Demon in Church

Lacy helped Wagner into a big winter coat. It was now snowing outside and with Christmas just around the corner it was a perfect time to get a Christmas tree. Stina was so excited to go out and play in the snow which she was trying to rush Lacy and Wagner out the door.

“Relax, Stina,” Lacy told her. “The snow is still going to be there okay.”

“But.... By the time you get done, it’ll be summer.”

Lacy shook her head and smiled at Stina’s answer. “You know.... You don’t have to wait for us.”

“Okay.” Stina ran out the door.

“Okay. You’re ready. Let’s go outside.” Lacy grabbed her gloves. She didn’t want her hands to freeze up.

Wagner was so bundled up that he could barely move. When he walked over to Lacy, they walked outside.

Stina hid behind a tree with a snowball in her hand. She waited for Lacy and Wagner to walk outside. She smiled, devilishly, as she watched the front door open and Lacy and Wagner step out, she aimed the snowball and threw it.

The snowball smacked Wagner’s face. Lacy had his face covered so he didn’t really feel the ice cold snowball hit. Wagner locked eyes with his attacker. He wasn’t going down that easy. He stepped off of the porch and picked up some snow and made a snowball. “IF IT’S A FIGHT YOU WANT, THEN IT’S A FIGHT YOU’LL GET!” he called to Stina.

Lacy sat on the porch and watched as the two younger werewolves had a snowball fight. She laughed as she watched.

A few hours later, Champ and Kyle arrived, carrying a tree. Kat followed them. This was going to be her first Christmas with her boyfriend.

Stina and Wagner were now sitting in the snow. They had called a truce to they’re snowball fight.

Lacy stood up and moved out of Champ and Kyle’s way.

“Well, everyone’s here, except Millie,” Kyle stated.

“Yea,” Champ agreed. He hadn’t realized that Millie wasn’t there until after Kyle had said something. “Where is Millie anyways?”

“She went to go visit Tom. You know him and his wife moved back into town last week,” Lacy answered.

Champ didn’t know that. He remembered Tom and he forgotten how much he was there for the pack when times were tough. He was a good guy.

Millie stood in front of the Baptist Church, debating if she should go in or not. She looked human, but she knew what the people would call her. She placed the hood of her sweater on to cover her face. She walked to the church and walked in. She heard the pastor preaching the gospel and she looked around at all of the people who were sitting in the benches. She wasn’t going to move. She locked eyes with the pastor. She recognized him, but he didn’t recognize her.

“You can come in, young lady,” he said with a welcoming voice and smile. “We don’t mind.”

Millie started walking down the isle, keeping the hood on her head. She glanced at the people on each side.
The humans watched her as she walked. They knew who she was. It was a small town and everyone knew everything about everyone who lived there. They decided that because they were in church to just let it go.

An overweight, thirty-five-year-old woman stood up. She was the only one who didn’t want Millie there. “Preacher, she is one of those monsters that we were talking about earlier.”

Millie stopped in her tracks and growled to herself. She turned to face the lady. “Will you, please, not try to start a fight a with me?” She was trying not to lose her temper. She didn’t want to get mad in church. It wasn’t the time or place.

The pastor looked at the lady. He was disappointed that someone would say something like that in church, in God’s house.

“I don’t want to come to a church that let’s demons walk around.... And I certainly don’t want my child around this creature.”

Millie didn’t care. She couldn’t hold in her anger. “Look, lady, now is not the time and this isn’t the place so maybe we can fight on a playground later. Okay.”

“I can’t believe that you have no respect for your elders.”

"Oh.” Millie smiled and looked the lady square in the eye. She didn’t want to explain to the arrogant woman that she was actually the elder. “If I had respect for my elders, then you, fat lady, would be my dinner and your little boy,” she replied, looking at the small, skinny, six-year-old boy, “would be my dessert. So you better be glad that I don’t respect my elders.”

The lady was discussed by Millie’s cruel words. She grabbed her little boy’s arm and left.

The pastor was disappointed by the seen. He wanted to talk about the birth of Christ, but was saddened by the seen. “Look,” he told everyone.

Millie turned to face the pastor. She removed the hood from her head.

“I had a good friend,” the pastor continued, “and he had a good out look on the world.” He had to pause. “I met him when we were eight. We were like brothers. I was there the day he excepted Christ into his life. He’s the one that helped me get the courage to ask my wife out on our first date....”

Millie knew this speech. She heard him give it before. She knew who he was talking about.

“Then almost eleven years ago, I got the call that him and his wife were beaten. I rushed over. I seen him laying on the floor next to his wife. His seven-year-old daughter at the time looked up at me. She had tears in her eyes....”

Millie hid the tears which were crawling down her cheek. She remembered that horrible day.

“A couple days later, he died.... I remember something that he always said. See people would call him a demon, a monster, and a creature.... He was different, but not any of those things.... He would always say that something good can come from something bad, and something bad can come from something evil.... I think he got it from a movie or something, but it can be true.”

Millie remembered those words. They were her dad’s words and the pastor had said that speech at her father and mother’s funerals. The pain came back and Millie did what she could to hide it.

Old Friends

Millie sat in the empty church, looking at the pictures of praying hands. The pastor had walked into his office but Millie wanted to talk to him. She had to talk to him. She needed to talk to the man who spoke so highly of her father. She stood up and started walking toward the office which was just to the left of the little stage.

 

 

The pastor sat at his desk. He was going over paper work. Someone knocked on the door. He looked up and seen a dark out line from the grain of glass on the door. “YOU CAN COME IN!”

Millie opened the door and looked at the wall. The wall was mixed with pictures of praying hands and crosses.

“May I help you?” the pastor asked.

Millie paused for a second before answering. She felt horrible for what had happened earlier. “I’m sorry about the scene that I caused when I came in, Pastor Tom....”

Tom looked at the girl. He kind of recognized her, but couldn’t figure out from where. She had one of those faces which was recognizable.

“That speech.... I remember it from my father’s funeral.”

Now he knew who he was talking to. He was surprised to see Millie. He was disappointed in the fact of how mean she had become, but he still remembered the sweet, innocent, little girl who she had been before her parents’ deaths. He figured that after her disagreement with the thirty-year-old woman. “You don’t like people anymore?”

“No....” Millie looked away from him. She didn’t want to make Tom feel more disappointed. This man helped out when her parents died. Him and his wife offered to take Millie and Shawn in as if they were their own. They didn’t care that Millie and Shawn were werewolves. They seen them as people. She didn’t want Tom and his wife to have to take care of her and her brother so she kindly told them no, but they still helped out when they seen them.

“I was afraid of that.” Tom stood up and walked over to a window. He turned to face Millie. He smiled, even though, he was disappointed. “Millie, your dad was a good person.... Even to his enemies. He was like a brother to me.... And him and your mother were good parents.... You know.... I’m the one who introduced your parents to each other. Your mother was from another pack from West Virginia.” His smile grew. “I remember that after their first date, he told me that she was the one. He said, ‘Tom, you know Kelsey?’”

Millie smiled.

“I said, ‘Of course.’ He said, ‘Well, I’m going to marry her.’ I was shocked. ‘But, you’ve two been on one date,’ I told him, confused. I mean how can you know that after one date that you’re with the one that you’re going to spend the rest of your life with. He told me, ‘I can tell, Tom. There’s just something about her and I just know.’ Well, they dated for three years, they were engaged for a year and got married. Then about three years later, you were born. Another year later, Shawn was born.”

“Wow.”

“Oh yea.... You’ve never heard that story.... Have you?”

“No.” Millie looked at the ground. She closed her eyes for about less than a second. “I don’t ever hear anything good about my father.... I never hear anything good about us werewolves.... They think that we’re monsters.”

Tom felt bad for Millie and the pack. “Look, Millie,” he said, smiling, “you guys aren’t monsters no matter what they say. Your father was a good man.... I don’t ever want you to forget that. Okay?”
Millie caught eye contact with Tom and she smiled. “Okay. You know.... You and your wife are the only two humans that I have respect for.”

“Well, I’m honored and I’m sure that Jane will be honored as well.”

A forty-year-old woman walked into the room, carrying a pocket purse. She didn’t realize that Millie was in the room at first. “Okay, honey....” she started to say as she noticed Millie. “Oh, I’m sorry.... Am I ruining something?” she asked.

“No,” Tom answered. “Jane, me and this nice young lady were having a talk about her father and my best friend.”

Jane started to say something, but she stopped when she realized that she didn’t quite understand what he said.

“You do remember Millie.... Don’t you, honey?”

“Millie?” Jane asked herself. She didn’t quite remember the name.  “OH MY GOSH! YOU’RE CHARLIE’S DAUGHTER MILLIE!”

Millie nodded.

“OH MY GOSH!” Jane rushed over and gave Millie a hug. “You’ve gotten so big.... It’s good to see you again.”

Millie almost cried. She didn’t remember what it was like to have people care. It was heartwarming to her. They were her and 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.

                                           ******

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 she wasn’t going to keep looking for him and by the time she found him the trance would have worn off. She felt kind of stupid looking for a werewolf anyways. She believed that the best way for her to run into a werewolf was to let them come to her. “Well, if there’s one werewolf, then there must be more, seeing that they live in packs,” she told herself. “I’ll control them all.” She laughed, evilly.

Under Some Sort of Trans

A couple of days had pasted and Millie stood outside of the bookstore. There weren’t any costumers, like usual, and she didn’t know where to go. She didn’t want to visit Tom and Jane again, and she didn’t feel like going home, but she didn’t want to stay at the bookstore. She always got this way around the holidays, especially Christmas. Memories of her parents would reveal themselves in the decorations and different places they had been even if they weren’t dealing with the holidays or even close. She started walking around.

A couple of miles away from the bookstore, Lee drove by and had noticed Millie walking. He pulled over the car and climbed out. He walked over to the girl. He knew how she didn’t like humans, but he was the kind of person to show kindness to someone no matter what. “Millie, where are you going?”
Millie stopped. She didn’t feel like talking. “Home.”

“Hey, Millie. Look, I could give you a ride.” He didn’t think that anyone should walk home in the cold. He felt bad for her.

“I don’t take rides from humans.”

Lee could hear the bitterness in her voice. Every time he would offer to help, she would have some form of bitterness in her voice. “It’s too cold for someone to be walking out here.” He had to pause. “You could catch a cold or something out here.”

“What are you? My father?” Millie asked, using sarcasm. “I don’t care if I get sick or not.... I don’t care what happens to me.... I refuse to ride with humans.”

“Oh come on, Millie. It’s just one ride.”

Millie gave in. She really didn’t feel like arguing with a human. “Oh fine.... But just for today.”

“Okay.”

Millie and Lee climbed into the old truck. Lee drove by the pale woman. He recognized her from the day before. She was standing in the middle of the road again. “Hey, I was talking to that woman yesterday.... She knows Champ....”

Millie looked out of the back window of the truck and just seen the woman’s back. She turned back to the front of the truck.

“Why is she standing in the middle of the road? Doesn’t she know that’s dangerous?”

