• Half Breed Wolf-Fang

    By Jeffrey Wooten

    17th Century New York. The streets busy with citizens walking aimlessly. The day becomes night and the light shines down and a full moon rises into place. Howling is heard throughout the small city soon to become booming even at the time of night. Hours go by freedom rings of the new year approaching. The sounds of roaring crowds of enjoyment are heard all around to the blasting of Firecrackers in the Manhattan sky.

    Nearby a family of two is watching out a window pane. " Dear, are you going to Sam and Rita's costume party tonight or am I going it alone?" asked a tall dark shadowy figure of a man through the small uptown apartment. " Yes Jake, I am ready. Do you have to be so beaming?" asked a younger woman. " Yes, I must be demanding for you to be ready," the man smiled joking," I apologize I will work on it?" "You better get dressed for the party what is your costume?” the woman asked Jake. " I am a Vampire and I Vant to Suck va blood. blah!" Jake smiled then frowned as though something seriously was on his mind." Why? Whose ever heard of a costume party on New Years?" The woman replied," Its your friends birthday? You tell me. He wants ever guy to dress as a vampire and every woman as a werewolf. He is just a tad bit off. You know?""I know," Jake chuckles. "Jewls what a New Years we are having on our fifth anniversary of our New Years together." Jake just looks at Jewls as if he is never going to see her again. Jewls asks," is everything ok?" Jake turns around walks forward and starts to speak but ends up in a muffle. Turns back around smiles and softly kisses Jewls on her forehead and replies," I hope so, I just have a weird gut feeling tonight is different. Something bad is about to happen?" Jewls looks at Jake curiously," Oh?" Jake shakes his head hoping the feeling would go away but it will not budge. " I do not think we should be going to this ball tonight Jewls it feels life threatening and menacing." Jewls looking at her husband notices how serious he looks and how pale his face had become as if he just seen a ghost. "Ok." announced Jewls, "we wont be going to the Ball we will just watch the grand finale from our apartment roof?" " Thank you Jewls, I love you, " Jake leans over and kisses his wife on the cheek.
    After a night of fireworks on the flat roof of the apartment complex the couple heads down stairs to their apartment. Jake slowly opens the creaking door. Unexpectedly "Whack" Jake feels blunt force and blacks out.
    Jake then awakes outside his friends costume ball on an outside balcony. "How the... Why am I here? Who hit me?" Jake pondered.” Ouch" feeling a bump on top his head. He removes his hand from his injury and realizes” I bleeding? What is going on?" Jake peers around the balcony "there is nobody around how odd?" Jake peers into his friends castle of a mansion. "Empty should have figured" Jake looks over the balcony into the back yard into an Olympic sized pool Jake starts to climb down the lattice on the side of the house.
    Suddenly he starts to slip off the railing reaching for the lattice." Oh my God i hope i do not die tonight." Jake frowns telling himself not to look down but he looks down anyways and wishes he could fly. Without notice the lattice starts cracking in pieces. Jake rushes to make it down too late Jake falls 9 feet into hard stone gravel and slushy, wet, green grass. Jake is knocked out again from the fall. He is seriously injured and is close to death.
    Unknown to Jake a dark figure is looming towards his unconscious body. The dark figure slowly bends down over Jake and pierces the neck skin of Jakes unconscious body and blood starts to ooze into the creatures dark blacked mouth. Burgundy red flowing blood gushing into the creature, feeding on the lifeless body of Jake until he had his full.
    Out of the under brush a vicious lengthy hound nearly seven feet long pounces onto the blood sucking creature. The creature squeals and starts to flap off into the thick trees. The flying creature reverses itself into going for another round of drinks of the unconscious Jake.
    Suddenly the gigantic dog lunges onto the flying creature and rips the creatures arm off and tears into the winged creatures head, instant death. The Gigantic dog runs north towards the city.
    Jake awakens to find a wolf cub next to his head. The cub was slowly licking the neck of the now conscious Jake. Jack confused looks around slowly feeling a slight pain in his neck. Massaging the bite he looks to his left and sees a headless winged creature. Turns around hoping it is just his mind. "It could be anything" Jake thought. Jake turns back toward were he sighted the monster. He saw a headless man in place. Jake ran towards the body. " This is Sam's body without a head?" confused Jake ran off toward central park back towards his home.
    Back at his apartment he walks into his own dinning room. He walks into the kitchen hungry. Hunger as if he has not eaten for 15 years? His throat was as dry as a desert. Jake was parched he reached from the refrigerator for water. There was no end. Jake felt as though he was dying every moment since he seen Sam's lifeless body. Could this be the affects of trauma induced after shock? No there had to be more he suddenly had the thirst for red meat? He thirsted for blood. Suddenly like an animal searching for it prey he tracked a sweet, nectar sent. Jake tiptoed into his bedroom where his wife was asleep. He realized she was the meal that he tracked from the kitchen. Jake kneeled over Jewls as if to eat a full course dinner at a table. Jack hissed and opened wide revealing sharpening and lengthening K-9. Suddenly Jake came back to realization what he was about to do. He was about to feed on his most beloved Jewl. He told himself no and backed off into to the bathroom. Jake peered into the bathroom mirror and looked at his palish, grey face and hissed at himself., "OH My God I Became a Monster" Jake frowned in disgust. Jake looked one last time at his refection and wept, He realized he now no longer had one. Tears in his eyes. He ran towards his bedroom balcony and opened the doubled glass door. Jake stepped out and climbed the railing. Jake jumped closing his eyes. Suddenly he is gliding through the night sky like a winged bird? Jake flapped higher and then perched above a general store. Jake waited and sat still.
    Suddenly a young woman steps out of the general store and walks toward a street lamp humming happy birthday to herself. Jake thinking” She looks to have just turned 21 i do not want to do this but i have to eat and he starts to sob. Looking at the girl and listening to his stomach. Jake decided to suffer he couldn’t do what that monster almost did to him. Jake sobbed I’m so hungry. Jake flew off the general store and took off into the distance and decided maybe he could live of livestock rather than human blood. Jake Started to cry, “I want to return to my old self its not fair. Why did you do it Sam? I thought you were my best friend but I guess all I was, was food.”

