I woke up ,I looked up the and all I could see was Banchys face stare at me with intense worry, I felt sorry for putting her through all these. she was scared and worried, feeling very sad, I've never seen her like that since when I knew her;the little church orphan who lives next door. She was always happy and sharing her cheerfulness everywhere she went,it was more like her cliche. The more I stared at her worried gazed, I felt sad,I felt I was a monster seeing that I had made a happy girl sad.
I scanned the rest of the environment;the bright light coming from the window was no longer there meaning it was night,the house was unusually neat, the chairs were dusted,the floor tiles which were usually dark and dirty where sparkling, the house was arranged,and many more, Mr Reginald was looking out the window while Mrs Smith and Mr wright were talking over to the the left of the living room and I was lying on the big sofa .
" How do you feel now?"Banchy said softly.
"Better I guess! "
"Well you slept the whole day "
" Look who has finally woken up!"Mr Reginald said
" Oh the psycho has finally woken up" Mrs Smith said walking towards me
" What's this bitch doing here ? " I asked vehemently.
" Hey no bad language you two" Mr Reginald said "we're extremely glad you're awake Mike "
" Thanks! "
"I'll go get us all a cup of tea " Banchy said standing from the chair and running into the kitchen .
Mrs Smith went back to her position while Mr Reginald came to sit beside me. I stood up immediately sitting properly,I stared at his huge face for some seconds before he broke the silence.
"Kiddo!, A lot of things have been happening lately and I want you to be strong, if we're going to save Tom you need to be strong....
His words suddenly started fading I could see him talk but could not hear him and then everywhere became silent. Mrs Smith and Mr wright noise faded away and then, I saw a small child running around in the house, his movements was so fast I couldn't see him.
How could I be so stupid it was Tom!.
" Tom!, Tom! Can you reduce your speed"
I stood up walking slowly after him. He ran through the the living room past Mrs Smith and Mr wright,and then to the dinning sector,and then through the little passage that led to the rooms.
His quick legs suddenly slowed down and he stopped,at the door of his room. He smiled ostentatiously at me, so I ran towards him and then tried hugging him.
I stretched my arms over his body but then his body vanished in thing air.
"Tom!, Tom! Where are you?"
I screamed as loud as I could, Trying to calm him back.
"What's the matter " I could hear Banchy's voice from behind me.
"It's just one of his psychopathic manifestations " Mrs Smith added
"We really should take him to a psychiatrist soon, he's about to lost his mind."
Anger stormed my mind, I felt like killing that bitch, but that would only make matters worse .
I could hear Mr Reginald trying to silence her but that crazy bitch wouldn't change, she kept blabbing like a rushing tap. And there was that foolish Wright who kept supporting her and laughing,I can't really blame
him, he's been making out with her lately so what do you expect.
Out of the chaos my senses stopped working again,the noise behind stopped and I felt his presence. Tom was still here.
But why can't I see him?. The lights suddenly started blinking in a really strange manner. It wasn't the electricity,it was something else..
A memory suddenly popped up; Tom had decided to decorate his room with the Christmas lights about three days before he turned wolf, asides that he also decorated the corridor saying "it was going to pass an important message".
Dad and I thought it was one of his childish ideology or just one of his wrangulations.
So this was what he meant!
"Tom!,is that you!"
The lights suddenly stopped flickering in multiple colors.
"If you're there make the red light still."
The lights turned red immediately.
" If you're there make the blue light still"
The blue lights immediately turned still.
The lights started moving switching on one after the other in a manner that meant I should follow it.
I followed it without any objection,the lights led me down the corridor.
It past through our six room and finally to the wall ending the corridor.
A bulb shined bright below me. I looked down and it was a bucket of paint.
" Paint!"
"Why paint!!"
The lights started moving again,I quickly grabbed the bucket of paint.
Damn! Tom left the paint here the day he put up the lights, he said they'll be used to pass an important message.
" You're trying to tell me something, but you're scared those people will catch you !,those bastards in the void."
I followed the lights into Tom's room. The room was untidy as usual; a heap of clothes was on the floor,his baking equipment was recklessly lying unwashed on his bed,his table was filled with books and paper drawings of cakes or super heroes, his closet was open and his clothes were unfolded,his underwear was all over the floor. His roomed smelled like stinky socks, sweaty armpits and the toilet smelled horrible.
