Well day two of my marathon has arrived and like i said before its for this story. right now for something that i must say to ReaderPal. i have done quite a bit of research on werewolves (both before i started and during) but somethings are a little fiction (they don't appear until the next chapter but i just wanted to get it off my chest now). really its becausei just thought theywould be cool to have in this story. any requests to know what they are you can e-mail me, i have put it up now for people. but for now lets get on with the story!
A Wolf in Lilo's Clothing
Part 2
A Day to Remember
The next morning Lilo, Stitch and Nani managed to get down to the kitchen before it closed for the day. Surprisingly enough when they entered the dining room they saw Hamish sitting there eating his breakfast but no one else was in the room. As they walked further into the dining room Hamish saw them, so he got up from his table to go and greet them,
"morning everyone how are you all doing?" Hamish asked with a smile on his face,
"were all doing great thanks. But where is everyone I was expecting more people to be down here" Nani said with some confusion,
"the time is 7:45, most of the guests don't actually start arriving until 8. I don't really know why since the food is the same at all times but if that's what they want to do that fine by me, besides I like having my breakfast on my own it gives me some time to think" after that little conversation Lilo, Stitch and Nani went to a table near the one Hamish was sitting at and ordered their breakfast while Hamish finished his. Looking at the menu they where quite surprised at what selection you could have, Nani decided to have a full English since she had heard a lot of good things about them but never really had one before, Lilo and Stitch both decided to just have cereal and toast since they where not in the mood for a fry up (surprising for Stitch to not have something greasy). Lilo and Stitch where quite happy with their breakfast, but Nani was not. She really enjoyed it but their was just too much for her to have on her own 'do people really eat this much for breakfast', so she shared some it out with Lilo and Stitch who also enjoyed it…apart from the black pudding Lilo did not like it and to be truthful neither did Nani, but Stitch enjoyed it so that is who got to have it.
After breakfast they went back up too their room so that Nani could get ready for the second part of her convention while Lilo with the help of Stitch changed the dressing on her arm, it was here that they noticed something quite weird. The doctor at the hospital told Lilo to change her dressing on the wound once a day and it should heal much quicker and that their would probably be a scar their that would remain there for the rest of her life , but really she was just going to go to Jumba when she got home to use one of his medical machines that he has to fix up her wound. However when she took the bandage off she saw the blood on it, it seemed normal to her but her arm was completely healed with no trace of a bite ever being their, no scar no nothing just a perfectly normal arm of any normal 8 year old girl. This caused her to become very confused,
"Stitch you where at the doctors with me, did he say anything about how long it would take to heal",
"he said it would take 2 to 3 weeks for it to heal fully and that there would be most likely a scar" Stitch said, some of it in his own language but Lilo knew what it meant,
"well he must have been wrong, I mean it has completely gone with no trace of it ever being there." All of this talking gained the attention of Nani's ears who would of thought that changing a bandage on someone's arm would require less talking, particularly since all they where doing was looking at it,
"hey you two what are you doing?",
"Nani how long dose a cut like the one I had take to heal" Lilo asked with a bit of worry in her voice,
"well a cut like that would take a good couple of weeks to heal why do you ask, are the bandages too annoying for you to handle?" Nani said a little teasingly trying to annoy her sister. However those thought went out of her head when she saw the expression on Lilo's face, it was almost a scared look "what's wrong Lilo",
"well my arm has no marks on it what so ever" this caused Nani to stop what she was doing and see Lilo's arm. When she saw it she look very confused and gave quite an loud gasp of surprised,
"Lilo what happened, why has your arm got no marks on it? Dose your arm hurt at all? Do you feel Ok?" Nani asked as well as some other questions but they where said so fast that Lilo did not catch them but Lilo tried her best to answer the questions that she did here,
"well I don't know why my arm has no marks on it. No, my arm dose not hurt and I feel fine. In fact I feel great, better than I have in quite a long time to be honest" Lilo said to her sister. Nani was about to continue the conversation when their was a knock on the door so Nani had to go and answer it,
"morning Nani how are you today. I bet your glad that the convention is not on today",
"morning Hamish. Yes I am glad about that, it is just really boring and if I was much closer to home I would have just went back to it" Nani said a bit annoyed "but at least it is not on again for a few days thanks to some festival that's going on",
"Ahh yes the Highland games start today. I was going to take Lilo and her friend to go and see it, but with you not going to the convention I was just going to go myself you see I'm entering the caber tossing competition as well as some other events that I have fun doing" Hamish said with a smile indicating that he was looking forward to it,
"what is at this festival, and what is a caber?" Nani asked thinking if she should take Lilo and Stitch or not,
"well a caber is a big pole of wood, around 10 feet long with a diameter of about a 12 inches. The idea of the caber toss is that your suppose to balance the caber in the palms of your hands in a clasp, as if you where giving someone a boost with your hands, with the caber rests on your shoulder. Then you run forward a bit before stopping suddenly causing the caber to continue on the path that you where going thanks to the momentum, then, at an angle that you think it would travel the farthest, you force the caber up into the air with your hands that are still in that clasp around the base of the caber. The winner is the person who gets it the furthest. The rest of the games is filled with running competitions, jumping competitions music as well as many other activities that you can join in with".
