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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.

Note, Please Read:Ok so there's one thing I'd like to clear up before continuing to the story. In the last chapter at the end I said this:

They all had the same dream! Why! Why! Why?

I was being dramatic. This is from Chapter 7:

Since both his parents were DreamWalkers, Zak was to. This enabled him to – as the name suggests – walk in other creatures dreams.

So we already knew Zak could dreamwalk. But there is a very, very small mystery aspect to the chapter. And I'm not talking about the Saturdays having no idea why they all had the same dream. You may have noticed that at the end of Chapter 13, Zak never said (or thought) anything about going into the families' dreams. Now since this is no epic mystery, I'm just going to tell you. Zak actually didn't know that he was in the Saturdays' dreams. You notice that the Zak in the dream didn't do much? No real sense of urgency that the real Zak might've had since he was trapped in Weird World and Argost may or may not know that he's a wolf? That's because the Zak that the family saw was actually more like a figure of his subconscious. So think of it as a S.O.S. dream. And all those images that they saw mean something too but if you haven't already figured it out I won't tell you, though you'll find out in this chapter anyway.

So I just wanted to clear that up.

Howl Of The Wolf

Chapter 15: Freedom At Last

Zak yawned. 'That was such a weird dream. Almost like I… Uh oh.' He realized that he'd walked in the Saturdays' dreams without meaning too. He wondered how he was going to explain that if they asked him.

'Hey guys, guess what! Ok, it's a funny story, really. My subconscious may or may not have sent you guys a S.O.S. dream. Did you all have the same dream last night?' Zak thought sarcastically 'Oh yeah, that'd go over real well…'

Zak sighed. He wondered how he was going to escape. He could hear his stomach complaining about not getting either dinner the night before or breakfast this morning.

It was a little cold, but Zak didn't shiver. Partially because he could handle cold much better than a normal human even when he was in his human form because of him being a wolf as well as a human.

He hadn't seen Argost since the night before, but the question was still nagging at him; Did Argost know he was a hybrid? Hopefully the madman had simply been trying to shake him up, however if that had been his intention, he'd certainly achieved it. Zak was shaken up, and scared. Weird World may have looked cool on television, but it was like something straight out of a horror movie in real life.

And one night trapped inside the horror movie had taken its toll on Zak. During the night he'd heard a variety of noises, and none had sounded friendly. Zak knew that it'd been the most sleepless and scariest night that – no, scratch that, this definitely ranked second to the night he'd lost his parents. But still, a sleepless and scary night, nonetheless. Since there was no clock in his cell he guessed that he'd slept maybe one to two hours between all the times he'd woken up and fallen back to sleep, and that was only because he hadn't gotten his usual amount of sleep the night before. And did I mention all the noises during the night?

Zak may be stronger than the average eleven year, but he's still a kid. And even he knows that no matter how many bad guys he fought, he'd still get scared sometimes. He wouldn't admit it out loud, but he knew it.

It was about another hour of boredom before Zak heard angry footsteps on the other side of the dungeon wall. A normal human wouldn't have been able to hear but Zak was definitely not normal. He pressed his ear to the wall so he could hear better.

"I knew they would try a pitiful rescue attempt, but I never expected them to be able to get inside my mansion! Munya! How could you let this happen?" Argost raged and blamed his loyal servant. (AN: He actually blamed Munya in The Atlas Pin too.)

'Wait… Rescue attempt? Who'd rescue me?... Unless… But why would they want to rescue me after everything I did?' Zak wondered, but he was dragged out of his thoughts when Argost continued talking.

"I'll take care of the Saturdays. Munya, take care of our little guest will you?"

That confirmed Zak's theory. He didn't know what Argost meant by 'take care of'. But Zak doubted it was anything good. Not by a long shot.

Zak heard Argost and Munya walk away.

He gulped, he had to think of a plan, and fast.

Zak grabbed a bar that was on the ceiling and swung himself backward so that his feet were planted on the other wall. Now if anyone looked into the dungeon they wouldn't be able to see him.

Zak heard Munya approaching his cell and the hybrid didn't even dare to breathe.

Munya let out a surprised growl-like sound when he couldn't see Zak and put the key in the lock to inspect the cell, which, to him, appeared to be childless.

This was exactly what Zak wanted. Munya entered the dungeon and looked around, making sure that the dungeon was empty. Unfortunately for Munya, the cell wasn't as empty as it appeared.

Zak pounced from above on unsuspecting Munya.

Zak hung on as Munya thrashed around. Then when Munya's thrashing had gotten him farther away from the door Zak sprinted out into the hall and noticed that the key was still in the lock so he locked Munya in the dungeon before Munya even realized what had happened.

The wolf hybrid cautiously exited the dungeon, being vigilant to look for traps because he knew they would be there.

Meanwhile, the Saturday family had managed to stumble on the trap control room.

Argost, who had been waiting, engaged the family in a battle

The TV host punched Doc, but then was hit by a fireball from Drew's fire sword. The battle continued like that until something caught Fiskerton's eye.

