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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 9: Dream Visitors
Zak sighed. There was still no sign of his parents in his dreams. He wondered if they would ever walk in his dreams again. He knew it was very hard for them to talk to him now, but he had still been hoping they would somehow. They've only went into his dreams very few times in years. One day they may never be able to see him again.
Zak sighed again. He wasn't going to let himself be found by the Saturdays today. He'd had enough talking to them. He wished they'd leave. For good.
The rest of his morning was normal, but in the afternoon, he had to look out for the Saturdays and ignore them.
It was rather easy considering he could easily scent them whenever they got too close.
Zak spent the rest of his day doing various activities away from the family who had pretty much given up their search for him.
~ Evening - At Saturday Airship ~
"What should we do now?" Doyle asked. "We can't stay here forever trying to convince that kid to go with strangers he just met and I don't think he likes us very much either."
"I don't know, but it doesn't feel right to just leave him when Argost is probably planning to kidnap him and get rid of the threat Zak creates to him by having powers that could potentially stop him from achieving the world domination Argost has been working towards for the past eleven years." Drew took a breath after her long speech.
Zon cawed, Komodo hissed, and Fisk grumbled, all three were in agreement. They may not even know the odd human child but they liked him and didn't want Argost to hurt him.
"Well we have to do something, if we don't, someone else will. And I'm not just talking about Argost. The Secret Scientists may come here to find him themselves. And I don't think they'll take no for an answer." Doc sighed.
Danger was approaching fast, and they had no idea how to stop it.
~ Middle Of The Night - Zak's Dream ~
There were flowers… Lots of flowers. Pretty white ones with spots of several colors were all over the place mingled in with several more species of plants.
Zak wasn't exactly sure what was going on, the last thing he remembered was falling asleep…
It suddenly dawned on the wolf hybrid. 'This must be a dream.' He realized.
He lied down on the soft green grass to watch a shiny white flower with light green and purple dots scattered on its petals, ride on the slight breeze. Where said breeze was coming from, he had no idea. But the flower was shiny. And Zak really liked shiny things.
Zak stared, eyes wide and transfixed on the shiny source, oblivious to the dream world around him.
"I see you still like shiny things." A soft, gentle voice brought Zak out of his trance-like state.
"Mom?" Zak gasped.
A white wolf appeared and stepped towards Zak, close behind her was a black wolf.
The white wolf had all soft white fur that was slightly fluffier than her companion's and light blue eyes. Her companion, on the other hand, had all black fur and dark brown eyes.
Zak quickly shifted into wolf form and ran to the other wolves as fast as his paws would go, which is pretty fast.
"Oh I missed you guys so much!" Zak said, while excitedly jumping up and down.
"I know, we've missed you too." The white wolf exclaimed. She nuzzled Zak lovingly.
"I'm so proud of you." The black wolf said.
Zak's glowing orange eyes shined with pleasure. Not only was he reunited with his parents but his father was proud of him!
"Mom! Dad! I'm so glade you're here!"
The reunited family happily hugged, at least as much of a hug wolves could do.
Zak suddenly remembered his current situation and he quickly filled them in on the current details.
"What do I do? What do I do? I don't know what to do!" Zak begged for an answer.
"Calm down." His mother said calmly. Zak's parents were not ones to panic.
That calmed Zak down a little, but not a lot.
"Ok, but, I still don't know what to do," Zak said quietly, "I mean, apparently there's a crazy madman after me because of my powers!"
"And there's this weird family wanting me to go with them but I don't even know anything about them!" Zak continued. "And I they say that my powers are the only thing that could stop this Cryptid, Kur. And I know, Dad, that you always say there's another way but apparently neither them or the crazy madman seem to think so!"
"You still have a knack for getting into trouble. Something's never change do they" Zak's father laughed jokingly.
"It's not funny dad!" Zak scowled.
"I know, I know, I'm sorry." Zak's father apologized.
