Scratching Those Persistent Itches
#2 of The Moonrise Chronicles
Never
would I have dreamed that the things of television and cinema were anything
close to being real. While it was true that I was a fan of the saying that truth
was stranger than fiction, I never would
have guessed that fiction, in this case, was based off of truth. Some things
were better left undiscovered. I was soon in over my head.
Maggie
knew what she was talking about when it came to the adoption process. Like I
had mentioned before, she wasn't any trouble to any of her foster parents. She
was just quiet and morose and generally unenthusiastic in her surroundings. Funny
that such a quiet child could prove to be so problematic. After filing all of
the paperwork and going through the court system, she went from being Maggie
McGill to being Maggie Peterson.
I figured that if I was going to be
dealing with her, I deserved to know a little more about what had happened to
her. She smiled with a wicked grin, showing those sharp canines again. It was
always so unsettling. "Well Mr. Peterson, my mother was a werewolf. Getting
infected from one can happen in more ways than one. A mother can pass it to
child, as happened with me. Father, he was a kind man, totally unaware of the
nature of his wife. She had always been very careful about staying out of the
moonlight. She loved father very much."
I was
beginning to see where this was going. It sounded like the plot to a "B" movie
from the seventies.
"It
happened innocently enough. I came down with a fever. Mother had a feeling that
it was the transformation trying to take a hold. She stayed with me that
evening, allowing him to get some sleep. She took up a post in the chair in the
corner, while I slept restlessly on the bed. About three in the morning the
clouds parted, and the change took over."
"I
changed, but being still asleep, I had no knowledge of this. Father came in at
that moment, saw me and yelled in fear. Mother, confused and alarmed, rushed to
my side, and into the moonlight. The effects of Great Luna hit her as well.
Father went out of his mind."
She
stopped to look into my eyes. "What he saw was nothing a sane, intelligent man
could come to grips with. Mother wasn't used to trying to communicate in words,
not in that form. Everything she tried to say came out as snarls and growls. Of
course, she was standing over me, and father simply went off the deep end
trying to grasp the nature of his sudden madness."
"Mother
ran out to get him, to calm him down. He would have none of it. In the end, he
picked up his grandfather's walking cane, and old antique made of solid wood
and topped with pure Sterling Silver. Anything else would have done no harm to
her, not even a gun. But silver; well you know the stories. Silver does in a
werewolf. Oh, we can touch it, though we dislike too in feral form. But break
the skin and it catalyzes our body into our human form."
"So you
see, when the police got there, mother was dead, lying in a pool of blood,
looking every bit as human as you or; well you anyway. Father was babbling and
I was gone. I didn't appear until the sun came up, for I was frightened and
confused. Of course, I remembered most of what happened once I woke up, and I
guess I don't blame father for what he did. They trucked him off to the insane
asylum and buried mother, leaving me to float from home to home."
I
sighed. "That's quite the story. I'd call you a liar if I hadn't looked up the
reports already. The murder weapon was, as you say, an antique cane."
She
licked her lips, a habit that always made me nervous. "So, you decided to look
for yourself? Good. I'd hate to think that I was shacking up with a fool."
I
cringed at her tone. "We are not shacking up. This is a formal adoption!"
"Yep.
And once it's complete, you and I will be linked as father and daughter."
"Adoptive
father," I corrected.
She
giggled; a normal girl sort of giggle. That made it all the worse.
"Technicalities. When we do it, it'll still be considered incest."
"We
will do no such thing!"
The
edges of her mouth dropped a little. She held up her hand. I could see the
nails quivering to extend and turn black. "Father, for that's what you are to
me now; I will tell you this. My body has a lot of needs, and blood and flesh
is only one of them. I know what you think of this small helpless looking form,
but don't be fooled. I have matured a lot in the past few years. I am not a
weak little virgin girl, quivering in a corner at the approach of some demonic
rapist. I am the rapist, and I am a demon. You would do well to remember that.
I have nothing against you; but by the full moon, if I have to I'll deal with
you like I have everyone else that I have found wanting."
I shook
my head to clear it. Her words were much too refined and forceful to be coming
out of her mouth. Apparently the virus, or gene, or whatever caused this mutation
enhanced her intelligence as well as her body. It would make home schooling a
lot easier. I intended to keep her out of the school system. The last thing I
wanted to do was having her go berserk on some half-witted kid at school.
"I
don't like to be threatened. Besides, what would I do; go running to the
police? They would think I was mad too. They would come to my house and find a
quiet little girl, harmlessly watching television and they would take me away
too."
"Television?
Maybe. I'll really need the internet. I intend to track down more of my kind.
