Coming of the Wolfs


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‘Aaaaaahhhhh…’

Jack shot up, what was that noise? He gazed around the room, trying to gather his surroundings. Where was he? He wasn’t sure. All he did know was that he had never seen anything like this. He wiped his face, smearing sweat over his cheeks. The room was dark, cold and chambers all over the walls. He walked across the metal floor, nearly slipping on goodness knows what. He peered into one of the chambers to discover a dead chimpanzee.

‘What the hell is this place?’ Jack murmured to himself, ‘Hello! Is there anybody there?’ No answer. He wandered around the room looking for a way out. Suddenly from the corner of his eye, Jack saw something move. He ducked behind a table and started to tremble, uncontrollably. In front of him, he could see a door. But what if that thing saw him, what would happen to him? ‘Come on Jack, you can do it.’ He prepared himself for the escape; he began to slowly move himself into position.

Bolting through the door, Jack turned around to see what the thing was, but he could see nothing. That didn’t stop him running though. While running, Jack caught sight of more rooms with chambers, fearful of what might be in them, he began to up the pace. He darted around a corner and found himself in a control room of some sort. He closed the door behind him. ‘What the hell am I going to do?’

A dozen computers filled half the room, most of which were destroyed. Jack sat himself down by a laptop. Upon the screen was writing: If you are reading this then there may still be hope. At the back of the room there is a door. Go through it, salvation is there. Jack was confused; did someone know he was there? Had the person who wrote this been trapped here as well? While pondering over these questions, Jack heard something else, louder this time. It sent chills up and down his spine.

‘Nooooo… aaaahhhhhhhh!’

Jack knew he had to get out. He legged it to the back of the room and found the door he was hoping for. He tried to open it but it was locked. ‘[Censored]’ He tried barging the door, but nothing worked. He took a couple of steps back and threw his leg at it, with enormous determination. The door collapsed and Jack jumped through. What he saw next was not what he expected.

‘We’ve been expecting you Jack.’ Jack fell down with fear, his legs buckled. The room was populated with what seemed like hounds, but they couldn’t be hounds, they were standing on two legs, as if human, and they talked! ‘Don’t worry Jack, it won’t hurt.’ They all stepped forward, as a unit, and the front hound slowly pulled out a butcher’s knife from his sheath. ‘Get away from me! Get the [censored] away from me!’ Jack suddenly got the courage to get up, he went back through the door and ran, ran as fast as he could. Looking back, he could see the hounds were following him, but not in a hurry, as if taunting him. He just kept running, trying to get as far away from those monsters as he could.

Jack seemed to be running in circles, he kept seeing the same rooms, the same corridors. He didn’t give up hope though. Nearly out of breath he hid himself in one of the rooms. ‘Jack, don’t worry, it will all be fine.’ The hounds had found him, Jack just stood there, not knowing what to do. The hounds surrounded Jack; the lead hound picking him up by his throat. He stabbed Jack in the chest. Jack dropped to the floor; his eyes wide open, blood pouring from his chest.

‘Experiment XC34990 terminated at 19:47.’ The council scientist took a deep breath and sat down, coffee in one hand, documents in the other. ‘Call the chief, I think that the War-Wolfs are ready for battle.’