XII: Full Moon
There was howl in the distance. Madison opened her eyes widely and sat up in bed. She looked down her bed and straight out her balcony window. She saw the rain had stopped and clouds were departing revealing the full moon and all its light outside her window. "What howled?" Madison wondered to herself.
She grabbed the gun on the desk and stepped towards the windows. Due to all the recent deaths and killings in the town by unknown people which were really the monsters, her mom started to worry a lot so she decided to have her carry her own gun for protection. Madison opened the door onto the balcony and stepped outside.
"Hello?" she asked softly walking on the wet ground of the stone balcony, "Is anyone out there?" She to the railing and looked down onto the backyard view. Then there was shaking and brush breaking coming from the tree line. She looked into it and saw a glowing pair of eyes watching her.
"Uh oh," mumbled Madison taking some steps back away from the railing and out of the glowing eyes area of view. The creature burst out of the forest and charged towards the balcony. It jumped onto an outdoor table and up onto the landing between the doors and Madison.
The creature growled and grunted at Madison. It was a large wolf, but she knew it had to be a werewolf. "St… stay back!" she shouted at it pointing the small revolver at the thing, "Don't come any closer!"
The creature took two more steps towards her, before stopping 3 feet away from her. "Princess," it said in a raspy voice, "I have been looking for you. I'm glad to have found you."
"What?" Madison said taking at step back, "Wha… what are you?" She took another step back before slipping on the wet surface and falling hard onto her hip.
"Ah!" it said to her as it advanced towards, "You are the spitting image of our queen. You are part of our queen's blood line. You must come with me back to the pack where the queen is waiting for you."
"What?" replied Madison horrified, "That… that cannot be true!"
"Oh?" it said, "You do not believe what I am saying is true? I see that you are not one of us, just have not changed yet. Allow me to do you the honor and bring you into our pack." The werewolf then bite her on the leg making her cry out in pain. She then past out.
"Ah man!" said JD pulling his shirt off him and then tossing it into the dumpster followed by Sakura and then Eli, "My clothes are soaked in blood! Dot will not like that I ruined the shirt she bought me." All three of them were on the other side of the park near a dumpster but still within the forest area of the park.
"Killing those werewolves will do that," sighed Sakura pulling her shorts off and throwing them into the dumpster too. Eli and JD did as well too. Now, Eli was in his boxers and tennis shoes, Sakura was just wearing a bra, underwear, and sandals, and JD had his tennis shoes and surprisingly had shorts under his jeans.
"Why do you have shorts under your jeans?" asked Eli.
"Hey!" replied JD, "I don't tell you how to live your life, do I?"
"I'm so embarrassed!" replied Sakura wrapping her arms around herself, "I'm now in my under clothes and I'm freezing. I'm also in front of boys as well like this!"
"So?" asked JD looking at her directly, "It's not like I care what you look like under your clothes. If I did, that make me a bad boyfriend cheating on my girlfriend by looking at other girls."
"Let's just get out of here!" said Eli looking around for anyone, "I don't need to be caught like this!"
"Eli?" asked a familiar voice, "Sakura? JD? What the heck are you three doing out here in the middle of the night and in your… under clothes?" All three teens were facing Chelsea and Zackary who were staring at the three of them and who also had cameras.
"Chelsea!" shouted Sakura jumping back surprised and shocked trying to cover herself up with her arms.
"Zack!" shouted Eli jumping back behind the dumpster.
"Oh it's you two from the school I taught at," replied JD who was remaining calm, "Wait a minute… what the heck you two doing here at this time of night?"
"We asked you first!" said Chelsea, "We want the truth here!"
"Umm…" Sakura and Eli stuttered, "We don't question how you live your lives!"
"That's their excuse," said JD to Chelsea and Zackary, "But my excuse is that I forgot to the lock the door at night. You see I have been sleep walking for the last few nights. I keep trying to remember to lock the door to my room, but I keep forgetting to."
Both the teens looked at each and shook their heads. They then turned back to him and said, "Good enough for us, you are free to get out of here without any problems."
"Sweet!" replied JD and then he said, "But why are you two out here anyways?"
"We are members of the Photography Club in middle school," Zack replied snapping a photo of Eli and Sakura, "Are current assignment to bring to school is a photo of active creature at night. I think Eli and Sakura could make a great photo."
