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Call of the wild
chapter 2

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I went on my business waiting tables and taking orders. It was around ten at night that the zoo received it's first new were. I was at the bar talking to some of my fellow workers. Kim was a were, a were dog to be exact, she stood at 5ft 10, with long blond hair and green eye's, she was very buxom and energetic. Ron was 6'ft 3, with short cropped black hair, and muscles like a pro wrestler, he was a were bear. We were laughing at a dumb joke Ron had made when I sensed it. A whole new kind of were, or at least one I had never sensed before. I froze mid laugh, as my sense's tried to make sense of what was happening. The others stopped laughing at my dumbfounded expression.
"Hey Dave it was just a joke nothing serious." Ron said.
I snapped out of it and gave them a weak smile, they didn't know about my ability, what ever the hell it is.
"No I, uh, just remembered something is all." I turned my head to look around the bar. I tried to see if there was anyone I didn't recognize, but just because I worked at a furry bar doesn't mean I knew everybody.
I was tempted to use my power to search out the newbie, but there was a risk that whoever it was could discover me. So instead I simply looked at the customers. And I mean more then physically. I could have used my power to actively locate the newbie and find out what he was but, of course, I was trying to stay incognito.
Old habit’s are so hard to break. Doing what I was taught by my own mentor, I merely tapped into a small fraction of my gift/curse. All I merely had to do was look at one of the customers and see if my powers recognized them. Working at the zoo you meet many people some you remember some you don't but my power, it always remembered. I simply looked for someone that it didn't recognize. Finally I found my target. He sat by himself in one of the booth’s, he had an aura of recluse, and isolation. He was about twenty or so, he had hair as dark as night and skin as pale as a vampire, he wore all black a black t-shirt that clung to his slim frame, his black jean pants and black leather boots. His hair was long, slightly past his ears, his bangs covered his eye's so I couldn't see what they looked like. I didn't know who he was or what he was, but he sure as hell wasn't a human. If I had been an ordinary human I would have confused him for a vampire, he sat so still you’d think he was dead. I let my gaze linger on him longer than I should and let my shields slip.
My power reached out to this stranger and cares him like wind. He tasted like a mammal, like darkness, and rock, and....blood. I felt his beast, no I saw it, it was like some great winged beast. It’s ears were long and tipped, the nose flat, it looked like a rat with wings. Then I realized it was not a rat, it was a bat. I felt that great winged creature start to unfold itself and shift, suddenly the strangers head snapped up and stared at me and I gasped. His pupils were black, like the darkness in a cave, they were cold and empty. I felt his focus on me, so cold and empty, he knew it was me that had called his beast, his expression was one of fury, and curiosity. I realized my damned power was still on calling his beast. I felt him gather energy to respond when I quickly shut down my power and wrapped it in tight steel and shielded myself so I wouldn't be effected by any metaphysical shit.
"Woah, check out emo-boy over there." Kim said following my gaze.
I quickly turned away from the stranger and instead listened to Kim and Ron.
"Yeah check out his threads, probably some vamp winnable." Ron said gruffly, he wasn't a fan of vampires.
They thought he was some goth who wanted to be undead, the bat must be really skilled to be able to hide his energy so well from to were's. It was strange but when I sense a were I can tell how long they've been like that. I think of a number and the righter the number seems the more likely they are to be that age as a were. But when I scanned that guy I sensed he was about twenty two years as a bat. But he looked to be about early twenties. That was impossible. Two were couldn't have kids, the transformation was to hard on the female, she would abort the pregnancy. To my knowledge only swans, and snakes could do it as they simply laid eggs, dogs, and tigers too, dogs because they weren’t tied to the moon, no one knew how tigers did it, but they all were inherited, meaning they passed their fuzziness on to their kids. Could bats resist the call of the moon to give birth? What did I know about werebats? Honestly nothing, until five minutes ago I didn't know they existed.
"Hey Kim, Ron?" I asked.
"Are there any werebats?" I asked casually trying not to let them see me all freaked out.
"No, not that I know of." Kim said.
