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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.
Reviewer Question: Ok so a reviewer asked if the Saturdays would ever find out about Zak being a wolf and looking back I've held that secret back for 16 chapters now. So I want to say that they will find out! I promise! I have it already planned out! Only a couple more chapters!
Also Maker, thanks for the ideas, but I actually have stuff planned out already. But I really appreciate the support! ^_^
Howl Of The Wolf
Chapter 16: It Only Takes A Small Paper Ball…
Zak got up the next morning and ate his breakfast in silence. He still wasn't feeling as lively as he usually did. He didn't know why though.
The family that'd rescued him from Weird World tried to cheer him up, but it didn't work.
Zak exiled himself to the couch, watching whatever uninteresting TV shows were on until the afternoon when he decided to hang out in his room.
Doc continued to study the Kur Stone, looking for clues that they had perhaps missed. It was just as much of an enigma as, well. Zak.
The kid had been different ever since his overnight stay at Weird World. Of course, that wasn't much of a surprise. That mansion held such horrors that no one, especially a kid, should ever see.
Although Zak insisted that he was ok and nothing really bad happened, the family still worried.
It was odd. The morning of Zak's capture the family had just wanted him gone, but now, they were truly concerned. He hadn't set up any traps since he returned, and he just wasn't as energetic and alive as he used to be. He wasn't really doing anything anymore, just sitting on the couch staring blankly at the television. The Saturdays hoped that he would go back to normal soon. They even wouldn't mind if he started setting up traps again, as long as he was happy.
The scientist sighed. He couldn't find anything else useful.
Groaning in frustration, he crumpled up a paper he'd been jotting down a couple theories on into a ball and threw it over his shoulder and through the open doorway into the hall.
He turned back to the computer screen, studying what little information they had on the Kur Stone, still hoping to stumble across something they'd missed.
Suddenly something landed next to him. It was the paper ball that he'd tossed behind him only moments ago. (AN: Do some of you see where this is going? ^_^)
"How did this get back in here?" Doc asked out loud.
No response came, not that he'd been expecting one, though.
Shrugging, he threw the paper ball back through the door and into the hallway.
A moment later, it was back again.
Confused, Doc stood up and walked into the hallway, trying to see if there was something there throwing the paper ball back at him.
The hall was empty.
This time Doc threw the paper ball farther down the hall and returned to the Kur Stone. Though he wasn't even looking at the artifact anymore, he was interested to see if the paper ball would end up back in the room again.
Just as he had expected, the paper ball was back and sitting on the desk in seconds.
He threw it again and waited, but it didn't come back. For some reason Doc found himself a little disappointed. Maybe he'd been enjoying himself? He walked out and picked up the paper ball. He still had absolutely no idea what had kept throwing it back but he let it go when Fiskerton came running down the hall and insisted on playing a game.
Zak had been on the way to his room when suddenly a paper ball flew next to him.
The wolf hybrid was powerless against the strong urge to chase it. He caught it and threw it back into the room that it'd come from.
Moments later it was back. As he did before, he returned it to the person who'd thrown it, and with a quick sniff of the air he realized that it was Doc.
This time he heard Doc get up and start towards the door. Zak quickly ducked around the corner and out of view.
When he heard Doc go back into the room and throw the paper ball again he came out off his hiding place and threw it back.
It was then that Zak realized he was smiling and having fun. What was he thinking by doing nothing all morning? Life was staring him in the face! He was a kid; He needed to have fun! Not do nothing all day! Zak remembered Fiskerton begging him to go to Drew's giant garden dome thing to play a game with the rest of the family, but he'd refused.
Zak ran down the hall, Doc just missing him. The hybrid wanted to have fun, and he knew how.
Fiskerton had succeeded in rounding up his entire family to play a game with him. Though he was sad that he couldn't convince Zak, he wasn't going to let that stop him from having fun.
Fiskerton had decided that he wanted to play the game where you have the band around your arm and you tried to get everyone else's while not losing your own.
Fiskerton was ecstatic when he ended up with everyone's bands and still in possession of his own.
He was cheering victoriously when something seemingly came out of nowhere and snatched everyone one of the bands from his hand, including his own which he'd ripped off his arm when he thought he'd won.
Meanwhile the rest of the family came upon a surprising scene.
Zak was doing some sort of victory dance with all the arm bands in his hands and Fiskerton grumbling about how close he'd been to winning.
Needless to say, everyone was surprised to see Zak, who'd been absolutely miserable earlier, smiling and happy.
"Let's play that again!" Zak said excitedly.
"Uh, ok." The family was still recovering from shock.
Zak had a lot of fun playing the game, which he was incredibly good at. He seemed to always find you and you never heard him coming until it was too late. (AN: Gee, I wonder why… ;) )
Now it was dinnertime, and after a long day of playing, they were all hungry. It was also confession time for Zak.
He apologized for playing so many tricks on them and confessed to flooding a room, setting off a few tiny explosions, and other things. But some explosions and a room ending up on fire really had been accidents.
He also dug up all the stuff he'd buried in the backyard.
"A dictionary?" Doc had asked with one eyebrow raised in a questioning manner.
Zak shrugged. "Hey, I found it, I buried it." (AN: A tiny bit of a Wadi quote from Eterno there.)
For some reason Doyle seemed a little too happy about discovering the puzzle pieces… Upon further investigation they found out it was because Doyle had been missing the last piece of a kitten puzzle that no one had known he'd even started.
Once again, all was normal for the Saturday family and Zak… Or at least as normal as any of their lives could be…
White Wolf: Don't worry, this is not the end of the story. Just a time skip.
Zak: Phew. *Whips Away Imaginary Sweat*
Doyle: Get back here! *Chases After White Wolf*
White Wolf: No way! *Runs From Doyle*
Zak: Whatcha doing? *Watches From The Couch As Doyle Chases White Wolf Around The Living Room*
White Wolf: *Mischievous* I took the last piece of the kitten puzzle….
*A Couple Hours Later*
*White Wolf Walks In With A New Bone*
Zak: He bribed you, huh?
White Wolf: Yep. And you what to know the best part? I was about to give it to him anyway! *Happily Chews Bone*
Hey guys, I have a question for all of you! How does a story get a third genre? Like this one is Family/Action/Adventure. But how did it get that way because I can only put in two genres not three?
Anyway, if anyone could answer that I'd appreciate it. J
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~White Wolf Out~