Dec. 4, 2024

Welcome Home - A Werewolf Christmas Tale of Family, Redemption, and Survival

Welcome Home - A Werewolf Christmas Tale of Family, Redemption, and Survival

🎄 A werewolf returns home for Christmas—but peace on Earth is not on the menu… The holidays are a time for family, forgiveness, and festive cheer—but when you’ve got blood on your hands and a monster in your soul, things get complicated fast. In...

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🎄 A werewolf returns home for Christmas—but peace on Earth is not on the menu…

The holidays are a time for family, forgiveness, and festive cheer—but when you’ve got blood on your hands and a monster in your soul, things get complicated fast. In Welcome Home, a haunted young man returns to his rural hometown after years away… but his homecoming is shadowed by deep secrets, buried trauma, and the curse that stalks his bloodline.

As snow falls and old ghosts rise, tensions boil over into a brutal reckoning—one that will pit brother against brother, man against beast, and hunter against hunted.

This dark and emotional tale fuses Christmas horror, werewolf mythology, and supernatural family drama into one unforgettable night of terror. If you love creature features, tragic antiheroes, and holiday horror that bites—this is the story for you.

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Welcome Home — by Shane Migliavacca

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Sometimes dealing with family can be hard, especially when you've

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been gone for five years and now you're married to

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a werewolf and you yourself are a werewolf. But what

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can be more terrifying than disapproving sneers from your mother

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or father? Well, maybe being hunted?

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What's that you want to be scared?

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Come with me. You will experience tales over opera, ghosts

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and death.

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It is not recommended at the foot of week at

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heart heart.

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Listen as in the dark, it's more fun at that

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way way. This is Weekly Speaking, Hello my Spookyes, it's Wednesday,

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and you know what that means. It's time for a

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Enrique Kuto, and we are digging deep into the holiday season.

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much more in the realm of Spooky. But now, what

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about Tonight's story? Christmas is a time for family, a

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time for laughter and love. But what if coming homeant

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facing the things you've been running from your whole life?

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What if the secrets you've buried could tear apart everything

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you hold dear. What begins as a heartwarming reunion quickly

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turns into a fight for survival, with deadly killers lurking

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in the shadows, ready to destroy any hopes of a

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merry Christmas, So get comfortable my mind. Friends, it's about

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time for this story to unravel in your ears. I

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know I'm ready for a little holiday fear. How about you?

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Right after this Welcome Home by Mike Eskewey. Some people

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love coming home for Christmas. It's seeing loved ones, family

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dinners and falling asleep by a roaring fire while it's

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colder than hell outside. This will be different than the usual, Hi,

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how are you? Son? This year will be explaining where

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the hell I've been for five years and why everyone

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thought I was dead during that time, plus explaining that

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other thing. I'm awarewolf and married, and I have a

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kid plus another one on the way. Yeah, Josh, you

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sure know how to make Christmas memorable. I mean, it's

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not shitting on the carpet on Christmas Morning levels of memorable.

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Oddly enough, still a possibility, though, don't ask. I've got

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a lot of explaining to do to my parents. I

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hope they understand and maybe even accept that their son

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is different than when he left. He's not the aimless,

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horny kid who left one day and never came back

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after a chance encounter with a girl. No, I'm older, wiser,

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and hopefully on the way to being a good father.

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My dad, Bobby Fox, wasn't a bad guy, but he

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didn't care as long as he could drink down at

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Jason's Pub after his shift at West Hill Secondary School.

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He didn't care. He just wasn't there for me at all,

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unless he he needed a beer or someone to come

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pick him up when he couldn't drive home. He didn't

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hit me or anything, but he could be mean when

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he wanted to be. My wife, Tracy was the only

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one who welcomed me into her pack five years ago.

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It was a chance email that led to a knight

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that could have ended with me as a bloody smear

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on the side of the road, with me being just

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another missing person reported and ignored by Ontario Provincial police. Instead,

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she saw something in me. She saw the real me,

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a vulnerable kid who wasn't that bad a guy, but

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let his hormones get the better of him. Tracy was

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a werewolf or a shifter. She was a gorgeous Ojibwe

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girl who happened to have a supernaturally infused bloodline. She

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was looking for someone to have a family with, and

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she chose me because I was honest in her world.

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Her pups take on traits from the mate and the mother.

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She wanted me because she saw I was honest at

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my core. In return, she offered me a new life

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and a new world that I never dreamed of. I

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woke up the following day as something new. I was reborn.

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I was part of her pack and her kin. Indigenous

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families are pretty close knit up in Cape Crocker, but

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hers was particularly close. It wasn't as easy as walking

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up and meeting her family and shaking hands with Dad

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and her brothers. I had to earn my spot. It

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was a challenge, and I know I'll be tested again

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and rightfully, so let me tell you it was harder

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than any hazing I ever had in the locker room

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at hockey, learning how to control my new lupine form,

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shifting into the warrior form, our high hybrid between man

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and wolf at will. The hardest part was learning to

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control the anger, the aggression, and the natural need to hunt.

