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

do to stop this woman from using that dog whistle. Dog-Witch

Millie and Kyle looked at each other and they knew what the other was thinking. They had listened to Lee’s description about the evil, pale woman. They knew what the woman was. She was a werewolf’s worse nightmare. They couldn’t stay in town for much longer.

Millie stood up, losing the towel. “We have to go,” she told Kyle. “We have to warn the others.”
Lee and Jean were confused. They looked at each other then to Millie and Kyle. “What’s going on?” Lee asked.

Millie walked to the door, but before she walked out, she turned to face Lee. “It’s nothing for you humans to worry about.” She walked out.

Kyle started out the door, but Lee stopped him.

“Wait. Can I go with you two? I want to find out more about that woman and.... I want to see Lacy.” Lee wanted to find out how much trouble that woman would cause for them and he really wanted to see Lacy. He really liked her and was willing to see her no matter what.

“Yea,” Kyle answered.

Lee and Kyle left the vet’s office.

Champ and Kat stood in front of Christina. Champ was hoping that Christina wasn’t going to use that dog whistle. He tried to think of ways to keep her from blowing into it.

Kat had no idea what was going on, but she could tell by the way Champ acted, that the woman wasn’t on their side, and within a second, she could turn Champ into someone who she didn’t like.

Christina sighed and placed the whistle into her pocket. “Well, are we going to stand here or is something exciting going to happen?”

Champ nor Kat answered the woman.

“Well, I guess we’re going to stand here.” Christina looked at the crust shaped moon. “I’m going to let you go, but wait ‘til the full moon at the end of the month. I’m not leaving this town until I get my money.” She walked away.

Champ and Kat watched as she disappeared into the night. That woman was going to cause trouble for the pack. She was already causing trouble for them.

Everything made sense to Champ. He turned to Kat. He didn’t like what he was going to tell her, but he had no choice. He didn’t want to hurt her. “Kat.”

Kat looked into Champ’s eyes and seen sadness.

“I don’t think that I’ll be able to hang in town for a while....”

“What are you saying?”

“That woman is a....”

Millie, Kyle, and Lee were almost to the woods, when they ran into Stina and Jock. Millie rolled her eyes at the sight of the vampire. She didn’t want to deal with a vampire.

“Millie, we were looking for you,” Stina said.

“What do you want?” Millie asked Jock, rudely.

“I came here to warn you about....”

“I already know, Jock,” Millie told him, mocking his accent. “That stupid dog-witch is here....”

“Is a dog-witch a witch that was transformed into a dog?” Stina asked.

“No.... A dog-witch doesn’t even have magic.... A dog-witch is as pale as a vampire, has elf ears, crystal-colored eyes, and red blood lips.... A dog-witch controls dogs, wolves, werewolves, bats, and vampires.... A dog-witch is evil,” Millie explained.

Stina didn’t understand. Lee understood now why that pale woman had Millie and Kyle worried. She was a threat to them and to their pack.

“Her name is Christina,” Jock told them. Him and his vampire clan had fought Christina already and now it was the lycans turn.

“I don’t care what her name is.... We have to stop her.”

"Us vampires can work with you werewolves.” Jock didn’t have a problem with the lycans. He felt that they were his friends and had known the pack for a while.

“Us werewolves don’t need help from you vampires.... We already have to work with a stupid cat shape-shifter.”

“A cat shape-shifter?” Jock asked, worried. “But cat shape-shifters....”

“I know.... Cat shape-shifters befriend dog-witches.... I’m not stupid and they’ll try to get the stupid dog whistles to control us as well.... I know.”

“Okay. Well, I’ve got to get going.” Jock transformed into a vampire bat and flew away.

Lacy ran into Champ on the way home. “Have you had any luck finding Millie?”

“No, but we have a problem.”

“What?”

“I’ll tell you on the way home. Come on.”

They started walking to the cottage and Champ explained everything that had happened, well mostly everything. He warned her about Christina.

Shawn and Wagner were walking back to the cottage. Wagner was talking about how much he was excited when he talked to Santa. Shawn couldn’t help but laugh.

Lacy, Champ, Shawn, and Wagner had arrived at the burned down cottage. They couldn’t believe their eyes.

Lacy dropped her mouth in disbelief. She remembered that Stina was alone and now she was probably somewhere under the cottage. “STINA!” she exclaimed, in fear. She rushed over to the cottage and started looking for Stina.

Champ and Shawn jumped in. They were all worried about Stina. They were hoping that for some reason she was still alive.

Millie, Stina, and Kyle finally arrived home. Millie dropped her mouth at the sight. She started to grow angry.
Stina stood next to Wagner. She didn’t realize that the cottage had burnt down, even though, she was looking at the remains of the ashes. “Who are they looking for?” she asked.

