Love and Lycanthropy - Chapter 5
I woke to Elias climbing into bed with me. The sun was only
just rising and he was coming back home after spending most of the
night in his four legged form. It had been nearly a month since
our first meeting in the woods as man and wolf, and it was the middle
of the next lunar cycle and the full moon would be rising again tonight.I usually sleep so soundly that I wouldn't notice him
coming to bed, and he would take care not to wake me so he wouldn't
disturb my sleep. I actually preferred it when I did wake up
because I loved that early morning cuddle with him as he drifted off to
sleep and I drifted right back to sleep with him. He usually slid
in and put his back against me and I would would turn and spoon with him as we fell
asleep together.I rolled over to face him and put my arm around him and found that he was facing me this time with a big smile on his face."Morning," he said, as he leaned in and kissed me."Hiya. Did you have a good night out on the prowl?" I asked.He
nodded and said, "It was fine. It's a bit boring sometimes.
I miss you when I'm out there. I get lonely. I was
thinking about you a lot this morning. I wished you were out
there with me so we could fuck. I never get enough of you."I grinned and said, "The feeling is mutual."He
moved in for another kiss, but this time it had more passion behind it.
As I parted my lips to accept his tongue, I pulled him into me
and right away I noticed he'd come to bed naked and had a raging hard
on. He was obviously feeling horny still and wanted some action.I
really never get tired of sex with Elias and I don't see how I ever
could. I feel like the luckiest guy in the world most of the
time, but in the morning when he's like this we have some of the best
sex of all. The powerful, animal lust he feels as the wolf seems
to linger for a while just after he changes back to a boy again and it
carries into our lovemaking sessions when we do it in the morning.As
a seventeen year old boy with a body that would never advance beyond
that of a fit fourteen year old, his energy is boundless and that suits
me just fine. I could never have imagined my sex life being
anything like this before I met Elias. The only thing I liked
better than being ravaged by a massive, beautiful wolf, was being
ravaged by this amazingly beautiful boy. He pushed every button I
had no matter what shape he was in and he made me feel hornier than I'd
ever been in my life. All of that was intensified by the powerful
love I felt for him. He was the world to me and I could not get
enough of him.He pushed me over on my back and then crawled up
onto me as he put his hands on either side of my face and looked me in
the eyes and said, "I love you so much," then leaned his face in to
kiss me deeply again. I wrapped my arms around him and plunged my
tongue into his mouth as my desire for him began to grow rapidly.We
necked passionately for quite a while and I moved my hands to the sides
of his face as I desperately tried to drive my tongue further into his
mouth. He took my hands from his face and pinned them up over my
head on the pillow and he began to groan and breath more rapidly as he
started to grind his hard cock against me and plunged his tongue back
into my mouth, slurping and sucking as if he wanted to get every drop
of my saliva. I moaned as my cock rapidly inflated to full
rigidity beneath him. He was going at me with such intensity it
was obvious this was not gonna be a slow and gentle love making
session. He was feeling extreme heat and he was going to let it
carry him away. I love when he gets like this.He pulled
his face back and smiled down at me and said, "You make me so fucking
horny I can't describe it. You're so big and manly and furry I
just want to rub myself against you until my body absorbs into yours.
You make my head spin."I grinned as he moved his face
back in and kissed me again, then rubbed his cheek lovingly against
mine. He moved down and sucked briefly at my neck, then
moved further down and rubbed the side of his face around on my thick, soft chest
hair. He was really feeling that need for physical contact.
It must get lonely for him running around as the wolf for the
whole night having to stay well away from people and hidden from view.
My heart ached a bit for him. I wished I could spend my
nights out there running along side him but it just wouldn't work.
I wouldn't be able to hold down my job if I spent the whole night
running around in the woods. I couldn't keep up with him anyhow.He
latched onto one of my nipples with his mouth and sucked hard for a
minute while rubbing at the other with his thumb, sending waves of
wonderful electricity straight to my groin, and then he moved on downward
and kissed me along the treasure trail of soft body hair leading down
past my navel to my underwear. He kissed my throbbing cock
through my briefs and then turned his head to the side and rubbed his face
against my boner. I moaned and my hands went down to the soft
brown hair on his head and I held it and ground my crotch against his
face, feeling my lust building fast.He
started to breathe
faster as his desire built up and his patience with the foreplay waned.
He reached up and grabbed the waist band of my underpants and
lifted them up over my big cock head and yanked them down my legs and
off. The blankets went off the bed with him as he worked himself
downward to
pull my briefs off and threw them aside. He came back up and
drove his face right back into my crotch and snuffled and kissed and
licked at every inch of me down there. He licked at my big nuts
and rubbed his face in my pubes and licked the shaft of my cock and
then slurped my fat cock head into his mouth and began to bob his head
up
and down as he sucked me hard. I moaned and put my hands on the
back of his head again and began to thrust my hips up at his face.
I wasn't going to last long at all. When he wants me this
bad I only want him more and as much as I would like it to last
forever, I couldn't control my driving need to shoot my load into him.I
bucked harder at him until I could feel my cock head pushing at the
back of his throat and my lust for him began to bring my nuts to a
boil. The orgasm quickly spun up and out and I was wracked with a
powerful spasm as I grunted and forced his head down onto my cock
hard enough to push it into his throat. My balls tightened up and squeezed my load of cum up my
throbbing shaft to explode out my expanding cock head into his throat.
He moaned and pulled his head back until my cock nearly came out
of his mouth and as I tried to buck up into him to shoot again he
pushed down on my hips with one hand while putting his other around the
shaft of my cock and he sucked hard."Ahhh, fuck!" I shouted as
another spasm hit me and a long spurt of cum shot out onto his tongue.
