A couple of hours passed, and night had fallen over the forest.
Ethan was still lying there, unconscious beneath the trees. The wind rustled gently above him, and the forest had gone quiet.
But then, slowly, he began to stir.
"Ugh… is this heaven?" Ethan mumbled to himself as his eyes fluttered open.
He looked down at his chest and froze. There was a large hole torn in his shirt, soaked in dried blood. He sat up slowly, realizing he was still lying at the base of the same tree where he had been stabbed.
"I'm still in the forest… but how?" he whispered. "Did someone help me? No, that doesn't make sense. Why would anyone help someone unawakened? What the hell is happening?"
Suddenly, a voice echoed inside his mind.
[Host has been revived… system fully activated.]
Ethan blinked and looked around, confused. "Who just said that?" he muttered. "Was that in my head?"
He paused, eyes narrowing as the realization hit him. "Did that voice say… system?"
He sat up straighter, heart racing.
"A system? And I woke up after dying? Wait… does this mean I can finally awaken?"
He swallowed hard and asked aloud, "System? Are you there?"
[Yes master, I'm here. Would you like to know what the system does?]
Ethan let out a shaky breath. "Yes, please."
[The Show and Game Entertainment System allows the host to gain points from any television show, movie, short film, or game. Basically, anything considered entertainment. With those points, you may purchase items from the system shop.]
Ethan's eyes widened. "Wait… don't I get a gift or something? Or did you forget about that?"
[The system has granted you a free gift box for becoming the host. From the gift box, you have received: (Super AI Helper), (Super Camera Vision). Please enjoy.]
As he stood up slowly from the tree, his eyes gleamed. "Super AI Helper… and Camera Vision? That's insane."
He took a moment to stretch and look down at his chest. Not even a scar was left. "System, do I get any tasks or missions or anything?"
[No. The system doesn't hand out tasks or anything free. You earn what you get.]
Ethan stared into the dark trees, speechless.
"This system is so irresponsible…Can you show me what those skills do?" Ethan asked.
[(Super AI Helper): This powerful AI tool can assist with everything from editing movies to helping you craft a movie script. You could even transform a rock into the most realistic human character imaginable.]
[(Super Camera Vision): This advanced camera tool lets you record everything you see directly through your eyes, now upgraded to ten K resolution with a built in zoom function. It also features a third person mode, allowing you to deploy a stationary or follow cam in stunning ten K quality.]
Ethan read the descriptions carefully, then blinked a few times in disbelief.
"Okay… maybe this system isn't as irresponsible as I thought," he said slowly. "I mean, I can literally make a rock look and act like a real person and record everything in 10 K with my eyes…"
He stood there for a moment, letting it all sink in, then nodded to himself.
"Alright, I should probably get home before anything else crazy happens," he muttered, turning and making his way back through the forest toward the city.
Later, when he got back to the house, he walked up to the front door and placed his finger on the scanner. The light blinked, and the door slid open.
Inside, he saw Jonathan completely knocked out on the couch, mouth open with drool slipping down the side of his cheek.
Ethan raised an eyebrow, then walked past him and headed into his room.
He changed into some fresh clothes and then walked over to the drawer where he kept his saved up money. Inside were stacks of bills.
He counted them quickly.
"Four thousand," he said, nodding a little. "Not bad."
He sat down on his bed and looked around the room, thinking.
"I can't go back to that job. If Marco's people come find out I'm still alive and come looking for me, that's the first place they'll check. And besides, I've literally got a system that lets me make a movie using tools nobody else in the world has. I'd be stupid not to use it."
He leaned back on the bed, staring up at the ceiling.
"But it's only me right now. I don't have a crew, I don't have actors… I don't even have a script. How am I supposed to pull off a whole movie by myself?"
Then he remembered what the AI Helper said. It could make a rock into the most realistic human character imaginable.
"Wait… maybe I don't need real actors. If I can create realistic characters with this system, I could fake everything. If anyone asks, I'll just tell them it's advanced CGI and visual effects. People believe that stuff now, right?"
He sighed and rubbed his face, then sat up again.
"Alright, no point in wasting time."
He focused on the AI Helper skill, and a large blue screen appeared in front of him. A glowing keyboard floated beneath it like a touch screen. At the center was a box where he could ask questions. Tabs lined the top, including things like Movie Edit and Super Special Effects.
Ethan stared at it, surprised.
"Okay… let's see what you can really do."
He started typing, "Make me an original blockbuster movie script."
[What genre and tone do you want this blockbuster script to be?] the AI said.
'Oh, it can speak? That means I don't have to type?' he thought. He decided to test it and spoke out loud.
