Queen Sunstar: Greetings! I had this story stuck in my head for quite some time, so I wrote it down. I do not own anything regarding CSI Miami, only the story below, and my own characters like Lumin. Enjoy!
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The case started just like any other case with a phone call to the CSI lab in Miami. The CSI's went to the crime scene, which was inside an alley. The victim lay in a pool of blood, with three long scratches along her abdomen, and her throat ripped wide open. Alexx Woods examined the corpse.
"Anything, Alexx?" Lieutenant Horatio Caine stifled a yawn, trying not to let the fact that he was literally dead on his feet show.
"She was mauled by some kind of dog, Horatio. When was the last time you actually slept?" Alexx sat back on her heels to look up at her boss.
"I don't remember. Can you be more specific?" Horatio asked.
"I can't give you much more then that here." Alexx said, rising. The body was loaded into the back of her van. Eric 'Delko' Delektorsky walked up to them.
"the blood is consistent with a dog attack." He said, "I'll go alert the animal cops."
"Wait, you can alert them after we get the autopsy report from Alexx." Horatio said, hiding yet another yawn.
"Give me your keys. You are not driving while that tired." Eric ordered, his hand out.
"I'm fine, Delko." Horatio said.
"No you are not fine! You won't do anybody any good if you pass out from exhaustion! Keys, now!" Eric ordered, his voice rising.
"Delko, do you want to be suspended?" Horatio asked, his voice icy.
Alexx stepped between the two before anything happened.
"Horatio, Eric is only concerned about you, and frankly, so am I. You look like something the cat dragged in. give those keys to Delko, and let him drive you home. As your ME, I am using my power to overrule your decision." Alexx said, "Go get some rest, now."
"Yes, ma'am." Horatio handed his car keys over to Eric, and walked around his hummer to get in on the passenger side of the big car. Eric drove him home, and was picked up by Alexx, who had followed them.
Horatio had not told them why he was so tired. He walked into his bedroom, and sat on his bed. He picked up the picture of Marisol, and sighed sadly, remembering her death, and his horror to discover that she had been murdered by demonic forces over some information she had. His mind traveled to a few weeks after his discovery, to a case known as the white stone case. The white stone had gone missing from the evidence locker. Horatio knew the truth about the white stone. He had been the one handling it when it disappeared, into his own hands. He had been shocked to see his hands change into wolf paws, and feel his body changing into that of a silver wolf. Horatio remembered turning to a mirror, and seeing large white wings on his back, and a horn on his forehead. Then the door opened, and Lieutenant Frank Trip walked in. Frank had screamed like a girl when he saw the winged silver wolf in the evidence room. He had been even more shocked to watch it change back into Horatio. Horatio's mind went a few weeks further, to his first meeting with a group of beings calling themselves the Trinity, and hearing what he must do to keep Miami safe.
Horatio didn't know when he had fallen asleep, but as he woke, he did know that something was wrong. Instinctively, he went winged wolf. He trotted out of his bedroom, and went into the kitchen, and stopped short. Calliegh was standing in the center of the kitchen, worry etched on her face. She started to turn around, and he scrambled backward out of his kitchen, right into the legs of Ryan Wolfe. Wolfe looked down in time to see a flash of silver as Horatio vanished.
"That was odd. Calliegh, He is not in his bedroom, and Eric says the backyard, office, and bathroom are clear. There is no sign of him." Wolfe said.
"Dinning area and garage are clear!" Frank called.
"Kitchen, laundry room, and living room are clear. Wolfe, are those scratch marks down by your feet?" Calliegh asked.
Wolfe looked down, "Yea, and I saw a flash of silver just seconds ago. These are definitely from a dog. Horatio doesn't own a dog from my knowledge."
"You don't think…" Calliegh couldn't finish.
"Lets not go there until we have to go there!" Wolfe cried.
They heard a scream coming from the backyard, and ran, meeting up with Frank at the back door. They ran outside to see Eric screaming, pointing at two winged wolves, one glowing silver, and one black, fighting each other.
"Call animal control!" Calliegh screamed.
"Are you crazy? They won't believe us!" Wolfe screamed.
