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“Marc! You needed he-“ Dawn paused when she appeared with Anubis. The sight she witnessed caught her off-guard. Marc was holding a Wolfman in a half-nelson on the ground.
“Polly, you ever fight a werewolf before?”
“ can’t say I have.” She replied. “have you?”
“Well-“ Marc began to say before the creature kicked itself out of the position, and caused Marc to stumble back.
Dawn used the wrappings from her costume to tie the wolf, but he ended up grabbing the pieces of bandage and pulled Dawn closer. He tried to bite her, but ended up biting the handle of the spear, she quickly summoned. She used the small time of confusion and kicked the creature away from her. Trying her wrappings again, this time succeeding in tying him up.
“ do you know him?” Dawn asked
Marc looked at the struggling Wolfman. “ yeah, I do. His name is Jack Russell. We had a bit of a misunderstanding a while back. But we cleared it up. He thought of me as an enemy because of my ties to the moon. The wolf in him was jealous. But I thought we were passed that.”
“ evidently not.” Dawn said.
Marc leaned closer to the monster, and noticed something around his neck “ it could be that. That’s new.”
“ you want to try to get close enough to take off that necklace?” Dawn chuckled. “ Good luck. I doubt my wraps will last for long.”
The Wolf used his claws and ripped through the bandages.
“ right on cue.” The girl quipped.
Steven had taken Marc’s place so when the wolf tried to scratch his face, it got blocked by one of Steven’s truncheons. Then Steven smacked the werewolf in the face.
“We’re at this again, Jack?” Steven look to aside and waved at Dawn.
“Hi Paulena!”
The Wolf tried to attack Steven when his back was turned, but ended up getting hit again by the rod. Steven didn’t even turn around.
“Steven we need to distract it! We need…” Dawn noticed Anubis witnessing the battle, then reached into a pocket in her shorts. Out she pulled one of Anubis’ dog treats. Steven blocked a punch by the wolf, but the animal used his foot while Steven was leaning and tripped him, causing him to fall on the floor. Steven covered his face with the truncheons, while wolf tried to scratch him.
Dawn yelled “ Hey, Air Bud!”
She held out the dog treat. The wolf looked over just a second which left Marc (who replaced Steven) to grab the pendant from the monsters neck and pull it off. It proved a little difficult it as it seemed to be attached to the wolf, but Marc did it. The wolf howled until the necklace was gone. Then he fainted and almost landed on Marc but Dawns bandages made it to him in time to cradle him and lay him down gently.
Marc stood and looked at the half-naked man. “ that’s not Jack.” he pointed out.
“ how do you know?”
“ well, Jack isn’t white. This guy looks like his favourite spice is sugar. This guy…” he looked at the face of the man again “wait, I know this guy. I’ve seen him on the news. It’s that astronaut guy.”
“ Neil Armstrong?”
Marc blinked at her comment “what?”
She shrugged “I don’t know any other astronauts.”
“Jameson. That’s his name.” Marc remembered.
“ oh! That guy on YouTube that’s like Alex Jones and probably voted for Trump? Can’t be, that guy’s ancient.”
“ this has to be his son. Let’s get him home before he wakes up.” Marc cut the wrappings with his Crescent dart, and lifted the man over his shoulder.
Dawn handed the biscuit, still in her hand, to Anubis. “ you know what to do.” She ordered.
Anubis howled and transported all four of them to J. Jonah Jameson’s house.
The man who was dressed only in a robe and boxers, sprang up from his reclining chair and grabbed his cell phone to record.
“ these freaks in costumes just appeared in my living room. They are trespassing! Isn’t a man’s own home safe anymore?”
“ we aren’t here to hurt you. We’re just bringing something back.” Dawn said, as Marc set the unconscious man on the recliner.
“ is that… Johnny? My boy? What did you freaks do to him? I’m calling the police right now! You are going to—“
“Hey. We found him like that. We know he’s a hero. We are heroes, too. We wouldn’t hurt him.” Dawn smiled.
J. Jonah Jameson looked at Dawn up and down, then asked “ aren’t you a little fat to be a hero, kid?”
Then, Marc punched him in the face. The man stumbled and dropped his phone. Steven, who took Marc’s place, also punched him in the face. This caused J. Jonah Jameson to fall to the floor. Jake then took Steven’s place and began kicking the man until Dawn told him to stop.
Jake agreed, then looked at his hand, which was still holding the gemstone. He noticed it was beginning to meld with his hand. It was glowing red as he tried to take it off. Once it was actually removed, the stone lost its shine. His hand, however, still contained the glow.
“ Dawn.” he showed the girl his glowing hand.
“ that’s not good.” She said, then turned to Anubis. “ take us to Khonshu.”
The god nodded, and howled again. They were transported to a field of rye with Khonshu sitting atop a boulder, looking off a cliff .
“ do I interrupt you when you’re relaxing?” Khonshu asked.
“ Marc and I were fighting a Werewolf and—“ Dawn began to explain
Khonshu interrupted “ugh I hate werewolves.”
“You do? Why?”
“ they abuse the power of the moon.” The god looked at Jake, who is holding out his glowing hand. “ what happened to you?”
Jake shrugged “ninguna pista.”
“ if you were fighting a werewolf, then you probably came into contact with a moonstone.” Khonshu sighed, “ Normally, it turns humans into werewolves. But since you’re an avatar of me, the god of the moon, you should be fine. Creatures of the moon should obey me. If it did contain a Werewolf spirit, it’ll perish with my command.”
“ if it’s that easy, why didn’t you help us earlier when that thing was fighting us?” Dawn placed her hands on her hips.
“ couldn’t be bothered.”
“ you son of a—“ Dawn tried to take a step forward, but Jake held her back.
“ no, niniata. This is not your war.”
Dawn sighed “ can you let me know when your hand gets better?”
Jake nodded.
“ I’ll see you soon, Jake. Hey, Khonshu!”
The god turned to look at her “ yes?”
“Eat a dick!”
Anubis howled and the two disappeared.
Jake smiled at her comment, and said aloud “Ella me gusta.”
Khonshu shook his head “ I know. I do too.”