I woke up in a forest, it was dark and the forest was thick. The only light was the moonlight seeping through the leaves. There was a faint mist on the ground giving a really creepy vibe to it.

"Jake!" I heard someone scream in the distance, it sounded like my farther.

“DAD?!" I called back.

“Jake, help me!" I heard him shout back. I ran to where I thought his voice was coming from, weaving through the trees and ducking under branches until I came to where my dad was. He was lying in a puddle of blood and had a hand to his chest where the blood was trickling from, staining his white shirt.

"DAD!" I ran over to him with tears in my eyes but before I could hug him he said something that shocked me to the core.

"Why did you leave us?" He asked coldly as blood flowed out of his mouth.

"Dad?" I asked as I fell to my knees and sob.

"You left us Jake" he said as he began to sit up.

"I know, but I didn't want to but you told me to run" I said as I looked down to the ground in shame as tears flowed down my cheeks.

"But you could have stayed, we could have gone out together" he said and I looked up to see him standing over me with hatred in his eye's "your a coward Jake, nothing more than a... damn... COWARD!!" what came next shocked me, he lunged for me and before I knew it he was on top of me with his hands around my neck. "YOU LEFT US AND WE ARE DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU" he yelled in anger as his hands got tighter and tighter around my neck.

"But... I... I... didn't do... anything wrong" I croaked out as I gasped for air.

"EXCALLY!! You did NOTHING... YOU JUST RAN LIKE THE LITTLE COWARD YOU ARE!!" he yelled blood spurting onto my face.

"This isn't... you... this is a... nightmare" I said as I tried to free myself from my dads grip.

"Except your going to die in this nightmare" my dad said and he smiled, blood staining his teeth.

I shrieked as I began to panic as I felt light headed and began to lose consciousness.

My eye's shot open and I gasped for air like I had been holding it. I felt someone's arms around me and it shocked me that I fell out of the persons grip onto the floor. I didn't get up I just laid on the carpet and hugged myself, my eye's wide open and shaking like a leaf.

"Jake are you alright?" I heard a female voice say soon realising it was Perry's.

"He... he tried to kill me" I said quietly. I felt Perry pick me up and place me on her lap. I didn't look at her, I just sat on her lap looking at the wall.

"Who?" She asked in a concerned voice "who tried to kill you?"

I began to cry again and I hugged Perry, burying my face into her chest "my dad, my dad tried to kill me" I whimpered out. I then felt Perry wrap her arms around me.

"Shhhh it's okay Jake its okay" she said softly as she rubbed my back and nuzzled the top of my head. We stayed like that for what felt like forever until I heard Harry's voice.

"Everyone okay in here? I heard a thump" he asked and I stopped hugging Perry and rubbed my eye's getting rid of the tears as I felt somewhat better.

"Yes It's fine sweetheart, Jake here just had a nightmare that's all" Perry said as she set me on the floor.

I looked over to Harry and saw he was wearing a golf outfit with a red and white polo shirt tucked into blue golf trousers and white golf shoes.

"Oh dear, are you okay now?" he asked as he walked up to me with concern in his eye's.

"I'm okay" I said with a small smile.

"Well you know what lifts my spirits up Jake?" Harry asked as he knelt down to me with a smile on his face.

"What?" I asked with curiosity.

"A good game of golf" he said with joy as he stood back up and motioned me to follow "come on"

"Me?" I asked with shock.

"Well of course you who else?" Harry asked as he turned back to me.

"But I have never played golf" I said with shame.

"Oh that doesn't matter, I'll teach you, it's pretty simple you know" he said.

Before I could take a step forward I felt Perry's hand on my shoulder, I looked up at her and she said in a semi stern voice "But first you need to get changed out of those clothes and have a wash" I just nodded and rushed into the bathroom to get washed.

After ten minutes I was outside my room feeling refreshed wearing a new set of clothes which consisted of t shirt, jeans and trainers. 

"You ready?" Harry asked as I came down the grand staircase.

"What about Ryan and Cody?" I asked.

"Well since you and Perry had overslept, we had our breakfast and they had to go off to their Karate club, they did want to say goodbye to you but I told them you needed your rest" Harry explained as he opened the front door to the morning sunlight.

"Oh okay" I said as I walked out to the front steps where I saw a magnificent sight.

