Werefishes
(and where to find them)
How to recognise a fish as a werefish when you see one. It's very simple, although it's not as simple as recognising a werewolf, they are recognisable. But fishes don't have hair or hands, so there must be other signs. A werefish has an extra fin at the tail, mostly it's a small one and hard to see. Another sign is their eyes. A werefish has eyes which are more yellow that that of ordinary fishes, 'normal' fishes.
With full moon the werefishes transform in hideous, monstrous, gruesome monsters, which almost look like piranhas, but they're not, they're even more dangerous. When a fish starts to transform in a werefish, it happens almost the same as with a werewolf. Its limps and fins start to shiver and aching, some fishes –when they're smaller than a werefish– start to grow very quickly, which is supposed to be very painful.
The differences between werefishes and piranhas are more difficult to see than the difference between a fish and a werefish when it's not full moon. The difference between werefishes and piranhas are that a werefish has a more orange colour than piranha and a werefish is a little bit smaller than a piranha. And of course there's another obvious difference between werefishes and piranhas: a werefish is –like a werewolf– far more violent than a piranha.
How does it come a fish becomes a werefish? Well, that's easy. A fish becomes a werefish when:
–It is bitten by another werefish and survives that (even if the fish is bitten by a werefish and it is not full moon, it is still dangerous when you're bitten by a werefish. Even for a human being it is dangerous to be bitten by a werefish. It is not that you become a werefish, but you do become a werewolf.).
–When a werewolf bites a fish (when it is transformed in a fish, mostly by someone else, by magic), and in this case too, it is not necessary that it is full moon. When a werewolf is transformed in a fish and it is full moon, that person will not become a big, scary, highly dangerous wolf, but that person will too transform in a werefish. But only at that time. A werefish can't transform in a wolf and a werewolf can't transform in a piranha-like creature.
Where to find a werefish? Werefishes are mostly found in the rain woods of Africa, the wild ones. The more 'tame' werefishes are to be found in the fishbowls in living rooms. But –like werewolves– a werefish can't be tame. Although that's a discussed, because a werefish that live in a fishbowl, with other fishes, only bite their victims, they don't kill
–or worse: eat– them.
Be careful when you have a werefish that it doesn't bite you, because there's no cure to werewolves and werefishes, yet. If you have a werefish in a bowl at home, make sure that when you clean the bowl, the fish doesn't bite you and be sure that if it's going to be full moon, you separate it from other fishes.