Eila had just exited the infirmary after dropping off Sanya and headed for the lower level of the base when she arrived at a door that had R&D on a sign nailed to it. she slowly peeked in to make sure no one was in their and than turned on the lights to get a better look. the room had many tables and shelves with various mechanical parts and devices on them but what she was instructed to look for was at the back of the room. it was a tall machine with tubes and wire feeding in to it with a glowing blue door in the center. Eila had never seen anything like it before in her life. she slowly opened the door on the machine and turned her head away because the blue light was so bright her eyes had to adjust. she picked up a small round object that was shining with the same glow from inside and shut the door.

"i hope John knows what hes doing" she said observing the small device.

...

Major Sakamoto sat at Sanyas bedside as she awaited the doctors to return with any news on how she is doing. soon though Sanyas eyes began to flicker as she slowly regained consciousness.

"im glad to see that you are alright after what you have gone through." remarked the Major.

"how did i get here" Sanya asked as she looked around the room.

"Eila carried you back to the base after John attacked you. he is still out their and we will put much effort into bringing him to justice in the morning." the Major said with confidence.

"oh yes now i remember. it was really scary" Sanya said as the thought of what she saw made her shiver. " but you said John attacked me... John didn't attack me" Sanya said putting a questioned face on Sakamoto.

"but if it wasn't John who attacked you than who did"

Sanya paused for a few seconds then looked out the window at the full moon above the woods. "it was the werewolf"

"the wha-" Sakamoto attempted to ask before one of the night watchmen barged in through the doors.

"major we have a situation weapons are missing from the armory!"

'what is john up to' she thought to herself "get a search crew ready! we need to get witches in the sky before someone gets hurt."

...

John sit their in the woods on a tree trunk as he waited for Eila to return. John didn't have a watch but he could tell by the darkness it was about ten o'clock maybe a little after that. he just sat their waiting. nothing to do but remember who he was going to have to kill to keep others safe in a short time.

John remembered why Vlad stopped talking to him all those years ago when he let that girl get away. it was a stupid thing to fight over but john knew he had done the right thing. but it was times before that that john loved. the times when Vlad and him would actually have fun together in their time between missions. he remembered the time that they had snuck into the generals privet inventory of expensive cigars. John didn't smoke cigars but he did that day to just to make the general angry. one thing that all the men in the hound unit had in common was that they hated the general. he got where he was on the dead bodies of men fighting for him. the dead bodies of better men that should be where he is but were unlucky enough to be part of his unit.

the silence was broken though as John heard someone approaching in the distance. he ducked for cover behind a tree until he was sure of who it was. Eila walked over to the log carrying a bag filled with supplies and sat next to John.

"here is everything you asked for. you do realize that we can get into allot of trouble for doing this." she said as John began to inspect what was in the bag

"im mostly thinking about the short term effects now" he replied as he moved things around searching for something specific.

"your really not afraid to go against someone as powerful as you described him" she asked with concern in her voice.

"Eila" he said looking at her with a very serious face "its not the size of the dog in the fight that matters its the size of the fight in the dog"

"i see. so their is no talking you out of this" she said standing up and removing the blue disk from a pack she had on here side. "i hope this can help you then" she said handing it to him.

"thanks Eila."John said as he removed his shirt and took the bandages off of his chest to reveal a disk that was placed in his chest already. the disk sat inside of a slightly larger metal ring that was bordered with three peaces of thin long triangular peaces of metal that went off in opposite directions to form a downward facing triangle on his chest."this will help out allot. i wasted most of my energy during our skirmish." he said swapping the disks.

"so that's the thing that's keeping you alive." she asked as she watched him turn the disk into place.

"at the moment yes. you might not want to stick around though things are about to get messy" he said as he walked over to the bag and reached in to it.

Eila ran to the edge of the clearing but stopped and turned to John to tell him one more thing "John... don't die out here. Sanya is waiting for you."

