The One

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John gave him a quick flash of a smile. “I need to be outside for a while” he said in a quiet tone. He walked outside, looked at the moon and inhaled the cold fresh air. “What am I going to do?” he thought. Everything was quiet and everyone had gone to sleep. Or so he thought. “Hi twerp” John quickly looked around “Oh cra-” a fisted paw came right at his face and struck him right in the face.  He fell to the ground with a thud. “You need to watch your language there” Shadow said as John slow started to get up. “It just might KILL YOU” he ran over to him and ripped his right ear off. John howled in pain but Shadow bit him in the side, picked him up and swung him around. He let go and John hit a tree. His ear was bleeding and he felt like his back was broken but he knew that would be impossible because if it did then he would be dead. Shadow came up to him again. “You will never talk back to me ever again” he said, A smile came over his face. He took his paw and swung at his right eye. It was a hit. John eye was in huge pain and he couldn’t contain it. “YOU STUPID, FAT ID-” “what’s going on here?” came a voice. John recognized it. It was Tiffany. “Oh my go, JOHN!!!” she rushed over to him, Shadow still standing there. “WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?” she screamed. “He got the punishment he deserved” he replied.

“WHAT? HE DIDN’T DESERVE PUNISHMENT!”

 “I can’t see” John said in gasps. Tiffany looked at him. She saw that his right ear had been ripped off and his eye was bleeding. “You made him blind in the right eye” Tiffany said to Shadow. “Well he deserved it” he said with confidence. Tiffany helped John to his feet and tried the best she could to get him to his tent. “Wait” Shadow said. John turned around. “How’s your sister? Is she still the witch that she was when I met her?” Tiffany was shocked. She looked at John to see that his eye had changed color the left one was red now. She stopped helping him to see that he was bigger and more muscular. “NEVER CALL MY SISTER THAT!” He ran at Shadow and bit him in the neck. Shadow screamed and he ripped his neck. Tiffany had never seen so much blood in her life. It got on her fur too. Shadow went down with a thud but John wasn’t done yet. He took his paws and started shredding him to death. After several minutes, Shadow was just a few pieces and He’d had been eaten whole. After that, he turned around to see Aaron and Tiffany. John smiled and fell to the ground. “JOHN!!” Aaron rushed as fast as he could to him with Tiffany following. Several other wolves came out of their tents and saw what happened to John. Shadow’s Mother came out and saw John. “Is he alright?” she asked. “I’ll explain later” Tiffany replied, “Right now get him to our doctor now!” She nodded and howled. Several wolves came out and helped Tiffany and Aaron carry John to their doctor. “Oh I hope he’s alright” She thought.

All of the women and their cubs had been safely transported to Aaron’s tree and now the men that stayed behind would probably most likely never see them again. There was about 30 men that stayed behind to help fight and there was about 20 hunters/werewolves but the hunters were much bigger and stronger. John ran though the lines of tents trying to find everyone. He found Aaron first, getting extra ammunition and told him he needed to follow him. Next he found Matthias getting his ammo ready for the Miniature Bazooka was hard to reload. He followed both of them and soon they found Christine. She was in the medical tent helping Daniel get ready for the wounded. “I’m going to be staying in here” she said. John nodded and the rest went to the edge of the tents where the military was. Ashantii was there explaining what they were up against and what they needed to do. Once that was over she came up beside John. “They’re letting us get ready aren’t they?” she asked. “It would make sense because then they would get even more glory because we were already prepared and probably still lost” he replied.

“And where’s Christine?”

“She’s with Daniel.”

“Are you ready for this?”

“Does it look like I have a choice?”

“No not really.”

The clan volunteers came out from the ammunition tent with their weapons loaded and ready to use. “Now do you have any idea what you’re getting yourself into?” John asked them. They nodded. “And so do I” a voice said. John turned around to see it was Halo. He was badly scratched and still had red spots on him but he had a fighting chance. “Are you sure?” Ashantii asked. He nodded. He got in line with the rest. “Snap.” They all looked behind John and Ashantii and saw that the trees were shaking. “Snap…Snap…Snap…”

Silence. The trees stopped moving. “Ready?” Aaron asked. Matthias, John and Ashantii nodded. What happened next was not what they expected. A hunter walked out from the woods with his hands up in the air. “Please” he said, “Don’t shoot.” Aaron (who had gotten rid of his other weapon and now had a shotgun) aimed for the hunter’s chest and fired. I giant hole appeared in the center and guts went all over the trees as he fell down. “AARON!” Ashantii harshly whispered, “You weren’t supposed to fire!”

