alternativefuturefan27: You were correct for both of them lol. They are two of my favorite Pandoras. Also as usual thanks for the ideas.
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Since it had been such a long time since i updated this story I felt generous enough to gift you readers with two chapters in one go. Also as I have done before there are a movie references in this chapter, all of them said yet again by Mad Dog. One of the three references is far more obvious than the other two. Leave a review of you movie reference guesses. As always thanks for the favs, follows, and reviews. Now on with the story...
"My god." Stella breathed with a hand over her mouth in sheer astonishment. Looking over Mad Dog's back she counted eighteen small black hexagonal shapes poking out of his skin.
"What is it that you wanted to tell us?" Arnett said as Mad Dog looked troubled. The werewolf started to pace back and forth and open and close his right hand repeatedly. "What's wrong with him? Why would he be...nervous?" Arnett pondered.
"I'm not in the habit of giving out private information to everybody, so don't say a word of this to anyone. Is that understood?"
"Yes." Both Pandoras answered.
"Where to begin..." Mad Dog said putting a hand on his chin. "As you two know I am a werewolf, but a special kind. I am one of the 'forgotten breeds'." He said then saw their confused faces. "Meaning that I am dreadfully more powerful than a normal werwolf, though at the cost of that power I am normally slower than them. Since I'm a Forgotten Breed I was abused by my father who repeatedly tried to kill me. My mother also participated in the abuse, but not quite as much as father. However her abuse was different. She ignored me, which is the worst kind of abuse I can think of." Mad Dog said clenching his right hand tightly. In his crimson eyes they saw the fires of hatred and anger.
"That's horrible." Arnett said feeling sorry for him. "Now it makes since why he attacked that one limiter before and avoids general contact with people."
"That's not the only reason I avoid contact with your kind unless I need to, it's a minor one." Mad Dog said raising a single question in the minds of both Pandoras; What is the other reason? "The main reason is because of what the humans of my world did when the Nova invaded. Once their money and power was threatened the rich and wealthy did everything they could to keep it. Which included using the poor as cannon fodder against the Nova and my kind, as well as allying themselves with the Nova. The wealthiest of the humans betrayed my kind, as well as others. He sold out city after city for money and power.
The first city to be cleansed by the Nova was a human capital city that was filled with vermin, in other words the poor and houseless. The next few cities after that one were average in size and had human inhabitants. After selling out those cities he craved more money. So he began to sell information about locations of non-human cities to the Nova. It got so bad that entire regions were destroyed by the Nova buying the information he sold to them."
"What was the man's name?" Arnett asked a little nervous, fearing that she might have stepped onto an emotional land mine of sorts.
"That heartless bastards name was Richard Thorndyke." Mad Dog answered venomously.
"How did he betray you?" Stella asked seeing the pain in Mad Dog's eyes. She and Arnett could both see that it hurt Mad Dog to be talking about his past.
"If it hurts too much to talk about your past we won't ask any more questions." Arnett offered seeing the werewolf's discomfort mainly in his eyes, which seemed to be incredibly more expressive than a human's, and with his body language. Since Mad Dog was in his human form it was somewhat easy for Arnett to read his body language. If he was in his true form it'd be a nightmare for her to try and figure out what his body language in that form might say. She knew that Stella had picked up on Mad Dog clenching his right hand into a fist and, quite obviously, his pacing.
She saw he was tense, possibly because of restraining himself from lashing out to relieve some of the anger he felt. It seemed to her that his pacing did little to relax him. Mad Dog took a deep breath before he struggled to keep a composed face while answering.
"That man told the Nova where they could find my sister while she was weak. After her death and my berserk rage he brought me to a lab to be experimented on for two years, besides having my sister's stigmata implanted in me. Because of that betrayal I have a general distrust of humans, especially of the rich. Though I know not all of them are as corrupt as that man was." Mad Dog said as his eyes got a little watery. He closed them and looked away from the two Pandoras as a single tear ran down his face.
"Why did he betray you?" Stella said somewhat quiet and nervous as if expecting the werewolf to explode with anger.
"Greed." Mad Dog answered with venom practically dripping off of the word. "One of what you humans call the 'seven deadly sins'. In the legend about how humans came to be on my world they were thought to have been created with a void in their hearts that nothing could fill. Naturally leading them to start wars for territory and power. Greed burned a hole in them that can't be filled. The man who betrayed me was promised a large portion of my kind's wealth and power equal to that of a Forgotten Breed."
