Originally Posted by ferretchucker
Hmm, I don't know a whole lot about werewolves, but I'll give this my best shot.
Like Anne
The word werewolf conjures up, in most people's brains, a wolf man howling in the light of the full moon. I want to keep that traditional aspect but go with a new direction that gets the reader's attention. There have been different ways of a person getting lycanthropy. It could be that their ancestors had sex with demon, as is the case in The Demonata series, or simply bitten by another werewolf. Or a case of a genetic experiment gone wrong.
For mine I think I'll go with something different, but yet slightly similar. Here's a basic synopsis of my story.
My story begins in the year 1326 when a nameless explorer has traveled out into the arctic along. He's nearly dead and so sets his dogs free. In the distance, he can see something fall down to Earth. The dogs run in it's direction. Several hours later, the dogs return and begin eating the nearly dead man. They drag him out from the cave he's in, into the moonlight and then suddenly they all drop down dead. Bleeding to death, in a last effort of comfort, he pulls the dead dogs closer to him and dies.
Seven hundred years later, Edgar Lee is with his team of researchers doing studies on the affects of global warming on the arctic. Edgar and one of his Asian colleagues go out to gather some specimens. Whilst digging Edgar falls through the ice into a cavern. It's full of dead carcasses. Suddenly, the Asian above starts screaming "Like Anne! Like Anne!". His dead body falls through as well. Something jumps down the hole and rushes at Edgar. Whilst it's biting his neck he has time to pull out his gun and shoot the creature.
He wakes up in a hospital bed, having been rescued by others in the team who heard the shot. They found no sign of the creature. Eventually he gets better and three years later, he's living his life as normal, with a baby on the way, but lately he's been having nightmares of the creature that attacked him, the words "Like Anne" ringing around in his head.
One day he loses his temper in a bank with someone. He's kicked out of the bank, but somehow, hours later, he follows a smell which leads him to the man he was angered by. He nearly gets into a fight with him, but resists at the last moment.
He's contacted by a "Mr. Howl", and told to go to the travel agents in town. He goes there and is faced with the man he was angered by. The doors lock behind him and he is told to go down the hatch in the floor. He's about to resist when the man's eyes glow yellow, like a dog's, and he says;
"Do you not want to know why you have nightmares, Edgar?"
Lee reluctantly goes down the hatch, finding himself in an old sewer system that has somehow been made up to look something like an abandoned hotel, yet it still drips and the smell lingers.
In a conversation, he learns he was bitten by something only known as "Neun". He was a German explorer who's eight dogs were "chosen" by the heavenly one. Under the light of the full moon, they died together and became one. This formed Neun. Over the years, forty seven people have been attacked by Neun, of those forty three remain. They live unnaturally long lives and have developed connections over the years which prevent them and Neun from being disturbed.
Edgar doesn't believe it and tries to leave, but is quickly stopped. He is shown "The Lunar Tunnel", where the light of the moon is replicated and the people become Werewolves, or Lycans. Now a believer, he still wants to leave to be with his girlfriend and unborn child. The Lycan People imprison him for three months in solitude, with constant videos of viscous dogs playing. When he comes out of the room, he is in the mindset of the others.
Now they trust him, he is set free to do whatever he wants. He roams around the city, killing people. He is about to kill a woman but stops when he hears her voice. It's his girlfriend. When she sees him, the shock sends her into labor. That's when the other werewolves arrive to claim the child, the only one ever conceived by a lycan.
He fights the other lycans off, eventually winning, nearly dead. That's when he turns around and sees that his girlfriend has given birth, but to a monstrous creature that looks more like a cross between a crab and a slug than a werewolf. The creature has already killed his girlfriend, and weak as he is, it slaughters him too.
The closing paragraphs explain that the Lee's baby was in no way truly his, or his girlfriend's. It was the heavenly one's true form. The dogs of Neun had found and devoured it. It's blood drove them insane. They dragged the german man out of the cave into the moonlight, for it gives the heavenly one strength, however their bodies could not cope with the stress and they died. Over time, due to the blood running through all of them, the moon combined the creatures to make Neun.
In biting the people who survived, Neun passed on his wolfen genes which slowly mutated the humans, but what they didn't know was that they were also host to the heavenly one's DNA, which corrupted some of their cells. It used the womb of Lee's girlfriend to grow once again.
Just a side note, the werewolves would walk mainly on all fours, have bones painfully jutting out in places, they would have sharp fangs and large ears, but not snouts. Their face would be relatively the same except hairier and tougher. They would also have tails. The change wouldn't be very painful, and would feel almost dreamlike for the lycan.
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