Today it was the turn of Dr Mann to be awoken by the sound of someone knocking on his door while he felt rotten. He wasn't sure what or how much he ate last night, but it made it clear that his human stomach was a lot smaller than the Wolf's stomach. However, this wasn't the first time that this had happened, and he wished for the day when the Wolf will learn how much it was allowed to eat.
Clutching his abdomen, Harry slowly shuffled down the stairs of his house to the front door, feeling sick and weighted down, his shirt untucked from his trousers and his tie hanging loosely around his neck. He ran his fingers backwards through his hair, combing his thick, chestnut brown hair from his face, which was noticeably thicker after his transformation along with his beard, which was shaggier than normal. Harry took a deep breath, stabilising himself and tried to conceal any signs of the Wolf that might have been visible, before putting on a false stunning smile and swinging the door open.
"Hello, Harry" the visitor smirked, who proceeded to push forcefully past the surprised doctor and invited himself in, black coat billowing out behind him. Harry shut the door slowly and watched his guest with a mixed expression of bafflement and annoyance.
"Uh…Jekyll, is it? I'm sorry bu-" Dr Mann began, before being quickly interrupted by the man who he thought was Robert Jekyll.
"Oh don't mind me, I just wanted to have a friendly neighbour to neighbour chat, get to know each other more, you see? Because I think we're more alike than you realise…" Hyde grinned slyly, collapsing onto one of the two sofas in the front room, making himself at home. Harry's anger was starting to build, his emotions still slightly unstable from his transformation. He noticed a change in Dr Jekyll, when he had met the fellow doctor before, he seemed polite and reserved. But now he was the complete opposite, loud, rude and arrogant. Harry didn't like this change, he sensed something dark, dangerous and threatening had come to life in his neighbour and began to grow suspicious, bracing himself in case this new Dr Jekyll did anything he didn't like. This new behaviour made him tense, and the Wolf inside him jumped to life, despite being weak from the transformation. Harry blinked in confusion a couple of times before smiling very fiercely, grinding his teeth slightly.
"I'm sorry but I don't quite understand what you mean, we're both doctors yes but, how else are we alike?" Dr Mann questioned as politely as he could, making an effort to suppress his irritation. He was still standing by the door, standing with his feet together and his hands behind his back, hoping to hide the gradually lengthening nails on his fingers. Hyde cackled darkly.
"Well, I am fully aware of your ability to change," Harry's hazel eyes widened in shock and the forced smile vanished instantly, his jaw becoming clenched. His hands behind his back curled immediately into tight fists and Harry felt his stomach drop in panic, his nails grinding against the palms of his hands. How did this guy manage to find out?
"Aaand as a fellow person with the ability to change I thought I would introduce myself properly to you." Hyde launched himself up from the sofa and stood in the middle of the room, a sly grin on his face, his dark and dangerous eyes glinting slightly with a blue spark as his arms stretched out wide.
"Who are you?" Harry demanded, snarling faintly and his eyes turning yellow. Two can play the eye game, Harry thought, feeling the Wolf advancing to his beckoning call in his mind. Hyde's smile turned into a mischievous grin.
"The first time we met you didn't meet me, you met Mr Perfect, Dr Robert Jekyll…but now…now you meet Hyde!" Hyde announced loudly, bowing slowly with the grin still plastered on his face. Dr Mann's legs were now apart and bent slightly, his arms curled round his sides and flexing his fingers that had nails starting to turn into claws on the ends of them. Standing up straight again, Hyde recognised the threats that Dr Mann was displaying and this only stirred more excitement and adrenaline in Hyde. He too had his arms curled round his sides, but his hands were in tightly clenched fists and he was hunched over slightly, grin slowly turning into a snarl. Jekyll was locked firmly in the cage this time, and he was watching on in fear through Hyde's eyes as Dr Mann's human body was contorted slightly into the monster that massacred the body at MIO. He feared that Hyde would get too confident in his strength and would end up with severe injuries that Robert knew that neither of them would survive.
"How did you find out about me?!" Harry roared, eyes now a bright yellow, nails grown into long, sharp claws, canine teeth growing longer and sharper and the hair on his head and arms growing longer and darker. Harry sensed great power in this man and saw him as a huge threat, the instinct of the Wolf influencing the decision on what to do with him.
"No need to get so worked up, Dr Mann" Hyde teased in a tone of mock worry. "I want us to be friends!" The cocky grin returned to Hyde's face. At this comment, Harry's eyes narrowed, his teeth and claws shrank back slightly, his face in an expression of suspicion and his posture gradually returned to one that was more human, and less threatening.
"Really? Last time someone said that to me I was nearly killed by some crazy, vigilante monster hunters…You won't tell anyone about me, will you?" Harry spat, before asking cautiously, a hint of desperate pleading in his voice. Hyde heard this, and couldn't help but laugh.
"Oh, I'm sorry, but MIO already know about you and are hunting you down..." Harry's eyes flew wide open in fear and he shook his head slightly. "…With my help of course" Hyde muttered quietly, turning away slightly and bracing himself for an attack.
"WHAT?! " Dr Mann roared, except his voice sounded less like Dr Mann's and more like Mr Wolf's. Overcome with rage, Harry couldn't and didn't try to stop the Wolf inside him from breaking free. This Hyde fellow was asking for a fight, so it was a fight that he was going to get. Hyde grinned excitedly, now the REAL fun begins!
Hyde watched with glee as the man standing in front of him turned into the half man, half wolf monster that had ripped apart the corpse that Jekyll had seen at MIO headquarters. The first thing was the dark brown fur that sprouted from Harry's skin, the hair on his head growing longer and his beard seemed to enlarge to cover his whole face. This was followed by the enlarging muscles and bones, which snapped into place with loud cracks and pops and changed shape to fit the anatomy of half a man, half a wolf. The growing body forced the clothes to tear and fall from the beast, the shards of fabric floating calmly to the ground. Harry's legs and feet grew longer, forced him to stand on the balls of his feet as a series of loud snapping noises resulted in a knee-length tail that swished angrily from side to side. His arms grew longer, his hands grew bigger with the nails at the end of them curling into long and lacerating claws. A snout erupted from the roaring face, human teeth warping into long and deadly teeth that belonged to a wolf as two pointed ears grew from the top of the doctor's skull.
A red eyed, snarling werewolf stood before Hyde, towering over him and glaring at him fiercely. Jekyll cowered in the back of Hyde's mind, looking through Hyde's eyes in terror at the beast that stood before him. Hyde instead looked up to the wolf's face and grinned madly, throwing his arms out as if he wanted to give the drooling monster a big hug.
"Well hello Mr Wolf!" Hyde shouted delightfully, as the wolf lowered itself onto all fours. It roared loudly, red eyes glowing with hatred and teeth and claws glinting wickedly. Hyde returned the roar, his own eyes turning a bright blue as black veins stretched across his head and up his neck. The two charged at each other, the gigantic werewolf leaping at Hyde with its jaws wide open and claw-tipped hands outstretched towards Hyde's throat, as Hyde roared again and ducked downwards.