Artwork made by aestas and gift art from my mate bucketz on FA.

I remembered that evening when I was waiting for one of my pack mates to join me and a few other members in the library, ready to go down into the labyrinth for another long expedition in it. The labyrinth underneath the castle sanctuary is a secret underground series of tunnels that takes us to various hunting grounds, areas, and other places that would've taken much longer to go there on surface. There's alot of history of the underground labyrinth that I would someday elaborate on, but there have been discoveries over time of inaccessible areas of the labyrinth that we were able to get access of that took us to even more areas that we never thought we would be able to go. Now we have much more easier access in route to where we need to go whenever we need a shortcut, not to mention it can be used to bypass potential poachers and hunters who dare try to hunt us down for money. Its also our safe haven and used as a means of an emergency exit in case anything goes completely wrong and we would need to evacuate. They also interact with underground tunnels leading to other castle's from a distance where we have our other connections which I won't get into detail about, but its of our convenience for us and we made sure that we keep it secret for ourselves or to our lycan brothers who wish to travel to different places and hunting grounds.

After waiting for several minutes, he finally arrived with an updated map on where we need to go and explaining the directions to us. It took some time to study the directions since its very easy to get lost down there and the last thing we need is getting confused and finding ourselves down there for hours, but I managed to finally get familiar with the tunnel directions. I turned to the lycan who found the new route to ask him one simple question.

"Is there anything to expect once we get there?" I asked. He nodded and explained what we needed to do and expect.

"Yes, its an abandoned coal mine and the tunnel is blocked. I felt the night air going through the block passage and found an opening and saw the other side. I know we can dig our way through and get to the other side. If my hunch is right and it leads us to another ground, then the next thing we'll do is open up and clear the tunnel."

I nodded my head and everyone agreed to help out. Once everything was said and done, I made my way to a wall lamp and pulled on it. The wall lamp was actually a switch that caused the book shelf to come out and split open to reveal an underground passageway that lead into the labyrinth. We entered into the dark passageway as the entrance closed itself behind us and everything was in pure darkness. Fortunately for us we can see through the darkness very well thanks to our night vision and made our ay towards our destination.

After some time has passed and going through a series of caves and tunnels, we've finally reached our destination and made our way into the abandoned charcoal mine. I looked at the tracks and can tell that it's somewhere around the 1800's where they used to dig for charcoal. They probably sealed up the mining area because of the possible risk that the tunnel may collapse on itself, but from the looks of it, there were no signs of a collapse except for the rubble that was ahead of us further down. When we've reached the rubble that's blocking the passage I can feel the night air coming from the other side. I climbed up to see if I can possibly get a good look and can see through the opening the other side where the tracks continue and we've started digging our way through the opening until all of us made it through.

We skidded down and continued down the long mining tunnel, taking note of a few mining supplies that was left including a mine cart that, to our surprise, was able to move fine despite how long its been sitting down here. We've reached the sealed entrance of the mines and break it open to reveal a lush of forest and life. It's as we thought that no one has been here for ages and we've finally have a new hunting ground for ourselves to hunt freely. I looked up and see a cliff right above the entrance and we found a way up there to have a better look of our surroundings. What we saw was an ocean of forest and right next to it is a town. We don't know exactly what town it is, but we'll find out in time.

After two to three weeks in time, we were able to clear the rubble out and reopen the passage for us to use as our means of travel and later began to hunt in the area. The forest is filled with a high population of deer, elks, and other prey which is edible for us lycans since meat is our most favorite food. There was more than enough prey for us to hunt and fill our storage so we won't have to worry about the winter time and have no need to hunt in the cold.

