I gave this Halloween challenge a go. I hope some of you won't kill me for what is about to happen. I was too eager so I post the first chapter a little earlier than I announced in the fanfiction facebook group.

Happy Halloween my sweethearts

hugs LadyTpower

Chapter 1:

It was two nights before Halloween. It was one of the rare occasions that Felipe had been needed to help Zorro out. Staying out of sight he provided some much-needed distraction.

Zorro had captured the bandits quite easily that way.

Felipe was watching his master fighting of the last bandit that he didn't notice that something was sneaking upon him. He was shocked the moment he turned around. He was looking in the bright red eyes of a beautiful gray-white wolf. The wolf started growling at him, That sound was terrifying.

Zorro heard the growling knowing that it came from the direction of the place were Felipe was hiding.

"Toronado go have a look and help him," Zorro ordered his black stallion not wanting to say the boy's name.

Toronado took off he was just in time to see the wolf running away. The stallion sniffed at Felipe's leg. It was bleeding a lot. He had been bitten. Toronado couldn't find it in his heart to leave his silent master so he stayed even when he heard his other's master's whistle.

It was enough for Zorro to know that something was wrong with Felipe. He tied the bandits' horses to a tree with the bandits laying out cold in their saddles. Their hands and feet tied up.

He took off in the direction where he had seen Toronado go off to moments before until he found Felipe in pain, his leg bleeding like hell and an overprotective stallion standing over him, ready to defend him if necessary.

"It's alright, boy. Let me have a look." Zorro said patting his stallion lovingly in the neck. Toronado breezed and took a step aside.

"This is an animal bite. Did you see what has bitten you?" Zorro asked.

Felipe nodded, "It was a big wolf." The young boy signed hoping that Zorro would believe him. There normally weren't any wolves in this area.

"Let's talk later, first we need to attend this wound before it becomes much worse," Zorro said not knowing what to make of Felipe's story.

The masked fox used some clean rags to cover the wound before he whistled a different sound and Felipe's pinto came out of hiding. They had given his pony the same training as they had given Toronado just for cases like this one.

"Bring him to the cave and stay with him until I am back," Zorro ordered the pinto while he helped Felipe in his saddle.

Zorro jumped on Toronado's back and drove back to where he had left the bandits. He was going to deliver it to the pueblo tying them up at a post and ran back to the cave as fast as he could to help Felipe. It wasn't his normal cause of action but these bandits were too dangerous to let escape. They killed a lot of caballero's in neighbor villages and they needed to be stopped before they could for through with their plan of killing him and his father.

It didn't take long for Zorro to arrive at the cave too. He jumped out of Toronado's saddle, who was standing next to Felipe's pony. He found Felipe sitting against the wall.

Zorro removed the rag he had twisted around the young man's leg. He was shocked with what he saw then, the big would that was there before was healed completely.

"Felipe, did you something with the wound?" Zorro asked curiously. The masked hero didn't believe in miracles or in things that couldn't be explained by sciences but he didn't know what to think of this.

Such a wound couldn't heal in such a short time. It had taken only half an hour to ride to the pueblo and back to the cave.

It's only when thinking about what Felipe said before that something clicked in his mind, something he never believed in.

"Felipe, you said you were bitten by a large wolf, right?" Zorro asked while removing his mask not paying attention to the bickering between the two horses in the back of the cave.

He looked through his books until he found what he was looking for. He started it to turn page after page.

"How large was this wolf?" Diego asked still in his Zorro clothes but without the mask and the sword.

"About 15 hands I think." Felipe signed confused. He never saw a wolf in his life but knew from Diego's lessons that it was way too large to be a normal one.

"Did you notice something else strange about the wolf? Like the color of his eyes." Diego asked. Felipe shivered at the thoughts of the bright red eyes who had looked at him like he was some kind of prey.

Felipe nodded and pointed to a red book on one of the shelves in the cave.

"His eyes were red?" Diego asked for confirmation.

Felipe nodded but was still confused about what Diego was talking about.

"I always thought that this book was just a myth but there is more truth in it than we ever would have guessed Felipe." Diego sighed worriedly

"What are you talking about?" signed Felipe still confused.

Diego showed the book he was holding, 'The myths about werewolves'

Felipe started laughing and shaking his head in disbelief.

"I couldn't believe it at first either but look at this, Felipe." Felipe had been walking towards his father by heart.

"You are bitten by a 15 hands tall wolf with red eyes," Diego said pointing to the drawings in the book, " That means you have been bitten by an Alpha who will soon come for you to join his pack."

"I don't want to join some pack, I don't want to change!" Felipe signed scared.

"I am sorry, Felipe if this book is right, he will come back for you after you turned for the first time by the next full moon," Diego said. He still couldn't wrap his head around all of this.

"Can't I refuse?" Felipe signed.

Diego sighed and look further in the book, " You have two options if you refuse you will be killed by the pack, there is only one way to live the way you want. You need to kill the one who has bitten you and become an alpha yourself."

Felipe looked at the book with his hands in his hair.

"First we need to prepare for your first full moon. I am going to help you through this with the help of this book, after that you should be able to shift whenever you want." Diego sighed.

Felipe sighed, never would he have thought that this was going to happen to him.

Halloween this year was going to change his life forever.

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TBC