Chapter 2
"Double D…..Hey Double D, we're starting to land now." Jack said as he shook my unconscious body.
"Alright, Alright I'm up I'm up." I replied in an annoyed yet groggy tone.
As I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, I noticed the frozen tundra locate beneath the jet from the window that I was sitting next to.
"How long we're we flying?" I said as I let out a yawn while stretching my body.
"About four hours." Jack replied.
"How's the ol'shoulder holdin?" Jack asked as he noticed how I was rubbing it.
"Sore as ever." I replied in a sarcastic tone.
Ever since the attack my shoulder gets sore every now and then.
"I bet, it was a long night." Jack replied.
Then the both of us felt the jet slowly returning to the earth below.
"Breaker, breaker. H.O.W.L Artic Base this is The Morning Dawn. Requesting permission to land over." The pilot said into a mic that was located to the side of his helmet.
"Morning Dawn this is H.O.W.L Artic Base you are cleared for landing. And welcome to the North Pole you guys." A woman from the artic base replied.
Soon the frozen tundra below began to shake and shift, as a massive sized entry way slowly began to open.
As the jet began to slowly descend into the underground base, there were layers and layers of H.O.W.L agents roaming the many floors of the base.
As soon as the jet touched ground, I was immediately transported to the medical bay while Jack was brought to a debriefing room to discuss a new mission with the board of directors.
Which I though was strange considering that they always had both me and Jack go in together for any and all debriefings. But I was too sore and too tired to even care, so as soon as I was brought into the medical bay, and was transferred into a medical chamber where I went out like a light.
Later I found myself in an out of body experience, I was hovering over this dark and misty woods.
I couldn't figure out where I was or why I was brought here. But as soon as I heard the sounds of kid calling out for help, I was immediately transported deep within the forest while the boy's cries kept getting louder and louder.
I couldn't tell why but his cries we're…..Familiar to me, I mean if that makes any sense.
As my floating body had reached where the boy's cries had originated, I was horrified. Like a stomach turning, can't even speak or move kind of horrified.
I was witnessing a werewolf attack, and the little boy was the beast's main course. Acting upon my natural monster hunting reflexes, I quickly reached to my back to grab my katana blades. But as fast as my reflexes I realized that I did not have my blades.
With anger fueling my fists I quickly came charging to the beast and delivered a quick yet powerful right hook to his head.
But much like the wind to the human touch my fist went straight through him as though I were a phantom.
Just as was about to launch another attack I looked down at the young boy who the werewolf was attacking and I was terrified.
The little boy who the werewolf was attacking was…..Me….It was…Me….
This wasn't just any ordinary werewolf attack. This was the same attack that I had experience six years ago, the same attack that changed my life forever.
As I watched in horror as the werewolf kept gnawing at me, the werewolf quickly turned its head straight towards me, staring at me with those same yellow glowing demonic eyes that I remembered from that day.
"YOU WILL CONTINUE MY LEGACY!" The beast said in a low scratchy growl.
The beast then leapt towards me, then a flash of light blinded my vision and the next thing I know I'm back in the Artic Base's Medical Center.
"Are you okay?" one of the doctors asked as I came to.
Before I could answer I found myself floating in a vat of blue colored water while and oxygen masked was supplying me with air.
"Ugh…A little light headed but otherwise…..Alright." I said while the team of doctors began to drain the blue water from my chamber.
"Your brainwaves were going all haywire the past two hours are you sure you're alright?" Another doctor asked.
When the water had finally drained, I was back on my feet a little wobbly but was still standing.
"Yeah….Just…..Nightmares." I replied while I grabbed a towel from a H.O.W.L agent.
Meanwhile deep within a secured conference room Jack found himself arguing with H.O.W.L's head directors about the assignment they wanted him to partake in.
"No, absolutely not. You want me then Double D has to come to!" Jack said in an angry tone.
"You know how close Double D is to this case." A man on a TV monitor who was cloaked in a shadow said.
"I refuse to go on any assignment without him." Jack argued.
"Shouldn't I be allowed to hear the assignment before rejecting it?" another male voice said.
Suddenly Jack and the people on the TV monitors turned their attention towards the young man.
They were all surprise that it was me as I entered the conference room.
"Hey Double D you feeling better?" Jack asked as I took the seat that was next to him.
