Caleb pulls the wolf through the woods towards her house, while Makenna tells him how she came to be a guardian of this wolf. She tells him about his mother and the way he glows, and finally they are at the edge of the woods to her house.
“Why are we stopping?” Caleb asks watching her closely. She is nervously looking around.
“No reason, lets head to the root cellar around back. It has a light and blankets.” Quickly they make it to the cellar and Makenna throws the doors open, and takes the steps down turning on a light. “Okay, How should we do this?” she asks.
Archer hears the voices as though in a tunnel. They sound far away and the pain in his head is too much to handle. He feels like his skull is going to crack open. He whimpers but does not open his eyes. Caleb looks at him and says, “I could carry him, but I would rather keep my throat. I can try sliding the sled down the steps.”
“Whatever, let’s just hurry! Dad will be here soon and I don’t want to deal with that.” Slowly he eases the sled down one step at a time, counting on the way. Four more steps to go. At the last step Makenna pulls the cellar doors closed behind her and turns in time to watch Caleb roll the wolf onto the floor.
“Hey! He is in pain, Caleb!” She yells and runs to him.
“Sorry, but he is heavy!” Looking around the cellar he sees shelves lines with dry goods, cereal, pasta, toilet paper, gallons of water. On one side of the cellar is dry goods, on the other is medical supplies. That is what he is looking for. He rushes over and grabs two wool blankets to make a bed for the wolf.
Makenna jumps up and grabs a water bottle and tosses one to Caleb. “Now what?” he asks.
“I don’t know, I didn’t see any obvious wounds and I don’t feel any breaks. I don’t think its rabies because he would be foaming at the mouth, and he only does that when you come near him.” She says smiling at him.
“Ha, ha. Funny, but he does more than that. He bites,” Caleb says holding up his hand. His smile fades when he remembers how the bite disappeared and he wonders what that means.
“Well maybe he caught a cold from you.” She says softly looking at Frisbee. “He seems to be sleeping now. I can go check Dad’s books. Will you stay with him?” Her dad has tons of technical books on animals.
“Sure, but bring me a soda.”
Makenna hurries into the house leaving Caleb alone with the sleeping wolf. He sighs. This break is turning out to be much cooler than he first thought. A glowing wolf and bites that disappear!
Frisbee begins to whine again, his body arches and a breaking sound comes from his back. His legs go stick straight and Caleb begins to back up towards the shelf. “What the…!” he yells.
A screaming sound is cut short from the wolf, as his legs slide to the side and begin to grow. His body begins to elongate and Caleb runs for the steps screaming. He explodes from the cellar and slams the door shut, slamming the wood lock closed so the wolf can’t escape.
“Kennna!!!!” He screams as he runs to the house. She meets him at the door with a scared look on her face.
“Gun! Do you have a gun? Call your Dad right now!” he screams running for the phone.
“What is wrong with you?” she yells grabbing the phone from him.
“HE’S changing! Holy crap! I think he’s a werewolf!” Caleb starts to look for anything that could be a weapon. He knows where his uncle keeps the shotgun. “Shotgun!” he mutters and runs to the gun cabinet. Locked!
“CJ! What the heck…” she starts to say but the screams start from the cellar and the sound of glass exploding stops her.
“WE have to go NOW!” he grabs her wrist and starts for the door only to yell in frustration when she jerks away from him and runs out the back door towards the cellar.
“Makenna! Not again! You are going to be the death of both of us!” he yells following her. He stops long enough to grab a big knife from the kitchen.
Standing outside the cellar door Makenna is terrified. Not of Frisbee but of what might be happening to him. “Please be okay,” she prays as she slides the lock open.
“You are crazy! You aren’t letting him out, Makenna!” His large hand presses firmly on hers.
Chapter
10
Makenna stares at her cousin and knows he is right. Whatever is happening might be dangerous to others. She lifts a small hand gun loaded with a special dart.
“Look, I grabbed one of Dads dart guns. If he comes at us we tranquilize him, he will sleep, not die! Then we can see what’s really going on, okay?”
“Okay. Good idea, but be ready. I saw some crazy stuff, Makenna!” Silence greets them, no sound is heard as the door swings open and the cellar is dark. Only the light of the moon illuminates the stairs below. The light that was hanging above has been broken and one of the shelves has been pulled over. Glass and boxes are everywhere. Caleb switches on his flashlight and holds his cousin back with the other hand.
“Wait! Let me shine the light around, okay.” A whimpering sound is coming from one area. Slowly they descend down the concrete steps. Caleb shines the light in the direction of the sound, holding tightly to his shaking knife with the other hand. When the light touches the corner where the sound is coming from they both scream!
They scream, and Archer screams back. He holds up his now hairless hands to block the light from the flashlight. A naked boy is crouched in
