Grey Wolf

Chapter 3 - Are dreams visions? Or demons in disguise?

I awoke in a room, that was flooded in some shitty led lights. Groaning, I noticed someone tied my hands behind my back when I tried to stand up off the cold floor I was on. At least my capture was kind enough to put a blanket over me. I surveyed my surroundings around me in this tiny  12 x 12 room. I saw there was a camera above me in a corner of the room and the walls were straight white. There was a mirror on the wall across from the door The door leading out was most likely barred on the other side so I didn't try to open it. I saw a barred window but, it was too high for me to look at it off the ground. So, I pushed myself to a wall and put my legs under me using the wall as support to stand up. I looked out of the window and a weight was still lifted off of my shoulders.

I was still in Boston, just a few stories off the ground. However, that made me wonder about Ly. Was she okay? Did she get caught up in this? I sure hope not. I started to pace back and fourth thinking of ways to get rid of the rope binding my hands from my back. I thought I could maybe fray the rope enough off of the wall to make it easy to snap bit by bit, but that didn't work, it just made me look like an idiot rubbing my hands on the wall. I felt embarrassed because, I knew there was someone watching me. I knew that because, the camera followed me all around the room wherever I went.

I couldn't come up with any thing and I sat down in the corner under the camera and rested my he'd in the corner of the wall to think, so the camera couldn't see me. It was a seemingly long time that I had sat there working out and escape plan and wondering if Ly was alright. I was starting to make out a decent plan, then I dosed off for a little. My dreams started off nice and calm. I was sitting upon a hill, Ly was there too. She was lying on the grass next to me like when we were kids. However, the sky wasn't blue. It was red. Blood Red. The sun was pitch black and the German Shepard was there too. I saw Ly was speaking to me but, there was no sound. Just her lips were forming words. I'm not the greatest lipreader but, I assure you she said "Raven Red" in there somewhere. Then, as weird as it may seem, the dog spoke to me.

"Grey, don't freak out, but, don't look up" The dog said.

Instinctively I said "No shit" as if I were talking to Ly when she was being a jerk. The dog looked at me like I had just slapped it, and was very rude. I quickly followed up with a sorry, and explained that I thought it was Ly who said it.

It looked relieved after that and said "Well, if you're kind enough to listen to me you'll notice that the dreams you have are not fake but, are things that happen in the future".

I almost said "No shit" but, I caught myself this time and replied "Yeah, I was wondering why that was so, also is this the future? With the sun pitch black and the sky blood red?" I asked.

"No" the dog replied. "This is just your brain doing this but, it may also be because of the werewolf blood in your body, but no biggy" it said nonchalantly.

"No biggy?!" I said. "This is terrible! That means I'm going to become one of them!" I almost screamed. "I won't be able to live normally now!" I said.

The dog sort of cowered when I practically yelled. It's ears drooped and it seemed to be hurt by me saying those words. It said to me "Well how would you think about it if I was one." The dog then started to morph and become bigger until it resembled a brunette. I was completely dumbfounded and realized how racist I was and apologized, making sure not to ever make that terrible mistake again. She said "My name is Elizabeth but, most people call me Aeris". I was about to reply but she looked at me and her eyes became incredibly wide in fear and she started to walk back away from me. Even Ly who was laying next to me saw and started to get up and back away slowly.

I said "What" and looked down at myself. My body wasn't right. My fingers were becoming big, long, and shaped like meat hooks. I felt my legs becoming longer and my feet shrinking and becoming paws. Hair was sprouting from all over my body. I felt myself growing a long tail that reached down to my legs. The transformation finished and I tried to scream. It wasn't a scream but a long howl like a wolf howling at the moon. Then my vision went black.

I woke up in the cell with sweat covering my body. I was still laying in the corner where I had been, but something felt off, I quickly looked at myself as best I could while my hands were still tied behind my back. I thought to myself Nope, not a werewolf. Which was a heavy weight lifted off of my shoulders. But it just made me think about the future, will that be me if I don't find a way to cure this curse? That scared the shit out of me. I didn't want to kill anyone. However, I thought enough of that, I knew there was a way to get this rope off of my hands. I started to see if I could wiggle my way out of the rope. I moved my arms opposite directions up and down and I though I felt the top getting looser and looser the more I went on doing it. It got loose enough to where I could slip the rope off of my hands. I tossed the rope across the room and it hit the wall and landed in the corner. I rubbed my wrists where the rope had been. It gave me a slight rope burn but, I would be fine. I thought to myself Did I become stronger? That rope felt easy to get off. So I inspected my body beneath my shirt. Sure, enough I now had muscle where there was none before. I even had chiseled abs. Wow, who am I? I walked over to the mirror and looked at myself fully. Damn, someone hit the gym while I was out. That made me laugh. I actually laughed in a cell where I was held prisoner. I keep my mind on task though. I had to find a way out.

"First of all, Fuck cameras" I said, while knocking the camera off it's tracking course and it hung on its wires facing the corner of the wall. Now I could think in peace. There was a sudden knock on the door not even a minute later.

Someone on the other side said "Thomas, you don't know me but, I know you and if I were wise I would put that camera back were it belongs before things become worse for you, I'm here to help you not to hurt you. You are being held in this cell until we can determine if you can control your curse".

I made sure to groan as loud as I could so whoever it was on the other side of the door could hear it and I asked while resetting the camera "Can I at least have some fucking TV".

The person replied "We would have to sedate you to bring it in your room, and I don't think you would want that". Which made me a little annoyed, why do I have to be sedated just for fucking TV?

I asked "Can I at least have the fucking newspaper?".

"One newspaper on it's way" replied the voice on the other side of the door.

The newspaper slide through the little slit in the bottom of the door a little while later. I grabbed it and opened it. On the front cover of the journal there was, the article "Crazed Killer May Still Be On the Loose". It mentioned our bar and what that had happened. It said that they found blood and a body. My cousin Ly was also, in it, she spoke of how there should have been two bodies, and sure enough, it then talked about how I was missing from public and was possibly dead because they found my blood at the crime scene but, no body. Surprise, surprise I'm still alive, I thought.

"What did you even by a curse? What curse are you talking about?" I asked put of blind curiosity. 

"Well I'm talking about the curse that make you one of them" the voice replied.

"One of them? What are you talking about?" I asked again.

"A werewolf" she said.