I walked up to her slowly as if the whole world faded away and there was just the two of us and I asked "what happened to peter where's peter" she looked at me and sobbed harder then became frantic "it's you fault they said it was cause of you they took him they said that you refused them and now you must pay what have you done what have you caused to befall my Peter!?!!" she was so frantic the cops had to sedate her and she was going under anesthesia she muttered "all he ever did was be your friend" the cops proceeded to ask me questions but her words had me on autopilot her words had me strangely disconnected from the whole thing. the cops obviously didn't see a reason to hinder me and they didn't feel I had any part of this and that due to trauma she was just panicking and lashing out. as I began to wonder at it all I had an idea of what I was to do but two unforgiving sisters help would be required. I went to their place and for the first time was a bit touched by it. it felt ethereal almost magical and I couldn't place the feeling it gave. I knocked on the door and an old lady who felt like her years were way more than her looks answered. "your Ambrose and you slept with both my daughters. they told me if you showed up they've gone to take care of the verdalaks. they know about them and as Wiccans our job is to protect the balance." I was left speechless but quickly recovered and said "they took my friend Peter and my mother if they go they will be captured and killed too. do you know where they went and how I can find them?" she cryptically answered me with "follow your nose" she handed me some of their personal garments and when I say personal I say I've never tasted them down their before but I know their smell. she waited expectantly for me to do something her eyebrow raised and just watching me..I put the garments to my face and inhaled deeply till I could taste the scent through my nose. "the three of you have your fates entwined do well to adhere and be aware of that" she shut the door leaving me there holding two pairs of panties from two very different women. I rushed off catching whiffs of their scents here or there with their panties safely tucked in my pocket. I zigg zagged all over the city following their scent till I came to the woods at the base of the mountains. the woods everyone was told has been cursed for years and should not be gone into. this would be it my birthday was in two days time and I wasted enough time being on vacation from the world I needed to face my truth and I needed to face it here and now. my truth lies within those woods and I wasn't sure if I was okay with this or just strictly adhering to the thought that I was just looking for my friends. a primal part of me wanted what was about to come a primal part of me wanted to devour this whole ordeal like a starving man at a feast. I proceeded forward through the woods I knew nightfall would be fast approaching and I had to get into the woods fast. I had to free my friends and save the town from these monsters. as I moved forward I scented for the girls and made my way towards the mountains there at the base was a cave. I proceeded inwards towards god knew where and I hoped only that it wasn't an infernal gateway to hell. as I would through for what felt like hours I was inside and their was a sight to see one I wished I had never seen let alone it aroused me. there in the cave my friends were tied bound and hanging from a ceiling and all around bent over rocks were some of the fair ladies of our town their necks abdomens and various parts of their bodies even between their legs close to their pussies they were bleeding from fang marks and chunks missing their eyes stared off into space lacking of their presences. around each of the five bodies was at least three verdalaks per body feasting and near my friends there were five standing guard. my plan now moot due to being out numbered was essentially in the least the most accrued of idiocy for it wouldn't work. behind me whimpering and crying and thrashing sounds could be heard I spun around and their was the leader the one I spoke to upon the strange man's death. " so we return to speak well if you don't mind your mommy dearest is dying to say hello to me" he then pulled the woman who was facing him and had the same hair and look from behind that my mother did to his face and before I could finish screaming no he ripped her throat out. it was like the world was turned upside down and my life was completely destroyed as I watched him drop the body to the floor and it fell in slow motion. he laughed cruelly as I turned her over to face me and realized he was toying with me and it wasn't my mother. "where the hell is she you fucking monster?" " the question of the year and I wish I had an answer. you see your mother betrayed our kind by having a child with the lycan she was tasked to kill and have replaced with a loyal subject to our cause. one of our naivete followers who don't even know we are monsters." I blanched what he was saying it couldn't be it was not possible. "yes Ambrose your the son of Tammerlin and Adrius king of the lycan council. your royalty among the lycans and an