John lifts himself up from the bag holding a M1897 shotgun and loading shells into it "tell her i'll be back late"

the two went their separate ways as Eila rushed back to the base with surprisingly no problems in the forest

'the man John was talking about must be looking for him and ignoring me' she thought to herself as she slowly walked down the hall trying not to raise any attention. soon though she came to a turn in the hall and when she rounded the corner Major Sakamoto was waiting for her.

"we have allot to talk about" she told her dragging her away

...

deep in the forest John tightly griped the pump on the shotgun waiting for anything to happen. the suspense was killing him as he just walk deeper and deeper into the woods. 'calm down John' he thought to himself 'this is just like the time you went hunting with dad'. he tried to think back to other times to keep his mind out of the fear but soon he heard the snaps of branches and the rustle of bushes. he Knew Vlad was close.

John prepared himself not knowing where Vlad would attack from. soon Vlad pounced from behind him as John Spun around and put the shotgun into his stomach. while Vlad was in mid air John dropped to his back and fired a round right into him. Vlad soared overhead with a scram as he tumbled on impact but quickly got back up.

"you haven't lost any of your skill John" he said in a chilling voice "but only one of us will walk out of the woods tonight" upon saying that his stomach had mended the wound.

"then what are we waiting for" John said pumping the rifle ejecting the used shell onto the ground and then aiming it at Vlad "enough talk, lets fight"

Vlad pulled a knife from his sleeve and threw it at John who dodged out of the way only to be cut in the shoulder. John fired another round at Vlad but to no avail as Vlad had put up a shield that coated his whole body.

'this gun won't do me any good if it can't even touch him' he thought to himself as he avoided another throw of knives at him.

"YOU ARE GOING TO BLEED JOHN!" Vlad screamed as he ran in and tried to slash at john with his blade. John abruptly hit him in the chest with the but of his gun and than delivered a kick to his head which threw Vlad to the ground.

"it seems your shield isn't effective at close range Vlad" John taunted

Vlad than swept at Johns feet knocking him down and than jumped into the air stab him on his way down but John quickly rolled out of the way. as he got up he had to dodge Vlad ,who had attempted to kick him in mid air, by ducking under him as he flew overhead. As Vlad raised himself up John brought down a haymaker punch square in Vlads forehead.

Vlad scrambled to get back up and threw another knife at John which lodged itself in his left shoulder. John struggled to remove the blade as Vlad ran up and kicked him to the ground.

"im going to enjoy ending your life John." he said pulling the blade out of his shoulder. "and when i'm done with you i will go after the little silver haired girl that you are so fond of" Vlad remarked with a sinister smile as he licked the blood from the blade.

"you will not harm her" John shouted as he pulled his fathers revolver from his side and put two rounds in Vlads chest.

"GHUUHH" Vlad screamed as he was obviously having trouble breathing right now. Vlad pulled of his shirt to reveal that he also had a magic battery in his chest but instead of glowing blue it glowed a bright red. the round had cracked the battery and left Vlad badly hurt.

"i was not going to do this till i had too but now it seems that i have no choice. the Vlad you see before you today is not the true Vlad" he shouted at John holding his chest as the light in his Batter started to glow deep red. "i shall now show you what great power can do to a person John! what you have overlooked with you puny limits and morals."

as he said this he began to change. Vlads face began to morph into that of a wolf as hair grew around his body and his muscles began to grow larger. soon his shirt ripped off and his jackets sleeves tore to shreds from the pressure. his ears receded and new ones grew in on top of his head. large jagged teeth took the place of his former ones and his eyes became a deep read color. his hands grew large claws and his feet ripped out of his boots. Vlad had truly become a werewolf.

"oh... Shit" John said as a large claw swooped down and punched John a few yards as he hit a tree."I've got to stop him soon or he'll tear me to shreds." John said as he felt over his body for some kind of weapon. he knew that the revolver wouldn't work and he lost the shot gun a while ago then he felt something small and round on his belt that he had almost forgotten about. ' i'm a fool if i think this is going to work.'

