Chapter 7
While Anubis was curled up on the foot of Dawns bed, he heard something downstairs and alerted her.
She told him to stay behind her then quickly summoned her spear and ordered wrappings to engulf the intruders legs so they couldn’t escape.
Then, she nonchalantly made her way down the stairs and began threatening the robber. “You think you can come into a girls house and steal her shit? Well you picked the wrong-“
She held her spear to the man’s neck and got a better look at his face “wait, I know you. You’re that astronaut guy. Why are you breaking into my house?”
“You live in Detroit, I thought you’d be used to it.” He joked “I wanted to find my necklace.”
“How did you find me?”
“I saw you on the video from my dads phone. I deleted it before he could post it anywhere, so don’t worry.” He assured.
“Yeah, that didn’t really asnwer my question.” She dispersed the wrappings from Johns legs.
John fumbled as he walked to a chair, “I saw you were wearing an Anubis mask. I know a guy who knows a guy who knows Death. Death knows Anubis.”
“Why did you need to find me?”
“Well, first of all, I’d appreciate my moonstone back.”
“To turn you into a werewolf again? Why?”
“I can control it. I know I can. When I do, I can really make a difference in the world.”
Dawn huffed “you’re an astronaut. You already make a difference.”
He shook his head “not to the little guys. I want to help the… the woman getting cornered in a back alley, or, or the guy getting mugged on the street. I want to swoop in and save the day.”
Dawn smiled “you want to be Spider-Man.”
He laughed “ironic, isn’t it?”
“What if you can’t control it?”
“Actually, that’s why I’m here.” He replied “that guy you were with, the guy in white. He kept calling me Jack. That’s all I remember. Jack. Why?”
“Oh, he thought you were a different werewolf?”
John stood up in excitement “a different… there’s another werewolf?”
Dawn shrugged “I guess so. My friend said they used to fight but they’re friendly now.”
“A friendly werewolf? No kidding. Maybe he can help me! What’s his name?”
Dawn scratched the back of her neck, “look, I don’t know him so I don’t think I—“
“Come on, I’ll find him eventually. I found you and in Canada, you’re dead and buried.”
“Jack Russell.”
John blinked “is that… are you serious?”
She sighed “that’s all I know. Honest.”
“Maybe your friend knows more. We can ask him, right?”
She shook her head “yeah, no. You’re gonna have to beat his name out of me.”
“Pack loyalty, I can respect that.” He nodded “I also thank you for your information and my necklace back.”
He held out his hand.
Anubis, who was witnessing the exchange, reached into a pocket in his vest and handed the moonstone to Dawn who gave it to the man.
“Thank you, Paulena.”
“Actually, I go by Dawn now. Dawn Dekay.”
“Guess Jack Russell is not that strange then.”
She placed her hands on her hips “well what do you call yourself?”
“Man-Wolf.” He asnwered.
“Man-Wolf? Not wolf-man?”
“N…no. Man-Wolf.”
“Okay. Good luck. Man-Wolf.”
He shook her hand “thank you, Dawn. I’ll try to put in a good word for you with my dad.”
“Don’t bother. If he publicly endorses me I’ll be cancelled so fast.”
John laughed “funny. That’s exactly what Spider-Man said.”
He exited the house and began to drive away in his rental car. Dawn closed the door when she realized
“Wait, he knows Spider-Man?”
She opened the door “you know Spider-“
He was already out of sight before she could find out her asnwer.