XI: Howl
It was 9:43 pm and a full moon lit up the sky. Kenta Xian, age 23, walked through the dimly light park on his way to work. He worked the night shifted at the local food joint. "This why I should of gone to college," he muttered to himself, "If I did, I wouldn't be working crappy jobs like this that go into the late late night."
As he walked down the path and came up to the part of the park where the Penguin slide was located. He stopped for a short break and looked up at the moon. "A full moon tonight," he mumbled, "Don't often get a chance to look at one."
There were some crackles of branches in the bushes from his right side. He turned to look at the place where the noise originated from. He saw nothing so he continued on his way down the pathway.
There was some more noise coming from the bushes. Kenta stopped and looked towards the bushes. Something jumped out in front of him, it was a raccoon. "Frickin' raccoon," he mumbled and then shouted at it, "Get lost!"
It then took off running away leaving Kenta by himself again. "I hate nights like these," he mumbled as he continued walking down the path, "Everything is creepier. I can't wait until my car is fixed."
As he continued down the path even more, there was even more sound coming from the bushes. He didn't like the sound of that, so he started to speed up a little bit more. "Is something following me?" he thought starting to sweat, "What the hell is out here?"
He then started to hear growls and panting. He turned his head a little bit and saw a pair of red eyes following him from the bushes. He started to run faster and faster until he was panting as well. "I can't keep up this longer," he thought to himself, "I need to get away."
Then he started to slow down until he stopped to catch his breath. That's when the creature from the bushes pounced at him. He screamed. It was a scream that could be heard for miles.
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"What a night," mumbled Madison getting out of her bed, "Who screamed? I was trying to scream. I bet it was on TV, my mom always watches horror movies way too loudly at night time when I'm trying to sleep."
She decided it didn't matter. After all, it was now Saturday and she had other things to think about. She was going over to see JD and Dot. It's been at least a week since JD changed back into a guy and he decided after he changed that he would take out everyone to breakfast on the next Saturday, which it was.
She yawned and walked into the bathroom. Her clothes were already laid out for today. She undressed herself and got into the shower. Then someone shouted to her as she showered, "Miss Taylor! You have a phone call for you!"
"Tell them I'll call back," she shouted in reply to the person, "I'm in the middle of something."
"It's your friend Miss Avalon," the person shouted back.
"Oh," she said and the shouted back, "Well in that case, but her on speakerphone. I'm my personal bathroom!"
All of sudden, Sakura's voice filled the room saying, "Madison? Are you there now?"
"I'm here," she said to her as she started to wash her hair now, "What do you need?"
"Are you taking a shower right now?" asked Sakura, "I hear water in the background, maybe I should call you back when you are all done with your shower."
"No continue please," said Madison cheerfully, "I have you on speakerphone so you can talk to me as I shower. I like to think of it at multitasking to the beautiful girl extreme. I'll be done in moment too. I'm just finishing washing my hair."
"Well ok," Sakura replied, "To tell you the truth, JD wants to talk to you. He tried to call you last night, but he couldn't reach you. He is also listening to this call so he knows what you are doing if that bothers you."
"AH!" she screamed turning off the shower quickly and grabbing a towel to wrap around herself, "He knows I'm showering while I'm talking to you?"
"Yes I do," he responded now instead of Sakura, "I have to say one thing and one thing only. Why does someone need a speakerphone in her bathroom so that she can talk to someone while she showers?"
"It's none of your business!" said Madison blushing as she started to dry herself off, "What do you need? I'm kind of in something important."
"Not really," he responded, "I don't hear anymore running water so you can't be taking a shower anymore. So what is this thing that is important?"
"Just get to the point to why you are calling me while I was taking a shower," she said now drying her legs.
"Oh yeah," he continued, "I think we might have a new sighting of another one of those monsters. There was a person last night that was mauled to death by some kind of creature. I want all of us to head to the crime scene in the park to see if we can find anything important. But take you time, you are busy mostly either dressing and drying yourself right now. Am I right?"
Madison blushed as she now started to pull her jeans up and then she responded, "That's none of your business! I'll be there and stop talking about me! Goodbye JD."
