The Full Moon [M]

[Jhago Wulf]

Jhago was driving along the highway with his buddy 1ackson riding shotgun when all of a sudden he spotted the bloodmoon on the horizon. The Change came at him strongly, his blood pulsing thickly throughout his body as he started his transformation. It came violently, his tail bursting from his back in one smooth motion. His hands sprouted tiny claws on either hand and his mouth became a long muzzle of wolfish origin. Casually, he slid the seat back and enjoyed the view of the moon as if unphased, but Jackson was out the car as soon as he rolled to a stop.

"You're weird, man. I'm outta here! Didn't know you were a fucking werewolf!"

"And what are you?"

"A fucking nobody. What do you think I am hotshot? I'm not about to give a Werewolf a blowjob!"

"Well I got to head on home now. You take it easy buddy," Jhago says with a toothy grin.

He pulled off and left Jackson in the distance, golden eyes tracing the outline of the highway before him. Soon, he was stopped by a sensation of rolling as the car took a dip in the road. All of a sudden the car was illuminated in light and he was instantly teleported to the Nexus. In a minute he was consumed by the light of the Nexus and was transported there. A being was standing there on the outside of the car with a rainbow globe. He exited the vehicle and proceeded to approach the man.

“My name is Omni. This is not the world you know. This is the Omniverse. You interest me, so I have made you part of it. The Omniverse is a place that reflects the wishes of those who are part of it. But! There are rules. I will explain them only once, so listen carefully.”

Omni hands Jhago a glimmering orb in which all the colors of the rainbow coalesce. “This is Omnilium. It’s what ties the Omniverse together. Without it, you are nothing. With it, anything you desire can be yours. But you will need more than this. If you desire it enough, you will find it. You will find that using it comes naturally. Just think of what you desire most.

“You will not be alone in the Omniverse. There are others. Of course, they, too desire Omnilium. Do not fear death. For as long as you interest me, you will be reborn.

“That’s all you need to know right now. You’ll figure out the rest soon enough. I’ll be watching … and waiting.”

"So you're Omnilium is the prize? If it's a thing, I can collect it. I'm sure we'll meet again soon."

He looked around, noting the fountain at the center of the Nexus. Water shot from the bottom in an arc as he walked from the car to the fountain for a little drink. He slurped it down quickly and found himself wondering where he was going. As he was wasting time at the fountain, his arrival was noticed by some guards from Coruscant. They arrived with some kind of conraption and the wolf was quickly surrounded.

"Halt!"

"I'm already stopped. Nnt like I'm going anywhere with a flat tire unless you got a can o' fix a flat?"

"Fix a flat?"

"It's for the tires."

"Tires?"

"Ugh. You guys all dress in medi-eval getups like it's the stone age or something but you carry gear like it's the future," he remarked as a storm trooper waltzed up to the group with a machine in his hands.

"If you're bound to wind up in the Empire, you'll need a form of I.D. With this machine I can take a picture of you for your travels."

"Who knew I'd make it to the DMV of the Omniverse on day 1!"

In seconds he'd had his picture taken and a card shot out of the machine, plunking him in the head and landing thickly to the ground. As the light of the moon was now missing, the black man changed forms back to something more human in nature. His ripped t-shirt hung on his shoulders, his vibrams thudding as he went to pick up the discarded card on the ground.

"With that you can have access to the city in mere minutes rather than hours, and you should be able to find help at the guard station on the other side of that Gate," the stormtrooper said with a point. His patrol arrived shortly thereafter, making note of the stolen car he'd been driving, a mustang.

"Well if yall are done checking on me, I'll be off to the next town. Now which direction should I start in?"

An officer answered him. "Well, I don't know where you should go. You new Primes all have to start somewhere, build a reputation or something like that. We do have things that need done around here, it was lucky we were closeby because it's a long walk to the Gates.

[Jhago Wulf]

The guard looked around and Jhago looked at his car. He was fascinated by the Omnilium in his pocket, but he gripped it tightly on the inside of it instead of showing it to the officer before him. It jiggled and almost vibrated as he played with it.

"What's that in your pocket?" asked the officer, with a raised brow. He smiled though. Maybe he thought he was playing with himself because he looked away.

"Omnilium," better out than in, his mom always said. Besides, the other man was friendly enough and his small bunch were very helpful when he had asked questions earlier on. "I got it from Omni."

"Oh yea, you primes do that." For the officer, it was kind of awkward, seeing as he'd only seen Omni once in his life. However, he had respect for the man and looked back at Jhago. He wanted to give him a shpiel on Omnilium but he didn't want to waste time. He'd let him ask, and little did he know, he would ask.

