Hunters moon

51: Who is the third?

Frits sat working on his laptop whilst Koos prepared their fire. He scanned the planet out of every satellite capable of taking pictures. Nothing came up, no signal, no blip, even over the pyramids of Egypt there was nothing. In the Ratel close by a alarm sounded and Frits stood up.

"What's that?" Koos asked.

"Call Piet here as well, I have something we have to do"

Koos nodded and fetched Piet, who came out with Naledi.

"Huh? You two had a good time?" Frits asked but Naledi glared at him "None of your f*****g business"

Koos turned to the two "So you were screwing?"

This got Piet and Frits laughing, Naledi hissed and walked back into the house.

"Whats up Frits?" Koos asked.

Frits held three injections up with a red fluid in.

"An upgrade"

"Upgrade?"

"The previous injection I made using the dna of Naledi was a little flawed, as I said we won't survive if a wolf bites us right?"

"Yes?"

"This might up our chances of survival, you see, this will slowly but surely turn us into werewolves"

"What!?" Both Koos and Piet yelled, but Frits laughed.

"Just joking man, it will better prepare our bodies and should we get bitten, we might survive, but we won't have control, and uh... Ja, we will go on a rampage"

"I think it's better then that it rather kills us Frits" Koos said.

"Oh, don't worry Koos, I already planned for that as well... If we get bitten, we'll have about five seconds to get to the Ratel, inside I will install a lockdown safety button that we can press when inside, that will slam shut all the hatches and doors of this thing and lock us in"

"Then what if we can't make it to the Ratel in five seconds?" Piet asked.

Frits scratched his head "To tell you two the truth, when we face werewolves, I don't want to be five seconds away from the Ratel"

Koos nodded "You have a point"

Frits injected them with the serum and jumped out the Ratel.

"Now, let's get some beers, I'm tired of looking at that laptop screen" Frits said.

"No luck hey?"

"Nope"

Naledi came out of the house with a six pack in hand.

"On que" Piet smiled placing his arm around her.

"I'm telling you boys, finding Cleopatra now is like finding a needle in a heap of needles, it seems impossible" Frits said opening a beer.

Koos opened a beer and handed it to Naledi first then opening one for himself.

"Then we keep digging and digging, she must pop out somewhere"

"If I was in charge I'd keep myself out of her business" Naledi said.

"We can't" Koos said.

"Why?"

"Who else will do it Naledi?"

"Leave the werewolf problems to the werewolves!"

"No" Koos said and drank deep from his bottle.

"Shitty f**k! You really are a mule!"

"I don't care, we have a plan in motion to develop more lethal weapons, and when the wolves least expect it, it will he humans that hit them the hardest"

Naledi gave a grunt "Are you three really still human?"

"Maybe not a hundred percent, but human enough"

Frits flicked his fingers getting their attention.

"What is it boet? Find her!?" Koos almost jumped to him.

"Not sure, but, that same sort of energy emitted from Kishra..." He looked back at Koos "How keen are you to have a heart attack?"

"I'll fokkin kill myself before that happens! What do you see!?"

Naledi slapped her face.

"Look, do you recognise this mountain?"

Koos looked at the ice peak, then the brown surrounding the ice, then the green around that.

"Its not Everest that's for sure"

"Yes, this is Kilimanjaro"

"Ok? What about it?"

"This is why I missed this" Frits said zooming in on the picture, right onto the highest peak of the mountain.

"I don't see anything" Koos said.

"Exactly, because the way we detect them is by a white haze around the body, naturally we won't be able to see it against the white snow, now watch this" Frits hit a few buttons on his laptop and the color of the picture switched to invert, or negative, now the snow was black, and they could clearly see the three white blips on the mountain. Koos crushed his beer in his hand.

"Fokkin three!?"

"It seems so"

"Fok! Kilimanjaro that's all the way in Tanzania! How will we get the Ratel there quick enough so we don't miss them?"

"That's not the problem Koos, even if we get there right now, the Ratel won't make the trip up that mountain, not with it's current modifications, remember that's the highest mountain in Africa"

"Fok, where is artillery when you need it"

"Koos! Its a Strato volcano, it's dormant, knocking that sucker with artillery might make it erupt again!" Frits said.

Koos stroked his beard and stood upright "We're going to need some different weapons"

Piet clapped his hands together "Here we go"

"Frits! See if you can find is two very large aircraft, one has to have some intercontinental capabilities, and thinking of how Katja is from Russia, that should be a good place to start"

"Copy that"

Koos walked off to the house.

"Where are you going now!?" Naledi asked.

"To phone Ezbar"

In the kitchen Koos felt he needed something stronger than beer and took out the brandy. He dialled Ezbar up and drank as he waited for an answer, but it rang and rang, Koos started to get impatient and tapped his boot repeatedly, he was about to put the phone down when it hot answered.

"Ezbar Hello?"

"EZBAAR!!" Koos screamed making Ezbar fall from his chair, Koos heard him scuffle and got the phone back to his ear.

"Koos!? The phone is against my ear! Do you have to f*****g scream like that!?"

"You remembered that time we said Quintin must go board that cruise ship because we think Cleopatra is on it!?"

"Yes?"

"We found three such signals now! Now if I do my math one is Cleopatra, two is Kishra, then who de fok is number three!?"