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Disclaimer: The Secret Saturdays does not belong to me.
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 4: Pointy Thorny Death Trap Plus Fur
After hours of searching, the Saturdays decided to stop for the day and Zak was relived. He had been sobored following the Saturdays around the forest 'helping' them look for his wolf form. In truth, he had been leading them in circles.
Zak was accompanying the family to the edge of the forest that neighbored the town. They were heading back to their airship for the night.
"Are you guys gonna look some more tomorrow?" Zak asked. " Cause if you are I'll help like I did today."
"Alright. We're going to start searching again tomorrow morning, you can help if you want to." Drew said.
Zak silently sighed. He felt guilty about leading them in circles, but he had to make sure they didn't find him in wolf form.
The Saturdays bid Zak farewell and headed toward their airship for the night.
~ Early Morning - Saturday Airship ~
Fiskerton yawned. It was early in the morning and he had just woken up from a good night's sleep.
He walked in the main living area of the airship and saw the rest of his family sitting around a small table. Well, not all of them. Actually only Doyle and Doc were sitting, and surprisingly actually having a civil conversation instead of fighting, Zon and Komodo were eating somewhere on the floor, and Drew was… somewhere.
Fiskerton had just grabbed a box of cereal when Drew came in. She didn't look all that happy. She let out a loud sigh.
"The Secret Scientists want us to capture and relocate the wolf. To close to civilization they said." Drew quietly sighed again. She wasn't thrilled about the prospect of capturing the wolf, even if it was near civilization, but she knew that the wolf would probably be better off somewhere else. Still, she wasn't excited about having to catch it. But of course, they would have to find the wolf first.
~ Zak - Same Time ~
Zak was currently running around the forest in wolf form like a crazy wolf. He had already had breakfast and he was full of pent up energy!
He was panting by the time he made his way back to Moonlight Peak.
Pant, Pant, Pant, Weave, Pant, Pant, Pant, Pant, Weave, Pant, Weave, Weave.
Zak, who hadn't been paying much attention at the time, accidentally ran into a thorn bush that bordered Moonlight Peak.
He tried to push his way out, but there were several thorns poking at his fur. Still, he was glad that he was in wolf form or else it definitely would have hurt. A lot.
Zak struggled against the thorns. He managed to shake some of them off, but many of them still clung to his furry black wolf coat.
He carefully maneuvered his body to loosen as many thorns as he could and after what seemed like forever, Zak had managed to loosen the thorns that had him trapped.
He lunged forward and out of the thorny bush. Or death trap, as Zak had just decided to call it.
He started jumping up and down with glee, but his celebration was cut short as he realized that his paw had a small cut on it. He couldn't see it in wolf form so he shifted back to human.
Zak looked at his hand and saw that there was a long thin cut on it. The cut was bleeding slightly but not very much. It would heal soon enough and Zak wasn't worried.
Ignoring the cut, Zak stood up and carefully brushed the remaining thorns off of his black shirt and tan cargo pants.
Soon he declared himself thorn free and headed off to meet up with the Saturdays.
Unknown to him, a small clump of black wolf fur was still stuck to the thorny death trap.
Zak soon found the Saturdays, who had just started searching for his wolf self.
After awhile of searching they all stopped to decide where to go next.
"Still no sign of the wolf." Doc sighed.
"Which way do we go next?" Zak asked. They were close to Moonlight Peak and his cave, so Zak was a little nervous. He had to be ready to steer them away from there.
Fiskerton grumbled something and pointed in the direction of his cave.
"Alright, Fiskerton, we can try there." So the Saturdays started to head towards Moonlight Peak.
"Wait!" Zak shouted. "Uh, let's go somewhere else. How about over there?" Zak pointed in a random direction.
"Why?" They all looked at him strangely.
"Umm, oh, over there is uh a thorny death trap!" Zak said. At least he wasn't lying…
"I think we'll be ok, but thanks for the warning."
They continued walking.
'Oh no, oh no, oh no' Zak thought, as he walked behind the Saturdays. He was certain that they were leading him towards his doom.
By now they were entering the grassy clearing that is Moonlight Peak.
"This place is beautiful." Drew admired.
"Yeah, yeah it is. Oh look, there's no wolf here, let's go look somewhere else." Zak said and started walking away desperately hoping they were going to follow him.
"What's the rush? Why don't we look around for awhile?" Drew said walking toward the small river that was very close to Zak's cave.
'That's it. I'm doomed.' Zak sighed.
Suddenly Fiskerton was signaling them to a bush at the edge of the clearing.
Zak started walking towards the gorilla cat and got a bad feeling when he realized that the bush was the thorny death trap he had been caught in earlier.
"What do we have here?" Doc said looking down at the thorny bush.
'What? They found something!' Zak, his bad feeling turning out to be true, ran up to see what they found.
He froze upon arrival at the thorny death trap.
Stuck in the bush was a small clump of black fur. His fur.
I am SO sorry for the wait but I didn't know what to do….. And I know that New Years was 11 days ago but, Happy New Year anyway!
The story is starting to move along now! And now that I know what to do I should be able to update much faster! ^_^
So let's hope for regular updates! ^_^
And I also want to mention that okami's princess thought of a great idea for the story but I had already started on the idea I had so she is writing an alternate version! ^_^ I suggest you all check it out! And just to tell you I HAVE GIVEN HER PERMISSION.
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