"Omni's nice enough. By the way, stay to your Omnilium. It's a helpful thing."

"What do you know about it?"

"Does everything."

"Everything?" The man was incredulous. Omni made it seem important, but he doubted that rainbow colored mess could really do everything. He pulled it out and tried to smell it. It smelled like flowers, then chocolate, then something strange and wild. Then it seemed devoid of scents, like a liquid metal or something with flowers and good smelling stuff inside.

"You see, you Primes were chosen. I personally don't know why, but Omni wanted you to come here."

"Yeah, I already got that...."

"Anyway, that stuff made the land. The fountains, the verses and even some animals I think. You can eat it, but I wouldn't because of the value. Also it can come out. But I've only seen one person do that. Hey, Rico!"

He was hailing an officer that was approaching the vehicle in a vehicle of his own, a hoverbike. Probably from Coruscant, the officer thought as he turned towards the approaching man. He'd been his friend for years.

"You'll like this man. He's the one to ask about Omnilium."

The dude was tall and attractive, roughly 6' tall and lanky. But he had a weird aura, considering his job. He smelled a little of the flowers on his person and Jhago wondered if he had more of that OM. Did I invent that or is it a real thing? OM. Omnilium. What a weird name for something that does everything. Guess that's what the Omni's for, right?

"So you're Rico? Do you know anything about this?" He moved the Omnilium from just under his nose to his left hand, and extended it to the dismounting hoverbiker.

"I do," he said as he approached Jhago's side of the Mustang, "but I don't have much of it on me. You must be the new Prime. Kurtis, what's this guy's name."

"Don't know."

"It's Jhago," said the black man, noticing that his fly was open as he checked his shoes. His shoe-laces were untied, but these were Vibrams so he thought of leaving it. He almost went to close the fly but instead lowered to close the laces.

"Uh, what're your powers?" Kurtis asked. Jhago wondered if this was all part of his job or if it somehow happened to be his lucky day. He didn't like telling people about his inner Wolf, Beast or whatever kind of monster he'd become. He wasn't Bisgby or anything but his Wolf side was the only real power he possessed. That, other than the speed. And jumping. And maybe his occasional incredible bloodlust, the latter of which controlled by a nearly all-meat diet. He remembered the day he was bitten clearly, the full five claw slash across his arm and chest a brutal memory of what had happened between him and Kevin, the werewolf brawler. He started his answer by showing the men these under his shirt (which happened to be his favorite, a picture of a Minion from one o' those animated films in America).

"So what are you? Infected? A Mutant?" Rico asked. His jaw kinda dropped at the side of his chest, as they looked kind of deep. Almost to the damn bone. He'd seen some damage before but werewolf bites were kind of new.

"No. I'm a..." He looked away.

"..." They were silent a minute. Everyone looked around and the small group that was there started heading off in their vehicles. They'd been listening or scouting the area for other Primes, considering the Nexus was in fountain mode.

And I'm not sleeping now,
The Dark is too hard to beat...

"That's my phone." He reached into his pocket to retrieve the somewhat girly ringtone playing phone out of his pocket. It appeared as if it was still functional, but it looked different, like it had a different OS or something. 0 contacts, except for Jackson's, the man who had been with him before his arrival in the Omniverse. Jhago wondered what happened to him, reading his last text.

"Pick me up. @ an orgy omfg so wstd rite nao. Can I eat your woofy?" Jhago chuckled at the drunk text he'd been sent from his friend, contemplating texting him back but realizing this universe, or, Omniverse as it were might be too far away. Although, he also noticed that his signal appeared to be at maximum.

"That a communicator?"

"No, it's a cell phone. Well I reckon it is a communicator then well isn't it dumbass Jhago..." He paused. "I had it in the same pocket as this stuff and it's different now. Somebody hacked it."

"Hacked? It looks like it's in good condition." Jhago couldn't help but smile at the man's ignorance. What time period was he from? From the looks of things Kurtis was a swordsman of sorts, a longsword at his belt. Whatever else, the man seemed capable of getting down to fight with it too, appearing muscular and fit. The man was presently rubbing his beard and eyeing the Mustang. He tapped the tires suspiciously.

"It's a Mustang. Be nice. By the way... I think I might be a Werewolf."

Rico looked horrified, then his expression leveled. He went to grip for his blaster but thought better of it and dropped his hands. Jhago tensed and his lips formed into a terse smile.

"But I can assure you I won't kill anyone if I don't have to. I eat a lot of cow at home."

Despite his earlier horror (and probably because of Kurtis's absurd (to Rico, anyways) calm) the man seemed relaxed, and he also inspected the vehicle instead of staring daggers at Jhago. He prefered their eyes deviated for the time being anyway.

