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Disclaimer: The Secret Saturdays does not belong to me. Nor does the game Go Fish.
Please note that this story is Major AU.
Summary: The Saturdays are sent to a town to investigate some black wolf sightings. They meet Zak, a kid who roams the forest next to the town. But Zak is the black wolf and also has Cryptid powers; can the young hybrid keep his secrets safe? Especially after Argost seems to know that he's hiding something. And on top of all that the Saturdays and the Secret Scientists are starting to get a little suspicious.
Howl Of The Wolf
Chapter 2: Gasp! People!
The Saturday airship had almost reached its destination. It was about a couple minutes away from the town. Right now it was flying above some forest –Zak's, but they don't know that, yet-. Inside the airship Drew and Doc were at the controls, and Doyle was playing Go Fish with the Cryptids. Zon was currently winning.
"We're landing soon. So you should finish the game." Doc warned.
Doyle sighed. "Alright." He counted how many matches he and the Cryptids had.
"Who won?" Drew asked looking back at them.
"Zon did. But it was still a close game."
Zon cawed in satisfaction.
-Line Break-
'What's that?' Zak thought. He listened. 'There it was again!' Zak heard the faint sounds of an airship flying above a distant part of the forest. 'What's an airship doing here?' Zak wondered. He had only heard an airship once before but it went past the forest and the town. He wondered if this airship was going to pass. Or maybe it's coming here?
His curiosity getting the best of him, he decided to investigate.
Zak looked up just as the airship passed above him. He decided to follow it.
He changed into his wolf self. Figuring he could follow it better if he was a wolf. Sure he could run faster than an average eleven year old human because of his wolf side, but he could run even faster as a wolf, sense he had four legs in wolf form. Zak had always been a little confused that some of his wolf traits carried over to his human form and vice versa. For example, in human form he could smell, hear, run faster than an average eleven year old human, he was stronger and more durable than an average eleven year old human and he could see in the dark. Surprisingly he could bark, growl, whine, whimper and howl like a wolf in human form. He found that especially odd. In turn he could talk like a human in wolf form, and see in color like a human would. He doesn't get as cold in human form as a human normally would because of his wolf form having fur. But in turn he got a little hotter because of his wolf fur. He could also activate his Cryptid power in both forms. And of course, he had his signature lopsided star of white hair in wolf form too.
Zak followed the airship through the wet bushes and trees of the forest. The forest was covered in dew and a little frost. It had rained last night, so the ground was still damp.
Zak realized that the airship was heading towards the town.
'Maybe it really is coming here!' Zak gasped. Not that he didn't want new people to come, but he was cautious. He wondered what the people who were in the airship would want.
He approached the edge of the forest that neighbored the town, and positioned himself behind a rock which gave him a great view of the town and of the giant flat clearing located at the other end.
Zak ducked his head so no one could see him watching, but he could still see them.
He flattened his pointy black wolf ears to his head so no one would notice them.
'They really are coming here!' Zak thought as he watched the airship descend to the ground and land in the clearing.
Zak watched with interest as a ramp lowered.
Soon after the ramp had connected to the ground a door slid open and six figures stepped out.
There were three humans and three Cryptids.
The first human was a woman who had white hair. The second was a man who had black and white hair, who Zak guessed was married to the first human. The third human was a man that had an orange Mohawk. Possibly a brother to one of the other humans? And… Wait a minute…. Was that a jetpack!
'COOL!' Zak silently exclaimed, but then started pouting because he didn't have one. Wait! The black and white haired man had a strange glove. Zak wondered if the glove has some kind of power or something. Zak then noticed that the white haired woman had a cool sword. Wow, these strange people have some really cool weapons! 'Of course, The Claw is way cooler!' Zak thought thinking of his own Cryptid power focusing weapon.
All the humans, except for the guy with the orange Mohawk, wore strange cloths with a weird 'S' on it. 'Maybe it's a symbol for…Something.' Zak thought. 'Note to self, find out what symbol means.'
The first Cryptid was a Fiskerton Phantom. In Zak's opinion, Fiskerton Phantom's tend to be easily recognized. It's kind of hard to miss a furry seven foot tall gorilla cat with red eyes.
The second Cryptid - Wait, that's not a Cryptid. That's a Komodo Dragon. Cool.
The third Cryptid, or maybe not a Cryptid? A prehistoric bird. 'I wonder what it's like to fly.' Zak wondered. He decided that it would be cool.
The family walked up to one of the townspeople. Zak recognized the blond haired woman. He had often seen her walking around the small town, though he had never actually talked to her.
The white haired woman started talking to her and Zak was glad that the woman and the strange people with her were far enough away from his hiding place that there was no way they could see a black wolf hiding behind a rock in the shadows of the forest. Zak was close enough to hear small bits of the conversation, not a lot, but still better than nothing.
He could make out 'black wolf', 'strange', 'only one', 'howling', and 'very rarely'.
