The crowd began to murmur. The werewolf was an unheard of animal in the tree world. Something that only haunted the creator's world, a monster of myth and legend. A horrible beast said to be part man, part wolf, it was supposed to prey on the flesh of its followers, bath in their blood.
The crowd was beginning to panic, the fear was thick. Until a dog pushed his way to the front, tail bristled in anger.
"A Werewolf? Have you all gone bloody mad? They don't exist here, it's just some prankster or some lost experiment from the bio labs!" Dubble frothed, "This skunk's just gone mad from the loss of her friend" Petunia gave him a horrified look. The crowd seemed to calm a bit, but began to give Petunia a weird look.
"WAIT! Don't you start to blame insanity! I know what happened!" The crowd turned to see two chipmunks walking toward them. One was Giggles, but the other was a new person on the block.
She had light purple hair pulled into a bun, she also wore a dark purple long sleeve blouse, a floor length black skirt, and hoop earrings, and a pearl necklace. Her fur was a Violet color. She walked with a slight, I know more then you look. Dubble groaned, he knew who this was.
"DUBBLE! You Prick! I thought I told you to work on your manners! What the Fuck are you doing accusing this nice young lady of being insane?" she snapped. Dubble flattened his ears and glared at her. Bubble flew out of nowhere and launched himself at the chipmunk.
"Miss Dawn! What are you doing here?" He said excitedly. Dawn was his favorite high school teacher, which meant she was Dubble's least favorite.
Giggles walked up to Twitchy, who had decided to be done public speaking, and had gotten off Russell's shoulders, only to hold him protectively from the person who had gotten his face ripped off a little bit ago. Twitchy glared at the pink chipmunk.
"Hi Twitchy, Russell, I didn't know you too dated?" she said quizzically. Twitchy glared at her.
"Yes, we are, why? Aren't you and Cuddles dating?" She growled. Giggles looked down at the ground.
"I haven't see Cuddles in a long time, he vanished a little bit ago and I can't find him." The pink chipmunk said quietly. Twitchy shrugged and left Giggles standing next to Petunia. Twitchy walked up to Dawn.
"So, you said you may know what happened?" Twitchy asked, head tilted. Dawn looked at her blankly.
"Oh yeah! I have no fuckin idea now." She said with a shrug and walked away. Twitchy glared after the chipmunk that walked off to continue scolding Dubble.
"HEY! TWITCHY!" Twitchy jumped at the slightly high pitched voice. DJ looked into the air and pointed out the form flying toward them
"Is that Splendid?" Diego said, putting a paw over his eyes. Twitchy narrowed her eyes and looked up.
"Nah, Diego, That's Splendid's non super, brother, Confetti." The white flying squirrel smashed face first into the ground and jumped up, nose bleeding slightly. His fur was snow white with rainbow markings of two triangles on his eyes, a forehead to nose marking, all paws and tail tip, and little rainbow dots following the edge of each marking.
"Okay, now listen to me, I think I fou…. HEY! TORCH HAS A TACO!" Confetti launched himself through the air, tackling poor Torch to the ground. Twitchy chuckled, poor ADHD squirrel.
"Excuse me, but would you all happen to be lookin for some evidence that a werewolf IS stalkin your village?" Twitchy turned to see another squirrel standing with a black cat.
The squirrel was a red color and he wore a tan trench coat and a tan fedora. The cat was black with long black hair that reached to the middle of her back. Her eyes were a red color. She wore white muscle shirt, a leather jacket, a jean skirt and dark grey leggings. She also wore black biker boots, and carried a 500 smith and a Wesson on her belt.
"How can you help? And who are you?" Dubble walked up, fur bristled slightly.
The squirrel grinned, "I'm Dennis, this is Meera" He said gesturing at the black cat. The cat nodded at Dubble and kept polishing her Wesson.
"I believe Meera can help you get the information you need, and I can join your volunteer army, for a price." Dennis grinned at her. Torch and Reuger pushed their way past DJ and Diego.
