A Mear Shadow

Story by Ahmar_Wolf on SoFurry

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Here I now stand on high, looking down upon the streets below. While here I stand here in ...


Here I now stand on high, looking down upon the streets below. While here I stand here in the shadows. While the passersby below feel safe as the streetlights seemly guide there way. Whose light cuts through the darkness, like a sharp knife through living flesh. For the past 10 years, where I have become (not by choice) a warrior in The Eternal Battle of Good vs. Evil. I have maimed, I have killed and I have eaten human flesh. All in the name of all that is good. My life was all so different before all of this began. Little did I realize back then, when I truly had a name, not sir or hey you. But back when I had a home, family and even a girl I was planning to marry. Until the death of both my parents, caused by a drunken fool. Who refused to stop driving, even though the law tried but failed to stop him, my only solace is that drunken fool died along with my parents in that head-on collision. It was this and nothing more was when my troubles began.

Leaving me their only son Jack Tremain, 28. Back then I was an executive for one of the largest business concerns in the Midwest, JBT Corp. to go through their effects in the old family home. A one story 2 bedroom bungalow on Chicago's west side, in a Polish neighborhood that also could be at home in Old Warsaw. Where the sights, the sounds, even the smell of good Polish food makes one feel like home, It was my home, I just wish I could plain kept it. My parents left no will, and I wanted to take it all back to my 1 bedroom condo. But frankly I did not have the room, call it both good and bad I had gotten calls from relatives wanting this or that, which was a mixed blessing unto itself. At least none of it would go to strangers, or worst yet thrown away. As you might of guessed all this was too much for yours truly, thankfully Aunt Betty and Uncle David suddenly arrived with plenty of good Polish food and wine. Frankly I was happy when they shown, I needed the company, and they said they would see to wishes on who would get what. Speaking of getting I forgot to mention my old treasure chest. A gift from my father when I still very much a child. It was no reproduction, it was the real thing said to be more than 300 years old. It was the best thing my father ever gave to me...You see he told me not too long ago when he took it back, he wanted to leave me something hidden deep within the secret compartment in case something happened to them. I had to promise I would not open it unless something really happened to them. I could only assume it was something I just knew but both my parents were far to scared to tell me. I could only assume it was that I was possibly adopted like my father before me. Not what I found when I later returned to my condo on the 21st floor of a modern concrete and steel building. I had just place the chest on my glass top table when I triggered it's opening. I swear what I found I felt that my father was pulling one of his jokes from beyond the grave, he was a great one with the jokes. It began with a letter (one of many inside that compartment) which stated.

Dear Dear Jack,

I hope you can forever forgive us for the dark secret we withheld from you... My parents claimed my father was a werewolf, and that I was one as well. Look both my parents were completely normal people, my father Vlad worked as a garbage truck driver for the city. While my mother worked as a Nurse for one of the local hospitals. In fact the only thing I ever recall that could be called strange behavior was that my father would go camping at the oddest times of the year. Sometimes even in winter with snow on the ground...and bitter winds that would cut through you like a knife. Speaking of camping, that is what dad did for my 13th birthday., thankfully it was in June but I know it is hard to believe but we actually went camping, we went so deep in the woods we did not see any one else for miles. We even went skinny dipping, it was the funnest summer I ever had period. It was also a time my dad and I became much more closer than we ever had before. I don't mean anything weird went on we played and we talked about everything...including love. I could not hide the fact I was going through puberty at the time. To top all of this off for in that compartment I also found this letter from a Gypsy Queen. What said I was like my father in away, I would only be effected by the full moon...but get a load of this only certain full moons maybe 5 or 6 times a year I would transform in to a howling beast. This was all a bad joke to me...at the time.

Later as I finished my shower and went to get my robe, I stopped to look at myself in my mirrored closet doors, to confirm that I was young and handsome with jet black hair and mustache. I was 6' 4 200 Lbs. and that was all muscle, which is hard to do with a 9 to 5 that keeps you busy most of the time. But a good diet and plenty of exercise kept me fit. Then there is what happened 3 or 4 days later when Janet, my bride to be was over and we were in bed together, naturally we were both naked. It was the first time together since my parents funeral. There she was laying her head on my naked chest, after we had sex. Honestly I was thinking do I need to go to the bathroom when she said, "Jack, we need to talk". Frankly I was worried, "I am sorry of I did not come up to my usual standard. I have a lot on my mind". "No Jack", Janet said as she then looked at me right in my eyes. "It's not that, when you were thrusting I swear you were trying to drive me through this bed. You were going at it so hard and fast I swear I still feel you there". You can see why I began to have questions. I was good but not that good.

