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James Midnight in the curse of the were-people
“ I knew right from the beginning that this was a bad idea,” I muttered to Steven “ right from the moment we started.” We crouched behind a large rock just long enough for me to re-load my gun. We were running from the two thing I never thought could even exist, the first one was a were-wolf , and the second one was some sort of were-dragon . I spun up and shot my pistol over the rock at our two predators, but in the poor light , I was not able to hit either targets and ended up wasting 5 shots . “James, I….I am sorry” Steve sputtered clutching the wound in his stomach, caused by the were-dragon.
But I am getting ahead of myself, I should start from the beginning…
My name is James Midnight, and when we started this journey, we had five members in our expedition , Steven Sharp, Helen Lutz , Johnny Dean, Rickey Clark, and of course, my-self. Our adventures took us to South America, in search of fortune and glory. It was all Steven’s idea. At first I wanted no part of it, but when he came knocking at my door he was able convince me that the pay off would be worth the effort. He pulled out a map that he had gone to great expense to get. It showed a part of the Amazon that I had never seen.
“This part of the jungle is said to be inhabited by a tribe of crazed natives that worshiped gods who took form of were-animals” he said. “ Only one man ever made it out of there, but when he was found spouting out that things about being attacked by wolves and dragons,” he paused, “ he died soon after he was found due a stress related heart attack , but the strange thing is that there were three long slashes across his chest which could be identified by….”
“yah, yah , enough with the hoc-us poke-us” I interrupted “ what is the pay off?”
“well there are supposed to be large stores of gold and diamonds here” Steve said pointing to a place on the map. “Unfortunately get to it we would have to sneak past their village and that wont be easy”
“If it were easy, you probably wouldn’t be asking me to come, but I’ve been felling bored lately so what the heck, I’ll do it.” I said
“Great, I’ll tell the others” Steve said happily
“I wont be paying for their plane tickets this time, Right ?” I said.
The trip over was rather uneventful. After the flight, we meet up with the group at the airport.
“Well, well if it isn’t Indiana Jones.” Johnny said.
“I told you to stop calling me that.” I said
“not until you lose the out fit” he was of course referring to my beige fedora and my weather beaten leather jacket.
“Oh, lighten up James, he’s only having a bit of fun.” Helen said. Helen and me go way back, we first met when she saved me from drowning in the Nile and we have been traveling together ever since.
“fine,” I said “were is Rick?”
“Over here guys “ came a voice from behind us. I turned and saw Rick hurrying towards us pulling two large suite cases behind him.
“how’s it going Rick,” Johnny asked “that our arsenal?”
“you know it” and with that we all piled in to a van hired to take us to a small town on the edge of the forest.
A short van ride later, we got to the inn and we were standing around a gun covered bed going over how many weapons and deciding who got what.
“did you remember my six-guns?” Johnny asked. Every time weapons were involved with this kid it was either six-guns or nothing.
“Did I?” Rick said with a pleased look as he pulled out a leather cloth wrapped around something. Inside were two colt .45 Peace Maker revolvers.
“Wow” Johnny said “the gun that ruled the west”
“The one and only” Rick said.
There were five 9mm pistols, one for each of us and since Johnny didn’t use one I got two. There were also two high powered guns, a standard pump action shotgun and a long rifle. Helen took the rifle and Steve took the shotgun.
We split two rooms between the five of us and with only two beds per room, one of us had to sleep on the floor . Helen and Johnny shared one room, so Steve, Rick and I drew straws to decide who got the floor, and of course I picked the shortest.
The next morning we started our trek into the forest. For the first few days nothing was out of the ordinary, other the feeling that someone was watching us. On the fourth night I woke up to the sound of something going through the camp. I sat up, instinctively putting my hand on the butt of my gun , my eyes adjusting to the dim fire light just in time to see a wolf run away from the camp. It was only as I lay back down and begun to drift to sleep that I realized that there are no wolves in the Amazon. I begun to worry , but before I could think about it too much, I fell fast asleep.
Within three more days we were in view of the small village, which meant that we were very close to our goal. We got around the village without trouble, and got to the temple without confrontation.
“It would seem that we don’t need all these guns after all.” Steve said, standing a the mouth of the temple.
The temple had the look of a decorated mine entrance. The opening was surrounded by a golden colored rock.
“Pyrite,” Rick said, examining it more closely “fools gold.”
“Those tricky bastards” Johnny said.
We each put on LED head lamps and started in to the temple. The walls were perfectly smooth and curved up in to the roof. The floor tilted downwards slightly into the darkness. We started walking down and about half an hour later we reached a left turn in the path. About five minutes after we reached two large doors.
“ I have no idea what is in there, so be ready.” I said and quickly pushed the doors open.
