A/N: So, in the last chapter, we met the snobby twenty-two time lottery winner's daughter Valerie Dawson and how mean she is to Hayden and Sherman. Then they attend a huge bonfire party, and Hayden gets attacked by a large wolf and the cuts it left on Hayden healed pretty quickly. Now this is where we left off. Enjoy!
Sherman woke up with his hands covering his ears. The sound of his alarm clock buzzing over and over was painful when he just woke up and didn't wanna hear any loud noises this early. He slammed his hand on the clock and it shut off. Just as Sherman was about to bury his head back into the pillows, Mr. Peabody's voice called out.
"Sherman! Wake up! It's Thursday, so I have no need to remind you that you have school today. So let's get up and at 'em!" shouted the beagle. Sherman groaned and just changed out of his pajamas and into his glasses, t-shirt, shoes, and shorts, including the friendship locket Hayden gave him yesterday and placed it hidden under his shirt. After that, Sherman decided to skip breakfast and just have a cold pop-tart. Sherman ran up to Hayden's house and knocked on the front door. Hayden didn't answer, but it was his mother, Julia wearing sweat pants and a tank top with her hair up in a bun.
"Is Hayden awake yet?" Sherman asked.
"He said he was still a little bit tired from last night so I let him sleep in for a little while. But don't worry, he'll be at school in a little bit" Julia assured him with a smile. Sherman then just said 'Thanks anyway' and walked to school by himself.
After a while, Sherman was placing his backpack in his locker and kept looking at the door to see when Hayden would come in through. Once he heard the door open, he looked to see Hayden. This time he looked different. His brown hair had some white hairs in it so it was a mixed combination of brown and white, his clothes were now a long sleeved skin-tight black and white striped shirt, a leather skin-tight vest with no sleeved and zipped halfway up to the center of his chest, he was also wearing black skinny jeans with the knees torn, and his shoes were black combat boots that went up to his shins. Not only that, his skin was paler than usual.
"What the...?" Sherman asked himself. All the other students saw Hayden's new look and some of the guys were looking jealous, most of the girl students were whistling, fainting, or just giving him the dreamy lover look as he walked down the hallway.
"Work it, boy!" shouted one girl.
"Love the new hair color, Hayden!" cheered one blonde girl who's knees were shaking and giving Hayden a dreamy look as he passed by her.
"Work that new outfit! Whoop whoop!" cheered one girl.
"If I could have Hayden's hair and clothes right now and get all the girls to fall head over heals for me, I would be so happy" said one boy wearing a green hoodie and camouflage jeans.
"Where did he get those clothes? I wanna shop there" said one goth boy who was looked up from his iPhone. Some of the boys and girls even took pictures of Hayden on their phones as well.
"Hey, Sherman. Looking good" said Hayden to Sherman after passing by him and walking into the boy's bathroom. The bell rang and Hayden came out three minutes after that.
"Where were you this morning?" Sherman asked behind Hayden.
"I slept in. I was feeling sore and tired after... that night" Hayden explained. The two of them went for their class together and just exchanged notes as the teacher was giving a lecture on the Declaration of Independence and who signed it.
After that, it was time for recess and Hayden had a really good looking girl backed up against the wall of the school and they were kissing each other. Sherman just said 'Blech', and stuck his tongue out in disgust. He then looked to his right after hearing the sound of brakes. Out of the same white van that ran over the wolf that attacked Hayden came an Asian goth kid with spiky black hair that had red streaks in it, he was slender and tan. His clothes were a sleeveless top with the 'Avenged Sevenfold' logo on it, skin-tight jeans with a spiked belt, and black boots. This kid's name was Jimmy and he was in class with Sherman and Hayden.
"Hey" Sherman said walking up to him.
"What do you want?" Jimmy asked with a groan and began walking away from Sherman. Sherman walked beside him.
"I was wondering if you and your dad hit anything last night" asked Sherman.
"Yeah, I did. I did see something officer" he joked at the last park.
"Did you know what it looked like?" asked Sherman, even more curious about the situation.
"Well, officer it looked like a Lycanthrope to me" Jimmy said.
"I know what a Lycanthrope is" Sherman said.
"You think you see werewolves a lot?" asked Sherman. Jimmy looked to Sherman with a confused look.
"Why? Do you?" he asked. Before Sherman could answer, Hayden and the girl he was making out with walked up to him.
"Hey, Sherman, hey Jimmy" said Hayden with his hand flattening down his hair that was looking frizzled.
