20 Interrogating a werewolf.

Matt drove with a smile on his face, his co pilot Lennard next to him. They were on their way to Ysterplaat base to go collect Cleopatra's new attack helicopter, and was about to fly it to the final battle, Matt went through extensive training to fly it, and knew he was going to be well rewarded for flying into the battle with it, like being on a golden chariot.

As they approached the gates a soldier stopped them.

"Verskoon tog, ek soek identifikasie asseblief?"

Matt couldn't understand him "Sorry, i dont speak that language"

"Identification please" The man repeated in English.

"Oh" He took out a tag and handed it to him, the soldier read it, looked at the gate operator then nodded.

"Please drive around left of the hangar sir"

"Thank you" Matt nodded and drove in, Meanwhile Koos had told all the soldiers on base to be alert, the enemy won't understand Afrikaans.

"Lock it down" The soldier told the gate operator "These fokkers dont leave here alive"

"Copy that sir"

Matt drove as the soldier asked, at the back another halted him.

"Captain Matt Anubis?"

"Yes?"

"The Buzzard is in here, please follow me"

Matt and Lennard stepped through the hangar doors, and there stood the helicopter in all its glory, fully rigged with two pods of anti tank rockets, and four hellfire missles on the tips of each weapon wing.

"Isnt she a beauty?" Matt asked

"She sure is" Koos said coming up behind them. The soldiers closed the hangar doors, not opening them, leaving the two Anubis members alone with Koos, Frits and Piet.

"Open up the hangar soldier, we want to take it now" Matt said, but behind them the sound of loading weapons made them halt.

"Sorry frikkie, youre not taking that Rooivalk" Koos said aiming his R1.

Matt and Lennard turned around to face them, but they were smiling.

"Sir, what's the meaning of this?"

"Ill tell you soon, move over to those two chairs" Koos said and the two men obliged "No, only you" Koos pointed at Matt, who went over to sit down, Frits proceeded to tie him up to the steel chair with rope, and cuffs.

"Laws are shitty sometimes hey boet?" Koos said sitting down on the other chair "Unfortunately for you, those laws prevented you two from saving your own lives right now"

"Laws?" Matt asked.

"Yup... law one, always remain secret" Koos nodded at Piet, Piet who had his shotgun to Lennard's head squeezed the trigger, blowing it clean off with the slug he had loaded, making Matt scream "What the hell are you doing!?"

"You know frikkie, i wanted to know how to kill you, and now i finally get the chance to find out" Koos lit a cigarette and blew the smoke in his face "Fokkin werewolf"

"How!? how did you know!?"

"Thats confidential" Koos said and looked at his men, then the three burst out with laughter.

"You're in big trouble! you know that!? do you know what you just done!? do you know who we are!?"

"Will he die from that shot boet?" Koos asked ignoring Matt's question.

"His head is gone! of course hes dead!"

"Are you sure? because back on the border we shot heads similar to his with a fifty cal... we shot and shot and shot, but the fokkers didn't want to stay down... so tell me frikkie? Is he really dead?"

Matt grinded his teeth and looked at Lennards lifeless body, then back at Koos "N, No, he won't die from that"

"You hear that boys!? where in your fokkin life did you hear something won't die from a headshot!?" Koos stood up and drew his pistol "Now if a shotgun or a fifty won't kill you, a nine mil definitely won't, but i bet you it'll hurt like hell hey boet?" he said aiming at his leg.

"You keep saying fifty cal! what are you talking about!?"

"Lemme think, you probably heard of the hyena pack's bad luck hey?"

"Yes, they were wiped out"

"And thats why you're organizing a full scale attack on the rest of the wolves in Angola, because theire not there to stop you anymore?"

"You? there's no way you could have known that, unless?"

"Naledi survived boet, and she told us everything"

"Fuck!"

"Judging by your reaction, im thinking not even Cleopatra knows she still lives?"

Mat shook his head.

