It was morning,and Frank watched from the hillside as down below
the ambulance crews wheeled the remains of Gilian and Jen out of the
house and into the ambulance.Though the remains were coverted with
white sheets,Frank knew what lay under the sheet as he'd had a far
more intimate view of their last momments than he cared for.
Overhead the National Guard helicopters were still buzzing about
for the she wolf monster,but as Frank took a sniff with his nose he
knew they were searching in the wrong direction and for the wrong
creature.
As Frank had lay stunned and cowering under the beast the previous
evening a big gob of tyrannasaurous canine lycanthope rex saliva
had come hurtling down from the muzzle of the beast above him.It
had completely covered his body,sizzling in through the open pores
of his skin and altering him.There'd be some major changes in
his life in the future,but the immediate effect was that it covered
the scent of manling flesh.He was just another lycanthrope rex as
far as the monster was concerned.
Frank did something smart.He got up and bolted on shaking legs
underneath the beast.He headed for his car,and heard the terror stricken screams of the two women as Samantha came crashing in the
house.The engine started and Frank hightailed it for the hill
beside the quiet community.It was as he was doing 90 on Cty Rd 44
that the changes began.Suddenly he could smell the stench of gas
as his sense of smell dramatically increased.
It was as he was pulling over near the top of the hill that his
telepathic link with the monster bonded.He was looking down at the
house below and at the unending screams when suddenly she was in the
house,looking at the prey manling flesh over her 2 foot
muzzle.Frank advanced on the prey,seized one in her jaws and bit
its torso in half.Then she did the same to the other.As the screams
abruptly stopped Frank came back to his senses and a new knowledge.
The kill would not be eaten.It was a sacrifice to the God.Frank
wanted to retch but his slowly altering body wouldn't let him.
This lycanthrope rex couldn't afford to waste good food.
Frank saw the helicopters arrive at the same time that the monster
had arranged the two corpes in a manner pleasing to the God.He saw the
cornered beast howl as it came out of the house through the hole
it had made.The lights played on the huge furry form and the sound
of automatic weapons fire could be heard.Then the monster shifted.
It grew,doubled in size to a shape Franks mind could not comprehend.
It vanished
Frank had lay hidden under some bushed as search lights played all
about.Therw was the sound of boots,brief glimpses of white faced soldiers waving flashlights about as they spoke in hoarse
whispers.
Then they's gone away.
It was now morning and things were a lot more quiet on the hillside.
Down in the valley however,teams in hazmat suits were scouring his
house and Jens.The earth moving equipment was already at work and
Frank knew from the psychic bond he shared with the " other" that
they'd soon find the remains of Jen's parents.
Frank got in his car and turned his back on his past life.On the
passenger life lay the airline tickets he and Gillian had planned
to use to visit her parents in Scotland.He still recalled the Xmas
visit of her parents less than a month earlier.He still recalled the
old man taking him aside and saying"you take real good care of my
girl,sonny boy.Shes the only child I have and the most prescious
think to me and Margaret.
Frank sobbed as he drove over the hill.He wasn't too surprised when
he saw his neighbours our kid " Sam was his name" trying to hitch a
ride.The kid looked just as ashen faced as Frank expected he did.
He pulled over and openned