But something cut him off from his thinking. Looking sideways, he saw the boy groveling and eating something hastily at the edge of the woods like a starved person who had found a feast after days of hunger.
"Hey!!" He yelled, a hint of panic slightly in his voice "You are not supposed to eat that, it is poisonous! That is Timebane!!"
The boy didn't answer, he continued feasting noisily on what appeared to be mushrooms at the edge of the wooded area, still growling like some beast.
He cleared his throat...
"Well, not that you could possibly die from poison" he added with a dawning realization.....
After feeding he turned at the man, his eyes glowed red, and with a bust of speed, he launched at him on all fours, still growling.
"No way in a thousand years are you defeating me," the man said with arms folded as he dodged the slash of the boy's long sharp claw, the claws made a whistling sound as they sliced through the air again and again, and the man dodged with folded arms as if it was nothing.
The boy leaped to a height of about twelve feet, twice the man's height, and pounced on the man from above, with a final blow that nearly pierced the man's shoulder, using gravitational force and his own speed.
The boy's claws passed him by, as the man stepped aside with unbelievable speed.
The boy snarled in the air, his mouth visible in the bright moonlight.
He had fangs, just like the man, and saliva spurted from his fanged mouth, some droplets splashing onto the face of the man as the boy snarled in the air.
The boy pounced on the ground on all fours as the man sidestepped his mid-air slash.
"Hmm..." The man wiped away the droplets of saliva on his face with his hands.
"It's useless, your atta—
The man couldn't finish the words as he started groaning,
"What—is—this?" He forced himself to speak, clutching at his stomach while groaning.
"Poison?, I—feel—poison—in—my—body—system"
He struggled to talk while clutching his stomach, at once, he vomited many amount of blood on the ground and started gasping repeatedly
The boy seemed to have regained himself as he stood on his feet now like a normal human, the pre-teen had grown into a full-grown young man, his brown hair tousled and blue eyes twinkling, his t-shirt and denim shorts were so tight that it seemed they would bust any moment, he was now about six feet tall, he looked at his fingers puzzlingly.
"What have you done to me?" He said with an inaudibly squeaky voice, gazing anxiously at the man who seemed to be struggling with himself, with the fangs in his mouth the boy looked like a bewildered bat trying to speak human language.
"What an—... The man said amidst heavy breathing, "Terrifying power... He said raspily.
He suddenly stood upright as if nothing had happened, he wiped away the blood on his mouth. "Ok... All healed..." He said and grinned. "So you have the power to use the effects of anything you consume? even poison? through mere contact? Fascinating..... Interesting... The Timebane, you have grown quite some years, you can't turn back to your previous age, the side effect of aging the soul will... Now that I know I can't let you roam around freely, I will make you serve me by force" he cackled darkly, " what a cunning power, I'm one step ahead in my plan" he clenched his right hand into a fist.
Meanwhile, the preteen boy who had grown to a young man in his early twenties continued looking at the man puzzlingly, he heaved a sigh and grinned too.
"So what you are saying now is that I can finally trample my enemies," he said clenching his right fist. "I can use any power as long as I consume what is related to it"
"Hey! Kid, don't get too cocky... You are using that power for me, I gave it to you, you must serve me" the man said smirkingly. "And besides the effects only last for some moment although for humans, it would have killed them within seconds given the effect of the poison"
"But what is with these claws?" He asked confusingly gazing at his fingers. "And I think I've got fangs, he said pointing at his opened mouth while moving his jaws and using his tongue to touch the fangs.
"Yeah, you are now a beast man, a werewolf to be precise, you are in your beast form" the man explained. "It's the power I bestowed upon you, although you haven't mastered it yet"
Silence fell between them as the chirping of insects and birds became audible in the woods.
"Huh?" He said puzzlingly. "Anyway, I don't mind" he shrugged. "I will use any means to get my revenge"
Immediately, the young boy who had grown to a young man in his early twenties retracted all his beast features, he was now in human form.
"Wow! It seems you have gained control, So..... you are coming with me?" The man asked, stretching his hands in embrace.
"What do you mean?" He asked smugly "I'm off to train the damn power so I can have my revenge," he said shrugging like it was the most obvious thing.
"No you can't, you need a leader, or else you will lose the power when you are on your own no matter how you train, as you are now, you are a beta, if you train more you will definitely attain the rank of a Delta in a few years" the man explained trying to sound convincing. "And that is if you managed to defeat one" he raised a funny tone.
"What the hell" the boy raised a questioning tone, "I don't have months, that damn president is in his villa right now enjoying his life," he said with a bitter voice pointing at the mansion afar. "I can't stand it for that long, he tricked my mum, he killed..." He couldn't finish the words as he burst into tears. He looked like a man-child as he sobbed.
The man, like a swift wind, appeared behind him, he placed his hands on his shoulder.
"You will come back stronger, as you are now, even if we work together, we can't defeat the eight Silver Mercenaries," he said trying to sound comforting while the boy who had grown into a man-child kept sobbing.
As if on cue, multiple wolf howls could be heard from afar.
"I'm Alpha Aiden, the leader of Silver Moon Park, What is your name?, kid" the man asked softly.
The man-child told him in a whisper.
"As of today, you are Beta Dennis for you have been reborn" he placed his hands on the young man's curly brown hair, they now stood at the same height.
"Swear your loyalty to me and we shall become family, a member of one pack"
"I swear my loyalty to your Lordship, Alpha Aiden" the Man child replied.
The man-child nodded, he had just been born, born for revenge.
"I can hear them, they are coming" the man whispered. "The Silver Mercenaries"
The Man-child flinched, "what should we do, we can't escape, this is a private island, it is surrounded and well guarded" he muttered panickingly. "But wait a minute, how do you get here, do you use a boat? Or ship?" He asked puzzlingly suddenly.
"Not really, as you have known, Verdant Isle is a well-guarded isle, but don't worry about that," the man said and closed his eyes and opened it back.
After about ten minutes, a helicopter appeared above, flying down to land, the sound of its blades could be heard as the trees in the surrounding woods were blown to a curve.
The helicopter landed beside them, the hair of both of them swaying in the air its blade blew around.
"Your companion?, Did you call them just now" The man-child asked, gazing puzzlingly at the helicopter.
"Kind of, I telepathed using wolf thought," the man said and smirked.
The man child look dumb, yet to grasp what he just heard.
At once a figure jumped down from the landed helicopter. It was a girl in her late teens. She was petite but slightly busty and agile, wearing a crop top and high wasted sweatpants with cotton slippers like she was someone popping out for a quick grocery run, she had a toned body with average height. Her auburn hair was tied back in twin ponytails, she approached them, and the long drawstring that threaded through the sweatpant waistband dangled as she walked.
"Good morning, your Lordship," she said, her legs shifted together at once, and her right hand shot up in a crisp salute as she bowed.
"Who is she?" The man-child turned and asked puzzlingly.
"Meet Zoey Thorne, one of my trusted subjects" the man introduced.
The sky was already getting bright as a new day dawned.
"Your Lordship, we don't have all day, I can sense them" The petite girl looked around cautiously with her brow raised, she was slightly busty and had tanned skin and she looked cute.
"I can't believe we have been fighting all night," the man said and laughed loudly and carefreely.
"Let's go Dennis" he said. The three rushed into the chopper and it flew away.