Zak realized that they were talking about him. Where these people here to take him away? He quickly told himself that he needed to find out more before jumping to conclusions like that. After all, they might only be here to explore the forest, and asked the woman about it and the subject of him came up.
Zak pushed away his thoughts as the two women exchanged a few more words and the family started walking away. And to Zak's horror, right towards his hiding place.
Zak started to panic. The family was walking straight towards the rock he was hiding behind!
One step closer… two steps closer… three steps closer…
To Zak's relief the blond haired woman suddenly called out to them. 'I really should figure out what her name is. I'm getting tiered of calling her 'blond haired woman'.' Thought Zak.
She must have forgotten to tell them something, because Zak was sure she had said 'Wait!'.
The blond haired woman jogged up to them and started talking again, so the family momentarily forgot about walking towards his hiding place.
Zak started breathing again. He hadn't even realized he was holding his breath.
Once again, Zak heard small bits of the conversation. He heard the words 'remember', 'once and a while', 'weird kid', 'used to', 'appearing', 'ever talked', 'knows anything' and he heard the family say thanks to the blond haired woman for the information. The blond hair woman started walking away, then she turned her head back towards the family and said some words that Zak couldn't make out, and walked away again.
The family turned and talked to one another, and Zak, also tired of having to keep his ears flat, took the opportunity to silently slip back into the forest.
He didn't know what the weird family was doing here, but he knew that he had to find out… somehow. He wasn't sure how yet, but he was certain that he would get an idea eventually.
Zak, still in wolf form, ran through the forest, bending around the various trees and bushes until he was back at his little cave by Moonlight Peak.
(AN: This is following the Saturdays from getting off the airship ramp to when Zak ran back into the forest. So we can see what the blond haired woman said. And see what the blond haired woman's name is!)
The Saturdays walked to the bottom of the airship ramp and looked around at the town in front of them.
It was a small town, almost village-like. Some of the townspeople were outside of their small houses and walking in the bright afternoon sunshine and mingling with each other.
"Let's go find someone to tell us more about the black wolf." Doc suggested.
"Good idea." His wife, Drew, agreed.
"Let's go ask her." Doyle said, gesturing to a blond haired woman on the other side of town.
After walking though town, the family approached the blond haired woman.
"Hi, I'm Drew Saturday, my family and I are here to investigate some sightings of a black wolf." Drew introduced herself.
The blond haired woman smiled brightly and introduced herself. "Hello, I'm Alesha. We don't usually get visitors around here. We're pretty isolated from everything else, as you've probably noticed."
"So you're here about the black wolf?" Alesha questioned.
"Yes, could you tell us about the wolf?" Drew asked.
Alesha nodded. "The black wolf is mysterious and strange. There seems to be only one wolf instead of a pack. We never hear any other wolves howling at night with it. It's very rarely seen, and has only been spotted twice. The first time it was only an outline and we thought that it might have been a stray dog, but then someone saw it in some light and we all realized that it was actually a wolf. That's about all I could tell you, nobody really knows anything about it."
"Thanks for the information. Has anything else odd ever happened?" Drew asked, her curiosity of the black wolf increasing with each passing minute.
"No problem. And I can't recall anything else odd." Alesha told them. "Sorry."
"Ok, thanks again." Drew and the rest of the family bid Alesha goodbye and walked a little closer to the forest.
"The black wolf seems really weird." Fiskerton grumbled.
Doyle nodded in agreement.
"So, are we going to search for this wolf now?" Doyle asked, who was secretly wishing to go flying through the forest with his jetpack, but alas that might set the forest on fire, and Doyle didn't want that.
Drew was about to answer but she was cut of by someone shouting "Wait!".
They turned to see Alesha jogging towards them.
"Hey, I remember something odd, once and a while this weird kid would just, like, appear out of nowhere. Like, literally out of nowhere, there isn't another town for miles and miles. He just walks around town for a little while and then disappears into thin air. And then doesn't appear again for a month or so. I didn't think of it as being odd when you asked me because we've all just gotten used to him appearing one day. He never talks to anyone, and no one ever tries to talk to him. Everybody just ignores him, and that seems to be just the way he likes it. He's just as mysterious as the black wolf, no one knows anything about either of them. Some people have even wondered if he and the black wolf are ghosts who lived here, like a really long time ago. But I know that they're both real. I just know they're not ghosts. One other thing, if you're going to see if you can find him, and I'm going to be completely honest with you guys, I doubt that you'll be able to find either him or the wolf. But the kid has a weird hairdo. He's got black hair with, like, I don't know, a puff or something of white hair. And it seems to be kind of spiky." Alesha started walking away and turned her head in their direction to say two words. "Good luck." She paused and then continued. "You're going to need it." And with that she walked away.
"So now there's a wolf and a kid we're looking for." Doc sighed, he knew that they were in for a long search.
"Yep, so we better start searching." Drew announced optimistically.
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