"Ok sorry," he said, "I'll see you there then. Just to let you know, if you were wondering, I wasn't picturing you naked or anything like that during this talk."
"I said goodbye!" she shouted at him which made him hang up and then she mumbled, "Why are boys so weird and stuff?" She finished put on her shirt and then left the room to head to the park.
"Hello?" said Sakura on the speakerphone, "Madison? JD? Are you still there? Should I hang up now or what? Is anyone still there?"
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"This the place?" Eli asked JD as he arrived on the scene of the crime scene. The whole crime scene area was tapped off and a few police cars were in the area.
"Nope," responded JD, "It's the other place the down road with police cars and police tape. OF course this is the place! What did you think when you saw all these police officers and cars?"
"Don't be mean," he mumbled and then said to Sakura who was already there with them, "Do you sense anything?" She closed her eyes and started to sense the area around them.
"It's faint," she responded, "But I believe something supernatural is here with us right now." Dot shivered and JD turned his head in all directions to look, but he saw nothing out of the ordinary.
All of sudden, Madison came running up to them. She took a few deep breathes and took a long one to make up for all her running. She then stepped in front of JD and smacked him across the face. "Pervert!" she then shouted at him, "You are sick!"
"Actually I feel great," he responded, "Why? Do I look sick or something?" Madison rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Look," said Dot to everyone, "The cops are leaving the area now. Maybe we should take a look around here." They all nodded and watched the rest of the cops leave the area or get into their cars and leave in them.
When the area was clear on any sighs of life, JD stepped under the tape line first follow by everyone else. The chalk line of the body was there, he showed the person appeared to have been laying on his back while what ever killed the victim had ripped the person to shreds. Dry blood was all over the path and around the body. "Well isn't this gory?" said JD to everyone, "Right?"
He turned and looked at everyone. Madison and Dot looked nauseated by all the blood, Sakura twitched, and Eli stared wide at the scene. "Doesn't this make you sick?" said Sakura to JD.
"I graduated college with a master degree in Biology," said JD looking over the area, "We had to dissect a lot of things. I have seen much more disturbing things in my life then this. But I also took a year in studying crime scenes for fun and I must say, there are much worse things than this scene."
"Please don't make us sick here," said Eli, "I just had breakfast you know." JD wasn't paying attention anymore, he was now walking towards the tree line. Everyone followed him as he past through the bushes and into the trees.
"Take a look at these things," he said to everyone as he looked at a bunch of tracks leading away from the crime scene, "I say these are tracks of a wolf, but only bigger, much bigger." The footprints were the size of JD's hand.
"So those could of came from the creature that mauled the person," said Sakura kneeling down to look at the prints, "Hmm, only one thing to do now. Let's follow these things and see where they led us!"
Everyone followed the prints for a couple of yards until they disappeared. "Looks like the trail has gone cold," sighed Madison, "So what now?"
"We follow those!" said JD pointing up ahead spotting something else, "I see some more tracks." They walked two feet ahead of them and looked at the tracks. They were human.
"That's strange," said Dot who was getting confused, "Weren't we just following wolf tracks? Now where did these things come from?"
"I believe they come from the same thing," JD said as he looked back and forth between the tracks, "I think we just came across one of the most popular monsters of all time. Gentleman and ladies, I think we are now tracking down a werewolf."
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Later that night, JD, Eli, and Sakura return to the park to see if they can find the werewolf. It was a cloudy night, but the full moon's light shown through it. The streetlights were dimly lit and there was a lit drizzle of rain. "Do we really have to be out here?" asked Sakura putting up the hood on her jacket, "It's raining."
"It is just sprinkling," said JD as the rain drops hit his visor he was wearing and slip down the sides of it, "Your not the witch from the Wizard of Oz, you won't melt. In the words of my mom I say just suck it up."
"Humph," mumbled Sakura bring out her wand and the Fly Card, "I don't like that saying. Look you two, I'm going to fly around the area and see if I can see anything." Wings appeared from her back after her hand struck the card and then she flow off.