"Where did you go John" Vlad said an a snarling demonic voice." i want to eat the flesh off of your bones."

"that'll have to wait till you get back from hell Vlad" John screamed as he jumped from a tree and grabbed on to Vlad. as Vlad screamed John punched his fist down his mouth and throat and pulled it back out. his arm was cut up by Vlads teeth during the escape but he jumped away and held on to his rib cage as he had his back to Vlad.

Vlad started coughing as he turned to look at John "is that the best you can do John. I expected more of a fight from my pray" he snarled at him

"oh you just wait" John says dropping a grenade pin to the ground.

Vlads eyes shrunk as he saw this and realized what was going on "you bastard" he muttered as the grenade went of inside of him throwing his insides through his outsides and with a red explosion the magic core that he used for his power had blown up with a flail of fire and plasma. with the core destroyed their was nothing regenerating Vlad. peaces of Vlad flew everywhere as blood rained down on the grass. in the end all that had stayed where it was was the lower half of Vlads body.

the kick from the explosion threw John back and on to the ground. he was in allot of pain as he looked up into the night sky. John had realized how strange it was to see something every day but never notice how beautiful it was until one moment in life when it all clicks. John knew there was still work to be done and he knew if Vlad had returned their were still the other three. but right now John was to tired to do anything but look up at the sky.

...

above the forest the search party had seen the explosion and was headed their now.

"do you think its John" asked perrine

"is their any doubt about it" replied Barkhorn

the witches landed to see blood and guts everywhere and the legs of a hairy beast on the ground.

"well we found Sanya's werewolf." said Lynette as they looked around.

"John!" Said Barkhorn as she rushed over to him "John are you alright" she asked as she helped him to his feet

"you should see the other guy" he said as he got up with a pain in his chest. "all joking aside thought i think i broke a rib"

"you really do have some skill" Barkhorn said but john had already fallen unconscious as he hung his arm over her shoulder. "lets get back to the base and get you fixed up." she said as they left.

...

the sun began to rise over britannia as John slept in the infirmary. soon though he came to and sat up in the bed.

"Ugggghhhh." John groaned as he was still in pain. magic can't heal everything.

"you sure had some day yesterday" said a familiar voice. as john looked to the side he saw the last person he expected to be sitting by his bed. it was flight lieutenant Barkhorn.

"have you been here all night" John asked wondering why she was here.

"yes i have been waiting to talk to you" she replied. "Eila told everyone about what had really happened and how you set yourself up to look like the bad guy so the wolf wouldn't hurt anyone you were close to if no one wanted to be close to you."

"yeah and what about it" John asked

"well i heard some of the girls talking and they said that even though you didn't hurt Sanya you were still not liked around here. they must not understand what was really going on and think that you didn't want to be part of the team."

"so is this leading anywhere. it seems like your trying to hammer in the fact that i'm alone"

"sorry... i'm not trying to say that what i'm saying is that your not alone now. i want to be your friend."

"what!" John said surprised where this was going. he had heard that Barkhorn was a very serious girl with a very disciplined past. she was like the poster girl of the army. the perfect soldier. it was shocking to hear these strange words come out of her mouth.

"you are a very skilled boy. i have never seen someone do what you did to that wolf in my life. the only problem is that you cant do anything without getting hurt." she says pointing to the many bandages that surrounded Johns body. "you should let me help you fight with you. i can be a great help when it comes to strength"

"thanks Barkhorn. its nice to know that you will be their fore me." he said kindly as he smiled to her and she smiled back.

"well that's all i have to say for now." she said as she got up from her chair and turned for the door. "i look forward to spending time with you John. i'm sure we have a lot to learn from each other. oh yeah one last thing" she said pulling a paintball gun from her side and shooting John in the chest. "like i said flying officer John Walker. i never lose" she said as she left the room.

"that would almost be cute if my ribs weren't broken" John said holding his chest in pain.