"Well boet, let me tell you something, were not intrested now in whats going on up there between you lot of dogs, you're still one full day away from a full moon, so right now, you're going to spill the beans, everything Naledi didn't tell us, starting with how to kill you fokkers" Koos said aiming his pistol at Matt's eye.

***

'Its the worst type of pain, and the pain feuls the rage of the wolf' Naomi's voice came out of the dark 'If you dont learn to bare with the pain, you'll never control the beast'

Quintin was still seeing red, all he wanted to do was tare at things, he wanted to kill and feed, raw, he wanted it raw...! This woman infront of him, was first in line!

'Dont change who you are, ever Quintin' Her voice again, He saw Naledi's face, her neck in his palm, he was choking her.

"No!" he roared letting her go, Naomi coughed holding her neck.

"Are...?" she weezed "Are you with us Quintin?" She asked.

Her voice somehow annoyed him, he remembered the time he wet himself infront of her hyena form, and that had him angry at her.

"How does it feel hyena?" He growled making her look up to him "To be at the mercy of a monster?"

***

"How can you ask me that question? when you know how Naledi's pack was killed?" Matt yelled.

"Yes, we killed off her pack, but i want more effective way, blowing them up with artillery is a little costly, and, destructive. I want to know if there is a more, lenient way of puttin you bliksems down?"

Matt chuckled "Like I'll ever tell you!" he barked, and Koos shot both his kneecaps making him scream.

"Koos, this guy's head is slowly growing back" Frits said looking at Lennard.

"You're fokkin joking!?" Koos said coming over. To his astonishment he saw slowly but surely the bone, muscle and skin grew back. Koos turned to Matt "Now isn't this interesting?"

Sitting down in front of Matt again he cut the leggings of his jumpsuit off with his knife and watched his knees, the bullet holes also slowly closed up, Koos smiled.

"Listen to me frikkie, im not stupid hey, i put one plus one together, and judging by the fact that you were going to be taking the Rooivalk to the border, means youre a weak one hey? That teef Cleopatra won't sacrifice a high ranked werewolf and place it in a very powerful weapon, no, rather take a weak doos like you, and give you a strong weapon, so the more powerful ranked ones can be in the battle... so now frikkie... i think you're the bottom feeders of your pack, a beta, or even a lowly omega, right?"

Matts reaction gave Koos an answer, he sort of shriveled in, his face worried. Years of interrogating the enemy taught him to look for reactions instead of answers, and the fact that this Matt showed worry so quickly, meaned Koos was right about him being a weak one.

"But!" he yelled and Matt jumped "I also realised, not even the highest ranked fokkers are unstoppable, take Naledi, we blew half her body away, but her arm, and skin on her face never grew back, like that tjommie of yours' head is growing back now, yet hes a weakling, but she was a pack leader... now why is that?"

"I still wont tell you" Matt smiled. Koos looked down at his legs, the holes are closed now.

"I have a theory" Frits said "Mind if i try?"

"Sure, bit dont kill him, im not done with him yet" Koos said.

"So, as every being on earth needs food, to produce energy, my theory is, that werewolves need to eat alot more, or else something might go wrong?" Matt's face sagged again, Frits smiled "What happens if you dont eat before, during, or after your transformation? hey boet? Changing your physical size like that must use up a shitload of energy, and, having enough energy, means you can heal as quickly as you did. Now i think that was the problem Naledi had, she was expelling alot of energy to chase us, i know i shot her a few times, and Piet hit her with the Ratel, all that damage she took, whilst running to keep up with us, caused her energy to run low, and she could only heal, not regenerate... am i right?"

Mat started to sweat, he looked at Lennard, who just finished regenerating his head, and moaned getting up.

"Lennard! are you ok!?" Matt yelled.

"I feel like a bus hit me" He mumbled and looked up, right into Piets shotgun barrel "Welcome back frikkie, and goodnight" Piet said and shot his head off again.

