My Werewolf system Chapter 220, 221, 222 (Patreon)

MWS 220

Stacy’s body was slowly staggering back towards Gary. Because of this he couldn't see anything, but he didn’t need to see because he could already smell the blood that was entering his nose.

Eventually, she stumbled, falling into Gary’s arms. Looking down, he could see the wound in her stomach, and, though he wasn’t a professional, it looked quite bad.

‘Shit... she was stabbed! … and the knife is in that guy's hand. You’re not supposed to take it out, right?’ Gary thought as he tried to think back to any form of training or movies he had watched for some knowledge.

“Stacy!” Gary shouted at her. “You need to put pressure on the wound! Hang on, I’ll take you to a hospital. It will all be okay!”

The man, who was responsible for the high school girl’s injury, showed no signs of remorse, instead he charged in again. Quickly, pulling her so she was behind him, Gary kicked the man before he could even reach them. The teenager had aimed at his stomach and he wasn’t holding back, causing the gangster to fly into his colleagues.

Turning around, he placed Stacy over his shoulder and was planning to head out of the place, but there was a problem. Austin still hadn’t managed to take on his five guys. With the stun guns being used, they were disrupting his flow, and he needed to be careful of the knives, so he didn’t get a serious wound like Stacy’s.

There were cuts across his chest and forearms, he was bleeding as well, but there were no serious wounds. Thankfully, he had taken out two people already, but a *ding* was soon heard, and from the front door, reinforcement appeared.

“Gary... it... really... I don’t even know if it hurts.” Stacy whispered, her face being ghostly white.

[New Quest received]

[Who wants to live forever?]

[Should have let her pop your cherry, boy.]

[A girl is dying in your arms, yet you wish to save her life.

While the wound isn’t too deep, you lack the expertise to treat her.

If you don’t do something, she’ll die from blood loss (~20 mins)

Warning; External circumstances can worsen her condition!]

[Quest reward: ???]

[Time limit: 20 minutes]

[Failure: Death of Stacy Turnhell]

[Optional complete condition: Bite her]

When reading the last line, a wave of thoughts came into his head. Mainly when Mr Root had been in his critical condition, he had contemplated this way of saving him, and now it looked like his system was subtly pushing him towards it.

When Gary read the consequences for failing the Quest, he understood that things were very serious. Personally, the teenager had been stabbed multiple times, but unlike him, Stacy was just a normal high school girl. She didn’t have the same vitality he had…

‘No... I still have time! I can still consider this possibility if we can’t get out.’ Gary decided as he turned around.

“Austin, get back here, I need you to carry her!” Gary yelled down the hallway. After delivering a punch and knocking a guy's shades off, the large teenager went back to where his friend was. Without asking him any questions, he placed Stacy on his back.

Despite having taken out a few of the gangsters, more had come down. There were more than a dozen in front of them, with around half that number behind them. The men were being a bit cautious after seeing the strength these intruders had displayed. Fortunately, the hallway was narrow, limiting the adults’ movement.

“I’ll open a path, just stay behind me!” Gary ordered, and looked to his left, where the door to the room he had been in was.

Austin was wondering what Gary's plan was. Honestly, even he couldn’t see a way to get out of this one with how many people there were, it was just endless, but their leader was someone who could save them from those two monsters, so he could do the same again.

[Skill activated Controlled Transformation]

[Transformation has begun]

Gary chose to just transform his nails lightly, which he then used to rip into the side of the wall. Once they were in, he transformed his biceps, granting him not just regular super strength, but Werewolf super strength. He could feel the clothes tightening around his bicep.

Quickly pulling the door, he had managed to pull it off its hinges.

“Now!” Gary shouted, as he charged forward while holding the door as an impromptu shield. Austin immediately followed right behind him, but he quickly noticed something.

Gary was too fast.

The teenager had used his skill on his legs to give him an edge as he pushed forward. The gangsters had already seen him do something inhuman, yet he didn’t want to give any other clear indication that he was an Altered. He had transformed just enough to give him the extra strength in stats and speed that he needed without any change in his outward appearance.