"I would like it to be a dark fantasy action thriller, and I want the tone to be like Underworld, Planet of the Apes, and Dune."
As soon as he finished speaking, the screen started working right away. Lines of text appeared, and it began writing out the full script. It described how the characters felt, gave them unique backgrounds, and even explained how they would react in different situations. It created full personalities for each of them.
Ethan stared at the screen, eyes wide, watching it all come together.
It was laying out scenes, building suspense, and setting the tone exactly how he imagined. Everything flowed together like a professional studio script. It even listed the setting, world rules, factions, and powers inside the world it was making.
"Holy shit… it's really doing everything," Ethan said quietly.
He leaned in, completely focused, as his first original movie was being born right in front of him, he started reading it.
["TITLE: Feral Dominion
GENRE: Dark Fantasy Action / Thriller
TONE: Underworld meets Planet of the Apes with the scale of Dune
RATING: R (violence, language, intense themes)"]
["TEASER/PROLOGUE
EXT. BLACK FOREST - NIGHT
Fog blankets an ancient forest. Military grade hunters move silently through the trees, tracking something.
Suddenly, everything goes quiet.
Then it hits. A massive beast crashes from above, tearing through them. Fangs. Claws. Fur.
But it's not a werewolf.
COMMANDER (V.O.)
They told us werewolves were extinct. They lied.
Blood sprays against the trees. Screams. Static.
SMASH TO BLACK"]
Then the ai continued writing.
["TITLE CARD: FERAL DOMINION
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ACT ONE - "THE HIDING PLACE"
INT. HAVEN - UNDERGROUND CITY - NIGHT
Deep beneath the mountains of Northern Canada, a hidden city thrives. Not just werewolves. Weretigers. Werebears. Werehawks. Werecobras. Entire clans, ancient and powerful, living in exile.
Some are mostly human. Some are monsters. All are tired of hiding.
RAVEN JARROW, 25, trains in a massive stone arena. She's a hybrid, born of two rival clans. Strong, quiet, built for war.
She spars with KOBA, a cocky werelion with a scar across his chest.
Their match is interrupted by GENERAL THORNE, battle-worn and respected, leader of the Lycan Front.
THORNE
They found us. It's time.
Raven stares back, jaw clenched.
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INT. UNITED GLOBAL DEFENSE HQ - WASHINGTON DC
GENERAL COLT MADDOX addresses the world in a televised broadcast.
MADDOX
We are no longer dealing with myth. These creatures are real. They are organized. And they do not want peace.
Behind him, leaked footage shows transformations around the globe.
Weretigers in India. Werepanthers in Brazil. Werejackals in the Middle East. Each sighting more violent than the last.
ACT ONE ENDS WITH:
A human black-ops team attacks a hidden sanctuary near the Arctic Circle.
But this time, the weres fight back.
Raven leads the charge. She transforms mid-battle into something new. Something faster, smarter, and more dangerous than anything the soldiers were prepared for.
As the humans retreat, a global broadcast cuts in.
RAVEN (V.O.)
We are not monsters. You are.
FADE TO BLACK"]
[ACT TWO - "WHEN THEY BREAK"
EXT. SKIES ABOVE EUROPE - NIGHT
Human military forces unleash their first major global offensive. Drones sweep the skies. Bombers strike suspected were strongholds in remote forests, tundras, and jungles.
In retaliation, rogue werepacks around the globe rise up.
• In Kenya, werecheetahs sabotage a human weapons convoy.
• In Brazil, werepanthers take control of a dam, cutting power to cities.
• In Siberia, a werebear horde storms an outpost during a snowstorm.
INT. HAVEN COUNCIL CHAMBER
A tense emergency meeting.
Raven paces before the Were Council, made up of leaders from every bloodline. They argue, some want peace, others want extinction for humans.
RAVEN
If we start killing cities, we prove them right. We become monsters.
THORNE
They've already made that choice for us.
Tensions rise. Koba sides with Raven. Others don't.
A masked envoy from the Serpent Bloodline (werecobras) appears unexpectedly. Her name: SYLA. She reveals a secret the council buried years ago.
SYLA
Humans didn't discover us. They were shown where to look.
The traitor is among the council.
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INT. PENTAGON WAR ROOM
General Maddox watches footage of the failed sanctuary attack.
MADDOX
They're coordinated. Someone's leading them.
His scientists present a new weapon: Project THRESHER - genetically engineered assassins designed to kill weres with precision. Fast. Ruthless. Created using stolen were DNA.
Maddox orders them deployed.
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INT. DEEP UNDERGROUND - HAVEN'S PRISON BLOCK
Raven visits her mother, LENA, a legendary war hero locked away for killing a human diplomat years ago.