Then there was that run in with my boss Mr. Perkins, "Mr. Tremain, where is that Bitterman report?". Frankly I did forget, and besides it wasn't completed, "I left it at home". "Then you better go home, Mr. Bitterman is here right now", Mr. Perkins said strongly. "Couldn't he come back later", I wondered. "No, you knew you had to have the report here today, and you knew of the appointment. You need to go now!!". "But I have a lot of work to do, I need to catch up", I insisted which really was true, that was why I forgot. "No, you need to do your job, and..." Before I knew it I had Mr. Perkins up against the wall, and he was at least 2 feet off of the ground...and I was holding him. His words said it all, "Put me down or you're fired".

Look I am not usually that quick to anger, but something was going on...and it was with me. Mr. Perkins and I spoke only via email after that, frankly I don't blame him.

Oh I forgot to mention what happened that very same night that happened. You see I sleep in the nude. I always had even when I was a child, I went from diapers to sleeping straight in the buff. My mother always did not like it, she always would try and get me to wear pajamas, but on the other hand my father encouraged me...go figure, I always put it down that he slept that way too. Of course when we did have company over, or when I spent the night over at a friend's of course I would wear them, but only then. You see I woke up in the middle of the night frankly I needed to take a piss. So I went in to the bathroom and turned to light and what I saw in the bathroom mirror wasn't me...it really was a werewolf. What can I say as soon as I saw that creature I fainted. I don't know how I returned to bed, or why the soles my feet were covered in dirt, in fact they were caked, like I had walked in the mud during the rain we had that night. I just hoped against hope it was all just a nightmare. That was not the only time I ever lost track of time. The very first weekend after my parents funeral, Janet and I thought it would be best for both of us if we spent a little time on the town. You know going to our favorite restaurant, order our favorite meal, and after wards hit a few of the clubs. Oh the time at the restaurant was fine, Janet and I even discussed our up coming wedding plans..even though it was still more than a year off. The trouble began at this one club. The last thing I remember was Janet and I was dancing, the next thing I knew I was waking up in bed in the morning. By the way I was completely nude and covered in dirt, it looked like I rolled around in a mud wallow, my sheets were a mess. I could even see where I tracked dirt in right from the front door.. I checked on my cell, wallet and jewelry it was all there on the dresser where I normally place those things. But the clothes I wore that night was gone. I frankly had no idea where I had left them. I wondered how I made it back home without being arrested.

Naturally Janet was pissed off at me, I had no less than 40 text messages starting at 2:34 AM to just a few minutes before I awoke. All asking me where did I run off too..and was I with another woman. I just had no idea what happened to me, I even went off to see my Doctor...later. Nobody had an answer and Janet was less than satisfied with my very feeble explanation. That I lost track of time.

But some how she forgave me..both times. I mean it happened 2 more times, at 2 different clubs. I lost a $300 suit on the last blackout, and I won't admit how much were those shoes I lost.

After the third time Janet wasn't even speaking to me, do you blame her? That was when I finally went to look for answers. The net was no help, the only thing I could find out about werewolves was that either they could change on their own at their freewill or a sound could cause a change. They was nothing about those blackouts I was having. Not even in those letters, the one from my mother frankly made me sick. No it wasn't that my dad ever hurt my mom or she was one of those beta wolves that some of those sites talked about. That is someone who is controlled by a werewolf, and only when they die you will stop changing in to one. It was what she had to go through with my father. I did not know the only reason they bought our home that it had a cold war era bomb shelter hidden just off the basement. And when it came time for my father to transform she had to lock him inside to the next morning. At least I had an explanation for all of Dad's camping trips. I could not even think of Janet doing that to me. Frankly I had to know either way and according to that Gypsy's letter actually gave a date I would transform without any question and that would be in August. You would not believe what my good friend David said when I asked him to do a simple favor for me. "You want to do what?!!! Are your out of your freaking mind!!??". My plan was quite simple, I dress up in nothing but shorts, and with a large canteen in hand I spend the night in the park...I know crazy. But I knew a place, it's Chicago's unofficial Nudist beach. It was on a seawall right next to the lake. That itself was just the other side of an access road, which itself was the only way to by pass this golf course which lay between it, and the buildings not to forget a freeway of the other side of the park to the west. It's as hard to get to as it sounds.

