Chapter 17 - The Bite ( 2 )

Thomason Edwin Rouk.

A lonely kid that didn't gained any love from his parents.

Ever since he reached the age of 6, his parents began to abuse him.

His father beats him up whenever he is drunk while his mother would turn a blind eye on that.

What's worse is that, she would also force him to steal things for them.

Then one night, when Thom was just beaten up by his parents, once again, someone suddenly attacked their house.

When Thom saw this person, he didn't saw a human, he saw an unknown being.

This is because, the being has a pure white eyes, sharp predator like fangs, is making a strange and loud hissing sounds.

That being killed his father and eat his mother alive but it left him alone after eating both of his parents.

And when Thom saw what was left of the both of them, he felt a huge sense of relief instead of grief.

After all, the days where he would be beaten up and abuse is finally over.

And that feeling was all thanks to the unknown being that saved him.

That was how the young kid name, Thom started to became a believer of the supernaturals.

Which also started his addiction to those said beings.

He started to believe from some well know monsters to the ones that was almost forgotten.

Starting from the basic supernatural creatures like ghosts to witches, then vampires to demons and some more.

He searched everything about them, either in a book or the internet, he look for everything he could.

And at one point, Thom also began to have a favorite creature.

His favorite supernatural being is of course the blood sucking monsters, the vampires.

And his beliefs reached the level where he wanted to become the vampire itself.

This is because, Thom thought that if he were to gain some powers, he'll be able to do whatever he wants.

And so, at the age of 14, he started to research about them but failed to find one.

Even some minor information about them is already too hard to look for, so it was to be expected that knowing their location is almost impossible.

But even when he knew that, Thom didn't stop and just continue to do so even as the years passed by.

And because he solely focused on finding clues and locations of the vampires, his social life absolutely went down hills.

Thankfully he manage to graduate and get a job as a homeroom and english teacher for the highschool students.

But even when he became an adult, he still continuously looked for the said supernatural being that he is longing for.

And when he moved into the Beacon Hills Highschool, he saw an unbelievable accident.

A 13 years old kid dodged a car that was moving at a speed of more than 35 mph.

The teen easily dodged the moving car with an unbelievable speed and agility.

And when Thom saw that, he thought that he finally find hope.

So he decided to talk to the kid and directly ask him about it.

But when he asked what kind of being the kid is, he was humiliated by him.

But Thom didn't stop, instead he started to became obsess with the kid.

He would mix thing that would make a vampire weak, based on the old books that he read, into the kid's foods.

Only to fail.

He repeatedly attempt to uncover the kid's secret, until some teachers began to call him crazy.

And as soon as that school year ended, he was forced to enter a psychiatric rehabilitation.

This is, of course, something that greatly angered him but what else can he even do about it?

He doesn't have anyone to get help from or even a person to call to.

No friends, family, or any relatives.

He is truly a lonely and pathetic human.

So all he could do is follow whatever they said to him and live in the white room that he was assigned to.

However, after almost a year inside the white room that he got, he received a visitor named Gerard.

Gerard is an old crazy man and he is the one that started to talk to him about supernatural stuffs.

He learned things like the werewolf, wendigo, the nemeton, and other unbelievable stuffs.

Stuffs that was not mentioned in the books or internet websites that Thom, himself, found.

However, Thom, the crazy teacher, of course believed all of it.

That's why he asked Gerard to teach him more about it.

And after three months of being taught, Thom learned that vampires had already gone extinct, way back a couple of centuries ago.

That's why he decided that it is better to become something more achievable than a myth.

To become a werewolf.

That's also why, soon after his lessons from Gerard, he went back to the Beacon Hills Highschool and acted like any normal person.

Only to get what he wants.

And he succeeded from doing so.

•••

And now an adult man which is about to became a werewolf is happily walking alone.

That man of course is none other than Thomason Edwin Rouk.

After walking for a few hundred of meters away from the forest, Rouk felt something happening inside his body.

"It's happening."

He happily muttered as his heartbeat began to change rhythm.

However, instead of feeling the power that's supposed to enter his body, he began to feel like his strength and vitality is vanishing from within him.

Rouk fall on his knee before he grab his chest as the beat of his heart continue to rise up.

His breathing became worse seconds after second and then, soon enough, he suddenly start coughing.

After a few more moments, a black liquid begin to come out of his ears as well as his nose.

Rouk then instantly feel a pain he had never felt before.

"Ghaaaaaa!! Hellpppp!!"

He shouted as loud as he can as the pain continue to torture his body.

He feels like there's tens of hundreds of ants that were moving inside his body and some of those hundreds were biting him too.

After enduring the pain for an unknown amount of time, Rouk noticed a unknown person approaching him.

"Heellpp... Meee..."

Rouk weakly spoke to the unknown person, who proceeds to crunch down and tried to help him.

