Bitten
#1 of Zeus
*note to readers this is my first submisson that is no-yff wnjoy :-3 *
BITTEN
By Leo Ja-Ju Sek
Josh Freeman was a 24 year old College Graduate. He had a fohawk that was blonde, with highlights. He 6'2" and had a semi athletic build. His eyes were coffee brown and his skin was light. He had grown up in the small town of Abington, MA, and now was living in the big city of Boston. He had recently graduated from a local law enforcement school. He was planning on becoming a police officer but instead he was now focusing on becoming an Animal Control Officer. Sure the job didn't pay as much, but Josh loved animals and would do anything to help them.
Through out Josh's life he has always been athletic. He played Basket Ball and football when he was in high school. Since he was nine years old he has taken Tae Kwon Doe which was mix martial arts of Boxing, Korean Martial Arts, and Crab Maga. He was a 4th degree black belt and specialized with weapons although he could pack a pretty powerful punch with his own bare hands.
His weapons of choice were a pair of Sahn Knat (Kama), which were sickle tools once used for farming. Each Sahn Knat were one handed, the blade was sharpened and could cut through almost anything. They were traditionally used for farming but in the right hands they were lethal weapons.
It was Monday July 18th, the air was humid and the sun was hot. Josh was living in his new apartment with his roommate Rick. Rick was more of a loner and when he wasn't in his room he was at work. The two had met in college; Rick was an investigator for the BPD (Boston Police Department). Josh was barely able to pay his rent and other bills with the minimum wage salary he was making at a subway. A couple weeks prior Josh had had an interview with the head of BAC and had landed a job; today was his first day. At subway he was making $24,000 and the BAC was going to start paying him $32,650 a year with the possibilities of raises.
He put on his uniform which was a tan button up shirt, a white t-shirt underneath, a pair of tan cargo shorts, a black pair of shoes, and a belt which held; mace, a night stick, taser, and a tranquilizer gun. The tranquilizer was about the size of a pistol and could hold three darts. The darts were filled with a tranquilizer that could drop a grisly but was harmless to any animals. The tranquilizer would just stun them for about thirty minuets.
He stepped out of his apartment and got into his car. The car that he drove was a 2001 Prius, sure it was not the mostly mainly car but it was great on gas which was great in this economy. After a ten minuet drive three of which he was stuck in traffic he arrived at the building he pulled in and got out of his vehicle. He walked into the building and clocked in at 8:59. He was scheduled to work eight hours a day but he could be called in at anytime if they needed help with a situation. He sat down in the lobby and some one directed him to his work space.
He got his own desk, and computer. The majority of the day he had to fill out paper work but every once in a while he had to go out into the field and rescue animals, weather they be strays, abandoned, abused, etc. The first few hours of the job were kinda laid back. He had a few forms to fill, and some data that needed to be type on the computer but he was done in about forty five minuets.
At 11:43 his pager started to ring. He picked it up and read the message. "An arctic wolf has escaped from escaped from the Zoo and is in the Boston area all unit be on the look out."
Josh got out of his seat and grabbed the keys he had been issued. All officer were issued a GM SUV, the back of them had been equipped with a cages, tools, water, and food. Each employee had a gas card which paid for 85% of the gas they used, the other 10% came out of there pay.
Josh got in the car and started his patrol around the city. Josh had a surge of excitement but he was also nervous and didn't know what to expect. After a half an hour of searching he saw a white canine walk down an alley way. He pulled the car over and grabbed the animal snare. He approached the alley way and peaked down it. He saw the wolf eating out the garbage as he grabbed his walkie talkie and said; "Code 4 I have found the wolf in a alleyway on Channel St. and I am going to apprehend him send back up." Josh then entered the alleyway and approached the wolf gradually.
"Hey wolfy;" he said trying to calm him self down as he heart started to race.
As he approached the wolf, it turned towards him and began to growl viscously. This made Josh's legs begin to shake fearfully as he slowly moved his hands toward the tranquilizer gun, the wolf then charged and tackled him to the ground and bit him in the shoulder as Josh started to squirm around on the ground holding his shoulder in agony as blood gushed out. He grabbed his walkie talkie and groaned into it "Code Red.... The wolf has escaped and I have been bitten, I need an ambulance."
"Hello Josh, this Dan here I am near your area and will be there shortly."
After a few minuets of agonizing pain Officer Dan arrived on the scene and told Josh that an ambulance was on its way. Josh soon passed out from the loss of blood and awoke in the hospital a few hours later. He had forty-five stitches in his shoulder and he was hooked up to an IV. A nurse came in shortly after with a rolling cart. On the rolling cart there were needles.
"What are those for?" Josh asked still groggy.
