I stand there, completely frozen.

My heartbeat thumps loud in my head and I hold my breath.

After a second of silence, my attention is turned to a low grumble, immediately telling me to run. I dash down the hall just as he begins creeping towards me. He slowly slips his body through the barely big enough doorway, eventually allowing him to run down the hall and jump completely down the stair, shortening the distance between us.

I unlock the door, creating a loud click as I throw the front door open and take off.

I try to gain as much ground as possible as the monster has to get through the slim and short doorway, but he quickly begins catching up. I run down the street, taking quick and sudden turns as I weave through houses, but his flexible body helps him out.

I run into our back yard, skidding to a stop and looking back to the beast who was mid-air and hopping the fence with ease.

I feel myself tense up as he runs at me, but I manage to jump out of the way. He rams into the tree which disorients him for a second. I take this as an opportunity to run around the back of the tree, and do my best to climb up.

I try not to rustle the leaves as I climb to a branch that gives me a good view of the monster.

He looks around before putting his head low to the ground. And as he begins sniffing the ground like a dog, I completely freeze up.

If this thing can smell me, then there is no way I'm safe.

For a split second, my phone vibrates.

And that is when it starts ringing softly from my pocket, interesting the monster a few feet below me, and making me fear for my life.

I pull my phone out and decline Baljeet's call as fast and discretely as I possibly can, but the monster's attention has already been turned.

To me.

I scoot backwards as fast as I can as monster jumps up and bites onto the branch, right where I was standing.

I jump out of the tree, causing a sharp pain to spread from my ankle. However, I get up and pull myself together as fast as I can. I look back to see the monster ripping the huge branch easily out of the tree, and throwing it my direction. I stop in my tracks as it lands too close to me. I dash back down the yard to the other side, pulling out my phone and answering Baljeet's incoming call.

Once monster is running at me I begin climbing the fence, I hop it, and answer.

"Baljeet, Baljeet! I need help right now, I... Phineas..." I try to talk, but all this running isn't making it any easier to breath let alone talk. I look back to the monster who was right on my tail. I dash around the building and try to make it to our house.

All the while, Baljeet had been yelling, "What's going on?!" and "Hello?!" Over the receiver.

"Baljeet, Phineas is... He's a! He's not Phineas!" I yell through pants. Baljeet seems to get the picture as his end goes quiet.

My panting becomes louder as I hide behind the edge of a building. He skids past, but by the time he looks back through the space in between the close buildings, I'm gone. I try to calm my breathing as the monster's loud breathing gets closer. I can only assume he's sniffing his way in between the buildings, so I scoot around to the other side.

"Baljeet... something, I don't know what, but SOMETHING happened and now Phineas is HUGE!" I whisper, frustration and fear obvious in my voice. I go to the corner of the house and peek around it, thinking monster would be there, but he was nowhere in sight.

And the worst of it, I could not longer hear him either.

"So he's transformed? It's not even a full moon! Either way, we need to get him into the room if at all possible! I'll try and run over." He says.

"Okayy- AAH!" I begin to yell as I spot monster who was silently creeping around the corner that my back was previously turned to. I start running again, but at least I have a bit more energy. I dash around the houses, weaving in between every house, until I eventually hide behind a wall as he thinks I ran around the house in the same weaving manner. I run straight, aiming for our house, until he cuts me off.

I skid to a stop, jumping behind the nearest house and continue running towards our house until suddenly, I see someone running towards me.

Baljeet!

He runs over to me, his face turning to one of question. We slow to a stop, hiding behind a building. "Where'd Phineas go?" Baljeet whispers, but I put my hand over his mouth to keep him quiet as I listen.

And there it is; every time he touches the grass, it gets rustled a bit. And it's getting very loud.

I grab Baljeet's wrist and drag him with me as we dash down the last house and over to mine. I nearly trip and fall several times, earning me a concerned look from Baljeet, but I just continue running. I help Baljeet hop the backyard fence. "What are we doing this for?! Phineas is huge, he can jump over this!" Baljeet complains worriedly.

"Trust me, Jeet." I say as Phineas comes leaping over the fence right behind us.

We continue running towards the front door, but now that it's a straight run and not a twisted and turned one, his strength is a huge advantage and his size helps even more. We burst through the gate and sprint even faster to the front door.

Just before we make it to the doorway, I almost swear I felt a warm blow of air from behind me. But he was struggling to run through the door which gave us the slight upper hand. We sprint down the upstairs hall and into my bedroom, where be begin opening the door.

"How will we get him here? Or chain him? He could clay through this door in a second..." Baljeet worries.

"Don't worry, I don''t think this monster is very smart yet. I mean he's never been a being before. We could probably get him to hit this wall while aiming for one of us. Though I don't think he'll fall for it too many times, so we'll have to layer the door and this half of the room with metal as well-" I finish just as we hear heavy breathing and grunting. Just then, the beast comes barreling into the room.

"Go!" I yell as I point. Baljeet jumps that direction as I stand right in His way. I swiftly jump into the metal room. I grab a chain and stand at the end of the room. I throw the chain his direction as he runs, and as he sprints full-force, I jump out of the way.

Once again, he clumsily slams into the metal and falls over onto his side.

I take this as an opportunity to chain his foot to the floor. Or at least, that's all I could manage before he tried getting up and swiping his claws at me.

I run (slash jog at this point) to the other side of the room, and then I get down onto the floor and lay down.

"Are you okay?" Baljeet asks as he leans down over me. I sigh heavily. "I basically just ran around town twice trying to keep my distance from a were-monster, as well as nearly got scratched, rammed or killed by him countless times and you really ask me that question?" I say, annoyed, but also somewhat amused.

He holds out his hand and he helps me up.

We both watch in silence as the monster did his best to tug his chain loose and attack Baljeet or I, but he doesn't seem to be succeeding. "Good thing this room is sound-proofed..." I comment.

After a short pause, I walk towards my bed and Baljeet goes too, sitting on my bed with me. "So what are we gonna do with Phineas? How did this even happen to him?" Baljeet asks. But at the word 'Phineas', I freeze up.

"No." I say. "What?" "No. That is not my Phineas. Please don't call this thing that name..." I say. Suddenly, my eyes sting slightly as tears well in my eyes.

"That's... not Phineas anymore... oh my gosh..." I say, almost ready to burst into tears, but I do my best to show no weakness.

I look to Baljeet, who in return gives me a look of compassion. "I know how much you love him and you care about him. I'm sure he'll transform back. Maybe he'll be back in an hour or something. Did he seem really mad or upset before... this happened?" Baljeet asks.

I shake my head 'no'. "I found him in the bathroom. He said his stomach was hurting him, but he didn't seem very unhappy; just uncomfortable... I helped him to his bed, and told him I'd be right back with a heating blanket because I figured if he had something, it'd help him." The tears suddenly come back as I look to the blanket that seemed carelessly thrown to the floor; underneath of which was what looked to be a piece of torn orange fabric. "I wasn't even there for him! I heard thumps and groans, so I tried to get up here as fast as I could, but... I was too late. I opened the door and I was face to face with that... thing." I say, trying not to let out a sob.

Baljeet wraps his arms around me, and I wrap mine around him. I accidentally let a tear slip, but when it did, it felt so good. Soon enough, more and more fell from my eyes until it was obvious that I was totally sobbing.

"He doesn't deserve this..." I whisper.

"I'm sure everything will be okay... we can take this as an opportunity to get his blood sample. That way, you'll never have to actually watch him transform or anything." He says with a compassionate smile; I give him a weak smile in return before hugging him even tighter.