He wanted to taste every drop and he didn't want me shooting into
his throat. I held his head as he began to jack his hand up and
down the thick shaft of my cock and continued to suck as hard as he
could. I shot rope after rope of thick cum onto his tongue as my
body jerked and clenched from the power of the orgasm and he moaned as
he swirled the big load around in his mouth and then swallowed every drop of semen I fed him. I started to come
down from the powerful high of the orgasm just as he was reaching the
peak of his lust for me.He pulled his head off my cock and then
reached down and lifted my thighs up and pushed my knees towards
my chest. I grabbed the backs of my knees to keep my legs up as
he drove his face back in and began to lustily tongue my asshole while
his nose bumped against my furry nuts. He was drooling and
moaning and pushing his saliva into my rectum as my anus continued to
pulse out the last of my orgasm. He spat on his fingers and
quickly wet the head of his cock and spat again to wet the shaft, then
he got into position and pressed the head against my anus and began to
push. I relaxed and pushed outward slightly to let him in and he
plunged himself deep into me as my still pulsing sphincter grabbed on
tightly to the shaft of his throbbing cock.He groaned and
immediately pulled back and thrust forward again, quickly building up a
rhythm as he stared down at my body with hungry eyes and focused on the
sight of his young tool plunging into me over and over again. He
was fucking his man and he was not holding back. The sensation of
his cock head slamming at my prostate as the shaft of his penis rubbed
against the myriad of sensitive nerves in my anus began to build my
orgasm back up again even before it could die off completely. I
groaned as my body began to spasm again as if it was trying to pump out
even more cum, but I had shot everything I had. The sensation of
my anus clenching against his tool brought him quickly to the edge and
he put his hands against the backs of my thick thighs and he leaned his
head back, opened-mouthed and moaning more loudly as he bucked faster
and faster. Finally he shouted out as he slammed hard into me and
his body jerked and the first wave of the orgasm hit him. He
clenched as his seed squirted out of him and into my rectum, then
he bucked and clenched and grunted again and shot another stream of his
cum into me. Again and again he slammed against me to shoot his
spunk as deep into me as he could while his intense orgasm played out.Both
of us came back down in unison as his bucking slowed and he pushed
himself deep into me and held the position for a minute, then finally
pulled out of me and let my legs drop back down on either side of him
as he grinned at me. He reached back behind him and grabbed the
blankets and pulled them up with him as he crawled back up onto me and
then wrapped his arms around my neck and sighed his satisfaction.Neither
of us said another word. He fell asleep in minutes as he lay atop
me and I lovingly rubbed his naked back under the warm covers. I
drifted off to sleep again shortly after he did.I woke several
hours later with him lying beside me, one arm over my chest and a leg
hooked over me. I gently extricated myself and went to the
bathroom to relieve myself, then down to the kitchen to have a light
breakfast. It would be hours before Elias got up and I had lots
of chores to take care of to fill the day while I waited to see him
again.A
month had passed since that first time that I'd video recorded our
first ever sexual encounter with him in his wolf form. Since then we've gotten together several times to do it in
the woods.
I can't seem to get enough of Elias in either form, but there's a
certain unique, base, animal pleasure in being taken by him when he's a
wolf. As much as I am versatile, even leaning more towards being
a top in the past, when he's a wolf and I'm a man I absolutely love to
be his bitch. The feeling of being deeply subordinate to that
massive, furry, dangerous, and amazingly beautiful creature is the most
satisfying experience I've ever had in my life.I'd
gone back to work two weeks ago
and had a lot to catch up on and two new contracts to deal with. I worked late several nights to get caught up.The
construction of the panic room was taking a lot longer than expected.
I couldn't complain too much, as the contractor had been kind
enough to agree to doing it in the evenings to begin with, but it
turned out some of his employees would not be available so he had to do
most of the work by himself. He'd done a good job on it.
There was no chance that Elias could
ever get through the metal walls and door even if he did fly into a
rage against me in the middle of a change. The corrugated metal
sections had been attached to the
existing frame over the drywall, ceiling and floor, and welded together
to form a solid box. It was then covered over with laminated,
fiberglass reinforced plywood and painted to look just like a normal
room. A metal door frame had been welded to the box and a large
metal door was hung in it. Large deadbolts driven by solenoids
came in from the walls right through the thick metal frame to engage
the door from either side and the top, to make the door effectively a
solid part of the metal box when the locks would be in place. It
was more or less complete now, but they hadn't yet wired in the
electronics, which were sort of critical for the whole thing to work
properly for us. We'd already furnished it with a small table in
the corner with one of the Tasers on a charger and a can of bear spray
sitting on it. We'd added a small sofa that pulls out to be a bed
if needed. The rest of the room was open with a large, deep pile
rug that would be comfortable for a big wolf to curl up on.Elias
wouldn't be able to use the room until it was finished and I'd then
wired in my own customization to the finished lock mechanisms. I
built a simple circuit using an Arduino that would allow the wolf to
use his nose to tap out a pattern on four large, touch sensitive plates
to unlatch the locks on the door so he would be able to push it open
and come out if he wanted to, once he was back in control again.
The monster he was when he was in between boy and wolf during the
change would not have the capacity to work the lock mechanism, and the
pattern was complex enough that he wouldn't have a chance in a million
to accidentally get it right. We'd tested the prototype and it
worked just great. I would install it to replace the keypad after
the electronic lock system was installed by the contractor. Their
electronics expert would not be available to finish the job for another
week or so, but the rest of the room was ready. It would take
them at least another week after that to wire in the UPS system, the
control panel for the intercom and video systems, hook up all of the
cameras, and finally wire in the keyless lock mechanisms for the door.