The men tried to move out of the way of what was coming towards them, but their large number proved to be a detriment in that regard. The next second, Gary slammed the door into the first man, knocking him back. He continued to run forward, not slowing down, and pushed through like a bulldozer.

Eventually, they had gotten out of the hallway, and were now in the open area where the two elevators were.

“Go!” Gary shouted.

Austin went and pushed the elevator button, waiting for it to arrive. The large teenager suddenly felt something warm around his shoulder and as he touched it, he saw that it was a red liquid. Stacy’s blood was dripping down.

The men that Gary had knocked down were getting back up, and now that they were out of the hallway, the door was pretty useless. Since it was already falling apart, the high schooler threw it towards those still on the floor, and stood there in the centre while waiting for the *ding* sound.

That's when Austin noticed that there was a small girl in the corner, it was Nini. She wasn’t shaking but was clearly trying to avoid trouble by hiding behind a large plant.

“You see this?” Austin questioned her as he pointed at Stacy. “This is how ‘valuable’ you are to them. Today, it’s the girl on my shoulder, but tomorrow it could easily be you... I’ll be paying you a visit at school soon. You’re scared of the Pincers… but trust me, you should be more scared of us!”

A large yell and cry of pain was heard. It was then that the two of them turned to Gary, who was in the middle of taking care of all the gangsters. He dodged a punch and threw out an overhand  right hand into the face of another. He had been hit with a stun gun just before, but the teenager powered through it.

Still, after kicking another gangster, he lifted one above his head, and another came and stabbed him right in the stomach, not just once but a few times. Seeing this, Austin was ready to put Stacy down to protect his leader.

“Arghh!” Gary screamed, hurling the man towards the others, he then grabbed the one attacking him with the knife with his bare hand, and punched him in the face three times quickly, while kicking him on the ground.

“You tried to kill me!” Gary screamed, as he continued to punch in the unconscious man’s face, until he was eventually rugby tackled to the ground, but seconds later the green haired teenager had flung another gangster off. He threw his assailant across the room, before getting back up again.

It was the first time for Austin to witness Gary fight so wildly. The large teenager understood that it was both of their lives on the line, and he genuinely wanted to help… only, how was he even supposed to get in there, in the middle of all that mess?

Finally, a *ding* was soon heard, yet there were even more men inside.

MWS 221

Austin, with one hand, grabbed onto the closest adult’s head and quickly slammed it into the side of the wall before throwing him behind him. Then, he kicked another one right in the balls, no hesitation whatsoever. Now wasn’t the time to fight like gentlemen, not when the gangsters were using weapons.

A third man was about to hit Austin, but soon a hand had grabbed onto his arm, and pulled him out of the elevator, and the large teenager could see Gary by his side. The group got in and were quickly pressing the button, waiting to go down to the first floor.

There were no words spoken, and only the green haired high schooler’s frantic breath could be heard. Naturally, Austin couldn't help but look at his friend’s stomach, where he had received multiple stab wounds. Blood covered his shirt and was dripping onto the elevator floor.

“Are you-”

“I'm fine.” Gary interrupted in a pained voice. “We need to get her to a hospital!”

The elevator opened once again. Unsurprisingly, there were people waiting for the trio.

[16 minutes remaining]

[Energy points will be used to perform emergency healing]

[-30 Energy]

[173/300 Energy]

[64/100 HP]

[Passive healing will not take effect until you are no longer in combat]

While the elevator was still on its way down, Gary was checking out his stats. Once he no longer fought for a certain amount of time, his body would consume Energy and naturally start to heal himself.

Despite its name, Emergency healing was only useful to seal his wounds and mend his bones, yet it didn’t actually bring his Health back up. As such, the green haired teenager was currently in a rough shape, and had used up a lot of Energy healing the cuts on his body.

‘Since becoming a Warrior Class Werewolf other than the fight with Billy, it's the first time that I’ve had to worry about my Energy a bit. I haven’t been using Controlled Transformation a lot but still if it comes to it might even have to use the new skill. Yet for some reason… I'm not scared.’ Gary noticed.

When obtaining Last Stand, the high schooler had imagined that if he would ever have to use it, it would be in a situation where he would be frightened out of his mind, but instead he was filled with anger. He was angry about the way they treated people, angry that they had hurt Stacy, who was just an innocent school girl, and angry at the gang that was doing all of this.