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It's an honor to have this remarkable gift blessed upon me,

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just a stupid kid from Owen Sound. I got a

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beautiful wife, a baby boy I'd do anything for, and

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another one we're expecting in the spring. It was worth

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leaving it all behind for something you only see in

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bad Hallmark movies. Right. Still, her dad, Howard, and I

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would come to respect each other, and I'd come to

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love him. He was the literal wise old Indian and

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probably the sharpest guy I've ever met. Also, he could

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tell the funniest jokes I've ever heard, too, and was

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way raunchier than me at my worst. Tracy's family eventually

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accepted me, and it really felt like home. We would

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hunt together as a pack, run across the Niagara escarpment

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with our hearts almost tearing out of our chests. We

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would build great bonfires, and we'd howl at the moon,

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and they'd teach me songs in their languages. Fuck. I

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wouldn't trade it for anything. However, I miss my own

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family and it's time to go home. I want to

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show them that I grew up and am capable of

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being a father. I need to show my own father

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what a real father looks like, even if he's now

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a seven foot tall wolfman and has claws that can

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cut tempered steel. Did I mention, because I'm a non

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blood shifter that I'm a little short for my new life.

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I don't look as majestic as others do in the tribe,

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but that's okay. Can't win the lottery all the time, right.

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You can't run from your past forever. Eventually you have

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to go home. It's Chris time, isn't that when miracles

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and all that shit are supposed to happen. We're on

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the road back to Owen Sound now, and I'm dreading

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facing my mom and dad again, just outside Hepworth and

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probably about thirty minutes away from the most awkward conversation

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of my life. They'll love Tracy, I know they will.

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My mom will fawn over my son Noah until he

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changes into another seven foot tall monster. Still, she'll get

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over it, and she'll be Grandma Linda to Noah once

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she stops shitting her pants. He's years away from his

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first change, though, but he's already showing the traits of

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his spiritual blood. He'll be stronger than Tracy and I combined,

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and I'd be lying if that didn't put a huge

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smile on my goofy face. However, he's just as much

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theirs as he is mine and Tracy's. We're family. I

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want our families to know each other. I want to

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give my family the Christmas that my parents never gave me.

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And my sister Jenna presents goofy pictures and awkward Christmas dinners,

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the whole shebang. My son Noah is asleep in the

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back seat and makes a little cooing noise. He looked

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so cute in his snowsuit. One of the res aunties

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made him his own little moccasins real deer leather too.

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I reached my hand back and moved his hair out

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of his face. I touched his little cheeks, and I

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can't help but marvel at the thought I helped make

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that I was a dad. Josh, you know we don't

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have to do this. Tracy looked over at me from

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the driver's seat. The drive in the winter is never

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pleasant on Highway six, but she handles it like a pro.

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It's snowing pretty heavily, and I'll wager the highway will

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be closed by the time we get to Owen Sound.

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It always gets closed around this time in December and

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usually stays that way overnight. We do they deserve to

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know about me, about us, about Noah, and there soon

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to be new grandkid. On one hand, maybe she was

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right they didn't have to know, and maybe it was

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better that I was just missing Wagosh. You know I

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love you and only want what's best. She called me

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that when she wanted to reassure me. Wagush is the

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Ojibwe word for fox, and her pet name for me.

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Her name was Ogijita, and it meant warrior. Hers was

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significantly cooler than mine. I'm not of blood, so I

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don't get a spirit name like hers, but still she

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calls me Wagosh or foxy in human company. I did

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feel that pang of guilt, and that image of my

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mother crying in my bedroom and never knowing exactly what

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happened to me. The thought of my sister Jenna never

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knowing either. I didn't want them imagining me rotting in

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a ditch somewhere or being dead at the bottom of

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Georgian Bay. I wasn't that guy. I wanted to be

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better than I was in my previous life. That meant

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going home and facing the music. If we keep them

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out of our lives, then they won't go looking for them.

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They only care about us and hunting us. She glanced

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over at me with those big brown eyes, and I

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could see for a half second concern. U, sh.

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It was only the wind. You're safe, weekly spooky, We'll

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be right back.

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Hunters people who knew about us shifters, and hunted us

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for a variety of reasons. They came prepared, high powered weapons, silver,

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and other stuff I've only ever heard whispered about around campfires.

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They rarely leave survivors. No one knows where they came from,

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or even how they knew how to find us. Divine wrath.

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I don't think so. But if you asked me five

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years ago if I believed in werewolves, I'd have called

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you fucking crazy and sent you up the looney bin.

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A group of hunters got Tracy's brothers a few years back,

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had them cornered out in the bush, and laid a

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trap for them. We only found the lingering smell of gunpowder,

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scraps of their pelts, and a silvered bowie knife stuck

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in a tree. The hunters left a gruesome and cruel

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message scrawled in blood and entrails across the ground, You're next, mongrel.

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We buried what we could under a full moon and

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swore revenge if we ever found them. We burned sweet

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grass and sage and offered tobacco. As per Tracy's family traditions,

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the res held a sacred fire vigil for days. As

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we laid them to rest, I offered them my word

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that I'd see vengeance visited in this world or the next.

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That was the only night I ever saw Tracy cry.

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Her father was stoic, and I didn't see him so

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much as smile for months afterwards. We've been careful ever since,

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watching our backs patrolling our property on the reserve. We

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know their scent from what was left behind. Smelt like

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old spice, gun oil and stale astro glide. Our heightened

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senses mean we could even sense their spirits to a

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limited extent. They left behind a cockiness you could feel

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seep into your pores. However, at the end of the day,

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they were human. Humans bleed and humans die. They could

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be killed, probably a bunch of dude bros. If we

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ever find them, we'll tear them apart, limb from limb

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and make sure for every second of pain they visited

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on Terry and Shane, we give them something above and beyond.