“So she’s....” Millie stopped talking and gone into a daze. Her eyes looked all white. No pupils or color. She started growling.

“Millie? Millie? Millie?” Lee looked over at Millie and realized that she was going to attack him. He remembered that Champ had almost grabbed the cash register and growled. He noticed how Millie wasn’t wearing her seat belt. An idea popped into his head. “Sorry, Millie.”

The truck swerved on the icy road as Lee slammed on the brakes. The truck crashed into a light pole and Millie flew face first against the glass window. The window, surprisingly, didn’t brake. Lee unbuckled himself as fast as possible, opened the door, and ran out of the car into the street.

Millie climbed out of the truck as if nothing happened. She moved her jaw until it cracked and cracked her neck and back as well. She walked away from the dent up truck. She walked in the direction of the pale woman.

Lee watched as Millie walked away and he decided to follow her like he had done with Champ. He noticed that they both walked as if they were under some kind of spell.

Lee was hiding in the ally and looked at all of the dogs and Millie which were surrounding the pale woman. He figured that all of the dogs from the town were there. Now, that was really odd.

The pale woman started to speak and Lee decided to listen to what she said. “I WANT ALL OF YOU TO GET ME MONEY AND BRING IT ALL TO ME!” she ordered, loud and clear. She smiled as she realized that Millie was in the crowd. “Good, there’s another werewolf.... I knew it,” she told herself. “NOW GO!” she ordered the dogs.

Lee couldn’t believe what he heard. This woman wanted all the dogs to bring her money. He thought about what the woman had said to him about Champ owing her money. The way she had talked to them was like they were under her control. Lee had to tell someone, but he didn’t know who. He decided to tell Jean and he had to get Millie to snap into reality. He knew that woman had to be the reason why Champ had acted weird.

Young Count Jock

Millie walked through the town, looking for a bank. She walked over to a bank. She took a step until she heard someone whistle. She turned to find Lee holing a bucket of water. She didn’t speak but she growled as she went to attack him.

Lee dumped the water on Millie before she could lay a hand on him.

Millie snapped back to reality. She wrapped her arms around herself, freezing. She shook feeling the cold air hit her wet face and hair. She eyed Lee, noticing the empty bucket in his hand. “Why am I wet?” she growled at Lee. She was ticked off.

“Don’t you remember?”

“We were in your truck.... This is why I hate humans.... You all lie.”

Lee was relieved that Millie was back, but for some reason she still wanted to kill him.

Lacy and Kyle walked into town. They were looking for Millie. They figured that she had walked off some where’s. She never went to fimilar places because of those memories and they knew that it would be hard to find her, but they would always check to look for clues that might indicate where she might be. Lacy started walking toward the bookstore, while Kyle made his way to the vet’s office.

Kyle walked into the vet’s office and he smiled as he seen his girlfriend. He walked over to Millie, who was wrapped in a towel, and sat down next to her. “Everyone’s looking for you.”

Millie looked at him. She didn’t want to say anything, but she didn’t have to. Lee and Jean walked into the waiting room.

“Millie, do you remember anything that happened after you and Lee were heading to your cottage?” Jean asked as she made her way to her desk. Lee had explained everything to Jean, but she wanted to see if Millie could tell her.

“He dumped water on me.... In weather that’s below thirty degrees outside.... Why don’t I give you a ride home so that way you don’t have to walk home in the cold.... We’re out in the cold so here I’ll splash water on you, and to top it off, it’s ice cold water....” Millie was ticked off. She didn’t know why she had listened to that human.

Jean still wasn’t use to Millie’s temper. Lee and Kyle, on the other hand, were.

“I trashed my truck, Millie,” Lee shot back at her.

“That’s not my fault.”

Lee went to say something, but stopped. He remembered about that pale woman and he decided that Kyle and Millie needed to know.
                                            *****

Stina was the only one in the house. Shawn and Wagner were at the mall, visiting Santa Claus. Lacy, Champ, and Kyle had gone out looking for Millie. Stina was alone, but she didn’t care. It didn’t bother her to be alone. She heard some weird noises then realized that it was her stomach growling. She was hungry and decided to cook some barbecue ribs. She placed them in the oven for two hours. She walked into the living room and turned on the radio. She started to sing along to the song that was on.

Someone knocked on the door. Stina rushed over and opened the door to find a tall, pale, cute, black hair, and black eyes, sixteen-year-old boy standing in front of her. Well, he looked to be about sixteen, but he was much older than his human appearance suggested. She also noticed that it was dark outside as well.

“Hello,” Stina said with a smile.

The pale guy didn’t smile back. He was more serious in his expression. “Hello,” he said in his Transylvanian accent, which to Stina sounded odd because it was the first time that she heard someone talk with that accent before.

“Who are you?”

“I’m Count Jock, and I’m here to talk to the leader of the wolf pack, Millie.”

“Oh. I’m Stina, and I’m part of the wolf pack....” She looked at him and noticed that he had fangs. “Are you a vampire? Because you’re really pale, and you have fangs.”

“Yes, now, can I talk to Millie please?” he asked. Now, werewolves and vampires weren’t enemies, but they weren’t really friends either. They delt with each other and they helped each other out, but they weren’t exactly friends.

“Well, you could, Jack, but Millie’s not here.”

“It’s....” Jock decided to let it go. He needed to talk to Millie and it was very important. He had to warn Millie and her pack that something bad was going to happen. “Never mind.... Where is Millie?”

“Somewhere in town.... Come on and I’ll help you look for her.” Stina grabbed her house key and locked the door. She had Jock follow her into the town, forgetting that the stove was still on.

Champ ran into Kat, while he was trying to find where Millie was. "Kat, have you seen Millie anywhere?”

“No. Why?”

“Me, Lacy, and Kyle are looking for her.”

The pale woman walked behind Champ. “Where have you been, Champ?”

Kat grew angry. She wanted to know who this woman was standing behind Champ.

Champ turned around, confused. He didn’t recognize the woman’s voice or scent. When he seen the woman, he didn’t know who she was, but he just took one look at her and knew what she was. “Who are you and how do you know me?”

“I am Christina, and I believe that you,” she said, holding up a dog whistle, “still owe me money.... Werewolf.”

Champ couldn’t believe it. He didn’t know what he was going to 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 and three chairs next to it. She had the dishes all washed and she was just wiping the oven.

Someone knocked on the door. She stopped what she was doing and walked through the dinning room and walked to the front door, which was in front of the stair case. She opened the door and a gush of ice cold wind hit her face. Champ, Lacy, Lee, Kyle, Shawn, Stina, and Wagner were standing in front of her. “Come in. Come in. It feels warmer in here,” she told them.

They all walked inside. Stina and Wagner opened a door on the left of the stair case, which revealed the living room. They walked in and walked over to a TV which was off.

Lacy, Lee, Champ, Shawn, and Kyle stayed in the hall with Jean.

Jean noticed that Millie was the only one missing. “Do you guys want something to eat?”

“No thanks. We stopped at a fast food place,” Champ told her. “But thanks for asking.”

“Jean, can they stay here?” Lee asked.

Jean could tell by Lee’s voice that something bad had happened. “Come into the dinning room.”

Champ, Lee, Lacy, Shawn, and Kyle followed Jean into the dinning room. Jean took a seat at the big, circular table. The four wolves and Lee all sat down.

“Now, tell me what happened?” Jean asked.

“The cottage burnt down....” Champ answered.

Jean gasped at the thought. She worried about Millie. She thought that something bad had happened to her. Millie was mean to her, but she didn’t believe that anyone, no matter how cruel they were, deserved something bad to happen to them. “Is Millie okay?”

“Millie’s fine.... She just walked into town.... She needs to cool off.”

Jean felt better knowing that none of them were hurt or dead. “Of course, you kids can stay here as long as you need to.”

“Thanks, Jean.” Champ smiled. They just needed to find Millie and find away to stop Christina.

Unwanted Costumer

Christina was sitting on a throne in a candle lit room. She had dogs walking all around the place. They were under her control. There was a high pitch sound that only dogs could hear in the room.  Christina could hear the sound as well, but unlike her victims, she was immune to the sound.  “On the thirty-first I’ll have those wolves under a trance,” she told herself. She enjoyed controlling werewolves. They were her puppets and she was the puppet master. She loved making them dance.

Millie was sleeping. She was curled up on the desk. She used some books as pillows. Her left arm was draped over the desk. She stayed in the bookstore. There wasn’t any other place were she would rather stay. She always went to the bookstore, when she didn’t know where else to go.

The bookstore kept her calm. She would lose her stress when she was there. It was her home away from home.

Millie wasn’t fully asleep so she heard someone walk in. Her eyes kind of opened but everything was blurry to her. She seen a figure walking toward her. She was too sleepy to tell if the figure was male or female. Her nose smelled an unfamiliar scent coming off of the figure.

“Wake up,” a woman’s voice told her.

The voice was different from anything else that Millie had ever heard. “What do you want?” she asked. Even though, she was still kind of asleep that didn’t stop her from being rude.

“A puppet.”

Millie woke up instantly and squatted on the desk. She was now face to face with Christina. She growled. She didn’t like it when people woke her up, especially if they weren’t her race. “Get out.”

“Awe.... Is that how you treat a costumer?”

“I want you to leave.... NOW!”

Christina smiled at Millie. She wasn’t about to take orders from this girl. “Do you really want me to tell you what to do?”

“No.... I already know what you are, Christina.”

Christina acted amazed. She didn’t really find it to be a shocker that the lycans would find out who she was.

“You know who I am?”

Millie didn’t answer. She was getting ready to attack.

Christina pulled out a dog whistle. “Go ahead.... Attack.... I dear you.”

Millie recoiled. She knew that Christina wanted to get attacked. She could tell by the way Christina talked. She stood up on the desk. She looked down at Christina. She needed to do something about that stupid dog whistle.
Christina looked up at the girl, who was standing up on the desk. Millie was eyeing her. She placed the whistle close to her lips. She was about to use it when someone walked into the bookstore.

“Millie, what are you doing standing on a desk?” Tom asked as he walked in. “Werewolf or not.... That’s dangerous.”

Christina turned her attention to Tom. To her disappointment, she could tell that the man was human.
Millie smiled because she had her chance. Christina was distracted. Christina turned her attention back to Millie, when Millie kicked her jaw.

Millie’s kick was so powerful that Christina flew back into a bookshelf, knocking some books on top of her.

“I wish that I hadn’t just seen that, Millie,” Tom told her.

Millie cracked her neck before saying anything. “Sorry about that, pastor.”

Christina stood up. She was ticked off. She walked over to Millie and Tom. “You better be glad that you were saved by a human, wolf.”

Millie looked up at the roof. She didn’t care. She could care less about what Christina was saying.

Christina walked out of the bookstore and she was extremely ticked off.

“Another enemy, Millie?” Tom asked.

“Yea....” Millie paused. “She’s a dog-witch. She uses a dog whistle to control us dogs and werewolves.”

Tom helped Millie set the books back in place. When they were done, Tom looked around the little store. “Well, this is a cute little bookstore.”