"I’ve heard rumors." Ron said rubbing his chin, "But I’m no expert all I heard were second hand stories, you know like so and so's friends cousin heard kind of shit, but all I’ve heard doesn't paint a pretty picture." He said his big brown eye's settling on mine.
"Why do you ask?"
"Oh no reason." I lied.
"Well after looking at tall dark and gruesome I can understand why." Kim said referring to the bat who had gone back to having his bangs cover his eye's, but I got the sinking suspicion that he was watching me through those dark bangs. I didn't understand the gruesome part he had a nice build. Not to muscled, but well toned, he had a dimple on his chin, and he had wonderful hands, very strong and firm looking.
"Well you going to sit there or you going to work?" Ron said to Kim.
"What?! Are you crazy! He might be one of those serial killers that kill young, petite, blond girls." Kim said looking at Ron with nervous eye's.
He let out a booming laugh. "Kim sweetie if none of us have killed you yet no one will and no offense sugar, you aren’t exactly petite." He said with a twinkle in his eye's.
"What's that mean?" Kim said putting her hands on her hips, she wasn't fat, she was meaty around the backside, I didn’t mind, I liked girls with some meat on them.
She looked at me and her face broke out into a grin, "Oh Dave you go."
"What?"
"Pleaseee, do this for me?" She begged. After what happened there was no way I was going over there to bat-boy.
"Oh come on I’ll pay you three hundred bucks if you do this" She said grabbing my hand.
"You’re going to pay me just to serve for you, just so you can avoid a goth kid?" I asked. I was all humorous on the outside, but on the inside I was panicking. Shit I couldn't come up with a good excuse not to go. Ron was a barman so I couldn't ask him, everyone else was busy, and I needed the money. SHIT!.
"Five hundred." I said and her face broke into a smile.
"Deal, oh thank you Davie your so cool." She said giving me a hug.
"You still owe me." I said as I got up and walked over to the bat guy. He didn't make any move that would show his reaction to me coming over. He still had his eye's hidden behind his bangs, his chin resting on his knuckles. If he was angry or upset at me for coming over to his table he wasn't showing it.
I walked up to his table, hoping my face was neutral as possible.
"Hello sir may I take your order?" I asked pulling my notepad and pen out.
"It's not polite to play with others beast's." He said, his voice was low, and tenor like, he talked quietly but very clearly.
"I'm sorry what." I tried feigning ignorance.
"You know what I'm talking about, what are you doing away from the caves pup?" He asked his eye's peeking at me from behind his bangs. I let out a little shiver, my power was screaming at me telling me this were was particularly dangerous.
"I'm sorry sir I don't know what you’re talking about." I said still pretending to be ignorant.
He leaned back in his seat and gave me the full gaze of those dark eye's "Fine we'll play it like that but I’m going to want some answers pup...and soon." He said so quietly I almost missed it, it sounded slightly sinister.
"May I take your order?" I repeated firmly, he was starting to flow out more energy then was necessary, I recognized the gesture as an act of intimidation. Good thing I didn't intimidate easily, being raised by wolf's did that for you.
"Steak, rare, extra...bloody." He whispered bloody and I shivered.
I left that table as quickly as I could without making it look like I was running, when I wanted to. I went past Ron and Kim who tried to stop me asking what was wrong. I went up to the kitchen and handed the slip of paper to Maya.
She was one of the Rodere, the local wererat gang, a large number of the wererats were mercenaries or such as so they were pretty bad ass. Maya worked here part time, she was a good cook. I was passing by the front when I sensed it, a vampire, a master vampire. Normally I had to be up close and personal to vampires to sense them, newborns were easier to spot even if you were a human because they had no experience hiding their fangs.
Older vamps were more tricky, especially if they were skilled at hiding their energy, but if I touched them I always knew for sure. But master vamps strangely were the easiest for me to sense. As long as they had the power to call an animal, a master level ability, I could sense them. I didn't know why but there was something about a vampire having a connection to the furry that screamed I’m a vampire. No matter how skilled they were at acting human if they could call animals I could sense them. Something I noticed was that they usually tasted like there animal. I stopped moving and looked to the front entrance, sure enough there he was. To anyone else he would look like a pale man, in his early thirty's, he wore jeans a pair of hiking boots and a simple light blue t-shirt. This surprised me because if he was a master than he had to be a few centuries old, old vampires acted like they did when they we're turned, and preferred the cloths from their era. He had greyish eye's like fog. His hair came slightly past his shoulders, and was brown with a red tint to it. My power recognized his animal, bat.