"I never been so humiliated in my life before," Sakura said to Dot, "Zack and Chelsea are planning on running that photo in the school newspaper as well." It was now Sunday morning and everyone, excluding Madison was eating at the town's Perkins having breakfast.
"Well at least I'm not in that school anymore," said Eli taking a bite out of his pancakes, "So unless someone runs into me in the streets, I will not be laughed at."
"You know," said Dot to Eli, "There has been something bothering me for all this time I knew you. How are you paying for your apartment?"
"It's a secret that I'll never tell," said Eli, "It's such a secret that the author doesn't even though it!"
"The what?" asked JD forking some of his scrambled eggs, "What are you talking about?"
"Never mind that," said Eli now taking a slip of his milk and then asking Sakura, "Where is Madison? I thought you called her this morning to meet us?"
"I did," shrugged Sakura taking a bite out of her breakfast burrito, "I got no response from home. Maybe everyone is sleeping in today? But I left a message for her, so when she wakes up, she'll get the message."
"Hey take a look at that!" said Eli looking up at the TV screen on the other side of the room, "There is missing girl. Maybe it has to do with another creature."
"It can barely read the headline and I can't hear what the people are saying on the TV," said JD, "But I see they are at a mansion with a sobbing woman, I see a maid and some other women in business suits."
"Oh no," said Sakura realizing something and then running up to the TV, "Madison!"
Sakura burst through the crowd of people surrounding the Taylor residence and ran to the police line with everyone following behind her. She went under the police line and rushed towards the house. Some officers grabbed her and pushed her back behind the line. "Please!" shouted Sakura crying, "That's my friend who is missing! I need to see this!"
She dropped to her knees and sobbed harder. Dot rushed over to her and hugged her tightly trying to comfort her. "I lost my best friend," sobbed Sakura as she was being led away by Dot, "Madison."
"I'm going to take her home," Dot said to JD as he rushed up with Eli behind him, "I don't think she'll be able to do anything in this condition. I think it is all up to you and Eli now." JD nodded and watched as Dot led Sakura away disappearing from sight in the crowd.
"It's all up to us now," said JD to Eli, "We need to find Madison before Sakura has a complete mental break down that cause her to go crazy."
"What do you think we should do?" asked Eli.
"We come back here," said JD, "We come back when the crowd and police are gone. That should be later this afternoon. We meet back here at night though so that no one can see us."
Later that night, Eli and JD sneaked into Madison's backyard and looked around for any good clues. "You see anything?" asked JD flashing his light around the area.
"Yeah," said Eli shining his flashlight on a bunch of pawprints, "Take a good look at these things. I think she was kidnapped by a werewolf, but by judging the size of these prints, it was a huge one."
JD walked over to Eli and looked at the prints. He then looked around saw another set of them leading away from the scene. Both the teens followed the prints into the forest where they found a trail of blood. "What the hell?" said JD stopping in a small clearing, "Take a look at that!"
"I see nothing," said Eli looking at the direction JD has his flashlight on.
"But look closer!" JD said kneeling by the spot he pointed out, "All of the area besides where the footprints, the grass has been undisturbed because nothing touched it. But right here, it looks like something was laying here before where all the grass crushed down. The thing appeared to have been bleeding as well. So whatever happened, it came this way."
"Hey!" Eli said surprised, "You are pretty good at this tracking thing. So what happened next or where are the next tracks?"
"Right here!" said JD pointing to his right heading to the direction and then stopping, "Hmm… that's funny. There are now two sets of tracks. But before, only one thing came through here. So what is with this second set of tracks?"
"Maybe it was another werewolf coming to find the other," said Eli.
"Nope," said JD looking at the tracks, "Both creatures went in the same direction and the other creature didn't go towards the first one."
"So where did this other creature come from?" asked Eli.
"Only one way to find out," said JD walking down the trail, "Let's follow these tracks and see where they led us!" Both of them then started down the new tracks and came to a dead end at the end of the forest. They were now near a road.
"Crap," mumbled JD, "Where now to go?" Both of them looked at the other side of the road and saw that it led to another forest area.
"They must have gone in there," said Eli releasing his wand and then changing it into a sword, "We better be on our guard. We don't even though what is out there."
"Right," said JD nodding his head taking out his silver weapon, "Let's do this!" Both of them then crossed the road and into the forest.
"We must have been walking for hours now!" said JD sitting down next to the side of a tree, "And we still haven't found anymore tracks!"
