DEUCALION AND THE WEREWOLVES OF OLDCREEK

Chapter 4

DEUCALION AND THE WEREWOLVES OF OLDCREEK

BY JOHN PARRISH

Chapter 4: CALL 911

Bobby went to the county police station to see his friend Klay to know if he had got any breakthrough with the case yet only to get there and see Klay hadn’t reported for duty yet so he decided to wait a little while looking at the chart board on the wall with ribbons pinned on them and a big question mark at the center of it.

After thirty minutes of waiting for him, Klay ran in quickly to his desk, coffee in hand and donut in the other hand files folded under his arm, Buttons not properly buttoned sat down and greeted Bobby.

Bobby looking at klay asked “don’t lie to me man when last did you sleep?” klay taking a sip of his coffee leaned across the desk towards him and said “he hadn’t slept for the past three days”

“Yoo! klay face help me with that stapler and pins mines not working” asked Davis

“here replied here it is ”klay said as he tossed it to Davis. He then looked at Bobby who was relaxing in his chair tossing a tennis ball into the air and catching it and asked “well?”

Bobby tossed the ball into the wall and opened his arms to catch the incoming ball as it bounces back to him replied without looking at him and said “any breakthrough with the dorathy and Ethan murder case?”

Klay munching his donut replied mumbled some words between bites that bobby could only comprehend some words he said “but most importantly he saw a clue yesterday and he thinks he is almost figuring it out.”

Bobby now looking interested drag the chair towards Klay looking all suspect saying “he also saw some things again after he had a second look at the scene again” which surprised klay.

Bobby said “he found tracks of wolves and the hair that he picked up wasn’t from that of a raccoon” while saying this Klay motioned for him to stop as his phone was ringing, he got a call from the police laboratory analyst Annabel who just concluded a DNA test and analysis on the fur and also said “it wasn’t from a raccoon that it was from a wolf.”

Klay more shocked asked “Annabel the lab analyst if she was sure?” She responded by saying she was adequately adept at her job and hang up the call. all this while the call was on the loudspeaker. Klay smiled for what he thought was a breakthrough in his case and punched his arms through the air in celebration.

 Then bobby smiled and squeezed a piece of torn paper into a ball and shouted for three! as he shot it through the air and they watched it fly into the garbage bin that was at least twenty feet from them.

While the policemen walking around looked at the floater going into the garbage bin and waited for the ball to go in. As the paper ball went in, they all they all watch in excitement baam! it went in and they all celebrated as if it was a game-winning buzzer-beater in the NBA finals.

“See you later man”! Bobby said as he walked from the desk away to the door and exited the building. He walked towards his car then suddenly he noticed his phone ringing in his pocket.

“Hey Catherine how are you”? Bobby a fucking werewolf just walked into the restaurant right now!

“how do you know he is a werewolf?” Bobby asked he hurriedly tried to put his car keys into the keyhole.

“I am not an idiot!” Bobby, I know things I see things! goddammit! She muttered. The spoon I gave him has a silver tip handle which he didn’t notice on time he kind of burn his fingers when he touched it, I saw the whole thing from the counter, Bobby!

Bobby entering his 2017 black dodge challenger drove like a bat out of hell to the la remontada, the restaurant Catherine works in.

Ding the small bell rung from a table that needed an attendant to take his order.

Catherine went with her notepad to write down his order and also keep a small Swiss army knife in the pocket of her apron. “What are you taking sir?” She asked

“I need pasta with hot dog steamed nicely then ketchup with extra pepper.”

Ok replied Catherine as she walked away.

Hey! he called Catherine “do you guys have steak?”

she said yes, “how do you want it, sir?”

 “Medium rare” he replied

 she then replied understood as she walked away nervously.

 Bobby reaching the restaurant couldn’t see any free parking spot parked his car in the disabled parking spot and ran to the restaurant only to find his wife and her colleague Rosaline smiling and laughing at a joke by a news reporter.

Bobby walked toward her and asked “where is he Catherine?” She replied “he is at the back but don’t use the front so that he won’t see you coming”.

“Ok, dear,” he answered.

“Can you get a scent from here? with all the crushed coffee smell coming from the kitchen and beef?” She asked bobby who simply looked at her with utmost surprise.

Hey, “it was just a fucking question! you don’t have to be an ass about it” she replied.

Bobby using the fire escape meant for staff use only quickly walked to the desk he was and suddenly the scent got clearer.

He knew where it was coming from. It came from A burly-looking man wearing a black top and deep blue jeans. Bobby breathed in then walked towards him and sat on the chair opposite his own though they shared the same table.

 “Well took you long enough to get here Bobby Thompson! You were expecting me I see. Want a cheeseburger?” it’s on me. naaaa replied bobby or I see it business straight.

Bobby bluntly said “I want you to leave this town or else!”

Deucalion the burly man cleaned the side of his lips with a paper napkin and said “or what” while standing up and walking away.