However, just as the person is about to lift Rouk up, the ground besides them were shot by an arrow.

And then the arrow, which was shot at them, released a bright flash as soon as it touched the ground.

Unbeknownst to Rouk, the person that tried to help him is a werewolf and the arrow was shot by a hunter.

And that werewolf is now shifting and preparing himself to fight the hunter back.

"Gghraaa!!"

The werewolf roared at the hunter before he ran on all four and started hunt the hunter.

The agility of the werewolf were unmatched to the hunter and so he was easily killed by it.

After slashing and grinding the hunter's flesh with his claws, the werewolf regained his sanity.

"Fuck! I lost control again!"

He yelled to himself before he went back to Rouk and pick him up, to bring him to his pack's emissary.

Normally the werewolf would bring him to the hospital but after seeing his appearance, he decided that it is for the best to directly bring him to their emissary.

This is because, from the look of the person that he picked up, his wounds is beyond what a human can know.

Besides, their emissary is a doctor himself so it is a much better choice.

After placing Rouk at his back, the werewolf started to run as fast as he can.

"I need to hurry... Hey you, don't fall sleep alright?!"

While running the werewolf spoke to Rouk.

"Ple.. ju...st.. Ki..ll... M..e..."

Rouk replied in a much weaker voice this time, but the werewolf still heard him thanks to his enhanced hearing ability.

"What do you mean kill you?! I won't do it, I have already killed someone tonight!! I won't do it again!"

The werewolf said to Rouk, who tried to shook his head only to fail and so he spoke once again.

"I.. ca...n't.. ta... ke... it.. any... mo.. re...ple... ase..."

If earlier Rouk feels like hundreds of ants were inside him, now he's feeling like millions of needles were piercing his skin, organs, and bones.

All at the same time.

He would also cough from time to time and a mouthful of black blood would came out of him every time he do so.

The werewolf grits his teeth and tried to take some pain away from Rouk, only to shout half a second after the pain went to him.

Because of this sudden pain, the werewolf subconsciously dropped Rouk on the ground.

Soon after that, he started to kick the ground out of frustration as he yells.

"Shit! Shit! Shit! Tonight's my first night under the moon in control and this happens!! How am I supposed to tell this to Ennis!?"

Anger once again filled inside the werewolf's head as his blue oceanic eyes glowed and stared at the dying man in front of him.

"It's your fault!! Because of you!!"

The werewolf then once again lost his control and started to shift into his werewolf form.

And after that, the werewolf once again slashed and teared the human flesh into a little bit of pieces.

"Grhraaaaa!!!!"

And this time the werewolf roared louder than he did with the hunter before he leaves and went back to his pack.

•••

Meanwhile, after the werewolf left the dead hunter behind, a black van arrived.

An old man and a man who's at his late 20s come out of it, with a few more men behind them.

The older man crunched down and inspect the dead body of the hunter, before he stood up and said.

"Boys, looks like we'll do a short stop on this place."

The other men nodded at his words, before the one on his side went somewhere and not long after that, his voice sounded back.

"Gerard! look at this."

The middle aged man, named Gerard, approach his son and asked.

"What is it, Chris?"

"Look."

Chris pointed at the pool of black liquid on the ground before he moved his hands and added.

"It looks like our friend is not the only prey... so the second one ran in that direction."

Gerard nodded his head before he bent down and scoops the black liquid with his finger.

"This is not just a blood, there's something mixed with this."

"Isn't that just like the blood of a werewolf fighting a wolfsbane?"

Chris asked his father with a frown.

"Yes, they are similar but this one is sticky and have an unknown substance mixed with the blood.

Let's see where this goes, we might be lucky enough to find the body of whoever... or whatever this is."

Gerard said before he followed the trail of the black liquid that the second prey left behind.

•••

After walking for a couple of kilometers, they finally found the body.

Chris and the other men cringed at the sight of what's left behind of the human body.

"Did you discovered something?"

Chris asked his father after seeing that he had finished inspecting the body.

"A werewolf killed this person but it's not the one that made him bleed. It's something else."

"Then that means..."

"Yes, a new kind of monster passed by here, or worst, is living here."

Hearing Gerard's words, Chris come into a conclusion but trails off his word and let Gerard finish it.

"Let's go back for now, this short stop may take longer than what we want it to be."

And with that said, they all left.

As for the bodies, they brought back their friend's corpse with them, but left the second one behind.

Although Gerard had an idea of who's corpse that was, he still decided to let the Beacon County Sheriff's Department handle it as it is not one of his men.

Besides, this will also served as a warning for the other humans like them, a warning that a new enemy has appeared.

And with that, the group of men once again entered their vehicle before driving away.

But little did they know, a certain teen alpha witnessed all the things that happened in this place, starting from the beginning until the very end.

It is the same alpha who caused all of this from happening.

The alpha named, Drake Hale.