Dreamers:A Half Moon - Trinity Frazier (the reading strategies book .txt) 📗

Moon thought.What about Bone and the others?I can’t leave.I have something to live for.Moon thought.I know my purpose now.My purpose is to kill and protect  the ones that I love.Gnaw trotted up to Moon.”Hey Moon”,Gnaw paused and sat down,”Can you watch my pup?”.Moon looked at Grunt.His brown color almost blending him in completely with his surroundings.”I can watch your pup”,she looked at the dogs dozing off,others patrolling the area,”There is nothing better to do here anyways.”.Gnaw nodded in agreement.He knew how bored that everyone was.

Moon looked at Grunt.He was watching Sniff “explore and patrol” the territory.She looked like she was having so much fun.Moon thought of when she was just a puppy.Her siblings.Warm milk.No worries.Moon wished it could all just come back again.Then a memory came to her.A bad memory.

“Ok pups,I need to go hunting for the pack,stay here,okay?”,favored our mother- dog.”Ok!Ok!”,yipped a pup.Our mother dog trotted off.”Let’s explore!”,yipped one of the pups.Before I could say no all of the pups nodded in agreement and ran after.I had no choice but to follow.We struggled to climb rocks.I heard voices and ran under a leafy plant.Three brothers who were the only ones who saw me did the same.Two of my brothers trembled as they saw the nasty creature.”Mmm.Mmm.”.The creature picked up one of my brothers by the throat and CRACK!My remaining brother gazed upon our dead brother’s limp body.

The monster had dropped my dead brother to pick up my remaining brother by the throat.Another CRACK!They were both limp.It was such a terrifying scene.The thing picked up his kills and left.Me and my three brothers cried for our mother-dog.Two of those brothers have made their own pack,leaving me and Dart...No.Just Dart.

It was Almost-No-Sun.Grunt was now playing with Grass.Sniff was still’’Patrolling’’.She looked tired now,though.Moon almost forgot about the fight tonight.She wished that she could just cover the puppies’ eyes so that they wouldn’t see the brutal scene.Too bad though.This was a learning experience,and she couldn’t allow a dog not to hone their skills.Moon growled.She remembered the first time that she saw a fight.Her father-dog was so nice back then.He fought our former leader and became leader.Moon guessed that power had gone to his head because he became meaner.Well,meaner to her anyways.

Bone’s paw pads came Crunch-Crunch-Crunching through the grass.”Hello Moon,its boring,can we play?”,Bone seemed to be whimpering.Moon grunted in her reply.Is this a pup that I’m speaking to?It seems like it.Moon forced herself to get up.She played with Bone.She knew that he would keep bothering her.She was trying to tire him out,but the opposite had happened.The Moon-Dog shone bright in the sky.It was going to happen.The fight.The thing that would bring in a kick of action.Ceaser came up to his litter sister and whispered.She nodded.Dagger was growling.Crunch was only one ranking away from Beta.Ceaser was Beta.Crunch came up.”Ceaser has challenged Dagger for his honor of being Alpha.”Dagger growled.”After the fight,you will still remain packmates.If you resent the coming of this fight,speak up now.”Snap opened her mouth as if about to say something,then she closed it.”If nobody resents,let the fight begin.”

We looked.Ceaser was circling Dagger.Dagger was growling loudly now.We watched in horror as Ceaser leaped toward Dagger’s leg.Dagger froze.

Ceaser hit the ground.It looked like Dagger was smirking.He had ran to the other side.Crunch growled deeply.Ceaser struggled to find out where Dagger went.When Ceaser finally found out where Dagger went,he jumped forward.Dagger went past him,slashing his beautiful coat with blood as he passed.Ceaser growled and madly turned around and,without looking tried to crash into Dagger.Dagger pressed himself onto the ground.Ceaser looked bewildered.

He turned this way and that.Dagger took his chance and grabbed his throat.He threw Ceaser onto the ground.”I surrender!”,Ceaser whimpered.Dagger looked pleased.”For your rude behavior to my mate and me….”,Dagger paused to think.”You are banned from my pack!”

Crunch looked gave a look of horror.Ceaser looked at her.He whimpered and got up.He walked through the forest,walking so sadly,so painfully.Ceaser didn’t look back.Somehow,Moon had a feeling that made Crunch even sadder.Dagger looked pleased now that Ceaser was out of his sight.Crunch growled low.She was clearly angry.Moon understood Ceaser’s feelings to be ran out of your pack,the place you were born in.Moon didn’t even notice that she was growling.This is a good thing.Ceaser is gone,I’m now one ranking away from being beta.Bone came and sat down next to Moon.Moon sighed and flopped down.Bone did the same.”Moon”,he began,”We need to talk”.

It had been weeks now.Snap looked like she just ate a bear.The Beta would help her have her puppies.

Moon has never been Beta and had never helped an Alpha have her puppies.She would challenge Crunch for her place as Beta.Today.She was right in the middle of a fight with Crunch.Bone was watching.No.Moon’s mate was watching.Moon ran past Crunch slashing as she went.She had learned from Dagger.He was grinning.Crunch jumped above her.She lie down.As soon as Moon saw her foreleg she jumped up to grab for it.YELP!Crunch looked at her bloodied leg.She must’ve not wanted a broken leg,because she said,”I surrender!”.Just like that,Moon became Beta.

Of course the pups had grown a bit.Their teeth at the back of their jaws would start to grow,and then they would have a naming ceremony.Lick was the oldest,so her ceremony would be first.Grunt is very protective and wise,so,maybe he could be a future Alpha.

But the Thunder Dogs don’t pick their Alphas for wiseness,they pick them for strongness.Moon knew that,so did the pups.Moon paused to look for Bone.She found him talking to Venus.She heard some of their conversation.Bone asked,”Venus,who is Lick’s father-dog?”.Moon actually didn’t notice that no dog had claimed to be Lick’s father-dog.Moon decided to listen.Good thing the wind was blowing her way,because if is wasn’t they would smell her.

”Well”,Venus began.Moon got closer,even though dogs can hear extremely well.Venus was pacing.Venus appeared to be trying to blend in.She knew that wasn’t possible.A gray dog can’t blend in to green grass.Moon felt bad for Venus.She was scared to tell him under all of this pressure.Bone looked at Venus.He cocked his head and asked,”What’s wrong Venus?”.She murmured something to him.Venus looked even more scared to tell Bone of whoever is Lick’s father-dog.Her father-dog’s coat must be black because Lick’s coat is black.

Venus looked around as if there was an invisible danger.She turned back to Bone and sighed,”Okay,Lick’s father-dog is…”

“Beta!Beta!We need you to come to the Alphas’ den”,Boomed a loud voice,soon perceived as Gnaw’s.Moon growled.Great.JUst what I needed.She snuck out of the chunky bushes to interrogate what she was needed for.Moon took in the two startled dogs once before she exited the scene.Moon ascended herself up from the ground and trotted toward the tenacious den.Alpha Dagger was pacing around apprehensively.Moon knew.It was time.She watched Snap sitting on a moss bed,panting furiously.Moon roved to Snap’s side.Snap wore a welcoming glare as Moon approached.

Moon warned Snap when she presumed too hard.She told the black dog when to rest and breath.It would be better if a mother-dog who had already gone