The room wouldn't be ready for at least two more weeks, maybe
longer.After
that first video we'd made a month ago, Elias had suggested we take one
of
him when he was in the process of changing. We had planned on
waiting until the panic room was finished to simply set up the video
camera in there, but the weeks of delays getting the room finished were
driving Elias nuts. He wanted to see the
process happen and he didn't want to wait for the room since we didn't
know for sure how much longer that would take. He convinced me to
let him do the recording out in the woods during the first half of the
lunar cycle while the panic room was still under construction. He
would need to be alone which meant he needed
to be able to work the camera himself, so the only time to do it would
be right at sunset just like the first video we'd made. I felt we
needed to be more careful,
but Elias really wanted this, and we'd gone another month without
incident even though we'd been screwing around together a lot out
there, so I
agreed we were OK to do this one last thing. I really wanted to
see the process myself, too. Elias would set up the camera on the
tripod while
still in boy form and hit the record button just before the change
started and then he would get into position and wait for the change to
hit. We wanted to wait until he was going to be a wolf for a
couple of hours at least so I could head out there after and gather up
the gear and bring it back home. We were cursed with bad weather
again last weekend and even though the weather had improved into the
week we'd decided to leave it until the weekend so I wouldn't have to
go to work the day after.Today
is Saturday, and tonight would be the full moon. We
were ready for him to take the video recording and it looked like the
weather was going to be perfect for it. He was anxious to see the
video and for the first time ever watch himself go through the change.
I was anxious too, but for different reasons. I wasn't sure
if I could handle seeing him going through that, but with him next to
me as we watched I figured I would probably be OK.Elias got up
a bit earlier than usual. Usually we like him to get at least
eight or nine hours of sleep to ensure there'd be no chance of him
getting tired and sleepy just before the change and possibly be asleep
on the couch or something when it happens. There would be no
danger of that today since he was so worked up about taking the video
so it would be fine. I made him breakfast and then we went out to
ride our bikes for the day. We came back and ordered Thai food
for a late supper, then finally the time approached and he gathered
everything together and headed out to the river valley on his bike.I
followed just before sunset. I would be riding there while he was
going through the change so I wouldn't be anywhere nearby until just
after
he was done. I would come into the clearing and we could screw
around
a bit before I took the gear and headed back home. I had
originally planned on not going out until a half hour later, but I
decided I was more comfortable being on the trail and heading in even
while Elias was changing in the clearing. That way I could ensure
there was
nobody else on the trail. If there was, I could make sure they
didn't go off into the woods. We needed to be as careful as we
could. Once we got through this there would be no more screwing
around in the woods for us. The panic room would be ready in a
few weeks and we could just mess around at home from then on.I
was on my
bike and heading down the path deeper into the river valley when I saw
a flash of sunlight between the trees and I slowed down. I'd left
a bit too early and the sun was still just above the edge of the
horizon and still going down. Somewhere else on the horizon the
moon was already coming up, but Elias wouldn't change until the sun
actually set. I needed to hang back and give enough time for the
change to finish before I showed up. I wanted to get there while
there was still a lot of light left so we could enjoy each other better
without me having to fumble around in the dark. Since the video
camera would already be set up and rolling we could make another fun
sex tape of ourselves. I was looking forward to it. I
casually rode
along at a
slow pace, smiling as I thought about how in just minutes a giant wolf
would push me over, mount me, and shove his massive cock into me as he
humps away at me and breeds me and shows me that I belong to him and
nobody else.The quality of the light seemed
to suddenly shift more towards grey and I knew that the sun had finally
gone down and I increased my pace just a bit. It would take me
several minutes to get through the woods to the clearing so Elias would
be finished the change by the time I got there. I headed toward
the spot where I would turn off into the trees to lock up my bike when
I suddenly heard a faint, high-pitched scream. I slammed on the
brakes and skidded to a stop on the trail and strained to listened as
my heart hammered in my chest. Was that Elias? Was he
screaming in pain from the change? Somehow it didn't sound like
his voice, but I wasn't sure if he would sound anything like himself or
not.I wasn't sure what to do.I
heard a roar that sounded
more like an enraged animal, again it was fairly faint. It had to
be coming from the clearing deep in the woods. That time it had
to be Elias. It must have been him screaming earlier too.
The change was underway and he was reacting to the pain. It
hadn't occurred to
me that it would be audible from way out here on the trail, but at
least it was fairly faint so it wouldn't carry much farther, and there didn't appear to be anyone else
around to hear it. I
got off my bike and began to walk it into the woods to find a tree to
lock it to while I gave some time for Elias to settle into wolf form.
By the time I locked it up and start heading towards
the clearing the change would be over and he would be ready for me.Before I even found a tree to lock the bike to, I heard a scream again, higher pitched like the first time, and my
heart nearly leaped from my throat. That wasn't Elias! I
heard the roar of rage again and then I heard someone shout, "No, don't
hurt me!" followed by a scream of pain.I let my bike fall over
as I began a mad dash towards the clearing. Someone must have
come across Elias when he was in the process of changing! Fuck!I
ran faster, almost tripping over low brush and getting scratched as I
pushed my way through tree branches in my rush to try to get there.
I wasn't sure what I could do but I had to try to help them.
Before I got to the clearing, Elias suddenly bounded out of the
trees in front of me and knocked me down."Elias! What the
fuck happened? Who's back there?" I shouted as I scrambled to get
back up and started to run towards the clearing again.I didn't get far before Elias reached me from behind and knocked me down again."What the hell are you doing?!" I yelled as I moved to get up again.Even
before I could get back to my feet he growled and pushed me down and
put his weight on me to keep me down. He wasn't going to let me
get up. I suddenly heard a roar of pain coming from ahead, in the
direction of the clearing, and I understood. Someone was changing
in there. Elias must have bitten them while he was changing!
That was the shout of pain that I'd heard. Now they were
going through the change themselves. Jesus Christ! How
could we have been so careless?My mind reeled. We had to
get to them before they ran away. We couldn't let them be like
Elias was, lost and alone and trying to figure out what had happened to
them on their own. We had to get to them and explain!I
struggled to try to get free, but Elias would not let me up. I
heard another roar from towards the clearing, but this time it sounded
less like pain, and more like anger."Please, Elias, we have to
get to them. Think of how you felt after you changed and didn't
know what the hell to do! They're gonna be in the same boat!
