The Blood Moon by Amber Riel (reading strategies book .TXT) 📖

Shawn’s Godparents, but she didn’t want them to have to deal with trying to raise werewolves. She had promised her father that she was going to take his place as the leader. She felt bad for Tom and Jane because no matter how hard they tried, they couldn’t have kids of their own. Blackout

Champ and Kat walked around the town, holding hands. They were glad that they didn’t have to hide their love any more. They had planned on going ice skating but they decided to just go to see a movie instead.
Champ was actually worn out from helping Kyle carry the tree. The tree itself was twenty-five feet tall until they cut it down. Now it was fifteen feet long. He just wanted to relax the rest of the day and get off of his feet.
Kat understood. She wasn’t going to force him to do something that he didn’t feel like doing.

A pale, ice white hair, crystal colored eyes, skinny, ageless woman, wearing a blood red dress, was roaming the town. She had pointed elf ears. She walked around, carrying something in her right hand. She looked for something as she walked down the snow filled streets of Westfield. This lady had blood red lips to match her dress.

She stopped in the middle of the road. A dangerous idea for a person to stop walking in the middle of an icy road. A car could slide and hit that person, but she wasn’t an actual human.
She held up her hand to reveal a small, sliver whistle. She blew into the whistle.

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Champ and Kat walked over to the movie theater and they checked out the different movies to see what was playing.

“So, what movie do you want to see?” Champ asked.

“I don’t know,” Kat answered as she read the titles.

“Well, what kind of movie do you want to watch?”

Kat had to think for a second. “A romantic comedy.”

Champ didn’t reply.

“Is that okay?” she asked.

Champ still didn’t answer.

“Champ?” Kat looked at Champ. She noticed that he had a blank look on his face.

It was as if he was in a trance. Champ started growling at Kat. He went to attack her. She dove out of his way.

“Champ, what’s gotten into you?” she asked.

Champ ignored Kat’s question and ran in the direction which led away from the movie theater.

“CHAMP, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!” she called to him, but he was already gone.

Champ ran up to the pale woman who was now surrounded by a lot of different kind of dogs. The dogs and Champ were waiting for the lady to give them orders.

The woman looked at Champ. She was confused to as why he was there. He was a human, not a dog, so why did he show up? She smiled when she realized that he was a werewolf. Werewolves were her favorite breed. “Okay. I want all of you to rob the stores, banks, or any where else you can find money.... AND ATTACK ANYONE THAT GETS IN THE WAY!” she ordered.

All the dogs and Champ, who were all in a trance, obeyed the strange woman’s orders. They managed to get money. Champ ran through an ally and looked for people to mug.

Forgetting Kat

Lee was about to leave the vet because Jean had interviewed him for an opening in the office. Jean had offered him the job and he was excited. “THANK YOU, JEAN! THANK YOU!” he explained.
Jean had to smile at the kid’s excitement. “When can you start, Lee?”

“TOMORROW!”

“Okay. See you then.”

“Okay.” Lee left the office.

Lee walked into an ally and he noticed that Champ was running in the opposite direction. “HEY, CHAMP!”

Champ ignored Lee as he ran past him.

Lee turned to face Champ. He was confused. Champ never ignored anyone. He watched Champ run toward the vet’s office and for some reason he found that to be odd. He decided to follow Champ.

Jean was sitting behind the desk, when Champ walked into the building. She smiled at him. “Oh hello, Champ. How are you doing?” she asked.

Champ walked over to her, growling.

“Champ?” She kind of laughed. Then she looked into his eyes and noticed that they were fully white. The pupils were gone. “Champ?” she asked in fear.

Champ went to grab the cash register, when Lee dumped a bucket of water on him. He instantly snapped out of the trance. He shook off some of the water and looked at Jean. “Hey, Jean. What’s up?” He looked at his wet coat and felt his hair. “Why am I wet?”

“What’s going on, Champ?” Lee asked.

“What do you mean?”

“Well, you were about to grab the cash register.”

“I was?”

“Yea.... Didn’t you realize what you were doing?”

“No.... Actually, all I remember was that I was with Kat.... We were....” He realized that Kat wasn’t around.

“KAT!” He ran out of the vet’s office.