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It won't be quick, but I will enjoy it. What

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was that old video game saying rip and tear. I

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shook off the memory as we finally rounded the corner

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into spring Mount and were just outside of the city

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limits of Owen Sound. We'd be at my house in

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a few minutes and then, well, I don't know what

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I see roads as we passed the car dealerships and

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the truck's wheels slipped ever so slightly. This definitely meant

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they were going to close the roads. By the time

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we got back from my parents' house, snow was picking

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up too. As we passed the movie theater and the

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old abandoned Blockbuster video the roads will be impassable within

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an hour. I picked a hell of a day to

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drop in, didn't I. Well, it's too late to back

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out now. I'd been by my parents' place a few

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times as a wolf late at night. Tracy would scold

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me when I got back home because she said I

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wasn't careful enough and didn't maximize our gifts to stay hidden.

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She knew I was worried about my folks, but I

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was careful. No one could track me. I was faster

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than anything on four legs had any right to be.

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No one saw me, I'm sure of it. We arrived

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at my parents' house right by West Hill Secondary School.

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They're decorated for Christmas lights and light up snow men

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that I'm pretty sure were around since the seventies. We

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pulled into the driveway next to my dad's SUV and

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mom's shitty Kia. I didn't see Jenna's car. Maybe she

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didn't come home this year. That's weird. I unbuckled Noah's

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car seat and started to get him ready to meet

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his Grandpa Bob and Grandma Linda, my folks. I grabbed

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his bag of stuff and our backpacks and slung them

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over my shoulder. Tracy touched my arm and looked around

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into the early evening air. She wasn't just looking, she

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was looking. She reached out with her shifter senses and

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was actively looking for threats. She had brought our family

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into a new location and a place where she didn't

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know every entrance and exit. First and foremost, she was

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a hunter, a soldier in a supernatural war. But she

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was something else too, a mom who would protect her

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family with tooth and claw. Sh Listen, she whispered in

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a way that only we could hear. I wasn't as

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in tune with things as she was I'm pretty sure

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she could hear a mouse fart the next town over

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if she tried. Tracy's eyes took on a more animalistic

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look as she was reaching out with her senses. It

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was beautiful in its own way and made me the

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meld of the beast and woman that she was. In

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our extended senses, we could feel the hum of the

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earth itself, the slight tremors that life itself put out.

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It was like feeling the heartbeat of the planet. She

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hated when I called it using the force, but what

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else could you call it? My wife was basically a

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hot fuckable luke skywalker. What I don't hear shit, trace

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couple of cars in the road, dog barking, and probably

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some asshole watching young Sheldon or something a few houses down.

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She wasn't convinced that all was clear. She was on

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red alert for something. There's no way the hunters would

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be so brazen as to attack on Christmas Eve, right,

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Their dude, bro werewolf hunters, not the terminator. I mean,

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worse comes to worse. We hulk out and tear them

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limb from limb, and then have family Christmas coated in

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the guts of our fallen foes its Game of Thrones

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meets the Brady Bunch. It'll be perfect. Now. I'll admit

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that my mind was elsewhere, trying to psych up for

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walking up and knocking on my own front door. I

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could feel my stomach tightened up, and I was even

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a little sick. This was it, game time, Foxy. I

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held Noah in my arms and walked up the stairs

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of our front porch, and Tracy followed behind us, still

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searching out into the night. Knock, knock, hold on. I

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hear my mother yell from behind the closed door. She

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was likely in the kitchen, despite her being a terrible cook.

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There was a reason I worked at Little Caesar's down

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the road for most of my time before college. It

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was shitty pizza, but it was better than what we

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had at home. Distinctive footsteps on the hardwood floor, and

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they're getting close. Oh breathe. Noah reached out his tiny

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hand and poked me in the face, and I giggle,

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sh You're gonna be a good boy and meet your grandma.

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The door opened up, and my mother, Linda Fox, just

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stared at me like she's seen a ghost and doesn't

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say a word for the space of a heartbeat. Her

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eyes darted to Noah and then to Tracy standing behind me.

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Uh Hi, Mom, I'm home, I said, kind of sheepishly,

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and eke out a smile. My son waved at my mom,

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and you can see the torrent of emotions ready to

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be unleashed. Josh, you're alive. She started immediately crying and

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threw her arms around Noah and I. My werewolf senses

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could pick up all of her emotions relief, happiness, anger,

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and so many more. Her emotional floodgates threatened to overwhelm

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me and even Tracy. She hugged Noah and I so

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tight that he began to cry a little bit. Linda,

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who's at the door, don't let the heat out? Oh yeah, Dad,

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this is gonna go well, I can tell Hi. Can

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we take this inside? I escaped Mom's wwe grip on

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me long enough for all of us to get in

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the house and close the door behind us. It's home still,

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though the Christmas tree is up in the living room

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hallway is decorated with tinsel, and even my stupid wreath

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I made in fifth grade it's still hung up on

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the front door. Noah's eyes were wide with excitement. Because

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of new people. How where Josh? We thought you were dead?

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Mom stammered between hysterical crying MS. Fox, I'm his wife, Tracy.

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Maybe maybe we should sit down. There's a lot to

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talk about, and frankly, ms. Fox, it's gonna sound pretty

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fucked up. There's the woman I love, straight to the

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point and authoritative. All of us made our way into

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our tiny living room and there was Dad already half drunk,

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sitting on the couch. This was expected.

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Play it cool, are you afraid? Good? Weekly, spooky? We'll

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be right back.

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Where the fuck have you been? Dad is concerned, and

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I could tell he cared, But we're going with anger first.

