SMALLVILLE
By. Mike Tollin & Brian Robbins

Animalistic
By. Christian D. Davis

"Running only helps, Max." Senior Captain Benjamin Magee said as he walked through the halls swiftly." I can hear you breathing." As he spoke a young guy name Max Stevens stood in a hall scared and looking at the lock on the door. He then hid in shadow of a doorway to a classroom. He could hear footsteps coming through the hall, when the footsteps stopped in his hall. He sniffed around slowly walking around the area.
"Magee, what are you doing here?" a voice said from behind him. Benjamin turned around to find Janitor Will Amos with Chloe.
"Mr. Will, I was ah...just leaving."
"You'd better be."
"Yea, sure." Benjamin said as he left.
"Here Chloe. " Janitor Will said opening the door of the Torch." I'm going to make sure the jock head leaves for real."
"I got it." Chloe said as the Janitor Will left. Chloe turned to go in when she heard a cough.
"Benjamin?"
"No, Max Stevens." he said coming out of the shadows.
"So why are we hiding Max?"
"Benjamin."
"Let me guess, he was picking on you."
"No." he said saddened.
"Then what happened?"
"I tell you but in the Torch, it's a little freaky out here."
"Sure."

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Benjamin looked at the room as he threw Janitor Will's dead body down. He growled at the door, his saber teeth shrunk down to his regular teeth. He walked away and disappeared into the darkness.

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"So you're saying Benjamin is trying to eat you."
"Yea. Look him and the other players have been acting weird. At first, I thought steroids until I overheard Ben and others talking about the newer cooler power suppressant that's not harmful."
"They call it Alistic."
"Why?"
"It gives you that animalistic edge need to continue a winning streak for a certain wrestling team."
" So you think it's the cause of Ben's weird behavior?"
"Yea."-
"Do you know who supplies it?"
"No, but I have a feeling Benji and the rest know."

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Clark came in with Chloe to find the school body surrounding an area in the main hall.
"What happened here?" Pete came up to them.
"It's Janitor Will."
"What?" Chloe questioned.
"He was found dead right here this morning."
"Does anyone know how?"
"No, but Lana found him." Chloe looked around the group and found Ben and the team sad. Then Ben looked up and smiled at her.
"Oh, no."
"Oh, no what?" Clark said.
"Pete, go find Lana and ask her how he was found. Clark come with me."
"O-k." Pete said.

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Chloe and Clark came down an empty hallway, which led to the locker rooms.
"So this Alistic has led you here?"
"Intuition led me here but Alistic could be the cause of another death." she said walking into the Boy's locker room. Chloe and Clark looked around at the lockers and the Coach's office door.
"HELP!" a voice yelled. Clark and Chloe came running through the lockers to find Max pinned up against a wall by a player. Soon Clark pulled the player off of Max. Max quickly ran towards Chloe.
"What happened?"
"I thought I could sneak back into the locker room and get my belongings when Mike came into see the coach."
"Well I'm glad my intuition was right."
"Look, you two get into the Coach's office NOW." Clark yelled.
"Come on." Max said.
"Clark be careful." she said as the two ran away. Max opened the door as Chloe came in. Then the toilet flushed in the room and out came Coach Edwards.
"What's going on here?" Suddenly, Max stuck a needle into Chloe's neck. Chloe fell to the ground holding her neck and in pain.
"Your newest specimen, I presume." the coach said unaffected.
"Yes, I'm in talks with the girl's softball coach to try Alistic out but she wanted it tested first. So I chose Chloe to be a trial specimen."
"Nice."
"Well, how about a coffee break."
"Sure." he answered as they exited. Chloe laid there morphed into a tiger somehow. She then stood up and slowly walked over towards a mirror in pain. Her saber teeth slowly returned to regular, her tiger nose returned to her old nose, her cat eyes turned back into her old eyes. She then was her normal self as if she never morphed. She smiled and pulled her hair down it somehow was longer. She took jacket off and lifted her shirt up and had nice abs; she smiled. She felt stronger and sexier somehow and better when the door opened and Clark appeared.
"Where's Max? " he asked.
"The coach took him to the nurse, I stayed behind for you."
"Well, let's get out of here."
"Let's."

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