"Mwen se yon lou garou," I said calmly, looking right into my boyfriend Marcelin Etienne's chestnut eyes as the words left my mouth. Just like that, I betrayed my people's code of secrecy. I just told my boyfriend that I am a Werewolf. The two of us sat inside Renedad Restaurant, a nice little Haitian eatery located in the east end of metropolitan Ottawa, Ontario. I waited for Marcelin's reaction, and then he smiled and shook his head.
"Jacqueline, you're a funny chick," Marcelin said, laughing as he continued eating his plate of white rice, brown bean sauce and goat meat. Not sure what kind of reaction I was expecting, but this wasn't it. Putting on a smile, I bit through my fish, ate it and changed the subject. Yup, Marcelin and I went on bantering about exams at Carleton University, life at school, the lame clubs in Ottawa and things of that nature. To think I spent last night agonizing over how to tell him the truth about me. Oh, well.
My name is Jacqueline Augustin and I'm a young woman of Haitian descent living in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. I'm in the Nursing program at Carleton University, and when I'm not in class, at work or at home, I deal with...problems. There's a lot of unnatural things happening in the City of Ottawa, and it is my duty to punish the wicked. You see, about a year ago, my father, Jacques Augustin, sat me down and talked to me. Papa and I have always had a close relationship. He raised me alone after my mother died when I was little. We had a conversation I shall never forget.
"The time has come for you to know the truth about our family, ma petite fille, we are Loup Garou, what the Westerners call werewolves," Papa said to me and I lasted about five seconds before I burst out laughing. Of course, when my father's eyes turned bright yellow and his teeth elongated and sharpened, and hair grew all over his body, I stopped laughing and shrank back from him.
"Papa, sak pase ou?" I asked, my heart thundering in my chest, and the creature my father had become grinned, shook his head, and in the blink of an eye, resumed my father's form. Five-foot-nine, slim, dark-skinned, with silver hair and real bushy eyebrows, the man who raised me, my beloved Papa. Smiling, Papa gave me the rundown about our people's history.
"From the Dawn of Humanity, we've been around, men and women with the ability to turn into wolf-like creatures, and we stay hidden because humanity has persecuted us in the past," Papa said, and he smiled at me, waiting for my reaction. This was totally crazy, for sure. I looked at Dad, stunned, but after what I'd just seen, I had no choice but to believe him. Fear and excitement swirled through me as I thought about my father morphing into a fearsome beast-man in front of me.
"Can I change like you?" I asked, and Papa grinned, and nodded. Thus I was made privy to the family secret, and welcomed into a brand new world. Now, if my lack of shock surprises you, guess I have to explain myself a bit. My whole life I've felt different, and not just because I'm the daughter of Haitian immigrants living in uptight, at times xenophobic Ottawa. I've always been a little faster and a bit stronger than everyone in gym class back in high school. I thought it was because of my natural athleticism but it turned out to be more than that.
"Now, Jackie, being what we are isn't all fun and games, our kind are endangered, we have many enemies," Papa cautioned me, and then he told me about the various other supernatural creatures that went about disguised as people in the mundane world. Apparently, there are vampires out there, and we werewolves have a sworn duty to cull their numbers. Sounds farfetched to me, but in this ever-changing world that I live in, I would learn to keep an open mind.
Three nights after Papa and I had that talk, we went to the woods near Casselman Village, a few miles outside Ottawa, and there, under the full moon, I transformed for the first time. In the movies, whenever a person turns into a werewolf, it's horrible to look at and seems painful. I worried it might be so, but turns out, my worries were completely unfounded. When the moonlight struck me, I felt my body easily pass from one state to the next.
"I feel amazing!" I cried out, and I stood in the clearing, shielded by the trees, fully transformed and free. I looked down at myself, and I didn't feel ugly or tormented. Rather, I felt at peace. My father stood a short distance away, fully transformed, and he smiled at me. And then, without warning, he took off into the woods, a blur of speed that moved faster than anything human. I followed him eagerly, and later that night, we caught a deer and shared its meat.
Papa took me on numerous trips to the woods, far away from human eyes, where we could truly be ourselves. The full moon isn't what transforms us into werewolves. We are what we are and would revert to our true forms at some point, no matter where we might be. The moon empowers us, the way a battery fuels everything from your iPhone to most electronic gadgets. We simply have a special relationship with it, what can I say?