abomination among our kind." he laughed again as if this whole thing was such a joke. I couldn't believe it my mother was a monster my mother was hiding worse than I thought. I couldn't believe it and yet it felt true like something clicked. "she tried to hide you by changing your birthdate and living among the unevolved but yet here you are the beloved kings subject led us to you." I was not sure but something didn't sit right "what do you mean changed my birthdate?" " your birthday isnt two days away it's tonight at midnight. here's our proposition your of both. therefore the lupine virus is stronger in you and makes you more capable of controlling the beast and the change the more you change. rumour has it you could go years without changing and appear normal if you wanted to. at least that's the prophecy depiction of you but you have to choose a side fight for us or fight against us one choice ensure your two lovers and your friend and his lovers safety the other is their certain death." he smiled at me expectantly like he though he had me in the bag my problem was I wanted to provide safety for my friends but I didn't like following orders and I refused to bow to another so I planned to save them my way "no dice I don't take sides now give me my friends back" he laughed and said "gladly boy because you don't know what we know" my curiousity piqued I stalled long enough to show an interest in his eyes. "when a lycan has their first change at puberty the lupin virus is so strong in them it creates a blood lust that addles their human intellect. verdalaks are pure blood lust 24/7 just without the hairy side effects and lack of control. your part verdalak part lycan your not even going to have the normal side effect of bloodlust because it will be three times worse like a shark scenting blood" he laughed and flicked his hands. his men began rubbing all four of them down with blood from the dead women while my friends hung suspended in the air. "I think you underestimate me but if your plan is me hunt my own friends it's failed cause if that were the case their is plenty of food right here already laid out that would distract me while they run." I was feeling smug and satisfied till he just grinned and said "that's the best part for a normal lycan yes but again verdalaks like to hunt primally and their is no human intellect left in them when they scent a hunt and possible fresh kill" he flicked his wrist again. I watched as the other verdalaks cut my friends lose and told them to run. it all started making sense my dream was collateral mix of things a warning of various events I could've prevented. having sex with my friends the screams of peter and a woman were his girlfriend being kidnapped and me killing them graduation and the planned celebration was the start of the school year and celebrating my birthday and their deaths. then Kat and Sam dead me destroying what human heart I have left in me. the dream made sense it was warning against many things being portrayed as one incident and I was too late this was the final incident. as I thought about this and my friends running in those woods I felt so hot like it went from chilly to humid I felt as if I was burning up so bad my inside were on fire. the world was spinning as I sweated profusely and my muscles felt tense and sore my skin so tight and itchy like a wool sweater. I felt larger and more powerful than anything around mey face tingled and ached as my jaw and muscles felt sore and stretched. there was no intense pain it just felt intense like the fire inside me was causing it especially the feeling of broke bones in my feet and like I had bone protruding from my toes and fingers and the ball of my ankle. I opened my eyes and roared the smell hitting me the sounds of running i tried to reason with myself but it was like I was driven and was just a passenger in my own body. the muttered words I heard I knew would follow me for years to come." the beast walks within the man by day and the man walks within the beast by night and only at first light will they walk side by side. he really is powerful." I roared tearing through the feats fast everything coming at me in a blur the screams the flesh being rendered the beginning and crying the cries of what sounded like a battle field and loved ones live being begged for then the shouts of orders for structure in the chaos. I don't know how many bodies hit or how many were fighting or where it was happening fast the more I tasted the more I wanted the more threats I found the faster I sought the threats out and removed them. I was going fast when it finally burnt out my system I found myself in the dirt crying hands out my body covered in blood. the virus I was born with had run its course and burned it's way through me changing my view of life forever. I was no longer human. I was no longer a man but now a monster. I was alone and wanted nothing to do with no one my loved ones destroyed my friends taken my mother missing my life a whole lie. I looked upon the bodies of Sam and Kat the dream came true it was a warning it was a vision that I should've adhered to. I walked out that forest never wanting to be there again.