The Prison

(Dr. Gyan Singh's Point of View.)

We managed to drive the raft toward east. We spent 2 days on the raft we were out of water and food. There was no island nearby. 1 more day later we found an Island we took our raft there. We stopped there and as usual I planned to go to search for water told Mr. Lakshman Prasad Ganesh Prasad Hanumaan Chettri to build shelter and Mr. Ajay Kumar to build fire.

Then we started to go in, when we reached a half a kilometer in the island, some werewolfs came and surrounded us. "They are Captain Kharatos Krypton's men." Shouted Mr. Lakshman Prasad Ganesh Prasad Hanumaan Chettri.

"Not exactly." replied an unarmed werewolf thet was in there pack (Group of Wolves).

"Not really." He spoke coming toward us, then he stopped around a meter away from us.

"We are the 40th Werewolf Battalian of Amanaviye Dweep and I am the commander of this battalion, Vrika - The Werewolf (In folklore, a werewolf, or occasionally lycanthrope, is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon. The werewolf is a widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants, which are related by a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying European folklore developed during the medieval period. From the early modern period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Like the witchcraft trials as a whole, the trial of supposed werewolves emerged in what is now Switzerland (especially the Valais and Vaud) in the early 15th century and spread throughout Europe in the 16th, peaking in the 17th and subsiding by the 18th century. The persecution of werewolves and the associated folklore is an integral part of the "witch-hunt" phenomenon, albeit a marginal one, accusations of lycanthropy being involved in only a small fraction of witchcraft trials. During the early period, accusations of lycanthropy (transformation into a wolf) were mixed with accusations of wolf-riding or wolf-charming. The case of Peter Stumpp (1589) led to a significant peak in both interest in and persecution of supposed werewolves, primarily in French-speaking and German-speaking Europe. The phenomenon persisted longest in Bavaria and Austria, with persecution of wolf-charmers recorded until well after 1650, the final cases taking place in the early 18th century in Carinthia and Styria. After the end of the witch-trials, the werewolf became of interest in folklore studies and in the emerging Gothic horror genre; werewolf fiction as a genre has pre-modern precedents in medieval romances (e.g. Bisclavret and Guillaume de Palerme) and developed in the 18th century out of the "semi-fictional" chap book tradition. The trappings of horror literature in the 20th century became part of the horror and fantasy genre of modern popular culture. The word werewolf comes from the Old English word werwulf, a compound of wer "man" and wulf "wolf". The only Old High German testimony is in the form of a given name, Weriuuolf, although an early Middle High German werwolf is found in Burchard of Worms and Berthold of Regensburg. The word or concept does not occur in medieval German poetry or fiction, gaining popularity only from the 15th century. Middle Latin gerulphus Anglo-Norman garwalf, Old Frankish *wariwulf. Old Norse had the cognate varúlfur, but because of the high importance of werewolves in Norse mythology, there were alternative terms such as ulfhéðinn ("one in wolf-skin", referring still to the totemistic or cultic adoption of wolf-nature rather than the superstitious belief in actual shapeshifting). In modern Scandinavian, kveldulf was also used "evening-wolf", presumably after the name of Kveldulf Bjalfason, a historical berserker of the 9th century who figures in the Icelandic sagas. The werewolf folklore found in Europe harks back to a common development during the Middle Ages, arising in the context of Christianisation, and the associated interpretation of pre-Christian mythology in Christian terms. Their underlying common origin can be traced back to Proto-Indo-European mythology, where lycanthropy is reconstructed as an aspect of the initiation of the warrior class. This is reflected in Iron Age Europe in the Tierkrieger depictions from the Germanic sphere, among others. The standard comparative overview of this aspect of Indo-European mythology is McCone (1987). Such transformations of "men into wolves" in pagan cult were associated with the devil from the early medieval perspective. The concept of the werewolf in Western and Northern Europe is strongly influenced by the role of the wolf in Germanic paganism (e.g. the French loup-garou is ultimately a loan from the Germanic term), but there are related traditions in other parts of Europe which were not necessarily influenced by Germanic tradition, especially in Slavic Europe and the Balkans, and possibly in areas bordering the Indo-European sphere (the Caucasus) or where Indo-European cultures have been replaced by military conquest in the medieval era (Hungary, Anatolia). A few references to men changing into wolves are found in Ancient Greek literature and mythology. Herodotus, in his Histories, wrote that the Neuri, a tribe he places to the north-east of Scythia, were all transformed into wolves once every year for several days, and then changed back to their human shape. This tale was also mentioned by Pomponius Mela. There were numerous reports of werewolf attacks – and consequent court trials – in 16th-century France. In some of the cases there was clear evidence against the accused of murder and cannibalism, but with no of association with wolves. In other cases people have been terrified by such creatures, such as that of Gilles Garnier in Dole in 1573, who was convicted of being a werewolf. Common Turkic folklore holds a different, reverential light to the werewolf legends in that Turkic Central Asian shamans after performing long and arduous rites would voluntarily be able to transform into the humanoid "Kurtadam" (literally meaning Wolfman). Since the wolf was the totemic ancestor animal of the Turkic peoples, they would be respectful of any shaman who was in such a form.)." He spoke and then he took a break. He took a long breath and asked, "Who are you intruders? And Why are you entering our territory."

"We are not intruders, we are just members of a Indian task force. We were on mission we were 6 Me Dr. Gyan Singh, Dr. Avinash Sarvottam Verma, Dr. Apyash Bajrang Kshitij Singh, Mr. Lakshman Prasad Ganesh Prasad Hanumaan Chettri and Mr. Ajay Kumar but 3 of us were killed by Captain Kharatos Krypton's crew. Now only we 3, me, Mr. Ajay Kumar and Mr. Lakshman Prasad Ganesh Prasad Hanumaan Chettri are alive and we came here to save our lives." I answered.

"Captain Kharatos Krypton only attacks those who tey to invade our territory. Why did he attacked you if you are innocent?" Asked Vrika.

"We were just going from his way." Mr. Lakshman Prasad Ganesh Prasad Hanumaan Chettri answered.

"Why?" Vrika asked.

"We are in search of Honeycomb Lily, we were going to Honeycomb Lily water field to collect some Honeycomb Lilies." I replied.

As soon as I said that Vrika ordered his army to imprison us. The werewolves tied us up and took us to the prison. They prisoned all of us in the same cell.

TO BE CONTINUED