In front of me was a 1950s Rolls Royce with a silver paint job, the sun glinted off of its smooth polished surface. I just stood their in awe and then I saw someone get out of the drivers seat, it was a huge, average build Tiger Shark wearing a black suit with a chauffeur hat on his head, when he saw me, he gave me a big smile which showed all his perfect white pointy teeth.

"You must be Jake" he said as he walked up to me, I backed up a little bit but I felt a hand on my back and looked up to see Harry looking down at me.

"It's alright Jake" Harry said reassuringly "Alfie here won't bite, he's quite the softie... when he wants to be." 

As soon as Alfie was in front of me, he knelt down and held out his hand "it's a pleasure to meet you finally" he said softly, I gave a small smile and shook his hand, as I shook his hand I could see his tail wagging behind him quite fast like he was excited. After the hand shake Alfie stood up and said to Harry "the golf club I presume? Judging by your attire."

Harry gave a hearty chuckle and patted Alfie on the shoulder while saying "Alfie you don't miss a thing."

"I tend not to sir" Alfie said, giving Harry a mischievous grin before turning and walked to the car before opening the back door for us.

"After you Jake" Harry said, I quickly climbed in and sat down on the comfy cream leather seats as Harry got in beside me. I buckled myself in as Alfie got into the drivers seat and started up the car before heading out of the driveway and onto the quiet country road.

Ten minutes into the journey I had a question running through my mind which I soon plucked up the courage to ask Harry.

"Harry?" I asked, Harry looked up from his I-Pad that he had brought with him and looked at me with a kind smile.

"Yeah sport?" He said as he turned off his I-Pad.

I twiddled my thumbs, figuring out how to ask him "Em, I just wanted to ask... that... well you don't act like a normal rich person would and I just wanted to know why?"

Harry looked at me and his smile grew as he leaned back into the seat of the car before saying "Jake, my farther told me that there are three groups of rich people in this world, the first group and sadly the most common are the greedy and selfish, they don't care about anyone and treat people like trash, the second group are the people who want to make themselves look good in front of an audience so they donate to charity's and so on but behind all the charity donations they still treat people like trash. Now the third group and the rarest of the three are people who are the friendliest people you'll ever meet, we don't hide in our mansions, we get out there and stand out and let me tell you my family were always the third group and we love it."

I just sat there listening to what he said and when he finished I said "wow, I never saw the rich like that."

"Yeah, the first group keep to themselves, the second just keep their personal life private so that's how people don't notice anything. Of course the only problem with me is sometimes I get a little careless with my money, you see I love collecting things that are old, especially old cars, I love old cars and this" Harry said as he patted the leather "Is one of my favourites, which reminds me, how would you like to see my collection of cars one day?"

"Really?" I asked as my face lit up as he asked me that because I was a fan of old cars as well.

Of course" he said as he patted me on the shoulder "You'll love it."

"We're here sir" Alfie said and I looked out the window to see a large building with an old windmill that was attached to the side of it, as we drove up the drive to the front door I saw a sign that said 'Windmill Golf Club'. We soon drove up to the front of the building where there was a small car park with a few expensive cars parked, Alfie found us a spot and turned off the car before getting out and opening my door.

"Thank you" I said as I got out and my feet touched the gravel floor and Alfie just nodded. I looked behind me and saw Harry scooting over to my side of the car before stepping out as well, he bent back and I heard his back click then he stretched his tail out straight and I heard a click at the base of his tail, Harry sighed in satisfaction as he stood up straight and his tail fell down and started gently swinging from side to side.

"Come and pick us up in an hour or two Alfie" Harry said as we started walking up to the front door of the club. Harry opened the door and we walked inside.

When we were inside I noticed that the place looked like a pub with a bar, tables and chairs with several Furs sitting at them either with a drink or eating food.

"Right lets go to the shooting range" Harry said as he led me to the back of the building where he opened the back door which led to the golfs driving range where there were several people, Furs, Phins and a few Humans who were hitting golf balls into a large field with a net that surrounded the field.

I was so distracted at watching the golfers taking their hits that I didn't notice that Harry handed me a golf club until he patted me on the shoulder.

"Here's your club and I've got us a space down the end for us to practice your swinging" Harry said as I took the club and followed him down to the end.