"Oh come now, Benji, this is no time for jokes." Zak's mother scolded and bopped him on the head gently with her paw.
"Right, back on target." Benji said, he copied her and playfully bopped her with his black paw. "Thanks, Aria. Sometimes I get off track."
Aria shook her head and sighed.
Zak just laughed.
The laugh was short lived though, for Zak still didn't know what to do.
"Sweetie, you know we're not always going to be able to come rescue you when you're in trouble," Aria said sadly "And this may be the last time we can ever come back to see you."
Zak suddenly felt as if his whole world came crashing down on top of him.
"Wh-what?" He croaked.
Aria and Benji both looked just as heartbroken as Zak did.
"We're sorry honey." Aria managed to say, tears starting to form in her eyes. "We're sorry we've never been able to be good parents to you." She was crying now, tears flowed freely from her blue eyes. Benji, too, had tears in his brown eyes.
"No, no, no, no! You guys have been great parents!" Zak insisted. "What happened wasn't your fault!"
His voice dropped "You can't leave me all alone…" Stray tears fell from his face now too.
"You're never alone." Benji said, he looked at Aria, "We'll always be with you."
"In your heart." Aria continued.
Zak's wolf ears drooped. "I know..."
Aria now had a more serious look on her face. "Go with the Saturdays…. They'll take good care of you…. They're a nice family.." She choked. She felt like she was losing her baby all over again.
Benji wanted to comfort her, but he knew that no amount of comforting could ease the pain they both were feeling.
"Ok Mom." Zak didn't know what else to say. To him, his life was being torn apart all over again.
"We have to go now…." His mother said sadly, but gently.
"Remember to never forget who you are,"
"And that we love you so much" Aria and Benji said in unison.
"I love you guys too." Zak said.
Zak's parents started to fade.
Aria felt miserable, Benji felt miserable, Zak felt miserable.
Aria felt she was throwing her beloved baby to the wolf-eating lions, Benji felt he was abandoning his son, and Zak, though he knew his parents would never abandon him, still felt abandoned.
"Bye." Zak said sadly.
The scene faded to black.
Zak woke up suddenly and looked around. It was very early in the morning. Normally he would have just gone back to sleep, but he knew that he wouldn't be able to no matter how hard he tried.
He felt sad. He may never see his parents again. Ever. He'd known that day would come eventually but it felt like it was just too soon.
Zak did the only thing he could think of, he cried. He didn't care if anyone saw him, he didn't care if the Saturdays suddenly showed up, he didn't care if Argost or any of his minions showed up to capture him. Right now, he just didn't care.
His life was spinning out of control. And there was nothing he could do about it.
It was now later in the morning, Zak had spent some time crying and venting his sad emotions, but now he decided that he was going to take his mother's advice and go with the Saturdays. However, he also decided that he would not be cooperating fully. He saw some pranks in the family's future. Not anything that might hurt them thought. Annoy them, yes, hurt, no.
But before he left his home, he had some things to do. Some very important things.
Zak was glaring. Before he left, he wanted one last glare session with the pointy death trap bush. It looked smug, oh yes it looked smug. But Zak would show it.
After he was done glaring at the death trap, he thought he would finally talk to the blond-haired woman whom recently had been identified as Alesha. He wanted at least one person to know he was real.
Also, he couldn't wait to see the stunned look on her face.
As he had imagined, it had been priceless. She had been so shocked she actually fell off the bench she had been sitting on while feeding several birds and squirrels. They had talked for a minute about random things. Then he had mysteriously left suddenly. After all, he still had a reputation of mysteriousness to uphold.
Oddly, the Saturdays seemed to have given up. They hadn't left the town but they hadn't come out of their airship to search for him. They were in for quite a surprise.
But first, Zak still had some stuff to do. He hunted, caught and released several more butterflies. He swam and got soaking wet in the stream, howled on his cliff, and lay on the grass in the morning sun for the last time.
He sighed, it was time to leave his home for the unknown.