We have to get to them to try to explain. It's our fault
this is happening to them!" I pleaded.He growled and held me
down. He wasn't going to risk me getting torn apart by the raging monster that
was now thrashing around in the clearing out there. We heard a sound
more like a soft whine coming from the clearing and finally Elias got
off me and bounded back toward the sound. I quickly got up and
followed him. I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, but by the
time I crashed out of the trees and into the clearing there was no sign
of Elias or the other wolf we'd heard. They must have run off in their panic and Elias must have gone
after them to try to catch them. I looked around to try to figure
out which way they'd gone, but I realized there was no way I could
catch up to them anyhow.I saw the camera set up on its tripod
and still recording. Out in front of it I saw the neat stack of
Elias's clothing and his shoes, and out beyond that I saw a large tree
with blood along its trunk. I moved towards it and saw some torn
clothing on the ground. There was a small pair of shoes, one on
its side and the other half torn and bloody. My heart sank as I
noticed they were small enough to belong to a child. Beyond the
shoes were the tatters of more clothing with blood on them. Fuck,
we had to find him!"Elias!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.I
waited, but there was no response. It suddenly occurred to me
that the camera was still recording. I turned and ran over to it
and stopped it, then I used the menu to find the file and selected it,
then pressed the play button and watched the small screen.
Suddenly the clearing came up on the screen and
Elias walked into the frame fully clothed. He turned to face the
camera and smiled and said, "Hi, Jake. I love you. What's
that? You want me to take my clothes off for you? Why, I'd
love to!" He grinned and kicked off his shoes, then slipped one
sock off, then the other, and put them in his shoes. Then he
pushed down his shorts and stepped out of them, folded them neatly and
set them down on his shoes. He was still wearing his briefs and I
could see that he was getting erect. He pulled his t-shirt up
over his head revealing his beautiful, fit torso, then he folded the
shirt and put it on top of his shorts. He turned back to the
camera and smiled as he began to rub at his growing erection through his underwear."I
don't usually get turned on by this, but knowing you're watching is
sort of doing something for me," he said to the camera and he grinned
as he reached up
and rubbed his nipple while rubbing at his crotch. He then very
slowly and very deliberately, as if to tease me more, pulled the front
of his briefs
away from his body with his left hand then reached in and began to play
with his cock inside them so I couldn't see what he was doing as he
softly moaned. He then smiled at the camera as he slowly pulled
his underwear
down and his beautiful, stiff young tool sprang free. He slowly
pushed his briefs down past his knees then let them slip down his legs
to the ground and as they fell at his
ankles he stepped out of them. Then he turned around and very slowly
bent over to pick them up, showing me his tight ass in the process.
While still bent over, he looked back at the camera and he ran his
finger up and down his butt crack and fingered his hole lightly as he
said, "I sure wish you were here
right now. I want that big cock of yours in me," and then he
picked up the briefs and neatly folded them and
set them down
on the pile of clothes. He turned back to the camera and grinned
as
he took his young tool in hand and began to stroke it.Ordinarily
I'd be all over watching that but I had to find out what happened next.
I hit fast forward and saw his hand become a blur as he
worked his cock until I finally saw his head tilt back and his mouth
open as his orgasm hit him and he shot his spunk out onto the ground in
fast motion. I kept going at high speed as he smiled and sat down cross-legged on the ground
and waited for the change. I saw his lips moving like he was
saying things to me while he waited, then suddenly I saw him stand
again and double over and I hit the play button to slow the video down
to normal speed again.He grunted as a spasm of pain hit him and
then he straightened again. He cried out and doubled over again,
then went down to his knees and started moaning and almost crying as I
began to see something happening under his skin. I saw movement
just below the surface of his skin as though his internals were
beginning to rearrange themselves. He grunted in pain again and I
saw his rib cage suddenly cave in from the sides while it began to
expand from back to front. It was becoming narrower, but deeper
like a wolf's. At the same time I saw his head begin to change
shape and he cried out again as his hands came up and he held his head
in pain. His face began to morph right before my eyes, becoming
longer and narrower while the top of his skull became flatter and his
ears began to grow longer and change shape to become more pointed.He
was alternating between crying and groaning in pain as he fell to his
hands and knees and the change continued. His whole body seemed
almost to be expanding now like it was building up to explode.
His feet began to stretch and fuse and grow longer as his toes
began to get bigger. The front of his feet started to take the
shape of a paw while the foot itself stretched out and the heel came
back and upward to become one of the joints of his back leg a third of
the way up. His knees moved upward as his legs stretched up.
They were getting narrower as they stretched, more like a wolf's
legs than the thicker legs of a human. The same thing was
happening to his arms. His hands began to stretch impossibly long
while his fingers became thicker and shorter and morphed into the shape
of a paw. His thumbs became his dew claws higher up the insides of
what were now becoming his front legs.His head continued to
change shape and become longer as his whole body grew. His ears
migrated slowly backward and higher up as their shape changed more and
more towards looking almost like a rat's ears. In fact, now when
I looked at the whole picture, he seemed more like he was changing into
a giant, hairless rat. A pinkish tail had sprouted from his tail bone and
was growing longer and thicker at the same time. He was still
changing fast. He'd stopped groaning or crying out now. It
was almost as if he'd lost the ability to make any sort of sound while
his neck and head were going through such a major change, though I
thought I heard the occasional whimper.His lips pulled back and
his teeth began to take the shape of a wolf's as his muzzle continued
to grow. He was starting to look extremely dangerous now.
He was lean and muscular and almost the full shape of the wolf
complete with the sharp teeth, but he wasn't quite there yet.
Suddenly he roared in anger at no one in particular as he
regained his voice. At the same time I saw his skin darkening and,
quite suddenly, fur began to sprout from it. The beautiful pattern
of his fur began to take shape as his coat rapidly grew in. His
tail became bushy and the fringe of thicker fur around his jowls grew
even more quickly than the rest of his coat.He was very nearly
done changing, though I could still see some movement under his skin
like bones were moving into their final position when I heard a voice
say, "Elias! Are you OK, boy? Are you hurt?"My
heart
jumped and my stomach did a flip as I immediately recognized the voice.