"Guys." Frank said.
"Somebody do something already!" Eric screamed.
"We won't tell them that they are winged wolves with horns!" Calliegh screamed.
"Guys." Frank tried again.
"They are going to kill each other if we don't intervene!" Eric cried.
"Guys!" Frank screamed, getting their attention. Even the two wolves stopped fighting momentarily.
"What?" Wolfe asked.
"The silver one is Horatio. We found him." Frank said.
The three CSI's stared at the lieutenant like he had just said 1+13.
"You are kidding, right?" Wolfe asked.
"I'm not kidding. I saw him change, once." Frank said.
"Are you implying that Horatio is a werewolf, now?" Calliegh asked.
The silver wolf succeeded in driving off the black wolf. Horatio knew who the black wolf was. It was Rick Settler, the FBI agent who dreamed of finding a lab closing down forever flaw at the lab. He turned, and limped over to stand beside Frank, his left front leg bleeding from a bite.
"I'm not a werewolf, Calliegh." He said, shocking everyone further by talking.
"I'm not dreaming this, right?" Wolfe pinched himself, "Ow! Yep, I'm not dreaming."
"But how? Why?" Calliegh asked. Eric had come closer to hear him better.
"I can't say much about this except this. Remember the case that nearly cost me my job? The white stone case, to be more precise?" Horatio asked.
"You mean the case where Rick pegged you as lieutenant Butterfingers, and nearly succeeded in closing us down?" Calliegh asked.
"Yes, that one. The Stone went inside me, and gave me the ability to become a wolf. I wasn't the only one. Rick has the ability, too. I don't know how he managed to claim this ability, but I know that I alone can defeat Rick for good." Horatio said, giving his injured paw a few quick licks.
At that moment, Alexx and Natalia Boa Vista walked out into the backyard, and froze, seeing the silver winged wolf sitting quietly next to Frank.
"Guys, is that a wolf?" Alexx asked.
"Yes, and it is Horatio." Frank said, "White stone case, he was blamed for the loss of the white stone, the white stone went into him, and now he has the ability to turn into this."
"Frank, what have you been drinking?" Alexx asked.
"You mean the Lieutenant Butterfingers scandal?" Natalia asked.
"Yes, that case, Natalia. Alexx, I know this is hard to believe, but it is true." Horatio spoke up.
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Rick stopped in an alley to rest. He was still in wolf form, and he had heard what Horatio had said. He licked his injured shoulder, and got up a few minutes later. He would rest after reporting his find to the Dark One.
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It was now nighttime. Horatio switched to his winged wolf form, and walked quietly down an alley. He took a left, and entered a parking lot. He reached the woods, and broke into a canter. Finally, he reached his destination, an old cave, and went in. He lit his horn for light, and tapped out a code on the back wall. It lifted, and he went down a set of stairs. Horatio walked to stand inside the mark of the Trinity, three small triangles making up a large triangle. At the points of the large triangle, were three circles. Horatio sat down.
"Lumin, Dusk, Brillia, I have come." He called.
He heard the swirl of cloaks, as the Trinity appeared, standing inside each of the circles.
"Report, Cain." Lumin spoke. He wore a light blue cloak.
"My team has found me out. They know that I am the winged wolf." Horatio reported.
"Does anyone else know?" Dusk asked.He wore dark purple.
"No one else besides them know." Horatio said.
"How did they find out?" Brillia asked. She wore a yellow cloak.
"One of my CSI's was attacked by Shade, the dark wolf. I protected the CSI. My entire team saw, and Frank told them it was me. I was already in winged wolf form." Horatio explained.
"Cain, the Demigod is back. Shade works for him, as you already know. We have hidden the other stones, and they will turn up for each one of your team mates. You will have to be their leader, both as a CSI, and in animal form. The whole world is counting on you." Lumin said, fading into the shadows with Dusk, and Brillia. Horatio left the chamber, and went on his usual nightly prowl, unaware that another person was being murdered, and in their hand, they held one of the other stones.
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Queen Sunstar: Reviews are very much appreciated! Tell me what you think of it so far!