• Introduction



    Some people don’t believe in mythical creatures or legends. Like vampires or werewolves. They think they are total nonsense. I can’t agree. I have to believe in them. If I didn’t it would be ironic, considering I am one. I’m Veronica Thompson. I’m a werewolf.
    I’m fifteen years old. I kind of have been fifteen for two years. Werewolves don’t age it’s pretty cool. I never have to grow up! I’m a young werewolf which is hard. I’m still getting used to everything. It’s not like one day you just wake up and, “Wha’la!!” you’re a werewolf! It’s more complicated than that. You are either born with werewolf genes in you, or you get bitten by one. I’m lucky and have werewolf genes. It runs in my family. My dad was a werewolf and so are my brothers and cousins. My mom is not one though. Poor Mom. She married into a family of mythical creatures! My dad is the leader of us. He makes sure we don’t get hurt or anything like that.
    Nathan and Chris are my brothers. Nathan is sixteen and Chris is fifteen. And before you start saying, “Well, wait aren’t you fifteen?” I want to say, “Yes, he is my twin!” We don’t look a like or anything….just born at the same time. Nathan is very tall and has short, black, spiked up hair. He is very popular in school and the girls love him! That is an up side because everyone treats me very well because I’m his little sis! Chris is very tall and has dark black hair that swoops to the side like Joe Jonas’s. He is also very popular for being fifteen. We are all known through out the school. I don’t think there is one person there that doesn’t know us!
    Lee and Daniel are my cousins. They live in a different city than us, but they are always over our house like they live there. Lee is seventeen and Daniel is fourteen. They don’t go to our high school, but I hear they are really popular too. Lee is on the star football player and Daniel is on the school basketball team. What show offs. The rest of us don’t like to be show offs at sports. Werewolves are super fast runners and we are really strong. So yeah, if we wanted to we could all be professional athletes.
    Lee is the tallest out of us all. He is six feet seven inches tall! He has short, messy, brown hair. Daniel is really tall like the rest of us too. He has medium length, brown hair.
    It kind of sucks being the only girl, but yet again awesome at the same time. There are no preppy girls complaining about how they turn into a big beast and how they feel ugly when they are in wolf form. I think it is awesome! So yeah, maybe it is a good thing that I’m the only girl. Plus if there were more girls than there would be a lot more fighting between us than there already is. So now you know a little about us. I think it’s time to tell our story!

    Chapter #1: PROBLEMS




    I woke up this morning at about five o’clock to get ready for school. Nathan was buzzing around the kitchen making breakfast. He is always the first one up. I will never figure out how he is so awake this early in the morning! I sat down at the table and Nathan handed me my plate of food. Our kitchen was really big. We had all new stainless steal appliances, a big oak table, and a walk in pantry that was filled with food. We werewolves could eat nonstop all day!
    Nathan grabbed a seat across the table from me and started to eat his breakfast. “Morning Veronica,” He said cheerfully with a big smile on his face as he shoved a piece of bacon in his mouth.
    “Morning Nathan,” I said back not even half way as enthusiastic as he had been. I really wasn’t a morning person.
    “When you are done go get dressed and wake up Dad,” he instructed. I rolled my eyes and got up from the table. I really wasn’t hungry. I put my plate in the sink and went up stairs.
    My room was huge. I had a queen sized bed and a couch. I also had a plasma screen TV. I searched for something to wear. One thing that sucked about being popular in school is that everyone expects you to dress all nice. It’s not that I don’t have nice clothes; it’s just that I’d rather dress in a sweat shirt and old blue jeans then in expensive name brand clothes. I decided to wear a tank top with an Aroepostale jacket and some new dark blue jeans.
    I went to my mom and dad’s room. My dad was already running around his room finding clothes to wear. It was useless for Nathan to ask me to wake him up. He knows he is always up before I get to him.
    “Morning Dad!” I said cheerfully. I was now more awake than I had been at breakfast. He stopped searching for a minute and looked at me.