"Fuck! shit! shit! you fuckers! if Cleopatra found out about what youre doing here! Shell kill you!" Mat yelled

"Whats wrong boet? you said he can survive a headshot? right? Which means well shoot him everytime he gets up"

"But! but!"

"And! well shoot your kneecaps off, every time they heal!" Koos said shooting him again.

***

Naledi had no comeback, she never thought back then the tables would turn on her like this, she held her hand up "Im sorry kido, it was in my nature"

Quintin faught hard against the anger, he knew what she said was true, in normal circumstances Naledi would never be in this situation, and she never could kill him after all, thanks to the soldiers, and she even payed the price with her arm, but his anger overwhelmed him.

"Is that... fear?" he fought the words back, it wasnt his.

"Quintin! you must calm down!" She desperately said.

'Dont change' Naomi's words reached him again. He took a deep breath, then stood back, he sighed deeply again, blowing out tension.

"Naledi" He said "Im sorry"

A smile came onto her face "Thank heavens, i thought i was a goner"

"So this is what it feels like to be one of you?"

"Not fun hey?"

"No"

"Well Quintin, youre not one of us yet, youre bigger, your eyes and fangs are different, but youre not fully a were... cat yet"

Quintin walked over to a mirror, she was right, his pupils sleeted, his fangs sharp, he even had claws "I cant gou into public like this"

"Well cant you focus and draw them back?"

"Draw them back?"

"Yes, the Del Carchetore clan can semi shift into their wolf forms, giving them greater agility and speed, so they'd look almost just like you now"

"I, i dont know how?"

"Then only Claire can help you now, but first, i think you should eat something, if youre not hungry, youl have more common sence" Naledi said walking out "Ezbar! its safe to come out now!"

"Who's Claire?" Quintin asked following her.

"Shes the Alpha of the Del Carchetore clan" Naledi found a room that looked like a kitchen and entered it "There must be food round here somewhere"

Ezbar peeked into the room, making sure its safe.

"Uh, son? Are you ok now?"

"Yes doc, im handling it"

Ezbar came to him and started inspecting, he circled him a few times then stopped in front of him smiling "Outstanding, the only step left now, is to see you under a full moon, but, just incase it goes horribly wrong, i suggest you go to Angola, and be ready for it there"

***

It took longer than before for Matt's knees to heal up, and twice that long for Lennard's head to grow on again, but thistime Piet didn't shoot him. Lennard was clearly exhausted, he couldn't even get up from the floor.

"So tell me boet?" Koos asked, Matt looked up at him, sweating bullets "If we shoot him again? what will happen?"

Matt sighed "If i tell you? will you let us live?"

"Sure boet, I know why you wolves keep yourself secret, you think 'Humans dont understand, and will have the mentality of, we cant allow werewolves to live, because they're too dangerous' But not us boet, we met Naledi, she's not too bad, so if you cooperate, well allow you and your tjommie to live, but well keep you tied up, so you cant warn Cleopatra"

"Deal! its a deal!" Matt gladly called.

"Very well boet" Koos lit a cigarette and sat down of front of him "Im listening"

"The story about silver is partially true, it doesn't burn us, but something about it causes us not to heal from it. But even though silver is a weakness to us, that doesn't necessarily mean we can't be killed by anything else. a shot to the head and the heart is the sure way, without the brain the heart can still pump blood to regenerate, without the heart, the brain can still send signals to regenerate, so take out both, and were dead for sure" Matt spilled everything in almost one breath.

"The heart and the head hey?" Koos asked looking at Frits.

"Shall we test it?" Frits asked lifting his pistol.

"Wait! no!" Matt yelled but Frits shot Lennard in the heart first then the head.

"You bastards! we had a deal!"

"Yes, the deal was, we let you live because we understand werewolves are not as bad as the books say they are, but unfortunately we cant allow you to live, because of Cleopatra's hideous plan"

"Noo!" Matt yelled before Koos shot him in the head and heart rapidly.

"This was fun! fok am i glad i met you two" Piet said "So what now?"

"Now, we take everything to your farm Piet"

"Copy that"