"How did he manage to suppress these feelings for so long?" Stella wondered watching mad Dog wipe away the tear with his hand.
"For the first time in my life I'm beginning to learn to share the burden I bare..." Mad Dog said stunning them with how open he was being with them for the first time. "And to share my feelings."
"Are you ready for the interview?" Arnett said then Mad Dog nodded.
"Yeah. I'll do it tomorrow at noon outside over by the second year female dorm." Mad Dog replied then in ignited himself for a few seconds before the flames disappeared as quickly as the appeared. Both Pandoras noticed that the werewolf had used Volt texture to change clothing to a military uniform with the shirt being replaced by a tank top.
"It seems that even the toughest among us has a soft side." Elize commented earning two jumps of surprise from the Pandoras while Mad Dog was unphased.
"Why are you up here?" Mad Dog asked turning to face Elize.
"I was curious where you went when I found that your room was empty. So I asked the nurses if they had seen you and told me you were headed for the roof with them in tow." Elize answered gesturing to Stella and Arnett.
"So you were here long enough to hear why I distrust humans?" Mad Dog said then Elize nodded. "Damn it." Mad Dog growled.
"Assuming your kind's psyche is similar enough to a humans, you'll feel better about letting even a few know of that." Elize said with a smile though Mad Dog tilted his head.
"What do you mean?"
"It takes effort to be able to bury or suppress thoughts, memories, or desires. Telling other people of those things is one of the first steps a human takes to recover from horrible memories and that usually relieves some stress from them." Elize said attempting to explain her reasoning. "You may not feel better from sharing the information about your past since you aren't human, but if nothing else you have two Pandoras willing to help you cope with the mental scars."
Mad Dog's eyes briefly went wide before he looked towards the ground with a hand on his chin in thought. "I guess some wounds need the help of others to heal." Mad Dog speculated out loud right before his stomach growled loudly. Arnett and Stella laughed at the werewolf's stomach growling. Earning a glare from him though they ignored that and kept laughing.
"I think he is starting to become more comfortable with humans." Elize thought watching Mad Dog arguing with the Pandoras. "I'll leave you three to have fun and relax." She said then turned and left the trio.
"What a weird way to excuse oneself." Mad Dog commented watching Elize walk away. His stomach rumbled again. "I'm starving, so you two are going to buy me food." He declared with a grin while Arnett and Stella looked at him with wide eyes.
"He eats a hefty amount of food normally. How much will he eat in a 'starving' condition?" Stella wondered while beginning to dread the upcoming cost of Mad Dog's meal, however she knew it wasn't only going to be her paying the price of his hunger.
"Don't move." Mad Dog said as he closed his eyes confusing the Pandoras, until a few seconds later. Without warning Stella and Arnett felt very dizzy as they felt like they were getting shot out of a cannon. Once they stopped feeling like they were flying the two Pandoras fell to their knees from dizziness.. "I'm surprised. Most vomit the first time."
"What did you just do?" Arnett said before looking up to find them near the second year male dorms.
"A form of teleportation using electricity." Mad Dog answered then grabbed each of them by the arm and pulled them up to a standing position.
"That hurt you know." Arnett said rubbing her arm where Mad Dog had grabbed it.
He tilted his head towards her with a raised eye brow. "Really? I'll try to be a bit more gentle next time."
Arnett hugged the werewolf's arm making him stop walking to face her before she winked at him. "It didn't hurt, I'm just messing with you." She said then noticed that he seemed stupefied by what she had done, as if he'd never experienced it before. "His grip hurt though not as bad as it could have been." Mad Dog shook his head then led them to the cafeteria. Once there the werewolf and Pandoras got odd looks while the students tried to comprehend what was before them.
"Oh shit, it's Mad Dog." One student hollered after looking up from his tray of food.
"What are those two doing with him?" Elizabeth said quietly while observing Arnett practically hugging the werewolf's arm and Stella walking to not far behind him.
"Since you're so curious rank three, I'll tell you." Mad Dog said turning his head to the right to where Elizabeth was sitting at a table with a tray of food in front of her, and naturally her limiter to her left. Although She had healed a little quicker than some of the other third years she couldn't properly use her left arm, so it was in a sling with bandages on the shoulder. "They are buying food for me." He said causing most of the cafeteria to whip their heads around to look at him.
"The Untouchable Queen is close to him?" Hiiragi said looking at the trio with confusion.
