A/N: Welcome to 'Wolf Creek 2'. Just to let you know, this is a different version of how 'Mr. Peabody & Sherman' would have played out after the events of the first 'Wolf Creek' story. If you remembered, at the end of 'Wolf Creek 1', Hayden bit Sherman and Sherman stabbed Hayden in the heart, so Sherman is most likely to have the werewolf virus inside him that was passed from Hayden. This takes place after all that. Enjoy!
It had been about seven months since Sherman and Mr. Peabody moved back to New York from Wolf Creek Colorado. After Sherman had killed his best friend, Hayden after he was turned into a werewolf, he was grief stricken and told Mr. Peabody he wanted to move back to New York. Mr. Peabody and Julia (Hayden's mother) agreed that it would be hard for him to live in the town where the whole Lycanthropy thing started and destroyed his best friend and ended in his death.
Sherman and Mr. Peabody were living in a large penthouse apartment that was very large and had it's own garden. Sherman was lying down on his bed turned on his left side while looking at a photo of him and Hayden before the whole werewolf thing ever started.
"Sherman" a voice said from behind Sherman's door. The door opened up to show Mr. Peabody with a bottle of pills in his hand and sat down next to Sherman.
"It's very late, you should be sleeping" said Mr. Peabody.
"I can't. I've been busy" said Sherman as he looked at the photo and not looking up to his father.
"You've been thinking about Hayden haven't you?" he asked. Sherman just nodded.
"I miss that poor boy too, but moping all the time isn't going to help. You need to make new friends and move on" Peabody said.
"I failed him. I could have saved him, and I was too late" Sherman said and held the photo to his heart. Peabody then began caressing his son's face.
"Don't say that. I wish we could have saved him too, but things just happen. We can't undo what's already been done, Sherman" Mr. Peabody said. Sherman then looked to his shoulder where Hayden bit him. Ever since he got bit, Sherman has been experiencing werewolf like traces in his body and Mr. Peabody had made pills created from Monkshood, a special kind of plant that can be used to ward off werewolves that is also safe to take when it's in small doses to have Sherman take to hold the transformation process back another twenty four hours.
"Anyways, I brought you a refill on the pills" Peabody said placing a pill bottle at Sherman's feet.
"Take one and go straight to bed. The first day of school is tomorrow" Peabody said before leaving the room. Sherman then uncapped the bottle and took one pill, placed it in his mouth, and swallowed it. He then got changed into his pajamas and lied down in bed with the friendship locket Hayden gave him still around his neck.
"Remember that game we used to play?" asked a familiar voice. Sherman looked into the mirror right next to his bed to see Hayden with his hair all brown, wearing a skin tight black long sleeve sweater with a shark's tooth necklace, black skinny jeans with gray patches on the knees, and bare-feet with some dirt and bruises on the skin. Ever since Sherman killed Hayden, he's been suffering from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and he's been seeing Hayden as an apparition at certain times.
"The one were we jumped into the lake twelve blocks away from the school in just our underwear? We would catch fish with our teeth like we were bears or mountain lions when we were under the water, and brought them home to Mr. Peabody and my parents with the fish in our mouths like dogs. Mr. Peabody would be proud of you, and my parents would puke at the disgusting smell of the fish I caught? That game was fun" Hayden said as he rubbed his shoulder.
"I remember that. Mr. Peabody would always fry the fishes I caught for us to have for dinner. But he was never happy with the fact that I never wore swimming trunks when we played that game" Sherman whispered. He got up and looked out the window.
"Those pills aren't the cure. They're just delaying you from becoming what you really are" Hayden's ghost said as he walked up to Sherman and looked out the window with him.
"I'll keep taking them forever if I have to" Sherman said to Hayden while just staring out the window and not at him.
"That's not all you have to worry about. Amber wasn't the only one I bit. There was another" Hayden said. Sherman then looked to the ghostly image of his best friend and spoke.
"What?" asked Sherman. Hayden nodded with a smile.
"Yeah, I bit someone else by accident. They're looking for you, they know that you're changing, they won't stop until they get to you" Hayden said. Sherman walked away and went into the bathroom. He turned the faucet on and splashed water on his face. He then looked around to see that Hayden was gone for now.
"Thank God" Sherman said as he went back into his room and got under the covers. He turned around and saw that there was a brown furred werewolf with bright green glowing eyes and is growled at him. Sherman screamed but then heard buzzing.
Sherman jolted awake from his rest to see that it was just a dream and it was morning. Sherman shut his alarm off and put his required school uniform on and his glasses. His uniform was a white button up shirt, a blue vest, and a tie.
"Sherman, don't forget to bring your pills with you" Mr. Peabody called out to remind his son. Sherman picked the bottle up and put it in his pocket. And then he put on the friendship locket Hayden gave him for his birthday and then took the photo of him and Hayden that he was holding yesterday and folded it, and placed it in his back pocket.
"Never forget who the real enemies are" Hayden's ghastly voice whispered to him in his head. Sherman just walked out the door and ignored what the voice in his head told him.
After breakfast and a small pep talk from Peabody, Sherman was now standing at the front of Susan B Anthony Elementary School. Before Sherman got out the side car of the motorcycle Peabody drove to take Sherman to school, he felt Peabody's paw on his shoulder.
"Just be okay and make some friends. Alright?" he asked. Sherman just nodded and smiled weakly.
"Okay" Sherman said. He then walked up to the school and found his classroom. Before walking in he heard the bushes rustling and he looked to the window where it was coming from.
"Told you it would find you" said Hayden's ghost as he saw it's reflection appearing behind him in the reflective surface of the mirror. Sherman then just turned away from the window and walked into his class.
"Attention, class. We have a new student today. His name is Sherman" said the teacher. Sherman sat down at his desk. He noticed at his right, three seats down was a girl with long blonde hair. He saw this girl staring at him when Peabody dropped him off at school.
"Sherman, you have a room of people pretty curious about Sherman. Why don't you tell the class what your best case scenario is?" asked the teacher. Sherman took a deep breath and spoke with a straight face.
"My best case scenario is hair everywhere but my eyeballs. Elongation of my spine until my skin splits. Long, sharp, black nails on the tips of my fingers. Affection for the smell and taste of meat, especially raw meat. And then, excruciating death" said Sherman straight forward. The class had frightened looks on their faces except the blonde girl, an Indian boy with black hair, and a blonde boy in a wheelchair.
"Um, okay then. Now that that's out of the way, let's get on with our lesson for today" the teacher said turning to the board. The Indian boy tapped Sherman on his shoulder and he looked to him.
"I'm Mason, that's Carl" said Mason pointing to Carl. Carl waved at him and smiled.
"I thought everything you said was pretty cool. Wanna sit with us at lunch?" asked Mason.
"Sure" Sherman said. Then he raised his hand to answer a question the teacher asked. He answered the question correctly and was congratulated for getting it right.
Outside the classroom, little did Sherman know that the same large werewolf from his dream was spying on him from behind a large formation of bushes.
A/N: There you have it, chapter 1. we know how miserable Sherman is, he's been taking medication to stop the werewolf transformation from happening, he's been seeing Hayden's ghost, and there's another werewolf stalking him. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!