All of our hunting times together has been nothing but pleasent for all of us, though we also know that we keep a low profile just to be sure we don't attract any attention, however there was something that definitely caught my attention whenever I come here for the sake of the hunt. All the nights I come to our new hunting ground there was a jogger in my sights who was running the same route late at night. He looks exactly like me, except of his brown eyes and he does look slightly taller than me when I turn back to normal. I choose to leave him be whenever I see him jogging in the woods late at night, however as time went on, I did get a sense of interest towards this jogger that it was enough to convince me to follow him in the dark. It was going on for weeks and months, and every time he stops and looks around, I can tell that he senses my presence. His ears perks up from whatever very little noise I made and his nose twitches a bit from my scent that he was able to smell from the air. I took note of his use of his senses and made sure my presence could be sensed as little as possible, but he always knew that there's something that's always following him. When time went on I grew more interested to the fox and wanted to get closer, but as always I maintained a distance and watch over him like an invisible ghost. I already knew he lived in the town that was nearby and I've gotten to know the town during my visits there during the day time. Even during the day, I've seen the fox around from time to time. he closest I've ever gotten to him was when he was sitting on a bench at a bus stop and I was across the street watching him from a distance. I'm not sure how to explain it, but this fox caught my interest even though I didn't get to know him personally. I even managed to know where he lived in an apartment complex that's one of the tallest buildings in the town. I feel as if something inside of me is attracted to him and I'm not sure why. Even when I was home, I couldn't help but think about him and meeting him. Maybe someday I would get a chance to meet with him and reveal myself to who I really am. Only very few people outside knows my identity as the werefox of legend, I just didn't know how he'll react. Of course on the night that I thought I would meet him to reveal myself, something unexpected happened that would make everything go wrong.

One night, I returned back to the woods after going through the mines and waited for my fox friend to arrive. I waited at the right spot and time but he never showed. As I waited, time passed until it was around 4am in the morning. Being tired, I figured he must've taken the night off from jogging and I made my way back to the charcoal mine to return home. Unbeknownst to me, there were hunters who were camouflaged within the surrounding area that I was about to pass. They had night vision goggles hat lets them see in the dark and when they saw me passing by, the first thing that I felt was a shot to my leg. I yelped in pain but managed to have landed into the bushes that gave me some cover. I was shot on my side as well, but managed to deal with the pain since it wasn't the first time I've been hit by bullets. I've been shot many times, both on the job and by hunters, so the pain is the least of my concern.Even if the bullets are silver, I have an immunity against it due to my hybrid traits. There were more shots fired, but luckily and thankfully, they missed by an inch, otherwise I would've been dead.

"We got it! Did you just see that?" One of the hunters asked.

"Yeah! I think that's the werefox that everyone's been hunting down!"

"Oh shit your right....that means we can get the bounty and be famous for taking down the bastard!"

While they were laughing and distracted, I quietly move away, trying to make less disturbance as possible to bring myself to safety and managed to keep myself in cover from the bushes while trying to remove the bullets out of me. While I was tending to myself, I can hear their footsteps coming in my direction and it alerted me as I need time to heal and close my bullet wounds. I have no choice but to pick them out one by one and quietly make my way through until I get to my safepoint at the charcoal mines.

"Alright, enough celebration, we should check and see if its dead for sure." One of the hunters said and from what I can tell, I hear them all coming out of their hiding places and went to the hiding spot from where I was. I had to keep moving as I was still bleeding and I don't want to chance any of them following a trail. When one of them moved the bushes while the other had their guns up and ready, they were surprised to see that I was already gone.

"Shit...he got away." One of them said. He move the bushes out of the way even more to see a scattered blood trail.

"He's on the move. Keep your guards up and night vision goggles on. If it surfaces, take the shot." He said. They all turn their night goggles on and kept an eye on their surroundings.

The bullets were already pulled out of me and the bleeding slowly stopped. I carefully move quietly, providing little disturbance to ensure that I don't get caught and killed. I refuse to let myself be killed by these damn hunters for the sake of a bounty. I try to calm my thoughts and rely on instinct to help get me out of this mess. My ears perked on the sounds there making by their footsteps. They were going to where the blood trail has ended and that could give me an opening. However, I don't know there numbers yet and chose not to take that risk. I heard something as my ears perked again and it was the sound of thunder from the sky and droplets begin to come down. It was raining and its coming down very quickly. The hunters were beginning to be disappointed by this unfortunate natural event.

"Oh shit its raining. Our night goggles won't work when its wet. Switch to your headlight." They all agreed and turn on their headlights that's attached to their foreheads, but it provided them limited visibility and it also leaves blindspots for each of them, this is exactly what I needed.

I peeked from the surface and can see them spread out in the area and even though I can sneak past them and get away, I wanted to teach these hunters a lesson about the dangers of hunting me down. I waited patiently until one of them is close enough that they were passing me. However, one of them was coming right towards whee I'm at. I already ducked down and waited in the dark and ready to strike. His headlight somehow shorted out and he saw something moving. He made a very foolish mistake...and it was going to cost him.