“Thank you.... I come here sometimes.... Usually to cool down.” Millie didn’t want to tell Tom about the cottage getting burnt down. She didn’t want him and his wife to put themselves in her problem. They were too kind to deal with that. She didn’t want to be a burden to them. She didn’t feel right.

“Well, this is a good place to help people calm down....”

Champ and Kyle walked into the bookstore.

“Champ and Kyle?” Tom asked. He smiled at them. He remembered when they were just little.

Champ smiled, when he seen Tom. “Hey, man.... I mean sir.” He walked over to Tom and offered to shake his hand. “How have you been?”

Tom shook Champ’s hand. “I’ve been good....”

“Good to see you again, Tom,” Kyle told him. “Millie, Jean said that we could stay with her until the cottage is rebuilt.”

“The cottage? What happened to the cottage?” Tom asked.

“Nothing,” Millie answered. She didn’t want Tom to feel like he had to do something about it.

“Well,” Champ explained, “the cottage....”

Millie did hand motions to get Champ to shut up, but he didn’t.

“Burnt down.”

“Well, Millie didn’t tell me that,” Tom said as he looked at Millie.

“It’s not true,” Millie lied. “Kyle and Champ watch too much movies.... Like one time, Kyle dressed up as Batman and Champ dressed up as Spider-man.... They thought that they were superheroes.”

Champ and Kyle looked at each other. They couldn’t believe how Millie would lie to a pastor.

“Millie don’t want you to feel bad for us,” Kyle told Tom.

“Yea,” Champ agreed.

They explained how the house had burnt down and how no one was hurt or dead. Tom was relieved at the fact that everyone was safe, but he felt like he needed to do something for them. He knew what he was going to do and he was going to tell Jane.

Painful

Kat sat on a bench by a store. She was glad that the buses were done with they’re shifts because she didn’t want to move. 

Ann walked over to her and sat down. She wanted something to do. Her brother had told her about how the wolves' cottage had burnt down.

“Hi, Ann.” Kat was bummed. She didn’t know what to do.

“What’s wrong?” Ann asked, concerned.

“Well, Champ broke up with me.... He didn’t tell me why. He just said that it was for the best.... Then he left....”

Ann heard the hurt and disappointment in Kat’s voice and felt bad. She just let Kat talk as she listened.

“It was after talking to that pale woman, Christina....” Kat started to sound like she was jealous of Christina. She thought that Champ dumped her for that pale woman. The thought just made her angry.

“Oh.... That dog-witch?” Ann asked.

Kat looked at Ann. She was confused. What the heck was a dog-witch? She wanted to find out. “A what?”

“A dog-witch.... Lee was telling me.... Him, Kyle, Millie, Stina, and this pale, fanged guy, ‘He looked like a vampire,’ Lee said.... Well, they were talking about dog-witches.... They use dog whistles to control dogs and werewolves.... And vampires and bats.”

Kat listened to what Ann said and thought about how Champ went to attack her that day at the movies. She remembered how Champ apologized, but he told her that he didn’t remember any of it. That was odd to her. She knew that there had to be a reason. Now, she wanted to confront Christina. She stood up and was about to leave. “I’m going to go.... I’ll talk to you later.” She walked away.

Kyle and Champ had dragged Millie to Jean's house. Millie would of rathered stayed at the bookstore. She tried to fight her way out of their arms, but they would just hold her tighter.

Once they were inside of the house, they dragged Millie into the dinning room and forced her to sit down. She fought with the both of them. Jean walked into the dinning and Millie growled.

“Oh.... Hi, Millie.” Jean was trying not to make the wolf mad. “It’s good to see you.” She smiled.

Millie didn’t say anything, she just sat there with an angry look on her face. She stopped growling, which calmed Jean down.

Silence took over the room. No one said anything. No one wanted to say anything. They didn’t know what to say.

Stina walked into the room. Millie started growling again. This time she was growling at Stina. She was still mad at Stina for burning down the cottage.

“Stina,” Kyle said, walking over to her, “it might be better if you weren’t in the same room as Millie right now.  She’s still ticked off about the cottage. Go back and watch TV.... Okay?”

“Okay.” Stina walked out of the room.

Millie looked at the door as it closed. Stina was the last person who she wanted to see. She couldn’t believe how stupid someone could really be. Now, thanks to Stina, they had no place to live. “That cottage was built in 1804 and was burnt down in 2008.... It was old, but it was still in good shape.” The anger revealed itself in Millie’s voice. There were no words to describe how furious she was. She stood up and walked out of the room. Everyone heard the front door slam.

“Should someone go get her?” Jean asked.

“She always does this.... She’ll be back,” Champ told Jean.

Millie was walking into the town. She was walking to the remains of the cottage. Kat showed up. Of course, when she didn’t want to deal with anyone, the last person who had shown up was her enemy.

“I want to help you wolves defeat that dog-witch.”

“No.... And now that you’re not dating Champ.... I can say.... Noooo.” Millie didn’t want to deal with a cat shape-shifter, who could turn their back on them. Actually, Millie didn’t want to deal with anyone who wasn’t a wolf.

“Please?” Kat asked.

“Let me think.” Millie looked away and pretended to think. She looked back at Kat. “No.” She started walking away.

Kat just stood there watching as Millie walked away. “WHERE ARE YOU GOING?!” she called to Millie.

“NONE YA!” Millie called over her shoulder. She disappeared into the dark street.

Millie finally arrived at the cottage. She was the only one around, but she heard someone talking to her. The voice was one that she had heard before. A man was talking. She turned around and it was as if night had turned into day. She was standing in the kitchen of the cottage. A man, who looked to be in his thirties walked past her and went to the fridge. The man looked so familiar to her. She knew who he was and she felt like crying at the sight of the man.

“What do you want, Millie?” he asked.

“To see you and mom for one last time,” she said to herself. She knew that Charlie couldn’t hear her, but she couldn’t help it.

“I want a Dr. Pepper, daddy,” a little girl had answered.

Millie had looked over to see a seven-year-old girl, walking into the kitchen. She remembered that day. It was the summer of 1998. It was a few days before her parents were beaten to death by the humans.

“A Dr. Pepper? What is a Dr. Pepper?” her father asked, joking around.

Young Millie laughed. She had no clue what the future was going to bring.

“Mommy and daddy aren’t going to be around for to long.... So spend as much time as you can with them.”

Millie knew that they couldn’t hear her, but she couldn’t keep her mouth shut. It was only a memory.

Alone

Millie stood out in the cold because she didn’t want to leave. She didn’t want to go back to Jean’s. She didn’t want to go any where else. She wanted to stay where the cottage once stood. She walked over to a tree stump and sat down. She looked around, all she could see were trees and a big empty space where the cottage had once sat. The crusted moon had grew bolder, and she noticed her claws were starting to grow. She heard someone walking behind her. She could since fear from the person and she knew who it was. “How did you know where to find me, Jean?” she asked. She didn’t bother to turn around.

Jean stopped in her tracks. She didn’t understand how Millie had known it was her without turning around.

“Champ told me that you might be here.”

Millie didn’t say anything. She just wanted to be left alone. She stood up and turned to face Jean. “I don’t want any company.”

“Champ told me you would say that.... Look I just want to help you guys. It’s not like when I was working for Jack.”

Millie rolled her eyes. “Whatever.” She started walking away. She stopped next to Jean. “Don’t follow me.”

Jean heard the anger growing in Millie’s voice. She watched as Millie walked away. She felt so bad for Millie and she wanted to help.

                                         *****

Lacy walked around Jean’s house. She was exploring. She looked at pictures which Jean had hanging up and noticed some plants. She made her way upstairs.

The door in front of her led to the bathroom. There were two other doors on each side. They were all closed and she figured that they were bedrooms. She didn’t want to walk in without permission. She walked back downstairs and went into the living room.

Stina and Wagner were in the living room. They were both sitting on the couch watching TV. Lacy sat down on the love seat. It was quiet except for the sound which came from the TV and the laughing which came from the two youngest wolves.

Lacy was bored she didn’t know what she was going to do. Kyle and Champ had gone with Jean to go get Millie. She noticed a picture which was slightly tilted on a wall in the little family room across from her. No one else payed any attention to it because they could barely tell. She had to fix it. She stood up and walked into to the family room.

“Where are you going?” Stina asked. She followed Lacy with her eyes.

“To fix that picture.”

“Oh.” Stina started watching the TV again. She should of known.

Lacy always fixed things which seemed to be out of place even if they looked fine where they were.

Christina walked down a street. She noticed a man who was dressed like a Santa Claus. He was holding a bell and he was standing next to a pot which held coins for charity. Christina walked past the man and when he wasn’t looking she grabbed some of the coins and slid them into her pocket.

A cat ran past her and transformed into a human. The girl turned around and grabbed a few coins from her pocket. Kat didn’t pay any attention to Christina. She walked past the woman and dropped some coins into the big, black pot.

“Thank you, young lady.” The man smiled at her. “God bless you.... I know that the children at the orphanage will be thankful too.”

Kat returned the smile. “I’m glad to give to others.”

“Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.”

“Merry Christmas to you too.... Good night.” Kat turned around and walked past Christina for the third time. She still didn’t notice that Christina was standing there.

Christina seen everything and she smiled. She could trick Kat into helping her control the dogs who lived in the town. She had an extra dog whistle for Kat to use as well. She had cleaned it after letting another cat shape-shifter use it, trying to get the vampires and bats to work for her. That plan had failed horribly, but this time she wasn’t going to let anything ruin this.
                                              *****

Millie knocked on a door. She had walked four miles in the cold and she stood on a green porch. She waited for someone to answer the door. She heard a dog barking, and by the way it sounded, she figured that it was a male German Shepherd.

Millie watched as someone opened the door.

Tom was kind of surprised to see Millie. “Oh hello.” He opened the screen door to let her in. “Come on into the warm air.”

Millie set her sweater on a coat rack. She smiled when she see a male German Shepherd walking over to sniff her. “Hi.” She had a soft spot for other dogs. They were her favorite animals along with wolves. She kneeled down and started petting him. “What’s his name?”

“Cody.”

“Hi, Cody.” She spoke to him like she was talking to a little kid. “I’m Millie.”

Cody liked her face.

“My boyfriend’s going to be jealous.” Millie couldn’t help but smile. She could tell that Cody was a young, healthy dog. He was well fed and he was still growing. He seemed to be about eight months old. She knew that

Tom and Jane treated the dog like he was a baby. She could tell by the way he wanted her to play with him that they must of spoiled him.

“I’m going to go let Jane know that you’re here. You can hang in here with Cody.”

“Okay.”

Tom walked out of the room. Millie played tug-a-war with the cute little German Shepherd puppy.

Kat's Decision

Kat sat in the living room of her little appartment. She had a long day and decided that she needed to relax. She watched a movie to take her mind off of the terrible day.

Someone had knocked on the door. Kat looked at the clock which said 12 O’ clock am. Kat stood up to answer the door. She was confused to as why someone would be knocking on someone else’s door that late at night. It kind of made her mad.

When she opened the door, she was ticked off to find Christina standing out in the hall. “YOU WINCH! You’re the reason why my boyfriend dumped me.”