As I followed Harry down to the end of the driving range I looked at the other golfers who were taking their shots and watched as the golf balls hurtled into the field. Being so fixated on watching the other golfers taking their shots I bumped into the rear of Harry. I gasped in surprise and nearly fell back on my bum but I managed to stop myself. Harry turned around with a smile and said "You okay there?"

I just blushed in embarrassment as I looked down at the floor before saying "Yeah, sorry, I was just watching the others."

"Oh that's okay" Harry said as he knelt down and patted my shoulder while saying "You know I had the same look you had the first time I came here."

I just looked up into Harry's eyes, they showed nothing but care and I gave him a small smile, still feeling a bit embarrassed.

"Anyway lets practice how to swing your club" Harry said as he stood up and ushered me to a small patch of fake grass that overlooked the field.

Okay Jake, first you need to get into position. So have both of your feet in line with your shoulders so you have a small gap in between your feet." I did as he said and looked back at him and he nodded "Good now just bend your knees a little" I did as he instructed, "Good now bend forward a bit but not with your back, you bend with your waist, that is how you get the perfect pose." 

I just nodded, listening to everything he said, then he placed a golf ball down in front of me on what he called a tee. "Now grip the club with your hands but remember your right hand is in front of your left and both of your thumbs need to point down the club" I did as he said "Now observe" Harry said as he came up behind me and leaned over me and gently gripped both my arms "Now you swing which I shall show you" he then guided me slowly while saying "You bring the golf club over your head in a nice circular motion, but another trick, the right hand does everything your left hand just grips the club." 

Then when the club was over my head he slowly guided me back down again, "As you swing you turn with your upper body, that's how you get the perfect swing" Harry said as the club was now over my head and I twisted my upper body to follow it. Then, Harry stepped back and walked away from me before turning back to me and said "Now try it but with force."

I nodded and brought the club up over my head and then swung it down with all of my strength and hit the ball on the tee. The ball whizzed through the air until I could hardly see it, then in the distance I saw a tiny white dot hit the ground, bounce up and hit the ground again.

"Oh cracking shot Jake" Harry said as came up to me and patted me on the back.

"Thank you" I said with a small smile.

"Now then" Harry said as he picked up his golf club "How about we take it in turns, sound good?" I just nodded.

After an hour of shooting golf balls Harry decided that 'was enough for one day' so we gave our clubs back to the club and Harry bought me a Tuna sandwich from the bar and he got himself a Pimm's drink and we sat outside with the sun beating down on us with a nice cool breeze.

As I slowly ate my sandwich I thought back to my nightmare I had last night. Why did I have that nightmare? Did I do something wrong? Was it my regret that made me dream that up? Why was my dad trying to kill me in it? All these questions filling my mind, perhaps I am a coward. Perhaps I should have died with my mother and farther, perhaps I... am... a failure.

"Jake?" I heard Harry's voice break through my thoughts. I looked up at him and saw the concern in his eye's, "You're thinking about that nightmare you had, aren't you?"

I looked away in shame but I heard Harry say in a soft voice "want to talk about it?" I started to sob quietly and I covered my face with my hands as the memories of the nightmare began to play in my mind. I soon felt Harry's beefy arms around me and bring me closer to him in a hug, "hey, it's okay little guy" he said softly as he rubbed my back in circular motions "but trust me when I say this, you'll feel better if you tell me your problems." I looked up at him with tear stained cheeks and he looked down with a reassuring smile and he nuzzled my cheek affectionately.

I took a deep breath and told him my nightmare and his expression didn't change, he just listened intently and when I was finished I said "I've failed my parents"

"What?!" Harry asked in surprise "why do you say that?"

"I ran away, like a coward and left my dad to fight by himself. I-I-I should have stayed" I buried my face in my hands again and started to cry.

I felt Harry's arms around me tighten a bit and he sighed before bringing my face to look at his "now listen to me" he said in a soft yet stern voice "your farther would never say anything like that to you, that's just your regret taking over your dreams and making you feel worse." I just looked down in sadness but my face was brought back up to Harry's again as he continued "he loved you Jake, he loved you very much, I know because I knew him."

I looked at him in surprise before saying "you did?"

Harry nodded as he continued "we met when we were training to be Royal Marines."

I looked at him in confusion "the Royal Marines?"

"Yes that was what he wanted to do for a living and he was damn good at it" Harry said as he let go of me and moved back to his seat and took a sip of his drink.

"Tell me more" I said as propped both my elbows on the table and rested my head in my hands.