“No he wasn’t.”

 They all looked at where the hunter was and saw with horror he was getting up. The hole in his chest was closing and the organs were growing back. Soon he was standing up with not a mark on him. “I came to offer a treaty but apparently” he smiled and everyone saw fangs. “That’s not an option now.” The hunter’s back broke and he fell to the ground. His fingers snapped and grew longer and he started to grow fur. His arms and legs were huge in size and his chest had giant muscles. His face became deformed and then it grew forward and then he had red eyes. Soon he stood up and had black fur, Piercing red eyes and a nice set of claws. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers. Soon several wolves came out with not just axes but some of the same weapons that they had. “Holy crap” Aaron whispered. “Just stay calm” John replied. “Get ready everyone. Fang?”

“Yes?”

 John looked beside Matthias and saw he was standing there with and assault rifle. “Are you sure you want to stay?”

“I don’t think I have a choice now.”

“Fair enough.”

He looked back at the werewolves. “Dear God” he whispered, “We need your help. And if we don’t make it, then may we die in your glory.” For a few minutes no one moved. The only thing John heard was his heart pounding, faster and faster and faster. And then it stopped. “ATTACK!” Ashantii yelled and the men went forward and the battle had begun. Everything was moving in such a fast motion, no one could tell what was going on. John quickly looked and saw one of the werewolves was swinging his axe and was about to hit his head. He ducked and slipped under the wolf and fired. The bullets went all the way from under it and came out its skull. John quickly got up and looked to see if it was going to try again. It didn’t. It fell to the ground and moved no more. He looked around and saw everyone fighting something. One of theirs was firing at a werewolf but it didn’t die. He had a shotgun and was blowing chunks out of him but it didn’t work. “AIM FOR THE HEAD!” John yelled. The wolf didn’t looked just did as he was told. The shotgun blew the werewolf’s head into nothing and blood spurted all over the tents. The wolf looked at John. “THANKS!” he yelled but a werewolf came up behind him, pushed him down and ripped his throat out. John cringed at the sight of all the blood. He was tired of seeing it. He looked to see Aaron and had seen that he had knocked the werewolf down and was now constantly hitting it in the head. As soon as it was knocked out, He aimed and the same thing that happened to the other werewolf, happened to this one and Aaron had left the body. “Hello there little meat.” John turned around and got hit in the head with a rifle. He fell to the ground but rolled out of the way. “STOP MOVING!” the werewolf yelled. “How stupid do you think I am?” John replied, “I’M NOT GOING TO STOP MOVING YOU RETARD!” The werewolf tried to hit him again but missed. John took the opportunity and jumped into the air, aimed the gun at the head and fired. The beast went down with a thud and moved no more. “JOHN!” he quickly turned around to see Ashantii was cornered by three werewolves. “A LITTLE HELP!” he ran over behind one and tapped him on the shoulder. The werewolf turned around. “Good day fat boy” John said. “I have something for you. He pulled out his pistol and shot him in the head. Ashantii grabbed her shotgun and jumped over all of them. She was beside John and she fired at one’s head. A miss but the second shot was a hit. The head blew off the body and John fired at the other one. Both of the dead body’s went down with a thud. “Thanks” she said. “No problem” John replied. He left and went behind a tent to reload. He heard someone scream and something flew over the tent and landed in front of him, a wolf’s head. “HOLY SON OF A FOX!” He yelled and kicked it out of the way. He quickly reloaded and hopped he didn’t have to see another one of those for a while. “BOOOM!” Some large explosive went off and John could guess what it was. He came from behind the tent and saw Matthias and saw that there were limbs and a head laying in front of him. “Wow” John said. Matthias quickly turned around. “Did I get him?” he asked.

