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Chapter 4

Shred opened his eyes and found himself looking up at the ceiling and he brought a hand to his head and groaned.

"The pain has never been that bad before...ugh...my head...what happened?" muttered Shred under his breath as he sat up and noticed...he felt warmer, the good kind of warmth not the sick or fever warm. In the moonlight he noticed his arms were covered in red fur and then he noticed that his entire body was covered in the fur and he shot up.

"What the slag?!" said Shred as he looked himself over and he walked over to a mirror but ripped it off the wall by accident and looked at his reflection. He saw his eyes were now glowing yellow and had vertical slits and he set the mirror down and sat down against the wall and ran a hand through his new fur.

"I can't let anyone see me like this! Wait. Halloween...just say it's a last minute costume...although the new height might be hard to explain. Great, during the day I'm a regular dragon and during the night I'm a Werewolf/Dragon Hybrid...{sarcastically}oh how hilarious this is." muttered Shred before he walked over to the warehouse's front door and (unintentionally) ripped the door off its hinges and he sighed before he walked off unaware of the spectral figure with glowing blue eyes watching him before it disappeared in white smoke.

Meeting Area; 40 Minutes Later...

Dozer let out a snort as he twirled his war hammer, his costume nothing more than a skull helmet covering his head.

"I know Dozer, the others are late." said Slither, almost unrecognizable due to his new form. He was now covered in hellfire and his skull was showing but was surrounded by hellfire, his wings were made from hellfire and his scorpion tail now looked incredibly cruel and deadly. He tapped his serrated claws on the ground when a fireball exploded in front of the two and Flamus appeared from the flames, his optical mask on and his Flamethrower holstered across his back.

"{Muffled} What'd I miss?" asked the wolf before he ignited himself yet stood perfectly still as he leaned against the wall.

"Uh...doesn't that hurt?" asked Slither.

"{Muffled}No, it feels good. I cannot be harmed by fire for some reason. Don't bother asking if I'll go lava surfing because I don't think I'm immune to lava."

"Noted."

A large puff of smoke sent Slither and Dozer into a coughing fit while Flamus tilted his head and Blackclaw walked out of the smoke.

"Hey guys. What'd I miss?" said Blackclaw with a cheery smile.

"Nothing. What was that?" said Slither finally catching his breath after coughing up the smoke filling his lungs.

"Smoke Teleport. Disorients enemies and, unfortunately, allies."

"Just don't do it within seven inches of us again. Five feet should be a safe distance around allies."

"Okay."

*CRASH!*

The group turns to see a large red-furred dragon with glowing yellow eyes with vertical slits get up after tripping over a cabbage cart.

"{Halfway Across the City}MY CABBAGES!"

The dragon then noticed them and shifted nervously on his feet.

"Uh, hi?" said the dragon with Shred's voice.

"FLUFFY!" yelled Blackclaw and she flew into Shred's chest and hugged him and the dragon was knocked onto his back and had a bright crimson blush that was well hidden by his fur.

"Blackclaw...please stop."

Blackclaw jumps off Shred and hides her face.

"Sorry!" said Blackclaw quickly.

"Where'd you get that?" said Slither helping Shred up.

"The pain was worse tonight but shorter so I just cobbled this costume together with a little magic and -ta-da!- a little change to the appearance. The eye dye hurt like heck though." said Shred rubbing his eyes.

"Eye dye?"

"And contacts for the slit pupil look. My eyes are burning. Now then, can we drop the subject?"

"Yeah..."

Nine hours later...

"I don't feel good..." said Blackclaw as she held her stomach from eating too much candy before her face turned green and her cheeks puffed out and she ran around a corner followed by the tell-tale signs of barfing. Dozer is seen a fair ways away trying to break a jawbreaker with his war hammer yet it does not break but it makes the Bull/Dragon Hybrid clutch his ringing head after the hammer's vibrations travel to his head.

"She definitely has Backlash's love of sweets..." muttered Slither.

"Excuse me, I need to go check on my warehouse." said Shred.

"Warehouse?" said Slither looking at his cousin in confusion.

"Where do you think I keep most of my handmade weapons? Bye!" said Shred before he disappeared in red-black mist.

"{Muffled} He needs a different hobby." said Flamus as he tried to ignite a candy wrapper.

"Look who's talking mister pyromaniac."

"{Muffled}Touche."

Warehouse...

Shred appeared inside the warehouse just as the sun was coming up and he clutched his head in pain before he shrank back to his original size, his red fur retracted into his skin and his eyes regained their silver-lavender coloring.

"Okay, nobody can see me during full moons...but I think I should tell my dad about this...or should I?" said Shred as he got up clutching his head.

"{Ghostly}Tell him..."

"Who said that?!" said Shred whirling around and having his tail blade claws unhinge from each other.

"{Ghostly}Tell your father about your condition..."

"Show yourself!"

"{Ghostly}I cannot..."

"Come out or else!"

...

Shred looks around cautiously but sees nothing and has his tail blade claws hinge back together and he looks himself in the mirror which he ripped off last night.

"I must be hearing things..." muttered Shred as he checked his eyes.

Two Weeks Later; Jackal Village...

(Suggestion to you dear readers: For this next part, which will be horribly gruesome and quite cruel, I suggest you have the listed music in brackets and bold playing for the intended effect. Not suggested to be read, unless you are over eighteen and can handle intense cruelty; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK)

Flamus looked over the Jackal village and clutched his axe tighter till his knuckles turned white before he put on his optical mask and pulled out his iPod and searched for the desired playlist.

[Walking on Sunshine]

Flamus began walking towards the gate, his flamethrower shouldered and his axe in his free hand.

"Hey kid! You aren't allowed here." said a Jackal guard walking over and grabbing Flamus by the other shoulder. In a flash of glinting steel, the Jackal's arm was severed and sent flying into the air and before he could scream, he was sliced twice and after Flamus got into a relaxed position, the Jackal's head fell to the right and then the upper body fell to the left and the legs collapsed.

"What the f-?!" said the second guard before Flamus' axe was in his skull and the lifeless corpse fell to the ground as Flamus walked into the village.

Ten Minutes Later...

[Dragonforce- Through the Fire and the Flames]

Burning bodies littered the nearby river as flames consumed the village, the inhabitants dying in sheer agony for those caught in the flames but only suffering for three seconds before the fire's heat burnt them to a crisp. The red furred wolf walked up to a unharmed hut and kicked the door down before he fired a stream of Thermite fire burning the two Jackal kids inside, their screams not reaching his ears as he listened to music calmly.

Walking towards the now incinerated village center, he found an upturned wheelbarrow and kicked it off to reveal a scared Jackal child shivering in fear as he gazed into the lifeless eyes of Flamus' mask as the wolf poured "water" onto the kid from the flamethrower and the child tried to escape by crawling away but Flamus placed his foot on the child's back and kept dosing the kid with the "Water". When the kid was soaking wet, Flamus removed his foot and pulled out a lighter and struck it before he tossed it at the horrified child.

"AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!" screamed the child as he was slowly burned alive by regular fire, not the Thermite Filament fueled fire everyone else was subjected to. Flamus then turned off his headphones and began walking towards the village's gates as structures around him collapsed.

"~Oh, I'm gonna burn this town down, down, down, down

Nobody's gonna stop me because everybody fears me

I ain't the one to blame for this outcome

The Jackals burned down my home

Now I returned the favor

Oh, I'm gonna burn this town down, down, down, down

*Whistles to 'Sons of Perdition-Undertaker's Finale'*"

END CHAPTER

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