Nigel Olvera

Captain Wolf: The origins

It was a bright morning as the sun rose and a light breeze ran through the fur of a black furred wolf named John Anderson. John was a wolf with many friends at school but as he got ready to leave this morning he felt something was off. The world was combined of humans and animals. It was a different world and the year was 2078 and yet there were many people who still hadn’t gotten used to having they’re dogs at the same table as them. “Typical humans.” The wolf thought as he went to get breakfast before catching the bus. As john entered the kitchen his parents were in there already, his dad who was a tall tan coyote was reading the paper while sipping on coffee. His mom was a vixen with bright orange fur with some white on her chest. As John entered they both glanced up. John was adopted as a pup and he always wondered what would happen if the universe hadn’t sent these two beautiful people to rescue him or if the world would have given him a second chance even. “Morning mom, morning dad!” John shouted as he grabbed as many slices of bacon he could but as he ran for the door his mom grabbed him and gave him a big hug and kiss. “I love you sweetie now remember if anyone bullies you at school don’t bear your teeth or growl just ignore them.” She said as John struggled in her grasp. Before he could get away his dad came over and put a paw on his shoulder and with a smile brought John in for a hug. “Cut your mom some slack she just loves you so much. As do I and I want you to know we will always love you no matter what.” As John caught the bus he moved row to row but no one was willing to give up they’re seat. John finally was able to sit down next to a girl with black hair and glasses. She turned and smiled at him. “Hi, my name is Felicia Vance. I am the girl that studies the bee farms behind our school.” John gave her a small smile even though he wasn’t to keen on strangers he decided to try and join her small talk. “Bee’s huh? Must be fascinating to study insects and stuff.” John was starting to get nervous not because she was a human but because she was a girl. John wasn’t very popular and girls usually gossiped about him behind his back a lot at school. “Well it is interesting and also odd that insects didn’t advance like the rest of the animals did but I guess that’s because bee’s and other insects are not ready to advance like animals like you were.” Felicia explained. As Felicia looked at John she realized he looked confused. “Oh my gosh I did not mean it like that. Sometimes I over explain due to trying to be so smart. Guess its in my nature if you get what I mean.” John gave a slight giggle. “No problem I mean there isn’t anything wrong with being smart. Anyway would you like to be friends?” Felicia smiled ear to ear. “Wow no one has ever wanted to be my friend. I sure would!” As the bus arrived at school everyone got off the bus and as Felicia and John got off the bus Felicia was grabbed and tossed to the ground by another human girl with hair that was a mix of pink and purple colors as well as a nose piercing. “I don’t know what you did to my boyfriend but he doesn’t care to be with me anymore and keeps talking about being an aspiring nerd like you dweebette!” John helped Felicia up as he glared at the girl. “Ya well he seems to be doing a great job so far seeing that he decided to choose science over you Deandra.” John and Felicia walked inside the school as Felicia tried to fix her glasses they approached a group of guys who all were shouting at John and telling him how happy they were to see him. “Guys this is Felicia Vance, she is a new friend I would like to welcome to our club.” The other guys were mainly canines but some were different. Felicia recognized some of them right off the bat. A coyote with more orange-brownish fur smiled at her and waived, his name was Josh Carnahagn, a fox with all white fur stood there mouth open who she realized to be Alex Smith who was actually in her biology class, a buck named Hector who was in the schools football team, a weasel named Fred and Fred’s brother Hector who was actually a mongoose his family adopted. Everyone seemed to welcome Felicia and as they walked to they’re Biology class everyone told Felicia to join them at lunch as she walked to class Josh caught up and as they entered the class she was surprised to see him take the seat right next to her. “Hi my name is Josh. Sorry about earlier it’s just that I never see any girl human or animal actually become a part of our group.” As everyone grew silent the teacher who was a cheetah was passing out papers. “Good morning everyone welcome to Biology class to anyone who is new and to others feel welcome anyway.” The cheetah said trying to get the class more awake but realized it was Monday and students were less likely to actually be hyper active in the morning time. As he was passing out papers which turned out to be the test’s from last Friday he noticed a young gorilla boy on his phone and before he could even send his text he grabbed the phone. “Benjamin Miller what have we discussed about phones in class?” The gorilla started stammering “Sorry Mr. Jackowski it was my mom and I had to reply or she would become frantic.” Jackowski wasn't buying it. “Well you can have your phone back at the end of the day.” As the cheetah raced to the front of the room like a blur he put the phone in the desk drawer and then sped back to were he handed back tests to Josh and Felicia. Josh had gotten an A+ while Felicia had gotten a B- on her test. As the teacher went by Felicia tugged on his sleeve getting the cheetah to notice her and turn around. “Mr. Jackowski I should have gotten an A+ because I studied and put in the effort and lots of the questions marked wrong must have been in error because I know what the answers were you see sir.” Mr. Jackowski was trying really hard to absorb all this and not laugh, he graded the tests himself and knew perfectly well this girl wasn’t what she seemed especially since