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It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out. Hi,

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do you too? Dad? Noah runs out into the living

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room and immediately starts playing with the dog Pip. He'll

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be occupied for a little while while we attempt to

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talk to Mom and Dad. I'll fix up that whole

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piece in the Middle East thing too while I'm at it.

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Oh great, not only back from the dead, but now

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you've got a kid. Any more surprises? Josh? Should I

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have a heart attack now? Or wait a little while. Look,

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I'm glad to see you too. Yeah, I've got a

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lot to explain and a lot to say sorry for.

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I'm sorry that I had to go away for a

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few years. I'm sorry that I didn't call. I couldn't

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and bullshit, Josh, your poor mother and sister thought you

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were fucking dead. Okay, Dad was not fucking around. This

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was the mean drunk I had seen countless years ago.

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This was the man who called me a loser when

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I said I was working a hot dog kart for

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a summer during college. Tracy sat on the floor with

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Noah and Pip and watched me handle this. She trusted

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me to keep a cool head and deal with dad.

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My mom just sat on the couch quietly and tried

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to process us everything that was happening right in front

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of her. I could feel it, that anger rising inside

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me behind my eyes. This wasn't the anger that someone

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cuts you off in traffic or keyed your car. This

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was shift. Blood pulsing through my veins. Hot intensity flooded

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through me, and I could feel something triggering. I can't

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stop it. Uh oh, beast mode, it's morphin time, motherfucker.

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My muscles popped and rippled and tore through. I felt

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my height increase and my arms lengthened. Then finally, my

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claws extended from my hands. My face contorted, and my

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werewolf snout tore through my skull. Red and brown fur

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coated my body in an instant, and shredded my clothes

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to rags, except what little remained of my jeens. No,

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my vocalization rever heberated on a frequency that I'm sure

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God himself could hear. Everyone would bear witness to the

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raw power of my werewolf form laid bare today. Dad

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would hear me, and God is my witness. He would listen.

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Mom and Dad froze up and suddenly stopped crying and

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yelling and cowered on the worn couch. I needed to

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grow up, and I couldn't do it around you. My

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head hit the ceiling of the living room as I

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stood at my shifter height. I looked down at my

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parents and saw their fear, but something else as well.

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I don't know what to call it. Mom, Dad. I

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came home because I need you to know me again.

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I need you to meet my wife, meet my son.

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And it's Christmas, guys. The anger started to subside for

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a moment. I was starting to regain my composure. I

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could put together a thought and think straight. I felt

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Noah's hand on my foot, which had transformed into a

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wicked paw appendage. Maybe I could shift back down into

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human form and start to have a conversation with everyone. Daddy,

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are you okay? Gunfire? The living room windows glass exploded

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in a hail of bullets, and the screaming started. The

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hunters had found us, and they intended to finish us off.

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How did they find us doesn't matter, It's go time.

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Tracy grabbed Noah unrolled with him on the floor behind

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the couch. She went back and pulled my mom and

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dad to the floor. Rapid automatic gunfire cut through the

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air and you could actually see tracer rounds from their weapons.

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These guys were not fucking around. They brought all the

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toys they could to take us down. I don't know you,

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but I know your son and I love him. Protect

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my son and I'll protect yours, Tracy said in a

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quick voice. I hit the deck and kept my head

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down and exchanged looks with Tracy. She was readying herself

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for action, preparing to change into her warrior form like me.

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I looked at Noah. He was scared and started to cry.

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Mom and Dad had enough of their senses to guard

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this young child now thrust into their care. Mom held

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Noah closer to her chest and Dad kept his body

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close to both of them. My parents looked at their

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son the werewolf in the living room and didn't say

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a word, but all was communicated with a glance, save us,

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save your son. There was a brief interruption during the attack.

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They're probably reloading. Tracy stood up. She didn't waste any

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time full beast mode super cyan fuck around and find

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out time John Wick with teeth, claws and tits. Tracy's

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shifter warrior form emerged from her small frame and rose

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to over nine feet tall. Her rough brown dark fur

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coated her body and was now streaked with bright red highlights.

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She was dawning her own version of spiritual war paint.

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She and I both crouched below the destroyed window frame.

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We readied our powerful legs to burst out as soon

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as we had a solid location on where the attack

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came from. Come outside and die like the freaks you are.

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A young man's voice called out from the darkness outside.

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We both heard the sounds of fresh magazines being inserted

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into several sets of weapons. The guns sounded heavy, like

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military rifles of some sort, probably some kind of machine gun. Great,

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we get the werewolf hunters who played too much fucking

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call of duty. We could hear a distinct set of

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about four of them moving around in the snow outside

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their boots, crunching on the thin layer of ice and

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trying their damnedest to stay quiet. Four of them and

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two of us. This should be easy. However, thinking like

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that will get us both shot full of holes and

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likely silver bladed in the heart. We can regenerate from

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most wounds, but it's game over if it's silver. Tracy

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flies forward and easily clears the broken window frame and

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lands in the front yard, matching her fluid movement, and

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before I can even recognize what I'm doing, I'm beside

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her with my teeth bared. We're titans of muscle, teeth

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and fur, and we're more physically imposing than the largest

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lions in Africa. Three masked individuals emerge from the shadows

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in the front of the house, ski masks, heavy black

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military style body armor, and very impressive looking guns. The

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hunters exchange hand signs and begin to open fire on tray.