The pale woman waited for Champ to show up with the money, but he never showed. “Where is that werewolf? He’s suppose to bring me that money.” She decided to walk around and look for Champ.

Champ had arrived at the movie theater. He was out of breath. He looked around for Kat, but she wasn’t there. He walked over to the teenage guy who was inside of the ticket booth. “Um.... Have you seen the girl that I was with earlier?”

“No.... But I did see a cat.”

“Which way did the cat go?”

“That way.” The guy pointed to his right.

“Oh. Thank you.” Champ ran.

Champ had run to Kat’s apartment. He waited patiently before he knocked again.

When Kat finally opened the door and realized it was Champ, she slammed the door on his face.

The guy was confused. He didn’t do anything wrong, but he must of done something because his girlfriend was ticked off at him. “KAT?! OPEN UP, PLEASE?!” he called through the door.

“KAT?!” He banged on the door. “PLEASE?!”

Kat didn’t answer the door.

“KAT.... LET ME IN!”

She still didn’t answer the door.

“KAT.... I’M SORRY FOR WHATEVER I DID TO MAKE YOU MAD, PLEASE, JUST LET ME IN?!”

Kat finally opened the door. “You almost attacked me, and then, you just left me at the movie theater.” She was ticked off and tears were filling up her eyes.

“I’m sorry, babe.... I won’t do it again.... I swear.”

Kat went to close the door again, but this time, Champ made it through the door. “You think that I’m going to be okay?.... That really hurt.”

Champ gave Kat a hug. He didn’t like it when she was mad at him. This time though wasn’t his fault. He didn’t remember almost attacking her or just leaving her at the movie theatre. He usually wouldn’t do those things anyways. It was a confusing day for him. “I’m sorry and it won’t happen again.... Okay?”
Kat couldn’t stay mad at Champ. She just couldn’t believe that Champ would do those things to her. “I forgive you.”

Champ smiled. “I knew you would.”

She smiled at his reply.

Mysterious Woman

The pale woman ran into Lee. She was still looking for Champ. She wanted that stolen money. All she really cared for was money. She was beyond greedy. “Excuse me, young man,” she told Lee as he opened the door to his old, gray truck.

“Yea,” he said. He didn’t want to seem rude, but he kind of wanted to leave.

“I was wondering.... Have you seen a guy that has dark brown hair.... Tall.... Brown eyes?”

“Champ?”

“Well, I don’t know his name.”

“Yea.... I know who you’re talking about.... His name’s Champ.... Why?”

“Oh. He owes me money.”

“Champ owes you money?”

“Yea.” The pale woman walked away without another word, even though she didn’t get the answer for the question she had asked.

Lee was confused. He knew Champ and he knew that Champ would pay someone back as soon as possible, if he were to borrow money. The strange woman said that Champ had owed her money. He found that to be as odd as when he followed Champ into the vet. That day had just been odd to him. He couldn’t make any sense of it. Maybe that woman had something to deal with Champ’s odd behavior.

Millie was out on the balcony. She was thinking about how her visit with Tom and Jane went. She felt bad about interrupting his preaching.

Kyle walked out and over to Millie. He placed his arm around her and held her close. “How was your visit with Tom?”

“I’m terrible.”

 

“What happened?”

“I walked into the church and interrupted his preaching.... This woman made me mad, so I told her that she would be my dinner and her son would be my dessert.... The worst part was that I was standing in the middle of church.”

Kyle’s eyes grew wide. He couldn’t believe Millie would say something like that in church. Even for her that was horrible.

“I looked at Tom and seen how disappointed he was in me.... You know.... Him and Jane showed up at my parents’ funerals.... They were good to us.... And I had to go and lose my temper in his church. They were there at my parents’ funerals.... They were the only humans there, but my father’s brother wasn’t.”
Kyle could see Millie’s pain and just hugged her. He didn’t want to let her go. “It’s okay, Mill. Just forget about it.... Knowing Tom, he probably already forgave you.”

“He did, but I still feel terrible.... That woman called me a monster.... I don’t look like monster now.... Now, I look human.... No fangs, claws, or a tail.... Nothing that means that I’m transforming.... Yet.”

The pale woman decided to quit looking for Champ because