He went to where I was at and carefully moved the bush out of the way while holding his gun. To his supposed relief, he didn't find me there. But when he turned around, he saw me grabbing him by the throat and submerged us both in the bushes where his gun went off and he suddenly fainted from the fear and sight of my glowing green eyes. The other hunters turned and saw the disturbance from the bushes and fired. They all rushed and flashed their lights and moved to where they fired. They found their friend laying on the ground unconscious, luckily not a single bullet hit him. The fear was slowly sinking in, one of the hunters took the unconscious one away while the other two stayed despite protest from the third hunter. Now there was only two left and I can see the fear in their arms. There so determined for the bounty and yet they're so fearful that their arms are shaking in pure terror. They looked around carefully but never saw what was lurking from above. I was already right above them in the dark on a tree branch, just waiting for one of them to look up above. Thankfully none of hem did and I jumped down on one of them, knocking him out completely. When the other hunter turned and saw my glowing green eyes staring at him, he aims his gun and tried to fire, but his gun jammed on him. He screamed in terror when I came closer, rushing right at him and into the bushes, and finally was knocked cold and no longer was a threat. I couldn't just leave them here despite them hunting me down and firing shots at me, so I deduced where their camp was from the direction the last hunter went while carrying his unconscious friend, and grabbed the two dummies so that at least they'll receive medical attention when there found.

Meanwhile, the last hunter heard the scream of his now unconscious friend and was breaking down into fear. He moved as fast as he can to the campsite where it was perhaps his only chance for him t get out of this mess. When he finally reached the campsite, he dumped his friend in the tent onto a sleeping bag and zipped the tent closed. He tried to calm down and recollect his thoughts before reaching over to a special walkie talkie for campers who are in need of rescue. He turned it on pushed the "help" button. It dialed a ringtone and the 911 operator picked up.

"911" The operator said. The hunter tried to calm down and recollect what he needed to say. His fear was overtaking him ut shortly he finally got words coming out of his mouth.

"H..Help..I...I think my friends are dead...the werefox....please...help me!...God fuck!"

"Ok...I need you to calm down....where are you?"

"I'm at woodsoak in the woods....please you have to help me, please!" He says while crying in pure terror. While he was talking, he can hear footsteps coming closer and two thumps as if something was dropped onto the ground. He wanted to look but before he did, he did as he was told by the operator.

"Listen to me, just activate the tracker on the device your holding and they'll be on their way okay?" The operator said. He did exactly as the operator said and activated the tracker which was flashing and kept it on. He told the operator to hold on for a minute as he heard someone coming to the tent and thought it was his two friends who probably came back safe and sound.

When he opened the tent and stuck himself out, he see's his two friends unconcious next to my side, but has his eyes locked onto my feet to his shock. He was trembling when he saw those feet and slowly stares up into my glowing green eyes. I let out a large growl and grabbed him by his neck. He screamed in pure terror before being knocked out and thrown back into the tent along with the two other dummies I've dragged. I aw the emergency walkie talkie and knows what's going to happen. I can even hear the operator requesting an emergency dispatch to go to the scene. I closed the tent and quickly made my way to the charcoal mines safely before they arrived. It was not what I expected to happen today, but oddly I felt much better after teaching those hunters a good lesson about hunting me for a damn bounty.

Two days after that incident, I received a report of what took place from the four hunters from the local police department from that town that fox is living in, requesting for my SWAT team to go in and thoroughly search the entire area for the werefox. I agreed and got into contact with the local police department to set everything up for the parameter of where he can possibly be and for the SWAT. On the night that I was there while still helping to get everything prepared, I was already alone in the woods and gave myself a little time to see if he'll show and to my surprise he did. That same jogger was running exactly as I knew he would be, and for just a moment he stopped and caught his breath as the wind was moving towards from my direction to his. He caught a whiff of my scent in the air and looked in my direction. I was already blended in the dark and yet he's able to tell that I was already here. He was slowly coming in my direction but I don't dare move and I remain hidden. He looked for a bit but later gasped as he didn't see anything and began to jog again. I felt bad for hiding from him as I'm not sure on how to introduce myself, but I know in my gut that I'll finally get a chance to see and confront him when the time comes. I return back to where I was being stationed at in town before my break had ended without suspicion and resume finishing up the final preparations of stopping the werefox. I had warned everyone back home in advance to not hunt in the entire area when the sweep is being conducted and they understood after everything was explained after what happened to me with those five hunters who tried to kill me. The entire sweep may last for some time, but I intend to keep steps ahead so as to make sure no one gets caught and killed by my SWAT team.

