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CHAPTER 3 - HARRY AND THE WOLF
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Like Harry Potter, now renamed himself as 'Harry' Hadrian Black, prepared himself to go to another survivor run when he was noticed and approached by Dennis Creevey, Colin's younger brother and second leader of the supply and survivor runners of Safe Haven.
Both Colin and Dennis Creevey had grown up from their fan worship days towards Harry and they had grown up and respected him as the person he is and not the kind of hero they had believed and heard about from the stories about him.
Dennis offered to accompany Harry in his run but he refused kindly and told him to go and plan on another supply run in the future, just in case they find more survivors and that they need to replenish their stocks.
Dennis didn't like the idea at first that Harry is going alone again as he usually does when he goes on runs outside the haven, but he has known him enough and trusted him that he can take care of himself, even without magic.
As Harry watched Dennis left, he went straight to the gates and called out to the guards on shift to open them so that he could go out.
The only way in and out of the magic-fortified walled Safe Haven is just the towering pair of silver-steel gated doors that are at the forefront of the whole place.
Slowly, one of the doors opened in a slightly sounded creak, but not loud enough to attract the slow-moving zombies that were lumbering about outside the Haven.
Harry quickly went out through the sizable gap and then he looked back when the gates slowly and instantly closed shut from behind him. He gave a parting wave up to the guards above on the walls and they waved back as they watched their leader go off to find more survivors.
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To save the trips on the search for survivors, Harry reached into one of his pockets and magically un-shrunk the motorcycle that he brought with him.
It was another one of the things his former godfather Sirius Black had left him, besides the large and grand Safe Haven. Harry had loved riding it as well as his Firebolt, but he preferred flying more than riding on the ground.
But seeing that the survivors he might find are possibly mundane and normal in this time, he decided to be cautious and careful by using the magical two-wheeled motorbike vehicle.
He double-checked and made sure that the motorcycle was magically silent before he rode on it and drove to wherever he goes in an unknown destination.
He was careful to watch the road while glancing and looking out for any stray zombies that might come his way or any living survivors that he might find, even though the whole world has fallen into chaos and near extinction of the planet's populace since the beginning of the world-wide apocalyptic epidemic that affected both the normal mundane and the magical. Just as he does this, his mind also drifted slightly to his deep thoughts pondering inside Harry's head.
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For some reason so unknown and mysterious, only the magical creatures and beings like werewolves, vampires, centaurs, elves and other kinds like that were unaffected and immune by the zombie virus.
The virus had infected the whole world-only to the mundane and magical human beings.
But it affected them in different ways. To the mundane, when they die or get killed or when they get bit or scratched and then turn into zombies-they become the 'Rotters' or 'Walkers'. Slow-moving and body-rotting zombie types. Though they are slow-moving they can easily and silently creep up at you when you're unaware and that they can hear and smell you acutely like dogs. These types of zombies are easy to kill by just striking right at their brains or aim straight to their heads which are their weak points.
The same process happens for the magical but in different and scariest ways, when they die, get killed or gotten bit or scratched and then they turn-they become the 'Mutates' or 'Runners'. Super-fast running zombies, almost inhumanely like they're part mutated-human animals. You can easily tell what the Runner zombies look like by their slight similarities to humans, except they have sickly pallor skins, bald heads, and eerie red predator-gazing eyes. They also have acute senses of hearing, sight, and smell. Most especially their hearing like they're wolves or wolf-dogs, that means that to escape or flee from them, you must not make any sound at all and be silent as the air and still wind itself. The most dangerous type of zombies you ever come across and that you need to watch out for. There's also the fact that these are mostly nocturnal/night hunters or that they can lurk and creep in the dark-so watch out and stay away from any shadowy dark areas. It is sometimes rare that they would roam or hunt during the day or at sunlight, but mostly they come out at night. As they act like animals, think of them like they're a pack or herd of wild rabid mutated wolves. They have the same weaknesses as the Walkers by just killing or striking right at their heads, but they're difficult to kill considering they move extremely fast, all running, leaping and jumping in terrifying animal-like style.
Among the poor mundane humans who ever encountered them would be easily hunted down by the Runners and torn apart and eaten quickly, beating the record of Walkers that overwhelm the whole world. But in some rare cases, the Runners mostly don't eat the living human survivors they kill and just left their torn-up corpses to rot or eaten by the Walkers.
It was fortunate that Harry and his friends and magical survivors back in Safe Haven instantly learn and know to defeat and fight against these monstrous mutated zombies. And also that there aren't many more of them than the Walkers like the way how wizards and witches have escaped and hidden from the mundanes since the long-ago times of 'Witch-hunts'.