"Hey. Who's this?" asked Sherman.
"This is my girlfriend, Amber Marsh" he said introducing her. Amber was a brunette girl with pale white skin, and she wore a V-neck t-shirt, and a skirt. Sherman also noticed that she had a bite mark on her shoulder.
"What happened there?" Sherman asked. Amber looked to her shoulder and spoke.
"Hayden slipped and fell and his teeth landed on my shoulder" she explained.
"I'm really sorry about that" Hayden said. Amber just kept kissing him. Hayden fell to the grass on his back with Amber on top and they kept making out.
"Jeez, get a room. You two are so disgusting" Jimmy said walking away with a sickened look on his face. The bell rang and Amber and Hayden stopped making out.
"See you tomorrow?" asked Amber. Hayden nodded and kissed her on the cheek. Sherman and Hayden went for their class together.
"So what was that about?" Hayden asked.
"What was what about?" Sherman replied with a raised eyebrow.
"Talking to Jimmy like you were friends when he hates you" Hayden answered.
"Oh, that. Jimmy's parents owned the van that hit whatever attacked you yesterday. I asked him what he thought he hit and he said... he said... umm... uh" Sherman was trying to find the right word to use so that Hayden wouldn't think he was crazy.
"What did he say?" asked Hayden, wanting to know what Sherman heard Jimmy say.
"H-He said Lycanthrope" said Sherman.
"Lycanthrope as in werewolf?" asked Hayden.
"Yeah, and I'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about the 'Twilight' kind of werewolf" Sherman replied.
"Ha ha. Way to take this situation so seriously" Hayden said sarcastically.
"I know but think about it, just think about it. The cuts you got were healing pretty fast, your hair color is changing, now in one day you have a girlfriend that's not even in our class" Sherman said.
"The healing cuts I thought was weird. As for the hair color changing, that was weird, but I like my hair like this now. And as for the girlfriend part, that's not weird. I just got lucky" Hayden said as they walked up the stairway to the second floor of the school. Before they got to their classroom, one of Valerie's friend's Francine walked down the hallway with her Rottweiler that had a purple collar with golden spikes on it.
"Why does Francine have her dog at school with her?" asked Sherman. Hayden gave him a weirder out look.
"You seriously didn't get the memo? It's 'Bring your pet to school day'. I don't have any pets so you don't see me with a cat or dog anywhere" Hayden said. Sherman got the idea now, he saw a lot of kids with animals in cages or on leashes in the hallway. Hayden noticed that Francine's dog had a flier on the sides of it's body for voting for Valerie for Homecoming princess.
"Oh great, now Valerie has poisoned the mind of an innocent animal to allow it to use itself as a campaign tool" Hayden said. The rottweiler noticed Hayden and ran up to Hayden and began barking at him. Hayden was backed up against the wall and Francine's dog kept barking at him.
"What is wrong with that thing?" Hayden asked.
"I don't know, he's usually very friendly" Francine said in defense of her dog as she tried to pull him away from Hayden using the leash. Hayden growled at the dog and kicked it in the nose. The rottweiler began whimpering and backed away from Hayden.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know why that happened" Hayden said.
"I know, but did you really have to kick him? He's a really nice dog" said Francine. Hayden didn't say anything and just walked away from Francine, Sherman, and the dog whom he just kicked in the face. Sherman was in shock at what just happened and he was thinking to himself. Maybe Jimmy was right, maybe his best friend was slowly turning into a werewolf.
Later that night, Sherman was sitting in front of the TV set watching 'The Howling'. He took notes on everything the werewolf did in the movie. He even had Mr. Peabody's laptop on the coffee table in front of him and looked up all sorts of myths and legends about werewolves. On 'Google Images' he typed in 'Werewolves' and he saw one with gray fur and he was on top of a body.
"Wait a minute" Sherman said. He got closer to the computer screen, adjusted his glasses and saw the image more clearly.
"That looks like the one that attacked Hayden" Sherman said to himself. He then heard the door open and shut off the tabs on the laptop and shut the movie off.
"Hello, Sherman" said Mr. Peabody.
"Hey" Sherman said as he tucked the notes he took into his pocket.
"I ordered pizza on the way home. Sound good?" the beagle asked. Sherman nodded and walked over to the dining room.
A/N: Now we are starting to see some of the changes in Hayden. His hair, his luck with getting a girlfriend, the growling, and attacking Francine's dog. And Sherman thinks it's because Hayden is turning into one of the most feared hunters of the night. More to come in the next update. Please review, thanks!