Maplestory Werewolf

Chapter 8

Dustin and More Killings

"Another werewolf, I must speak with Zaicho right away." Black said before walking away.

I ran to the place where our tree fort only to stop hearing someone throwing up. I walked over seeing Dustin.

"Dustin?"

"...Gag!...Ugh...Rick?" he said looking at me. "What are you doing here?"

"I came here to meet with my friends. Are you okay?" I said puting my hand on his shoulder.

"Go away." he said.

"Dustin?"

"I said go away!" he yelled suddenly running from me.

I stood there stunned and then met up with my friends telling them about what happened. Surprisingly, Nicholas was there too, we chatted about everything and watched outside as Zaicho came running. He told us we had to train to fight against a rouge wolf. I guess that's what you call a werewolf who can't control themselves. Candice had to go home because she had to help at her families shop. I walked home to get ready but stopped seeing Candice walk over to Dustin.

"Hey Dustin." she said.

"..."

"Here, I brought you that new CD you ordered."

"It came in?" he said.

"Yep, here you go."

She smiled at him and gave him his CD case, she stayed and he checked to see if it was a trick or not. Seeing it was in there he looked a little happy, that was until a few teens from our school deliberatly bumped into him and took it. They laughed at him, telling him he wasn't a true emo like Christopher. See, these guys were nothing but Chris's bully group. They smashed the CD and Dustin looked down, I could've sworn I saw him growl. I rushed over doing a head kick to one of them. That made them run away and I looked at Dustin.

"S'okay, here, you can have my copy." Candice said giving him her CD.

He looked up and took the CD and looked at me.

"You okay man, they were really terrible." I said.

"...Thanks...I need to go, I don't feel good." he said as he stumbled away.

I was becoming slightly convinced that he is the rouge wolf. That night I went into my tranquility room and started meditating.

"Rick?"

"Hmm, oh hey Anna."

"Daddy asked me to stay here with you to make sure its not you killing people." she said. "I'm sorry."

I hugged her telling her it was fine. Tonight though there's no full moon and we were staring at the stars. Mom came in my room seeing Anna and looked confused.

"Rick, why is there a girl in your room?" she asked.

"Oh, hi, I'm Anna. I'm one of Rick's friends, its a pleasure to meet you ma'am." Anna said smiling.

"Oh, well its very nice to meet you Anna." mom said. "I'll be back to check on you later."

She left the room and I smiled a little.

"Hey Anna, thanks."

"No problem." she said blushing slightly.

"Hey can I ask more about what a rouge wolf is?"

"Sure, its a werewolf who refused to turn and in turn caused the werewolf side of themself to become aggresive and violent. They don't follow the moon cycle though and they can become angry towards agressers. Sometimes the only way to free them is to kill them, but my dad's working on a cure bullet to quell its blood thirst." she explained. "Its not made to kill but to restrain the werewolf until the person has been cleansed of the bloodlust."

"Could love do the same?" I asked.

"..." Anna looked surprised. "You know something, I don't know it could be possible."

We both eventually fell asleep, when we both woke up Anna smiled at me.

"This means you're in the clear." she said.

"Hold on, lets check the news. I got a bad feeling." I said.

I turned on the TV and the news right away confirmed my sense of dread.

"In the news we have confirmed news of three deaths by most likely the same animal. All three victims are boys from the school football team. We now turn to our top reporter for the case."

"Thanks Linda, yes it was a grizly scene here on the football fieldthe bodies were torn up worse than the Cara's. Today we have a witness who saw the murders but she is so traumatized by the event that she refused to speak. Officer Wing is gently speaking to the girl now as we speak. Until she's calm, we are in the dark. Back to you Linda."

"Thank you Ace, now here's the weather..."

We both stood there in shock staring at the news, in fact, at what we just heard. Following a hunch, I ran outside to the secret area of the forest and found Dustin throwing up again. I put my hand on his shoulder making him turn around. Time to confront him.

"Dustin, tell me the truth. You are the one killing those people cause your a werewolf." I said.

He stared at me and looked away.

"So, what difference would it make?" he said. "I might kill you even though you weren't mean to me."

"Dustin, I'm a werewolf too." I said making him stare at me in surprise. "The only difference is that I'm in more control than you are."

"Rick, how did you become a werewolf?" he asked.

"I was bitten by one, I didn't like the pain so I decided to turn." I said.

"Being Emo, I love pain as it was like a release from stress." he said.

"That's not good, your werewolf side is completely rouge, and without help it could become a two legged walker." I said.

"How was I supposed to know? I had no idea I was a werewolf." he said.

"Come with me, Black needs to know, your werewolf side needs to be tamed." I said. "Listen man, I just want to help you. You can trust me, and you can trust my friends."

I reached my hand out to him and he stood there unsure how to react. Reluctantly he shook my hand and we went to Black's house. Anna was already there, Black too, I told them Dustin was the one who is the rouge werewolf. Zaicho walked over.

"I never imagined my former pupil would be the one responsible for this." he said.

"M-master Zaicho!" Dustin said in surprise. "No...nonononono!"

Dustin suddenly ran out and Black took out his gun but I stopped him.