Chapter 6: Inner Siege.

It was more serious and deadlier than she thought. “Put them under a lot of morphine,” Emma hastily ordered the interns as she jogged back into the intensive care unit ward. Her heart wrenched as she watched Steve shiver in pain with his eyes rolled up into his dead. For the first time in after five years, she was at loss at what to do.

See this as a challenge. She told herself. You are a healer, and one of the things that comes with it is solving the problem. Now, what is the problem?

She looked at the charts monitor and saw that Steve’s fever was getting higher by the minute.

“What do we do?” Sarah asked as she looked at Emma pensively.

“A CT scan immediately,” Emma said. “We need to see exactly how this virus works, we need to see how it multiplies, we need to see how it regenerates, from there, we will know what to do from the results.”

Sarah left the room to get the interns to wheel the Alpha to the lab.

“Interesting,” Emma whispered. The Viruses were actively working and attached themselves to every organ of Steve’s anatomy. They had even found a way to his brain.

“I still find it amazing that he could still walk all the way here,” Sarah said. “The brain strokes here indicate that he is going through immense pain.”

Emma and Sarah were standing in the room with the lab technician with screen monitors showing image of Steve’s internal structures. The monitors displayed the high-resolution images of his bones, organs, blood vessels and soft tissues.

“Its everywhere,” Emma whispered and shook her head wondering how someone could create something as deadly as this.

The Virus was red in colour and was multiplying by the minute.

“Print out everything,” Emma told the lab technician.

“What do we do about him and the rest,” Sarah asked.

“Give him a lot of morphine to deal with the pain, intravenously,” Emma replied.

“A lot of morphine?” Sarah asked in disbelief. “It could lead to cardiac arrest!”

“They can take it, Sarah, trust me and do the same for the rest of them including anyone that comes with the same virus,” Emma said as she hastily left the lab room.

Sarah ran to catch up with her. “Look, Emma, something is not right with the anatomy of this man, his organs look bigger than normal and this virus is something I have never ever seen before. What is going on?” She asked.

“Look, Sarah, I will tell you everything in time but now our main priority is to save these men first,” Emma said.

“Alright, Emma but you and I know that they are not men.” Sarah said and turned away to do what I asked of her.

The lab results were on her table before she got to the office. She sat behind her desk which was cluttered with different volumes of medical books of different editions.

She raised the x-rays up to the fluorescent light and looked closely at the tiny red cells that was attacking the werewolf immune system. She did the same thing with the organs and the brain scans.

She realized that the virus was more active in the brain. It was attacking the very essence of the werewolf. The Mind. This was very vicious.

Time was running out. She took Steve’s blood sample and put a tiny drop on a small square transparent plate. She put it under the microscope on her table and magnified the lens.

She peered in and gasped in shock. The virus was multiplying faster than she thought. She watched in horror as a tiny cell broke into two, then four, then eight and watched as these cells attacked the white blood cells that was meant to protect his immune system.

Calm down, Emma. She told herself. Do not panic, just think of a solution.

“How the hell is he still alive?” Emma asked as she adjusted the lens to get a closer look. She knew what to do immediately.

She took the remaining sample and literarily ran to find Sarah. She was getting excited as the moments went by, it had been a long time since she solved a medical mystery.

“Sarah,” She called her confidant who was busy supervising the interns who were given the morphine to the agonized werewolves.

Sarah turned to Emma with a worried expression.

“Do you want to join me on an experiment?” Emma asked.

“On what?” Sarah asked as she recognized the look of excitement on Emma’s face.

Emma raised the vial with Steve’s blood. “You are an Immunologist, and this virus is attacking all the patient’s immune system viciously. It was like it was specifically designed to do so,” Emma said.

Sarah’s face lit up. “So, we break down the virus to see its biological component.”

“Exactly!” Emma said.

They both ran to Sarah’s lab where the Immunologist went to work. She but the blood sample in NGS. (Next Generation Sequencer) and within minutes the entire make up of the virus was revealed.

“Interesting,” Sarah as said as Emma waited impatiently. “I do not recognize this DNA and I have seen so many.

Emma recognized the DNA in fact she also had the DNA in her own system. It was a werewolf DNA. But she was not yet ready to tell Sarah about that yet.

“Now we use the Ultracentrifuge machine to separate the virus to their barest cell to see how they were created,” Sarah said and did and she spoke.

The Ultracentrifuge was a large, sturdy, and enclosed machine that was designed to spin samples at extremely high speeds, generating centrifugal force.

“This is amazing” Sarah said. “Look.”

Emma looked at the large screen displaying the results and her stomach sank. This was worse than she could ever imagine.

“It’s like whoever made this laid an internal siege in into the blood streams.”