Chapter 20

"Wow…babe I'm so sorry that I was insensitive not to have known what you were passing through…I'm sorry." She apologized to him.

"It's okay…it's fine now. At least we all know that it was as a result of our worries that we began to imagine such things." He said to her as he drew her in for a kiss.

She rested her head on his thighs as he patted her gently.

Aaron and the rest of the Hudun's pack began their hunt the next day. They got into their disguise as they acted like humans. Mark and Luke went to the area as that was a public place where the people discussed and gossiped much. They didn't have anything on them to buy at the market as they just walked around.

Mark separated from Luke as they went their separate ways. Mark noticed a group of women who clustered together as they chatted freely. He went closer to them to eavesdrop on whether he could hear something meaningful from them.

He went close to one of the stalls and pretended to be gazing at the floor to eavesdrop on their conversations. They were talking about a robbery that happened in one of their neighborhoods and how the young man was lynched to death.

"That was how it happened. As he tried to escape, he didn't see a stone in front of him as he tripped and fell to the ground. The people chasing him caught up with him but he was able to outrun that.

Because of the speed at which he ran, he didn't see an oncoming bike and that was how he crashed into it. He lost so much blood but that wasn't the end, he got killed. It was a bloody death as they burned him with a tire." One of the women explained as they all continued with their chit chat.

That has nothing to do with him as he thought he would only be wasting his time by listening to them. He went further into the market and saw two men discussing. Men were always boring as they had nothing to gossip about but he wanted to try out his luck. He started pricing for some tomatoes from a vegetable stall seller as he eavesdropped on them. He later got to know that they were talking about a football match that was played the previous day.

He went round as the sun was held high up in the sky and dealt with him. He wasn't used to the sun so he had to find a shelter and shielded himself from the sun. He was also surprised to see how bright the place was, unlike Asark where they only saw a small portion of sunlight.

He sat under a shade as he waited for the sun to come down and by then, it was already evening. None of them had a pleasant day as they all complained especially of the sun. Aaron told them to rest for the day and continue the next day.

"Can't we do this at night? By then, the sun must have gone down and it will be just like Asark is." Luke suggested.

"No, what if we get caught and besides, there will be no way to find anything reasonable at night because the humans here go to sleep at that time of the day unlike us at Asark where we still move around at night." Aaron explained to them.

"This is pretty hard. I wonder how long we have to take before we can find Leowulf." Sean replied as they stretched their bodies.

"If we keep team work together and do this with hard work, we will find him as soon as possible. The open earth might not be as big as we think it is, let's just keep searching but don't get lost. Make sure that you can trace your way back here and also report to us when you find anything important." Aaron said to them as they prepared their clothes for the night and slept on the ground.

Reagan was found lying sick at the back of the school as he was taken to an animal center by an old man. He loves animals and didn't care if they were wild or not. He made pictures of them and put them up for free adoption but kept Reagan aside.
The old man who owned this animal shelter was a gardener of Iremi, the school that was under attack by Reagan and the first found wolves before those biten transformed into wolves and got killed.

The gardener by name, Thomas Edison, was a sixty year old man. He owned an animal shelter where he kept animals that were abandoned or sick. He was a veterinary doctor but retired due to old age. His love for animals made him not quit his job even though he wasn't keeping a legal one.

He took up sick animals that he found lying on the floor, at the roadside or anywhere and treated them. People got to know about his animal shelter as he never took a picture alone.

Those animals were his friends and people loved how cute they were, the love he showed to them and decided to come and adopt one. He only gave out those that are healthy and middle sized for adoption while he kept the very young and old ones with him as he perceived that people won't take good care of them.

He also told them that they could bring them back when they grew older if they wouldn't be able to care for them. His business ran well as people offered him free money and gifts as donations. After four days of the incident at the school, the school was deserted and people were hired to clean up the mess that was created in the school premises after the dead bodies were buried and the injured were taken to the hospital for treatment.

Thomas went to cut the outgrown flowers round the school as they needed to keep the school clean and in good shape before it would be reopened after a month from the attack. He had just finished with the front side of the school and went to work in the backyard. In between the flowers, he noticed a body lying in there. He went inside to take a closer look and noticed that it was an animal.

Having a poor sight, he couldn't tell which animal it was as he used his vacuum machine and raised up the lifeless animal. When he was done with his work, he went to check on the creature that he had found and felt its pulse to know whether it was still alive or dead. He carried it alongside his home.