In my younger days I spent some time there with a lady friend or 3. Hell, I even spent the night there more than once. Besides I knew that area of the park was deserted at night. Expect for the occasional addict, not even the Police ventured there because there was no need to as nothing ever happened there. With that night also being the night of the brightest full Moon of the entire of year I figure I should know either way by sunrise. Naturally David thought I was crazy, I still don't know why he suddenly agreed to take me out there. Maybe he thought I was meeting someone I did not want Janet to know about.

I forgot to mention that night was H...O...T HOT!!! Try around 90 with the same humidity. I was sweating like a pig almost as soon as I stepped out of David's car. I did not appreciate the joke he said about me drowning. So I made my way there with canteen in hand. One word about that seawall, it wasn't like you might be thinking right now. You see there is quite a height difference between the level of the lake and where that road and golf course sat. It is roughly 20 feet and the seawall is stepped all the way up about every 3 to 4 feet, and it goes on like this from the opening to Montrose Harbor to where it ends at a point of land that marks the entry to Belmont Harbor, which is more than a mile away. Like I said positioned myself on the lowest point and there I waited, and waited, and waited. I emptied my canteen more than once, lucky for me I know where there was a drinking fountain. I added to the E coli problem in the lake when I had to take a piss. More than once I took off my shorts and cooled them off in the lake before putting them on dripping wet. But that did not even help as the Moon was way past overhead and making it's way to the other horizon. I was hot and felt like I was getting hotter, and worse yet I wish I was home and AC. It wasn't until I was about to give up and go home despite the hour, I suddenly discovered I had actually transformed, when I looked at myself in the reflection in the lake. I was covered from head to toe in a thick layer of black fur. My legs were very canine like, I could not believe my big toe was nothing more than just a claw extending from my foot or should I say paw. My torso was thin yet strong like it has always been, my hands were a bit big but only to accommodate my new claws. My head was that like a wolf, I had pointed ears and everything including whiskers on my new muzzle. By the way I also had a tail, it extended to a little past my knees, it's tip was the only thing still white about me. I almost threw my shorts back in to the lake, before I realized I was going to need them when I changed back. I could not help but wonder why I did not black out or why I did not feel this transformation. I have seen horror movies, everyone in them who transformed as I did, went through pure agony. But I swear I felt no pain. But that is not the exact truth. You might of noticed I did not mention my genitals. My sack was tight and hairless, as any dog's I have seen, as to my penis I could not help wonder...why? You see a sheath had formed about half way of it's shaft, what stuck out on the end was reddish and very pointed. I felt as if I had a bone in it like any male canine I could of driven through walls. So with my shorts in hand I made my way back up to the top to see what tonight was going to bring. But before I knew it, I had not only made my way up the seawall but completely past that road and over a 10 foot high stone wall that bordered the golf course. I was actually standing there right there on the golf course. That was then I realize that my strength was far beyond I imagined, as for speed that was left to a little test did for myself. I spotted a squirrel running from me and in a matter of second later I was holding it alive in my hand. I have seen greyhounds unable to do it that fast, let alone holding it still alive. I knew I had to check out this body. I knew I had the speed, my night vision was amazing...even for me. I could see anything on that pitch black golf course as clear as day. I could not help but think I was very much like the superheroes I played as when I was still very much a kid. So after I placed my shorts along with the canteen on top of an out building (which laid near the outer wall), so I could retrieve them later hopefully at sunrise. I went on running, after tossing that squirrel aside. I was almost as fast as the cars on Lake Shore Drive. In fact the only thing that slowed me down almost 2 miles later...and by the way I still wasn't even tired. Was that of a muffled scream and a man saying 'Make another sound and your dead'. I quickly discovered I was near the Nature Museum right off of Fullerton. It was located on 2 sides by heavy brush, to the east a parking lot and a man made pond to the west and even in daytime near empty trails. I heard recently of a rapist wanted in the area, I just knew this had to be him. I carefully moved towards them as I knew a life was a stake, I tracked them both down rather quickly by surprising enough their scent. What I found turned even my stomach, a man hunched over a frightened woman, he was holding a knife to her neck as he struggles to drop his pants. I stood nearby and shouted, "Let her