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gone home. For a moment I’m angry, but then I remember how I acted outside the factory. I yelled at them, told them I didn’t need them. I don’t blame them for going home. Who’d want to help me after the way I acted?
    I thought I’d be better off without them, but I was wrong. As I struggle in the net, unable to get free, I realise that the Star League are like my new pack. Just because they’re not werewolves doesn’t mean they’re not family. And you shouldn’t treat family the way I have. I hang my head in shame.
    I jump as a door on the other side of the room slams shut. The Baron stops what he’s doing andgrabs a potion. He creeps over to the door and takes a look around. I watch carefully, hoping that at any moment Jay or one of the Star League will jump out and knock him unconscious.
    The Baron returns with a nasty smirk on his face. ‘Nothing. It must’ve been the wind. This old factory is terribly draughty. Were you expecting company?’
    â€˜Not really,’ I mutter. ‘Just get it over with, Baron.’
    â€˜Patience, young mutt! Just adding the finishing touches.’ He grabs the piece of my fur that he cut off earlier and drops it into the potion. It fizzes and dissolves, the mixture in the vial turning dark green.
    â€˜Any last words as a werewolf?’ he asks.
    I look at the backs of my furry hands for the last time and take a deep breath. ‘Yeah, I hope the potion makes you sick!’
    He laughs and gulps down the potion in one go.

I wait for my werewolf form to start wearing off. I wait to see my skin appear instead of fur. But it doesn’t happen.
    Suddenly the Baron clutches his throat and screeches. Brown fur sprouts all over his body and he starts shrinking.
    He shrinks until he’s about a tenth of his original size. He’s grown a long, curling tail which is nothing like a wolf’s tail and two round eyes stare out of his tiny face.
    I’m so surprised it takes me a second to realise that the Baron isn’t a werewolf, he’s a weremonkey!
    â€˜It worked!’ comes Jay’s voice. He and the rest of the Star League race up the stairs. They must’ve been hiding there the whole time!
    â€˜What worked?’
    â€˜Jay’s plan,’ says Asuka as she takes out one of her ninja knives and starts cutting the ropes of my net. I land on the ground with a thud, then get to my feet.
    â€˜Which was? Can somebody please explain why the Baron over there is going to be craving bananas instead of raw meat?’
    â€˜We switched the fur,’ says Leigh. ‘We took a sample of Chu’s fur, then Asuka snuck over here and switched it with yours when the Baron was distracted by the door slamming.’ Chu jumps down from Leigh’s shoulder to sniff the weremonkey on the ground.
    â€˜But won’t that hurt Chu?’ I ask. ‘He said that using my fur would stop me from being able to transform into a werewolf.’
    â€˜Negative,’ says Sam. ‘Because Chu does not transform he is able to escape the adverse reaction that would have befallen you.’
    â€˜So does that mean Chu will be fine?’ Sam nods. Phew! Now there’s just one last thing to takecare of. ‘Roger, do you have a potion that will make the Baron go to sleep until we can figure out what to do with him?’
    â€˜Sure thing!’ He reaches into his pouch. ‘One vial of nighty-night potion for the monkey man.’
    He passes me a vial of blue liquid, which I pour down Baron von Monkey’s throat. In less than thirty seconds he’s snoring on the floor. ‘When he wakes up, he’s going to behind bars for a long time,’ I say, ‘either in a prison or a zoo!’
    We all grin at each other with relief, and I feel a rush of happiness. I thought the Star League had abandoned me, but they showed up just when I needed them, even though I’d treated them badly.
    â€˜Look,