Tall, Dark, and Wolfe

Chapter Two

Today was just not her day, Giselle Connor thought. First the local manager of the zoo somehow discovered her plans to free the rest of the animals those bastards viciously caged up. She had already freed a few of them but there was stills tons more. Then he and his fellow animal cruelty members managed to find the home she made in the woods and burned it down for their sick enjoyment. Normally she wouldn’t have minded and fought back but considering the fact that they weren’t werewolves made it difficult to get them back. But she knew there was always a way.

To everyone else she might have seemed weak and stupid but what they didn’t know was that she was neither of those things. In fact, her intelligence could be ranked as that of a genius. And what those men didn’t know was that she always wore a disguise when she went out so that no one knew what she really looked like and could not be able to truly describe her to the police. They wouldn’t be able to tell the police that her hair was auburn and not blond or black like the typical colors of hair she wore, or that her eyes were as green as an emerald and not of bluish brown of the contacts she wore. Or that her body was slender and petite, but full of muscles.

But now it all gone, thanks to those assholes, she thought. She felt tears in her eyes as she remembered how long it took her to build that house with her own hands and the fact that everything she owned had burned up in that fire. “Humans or not, I’ll get them back for this,” she murmur as she watched the firefighters put out the last of the flames on her precious house, “And I have the perfect plan too.”

Richard Foxx, Manager of Hampshire Natural Wildlife Zoo, was doing his daily patrols as he did every day since first becoming the manager. He knew that this was the perfect time to do so because at this time no one else was around and he and a few of his buddies were free to stop treating those animals as gods and treat them as they were meant to be treated, as animals. He made it pass the sign that never failed to disgust him. “Bring your animals here, we treat animals as people too,” he mocked, “They say that now but I bet that if that these suckers were loose they would tear a hole in this these motherfuckers asses!” He kicked a nearby tiger’s cage and the tiger snarled at him.

He took out the electric baton that he had secretly made just for these purposes. The tiger rammed itself into the cage’s wall but quickly retreated when Richard swung his electric Billy club through the gate. “Yes!” he said, “That’ll teach you bastards to know who really runs this place. And it isn’t you animals.”

“I see you started without us,” a newcomer voice announced.

Richard turned around to find his best friend Andy Michaels walking up to him and the rest of his friends followed behind him. “Nah, I was just putting some fear in him and showing him who the boss is. But enough about these animals today is a celebration day!”

His friends cheered and hollered.

“Today, I think we finally drove that crazy woman who’s been letting all the animals loose away,” he raised his fist to sky. “And in good timing too, I was almost fired, which means no more hangout for us. I would hate if our little fights were over.”

His friends chuckled darkly and one friend asked, “Are we having one today?”

“Yeah!” another one shouted.

“Please, I’ve worked extra hours at the office to be able to have enough money to bet on more than just one fight.” Another one yelled as well.

“Max, will you and John shut your traps?” Andy said, “You forgot that the animals can’t get injured for at least a whole month or else the police will get involved.”

“Yea,” Richard agreed, “The last few fights we had were brutal, so instead were going to celebrate inside this shade I found out back.”

“At least were still celebrating, I brought some beer,” the one called John replied.

“Come on, let’s go before the crew-” Richard started to say before the sound of footsteps could be heard and a wolf’s howl ranged out through the night. Richard turned around him and found at least 50 ft. from him. “Guys….I think we have a problem.”

“What problem,” Andy said.

“Turn around and look ahead of me,” Richard said gently, not wanting to startle the wolf into attacking.

Andy and the guys did that before facing the same sight Richard was.

“Oh shit!” a few of the guys shouted.

Richard made a move to get his electric Billy club and that seemed to be all the movement the wolf needed to pounce. “Run!” he shouted.

Everyone made a move to run but the wolf was too fast for them. Somehow it managed to knock them down as they turned away from it. The wolf managed to knock down Richard and snarled in his face as if giving him a warning. Richard could feel himself wetting his and pants. The wolf leaped back in disgust, look back at Richard and his friends once more be turning around and running away.

Richard and his friends look at each other once more before thinking one thing….Fuck.

They couldn’t be more right.

Giselle was having the time of her life. The rush of getting those fools back was too good. They would never know who the wolf truly was because they didn’t know of werewolves’ true existence. But now isn’t the time to celebrate, she thought. I must go.

And she set off to places unknown.