Kannahamaru wandered into the room all panicked.
"Kannahamaru my friend, haven't seen you in while"
Said Rocky.
"Haven't been around here for a couple of days"
"What happened to you? Jeez, you look like something the cat dragged in. And what's with that scar on your face? C'mon, K you're limping."
"Well, thank you for bringing that to my attention.And don't call me K. Like I told you before."
"Kannahamaru is a mouthful"
Kannahamaru sank into the chair.
"I've been trying to solve this equation and a werewolf attacked me"
( werewolves are not the part of the regular Kannahamaru universe)
"What? And what? Werewolves- werewolves or werewolves?"
I couldn't help intervening.
"What's the difference exactly?"
"Well the first kind attacks you and you turn into a werewolf and stuff, these can only be stopped by a silver bullet and the second type, they're basically just hot. You throw in a couple of vampires and and that's that's a lot of money"(0)
"Neither. These were werewolves from future" (1)
"Future"
"A futuristic werewolf in the present"(2)
Rocky mused.
"Well let me tell you how it all happened. "
Kannahamaru started.
The short and long of what he told us was is as follows.
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Kannahamaru was trying to solve an equation (I'm not gonna say the exact variables or the degree of the equation for once it's too complicated for simple minds and it could be very dangerous if fallen into the wrong hands. What I could tell you is right outside this bracket) which could make temporal displacement possible ( Of course it involved tachyons. Time travelling always involves tachyons.)
And the werewolf appeared . if you think the werewolf was a monstrosity, you're wrong. Imagine the cutest stuffed animal you could imagine. Multiple it's cuteness with 100. You've now got a werewolf.(Later we came to know that werewolves actually takes the form of what you think the pinnacle of cuteness.)
Kannahamaru's werewolf was 5 feat tall and it stood there blended in though appeared out of nowhere a few microseconds before.
"You die or you come with us"
"What...why?"
"We pinpointed this point in time-space where temporal manipulation equation was formed. As the sect of the secret werewolves who are actually the guardians of time itselt, we can't allow you to do that."
" We exist to prevent time travelling "
"You prevent time travelling by travelling through time?"
Kannahamaru snorted
"We understand it's a necessary risk"
"Only if you beat me in a game of chess"
"What?"
The werewolf asked.
"Come on, my FIDE rating is 2536. Play with me and defeat me.
(Kannahamaru actually didn't have a FIDE rating. Instead he told the first four digit number that came into his mind, which incidentally was his ATM pin.)
Kannahamaru was certain about his impending doom when he was about nine moves away from getting checkmated.( From the beginning he knew he was up against unfavorable odds but then he wasn't certain of defeat. Turns out the sect of werewolves practices chess with a religious vigour. He rather should have played ping pong. He chose the wrong movie) (3). And then there were a lot of claws.
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"So where is the werewolf?"
Rocky noticed that we were one werewolf short.
"I had to topple the steel shelf onto him. Or her or it. Do you think I should go and ask which way it wants to be addressed?
" We have bigger problems than it's gender identity or huma...werewolvality if that thing sneering at us from the staircase is the werewolf in question "
I said.
The werewolf was at Kannahamaru's throat in a moment Rocky hurled a shoe at the werewolf which knocked Kannahamaru to the ground. The werewolf was biting into Kannahamaru's arm and he was kicking and screaming at the werewolf and Rocky went to get his acetylene torch while I tried to beat the werewolf with the other shoe while the werewolf diverted it's attention to me. Rocky finally killed off the werewolf with the acetylene torch. We would have won quite easily if another couple werewolf hadn't appeared.
(If you actually paid attention to the title of this story you might remember it said "werewolves" thus multiple individuals. Turns out the werewolf Kannahamaru encountered was still traped under the shelf)
A lot of things happened the next second. The werewolves were thrown against the wall and were pinned there with a couple of arrows and a beautiful female with short hair
wielding a composite bow appeared out of nowhere.
"You need to get shots for those werewolf bites."
"If not will we turn into werewolves?"
I couldn't help asking.
"No, you get rabies and you die."
"And Dr Kannahamaru, we need to talk."
Kannahamaru was quite dumbfounded but excited all the same by the strange address.
So long
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Footnotes
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0. About the folklore and old school horror movies/literature on werewolves
1. — What if... What if it turns out they aren't terrorists? But they're actually werewolves? From the future?
- M. Night Shyamalan
( from southpark season 11 episode 'imaginationland')
http://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/M._Night_Shyamalan
2. Reference to cult werewolf movies such as An American werewolf in London
3. Forrest Gump (1994) rather than The seventh seal (1957)