RAVEN
You were right. War was always coming.
LENA
No. War is just a distraction. The real threat… is already inside your walls.
Raven begins to question everything.
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EXT. FRENCH ALPS – NIGHT RAID
Koba leads a stealth team to rescue captured weres being tortured in a military lab.
Inside, they find something worse - hybrid experiments. Human Were crosses. Mindless, violent, and barely stable.
They free the survivors. Koba barely escapes with his life. One of his team is infected.
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INT. HAVEN – STRATEGY ROOM
The Council fractures. Raven calls for unity.
RAVEN
This isn't about species anymore. This is about control. We don't win by surviving. We win by revealing the truth.
She proposes an insane mission: infiltrate the human capital, hack their broadcast system, and show the world what Project Thresher is.
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ACT TWO ENDS WITH:
The Haven is bombed.
Syla disappears. Thorne is severely wounded. Raven is caught in the rubble, bloodied but alive.
As fire rains from above, Raven drags herself out and looks up at the sky.
The stars have gone dark.
The satellites have been turned against them.
Humanity is preparing to end the war in one final strike.]
[ACT THREE - "THE HOUR OF BEASTS"
INT. DESTROYED HAVEN - NIGHT
Smoke and fire choke the remains of the once hidden city. Survivors drag injured bodies through the rubble. Families torn apart. Blood on the walls.
Raven climbs from the ruins. Her hybrid form is flickering - she's exhausted, but not broken.
She gathers the survivors and gives them a choice:
RAVEN
We're done hiding. We fight not to win… but to be seen.
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INT. PENTAGON – PROJECT THRESHER VAULT
General Maddox stands before dozens of Thresher units - lab-grown hunters that look human but can shift into violent, silver-fanged creatures. Think human sized monsters with surgical precision.
Maddox is warned that the AI controlling them has begun self directing.
SCIENTIST
They're not following commands anymore. They're making… decisions.
MADDOX
Then we strike now.
He launches Operation Ashfall - a full extermination protocol.
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INT. TRANSPORT JET - MID-FLIGHT
Raven, Koba, and a strike team of elite weres fly toward New York, where the broadcast hub for the global satellite network is located.
Syla reappears, helping them gain entry.
KOBA
You sure we can trust the cobra?
SYLA
I'm not loyal to blood. I'm loyal to survival.
She hands Raven a hard drive - it contains the truth.
Evidence of government war crimes.
Proof that the council traitor was Thorne.
He made a secret deal with Maddox. In exchange for peace for his bloodline, he betrayed the rest.
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EXT. NEW YORK CITY - NIGHT
The world watches in horror as Thresher Units are unleashed on civilian areas where weres are suspected to be hiding.
The public turns. Panic spreads. Protest erupts.
But before the chaos consumes everything, the global feed is hijacked.
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INT. BROADCAST TOWER
Raven steps in front of the camera. Blood on her face. City burning behind her.
RAVEN
This is what fear creates. Not monsters. Not gods. Just killers. You wanted to believe we were beasts. But the beast… is you.
She hits send.
Across the globe, the truth is revealed.
• Footage of Thresher experiments
• Footage of innocent weres being executed
• Thorne confessing in a secret recording
The world turns upside down.
⸻
FINAL BATTLE - CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK
The U.S. sends everything.
Tanks. Drones. Thresher swarms.
But the were armies have arrived.
From the oceans rise werecrocodiles.
From the skies, werehawks and wereowls descend.
From beneath the city, werebadgers and wererats tear through the sewer lines.
It's an all out war. Chaos. Roars. Screams. Transformation everywhere.
Koba takes down a Thresher in hand to hand combat. Syla is impaled saving a child. Maddox watches the battle from a rooftop… until Raven confronts him.
They fight - human vs hybrid. Maddox in a powered exo-suit, Raven in full primal form. Brutal, emotional, desperate.
RAVEN
You tried to erase us. But we're not a mistake. We're the future.
She delivers the final blow. The suit fails. Maddox is done.
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EPILOGUE - MONTHS LATER
INT. UNITED NATIONS REFORM COUNCIL
Raven sits at a long table, surrounded by human and were leaders. The New Accord is being written.
Weredom is no longer a myth. It is a recognized nation of its own.
KOBA (V.O.)
Funny thing about monsters… they look a lot like us once the masks come off.
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FADE TO BLACK
TITLE: FERAL DOMINION
SUBTITLE: THE WAR HAS JUST BEGUN
Post-Credits Scene:
Deep underground, a surviving Thresher unit opens its eyes in a lab no one controls.
Something has evolved.]