CHAPTER 1 - MIDNIGHT HOWL

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Full moon. It was the night feared by all. Beware and do be scare. As this is the night full of despair. You might think that tonight should turn out beautifully. With the full moon shining on earth brighter than all the other night. I am sorry to say. You were wrong. Tonight was darker instead. Villagers tend to hit the hay earlier than usual to prevent themself from being under the shadow of the full moon. 

A young gentleman was gazing at the stars. The stars look farther than usual. They look a bit pale and scared. He sighed. He could sense that something might go wrong tonight. Could it be that tonight is the night where Dr. Frankenstein let lose his monster? Nah... He snaped back to reality. Jimmy took his axe and walk into the barn nearby before it gets any darker.

It was a bit late to head home. So, somehow Jimmy have to endorse with the idea of sleeping in the barn tonight. Mr.Liam owns this barn and this farm. Jimmy was just a common worker there. But he tend to work overtime without asking for a raise or such. He just enjoy to spend his days around the farm animals. He grab a piece of cloth to cover himself up as his eyes begins to feels heavy. He took a last sight at the barn to make sure it was okay to sleep.

Horses are safe in their own stable. Chickens in their coop. Sheeps are sleeping soundly. Cows are too. A big barn own by a big man. Jimmy starts to imagine himself being promoted or having his own barn and farm one day. That would be awesome. It's like a dream came true. Without him knowing. He's already dreaming in his sleep.

 Little Amanda was at the porch of Granny Annie's house accomponied by a candle by her side. Wolfy was no where around her. It's not normal for a girl to sleep in the morning and wake up to play when it gets dark but that what Amanda's daily life is like. She force herself to embrace the night life to ignore the villagers who likes to accuse her of being a witch or such. There's no such thing as a witch. Granny Annie understand what she is going through.

Incidents did occur in the forest. One scarded any herself. She lost her family. And was blame for it. The night gets darker. Granny Annie is fast asleep in her room upstairs.  A figure move in the forest nearby the house. Amanda just smile. Weird..

"Be good wolfy" said a sweet lovely voice.

She then started to sing a lullaby. Twinkle twinkle little star perhaps? But it didn't sound right. The lyrics were all scarmble and infected with the word wolf as in wolfy. Does she really have black magic then? Were the rumors true?

Wolfy wolfy be good.

How i wonder where you are.

Playing around in the forest so far.

Like a diamond hard to find.

Wolfy wolfy be good.

Now i wonder where you are.

A loud howl respons to her lullaby. Followed by thunders, lightnings and pouring rains. Little Amanda went inside the house soon after that to get some shut eyes. But wolfy. Was not by her side. Amanda smile and whisper to herself goodnight and off she goes to a world of fantasy. But where is wolfy?

The night gets darker. The shine from the full moon didn't even help to light up your night here in Aquoline. It just makes the situation scarier with the fact that werewolf realm around on the night where the full moon comes to play. 

Everything was peacefull before the sky starts to cry. Maybe she's crying for the safety of the people on that night. Or maybe she was scared of something. And yet the sky couldn't help out much but to sit, stare and cry more and more. In fact. During every full moon. The sky would always burst out sheding tears heavily to the earth.

Mr. Liam barn's seems safe at the begining. But it's a bit isolated from the main village. Jimmy was sleeping soundly. The roar of the sky didn't awoke him from his slumber. The door suddenly slamed open and still. Jimmy was fast asleep. A figure comes in and stare at Jimmy. He then look around and found something more interesting to his eyes. Sheeps.

The monster had huge arms and claws. With one hand it already picked up the sheep to be puncted by it's mighty fangs. It snap the sheep bone just like a twig. *crack* . There goes you're fluffy new sweater. It didn't stop. One meal wasn't just enough. The monster went to the horses and accidentally woke one up in the process. The horse sturgle to fight but the effort was useless. 

Amazingly Jimmy was still asleep when the noises were made close by, by the farm animals. Another loud thunder roar thru the sky and Jimmy was startled. He rubs his eyes and what he saw was only a figure by the entrance of the barn.  He describe it as a werewolf. A creature that wasn't even suppose to exist. But it did. Blood was everywhere in the barn.

The 'werewolf' howl for the last time and ran off into the veil of the nights.  It was too late for him to help the animals because some were already eaten and dead. Only bone and heads are remained there laying on the ground coloured by pools of blood. 

The thunder roared louder and louder as it was laughing at poor helpless Jimmy and all those animal who had fallen prey to the 'werewolf'. The rain countinue pouring. And the thunder and lightning accompanied the rain along the night til dawn.

Amanda woke up at down. Her big round eyes was searching for something. Ah. Found it. It was wolfy. Wolfy was beside her. She cuddle it. Kissed it. And she went back to sleep soon after that. But she knows nothing of the mob outside of her house accusing her to be the cause of last night disaster. Granny Annie kept all of those problem away from her small childish mind.

She was sound asleep with wolfy by her side. Cuddle it tighter. A whisper came out. "Did you behave? You know i love you"

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⏰ Last updated: Apr 26, 2012 ⏰

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