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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 10: Welcome To Saturday HQ, Zak
During the short time that Zak has been with the Saturdays, he already had gotten into loads of trouble, both accidental and intentional.
It had only been a couple hours since they all had gotten back to Saturday HQ, in that time Zak had blown several things up, flooded one room, accidentally set fire to another, dropped a bucket filled with water onto almost all of the Saturdays, dug a giant hole in the backyard (with a shovel in human form) and then proceeded to bury various things he had found around the HQ in an isolated corner of the backyard.
Oh yes, Zak has been busy.
'Cup,' He dropped a plastic cup into the deep hole. 'Check.'
'A bag with one piece of every puzzle,' There goes someone's hope of finishing any of those puzzles…
"Almost there..." Only 3 more pieces to go. "So close…" Only 2 left. "Even closer…" And then there was 1. "Finally, the final piece." The only remaining piece fell into place. "Yes! Finally! It's - huh?" Doyle noticed there was a gap in the middle of the kitten puzzle he'd been working on. There was a piece missing. "NOOOOO!"
'Spoon, a key to something, one walkie-talkie, encyclopedia, a disc with… something on it, I don't know what it is, and it doesn't have a label… oh well, with any luck, it's important!' He grinned mischievously.
Zak filled in the hole and covered it with grass. He then stood back to admire his hard work.
'Doesn't look like anything happened.' He thought proudly. Happy about his achievement to hid a giant hole and make it look like nothing had been buried.
"ZAK!" An angry yell suddenly echoed through the trees and all the birds flew away…
'Uh oh.' Zak thought. Whoever that was sounded really angry… Zak wondered what they could be mad about. But, in the end, he had done so much mischievous things that day he couldn't single out any one of them.
He figured the person was looking for him so he quickly ran and put the shovel back where he'd found it so no one would realize he had even been there.
"Where is he?" Doc, who was soaking wet, shouted angrily.
Doc had been walking into a room, when, all of a sudden, he found himself all wet with a bucket on his head.
Due to the havoc bringing Zak into the Saturday home had created, Doc was positive who the culprit was.
Doc stormed down the hall, looking every which way for the troublemaking visitor. His wife was following behind him, trying to calm him down before he found Zak. She too had been a victim of their guest's pranks, as well as the rest of the family, but she still wanted Zak to live to see the age of 12. Of course, Doc wouldn't hurt Zak, but she still thought that her husband needed to calm down and Zak needed to learn that he couldn't just walk into someone's house and do whatever he pleased.
"Doc, Doc, calm down. He's just a kid!" She said.
"That kid has caused more havoc in this house in a couple hours than has ever been caused in years!"
"I'm sure he didn't mean to…" Drew lied. Everyone knew that everything Zak had done wasn't all accidents.
"He did." Doc replied bluntly. "And you know it."
"Alright, he did." She sighed. "But calm down, yelling isn't going to solve anything. It might even make things worse."
Doc realized that his wife had a point.
"Right." He calmed down. "I just don't want to have to use an umbrella in my own home."
"Me neither." Drew continued. "But he has to be doing this for a reason."
"He may just like tormenting people…"
"Could be. But it might not. Let's go talk to him and see if we can come up with some sort of peace treaty."
By then, the rest of the family (minus Zak) had come to see what was going on and they all agreed. Zak's antics had to stop.
Zak, after putting the shovel back, made his way to the living room, or at least, it seemed the closest thing to a living room the giant headquarters had, using his wolf senses to avoid running into whoever the water had fallen onto this time. He made himself look all innocent by grabbing some soda before sitting down to watch some TV. Though he had no doubt they knew it was him, he'd humor himself by acting all innocent.
The family entered, looking serious. Zak noted that Doc was soaked. So his bucket had fallen on Doc…
"Zak." Drew looked kinda… mad, but was keeping her cool none the less. "You need to stop with all your pranks. And I mean all of them."
The hybrid faked a confused, innocent look. "What do you mean?"
"You know exactly what!" Doyle shouted angrily. "You flooded a room!"
"Maybe." Zak lied.
"Uh huh. And what about the one you set on fire?" Drew inquired.
"Hey! The fire really was an accident!" Zak defended.
"So you admit the flooding wasn't?"
"Possibly."
"Possibly?" Drew rolled her eyes. "Why are you doing this? Why are you so intent on doing all of this?"
