It was raining hard that night, thunder and lighting. Manny still hadn't come back yet and Frida was starting to worry. She was used to him going off on his own when he got to steamed from a fight. Though her grandmother advised against it, Frida decided to go look for him. She slipped on her jacket, grabbed a flashlight and went to search for him. Luckily she found a trail of his footprints leading into the woods. She knew that going into the forest at night was risky especially if she wondered to far from where someone could hear her. But something told her that if she wanted to find Manny she would have to go in there.

The wind blew hard against her body and it was very cold and dark. She was a little afraid but that didn't stop her. Eventually she got tired and rested by a tree for a minute, that's when she heard a familiar winnie.

"Felipe?" The white horse approached his human friend and nuzzled her. "Hi Felipe, how are you? I'm looking for my friend can you help me find him?"

Felipe nodded, Frida got on to his back and he began walking through the woods following the tracks.

"Manny!" She called. "Manny!"

That's when she heard the sound of snarling and growling, like a horrible wild animal feeding off of it's prey. It frightened Felipe but Frida calmed him down.

"Easy boy, it's alright. Just wait right here."

She got off his back, picked up a tree branch that had fallen off, and followed the strange noise. She shined her flashlight toward the figure that was making the noise. It was Manny eating a dead deer like a savage beast, Frida dropped her flashlight out of shocked gaining the boy's attention. Manny faced her with hungry predatory green eyes and bared his bloody fangs that held raw meat from the deer's body.

"Manny? Are you okay?"

He growled at her and pounced toward her as if she was an animal he was haunting but once he caught hold of her scent his slitted tiger eyes became the normal green eyes they were before. He backed away from her in horror and ran off.

"Manny wait!" She chased after him. "Manny what's wrong?"

He didn't answer, he just kept running. He was going so fast that she couldn't keep up with him. When she couldn't see him anymore she decided to climb up a tree to get a better view.

"Manny!" She called. "Where are you? What's going on?"

No answer, then lighting struck. The branch she was standing on broke and fell. She quickly grabbed another branch and held on for dear life.

"Help!"

Her hands lost their grip and she was falling. Out of nowhere Manny caught her just before she hit the ground.

"Thanks." She said.

He put her down then he changed into his human form and passed out. Frida quickly helped him on to Felipe and took him back to her house.

"Thank you Felipe." She thanked the horse. "See you around."

She felt Manny's head, it was burning up while the rest of his body was ice cold. He had a fever. She quickly brought him inside. Manny woke up the next morning in Frida's bed.

"Hey you alright?" Frida asked him.

"Wha...What happened?"

"You almost drowned that's what." Sandra said.

"Who's the old lady?" Manny asked.

"Old?! Show some respect!"

"Manny this is my grandmother, you remember her right?"

"Who? Oh yeah I remember. Hey why is your hair blue?"

"Um...Is he okay?" Frida asked Sandra.

"He's fine, just a little delirious." Sandra handed Frida a wet washcloth. "I'm going to make some medicine, you keep this on his head."

Sandra left the room and went into the kitchen. Frida wiped the sweat from Manny's face with the washcloth and then pressed it on his forehead.

"Manny what were you doing out there?" She asked.

"Hunting. I was hungry."

"I thought you ate trash." She giggled.

"I prefer fresh meat. In fact that's how I got food when I lived alone in the woods, I only ate out of the garbage if I couldn't catch anything."

"I see. You know you almost attacked me back there but you stopped."

"Probably because I smelled your sweet scent."

"Well if you had gone any further I- wait did you say sweet scent?"

"Yes, you know you smell like honeysuckle. And that's my favorite smell in the whole world because that's what my mother smells like."

"Um...Okay...Last I checked you didn't really like how smelled."

"No I was lying. I lie about a lot of things. Like remember when we first met and I said that I was spying on you because you were strange looking?"

"Yeah thanks for the reminder." She groaned.

"I was lying about that too. I was spying on you because you were so beautiful."

"Huh?!" She gasped in confusion. "Um...do you realize what you just said?"

"What did I say?"

"You said when we first met you spied on me because you thought I was beautiful."

"Did I? Oops! That was supposed to be a secret. Don't tell Frida okay, she'll laugh at me."

"Okay it's clear that you've lost it." She said. She grabbed a bottle of medicine, opened it, and poured it into a spoon. "Now take your medicine."

"No!"

"You have to."

"No way!"

"Take it!"

"You can't make me!" He declared sealing his lips.

Frida grabbed his face and tried to pry open his lips.

"Open your mouth and take your medicine!"

"Mmm-hmmph." He said shaking his head.

Frida thought for a moment.

"Hey look a fat man trying to do push ups." Frida said.

"Where?!"

As soon as his mouth opened she shoved the spoon of medicine into his mouth and made him swallow the liquid. Manny gagged on the bitter medicine acting like it was some type of poison.

"It burns! It burns!"

Frida just rolled her eyes at his overreaction.

"Oh be a man! It was just one spoonful! Now try to get some rest." She went downstairs to put away the thermometer and medicine. He should be fine in a day or two. She just hoped something last night wouldn't happen again. When he was eating that animal he hardly seemed human. It made her worry.