Catherine seeing Deucalion leaving through the front door quickly went to the aisle where he sat and saw bobby deep in thought. Bobby, “how was it? What happened”?

Bobby shaking his head looked at her and said “we are in deep shit.”

Catherine now restless as ever looked through the large window and saw Deucalion entering a small black Subaru sedan driver away quickly brought out her notepad and copied down the car plate registration number before he could get out of sight.

“Charlie”! Hey, slow down as Chris increased his pace to meet him while he put his asthma inhaler into his mouth and took deep breaths for at least five seconds then he moved towards Charlie who was waiting for him beside the veterinary clinic.

“How are you”, man? asked Charlie as he fist-bumped Chris. Chris looking hearty said “he never felt better.”

“Guess what! my mom got me an impossible bottle of the Argos!”

Charlie in shock put his hands up in the air and mockingly called him Odysseus and himself Menelaus. They laughed together as they went to school.

While walking in the pedestrian lane, Charlie heard a running car sound but he couldn’t see it yet. Charlie turned his head searching for it and looked at both sides of the intersection but couldn’t find it.

Chris barely looking up talking half-mindedly stopped mid-sentence and asked “what is it?”

Charlie shrugged and said “nothing maybe he forgot something at home.”

Suddenly a black sedan driving like a bat out of hell ran past a red light and drove into an incoming white Nissan car that was turning to the other side of the road and hit him at the boot of the car causing it to lose balance and spin.

The white Nissan driver was knocked out from the impact of the hit and couldn’t control the car as it spanned like a wheel from a Lego set and crashed into an electric pole that fell on the Subaru.

The boy's shell shocked by what happened in front of them quickly ran and tried to get the driver of the black Subaru away from danger before he could have been electrocuted.

The black Subaru was jammed across another car which made the passenger door get stuck and its windows were shut. Charlie went to the driver’s side carefully avoiding the wires from the pole tried unlocking the car door which didn’t budge because it was locked from the inside.

“Quickly call 911” yelled Charlie to Chris as he loosened his shirt and tied round his hands and made a fist then struck the window of the car.

Blow after blow till the glass scattered, then he put his hands into the car and unlocked it from inside. He then expertly opened the door which precision that could rival that of a surgeon to avoid touching the wires.

He then crossed his arms around a big burly looking man and dragged him out. Seeing he couldn’t lift the unconscious driver out by himself yelled to Chris who ran to meet him.

Charlie “on my count one to three we are going to lift him” as he grabbed his legs while Charlie put his hands underneath his arms.” one two three!” Aaaaa!

“Geez, he must be weighing a fricking stone” put your back into it Chris man we have to save him!

Chris put more effort and lifted the man with the help of Charlie moved him to a nearby house's front lawn and tried to revive him by pumping his heart. Then Charlie ran towards the white car whose bonnet was just starting to catch fire.

He tried to open the driver’s door but it was stuck into place by part of the pole which blocked it. He moved to the other side of the car and quickly dodge the windshield glass which shattered in his path.

He could now hear the firemen and ambulance sirens blasting through the air. He opened the other passenger door and tried to loosen the seat belt and loosened the car airbag noticed a baby’s cot at the back of the car to which the driver said faintly help my baby first.

The fire now spreading over the car sporadically and the wire from the electric pole sparking and bouncing all the ground moved to where fuel was dripping from the back of the car where an iron pierced the fuel tank.

“Charlie! Charlie!” yelled Chris as he couldn’t see him from his line of sight and couldn’t go closely because he couldn’t breathe panicking brought out his inhaler and breathed in. Charlie coughing from the smoke around stretched into the car properly and brought out a baby who was crying and wrapped and covered her pressing her face to his chest gently ran out and gave her to an elderly woman shouting bring her here.

The ambulance and the fire truck quickly reaching there swooped into action by opening the fire hydrant and connecting their long hose to it and opening the tap channeling water at high pressure towards the burning car while the other firefighters located the power box quickly killing the power to that block.

Charlie breathed in slowly and went to get the female driver with renewed strength quickly slashed the seatbelt from the car dragged her from the right-hand side of the car and slowly put very arms around his shoulder and moved away from the car.

Kaboom! the car exploded and sent them flying towards the grass yard close to them showering glass on Charlie as he spread to protect the almost unconscious woman which gave him facial cuts through minor injuries.

Charlie yelled at Chris as Charlie moved towards the ambulance where an Emergency Medical Technician EMT moved towards and let down a stretcher which Charlie helped put the lady down to receive treatment while the elderly woman brought her baby to her.

“Hey, kid, you got some cuts on your face and arms here come let me some band-aids on that” called the third EMT Angelina Cortez who didn’t wait for his reply took to the back of the fire truck and applied them.

“Well, guess we are late for school” said Charlie looking at Chris. Chris looked at a smoked blackened Charlie only with his trousers and singlet and replied no shit Sherlock as they walked away from the scene to school.