Chapter 1

"Aww come on!" Doyle snapped as he sat around the table in the control room, clearly not happy about losing at poker to Zon, A prehistoric bird that may, or may not be a cryptid. At least he wasn't losing against Komodo.

Zon cawed happily, Komodo just hissed and ate all his cards, while Fiskerton just rolled over as he slept on the couch.

"How's the game going?" Drew asked as she walked in the room, Doc close behind.

"Great" Doyle said as he laid his cards face up on the table reveling a pair of aces, Zon did the same, reveling a full house, winning the game once again. (B/N: That's a really smart bird!)

Doyle looks up at Drew and Doc "OK, maybe not so great" that's when he noticed a file in Drew's hand.

"Got another cryptid?" he asked, those words somehow waking Fiskerton from his deep sleep.

"Yep." Drew replied.

"There was a sitting of a black wolf cryptid in the forest on the edge of a small town out in the middle of nowhere, but the wolf is 2 times the size of a normal wolf." drew explained, clearing away the cards and spreading the papers in the file out on the table.

"So?" Doyle asked.

"So," Doc replied, "we're going to go find that wolf."

Doyle's face fell "I don't have a choice do I?"

"No." they both replied in perfect sync.

Zon cawed in annoyance that her game had been canceled while Doyle and Fisk groaned, all oblivious to komodo who was sneaking out of the room, the poker cards more than half devoured.

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Zak's feet…or should I say paws, pounded furiously on the raw forest floor as he raced through the trees at an amazing speed.

He made a sharp turn around a tree, slowing momentarily as he slid across the dirt, before speeding forward once again.

He raced across a deep blue river in the middle of a clearing he had grown fond of calling mist meadow, his favorite place in the forest.

He carefully weaved his way in and out of the tall tan grass, similar to Africa's tall grass, with emerald green vines weaving their way through the grass, each and every vine spotted with beautiful flowers in each and every color. A heavy mist that was always, always there, covering the meadow hanging low to the ground as it sparkled in the sunlight.

Once he reached the edge of the meadow, he came to a halt at the mouth of a well hidden cave, panting furiously.

He walked slowly into the cave he considered his home and forced his body to shift. His bones began to re-arrange themselves, shrink and bend to a different size. His muscles shrunk, his fur disappeared, his front legs turned into arms, as his back legs turned to human.

He stood up with a sigh of relief and quickly tilted his head side to side and cracking sound followed, echoing around the supposedly empty cave.

The now human boy turned around and walked out the cave. He looked around quickly, making sure he didn't do any real damage to the plants before walking across the rver again.

Once out of the meadow he walked to the edge of the forest where the town began, made sure no one was looking, then walked out of the woods and blended in with the crowd, which was considerably small since the towns populating was about 40 people.

He disbanded from the group and walked into a lone shop in the center of town. No one paid him any mind though, they had gotten used to his sudden one day appearances, going to a few shops, then disappearing for another month or so.

When he walked into the shop he found himself surrounded by the usual trinkets and random things that littered the other stores. He walked around the store hoping to find something of interest, but upon finding nothing he walked outside, and was greeted with some of the towns people surrounding the landing bay as a rather large air ship descended onto the plat form.

He looked around quickly before he spotted 2 crates side to side at the edge of the only alleyway the town had a few feet away from the front of the landing bay. He dove behind the boxes just as the doors opened.

He poked his head out from behind the crates to get a look at the people.

His eyes widened when he saw who it was.

The people who had just stepped of the air ship were some of the secret scientists. Zak had found out about them a few years ago when his powers first unlocked and gained a claw of Tsul 'Kalu.

The 3 secret scientists, who Zak was sure were Drew, Doc and Doyle, were accompanied by one cryptid, one Komodo Dragon, and one bird that seemed to be prehistoric. Weather it was a cryptid or not, Zak couldn't tell.

"Hello" a blond haired woman said as she walked up to them "I'm Sera."

"Hello," The white haired lady known as Drew replied, "I'm Drew, this is my husband Doc," She said gesturing to the black and while haired guy on her right, "and this is my brother Doyle." She finished as she pointed to a guy with a red mow hawk.

"We're here investigating the black wolf sightings." Doc said.

'Uh oh!' Zak thought, 'That's notgood!'

Sera smiled "we are glad you are here to help, if you need anything please ask"

"Well," Drew said, "do you think you could tell us about the sightings?"

Sera nodded "It has only been seen 3 times, each time near the village boarders. The ones who saw it have said it was at least twice the normal size of any wolf, and that it had a small, white, lop sided star on its forehead. It actually seems quite tame since it has not attacked anyone and every time it was spotted it was passing by the village."

"Thanks." Doyle said

"That should be all we need at the moment, but if you think of anything odd that's been going around recently, tell us." Doc said.

"Well…" Sera thought for a moment before continuing "There is this one boy who shows up about once a month. He just shows up out of nowhere one day, wanders around the town, visits a store or 2 before disappearing at the end of the day. He looks about 12 or 13 years old. We've sent out a few people the first few times we saw him to try and find him and they never can, and there's not another town for at least a hundred miles. We tend to leave him alone and that seems to be just the way he likes it…..now that I think about it, I could have sworn I saw him a few minutes ago."

'Crap!" Zak thought, 'This is not good!'

"Do you remember where you last saw him?" Drew asked, her voice sounding more urgent now.

"The last time I saw him was in that shop." Sera replied pointing to the shop Zak had just been in. He chose that moment to leave.

____The Saturdays____

The Saturdays family walked into the shop the woman had pointed out to them, they asked a few of the people in their about the kid and the wolf but they just got the same information as the woman, Sera, had told them and that the kid had left moments before.

"Can you tell us what he looked like?" Drew asked finally.

The man named Edward they were talking to nodded his head. "He looked about 12, he wore tan baggy cargo pants with a black shirt. His hair was black but he had white hair in front shaped sort of like a star, and he was carrying this weird stick. It was gold colored and had some kind of animals paw at the end."

The Saturdays said their thanks before heading back to their air ship. They all sat down at the table to go over what they know.

"So we have to find a kid who appears out of nowhere and a black wolf that seems nice." Drew said in a slightly defeated voice.

"Ooooook….and do we know anything that's actually usefull?" Doyle asked, earning him glares from everyone else.

"What?" he asked

"Maybe we should just go out on a scouting mission. Get to know the woods better" Doc suggested.

"Sounds good." Drew replied as they all stood up and walked off the air ship in the direction of the forest.