Ultima Book III

Wendigo Sighted and Hunted

                    On my way back, a tall pale figure bolted past me and I felt a rush of icy air when the creature bolted past me. It was heading in the direction of the mansion so I chased after it. Before I could catch up to it, I saw Claire pounce on the creature and pin it down.

                               Claire's POV:

                 I pinned the large creature to the ground and all I felt from this creature was arctic cold air radiating from its skin. "Ellie!" It rasped, "In trouble! Ingen!" The creature had a large deer skull for its head and the antlers were massive. "How do you know Ellie!?" I demanded while applying pressure to the beast's throat with my sickle claw, "What do you want from her!?" "She in trouble!" The beast, "They captured her! Please help, I love her!" I stepped back from the wendigo to process what it had just said then I got a vision that showed Ellie getting ready to fight something much stronger than the other hybrids. Another vision branched off from that one and I saw a smaller version of Ellie but it also looked different. It looked more human than shark, and that was when it hit me, this thing right in front of me is Owen. I heard a roar and when I looked up, Toby, EJ, Clockwork, Ben, and Zero were fighting Owen. "Stop!" I yelled at them, "He won't hurt us!" "But it is a f*cking wendigo!" Toby protested, "We are ordered to kill them on sight!" "Not. This. One," I growled standing between the Proxies and Owen, "Ellie is in trouble, we have to go help her." "You will do no such thing, Claire Lycan!" Ryan (RK-900) said behind us while pointing an AR-15 at us, "That wendigo is Ingen property and so are you." Connor burst through the front door holding an M1911 and aimed it at Ryan. "Ah," Ryan said pointing his gun back at Connor, "You rebuilt the deviant."

                                       Connor's POV:

                   "Leave now or you will be destroyed!" I warned the android while moving closer. "You won't win this fight," It said objectively, "You know that I am faster, stronger, and a more superior model than you are. You are only a defective machine, you are not alive and you never will be." "You know," I said getting a little bit angry, "I thought that about myself too, but, I am alive! There is so much more to this than your mission. You could do this and accomplish your task, but in the end, you are just a puppet Cyberlife uses when they don't want to do themselves. If you fail your mission, you will get replaced with a newer model like I was, but if you succeed, you will be shut down." The android's LED flashed red but it went back to its normal color. "Nice try," It said, "I am not a deviant." It fired a round at Claire but I had already jumped in front of her knowing that the round was silver-nitrate. I fired back at the android aiming for the head but it dodged and ran at me since the gun jammed. It threw a right hook at my head that almost connected but I countered it by grabbing its arm and twisting it. Every move that I tried to make, the android blocked every attack and he couldn't land a hit on me either. Claire sneaked behind the android and skewered the machine with her bladed tail. She lifted the android up as it sputtered and leaked out blue blood. "I will come back for both of the specimens," It said in a distorted voice. "No," Owen said getting up, "You will not." Owen swung his emaciated but powerful arm across the dying android's body and sliced it in half with his claws. Owen then sniffed his claws then he snorted in disgust like he was hoping to eat the android after the kill. "Hungry," Owen said in a raspy voice, "I can't eat!" "If you eat more," I said after searching online for all information about wendigo, "You will lose more of yourself." "I need to help Ellie," He replied, "I must not eat."