The sun was setting silently behind the trees surrounding the SPOTM camp. For miles around a breathtaking vista of black silhouette on flaming sky could be seen, broken only by the fluttering outlines of bats and birds retiring for the night. The dramatic scenery was appropriate for this particular evening, as the events that were about to take place would be historical.
It had been a few hours since pjpinc had revealed that he was the Witchdoctor and agreed to sacrifice himself to bring back Norwegian. It had instilled hope in the tribe - prospect that they may now have a means to eradicate the werewolf threat - but also woe at the coming death of another of their friends. The atmosphere was one of bittersweetness as pjpinc, Nakor and cooltiger walked together to the camp. They were returning from a nearby clearing where they had been setting up an elaborate arena for the ceremony later that night.
"You know, I can understand the swinging blades, but the dynamite? Is that really necessary?" asked Nakor.
"Of course it is. If I'm going out I'm going out with a bang," said pjpinc. Nakor shook his head in disappointment.
"Awful, awful pun," agreed cooltiger. pjpinc sighed.
"I'm gonna miss you guys," he said sadly.
"Psh, you're probably gonna be going to some cool voodo place with blackjack and hookers where you get to watch all us idiots kill each other. I doubt you'll miss us," countered Nakor. pjpinc laughed. "We'll sure miss you though."
They walked in comfortable silence the rest of the way back, watching the shadows crawl across the ground until the night set in. They weren't far from the end of the trail when they realised that Nakor wasn't walking beside them anymore.
Cooltiger stopped and spun around. "Where the hell did he go?" he demanded, eyes darting between the trees.
pjpinc stood still. "Shh," he commanded. Cooltiger fell silent and listened. In the far-off distance they could hear the concentrated russling of leaves, and a strange snapping sound, like twigs.
Or bones.
Pjpinc swallowed hard. Cooltiger, failing his own namesake, began to back away towards the camp, his breaths coming in gasps. Pjpinc turned to him.
"Where are you going? He could need our help," he challenged.
Cooltiger shook his head. "Hey man, you're on death row. And Nakor's probably in pieces. If you wanna go running off like a hero, be my guest, but I've still got a chance at living, so if you don't mind I'd rather not become a doggy snack!"
Pjpinc stared at him in disappointment. "Coward," he spat beneath his breath. But before Cooltiger could protest a huge dark shape hurled itself out of the trees beside Pjpinc and knocked him to the ground. Cooltiger fell, himself in shock and watched as the hulking shape tore his friend apart piece by piece, listened as with every blood-curdling snap of tendon and bone his screams of agony became louder and louder.
And then as soon as it began, it was over. The wolf rose to its feet where it towered above its victim, blood trickling from its snarling snout. It let out a long haunting howl before taking off into the undergrowth again. It hadn't taken any notice of Cooltiger at all. He sat, racking breaths not getting enough air to his brain to combat his light-headedness. He thought he could feel moisture on his cheeks but he didn't want to wipe it away in fear that he would find his friend's blood on his fingers.
In reality he had been staring at the remains of Pjpinc for only a few seconds, though it felt like years. It was another shock, concequentially, when his severed limbs began to glow. They grew brighter and brighter, the light gradually changing color from scarlet to sapphire to emerald and eventually spanning the whole rainbow. And as they did this they rose, slowly but surely, high in the sky, moving towards eachother. When they finally stopped they had joined to form the shape of a body, of Pjpinc. Then, slowly the gashes and the claw marks began to fade away, his internal organs put themselves back in place and his limbs stitched themself back together. Within moments, Cooltiger found himself gazing up in awe at the floating body of his friend, whole again, and glowing like an archangel. He opened his eyes and for a split second he smiled at Cooltiger, before exploding into a barrage of tiny lights. They shot outward and upward, all technicolor until they spread our enough to join the stars in the sky.
Cooltiger exhaled heavily, his eyes popping, his jaw as low as it could be.
"Woah," said a voice behind him. He spun around in surprise to find Ricky and Trey standing almost as agape as him.
"I... I- I didn't... I could have," Cooltiger stuttered up at them, still in anguish for the scene he'd witnessed earlier.
"Hey, it's okay man, come on let's get you back to camp," reassured Trey. He and Ricky helped Cooltiger up and brough him back to the camp, where he told them the whole story over a cup of hot chocolate that Tiffany made specially for him.
"I wonder if he knew he'd go out like that," mused helmet.
"If he did, he wouldn't have needed the dynamite," added Ricky.
They were just beginning recover from their most recent traumatic experience when they heard a noise in the bushes. Everybody jumped to their feet. Engesa disappeared into his tent momentarily and emerged with a rifle which he pointed at the forest's edge where the noise had originated. Everyone waited with bated breath for something horrible to emerge from the trees, something that would maul them to death or something that simply wished to digest them. But to everyone's surprise, it was not a monster that stumbled from the foliage, but a zombie. As Norwegian stepped forward into the light of the campfire the nasty red bruise where a rope had cut his life short shone boastfully. His voice was hoarse and gruff.
"I told you I wasn't a werewolf."
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Nakor and Pjpinc123 were killed by werewolves. Neither of them were werewolves. Pjpinc was the witchdoctor. He brought back Norwegian. Norwegian is now immune to death by votes or by werewolf for one round.
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