"It wouldn't be a volunteer army if we paid you!" Torch snapped, quills beginning to bristle. Shifty, Lifty, and Eme walked up.
"And we could get the Info for less then you probably want!" Shifty snorted. Eme gave Lifty a look, and wrapped her arms around his waist.
"In fact" Lifty started to say, "I bet we could do it for free!" Eme let go of Lifty and started directly at Meera. Meera glared at the couple.
"So? Why not just join up, and deal with it?" Reuger said, raising an eye brow. Dennis and Meera glared at him.
"Fine! I guess we can join up with you guys!" He snapped and disappeared into the crowd.
The sun was beginning to set, and the crowd had started to disperse. All to go back to their rooms and homes.
Eme and Lifty sat on the bench together the craziness from the day, vanished. The two sat, arm in arm at the park, the moon rising slowly.
"You know, Eme, no one knows, not even shifty knows!" Lifty said, looking Eme in the eyes. Eme Looked away for a moment.
"I know, but I'm sure most people have guessed, we do go everywhere together." She said, still focusing on the ground, "Lifty? What's that?" Eme said quietly.
Lifty looked down to where she pointed. A scarp of bloodied fabric was lying, pressed to a leaf. Lifty Jumped off the bench and grabbed the fabric and held it up to the lamp light.
"Is that Blood?" Lifty said quizzically. Eme Hopped up and looked at it closely.
"That looks familiar. Where have I see fabric like that?" She said quietly.
"Hey! Lifty! Eme! There you guys are!" Both turned to see Shifty and DJ run toward them.
"What are you doing here?" Lifty asked to his twin. Then raised his eye brow at DJ standing not far away.
"You didn't hear the screaming?" DJ spoke up. Both Eme and Lifty shook their heads no.
"I came out of the apartment, and DJ lives across the hall, and he asked if He could come with to check it out." Shifty said.
"What cha got there, Lifty?" DJ asked. Lifty handed the bloody scrap of fabric to DJ and he and Shifty leaned in close to it. DJ felt Shifty's warm breath on his cheek and hand and blushed slightly, and focused on the fabric.
"Hey, there's a little bit that's not covered in blood, its, I think it's orange?" DJ looked up, his gray tail twitching.
"Hey! Cat, Raccoon and chipmunk! Vhat you have there?" All looked up to see three bats hanging upside down in the tree.
One was smaller, he had black fur with a long fluffy tail that hung down, and his ears were lightly shredded. He wore a black coat, and gray pants, he had a scar that went through his left eye that was clearly blind.
The female, who stood in between the two men, was a light brown, with a cream colored belly and dark brown ears. She wore a gray v-neck, blue jeans, and an eye patch with a blue bandanna.
The last was larger than the other two. He was dark grey with shaggy black hair covering his right eye. He had a leaf shaped nose, with two large fangs pointing down out of his mouth. He wore a black t-shirt with a white inverted cross on the front. His arms had wings attached and he had only two fingers on each hand. One of his eyes was completely red with a black, slit pupil.
He had been the One that had spoken. Lifty was confused for a moment, recognizing the first two bats, but not this new one. The bat with the fluffy tail was Blacki, and His half sister Pastel. They had plagued him like the pirates they were, always raiding he and Shifty's home to fund their trips.
"That thmellth like BLOOD!" The new bat grinned and launched himself out of the tree. Pastel and Blacki exchanged looks and jumped out of the tree, attacking the gray bat and pinning him to the ground.
"What the Hell? What's up with him?" Shifty snapped. Blacki gave him a cross look.
"This, you retarded raccoon, is Gouge. Our Vampire…"
"A VAMPIRE?" Lifty was now clinging to Eme, he was terrified of vampires.
"Not a Vampire, a Vampire BAT" Pastel spat. These coons knew nothing about bats. Lifty seemed to calm down a little bit.
"Yeth, I am a vampire Bat, now vhich of you hath de blood?" Gouge said. Pastel and Blacki picked him up, but held on to his arms.
"Is there Blood here? We have been tracking Gouge for a bit, making sure he hasn't eaten anybody." Pastel said, frowning at the four animals.
