Chapter 1

"Frank, admit it, we're lost." Carrie sighed as she sat down on a tree stump. Agent Stark had made the team complete a three day expedition in the wilderness and the agents were only one day into their journey and nighttime was falling fast, and they hadnt found the campsite. Oscar and Rose also followed Carrie in dropping their bags and falling on the ground. Frank meanwhile was turning the map around whilst trying not to get it tangled in his compass. Suddenly, they heard a rustling a few metres in front of them;

"Hello?!" Frank called out, no reply came,

"It's probably just a badger Frank." Rose said, but the rustling continued. Frank edged closer to the noise. "I don't think you should do that" Rose warned but Frank ignored her. As Frank edged forward, it was clear that the noise was coming from behind the large rock in front on him; surrounding the rock was a mass of ropes suggesting that something or someone was tied to the rock.

"TEAM COME AND HELP ME OUT!" Frank shouted, the agents groaned as they picked up their heavy rucksacks and paced through the trees. Frank edged around the rock slowly.

"Hello," he said as he knelt down infront of the person tied to rock, but before they could respond, the agents got there.

"How do we know he isn't a SKUL agent?" Oscar asked Frank, but it was Carrie who replied,

"Look at him, SKUL have their faults, but they take care of their agents, he looks like he hasn't ever had a bath, or a haircut." Carrie was right, the boy in front of them chained to the rock was covered in mud and his greasy hair covered most of his face, his clothes were ripped and slightly too small for him, and he smelled of sweat and raw meat. Carrie nervously leaned in towards the boy,

"Carrie, I don't think you should do that..." Rose warned her.

But instead of being a threat, the boy leaned forward, smiled at her and said "hello."

Carrie was taken aback by this, she had expected him to be more of a threat, she stepped back as Frank stepped in, "who are you? And why are you chained to this rock?"

The boy studied Frank's face and Frank who had never felt self conscious in his life, felt a sudden wave of it.

"I'm noone" the boy replied eventually. The agents looked up, it had started to rain and had gotten significantly darker, if they didnt find the campsite within the next few hours, they would be stranded in the dark.

"Is anyone coming to get you?" he asked the boy who shook his head. Frank then started to untie the boy who, instead of being grateful, protested.

"You can't do that!" he shouted, "You're not allowed!" Frank suddenly stopped and faced the boy,

"Why?"he questioned, "did Agent Stark send you here?" the boy looked confused, "Why can't I help you?" the boy took a deep breath. "It's exile, I'm meant to die here, you can't untie me." Frank went back around to the knots and took his knife out of his pocket and cut the ropes off, he then walked around to the boy and pulled him to his feet. "I apologise for saving your life, now come with us, you can explain then, anyway, it'll be better than dying out here." They started to walk off before they turned back around to face the agents,

"Frank, we're lost that's why we ended up here in the first place. We need to find the campsite." Rose said. The boy smiled and gestured to follow him, which they did without hesitation.

Oddly, the boy led them to the campsite without even needing to use a map, and once the tents had been put up, Frank and the agents sat around the fire, the boy meanwhile stayed well away. Frank gestured for him to come closer, but he stayed put, so Frank and the agents went to him.

"Who are you?" Carrie asked him firstly.

"Like I said I'm noone" he replied again.

"Yeah, but you must have a family, you must have a home." The boy shook his head and muttered not anymore. "Why?" Carrie wanted to know.

"My pack exiled me for wandering into the human world." He said finally. The team looked puzzeled and stepped back slowly, Frank stayed put though.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"It doesn't matter. I have to go." The boy started to leave back into the woods, but Frank grabbed him arm, and the boy turned around and snarled at him, his eyes were yellow and the veins on his neck and arms were starting to darked. But Frank stayed calm and the boy returned to normal,

"Let me help you." Frank said. The boy smiled and instead of trying to run again he turned into a small wolf. He licked Franks hand and ran around the fireside where the agents had just sat down. As he came around from the back, the agents ran to Frank and hid behind him, the wolf then came back to them and changed back into the boy who laughed at them.

"You're pretty cool" he laughed at Frank, the boy held his hand out and Frank shook it, "Jack."

"Frank London, MI9, these are my agents, Oscar Cole, Rose Gupta and Carrie Stewart." The agents remained behind Frank still, Jack tilted his head and looked at them and laughed before saying, "your food is burning." Oscar then came out from behind Frank and attended to the food over the fire.

"You're a werewolf?!" Carrie asked from behind Frank, Jack shook his head,

"Wolfblood. There's a difference." Carrie and Rose still stood still behind Frank as if their feet were stuck in cement, "I won't bite you, even if I did you'd just need a tetnus shot, Wolfblood are born not made." Slowly, the two girls came out from behind Frank and sat down at the fireside by Oscar, Frank too joined them, but Jack sat where he stood. He watched the team, they were talking about what to do with him, one of the perks of being wolfblood was that your senses were heightened and you sensed the world differently to humans. But as the evening grew on, the agents retired to their tents. They did offer Jack Frank's tent as he would happily stay out under the stars, but he declined and he transformed into a wolf, curled up and went to sleep.