Battling the Beast

Henry was sitting on his bed thinking 'I can do, I can do this'. He remembered what Michael had told him, his will had to be unbreakable in order for this to work.

Helen came into the room and said "Henry, we're ready". He walked down the hall following Helen. He looked around his surrounding and remembered when he was a kid and all the time he, Ashley and the Big Guy would play hide and seek and he smiled thinking about it.

He walked passed Kate room and he remember when he first met her when she was tied to a chair and was asking hom from a bar of chocolate. Then she kicked his ass and escaped, only to come back to the Sanctuary a few hours later and collapse from blood loss in his arms.

Thinking more about Kate he remembered the first time they ever worked together, they were hunting the Stenopelhabbiltis that Kate would later adopt and name Ralphie.

They came to the hall. It was darkened the only light came from a fire in the middle of the room in a torch. Michael was sitting on the ground in a buddha position grinding several thing up with a mortar and pestle. Helen went up the stair while Henry went towards the fire and sat opposite Michael.

"Are you ready? he asked pouring the ground up in to a pot and placing it on the fire to boil. "I'm ready " Henry said. "Take a few deep breath" he said. Henry obeyed and began to relax.

When the mixture had boiled Michael took the pot off the fire and took a ladle and poured some of the mixture into a cup. He handed it to Hnery and said "Drink that". "What is it " Henry asked looking at the very unpleasent looking brown liquid. It smelt even worse, like cabbage and hot tar.

"It tea" he said "When drunk it induces a trance that will allow you to enter the deep reaches of your mind, once in there you will find the personafication of the Beast, you must battle and defeat it to gain complete control over your mind and body"

Henry brought the cup to his mouth but before he could drink Michael said "Remember it all or nothing so if you feel you can't do this you don't have to, we can find another way"

Henry would have liked to think that there were any better option but he knew this was his best shot of conquering the Beast. He drank the tea ver quickly cause it taste like vomit. He nearly got sick drinking it.

At first nothing happened. "What give I thought i was suppose to go all trippy and have a spirit walk or something like that" Henry asked. Michael would have replied if he hadn't starting melting. Suddenly the whole room began to melt all except the fire which Henry could stop staring at.

The flames morphed into a face it looked familar to Henry, it was his face in the flame. It was like looking in a mirror but suddenly it began to change until it became a wolf's face. The fire grew larger and came to life the wolf came towards Henry and opened it mouth and swallowed him.

Henry fell down a dark abyss and it didn't seem to end. He was frightened he didn't know wht was going on. He finally landed on ground. He looked around the darkness the was suddenly illuminated by torches along the wall.

It was a big room empty accepted for a large cage by the back wall. "Henry, can you hear me" came a booming voice from everywhere and nowhere at the same time, it was Michael's voice. "Yes" Henry shouted. "What do you see" he asked.

"Nothing just a cage" he replied. "Alright, when you defeat the Beast you have to put it in the cage and lock it, that the only way it would take over" he said. "Easier said than done there no one here but me" Henry said. That was until he noticed something in the corner.

He walked over to it and it came out of the shadows and revealed itself to be a duplicate of Henry. "So your the Beast" Henry said. "No i'm you" his doppleganger said smiling "You are a beast Henry, that whole computer geek life you lived before this that was you as a caterpilar, now it's time you become a butterfly".

"No I a man, not a monster" he said. The clone laughed and changed until it was a werewolf. "When are you going to realise, you can't fight what you are, so just give in" The Wolf said. "Never" Henry shouted at it.

"Then die" it said charging at Henry. Before Henry could react he was already pin to the ground by the wolf and felt it teeth sink into his neck. He felt weak and the last thing he thought of before blacking out was Kate.

Outside Henry's mind his body began to convulse. Kate ran down to him just in time to see hos body morph. His arm and legs elongated, his body began to grow hair and fur everywhere. His nose grow and became a snort and his hands and fingers turned into claws.

His transformation was complete and he got up and and began to advance on Kate. Suddenly it stopped in its tracks and looked at her. Kate looked at it and said "Henry". The wolf had a look of familarity in its eyes.

"Kate" Helen called as she and the rest of the team ran down the stair. The wolf saw this a ran to the door, tore it off it hinges and ran out into Old City.

Kate became almost catatonic. Helen quickly took charge and said "Ashley you and Will go after him, me and the Big Guy will follow" Kate didn't know what to think what she saw Henry and the look he had in his eyes, a looked that said It wanted to kill her.