The Hound of the MIB

Part 2: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night…

It was a dark and stormy night when they reached Zealtor's lab. The good doctor was humming away at the theme from "Gilligan's Isle" when W was rushed down to his lab on a stretcher.

"This isn't necessary," she complained, tugging at the restraints. "It was just a little bite."

"It took us over twenty minutes to stop the bleeding," U protested, he said aside to Jay who was hurrying along beside them with Kay and Zed, "I think she's a bit delirious."

"I'll give you delirious." W muttered beneath her breath.

"Well, well," Zealtor said as he cheerfully approached the stretcher, "What seems to be the matter?"

"These guys are demented that's what's the matter!" W shouted, causing his ears to ring.

"Calm down," Zealtor said soothingly. He reached for his scanner and pulled the bandage (made from U's torn shirt) off W's arm.

W flinched in pain as he prodded the wound. "Oh my, that's a nasty wound."

"Ya think?!" W mumbled between clenched teeth.

"Remember to be gentle," Yazmine cautioned Zealtor as she came in the room with a tray full of needles.

"Wh-what's that for?" W asked nervously, "I HATE needles!"

"Who doesn't?" Jay murmured staring at the sharp, pointy contents of the tray.

"It hurts!" she squealed as Zealtor injected the strong disinfectant into her arm.

"This will also prevent you from contracting rabies and such," he explained happily as he withdrew the long needle.

Jay had turned away, the sight of the needle and that blood was starting to make him sick, he could only imagine what kind of horrible instruments he was poked and prodded with when the doctor gave him a little involuntary brain surgery!

"Now," Zealtor exclaimed, "I hear that you've got the creature that attacked you as well?"

"Yes," U replied, "it's down in a holding cell."

"I'd like to go and examine it."

"I'll have it tranqued and brought up here," Zed spoke up.

"Oh that won't be necessary," Zealtor interjected, "I've got a fur sample from this wound as well as some saliva. I'd really just like to try and learn more about it visually, maybe even identify it."

"Behavioral patterns can be tell-tale signs to a creature's species of origin," Yazmine informed them.

"Quite so," Zealtor agreed.

"Alright," Zed reluctantly complied, "but everyone is to exercise extreme caution, U, you take W back to her quarters so that she can rest."

"Once you unstrap me I'm gonna floor you!" she informed her partner as he hesitantly removed her bonds and took off down the hall with W in surprisingly close pursuit!

"Oh my," Zealtor gasped, "do you suppose he'll be alright?"

"As long as she doesn't catch him." Kay spoke up.

Jay laughed as the group made their way down to where the creature was being held.

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"ROWR!" The howls and snarls came bursting forth from the holding cell where the creature was rampaging around destroying what little there was in sight.

"I think I'll wait here," Jay stammered.

"C'mon Slick," Kay insisted, "It's nothing a defender of the universe can't handle."

"I'm not going anywhere near that thing!" Jay cried, "It sounds like a rabid dog!"

"Indeed," Zealtor mused, he was dangerously close to the cell and Yazmine hastily pulled him away as the creature swatted at him from between the titanium bars.

"You know I think I remember an Earth legend about creatures like these," Yazmine puzzled, "They were called…uh…"

"Werewolves." Kay finished.

"Yes," Zealtor said delightedly, "and if this is really a werewolf then we've made quite a scientific discovery!"

"Wait a minute," Jay interrupted.

"What Jr.?" Zed asked.

"If that thing's a werewolf and it bit W," Jay replied cautiously, "then that means that she's gonna turn into a werewolf at the next full moon!"

"Even if that were so Slick," Kay said shaking his head at the nonsense, "there's a full moon tonight and it's storming out so that it can't be seen."

Something silenced them, it was the lack of thunder or lightening. "Looks like the storm's passed." Yazmine exclaimed.

"The moon's out too." Jay noticed, glancing through a window.

"And that means…" Zed warily began.

A strange howl from the living quarters building echoed through the halls. The agents and doctors all looked fearfully at each other for a moment and then shouted, "U!"

"He's as good as dead!" Jay cried.

"Not if we get to him first!" Kay argued, he drew his icer wondering if he could really use it on the helpless agent turned creature of the night.

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A few minutes earlier…

"W?" U asked, she'd been awfully quiet, sitting on the bed with her head slumped over, her bangs covering most of her pale face.

She had chased him all the way to her quarters, he felt a bit like he was being chased by some ravenous wild animal, like a wolf. But when she had caught up to him panting she had merely slumped forward into his arms and allowed him to carry her into her bedroom.

"Are you alright?" he persisted. She hadn't said two words to him since he had set her down.

His eyes shifted to stare out the window where he could see the clouds parting, revealing a beautiful full moon.

"It sure is a nice night, now that the storm has passed." he desperately tried to make conversation.

A low growl from W caught his attention and he jerked his head around in time to see her head rise and two yellow eyes with thin strips of hazel pupils glare back at him from amidst her shambled hair and furry face?!

"What's happening to you?!" he cried. He wanted to rush over to her, wanted to help, but what could he do??

Gleaming white fangs protruded slightly from her mouth, her nose was crinkled up in a snarl and black on the tip. "That thing that bit you," he gasped, "it must have been a werewolf!"

An eerie howl was his dark reply as she sprang upon him, her fangs one inch away from his throat. He tried hard to swallow the lump that had formed there. He just couldn't get it down.

Drops of drool splattered onto his face as she hung over him, moving in for the kill…

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