"Ignore them." Mad Dog said then walked up to the the counter with Arnett still hugging his left arm, while Stella stopped just to his right. "I'll take double what I normally get." He said earning a cringe from Stella.
"Okay." The man behind one of the cash registers said nervously. "Are you going to be paying?"
"No." Mad Dog grinned. "These two are." He said pointing to both Pandoras with his thumbs. While the Pandoras paid for his meal Mad Dog found an empty table and sat down. It took nearly ten minutes for Mad Dog's whole food order to arrive at the table, but once it was there he hardly hesitated to dig in. Everyone watched with curiosity and amazement at the werewolf's speed of eating while making little in terms of a mess, other than a pile of wrappers.
"I guess he was starving." Hiiragi commented then went back to eating her own food. Mad Dog basically ignored everybody in favor of food, even with Arnett and Stella arguing over something. As he ate their anger started getting the better of them until Arnett pulled her arm back to sock Stella, though she was confused when her arm didn't move.
"Why didn't my arm move? Did I get an injury that hasn't healed yet from the Carnival?" Arnett thought then heard crackling close to her before she looked down to see a blade of electricity hovering by her neck. She could see Stella was also immobilized by electricity with a blade hover by her neck as well.
"Knock it off." Mad Dog growled while his eyes glowed with annoyance before eating the last burger. Mad Dog got up from the table and began walking away before he released the Pandoras who calmed down almost instantly, desperately not wanting to get him irritated. Stella got up and walked after Mad Dog leaving Arnett to clean up the mess of burger wrappers the werewolf had left at the table.
"Where are you going?" Stella asked once she caught up with the werewolf.
"To talk to Sister Margret. She is going to tell me who invited me to visit their Genetics branch." Mad Dog replied. "Was my meal expensive even with splitting it between you and Arnett?"
Stella looked down to the floor as if in defeat. "Yes." She answered quietly.
Mad Dog put a finger under Stella's chin before pushing up gently so she was looking at him. "I'll make it up to you by making something for you and Arnett." He said making her smile, which pleased the werewolf. "I'm going to take a nap after speaking to Sister Margret so wake me at six." He added before Stella nodded and they parted ways. Several minutes later Mad Dog entered Sister Margret's office as the sun cast a orange glow into the room. She was standing in front of the window watching the sky.
"You're here, just as I expected." Sister Margret said.
Mad Dog grinned even though she couldn't see it. "Curiosity got the best of me. So who was the invitation from?"
Sister Margret turned around to face Mad Dog before speaking. "The first one came from an American Pandora by the name of Roxanne Elipton who is ranked second most powerful Pandora from Genetics worldwide, however I received another invitation five minutes ago from another Pandora who is also ranked among the five strongest. Her name is Julia Munberk, a German Pandora."
Mad Dog put a hand on his chin in thought. "What do you mean by "American" and "German"?"
"I'm a little surprised you haven't asked that question before now." Sister Margret commented. "I'm sure humans on your home world had groups they belonged to, such as an organization or clan."
"Indeed they did though they had something much bigger than a simple family house. They like to call themselves along the lines of "Vorans" or "Sarithian". Which were the two major factions which had several million humans to each of them." Mad Dog said. "Werewolf's on the other hand didn't have anything along the lines of giant affiliations, we had clans."
"In this world humans have many affiliations with the largest being Nations. America and Germany are two such nations." Sister Margret explained.
Mad Dog paused for a second in thought. "I've got a better idea than going to them one at a time." Mad Dog said. "How about gathering the strongest Pandoras of the various Genetics branches in one location. Though to be honest that makes a target of opportunity for the location of the meeting place. Gathering Pandora in one spot might just summon some Nova for me to demonstrate my combat prowess."
"I have to admit that sounds reckless." Sister Margret said seeing Mad Dog's point in gathering strength in one spot to draw the attention of the Nova, though she knew that could also be problematic for humanity's survival. "If your idea doesn't work we can always plan a training exorcise to show it." She added while Mad Dog appeared to be unreadable.
Without warning the werewolf grinned. "That sounds like a better idea, though I would like to fight in an area of my choosing if you don't mind." Mad Dog said before he walked over to the other side of Sister Margret's desk to watch the sunset.
"We should be able to negotiate a suitable training location." Sister Margret said as Mad Dog nodded.
"It's surprising how much one can miss the little things in life until you can no longer have them." Mad Dog said while a sad tone sounded from his words.