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Where was the fourth one? I can't smell them or

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see them. I heard four guns reload faster than the

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speed of thought. Tracy and I started moving our lupine

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forms and closed in on two out of the three

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of them. She was on top of one of them

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before they could even raise their hands in self defense

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or even surprise. Toppled effortlessly to the frozen ground. The

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snapping of jaws in the rendering of flesh, and a

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crimson fountain of blood sprayed into the night. As Tracy's

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weight absolutely crushed the hunter under her gargantuan frame. The

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man's weapon emptied its ammunition into the air and away

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from us. My wife tore the throat out of one

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of the men, and strings of gore dripped from her

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00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:53.720
bloody maw as she brutally and viciously ended his life.

458
00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.200
I pounced on the other hunter that was closer to

459
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.680
the house. I used my forward momentum and ricocheted off

460
00:30:59.680 --> 00:31:03.160
my mindm's kia and slammed my entire weight into one

461
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.079
of them. It was immensely satisfying, as I could feel

462
00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:12.599
bones break and things ruptured. I unsheathed vicious sharp claws

463
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:16.240
and plunged them in. I pierced bone and sliced through

464
00:31:16.279 --> 00:31:18.680
the man's armor like it was a wet paper towel.

465
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:22.480
Normally I don't let loose when I wolf out, but

466
00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:27.279
today was different. You came for me, You came for

467
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:32.440
my wife, you came for my family today. Fucked doesn't

468
00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:38.599
even begin to describe you. Rip and tear until it's done.

469
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:43.559
I closed my jaws around this fucker's face. I felt bone, sinew,

470
00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:46.559
and stuff I don't want to think about flood into

471
00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:49.519
my mouth. I crushed their skull under the force of

472
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:54.359
my jaws, and the body went slack. My claws are

473
00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:57.759
still stuck in their collar bone. As I ripped and

474
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:01.279
tore the head away from the body, hot blood coated

475
00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:04.640
my face and fur. I was covered in a gruesome

476
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:09.319
form of war paint. Time to finish this bastard off

477
00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:13.440
once and for all. The body pulled apart like a

478
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:17.279
sadistic rag doll, and guts spilled out onto the ground.

479
00:32:18.119 --> 00:32:21.839
Steam rose from the gore like a soul escaping its

480
00:32:21.880 --> 00:32:27.359
fate and straight into the jaws of hell. Two down,

481
00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:33.319
two to go. I think these guys are gonna regret

482
00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:36.440
coming to my house, rip and tear.

483
00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:42.920
There's more scares where that came from. Weakly, Spooky will

484
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:43.799
be right back.

485
00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:50.880
That's when I feel it, hot and burning. Impact slammed

486
00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.799
into my side and threw me away with such force

487
00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:57.400
that it knocked the wind right out of me. I'm

488
00:32:57.480 --> 00:33:02.119
laid out on the ground, gasping each in every breath,

489
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:10.480
trying to get oxygen. Silver fuck Josh. Tracy's scream cut

490
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.759
the night with a war cry. I felt her face

491
00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:17.640
nuzzle against me, and it was warm and pleasant. She

492
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:21.039
braced her body in an attack position and guarded me

493
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.640
as best she could. I could feel she was conflicted.

494
00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:28.640
She wanted to protect me, but also needed to protect Noah.

495
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:32.480
I needed her to protect my mom and dad. There's

496
00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:34.960
no way these monsters will let any of us walk

497
00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.359
away from this. I slumped against Mom's car and knew

498
00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:43.359
I was in trouble. This was bad. The bullets were

499
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:47.359
made of silver, the lunar metal itself. I could feel

500
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:50.880
searing fire in my side, and it was only getting worse.

501
00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:57.759
I wasn't healing, I wasn't regenerating. I was dying. Stay

502
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:00.400
right where you are, where bitch, I'm I might let

503
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:08.320
him limp away that voice. No, it can't be Jenna,

504
00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:12.880
my sister. Okay, great, I'm dying beside my wife. My

505
00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.280
family is in danger, and on top of that, I'm

506
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:18.639
in a fucking cliche from a shitty James Bond movie.

507
00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:22.239
I felt my body start to shift back into my

508
00:34:22.360 --> 00:34:26.519
human form. I finally saw the extent of my wounds

509
00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:30.039
as I transformed back. Caught a few rounds in the

510
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:33.039
right side of my ribs. Maybe if I could get

511
00:34:33.079 --> 00:34:36.360
to a doctor, I'd be okay, But I'm not exactly

512
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:40.119
going to be calling nine one one anytime soon. Jenna

513
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:43.360
came forward from behind a car on the street and

514
00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:47.239
leveled a weapon at Tracy and I. Her normally cheerful

515
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:52.079
demeanor was cold as arctic ice. Her eyes locked with Tracy,

516
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:57.360
all while completely avoiding my gaze entirely. You're the bitch

517
00:34:57.400 --> 00:35:00.519
who took my brother away from us, the to come

518
00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:03.639
into my house. You have the fucking stones to bring

519
00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:07.639
him back as a monster like you. Jenna aimed her

520
00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:11.840
rifle at Tracy's head, but she didn't so much as flinch.

521
00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:20.440
The two women locked eyes werewolf hunter enemy family. A

522
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:24.039
laser sight appeared from somewhere in the darkness across the street.

523
00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:30.920
A red dot landed on Tracy's forehead. A sniper turn

524
00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:34.599
back into a human and face me. Move as much

525
00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:36.679
of an inch in an aggressive manner, and I'll make

526
00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:40.559
sure Melissa across the street torches your father's house with napalm,

527
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:45.800
with him tied up in silver chains. My wife moved

528
00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:49.119
her head into mine, and I could feel defeat in it.