"Peachy." I said while giving the board of directors my complete attention.
"Now what's the assignment?"
A normal person couldn't tell by how each of the directors were covered in a mask of shadows, but I could tell that they weren't totally up to debriefing me about this latest assignment.
"Well this new assignment is a reconnaissance slash retrieval assignment." A director said as the lights in the conference room went dim, while massive flat screen came down from the ceiling.
"The location is Peach Creek Hills." Another director said.
I was shocked to hear about the location but I did my best to hide my expression.
"We recently sent out two of our best agents to investigate a recent animal attacking that had taken here at this local farm." A female director said as images came onto the flat screen.
The pictures were of a recent so called animal attacks involving a local family farm. The pictures showed dismembered or decapitated or some other fancy word for describing animals found torn literally into pieces.
"Wait, that picture of that guy with the blue hair can you enlarge it please." I asked.
"Whatchya see DD?" Jack asked.
As the picture enlarged, it showed a young man with blue hair weeping over the loss of his animals.
"That guy…..He and his family had just bought that farm a year before I was attacked." I replied.
"What was his name….Uhh….Ralf…..Roof….Rolf!' I said after finally remembering the guy's name.
"Poor guy….a lot of those animals were like his friends." I added.
"Anyways!" The same female director said getting all of our attentions back.
"Local authorities have identified this as a wild bear or wolf attack."
"Okay so why would we need to send two of our best agents to investigate?" Jack asked.
"Well upon further examination. We found that the animal bodies that weren't totally torn apart were drain entirely of their blood." A male director replied.
"Not only that but, our researchers were able to detect vampire DNA within their bodies as well."
"We order the team to obtain the animal remains and to completely destroy them as well."
"But why?" I asked.
"To prevent any cross species." The female director said.
"Anyways we also requested that the team investigate any more possible leads to the vampire's hideouts." A male director said.
"Okay." I said in a confused tone.
"But about a week ago we lost contact with the two operatives. And the only thing we have left on them is this video feed that they gave us just before they mysteriously vanished. The male director said as he posted the video feed onto the flat screen TV.
It was shot deep within the forest the video was in that night vision green.
"This is agent Cowell and Decker of H.O.W.L. We believe that we found a possible vampire hive on the outskirts of Peach Creek Hills." One of the agents said.
"It is exactly thirty miles within the western mountains, and we are now about to enter the…."
"Wait did you hear that?" the other agent asked.
Soon both agents silenced themselves and slowly pulled out their weapons. They scanned their surroundings and after a few minutes they both took in a sigh of relief.
But soon after a low growl took over the silence and then the scene turned hectic. As gun fire could be heard as the camera that was located within one of the agent's sunglasses was knocked off the agent's head.
Then the video feed was lost and the audio went silent.
"So you see we need a search party to investigate the whereabouts of the missing agents, while at the same time we need the team to find that hive and investigate it." A male director said.
"What you say Double D?" Jack asked.
I didn't respond right away but decided to consider my options.
"…Alright, I'll take the case." I said.
"But like what Jack said I'm not going in without my number one wingman."
"Fair enough." The directors said in unison.
"You will be heading to Peach Creek Hills, tomorrow morning." A male Director said.
"You both will have a HQ set up and your team will meet you in the morning as your flight take off."
"Team?" Both me and Jack asked.
"Yes team you didn't expect to go in this alone did you?" Aries said as he came another TV screen.
But much like the other directors his face was covered in a mask of shadows as well.
"Uhh….Actually we weren't too sure on that." I replied.
"You two may have done an excellent job out on the field, but you two are still junior ranked agents."
"But Aries I know we're ready we can handle ourselves." Jack said.
"No but's Jack rules are rules." Aries said just before he and the other directors vanished from the screens.
A few hours after the meeting me and Jack were back in our dorm room packing our bags for the next day's trip.
"So you nervous about going back home?" Jack asked.
"A little…..I mean…Six years is a long time." I said while reminiscing over the memories I had for my home.
"You know Double D when it comes to being a monster hunter you have limitless amount of courage. But when it comes to being a normal person you have a heart of gold ya'old softy." Jack said a grin.
I quickly jabbed his right arm and we both had a good laugh, and after a few hours we finally packed our bags and crawled into our bunk beds and prepared ourselves for our next assignment.