“The last time I checked, I was a leo,” Christina told her, sarcasm in her voice.

“Why are you here?”

“I understand that you’re a cat shape-shifter.” Christina walked into Kat’s apartment without Kat’s permission.

Kat was confused by Christina’s statement. That didn’t answer anything. “Yes I am.... But that doesn’t answer my question.... Why are you here? Why are you in my house?” Kat was angry at this woman.

Christina noticed a picture on one of the walls. She seen Kat standing next to a guy who was kissing her cheek. Christina recognized the guy and smiled. The guy was Champ. She turned to face Kat. “So, you’re boyfriend broke up with you.... What was his name?” She knew the answer but wanted Kat to tell her. She had an idea on what she was going to do.

“Champ.”

Christina reached into her pocket and pulled something out of it. She didn’t let Kat see what it was. “What would you say if I told you that I can help you win your boyfriend back?”

Kat was really confused. This woman was the reason why Champ had broken her heart and she was willing to help Kat get him back. It didn’t make since to Kat. She had no clue how to act. “How?”

Christina smiled. “By this,” she answered, holding up a small, silver whistle.

“A whistle?”

Christina shook her head. She walked over to Kat. “Not just a whistle, but a dog whistle.”

A dog whistle? Kat knew how the sound hurt dogs’ ears and she didn’t want to hurt Champ. “No way.... That’ll hurt him.”

“It’ll only hurt him for a second and then.... He’ll be under your control....”

Kat listened to Christina talk. She was confused. She had no clue what was right from wrong. Christina was trying to persuade her.

“Think of it this way.... He’s the puppet and you’re the puppet master. You can make him dance like a puppet....” Christina held the whistle in front of Kat. She was waiting for Kat to grab the whistle. “So, what do you think?”

Kat just watched as the whistle swung back and forth in Christina’s hand. She was deciding on what she was going to choose.

Jean had woken up early because she had to go to the vet’s office and set everything up for the patients. She didn’t get ready yet so she was still in her pj’s. She walked down stairs and made her way through the dinning room and went into the kitchen.

She was amazed to see Lacy sitting at the table. Lacy was also in her pj’s. Lacy smiled at her. “Good morning,” she whispered.

Jean returned the smile. “Good morning,” she whispered back to Lacy. “Why are you up so early?”

“Well,” Lacy said, kind of rolling her eyes, “it’s mine and Champ’s turn to go work at the bookstore for the day....”

“Oh.”

“But, Champ is still sleeping.”

Jean kind of laughed.

“I’ll just go and he could meet me there.... He’s not a morning person and we have to get that store open before the humans get up.”

“Why’s that?”

“Well, we kind of know some vampires who like to read and they’re not really daylight people.”

“Oh.” Jean walked over to the coffee pot and picked it up. She carried it over the sink and started filling it up.

“Do you want some coffee, Lacy?”

“Yes please.”

The coffee pot filled up to eight cups and Jean poured the water into the coffee maker. When the machine had eight cups of water, she set the coffee pot on the machine and filled the filter with two scoops of coffee grains. “Are Kyle, Champ, Shawn, and Millie going to want some when they get up?”

“Well, the guys will make some if it’s okay with you.... But,” Lacy paused, “Millie never showed up last night.”

Jean could hear how Lacy was worried. She worried about Millie even though Millie hated her. She took a note pad and a pen and handed them to Lacy. “I could give you a ride into town and drop you off at the bookstore because I have to go to the vet’s office anyways and then later you and Champ can meet up with me at the vet’s office. If you two want?”

Lacy considered the thought for a moment. “Yea and if we see Millie we could try to get her to come with us.”

“Yea,” Jean agreed.

Champ walked into the bookstore. He seen Lacy sitting behind the desk and walked over to her. “So, Jean dropped you off?”

Lacy looked up at him. “Yep.” She looked at the computer screen and started playing a card game.

“Any customers yet?”

Lacy sighed. They didn’t count the vampires as customers so she knew he met the humans. It was the same every time. “Nope. Not yet.”

A little blonde, blue eyed boy walked in. Lacy and Champ looked over at him. He looked to be lost and that wasn’t good.

Lacy stopped playing on the computer, stood up, and walked over to him. She bent down to see eye to eye with the young child. “Where are your parents?” she asked, kind of worried.

The little boy looked at her and then to Champ. The two wolves could since fear from the child.

“It’s okay,” Lacy told him. She didn’t want him to be afraid. She wanted him to know that they weren’t going to harm him.

“We’re not going to hurt you.” Lacy could tell that the little boy was still scared and she was trying to calm him down. “Look, we’re not going to hurt you. Okay?”

The little boy didn’t answer. He was afraid to speak.

“We don’t want to hurt you,” Lacy told him for the third time. “We just want to help you.... Are you lost?”

The little boy looked like he was about to cry. He nodded. “My mommy....”

“Where is your mommy?”

“I don’t know.” The child started crying.

Lacy looked at Champ. Champ nodded to her. “I’ll stay here.”

“Okay.” Lacy turned her attention back to the boy. She took a swift sniff of his scent to help her find his mother. “I’m going to help you find her. Okay?”

The little boy nodded. He was trying to stop crying. Lacy grabbed the child’s hand and walked out of the store.

Lacy held the little boy’s hand as they walked around the town. She sniffed the air so she could find the same scent as the little boy’s. They walked to different stores until Lacy smelt the same scent. They walked into a little dollar store.

Lacy heard a woman in the distance calling a boy’s name. Before Lacy brought the boy to the woman, she wanted to make sure. “What’s your name?” she asked the child.

“Brian,” he answered.

Lacy smiled. “Come on.” She kept smelling the air and listened to the frantic cries for the little boy from a worried woman.

They hurried over to a crying, thirty-year-old, skinny, blonde, blue-eyed woman.

“MOMMY!!!” Brian cried. He ran over to the woman and wrapped his little arms around her.

The woman was relieved to see that her son was alright and hugged him in return. “Brian.... I’m glad to see that you’re okay.”

Brian looked over at Lacy and smiled.

Lacy smiled in return. She was glad to see that they had found his mother.

Brian’s mom looked over at Lacy. She knew that Lacy was one of the werewolves, like everyone else did. She was one of the people who hated and complained about them but now she realized that she was wrong and hated herself for that. “I didn’t like your kind because I thought that you all were evil, but after you had taken your time,” she started crying, “to help my son find me, let’s me to know that I was wrong.... And thank you.”

Lacy smiled. “No problem. Always glad to help.” She waved good bye to Brian and his mother and walked away. She felt good helping Brian look for his mother and she could tell that his mother hadn’t lost him purposely. She figured that he had wondered off himself.

Champ's Offer

Stina was still sleeping. She enjoyed sleeping in late. Everyone else enjoyed it when she slept because then she couldn’t do anything that was going to cause trouble for them. She never got mad if someone woke her but she didn’t fall back to sleep. She fell off the bed, which woke her up for good.

She looked at the alarm clock which said 2 O’ clock. That was the latest that she had ever woke up. She didn’t care. She looked out of the window and noticed the tops of different houses. She was use to seeing trees instead of houses and watched people walking around the neighborhood. She watched a small silver car drive by.

Some knocked on the door. She was to preoccupied with the new scenery that she didn’t hear the knock. There was another knock on the door but she still didn’t hear it. There was one more knock at the door.

“COME IN!” she finally called. She kept looking out of the window.

Shawn walked in. “What are you doing?” he asked.

Stina kept looking at the sight. “Shawn.... You have to see this.... Not only are there trees, but there are houses and people and cars.” She was amazed at everything she seen. It was like a whole another world to her.

Shawn walked over next to Stina and looked out of the window. He could see why she sounded so excited. He realized why his sister didn’t want to stay there. It would of killed Millie to be stuck in a house which she couldn’t leave because she would have a problem with all of the humans walking around. She would have been stuck on a leash because she’d be set on attacking, probably wearing a muzzle as well.

Wagner sat in the living room, watching TV. He had watched TV before but not at the cottage because they never had a TV. Jean’s house was so different from the cottage. The house showed that she wasn’t rich, but she made a good amount of money.

“Okay, Wagner,” Shawn said as he walked into the room.

"We’re waiting for Stina so we can walk into town. Okay?”

“Okay.” Wagner glanced at Shawn and then kept watching the TV.

Lacy was almost to the bookstore when she heard someone call her name. She stopped and turned to face the guy who was standing right behind her. She smiled at him.

“Can I ask you something?” Lee asked, walking closer to her.

“Um.... Yea. What?” Her eyes met his. She was in love with this human but was afraid to admit it to herself and everyone else.

He searched for the right things to say. He had a bad history of saying the wrong things. Lee wouldn’t do that purposely. Whenever he was around Lacy, he would always say the wrong things. He still regretted that comment which he said in October. “Would you....” He grabbed her craws. “Would you like to have dinner with me sometime?”

“As friends?” she asked. She knew he liked her because her wolf senses could sense that he had feelings for her the same way that she had feelings for him. She was just worried that something bad would happen.

“No.” He could tell in her eyes that she was worried. “As a date?”

Lacy swallowed. She wanted to say yes, but she couldn’t. “I....”

“She will,” a voice said, behind her.

Lacy grew wide-eyed and she knew who it was. She turned to face Champ, who was leaning against a light post. He was smiling. She went to protest but Champ shook his head.

“It’ll be good for you.” Champ walked over to them. He didn’t want Lacy to shut herself away from the world because she was afraid of taking chances.

“I don’t want to eat where there’s a lot of humans around.” Lacy held up her claws. “I don’t want them to see these,” she told them.

An idea popped into Champ’s head. “Maybe, we can ask Jean if Lee can eat with us one night this week.... I’m sure she won’t mind.”

“That sounds good,” Lee agreed.

“I don’t know, guys,” Lacy told them. She didn’t want to add an extra person at Jean’s house. “That won’t feel right.”

“Oh come on,” Champ told her. “I think that she won’t mind.”

“Okay, but I’ll cook so that way Jean doesn’t have worry about that.”

“That sounds good to me.”

“Me too,” Lee agreed.

Cherished Memories

Millie walked around Tom’s house. She looked at the pictures which Tom and Jane had hanging up. She noticed that they had pictures of another couple. She knew the couple from a long time ago. They were kind hearted people and she missed them everyday.

The man was tall and skinny. He was around his early thirties. His hair was jet black and wet. It was nicely combed back for the picture. He had his arm around the woman. He was wearing a tux and a white shirt with a black bow tie.

The woman wasn’t as tall as the man. She was actually up to his chin. She held the man’s hand which hung over her shoulder. She had dark brown hair, which was pinned at the sides. She was wearing a beautiful dark red dress.

Millie couldn’t look at the picture for too long. She hated the fact that she knew that she wasn’t ever going to see them alive again. She had to get out of there. She walked into the kitchen and sat down at the little, round table. She could smell the sweet smell of French toast. The smell made her mouth water.