On reaching home, he began to bring out his tools and medicines as he treated the werewolf that he found. It was Reagan. His dad and uncle Elvis had escaped and left him behind. They had been in mourning as they thought that he was dead because none of the wolves survived the hit.

Reagan began to feel better as time passed by.

"I can feel that he is alive." Ultimate Alpha Gallows said to Elvis.

"Are you sure about it?" Elvis asked him.

"His scent is still strong. It could mean that he is still alive. Come, we need to find him soon before those humans do." Ultimate Alpha Gallows spoke to Elvis.

"Why not let's wait till the next day to find him? It's almost dark now and everywhere would be locked by now. Let's wait for the day to break and until then, we can go and find him." Elvis replied to Ultimate Alpha Gallows.

Reagan regained his consciousness as he was slowly receiving treatment from the shelter house. He woke up late that night and saw that everywhere was dark unlike the normal bright earth that he had been seeing since he arrived on the open earth.

He was hungry as he got down from the little and low bed that was made for him to lie on as he was still in his werewolf form.

He struggled amidst the needles that were put on him and the ropes. His straggling made so much noise as he destroyed things. This woke Thomas Edison who got up from his room and went to see what was happening. He thought someone had broken into his house so he picked up a long rifle gun as he slowly made for where the noise was coming from with a head torchlight.
"Who is there?" Thomas asked as he approached where the noise came from.

Everywhere got silent again as Reagan froze. On sighting a long and pointed fan which he believed was a weapon, he began to charge towards Thomas as he waited to pounce on him in the dark with his teeth and claws, ready for attack

Thomas made for the living room where Reagan was as he turned on the light switch which made the place very bright. He sighted Reagan as he made a charging noise as though he was going to attack any moment from then on.

Thomas used one hand to calm Reagan down as he dropped the rifle in his hand with the other hand on the ground.

"Easy man…easy…easy…" He kept saying to Reagan as he walked slowly towards him.

Thomas then started to touch Leowulf as he patted his head slowly and started rubbing his body gently to show what he meant, no harm. Reagan loved this and was enjoying it. He felt that the old man wasn't going to hurt him so he calmed down.

The old man, Thomas, went into the kitchen and got something to feed Reagan. He brought some meat for him and milk. Reagan hungrily rushed on it as he was very hungry. He started with the meat until he was done eating it. It was a cooked meat that he fed on.

Thomas didn't give his animals raw meat to feed on for fear of them eating him up when hungry or as they will get used to it. He also feared them growing wild and feeding on people around the neighborhood.

Reagan was taken care of by this caring and kind old man named Thomas Eddison. He could feel the love that he provided for not him alone but for the lesser animals around him. Reagan was locked up in a different room for fear of him attacking the smaller ones that were kept inside a cage.

During noon in the evening, Thomas used to take Reagan out for a walk around the house. He didn't want people to know that he was having a wild animal kept with him so he was very careful and disguised Reagan into some clothes to make him look adorable which also hid his basic features of a werewolf and made him look like a dog.

Thomas played with him and took cute pictures of him. He made a general picture of some of his animals of which Reagan happened to be captured without him noticing and he uploaded the pictures. He got so many likes and comments on his page.

People started making lists for adoption as he was happy. He wouldn't have put up his animals for adoption if he was still young but he feared he might pass away anytime so he needed to start giving them out but had his selectives.

Back at the station, the Liberian, who took care of the forensic department library, was in his office when doctor Zayyad came in.

"Hey man, what's up?" Doctor Zayyad asked him.

"I'm good, how about you?" The librarian asked doctor Zayyad.

"I'm alright…what are you doing?" He asked the librarian.

"Sipping some hot coffee and watching some documentaries from my favorite animal shelter page, Thomas loves animals." The Liberian replied.

"What…I don't get what you said man." Doctor Zayyad asked again as he didn't understand what the Liberian said to him.

"I mean the name of the page is "Thomas loves animals." The Liberian stated it clearly as he used his fingers to make a quotation for the doctor Zayyad.

"Oh I see…what is his page all about?" Doctor Zayyad asked him.

"It's an animal shelter durrrr…I love this guy and how he takes care of animals. Man, he's so caring and kind." The Liberian said to the doctor.