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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.
And before we get on with the story, Godzillaking279 () mentioned where's the Claw. I'm gonna be honest here, I totally forgot about it. Sorry Claw…. '-_- But, the Claw is in this chapter! ^_^
Howl Of The Wolf
Chapter 12: Capture Of The Wild Wolf
Zak was so excited to be going on a mission he couldn't stay still. Well, less than usual. But as the excitement started to wear off, he realized he was pretty tired from waking up in the middle of the night.
The wolf hybrid yawned cutely.
"Tired, Zak?" Doyle turned around to look at him. "You should be. You were very busy yesterday torturing us."
Zak laughed quietly.
The hybrid watched the fluffy clouds go by out the window with little interest.
As more time went by in silence, Zak started to fall asleep in his chair. At the moment there was nothing else to do but stare at the clouds.
By the time they reached the city in distress, Zak was practically asleep.
"We're here." Doc announced.
Zak immediately woke up and his head shot up like a rocket. "We are?" He looked out the window. "Cool!"
All traces of sleepiness gone, Zak sprinted out of the airship.
"Wait!" Drew futilely called after him. The family, for the thousandth time that day, wondered what they were getting themselves into by taking care of Zak.
"Does he ever listen?" No, not really…
Zak ran to the city at full speed, which was pretty fast, not even looking back to see if the Saturdays were following him or not.
At the city he saw a bunch of people running away screaming. Probably from the roaring Amarok. Yeah, that's it.
'Alright! Action time!' Zak thought excitedly, whipping out the Claw.
The Amarok roared and swiped the air in front of it with its long claws when it saw Zak coming towards it. If there had been anything in front of it, well, the claws would have left some nasty claw marks.
(AN: Ok, I'm apologizing in advance for whatever bad fighting scene follows. '-_-)
The end of the Claw glowed orange as Zak tried to calm the Cryptid down with his powers.
The Cryptid roared. Zak's Cryptid powers weren't working.
Zak focused harder; the Amarok's eyes glowed orange.
'Something's wrong… This is not normal.' Zak thought. His powers were working, but the Cryptid's mind was… Blank… Like the Amarok was being… Controlled?
The hybrid was so focused on trying to figure out what was going on that when the Amarok took the opportunity to strike, Zak didn't notice until it was too late.
Luckily, he was merely thrown against a building and didn't get clawed.
'Uhg. Right. Focus.' Zak thought, picking himself off of the ground.
Meanwhile, the Saturdays had finally arrived at the scene.
Zak ran up to them. "Something's wrong with this Cryptid!"
They looked confused. "What do you mean?"
"It's like the Amarok isn't in control of itself…" Zak explained.
Doyle looked skeptical. "How would it not be in control of itself? If it is being controlled, then who's controlling it?"
"How am I supposed to know?" Zak said.
"I never said you knew." Doyle pointed out.
Fiskerton grumbled and redirected everyone's attention back to the enraged Amarok destroying the city.
"Oh, yeah. We should probably take care of that." The Amarok roared as Zak ran back into battle with the fierce dog-like creature.
Zak dodged the Cryptid's claws and attempted to use his powers again.
Just like last time, Zak's powers had no effect.
'Time for another tactic!' Zak thought.
He used the Claw's grappling cord to bind the Cryptid up. It worked for a moment but the Amarok soon broke free.
Zak jumped on the snarling brown Cryptid's back.
'What is that?' Zak thought, looking at a strange yellow winged bug-like machine attached to the Cryptid's neck.
Zak reached out and hesitantly touched it. At once it started to crackled and smoke.
"Uh oh."
The machine was thrown to the ground by the Amarok, who'd apparently gained enough control over itself to reach up a snatch the odd looking machine from its neck.
Zak used his Cryptid powers to calm it down now that that weird thing was off of it. He didn't know how, but it seemed like it had been the machine that had been controlling the Amarok the entire time.
The end of the Claw, Zak's eyes and the Amarok's eyes glowed orange. The raging Amarok calmed down and obediently sat down and to everyone's shock, started wagging its tail like a puppy.
"Oh, who's a good Cryptid!" Zak smiled, scratching the Amarok's head.
Meanwhile the Saturdays were to shocked to speak, looking at the scene with saucer-sized eyes. A large aggressive Cryptid that was raging only moments before was sitting down and acting like a puppy while Zak petted it.
