Mike still came with Randy and Howard to the Cunningham house. She was still able to play the video game, though. The boys were surprised and impressed with her hand-to-hand combat on the controllers.
Mike laughed a bit as they played and she punched the most graves. "What did you say this game was again?"
"Grave Puncher, it's a classic." Howard told her with a smile.
"Cool..." Mike took mental note of that.
Randy smiled gently at her and looked at the clock. "Whoa, almost dinner time."
Howard grunted. "Guess I better get home..."
"Yeah, see ya later, Howard." Randy waved at him.
"Bye, Cunningham, bye, weird new girl." Howard waved and went off home.
"Huh?" Mike's eyes widened and she looked at the clock. "Uhh... I have to go." she stood up and quickly dashed to the door.
"Whoa, wait!" Randy called. "Shouldn't we call your parents or something?"
"No, I need to go!" Mike rushed out and ran as fast as she could.
Randy raised an eyebrow. All these suspicions. Mike had to be the one working for the Sorcerer. He then looked at his clock. "Oh, look at that, it's Ninja o'clock..." he said to the camera with a sly grin, then looked annoyed. "Man, Howard's right, that IS dumb..." he then dashed behind a tree, turned into the Ninja and dashed after Mike.
The red clad girl raced through the forest as fast as she could. The sun was going down and she had to beat it. Mike saw that she was slowly changing as she tried to escape. Her fingernails became claws, her ears became pointed, and her normal teeth were turning into fangs. Mike didn't have to be Stank'd from the Sorcerer to cause too much damage, she was a special kind of wolf. The Ninja dashed in front of her as she was in the middle of the forest of Norrisville, just outside the park.
"BEAT IT!" Mike barked at the Ninja.
"I don't' think so, Wolf Girl," the Ninja taunted, then took out his staff. "I know you're working for the Sorcerer, Mike Mavinsky!"
"What are you talking about?"
"Don't play dumb, I just saw you with...with... My Ninja vision and saw you change!"
The sun was down and the moon was slowly rising in the background. The two were face to face. The Ninja started charging for Mike and jumped on her back to ride her like a mechanical bull. The Ninja called out as Mike hopped around trying to force him off her back. Mike eventually bucked the Ninja off and made him splat against a rock wall and slide down slowly.
"Let me talk!" Mike demanded.
"You've talked enough, Wolf Girl!" the Ninja refused to listen and started to use his signature attacks on her.
Mike grunted in pain as she was being defeated. She may had been unstoppable before, but the Ninja was too much for her. The Ninja trapped her in a net and held his staff against her throat.
"You tell your boss the Sorcerer that you're no longer welcome here." the Ninja sneered.
"No, no, you got me all wrong, Randy."
"Yeah? Well, I oughta-" the Ninja paused. "Did you just call me 'Randy'?"
"Yeah, that's your name, isn't it?"
The Ninja looked around and pulled her into a seemingly abandoned cave. There was nothing in there but wood, a little water, and some skeletal bones. The Ninja still had Mike tied down and demanded to know what she knew. Some sunlight caught onto Mike and she turned back into her normal form, only now she was bruised and a little bloodied up because of The Ninja's beatings. Randy had his mask off, but still had on all his costume, something he had never done before.
"So, how did you know I was the Ninja?" Randy asked, calming down after what they both endured.
"It's not that hard to figure out," Mike explained. "You're never in the same place the Ninja is, you both have the same eye color, the same voice, the same height and weight..."
"Good point, if Howard could figure out, how hard could it had been? So, umm... This wolf thing?"
Mike sighed. "It's a long story..."
"I got time."
Mike shut her eyes as she went in deep thought and remembered what she was told to explain her whole story to Randy. "Once upon a time... There was a brave, young, handsome, intelligent man named John Mavinsky. He was so smart that his village made him able to become the next leader until someone smarter than him would come along. John had many riches, but inside he was lonely, he lived with his parents in a village, but he went to school. One day, a beautiful young girl entered his life, by the name of Miranda.
"Miranda was not like many other girls, mostly because she was a new student and no one knew what to expect from her. She was very beautiful and interested in animal culture, so some suspected she was just an animal lover or wanted to become a veterinarian. However, she held a secret that could endanger her and her family's lives. Miranda's secret is a precious gem in the family that could endanger anyone who knew too much.
"John found himself infatuated with Miranda and wanted to spend as much time with her as he could. He often let her come to his place and they would really hit off. John had intelligence in the fields of math and science while Miranda knew a lot about nature and animals. They were a perfect match and they grew up together after Miranda was enrolled in John's school.
"The two were inseperable, however, Miranda felt John should know the truth once they were old enough to get married and have children," Mike handed Randy a picture of the couple she was mentioning, who he had presumed to be her parents. "Miranda was unlike many girls because she and her mother were actually wolf people. Miranda's mother was abandoned in the wilderness, no one knowing how she got there and was raised by wolves. They taught her everything somehow and Miranda's mother met an actual werewolf who gave her Miranda as a child.
"It is unknown who that werewolf or wolfman is or might have been. John was very accepting of his future wife's choices in life and soon were married. The two were very happy together and had good lives and had three children, a boy named James, and two daughters named Jennifer and Michelene."
Randy smiled. "So, where are your parents now?"
Mike's face got more grim than it already was as she was telling this story. "When my brother Jamie was in college, my sister Jen took responsibility of me. She was to take me to and from kindergarten while she was in middle school. However, one day, when we came home from school, I heard a scream. It sounded like my mother and Jen went to check it out, only to find out it WAS our mother and she was being killed and our father was already killed. I don't remember who, but two mysterious men were sent to our house to kill us and our parents and use our powers for evil."
Randy was taken aback.
"Jen took my hand and we both ran as fast as we could," Mike continued. "We ran, and ran, and suddenly, I couldn't run anymore. I fell down the middle of the sidewalk and blacked out. My memories were wiped, as were Jen's, and no one could find Jamie. Jen and I were adopted and sent to different foster homes, I grew up in Manhattan, New York after that, and Jen was sent to Ontario, Canada."
"Whoa... Canada?"
"Yep."
"So, how do you know this now?"
"After I finished an exchange program when I was twelve, my adoptive parents told me about my sister and her memories came back to her once she saw me," Mike explained. "I don't know why or how it happened, but it was like I triggered something in the past that made her think of me now."
"Whoa... I'm so sorry, I accused you." Randy sounded guilty now.
"It's okay, just don't let it happen again, and if you promise not to tell anyone about me, I promise not to tell anyone you're the Ninja." Mike told him.
"Thanks, Mike," Randy smiled, shaking her hand.
"Anytime, Randy." Mike shook back.
"Wait," Randy's eyes widened. "If you're not working for the Sorcerer, then who is...?"
Suddenly the words from the Nomicon came on the cave walls. Randy took out a stick, struck it and made a torch. He put the light to the wall to read it. "'Appearances aren't everything, everything is not what it seems'..." Randy read aloud again. "What does even mean?"
"Nothing is what it looks to be all the time," Mike told him. "Something may like cute and cuddly like a skunk, but they instead spray you with their tail."
"Good point." Randy told her. "Wait... That must mean..." Randy put it all together now. "That nice new girl Stephanie..."
"SHE'S working for the Sorcerer!" Mike added in.
"Yeah, tomorrow at school, you and I settle this."
"I'll try, you better get going, Randy. If my brother and sister catch you here, you might get in a lot of trouble."
"Probably, I'll see you later, Mike!"
Mike waved Randy off as he left the cave and Mike slowly turned back into a wolf person and would now savagely search for her dinner like the true wolf she was. At least now she and Randy were on good terms.