While this conversation between Hamish and Nani was going on, Lilo and Stitch where having their own discussion,
"Stitch I don't understand what's going on. I mean this is quite creepy, if you did not fix my arm and Nani could not fix my arm and the doctor said that it would take weeks to heal by itself, then how come my arm has no wound on it" Stitch had no answer for her but gave her comfort by resting his hand on her shoulder and saying,
"Lilo whatever it was does not seem to be affecting anything else about you, so we can let it rest for now and ask Jumba about it when we get back. After all if anyone knows what happened here it will be Jumba" Lilo was about to thank him when Nani cut in,
"right you two today we are going to go and see a highland game and Hamish is kind enough to take us"
"that's right now lets get a move on since it is unfortunately a bit of a drive away, but it should be lots of fun and should fascinate you lot quite a bit I would like to imagine" Hamish said from the door behind Nani, after that they went down to Hamish's car and drove off to the highland games. The trip was filled with questions and answers about the highland games as well as some questions of festivals in Hawaii, so the trip just flew by since everyone was contributing, even Stitch was asking and answering questions and he had been a little suspicious of Hamish ever since he first lay eyes on him. But eventually they arrived at the games and it was swarming with people of all shapes and sizes, as well as nationalities. Nani noted that their where quite a few Asian people going about as well as some other Americans, some of which she recognised from the convention that she was going to and others that she had no clue as to which state of America they could have come from.
As soon as they entered the grounds they came across some of the strangest sounds that they could have ever heard,
"Hamish what is that droning sound" Nani asked while she was trying to decide whether or not she actually liked it,
"ah that is called the bagpipes, the traditional instrument of Scotland. Some people like it some don't but one thing is for sure, if you can play it correctly and well you will never hear a sound like it, I can play them but not as well as the people you will hear here not by a long shot" Hamish said being very honest about his playing. Lilo was like Nani, she was deciding weather or not she liked them but Stitch enjoyed them, something about them seemed to remind him of the original planet that he came from and that seemed to comfort him.
After deciding that the music was something that they could get quite use to, someone with a loud speaker called everyone that was going to do the caber toss to report to the main field,
"right that's my cue to get ready, would you like to come and watch or will I meet up with you at some point?" Hamish asked. But they where all intrigued at what it would be like so they followed him to the main field so that they could watch. When they arrived at the main field there where already some people their each one as big as Hamish and some even bigger, then one of the men very similar to Hamish's build except he had black hair and no beard noticed Hamish and walked up to him,
"hey there Hamish, I thought you where not going to make it their you said you would be busy babysitting or something?"
"I would have been but the convention at the hotel I work at is not on today and so I did not need to stay"
"Ahh I see and I take it that those people behind you are them",
"yep allow me to introduce you to them. This young woman is called Nani, the little girl next to her is called Lilo and the young man there is called Kenny, everyone this is my good friend Douglas we have known each other since primary…I mean elementary school.",
"please to meet you all" Douglas said as he extended his hand to everyone, which they all took and shacked his hand happily. After some more talking between them, Hamish and Douglas had to go and get ready while Lilo, Stitch and Nani went off to the barrier indicating the minimum safe distance, soon after that the competition started and each man had to stand back behind the first man who went up to get a caber. It was then that they noticed the pile of logs, of many different sizes lengths and widths, sitting just off to the left of the men.
