Frank cleared his throat behind Rick and said, "Well we should get going. Where do you want to go first?"
"I'd like to see what happens with a male trying to become a female werebeast," Rick said after a moments thought.
"Alright let me call my wife real quick and explain your request," Frank said nodding. After he placed the call he said, "Everything is set up for you to visit. I'll drive you to the hospital in my truck. After you see what will happen to you if you try to become a werebeast that is all female I'll take you around to talk with other werebeasts."
"Sounds good," Rick said as he followed Frank out to his truck. Once they were on the road Rick asked, "How many people have contacted you? Besides me of course."
"You're the only one so far," Frank said looking a little grim. "Though I expect that to change when more like you see the picture." He slammed his palm against the steering wheel in obvious frustration saying, "I was so stupid. I should have realized that what I saw could have been a werebeast of some kind. I've been living here for five years and now I've put the town in jeopardy."
Rick thought for a moment before saying, "I think I can help with that. I may not be a well known cryptozoologist but if I put out that there's conclusive proof that it's a hoax then other cryptozoologists may not come here. Of course even if they do they probably won't stay for more than a couple of days. And if someone can be convinced to say they had pulled a prank on you the problem should go away as long as nothing else happens. Perhaps we can get a gorilla costume and get a few hairs on a tree for me to find. Of course looking at them will prove that they're not really hair but part of a costume. There really wasn't anything in the picture that could give an accurate size of what you photographed so people will believe it was just a kid in a costume if the evidence points in that direction."
"You would do that?" Frank asked a little puzzled. Then he shook his head before saying, "Of course you would. You're going to become a werebeast yourself which will put you in jeopardy as well."
"I'd be doing it even if I wasn't going to become a werebeast," Rick said with a smile. "I know there have been stories about werebeasts, particularly werewolves, being mindless animals out to eat humans but I've always thought that was more out of fear of natural wolves and the unknown than any actual traits for werebeasts."
"Well we're not like that," Frank said with a bit of a sigh. It was at that time that they arrived at the hospital and went inside.
Rick was escorted to a lab where he met an obviously pregnant woman who introduced herself as Kathy Tucker. "Well my husband said you wanted to know what happens when a male tries to become a member of an all female species of werebeast," she said after a moments pause.
Rick nodded and said, "That is what I want to see."
"Well we do have werecat blood donated by one of the staff here so you'll be able to see what will happen," Kathy said leading Rick to a table with a video microscope on it. "I just need to draw some of your blood. Is that alright?"
"Of course," Rick said rolling up his sleeve.
Once Kathy had taken a sample of his blood and put it on a slide she put a drop of the werecat's blood on it and quickly had it under the microscope. "Now in a few seconds you'll see the cells start to burst and be destroyed which if it happened in your body would cause death," Kathy said a little grimly. After a minute of watching the video she seemed to grow puzzled and moved the slide to make sure the video was working. "Well it's working right," Kathy said shaking her head, "so why are we not seeing the cells being destroyed?" After a moment of thinking she said, "I think I have an idea but I'll need to swab your mouth." Of course Rick agreed and once his mouth was swabbed Kathy smeared it on a slide, stained it, and put it under the microscope. After a few moments looking at the image she said, "Well I guess we'll have to update some of the literature in regards to males joining an all female species of werebeast."
"Why is that?" Rick asked though he thought he spotted what made Kathy say that.
Kathy pointed to three chromosomes and said, "This indicates that you have XXy chromosomes. We might need to do some more tests but from the fact that the cells from your blood sample were not destroyed upon introduction of the werecat blood it seems safe to say that you won't die if you try to become a werebeast that only has one sex. In other words you have the freedom to pick any werebeast were as other normals don't have that freedom. Of course there may have been others but we didn't recognize that they had two X chromosomes. Let me get some more blood and tissue samples so we can perform some more tests. It will probably take a couple of days at least to verify what we've witnessed. In the meantime I would suggest not trying to change into a werebeast species with all females or all males though if you accidentally get scratched at least you shouldn't have to worry about dying."
Rick was a bit excited as this could mean that he could possibly become female.