Prologue

The full moon rose into the sky. Ted felt the moonlight burn his flesh. He felt his blood boil with rage. He felt his insides painfully churn with a hunger for flesh and a thirst for blood. He felt claws erupt from his hands and feet and tear through his skin. He felt every bone in his body agonizingly contort into a new shape. He was born.

Now every fiber of Ted's being craved flesh and blood. The victim for this full moon was an eager young wizard. He had just finished his schooling, and was excited to start his first job in a lowly position in the Ministry of Magic with a salary of peanuts.

The young and naive always had tasty flesh.

The young man lived in a secluded house with his parents and younger sister. His family was away on a vacation, but Ted's young foolish victim thought that he should stay behind and work to impress his bosses, and maybe get a promotion.

While the victim was away at work Ted had entered his home and saw that it had valuable jewelry that the wife was fond of wearing, an additional treat for Ted when he was finished with the victim.

Yes, this month Ted had found a perfect victim for the full moon.

Ted drew his wand from his robes as he advanced to the house.

For some reason, whenever Ted transformed into a werewolf he still retained some human features. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that Ted was a metamorphagus. As a werewolf he could still talk in a husky voice, he could walk on his hind legs and he had opposable thumbs.

At first Greyback was angered by this. When Ted was young he would savagely bite him every full moon to try and fully transform him into a werewolf, but to no avail. But Greyback was a brilliant werewolf. He figured out a way to use Ted's anomaly to his advantage. With the human like features that Ted retained at the full moon he could use magic, which made Ted a great weapon.

Not that a werewolf needed magic to fight. They had enough physical strength to tear the bricks of buildings in half as if they were paper. They had enough speed and stamina to run hundreds of miles in minutes. And they had resistance to many of the curses, jinxes and hexes that wizards commonly used, because most spells were designed to affect humans; therefore they didn't have much of an effect on werewolves. However, if there ever was a need for magic during the full moon Ted could provide it for the army of werewolves.

Ted was also able to keep his mind somewhat human-like during his transformation. He could recognize familiar people and he could form a few human-like thoughts. But mostly his mind was filled with rage, and a desire to tear human flesh, and to feast on it. His vision would be completely tinged with red like the other werewolves on the full moon.

Ted tried to use his ability to form vague human thoughts while in wolf form so that he could steal from his victims. But it was difficult. He would have to focus hard on the thoughts that he wanted to have while in wolf form for the last hours leading up to his transformation.

Before his current transformation all he thought about was stealing whatever he could from the house. Now in wolf form he felt as if he was under water, and from the surface he could barely hear a voice telling him that he must remember to steal all of the valuable things from the house.

Because the other wolves completely lost their minds during their transformations they would only focus on feasting. They would steal for the other 27 days of the moon cycle. Werewolves were never treated as equals by the rest of the wizarding community. The wizards would never give werewolves jobs so the werewolves had no choice but to steal in order to survive.

Ted prepared himself to attack his victim. He knew that a simple shielding charm surrounded the house. He had been watching the house for a week to plan out his attack. As he approached the house he flicked his wand and muttered the counter spell for the shield charm. Then he charged at the house at full force, tearing through the walls with his claws.

The victim stared at Ted in horror. He had been lying on his couch reading a book before Ted burst through his walls. But his horror didn't last. He quickly whipped out his wand and shot a stunning spell at Ted. The spell bounced off of Ted, who barely felt anything. Foolish wizard.

The wizard tried to throw more spells at Ted, each once bouncing off of Ted faster than the last. Ted let out a bark of a laugh. The victim was startled by the laugh.

In a flash Ted was in front of his victim. He threw him against the wall of his house. Ted heard the crunch of his bones as they struck the wall. He leaped forward onto his victim's chest, crushing his ribs.

He tore through the victims flesh with his teeth. The victim's warm pulsating blood gushed into Ted's mouth. Ted chewed his treat slowly. He chewed the scrumptious meat down to the bone. Then he ripped open his arteries and enjoyed the luscious blood.

He continued until the pulsations of the blood entering his mouth slowed down. His victim's life would change forever now. He would wake up as a werewolf in the morning.

Ted readied himself to take his prizes. First he removed the wallet from his victim's pocket. It only had a few galleons and sickles. Ted shoved them in his pocket and dropped the wallet. He headed up the stairs where his victim's mother's jewelry and father's watches were kept. He shoved all of these items in the bag he had brought with him.

He ripped through the entire house looking for more objects to steal. Through the thick water he heard the voice say that he had to take shiny objects. Those were valuable. He couldn't find any until he went to the kitchen. There were many shiny silver objects in there.

When he finished the ransack he heard the voice through the thick waters telling him that it was time for him to go home now. That he should start before the full moon is over because he can run much faster while in wolf form. Though he could run quite fast even in his Wizard form.

On his way home the sun began to rise. The warm rays of the sun soothed his throbbing skin and aching bones as he transformed back to human form. The transformation back into a human somehow wasn't painful like the process of transforming into a wolf was. He took his extra pair of clothes out of his bag and pulled them on, because his clothes would always get torn up during his transformation.

Ted then began his long walk home on two feet.

When Ted reached his home he immediately stashed the objects he had obtained from his victim. He shared an apartment with another werewolf in a muggle apartment building. It was easy to steal money from muggles, so they had no trouble paying the rent of the apartment.

Ted slipped under his blanket. He fell asleep almost as soon as his head hit his pillow. Transforming into a werewolf was exhausting. He slept for the rest of the day.