Continued...

"Hang in there Keira!" I heard Jennie calling. Kicking my legs at the figure, I jerked my hands free and swam up to the edge of the pool. I gasped for breath and forced myself up. I coughed for some-time and waited for my heart to calm down.

I then heard a shriek, I could make out it was Jennie! She was in trouble.

"Jennie!" I coughed harder and looked around as I tried to balance myself while standing up.

"Jennie? Where are you?" I looked around but my vision was all blurry. And then I saw a figure standing out of the swimming area. I was wet all through but I made my way out. There she was standing outside enjoying the night breeze.

"Why didn't you help me, Jennie?" I asked disappointed, rubbing my drenched face with my drenched sleeve. She didn't say anything and shivering she pointed towards something. I followed her gaze and saw, there in the darkness of night was a dog as big as a wolf! My eyes widened as the wolf and I exchanged glances. It was about 3 and a half feet tall, it had blood-red, angry eyes, sharp, long teeth stuck out of its mouth and its claws as big as a lion's!

Both of us steadily started backing away. The wolf lifted its head up facing the full moon in the sky and let out a shrill cry and sprang on Jennie! She screamed and closed her eyes but I witnessed what had happened, the wolf went right through her!

Without wasting another minute I caught her by her hand and started running back to my house. Looking at the ground, I was running in an unpredictable speed. We slowed down when we saw an old man block our way.

"H...Have you seen my daughter?" he asked eager to get the answer out of us.

"Leave us alone!" I shouted and continued running back to my house. I opened the main door, sprinted towards my room with Jennie and shut the door behind me. "That pool must be cursed!" I said huffing.

"You know, you should change" Jennie, on the other hand, crossed her hands "you really look like a beaten up dirt bag"

Yeah, that's the meaning of the name 'Jennie', still behaving like a big brave King-Kong after what just happened to us.

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Next morning, after having tea for breakfast, I sat down to watch TV and Jennie dropped besides me with her laptop.

"Hey Keira take a look" she pointed to her laptop screen.

"What is it?" I asked wearily refusing to take a look.

"After what happened yesterday, I went online on the internet and found out if werewolves are real" she said excitedly. Alright, so she did care after all.

"Werewolves?"

"Yeah it was a werewolf ghost, tomorrow was a full moon night!"

"Nonsense!" I didn't care on what she was trying to say, I mean, there is no such thing as 'werewolves' "Werewolves only exist in my dreams and whatever happened last night was an illusion. We'll just pretend as if nothing happened"

"Are you freakin' kidding me?" she spat at me "Listen you jerk, we are not taking this so easily okay, this is serious and you believe it or not but werewolves exist"

"Whatever I don't give a sh*t about it"

"I don't care if you give a sh*t at all but at least take a look, this webpage states ancient legends on werewolves and that they existed." when she noticed I paid no attention she pinched me hard "take a look bastard!"

"Alright, alright, what is it?" I asked still seeming less interested.

"They've also marked the places on the map they think are prone to have been werewolves habitats!"

"What...really?" Believe me, I didn't give a damn but curiosity killed the cat and, I'm not a cat but I wanted to live.

"Look! I think this is where you live" she pointed towards a tiny red dot. She was right, the dot was clearly placed on my apartment and labelled 'werewolf habitat 12.' There were 14 red dots all around the world map and one of them was on my colony. A chill ran down my spine as Jennie clicked the link 'history of werewolf habitat 12'. A short piece of content appeared on the screen.

"You read" she said turning the laptop towards me.

"Okay...it says. In 1965 there lived a family with their children an elder boy and a young girl. To make a living, they used to hunt animals using a pack of wolves they petted"

"Continue..." Jennie demanded when I had paused.

"Alright...But, the older boy was thought to have been hating the wolves mainly because he was scared that they would hurt his family. The wolves got mad at him and bit him and turned him into a werewolf...wait what?" what the hell "his mom while trying to save his son was killed by the wolves and the little girl wandered off into the forest, this all happened while the father was off to cut trees and gather food."

"Do you believe me now?" Jennie asked "continue reading"

"From that day people say that the ghost of the boy in his werewolf form and his father come in search for the little girl, but the legend has faded with time" I completed, such big liars, 'legend has faded' Huh.

"You see Keira, you see! That means the wolf ghost we saw yesterday was the boy" she said excitedly "and the man who had blocked our way and asked if we knew where his daughter was, was the father!"

Wait a minute, I had completely forgotten 'bout the old man. This legend did make sense but I wasn't able to believe in it.

"Let's go down again today and find out more"

"Are you out of your mind?" I squinted at her trying to get the amount of mettle this girl possessed"

"Yes Miss, I am"

I shook my head in disgust "You go, I'm not interested"

She gave me a challenging look "whatever I'm doing is to help you, c'mon don't want to find out the more? Don't you think we'd become great explorers if we uncover this mystery?"

"You think we're the only one working on this case?" I rolled my eyes "There might be many people trying to uncover the secrets behind the howling, even the great detectives"

"So what?" she smirked "We have enough info and we have a chance to prove ourselves. It's okay if we don't uncover the secrets behind it before the others but at least we tried. Please Miss Goody-two-shoes! Please!" And as usual, she convinced me on going on this dangerous mission with her stubborn self.