The Secret Wiki

Preface
This wiki contains several Science Fiction stories set in a universe similar to the contemporary "real world". Stories set in this wiki include Secret of the Were-Virus and Secret of the Dark Island.

Main locations

 * Penmount, Michigan - where the Harpers, McPherson, Shimmings, Chaleen Bright and Blake Jones live
 * Porcupine Mountains - national park located near Penmount on Michigan's Upper Peninsula; Fred Montgomery works and lives here
 * Cascade Mountains - located in western Washington, Oregon and Northern California; one of the main bases for the were-research is located here

Dr. James Harper
Dr. James Harper was a medical doctor living in Penmount, Michigan and the first person to be turned into a werebeast, becoming a ferocious Bobcat. After becoming human again, he discovered that he still possessed some of the abilities he had as a were-animal, such as improved hearing. However, he and his family had to flee Penmount when an angry mob discovered the truth about him and feared he was still dangerous.

Brian Harper
Brian Harper (born 1988) is Dr. Harper's teenage son. He generally has a nice personality, but sometimes has a rather sardonic sense of humor. He is eighteen years old and he worked at a variety store in Penmount, although he plans to follow his father's footsteps and go into medical school.

Audrey Harper
Audrey Harper (born 1989) is Dr. Harper's teenage daughter. She is kind and generally compassionate and has a much less sarcastic personality than her brother. She is seventeen and still in high school.

Margaret Harper
Margaret Harper is Dr. Harper's eccentric mother and grandmother to Brian and Audrey. She was quite miffed that she couldn't know about her son's hideous transformation.

Fred Montgomery
Ranger Fred "Monty" Montgomery is a friendly ranger who worked in the nearby Porcupine Mountains, where he owns a dog named Bunnell after Lafayette Bunnell.

Officer McPherson
Officer John McPherson is the Chief of Police in Penmount, Michigan. He is harsh, often arrogant and has many unpleasant personality traits, although he still does what he believes is right.

General Stuart
General Harold Stuart is a gruff military general, who is very big on efficiency. He hates being interrupted for any reason and considers being courteous a waste of time.

Dr. Shimmings
Dr. Deman Shimmings used to be Dr. Harper's boss, but, after he discovered that his employee was briefly turned into a werecat, he led a lynch mob to the Harpers' home and had it destroyed. Shimmings went on to found and lead the Alliance, an unethical organization that fights the werebeasts through any means. The Alliance believes that anyone who used to be a werebeast is still dangerous (when, in reality, they are just like any other human) and wants them all killed. Shimmings dies at the end of Were-Virus when he falls backwards into a ravine.

Chaleen Bright
Chaleen Bright (born 1977) is a catty television reporter who used to work for a local news station in Penmount, Michigan. She is twenty-nine years old and doesn't mind ruining other people's lives to get a good story. Chaleen's life changed greatly after she was turned into a werebat, however. At first she was happy after being changed back, thinking she could get rich writing a book about her experience, but then she realized the Alliance would stop at nothing to kill her. She has now adopted the orphaned Joey Legrand, after having saved his life from a were-locust, and is now engaged to Sergeant Henry Andrews.

Samantha Bright
Samantha Bright is Chaleen's estranged mother, who was put in jail after Chaleen did a story on her meth problem.

Secondary characters

 * Captain William "Bill" Marone - a subordinate to General Stuart; promoted from lieutenant in Part 5
 * Blake Jones - one of Audrey's teachers, who joined the Alliance
 * Ernest Jackson - a hunter turned into a werewolf
 * Sgt. Henry Andrews - formerly a seargent in the army; he was bitten by a contaminated gila monster and turned into a reptilian humanoid
 * Joey Legrand - a teenage boy so desentized by violent movies that he thinks it would be cool to turn into a werebeast; however, after having seen what happened to Chaleen, he changed his mind.
 * Dr. Henry Jennings - a medical doctor; formerly worked at Banal Hospital in Los Angeles, but now works in New York City to create a cure for the were-animal disease
 * Dr. Carol Jennings - Dr. Henry Jennings' wife; also a medical doctor