Well, here's chapter 3. Didn't take as long as I expected, really.
P.S. thanks for the review, minimaddi.
Chapter 3
Felix's face fixed into a frown of pain, and Jake saw at once that something big about Felix's teeth had changed.
Two fangs, which reminded Jake of those of a vampire, jutted from Felix's upper jaw.
Jake saw the terror in Felix's eyes. He knew what was happening to him.
Felix slowly raised his hands to his face, and Jake at once saw his nails growing into death-black claws.
Felix looked up at Jake, and Jake at once saw the terror in Felix's eyes.
Then, before Jake knew it, Felix was darting past him and bursting out the rear doors onto the road, into the silvery moonlight.
Jake stood, transfixed, as Felix collapsed to his knees on the road before him, tearing his clothes from his body in the silvery moonlight until he was completely naked.
At once, Jake almost cried out as he saw short, brown fur growing from every inch of Felix's flesh Jake could see!
A loud moan of pain echoed through the truck.
At first, Jake thought it was perhaps Felix in his agony, but then it came again, more clear, and Jake recognised it as a girl's at once.
Jake glanced down at Hayley and felt relief flood his body as her eyes fluttered open and she slowly began to rise up from the sitting position in which Felix had placed her.
Jake's first thought was to hug her tightly to his chest, but then he remembered how he had embarrassed himself the last time he did that after he defeated a Basilisk, and quickly decided against it.
"What happened?" Hayley managed to groan, swaying on her feet.
Jake opened his mouth to blurt the whole story out, but then Mr. Stockley's high, panicked voice cried faster than ever, "We killed the Werewolf, but I accidentally gave Felix my panic relief medicine instead of Monster Plankton, and now he's turning into one! WAHHH!"
Then the memory struck Jake hard: Felix is seconds from turning into Werewolf mere feet away!
Jake quickly whipped round, fearing that a Werewolf would come charging at him any second, and gasped in shock.
Where a painfully transforming Felix had been on his knees on the road in the silvery moonlight, now stood a large, hairy beast.
Jake saw at once that it looked exactly like the first Werewolf … except without the crater corroded into its arm's flesh, and its eyes were still Felix's dark, human ones.
Jake nearly cried out as the Werewolf opened its wolf-snout in four loud grunts.
Jake couldn't make out what Felix had tried to scream, but he could guess: "Get out of here!"
Then the Werewolf suddenly froze, as though it had just seen a Basilisk.
For a second, nothing happened.
Then Jake saw the Werewolf's eye pupils thin into black slits and the rest of its eyes wash to a burning yellow.
Then, the Werewolf tilted back its head at the silver moon, high in the charcoal black sky, in a long, half-man, half-wolf howl.
Without thinking, Jake burst forward, grasped the handles of the two rear doors tightly, and tugged with all his might.
"Drive!" Hayley screamed.
Then, the truck jolted and burst forward. Jake gazed out the rear doors' windows at the wolf-beast rolling away behind them, and he at once saw those drooling, jagged teeth, and those burning yellow eyes staring hatefully right into him.
Then the truck pulled away and the Werewolf – Felix – was gone.
The journey back to Lakewood High passed slowly.
When they arrived, Hayley emptied the super-soakers over the bloody corpse on the hood of the truck, and in seconds, it as little more than a sizzling puddle of red and chrome.
When they reached HQ, Mr. Stockley seemed more stern and serious than Jake had seen him when the Doulos escaped!
"Jake, Hayley, you've got to track down Felix, neutralize him, and give him Monster Plankton!" he proclaimed. "And you must hurry!"
"What's the big rush?" Jake grunted, but Hayley heard.
And her reply chilled Jake: "If Felix isn't turned back to human before the moon sets, he'll stay a Werewolf forever!"
"So you'd better hurry up, you two," Mr. Stockley said quietly, almost sadly.
Jake found something eerie and unnerving about Mr. Stockley.
He'd been more serious than ever since Felix had transformed.
Then, without thinking, Jake exclaimed, "What's the big deal, Mr. Stockley? I know Werewolves are meant to be dangerous monsters, but we took down a Griffin!"
Mr. Stockley shot Jake a stern, piercing glare and Jake felt himself deflate beneath that gaze.
"Now," Mr. Stockley said, "if Felix's mind retains some of his memories from when he was human, he'll likely come either here or his home."
"On it." And without another word, Hayley moved towards the Troop Grid.
Jake glanced back at Hayley. She was in her seat at the desk, typing away at the keyboard.
Then Jake turned back, and at once saw Mr. Stockley had turned away and was striding down the corridor to the monster prison.
Now Mr. Stockley was really freaking Jake out.
Jake glanced back at Hayley.
She was totally consumed in the computer screen as she continued to type.
Jake's gaze lingered on her a little longer.
For a moment, nothing happened.
Then a video came up on the Troop Grid's screen.
On it, Hayley could just see the doors into the school.
But then Hayley felt a chill run down her spine as she caught sight of the shards of glass littering the floor before the doors.
Hayley wanted to exclaim, "Jake, Felix is in the school," but not much more came out than a few choked whispers.
Hayley turned, and glanced all around the HQ's wide control room, searching for either Jake or Mr. Stockley.
"Jake? Mr. Stockley?"
They were gone.
Can't tell how long chapter 4 will take to write, but I'll try to write it as fast as I can.