    “Morning Veronica,” he said back in an irritated tone. I didn’t ask why he was mad I just shut his door and walked down stairs.
    It was almost time for school so I grabbed my keys off the key rack, by our front door, and went to my car. I drove a red Mustang GT with white racing stripes. Chris usually rides with me and Nathan drives his car. He has a black Mercedes Benz. I hopped in my car and waited for Chris.
    When we got to school we were greeted by a lot of our friends. Nathan’s girlfriend, Monica came over and gave him a hug and kiss. She didn’t know that we were werewolves and that is how we all wanted it to stay. You are probably thinking, “But how are you keeping it from her?” Well, all I have to say is that we are good liars.
    School is pretty boring until lunch. We all sat together at the biggest table in the cafeteria accompanied by Monica, Larry, Matt, and Lilly. Larry and Matt are Nathan’s best friends and Monica is, as I said, his girl friend. Lilly is Monica’s little sister and she is also my best friend.
    I got my lunch and sat down at my usual spot at the table, in between Chris and Nathan. Soon the rest of them came over. We talked about school and other boring stuff like that. Then Monica said, “Hey, Nathan, do you want to go to the movies after school today? I hear there is a really great horror movie that just came out about werewolves and vampires. It seems interesting.”
    I exchanged a look with him. He seemed dumbfounded. What was he supposed to say? I started to laugh and Monica stared at me. I quickly shut up.
    “Sure, I’ll go,” he said as he gave me an evil look, “Werewolves are interesting!”
    I so wanted to bust out laughing again and say, “Of course you like them…you are one!” but I stopped myself. I didn’t want to lose our secret. After that the bell rang and we got up and headed for class.
    The rest of the day seemed to drag on forever! I slept through most of my boring classes, since I have taken them before, but that didn’t help any.
    Finally, after hours of torturous learning it was time to go home. Chris was already waiting in the car for me. When we got home I threw my books on the table and went up to my room. Today was Friday and I needed something to do.
    I grabbed my cell phone out of my back pocket and called Daniel. We always hung out on the weekends. Chris occasionally joined us.
    “Hey, Veronica!! What’s up?” he said answering the phone.
    “Nothing much, are you coming over today?” I said.
    “Sure, I was actually ‘bout to head out the door right now. See you soon!” he said and hung up the phone. He was so polite.
    About ten minutes later he walked in my front door. He ran up stairs to find me. I was in my room on the computer.
    “So what do you want to do today?” he asked as he plopped down on my bed.
    “I thought we could go see that new werewolf and vampire movie. Monica and Nathan are going and I want to see Nathan’s face when they start talking about the wolves.”
    “I’m up for that!”
    We ran down stairs and hopped in my car. Of course he didn’t bring his, he prefers running. The movie didn’t start till seven o’clock. It was four thirty. We definitely had time to spare. We decided to stop at my dad’s work, to check up on him and to tell him that I wasn’t going to be home till late at night.
    We pulled in the parking lot and got out of the car. He worked at a car garage. We walked in the main entrance and found my dad’s work station. He was working on a motor for somebody.
    “What’s going on, Uncle Randy?” Daniel asked as he came up behind him and patted him on his back.
    “Oh! Danny, Veronica, what are you two doing here?” he said sort of surprised.
    “We just wanted to tell you that we are going to the movies to mess with Nathan and Monica and that I won’t be home till late at night,” I said.
    “Just be careful,” he said back with a serious tone in his voice. I didn’t know what the heck was wrong with him today.
    I gave him a kiss on the cheek and left. I didn’t know what we were going to do till seven, but grabbing something to eat seemed like a good idea! I was starving!
    We got something to eat and by that time it was six o’clock. We headed towards the movie theater. Once we were there we headed in and bought some tickets. Daniel went and bought a large popcorn and two large soft drinks. We went to theater number 234 and picked a seat. Nathan and Monica were already there. Oh, that was convenient! We walked up the isle way until we came to the row that they were in. I waved to Nathan and Monica. Monica waved back, but Nathan rolled his eyes and gave me an evil look. We sat in the row behind them.