"You think the werewolf will show up again?" JD asked Eli, "What makes you think he'll be here?"
"Well for one thing," Eli explained to him, "The werewolf might live in this area, so it's a good idea to look around here. One other thing, what makes you think it's a he? It could be a she."
"I believe it's a male," said JD, "What kind of girl would stand this kind of torture and not try to get as far away as she can from a place where she can hurt anyone? Males might stay and risk stuff like this. But anyways, the mood is right for a werewolf to appear. There's a full moon last night, today, and all next week until Friday. We have to find the werewolf in that time; otherwise we may have to wait a while until another full moon comes."
"Do you have anything to fight or protect yourself with against the werewolf?" asked Eli, "You say how blood the scene."
"You better believe it," he replied pulling out a long silver stick, "A walking stick made of pure silver! I bought it at the antique store the day me and Dot were at. I saw it as we paid for the lamp and I wanted to get it because it looked cool."
"How is that going to help you?" asked Eli.
"Werewolves are immune to quite a few things, but they can be killed by silver," explained JD as he twirled the long walking stick with his left arm, "Either by being shot with a silver bullet or struck hard enough with a silver object. Lucky for me, this is very thick so it should break."
"We just don't die," commented Eli pulling out his wand from nowhere and then it changed into a sword, "Luck for me, my wand turns into a sword of silver. It's a personal secret of mine that I keep from about everyone."
Yeah yeah," mumbled JD pointing his stick at him, "Just you don't die either."
All of sudden, Sakura dropped down in front of them. She had a serious look on her face. "I believe I just saw something huge and hairy heading our way," she said, "I think it might be the werewolf."
"What makes you thinkā¦" started JD and then all of a sudden there was a huge long howl from nearby that made JD respond back to Sakura, "Never mind what I just said."
There was some rustling from the bushes that made everyone turned that way, but soon as it started, it was gone. "Do you sense Sakura?" asked Eli, "Do you sense the magic admitting from it."
She closed her eyes and felt for a magical reading. She then opened them and said, "Yes. It's coming from the bushes on the right side of us."
"Humph," mumbled JD to him, "Showoffs." All of sudden there was some panting sounds and then a growl. Then something huge slowly emerged from the bushes and stepped into the clearing. It was a giant wolf with bright blood red eyes. It had yellow teeth and short gray hair. It had huge muscles and long nails that same to be as long as raptor's claw.
"It's huge," thought Sakura as her wand changed into a sword, "This is going to be tuff." All of a sudden the beast leapt up at JD. He jumped back as the werewolf jumped up in front of him. The wolf head butted him in the stomach throwing him three feet behind him and flat on the ground. Sakura rushed over to help him and slashed the beast with her sword before it jumped on JD getting to his feet.
The wolf toppled over onto its left side and Eli drove his sword into the monster's stomach before it could get up. The beast died instantly. Eli drew the sword out of it and the blood slowly rode off it. "That seemed too easy," commented Sakura looking at the body of the beast.
All of sudden, 3 more beasts jumped out of the woods and in front of the teens. All of them walked slowly back to each other pressing their backs against each other. "Why did you have to speak?" JD grumbled to Sakura looking at the situation they were now in.
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Author Notice: Another interesting installment in the story. I hoped I left you all on an interesting enough note to keep you wondering until next time I update.
It's time for that special event everyone. It's time for the Top 5 Stories of the Month. These are the top 5 for the month of August:
1. The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass By: bobsnormal
2. The Titans Chronicles, Episode III: Thresholding By: CidGregor
3. Forgotten By: KH-Akyra
4. Gender Bending By: Cyberbanjo
5. Hinata or Sakura By: Mr. Anime
This month I liked to know about if you read any good Naruto, Chrono Crusade, or Super Smash Bros stories. If you do, tell me so I can take a look into the story. That is all.
Coming up next, JD, Eli, and Sakura will be facing down 3 werewolves. If they survive this encounter, they'll still have to deal with some more deaths, more strange encounters with werewolves, and questions from classmates.
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Date: 9/7/06
Next to Come: XII: Full Moon
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