Zak slowly walked through the forest in wolf form toward the giant orange airship. His head was low. It was hard to leave the place he had been calling home for so long.
He took one last look around. He would miss this forest.
Shifting to human form, he was now standing just outside the clearing the family had parked their ship on.
He silently wondered how he was going to get their attention. Was he supposed to just find some door to knock on?
Zak's dilemma over, he suddenly spotted an open window that he could get into. (AN: I really have no idea if the airship has any kind of window that'll open but oh well.)
He was going to be mischievous and surprise them by climbing in the window.
Zak positioned himself under the window and jumped really high to grab onto the ledge. He smiled mischievously as he easily grabbed the ledge and pulled himself into the airship.
He found himself in a bedroom of some sort, but it didn't seem like anyone ever used it.
The hybrid jumped a little as the big metal door slid open when he got close to it.
He ventured into the hall, after walking a bit, there were several doors on either side of him. Some more walking proved rewarding when he scented cookies. But there was a problem, there were people in the room too.
Zak quietly peaked through the doorway. It seemed to be a kitchen-like room and he saw the orange Mohawk guy and the Fiskerton Phantom sitting around a table. But what interested him most was the plate with a pile of cookies sitting on the counter.
They smelled very good to Zak. When the two occupants of the room were busy arguing over things that he really didn't care about, Zak sneakily crept toward his prey. Careful to make as little noise as possible, he sneakily grabbed the top cookie and snuck back into the hall.
'They don't suspect a thing….' He thought victoriously.
To the wolf's delight, the cookie turned out to be even better than it smelled.
Zak was munching on his cookie when he suddenly felt like he was moving.
As it turned out, he was. The airship was moving. The Saturdays were headed home, seemingly defeated. What they were unaware of however was the extra hybrid passenger eating a cookie.
Zak wandered into the main area, where Doc and Drew were driving in front of giant window-like windows. (AN: You know in the TV show they sometimes show that place in the airship.) They didn't notice Zak enter the room.
The sight of the forest passing beneath them amazed Zak. 'Wow.' He thought as he looked at the green blur passing beneath the airship.
Doc and Drew suddenly started talking to each other, still oblivious about the extra passenger.
Drew sighed, "What do we do now? Zak isn't ever going to come with us, and honestly I don't blame him. He doesn't even know the first thing about us."
"I don't think there's anything else we can do."
"Yeah, I know." Drew sighed again.
"There's no way he's just going to come onto the airship willingly." She joked.
Zak laughed silently.
He approached the couple from behind, as fun as it was to sneak around, he decided to alert them to his presence.
He stood right behind Drew.
"Where're we going?" He asked suddenly, still munching his cookie.
"Home." She answered automatically.
Realizing the voice was not anyone she thought was on the airship, she craned her neck to look behind her seat.
She gaped, lost for words.
"What are you doing here?" She shouted, finding her voice. This got Doc's attention, who was also shocked at Zak's sudden appearance.
Zak looked fake hurt. "But I thought you wanted me to come with you?"
"How did you get in here?" Doc asked, ignoring Zak's fake hurt question.
"Through a window." Zak smiled.
"A window?" Doc raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah. A window." Zak replied like it was nothing out of ordinary, taking a bite out of his cookie.
The couple were about to continue asking him questions when Doyle and Fiskerton came rushing in with Zon and Komodo shortly behind them.
"I'm telling you there is one cookie missing!" Doyle insisted to Fiskerton.
"There was-" He stopped when he saw Zak, cookie in hand, standing there looking bored.
"Told you." He told Fiskerton matter-of-factly.
For the next while Zak explained to the surprised family that he had changed his mind about accompanying them, he left out the dream thought, and the fact that he was half-wolf, or course, was also still left out.
So Zak found himself being dragged around the airship by Fisk with Komodo and Zon following, they all seemed pleased that Zak was with them.
Zak was on a new adventure.
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