    1 year later

    Its New Years once more and Jewl is contemplating the year in a nut shell, “Its been one year since Jake left me. I know I will see him soon I just wish he never left me. I do not understand so I am waiting for my beloved. Anyways I am happy Rita and I have become really close friends I believe I can trust her with my life.” Jewl just smiles reminding herself of what her best friend looks like. The dark brunette tan American Indian had a shimmering glow in the sun lighting as she perfectly remembered last night. Jewl giggled looking at herself in the mirror brushing her blond curls think of how her and Rita will be spending New Years Eve. The two young women were planning on going to a New Years Eve party held in the park.
    “ Yay!” excitedly Rita ran into arms of Jewl. “ Are you ready to go yet I can’t wait I love the big booms in the air. I love all the spectacular colors!” Rita smiled a wide toothy grin. “Ok, Rita,” smiled Jewl, ”Lets go I am ready.” Jewl smiles and laughs. “ Rita make sure you lock the door on the way out you don’t want anything to happen to your possessions. “ Rita just smiles and nods.
    The two women walk out to the park and sit out a blanket unto the freshly cut grass. The sun is just barely setting among the horizon. The two young women open up a picnic basket and place the contents of chicken sandwiches and potato salad. They just sit in silence until night fall and the moon is nowhere to be seen. Jewl looks up and thinks to herself, “It appears it may rain. Hum… suddenly I have awkward feeling as if something really bad is about to happen?” Suddenly the first firework lights off. “Bang” burst of light is shown in the blackened sky. “Rita if it rains what will happen its your friends making the production?” Jewl looks off to her left, Rita has vanished without a trace. In-fact everyone has left. “Where did everyone go?” Jewl wondered.
    Suddenly a little ball of wet fur was felt on Jewl’s leg. Jewl looks down into the eyes of a Alaskan gray wolf pup. “Huh,” Jewl wondered where it came from. Jewl picked up the puppy and it licked her on the nose. The puppy dropped from Jewls hand and she chased after it. The pup ran through the high grass and weeds of the park hopping over fallen branches and twigs. The young woman chased the pup to the darkest area of the park where it is barren. A memorial site of fallen soldiers and heroes. There was a small memorial for her beloved Wolf. The wolf pup reminded her of her late husband that she missed dearly. Most importantly today since it is the first anniversary of her husband’s disappearance. She kneeled and said, “Jake if you can hear me wherever you are? I Love You No Matter What! I Miss You!”
    Sitting on top of the monument roof watching Jewl over head was Jake in his human form. Jake is frustrated to decide if he is going to go talk to his wife. He is contemplating whether or not his love will be scared and run for her life or truly mean what she says.
    Out of no where Jewl was viciously attacked from behind. Claws flinging into the air scraping the air clumsily trying to attack Jewl with all the might the wolf could muster. Jewl jumped out of flailing range and started a run for it. The puppy wolf started barking at the werewolf and bite the werewolf on his left rear leg. The werewolf flailed his leg back and flung the puppy wildly spinning into the air. The puppy was yapping all the way until Jake caught it half way upside down. Jake placed the grey wolf down. The Vampire charged the at a high rate of speed in rate of rage. The vampire gnashed his teeth at the werewolf’s skin but missed each time. The vampire quickly dodged every single wild, invasive, incursion. Jake dodged to and fro hoping, jumping, and jolting. The Vampire just was not fast enough he needed more speed to be able to make his own quick invasion. Jake was thinking throughout his mind “I have to move faster to get at least one lunge to the head.” Sweat running down his face, if that was sweat he had now idea anymore because he had no idea if the undead sweat. “Ugh this is impossible!!” Jake screamed bloody. Blood splattered each time he was hit, Jake was hit in the jaw and the nose over again until Jake punched the wolf into the jaw and went flying into a near by tree. Jake picked up a rusted rack that was leaning up against the monument and whacked and stabbed the fallen werewolf.
    Jake pushing the wooden stick into the werewolf mouth splitting the back throat to be sure the animal is put down. Jake runs over to check on the his beloved to be sure that she is not expired. Jake ran over to his beloved and could feel a faint heart beat. Just as Jake was moving in to make the bite of life or the undead immortality Jewl awakened and saw her beloved over top of her. She whispered,” Good Morning my love its been along time. Jewl sat up and started to cry. Tears were streaming down her face saying, “I thought you were dead you big meaner!” Jake brushing a tear off of Jewl’s cheek, “Shushing her until he could calm explain without her going into a panic attack. “Listen I promised to love you no matter what happens you’re my life. I will forever protect you.” “I know Jake what happened to you last year all I remember is us coming down the stairs and get knocked over from a vampire man?” Jewls Just realized what happened to her beloved all this time he was afraid to admit he was now among the undead.