"Excuse me." He asked walking up to me and I fought the urge to step back. He had to be around five hundred years old. And like every one else in this joint he wasn't hiding his power.
"How may I help you sir?" I asked with a smile, best not scare away the customer.
"I'm here with a...friend he should be here now, he's tall, young, wears all black?" He said and only one person matched that description.
"Yes right this way sir." I said and escorted him back over to the mystery man.
He looked up at us when he heard us coming toward him he glanced at me for a few seconds before his gaze fell onto the vampire besides me.
"Finally made it?" He asked in that low tenor voice.
"Sorry, I was delayed." The vampire said taking a seat across from the bat.
"Can I get you anything sir?" I asked the vamp. Seemed kind of stupid to ask a vamp a question like that seeing as they don't eat.
"No thank you I’m fine." He said politely.
"Ok and I’ll be right back with your steak sir." I said to the bat.
"Hurry back pup." He said quietly.
I turned around so he wouldn't see the look on my face. He wasn't going to let what happen earlier go, he really thought I was another werebat. It had happened before, other shape-shifters had mistaken me for one of their kind. I turned around and found that both the vamp, and the bat were watching me. One of the many draw backs of my ability, when it came to vamps, I smelled REALLY good to them. Masters especially, something about my blood had extra oomph for them. I once gave some blood to a vamp as part of an agreement. He held his end of the bargain, but he always tried to get me to donate afterwards, it got to the point where I had to be guarded around the clock to keep vamps from trying to suck me dry. It happened here to come to think about, vamps would come in catch a whiff of me and want me to be their new pomme de sang, there private little blood donor, I had been flattered but declined. Jeremy said that the number of vampire customers had gone up since I started working here.
I went back to the kitchen and picked up the bloody steak, it wasn't uncommon for the furry's to want their food practically alive when they ate it. I walked back over to the table, bat boy and vamp man looked to be deep in conversation. They stopped when they saw me coming and they just stared at me.
"Here you go sir I hope you enjoy your meal." I said with a smile and a nod, just because he creeped me out doesn't mean I couldn't be professional.
I started to leave but then he called me.
"You still owe me an explanation pup." Bat boy said, it was weird how he talked so low but I still heard him. And what was up with this pup shit, I was faking twenty one, not twelve. I turned around to face him.
"Sir I’m sorry but I have no idea what your talking about." I said trying to sound confused.
"See." He said to the vamp, "Trying to act all ignorant."
The vamp just stared at my face, "I'm not sure Drake he smell's honest to me.", Damn vampires and their enhanced sense of smell.
"I'm telling you he almost pulled my beast try yourself." The boy called Drake said.
The vampire looked at me and I sensed it. The call of a master vampire, summoning his beast. But all that power was focused on me, and a bat I was not, but my power allowed me to feel the might of his call, and I was in danger more than ever of exposure, he would sense I was human but my power might try to respond, and he would know I was more. I struggled to keep my power contained if only for a few more seconds. Finally the vamp let up and I sighed in relief, which gave me away.
"You’re human, but you felt my power? You a psy?" He asked, he was asking if I had enough sixth sense to be human but still be aware of supernatural power.
"No." I lied.
His eye's narrowed "You’re human but you’re more than that I can smell it....you have very sweet blood I can smell it, would you care to join us?" He asked scooting over and patting the seat in invitation.
"Sorry but I'm working right now." I said and I used my power to send out a call to Jeremy I sensed/saw him in his office going over some paperwork, he stopped and looked right up at me, and said my name.
"But I must insist." The vampire said his grey eye's darkening and I knew he was using vampire mind tricks to try and roll me, if I had been merely human it might of worked, but I was more than human and I wore a cross under my shirt. Being whatever I was made me have a degree of immunity to vamp hypnosis, not totally but enough to fight. I never had a master unleash the full might of his mind on me and I hoped I never would.