Jane was at the oven and she had a plate of two slices of French toast. She had one more in the pan. She was waiting to flip it. She looked over at Millie and smiled. “I know it’s a little late to be eating because supper has to be cooked in a couple of hours, but I’m in the mood for French toast....”
Millie kind of laughed.

“Do you want some? I could give you what I already made and I could make some more for myself.”
Millie went to answer but Jane had already had the third one on the plate and placed it in front of her. It was a good thing that Millie was hungry. “Thank you.”

“Oh no problem.” Jane sat the butter and syrup on the table. She handed a knife and fork to Millie. “You can pour as much syrup as you like and I don’t know how much butter you use.... Oh and don’t tell Tom.”
Millie went to ask why but Jane cut her off.

"I told him that I was on a diet...."

Millie gave Jane a funny look. She didn’t understand why Jane would even want to go on a diet. Jane was as skinny as she was. She wasn’t too skinny but she wasn’t fat at all. Millie always found that to be strange in the human race. She never understood how someone so skinny could say that they were fat, when in reality, they weren’t fat at all. She noticed that only the human woman would say that but the human men didn’t really seem to care.

“I know I shouldn’t be eating this, but I don’t care, and I woke up late.”

Millie looked around as if to say that wasn’t what she was thinking but she didn’t want to speak. She decided to talk about something else. “I noticed that picture of my parents,” she said as she spread the butter on the French toast. “I remember that day.... It was they’re anniversary.”
Jane turned to face Millie. “We miss them. They were good people.”

“You and Tom know that, but everyone else seen them as monsters.... Like they see us.”

Jane could see the pain written on Millie’s face. She felt so bad. “You werewolves aren’t monsters no matter what they say.... They watch too many scary movies.” She smiled at Millie. “How’s your brother doing?”

“Shawn’s doing good. He can kind of act like an idiot at times but you’ve got to love him.” Millie returned the smile.

Kyle leaned against a brick wall of a little store. He watched as people walked by or cars drive past him. He had been looking for Millie but decided to take a break. He looked everywhere for her but didn’t find her. He went to where he knew she usually would wind up at but she wasn’t there. He was out of ideas. He wanted to see his girlfriend and make sure that she was alright. He missed her.

Christina stood in front of him. She could tell that he was another wolf and she smiled. “Tell me, wolf,” she asked him, “where’s the rest of your pack?”

Kyle was shocked at first and then he started growling. “I’m not going to tell you,” he answered. He knew better than to tell an enemy where the others were.

“Well, that’s too bad.” Christina pulled out a whistle and Kyle stopped growling.

Kyle knew what she was but he didn’t think that she would try to turn him against the pack.

“Anything?.... No?” She brought the whistle close to her mouth, but before she could use it, Millie had jumped her.

Millie stood up growling at the dog-witch. Christina could see Millie’s fangs, which were starting to grow. “Stay away from my boyfriend. Stay away from my pack, you tramp. You go from town to town looking for dogs and bats to do your dirty work. You’ve come to the wrong town,” as Millie spoke, she growled. She was showing Christina that she was messing with the wrong pack.

Christina laid on the ground, looking up at the ticked off wolf. She could tell by Millie’s behavior that Millie was the leader and she knew that the only way to get a pack of wolves on her side was to start with the leader.

Millie turned her attention to Kyle. “Let’s get out of here.”

“Good idea.”

Kyle and Millie left Christina laying in the middle of the icy road.

Champ's Fear

Kat was walking through the town, she couldn’t believe what she had done. She pulled the whistle out of her pocket and looked at it. She placed it back in her pocket. She was trying to decide if she had made the right choice. She wanted to get Champ back, but had she chosen the wrong path?

Lacy had walked out from a corner and seen Kat. She walked over to the cat shape-shifter. At first, she didn’t like Kat, but the more they hung out the more they became friends. “What’s up?” she asked.

Kat had to collect her thoughts. She kind of wanted to tell Lacy what she had done, but decided not to because she felt like a traitor and Lacy was now her best friend. She faked a smile.  “Nothing much.”

Lacy could sense that something wasn’t right. “What’s wrong, Kat?”

Kat didn’t want to answer. She didn’t want to tell Lacy what she had done. It was a terrible thing that she had done. She felt so horrible. “Nothing.”

Lacy could tell that something was wrong, even though Kat told her that nothing was wrong. “Are you sure?”

“Yea.” Kat pretended to laugh. “Look, I have to be some where’s okay?”

“Okay.” Lacy didn’t believe Kat. Kat didn’t want to tell her what was going on.

“See ya.” Kat walked away.

Lacy wanted to find out what was going on. Kat was kind of acting weird.

Millie and Kyle walked into Jean’s house. Millie didn’t want to be there, but she did want to be with her pack.

Jean sat in the dinning room with Wagner. They were playing a game of Sorry.

“Jean, is it okay if Millie can use your phone? She has to call someone,” Kyle asked.

“Yea. Go ahead.”

“Oh yea.... And she’s also going to stay here too.... Is that a problem?”

“No. You can stay, Millie, and the phone’s hanging up on the wall next to the fridge.”

Millie didn’t say anything she just walked into the kitchen and picked up the phone. She listened for the dial tone and then dialed the number. She listened to the ringing and looked around the little kitchen. She noticed a back door which led to a porch.

She heard a voice on the other line. “Hello.”

“Tom, I’m going to be staying at Jean’s for a while with my pack.”

“Oh.... Okay thanks for letting me know.” She could tell from the way that he spoke that he was smiling and that made her smile a little. He was like the father, who she had lost.

“Thank you for letting me stay there for the night and tell Jane I said, 'thanks' as well.” Even though, Tom and Jane couldn’t really replace her parents, Millie still seen them as if they were her mother and father.

“Alright. I’ll do that. Bye, Millie.”

“Bye, Tom.” She hung up the phone and looked down at the floor. She didn’t want to be at Jean’s house, but she was. She was there for her pack. She would do what she felt was good for her pack. Although, Tom and Jane were nice people, they’re house didn’t have room for them. She didn’t do things for herself, she did things for the pack and that’s what made her a good leader.

Lacy walked into the bookstore and noticed that Champ had taken over the computer. “I ran into your girlfriend,” she said as she made her way over to him.

Champ sighed. He didn’t bother to look at her, but Lacy could sense that there was something wrong.

“What’s....”

“I broke up with her,” he answered before Lacy could finish the question.

She figured that was what Kat didn’t want to tell her. She couldn’t believe that Champ had broken up with Kat. “You broke up with her? Why did you do that for?” she asked, mad.

Champ looked at Lacy with wide-eyes.

“You two were a perfect couple, besides the fact that you’re a wolf and she’s a cat, but still.... You know all of us were starting to like her....” Lacy had to pause. “Well, except for Millie, but Millie doesn’t like anyone.” She had to pause again. “You two love each other.”

“I didn’t brake up with her because I wanted to,” Champ admitted to Lacy. “There’s a dog-witch in town.”

“You think that Kat would betray you.... I don’t think that she would....”

“No, I don’t want to betray her.... Once that whistle sounds, we’ll be in a trance, and I don’t want to hurt her.... I did it to protect her.... I didn’t want too, but I wanted to protect her.”

Lacy seen where he was coming from and she had to agree. She had forgotten that there was a dog-witch in town until Champ had reminded her.

Drunken Idiot

Shawn ran into Ann on his way back to Jean’s. Stina and Wagner had already hurried back, but he just wanted to take his time. He was kind of annoyed at Stina for trying to get some humans to dance with her to some silly song which had been playing. He was actually embarrassed at Stina’s childishness, but at the same time, kind of envied her for that. He also wished that Millie had Stina’s personality. His sister was always serious and stressed. He wished that she would relax.

“Hey, Shawn,” Ann said. She hadn’t seen Shawn since October.

“Oh hey, Ann.” Shawn smiled at her. He was glad to see her. “So, what’s up?”

“Oh nothing. What’s new with you?”

“Well, the cottage burnt down.”

“Oh yea. Lee told me. I’m sorry to hear that.”

“Everyone’s fine so I’m not worried, but Millie’s still pretty ticked at Stina for it though.”

Ann knew about Millie’s temper. Lee told her about Millie’s anger. She didn’t really know Millie all that well, but she did understand that Millie had a problem with anyone who wasn’t a lycanthrope. When she was around Millie, she would show her kindness, but Millie would threaten her. She was in love with Shawn and so she wanted to make a good impression when she was around Millie, but the lycan didn’t care. Millie growled at her and she was afraid of Millie for it too. She didn’t know if that was Millie being a leader or Millie being an older protective sister. “Yea. Millie does seem to be stressed about something.”

“It’s Millie,” Shawn replied, “she’s always stressed about something.”

Jean was looking in the fridge for something to eat. Lacy and Stina walked into the kitchen. Jean looked over at them. “What do you two want to eat?” she asked.

“Well, what is there?” Lacy asked.

“There’s chicken and potatoes.... Home made pizza.... Hotdogs and homemade fries.... Roast beef and potatoes.... Hamburgers and fries....” Jean felt bad that there wasn’t really any choices. “Sorry that there’s not much to choose from.”

“Don’t worry about it,” Lacy reassured her. “We’ll eat anything.”

Jean felt better knowing that they didn’t care what they ate. “That’s good.”

“Can I cook?” Stina asked, excited.

Lacy’s eyes grew wide. She thought about the cottage and how it burnt down. She was hoping that Jean would say no.

“Sure.... You know how to cook?”

“Yea....”

“NO!” Lacy exclaimed. She had a horrifying thought about what could happen if Stina actually cooked.
Stina and Jean looked at Lacy. They noticed that she seemed to be terrified.

“Um.... Jean, Stina’s not aloud to cook.... She’s the reason why the cottage caught on fire.”

“Oh.” Jean understood why Lacy didn’t want Stina to cook and why she had that terrified look.

“But I can, that way you don’t....”

“Lacy’s a very good cook,” Stina told Jean.

“Okay then.... Lacy, you can cook whatever you want.”

“Thank you.”

Stina and Jean left the room. Lacy walked over to the fridge and picked out what she was going to cook.

Millie hid in the shadows of a dark ally. She was alone. She had left Jean’s to get some air and to think. Her eyes were closed and she listened to the sounds which were going on around her. She was leaning against a brick wall. She heard the sound of sirens and her eyes flew open. Someone was in trouble. She didn’t want to help because she knew it was a human, who was in trouble, but she believed in honoring the humans.

She sniffed the air and smelled the intense fear of a man running for his life. She also smelled the beer on his breath. She smiled because she didn’t have to move. The man was running toward her. She closed her eyes and slipped her foot out. She blended with the darkness.

A criminal ran and tripped over Millie’s foot. He was dressed in torn up, bummy clothes and he had a dirty beard to match. He stood up and instead of running he pulled out a knife and went to cut the person, who had tripped him. Millie opened her eyes and stepped out into the light, revealing herself to the man.

The man was terrified. He dropped the knife and started to back up. Millie went for the kill. She jumped and penned the man against the wall. She held him up by his collar. He realized that even though Millie didn’t look strong that she was tough and had the strength of ten men, possibly more. This petrified the man. He didn’t know much about werewolves, but he could tell that she could tear him apart.

