wolf in the woods by hannah ratliff (the reading list book txt) 📖

Chapter one
It was a cold but beautiful day in Nebraska; I had just finished school for the day and was on my way home through the woods. The scene was like that of a fairy tale, the trees were bare with icicles hanging from the branches of tall bur oak trees. As beautiful and peaceful as the scene in a postcard. And of course my peace never lasted long before I started feeling
??? as if I was be followed, I stopped and looked around, nothing but oak trees surrounded me. I started walking again only this time I heard the slightest whispers of footsteps, I stopped and looked around but still nothing I thought it was just the bullies playing a joke on me so I ignored it. I was about half-way through the forest when I heard it, a break in a branch. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked around not a creature stirred, nor did bird take flight. I knew it had to be them playing tricks on my mind, so I decided to run the rest of the way out of the woods, as I turned around to run I froze in my tracks, their standing on all fours was a black wolf that stood about as tall as a horse, growling with teeth as sharp as swords. my feet felt frozen to the ground, yet as soon as my feet froze, they thawed. because the wolf started walking towards me; although with every step he took toward me I took one step back. I had taken an amount of seven steps until my back hit the bark of a big daddy oak tree. I look forward to still see the wolf coming toward me, one step at a time. I looked to my left and right for any place of escape. Darn I was trapped by trees all around me. When I looked back up, I saw that the wolf was changing into a man! All I could do was just stare at the creature that was walking toward me. His eyes misty grey, held my legs in invisible shackles. I forced my head to look at my feet to check if the shackles were invisible- they were. When I looked back up; he was standing right in front of me, just staring at me with the gentlest smile I have ever seen- his teeth was white as snow and sharp as knives-, he smiled at me as if he had just seen a sun rise for the first time. Then out of nowhere, this wolf-man slowly reached up and very gently stroked my cheek. I looked up at him and smiled back, when I looked in his eyes I knew that I was meant to walk through these woods today to find him- to find my true love. The person to make my life whole once again. Then as soon as the moment was given it was taken away; when the wolf-man ripped his toward the back of the big daddy oak tree and let at a loud growl. So loud I covered my ears and shut my eyes; when I opened my eyes again the wolf-man was nowhere in sight. When I turned around and looked behind the oak tree I saw him - and an uncontrollable smile came to my face- back in wolf form growling at something that was hidden by another tree. I moved a little bit closer and wished I hadn’t; standing five feet from the wolf was what was following me. I knew that the wolf was my protector and the creature in the black hooded cape was my stalker. I’ve heard stories of the creature in black; had nightmares, but never have I ever met a bloodsucker. No one has and lived to tell the tale. Suddenly the wind turned and ripped the hood off the bloodsuckers head. His skin was as white as the snow I stood on, his hair was a slimy looking black slicked with pig fat, and his eyes were the color of fire. He must have heard me gasp at the sight of him, because he looked straight at me and smiled a smile that sent a shiver down my spine. At that moment I knew I was going to die, for two reasons- one, he was a murderer and I was his target and two because at that moment he jumped and knocked me to the ground.


Chapter two


As the creature threw me to the ground; it knocked the air out of me. The moment I body hit the ground the blood sucker sunk his teeth- sharp as a jagged dagger- in to my neck. The pain was excruciatingly painful. I screamed as the pain shot through my body as the creature sunk its teeth again in my collar bone. The wolf man pulled the creature off of me, -my body heaved as the excess weight was taken from me- and threw him in a tree. The creature was up on his feet in a flash and raced toward me again only to be thrown twenty feet back; the wolf-man lunged for the blood-sucker, while I gained my senses back. I grabbed my neck to stop the blood, and tried to inch my way back to the large oak tree; when I heard a loud screeching noise followed by a scream, then something flew past my face and landed by the large oak tree. I swallowed back vile as I saw a snow white hand lying palm up by the very spot the wolf touched my cheek. Everything started going blurry, when the screeching and screaming started again keeping me from falling into unconscious. I looked back toward where the “wolf” and blood sucker fought; the wolf man had blood on him but no wound in sight, while the blood sucker had no right hand, left arm and was missing part of his right leg. The blood sucker looked at me and lunged once again only to be pummeled to the ground. Then the wolf took the bloodsuckers head between his jaws and ripped it from its shoulder and swung the lifeless ball at a tree. From the shock and lack of blood my body sagged into the snow and I slipped in unconsciousness. I awoke sometime later from the smell of smoke and watched wearily as the now human form wolf-man take pieces of the bloodsucker and threw it in a fire. Not knowing what to do I just laid there; after a few minutes the wolf-man turned my way, walked the five steps and gently picked me up in his arms and started walking east toward a unknown destiny. I have no idea what just happened to me, or what is to come. Yet I feel safe, as long as I’m the arms of my wolf-man.

Publication Date: 01-25-2011

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