"I can fight but I don't like to. Or at least don't want to. I mean. Er. Um. Well..." Another long pause. "But I see you both came prepared. Do one of you have a map I can have?"

"Opening: Maps." said the little device in his hand, in Omni's voice. The little communicator showed a large area map of the area, the Nexus. From the looks of things there were about eight exits from this zone. He wondered about the Dunes, intrigued that this thing could show him a way to the verses. It also came with GPS and a cute little 'you are here'. He tried pressing buttons, seeing if he could get a map of the other verses but it appeared to be only rough sketches coming up in the display after that.

"Nevermind."

"Guess we don't need to ask you about a Dataverse Device," said Rico, "so I guess we're out."

"But can you tel me how this shit does everything?" He put the communicator back in his pocket and held out the Omniium again. The man looked at it and laughed.

"Everybody knows about that. I think. Or maybe us two." He chuckled sourly. The man had a debt, but Jhago couldn't know that. "It does everything. Makes you stronger and grow and it also makes objects. Destruction and creation, there. Be careful with that stuff... how much--wow. Quite a lot of it if it's smelling like that. I can smell it from here. Can I get some of that."

"Hey! I just got this. Tell me how to use it."

"Wish it, want it, do it," they both said in unisoin, and laughed.

"I want to eat it like steak," and with that, a plate of meat appeared in his empty hand. Mystified but hungry, he put the Omnilium in his pocket and started eating it immediately, not questioning whether or not it could be poisoned or bad or too much magic or whatever the hell else that could go wrong. Having successfully tossed fear to the wind, Jhago tossed the plate, which disappeared cartoonishly, over his shoulder and it shattered on the ground before it incinerated itself.

"That's something I guess," said Kurtis.

"You're weird," said Rico, "but you got talent with that I guess. If you're looking for a place to go, head to the Dunes. There's a town not far in with a bounty board, fit for a prime like yourself to give you some sort of opportunity. We hear Lara Croft is looking for some help finding some Key or something.

"Surprisingly good tip. Who's this woman? THE Lara Croft? Of Tomb Raider?"

"Of what?"

"Nevermind." He wondered if it could be true, that the woman really was the tomb raider, but he doubted it. There was no freakin' way. He'd die, hoping her legs weren't as broken as they'd be after all the failed jumps he'd made in her game. If Omni could make those people real.... what did that mean about Jhago? Was he in a video game himself? A board game? A play-by-post RPG? Ironically and almost to the 4th-Wall breaking leve, he thouight of this.

If you're seeing, hearing, or reading this, get the fuck out of my mind, my head, my spine and my ass.

He didn't know why he added the last two but he didn't question it for the time being. Anyway, Lara Croft, the name, amused him. He even smiled.

"How does this stuff make you stronger?"

"Wish it, want it, do it," the two men said in unison again. Again, they chuckled. Too cute thought Jhago. Are they lovers or something? he thought back at them, sarcastically. His smile faded at the lame comedy. He missed his friend's company, Jackson. The man was a rapper and a songwriter, and had better comedic value than a quote from Family Guy (pan to Family guy TV in the corner of his apartment). It was a shame the man had bailed before the whole thing with Omni.

He quickly scanned the surroundings again and came to the same conclusion: time to drive. But where to? He trusted the men so he thought about heading back with them, but he was also looking to get aquainted with the area of the Dunes to make some money or something. He doubted he had the skill for actual bounty hunting but he was sure they had odd jobs or something he could do if this Lara person didn't want him. Briefly, he thought of his lack of a weapon, save for his revolver in the glove compartment, but that'd be about as useful as a fingernail against the heavily armored guys he'd seen earlier. He made a few unsubtle gestures with his hands and whistled, and they seemed to get the hint. It was time to move on.

They exchanged contact information, in case he needed Rico or Kurtis's assistance later on in Coruscant. He took a seat in the mustang beside him in the driver's seat, hesitant to buckle in. He didn't even feel like driving, his stomach turning from the meal. He hoped it didn't turn back into Omnilium as he finally manned up and strapped himself in. The other two were already on their way back to their posts and he was feeling nervous about meeting Lara Croft in person. But he also had other things on his mind.

Where did that fucker Jackson go to now? As he pondered his friend's absence he started to squeeze the omnilium stashed in his pocket out of nervous habit. In seconds he could hear a faint popping sound, and all of a sudden the form of a man took shape in his passenger side. It was Jackson, covered in sweat and oil. He smelled lube, and the car was immediatey filled with the scent of sex. Jhago laughed, but Jackson looked very weirded out.