Wagner grew wide eyed as he looked at Stina and then to Shawn, Champ, and Lacy. “They’re looking for.... YOU!” he exclaimed after a little while.

Lacy had to double check when she looked at Stina. She wasn’t mad at Stina because she was too relieved that Stina was alive. “SHAWN, CHAMP, SHE’S ALIVE!” she called to the two guys.

Champ and Shawn stopped what they were doing and they looked up at Stina. They were relieved to see that she wasn’t injured or dead.

Lacy rushed over and gave Stina a hug. “I’m so glad that you’re okay.”

Millie was flaming mad. She knew what had happened and was about to explode.

“Calm down, Millie,” Kyle told her.

“Calm down? Calm down? Calm down?” Millie asked. She grew angrier each time she asked. She was ticked off.

“Wow.... I leave the stove on for an hour and the cottage is already burnt down.” Stina just looked at the remains of the cottage. The others didn’t want Stina cooking for that reason. They knew that something bad like that would happen. They were just glad that no one was hurt.

Millie snapped as soon as Lee arrived. “Man, you wolves run.... Where’s the cottage?” he asked, noticing that there was a big empty space where the old cottage stood.

Millie walked over to Stina. She grabbed the collar of Stina’s big, brown, winter coat and pulled her closer to her. Millie growled at Stina, who was now afraid of the leader in the pack.

“Why would you do something that stupid?” she asked. “You better be glad that you’re part of this pack.... Because I would kill you.”

“Okay. You’re starting to scare me.”

Millie threw Stina back. “Thanks for destroying the only memory that I had left of my father.” She left. She had to think. Stina had just made her so mad. She needed to calm down so she walked back into the direction which she came from.

Champ walked over to Stina and helped her up. He knew that Millie said things that she didn’t really mean when she was ticked off. “Millie’s just mad, Stina,” he told the young wolf. He realized that his hands were staring to transform into claws as he helped Stina to her feet. “We have bigger problems.”

“Yea,” Kyle agreed. “We have to figure out how to stop that dog-witch before she has all of us under her spell.”

“How’d you know about Christina?”

“Lee described her to me and Millie.... How’d you know her name?”

“She told me and Kat.”

“There’s a dog-witch in town?” Shawn asked. He knew that they were trouble, but he had never been near one.

Kyle and Champ nodded to him.

New Place to Stay

Kyle and Champ were trying to figure out where they were going to stay until they could rebuild the cottage. They were hated by most of the towns people so it was hard for them. Lee gave them ideas, but they had to reject them because they weren’t good. They were ideas that would cause trouble for the wolves, but Lee didn’t know, he was just trying to help.

“Jean?” Lee asked.

“Jean? She’s scared of us,” Kyle replied. “Mostly because Millie threatens her.... She wont let us stay at her house.”

“I think if we reason with her, she’ll let us stay,” Champ disagreed.

“Okay. We could try.”

Millie walked to the bookstore. She went to unlock the door when Kat showed up. Kat looked upset about something and she wanted to talk to someone. Millie was the only one around so she had no choice.

“Hi, Millie,” she said, trying to be nice.

Millie rolled her eyes. She knew it had to be a trick. Her and Kat never got along, and she didn’t plan on befriending her enemy.  “What do you want?” she asked, rudely.

Kat didn’t like Millie’s tone. She was trying to be nice, but Millie was being rude. “Well, there was this pale woman, who had elf ears, crystal-colored eyes, and red lips.... She was talking to me and Champ. She said that he owed her money....” She started crying. “Her name was Christina.”

Millie smiled as she heard the name of the dog-witch. She didn’t feel bad for Kat. She didn’t care about the cat’s problem. She could careless. “You can go.... I don’t cared about your problems.”

“Champ dumped me....” Kat cried.

Millie’s smile grew wider. “Well, Champ finally realized that cats and wolves don’t mix.”

Kat dropped her mouth. She couldn’t believe that Millie didn’t have any sympathy for her. Millie’s attitude just made her mad. “You can’t be nice for five minutes?”

Millie looked at her watch. She looked at Kat and smiled. “Nope.”

Kat couldn’t believe how someone like Millie even survived with an attitude like that. Millie didn’t have a heart and if she did it was cold and dark like her attitude. Kat didn’t have hope for Millie. “You know.... I’m actually trying to be nice to you, but you can’t even be nice to me.... I don’t understand how you can be so cold hearted. You’re evil.”

Millie just shrugged. She didn’t care what Kat thought and she just wanted to get into the nice warm bookstore instead of standing out in the cold.

Jean was cleaning up her kitchen, which had a little table