529
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:53.000
She wasn't going to risk my life, She wasn't going

530
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:57.760
to risk Noah's. She knew she had lost. Tracy's warrior

531
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.719
form retreated, and she transformed back into the five foot eight,

532
00:36:01.840 --> 00:36:04.880
dark skinned woman who was the mother to my son

533
00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:09.159
and so much more. She shrank down and clung to me,

534
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:12.920
naked as I was, and just glared defiantly as the

535
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:17.679
hunters moved in closer. The red dot grew as the

536
00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:23.000
sniper made her position known and started walking forward towards us.

537
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:26.639
Why couldn't we smell them? How did they get the

538
00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:33.599
jump on us? Wait? They outsmarted us, masked their scent

539
00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:39.000
from the dude bros. We tore apart. They had us. Why?

540
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:43.079
Tracy spoke up as she cradled my head. I was

541
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:45.679
starting to lose a lot of blood. And the silver

542
00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:49.039
was poisoning me. If I didn't dig these bullets out

543
00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:53.280
of me soon, I'd be dead. For five years, we

544
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:57.239
thought Josh was dead. For years, I mourned my brother.

545
00:36:58.480 --> 00:37:02.559
We searched everywhere, followed every lead, and we spent thousands

546
00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:07.480
on detectives. For Sorry, your brother is missing. Jenna spat

547
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:11.360
on Tracy. I could feel her anger bubbling under the surface,

548
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.559
but she didn't dare move with guns trained on her

549
00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:18.480
and me. I fucking knew he wasn't dead. I knew

550
00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:21.159
he was alive. What I didn't know is that he

551
00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:27.400
became a monster, a monster screwing another monster. You took

552
00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:30.159
him from me, you took him from our mom and dad.

553
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:34.760
Jenna's voice never gave so much as an inch. She'd

554
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.599
rehearsed this speech in her head for likely years. At

555
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:40.880
this point, my sister put the barrel of her weapon

556
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:45.320
against Tracy's forehead, looked down and prepared to pull the trigger.

557
00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:50.159
Tracy stared up defiantly, right into Jenna's heart and soul

558
00:37:50.800 --> 00:37:54.960
and never showed any fear. Tracy lived up to her

559
00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:01.360
spirit name of Ogee Cheetah jen Stop. I croaked out, feebly,

560
00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:05.320
don't you fucking start, Josh. You could have picked up

561
00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:09.519
a phone. You could have written an email, for Christ's sake,

562
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:13.719
a text message. My sister's hand trembled a little bit

563
00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:17.920
as she held the gun at Tracy. If I was

564
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:20.039
going to run out the clock, then I better get

565
00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:24.039
straight with everyone and do it quickly. I'm sorry, Jen,

566
00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:27.880
You're right. I should have called I. I should have

567
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:31.440
done a lot of things. These guys offered me a

568
00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:34.800
way to find you, And what do I find you?

569
00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:38.320
Living forty five minutes away from home and just having

570
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:42.519
a family like we never mattered, Like I didn't matter

571
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.880
to you anymore. Hugh didn't want to grow up. You

572
00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:49.000
wanted a fucking do over. You wanted to wipe the

573
00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:52.639
slate clean and get to start all over again, no

574
00:38:52.800 --> 00:39:00.159
strings attached. Tears started streaming down Jenna's face. You're not wrong.

575
00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:06.679
I wanted something different. This woman, my wife, offered it

576
00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:10.400
to me. I never considered what it might do to

577
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:16.199
those I left behind. These hunters tracked her, and finding

578
00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:20.719
you was an accident. Melissa here tortured her brothers. That's

579
00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:22.599
when I got a phone call telling me that you

580
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:26.960
were alive, and one of them she told me that you.

581
00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:32.199
She struggled to find her next words, what did these

582
00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:36.000
hunters tell my sister? What lies did they get into

583
00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:40.760
her head? Tracy's anger was building under the surface. I

584
00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:44.480
could practically feel her wild spirit raging to come out again,

585
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:49.519
but she held firm. The woman known as Melissa stepped

586
00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:52.559
into the glow of the ruined porch light. She was

587
00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:54.719
in her late forties and was dressed in the same

588
00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:59.360
paramilitary bullshit body armor, but wore a cowboy hat instead

589
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:02.079
of a sche mat. She grinned at me and my

590
00:40:02.159 --> 00:40:05.679
naked wife against the side of the car. She clearly

591
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:09.760
had no fear of two wounded werewolves before her. I

592
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:13.039
noticed she had a silvered bowie knife attached to her waist.

593
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:19.079
You're not safe yet, weekly Spooky will be right back.

594
00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:25.760
Thanks, Josh. I owe you. If it wasn't for heartbreak,

595
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:28.880
then I wouldn't have had an awesome payday. Lost and

596
00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.199
missing persons can often be tied to freaks like you

597
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:37.440
and this one here. Melissa wasn't just a hunter. She

598
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:42.400
was a bounty hunter. That almost made it worse. She

599
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:46.320
hunted people like us for money. My sister's grief was

600
00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:50.519
just a means to an end. This queef lied to

601
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:52.960
my sister and took her money to top it all off.

602
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:58.960
Plus she shot me. So there's that. Look, if you're

603
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:02.559
not too busy, I'm gonna shoot your wife. I'm probably

604
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:05.039
gonna take your kid as a pet while i'm at it.

