Finding Louis: The Search for Louis Pine

By Seth Greening

What happened to Louis Pine? Sydney digs for the truth about her missing friend Louis and discovers the world is more supernaturally complicated than even she suspected.

Though many moons past since the missing werewolf known as Louis Pine first invited the world to watch his first transformation on the Dragon Moon before disappearing, his friends and family would not give up searching for him. Here Louis’ best friends Mauricio and Sydney document their ongoing efforts to find Louis, hoping to team up with others who also have information but when others come forward to help them, who can they trust? Is Louis’ mom Loretta really a dangerous witch? Did she make a terrible mistake that resulted in Louis being wolf-napped? And what about the crazy fan girl named Bailey? Is she just another fur-chaser or a dangerous lunar leprechaun?

As more and stranger information emerges, Louis’ best friends even begin to doubt one another. After all, Sydney really is a vampire. What if it's true why they say about vampires and werewolves? And what if Mauricio decides to join a rival clan in order to survive as a bitten werewolf? As the friends reveal the true extent of the forces fighting against them, they discover some uncomfortable truths about themselves and the world we all inhabit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Sep 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781775039617

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SETH

SETH

Hey Seth where's Louis?

SOS anyone know what happened to that werewolf kid, Louis?

Hey, any new info about Louis Pine?

My name is Seth Greening, and for those of you who don’t know me, I am the fourth most popular - and first most reliable! - Supernatural Survivologist on the Interwebs. I investigate and report on real supernatural beings and events at

sethonsurvival.com

All to just help the world keep on keeping on against the supernatural odds stacked against us.

Long, long ago from a website far, far away, a young genetic lycanthrope named Louis Pine contacted me for advice. This is not in itself an unusual event, in fact thousands of werewolves both genetic and bitten have contacted me over the years for advice or just to share their stories with the world, but the case of Louis Pine and his Dragon Moon disappearance remains an unusual case for a number of reasons. For one, Louis believed his missing dad to be a so-called dragon werewolf, that is to say a werewolf ally of the dragons, and that his own mom Loretta is in fact a witch. Sure everyone thinks their mom is a witch from time to time, but in the case of Louis Pine, you can take this literally.

(Don't believe me? I recommend reading MOONSEED, a confession made by Louis' mom herself.)

So how did I, Seth, the third most popular and first most reliable Supernatural Survivologist become involved?

Well, nobody in Louis’ home town believed him. Sometimes he didn’t believe it himself. Just like some of you, he came to SOS searching for the truth - the truth about himself, his family and the supernatural forces facing us all. Louis documented his search for the truth in a series of short videos which to my knowledge you can still watch online, albeit in edited format, at:

yourlupinelife.com

And what can I say? Of course I tried to help him. I'm a sucker for such supernatural situations, not to mention any decent promotional opportunity.

But I wasn’t the only one who tried to help Louis. We all played a part. The other supernatural survivors at SOS I mean. That’s just part of what happens around here at:

sethonsurvival.com

We all pitch in to help inform young supernaturals, many of whom don’t even suspect their own supernaturalism until they download my helpy diagnostic app, The Monstrometer, which is 99.98% effective for diagnosing latent supernaturaliaty when used under optimum conditions.

SETH WHY ARE YOU JUST HANGING AROUND REPEATING STUFF WE ALREADY KNOW?

GO FIND LOUIS!

Hey now don't be supernaturally supercilious! The case remains under active investigation. I myself have been actively investigating, since the Dragon Moon when Louis broke out of his secure containment facility and disappeared. But what you must understand, dear Survivor, is that I remain after all these years, just one man, 99.98% human. With so many suspicious supernatural citizens roaming the realms, it can be difficult for me to focus on just one. Since Louis' disappearance, I have been called to investigate the location of Forrest Fenn's treasure, the fireballs over Russia, the Great Gargoyle Abductions of Gregoria AND the very high-profile case of a missing movie star and a careless special effects artist on a Halloween movie that opened a very real demonic portal. I could go on about the Eddie the Yeti and more but I think you get the point here. Supernatural survival depends on a community.