After everything was done, the sweep begins into the forest as the SWAT looked at every possible angle for the supposed werefox. It already is catching media attention and speculation of my existence. Fortunately for me, whatever very few supposed pictures of me were posted were proven fake and photo-edited. So at least there is no actual detailed description of me as the werefox. I'm still astounded that no one was able to see the certain similarities in terms of appearance and this gives me an upper hand in these situations. Even the hunters couldn't remember what I entirely looked like after they were scared halfway to hell after their experience that night.

I was tired and someone took over for my shift and I had to get some sleep. Ironically this was supposed to be the start of my vacation time, but still even a Police Commissioner have to come upon duty. I was given a chance to get some sleep in a hotel that I chosen to rent out since I can't go anywhere until the sweep was done. When I woke up, it was already 12:00PM and I couldn't believe how long I was out. Fortunately, I kept in contact with everyone and made sure I wasn't in any trouble. They didn't blame me considering how many hours I've been working to setting up the SWAT and all of our intents of getting the werefox and told me to take the day off and get some rest for vacation. I figured its a good idea since while I'm here, I want to try a gym I saw while I was in town. Would be nice to test out their weights and see the shock of people to show them how much I can lift. I've prepared a nice shower and getting ready to make my way for the gym. I'm glad I brought my gym gear with me, considering that its worth a try while I'm around town, and I wanted to get to know this town since its very large.

When I entered the gym, its alot bigger than I originally have thought. I'm glad that I don't have to pay anything and the weightlifting exercises are free. I selected my locker and changed into my exercise clothing of merely shorts and a sleeveless T-shirt and begin my warmup on the treadmill. Afterwards, I've done nearly all the weight lifts I can do and as I expected, people were astounded by how much I can handle and exercise with the amount of weights I can handle. Some of them even said that I look like I was lifting those heavyweights like they were relatively easy and I shook my head saying that its not as easy as it looks. Nearly every form of weightlifting I did have left such perspiration that even my fur was getting wet. I took off my shirt when I went to work on the dumbbells next. What I didn't expect who was about to come through the door out of the locker room, was going to surprise me.

The same fox who always been jogging in the woods late at night is right here in the same exercise room as me. He was going on the treadmill to begin his exercise and was scanning around the room, looking at who's here. I looked at the corner of my eye and see that he's looking at me straight. I can tell his eyes are fixated on my muscles and body. When I turn to directly look at him, he quickly turned and looked at the monitor in front of him while blushing. His shy manner brought a smile to my face and a sense of a need of teasing a bit. I was doing some push ups and sit ups and I looked at him a few times from tie to time at random. He always turns and blushes so much that I find it quite fondling.

When I was done and took a short break, I got up and was about to head to the water fountain until the fox passed me quite quickly. I sat on the bench press to wait for him while putting on some weights. This time I looked at him and he finally made eye contact with him. I can see he was nervous as I ent up to him to ask for something.

"Excuse me! Would you mind spotting me for this? It is a lot of weight." I asked.

"Uh...sure, But I might not be much help." He said while choking on his own words.

He has such a shy nature and I found it quite fonding of his shyness. To my surprise, he's a little bit taller than me, has the same fur pattern as me, and has a medium build where mine is more detailed. In a way we seem like complete opposites of a coin. The only difference he has with me are his brown eyes but nonetheless, we have quite an interesting identical and opposite appearances. I decided to go for the barbell weightlifting area and place one of the heavy weights on. He watched as there was no way in hell he seen anyone exercising that amount, but didn't complain. I laid down and nodded that I was ready. I placed my hands on the barbell while he lifted it. I was able to take on most of the weight while he was surprised to believe that I was able to barbell with these amount of weights on them. Even though he was trying his best, he could feel that I was doing this with relative ease. Truth is, I wanted to show my strength to him and I would have lifted heavier weights then this. I did 15 barbell pushups before placing it back onto its holdings and thanked him.