she was reported by another student to have not only cheated off someone else test but even paid someone to steal the test for her. “Be that as it may Ms. Vance but you were actually reported as cheating which reminds me you need to see the principle Mr. Taylor about that.” The cheetah turned and continued handing out the rest of the tests as Felicia crabbed her stuff Josh gave her a slight smile out of the corner of his muzzle and nodded as Felicia found herself at the secretaries desk. The eagle at the desk looked up and as he did he recognized her. “Oh Felicia what did you do this time?” Felicia’s cheeks turned red as she barely looked the eagle in the eye. “Well dad I may have made a mistake but it wasn’t my fault Mr. Jackowski didn’t give me time to even study and he told me Friday that if my grabs even slipped below a B I would no longer be able to do my extra curricular study of Bee’s.” Felicia was in tears as the eagle got up from his desk and gave his daughter a hug. “Well sweetheart that is why I took you under my wing. Animals adopting other species is extremely common nowadays and the reason I adopted you is because deep down your brain maybe big but it’s your heart that’s the biggest.” Felicia felt tears roll down her cheeks. “Thanks dad. I met a group of friends and this guy named John is so sweet. He saved me from Deandra Youth who claims I stole her boyfriend when I did nothing to her.” she could see concern on her father’s beak. “I understand and all I can say about that is ignore her. She is just jealous you are smarter and more beautiful than her.” as she went in for another hug the door to the principles office opened and a little boy with orange hair and thick glasses walked towards a woman with black hair and a man with black hair with silver streaks in it. The man had a rich suit on which was only common in some of the gangs in the city. As they left a giant Rhino stepped out, Felicia Vance please step into my office. Felicia turned toward her father and saw he nodded to her as she went inside. “Please have a seat and let’s get this started.” the big buff rhino said. As they sat down Felicia knew the Principle was a good guy and maybe if she did her best he would just let her off with a warning. “Now Felicia I have never thought you would end up in my office and even worse for an act of stealing, plagiarism, and paying another student who had nothing on they’re record just to pass some test.” Felicia felt bad mainly because Mr. Taylor was right. She was selfish to try and have another student risk his future so hers could flourish. “I understand sir but I did it with the best intentions and had nothing bad in what I was trying to do.” The rhino gave a big sigh which sounded like disappointment to Felicia. “Ms. Vance I am sorry but for this you are not allowed to be in the Bee farm until you improve your grade in Mr. Jackowski' s class and better yourself in general.” As Felicia came out she gave her father a hug. “See you when I get home after detention. Her father looked up and his beak formed into a smile and as she left he spoke to her. “I know you can do it Felicia and I am very proud to have adopted a lovely smarty pants like you. Also dinner tonight is Salmon so I will have some ready by the time you get home.” Felicia smiled and as lunch came she sat with her new friends. “Ya that’s right John I git detention all because I was trying to be smarter. That’s why I took bee farming and study because I just don’t like others weather they are human or animal. As the day went on school ended and Felicia was stuck thirty extra minutes in Mr. Jackowski' s class. “Well Felicia I hope you learned something today.” As Felicia left a German shepherd was mopping the hallway and as she turned the corner Felicia felt two hands grab her and she recognized Deandra and two other girls dragging her towards the bee farms. “You like your gross bugs weakling then feel free to join them and that’s when Felicia felt herslef fly through the air and onto the bee containers which broke under her weight. Angry bee’s swarmed her and started stinging her multiple times. What was weird was the bees had glowing stingers and she felt something different as she faded into unconsciousness. John got on the bus as usual but realized Felicia wasn’t there. As they arrived at school there was an ambulance and a few police cars, Mr. Vance and Mr. Taylor were outside and as John got closer he saw Felicia Vance unconscious body. One of the paramedics came up to Mr. Vance and Mr. Taylor and told them the news. “Good news she is alive bad news is something isn’t right with her vitals. Mr Vance you are welcome to come with us to the hospital” Mr. Vance got in with his daughter and as the ambulance drove away he noticed Deandra and her friends smiling and giggling as the ambulance drove off. As John met with his friends Deandra came up and as she did she elbowed a raven who was putting his stuff away and tripped an otter who was on her way to class. “Listen up loser’s if your wondering what happened to Felicia let’s just say what goes around comes around and if you guy’s saying anything the same will happen to you.” Deandra walked away cackling as the group looked at her in disgust. At the hospital Felicia had just woken up when a man with long black hair and a skeletal composure came up to her. “Good morning Felicia I am Dr. Albert Warren and I am here to run some tests on you.” As Doctor Warren approached her Felicia felt herself raise her arms and she cried “get away from me.” Just as she did a swarm of bee’s appeared outside her hospital window clacking to get in. That is when a buzzing could be heard in the vent’s up above. Bee’s came out from the vents and surrounded Dr. Warren and as they did he slowly backed up. Felicia got out of bed and walked out of the hospital room to the astonishment of her father and the police officers. “Felicia is dead long live Queen Bee. She cackled and as she did a swarm of bees flew around her and as they did her hospital