“What did you do?” the wolf asked.

“Um.... Um....” The criminal was afraid to answer. Millie was scaring the crap out of him.

Millie was starting to grow angry. She pulled the man away from the wall and slammed him against it. “What did you do?” she growled.

The man was still to afraid to answer. He didn’t have to feel the back of his head to know that there was a bump.

Millie pulled him away from the wall and slammed him against it again.

“Okay.... Okay....” He decided to speak. He didn’t want to get slammed against the wall for the third time.

Millie raised an eyebrow. “Ah the human speaks.”

“I’m drunk....”

Millie didn’t have to ask to know that. She could smell the beer on his breath.

“I stole a car....”

Millie just kept looking at the man as if he were food, but she knew better than to harm a human, and besides, she didn’t want the taste of beer in her mouth.

“And I shot a cop.”

“So, you broke three laws one night?”

The man didn’t answer. He was afraid to answer.

Millie pulled the man away from the wall and went to slam him against it.

“Wait.... Don’t, please, don’t.” The man cried.

Millie just held him in the air. She didn’t slam him against the wall this time. She could sense that she had this man afraid and she enjoyed that.

“Yes in one night.”

The cops arrived on the scene and Millie turned to face the cops as she threw the man in front of them. “There’s your cop killing, drunken thief.... Now, put him in jail,” Millie told the cops and walked away rudely.

Fifteen Minutes of Unwelcome Fame

Millie thought that the people would have forgotten about what had happened the night before. When she walked to the bookstore, she stopped at the store across from the bookstore. She dropped her mouth at the sight of a crowd, news reporters, and cameramen standing in front of the store. She growled as she made her way to the store. The last thing that she wanted to do was talk about the night before.


A woman with red, wavy hair, wearing a long, bulging red coat to match her hair color, stopped Millie. A cop who had remembered what Millie looked like, pointed Millie out to the woman. She was holding a microphone and was followed by a cameraman. Millie rolled her eyes at the news reporter. “Excuse me,” the woman said, “I was told that you are the girl, who stopped that criminal from getting away last night. Is that true?”
Millie rolled her eyes. She didn’t like the press. She hated everything about those people. She thought that they should learn to stay out of other people’s business. How would they feel if their business was all over the news? She knew the answer.... They wouldn’t like it. Millie looked at the cameraman. “GET THAT STUPID CAMERA OUT OF MY FACE!” she growled.
The cameraman didn’t listen. He kept the camera facing toward Millie and the news reporter.
“Well, someone has a temper.” The news reporter laughed, taking Millie’s anger as a joke. “So.... Is it true?”
Millie looked at the news reporter then back to the cameraman. “GET THAT CAMERA AWAY FROM ME!” she growled at the cameraman, but he still didn’t move it, and the news reporter just laughed harder. Millie was extremely ticked off. She didn’t say anything, she took the camera and torn it apart. When she was done, she threw it on the ground. “How’s that for funny?” she asked then went to walk inside.
The news reporter had stopped laughing and looked down at the broken camera. “Wow. She was ticked off.” She looked up at the cameraman, who was looking back at her as if to ask a question.
“Really?” he finally asked.
The news reporter walked over to Millie as soon as Millie opened the door. “Wait....”
Millie closed the door and turned to face the news reporter. She was angry. “What?”
“Why did you help the cops?”
“Because they wouldn’t of caught the guy.... And besides, if us werewolves weren’t here then you dumb humans would have a high criminal rate.” Millie finally walked into the store. She didn’t want to deal with them all day.
                                                      ******
Shawn, Lacy, and Tom were watching the news, when Millie walked in. Millie stopped walking and looked up at the TV, when she heard the same words that she had just said five minutes ago. She was ticked off.
“And there you have it.... Us dumb humans,” the news reporter had said. “It’s Rose Mary Stills singing off. Back to you, Bill.”
Millie was so ticked off that she was about to explode. “That stupid human.... They were still recording me even after I broke that other camera and she knew it. I’m going back out there.”
Shawn had grabbed Millie to keep her from going back outside. “Millie, say, 'hi' to Tom,” he said, turning her toward the pastor.
Millie lost the urge to fight. She felt bad that Tom had to see her act that way again. She dropped her head in shame.
“I’m disappointed in you, Millie,” Tom told her.
“I’m sorry, please forgive me.”
“You didn’t do anything to me.”
Lacy had turned away from the TV. She couldn’t believe what she had just seen. “Rose is soooo stupid.... I hate to say that, but she is.”


Christina smiled at what she had just seen on the news. She turned off her TV and she didn’t bother to move from her chair. A tall, all black Great Dane walked next to her and sat down. “Well, this is going to be fun. I can use this against her and her pack. Once those humans see the evil in those wolves, they’re going to want them gone and the wolf pack will have no choice but to work for me.... Especially on the night of the full moon,” she told herself. She started to laugh devilishly. She enjoyed torching others.

Lacy's Date With Lee

Champ, Millie, Kyle, and Lacy were sitting at the table in the dinning room. Millie was kind of slouching down in her chair. She didn’t want to be there. She would rather be back at the burnt up cottage than here. She had her left arm laying on the table, tapping her fingers. Her right arm was hanging over the chair.
“The fact that Christina’s here now, we have to be extra careful when we walk into town,” Champ said. “We’ve been walking around and didn’t think about it but we have to be careful. She uses that dog whistle and....”
“We already know how to stop her,” Millie interrupted. “I’m the leader and I say that we attack.”
“Now, we both know why we can’t do that.”
“Oh, come on, Champ. All we have to do is take that stupid whistle away from her.”
“But we don’t know if she still has the other one or if she found her victim already. We’re in trouble either way.”
Champ was right but Millie just wanted to attack anyways. She hated dealing with other non-humans, especially with Christmas a week away. “That don’t mean anything and besides we already know who she chose or will choose to help her.” She didn’t have to say anything, they all knew who Christina would choose to help.
“But, Millie, we have to think about those humans.... We don’t need any of them around.... I think that we should wait until the full moon.”
Millie didn’t want to argue with Champ. She leaned forward in the chair, placing her arm on the table. She clasped her hands together. She looked at each one of her pack members. “Who agrees with Champ that we should wait until the next full moon to attack Christina?”
Kyle and Lacy raised their hands.
“Okay. You win, Champ. We’ll wait for the full moon.”
“Okay.”
“Kyle, when you get a chance, tell the other two. I don’t want Young Wagner to know.”
Kyle nodded at Millie’s words.


Lee knocked on the door. He was dressed nicely. His hair was combed back with an exception for a few strains which hung off of his forehead. He looked really cute. He waited for someone to answer the door. He didn’t want to stay out in the cold on Jean’s porch for long.
The door opened and he blushed at the sight of Lacy. She was wearing a beautiful, blue dress which brought out the blue in her hazel eyes. The dress was Jean’s, but it was too small for Jean, so she gave it to Lacy.
Lacy couldn’t help, but check out Lee. He was always cute, but there was something about him which was different.
Lee felt a warm feeling from Lacy. He wasn’t cold anymore.
“Hi.... Lee,” Lacy said, shyly.
“Hi, Lacy.”
Champ was walking down the stairs. “HEY, LEE!” he called. “Lacy, invite him in. I’m sure he doesn’t want to stand out in the cold all night,” he whispered as he walked past her and made his way into the living room. The guys had decided that they were going to have an action movie marathon and the first movie was Rush Hour, and he didn’t want to miss the beginning.
“Oh, where are my manners? I’m sorry. Come in.” Lacy was embarrassed.
“That’s okay.” Lee smiled as he walked into the house. He went to close the door, but Lacy had already closed it. “How are you enjoying staying here?”
“I like it here.” Lacy thought about something. “Do you want to go sit at the dinning room table?”
“Sure.”
They walked into the dinning room and sat down. Stina walked into the room, wearing an apron and holding a little notepad and pen. She noticed that Lee was there. “LEE!” she shouted, excitedly and gave him a hug. She backed away. “So?”
“So?”
“You’re on a date with Lacy?”
“That’s right.”
“Does that mean that you’re going to be my cousin-in-law?”
Lacy’s eyes grew wide. She couldn’t believe that Stina would ask that question. “Stina? It’s a date, we’re not getting married.”
“Oh.... Okay.” Stina backed away from the table.  “JEAN! LEE’S HERE!” she called to the kitchen.
“You’re not cooking, are you?” Lee asked. He knew that Stina was the reason why the cottage had burnt down and didn’t want that to happen again.
“No. Jean’s cooking, I’m just taking the orders.”


Millie was in the little room which was hooked up to the kitchen. She was leaning on a window sill. She looked up at the night sky and wished that she was back at the cottage before it was destroyed by the fire.
“Do you want something to eat, Millie?” Jean asked, standing in the door way.
“I’m not hungry.”
“Oh.... Well, tell me whenever you do get hungry.” Jean walked back into the kitchen.
Millie didn’t want to move. She was thinking about that picture which she had seen in Tom and Jane’s house. The one of her parents. She couldn’t stop thinking about it. It almost made her cry just thinking about the memory, but she couldn’t help it. She missed her parents so much.


Lacy and Lee had just finished eating. Lacy picked up the dishes that they had used and brought them into the kitchen, Lee had followed her. She rinsed them in the split sink. She rinsed them in the one which was close to the restrainer and then started to fill the other one with hot water and dish soap.
Jean walked in from the computer room and Stina had followed. “Oh, you don’t have to do that, Lacy.... I could wash them.”
“I don’t mind.... Besides I’m use to doing the dishes.”
“Okay.” Jean went to a cabinet and opened the door. “Okay, Stina, you can choose what you want.”
Stina looked at all of the snacks which was in the cabinet and grabbed the mini powder doughnuts. She closed the door, and her and Jean walked back into the computer room as Shawn and Kyle walked into the kitchen. They both were holding two empty cups.
“Hey, Kyle, and Shawn. What’s up?” Lee asked.
“We’re taking an intermission....” Shawn started.
“Yea, Rush Hour had just ended and,” Kyle finished, “we’re going to watch Rush Hour Two....”
“Yea, Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan are awesome and we’re having an action movie marathon starting with all the Jackie Chan movies because....”
“JACKIE CHAN KICKS BUTT!” Kyle and Shawn exclaimed.
Millie had walked in at the time and just looked at them like they were crazy. She was standing behind them and walked back into the room that she was in. She didn’t want to know.
Lee and Lacy were laughing at how Kyle and Shawn were acting. They were acting like big kids.
“Man, we’re even going to watch Kong Foo Panda,” Kyle told them.
“Yea, because Jackie Chan plays the....”
“MONKEY!” they both exclaimed again.
That made Lee and Lacy laugh even harder.
“MONKEYS RULE!” Stina yelled from the other room.
Kyle and Shawn filled the cups up with more soda and left the room.