The elevator door opened, and the area looked to have been cleared, but there were a lot of gang members on the ground floor now, around twenty in total. After the earlier scuffles, Gary was aware that these adults were hard to deal with, and it was quite possible that there were of them as well.

Gary quickly took Stacy off from Austin's shoulder.

“Run!” Gary shouted, and took off towards the exit.

The guards here seemed to be relaxed, most likely assuming that those who had been sent down would have dealt with Gary and Austin by now. They were only two people, after all, and they couldn’t imagine how they would beat ten times their number.

Using the surprise factor to their advantage, the trio was able to make a break for the door. Now that Austin no longer had someone on his shoulder, it was easy for him to catch up with Gary whose legs were still strengthened.

A single person soon stood in their way, but at the same time, Austin and Gary threw their fists right in his face knocking him out cold, and bursting through the doors they were finally out of the establishment.

The two high school boys, could see Kai and the others, who had come back to wait for them. They made eye contact for a second. They didn’t have to say anything, Kai understood that something must have gone horribly. Then again, the blood on Austin's shirt and the girl over Gary's shoulder would have been a natural giveaway in the first place.

“Hey!!! Who are you filming?!!!” Kai shouted. “Careful, these guys have been filming you!!!”

Keeping it vague on purpose, the blonde haired teenager had assured that everyone who had something to hide, assumed that the gang members had filmed them. It was perfect to cause a commotion in the area, making people disregard Gary and Austin. Thankfully, with the busy street, many people got in the adults’ way and demanded for them to delete their footage.

[14 minutes]

‘Damn it, I have to get there faster, an ambulance isn’t going to be quick enough.’

“Look at them, is that blood?” A bypasser commented, as they had  entered another area.

“Maybe something happened, getting a little too frisky.”

“Just leave it, the Pincers will probably deal with it.”

Hearing the comments of the others as Gary went by them, he could tell that to the public who went here, this was quite a normal scene. Nobody was panicking, nor did anyone show signs of wanting to call the police. There were a few frightened voices here and there, but they would quickly be calmed down by others. It was just making Gary think there was something deeply wrong with this place.

“Austin.” Gary shouted back at his friend, who was struggling to keep up with him. “I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to leave you. Tell the others I’m going to the hospital I saw nearby when I was running here.”

By now the large teenager was so out of breath that he could only give his friend a thumbs up. The next second, and Gary had picked up the pace, almost doubling his speed as he continued running.

‘How can he run that fast while carrying somebody? He even fought more than me... how is that possible?’ Austin wondered, but more than anything he was worried about the wounds on Gary.

Gary was running as fast as he could, yet the timer was brutally ticking down. The high schooler needed Stacy to a hospital. He had just gotten rid of a huge problem, and he had no desire to trade one Werewolf for another. Sure, she might not be as bad as Billy, but… what if she would be worse?

“Stacy, you can hear me, right? Answer me!” Gary shouted as he rushed along.

“Amy I mi…ss y..ou. So…rry…” Stacy mumbled.

******

MWS 222

Austin had managed to get away. Not long after he had left Burnham street, it looked like the Pincer members had given up their chase.

‘It seems they can’t really afford to leave the area unattended since they need to look after it in case anything else comes up. Smart move, since it would be a good way to distract them and get their leader in the meantime. These guys are definitely not as simple as delinquents, and they don’t even care to use weapons, I think Kai might have chosen the wrong gang.’

The fact was the gang wasn’t afraid of doing these things so openly, and it made Austin wonder. The police had to be aware of this place, same with the mayor yet no one was doing anything about it. They were either on a high payroll, or had chosen to look the other way because there was nothing they could do about it.

At the moment, Austin was waiting at the bus stop they had arrived at, which was a ten-minute walk from the street. Eventually, the rest of the Howlers showed up, just in time for a bus to appear.

“I know you must have like a million questions you want to ask, but I’ll explain on the way, alright? Right now, we have to get to the hospital and check if Gary is okay.” Austin stated.