go!". His response, "Go away or I'll cut her". I then moved closer as I shouted repeatedly "Look at me!!", I totally ignored his replies. Finally he did, at that very second I snatched that knife out of his hand, and dragged him deep in to the brush. I was going to knock him out and when he started to scream. Something inside me snapped, I then took my claws and tore in to his face, ripping both flesh and muscle as I tore in to him. But when he tried to run I held him as I sliced him open and his guts then spilled out...what happened next I rather not say. Only I left him dead, before returning to his victim. Thankfully she was out cold, I then picked her up and brought her over to the nearby Lincoln Park Conservatory and placed her on a nearby bench. I did manage to find her purse and cell. I then called the Police. No I did not wait by her side, only in the shadows to make sure she was safe until the Police finally did arrived. Frankly, I felt pretty good about myself, and went to see what other crime I could stop. What can I say it was a boring night, but I did discover one thing though, I start to change back as the first rays of dawn break over the horizon. Unfortunately for me I discovered while still standing on the out building trying to recover my belongings. Let me tell you I had a hell of a time getting out of there. David came as promised by the next morning and took me over to Mickey D's for breakfast. He asked me how was the night. I told him quiet. I wish I could say I was not affected by my experience of the previous night when I finally returned home. I had planned to shower and go to sleep. But as I lay there in bed my stomach was growling and I already had a good size breakfast. I don't know why I was thinking about that squirrel. But anyway I headed for my kitchen, (look I don't normally eat a big breakfast, usually cereal and milk). But I found myself starving, I then pulled out the frying pan and...there in lies a little problem I experience. I did not quite know what to make for myself. But I kept on eying this chuck steak I had in the fridge along with some ground sirloin I was saving. I almost fixed myself a burger until I ate some of the ground meat. Look before this I would not touch anything raw or even pink. I won't even eat lamb, because you have to have it pink. But I was enjoying it I was thinking about cooking that steak, when I suddenly turned the burner off and wiped my finger along it, before putting it in my mouth. I started to eat it with a knife and fork right out of the frying pan. But before I knew it, I had returned it back to the tray I bought it in and right then and there started to eat it with my hands and teeth. I even sucked the marrow right from the bone. Hell I even licked the tray it came on, as I was doing it I wondered if this was a sign of something to come. Especially later when I looked at myself in a mirror, I was covered in blood. Worst yet I did not care, I just wanted more. I thought a good sleep, would clear things up. But nothing could be further from the truth. I awaken with more questions than I had answers for. The first and foremost on my mind was how long was I affected by the full moon, and was it only at night. I knew it was possible to see the moon sometimes in the day time and was this the main reason my father took so many trips. And how long would it affect me one or 2 nights or possibly more. The second and just as important as the first when do I change. I just had to know. But at least the blackouts ended, and I sorta had my answer. I knew I could not ask David to take me for more than one night. I took my own car, and like the night before I wore light clothes this time, shorts, T shirt and running shoes. To where I went sadly I knew where I had to go. You see the County has these forest preserves. Places of virgin forests in a metropolitan area. I knew of one in the western suburbs that was 55 acres of nothing but forest and wildlife. By the way it also had parking, which was perfect for my purposes. It was just off the main road and down a drive and unless you were looking for someone you could not see there car. In fact the only problem I saw was my car could be towed. You see the Forest Preserves closes at dusk, but I learned a long time ago nobody really checked. With so much on my mind I forgot to get something to eat before I made my way west. I discovered by accident there was this small grocery store just off of where I was going. It was a small family run store, if this did not happen to me I know what I would of bought for myself. A sandwich, maybe some fruit and a bottle of water. The water I got, but instead of looking in the deli I found myself in the meat dept. My appetite for blood was seemly getting the better of me, and it was making me feel a bit uneasy. Especially when I picked up a package containing a beef liver. But I settled for cut up lamb meat, which was labeled lamb stew meat. I also got an apple, at least I still had an appetite for fruit. I could not believe it myself when I finally parked I ripped open that package of meat and wolfed it down. Worse yet I enjoyed it, especially the blood. As I sat there by my car I waited until the sun was to finally set. I figured out what I needed to do, I was going to put my