Chapter 3: Meeting of Minds

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The moon shone softly as always, the quiet and dark forest emitted almost no noise other than the purest and most beautiful sounds of nature. Crickets played their usual song, preparing for another long night ahead while a cold breeze blew against the trees in the forest, making this one of the only notable sounds amidst all that melodic silence, and amidst all this serenity, someone full of feelings and completely out of his mind ran desperately without knowing where to go, he passed through several trees, bumping into everything in front of him like a runaway train, trying to silence his own thoughts and failing miserably. To make everything worse, his senses had heightened so much that even the sound of the wind was starting to irritate him, as if nature itself was whispering in his ear words that were impossible to understand, almost as if it were guiding him through the forest until it started to irritate him more than it should, making him start running faster than he already was, and without fear of the consequences he ran with everything he had towards a huge rock that was in his path, destroying a sign that was in the middle of the path as if it were nothing, and without thinking twice he charged at it, headbutting it with all the strength in his body, but something strange happens. His body is stopped by something that holds him before he even thinks about doing that, and slowly he realizes that he was in a giant spider web, which was woven while he ran through the forest like an uncontrolled beast.

"Argh! Hmpf...! LET ME GO!!!" - He says trying to free himself using all his strength and trying to cut the line with his own teeth, and when he was almost breaking that web he feels something coming out from behind his head, this something goes down to his shoulder and speaks with a voice somewhat familiar to the boy, it was Frank the spider from the junk room.

"Boy, I don't want to be bossy and all that, but you need to relax, man. You broke down the door to my house and ran someone over! You need to calm down, brother. Let's have some tea, chat, play cards. The night is young, man! Let's make the most of it, that'll be much better than smashing your own head against a rock!" - He says to Vander hoping he could at least consider his request since they were both in a complicated situation at the moment. Vander relaxes his shoulders and makes it clear that he would cooperate, and then trusting him Frank slowly releases the webs until he frees one of the boy's arms, he then begins to release the rest until Vander brings his hand closer to Frank, and without difficulty he gives the spider such a strong flick that he flies as if it weighed nothing at a comically fast speed, but before it disappears into the forest, Frank says his last words.

"You just had to say nooo-!...." - And in the blink of an eye the poor spider disappears into the forest, now with Frank out Vander finally frees himself from the webs that remained on his feet, stretching right after he had freed himself and without further ado he prepares to go back to wandering aimlessly through the forest, until then he hears a sudden sound with his sharp hearing coming from a tree behind him that immediately catches his attention. Slowly he begins to approach the tree, until out of nowhere he hears a single word coming from above him.

"Ferro Torquem." - Something heavy and similar to an iron collar falls from the sky straight at Vander, grabbing onto him and weighing down his neck, making him fall to the ground at the same moment. This pure steel collar is magically placed on him, and without much mystery the people responsible for this decide to appear, descending from the sky Hedgehog was on her broom while Oscar held Roy's notebook on the back, Oscar gets off the broom with a somewhat sad face for having to do this no matter how altered Vander was now while Hedgehog pulled out her wand and pointed it at Vander.

"Ok... first let's calm down a bit, okay? Lycanthropy is a complicated thing and acting without thinking won't solve anything. So to start, how about we stop and talk a bit? Chatting never killed anyone." - She gets off her broom, walks over to Vander and crouches down to his height. Vander, feeling the weight on his neck, begins to rub the steel collar against the floor, and says in a low, somewhat embarrassed tone.

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