"Hello Josh Freeman, I am Nurse Jaclyn and I will be treating you, theses are rabies shots I will need to apply them three times to your stomach then you can be released tomorrow." Josh nodded as she gave him the painful shots. After receiving the shots he fell asleep for the night.
When he woke up he felt energized, his shoulder no longer hurt. He looked under his shirt and to his astonishment the wound was healed, not even leaving a scar. He sat up and got out of the bed and got dressed. He called work to tell them he was fine to come in today and told him that he could work the night shift; 17:00- 1:00 he agreed and went home. He got something to eat and then went to the gym to lift weights. He began to bench his usual 210pounds but to him it felt like he was lifting paper. He pondered and added more and more weight nothing seemed heavy enough. After thirty minuets of trying to figure out a good weight he ended up using all the available weights in the room which equaled about 910pounds. To Josh it still felt like nothing to him as he benched it with ease as every watched in awe.
He left the gym and began to jog down the street. As he was jogging people stared as he had an equal speed to the car beside him. The guys window was rolled down and josh peaked in an asked him; "Why are you driving so slow?"
The man looked at him in shock and disbelief as he replied "I'm going forty-five miles and hour."
Josh looked down at his feet as he saw the pavement quickly passing by his feet as he skidded to a stop. "What is going on with me today." He thought as he went back to the gym to shower and change. After he went home and did some martial arts practice before sitting down and watching TV. He saw on the news that the wolf that had bitten him was tested for rabies and the test came back negative. Josh felt it was unusual but he flipped through the channels ever now and then watching random shows to take his mind off it till' he had to get ready for work.
Josh headed off for work. When he got there he had a few hours of paperwork that he had gotten finished so he sat back and relaxed. At 0:07 he received a page that ordered him to capture a dog that had been struck by a car on East 1st ST. He got into the car and looked for it. He saw it limping as he pulled over. He began to cross the street as he saw a van take a sharp turn on the street and head his way, he stood motionless as he braced him self. The car hit him dead on going sixty miles an hour as he stood there speechless. The van was totaled but he was fine for the most part, but he felt his body convulsing. He ran down the street before he jumped, somehow it felt instinct. The Jump was record breaking as he landed on the roof top of a four story building.
Josh fell to his hands and knees and let out a scream as white fur started to grow every where on his body. He began to enlarge growing to 6'9" while he bulked up more in muscle; the buttons on his shirt popped off, as his face began to transform into a canine shape as his teeth shifted and he grew fangs. His hands had turned into paws with five digits and thumbs, as his fingernails turned into black claws. The whole transformation took about 3seconds but felt like three hours. He stood up and looked down at himself as he begun to contemplate. "W... what just happened, my hands there different, and I can't see my skin..." He said as he rubbed his paws down his arms; "It's like fur, and my nails, they look like claws." He continued ponder as he yelled out "WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME!!!!" His voice changed as well it was lower pitched and sounded demonic.
He walked toward the edge and looked down, as he stepped back. He felt another pulse of energy as he began to convulse one more time, this time he sprouted a pair of white and lighting blue wings as they spanned 20ft. He looked them and begun to flap them as he began hovering five feet above the ground going higher and higher. As he reached an elevation of about 143ft, Josh panicked and lost control as he plummeted down, catching his fall at the last moment as he begun to glide. After a little while of flying he got the hang of it, although he was still freaked out by the hole situation he was having fun in the air.
Josh heard the shriek of a woman as he turned around and flew towards it. It led him to a dark alleyway 6miles away, he had flown pretty fast considering it had only token him six seconds to get there, as he landed with a thud wrapping himself in his wings. There was a 6 foot man mugging a girl as he pushed her to the ground and turned to face Josh. He carefully approached josh as the man looked at him, only able to see one of Josh's blazing red eyes peering at him through the wings. He dropped the girl's purse and positioned the knife in his hand.
"Who the fuck are you?"
"I'm your worst nightmare." Josh replied as he stood up and his wings retracted as his slowly stood up.
"You seriously want mess with me..." the man continued, pointing the knife at Josh. "...I hope you ready to die." The man finished, bolting towards Josh, lifting his hand up ready to stab.
He slowed to a stop as he plunged the knife forward; Josh stopped the knife by catching the man's hand. The man looked up to him taking in the first glance of the werewolf that lied before him as Josh smirked wickedly revealing his fangs. The man began to strike Josh with blows to the head, as he stood there still holding the mans hand before letting out a eerie chuckle as the man's angered stare turned to one of fear.
"What the hell are you?"
"Everything you are not;" Josh replied before slashing the man's throat, severing the jugular vein. Blood poured out of his throat as he dropped the knife and Josh let him go. He fell to the ground holding his neck as he died shortly after.