"What, on more how we met?" he asked and I nodded.

"Alright" Harry said as he took another sip of his drink before clearing his throat and started the story.

Well it all started when we were training, I wasn't good at it and I got in trouble a lot for failing in nearly every course. But your father took pity on me and one day in the cafeteria, I was sitting in the corner by myself because, who would want to talk to a person who cocks up on every course, I was on the brink of quitting but your dad sat next to me and introduced himself. I was shocked that anyone came to socialise with me. From that day on we became close friends and he helped me, when we had free time, we would go out and train while the others would sit around and do their own thing. If it weren't for him I wouldn't have this athletic body you see now" Harry said as he flexed biceps.

"Anyway, thanks to him we managed to get into the Royal Marines with flying colours. From that day on we stuck to each other like glue and we always watched each others backs. Funny thing though during our time I never got injured, your dad however not so lucky but I always saved his life. I loved your dad, he was like a brother I never had." Harry then dipped his head in sadness.

I looked down in sadness as well before I said “I never remembered him being in the Marines"

Harry looked up and said “That's because when you were born he quit, said he wanted to spend more time with his family. So he got a normal job and as for me I quit straight after because I couldn't cope without him and went into business with my farther who died a year later so I now run his business."

I then asked “How come my dad never told me about his life in the Marines?"

Harry sighed before saying “during our time in the Royal Marines we saw some things that traumatised him. After he quit I would get calls sometimes from your mother saying he was having nightmares so that's why I think he kept quiet about it, because he was afraid of his past and didn't want you to find out about it." I just nodded before we heard the sound of a car horn and we both turned to see the Rolls Royce pull up the drive way, “Here's Alfie, ready to pick us up" Harry said joyfully as he finished his drink and I quickly ate the rest of my sandwich and we both got up out of our seats and made our way to the car.

The car journey back was quiet I just sat there, looking out of the window thinking about my dad in the Royal Marines but before I knew it, the car pulled up to the front door of the mansion.

I said my goodbyes to Alfie and we soon entered the mansion where Jock came to greet us, his tail swinging calmly.

"Good afternoon sir did you have a pleasant game of golf?" Jock asked.

"We did Jock and I must say, for Jakes first time he did very well" Harry said with pride.

"Is that so sir" Jock said as looked down at me and gave a smile to which I blushed a bit. “Well sir I have good news for you" Jock said looked back up at Harry.

"Oh yes?" Harry asked.

"Your daughter Susan has come back from her sleepover" Jock said with a small smile.

"Oh that's brilliant where is she?" Harry asked looking around before we both heard a feminine voice scream with delight.

"DAD!" The voice said. I looked up the grand staircase to see a Orca with a slim body and regular sized breasts running down the stairs. I noticed that she was wearing a white t shirt with a pink love heart in the centre, she also wore shorts and white trainers.

"PRINCESS!!" Harry shouted with delight as he held out his arms and when she got to the bottom of the stairs she ran up to Harry and leaped into his arms, wrapping her arms around his neck and they both embraced each other. I smiled at this scene played out as she nuzzled his cheek affectionately with her tail swishing so fast it was nearly a blur.

"I missed you farther" she said.

"I can imagine since you had a sleepover that lasted a week but I bet you had fun as well" Harry said as he put her down and stood up.

“Yes I did" she said before looking at me with confusion. I gave a small wave and she looked up Harry again.

“Who's this?" she asked with curiosity.

“This is your new brother, his names Jake" Harry said.

Susan gasped in surprise and then she looked at me with joy as her tail started swinging fast again.

"Oh no, Jake prepare yourself" Harry said.

“For what?" I asked in confusion but before I knew it, I was rugby tackled to the ground and I looked up in surprise to see Susan on top of me and then she hugged me tight.

“That" Harry said with a chuckle “She gets very hyper and she has the tendency to just tackle people to the ground. She gets it from her mother's brother, he's pretty hyper as well."

I just laid there with a large Orca on top of me and I could feel her tail coil around my legs like a snake. I just blushed as she kept on hugging me 'This is a weird way to hug someone' I thought to myself before I heard Susan whisper “I've always wanted a human brother."

“Em thank you?" I said unsure how to take that. Then she let go of her tight hug on me and helped me up to which, I noticed, I reached her elbow in height like Ryan.

“Where are your brothers Susan?" Harry asked.