After giving the Amarok one last pat, Zak turned back to inspect the strange yellow bug-machine that had caused all the trouble.
"What is this thing?" Zak wondered, staring down at the destroyed bug-machine.
He bent down and picked it up by the scorpion-like tail to inspect it.
"Zak! Put that down!" Drew screeched frantically once she saw what he was holding.
The hybrid turned to her in confusion. "Why? It's broken anyway."
"I don't care just put it down!"
"Oook…" Zak dropped it back onto the ground and it landed with a thud blowing a small cloud of dust around it as it landed in the dirt.
"Sooo… Why did I have to put it down?" Zak asked.
By now the Amarok had gone back to wherever it had come from, and the rest of the family had crowded near the bug-machine, but they were still cautious.
"That's a Neural Parasite. Argost uses them to control people, and apparently Cryptids." Doc studied the fallen parasite.
"What!" Zak stared at the Neural Parasite with a shocked look.
"He must have been using it to control the Amarok, but why?" Doyle said.
"I don't know." Drew responded.
No one noticed a small metallic thing quietly moving towards them.
Doyle kicked the ground in frustration at not knowing what Argost was up to, throwing up another dust cloud that ended up floating around Zak, making him sneeze.
Komodo, meanwhile, had discovered the thing made out of metal that had planted itself a small distance away.
"Komodo, what are you doing over there?" Doc asked, seeing the camouflaging reptile stray away from the group and put a metallic thing in his mouth.
Komodo spit the metallic thing out, deciding he wasn't hungry for metal at the moment.
Doc looked at the metal thing and realized that it was a small bomb-like thing.
The Saturdays quickly ran away, thinking that Zak was right behind them, but actually Zak was still sneezing because of the dust and had yet to notice the family's absence or the danger.
Drew noticed that Zak was still standing near the bomb.
"Run!"
'Run?' Zak thought, confused and still slightly disoriented from sneezing. 'Why do I need to run?'
Suddenly the bomb exploded close to poor unsuspecting Zak.
Zak was thrown to the ground by the force, but luckily the bomb wasn't very powerful so he only had a couple of scratches and was not seriously injured.
The secretly wolf hybrid got back onto his feet within seconds despite the surprise of a small explosion going off near him.
"What was that!" Zak shouted.
"An explosion, and a rather small one indeed." Suddenly Argost's airship appeared overhead. It seemed to be transmitting the TV host's voice.
"Argost!" Drew shouted angrily "It was you who was controlling the Amarok wasn't it?"
"You are correct, my dear, the Amarok was merely bait."
"Bait? Bait for what?" Doyle, once again, scowled at not knowing what Argost was up to.
"Help! I'm being Zaknapped! He-" Zak's shriek was cut off when Munya, who had climbed down from Argost's creepy-looking airship while everyone was preoccupied and snuck up and grabbed Zak from behind, put his large pink-purple hand on Zak's mouth to silence him.
Zak struggled wildly while Munya, in spider form, tried to subdue him. But the part spider man would soon realize that putting your hand near Zak's mouth when attempting to cause him harm was far from a good idea.
The human wolf hybrid flung his head to the side and succeeded in dislodging the large hand from his mouth. Then he bit down hard on Munya's hand.
Munya howled in both anger and pain. Though he did not know it at the time, he was lucky that Zak had been in human form when he bit him because in wolf form the eleven year old's teeth were much sharper and he could bit much harder.
Zak was released instantly and dropped to the ground.
"Gah! I'll catch him myself!" Argost shouted angrily from his airship.
Only a moment after being freed, Zak suddenly found himself trapped inside a net that was launched from Argost's ship.
He tried to untangle himself but only managed to further get himself hopelessly entangled in the netting.
Zak tried to kick at Munya when he picked up the net that currently had the energetic hybrid trapped, but was too tangled up to do much of anything.
The Saturdays tried to help, but suddenly a wall of smoke blocked their path and view.
When the smoke finally cleared, only the family remained.
Zak had been captured by Argost.
White Wolf: Oh noes! Zaky I wills save you! *Battle Howl*
Zak: Um… I'm right here….
White Wolf: *Happy Giggle* I rescued you fast didn't I?
Zak: *Sweat Drop* …. But I was only captured in the story…. You never really rescued me….
White Wolf: Humph. Well I would've rescued you. *Pouts*
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