Every one gasped at what they saw Inside, the room was well illuminated and full of diamonds and gold coins. We all rushed in and started greedily stuffing our bags.
“You humans are all the same,…” we all froze, I looked around and was terrified to see a large creature in the shadows. Everyone turned around and watched as the thing stepped in the light to revel a large Were-dragon with jet black scales all over his body. He had large white spikes growing from the top of his head to the tip of his tail. He spoke with perfect English, “…greedy, arrogant and stupid.” At this he began to charge at Helen. Johnny was the first one to react, pulling out both revolvers at lightning speed and pumping the were-dragon with twelve lead shots. The bullets seemed to do nothing more than piss him off because he turned and ran towards Johnny. Once the dragon got to him, Johnny smashed it across the face with one of his guns. This caught the dragon off guard and sent him stumbling backwards next to Helen. He turned and slashed her on the arm. At this point Steve had pulled out his shot-gun and blasted him twice.
“RUNNNNNNN!!!!” Steve yelled
While getting out I yelled “ there’s no time to go around , cut through the village”
No one objected. Going through the village, I noticed that it was completely deserted.
We stopped a little bit after the village when we noticed that the dragon wasn’t after us, at least not at the moment.
“uh.. guys?” Helen said “shouldn’t a cut like this be bleeding?”
It was the first time that I actually saw the wound. It was very deep and it was not bleeding.
“We should probably cover that so it doesn’t get infected” I said
“I fill very woozy…” Helen said as she lay down on the ground and closed her eyes.
“ Damn it!” Steve yelled “ I forgot my bag in the temple”
“so?” said Johnny
“that bag had our tent in it!” Steve yelled trying to keep his temper
Johnny started to say something, but was cut off by a loud growl coming from Helen. We were horrified to see several dark purple scales spreading away from her wound. They covered her entire body within minuets.
“Oh god,” Steve said quietly, “gather your things, hurry before she wakes up.”
Her nose and upper mouth fused and pushed away from her face, and her breasts started to become smaller until they were gone. A thick long tail ripped out the back of her jeans and spikes started to grow from the tip of her tail to the top of her head. All her muscles began to bulge and in side her mouth her tongue became long and forked at the tip. Her feet elongated her toes fused until there were only three left on each foot. Long claws appeared on each toe and one on each heel, the same pattern appeared on her hands as well.
“ok,” I whispered “ lets get the hell out of here.”
After twenty minutes of walking I pulled out a cigarette and lit up.
“I thought that you quit.” Johnny said
“I did” I said “I only do this when I am stressed”
“ wow if I were you, I would have been puffing away a long time ago.”
“I never had chance to” I said, blowing smoke in Johnny’s face
Steve stopped and dropped his bags
“I think this is a good place to stop.” Steve said “she obviously isn’t following us.”
We all agreed. We tried to set up camp with what little we had among us; one can of beans, three blankets and one flint.
We built a small camp fire and began to eat our beans.
“Its growing dark,” Steve said “one of us should keep watch”
“but who?” Rick asked
“well,” I said, looking at my watch, it was 8:15, “if we leave at eight-thirty tomorrow, that gives us twelve hours of sleep, so we can each keep watch for three hours.”
We drew straws to choose the order, I chose the shortest so I was first to watch, Rick was second Johnny was third and Steve was fourth .
After doing my shift, I was awakened from a dreamless sleep by a terrified scream. I jumped up as I saw Johnny being dragged off in to the woods by a large were-wolf. I wasn’t able to get to him before he was dragged in to the darkness. None of us were.
We herd some brief struggling, a yell of pain from Johnny, eleven shots erupted from his revolvers, a howl of agony from the were-wolf and then the sound of something running away fast.
“Johnny, you all right?” I yelled out in to the darkness.
“no, it bit me.” Johnny’s voice responded,
“hang on buddy were coming for you” I yelled
“don’t even think about it Midnight, I don’t want you to see what I am about to do... Good-bye.”
Click, a short pause, then, Click, Clik.
“oh god” Johnny said, voice trembling “it’s jammed, no, noo, nooooooooooooooawoooooo”
Hearing his turn scream in to a howl was probably the hardest thing for me.
“we have to get out of here,” Rick said “before they get us all.”
Luckily for us Johnny did not seem to be able to follow our trail. If he were, we would most certainly all be dead. Walking through the wood at night with just our head lamps was absolutely treacherous, (running was out of the question, due to the fact that we were traveling through the forest at the dead of night.) We were making pretty good time, and trying to figure were to go next. We decided to keep going north with the hope of reaching the small town from which we started this damn journey, then Rick fell
It was dark so no one was really sure what happened. All we knew was that his leg was broken. He shined his lamp down and revelled that the bone was protruding right through the skin. He seemed to be handling the whole thing very well.