Unwilling to Work with a Vampire

Kat looked up and Christina was standing in front of her. She didn’t know how to react. She hadn’t realized that Christina lied to her to join the dark side. Cat shape-shifters were known for switching sides. No one knew if they were good or if they were evil. What she had done was evil, but she would still try to help the wolves. “What do you want? I agreed to help you.... So, what do you want now?” she asked.
“Wait ‘til the next full moon.” Christina left without an explanation.
Kat knew that the next full moon was five days after Christmas and two days before New Years. She had to wait, but would she be able to use that whistle when the time came or would she destroy it? She was so confused and she couldn’t tell right from wrong.


It was Christmas week. Shawn and Kyle were at the toy store, they had just bought the red bike which Wagner had dreamed of since the first day that he locked eyes onto the beautiful, glaze red bike. The six older wolves had pitched in for the bike. Sadly, it was going to be the only thing that Wagner was going to get. It was the only thing any of them were going to get. They didn’t have much money and they felt that they needed to save some to give to Jean for letting them stay there, although she didn’t want to take their money, because she understood that the cottage had burnt down and they didn’t have much money anyways.
Shawn started to walk the bike, while Kyle walked next to him. “Hey, man,” Shawn said. “Do you think that we should take turns breaking in this bike?”
“Yea,” Kyle said, but then changed his mind, “no.... Wagner’s the one who should ride the bike first.... It is his Christmas present and besides, Millie’s at the bookstore with Lacy and Champ.... She’d be mad if we did that, especially if it broke.”
Shawn thought about it and he agreed with Kyle. They had to walk past the bookstore and Millie would not be happy. “That’s true.”


Millie’s snout was starting to grow. She had a hunched back along with Lacy. Champ was starting to look more like a wolf than human. Millie sat on top of the desk in the bookstore like a dog.
Someone walked into the bookstore. The person was wearing a long, pitch black coat. The hood of the coat was covering the person’s face. The sleeves were long enough that the person’s hands were covered. There was a reason for that.
The three wolves didn’t have to see the face of the person to know who it was. They could just sniff the air and his sent told them who he was.
“What do you want, Jock?” Millie asked.
He lifted up his head and there was a shadow which blocked his face. He reminded them of the Grim Reaper the way he was dressed. “I’m not this Jock that you speak of,” he replied, trying to disguise his accent.
Millie raised an eyebrow. She wasn’t in the mood for games.
“Hey, Jock,” Lacy said as she walked past him with a bunch of books in her hand.
“Crap.”
“What do you want, Jock?” Millie asked again.
“I came to see how the plan was coming along....”
“We’re going to wait ‘til the full moon,” Champ told him.
“Oh.... You guys have to be careful because you’ll be in your wolf forms by then.”
“We know, but you don’t have to worry about us.”
“Okay.”
“Heck, you can help if you want....”
“NO!” Millie jumped off of the desk and stood kind of bent down. “I DON’T WANT TO WORK WITH A VAMPIRE!!!”
“Sorry, Millie, but we could use his help and you know it.”
Millie rolled her eyes. “Fine, but go back to Pennsylvania after that.”
Jock nodded. He knew that Millie wasn’t as cold hearted as she acted but that didn’t mean that she wouldn’t try and harm him.

Stina's Walking on Egg Shells

Christina marked the 22nd on the calendar. She noticed that the 25th was on that Friday. She counted five days after. She smiled because a week from Christmas would be a full moon. She couldn’t wait for the 30th. She turned to face her Great Dane with an evil smile. “A week from this Friday.... Those wolves won’t know what hit them.”
The Great Dane barked at Christina’s words as if he were protesting against her.
“You can’t do anything.... You’re chained up, boy.” She walked past the big, black dog and walked into another room.
The dog kept on barking. He didn’t stop. He wanted to be free, but Christina had placed the chain on him when he tried to bite her.


Champ could tell that something would happen if Christina controlled them, but they had a plan and Jock was going to help them, but he just wanted to think about Christmas. It was in two days and he just wanted to think about the good times, not the bad times. He walked into the vet’s office and walked over to Jean’s desk. “Jean?” he asked.
Jean was to busy with setting up appointments that she didn’t realize that Champ was trying to tell her something. She just thought that he was there to make another appointment. “Look.... I’m sorry, sir, but you’ll have to wait.” She was stressing over her work.
“Jean.... Stop working, you’re stressing and you need to relax.”
Jean looked up and was relieved to see Champ. She needed to relax but she had so much work to do. She didn’t want to make appointments for Christmas Eve or Christmas. She didn’t believe in working on the holidays. “I’m sorry, but I’m stressed.”
“I can see that.” Champ looked around. A couple months ago, Jack had most of the humans transformed into animals and sadly some of them were already dead. The lycans had saved them, but some of them didn’t thank them. They had told themselves that what had happened to them was all a dream. Champ had to shake his head at their arrogance. “Kyle and Shawn had went and bought a bike for Wagner.... We don’t know where to hide it until tomorrow night.... They had kept it at Lee’s over night, but we want to get it at your house and hide it.”
Jean had to think about it for a minute. She didn’t want them to put it in the attic because she had brought presents for them that she still had to wrap. They had told her that they weren’t expecting anything for Christmas, because they felt like they were intruding, but she didn’t mind and besides she felt like she had to do something for them because they freed her from working for Jack. “The basement.... The basement is good,” she answered.
“Okay. I’ll go tell them.” Champ walked out of the vet’s office.


Stina and Wagner had followed Millie to the bookstore. They had went to different sections of the store. Millie had walked behind the desk and turned the computer on. She walked into the room in the back of the store as she waited for the computer to come on.
Stina had grabbed a little kids’ book and dropped it on the floor after she read the back.
Wagner heard the book hit the floor and ran to pick it up. “Are you crazy? Millie will kill you if one of these books get ruined,” he whispered to Stina, worried. He didn’t like Millie’s temper.
Millie walked out of the room and walked over to the two younger wolves. “What’s going on?” she asked.
“Nothing,” Stina lied.
“She dropped this book,” Wagner said as he put the book back where it belonged.
Millie eyed Stina. “I don’t want you to touch anything.” She was still mad at Stina for letting the cottage burn into flames.

Christmas Memories, Painful Time

Wagner was running all over the house, excited. He was knocking on the doors and he ran over to wake Kyle, who had been sleeping on the love seat, Champ, who had been sleeping on the couch, and Shawn, who was sleeping on the floor next to the heater.
Stina, Lacy, and Jean all walked out of their rooms to see what all the noise was about. Millie was the only one, who didn’t come out of her room.


Millie took a pillow and held it over her head to block out the noise. She didn’t want to wake up. She wanted to go back to bed, but she couldn’t. She could hear Wagner knocking on the other side of the door. He was calling her name.
“NO! I’M TRYING TO SLEEP!”
The knocking stopped. She could tell by the way Wagner was walking that he was disappointed. She could hear his disappointment in each step he took. She decided to get up.
She sat up on the bed and looked at the calendar which was hanging on the wall. She knew what day it was. Wagner was going to be getting that bike today. It was Christmas morning. Millie took a breath and felt the back of her head. She noticed that her bun had fallen down and she went a head and took out the hair tie which had kept her hair up. She slid her now forming back claws into two slippers.
She stood up and kind of rolled her shoulders. She looked around and noticed that Lacy had made her bed before she left the room. “Of course,” she told herself.


Kyle sat up and noticed that Champ and Shawn weren’t in the room. The sweet smell of pancakes, eggs, and bacon filled the air. He stood up and made his way into the kitchen.


“Did Wagner get the you know what yet?” Shawn asked.
“Not yet.... We still have it hiding,” Champ answered.
“Good, ‘cause I want to see his face.” Shawn took a bite of his pancakes. He could tell that Lacy had made the pancakes. All of the wolves loved Lacy’s cooking, but Shawn was the only one, who bragged.
Lacy was the only one, who thought that there was something wrong with her cooking, but everyone else would tell her not be harsh.


Lacy was flipping pancakes, while Jean was pouring a cup of coffee. Stina and Wagner were sitting at the little table waiting to eat. No one noticed that Kyle was standing in the door way. He leaned on the wall.
“Merry Christmas,” Kyle said as he smiled.
Everyone looked up at him.
“Merry Christmas,” Jean answered, returning a smile as well.
“Oh, good morning, Kyle,” Lacy said, looking over at him.
“Where’s my girlfriend?” he asked.
“She’s....”
“I smell breakfast,” Millie interrupted.
“Awake,” Lacy finished.
“So, when does Wagner get his present?”
“After we eat,” Lacy answered.


Everyone was in the computer room. Stina and Wagner were sitting at the small Christmas tree, which had presents placed under it. Jean stood up and moved next to the two young wolves. “Now, I know that you all said that I didn’t have to get you anything, but I couldn’t resist.” She picked up two presents and read the names.
“Kyle, Shawn,” she said, handing the presents to them. She grabbed two more. “Stina, Champ....” She handed them to Stina and Champ then picked up two more. “Lacy, Wagner....” She handed them to Lacy and Wagner. There was one more present under the tree. She picked it up and she didn’t have to read what was written to know who it was for. She stood up and brought it over to Millie. “And Millie.” She handed it to the girl.
Millie took the present. She didn’t say anything and she noticed how the others didn’t open theirs yet.
Champ set his present from Jean down. “Before we open these, I’ll be back.” He left the room. He walked back into the room a couple seconds later, holding a little rectangle shaped present and handed it to Jean. “This is for you from all of us.... Thanks for letting us stay here.”
Jean took the present and smiled. She kind of wanted to cry. She wasn’t expecting to get anything. “Thank you.... All of you.”
“Now, we can all open our presents....”
“WAIT!” Lacy cried. “Can we give Wagner his present from all of us first, because I just want to see his look and I’m pretty sure Millie would want to see.”
“Okay,” Champ agreed. “I’ll be right back.” He left the room, but this time, it took a little longer for him to walk back into the room.
Wagner’s eyes lit up as he seen Champ walk in with the red bike. It was the same bike that he seen in the toy store. He set the present down and ran over to the bike. “THANKS GUYS, I LOVE IT!” he exclaimed.
“Yea, but let’s see what Jean got for each of us now.”
Champ and Wagner grabbed their presents and sat down.
“Now we can,” Lacy said.
Everyone opened their presents. Lacy got a new outfit: dark blue jeans and a sky blue shirt which said angel in white letters. Stina got a license plate which said danger, she loved it. Champ got a book about different kinds of animals. Kyle got a hat which had Patriots in white letters. Shawn got a deck of playing cards. Wagner got a hot wheels set, he loved the set just as much as he loved the bike. Millie got a little, wooden jewelry box with wolves on it, one of the wolves was howling at the moon. That was what they had gotten from Jean.
Jean smiled as she read the title of the book that they had got for her. “Thank you.”
“No problem,” Champ said. “Me and Kyle noticed that was the only book from the O’Malley Series that you didn’t have in your little library upstairs. So we got it for you.”                                                               Millie was the only one, who didn’t act please with the gift. She set the box on the couch, and left the room, she didn’t want to deal with anyone.                                                                                                 Kyle, Champ, and Lacy could tell that Jean was disappointed. She was hoping that Millie would like the little box.                                                                                                                                           “Don’t be disappointed,” Lacy said. “She does this every year.”                                                        Shawn walked over and picked up the box. He knew why Millie had left. “Look.”                                    Kyle, Champ, and Lacy looked at the box and knew why.                                                                 “What is it?” Jean asked.                                                                                                            Shawn set the box back down. He didn’t answer Jean. The pain came and he just acted like it was nothing. “I’ll be back.” He left the room.                                                                                                         The others heard the front door open then close.                                                                           “That box looks like the same one that their parents had got Millie, the Christmas right before the day that it had happened,” Lacy explained. She didn’t have to say what had happened because everyone already knew.