It smelled like he took a shit and didn't flush. Thank gosh!, my room wasn't next to his, it was the guest room.
Though we barely had any guests
I looked around searching for clues when my feeble eyes stumbled upon the flickering lights which was on the wall of his bed.
"Bullseye!!!!!!" I screamed.
Understanding Tom's plan; I dipped my hands into the bucket of paint, counted the number of bulbs.
Twenty-six!
I wrote the twenty-six letters above each bulb as quickly as fast as I could.
"Tom if you're there blink the lights and talk to me" I said taking a pen and sheet of paper from Tom's table.
The lights started blinking immediately,in different colors.
I wrote the letters as quickly as I could, Banchy and the others came into the room.
"What's he doing?, look at the mess he has made on the wall the room is a mess to begin with nevertheless" the bitch said.
" HELLO BROTHER, A WICKED PACK OF WAREWOLVES INDUCED A CURSED ALPHA SPIRIT WITH STRONG LUNA AND THEIR AIM IS TO BRING BACK THE DARK ERA, PLEASE STOP THEM.
ASIDES THAT,THEY SENT A PACK OF WAREWOLVES TO OUR HOUSE TO ELIMINATE YOU AND GET A PRECIOUS TALISMAN.
COME SAVE ME BRO THE SPIRIT IS TAKING OVER ME. " Those were Tom's exact words before his presence left,and reality hit me like a door.
I looked at the paper staring helplessly,I couldn't believe it.
The feeling felt strange. I couldn't comprehend it,it was out of this world,all my life I read fantasy novels hiding my fear of realism.
I read them as a medium of escaping the world's trouble. Growing up I rarely had any friends, they all hurt me,they criticized my life style, they said obedience was for fools, sneaking out for parties was life, getting drunk and having sex was the way of a teen.
I didn't answer them,I didn't believe their enticements, I didn't budge so I got bullied, dejected stereotyped.
" Virgin Boy!, Virgin Boy ! , In the big city full of bitches of all size's" This was the anthem of everyone in the class.
The most annoying thing was the teacher's even joined in this madness. They secretly adviced me to get a girlfriend and brake my virginity, or either join a group of gays or bestials.
This was madness I thought daily, I told my mom and Dad and they advised against adhering to their doctrine. I couldn't change schools cause my school was the best in the city,Others were worse; there were reports of sex in th class and cases of drugs in the classroom.
I couldn't do anything so I hid myself in novels. Warewolf novels.
Action fantasy was my genre, I bought a lot of books and watched ware movies trying to cushion the effect the ongoing madness. For years I did this, till the day we moved to the village, I was 18 by then and had one more year to finish high school.
Going to the village I expected the kids here to be different, but they were worse in comparison.
So I continued my cliche, reading my fantasy novels. But as time went on I found my pack, we were alike though from different villages,ware wolf fantasy lovers.
Our friendship was solely because of Tom. Our bond got stronger and I read fantasy novels more cause I was able to read and talk about it .
Little did I know that the fantasy novels I read was going to hit me in the face hard.
My brother was now a monster I read about and loved.
My reality was now postulated by the fictive content I once diluted my mind with.
"Mike what's going on?" Banchy's voice brought me back to reality.
"A lot!, Tom's in trouble and we're dead if we don't get out of here."
" I don't get!, you're just confusing me," Banchy retorted.
"Why don't we go to the living room and get a cup of tea." Mr Reginald suggested.
A cup of tea would do a lot really, I really needed it.
We are now at the living room,I sat on the living room, I was holding the cup of tea. Banchy was sitting next to me with her cup of tea, Mr Reginald, Mr wright and the bitch were sitting opposite us, on the couch.
I took a large sip of my tea, and then began.
" The day I fainted i didn't die I was somehow teleported to a dark realm an endless abyss of darkness pure darkness until I saw Tom my brother, he wasn't dead, he wasn't alive not an alpha wolf but a boy in lovely clothes, it was sort of like our minds were synced somehow."
His exact words were"Earth is in trouble , the Lord of the dark era is returning from the dead those bastards have found a way to bring him back.Bro run find me and kill me I give you authority to, I killed dad so I deserve to be killed. The spirit of the wolf in me is taking over ,Oh no they've found me" I paused and sipped my tea.