605
00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:09.000
Melissa smirked at me as she said that, and I

606
00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:13.360
could feel my own blood boil at those words. Can

607
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:18.119
I say something before you kill us both? Sure? Kid,

608
00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:21.079
you're gonna bleed out in a few minutes anyway, no

609
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:24.760
last minute heroics. No one is coming to save the day.

610
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:28.559
You die here and now in your little nothing town.

611
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:32.199
So yeah, take all the fucking time in the world.

612
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:36.320
The bounty hunter lowered her gun and took out a cigarette.

613
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:39.239
She lit it, but never took her eyes off of

614
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:43.679
Tracy and I Jenna. I came back tonight because I

615
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:47.400
wanted to say I'm sorry to you and everyone else.

616
00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:51.679
I wanted to become a family again. I wanted to

617
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:54.039
show all of you that I took the easy way out,

618
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:57.719
but not anymore. I'm a father now, and I'm going

619
00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:01.159
to be a father again in a few months. Time

620
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:06.239
was almost up. I wanted a family Christmas again, I know,

621
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:10.599
expecting forgiveness was asking an awful lot. But hey, if

622
00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.719
not now, then when right? Jenna looked over at Melissa

623
00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:20.280
and appeared shocked and kind of disgusted with her. Wait,

624
00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:24.599
you told me he was some killing machine who ate

625
00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:29.079
fucking babies. You didn't say anything about him actually being

626
00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:33.920
a father. Jenna's demeanor immediately changed, and her body language

627
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:37.920
did too. I could smell it on her. She was mad,

628
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:42.079
and not at me. You were all too excited to

629
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:45.559
believe me too. So what if I lied? You got

630
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:49.280
your revenge, didn't you? His werewolf bitch is ready to

631
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:52.559
be blown away by you, I might add. Your brother

632
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:55.039
is on the edge of death by you, no less

633
00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:58.400
as far as you're concerned. Your brother died years ago,

634
00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:02.800
and this thing is just wearing his face, right, isn't

635
00:43:02.800 --> 00:43:05.920
that what you told me? That's not your brother anymore?

636
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:13.000
Your brother wouldn't say, I'm sorry, Dad, Noah. My mom

637
00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:15.440
and dad stood up in the destroyed living room and

638
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:19.159
saw the scene unfolding in their front yard. Mom held

639
00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.280
Noah in her arms, and he clung to her. Clearly

640
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:27.079
he was terrified. Dad wasn't drunk anymore. He saw his

641
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:30.440
daughter pointing a gun at his son's wife while his

642
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:36.719
son was bleeding out. Not exactly Christmas card material. My

643
00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:42.440
son was going to watch his parents die. Noah, promise

644
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:45.920
me you'll be good for Grandpa and Grandma. Okay, I

645
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:49.159
say as loudly as I can muster. As I start

646
00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:55.480
to cough up blood, he started crying, Buzz, time's up.

647
00:43:55.880 --> 00:43:58.599
Don't worry about saying goodbye. You'll be joining your wife

648
00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:03.360
soon enough, josh fo Melissa readied her weapon and pointed

649
00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:08.480
at Tracy's head, and her fingers slowly began pulling the trigger.

650
00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:13.840
I'll see you on the other side, my packmate, my

651
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:22.440
warrior wolf. I'm sorry, Jenna, mom, Dad, I love you. Noah,

652
00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.880
to whatever higher power is out there listening look after

653
00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:32.840
my son. A single gunshot rang out and echoed across

654
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:37.199
the entirety of the evening's long shadows. It echoed off

655
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.599
the old houses of my neighborhood and hung in the air.

656
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.840
I closed my eyes. I didn't want to see Tracy's

657
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:50.519
life end before mine. I didn't want my last memory

658
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:55.840
to be her laying dead in front of me. Seconds

659
00:44:55.920 --> 00:45:02.039
passed while gouche I hear Tracy's voice when I shouldn't

660
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:09.119
have the fuck that's my brother, Jenna's voice broke through

661
00:45:09.199 --> 00:45:13.960
cries and sobs. Jenna had shot Melissa right in the stomach.

662
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:18.320
Tracy wasted no time and shifted into her wolf form,

663
00:45:18.760 --> 00:45:22.840
not her hybrid form. She was absolutely gigantic in stature

664
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:26.360
and size. The wolf grabbed onto the bounty hunter's body

665
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:29.760
and shook it like a rag doll. Melissa screamed and

666
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:34.559
flailed about, but it was no use. Tracy was going

667
00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:38.639
to have her revenge for the death of her brothers. Savage,

668
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:42.719
primal and unrelenting in her fury. Death had come for

669
00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:46.639
the bounty hunter. This she wolf was going to eat

670
00:45:46.719 --> 00:45:50.960
this other woman alive. Blood coated the ground and froze

671
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:57.119
to it in a sickly red slush. Good. I can

672
00:45:57.159 --> 00:46:00.480
feel something sharp dig into my side and I look

673
00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:05.559
up and expect to see another hunter. It's Jenna, and

674
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:09.199
she's hunched over my wounds. She's digging her fingers into

675
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:14.719
the wound itself. What is going on here? They said,

676
00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:17.280
you can heal if you're not in contact with silver, right.

677
00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:21.840
The voice was Jenna's, but this voice was her doctor's

678
00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:26.400
side coming out. This was doctor Jenna Fox trying to

679
00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:29.800
save her brother. I whimpered and nodded my head in

680
00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:34.800
relief and immense pain. Seconds later, I feel something sharp

681
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:40.000
pulling at my insides. A cool rush of air comes

682
00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:43.440
over my body and I can start to breathe again.