Little Cole suddenly came into the picture as he limped up beside
Elias as if to try to help him, but it wasn't Elias yet. The wolf
roared and lunged toward the boy even before Cole reached him.
His jaws came down on Cole's arm and the boy screamed as he
pulled back and his skin tore and blood began to pour from his wound.
He instinctively turned and moved as fast as he could towards the
trees. Cole couldn't move fast due to his bad limp, but Elias
wasn't quite fully functional yet and was still having some trouble
moving as well.Cole
saw that he wasn't going to be able to
outrun the monster
and he jumped at the big tree at the back of the clearing and began to
climb it. Smart kid. It was his only chance to get to
safety. Unfortunately it was difficult for him since he could
only use his hands to pull himself up and his one good leg to push
with. The monster reached him before he could
quite get far enough up to be out of range. Elias-wolf snatched
at Cole's foot, but
came away with a torn, bloody shoe as he ripped it off along with some
of Cole's skin and the boy screamed in fear and pain. He looked back at the monster that was
trying to pull him out of the tree and yelled "No! Don't hurt
me!"Then, as Cole scrambled to get higher up by pushing
off a branch with his good leg,
Elias-wolf roared and lunged upward once last time, putting as much
force into his jump as he could, and his jaws came down on the boy
again, this time clamping onto his slim calf muscle. Cole
screamed in pain again but he had his arms wrapped around a tree branch and
they were locked in place. Elias-wolf tore a part of the muscle
and took it down with him as he fell back to the base of the tree.
Cole was crying now and in great pain as blood began to flow
freely from the bad gash in his calf. He struggle to get higher
as Elias lunged again, but the boy was out of his reach now.The
wolf snarled and bit at the tree in a mad rage. He looked like a
rabid dog ready to tear apart anything that moved. Then,
suddenly,
Elias seemed to start to come to his senses again. He shook his
head several times and paced around in a small circle and finally
slowed to a stop, looking like he was completely in control again.
Then he
seemed to notice the blood and the torn shoe for the first time.
He sniffed at it curiously, then he heard the boy's crying and he
looked up the tree.
His tail wagged in recognition when he saw Cole, then he seemed
to suddenly
realize what he'd done and I saw his whole body tense up and then he
whined again.Cole was crying, but he'd noticed that Elias was no longer trying to get at him and was wagging his tail."Why
did you hurt me?" the boy asked through his tears, and Elias whined
again and brought his tail between his legs and hunkered down onto his belly.Suddenly,
Cole seemed to jerk a couple of times like he'd been hit with a bad
muscle spasm, then he tensed and grimaced in pain as he was hit with
such a hard spasm that he lost his grip and fell out of the tree,
hitting a large branch as he came down with enough force to crack
several ribs as he spun and fell the rest of the way, nearly landing
right on top of Elias. He began to thrash
on the ground. Elias whined and moved towards him, but the boy
began to work his way backwards along the ground to try to get away as the pain of the
change began to take him over. My heart was racing as I watched
the poor kid start to be ravaged by a change he did not understand.
He was in incredible pain but he was just enough himself to still
be afraid of Elias and what he'd done to him.Elias seemed to hesitate, not sure
what to do, then he looked back past the camera, then turned and ran.
He must have realized that Cole was going to change now and there was no way to stop that.
He'd been bitten by Elias before the change was complete and he'd
been cursed. There was nothing Elias could do for him now.
If he stayed he would only enrage the beast that Cole would
become before changing into the wolf and Elias would be forced to
defend himself as the thing attacked him. He had no choice but to
make himself scarce until the change was complete and Cole was back in
his right mind, but in the shape of a wolf. Elias must have
thought of me at that point. That was why he'd looked back past
the camera. He must have realized I'd be on my way to meet him
and the still changing Cole would be a danger to me.I
watched
in horror as Cole's first ever change continued in front of the camera.
It was a bit harder to see in detail as he was a lot further back
at the base of the big tree, but it looked much harder than Elias's
change. It was obvious that Cole was frightened and didn't know
what the hell was happening to him. He was thrashing and moving
around and even tried to get up once when his legs were nowhere near
ready to carry him yet. He cried out and groaned and sobbed as
his body was wracked with pain and he began to expand at an alarming
rate. His clothing stretched and tore and burst from his body as
his shape continued to change. He went through it the same way
that Elias did, but he would fall over on his side and writhe, then
flip over and try to get up while in a panic, only to fall gain. My heart broke as
I watched him suffer through the long and agonizing transition that
played out exactly as Elias's had, but with Cole full of terror at
every moment, not understanding why he was going through this.Finally, it was nearly over, and what stood in front
of the camera was a beautiful, smaller version of Elias, but instead of
tans and browns and cream colors, Cole was white, grey and black.
The wolf whined, and paced back and forth, then bolted off into
the forest in a panic, still not fully Cole, but almost fully a wolf
and able to move fast.Nothing
happened for a while, so I hit
fast forward again and let it zip along until finally I saw Elias-wolf come into
the picture and I hit play again. Elias sniffed around and
immediately got wind of which direction Cole had gone and he followed
into the woods. With any luck he would track Cole quickly.
They couldn't communicate properly but Cole would remember Elias,
and would hopefully not be afraid of him after the attack.
If not, it might be a long chase. If Elias-wolf couldn't
convince Cole-wolf to come back here then he'd have to stick with
him until dawn when they would both change back. Elias the boy
should be able to reason with Cole the boy and explain what had
happened to him and bring him back to safety.What a fucking
mess! That poor kid! He didn't deserve this shit.