    Later that same night
    Jewls walked hand in hand with her beloved. However he felt so cold it was unreal. His skin was very pale and he smelled of musk. For some insane reason she wasn’t afraid but extremely aroused. The two walked to the apartment complex were they began there life together 6 years ago. The two walked into the apartment and Jake noticed no changes since he left. They continued until they reached the bedroom and Jewls smirking pushed Jake on to the bed. He let Jewls kiss his neck and lips and ear. Started out softly then it got stronger Jake couldn’t control himself he flipped Jewls over onto her back and bite into her fleshy neck tissue. Unable to control his desire Jake almost bled her dry. Jake pulled away afraid that he almost killed his beautiful lover. Suddenly Jewls started shaking violently on the bed. Jake backed away for a minute and then realized how much in shock his beloved was in he held her. Jewls became a vicious monstrosity. She had become both werewolf and vampire. She was stronger than any other werewolf and faster than any vampire, Jewls became untouchable. That night love that was much missed had returned for that one night.

    The Next Morning
    Jake awakes with a massive hunger pains but he knows if he wants to eat he has to wait until night were he wont be as easily detected. So he waits until down fall. Jake is a stronger vampire now that he has fought off a werewolf and is able to survive the sun and its harmful rays. His skin becomes diamond like and is an irresistible natural gleam he would be easily spotted if he was to feed on a cow. Jewls held onto Jake as though he was her security blanket afraid if she let go he would never return again. So he waited for night so he could take his eternal lover with him. For he knows he would never leave her sight again. She truly was his soul mate. At the end of the bed was the Puppy grey wolf. He was asleep and had his head rested on Jakes legs. Jake realized the puppy hasn’t grown and probably never will grow due to he licked Jake’s wound back when he was first attacked. Jake asked him self ,“Has Shadow become a part of the undead too? I mean what does he eat he never eats anything I give him unless its blood from my victims.” Jake pats the grey wolf and lays back down watching over his sleeping beloved.