683
00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:50.920
I passed out from the pain. I'm alive, I think.

684
00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:01.079
One week later, I'm asleep in my bed and I'm

685
00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:04.079
fairly bruised up from what happened in Owen Sound on

686
00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:08.199
Christmas Eve. I've been asleep on and off since then

687
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.440
and have very little memory of how I even got here.

688
00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:16.400
It's a blur. Mostly. I saw Tracy and Jenna loading

689
00:47:16.400 --> 00:47:19.360
me into the back of a car. Mom and Dad

690
00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:24.719
hugged Tracy. Jenna was crying, and so was Noah. Noah

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was okay. I could smell sweet grass sage being burned constantly,

692
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Tracy's indigenous sacred medicines. I must be home in Cape Crocker,

693
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Struggling to open my eyes for the first time in days,

694
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I'm greeted by a familiar face. Jenna, Hey, you're awake.

695
00:47:48.079 --> 00:47:52.480
How are you feeling. I've never treated a werewolf before,

696
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:57.920
I've never been pumped full of lead or silver before,

697
00:47:58.079 --> 00:48:03.599
so we're good. How's Tracy's fine? Your son, Noah is

698
00:48:03.679 --> 00:48:07.039
quite the handful, but he's been sleeping beside you almost

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all week. I smiled and reached out my hand to Jenna,

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and she approached me and let me take it. I

701
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:20.760
struggled to sit up in bed. Look, Josh, hey, don't

702
00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:23.480
worry about it. I made a lot of mistakes, but

703
00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:25.719
I'm trying to make up for them here and now

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I've got a son to raise better than Dad raised us.

705
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I've also got to think about my next kid coming.

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I squeezed Jenna's hand and she returned the gesture warmly.

707
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:40.719
Tracy has been pretty great to our mom and dad.

708
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We're staying here with you for now until we figure

709
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:46.400
out what to do about the cops back in Owen's sound.

710
00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:50.039
Oh yeah, we kind of performed John Wick in front

711
00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:53.760
of our house, didn't we. Yep. That's gonna be fun

712
00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:57.400
to explain to the insurance company, isn't it. I chuckled

713
00:48:57.440 --> 00:49:01.000
at that image, but it hurt to laugh. Guess not

714
00:49:01.119 --> 00:49:05.800
all injuries have healed entirely. Okay, when you feel up

715
00:49:05.840 --> 00:49:09.039
to it, get dressed and come downstairs. I think you'll

716
00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:12.280
be pretty pleased with what you see. Jenna left the

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room and I started to get my clothes on very

718
00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:19.559
slowly and carefully. I opened the door to the bedroom

719
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and made my way down the hall. I looked down

720
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the stairs to my own living room and was greeted

721
00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:33.800
by the most beautiful sight I could imagine. My Dad

722
00:49:33.800 --> 00:49:36.599
and Howard were sitting on the couch together and talking.

723
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They were smiling. Mom and Tracy were sitting by the

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fireplace and having coffee. Noah was asleep in front of

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00:49:45.840 --> 00:49:48.519
the largest Christmas tree I had ever thought we could

726
00:49:48.559 --> 00:49:52.920
pack into our little house. It wasn't how I envisioned

727
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:56.239
our families would meet for our first Christmas, but you

728
00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:10.880
know what it'll do. Well, my spookies, I hope you

729
00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:15.719
found that story is terrifying as you did, charming, as

730
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heartwarming as it was heart tearing. Thanks to my good

731
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:23.920
buddy Mike Ashkewey for this great story of a very hairy,

732
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very scary, and very merry Christmas. I like that I

733
00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:31.119
just made that one up. Well, my spookies, I hope

734
00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:33.079
you know we have so much more planned for you

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00:50:33.159 --> 00:50:36.599
this month as we ring in the Christmas season. In fact,

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tomorrow we'll be releasing yet another Christmas compilation of scary

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stories to terrify you. Some of the best Yule Tide

738
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terror Weekly Spookies ever released just for you to enjoy

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and remaster for optimal audio fidelity, So make sure to

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check that out tomorrow and on Friday, we have a

741
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:59.519
very special show. It's episode three hundred and myself and

742
00:50:59.639 --> 00:51:02.719
Rob Shield's cooked up something very special for you, a

743
00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:07.400
holiday novella of all things called Mirror Images. I know

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00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:10.000
you're going to enjoy it, so make sure you're subscribed

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because you won't want to miss it, and we'll have

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stories for you every Monday and Friday through Christmas. But

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I also want to say an extra special thank you

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to our Patreon podcast boosters, folks who pay just a

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And they are Jessica Fuller, Johnny Nicks, Jenny Green, Amber Hansford,

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Thank you all so much. And if you want to

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or a dollar a month as a minimum to get

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all the bonus shows, and so much more, including my

760
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undying gratitude. But now it's time for me to get

761
00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:59.840
back to work. I've just gotten fully over a cold,

762
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:02.239
and I have so many stories to record for you,

763
00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:05.760
so for myself, for my producer Dan Wilder, my executive

764
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producers Mark Shields, Robfields and babbletopia dot com, and our

765
00:52:09.039 --> 00:52:13.440
composer Ray Matis. I'll talk at you tomorrow. Thank you

766
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for listening.

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Make sure to find your way back next week.

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But for now you are safe, trust me,