Werewolf Fightclub

It's in your DNA

Jason is standing in front of his uncle's door, surprised at the rude welcome he is receiving. Uncle Ivan looks like he is not taking care of himself, his face is unshaven and he smells like he has been drinking all day. Jason looks over to Jessica and hands her his car keys. "Can you wait in the car while we talk, I promise it won't take long." Jessica looks concerned, but she takes the keys from Jason and gets into the car. Uncle Ivan opens the door and lets Jason in, The house is dark and smells moldy, he signals Jason to have a seat, Jason is already frustrated by the way he and Jessica have been treated and have lost all patience. "Uncle Ivan, why did you call me here?"

Uncle Ivan sits down in a chair opposite Jason, he lights a cigarette, the flame shines a faint light over his face in the darkroom. "Do you have any memory of what happened to your parent's the night they died?" "What is this about uncle Ivan, if this is just another one of your drunken speeches about us being royalty, then I'm leaving! My dad, who is your brother was a winemaker, like his parents before him, and that should have been you too, but instead of making wine, you destroyed your life drinking it all!" Uncle Ivan jumps out of his seat and grabs Jason by the collar of his jacket. "It wasn't just an ordinary home invasion! They were there to kill your parents and you, that's what they do when they enter a new area, they come after the hunters first" Jason looks at his uncle confused "What are you talking about?" Uncle Ivan sits back down with his head in his hands, fighting back tears "When I got there it was too late, they had already killed your parents and I heard you screaming and running between the vines in the vineyard, I ran after you and one of them was just about to catch you but I killed it just in time." Jason is growing more frustrated at his uncle's ranting "What do you mean, it!?" Uncle Ivan starts weeping "Believe me, Jason, I wanted to keep you and raise you, but I was afraid they would come back for me and I didn't want you to get caught up in this life." "Uncle Ivan, I don't understand, what are you saying?"

"When you were 5 years old, your home was attacked by 2 werewolves, they killed your parents and nearly killed you, your family comes from a long line of monster hunters.'' Jason raises his arms in frustration "Uncle Ivan!" Uncle Ivan interrupts him "Wait, I can show you." He leads Jason through the dark house and out the back door. Uncle Ivan walks over to a basement door on the outside of the house, he opens the door and gestures to Jason to enter first. Jason enters the basement and goes down a few steps. He is shocked at what he sees, it's the stuffed head of a werewolf corpse. Jason looks on at the werewolf's head in astonishment "Is that one of them that killed my parents?" "No most werewolves turn back into humans when they die, this is a different breed, more ancient, they may have been the original werewolves, they were never human." "How do you know these things?" "It's sacred knowledge that has been passed on from father to son." Uncle Ivan points to a bookshelf on the wall next to them.

"Your father would have shared this with you when you were old enough and I should have, but I was in a dark place, I felt I let you and your family down by not being there. You were so young when your parent died, but you have grown up to be a strong man of the law and you can avenge your family by hunting those bastards down." Uncle Ivan reaches into a nearby cupboard and pulls out a large case. He puts it on a table and opens it to reveal a crossbow and a quiver of long silver arrows. "They are back Jason, those murders that you are investigating, those are a pack of werewolves that are roaming the city, I found 2 dead bodies in the Silvermine woods a few months ago, they were werewolves, they are called lowborn's, who transform when the moon is in a certain phase, then there are Highborns who transform at will, your parents were killed by 2 lowborn's at the direction of a highborn. That Highborn is back in the city, you should find him and his pack and kill them all!"

Jason is speechless as he tries his best to digest what he has just been told: "This is too much Uncle Ivan I need time to make sense of all this." "You need to do this soon, they don't usually stay in one place for very long, this pack has been here already for longer than usual, once they leave it will be hard to track them before they start a new killing spree." "I need to go, Uncle Ivan, Jessica is in the car, she is probably wondering what is taking so long." Uncle Ivan talks to him anxiously, while handing him the case with the crossbow. "OK, you take that girl home and then you come back here tomorrow and we can have a talk and I'll tell you everything you need to know about your family history, take this it's your birthright, you were born to do this Jason, it's in your DNA!"

Ivan takes the case and makes his way back to the car, Jessica is fast asleep on the passenger side, she wakes up as Jason opens up the door, he opens the boot of his car and tosses the case in, he gets in the car and just drives off. The drive back to the city is quiet, Jessica breaks the silence with a question. " what's in that case your uncle gave you?" "My inheritance."