In more reasons unknown, the Runners seemed to bore a deep hatred against the Walkers. In some witness accounts among the magical survivors when they were rescued and brought or had reached safely to Safe Haven, they told stories of seeing and catching sights of Runners tearing up Walkers to pieces like they're truly disgusting among the zombie kinds and they tore through and devastated Walker herds horrifyingly like a swarm of locusts eating through and emptying a large field of grains.
Harry didn't know whether this might be a good or a very bad thing for any survivors that were still alive throughout the whole world. Though Walkers are dangerous in their rights since they had almost overwhelmed the planet, it is truly the Runners that you have to watch out for.
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Anyway, Harry was quickly brought out of his dark and grim thoughts when his inner magic seemed to have alerted him of something and it didn't seem like the kind that rings out 'Danger' to him.
He braked his bike to soundless revving stop and then parked it and cautiously approached and went to the direction he had sensed his magic pointing him to.
It didn't take long for him to find out where the trail of magic lead him straight to and he was staring in wonder and awe at the sight before him.
It was a wolf, but it was no ordinary wolf among the mundane kinds.
Harry stared at the large and majestic white wolf that had its paw caught in a mundane bear-trap and he wasn't even afraid when it growled threateningly at him.
He had never seen such a splendorous creature, that he believed that it is a magical creature. But then he shook out of his thoughts as he focused on the severity of the situation and knew that he couldn't leave this poor thing here to be lunch for the undead, even if it looks like that it's hostile, has quite a unique large size like a horse and can take care of itself.
Carefully cautious and with a gentle kind appearance, Harry slowly comes near to the wolf as it continued growling and snarling at him.
He soothed him in a soft voice. "It's alright…I won't hurt you. Don't worry, I'll just set you free."
He slowly took out his wand hidden magically in the sleeve of his jacket and intoned. 'Alohomora' and the bear-trap magically opened up, releasing the wolf's bleeding paw.
The wolf quickly pulled out its paw and backed away from the trap in slight limps and had stopped growling and looked at Harry warily with human-like intelligence in its wolfish eyes.
Harry pretended to not notice this as he conjured silently a bowl out of thin air and magically poured water on it for it to drink in a peaceful gesture to the creature.
The wolf was hesitant before it limped forward and started drinking the water as if was extremely thirsty.
Then while it's busy drinking, Harry came closer and was near the wolf and then started manually treating his injured paw by magically summoning bandages from his pack and healed and wrap it around its wounds.
By the time the wolf had finished emptying the bowl, Harry was also finished too.
The wolf blinked in surprise as if it didn't notice the human's nearness and then slowly its eerie shiny blue eyes gazed straight at Harry's as if looking inside his very soul.
Then much to Harry's stunned shock, the wolf seemed to shimmer in view and it transformed before him into a male human.
He stared for a silent stunned moment before he blushed bright red when he realized that this wolf shapeshifter is bare naked.
Harry swiftly turned his head away, not noticing the man was grinning at his reaction and he summoned clothes out from his pack, as he figured that he brought them along just in case he needed to change clothes.
Even with just a brief stare at this naked human, he can quickly tell that they're almost the same size with the shapeshifter being an inch taller than Harry.
Harry held out the clothes with one arm towards the naked male, his head still turned away and not looking at him.
The shapeshifter man didn't speak a word and just wordlessly accepted the offered clothes and Harry can hear him put them on.
He slowly turned to check if he's wearing them right and saw that in more of his embarrassment that this shapeshifting man looked a bit dashing and handsome in his clothes of simple sleeved button-up shirt and jeans.
With his shoulder-length sun-blonde hair and blue eyes and pale skin, this magical creature-like male looked like a model straight out from magazines.
Then Harry blushed again upon the kind of thoughts he's thinking and shakes them off before he greeted him.
"Hello, I'm Hadrian Black. You can call me Harry. Who are you?" he said politely.
The male slightly smiled and nodded to him as he replied in a slightly thick German accent. "I am Damian Wolfe. It is a pleasure to meet you and thank you for helping me."
Harry nodded back to him. "You're welcome. I'm happy to help."
Little did they know that there will be a special relationship between the two.
Harry the wizard and Damian the shapeshifting wolf.
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AUTHOR'S NOTES:
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020 EVERYONE!
I'm sorry it took me so long to update, I was on vacation and got caught up with the holidays, having a fun time and getting a break.
Anyway, this new year is going to be a very big bang! Meaning-more updates on the stories! Some might still be on hold but it will depend on the time that I have and what I can do.
To have an idea about what kind of zombies of the 'Runners' that are in this story-think of them like the mutated zombies from the movie 'I Am Legend' starring Will Smith.
I hope it helps!
Anyway, there will be more soon, I promise! Enjoy Readers!
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