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Savage

- Danny must never swim under the full moon.

Danny ran across the court, dribbling the ball he jumped and shot. Making a basket from half course. His team cheered for him, Tucker gave him a high five, and the PE teacher called his name.

"Fenton, get changed and head to the front office. You're excused for the day."

"Alright, coach," he yelled.

"Hey, how come you get to go home for the day?" Paulina complained.

The boy shrugged. "Full moon?"

"Yeah right Fentonail, have a good day!" Dash called.

Danny changed and got into his sisters waiting car out front. "This, again?" He moaned.

"You know you can't be trusted on the full moon, you're worse than a werewolf, and more dangerous then one too."

"How so?" he scoffed.

"You're real," she said in a flat tone.

He hated this time of the month, Jazz always got so serious about it, he understood why though.

When they got home, Jazz marched Danny up to his room, then proceeded to lock the door. Lock the deadbolt, then put a chair in front of the knob. After that she grabbed the ladder she hung a tarp over the locked from the outside window. She learned to do thies from the outside, otherwise Danny would just pull it down and bask in the moon rays that way.

She knocked on the door. "Danny, you all good?"

The boy inside was reading a book on deep sea archeology, he rolled his eyes and groaned. "Yeah, it's not like I'm being locked in a room for the next…" Danny looked at his watch. "11 and a half hours."

"Sorry Danny, you know the drill. And you know why."

"I went on a rampage once. One time! I swear, you wake up next to a dead whale and you're branded for life."

Jazz pinched the bridge of her nose. "Let me know if you need anything," she said.

"I need not to be caged like a circus attraction."

"Oh Danny, no one would pay to see you."

"Hey!"

…

It was nearing midnight when Danny heard a knocking on his window, he slid his feet over the edge of the bed and pulled his curtains back. That's when the window slid open and Tucker slid in under the tarp.

"Good, you're up, get your swim trunks on, we're going to a party!" Tucker proclaimed in a hushed voice.

"What? No, I can't…" he said as he went to close the window but Sam crawled in.

"Screw your curfew, " Sam whispered. "We're going to Dash's party. The waves are killer for surfing right now," she said with a wide smile.

"Guys, it's not about curfew."

"Then what?"

"And don't say the full moon, because that stupid answer isn't going to work on us, now come on." She grabbed Danny's wrist, pulling him to the window and tossing the tarp open.

A shred of moonlight graced Danny's face and his eyes glowed green briefly, his posture relaxed and in a soft tone he spoke. "I guess it couldn't hurt," he said. Walking toward the window.

"Don't forget to change dude," Tucker said.

The boy turned and nodded. "Right, right."

…

The three of them walked down the street to Dash's house and let themselves in the yard gate to the back, walking down the steps to the beach.

"Glad you guys could make it," Dash cheered from his surfboard. Only to head further out into the water to catch a monster wave.

Sam and Tucker ran off to the snack table thinking their friend would follow, but Danny simply stood and basked in the rays of the moon. If anyone was paying close attention, or any attention at all, they would have noticed Danny's ears become pointed, his eyes start to glow green, and his teeth become sharper than vampires.

Dash exited the water after riding his wave all the way back to shore, he spotted the boy and strided up to him, getting his attention by pulling on his hair.

"Hey Danny, I just wanted to say thanks again for the necklace," he said. Gesturing to the piece of art around his neck. "I love it a lot, man." He absently stared at the boy's new and still healing scar, the shark bite around his shoulder.

"Sure thing," the boy said with a cheeky smile and a tilt of his head. "I think I'm going to go for a swim now, thanks for inviting me to your party."

"Of course, Fenturd."

Danny slowly walked, almost as if he were a zombie, to the water, and didn't stop when he got there, he just kept walking deeper and deeper till his transformation was complete.

…

"Did you see where Danny went?" Sam asked.

Tucker shook his head. "No, I thought he was just over there."

He pointed in the direction that Dash was coming from. "Hey, you looking for Danny?"

"Yeah."

"He said he was going for a swim," Dash said. "He just ducked under the water a second ago."

The other two laughed. "Welp, say goodbye to him. We're not going to see him the rest of the night."

"Really? Why's that?" The toppless quarterback asked.

"Danny's a fish," Sam said, placing her hands on her hips. "He goes for a morning swim every day, for two hours. Then he normally swims when he gets home from school. He'll be out there the whole party."

"Or longer," Tucker added.

"I didn't know he swam," he said.

"Most people don't, he's really actually a private person," Sam said.

"I was kinda hoping to get to know him tonight," Dash said, looking slightly dejected.

"If you find him in the water I'll bet he'll talk to you all night," Tucker said.

The jock grinned a blinding smile that was only made brighter by the back porch flood lights before running back out to the water.

"Well that was weird," Sam said.

"What? Dash's interest in Danny, or him being nice? Yeah no, that was strange."

"Well it was strange that he even invited us in the first place…" She paused. "Or that we even came."

Screams started coming from the water, and kids started heading back to shore as fast as they could swim. Then, Star disappeared from view, her blonde hair dipping under the water. Bobbing up and down as she struggled to keep above the waterline.

Sam and Tucker ran to the ebb and flow. "What the hell is that?!" Tucker yelled.

Some of the kids, dripping wet, stood with the two at the shoreline and stopped to answer. "We don't know, it looked like some kind of monster, it had glowing eyes and a long tail.

A pair of kids were dragging Wes back, he had a nasty gash on his calf that was turning the water murky.

"Wes, are you alright?" Sam asked.

The boy hissed in pain. "It bit me, but I kicked it off. It took its pound of flesh though."

"What did you see?" Tucker pressed.

"You won't believe me but… I think it was a mer."