Mother and I couldn't have been the last. So, in the meantime, I'd suggest you
suck it up and deal with it. I'm not so bad most of the time. Just don't get in
my way when I'm hungry. "
That
seemed to settle matters. I was still nervous around her, but after that day,
she made few references to her alter ego. It was only a few weeks later, when
she was reading through the local newspaper, that she got that look in her
eyes. The hairs on the back of my head stood up.
"What is
it?"
She
grinned. "Food! Apparently, there's another rapist on the loose. Those guys are
so eager for getting apiece that they get sloppy. Like the last guy. He was
sloppy."
I knew
better than to argue. She hadn't eaten much in weeks, just some raw beef and
curdled blood I had managed to get from a slaughter house. Beef Tartar I could
handle, but the blood was disgusting. I was certain she was famished.
She got
dressed in a cute little skirt, a flowery top, white shoes and little else. She
didn't have a name or description for this guy, nor did it matter to her She
would choose anyone who attacked a child, deeming them as worthy of dying. I said
little about her decision and stayed home, leaving the police scanner on. After
hours of nothing more than calls about domestics and car accidents, I went to
bed. I know I sound like a lousy parent, but I wasn't going to interfere with
her hunt. I was still sane enough to know better.
The
string of murders, if you can call them that, had baffled police for over a
year now. Initially, there was no tie between them, for some of the bodies had
been found in the dark woods and railways. After having lain out for days or
weeks, evidence of how they were killed vanished with the scavengers and the
beetles.
Robert
Murdock's body lay there for several weeks before the crows coming and going
into the building was remarked upon and investigated. By then, most of his
flesh had been stripped away. Cause of death was declared to be
undetermined. Somewhere out there in the
dark, another fellow was going to be adding his to the count.
It
might interest you to know that a werewolf, or maybe I should say the person
becoming the werewolf, can control the change. They are limited to what they
can do in sunlight, less so if they are inside during the day and fully capable
at night, even without a full moon. But the closer the days get to displaying a full moon, the more the
creature can change at will. On a full moon, you don't want to be anywhere near
them if you happen to be on their bad side. They can smell blood, flesh and
fear.
I tried to stay awake of course.
I had to keep track of her, now that she was my responsibility. That was a
joke. I might as well be asked to contain the sun in my pocket. She was her own
person, and she had her own morals. Church and god were foreign to her. She
worshiped the moon if she worshipped anything, and her god was blood and
violence. What I did hardly mattered outside of it being a weak show of
dedication to her existence.
It was
very early that morning when I woke to find her hovering over me. Not
levitating like a ghost, just sitting on top of me looking into my face. It was
her human face, that of a normal little girl's, but it was splattered in red.
"I'm home father!" she said joyously.
She
smelled of blood and worse. "I see that. I guess I don't need to ask how it
went."
She got
up and danced on the bed. "It was wonderful. He was so easy to find. Oh, he was
a stupid one, waiting in the same place as he did before. I could smell him
from a hundred yards. Unwashed, sweating, stinking pig! He was watching some
lady and I just walked right past him and towards the park. I could hear him
following me, so I turned down the darkest section where the trees meet the
creek."
I was
watching her raptly. She had my undivided attention because she wasn't wearing
her clothing. It was a sin to think the thoughts I was thinking, and I did my
best to tuck them away That didn't keep the sheets from rising a little at my
midsection.
"I let
him catch me of course, but I ruined the whole thing. He was going to rape me,
I was sure of that, but I was hungry. Too hungry I guess." She sighed.
"I
changed too soon. The poor fellow freaked out. I was hoping the dark would
cover my mistake, but there was a faint light coming from the park. For all I
know he thought that he was suffering a delusion and about to molest a dog.
I've never gotten to that point before. It hardly matters. I had to pounce on
him and rip out his throat"
"I
lapped his blood and ate of his flesh. Now he sits under the trees, covered in
dirt and leaves. Maybe he'll enjoy the carrion beetles as they scamper in and
out of his holes, as they carry him away, one tiny bit at a time."
I
gulped a few times. "I'm glad you found him. Now it's time for bed?" It was a
question. I wasn't about to tell her what she could or couldn't do.
She
danced and danced, giggling with glee. "I just couldn't go to bed right now.
I'm all excited and too worked up to sleep!"
Then
she stopped dancing. "I didn't get everything I needed tonight Mr.
Peterson. I'm afraid that your services
will be required; else I might get a little crazy. Blood lust is all well and
good, but I need to fill the old fashioned kind now and again too."
I knew
all too well what she meant. We had talked about this, and while I had promised
to handle this duty if the need arose, I was now feeling less intrepid about my
decision. I was an upstanding member of society, not taken to pedophilia.
