my destination, and I wasn’t quite sure if I was just hearing things when I heard the first shuffling of movement.
It came slow at first, like a small scratching you’d barely hear if it was silent. The mysterious sounds grew more distinct as I listened closer, and slowed my steps to a stop to listen fully. They were regular, rhythmic, and getting closer. Like footsteps.
My heart beating faster at that prospect, I reminded myself that the night was well lit and I was still very close to the bar. If anything was going to happen to me, it would happen in the middle of the woods someplace, or in a shadier part of town, right…?
The slow, crawling motion came closer, and I fought the urge to kick off my heels and high-tail it back to the bar. Maybe it was just an animal, I told myself, and I hoped I was right. When I heard the howl, I turned and ran.
I almost stumbled and fell as out of the woods in front of me tumbled a huge growling mess of fur and flesh, teeth gnashing and claws swinging as the animals tore into one another. In their haze, they’d fought their way right into my path, and I stopped dead, staring wide-eyed at them.
They were a frothing, undulating mass of hair and teeth and claw, and I wondered how on Earth these animals had come so close to me, fighting like this. I shuddered as I realized it could have been one of them following me. What was more bizarre though, was that animals around here usually stayed well away from humans. I’d seen enough carcasses on the side of the road to know that they’d probably learned their lesson by now. It seemed awfully…odd…for two (three? I couldn’t tell in the chaos) hulking mammals to have such an all out fight so close to a public area.
I wanted to just run back to the bar and back to Trina and safety and my cocktail, but something fascinated me about this strange coincidence. My heart beat hard in my chest, and the full moon shone down on us as I realized this was something very unusual indeed. These were wolves. Three of them in fact. And my area didn’t have wolves.
I stepped away slowly, panting a little as my body began to get worked up again. They’d stopped thrashing around enough to see a clear winner, and a bloody, panting heap of wolf lay on the pavement as the other two circled it, asserting their victory.
They must not have even noticed me watching them, because what happened next I could have never expected.
The sad lump of the defeated wolf began to spasm and move beneath its skin, hair and muscle contracting to show something different, more human underneath. I was scared as hell, but rooted to the spot as I watched the grisly transformation take place. Matter shifted and changed out of nowhere — which I should have known wasn’t possible, I was a scientist, after all — but when it completed, I stopped the scream in my throat just in time.
The bloody heap was the mysterious dark figure from the bar.
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