Chapter Four: Unleash the Beast

Raven stopped herself when she started to hear breathing. Happiness filled her heart as she began to look up.

"Lecter, you're aw" a hand seizing her by the throat and putting pressure on her windpipe cut off her voice.

Raven struggled against the grip and then notice something different about Lecter. His eyes were the color red, same as the moon. His face transformed rapidly into a wolf as he brought Raven closer.

Raven looked at the hand that held her, noticing the broken restraint and then back at Lecter's eyes.

He must be under the moon's influence, she thought, that's why he is acting like an animal.

Lecter sniffed his nose over Raven, smelling both fear and confusion. He then opened his mouth and licked around her cheeks, tasting his prey and savoring it until the hunt was over.

Using the strength in his right arm, Lecter tossed Raven halfway to the left of the room.

After landing hard on the floor, Raven turned over on her back very quickly to be prepared if Lecter got free.

She watched in horror as Lecter started to break out of the chair. He first pulled his left hand out of the restraint and then pulled the restraints off his ankles.

While getting out of the chair, Lecter continued the transformation of his body. His hands turned into claws, fur grew from every portion of his body, and his feet grew into wolf paws.

Standing in front of Raven was a six-foot biped wolf with dark brown fur and blood red eyes. Saliva drooled from its mouth as it revealed sharp wolf fangs. Rags of clothing lay around the chair while the only clothing on the werewolf is a pair of torn pants.

Raven prepared herself as Lecter started to walk toward her.

"I should not try to seriously hurt him," she said, "Maybe I can try to reach him on the inside."

Raven activated an energy dome to protect her from Lecter, who was clawing and pounding on the shield.

"Lecter, fight the moon's power, I know there is still human inside, control the animal!" Her words fell on deaf ears, the influence of the moon was too strong for Lecter, he only saw his prey.

Lecter eventually broke the shield and Raven realized she needed a new plan. She blasted the werewolf with psychic energy, temporary blinding him, and made a dash past him to get distance.

However, the super senses of a lycan allow it to 'see' its prey without sight. Lecter swung his left arm behind him, smashing Raven in the back and knocking her into the side of the chair. Before Raven could recover, Lecter grabbed her around the waist and tossed her towards the door.

Raven focused her energy and teleported safely to the outside of the room.

Finally able to catch a breather, Raven reached for her communicator,

"I need help. He is stronger than before," she told herself.

As she pressed the help button a giant 'boom' came from behind. Raven turned to see the chair that Lecter sat in the hallway and a giant hole to the left. Lecter popped his wolf head out and started sniffing the air. He turned his direction to Raven and let out a roar.

As he started walking, Raven opened her hand, which glowed black with energy. The chair levitated in the air and struck Lecter in the back of his head, knocking him out cold. Raven headed to the main room to recover.