"You trying to roll me sir?" I said my face becoming a little less friendly now.
"Magnus." Drake said he knew what he was doing was illegal. It was against the law for vamps to roll a person without there consent and I sure as hell wasn't consenting.
"As you know it's illegal to do that sir, I could report you to the police." I said.
Magnus pulled back his power, "You’re human but you resisted me, what are you boy?" He asked his brow furrowed.
"Excuse me gentlemen is there a problem?" Jeremy asked walking up behind me.
"No, no problem." Drake said leaning back into his seat and giving Jeremy a piercing glare, I felt Jeremy's and Drake's energy rise a little.
"Well then excuse us." He walked away and I followed. "What was that?" He asked once we were hearing distance away.
"That." I said, "Was the zoo's first werebat." Jeremy looked at me very sharply.
"There's no such thing as werebat." He said.
"Well I know what I sensed and it was bat, the vamp is a master, around five hundred years, he can call bats." I said.
"I never heard of werebats before." He said in confusion.
"Me either, Ron has, he said there's a lot of unpleasant rumors about them, you don't know what to believe." I said
He glanced behind his shoulder and let out a low growl, "There watching us." He stopped walking and so did I.
"Look go home right now, better yet here." He handed me a key. "This is a spare key to my place wait for me there you’re spending the night." I started to argue but he held up a hand. "I don't want to hear it, clock out and wait for me at my place, and go out the back, so they don't see." He said and pushed me toward the employ area.
I let out a moan of frustration and walked through the door. I clocked out and grabbed my clothes from my locker, then I went out the back door heading toward the employee parking area. I was almost at my jeep when I heard that disturbingly familiar voice.
"Going somewhere pup?" I turned around and found Drake standing ten feet behind me, I was still shielding so no wonder I didn't sense him. He had his hands in his pockets and was staring at me with appraising eye's. He started walking forward, with his hand outstretched toward me.
"Stop!" I said firmly, and I did more than say it, I lowered down my shields and put my power behind my voice.
He stopped were he stood about six feet away with his hand still outstretched. He stared at me with those foggy eye's with a mixture of intrigue and curiosity.
"You’re not a vampire, you’re not a shape-shifter, so what are you?" He asked puzzled. He took a deep breath through his nose. "What smells so human but gives off such a potent aroma?" He asked and he began to try and fight my hold on him. I used my power to send a call out to Jeremy and felt him respond. Drake began to spill some of his power out to try and fight my hold on him. It was pointless my power fed off of lycanthrope power, and he was a tasty treat.
"What do you want?" I said.
"Just to find out more about you, I confess you...intrigue me, it has been a while since anything has perked my interest." Oh goody I perked his curiosity, to bad he wasn't a cat.
"Back away from him." Jeremy's voice growled into the night. Drake turned around and found not only Jeremy whose eye's had bled to a wolfish brown, but Ron with his arms crossed and muscles rippling. Both of them were sending off vibes of power and my power fed on them.
"Your eye's." Ron said staring at my face in amassment, "They’re different." That was the weird thing, when I used my powers to their fullest, any were who saw me saw a reflection of there own animal eye's. To Ron they looked like a bear, to Jeremy like a wolf, and to Drake probably a bat.
"Yes." Drake said in a whisper, "He has such nice bat eye's doesn’t he?"
"Bat eye's?" Ron said confused. "He has bear eye's, Dave you little devil you why didn't you say you were like me?" He asked confused.
"Well, well you’re full of surprise's pup." Drake said once again staring at me.
"I said back off!" Jeremy said taking a step forward.
"Make me wolf." Drake sneered, and at that moment Drake unleashed the full power he had.
He reminded me of Richard, he was just brimming with power, he was stronger then I had given him credit for.
Jeremy unleashed his power but he wasn't nearly as strong as drake. Ron added his formidable might to the mix, it wasn't the same level as Drake's but it was enough to level things out. While the boy's were doing there little metaphysical pissing contest, I was feasting. I had let down my shields, my power was still holding Drake back, but at the same time it was feeding off the combined energies of wolf, bat, and bear.
"Don't make me tell you again back...the...fuck...OFF!" Jeremy said slowly screaming the last bit.