"Nani what are those logs doing their?" Lilo asked,
"I'm not sure Lilo" it was then that the man stopped in front of the pile,
"do you think that they could be those cabers that Hamish talked about" Lilo asked. It was then that the man hoisted one of them up onto his shoulder and held it in the position that Hamish had described earlier, everyone was surprised at how the man picked it up but nun more so than Stitch,
"I did not think it was possible for humans to lift that amount of weight so easily…wow humans certainly are an amazing race I wonder what Jumba would say if he was here or if he sees it for that matter", after that the man ran forward a small amount so that he could get some momentum going before he stopped and launched it into the air.
"well ladies and gentlemen that was quite a sloppy throw their from Thomas and it only makes a distance of 25.8 feet" the announcer said over the loudspeakers, this caused Lilo, Stitch and Nani to become quite a bit more amazed,
"ONLY 25.8 feet. That's an amazing distance for something that big" Nani said, Lilo just nodded as well as Stitch 'that is amazing…for a human anyway".
It continued like that for a while, and the mean average score seemed to be around 34 feet, a man named Angus had the lead right now of 44 feet which was 2 feet further from second place who was that friend of Hamish which only got 42 feet…ok 42.2 feet but the fact remained that it was further by a bit of a distance. Hamish was the last person since he was only just able to get his name in at the last second due to the confusion that was taking place thanks to that convention, but it was now his turn and he collected his caber,
"well ladies and gentleman Hamish has went for the biggest caber which has a diameter of 14 inches, a length if 11 feet and quite a bit more weight to it as well. I wonder if he has made the right decision their" the announcer said, Lilo and her party all agreed since they would like to see Hamish win. After getting use to the weight of the log and placing it in a good position on his shoulder he started on his little run. After reaching the end of his runway he stopped like all the other men that went before him, but the launch was later than all the other men that went before him and it seemed to make all of the difference.
"ladies and gentlemen Hamish has done it again this year with a massive upset. Angus managed to beat Hamish's personal best by about half a foot and we all thought that that was it, but Hamish has just thrashed his best by delivering an amazing throw. Yes ladies and gentlemen the distance is official… it is an amazing 50.1 feet. A new personal best for him and the furthest throw ever recorded at these games". After all the cheers and pats on the back from his friend Douglas as well as some other people and a friendly handshake from that Angus person he went over to Lilo, Stitch and Nani. They where waiting at the side lines with expressions of well done on their faces,
"wow Hamish that was incredible you got it over 50 feet. How did you manage to do that?" Lilo asked once Hamish got into range of hearing,
"all strategy Lilo, they where not launching those things at an angle of 45 degrees, but I managed to get very close to it and that is what caused me to win" Hamish said honestly.
After that they continued to explore the games, as they explored the games they watched the other events that where going on like the bagpipe competition and the Scottish dancing competition. In fact after Lilo saw the dancing she wanted to find a place where she could learn how to do it and spent the next half an hour being taught by a female friend of Hamish's with Stitch as her partner, while Hamish and Nani went to go and get a drink from one of the beer tents nearby. However they did not get any beer, Nani just thought it was too early to be drinking anything alcoholic and Hamish was the sober driver and did not want to risk anything, so they just had some cokes before they went back to Lilo and Stitch with a coke for each of then.
"they will need it after their Scottish dancing lessons" Hamish said to Nani and indeed they did. as soon as they got back to where Lilo and Stitch where Hamish and Nani saw that they where quite tired and needed a drink,
"so how was it Lilo" Nani asked as she handed the drinks to the two dancers,
"it was really good fun, but nothing like hula back home, its just so much faster" Lilo said after taking a drink of coke,
"yes Lilo was telling me that she did hula. She has a natural talent for dancing and I am glad that she is not wasting it, even her friend was good at it but not as good as Lilo" Lilo's tutor said after she was done talking to Hamish.
After the lessons Lilo and her party went off to see some more of the highland games with their guide Hamish, their they saw another sight that took them as a bit odd. They had wondered into the area where they had the livestock waiting to be sold off and in one of the stalls where several cows…well that's what they thought they where except they where covered in an orange hair and had massive horns that looked quite sharp.