And that is why, after all this time I am finally taking the measure of making public my ongoing research now without further delay. You will find here a 99.98% accurate and thorough account of the communications I have compiled to date regarding the disappearance and search for the werewolf we know online as Louis Pine.

Note to the Reader RE: Sources of information OR How You Can Tell Who Said What and When:

The info presented here comes mainly from a number of SOS accounts created by Louis' best friends Sydney and Mauricio. These accounts were monitored carefully for many moons and a secret investigation into their true origin eventually conducted before a final ruling made. We now believe these accounts to be authentic and true, 99.98%. Still, I have taken the liberty of editing, summarizing and or supplementing the information from these accounts wherever it seemed appropriate. Just to help fill in the blanks, you understand. Okay and maybe just a bit for dramatic effect. But just a titch you understand.

(A titch if you don’t know yet is a scientific term for a quantity that is roughly 10% bigger than a wee bit yet still smaller than a smidge.)

Other parts of the story were provided by secondary, unverified accounts. Read them at your own discretion, believe what you will or won't. I present them as they appeared in my in box for your consideration.

And of course, you will recognize my humble words, written as always in slanty italics like this, and perhaps accompanied by a few little stars like this *** which I believe lends them a feeling of forward momentum and excitement, even if you find them interrupty and/or (brackets like this!)

***If you’re a regular SOS survivor you probably already know how partial I am to stars and brackets.***

(And can you really blame me? Even in this great age of astrophysics stars remain the most beautiful and enduring vehicle for human wishes while brackets will always be smiley faces to an old guy like me.)

In any event, I hope you will consider this compilation of commentary on the case of Louis Pine a good use of your time and that it may assist you in conducting your own investigation into the incident, which if you are not familiar with it yet, begins here at:

yourlupinelife.com.

There is after all no supernatural substitute for making up your own mind.

LOUIS…?

Dear Seth,

Can you please tell everyone on your site to stop worrying about me? I am fine. I have accepted that I am not really a werewolf and I am tired of pretending. I have gone to stay with family in another city until this all blows over. So please, if you really care about me and the thousands of other survivors who come to your site looking for supernatural survival information, just stop. Stop telling them about me and please stop them all looking for me now. It was all just a big joke that spiraled out of control.

Thanks and sorry about using your site to hoax everyone. My apologies to anyone who believed me.

Louis Pine

SYDNEY

SOS SETH!

DO NOT BELIEVE IT. That post is NOT from Louis.

I don’t know who is posting comments as Louis on your site, but it’s a trick. You need to help me find this imposter. We have to know if they are playing a hoax or worse, trying to throw us off Louis' trail. Either way we have to find and stop them because Louis is still missing and I am worried about him. Worried sick. So please, Seth can you email me this commenter’s IP address? I know it violates your privacy policy but in this case, it’s a matter of life and death.

I only hope it's not too late. Everyone is saying it now, that Louis made a crazy hoax. The whole town was crawling with nosy people after he disappeared. Police, reporters, bloggers, random strangers, even my mom and dad just kept asking me the same questions, over and over again:

Sydney the joke is over, they said. This isn't funny anymore. Tell us where he might have run.

Or,

Do you know why Louis would be acting like a werewolf?

Because he IS a werewolf!!!

I wanted to shout but instead I bit my tongue. They would just think I am crazy or lying or both. So I stopped telling them anything. They don't want to hear the truth, that Louis Pine Jr. transformed into a werewolf on the full moon and then disappeared, just like his dad Louis Senior did before him.

A Dragon Werewolf on the Dragon Moon to be precise.

Can you picture their reaction?

Okay Sydney, let's find you a special doctor…

But I don't care. I know that wolf is Louis. If you zoom in on a still from the video you will see it too. He has Louis’ eyes, beneath the red-hot glowing were-rage, his human eyes are still there underneath! Louis' big brown eyes, a little bit sad and scared but also very, very excited and happy, all at the same time.

Was he trying to tell me something with his eyes? Or was he just going to attack me again? I still don’t know. Maybe he didn’t know either.