We'd done it to him out of our carelessness and our curiosity to
capture the change on video. He was going to pay the price for
the rest of his long life for our stupidity.I
didn't know what
to do. We had to make sure we found him. That was the first
priority, but I couldn't help with that. Elias should have no
problem tracking him and he was big and fast enough to catch up to him
and keep pace if Cole chose to keep running. Once he found Cole,
Elias would be smart enough to figure out what to do next.Suddenly
I heard a sound and I turned and Elias emerged into the clearing,
followed by Cole. The black and white wolf bounded over to me and
barked, wagging his tail. The relief that washed over me was so
powerful I nearly fainted. Thank God he was OK. At least,
as OK as he could be, given the circumstances.I dropped to my
knees as he approached and Cole immediately started licking my face.
I put my arms around his neck and said, "I'm so sorry, Cole.
This should have never happened to you. We did this to you.
We'll help you any way we can, don't worry."He whined and
licked at my face again as he continued to wag his tail. He
yipped and jumped up and down and barked, then raced around the
clearing in circles. It was like he was thrilled with his new
shape. Elias watched him like an indulgent parent watching his
young one cutting loose. It suddenly struck me how Cole was quite
a bit smaller than Elias. I realized the final size of the wolf
must be based on the original size of the human. Cole looked to
be about the size of a normal, adult wolf. Still much bigger and
more powerful looking than a large dog, but quite a bit smaller than
Elias.I watched as Cole continued to run circles around us,
occasionally leaping through the air as if to test how high he could
go. He stopped and chased his tail for a moment, then rolled
around on the ground, then finally he sat and faced us while panting
from the exertion."Have you got it out of your system for the moment, Cole? Can you come over here for a minute please?" I asked.The wolf stood and came over to where I was, still on my knees, and he sat in front of me still panting hard."Do you understand what happened to you?" I asked.He shook his head."Do you know what a werewolf is?"He
whined and nodded, but then paused and shook his head. It was as
though he was saying he knew what it was, but he couldn't be one
himself. He might be thinking of the scary looking movie monsters
he might have seen."You've got sort of a curse. You got
it from Elias. He's the same way. He didn't change you on
purpose though. He couldn't help it. You came at just the
wrong time while he was changing. You felt how much it hurts to
change..."He whined again and nodded his head."When you
change you're dangerous because of how much pain you're in. Just
like Elias was dangerous while he was changing even though he's not
dangerous after, and not before. He bit you because of the blind
rage and confusion he felt from all of that pain. He didn't know
who you were, or even who he was, while he was changing. You'll be
the same way whenever you change and we have to start getting you ready
to handle it. I hate to tell you this but you're going to be
going through that pain again when the sun comes up in morning.
You'll change back into a boy then. Tomorrow night it will
happen all over again and you'll change into a wolf. It's going
to happen to you almost every night from now on."He yipped and
wagged his tail as if he was happy about that.I shook my head
and sighed. He was so young that to him it was some awesome new
game. He seemed to think it was cool that he was suddenly this
'better' shape. I suppose I would have felt exactly the same way
at his age. It must seem incredible to a young boy to suddenly be
able to run like the wind, and to see in the dark, and hear every
little sound and smell everything around him like never before.I
realized immediately that he would have no problem whatsoever adjusting
to this new reality at his young age. It was his mother who would
suffer the most. How the hell was I going to break this to her?
We'd fucked up their lives irrevocably. The implications of
it suddenly began to sink in. He would never have a normal
future. He couldn't go to school anymore or it would quickly be
noticed that he wasn't growing up. He could never fall in love
and get married and have kids of his own because his body was stuck at
its current stage of development. He would be an eleven
year old boy for the rest of time, except when he was busy being a big
wolf.How the hell was I going to explain this to his mother?
She would probably want to kill me, and I sure as hell couldn't
blame her for it. Somehow I would have to keep her somewhat calm
about it though. Her immediate thought will likely be to try to
get help for her boy. It couldn't go well if she tried to get him
medical help. He would be studied and prodded and picked
apart and he would never be free again for the rest of his life.
I can't even imagine what sort of tests they would subject him
to. Needless to say his existence would have to be kept under
wraps by them. The government would feel that no one could ever
know that werewolves might actually exist and as such he would likely
disappear into some remote facility and essentially be a prisoner for
as long as he lived, which for all intents and purposes could be an eternity.What
a fucking mess we'd made of their
lives. We may even have fucked up our own in the process.
The decision about what to do for Cole would ultimately fall to
his mother. If I can't convince her of the danger of revealing
what's happened to him to the medical community, she would be revealing
the reality for Elias as well. They would want to know who bit
Cole so they could track him down and she would be desperate to help
Cole in any way she could, so she would tell them. They would
likely treat it like
a virus and try to track backwards to determine who bit Elias or who
else he might have bitten, and who they might have bitten and so
on. They would want to get a solid handle on how big of a problem
this might be for the population at large. We would have no
choice but to run, and try to disappear
before
they could get their hands on Elias. We'd have to change our
identities or lose our freedom forever.I tried to think of
what
to do next. The main concern now would be to help Cole get
through the change back as cleanly as possible. It might be a bit
easier for him now that he will know exactly what it is that's
happening to him going in. We couldn't have him go through it out
here or we'd have to leave him by himself. Elias would have to go
off by himself too or he and Cole might try to tear each other apart.
Given their size difference the winner of that fight was easy to
predict. I wouldn't be able to stay with him either, obviously,
or he'd tear me apart. He'd have to change by himself and then
he'd be a naked boy, alone in the woods until one of us could get to
him, but Elias wouldn't be a wolf anymore and couldn't track him.
If Cole panicked again during the change he might run and we
might have trouble finding him again afterward.The
best approach was to take him back to my place to change there. I
would explain to Cole that he'd need to
be locked into the panic room to go through his change but I'd be
waiting for him right outside the door. The locks weren't
functional yet but I would simply have to wedge the door shut from the
outside, and keep my weight against it in case he tried to bust out.