'That's a good question…' Zak thought. 'Why am I doing this?'
Perhaps he was angry at the Saturdays for uprooted the happy life he had made for himself in the forest? Maybe… Zak didn't know so he stayed silent, not knowing what to say.
Drew sighed. "Just stop it, ok?" With that the family went back to whatever they'd been doing.
Zak was left to wonder why he really was dumping water on people, flooding a room, and burying things.
"Run!" A voice said. Zak couldn't tell who.
'Run?' Zak thought, confused and disoriented. 'Why do I need to run?'
Suddenly something behind him exploded, and whatever it was, it was close.
Zak gasped. Suddenly he was back in his temporary room at the Saturdays' HQ, sitting up in the bed.
'What was that?' Zak thought. Though he might never admit it, the dream had slightly scared him.
The wolf-human hybrid glanced at the clock. 1:47 AM.
"1:47 in the morning?" Zak grumbled "Could've at least waiting a couple more hours before waking me up…"
It'd been a long day for Zak. Between being moved to a new place with people he barely knew, and playing pranks on them, he was exhausted.
He ran a hand through his unique hair, sighing. He wasn't sure if he would get back to sleep anytime soon, exhausted or not.
He decided to go explore the grounds a bit more, he'd go back to sleep when he was done.
Zak quietly slipped the covers off and slid off of the large bed and onto the soft floor.
Sure, he was in his pajamas, but that didn't stop him.
Zak quietly snuck past the other rooms, luckily not waking anyone.
As he got farther down the hall he heard quiet voices. Obviously whoever it was didn't want to wake anyone.
Zak's curiosity took over and he forgot all about going outside.
He followed the voices to a room that seemed to be some kind of communication center.
Luckily, thanks to his super good hearing, he eavesdropped, well, with ease. (AN: Lolz. ^_^ Eavesdropped with ease.)
"… Kidding? He's a nightmare! He flooded a room! That's not kid curiosity." A voice said, annoyed. Zak recognized it as Drew's. He also could scent Doc too.
A voice that Zak didn't recognize responded. "He can't be that bad. Surely he wouldn't intentionally flood a room."
"He is and he did, Paul." Doc answered this time.
Paul? That must have been who the voice was.
Another new voice cut in. "So what are you going to do? Take him back where you found him?"
"We don't know…" Drew sighed. "If we take him back Argost will surely find him and if Argost finds Zak…" She trailed.
"We can kiss stopping Kur goodbye." The 2nd voice interrupted.
"Now, Arthur, there has got to be another way." A third voice said, but unlike the other two this voice was female. "An eleven-year old child couldn't possibly be the only chance we have of stopping Kur if it's released."
"Technically Miranda, it's not the kid, it's the powers." The first voice, Paul, pointed out.
"That is true, but it's the kid who has the powers, and it's the kid who can use them… He can use them, right?" Miranda asked skeptical.
"Yes, he saved Fiskerton from a Cryptid. Actually, he saved all of us from Cryptids." Drew admitted.
"Well, at least he can use them." Arthur said.
"He's still a pain." Doc muttered.
"What are you planning to do about it?" Paul asked.
"I don't know. We can't even figure out why he's doing it." Drew replied.
"Maybe he just wants some attention. Kids do that sometimes." Paul guessed.
"Maybe, but I think there's more going on that that." Drew contemplated. "But, anyway, it's late. We should go. We need all the sleep we can get to be on the lookout for more of Zak's surprises."
Said kid realized they were about to come out of the room and catch him listening in. He quickly, but quietly, snuck back to his room.
Once there, the hybrid yawned. He crawled back into his bed and quickly fell into a dreamless sleep. Exploring outside could wait until morning.
Zak: I buried stuff in the backyard. *Grins Proudly*
White Wolf: You been a bad boy, Zaky! *Scolds*
Zak: Says wolf who put dynamite in Van Rook's bag…..
White Wolf: He had it coming.
Zak: He stole your bone.
White Wolf: Exactly. *Grabs Bone And Trots Away*
Oh dear… Zak and the Saturdays aren't getting along very well….
Sorry about the OCness in this chapter…. '-_- And, again, so sorry about the wait, but my life got really hectic a couple months ago.
Also, it's the middle of the night, and I still have homework, so I didn't really proofread…..
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~White Wolf Out~