We talked as he was curious to know how often I exercise and if I was into running as much as he is. I told him that I'm a jogger as well and into various different exercises while he was still looking at my body's muscle's while trying to keep eye contact with me. I asked what his name was and he introduced himself as Buck. I introduced myself as Jason, the Police Commissioner from the Metropolitan City. I told him about my reasons being here due to an incident that happened in the woods by the werefox. When he heard about the word werefox, his ears perked as he thought it was just a myth, but I assured him he's real and was quite a dangerous predator. We've been onto him for a long time and every attempt to get him was a complete and utter failure. Even the FBI wouldn't even interfere with the werefox case. I then quickly changed the subject and decided to take a shower, but I later discovered that it wa sout of order. Buck instead asked if he wanted to use the shower in his apartment. I asked him if he was sure and he tried to hide his blush by looking away and trying to look confident and assured me that its okay and I got ready to go to his apartment.

When we finally reached his apartment, he pointed out where the shower was and placed my bag down so that I can get a good cleaning after working out. All of the perspiration caught the attention of his nose as he caught my scent and wondered where he smelled it before. After finally finishing up cleaning myself off, I wrapped myselfwith a towel and have a look to see Buck in his own thoughts, and to my surprise, his fur color changing to pure black. This surprised me as I didn't know that he could do that, but seeing that his back was turned while making something in his kitchen, I slowly sneak up behind him and let him know I'm right behind him. He got startled nd suddenly his fur changed back to the way it was. I chuckled at his response and asked how he was able to change his fur color. He told me that when his confidence grows, it turns pure black, and when he loses confidence or have no confidence at all, it turns back to normal. I complimented on it as I've never seen that ability before, but when I was talking, he said something out loud in random as he suddenly recognized my scent from the woods and asked if I was a jogger who was running the same area as he was. I acknowledged that I was in that area yes and we both decided to schedule a time where we could schedule a time to run together out at night when everything is supposedly been done routing out the werefox. I assured him that there's nothing to worry about and that we'll make sure that everything is secured and nothing will come jumping out to get us. This would be perfect because I so love to surprise Buck and to see his reactions is a bit funny, but deep down I grew an affection towards him. I know what time he expects me but I'm going to come a little "late" to just surprise him.

When midnight finally came and the entire SWAT was already done sweeping the entire forest, with no luck of finding the werefox of course, Buck was waiting at our meeting spot. It was almost midnight and I was a half an hour late...or so he thinks. Buck was losing confidence, believing that I left him hanging, but that's all about to change. His ears perked when he hears a ruffle behind him and thought it was a squirrel at first, but then the ruffeling grew louder and closing in on him. He thought I was going to surprise him and smiled as he thought he wasn't going to fall for it, but when he turned, he can feel the cold sense of fear sinking in as he saw a large shadowy figure with glowing green eyes looking down upon him.

Without thinking, he sprinted and ran as fast as he could, but can hear something right behind him and gaining speed. I can tell he's moving at a new speed while heading the route back into town, but that's not going to happen. I slowly gained up on him and can see the twinkling lights into town. I then managed to grab his arm and he began to lose balance. I made sure he wouldn't hurt himself and held him by his arms and leaning onto a tree. He attempted to kick but I managed to keep his legs in place. I looked him in the eyes with my glowing green eyes and was about to open my mouth to which he shut his eyes, preparing for what could be the worst, but instead heard the words coming out of my mouth.

"Told you not to sell yourself short." I said to him while licking the side of his cheek. My eyes stopped glowing and I smiled at him. He looked at me, still a bit shaken but took note of my scent and realized who I was. He was stunned to realize that the Werefox and the same Police Commissioner are actually one and the same person. He got up after I let go of him and cursed a bit for scaring him, but I looked back and smiled at him, and he looked at me once he calmed down and looked at how detailed my body is and blushed hard when he turned away to hide it. I assured him that there's nothing to hide and can share his feelings. I can tell he's never done that before and tried. He told me that he had been watching me in the gym and really founded me attracting. He couldn't help but seeing how detailed my body and wanted to know more about him and probably, when he was about to say the next words, he blushed very hard and couldn't help but hide it. I came closer and nuzzled him to which he almost ushed away at first, but then welcomed it. He told me that I owed me for caring him and I asked what does he propose. He want me to spend the night with him or perhaps even two. I accepted it and we both begin to to make our way slowly back into town, but not before I got my clothes and turned back to normal to return back to his apartment for some "personal" time together.

-THE END

Phew! Another story for all of you to read. I hope that my mate avatar?user=340454&character=0&clevel=2 BucKeTz will enjoy it and hope that its worth the wait. Feel free to comment to let me know what you think of the story.

Jason Werefox is myself.

My mate Buck is bucketz on FA.