Hunters moon

32: Not in this generation

"These wolves Blair created, were they all as powerful as she was?" Frits asked.

"To a degree" Naledi said.

"And what of Cleopatra? What was Cleopatra's role?" Koos asked.

"For those who has been given the power of a wolf, who misuses it, Cleopatra was ordered to remove the wolf form through mummification, the person would be mummified as normal, only the brains won't be removed.

The Lunar black sand surrounds the body and slowly draws the venom out of the blood stream into the muscles, where it is then broken up into normal proteins, this process takes about two weeks, when the person wakes up from the mummification hibernation, he or she would be back to normal"

"A cure for werewolves?" Frits asked and Naledi nodded.

"Blair could figure there might be someone out there who would use the werewolf for the wrong reasons"

"Ok, so why did Cleopatra go awol? Why is she doing what she's doing?"

"I don't know, her own selfish needs I suppose"

"But? Then where's Blair now? She wouldn't like this would she?"

"No I doubt it, but no one knows where she is, she created her pack, then sent them into the world to keep evil in check, but as time went by, they started misusing their power, and made packs of their own, that's why you get white wolves, black wolves and so forth, there were never supposed to be different packs of wolves, only the one pack Blair made"

"So basically they all rebelled against her?"

"I can't say that, I know for a fact Cleopatra did, but I don't know the reason the other wolves misused their gift"

"Misused?"

"Only when a person is in a similar situation as what Blair was, may the gift of the wolf be given to him or her, under no other circumstance"

"Then what about if the werewolf is a woman? And gives birth?" Frits asked.

"I'm not sure, to tell you the truth I don't know a lot about what Blair's rules were, I don't even know who the first hyena was" She cleared her throat "If you want to know any more about wolves, you should ask a wolf"

Koos dished meat in a paper plate then handed them out, whilst thinking of any possible solution to their problem.

"So, are there any other members of Blair's original pack still roaming around accept for Cleopatra?"

"Not that I know of"

Piet chucked "It seems Naledi's deep well of knowledge has run dry"

Instead of finding offence in Piet's words, Naledi smiled "I must admit, you're right"

"You don't maybe know when Akmah-ra was said to rise again hey?"

"Not for certain, but, I know it's going to be a long time from now"

"That's good right?"

"Yes... And no. Good because it's going to be a long time, so there is time to prepare. Bad because the longer he sleeps the stronger he gets, and thus we don't know what to prepare for, and... He might not awaken in this generation, or the one after this, he might only wake up three generations from now, which means you three might not live long enough to see it"

"What!?" Koos yelled almost dropping his plate "You mean our grand children will be the ones to suffer under that fokker!?"

Naledi nodded sadly.

"This is fokken bullshit!"

"s**t! That makes me hesitate about having kids in the first place, I don't want my kids to suffer" Frits said.

"I'm sorry guys, that's why humans are not really supposed to know about us" Naledi said again.

"Not hey!? So we don't get a fair say in this matter!?" Koos bellowed, Naledi sat quietly, she had no words.

"Frits, you're the smart one, can you figure out if we can some how overcome this newest problem?" Koos asked.

"I've just been thinking of the same thing" Frits said "And there might be a way, but in order to find out for sure is to finish the Ratel's upgrades. I want to install a high end computer system and since it's going to be high tech, I want it in a safe place, and what better than the inside of an armoured vehicle like the Ratel"

"Ok, if you install those computers, what else will you need after that?" Koos asked.

"All of Ezbar's research"

***

Quintin opened his eyes and squinted at the sun, somewhere during his ferocious sprint to get to Ezbar's labs he must have passed out, he could remember it happening as soon as he saw the sun.

He was hungry and weak, and the desert sun wasn't going to help with his thirst as well. He needed to get going before it got too hot, he started walking, his feet dragged in the sand, he had absolutely no idea which way to go, but luckily a pickup approached him and Ezbar jumped out holding a blanket to cover his naked body.

"How did you find me?" Quintin asked as he climbed into the pickup.

"It's a test I conducted and it worked, I created a nano chip, the size of a blood cell, only one is coursing through your veins, and it serves as a tracker"

"Well that's good, I would have been done for in this heat, where's Naledi?"

"She left yesterday just after you"

"What!? Were to?"

"Don't know, she gave me a vale of blood then left, it's basically all I needed from her, I'm not her father you know she's a free person"

"Dammit!" Quintin slammed the dashboard.

"What's wrong boy!?"

"Yesterday, or last night, we got ambushed by some other woman, I never saw her before but she effortlessly overpowered a werewolf alpha and a hyena Queen, she took them into some sort of shadow realm, and only Naledi would know exactly what happened"

Ezbar drove in silence, trying to make sense of what happened. They stopped at the lab and he jumped out, Quintin went to get new clothes whilst he went to page through his notes.

"Find anything?" Quintin asked coming in with a plate full of food.

"No, this shadow realm thing you speak of is new to me, it seems there are a lot of things Cleopatra didn't tell the both of us"

The satellite phone Quintin got from Koos rang and he picked it up, knowing who it was.

"Koos?"

"Yes Frikkie, we need to talk, or to tell you the truth boet, we need to talk to Ezbar, he's the real reason I'm calling"

Quintin shrugged and handed the phone to Ezbar.

"Ezbar speaking?"

"Hey doc, how's the leg?" Koos chuckled.