gown changed shape to a hexagonal form and a long string of honey formed and as it hardened what appeared to be a stinger appeared at the tip. As she walked toward the front door two security guards an owl and a bear tried to stop her but as she waved her hand a swarm of bees flew towards them and as they dodged the bees she walked out everyone was astonished except her father who looked shocked and heart broken because he knew that was no the daughter he knew and loved. He fell in his chair as tears rolled down his beak wondering if he would ever see his beloved daughter again. At the school everyone was sitting down for lunch when the doors flew open and Felicia entered. As everyone watched Deandra went up to her. “Oh no you can’t just die and come back you sad little no body.” Mr. Taylor, Mr. Jackowski and everyone else were astonished and as Felicia approached her she shouted angrily “How dare you mock your queen! Better find your place quick drone!” Before Deandra could respond Felicia raised her staff as a swarm of bees swarmed Deandra as she dropped to the ground screaming. “A drone that does not serve me has no purpose to live and therefore thou shall be struck down forever.” Mr. Taylor thinking this is a prank went up to Felicia which was a great mistake on his part. “Ms. Vance I don’t know if you lost your mind or something but that is not allowed he...” Before he could finish a swarm of bees made him fallback as Mr. Jackowski and the German shepherd Janitor caught him. They all looked at her in terror and she walked over to the boyfriend of Deandra. As she approached him Felicia blew a blue colored smoke in his face and as she did his eyes turned a light blue. “A proper queen needs a king, as for his other suitor, time for her final defeat. "As she spoke she pricked the stinger in Deandra’s neck and her veins slowly turned black as an unknown venom went through Deandra. As Felicia walked away with the boy she looked back and for a moment looked humane. “I didn't want it to be this way but you all never gave me the chance to sprout. I will be back soon and I will get my vengeance upon Deandra and when I do I will bring her worthless life to a close.” with that a swarm of bees went all around them and they vanished. Deandra moaned unconsciously as she was lifted up on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. John thought to himself and as he walked he found himself in the bee farms which were still damaged. “Hey guys I have a theory, help me check all these hives.” As they checked Mr. Taylor and Mr. Jackowski helped and as they checked and found them empty they all also noticed the green glow of the honey in the hives. John sniffed at it and then backed up right away covering his nose. You guys need to cover this up quick. The hives were mutated by a chemical that possibly came curtesy of Chem X. As they all looked they saw something crawl slowly toward them. A bee that must have been the past queen was barely alive and looked badly hurt. That is when John made a horrible discovery. John turned to everyone with fear in his eyes. “We need to find Felicia. She doesn’t seem to know that the original queen is still alive so technically if the bee’s grow wise they will start attacking her since she is considered a false queen. She is in extreme danger and doesn’t know it yet.” everyone exchanged worried glances and as everyone went back to the cafeteria Felicia had returned and she wore an mad, insane look on her face as she approached Deandra. “Time to put this wretched drone to death for once...for good!” As she raised her staff she felt herself fall to the ground and her staff snatched from her grasp. “I know we haven’t been the best people to you and we regret that but if you don’t listen to us now you will be the one to die.” Mr. Taylor said as he gave the staff to Mr. Jackowski. Felicia gave them an angry scowl. “My name isn’t Ms. Vance anymore you stupid fools. She is dead long...live...queen...BEE!!!” She yelled. As she did so there was a lot of loud clattering and bee’s started appearing at the windows and doors. The bee’s started going into the vents determined to kill the false queen. John quickly grabbed her and held her close to him. “I know no one treated you right and I understand what it feels like to be not respected or loved by friends. But I am your friend so please let me help you.” John smiled and as he did Felicia slowly began to smile back. “I am sorry everyone but this will be the last time you see me as Felicia ever again.” Felicia slowly backed away and as she did she waved her hands and the bees slowed down before dropping to the floor. As Felicia turned to make a run for it John grabbed her and brought her to Mr. Taylor who with Mr. Jackowski held her until the police arrived to take her away. As she was lead away she past everyone and as she was put in the cop car some spandex gloves with an unknown coating was put on as she was taken to the Asylum where she was put in a cell with her name Vance, Felicia A.K.A Queen Bee. As she was put in her cell her father approached and as he did he put a feathered hand to the glass window. “I am sorry Felicia I never wanted you to go down this path. I am also sorry to tell you, I have to leave town. I lost my job, our life and most importantly you. This will be the last time I see you and I want you to know I will send you letters to let you know I still love you and when you get out we will have dinner together and I will never let you go again.” The smile from his beak faded when he saw Felicia in tears. “Daddy no please I cant be on my own please don’t do this.” She cried as her father backed away from the glass as two guards a crow and a raccoon approached it the warden which was a bear grabbed the eagles shoulder and led him out as the guards watched Felicia cry. “NO!!!” As she fell to her knees. Her father, her life and everything she truly cared about was truly gone. That was then she realized she would rather be queen bee than lose anything more.