"Are we Sense8?" Jhago said to the sweaty man. It looked like he'd just got done having sex or something, as his clothes were absent and he was covered in it. "Because it looks like you just got done."

"My ass is all squishy and shit. Do you mind? I was at an orgy. Why does it feel like I'm in two places at one time? Why am I not in the bathroom still? Do you want to get it on real quick before we find me some clothes?" The man talked as if he was on drugs. And from the sound of it, good drugs.

"Without me? An orgy?" He laughed. "For real?"

"Well you're still wolfed up a little. All that body hair." Jackson looked him up and down then quirked a brow. He'd just gotten a haircut or something, because to him he looked slightly different.

"Not right now I'm not. You know how that is, I've told you that I can only change sometimes. More when Luna's out."

"Yeah whatever. Got any clothes?

I suppose you didn't knows I was raping hoes all night,
Sweaty chests, balls, ass up lines o' coke in sight."

"What was that? A rhyme? It sucked. Even I could do better than that."

"Yeah well I'm all high and shit now. I was drunk earlier but the sex kinda fixed that."

"What're you on?" Jhago rolled his eyes. "Better not be Crack. Or Meth. Or Heroine."

"Just some 'caine. And Vicodin. And Perks."

"Oh is that all?" They both sniggered at that, Jhago rollikng the windows down to let more of the heat out that built up. He thought about clothes and a towel for Jackson as he squeezed the Omnilium again. Immediately he heard another small pop and the man next to him was smacked by a towel in the face, some shorts and a t-shirt appearing haphazardly in Jhago's lap. Jackson was weirded out again, almost to the point of freaking out but Jhago just laughed at his buddy's twitchy behavior.

"So why don't you finish me off? Or will you wolf up?" Jackson started drying himself off with the towel, focusing more on the privates than necessary. His behavior became obscene and we'd have to label this post mature for reasonable reasons if we went on any further with what he was doing. Jhago helped. Anyways, Jhago had to admit his changes were coming more slowly. He always resisted it like he learned to in his classes to avoid being caught but he'd learned to invoke it in times of need. But when the full moon was out, it was near impossible to keep from wolfing up. As they played together in the Mustang in broad daylight, concealed by the Mustang's exterior, Jhago felt his body change. First the hair on his body twitched and tingled, growing all over him. His lower back sprouted something, a smallish tail that expanded and stretched to reach the window of the vehicle. His teeth sharpened. His fingernails grew into claws. Jackson was always a little scared when this happened but it didn't bother him too much to stop them from having sex that moment. They completed in minutes, both of them panting and Jackson still sweaty.

"No, by the way." Jhago managed to say a few minutes later after Jackson started cleaning up for real. He'd even managed to get a shirt on in the silence that had laid between their panting.

"No what? You changed on me. I saw. Mr. Big Bad Wolf," he grinned, but he was pissed. Jhago shouldn't have transformed during their little encounter and he was also pissed that there was someone around. He didn't think they were gonna get busted though, the windows were tinted. But they might have heard a moan or two. They stared at the Mustang, almost on cue.

"No we're not sense8," Jackson said, " at least, I don't think so. Look, what are you doing? You wanna drive us somewhere or what? I'm hungry after all that and you in here." Jackson started wiping himself off on a towel again, raising in the seat to wipe his furry ass.

He better get that shit off my seat, Jhago thought, almost immediately satisfied when Jackson sat on the towel. He pulled on the pants and Jhago oggled him as he dressed. The Secondary was quite atttractive naked really, his body glistening in the light from the Omnilium and the Fountain's lights earlier in his naked form giving him a look that was sexy to Jhago.

"After you left I got this speech from this white guy. Turns out there's a need for Omnilium here, this glowy rainbow stuff. I think I summoned you with that stuff."

"Well, whatever you did, you ruined all the fun," said Jackson in an exacerbated breath. "I was getting it on with Kenny and Sean."

"Fucking can wait. But I'm gonna want you out of those clothes again at some point."

"Whatever bitch."

"Shut up or I'll eat you," Jhago said with a laugh.

With a turn of the wrist he'd started the car's engine, ignited it and was ready to set fire to some dirt as he took off in the direction of the dunes. They took off as Jackson turned on the radio.

"There can be no better way of knowing,
In a world beyond conrolling,.."

The car was fast since it had just recently had a tune-up, but he was weirded out when it hit its limit at only 80 mph. No matter how hard he hit that pedal, the engine seemed limited mystically or otherwise to only go up to 80. Strange.

"I don't feel like I'm in two places anymore," Jackson said, after the windows were rolled up.

"Good. That would give me the creeps." Little did he know, the man had actually been in two places at once. He'd even managed to step into the shower and close it behind him before disappearing into the land of the Omniverse.