The gorilla cat saw Zak wandering around on one of the many screens that showed various parts of the mansion.

"Look!" Fiskerton pointed at the screen.

"We're a little busy right now Fiskerton!" Drew shouted, dodging a kick.

Fiskerton got even more excited when he noticed Munya was locked in the dungeon.

"Hey look! Munya is in the dungeon!"

This got everyone's attention and Argost quickly left to free his servant while the family was busy noticing that Zak was on one of the screens too.

"He must've tricked Munya!" Doyle guessed.

Doc noticed that all the trap controls were in the room and started to disable them.

Unfortunately, he couldn't disable them all and Zak was headed right towards a door that would electrocute him badly.

"Turn it off!" Fiskerton yelled hysterically.

"I'm trying but it's locked!" Doc answered, still trying his best to disable the trap before Zak reached it.

But the family could do nothing but watch as Zak got closer to major electrocution.

Luckily, Zak hadn't encountered any traps so far, but he was still on the lookout.

He soon came to a door that looked promising and reached out to twist the doorknob, but something stopped him. Instinct, maybe? Or maybe the faint sound of crackling electricity. Probably both.

Zak listened carefully, grateful for wolf senses.

Sure enough, he could hear the massive amount of electricity crackling on the doorknob.

He looked around and found a small piece of metal to throw at the doorknob.

Right before the piece of metal touched the doorknob it was shocked. A lot.

Zak stood there for a moment, gaping at the now steaming, blackened and charred metal piece, stunned at how much electricity could be in one doorknob. And then it occurred to him how close he had come to being a lightning rod himself.

Zak gulped and turned around the corner to continue down the hallway, instead of going through the door.

"Uh, what just happened here?" Doyle asked.

They were all stunned, and not to mention relieved, when Zak stopped and realized that the door would electrocute him. And then he threw a piece of metal at it and turned the other way.

"How did he know it would hurt him?" Drew asked no one in particular, although if someone did have an answer she'd be glad to hear it.

"I… don't know." Doc replied.

Getting over the shock, Doc finally managed to turn off the electric door, as well as all the other traps in the mansion.

Then they all left to find Zak.

Zak was still wandering around, hoping to find a way out or the family that had come to save him, when he heard footsteps. Fearing it was Argost or Munya, he smelt the air and was able to catch the scent of the Saturday family coming towards him.

Why they had come to save him, Zak still had no clue. But that didn't mean he wasn't glad to see them.

They came sprinting around the corner and Zak realized that Argost and Munya were chasing them.

Zak opened his mouth to say something but was almost slammed into by Fiskerton as the gorilla cat grabbed the eleven year old.

Then, suddenly, they all were back in the family's giant airship.

Zak was wide-eyed, still being held by Fiskerton and partially questioning his own sanity.

Fiskerton dropped Zak and chuckled at his expression.

"That transporter worked perfectly!" Doc said proudly.

Doc had built a prototype transportation device a while ago, but never finished it. When his family had to go to Weird World he got the idea to finish it and it proved to be very useful in their escape.

"Are you ok, Zak?" Drew asked.

"Uh, yeah. I'm fine." Zak stood up and his surprised expression was replaced with confusion. "But, I don't get it. Why'd you guys save me?"

"What? You thought we were just going to leave you there?" Doyle asked.

"Well, I don't know. I mean, I did do all that stuff to you guys."

"Well, yeah, you did. But that doesn't mean we wouldn't help you if you needed it." Drew said.

Zak looked down at his shoes guiltily.

"You know what was weird though?" Doyle said, changing the subject. "Last night we all had this really weird dream. And now that I think of it, the sequence of halls and rooms in Weird World that we saw over and over again led to the control room."

"You're right, it was the exact same sequence, wasn't it." Drew said, confused.

"That's definitely weird…" Zak said nonchalantly like he knew absolutely nothing about it. Inside he was scolding his subconscious for sending like a S.O.S. dream.

By now, it was night and Zak was tired.

"Um, so, I'm tired, so I guess I'm gonna go to bed now. Night." Zak started to head towards his temporary room, grabbing a snack on his way out.

"Hey, wait, how'd you know that door in Weird World would electrocute you?" Doc asked.

But Zak pretended not to hear and kept walking away.

"I'm worried about him. He didn't seem as… Alive as he used to be." Drew said, concerned about Zak.

"I know, but he did just spend the night in Weird World." Doc pointed out, though he was worried a little too.

"True..."

Zak lay in his bed and was thinking. Did Argost know that he was a wolf hybrid?

'Oh, why is life so complicated!' He thought before drifting off to sleep.

At least he'd get a good night's rest this night. And a good breakfast in the morning.

White Wolf: So there it is! And rather long to! Yay!

Sorry for the long wait everyone, but I ask that you be patient because we had to put one of our cats to sleep about a week ago. This cat had been around almost my entire life, and definitely as far as I can remember so it's really hard.

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~White Wolf Out~