Sam and Tucker burst into laughter. "Yeah right, what was it really, like a nurse shark? An eel?"

Wes held his leg, and simply glared as he dealt with the stinging, throbbing pain.

Star was still struggling, and her screams brought back everyone's attention. Dash paddled over on his surfboard and tried to pull her up, but was pulled in himself. He got the creature off and was able to get Star back to shore.

Several chunks of her legs and arm were missing, and she was bleeding a lot.

"Someone call an ambulance!" He yelled.

She was laid on Dash's surfboard and Dash was gripping his hair just staring at her. So Sam took over.

"Someone get me some towels. Put pressure where she's bleeding… oh god… Paulina… come keep her awake."

It was a few minutes before the ambulance got there. But once it left with both Wes and Star, no one was in the mood to party.

Most everyone left, Sam and Tucker and some of the other kids stayed to help clean up, and once everyone else was gone, only three of them remained. They sat and stared at the shore, waiting.

"Think he's dead?" Tucker said monotone.

"Eh," Sam said as she stood up. Slinging her bag over her shoulder. "We'll wait till morning. Come on Tucker. It's almost three. Let's get going."

"You're just going to leave him?" Dash asked. "What about that thing that was out there?"

"Look, there's a good chance that Danny was way farther out than the thing that attacked. Besides, there's nothing we can do. Better to be rested now if we need to go out and search for him in the morning." She explained.

Dash nodded and moved to go inside the house. "You really think he's okay?"

She smiled back at him. "I do."

…

Jazz glared at her phone as it went off at four in the morning, she threw her blankets off herself and slid her feet into her slippers then slowly made her way down the hall. She moved the chair, unlocked the deadbolt, unlocked and opened the door.

"Alright Danny, Moon's down you can come out now and go for your swim…" As she flipped on the lights, her fatigue was gone once she realized the window was open and Danny was gone. "Fuck."

She dashed to her room and threw on one of the necklaces Danny had made her, grabbed her phone and keys as she headed out the front door. She called Danny first. When he didn't answer. She called Sam.

"Hey Jazz, what's up?"

"Have you seen Danny?" She said, her breathing fast.

"Uh… Why?"

"He's supposed to be in his room. He's not there and the window is open. I need to know where he is!"

"Well…"

"Well what? If you know where he is I need to know now."

"Alright," Sam sighed. "We snuck him out to go to a party. He went in to swim, but then some of the kids got attacked. After they went to the hospital and he still wasn't out we kinda got worried. But he didn't come out. We know he's used to being in the water so we decided if he wasn't home by morning we'd go out and look for him."

Jazz hung up and pulled a sharp U-turn, tears starting to prick at her eyes. She sped back home and didn't bother being quiet as she stomped through the house. She slammed the lab freezer shut after grabbing a bucket of chum and snatched the keys to the speed boat off the hook.

She sped out into open water, set up a net, dumped the chum in the water and waited.

She watched the water carefully and accounted for each ripple. Thinking to herself that for as thick headed as her parents were, catching mer's was pretty difficult and that she had to give them credit for catching that one 14 years ago.

She saw a shimmer of raven scales and readdied the net. Dumping just a bit more chum in the water then as soon as he was over the net, she pulled. Catching him and causing him to thrash in the confines of the twine.

Jazz pulled him into the boat, struggling to do so, then stood back as he flipped and flopped in the boat. Then found her, dragging himself forward to attack his new prey. That's when Jazz took off her necklace and dangled it in front of his face. It was a simple pearl necklace, but it was one he'd made. He froze and took it from her. Seeming to examine it closely. He bit one of the pearls with his canines, it broke in half and he chewed it up and looked back to Jazz.

She handed him what was left in the bucket of chum, and he seemed happy to eat his fill of that. While he ate, Jazz got to work drying him off.

Once he was dry, she steered the boat back to shore, and began the struggle of getting him up to his room. She laid him to sleep in his bed.

…

Danny woke in his bed naked. He was under his covers, and in his bedroom, but it didn't change what it ment.

Jazz was in his office chair reading a psychology book.

He held his blanket over himself and slid his feet over his bed, catching Jazz's attention.

She turned in the chair and stared at him with red, wet eyes. "Are you okay?"

Danny lowered his head, not wanting to see the distress he'd caused her. "First time in over a year, what did i do this time?"

"You attacked some of your classmates at a party. They're in the hospital."

Danny buried his face in his hands. "Oh god…"

"This is why you need to take it seriously Danny," Jazz said. "Do you remember what happened? Before, you know, you went savage?"

"Tucker and Sam showed up, I got some moonlight to the face then… nothing."

"Alright, You had me really worried you know."

He nodded.

"I'm going downstairs to get some breakfast. No school today. Just rest. I remember you saying you were really exhausted last time this happened."

He nodded again.

Jazz went to leave and he spoke.

"Thanks."

"Hm?"

"Thanks for always taking care of me. I saw your eyes. You were crying. I know taking care of me can't always be easy, but I really appreciate it."

"Of course Danny, how else would I be the best big sister?" She grinned.

The tension in Danny's shoulder's fell and he smiled then tucked himself back into bed, and after putting some pants on, he tried to fall asleep.

He felt awful for what he'd done though. Making Jazz worry. Putting his classmates in the hospital. Probably making Sam and Tucker worry. And who knows, maybe another innocent whale died at his hands this time round. He'd have to see if anything washed on shore in the next few days.

It really sucked. Because he couldn't tell Sam and Tucker not to do that again without a legit reason. And he couldn't apologize to his classmates for hurting them.

To Jazz, it may not seem like he took it seriously, but he took it more serious then probably her. Going savage was not something he took lightly. Because he went out of control. And when your whole life's a secret, control is all you have.

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