“Oh you sure got him. He’s laying in body parts in front of you.” He smiled and left. Another wolf came charging at John but he quickly dodged out of the way and fired and his skull. That one went down. He ran out of the way and looked all over him. There was blood everywhere. On the tents, on the ground and even the sky had turned a weird dark red color. Everything started to go into slow motion. He saw wolves shooting and cutting of werewolves heads and the same thing happening to the wolves. Faint screams and yells could be heard but nothing more. “JOHN!” He heard a faint yell of a voice calling for him. He turned around and saw it was Christine and she was cornered by a werewolf. Beside her was Daniel. His throat was ripped. John looked at what the werewolf was holding and saw that it was an assault rifle, with a bayonet. “NOOOOO!” he yelled and started to run toward them but was too late. She looked at him and he heard the sound of when someone is stabbed. He stopped and watched as his sister was about to be eaten. “YOU SORRY SON OF A FOX! YOU’RE GOING TO ROT IN HELL!” and soon after that his markings were back. Only they were a bright gold color and so were his eyes. Fire was sprouting from his hands and soon all around his body. Everything was back to normal speed. The werewolf stopped and looked at John and smirked. He picked up his rifle and aimed at him. John raised his hand in the air and a bright sword came down and was in his hands. It was on fire and had ancient writing on it. “Come on a lame sword and a wimpy gun?” the werewolf said, “This is going to be an easy kill.” John smirked and stood his ground. The werewolf ran at him with full speed and stuck his bayonet in John. “GOT YA!” he yelled but John didn’t fall backwards. He smiled. “You sorry retard” he said,“You’re going back to your master and never going to come back.”

He dropped his gun, took the sword in both hands and swung at the werewolf’s head. It went off with ease,but no blood was spurting out. He took his sword, jumped and stabbed it right down the spine. The body split in half and disappeared. Everyone stopped and Aaron, Matthias and Ashantii looked at the glowing being not knowing it was John.

 Ashantii took the opportunity and hit the werewolf in the head. It fell and she shot it in the head. The glowing being began walking towards her. She started to move back. One werewolf tried to kill him but he raised a paw and it stopped, not able to move. Another tried and he took the same paw and made it into somewhat of a fist. That werewolf’s skull exploded. He finally was in front of Ashantii. “Are you going to kill me?” she asked. He smiled and held her hand. To her what came next were shocks of electricity and soon he let go. She looked at him in surprise. “What was that?” he smiled. She looked at her hand and saw that fire was coming off of it yet it wasn’t on fire. She looked at her arms and saw they started to show weird markings like the one on him. Soon her whole body was almost on fire and she had the same eyes and markings as he did. A sword came down from the sky (the same one he had.) She grabbed it. “Wow” she said, “This is weird.” He left and went over to Aaron. A werewolf tried to attack Ashantii but she held out her hand and it stopped. She made her hand into a fist and the skull exploded. “Holy crap” She whispered. Aaron started to walk backwards his gun pointed at the glowing being. “Ok seriously will you just go away?” Aaron asked. He stopped and smiled. “Do you want to win this battle Aaron? or loose.” Aaron dropped his weapon. “John?” he nodded and shook his hand. He let go and soon Aaron was exactly like Ashantii. “Wow” Aaron whispered, “This is awesome.” He looked at two werewolves and they looked back not knowing what to do. One decides to charge at him while the other watches.  Aaron took the sword, stabbed it into it, pulled the sword out and sliced its head off. “Do you want a go?” he asked. The other one came charging. Aaron put his hand in front of him and the werewolf stopped. He pulled his arms back and shot it forward like you’re pushing someone. The werewolf shot back and crashed into several tents. “Now that’s wicked.” Matthias came to see what was going on. John saw him and came running over to him. He stopped in front of him. “John is that you?” Matthias asked. “Yes it is” he replied. John took his paw and shook Matthias’s hand. After a few seconds the markings, the fire and the sword happened. Once Matthias had the bright gold eyes, he smiled. “I can see” he said, “I can see.” John smirked. “So that’s what you look like John. Although I didn’t expect you to be on fire.”

“I’m not always though. Look at yourself.”

He did and was shocked to see that he was on fire. “See that werewolf over there?” John asked. Matthias turned around and he could see it. “Yes?” he replied. “Raise your hand up and make it into a fist.”

“Why?”

“Just do it.”

He shrugged and raised his hand out. The werewolf stopped. Matthias was surprised and then made his hand into a fist. The skull exploded. “Holy crap” Matthias jumped back. He turned around to see that John wasn’t there anymore. He took a deep breath. “I can see” he kept on telling himself. “I can see.”