"He's been stalking this area for awhile, so we had to stay with him. Wow, that blood scent is really overpowering." Blacki spoke quietly. Shifty, Lifty and DJ put their noses to the wind and sniffed deeply.
"Wow, it really is an overwhelming scent." DJ said, wrinkling his nose.
"Where is that coming from, it's nasty" Eme snorted. They all heard the sudden foot prints as they watched a blue porcupine with red quills, run past, dragging a terrified Flaky behind him. He ran up to the group, panting.
"We, … We have to get out of here. It's coming!" He panted heavily. Flaky was about to faint when the porcupine, who now appeared to look like a mix between bear and porcupine, turned to her.
"It's okay Flaky, I don't think that think likes being in place with a lot of people and lights." He said, regaining his breath. Flaky gave him an unsure look.
"B… but Prickly, I think it wanted to kill you!" She gasped, eyes darting around. Prickly gave her a hug.
"Don't worry, I will protect you. As long as we stay here with this group, we should be fine." He said quietly. Flaky sighed and gave him a hug back. Eme and Lifty gave each other a hug also, and DJ reached out a tentative paw toward Shifty, brushing Shifty's paw gently. Shifty gave him a weird look, and DJ quickly looked away.
"So what did you two see?" Shifty asked quietly. Prickly looked at him.
"I'm not really sure, But it was covered in blood, I think, at least, that's what it smelt like, and it had two, huge glowing yellow eyes. It didn't come into the light either, we we're standing under a lamp post, all romantically, and it just started to snarl angrily." He said thoughtfully, "Flaky started to have a panic attack and ran out from under the light, right in between its legs, it just ignored her, and I tried to leave, and it snarled, when I finally got out, it jumped at me and tried to slice me wide open, it ended up getting a paw full of quills." Prickly turned his back to the group to show a huge area of his back exposed.
"Wow, did that hurt at all?" Eme said, reaching out to touch the soft, exposed fur.
"No it didn't hurt at all." Prickly shrugged.
"Hey! Where did those three bats go?" Lifty asked suddenly, looking around. Everyone else looked around, wondering.
A sudden shriek made the whole group turn to their right to see Pastel and Gouge standing in the middle of a circle of light, holding on to each other. The group looked to see a massive animal standing not far away, Blood dripped form its large jaws.
It was about twice the size of lumpy, with powerful shoulders and two massive fangs poking past its lips. The light from the post shined weakly on its fur, but just enough to show a deep gray color. Its eyes shined brightly, a deep, but bright gold color. Its tail was about equal length as its body and seemed to wag slowly. It had a light, charcoal gray belly and underneath of its tail. It had four toes of each massive paw, with dagger like claws of each paw. At its feet, lad the severed, bloody, dying body of Blacki, his tail moving slowly, as his eyes began to grow dim.
Pastel had tears running down her face and staining Gouge's black cross t-shirt. He glared hatefully at the massive beast, which seemed to be laughing at the pair. It turned and kicked something next to Blacki, It was another familiar face that almost made the group laugh out loud, if not for the death of Blacki.
The second Dead person was Disco bear. Lifty and Eme knew what that scrap of fabric was now. Eme threw it away in disgust.
The wolf animal suddenly turned and walked into the trees, the sun had begun to creep up over the trees. The group waited until the sun was a little higher in the sky before shoved Pedo-bear's body aside and going over to Blacki. Pastel picked him up and Held him closely.
"Oh little brother, we know you're tough, you didn't need to save me and Gouge, you could have just went into the light a little faster, you would have been fine." She whimpered quietly. Blacki tried to focus his eyes on her face.
"He would have killed you, I couldn't let that happen" he whispered. This brought on a fresh batch of tears.
"I don't care, I'm alone now, what will I do with out you?" she cried. Blacki looked up at the rising sun.
"No matter what, you will always have someone." He let out a sigh and closed his eyes. Teeth clenched, Pastel put him back down gently.
Somewhere Far away, a Howl rose up, sending shivers up everyone's spine.