I absolutely love being a Loup Garou. Let the world continue to wallow in its ignorance about us so-called supernatural creatures. The truth is that the creatures that humans call vampires, werewolves and demons, are simply other intelligent species of humanoids who've been around since the dawn of humanity. We are born, and although most of us members of these inhuman breeds can live a long time, much longer than ordinary humans, we eventually die. Come to think of it, eventually all things die. It's just the way of the world.
Fast forward a year, and I've got the hang of the Werewolf lifestyle, if you will. There are quite a few of us out there. In Ottawa alone, there's a few hundred of us. Like any community, we have our ups and downs, friends and foes. Among our people, my father is a member in high standing. You see, Papa's got the unwanted, admired and sacred duty of eliminating threats to our people. And the deadliest enemy of the Wolf people is the vampire.
"Les suceurs de sangs sont trop nombreux a Ottawa," Papa said to me one night, as he got ready to go hunting. Translation? Blood suckers are too numerous in Ottawa. I insisted on going with him. In the past year, I'd learned to master my newfound abilities and felt confident enough to take on anything. Of course, I hadn't faced any vampires before. I guess what I felt could be dismissed as the overconfidence of youth.
"Papa, let me come with you, I'm ready to fight," I pleaded, and Papa shook his head, then kissed me on the forehead. I looked at my father as he donned a tight-fitting black jumpsuit, along with gloves and boots, and then exited our house. Outside, he was joined by several people I recognized from the local Adventist church which we attended.
"Chef, we're ready to go," said Darius Magloire, a tall, slender, dark-skinned man whom I remembered from church. Darius is one of the deacons, and he's married to a sister named Marlene Jean-Baptiste, with whom he has two sons. I knew he was a wolf-man, but didn't know he was part of the Hunters, whom my father leads in an attempt at curtailing the vampire problem. Standing next to Darius was Roger Sauve, a chubby, chocolate-hued, clean-shaven man in his early thirties. The sole woman in the unit was a tall, lovely lady with charcoal skin and a smooth shaved head, whom I immediately recognized as Diane Joseph, wife of Pastor Josue Joseph, from our church.
"Brother Jacques, are you sure we're going to be enough?" Diane asked my father, who nodded. The four of them got into a nondescript dark blue van and speedily drove away. According to my father, I wasn't trained to fight the vampires, whom he described as fearsome foes. Against them, my new powers would be useless. I resented being stuck at the house, as you can imagine. So I took the bus and went to visit my boyfriend Marcelin at his apartment in Vanier.
"Hello beautiful," Marcelin said, as he greeted me at the door with a big smile. Clad in a blue T-shirt and red boxers, my favorite Haitian stud looked good enough to eat. Marcelin and I have known each other for practically all of our lives. I always found him cute, although he usually dated skanks at our church. When he finally asked me out, during our freshman year at Carleton University, I accepted, but under one condition. That he would get rid of his posse of skanks and be faithful to me. So far, Marcelin has been a man of his word.
"Hey sexy," I replied, and planted a kiss on Marcelin's full, sexy lips. We embraced, and as we did, I could smell all kinds of things on my boo. Like the Shawarma sandwich he had earlier, and the fact that he showered minutes before I showed up. I felt his hands on my ass and smiled, for I had him right where I wanted him. Marcelin winked at me, and then led me to the bedroom. I love this young man something fierce. Handsome, intelligent, ambitious, and respectful towards me. If only he was a Wolf...
"I've missed you so much, Marc, it's been too long," I whispered as Marcelin took me to bed. The Haitian stud smiled wolfishly, and then proceeded to worship my body. I lay there, stark naked, and from the way Marcelin gazed upon me, I could tell that he liked what he saw. As a six-foot-tall, voluptuous woman with dark brown skin and short, kinky hair in a land that worships skinny blondes, I have been known to feel self-conscious at times. Marcelin told me I was beautiful, and I believed him.
"You are beautiful my chocolate goddess," Marcelin said, and he kissed me on the lips and on the neck, setting my flesh ablaze with his every touch. I lay there, mesmerized by the virile, passionate young man who made love to me. Marcelin definitely knew his way around the female body. I shuddered as he sucked on my breasts and I felt a wetness begin between my legs. Spreading my thighs invitingly, I winked at Marcelin, who kissed a path from my tits down to my belly, and finally, my sweet spot.