Hunters moon

43: Many rings

Koos looked at Katja as Frits aided her cleaning the wound and placing new bandages on.

"So who bit her?" Koos asked.

"Her name is Kishra" Quintin said and looked at Naledi "You know her?'

"No, she also an Anubis?"

"Its worrying if you don't know her"

"Why?"

Quintin looked at Katja "She's the daughter of Cleopatra and Akmah-ra"

"What!? Are you serious!?" Naledi yelled.

"Yes! That's why I say its worrying if you don't know, what kind of werewolf does two of them produce!?"

Koos grabbed Quintin by his collar and drew him close "Tell me you're joking"

Quintin sighed "I wish I was, she told me herself"

Naledi came close to him and smelled him, she at first winced at the teargas, but then her angry glare made him flinch.

"What?"

"You know, I think you might be some kind of man w***e or something, this is the second Anubis you screwed in less than a month! What is it with you and them!?"

Koos drew him in again "You f****d her!?"

"It's a long story!"

"Ooh! We have a fokkin long way to go, start talking boy!"

Quintin felt hot as all eyes were on him, he backed away and sat down on a chair.

"The b***h cornered me, I was still waiting for Cleopatra to show her face, but then she showed up.

She forced me to spend time with her, saying if I don't she'll s*******r everyone on board, so naturally I agreed, I did it partially also to get some information out of her, but as you saw that ship, she lied and did it anyway"

"Did she kill the people on board before or after you screwed her?" Koos asked.

"Geez Koos after! I did everything I could to make her happy!"

"Sounds to me like bullshit" Michael said.

"Oh shut the f**k up!"

"At least it seams you managed to save one, although she was bitten" Luna said.

"No, that's where things get weird, Kishra said she left Katja alive as a gift, then bit her, she said Katja is the very first person she has ever bitten, and she herself doesn't know what will happen"

Luna frowned "That's, odd"

"I know, Kishra told me she didn't like Cleopatra, she doesn't want to live in her shadow her entire life, and wants her own pack"

"Then why didn't you convince her to join you!? I mean you f****d her and everything!?" Koos yelled.

"I f*****g tried but she laughed me off, she said her loyalty lies with Cleopatra and no one else she also said even if she joins us, we still won't be a match for Cleopatra"

Koos smacked his face "For, fucksakes"

"I say we nuke the b***h" Piet said making Frits and Koos laugh.

"Are you crazy!? You can't just go drop nuclear bombs on everyone!" Luna yelled.

"Why not? I say? Let's say for instance? Someone ties her down so she can't move right? Then we just fokkin nuke her, done and dusted" Piet said again making Koos and Frits laugh louder.

"You just blew a cruse ship in half! Now you want to use bigger bombs!?" Luna yelled.

"Yeah, I don't care who you are, werewolf or not, a nuke will kill you"

"You have a screw loose man!" Michael said looking at Koos, who was still laughing.

"I don't get this? You just yelled at him for making a f**k up, now you laugh at him for that!?"

"f**k I'd do it" Koos said making Frits and Piet laugh this time.

"You're crazy! All of you!"

"I might not know all of you that well, but I like these three soldiers, after what that b***h did to me, I say tie an anchor around her neck and drop her in the ocean" Katja said making Michael put his face in his palm.

"Why did you bring her then?" Luna asked Quintin, he looked at Katja.

"I think the guy who made me what I am may be able to help her"

"How so?"

"If he could alter the dna of the wolf, maybe he could isolate it"

Luna didn't know much about the whole process so she remained quiet.

"Before you go to Ezbar Quintin, I want a sample of her blood" Frits said looking at Katja "If you don't mind?"

She shook her head "As I said, I like you three, I'll help in any way I can"

"Did you have family on board Katja?" Koos asked and she shook her head.

"No, I was alone, my parents passed away last year, and left me their fortune, I've been going around the world to ease my mind. I ended up working on that ship as a waitress, and well, here I am"

"Where do you come from?"

"Russia"

"Thought so, your name sounds Russian"

"Katja Sabitova Jonovich" She said proudly.

"Fok, that's a mouth full" Koos said making her laugh.

After two day's travel they finally reached Saldanna bay again, everyone departed accept for Luna, Michael and Dianne.

"You three sure you won't help with that Cleopatra?" Koos asked before leaving.

"No, you go on your little suicide mission, leave us out of it" Michael said making Koos shrug.

"Lilly livers"

"f**k you!"

Koos offered to give Quintin a ride home from the farm by which he accepted. On the farm Piet could put stitches into Katja's shoulder, but when the took the dressings off, it was obvious the wounds already started healing by itself, Frits took a blood sample and left the group, Piet disinfected the wound and redressed it.

"You should be ok, now" He said standing away from her.

"Thanks" She said winding her shoulder "It's strange, it doesn't hurt that much anymore"

"It probably won't, since the werewolf venom is slowly changing you into a werewolf, the first thing that kicks in is the regeneration abilities, to make sure you heal from your wounds" Koos said.

"You mean I'm already changing!?'

"I'm afraid so"

Katja desperately looked at Quintin, who nodded.

"We must get to Ezbar Koos"

"I know here..." He held the keys of their pickup to him "Take it, well come get it from you later"

"I appreciate the help" He said taking the keys "Come Katja, let's go"

The two of them left in a hurry, Koos followed their old routine and started a fire but then Frits came running out from the Ratel.

"Koos!"

"What!?"

"Where is Katja!?"

"They left a few minutes ago! Why!?"

"You're not going to believe this!"

"I'm listening?"

"I had it all wrong, I don't know if it's because I tested Naledi, the fact that she's a hyena, or because Kishra is the direct daughter of Cleopatra, but remember I explained how the werewolf dna is like the white moth and the black moth?"

"Yes?"

"The venom coursing through Katja's veins are almost pure, she's almost the white moth through and through"

"Which means she won't become a wolf on the next moon?"

"No, chances are she won't, that means, she might have control over herself when she finally becomes a werewolf"

Koos rubbed his beard "Maybe Kishra knew this, maybe this is why she called it a gift, question is why?"

"f**k knows, but now, as for Naledi..." He looked at her as she approached with two six pack of beers.

"What?" She asked.

"The rings in the tree example I used when I examined your dna, I could only see it in you... Katja is now technically speaking the third generation, Cleopatra being the first, Kishra second, and Katja the third... But they had no 'Rings' so to speak... Naledi, you have loads of rings"

"Which means?" Koos asked.

"Which means Naledi didn't start her life off as a hyena at all, you might have been a wolf somewhere in your past"