car keys and wallet in to the bag I got from the store along with my clothes and tie it high up on a nearby tree. But that was later, I could not help but notice some rabbits. In the old days I would of hoped they mate for laughs. But these days I wondered what one tasted like. Worse yet I could not help myself from thinking this. As soon as I saw the light of the full moon I transformed rather fast. The entire process could not of taken more than 7 or 8 minutes, and as soon I finished I made sure my belongings were safe. I went hunting... Rabbits are fast, especially when they are frightened. But not as fast as me, I had this male almost screaming for it's very life within seconds after first noticing it. I delighted as I toyed with it, with my very sharp claw. How I delighted in it's agony as it struggled for survival. It still don't know why I bit out it's throat, and spat it to the ground. The blood how it gushed from it's open wound. I found I could not resist the temptation of it's blood. I just had to see what it tasted like. Soon I found myself lapping up every single drop, even sucking every single delicious drop. It was the best thing I ever tasted I had to have more. Maybe there was apart of me who planned if this happened was to cut back it's skin and feast upon what I found inside. I tore in to that rabbit like a wild animal. I soon found my jaws were able to crush bone, I found I nearly ate all of it expect for some of it's guts and most of it's skin and head. My senses were suddenly heightened as I smelled blood on the wind. My senses soon brought me back to the store where I went earlier and instantly ran in to an armed robber, who tried and failed to take a shot at me. I was angry he hurt that old man who ran the store. He was wounded but still very much alive (and calling the police), while that crook kept on saying, "Hey whatever you are let me go!!" After slamming him in to the wall a few times I dragged him back to the forest. All the time he struggled to break my hold upon him and run away. He even slipped his shirt off that I was holding him by, but he did not get far. "Let me go!", he shouted. "No, and unless you give up this idea about running I will do with you as I please", I said. "What are you going to do...fuck me!", then he spat upon me. "Take that back!", I shouted. Then he spit right in my face. I was so angry I slammed him in to a tree more than once, before he tried and failed to punch me. I stopped his fist in mid punch, that was when I crushed his hand. That was when he started to call me something horrible about me and my mother. As much as I wanted him to be handed over to the police. My anger got the best of me that was when I pulled the claws out. The more he ran the more I ripped and tore at his flesh. He never made it out of the forest on his own. But his death like the rapist before frankly did not bother me, but what did was I almost tasted human blood. In fact I came within one second of doing so. Before my human side, at least what was left of it got the better of me. It seemed the Gypsy was wrong, I would not transform only 5 or 6 times a year. I figures some where around 13, and given my recent experiences for 3 to 4 nights running. I figured on the 4th day due to possibly another mistake on the Gypsy's part, but I would know that answer by the next full moon. You see I did transform on the 3rd night but not on the 4th I made certain of that, but nothing happened as I made my way in to Wisconsin, and expect for a few animals no one was killed. As I made certain of this fact by going in to an area far beyond where any human might roam. You see it wasn't the killings that so unnerved me in to taking some over elaborate precautions. It was something I knew that one day would happen especially after that incident with that armed robber, I knew it would only be a matter of time before I would be hunting for human beings and feasting upon their remains. No wonder my father took so many precautions. I knew I had to make a hard decision and my future looked bleak at best. Oh sure as days went on my taste for blood grew less intense, and after a week I could eat cooked meat again. But I knew it would be back, and my big fear it could be someone I knew. You see I knew I had to give up everything, or be found, and it did not take being called in to Mr. Lucas office (He was head of the Human Resources at my company) and being asked "What is wrong with you?". To know my future would seem to be at an end. No I wasn't planning on killing myself, but leaving everything behind. Expect for my savings, I was thinking about buying a house or cabin somewhere so remote that the only one else around was hiding out like me. I told Mr. Lucas I would have message for him by next Friday. That would give me at least a week to get to some remote area to hide from this world. I was far too dangerous to be apart of it any longer. I just wanted answers, I wish dad had been honest with me, and let me know how to deal with this and life. I could not look towards my relatives, as they were my mothers side of the family. You see my father even took my mother's last name. I knew Janet was no longer apart of my life as I could not put hers in danger, I sent her a letter calling off our engagement. I told