Here’s something else I would never tell them. I am half-vampire, and I am his Keeper. That's why I would know his eyes in a heartbeat. I can smell his blood from a mile away. You might think it’s weird to have a vampire as your Keeper but really it's the most natural thing in the world. As a half-vampire, I understand about genetic werewolves like Louis. That’s why I kept believing and never stopped, not even after Louis himself stopped. I just knew in my blood that it was true, all of it. That Louis would become a Dragon Werewolf just like his father, no matter how hard his mom Loretta or anyone else tried to convince him otherwise.

But why would I tell them that now? They would never believe me anyway. Half-vampire? They would just roll their eyes or call that special doctor.

And I wouldn’t exactly blame them. How can I explain what I don't even fully understand myself yet?

Oh just watch the damn videos!

That part I actually DO say. Louis knew exactly what was happening to him but everyone thought he was crazy, except for me. So he documented the whole thing and you can still watch it online today at yourlupinelife.com which is a secret site for real werewolves on the Internet.

But even then, even when I tell them about the videos and then even after they watch the videos, they STILL refuse to get it. Another dangerous and elaborate hoax, they say. They think it's a big joke. The videos, the crib in the woods, all of it. The mainstream media even made up a catchy name for it: Lycanthropy Lunacy complete with a silly graphic and an even sillier theory - the upcoming lunar eclipses, the so-called Supermoons, making us kids nuttier than usual. They shake their heads, pretending to think it’s terrible while clearly enjoying the drama they are actually creating.

Like, oh those darn kids! Pretending to be werewolves and disappearing over a lunar eclipse.

Yeah, right! Why would we do that?

To find Louis I had to stop explaining and started acting like I agreed with them instead. I needed everyone to back off me. My investigation depended on it.

But not you, Seth and not the other survivors who come to your site. You have to tell everyone it was never a hoax. And certainly not a joke. The videos aren't even funny. Not to me, at least. Okay, maybe Uncle Lincoln is still a little bit funny I'll give you that. But you and I both know that most new werewolves don’t survive their first full moon and there's nothing funny about that. You know that a first-time werewolf can’t control the stages. You end up going full wolf like Louis, in an unfamiliar body that never existed before and you don’t even know how it works, let alone how to use it in a fight. Your best hope is that a pack takes you in, or your containment facility holds better than Louis’ did.

Did Louis hurt you, Sydney? Another question they all ask me, if he ever hurt me…

NO!

Well not exactly. Not on purpose. He never wanted to hurt me. If you watch Louis’ vlog you know by now that he never wanted to hurt anyone. That's why he built his full moon containment crib way out in the woods and stocked it up with supplies for his transformation. So he wouldn't hurt anyone.

(He didn't realize the shed was once his dad’s crib. Until the moonlight showed him the location of his dad’s mementos.)

Louis definitely never meant to hurt me either but it's always complicated between a werewolf and a Keeper - never mind a Keeper who is half-vampire.

Half vampire! Seriously? Half? He said. How can anyone be half vampire? How is that even possible? You’re either a vampire or you’re not!"

Louis never quite believed in me the way I believed in him. We had an ongoing debate. At the time I couldn’t explain it either. I just knew it to be true because of my test results. Now that I know for sure, it’s still hard to explain. Even if they know vampires are real, some people like things to be all one way or all the other. They want everything and everybody to be all good or all bad, all black or all white, nothing in between. Not like me and Louis. People say I should stop looking for Louis because he'll just hurt me again. But I won't stop. Not until I find him.

Understand, I am not trying to excuse what Louis did on the Dragon Moon. I had nightmares about the way he looked at me. Like I was suddenly just this thing that was in his way. Like in that moment, he hated me. I'll never forget that look, even if I have stopped seeing the scar on my forehead when I look in the mirror. (Technically the scar is the shape of a table edge but in the right light it looks like a crescent moon, which is kind of perfect if you think about it.)

And yeah maybe part of me hopes that later, when Louis has more control of his condition, we could still be together.

Weeks after week passed with no sign from Louis, not a howl nor hair, not a single scratch on a fence so he must be in a lot of trouble. Did he go searching for his father and find more than he expected? Or did he wake up somewhere far away with no memory of his human life? That sometimes happens. Or maybe he was stuck in wolf form, say because of being captured and tortured by A-51 agents?