Alone on Christmas

Millie sat on the swing which was on the front porch. She didn’t want to be there right then. She wanted to be gone. Shawn had just come out and sat next to her.
“Millie, Jean didn’t mean anything by it. She didn’t know that mom and dad got a jewelry box like that before.... You know.”
“Whatever.... I hate humans.”
Shawn shook his head at Millie’s remark. “You know what I think?”
“What?”
“I think that you would rather deal with humans that are mean to you than to those who are nice.... You expect them to be mean and know that’s not true.”
“Humans lie.... They all lie....”
“Now that’s not true, Millie.... Tom and Jane are nice to us and they’re not mean.”
“They’re different and you just contradicted yourself.... I just want to be alone.... Okay, Shawn.”
Shawn went to say something, but Millie had stood up and walked away. He didn’t want to follow her because he knew that she needed to be alone. Millie always did that on the holidays. She had to be alone and he couldn’t do anything about it. He stood up and went inside.


Champ, Lacy, and Kyle were in the dinning room. They were having a conversation. Shawn walked in and sat down at the table.
“Is Millie okay?” Lacy asked.
“No. She just needs to be alone like always,” Shawn answered. He pulled out his deck of cards. “Does anyone want to play Black Jack?”
“I’m in,” Champ said.
“Me too,” Kyle agreed.
“I’m going to clean up....”
“No, Lacy,” Shawn told her. “You are to play.”
Lacy had no choice. She could tell by the way Shawn said it and how the guys were looking at her. “Fine.... Hit me.”
Shawn shuffled the deck. “That’s what I thought.” He smiled.


Christina marked off the 25th and turned to face the Great Dane which wanted to attack. “It won’t be long from now. Only five more days and then I get to have total control,” she laughed, devilishly.


The moon was half full and Jock was hoping that the wolves had enough time to stop Christina. He knew that they already knew how to stop the dog-witch. He was going to help them, but the mission was just as dangerous for him as it was for them. There was a difference though. Vampires could easily break out of the trance, werewolves couldn’t.
Kat walked over to him. She acted like nothing was wrong. It was a good thing for her that vampires couldn’t since any feelings that didn’t show. “Hey, Jock. I didn’t know that you were in town.”
“Oh hello, Kat. I’m going to be working with the lycans.”
“Oh.” Kat didn’t know what to say. “Well, it was good talking to you, but I’m going to go.... My brother’s having a Christmas dinner and I don’t want to be late.” She walked away, leaving Jock alone and confused.
He wasn’t worried because he was a vampire. Vampires didn’t have to worry about getting mugged or murdered. They just had to worry about the sun. The wolves, on the other hand, had to be careful.

Black & White

Millie opened her eyes. Everything was in black and white. It was as if the color had been drained from everything. She sat up and held up her hands which looked to be a dark gray color. “Crap,” she mumbled to herself. She knew what kind of full moon they were going to have. All of the werewolves, no matter their age, had to see black and white a couple of days earlier when this full moon was coming.


Lacy and Lee were at the bookstore smitten. Lee was standing in front of the desk, leaning against it. He held onto Lacy’s claws and looked into her beautiful hazel eyes.
Lacy looked into Lee’s eyes, but she seen black and white and couldn’t see his real eye color.
“I know that my parents don’t like you wolves, but I don’t care. I’m in love with you,” Lee admitted.
Lacy blushed at Lee’s words. “I love you too.”
They went to kiss, when Champ and Millie walked in.
“Sorry to break up the love fest, but we have a problem,” Champ told them.
Lacy and Lee backed away from each other. Lacy was disappointed. Her and Lee were going to kiss, but the moment was ruined.
“We have to deal with destroying Christina’s plan and you’re here making out with a human.” Millie was ticked off. “She’s going to be glad that she has a....”
“SHUT UP, MILLIE!” Lacy exclaimed. “I’m tired of hearing you complain about everything. Okay. So what if he’s human? Huh? And I know about what Christina’s going to do.... I know that she has a better chance of getting us wolves into a trance. We have a plan and I know that we’re going to stop her okay. Just shut up.” She walked from behind the desk and grabbed Lee’s right arm with her left arm and dragged him out of the bookstore. “We don’t need to deal with her.”
“What’s her problem?” Millie asked as she watched the door close.
Champ looked at Millie. He couldn’t believe that she asked that. “You.... You’re her problem.... You always take your anger out on people, who don’t deserve it and she’s tired of it.... We’re all tired of it.... You need to relax.”
Millie couldn’t say anything because she knew that he was right. She did take her anger out on people. “She shouldn’t of talked back to me like that.... I’m....”
“The leader,” Champ finished. “Someone has to and you don’t go talk to the wolf council.”
“I don’t want to because then I’ll have to look in the eyes of the....” Millie didn’t want to finish the sentence. “Just forget about it.”
“Okay.” Champ walked over to a bookshelf and noticed that two books were in the wrong places. He moved them to their correct spots.

Millie VS Kat

It was the day of the full moon. The six older lycans were in the woods with Jock, who was wearing his long, black coat from when he walked into the bookstore.
“What are we going to do?” Jock asked.
“Well, you can go hide in a cave and stay there,” Millie told him. “I’m going to lure Christina and whoever she got to work for her.... Kat.”
“Kat wouldn’t do that,” Champ disagreed.
“She’s a cat shape-shifter, she’ll do whatever she can to stop us,” Millie told him. She walked away from them as Jock went to find a cave to hang out in until it was time for him to reveal himself.


Millie sniffed the air and she could since fear. She looked and noticed that Kat was walking toward her and she knew instantly what Kat had done. “Of course,” she said, stopping Kat in her tracks. “All cats fear dogs.... Especially if the cat betrayed the dog.”
Kat slowly turned to face Millie. Her heart was pounding fast. She knew then that Millie knew what she had done. “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she tried to lie.
“Yes you do. It seems like Champ was wrong and I was right. You would betray us.”
Kat pulled out the whistle from her pocket and went to blow into it, but Millie had attacked her. They started fighting each other.
Christina had shown up to watch the fight. She folded her arms. “I’ve never watched a real dog and cat fight before,” she told herself. “GO AHEAD AND KILL HER, MILLIE! I DON’T NEED TO DEAL WITH A CAT! BESIDES.... I’M MORE OF A DOG PERSON ANYWAYS!”
Millie and Kat had pushed each other back. Kat had fell into the snow, but Millie had hit a wall.
“You want her to kill me?” Kat asked, confused.
Christina thought before she answered. “Yea.”
Kat had realized that she was on the wrong side. She held up the whistle and broke it in half.
“I do have another one.... So I don’t care.”
Millie forced herself up. She rolled her head to crack her neck. “You want control, Christina. Then follow me.” She ran back toward the woods and Christina followed.


Christina had to laugh. Millie had led her to the pack. “You’re a dumb wolf. You led me to your pack.”
“You.... Millie, why did you bring her here?” Kyle asked.
“Yea,” Champ agreed.
Christina pulled out her whistle and went to blow into it.
The sun was setting and the wolves were almost to their full lycan forms.
“Stop,” Millie told Christina.
“Why?”
“Because,” Millie said as she looked at Champ and Kyle and she kind of nodded to them, “I’ll make a deal with you.”
“What?”
“If you let my pack leave, then I’ll promise to be your servant.”
“NO!” Shawn exclaimed. “Millie, you can’t.”
“Shawn, you’re in charge of the pack now.”
“Okay,” Christina smiled. She held the whistle out and looked at the sky and noticed that the moon was blood red. “My servant, I want....”
The wolves were now in their full wolf forms.
“You to....”
A bat flew by and snatched the whistle from Christina. Christina turned around and the bat turned into a vampire.
“Millie,” Jock said, “you can attack now.”
“I know.... Everyone attack.”
Christina turned to face them. She was out numbered. The pack had jumped her. They bit and clawed her until she was no more. Jock just watched. He knew better then to jump in while a pack of werewolves were feasting. Christina’s spirit had flew into the whistle and Jock threw it down.

Tom's Surprise to the Pack

Tom had the four boys in his small, black truck, while Jane followed him in her little, red car with the three girls. They drove into the woods and all of the wolves seen a beautiful, two story, white house where the cottage use to stand. They parked the cars and everyone climbed out.
Stina and Wagner ran to the door. They couldn’t wait to get inside.
Millie stood next to Jane’s car and looked at the new cottage. “You didn’t have to do that,” she told Tom. She wanted to cry.
“Everyone deserves a place to stay,” Tom replied.
“Thanks, Tom,” Kyle said.
“No problem. Here’s the key,” he said as he handed it to Kyle.


Champ walked into the town and found Kat sitting on a park bench. He noticed some bruises and figured that Millie was the reason for them. “Kat, can we start dating again.... I didn’t dump you on purpose. I dumped you too protect you.”
Kat stood up and gave Champ a hug. She started crying. “I know.... And yes.... I missed you so much.”
“Do you want to get something to eat?”
Kat nodded.
                                    ******
Millie and Lacy had walked to Jean’s house. They were there to get their things. “Thanks again for letting us stay,” Lacy told Jean.
“No problem.” Jean and Lacy hugged. Jean went to hug Millie but decided that it was probably a better idea not to.

Millie's Mail

A day later, a fifteen-year-old boy with short, dark hair knocked on the door. He was dressed like a messenger from the medieval times and he was really dirty. He had a book bag around him and he was holding a letter.
Lacy had opened the door. “Hi, Mark. How are you?”
“I’m good, Lacy. How are you?”
“I’m good too.”
“This is for Millie. Is she here?”
“No. She’s at the bookstore but I’ll make sure she gets it. Okay.” She smiled at the boy.
“Okay.” Mark handed her the letter then left.
Lacy closed the door and turned back to go to the kitchen as Shawn walked down the stairs.
“Who was that?”
“It was Mark.”
“Oh.” He noticed the letter in Lacy’s hand. “What’s that?”
“It’s a letter for Millie,” Lacy answered as she read the envelope. “It’s from the wolf council.”
“Ooo.... READ IT!”
“It’s Millie’s. I’m not going to read her mail.”
“Oh come on.”
“No.... It’s not mine.... It’s her privacy.... We don’t need to read it.”
“Yea.... Like how much you want to marry Lee.”
“You’ve read my dairy.”
“No,” Shawn lied, taking the letter. “She won’t know, okay. We won’t tell her.”
“Fine.”
Shawn gave the letter back to Lacy and she opened it. When she held the letter in her hand, they both read what was written to themselves then they looked at each other.
“I wonder what they're holding a meeting for? You don’t think....”
“No. It can’t be.”
The End

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