"these are highland cows, as you can see they are not your average cow." Hamish said as he walked over to the stall,
"why are they so hairy?" Lilo asked
"well we have been lucky with the weather since it is surprisingly warm today. But in the winter months it gets a lot colder around here and that's why they are hairy"
"how cold dose it get?" Lilo asked again,
"well sometimes it can get as cold as -10 degrees celcius at nights in the winters." the thought of that temperature made Lilo feel cold, so experiencing it would be dreadful she thought. Before long it was time for them to think about going back to the hotel, but not before the tug of war. It was the main thing that Hamish had been looking forward too and since it was something that everyone could enter and have fun in Lilo, Stitch and Nani decided to join in. after dividing everyone that was participating in the professional one into two teams (unfortunately Hamish, Nani, Lilo and Stitch could not enter this one) the ref shouted to the pullers to take the strain and then begin. The contest lasted for several minuets before a winning team was crowned, and the players each shook the other players hand in respect. Now it was time for the families to have a go,
"why don't we do this one" Lilo asked Nani,
"because Hamish is not in our family that's why and we need four people",
"but we could pretend he is after all he has been something similar to a father role while we have been here. Looking out for me when that thing attacked me" Lilo said, before scratching her ears as they began to itch,
"oh all right as long as it is ok with you Hamish",
"its not problem with me Nani. I'm just a bit surprised at what Lilo said…being like a father role to her, its something that I never intended to do"
"me too, (whispers to Hamish) but I just think it was an excuse to get us to play this tug of war on the same side" Nani said as they walked off to start the game. Well not to be surprising their team beat every other team that they faced and for a laugh challenged four of the professionals that won the main tug of war. A bit more of a challenge than the others but again they won, and that went unnoticed by everyone else in the area (much to the delight of everyone who had just played. The professionals because they just got beat by a small boy, a small girl, a young lady and the winner of the caber tossing competition. Stitch, Lilo, Nani and Hamish…they just did not want the attention). Unfortunately the end of the show had arrived and they drove back to the hotel that they where staying at to get some food, but more importantly some sleep.
After all that had happened at the highland games everyone was tired and wanted to go to bed, so after dinner (which was at 8:30 thanks to the games being quite far away) which they all had together so that they could discuss the days activities and say what they liked and what they disliked and also what the plans where for the next day, everyone said good night and went off to their own accommodations to get some well deserved and quite frankly very needed sleep. Lilo and Stitch had to do the usual preparing for bed routine like brush their teeth, combing their hair/fur to make sure it would not tangle up in the night and put on their nightwear. It was during the brushing of her teeth that Lilo noticed the next set of weird things, this morning when she was brushing her teeth her eyebrows where like every other little girls separate and not bushy, now they where beginning to join in the middle of her face just above her noise and they where a lot more bushy than they where before. But she let it go thinking that she probably has not had a good enough look at them to notice the bushiness or the fact that they are joining in the middle. However the most noticeable thing that had changed about Lilo did not show itself until she started to brush her hair. As she was sending the fine teeth of a brush threw her long black hair she managed to catch the tip of her ear with the brush, thinking this was a little odd, since she had not done it in several years, and to make sure it was not bleeding or anything she pulled her hair back to see it. When she actually saw it she gave out a slight gasp of surprise, fortunately it was not loud enough to get the attention of anyone in the bedroom, quickly she dropped her hair so it could cover that ear again, and quickly went to check the other ear…it was the exact same. Her ears had been moved slightly lower down on her head than they where before, this freaked her out since she knew that that should never happen to anyone but that was not even the most startling thing about her ears. The most startling thing about them was the fact that they no longer looked all that human, they still had the same shapes and curves of any human ear (I don't know great details about the ear, but just picture any normal human ear) however her ears now had a tip on them, in other words the back of her ears had extended an inch or so and now had a point on the end of them instead of the more normal curve 'my god l look a bit like an elf' she thought to herself as she moved closer to the mirror to get a better look at her new ears It was just then that Nani came to the bathroom door and asked what was taking her so long, this caused her to momentarily forget the changes that has happened to her as she quickly finished what she had to do and get out before Nani decided to come in and take her out.
When Nani had went into the bathroom she went over to Stitch who was reading the book he brought with him, however it was a book from Jumba's home planet and she could not read the title.
"umm Stitch I need to talk to you" Lilo asked a little nervously, Stitch glanced up from his book and had to do a double take because he noticed that their was something different about Lilo…he could just not place what it was. However the nervous look on her face and the nervous tone in her voice caused Stitch to wonder what is going on and he also heard the gasp that she gave in the bathroom so was coriuse to know what Lilo was worried about.