Chances are he'd be so deep in the throes of agony during the
change he wouldn't even be thinking of trying to get out of the room.
In any case he doesn't weigh a whole lot compared to Elias, and
I'd have no problem keeping him from getting out.Even after a successful change
we'd have a naked boy that we would need to bring back home to a
panicked mother who would be wondering where he was after she came home
to find his bed empty. Hopefully she doesn't own a shotgun or
anything. Seeing me leading her naked boy back home would likely
tempt her to use it on me. I'd have to get to her right away,
tonight, and try to explain to her why her boy isn't in his bed.
I'd have to take Cole back to my house now, then go talk to her
quickly and bring her back to my place to be with him. She
could bring him some clothes.What a shit show this was going to be. I sighed, and resigned myself to simply try to get through it."Cole, is your mom home by now?"He shook his head."Will she be home soon?"He
shook his head again. The one time I'd met Cole I hadn't asked
him anything about his mother. He'd only mentioned in passing
that she was working, 'like always', which I assumed meant she had two
jobs. I didn't ask him what hours she worked though."Will she be home tonight?"He shook his head yet again."She's working all night?"He nodded."Does she get home before the sun comes up?" I asked, hoping the answer would be no.He
shook his head in the negative. Well, that should help us a bit
when it came to breaking the news to her at least. Cole would be
a boy again and I could take him back home and we could both talk to
her. She would see him healthy and safe, like her normal boy,
before I broke the news to her about his new reality. This was
not going to be easy."Cole, we're going to have to go back to
my house so you can change back into a boy there in the morning.
I have a special room for you to go into that will keep you safe,
and keep me safe from you, OK?"He nodded. I looked around
the clearing while there was still a bit of light left, to see if any of
his clothes were salvageable. They really weren't. One of
his shoes was OK and must have fallen off during the change, but one
was badly torn up from Elias trying to catch Cole. The boy's
shorts, underwear and t-shirt where in tatters, torn apart by his
body's rapid expansion as it changed and his own claws tearing at them
while he was writhing in pain. As I looked at the shorts, a
thought suddenly occurred to me."Do you have a key to your house, Cole?"He
nodded and went over to the torn shorts and picked them up with his
mouth, then brought them back to me. I took them and went through
the pockets. I found the key and put it my own pocket. I
found a folded up five dollar bill in the other pocket and put that in
my pocket as well. Cole growled at me.I chuckled and
said, "I'm not robbing you, buddy. I'll just hold it for you
until you change back. You don't have any pockets right now.
Can I trust you to stay right here with Elias? I need to go
back home and get my truck, then go over to your house to get you some
clothes. I'll come back and park on the street at the top of the
trail. That way I can get you home without anyone seeing you.
You're a wolf now, and wolves have no business being around here.
You need to make sure nobody ever sees you. Stay with Elias
and I'll come back down the trail and meet you guys again in a little
while, OK?"He looked over at Elias, then back at me and wagged his tail and nodded."I'll be back in a bit, please don't go anywhere," I said.I
sighed and turned with the intent to walk back to my bike, but it occurred to
me that it probably wouldn't be best to leave the torn and bloodied
clothes of a child scattered around a clearing in the woods. I
picked up the backpack that Elias had used to bring the camera gear out
with him and I went around and gathered all of the torn clothes up and
stuffed them in it. I collapsed the tripod and stuffed it into
the pack along with the camera and I walked back through the woods to
where I'd dropped my bike. I picked it up and rode back up the
trail and home.I put the backpack on the kitchen table and got
the keys to the truck and went to the garage. I opened the
tonneau cover on the truck and put my bike in the bed, then drove out
to the street.I
had no trouble finding Cole's house, though it
had been a month since I'd met him and rode with him back there.
I went around back, since that's the way he'd gone before, and I
knocked at the door and rang the bell just in case his mother had come
home unexpectedly. There was no answer and no lights came on so I
tried the key. It fit and I let myself in. I found the
light switch near the door and flicked it on, then made my way through
the house. I found Cole's room and went straight to the dresser
and looked through the drawers until I found socks, underwear, a
t-shirt, and some jeans. Cole had a small table in his room with
a few pencils in a holder. It must be where he does his homework.
I put his five dollar bill on the table then I took a sheet of paper and wrote a quick note on it to leave on
his pillow in case his mom came home unexpectedly before I brought him
back home. It simply let her know that Cole was OK and that I'd bring him back home in the morning, and I left my
phone number for her to call. I put the note on his pillow,
picked up a pair of shoes for him that I found near the back door, and
then headed back out to my truck.I drove back to where the
trail leading down into the river valley meets the sidewalk next to the
road. It's a fairly secluded location across from a park that
wasn't being used at this time of night. It was nearly dark now.
Cole should be able to come up with me and get into the truck
without anyone seeing.I got the bike out of the truck bed,
flicked on the light, and I rode down the trail to the usual spot and
then locked my bike to a tree in the woods. The light on my bike
unclips to become a hand held flashlight so I took it and continued on
through the woods to the clearing.As
I came to the edge of the clearing I switched off the light so no one
would see it from the trail if they happened to pass. I
saw that Elias was chasing Cole around. The smaller wolf was
having a great old time. He'd sit his butt down, panting heavily
from the exertion and wait while the bigger wolf approached in
prey-stalking mode, then just
as Elias would get close to him Cole would dart off and the two would
run around in circles and figure eights until Elias would pretend to
get tired and slow
down and finally stop and go down on his belly. Then Cole would
spin and sit again, panting, with his sides heaving and his tongue
hanging out and his tail wagging, waiting for the next round. The
two of them
seemed to be having great fun together.I suddenly remembered
what Elias had told me in the morning when he'd got home after the
change, about how lonely it was for him out here when he was the wolf.