her she could do whatever she wanted with the engagement ring I even sent her mine, and wished her a good life. She called me a million times but what could I tell her. Like my own relatives, I had just finished a letter to my Aunt and Uncle telling them I needed to getaway for an extended period of time. I even sent them the signed deed to my condo along with an extra set of keys, and asked them to sell it for me. I figured we split the profits evenly. My life was HELL!!!! I was within days of me having to go, I felt I had no choice otherwise. Then I saw this report on the news about some wolves that were on exhibit at the Lincoln Park Zoo. They were from an area in the northwest that had a forest fire, if that was not bad enough when firefighters came in there they also found a toxic waste dump that no one knew about. They were at the zoo being treated for the poisons they might of ingested. My heart went out to those creatures and I had to see them on that bright September day. My guess is no one there expected what would happen to those wolves caught a glimpse of me. Let me set the scene for you. The exhibit the wolves were enclosed in was an open one. It was on the end of 2 separate paths to the north leading to other enclosures. On one side was a large viewing window, so you could get close up and personal with the wild animals, without being in any real danger. I came in from the south via the sea lion pool. As soon as I arrived the wolves began to notice me. They stopped doing what they were doing came near the window and sat down, staring at me. If that was not strange enough this female wolf came up right to the window looked at me right in the eye, before flashing her hindquarters at me. She even pissed on the window. Not even the keepers there could answer any ones question, and before they started throwing questions at me, I quickly departed. Naturally this incident was reported on the news, and that was when I learned some of them was going to be shipped off to the National Zoo in Washington within the next 2 weeks. I knew I had to get some answers, so I waited on everything, expect me quitting my job just so I could find out why. Like I figured a day before the full moon I transformed, but this time I was in a parking lot just off of the zoo itself. Scaling the wall was nothing to me, I admit some of the animals reactions to my scent was nothing less than fear. But as I neared the wolf enclosure, the scene repeated itself exactly as it did before. Expect that female wolf appeared to be sleeping, but not after they began to howl when she particularly paid close attention to me. Finally I made my way inside that enclosure, I used some large widely spaced boulders within as stepping stones and on the last one I use to jump down to the ground. Landing almost directly in from of that female wolf who then slowly circled me, sniffing my rear as she moved. Once she return to face me she stood, yes she really stood. That was when I got the second biggest shock of my life when she transformed in to a werewolf, one with much more canine features than yours truly. She walked upright on very canine legs her features were much more softer and rounder than mine. She came up close to me, the way she rubbed my face with hers, the way she sniffed my ear, the way she licked my muzzle. I hate to admit it but I was getting aroused. But when she turned her back upon me, that is when instincts took over. When she bent over raising her tail, revealing a very canine vulva I knew I had to have her. That's when I got upon my knees and licked her vulva raw all as my rod became fully erect.. That's when I stood and actually inserted my penis in to her opening and my pelvis rocked hard all as the cum flowed. I would not call it sex, but it was the most intense action I had ever had in my life. We went at it like 2 wild animals, and you know we actually knotted and frankly I did not really care. I just know I was still pumping cum, beyond any point you could call ecstasy. I lost track of time, I still only have a vague memory of being locked together. But the look upon her face told me she enjoyed our mating as much as I. Finally when we were able to separate, I got another surprise (one of many that night), when she said, "Come follow, see old man now". "What old man", I wondered. That was when she pulled on my arm, I tried to ask her "What is your name?', but I received no answer. What else could I do but follow her, past the Lion House, the merry-go-round and the Primate House. To the area where the Great Ape House stood, it only housed Chimps and Gorillas. But I could not help but wonder did it house yet another werewolf, I followed her when she jumped down in to one of 2 sunken habitats filled with brush and grasses, they were the outdoor areas for the great apes. I then followed her over to this seemly ancient male Chimpanzee, who was sleeping there whom she woke, I figured he was going to attack not angrily signal us both to sit down on the ground before him. I could see he was pissed, but when he signed, I knew what he was saying, (as I have a deaf cousin) I returned the sign. That old chimp then hugged the stuffings out of me. Before signing, You need to take her away from this place Jack: Why are to signing so well?