Or maybe something unimaginably worse?

I can't think about that. I just need to find him before anyone else does.

Lucky for me Mauricio said he would help me. Louis’ best friend found out the hard way that Louis was telling the truth. He was the only one I could trust. He said that he would file his own reports, so we would cover each other. We agreed to post everything that happens right here on the SOS community page in case anyone knows more. You helped Louis before so we figure maybe you, Seth, and the other survivors could help us find him now. Also maybe Louis will check the site at some point, if he survived, for help maybe or just to try and remember about his life.

(Either way, don’t worry Seth. We know the rules - no real full names, ages or locations.)

But just in case something ever happens to us, like if something goes really wrong, maybe you could send a rescue party or something? Or at the very least you could tell everyone what happened to us.

(No offense to you Seth or to anyone else on your web site, but the latter scenario seems a little more likely.)

SETH

email from [e-mail]

Hail Sydney,

Thanks for keeping on keeping on. While I agree this post from Louis is highly suspicious, the strict privacy policy here at SOS is for your protection: no real names, ages or locations. I don’t collect or share any of that information with anyone, ever.

That said, I understand the importance of your mission so I can tell you this much. The writer who calls himself Louis is using the same login that Louis himself used but it is a different IP address. This means that post could be from Louis or it could be anyone using Louis’ login. I have flagged the account for moderation in any event, until we know more.

I hope that helps some. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do.

Survivally Yours,

Seth

MAURICIO

Yeah so maybe I was kinda hard on Louis okay but those are his videos right? He makes me look pretty bad! Like, whose hair is that?

And wouldn’t you be worried if your best friend started running around telling everyone he was a werewolf? Like, high school is supernaturally hard enough already! You make it even harder when you go around talking about being a real mythological creature! I just thought it was a game Louis didn’t want to let go.

Now I know that it wasn’t a game at all.

Wanna know how I know? If it weren’t for Louis, I would have become a werewolf on the Dragon Moon too. That's how I know. For real. Louis, if you’re still out there somewhere and you ever get to read this? I’m sorry. You’re not crazy. You’re just a werewolf.

Or maybe a crazy Dragon Werewolf, yeah, but… you know what I mean.

Here’s what you would see in MY videos if I did like Louis and made them on the Dragon Moon. First and foremost you would see that I am ridiculously handsome. And here's the whole truth about everything else too. I’m not going to lie, even though I’m about to look like a really big douche so try remember I already apologized in advance.

Okay, we had this dumb plan to follow Louis to his stupid crib and bug him. Like, shake it and kick it and stuff, then run away. Just to try to scare him. It was Jordan’s idea. He thought we could take the girls out there and scare you and them and it would be so fun, right?

Only we never got there.

We were supposed to meet at my house to get ready, just like, paint our faces black and stuff. But first I had to take Sporky for a walk- actually, his full name is Spork Biscuit, but anyway, so I got the leash from the cupboard and went to find him. Usually this is not hard because Sporky is a really fat, overstuffed wiener dog who loves to sleep on his pillow in the sunlight of the south window.

But Sporky was nowhere near his pillow. Calling him didn’t work. Finally I found him under the table, shaking like jelly. And when I knelt down to talk to him, he started growling his face off at me. Growling so hard his eyes popped out of his head. At me! The dude who walks him and gives him bacon treats and lets him chase skateboarders. Very not cool. But walking the Sporkman is one of three things I have to do to get allowance so somehow I had to haul him out from under the table and take him for a walk.

But when I crawled under the table what did Sporky do? He waited until I was right underneath, reaching for his collar, then he ran away, his little claws skittering over the floor. So great, now he made me chase him all around the house, around every piece of furniture until I cornered him finally in the back porch, thinking like, this is so weird. Spork is normally way too lazy to be mad at anyone, ever. Now here he was, nipping at my hand, trying to bite it clear off while I tried again and again to snag his collar and clip him onto the lead.

And then I noticed, hey I’m sweating. Not just a little bit either. Sweating like after the worst basketball practice in history. Which is to say a lot of sweating because our coach, Mr. Jackston is a real hard ass. He likes to make us run until we puke. So here’s me, pouring