You get transformed into a werewolf, as Dart Ternynck can attest.

"First I was kind of annoyed," Dart says. "I thought me and Andy were friends, and then he goes and bites me!"

Dart claims that the first thing he noticed was dark body hair growing at an extraordinary rate across his entire body and an insatable urge to howl at the moon.

"But that was only the beginning," Dart adds. "Do you have any idea how well wolves can smell? They can smell the Lobster Thermidor you had for dinner five hours ago."

Darts' eyes also changed from blue on black, to yellow on white. He was also stronger, but unfortunately was forced to walk with a hunch. Dart pointed out that wolves do walk on all fours.

Much to the surprise of everyone who offered to help him with his current predicament, Dart has decided he wants to remain as a werewolf.

"Why wouldn't you? It's awesome fun. Besides, I'm only wolfish between 8pm and 6am. Plus it makes for an awesome stage effect!"

Fans at Darts' last concert were shocked and impressed at his onstage transformation. Evidently, aside from the whole howling business, being a werewolf has had no adverse effect on his musical talents.

Wife Jasmine Ternynck, was the second to become a werewolf.

"I could give you the line about wanting to be supportive of my husband," Jasmine says. "But c'mon, werewolves are cool. Why wouldn't anyone want to be one?"

"It made sense to me that if I had become a werewolf by being nibbled by Andy, then surely I could turn Jasmine into a werewolf by biting her too," Dart explains. "It worked."

Neighbours have expressed concerns about how Dart and Jasmine can look after their young children, Dasimine and twins Jada and Jart, during night time hours. Both parents wish to assure everyone that even with the hunched walking, they are still capable of looking after their kids just as they would during daylight hours. Additionally, none of their children have ever shown any sign of fear towards their wolfish selves.

"And believe me, we'd know," Dart says. "Wolves can smell fear as well as dirty nappies."

In fact, Dasmine Ternyck has expressed an interest in becoming a werewolf too.

"Not until after the Coming of Age ceremony though," Dasmine says disappointedly. "So not fair!"

"It's a important decision to make," Dart says. "And while we're flattered, at the moment there's no cure for lycanthropy. We want Dasmine to be sure of her decision, and not make it on a whim. We wouldn't want her to regret it later."

This has been a week of change. In some cases the change has been visible, such as the recent inclusion of werewolves into our society. In others it's been more sutble, creeping up on us until we suddenly realise, wow, we now have over 200 residents in Rainbow Valley!

Probably the most shocking of the changes has been the recent disaster to hit our sister neighbourhood, Greenacre Village (see page 2). Rainbow Valley residents are encouraged to help out as much as possible.

The Chronicle is also pleased to introduce two new aspiring writers to our journalistic team, Rockette D'Beau and Xeramy Davenport. Rockette continues the report on the latest alien abductions on page 2, while Xeramy promotes the new local band Something Blue on page 7.

Be certain to read that latest on Rainbow Valleys Plantsims, also on page 2.

We've had a number of retirements this week, first with Mayor Marie Corsillo stepping down, and then with three members of the Rainbow Valley Llamas moving on (page 7).

A number of residents have taken up book writing, their titles being promoted by 'Guemabi's Books'. This new business was started by Rainbow Valley's youngest entrepaner, Guemabi D'Beau (page 4).

Rainbow Valley has suffered the death of its first resident. Uni student, Juan Harris, died tragically this week when a satellite fell on him (page 6).

It's been a pleasure writing for you. See you next week.