I repeated
that assertion to her in hopes of getting out from doing this thing. She smiled
in a way that told me I was about to be in so much trouble.
"Bill.
Can I can you Bill? Or I can keep calling you father if you'd prefer. I respect
your decisions and your beliefs. But I have needs. And someone needs to fill
them. Since you have a problem with my human age, I suppose I must respect
that. And since you haven't made any comments or reservations about bestiality,
I guess we'll have to do this as human and werewolf. "
Before
I could open my mouth, she began shifting to that terrifying form. Her ears
elongated, as did her face. Her claws came out, her hair sprouted, her limbs
deformed and in moments she was a small, but nonetheless frightening apparition. She was still able to talk, but it was hard
to understand and she spoke in short bursts.
"Get
up!" she growled.
I
vacated the bed faster than the mind could comprehend. Sadly, she wanted me
back on it a second later.
She
settled in the middle, front down and butt up, almost like a puppy ready to
play. I found that my previous reservations about lying with a young girl were
nothing compared to mounting an animal. Somewhere down the line, that message didn't
make it to my private parts. They were stirring at the sight of her
willingness. I couldn't seem to convince myself
that not only that it was a forbidden thing, but that it was doubly and
triply damning. But I guess that in the back of my brain I had worked it out.
As an
animal, she was "old" enough, and if she was willing, why would I not go
through with it? It wasn't like anyone could ever catch us. She would change
back into a girl and no one would be the wiser. I did have my religious
background, but that was flying out the window faster than a cheetah in a dead
run. It was hard to think about telling my sins to a priest who probably had committed
buggery on an alter boy.
I
dropped my boxers, embarrassed that my erection was already solid and throbbing.
I got behind her and positioned myself. I was unsure how to proceed. Not in the
matter of sex, for I had some experience with that. It was the idea of doing it
with something that could tear me to pieces should it choose to. I hardly knew
what to do or how to do it properly.
Her
wagging tail and backside showed she wanted it. It was odd, knowing one thing
and seeing another. She looked cute, like a happy dog, yet she was something
dark and terrifying. Throwing caution to the wind, I grabbed her tail and got
us close together. I used one hand to guide myself inside her. I was expecting
a lot more resistance. I knew so little of anatomy, particularly reproductive
things about canines, knots and breeding. She was big enough to handle what I
had to give and then some, regardless of her physical age. She was presently
the size of a large dog, like a Siberian. Or perhaps I should say... like a wolf.
I
figured I'd regret my decision to do this. I was correct. Once I was in I never
wanted to leave. I was hooked. All those years of being an upright and
respectable man were flushed down the drain like old dishwater. A tiny spark of
primal fire lit inside me, something simple religion had never, ever been able
to do.
That
fire was soon raging in my loins. I was getting braver, hooking my fingers into
the fur on her haunches. She never once flinched. In fact, the rougher I got
the more she seemed to like it. Thinking back, I remembered that she seemed to
like the rapes she had endured as preludes to her feedings. I doubted I could
do anything that terrible, so I let myself relax to do what I wanted.
As I
worked her over, she let out little yips and growls. Her back feet worked the
sheets like a cat's when you rub that spot at the base of the tail when they're
in heat. I was really getting into this. I began humping her with some speed,
driving myself into her with more and more force. It helped that I hadn't blown
a decent wad in a couple of years. Now it was ready to pour out all at once.
I sunk
my finger nails into her legs in a painfully tight grip, and proceeded to
jackhammer her for the next five to six minutes. When I felt the rise in my
balls bubble upwards, I nearly pulled her hips out of joint with my slamming.
Her growling rose in volume until she broke into a howl. She stiffened up as I
broke loose inside her. Her tail went straight up in the air with every hair on
it erect like they were caught in a static electricity field.
I added
my own version of a growl to hers as I felt the painful flow pass out of my
body and into hers. I was becoming a beast personified, doing what I was doing.
But if this was wrong, I never wanted to know what right really was. As I
finished, I nearly fell forward. Only her stiffly held body kept me from
collapsing forward. Even her tail was as rigid as a board.
I
collected my senses and leaned back until I was teetering upright, reeling from
the best sex I had ever had. I was still inside her, and while I was tempted to
try again, she changed my mind by reverting back to her human self. I pulled
out and dropped to the mattress. She immediately curled up next to me,
literally purring like a cat. Apparently I had done well.
I knew
that moment that my life was going to be totally different from where I had
envisioned it going just a month before. I now had stirrings that should never
have risen to the surface, and I had desires that were dark and primal. My
previous days now seemed distant and drab. I was finally finding out what it
meant to be alive. And I found that I liked it.