"And today he appeared and was communicating with me,and then I read the contents of the paper out loud."
"So what you're saying is that Tom isn't a ware wolf by blood and was induced with the spirit of an alpha, by some people who want to bring a ware wolf Lord back to life and they have sent a pack of ware wolves to kill anyone on the premises of the village and get a talisman in this house or the village". Mr Reginald added.
"In short!,I guess " I replied
"Lies all these are lies , psychopathic lies" the bitch roared from her chair.
" How can't you believe it, the guy has a point, Alpha ware wolves with strong Luna can talk to they're pack members through a mind syncing, have you forgot !" Mr Reginald said.
" That's right babe" Mr wright added.
"Oh are you believing this crap"she said
" Or do you have a logical explanation for what's going on?" Mr Reginald asked.
"Yes I do, the friek is probably having a psychological trauma and he dreamt about one of his novel where this crap he's saying happened. Mrs. Smith screamed.
"And he expects us to believe that he got a message from the cosmos that sounded like his brother and he was somehow communicating with something that wasn't there and a pack of WAREWOLVES are coming to devour us all, such a psycho, we really need to take him to a psychiatrist."
Anger stored in my belly as I stood up took up my cup of tea and splashed it on her.
"Who's the psycho in you and me, at least I don't around house to house mating with every villager.
Everyone knows you're just a big fat insatiable sex dog, even Wright your new boyfriend knows that"
"How dare you!" she said taking up a dagger "screw you!,asshole."
Her boyfriend held her down and collected the dagger from her .
"Hey quit it he's just a pesky kid."
"Bastard!" Mrs Smith screamed heavily.
"Great!, it's nearly midnight the wolves are coming".
" Silence!," Mr Reginald ordered.","Can you all,cut the crap!"
Just as he ordered, we heard a scream from the other side of the room; It was Banchy!. She ran from the window to me holding a little cake knife.
"Warewolves!, they've surrounded the house."
In less than seconds,the house was stormed with ware wolves. How?,it wasn't yet a full moon.
There was about five of them, the wolves began snarling, their teeths immediately opened, their eyes looked desperate, not desperate, blood thirsty. They started moving close to us, gently no rush.
The sound of chattering teeths filled the air,we had no weapon, no silver gear. Banchy held out a cake knife,her hands were shaking, fear filled her eyes as she sweated profusely.
" Stay Back!"she said with her high pitched voice shaking .
" We're done for, I should have believed this asshole and ran away when I had the chance" Mrs Smith cried.
"Our only chance is to fight them off or die while trying!," Mr Reginald said.
" We can't kill them there's no silver gear, their wounds will cover up and besides can't you feel their Luna it's extremely strong," Mr wright cried .
Luna!,the word caught my attention .It was the energy of a warewolf. Dad had thought me and Tom some months back how to sense it. It was an unpure form of energy, sort of the type of chills you feel when you look at the full moon.
Theirs was extremely strong, but I felt more stronger ones coming. In my novels warewolves with strong Luna don't need a full moon to transform to their wolf form.
Asides their Luna I still felt stronger Luna's approaching. So this aren't the alphas their merely pack members.
We are doomed for sure, even if we survive this, the ware wolves coming would devour us.
All hope was lost, Mr Reginald was ready to charge holding the dagger that bitch tried to use to kill me.
Sensing his behavior,the waiting wolves geared their self for battle. The lead wolf jumped in the air and the suddenly a knife broke into the window and stabbed the wolf. It was silver, it glittered and glimmered like silver. The charging wolf immediately fell to the flood bleeding profusely, and then he kicked the bucket. The wolf!.
The knife flew out of the bleeding wolf flesh and into the air, it seemed more like it was controlled by someone. I looked closely and saw a rope tied to the knife. The knife moved around in the air and slayed the remaining wolves.
" Reinforcement!" Banchy said.
"But no one is in the village."Mr Reginald added.
The knife went back out the window and a manly figure broke through the window, looking at him, he was about my age,he had short hair and well built body, like someone who has worked out for years.
Asides that,he had Luna more stronger than the wolves. But his luna was strange it had a human gesture.
"Who are you?and why do you riek of Luna?" I asked boldly stepping forward
"I'm Erico!, the ware human who just saved your life".