Old Chimpanzee: You must be the son of Vald.

Jack: How do you know my father?

Old Chimpanzee: Only enough so that he was afraid, to reveal the truth to his only son Jack.

Jack: What is the truth?

Old Chimpanzee: That the truth is far beyond what you can imagine. Jack understand like it or not the world needs you.

Jack: How did you know I was planning on running away?

Old Chimpanzee: That is not to hard figure, for more than one halfing has felt as you do.

Jack: Halfling?

Old Chimpanzee: That is what we call what you are, you and Vixen over there are neither man or wolf. I just felt as if he could use a stiff drink. The Old Chimpanzee then tapped me on the shoulder on the are to get his attention as he signed. Jack, you need help and so does this world and Vixen.

Jack: Why does Vixen need my help?

Old Chimpanzee: They plan to ship her off to the National Zoo and that will honestly kill her.

Jack: What do you expect me to do, when I barely know what to do myself.

Old Chimpanzee: Jack you are not alone in this world, there are many of you out there..

Jack: Oh Great a werewolf support group!?

Old Chimpanzee: I am not talking about that, we may be only animals as man sees us. But we rule the night, we want this world to be a better place and Jack you can be apart of it, along with Vixen.

Jack: But she can barely speak.

Old Chimpanzee: Jack you can show her what it is like to be a human being as she can show you how to be a wolf.

Jack: That is impossible!!Old Chimpanzee: You only think that is the truth, then ask yourself why have halflings never have been sighted. I admit that old Chimpanzee had me there, then added. I am others like me can help you, to avoid blacking out. The intense cravings for both blood and raw flesh, and all we ask is that you preform a few tasks.

Jack: I knew there was a catch. Old Chimpanzee: In 24 hours from now a meeting will take place at the S&J Trucking Company, in Carbondale, IL. That is exactly at 1:34 AM, both you and Vixen must kill everyone there who is in truck number 6271.

Jack: Why?

Old Chimpanzee: 3 words, Millions will die. That is also why after you must contact the police, by phone. Making sure you get away as fast as you can.

Jack: Why should I believe you?

Old Chimpanzee: In one word Plutonium. Jack: You must be joking.

Old Chimpanzee: Head down there and see, the news media will either make a huge deal out of this or the government will hush things up either way you will have your answer.

Jack: Do you work for the government?

Old Chimpanzee: Do not be silly here, the keepers here think I like my family are just dumb animals, they have no idea we are just as smart as they are, maybe even smarter as we have no Internet access.

Jack: Then how do you get you information?

Old Chimpanzee: I will only tell you later when you are apart of our organization. Jack, please understand we are the only thing that stands between mankind and the destruction of this world. I do not have to tell you, there are people out there that want nothing less than the deaths of billions..and you know this. You have seen the news reports on what is available to you. Jack, I have nothing to hide, and I mean that. If you join us, you and your mate will belong to something meaningful.

Jack: Mate?

Old Chimpanzee: Vixen she needs you, and you need her.. What can I say that you don't already know, I joined the organization and what my contact said turned out to be sadly quite true. I learned control as Vixen learned...just about everything. With my job, Keeper at the Great Ape House I learned more from that old chimpanzee than I ever learned in school. Now stepping out of the shadows a man points a .45 Magnum at me while saying, "My superiors will be glad that you told us everything you know before you die. Little did any of us realize that we were fighting animals, not just regular animals but intelligent chimps, I can't believe it. But now is the time for you to die, too bad your so called mate isn't around to help you". I just smiled and says, "Vixen is more than just my mate, she is the mother of our 4 children and Honey it's time", it seemed I was just stalling for time. As that man was about to fire he was instantly attacked by 5 werewolves leaping from the shadows, as I shed my clothes I joined his family in a feast of human flesh. They knew there were more out there, more enemies of this world. Whom we must battle until the end of time.