"yes Lilo what's is it that you need to talk about, is their something wrong?"
"well umm do I umm look uh any different to you?" the worry was screaming out when Lilo asked that, caused Stitch to become very worried indeed so he spent a while just looking at her to confirm what she wanted to hear.
"well your eyebrows are more bushy and they seem to be joining together just above your noise and I think your eyes have a bit more of a yellow tinge to them but apart…"
"what!" Lilo said interrupting Stitch before quickly going off to get Nani's face mirror to see it herself. Sure enough her eyes did indeed have a slight yellow tinge to them but you could only see it if you looked very close at them, this broke the dam and tears of worry started to drip out of her face.
"Lilo is everything all right?" Stitch asked while he walked up to her and embraced her in a hug to try and reassure her,
"Stitch I…I…I think I'm changing into something, something not human"
"that's nonsense how can you be changing into something without you knowing what it is your changing into",
"I don't know, but there is enough evidence to prove I'm changing",
"what slightly bushy eyebrows that are beginning to join in the middle. Lilo humans are constantly growing hair until their later life when it just falls out, so that cannot be proof"
"no your right Stitch that is not proof, but these are" and with that Lilo moved her hair to reveal her 'new' ears. This caused Stitch to copy Lilo when she first saw them and gasp, only it was much louder and got the attention of Nani who was just getting out of the bathroom.
"what's all the commotion…out…here (thespacing in text represents Nani getting quieter and more shocked) LILO WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR EARS!" Nani said as soon as she saw her sister and the new ears. But the half rage half worry emotions that Nani was feeling changed to pure terror when she saw her sisters face and the state of pure fear written all over it as well as the tear stained eyes and cheeks,
"I don't know Nani…I just don't know. They where fine this morning but now they are like this. These are what was taking me so long in the bathroom, I was making sure I was not loosing my mind" Lilo said. The fear in her voiced caused her Nani to run over to her and just embraced her in a reassuring hug along with Stitch,
"its ok, its ok I just got a little scared their that's all. I thought you did it yourself with the help of Stitch and Jumba's science." Nani said while hugging her sister, Lilo just slowly and quietly wept on Nani's shoulder "Don't worry we will contact Jumba tomorrow and get his verdict on it, but right now I think we all need to clear our heads and get some sleep",
"can Stitch sleep with me tonight?" Lilo asked worry still evident in her voice,
"sure he can" Nani said before taking Lilo, along with Stitch, to her bed "now Stitch is going to be right by your side all night reassuring you and I will be on my bed just here so if you do get scared you can wake ether one of us up ok" Nani said as she tucked in her sister along with Stitch. Lilo did not answer but just curled up beside Stitch and more or less fell straight to sleep,
"don't worry Nani I will protect Lilo from anything that would ever harm her" Stitch said sounding so serious and sure of his mission that Nani thought it was another person entirely. She just gave Stitch a knowing nod to confirm what he just said before going to her bed to get some sleep. 'man this night has been horrible for Lilo and the day had been such fun as well, no wonder she has went straight to sleep. But it is my mission in life to protect Lilo from any danger as best as I can, for she is the one that made me see how much fun this universe has to offer without breaking anything. She is the one who turned me from evil to good. Guarding and protecting her is the only reason I now exist and I will stand by her side no matter what happens" Stitch thought before falling asleep with all four of his arms around her in a protecting position.
That night no one got any sleep in the room, Nani because she was just too worried about Lilo, Stitch because he put himself on guard dog duty in case something bad would happen to Lilo or Nani, and Lilo because she was having disturbing dreams about things she just could not identify and those dreams caused her not to sleep. Even Hamish did not have a good night sleep and he was on a different floor entirely, because he had a dream about a creature that was the same size as him, consuming someone that he had sworn to an old friend and co-worker that he would protect at all costs for him, and all he was able to do in the dream was sit back and watch helplessly as it happened.
right that's this chapter done. happy with the highland games then, traditional enough? want more? tell me! and i will put more into it. a question for all of you (if you can answer) what do you all think lilo, stitch and nani's reactions to haggis will be (in google type it in "haggis" and the first on the list should be "Haggis Recipes", there it has some recipies for people who don't know whats in it(if you would like to help) i won't be annoyed if you don't help, but i might make it something that you think is wrong). tomorrow its back to "a differant kind of side effect" see you then