ASHLEY{Monday, 4 days to the blood moon}“Our goal,” Anthony Gordon said. “Is to create a superhuman. With werewolf strength, werewolf speed, and werewolf healing abilities. But without the fur.”I touched Peter's palm, and it was too cold. “How did you know that his blood would be compatible with mine if you haven't tested him yet?” I asked. “Well, Ashley,” he said. “Your blood is like a virus. A single drop of it in the body of a human could kill all the cells. So, we injected Peter with your blood, not enough to alter his genes and give him wolf powers, but enough to kill him if he wasn't compatible.”“You weren't even sure he would survive! Yet you injected him?” I yelled.“Science is about taking risks,” he said.“Science?” I asked. “If what you are doing here is purely scientific, what connection do you have with the blood moon?”He checked Peter’s temperature and removed the drip on his hand. “Jonathan runs Project Jericho as you know it,” he said. “I and the Chesterfields fo
ABBY{Wednesday, 2 days to the blood moon}I had always imagined my teenage love story to unfold quite differently. In my mind, a kind-hearted young man would muster up the courage to ask me out, and I would playfully resist his advances before eventually relenting. He would shower me with affectionate texts and thoughtful gifts, and we would share our first date and first kiss on a magical evening that would culminate with us dancing the night away at prom. But, alas, reality proved to be far different from my dreamy expectations.Ashley was always the better twin with good grades, a spot on the cheerleading squad, beauty, and brains. Even when I did well, she outdid me. She consistently received A's, and if I managed to get an A, she would get an A+. She was asked out by all the cool boys in school, except for Trevor Coleman, who was dating Tiffany. Their relationship always seemed toxic to me, so I disliked them both.I never thought a day like this would come when Trevor Coleman
SHERIFF{Tuesday, 3 days to the blood moon}I woke up to the sound of a loud banging on my front door. I felt that Mr. Gordon was the person knocking, so I tried to keep my eyes shut and ignore the sound. But the knocking continued. So, I had to drag myself down the stairs and open the door. It surprised me to see Jasmine smiling with two cups of coffee in her hands. “Good morning, sheriff,” she said. “I figured you'd still be asleep, so I brought you coffee.”“Oh, Jasmine, this is all sweet,” I said. “But you don't have to worry about me.”“What am I supposed to do, then?” she asked. “You don't want me to go to school. You don't want me to go to Abby’s house, you don't want Abby to see me. I'm not exactly occupied right now.”“Okay, come in,” I said. “For a moment. I need to get to work.”She nodded and handed me a cup of coffee as I made way for her to enter the house. “Your house is back to normal!” she exclaimed as she sat on a couch. “Did they also bring your wife and daughter b
TREVOR{Wednesday, 2 days to the blood moon}“Goodbye, Trevor Coleman. Thank you for your service to Jericho.” I kept staring at the note on the door and thinking of how I let Abby down. I shouldn't have let them take her. I should've fought while I could see them. But I didn't, and it haunted me as I stared at the note, I wondered if I would see her again. “West view!” Jacob exclaimed. “That's where their primary base is. And Ashley mentioned they wanted to move. So, they must be at West view.”I felt a glimmer of hope that we could rescue her. “West view?” I asked. “It would take us about 14 hours at 70MPH.”“It doesn’t have to take that long,” he said. “Ashley, Kelvin, and Molly left for West view this morning. I took them on a helicopter and brought it back.”I tried to digest the information before speaking. So, I withheld all the questions I had to ask regarding the helicopter and said. “We should use the helicopter tomorrow morning to go to West view.”“Not so fast,” he said.
ASHLEY{Wednesday, 2 days to the blood moon}…. “And they have Henry Luther in their custody.”A few days ago, my parents were the Chesterfields. Abby and I were just teenagers, and I never knew about a town called Westview. How fast things change. “I didn’t know he was still alive!” Jacob exclaimed. “I thought they killed both my parents.”“He’s in the red chapel,” Kelvin said. “I was one of the people who kidnapped him when I was with the shadow clan. So, I’m certain that he’s alive. They want to use him and Ashley for the blood moon sacrifice.”I stared in silence as they spoke. I had never asked Jacob about our parents, and we hadn’t discussed the fact that we were siblings.“Westview must be a very eventful place,” the sheriff tittered. “The shadow clan has a chapel there for their sacrifices. And Jericho’s primary base is also there.”“Here’s what we’re going to do,” Molly demanded. “We would head to Westview this morning on the helicopter. Once we get there, we go after the sh
ASHLEY{Wednesday, 2 days to the blood moon}“I've never seen teenagers being interested in the green chapel,” the sheriff {of Westview} said. “So why did you come to Westview to see the chapel?”I shook my head. “I didn't really come here for the carnival, nor did I come to see the green chapel,” I said. “But I can't tell you why I'm here. It's a long story.”“If you were certain that your surname was Luther instead of Chesterfield, I would've asked if you were familiar with Henry Luther,” he smirked. “But I suppose you don't know him.”I felt a shock wave across my body as I heard his name. I wasn't used to hearing it yet. “What do you know about Henry Luther?” I asked. “How do you know him?”“Well,” he said. “First of all, I know he's not human…”“Yes, he's a werewolf,” I interjected. “What else do you know about him?”“I know he had twins who got abducted by scientists about 17 years ago,” he said. “And I know their names were Abby and Ashley.”“Yes, I'm Ashley. I'm his daughter,”
TREVOR{Thursday, a day to the blood moon}The thought of Ashley's blood flowing through my veins terrified me. Ashley? Not Abby, the girl I'm in love with. Not Abby's blood, symbolizing a deeper connection. Not Abby being close to me from a distance. Ashley, her sister. Oh, I don't know, but that doesn't sound right at all.Numerous thoughts ran through my mind as I stared at the bullet I just pulled out of my ribs. Would we ever be normal again? What happens after the blood moon? What happens to Abby? What happens to me?We had all been so fixated on the day of the blood moon that it seemed like nothing else mattered. All willing to risk our lives in Westview, fighting an enemy we barely knew about. “Wow!” Jacob exclaimed. “I didn't know for sure that you would survive that shot. I used a silver bullet which usually kills werewolves, by the way. But I'm glad you survived.”“Why the hell did you use silver bullets?” Tiffany roared at him. “You could've killed him.”“You were the on
ABBY{Thursday, a day to the blood moon}I felt a hand stroking my hair as I struggled to open my eyes. It relaxed me, so I lay still and let the warm fingers massage my scalp, thinking they were my mom's fingers. But when I opened my eyes, I grimaced as I saw Mrs. Chesterfield.“Hey, Abby,” she whispered. “How are you?”“I was better before I saw you,” I hissed.“You don’t need to be hostile to me, Abby,” she smiled “I’m still your mother. At least I was.”“What do you want?” I asked as I got up from the bed.“Well, Mr. Gordon asked me to bring you up for breakfast,” she said and tried to hold my hand.“Well I'm not hungry,” I snarled.“Your mom is in the cafeteria,” she said. “You can stay here and do nothing, or you can come to the cafeteria and eat with her. It's your choice.”I stared at her for a while before agreeing to go with her to the cafeteria. Armed men in black suits guarded the hallways. They were wearing masks with the symbol of Jericho on them. Mrs. Chesterfield opene