“COME HERE YOU BLIND FREAK.” He looked and what he saw he wasn’t expecting in the rest of his lifetime. It was Shadow. “No” Matthias whispered. “NO THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!” “Are you sure?” Shadow replied. He smiled, blood dripping from his teeth. “I just wanted to say that I hate you and I’m going to miss ya you blind retard.” Matthias sat down his bazooka and took his sword in both hands. “Your choice” Shadow said and took his assault rifle and fired. Matthias was using the sword to block the bullets and once Shadow needed to reload, Matthias took his hand and put it in front of him. Shadow felt like a grip on his left arm. “What the?” Matthias slowly made his hand into a fist and the grip got tighter. Shadow dropped his gun and fell on the ground. “What are you going to do?” he said. “Kill me?” Matthias smirked and turned his fists to the left in one jerk. Shadow’s left arm broke. He screamed and Matthias enjoyed it. He aimed his hand at Shadow’s other arm, Made his hand into a fist and jerked it to the right. That arm broke. Now Shadow as screaming in intense pain but Matthias wasn’t done yet. He aimed both hands at both of his legs and made it into a fist and jerked. Now both of Shadow’s legs and arms were broken. “I have to give you credit squirt” he rasped, “I didn’t think you had the guts.” “If I had the guts to do that” he replied, “Then I have the guts to do this also.” He picked up his sword and stepped back a few steps. “I am going to make sure you die this time” he said, “But not so easily.” He walked up and in one swift movement he cut of Shadow’s left arm. Shadow began screaming again. Matthias smiled and then quickly cut off Shadow’s right arm. “You see?” Matthias yelled, “I do have the guts and I’m going to send you BACK TO HELL!” He took his sword back and swung at Shadow’s head. A hit. The head went off and Shadow was no more. Matthias stood there, victory was in his grasp.

Ashantii heard the screaming but couldn’t tell where it was coming from. She was fighting three different werewolves and knocked them all down like bowling pins.

Aaron heard the screams and stopped to see where it was coming from. He shot the werewolf in the head and ran to where it was coming from.

John heard the screams and sadly recognized them. “Shadow” he whispered and ran to where it was coming from.

They all met up at the same time and they all saw the same thing, Matthias standing there, with a head, a torso, and two arms in pieces. “Matthias what happened?” Ashantii asked. Matthias turned around and everyone jumped back at what they saw. He didn’t have golden eyes anymore, they were a dark red. His markings were also red and his fire was bigger than ever. “I killed that piece of crap” his voice had darkened. “He made my life hell for almost all of my life. His last few moments should be the same.”

“Matthias what’s wrong with you?”

“NOTHING!”

“Yes there is.”

“SHUT UP YOU WITCH!”

Ashantii looked at him with sad eyes. Even though they were glowing you could still tell. Matthias fell to the ground, screaming in pain and sorrow. “Matthias?” John asked. Instantly the fire and the markings were gone but when he looked at John, His eyes were red and you could see fangs from his mouth. Then the same thing that happened to the hunter, started to happen to Matthias. His back broke and he screamed although it wasn’t a scream, it was a mix between a howl and a scream. His fingers grew longer and claws produced from the bone. His chest got bigger and so did his arms and legs. Spikes started to produce from his shoulders, his legs, arms and back. “He hit it.” Ashantii whispered, “He hit the final stage.” A long pole started to come out from under Matthias’s right arm. He yanked it out using his left arm and then the pole became an axe. “Ashantii?” John asked. “Yes?” she replied.

“I want you to go and gather what troops you can and leave the clan and go to the tree. Take Aaron and Christine with you.”

 “John I am not”

“GO! That’s an order.”

Ashantii was surprised that he would give her an order but she respected it. She left and went to do what she was told. “Matthias I don’t want to fight you” John said. “I’m going to kill you” he replied.

“I know you’re still in there.”