    I sat behind Monica and Daniel sat behind Nathan. Once the movie began Daniel propped his feet on the back of Nathan’s chair. He looked back us and growled. Daniel quickly put his feet down.
    The movie was pretty boring until the wolves came in to play. They had really nice graphics. Their fur looked real…..not as real as ours though. They had the story wrong though. They said that all werewolves’ hunted people and that we were evil, no good, demons that deserved to die! If I didn’t know better I would have thought a bloodsucker wrote the freaking movie! They also had another part wrong. They said that vampires hunted the werewolves! That made me mad right there! We hunt the vampires! They don’t have the guts to hunt us!
    Through out the movie whenever a werewolf would pop up on the screen, Monica would grab a hold of Nathan’s arm. That was pretty funny! She was afraid of the werewolves on the screen, but she wasn’t afraid of the one sitting next to her!
    When the movie was over the lights came on and everyone started to clap……well, everybody but me and Daniel. Nathan even clapped. When Daniel saw that he slapped him across the back of the head. Monica didn’t catch it though. Nathan looked back and gave us a look that said, “Imma kill ya!”
    I laughed and stuck my tongue out at him. It was a childish thing to do……but it made him mad!
    Everyone started to clear out of the theater, so we grabbed our empty cups and popcorn box, and headed for the exit. Daniel and I didn’t wait for Monica and Nathan. We hurried out the door and ran to my car. We wanted to get home before Nathan……that way we can grab a baseball bat or some kind of weapon, so he wouldn’t be able to murder us!
    When we got home my dad was at the kitchen table reading the newspaper. He looked up at us and said, “I need to talk to you guys for a minute.” What did he want to talk to us for? Did Nathan call and tell him that we ruined his date? We sat down at the table and looked at him. “Where’s Nathan?” he asked, “I told him to pick up Lee and head straight home.”
    “I don’t know. Maybe he had to drop Monica off at home first,” Daniel said. Just then Nathan and Lee came through the door.
    “I’m going to kill you guys!!!” Nathan said as he hung his jacket up. Daniel chuckled; I kicked him from under the table.
    “There is no time for your nonsense! Now sit down and listen!” Dad said. Nathan and Lee sat down at the table, across from us, and listened to what my dad had to say. “There have been a couple of unexplained murders that have happened over the last couple of days.”
    “What does this have to do with us?” Daniel asked as he propped his feet up on the table.
    “Just let me finish!” Dad said very sternly, “The police have no clue on who is doing it. Every crime scene has been clean of evidence. There has been one clue though. Each person that died has had some type of bite or scratch on them.
    “I think that our old buddies have something to do with this,” he said.
    “So, you think that vampires are doing this?” Lee asked.
    “I’m most definite.”
    “So what do you want us to do about it?” Nathan asked.
    “You can try to stop them if they come around here, but I was telling you for your safety,” Dad said. He got up from his chair and went up stairs. My family is so polite, he didn’t even say good night or anything. We all just looked around at each other.
    “So…..what are we going to do?” I asked.
    “I say we wait for them to come into town and then we go vampire hunting!!” Daniel said enthusiastically as he jumped out of his chair.
    “That might be a good idea,” I said, “We can wait for them to come on to our land and then we have a reason to slice ‘um up!” Lee and Nathan just looked at us like we were out of our minds. Just then Chris walked in the door. He was carrying groceries in his hands; he sat them on the counter and sat down next to me. We explained to him about what Dad had told us. He seemed as eager as Daniel and I were to rip off some bloodsuckers head. Lee and Nathan once again looked at us like we were crazy.
    “Well, why don’t we finish this discussion tomorrow,” Nathan said, trying to sound all leader like.
    “You guys can stay over here if you want,” I said to Lee and Daniel. I didn’t want them to have to go home in the dark, even if they could morph into wolves and run home faster than a car could take them. I didn’t want to take any chances. If those vampires were out there I did not want them to run into them.