"Is something wrong?" Sister Margret asked not entirely sure what the werewolf had meant, though through Elize she had learned of Mad Dog's deep mental scars.
"No..." Mad Dog answered with a pause. "It's just been a few years since I got to watch a sunset like this without having to look over my shoulder."
"I can safely assume that was before you came to our world?" Sister Margret said watching the werewolf simply nod his reply. Silence lapsed for a few minutes as the sunlight fell to shine on the floor.
"I wonder if the students have come up with a title for me. I know that any of the powerful Pandoras of the Genetics branches have titles of some sort, such as Cassie Lockheart's 'Godspeed of The East'." Mad Dog said turning his gaze to Sister Margret.
"Chiffon informed me of what the students have thought of as a title for you." Sister Margret said then Mad Dog raised an eye brow. "The student body agreed almost unanimously on 'God of West Genetics'."
The werewolf smiled. For once Sister Margret could read Mad Dog's face for an emotion without having to look into his eyes to find it. "A fitting title." Mad Dog commented then vanished and reappeared next to the door with a slight flash of blue light. "I'll let you know in a few days when I have some suggestions for training locations." He added then left the room.
"If the strongest Pandora in the world can't make him show some extent of his full power, what can?" Sister Margret pondered before sitting back down at her desk to get back to her duties. Ten minutes later Mad Dog returned to his room. The werewolf had a large plastic bag dangling off of a finger. He looked at the electronic clock on the nightstand by the bed it read 4:58pm.
"I better try to get some sleep." Mad Dog yawned putting the plastic bag onto the top of his dresser which was located directly to the right of the door. The werewolf then went over to the bed and laid down. He laid down with his back on the bed while staring at the ceiling. To the werewolf's dismay his room had the white walls, floor, and ceiling that the humans of this world liked. "Why couldn't they have some other color besides white for the standard indoor color!" He growled to himself before his thoughts began to wander to two individuals.
"Why is it that I let those two follow me around while I stare down others who wish to know me better? I wonder if they have a form of bonding between Pandora and Limiter, It would make since if they did. Would Satellizer or Arnett ask me to bond with them? Do they even care about me enough to think of that? Which one should I pick to bond with?" Mad Dog thought ignoring the ceiling's white color as if he was looking at the sky rather than the ceiling. As he attempted to answer some of the questions floating around in his mind, more continued to pop up. With a frustrated sigh the werewolf stopped his train of thoughts and closed his eyes hoping none of his demons would come to play.
An hour later Stella was at Mad Dog's door about to knock when something happened that she didn't expect. The door opened with Mad Dog holding an open beer bottle.
"Huh?" Stella said not really sure how to respond to him opening the door when she was asked to wake him up at this time.
"Don't stand there like a dolt, come on in." Mad Dog said moving back so Stella could enter. She stood there dazed for a few seconds before gathering herself and entering. Mad Dog closed the door after her then turned to face her. "Would you like a beer?" He offered before Stella shook her head.
"Why do you have beer?" Stella asked genuinely curios, since she had been told by Arnett that he was practically immune to the effects of alcohol.
"It calms my nerves." He answered taking a sip from the bottle.
"Did you have a nightmare or something?" Stella said while Mad Dog's eyes briefly widened in surprise.
"Mmhhmm." The werewolf replied with a sad look to his eyes before closing them and tipping the bottle up to drink what was left. "After another beer I'll be fine, but thanks for dropping by even though I was up when I wanted you to wake me up."
"You're welcome." Stella said with a smile happy that Mad Dog liked having her around him. "If you don't mind me asking what are you making for me and Arnett?" Her question caught the werewolf off guard making him freeze up with surprise. After a few seconds he quickly composed himself.
"If I told you then it wouldn't be a surprise." Mad Dog said with a pause before looking away sheepishly. "Besides I haven't finished them yet."
"Just what is he making?" Stella wondered enjoying seeing more expressions on Mad Dog's face. "I've got things to do, so I'll see you tomorrow Mad Dog." Stella said heading for the door.
"Alright. See you tomorrow." Mad Dog replied as Stella left his room. "Since I'm not sleeping tonight it will give me the time I need to those." He commented to himself before he sat on his bed and pulled out two half completed woolen scarfs that had matching colors of purple, blue, and forest green. Next he reached under the bed again and got out knitting supplies that would allow him to finish the scarfs. Once that was spread out on the bed around him he began knitting.