“well… I think it’s obvious what happens.” Rick said calmly
“ yah, we pick you up and we carry you” Steve said quickly
“no, you go, I stay.” Rick paused “get out with your lives”
“No,” I said “were not losing another person”
“ that dragon was right” Rick said chuckling “you are stupid.” We all herd something approaching. “do you really believe that I am going to get out of here alive?”
“are you sure?” Steve said “ you don’t have to do this Ricky.”
“I am positive… now get out of here, before they catch you.”
“thank you, Rick.” I said tears slipping down my face.
If they changed or killed him, they did it silently, for we herd no noise what so ever. Walking as fast as we could through the heavy brush. After walking fro a few hours we stumbled upon a cave deep enough for us to sleep in for a little while with out being noticed by someone or something walking by.
We flipped a coin to deicide who would keep watch first, I won so I got to sleep first. Steve woke me three hours later and said that it was his turn to sleep. Grumbling, I got up made my self a cold cup of coffee (we weren’t lighting fires in the cave for safety reasons) picked up the shotgun, sat with ma back against a rock and watched over the mouth of the cave. About two hours later I was felling pretty confident that at least Steve and I would get out when I herd Steven groan in his sleep. I turned to check on him and immediately jumped up. The were-dragon had given Steven a kick in the stomach resulting in a large hole in his stomach. The wound was not bleeding.
“How the hell did you get in here?!” I yelled , cocking the gun.
A grin spread across the dragon’s face. “ I snuck in whale your friend dozed off, and now, James Midnight you and Steve here will become one of us .” he said, his grin spreading in to a smile. “ but don’t worry, its not so bad, just ask your friends over there” I turned and saw Helen and Johnny step in front of the cave, Johnny still had one of his gun belts slung over his waste.
I turned back and the were-dragon started to laugh which turned my fear in to rage. I jumped over the rock and shoved the barrel of the shotgun in to his long mouth and pulled the trigger. The were-dragon’s eyes widened with surprise and he fell to the ground. Dead.
I turned around to shoot at the others but as I did I fell and the shotgun flew out of my hands. Getting to my feet, I noticed that Helen and Johnny had already started advancing on us. I begun to shoot at them but on the third shot my one of my pistols jammed. I threw it to the side and shot of the other one. I crouched down behind the rock to reload.
“ I knew right from the beginning that this was a bad idea,” I muttered to Steven “ right from the moment we started.”
I spun up and shot my pistol over the rock at our two predators, but in the poor light , I was not able to hit either targets and ended up wasting 5 shots .
“James, I….I am sorry” Steve sputtered clutching the wound in his stomach, caused by the were-dragon.
I didn’t have time to respond, because when I Looked down he had already closed his eyes and was unconscious.
I had the gun under my chine and was ready to end it all right there, when Johnny came up knocked the gun out of my hand and tried to cut me with his claws. I grabbed his wrists and tried to wrestle him to the ground.
“ Johnny,” I said trying to maintain the stalemate which we held “this isn’t who you are, you can fight this.”
“shut it.” Johnny growled at me .
“have it your way” I said and kneed him in the solar plexus. He immediately doubled over and I punched him in the head. Wahl I was taking care of that, Helen had come up behind me and ran her claws down my back leaving three long gashes. I stopped and yelled out in pain as I felt the claws cutting through my flesh.
I turned and looked right in to her eyes. They were large reptilian eyes and saw no remorse in the deep red glare.
I had no time to react when she picked me up by the collar of my jacket and threw me against the caves wall. I hit my head on a rock and as I slumped down to the floor the last thing I remember seeing is my hat falling over my eyes.
I woke up a few hours later feeling no pain whatsoever. I opened my eyes and was confused to see a long snout splitting my vision. I looked down at my self and realized what had happened. My entire body was covered with dark blue scales, I felt around and found that I had a thick, long tail. On each hand I had thee fingers on the front and one on the back , each “finger” had one long claw protruding from it. I looked down and saw that the same pattern had formed on my feet. My neck had lengthened and all my senses were sharper. I stood up and felt that all my muscles had grown and gotten stronger.
“ how do you feel James ?” asked a beautiful feminine voice form behind me. I turned and saw Helen staring me in the eyes.
“fine.” I said, the word flowing easily from my mouth
“well, good” said Johnny “once Steve wakes up we can begin repopulating the world”
“what?” I said not really under standing the situation.
“our new race was trapped in that temple, not protecting it,” Helen explained “And when we took that gold, we freed the were-wolf and the were-dragon from there prison.”
“oh” I said still a little confused. Johnny put his hand on my shoulder and said
“well James midnight, are you ready for your next adventure?”
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