Drake raised his hand's and I felt a roll of energy and he shifted his hands. Only Alpha were's were capable of shifting certain body parts. It was a sign of how powerful they were. His fingernails grew about six inches longer, they looked much sharper, and deadly, his hands grew slightly longer to.
"Come and make me wolfie if you have the balls." Drake sneered.
Jeremy growled and was about to spring forward when I shouted "STOP!"
My gift was a sponge absorbing all their power, and what didn't get absorbed was pushed back.. Their eye's turned back to normal and Drake’s hands returned to their human form. I then had three pairs of eye's looking at me with a mixture of anger and amassment.
"What's going on out here?" A voice called and Magnus the vampire appeared. He took in the scene his eye's settling on Drake. "Drake leave the boy alone." He said his eye's focusing on Drake. When Drake refused to back off Magnus used his power "Drake back off." He said his voice thick with power..
Drake closed his eye's and shuddered, he had both me and Magnus using our power on him, he couldn't resist. Drake turned his back to me and turned to Magnus. "The boy can manipulate all our beast's, he himself leeched off our power and forced me from shifting." He said jerking a thumb in my direction.
Magnus raised an eyebrow at me.
"I didn't want a fight." I said.
"Still, to manipulate the beast's of three different alpha's, that's strong power." He said, his face carefully neutral. Old vamps only use the blank face when they we're trying to gain information.
"Look I don't know what this is all about but I would really appreciate it if your friend and you left." I said.
"Not until you tell me what you are pup." Drake said to me.
"I don't owe you a damn thing."
"You manipulated my beast a mere human." He took a step closer to me "That is all I need." He said in a hiss.
I took a step toward him and looked him in the eye, I let my power loose that anyone present could feel it, the were's shivered, they could feel my power caressing them, feeling them, tasting them. Only Magnus acted like he couldn't feel it.
"Listen, leave now and don't come back." I said and I placed every amount of power into those words. He tried to fight but it was futile.
"Let's go." He said to Magnus.
Magnus turned to Jeremy "I will have to report this to Jean-Claude." He said.
Jeremy let out a growl, "Jean-Claude doesn't rule my pack."
"No but the ulfric is his animal to call and one third of his triumverite, Drake here is a representative of the bat clan of this area and we we're in talks of making alliance, your rudeness may have cost us that."
"He should have left my worker alone."
"And you should have gone to Richard or myself."
"If I had know you we're going to have an important business arrangement here or instead of the circus, I would have chosen waiters more carefully." He said his eye's going wolf.
I walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. He glanced at me and he calmed down. "Sense your so eager to tattle maybe I should go to the police Mr. Mangus, I believe they would be interested in hearing how you tried to roll me without my consent." I said to Magnus. He glared at me and nodded to Drake. Drake looked at me one more time and left with Magnus.
I let out a sigh of relief, I turned to Jeremy."I'm so sorry." I said apologetically.
"Why are you apologizing for?" He asked.
"Getting you in trouble with your king." I said and he laughed.
"Don't worry Richard really doesn't like Jean-Claude, besides they started it, Magnus was just trying to kiss his ass so Drake wouldn't back out of any planed alliance's, beside Jean-Claude would probably use Drake's behavior to his advantage." He said muttering to himself. "All the same I should tell Richard before Magnus tells Jean-Claude."
"He's still here." Ron said his big arms still crossed his face looking gruff.
"What's wrong?" I asked I sensed, aggression, frustration, and a hint of...fear?
"What's wrong?" He grumbled, "What the hell was that all about? What the hell did you do? And what the hell are you?" He said focusing on me with his glare.
"Ron I…" I tried to think of an excuse, but what should I tell him? I was trying to stay off the grid but I may have just stumbled into some fuzzy political conflict, damn it!
"Look." Jeremy said getting our attention, "Let's go inside and talk it over, then Dave you go home ok, we're walking on ice right now and we need to be care so gentlemen my office if you please." He said politely, we walked back inside to discuss with Ron my...special case.
Damn this wasn't going to be pleasant.

fusedtwilight: It took forever to spellcheack this damn thin. I really should have paid more attention during english class.
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