With that the group was off, and just as promised the large teenager explained the details of what had occurred while the two of them had been inside. Of course, he had no clue what Gary had or hadn’t done with the girl while inside, he just knew that she had gotten seriously hurt afterward.

After learning all of this, the group had eventually reached a small local hospital nearby. They didn’t usually deal with big emergencies, but given that it was the closest nearby, they were sure Gary had taken Stacy here.

As they went inside they looked around the small reception that had around ten people in at most and there was one person with green hair who was sticking out like a saw thumb. Austin was the first to spot Gary. He ran over, and could see him staring off into space, blood on his shoulder.

“Gary, what are you doing here? They couldn’t have seen to you so fast!” Austin said, as he went to take a look, but no blood was falling from him. The holes were still in his shirt, and lifting his shirt up out of shock. Austin could see that there was nothing there.

“I told you I’m fine.” Gary insisted as pushed Austin's hand away.

Yet, Austin stared at him in pure disbelief. He had seen Gary bleed, he had seen his friend get stabbed multiple times, over and over. How could someone not only survive all those wounds, but heal this fast?

In his head, there was only one explanation, putting this and the other event with the twins, he could only think one thing… their leader had to be an Altered.

‘Is that why Kai didn’t want to say anything? Did he not want us to snoop around as to how a kid like Gary could have chosen to become an Altered?’

“Hey, why don’t we just sit down and relax for a bit? When you’re ready, Gary, you can explain what's happened on your side. Meanwhile, let's just pray that the girl will be in good health.” Kai suggested in an attempt to calm everyone down.

Innu, after hearing what girl that Gary had selected, was a little worried as well.

Meanwhile, Gary was in the middle of his own thoughts.

‘What... have I done?’

[Congratulations! You have endured a lot and have successfully brought the girl to the hospital within 20 minutes.]

[Endurance +1]

[Your base Endurance is now at 16]

[Quest reward: Instant Level Up]

[Congratulations, you have now reached: Level 15]

[A stat point has been granted]

‘Is it my fault Stacy got hurt like that? If we never went there, would she have been fine?’

As if reading his mind, Kai went to sit next to him in his seat. The situation felt familiar, which wasn’t something Gary really appreciated. If possible, he would like to avoid ever having to be in a hospital again. It was horrible, having to wait for the result of a person's life.

“I'm sure you saw it, when you were running through those crowds of people. Their reaction wasn’t what you were expecting because that type of thing happens there frequently.” Kai explained. “Like you said, when people are doing things against their will, these types of things are bound to occur. It was unfortunate, but you have done your best by bringing her here.”

“I…I know her.” Gary finally revealed, which made all the Howlers react. “She’s a friend of my sister's… well, former friend… not that it matters anyway. You know, for a long time I thought this underworld stuff was only surrounding me, because I was the one who decided to get involved in it.

“But when I see a regular person that hardly knows me, get involved like that. I realise the truth is quite different. Someone who just goes to school every day, could suddenly get wrapped up in all of this crap.

“Guys, I want to tell you all something.” Gary said, looking at them all. He waited, and the others soon gathered around him. Some were nervous, Marie and Austin, for one, believed that he was going to come clean about his secret.

“I think if we are going to be serious about this gang stuff, then you guys should know the truth about me. If you don't want to get involved further, I guess this is your chance to leave.” The others said nothing, waiting for Gary to explain.

“I used to be a Transporter for the Underdogs, but I'm no longer part of them. Because I failed to deliver a very important package, they’re still looking for me. Since I'm the leader of this gang it will get you guys involved, but I promise I don’t plan to just sit back and let things happen. I’ll fight them back.”

Before the others could give Gary an answer they were interrupted.

“Excuse me!” A woman in a white lab coat said as she came over.

“You are the boy that came in, correct? Do you know her, or do you have her emergency contact information?”

“How is she?” Gary replied, ignoring the doctor's question. There was a strange look on her face, when he asked her that.

“How is she?” The high schooler asked again, and since there was no answer, he decided to push past the doctor. They tried to stop him, but Gary was already running ahead and following the scent of blood that was on his clothes.

Eventually he was led to an emergency room, pushing the door open…he could see Stacy. The heartbeat monitoring equipment was flat, and Gary himself could hear no heartbeat.