"We have just been walking for 30 minutes," sighed Eli stopping, "Just hang in there." All of a sudden, there was a horrible smell in the area that made them just want to gag.
Both of them covered their noses and looked around the area to find where the smell was coming from. They shined their lights all over the area until they shined on two dead bodies. They were shredded up and blood was everywhere. "Is one of them…" Eli asked JD as shook nervously, "Madison?"
"These are two adults," said JD trying to keep his calm while looking at the bodies, "One is a woman and the other is man, none of them are Madison thank God. But who were these two?"
"I don't want to know," said Eli starting to take some steps back, "But maybe we should get out of here. You know, get some cops and stuff. Maybe the military as well."
"We are this far in," said JD to him, "Don't chicken out now! Madison is depending on us, "To save her from the werewolves in the area that must of capture her! But why?"
"Maybe you should ask them," said Eli pointing his flashlight who was now shaking nervously, "This isn't good." JD turned around and saw 3 werewolves were walking towards him. He jumped back to Eli and looked around. More wolves were coming out into the open surrounding them.
"I say there are about 20 give or take werewolves out here right now," said Eli shining his light all around the area, "Do you think we can take them all?"
"What do you think?" asked JD who was annoyed by the question, "There are way too many of them around here. Well, it has been nice knowing you. I hope to see you on the other side."
"Ditto," replied Eli waving his sword any wolf coming too close to him.
"Humans," said a wolf in a ruff voice to them.
"Ah…" said JD freaked out and totally surprised, "Did that wolf just talk to us right now? Wolves don't talk, not even werewolves! I think."
"Humans," replied the beast, "You two, come with us if you want to live. If you don't come with us, we'll rip you open, spill out all your blood, eat your flesh, and leave the rest of you for the vultures."
"They make a good argument to come with them," whispered Eli to JD who then said to them, "Alright, but no funny business. We just want our friend Madison back with us! We'll then leave you alone and never bother any of you guys again!"
"I'm a girl," said one of them.
"My bad," replied JD quickly in hope it wouldn't pissed off the wolf. They led the teens to a cave made out of the side of a huge hill. They brought them in and before a huge wolf and three others."
"What are these humans doing here?" barked the biggest wolf at the wolf that brought them there, "I do not want humans in my presence! Kill them Graywolf!" Both teens gulped.
"It was actually said that our princess wanted these certain humans brought before her," said Graywolf, "I was just following her orders she demanded. I do hope you understand my king."
"Humph," snorted the big wolf, "Fine, it was requested by the princess, then fine. But next time, report to me about what the princess wanted. I would have sent better wolves to collect what she wanted."
"Yes my king," replied Graywolf bowing and then he growled at Eli and JD, "Have you no respect? Bow before the Silverback, King of the Wolves or what you rather die?" Both teens quickly bowed and then followed Graywolf deeper into the cave.
"I'm surprised that the princess would want any humans near her at," said Graywolf to the teens, "She is far too kind to humans. She begged us not to kill those humans you found, but I kept telling her it was to feed her and us. She wouldn't eat with us and she said she would rather starve to death."
They soon came up to a werewolf laying down. It had shiny black hair instead of the usual gray or brown hair. "Princess," said the wolf to werewolf, "Would these be the humans you wanted?"
She slowly turned her head looked at them with her green glowing eyes. "Yes," she replied in a soft but yet scratchy voice, "They are. But I still want you to find the other two I told you about."
"Right," Graywolf replied, "It will be done Princess Colette." Then he took off down the cave leaving the three alone together.
"Look Princess Colette," said JD to the werewolf, "I just want to know if my friend is alright."
"And why did you want us here?" asked Eli.
The wolf got up and turned to completely face the teens. She said, "You don't know who I am do you?"
Both teens looked at each and then back at Colette. "No madam," said JD, "We do not have any clue to who you are."
A tear ran down her face and then she said simply, "I'm Madison."
Author Notice: Another great surprise or is it a rough cliffhanger? It is your call.
Well I'm getting back to work on my offline project, Dead Rising: Smash Bros. Special. Once it has been complete finished, I will then release it on fanfiction. But do you want a special sneak peak of it? My yahoo group, deadrisingvideogame (there is a link for it on my profile) has currently 2 chapters of it.
Coming up next, Eli and JD must find a way to change back Madison. But first they have to escape the den of wolves and their werewolf leader. Can they do it?
Next to Come: XIII: The Pack
Date: 9/17/06
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