Hunters moon

34: Smart plan

"The werewolf venom needs time to change the body, otherwise the host won't survive, it prepares the body for that massive physical change. Now if you say the same thing happens over five days as in a twenty four hour period, I take it the venom acts slower over the longer time, but, it still adapts the body first, before the moon.

It's a force of nature in a nutshell, animals can sense calamities coming from miles away, birds can sense winter coming. The venom can adjust itself to the moon, so it only awakens the wolf when it's full... So, now that I've explained that the venom prepares the body, it might add some bad news with the good news I have"

"Which is?" Koos asked.

Frits sipped his beer again, turning to Naledi "How old are you?"

Her face shyed red "Very old, I lost count almost as old as Cleopatra"

"Yet you look to be in your early twenties"

"Yes, I told you already, I might not be classified as an Amarok, but I carry the same pro's, I don't age"

Frits smiled "And thanks to us meeting you, just gave us a bit of hope for seeing Ra face to face one day, if it was any other wolf or hyena, I don't think this would have worked"

"Ok? Explain?" She frowned.

"You don't age, because your regenerative abilities are even higher than the previous rank, dire, so good in fact, that your cells that grow old, are shed and replaced by new ones, now what werewolves have, are technically supercharged versions of what humans already have... Let me explain" He got up and took another beer.

"In order to become a wolf you need a high level of proteins to grow the muscles, a high level of calcium to rapidly rebuild breaking bones, a high level of adrenaline for extreme boosts of energy, and of course a high healing ability, or 'regeneration' as we came to call it. Without any of these the werewolf can't exist, but!" He said loudly, only Piet jumped at the exclamation.

"But what!?" Piet yelled not really keeping up with Frits.

"Humans have it all, only much more watered down... Now, thanks to Naledi, specifically, I figured if I can isolate only the adrenaline, and the healing ability and give that to us, like Ezbar gave the saber form to Quintin, I recon we can live long over our expiry date, at the exception that we need to activate the adrenaline in order to activate the regeneration, so it would mean physical exercise every morning for as long as we want to stay young enough to fight, as soon as we stop exercising, well grow old like normal"

Only Piet didn't have the brain power to keep up, but Naledi and Koos got a shock.

"You, you were this smart all along?" Naledi asked.

Koos slapped him "Fucksakes man! When were you going to spill your brains to us? I bet you not even fokken Ezbar figured out what you just said! You basically just discovered the fountain of youth!"

"I told you I had ideas! But we were in the fokkin bush! Where the fok was I supposed to do things like this!?" Frits yelled back rubbing his head.

"So like Lego blocks you can build onto us, so we can live longer?" Piet asked semi catching up.

"Yes Piet, exactly... In more basic terms, but that's where the bad news come in"

Koos rubbed his face "Fok, I'm getting tired of all this bad news"

"If we do this, we are, as Piet said, adding to our DNA like Lego's, so if we get bitten by a werewolf after that..."

"...You will die" Naledi said.

"Yes"

"What!? Why!?" Piet asked.

"You see, we finished the procedure of becoming a werewolf partially, if a werewolf bites us, we will suddenly become werewolves instantly, and that would be too much for our bodies to handle, heatstroke, broken bones, torn muscles, brain damage, heart attack.

Fok there's so many the question is going to be which would kill us first, above all, it will be a very painful death, our bodies will, for lack of better words, rip themselves apart"

"Fok!" Koos said lighting a cigarette "So basically it's a sacrifice we make more than anything"

"A risk yes, but with the same rewards as an Amarok, we don't grow old, meaning one day we can face Akmah-Ra"

"Not stronger?"

"We might be slightly stronger and faster than your average human, but it's nothing to say wow for"

Koos went silent, thinking of this step they can or cannot take, he then looked at Piet and Frits, but threw his hands up "I'm drawing the line here, I dragged you two through hell these past weeks, I'm not going to force you two into this" He said.

Piet shrugged "Well were not dead yet Koos, so no matter if it was hell, we're still here, hoohaa"

"He's got a point" Frits said "If it was any other General, I'd say go fok yourself, but you make one hell of a battle strategy, so as long as you can keep that up, I'll keep the science and computer s**t coming"

"And I'll keep the Ratel well oiled and well armored" Piet said, making Koos nod.

"So we have an agreement"

"At least we know no wolf that will bite us will ever own us" Piet chuckled "I'd like to see that asshole's face when he thought he has beaten us by turning us, only to find out its like us biting a fokkin sionide pill"

"Again, he's got a point" Frits laughed.

"So you're taking the risk?" Naledi asked after being silent all this time, the three men nodded.

"You're crazy the three of you! One nic from a werewolf fang and it's over! One little cut, or spatter of blood into your mouth or eyes then boom! It's over! And in case you three forgot, when you use that Ratel! There tends to be a lot of spraying blood!"

"Don't worry sussa, well be careful not to repeat that mistake"

Naledi shook her head "You're crazy, there's just no other words"

A ping came from the Ratel close by and Frits slapped his hands together "Now, for the best part" He went to the Ratel and brought back his satellite computer "I connected this tab to the computer system in the Ratel via wireless network, so now I don't need to be inside it to access those computers, here, look at this" Frits held the tablet to Koos, he saw an satellite photo of some landscape, Frits then held it to Piet, who recognized it.

"That's this farm!"

"Yes, but look closely" Frits said zooming in, they saw the four of them standing around the fire place.

"You took that just now!?"

"Yes, but that's not the interesting thing, look closely at us, then at Naledi" The two men and woman squinted, then noticed the slight whiteness around her.

"It looks like the photo smudged around Naledi"

"Exactly! This is how well find Cleopatra"