene and was smiling.
"It´s good to see you too dog´s breath" said Kenai, making Sitka roll his eyes.
"Oh come on, that´s not the way to greet your brother" Denahi scolded him.
He approached Kenai until they were face to face, both with mad looks on their faces, but then they laughed and hugged each other.
"Welcome home" Denahi.
"Thank you" Kenai, then they separate "Oh but I think this isn´t going to be our home soon, since Sitka is going to be very busy with his new wife"
"O don´t even tell me about" Denahi with a mocking tone.
"Come on" said Sitka annoyed.
Denahi and Kenai looked each other and smiled.
"It's a beautiful day" Denahi started to sing, jumping around Sitka.
"Don´t even dear" Sitka.
"It's a rather nice day" said Kenai joining Denahi, also jumping around his eldest brother.
"You better stop or…" Sitka.
"A day for a glorious wedding" Denahi.
"A rehearsal, my dear brother, to be perfectly clear" Kenai.
Then they run to the door while they were laughing, Sitka sighed in annoyance, but then smiled and run after his brothers, who kept singing on the steps of the mansion entrance.
"A rehearsal for a glorious wedding" Denahi.
"Assuming nothing happens that we don't really know" Kenai.
"That nothing unexpected interferes with the show" Denahi.
Then they look that Sitka was outside of the house, he began to run after them, so Kenai and Denahi laughed and started to run, while Sitka was chasing them, also laughing.
"And that's why everything, every last little thing, every single tiny microscopic little thing must go..." Denahi and Kenai sang in unison as they go to the mansions patio, that had bushed with the form of animals, such as eagles, wolfs bears, tigers and lions, also, there were beautiful plants and roses all around, and a maze was also.
"According to plan" Denahi.
"Our brother will be married" Kenai.
"According to plan" Denahi.
"Our family carried"
"We'll go right into to the heights of society" Denahi said, putting a fake mole over his lips, and then making a reverence.
"To the costume balls" Kenai said, dancing with an imaginary woman.
Then Denahi took Kenai and the two started to dance, while they kept singing.
"In the hallowed halls" said Denahi making Kenai do a lap.
"Rubbing elbows with the finest" Kenai said making a king pose, with a hand on his waist and holding an imaginary sword with the other hand.
"Having crumpets with her highness" said Denahi walking like if he was a model on a game show.
"We'll be there; we'll be seen, having tea with the queen. We'll forget everything...that we've ever ever been…" Kenai and Denahi ended singing by grabbing their hands and giving laps, then they separate, just when Sitka appeared on the patio, he looked at his younger brothers with an eyebrow raised.
"Did you like our song?" asked Denahi smiling.
"Well, I think this will respond you" said Sitka, then he launched himself against his two bother, knocking them to the ground.
The three brothers laughed, and then they start to wrestle on the ground. But what they didn´t knew was that, in another mansion, some miles away, Sangilak, the father of Sitka´s fiancée, was watching them from a telescope, alongside him, there was his mother, and old and ugly woman with black hair and wrinkled skin that was as white as snow, her nails were sharped and long, they were like claws, her teeth's were sharped as shark teeth's, she had the look of and old witch.
While Sangilak was a big muscular man, he had a scar on his right eye; he also was wearing a long black cape.
"It's a terrible day" Sangilak started to sing.
"Now don't be that way" said his mother singing.
"It's a terrible day for a wedding" Sangilak continued as he walked out of the room, his mother followed him.
"It's a sad, sad state of affairs we're in" Sangilak.
"That has led to this ominous wedding" mother.
"How could our family have come to this?" Sangilak.
"To marry off my daughter to the noveaux-rich"
"To marry off my granddaughter to the noveaux-rich"
They sing in unison.
"They're so common" Sangilak.
"So coarse" mother.
"Oh, it couldn't be worse!" Sangilak.
"It couldn't be worse? I'm afraid I disagree. It could be land-rich bankrupt aristocracy, without a penny to their name...just like you...and me" his mother sing as she opened a strong box that was hide behind a picture of a man killing a bear, the strong box was empty, dusty and even a spider was making his web on it.
"Oh, dear" Sangilak said looking at the box.
"And that's why everything, every last little thing, every single tiny microscopic little thing must go..." Sangilak and his mother sing at the same time, as they closed the box and put the padlock on it, and then they put the picture on the same place, covering the box.
"According to plan" mother.
Then she and Sangilak start to walk on the hallway, were on the walls were hanging portraits, painted on hand, of all the members of the family of Sangilak.
"My daughter will wed" Sangilak sing.
"According to plan" mother.
"Our family lead" Sangilak.
"From the depths of deepest poverty" mother.
"To the noble realm" Sangilak.
"Of our ancestors" mother.
"And who'd have guessed in a million years that my daughter, with the face…"
"Of an otter in disgrace"
"Would provide our ticket to our rightful place?" both of them sing.
Meanwhile, Sitka´s fiancée name was Anastasia, first and only daughter of Sangilak; she was a beautiful young girl that had the same age than Kenai, with a long red hair that reached her shoulders and blue eyes.
Her servant, Nadia, a girl of her same age, with long blonde platinum hair, was helping her to put on the dress she will use at the party on Sitka´s mansion at the night, it was going to be the first time that Sitka and Anastasia will see each other, Nadia wasn´t only Anastasia´s servant, she was also her closer friend and confident, and she knew that Anastasia wasn´t at all happy with the marriage.
"This is so stupid" Anastasia said as she looked herself on the mirror "What if Sitka and I don't...like each other?"
"Do you suppose your mother and I liked each other?" asked Sangilak, who was at the door, with his mother at his side, Anastasia´s mom, had died when Anastasia was only eight years old.
"Surely you must...a little..." Anastasia.
"Of course not!" Sangilak.
"Get those corsets laced properly...I can hear you speak without gasping. Marriage is a partnership. A little tit-for-tat" Sangilak mother said to Nadia.
"Yes" said her looking to the ground.
Then Sangilak and his mother turned to walk out of the room to the living room, when the mother began to sing again.
"You'd think a lifetime watching you might have taught her that. Might have taught her that"
"Everything must be perfect"
"Everything must be perfect"
"Everything must be perfect"
"Everything must be perfect, perfect"
"Everything, every last little thing, every single tiny microscopic little thing must go...According to plan!" they ended singing the last paragraphs at the same time.
Hello, well this is my Halloween special, I wanted to post each chapter of this story on Friday until Halloween but I missed two Fridays, well that´s not going to happen again, hopefully I will be able to post every chapter on Friday from now, so without anymore, here´s the first chapter, second part coming tomorrow.