Josh began to approach the women as she was crawled up in a ball against the wall crying in utter terror. He walked closer, and picked up her purse taking slow steps while studding her.
"Please don't hurt me, just go you monster."
The woman closed her eyes, tears rolling down her cheek as Josh extended his hand and offered her the purse. She slowly opened her eyes and reached for the purse as she grabbed a hold of it still trembling. Josh then turned around and began to walk away as the woman asked; "Y... you're not going to hurt me?"
Josh stopped and looked over his shoulder at the woman, he replied; "You have done nothing wrong so I do not have a reason to, I would never kill the innocent." He crouched down as his wings then sprouted once more. "Wait, can I at least no my Hero's name."
"It is of no importance, farewell;" Josh said as he took off.
He continued to fly as he approached near the area where he had left. Without warning he began to fall as he hit the ground leaving a crater in he ground. He transformed back into a human. He rushed to the car, and dropped it off at the station. He went home and washed the blood off of his shirt as he lied in bed contemplating. He could not sleep so he got up and tried transforming. After hours of countless failing he got it right and switched between the two forms a few times until he got the hang of it.
He figured out how to control his wings the first time as they sprouted out knocking over a bunch of items in his room. He heard his roommate step out of bed in the next room. Josh franticly shifted back as his roommate stepped in.
"What was that noise?"
"Knocked over something."
"Well can you keep it down I have to get up for work in two hours."
Rick stumbled back into his room.
After a few hours of thinking Josh had come to a conclusion, he was going to use his new ability to keep people safe. He brainstormed a costume for himself. He figured the easiest way to do things quickly is wear what ever pants he was wearing and only remove his shirt. He had a Spiked collar from when he went through a gothic phase and figured he would were it any time he went to fight crime, he would also carry around his Sahn Knats as his weapons. "Now I just need a name..." he contemplated "...Zeus, the god of war"
The next morning he went to the Wal-Mart down the street. They had a dog tag generator. He inserted the money and typed in "Zeus" on the machine. The machine started making loud noises as he spit out a metallic tag that was in the shape of bone on it read the word's "ZEUS" He headed back home he placed it on his collar. He came out of his room and plopped down on the couch as he turned on the TV.
On the news he saw the girl he had saved last night.
"So what happened Miss. Elizabeth?"
"Well I was walking down the street when someone grabbed me and pulled me into an alley way.... I screamed but the guy covered my mouth. He held a knife to my throat and asked me to give him my purse. As he took it, a very tall man came out of no where. The man was not human.... He was part beast. The man mugging me went after him. I looked away until I heard a groan and looked back and the man was bleeding on the pavement as the beast approached me.... He then handed me my purse and took off. He never told me his name but whoever you are thank you."
"That is very chilling, now what do you mean by beast?"
"Well he had the appearance of a wolf but he stood on two feet like us."
"Could it be possible it was a costume?"
"No... it is hard to explain but I don't want to talk about it."
"Well there you have it a woman saved by a werewolf. I'm Stacy Swarez reporting from Boston MA.
"Well that is very interesting... we turn now to breaking news where three armed gunmen have taken hostages at a bank...." Josh turned off the television as he bolted to his room. He took of his shirt and transformed into Zeus as he put on the collar and jumped out the window. He landed on the one story building next to the apartment complex. He then sprouted his wings and flew towards the bank. Everyone looked and pointed at him while he flew by. He landed out side the bank were the cops stared at him. He looked around then flew through a side window, retracting his wings as he smoothly rolled on the ground getting back on his feet in attack position. The armed gunmen turned around and started firing at him.
Zeus braced himself as the bullets went through him, his wounds healing almost instantaneously. He let out a loud roar, the windows shattered and the men feel to there knees'. Zeus then bolted and side kicked one of the men sending him flying into the wall, as the other two got up and pointed there weapons once more at him. Zeus took a hold of one of them as the other gun man fired. Zeus brought the man he was holding in front of him as the man shot his friend to death.
Zeus grinned and stared the guy down as he took out his Sahn Knats and twirled them around before slashing up the guy's torso exposing his organs. The man fell to the ground not able to speak as his organs spilled out onto the floor. Zeus licked his blade clean tasting the blood as he roared once more.
He turned to the hostage and said; "You are now free"
The hostages scurried out as he ran full speed and jumped onto the building across the street. After he got a safe distance away he sat down panting. He looked up into the sky and pondered; "I was bitten for a reason... that reason is to save the lives of others. But when in this form I don't feel like my self. I have a huger to taste blood and watch it spill. There is something that makes my blood boil.... That makes me want to torture these men for what they have done. But I am Zeus an I am an indestructible god of war....."