It seemed he had the perfect companion now. Cole would keep
him from ever getting lonely again. Elias would need to watch
over him and show him the ropes anyhow. They simply needed to
work out a routine where they would go their separate ways to change,
then come back together to spend their time in wolf form with each
other. Cole was smaller than Elias, but he was still a large and
powerful wolf. The two of them together would be almost
unstoppable if there was ever any trouble. They would help keep each other safe.Cole saw me emerge from the clearing and he yipped and
ran over to me and leaped through the air as he approached, turning
slightly sideways as though he expected me to catch him in my arms.
I don't think he quite realized that he was a hell of a lot
heavier now than he'd been as a thin, frail, eleven year old boy, or that he was a hell of a lot
bigger and heavier than even a large dog would be. I let out a loud
'oof' as he slammed into me and knocked the wind out of me and I fell
on my ass. His momentum drove me right onto my back with him on
top. He stood and yipped again and ran around me in circles.I
sat up and laughed as I watched him zoom around me a few times, then
race over to Elias and circle him several times, then back to me again.
He seemed to be thrilled with his new body. I remembered
the pronounced limp he had as a boy. He couldn't run before, and
even walking was probably uncomfortable for any length of time.
That was why he'd ridden his bike so much. He found it
easier to get around. Now he could run like the wind and he
seemed to be loving it. When he got tired of circling us he raced
off to the far end of the clearing, then turned and dashed as fast as
he could back across it, leaping through the air as he went as if to
show us what he could do, or maybe to test himself and see just how high and how far
he could jump.Elias loped over to me, panting from the chase
that must have been going on since I left earlier, and he sat down next
to me. I put my arm around him and we both watched and waited for
Cole to finally burn himself out. It was a full moon, so he would
be a wolf all night long. He may as well learn as much about his
body and what it could do as he could before I take him to my house. The full moon was
getting higher in the clear night sky now and the light it provided was fairly bright once my eyes
adjusted, so I just sat and watched the show the smaller wolf was putting on.Cole's
energy was so infectious I got up and charged
towards him as he was running across the clearing. He saw me and
slammed on the brakes, then turned and ran away from me as I chased
after him and tried to catch him. It was hopeless of course.
He wasn't giving me any breaks. I finally had to stop to
catch my breath. He saw me stop, then turned to run towards me.
Just as he got close he swerved aside and I lunged at him to try
to catch him. He ran on past, then turned and took another run at
me. Over and over I'd flail my
arms out towards him as he zoomed cleanly past me, but the closest I
ever got to catching him was to feel his fur brush past the tips of my
fingers. I must look
like some useless matador being toyed with by a bull.Finally he
seemed almost to be getting tired out himself and as he raced towards
me, instead of zooming aside, he turned sideways and rolled on the
ground onto his back against my legs. I laughed and crouched down
and started to tickle his ribs as he wiggled around, wagging his tail.
He started to playfully nip at my wrists and arms and push at me
with his big paws like he was trying to break free, then I let him go
and he rolled upright and ran away again. This time Elias chased
him and I laughed as Cole continued to evade him, finally running back
to me and hiding behind my legs. Elias ran up and stopped and
sat in front of me. I turned to Cole and he was sitting too,
panting hard. His tongue was dripping as it lolled out of his
open mouth and his sides heaved in and out. His tail was wagging
like mad. He seemed like one hell of a happy wolf."I think you should take a break and catch your breath for a bit," I said as I sat down in the grass.Cole
got up and walked around in front of me and then sat facing me, tail
still wagging. I reached up and scratched the top of his furry
head and then behind his ears. His head cocked and his eyes half
closed as I scratched him behind his ear, and his back paw started
thumping on the ground. I must have found an itch. I
chuckled as I continued to scratch him until his foot stopped. I
sat back and smiled at him. He was a beautiful wolf, just like
Elias. He was probably about the size of a big timber wolf.
He was much lighter over all in color than Elias was, and he was
a mixture of white, grey and black, where Elias was cream, tans and
darker browns, and black.It
seemed as though Cole was absolutely thrilled with being a wolf, and he
certainly made a good one, but he needed to realize it wasn't just fun
and games. He was going to need to learn how to deal with this
while keeping himself safe."I know this all seems like great fun
to you right now, Cole, but we really messed up your life in a big way
tonight. I'm really sorry about that. There's nothing we
can do to fix it, but I promise we'll be there for you from now on.
We'll help you adjust and you won't have to worry about ever
being alone with this. Elias will always be there for you when
you're the wolf, and we'll both be there for you when you're a boy if
you need us."He whined and leaned in and licked at my face
while his tail still continued to wag. I was sure he didn't see
any of this as any sort of problem. It was likely the coolest
thing that he could ever imagine happening to him. He hadn't had
time to really think about it yet. I doubt he'd be happy with the
idea that he'd never grow up and find a woman to fall in love with, to
have kids of his own. He'd never have the experience of making
friends all through his school years and growing up with them.
He'd never go to college. He'd never have the thrill of
striking out on his own and getting his first apartment and first job and first car.
He would be stuck in an eleven year old boy's body for the rest of his
life and, barring any unforeseen accident, there was likely no hard
limit on just how long that life might be. He would never live
like a normal person now, and it was my fault as much as Elias's.Elias
came over to join us and put his massive paw on my shoulder and whined.
I reached over and put my arms around his neck."It's not
your fault Elias. You know better than anyone that you can't
control yourself during the change and you don't know what's happening.
We both should have been more careful."He whined again
and we both settled in to watch Cole as he stood up, fully rested,
and started to race around the clearing again.It was going to
be a long night, but I felt it was best to just stay out here for a few
hours at least. I got the impression that Cole would not be
satisfied with being cooped up in my house for the rest of the night.
He'd want to keep running and testing the limits of his new shape until he couldn't anymore. I'd
let him get tired out as much as possible, then we'd head back up to
the truck and back to my place for the change. Then I'd take him
home and try to explain everything to his mother and face her well-justified wrath.That was going to be the hardest conversation of my life, and I was not looking forward to it.