“Oh there out in the garden" Susan said.

“Well you take Jake out to the garden and have fun" Harry said with a smile.

“OK!" Susan said joyfully before grabbing my hand and ran out of the room and towards the garden.

There isn't much to say after that apart from in the garden we played 'Tag' with my two brothers and sister, after that we went inside and played hide and seek which I did pretty well at. Before we knew it, it was dinner time and we had roast gammon with mashed potato and carrots, it was during dinner time I found out Susan was Fifteen, a year older than Ryan. After dinner we went to the entertainment room and watched a film, this time it was a film called 'Boss Baby' which I loved. After that, Cody, Ryan, Susan and myself went up to bed. I brushed my teeth and got changed into my pyjamas before getting into bed and falling asleep, hoping that I wouldn't have another nightmare.

I woke up in a white room with a light shining on me. I tried to sit up but I felt something around my wrists and ankles. I looked down to see that I was strapped to a operating table, fear began to build up in me as I tried to break free but the leather straps kept me down.

“Oh good your awake" a deep voice said. I looked to my right and saw the silhouette of a Bull and my thoughts went back to that day when I saw that Bull murder my parents.

“You" I said with hate and fear in my voice.

“Yes it's me" the Bull said as he walked up to me and asked in a mocking tone “tell me, hows life without your dear daddy to protect you?"

“Leave me alone" I said as I looked away and tears started well up in my eyes.

“Awe what's the matter" he said in voice that sounded like he was talking to a baby.

“You killed my parents" I said, then I felt a hand grab my face and turned it to look at the face of the Bull that was still black like his face was none existent.

“That's right and you're going to die too and everyone you care about can do nothing to stop it" he said in a cold voice before laughing. He then let go of my face and pointed to some sort of tube machine thing that was hanging from the ceiling. “This my friend is a lazerbeam, it has the power to cut through solid metal" then the lazer turned on and started to cut through the table. “Whelp I'll leave you with this, I think, afterwards you won't be half the boy you'll use to be" he said as he walked away as he laughed until he and his laugh faded away.

I was now left alone with this lazerbeam that was slowly travailing up the operating table between my legs. I felt like that one superhero that I read in a comic book, I was in the same situation as him. I watched in fear as the lazer got closer and closer to my crotch, I tried to break free but the straps held me down. As the lazer was mere inches from my privates I just closed my eyes waiting for the pain.

I woke up in my bedroom, it was dark and I heard breathing to my right. I looked to my right and saw the silhouette of the Bull again.

“Boo" I heard him whisper before he lunged towards me, I screamed as his large hands gripped my neck.

I then woke up again breathing heavily and dived out of my bed, I fell to the floor with a loud thump. I looked around and noticed I was in my bedroom but I felt too scared to be here so I jumped up to my feet and ran out of my room and down the hallway, down the grand staircase and out of the front door.

I ran to a tree in the front garden of the house and just leaned on it and cried and cried as I was light up by the moonlight that was shining through the leaves above me.

“Why?" I said to myself “why is this happening to me" I slid down the tree and curled up into a ball and carried on crying, completely unaware of the sound of footsteps.

“Jake?" I heard a feminine say in concern. I looked up to see Susan in a t shirt and her underwear.

“Oh Susan" I said in surprise as I rubbed the tears away and sat up “what are you doing here?"

“I heard you fall out of bed and run out you're room" she said as she sat down beside me and put an arm around my shoulder and asked “So what's the matter?"

“Nothing just a nightmare" I said as I looked away with sadness.

“Aww you poor thing" she said with sadness in her voice before she perked up and said “I know what might make you feel better."

I looked up at her with curiosity and asked “What?" then without no warning whatsoever she gave me a small kiss on the cheek. I sat there, shocked before asking in confusion “What was that for?"

She giggled before saying “Something that cheered you up, how do you feel?"

She was right I kinda feel better inside before saying “I feel okay, I guess."

She got up off the ground and held out a hand for me while saying “Good now time for us to get to bed, its four in the morning." I took her hand and she pulled me up and both walked back to the house.

After I said goodnight to Susan and closed my bedroom door I heard that voice from my nightmare saying “You will die and everyone you care about can do nothing to stop it" I shuddered as that voice came back to me as I climbed into bed and thought to myself one question that scared me.

Was that just a nightmare, or something more?