Matthias came running at him and John dodged the attack. “MATTHIAS STOP!” but he didn’t. He tried over and over and over again to hit John but failed all the same. “COME HERE YOU LITTLE SQUIRT!” he ran at him again. John raised a paw and Matthias stopped. He walked over to him and put his paw on his chest. “Come out of him you unclean spirit” he whispered. Instantly bright light shot out from his paw and spread across Matthias. He moved back and watched as his brother started to scream again as he was being reduced to normal. Matthias’s wolf side jumped out from his chest. It was a spirit but in the shape of a wolf. “You will pay for this” it rasped. John smirked and stabbed it in the head. It exploded. He looked at Matthias and saw he was coughing up blood. Once he got up he smiled at his brother, blood on his teeth. “Can you still see?” John asked. “Oh yeah I can still see” Matthias replied. He smiled and ran and hugged his older brother. Even though he was on fire, it didn’t harm Matthias. They walked back to the clan to see that everyone was gone. Massacre all over the ground, bodies wolf and werewolf. Blood all over the tents and yet everything was quiet.  They headed up to the tree and entered in. Surprisingly there were a lot more troops alive then John expected. Ashantii was there but she wasn’t on fire and neither was Aaron. Christine lay on the floor not breathing nor moving. John walked over to her. He put his paw on her chest and once again bright gold light spread across her body. He stepped back and watched the light disappear. She didn’t move for a moment then she quickly gasped for air. John sighed. Her breathing returned to normal and she got up and looked around. “What happened?” she asked. “We’ll explain later” John replied. His fire was slowly dying and his markings disappeared. “Is it over?” one of the wolves said. “Yes” John replied, “It’s over.”

41

Aaron and John gathered a few wolves to join them to see and fix what they can in the clan.  John already knew what it looked like but to the wolves and Aaron, it was horrid. They started to fix the tents and eventually the blood in the ground would disappear. As for the blood on the tents, that would have to been done with some serious cleaning. Certain wolves (including Halo and Aaron) were told to pick up and get rid of the body parts (wolf and werewolf.) “Ah that’s just pleasant” Aaron mumbled. It was a wolf’s head with one of the werewolf spikes up through his skull. He continued on, looking for crap and then he heard a noise. “Squish” he looked down at his feet and jumped backwards. “AH THAT’S GREAT!” he yelled. He had stepped in what looked like the large and small intestines. He quickly rubbed his shoes on some grass that wasn’t bloody and walked around the gore. “Uh anyone?” a voice said. Aaron turned around and saw it was Halo. His voice was uneasy and his expression was fear and hate. “What’s wrong?”

“Come look at this.”

 Aaron came up beside Halo and looked into one of the tents. He groaned, turned around and puked. “You humans don’t have very good nerves do you?” “No we do” Aaron replied. “I’m just tired of seeing all this gore.”

“And can you tell who it is?”

“No I can’t. His ribs are pulled away to both sides and most of his intestines are gone!”

“It’s Fang.”

“What? How can you tell?”

“Look to the right. See that scrap?”

Aaron looked and recognized it almost immediately. It was a part of the shirt Fang was wearing. “Oh my goodness” he whispered. “Now tell me Aaron. Do you know which son of a Fox did this to my brother?”

“No. But I can tell you it definitely was a werewolf.”

Halo turned away and looked at all the tents. “If there really was a God why would he let this happen?” Aaron looked at him. “It’s a part of life Halo, everybody dies in some point of time and apparently it was his time.”

“You don’t understand Aaron, you’ve never lost someone.”

“Actually I have you retard I have lost my sister TIFFANY! So don’t give me any crap about me not understanding.”

Halo smirked. “I have to admit you humans sure do have a lot of anger.”

Aaron smiled back. “Look who’s talking.”

Halo patted him on the back. “We better get back to work.”

“Do you want me to clean up this one?” Aaron asked.

“I think you should.”

Halo left to see what else he could find. Aaron stood and looked at the bloody mess which was once a friend. He started to pick up the body from behind and when it lifted off the ground, the head fell off. Aaron set down the body, turned around and puked again. He took his bucket and put the head in there. Then he began to pick up the body again, he got half way then what left intestines slowly fell out and dropped. “Oh this is just wrong.” he quickly put the body into one of the other buckets and then quickly left the tent, swaying back and forth from sickness and the weight of the buckets. When he got to the fire pit (which was where they were supposed to put the bodies) he dumped them into the fire. He watched as the body started to catch fire and watched all the others burn to ashes. He walked away not wanting to see anymore when “Oh crap” he saw Daniel with his throat out. “Well this is just great” Aaron told himself. He picked up the body and carried over to the pile. Thankfully the head or nothing else fell off. He walked over beside John and said nothing. “Awful isn’t it?” John asked. Aaron nodded. “I had to get rid of Fang.” John looked at him with sadness. He looked back. “What are we going to do now?”

“We’re going to get rid of what we can, clean this place up and get these wolves back into living here.”

“That’s going to take a while.”

“Not if we work hard. Let’s go.”

John walked off and started looking into tents again. Aaron thought about what he had said. Maybe we will get this clan back together, maybe. He left and started to work again.